Wanwan rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think everyone is like this guy?"
Wanwan herself was a prodigy martial artist capable of fighting beyond her level, so she naturally knew that even among martial artists of the same realm, their strength could not be generalized.
But Wanwan had never seen anyone like Chu Qinghe.
Despite only being at the late stage of the Celestial Realm, he was able to easily suppress experts at the early stage of the Divine Seat Realm, and even showed no fear when facing the Bad Commander, who was at the peak of the Divine Seat Realm.
That's completely unreasonable.
Here, Chu Qinghe explained, "Song Que is known as the 'Heavenly Blade.' According to the descriptions of Song Que in the martial arts world and the records on the Bai Xiaosheng list, Song Que has already reached the realm of 'Man and Blade as One.' With this realm of 'Man and Blade as One,' Song Que's current strength is even stronger than Meng Chixing's."
"If it's just a friendly spar, that's fine, but if it's a real fight to the death, it's really hard to say who will come out on top."
The unity of man and sword corresponds to the "unity of man and sword" in swordsmanship.
No one knows better than Chu Qinghe how much a martial artist's strength is enhanced after reaching this level.
If Song Que has reached the perfect level of unity between man and sword, then it would not be difficult for him to surpass Ning Donglai, who is in the early stage of the Divine Seat Realm, by virtue of his sword dao realm of "unity between man and sword".
Although Wanwan couldn't understand why Chu Qinghe was so certain, she echoed, "I hope so."
Hearing Wanwan's words, Qu Feiyan looked at Wanwan with suspicion and asked, "Why do you seem to want Song Que to be stronger than Ning Daoqi? Could it be that your Yin Kui Sect and Song Que are allies?"
Upon hearing this, Wanwan thought for a moment and said, "In a way, yes."
Then, amidst the women's confusion, Wanwan spoke up: "Unlike Song Que, Ning Daoqi comes from the Daoist sect. Although he is detached from worldly affairs, he wanted to borrow the Cihang Jingzhai's 'Cihang Sword Manual' to further improve his martial arts. However, in the past hundred years, the Daoist sects of the Great Tang Dynasty have been constantly suppressed by the Cihang Jingzhai and other Buddhist sects, but Ning Daoqi has never intervened. In fact, he has always helped the Cihang Jingzhai in its actions."
"Decades ago, before the Evil Emperor of my Demonic Sect disappeared, my Demonic Sect was far stronger than Cihang Jingzhai. But it was because Ning Daoqi repeatedly intervened that Cihang Jingzhai was able to contend with my Yin Kui Sect to this day."
After a pause, Wanwan said with a look of disgust, "Anyway, Cihang Jingzhai has always been good at winning people's hearts. I don't know what kind of bewitching potion they gave Ning Daoqi to make him willingly become Cihang Jingzhai's henchman."
Lianxing asked curiously, "Why haven't I heard before that your Yin Kui Sect and the Song family of Nanling have formed an alliance?"
Upon hearing this, Qu Feiyan realized what was going on.
"That's right! With Song Que around, your Yin Kui Sect wouldn't have been suppressed by Cihang Jingzhai all these years!"
Wanwan rested her chin on her hands and said, "That's because our Yin Kui Sect and Song Que haven't made things public. It's a secret within the Yin Kui Sect, known only to my master and me. How could anyone else know?"
Qu Feiyan asked with a face full of suspicion, "Your Yin Kui Sect has such a bad reputation over the years, how come Song Que is still willing to cooperate with your Yin Kui Sect?"
Wanwan glanced at Qu Feiyan and said, "What do you know? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Song Que and my Yin Kui Sect are both dissatisfied with Cihang Jingzhai, so why can't we form an alliance?"
Lianxing asked with a gossipy look, "Does Song Que also have a grudge against Cihang Jingzhai?"
Wanwan nodded and said, "Years ago, the Sui Dynasty fell into decline, and Emperor Yang Guang was incompetent and tyrannical. Chaos was already emerging in the Great Sui Kingdom, and the four major clans were secretly preparing to replace him."
"At that time, Song Que was rising to fame. He was only in his early thirties and had already reached the Grandmaster level. With the Song family as his backing, he was unparalleled in popularity."
"Song Que is a man of great talent and ambition, with exceptional abilities. In addition, the Song family has always wanted to use the Han people to unify the world, suppress the Li family and the Dugu family and other non-Han peoples, and establish a Han Chinese dynasty."
"But Cihang Jingzhai has been on good terms with the Li family for many years. It can be said that they have placed their bets on the Li family. If Song Que were to fight for supremacy, I'm afraid no one would be able to stop him."
"If it were any other Dugu or Yuwen family, Cihang Jingzhai might have tried to form a marriage alliance to turn against the Li family. However, the Song family has always known about Cihang Jingzhai's true intentions, so they have always been wary of Cihang Jingzhai. Knowing that it would be difficult to win over the Song family, Cihang Jingzhai took the initiative to approach Song Que as the Holy Maiden Fan Qinghui for the sake of Cihang Jingzhai's future."
"Through the deliberate arrangements of Cihang Jingzhai, Song Que, who was completely unprepared, and even Li Yuan, the head of the Li family, gradually became fond of Fan Qinghui. Later, they even withdrew from the struggle for the world for Fan Qinghui."
"From then on, Song Que stayed in Lingnan and devoted himself to cultivation, eventually reaching his current level of cultivation. Fan Qinghui also became the head of Cihang Jingzhai because of this achievement."
"And now, Li Shimin, the head of the Li family, is infatuated with Shi Feixuan."
"Thanks to these two connections, Cihang Jingzhai has developed rapidly in recent years."
Listening to Wanwan's account, Qu Feiyan and the other two women, along with Xue Qianxun and Lianxing, couldn't help but let out a disgusted "Eh."
Chihiro, who was usually quiet, couldn't help but speak up: "This Cihang Jingzhai is shameless to use emotions as bait."
Although Dongfang Bubai and the other women did not speak, their tightly furrowed brows were enough to reveal their feelings.
They clearly disdained Cihang Jingzhai's actions.
Wanwan said with a look of disgust, "That's how Cihang Jingzhai is. They rely on constantly attaching themselves to others to develop their own power."
"Now, of the four great clans of the Great Tang Dynasty, apart from Song Que's side, the other three clans all have beautiful women sent by Cihang Jingzhai to their boudoirs."
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