My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 328 - 204: Petty Grandmaster

Ministry of Justice.

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Detention was merely a minor punishment, and generally, detainees weren't held with serious offenders.

But since the gentleman said so, exceptions could be made.

After all, the Ministry of Justice was essentially his own domain.

Inside the Death Prison.

The Heavenly Mountain Two Evil were locked in the same cell, having long been accustomed to a life on the knife's edge, they had anticipated this day and could calmly face their reality.

Their meridians were completely destroyed, their cultivation was now crippled, and they leaned against the wall, constantly coughing.

"Cough, cough, one wrong step leads to another, if we hadn't followed our senior to betray our sect back then, we wouldn't have ended up like this."

"Yes, after being out for so long, I still miss the days in the sect, even though we were often punished by the Law Enforcement Elder, it was better than these years of bloodshed, dying without knowing for whom..."

"I used to be afraid of the Law Enforcement Elder, but now, before death, I actually want to see him."

"I think I see the Law Enforcement Elder."

"You're really about to die, creating such illusions. This is the Death Prison of the Ministry of Justice, how could the Law Enforcement Elder come here?"

"No, I really think I see the Law Enforcement Elder!"

Creak!

The door of the Death Prison opened, and an old man in white walked in, coldly looking at the two.

The two men, seeing that familiar face, their bodies shivered, and old memories began to resurface from the depths of their minds...

...

Song Residence.

Li Nuo personally demonstrated the Grandmaster version of the Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship to Yiren several times before he sat down to rest.

While resting, he pondered.

To help his wife advance to Grandmaster sooner, Li Nuo had spent much time studying Martial Path matters.

From Object Manipulation to Grandmaster, there were two paths.

The first was just through grueling practice.

Relentlessly honing a cultivation technique or martial art, accumulating True Qi to a terrifying degree over a lifetime, achieving the power to defeat ten with one move, one technique to break thousands—this could be called a Grandmaster.

The second path was one of shortcuts, integrating the strengths of the Hundred Schools, achieving mastery in martial arts could also be called Grandmaster.

For instance, his wife's Yuqing Swordsmanship had already made some progress. Once she also trained the Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship to a certain degree, her True Qi would slightly increase. With each sword technique mastered, her strength would improve, and she would accumulate True Qi faster, reaching the level of Grandmaster.

The second path, though faster, had natural thresholds.

First was comprehension, as those with poor talent could spend ten or twenty years just mastering a single sword technique, let alone learning others.

Second was teaching, gathering the strengths of the Hundred Schools required someone to teach these martial arts, a level of resources only those super-large sects possessed. Disciples of smaller sects, or lone martial artists had no chance of being taught by great masters.

In this respect, Li Nuo had a unique advantage.

He could even provide his wife and Yiren resources that the Sanqing Sect couldn't.

After all, even the influential Sanqing Sect couldn't make a Sword Path Master from the Heavenly Mountain Sect pass on his lifelong understanding of Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship without reservation.

But Li Nuo could.

He could not only teach them Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship, but if he could capture strong masters from the Five Mountains Sword Sect and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, he could also teach them Five Mountains Swordsmanship and Shu Mountain Swordsmanship.

Regardless of why this world had sects like Five Mountains and Shu Mountain that were so familiar to Li Nuo, this path was theoretically feasible.

The biggest difficulty was that he couldn't just go and capture Grandmasters from their sects.

If only he could make them come to Chang'an.

Li Nuo pondered for a while, noticing Phoenix watching Yiren practicing the sword, her eyes not blinking, couldn't help but quip internally, Both she and I are Martial Path novices, how could she understand such sophisticated swordsmanship?

In the courtyard, Song Yiren repeatedly practiced the Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship.

Her comprehension wasn't that bad, but here, "not that bad" was compared to those sword geniuses that appeared once in a hundred or thousand years.

Li Nuo had personally taught her all the essence of the Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship; if she still couldn't grasp it, wouldn't it mean she was indeed inferior to Song Jiaren?

Whoosh!

With her thrusting a sword, a streak of Sword Qi shot out, leaving a deep mark on the ground.

A faint ripple of True Qi spread out from her body.

Though the ripple of True Qi was weak, it was already impressive given her Fourth Realm cultivation.

These more than ten days of practicing swordsmanship with Li Nuo were at least equivalent to three months of her own cultivation.

If she could learn a few more sword techniques, wouldn't becoming a Grandmaster be just around the corner?

She walked over, eagerly looking at Li Nuo, and asked, "What other sword techniques do you know?"

Li Nuo recalled for a moment in his mind, saying, "Five Mountains Swordsmanship, Shu Mountain Swordsmanship, Seven Stars Sword, Liangyi Sword..., I know a bit of each, but I'm not as proficient in them as in Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship."

That old man truly was a Sword Path Master, just a brief recall by Li Nuo brought up many sword technique names, and upon further thought, even specific sword moves would automatically surface.

Song Yiren handed him the sword, saying, "Show me, let me see."

In just this one day, Li Nuo's understanding of sword techniques was definitely at the Grandmaster level.

His other sword techniques, though not as profound as Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship, were still extremely proficient, certainly far more so than Song Yiren, more than enough to teach her.

Song Yiren even felt that, in the realm of sword techniques, even her master, or even her mother, might not know as much as him.

Such astonishing comprehension, yet lacking a foundation in martial arts, truly a pity.

If even half of his cultivation talent matched his own, he would undoubtedly become a Master of a Generation.

While the drawing of the Law Code was still glowing, Li Nuo taught them another set of Shu Mountain Swordsmanship.

The old master of the Heavenly Mountain Sect might not comprehend Shu Mountain Swordsmanship as well as the elite disciples of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, but his Grandmaster-level understanding was certainly better than theirs when trying to figure it out by just following basic sword manuals.

This could save them a lot of time.

At a certain moment, feeling the Secret Codex underwent changes again, Li Nuo checked and found his lifespan had increased by several hundred days.

Three thousand two hundred twelve days.

This was his latest lifespan increase.

It had increased over a thousand times compared to the original three days.

From another perspective, he should really be grateful to the manipulator behind the scenes.

He hadn't come to take his life, but to extend it.

Before, Li Nuo always felt that the Law Code was restrictive, only able to add a day or two to his lifespan each time.

Now, if he didn't increase it, it was fine, but once he did, it was by several hundred days, even giving him an almost surreal feeling.

A remaining lifespan of nine years was pitifully short compared to normal people.

But his life could get longer and longer.

As long as there was one Fourth Realm, he could add a hundred days; a hundred Fourth Realms would equate to ten thousand days, nearly thirty years.

If this was the case with the Fourth Realm, what about a Grandmaster?

Li Nuo hoped for more assassins like this one, of course, provided that he could safely survive each time.

Thus, improving his wife's strength seemed particularly important.

To motivate them in their swordplay training, the next morning, Li Nuo played the zither for them as they practiced.

The music, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, adapted to the movements of their sword moves, helped make it less boring.

Minister of Rites, Lu Sheng, stood at the courtyard entrance listening for a while until Li Nuo finished playing, then he walked in, smiling, and said, "Prince Consort, your wedding date with the Princess has been set for the ninth day of August this year, which is four months from now. Does that work for you?"

The ninth of August, no need to wait three years after, isn't this an advancement?

He nodded and said, "Lord Lu, you have worked hard."

Lu Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, saying, "Not at all, not at all..."

The wedding can't be postponed further; although it was against the traditional rites, he did not want to discuss it with Li Xuanjing, nor did anyone in the Ministry of Rites.

Li Xuanjing had just arrested a group of people in court, and no one wanted to offend him at such a critical moment.

After informing Li Nuo of the wedding date, he could hardly wait to take his leave.

Staying in Li Mansion, he felt a chilling breeze, truly not wanting to linger another moment.

Hurrying out of Li Mansion and getting into his sedan chair, Lu Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, an old man in white, carrying a sword, stood in front of Li Mansion.

Xu Jing had just come out from the Ministry of Justice and had inquired about the young man's identity from the officials there.

The Secret Codex was extremely important for the Heavenly Mountain Sect.

Yet, those few traitors, despite having left the sect, knew the importance of the codex to their sect and didn't disclose it; after mastering it, they had destroyed the codex, allowing him to completely let go of worries.

Although he couldn't meet them, the result would be the same either way, but having received a favor from someone else, paying a visit to express gratitude was the basic courtesy.

He was about to enter Li Mansion when a figure walked out from the gatekeeper's lodge.

It was an old man with a hunched back, clutching a smoking pipe.

Their gazes met, each sensing the threat from the other, as if the air froze for a moment.

Xu Jing was first to cup his hands in a salute and said, "Heavenly Mountain Sect's Xu Jing, here to express thanks for a favor received."

The gatekeeper, Huang, evidently having heard his name, showed a surprised expression: "Earth Sword, Xu Jing?"

Soon after,

led by the gatekeeper, Huang, Xu Jing entered a small courtyard within Li Mansion.

The young man was there in the courtyard; Xu Jing was about to approach when he suddenly paused.

He looked at a figure practicing swordplay in the courtyard, his face showing shock.

Heavenly Mountain Swordsmanship!

Although not yet mastered perfectly, judging from the variations in the sword moves, the essence of Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique was all there.

Could it be that those two traitors had lied to him, and the sect's secret had already been leaked?

But he soon dismissed the thought.

The codex they took was the one from twenty years ago.

The current Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique had undergone many changes and innovations.

This girl's swordsmanship was much more exquisite than what was recorded in that codex, and by swordsmanship standards, Xu Jing himself was not much better.

Sanqing Sect truly deserved its reputation, surely a powerful person had deciphered the Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique.

Song Yiren finished a few sword movements and saw the old man in white standing by the door, so she approached and bowed with her sword, saying, "It's embarrassing to perform in front of Elder Xu, I still have many deficiencies in my Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique, I hope Elder Xu can offer some guidance…"

Xu Jing shook his head and said, "Miss Yiren jests, your Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique has already reached the Transformation Realm, there's nothing much I can teach you…"

Song Yiren gave him a sidelong glance, making a light snort, "So stingy!"

He was a Grandmaster of the Heavenly Mountain Sect, how could he possibly not have any pointers for her Heavenly Mountain Sword Technique?

Clearly, he was worried about secrets of his sect being leaked, hence he resorted to such clumsy flattery to refuse her.

Hmph!

She had even spoken in his defense yesterday!

People from the Heavenly Mountain Sect really don't know how to repay kindness!

Watching the young lady's disdainful look, this powerful Grandmaster felt aggrieved, with no outlet for his feelings.

It wasn't that he didn't want to teach.

He genuinely couldn't!

Her movements just now had no flaws at all, even he, as a Grandmaster, couldn't find any faults.

He sighed, sorted out his feelings, and approached the young man from yesterday, cupping his hands and saying, "I'm grateful for your assistance yesterday, young master."

Li Nuo waved his hand, saying, "You're too polite senior, it was merely a helping hand."

In the Jianghu, the important thing is repaying kindness, Xu Jing again spoke, "It might have been a trivial matter for young master, but it holds great significance for the Heavenly Mountain Sect, if you ever need assistance from Heavenly Mountain Sect in the future, feel free to ask…"

Li Nuo thought for a moment and said, "Coincidentally, there is indeed a matter recently where I need senior and Heavenly Mountain Sect's help…"