weight, so finally he gave me this divine martial art. This was the martial art that you used your life to trade with, even if I don’t care whether I live or die, how can I… how can I not care about you and stop practising?”

Yingying whispered, “I also thought of this before, but I was still afraid.”

“We’ll go down the mountain tomorrow and go to Shaolin Temple. Since I’ve already learned the ‘Tendon Altering Sutra’, it’s best if I go to Shaolin Temple and become a monk.”

Yingying knew he was joking. “A wild monk like you, the big temples won’t accept and the little temples don’t want you. Shaolin Temple’s rules and commandments are very strict, a monk who drinks wine and eats meat like you, they’ll drive out of there within half a day.”

They walked hand in hand, chatting leisurely. Linghu Chong saw Yingying was continuously looking left and right, looking like she was looking for something.

“What are you looking for?” Linghu Chong asked.

“Not telling, you’ll know when we find it. This time coming to Mount Huashan, we didn’t manage to pay our respects to grand martial uncle Feng and it’s a regret. But if we also can’t see that person, it’ll be a pity.”

Linghu Chong was confused. “We’re seeing another person? Who is it?”

Yingying smiled and didn’t answer. She said, “You locked Lin Pingzhi up in that jail underneath Plum Manor. It’s actually a brilliant idea. You promised your little martial sister to take care of Lin Pingzhi for the rest of his life. While he’s inside that jail, he has food to eat, clothes to wear, and no one can harm him. It’s really looking after him for the rest of his life. I’ve also given your other friend a special treatment.”

Linghu Chong was even more perplexed, he thought, “My other friend? Who’s he?” He knew his wife’s behaviour was often outside people’s expectation. Since she wasn’t willing to say it then there was no use asking. That night, they stayed in Linghu Chong’s old room and drank wine. Even though Linghu Chong was looking at his lovable wife, he still thought of many past events and couldn’t help feeling sad. After drinking more than ten cups of wine, he was rather intoxicated. Yingying suddenly looked happy and put down the wine cup. She whispered, “I think he’s coming, let’s have a look.”

Linghu Chong heard sound of monkey’s cries coming from the mountain in front. He didn’t know who Yingying was talking about but he followed her out of the room.

Yingying followed the monkey’s cry and walked quickly towards the mountainside in front. Linghu Chong followed behind her. Under the moonlight, he saw seven to eight monkeys gathered. There were a lot of monkeys on Mount Huashan. Linghu Chong didn’t know what was going on but surprisingly he saw a person surroundeded by those monkeys. Squinting his eyes, he saw that person was Lao Denuo. Delight and anger mixed together inside him, he turned around wanting to take a sword from inside the room. Yingying pulled his arm and whispered, “We’ll go closer and see clearer.”

They went a hundred feet closer and saw Lao Denuo was held between two enormous monkeys, and was being dragged around here and there by them. He wasn’t in control of his body at all. The martial art he had learned was all useless to resist against these two big monkeys.

Linghu Chong was perplexed. “What happened to him?”

“Have a look, I’ll tell you slowly,” said a smiling Yingying.

The monkeys were impatient, jumping up and down, and there wasn’t a moment of respite at all. Lao Denuo was being pulled to the left and right, and he occasionally let out a roar which prompted the two monkeys to scratch his face. At this time, Linghu Chong had finally understood what was going on. Lao Denuo’s right hand and right side were linked to the monkey on the left, while his left hand and left side were linked to the monkey on the right. It was obvious he had been shackled with iron manacles.

He had understood most of it as he asked, “You did this?”

“What do you think?” Yingying asked.

“You destroyed Lao Denuo’s martial art?”

“No, he did it himself to atone for his sin.”

When the monkeys heard the sound of people speaking, they became noisy and took Lao Denuo away with them to go back into the mountain. Linghu Chong wanted to kill Lao Denuo in the beginning to take revenge for Lu Dayou, but seeing him suffering so much, to behead him with a sword was natural, but his heart felt it would be too fast. So he thought, “This traitor has been very sly and his evil is much higher than martial brother Lin. I should let him suffer more.” Then he said, “So these last few days, you’ve been looking for him to give me a look.”

“That day when my father came to the Peak of the Morning Sun, that bastard came offering his flattery. He said he’d obtained the sword manual for the ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’, and that he’d come to present it to daddy. Dad asked him what for and he said he wanted to become one of the elders for the Sun Moon Sect. Dad didn’t have any free time to talk to him so he told someone to look after him. Later, dad passed away and everyone was busy so no one cared about him and we just took him to the Dark Wood Cliff. After around ten days, I thought about this again and told him to come to ask him some questions. I found out he learned the ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’ himself and accidentally crippled his martial art instead. This person is your sixth martial brother’s murderer, and since your sixth martial brother loved monkeys, I told people to find two big monkeys and lock him up with them and set him free on Mount Huashan.”

When she said till there, she gripped Linghu Chong’s wrist and continued, “Never thought that I, Ren Yingying, would also finally be locked up with a big monkey, and never part ever again.” She smiled tenderly, her smile soft and loving.

This book has ended