Wu Yue Jian Fa

  Compared to other Jin Yong novels such as "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", "The Return of the Condor Hero" and "The Legend of the Condor Hero", "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is set in a later era. There are many martial arts skills mentioned in this novel but only one can be utilized, which is the Five Mountains Sword Technique and its countermeasure located inside the secret cave at Mount Hua's Cliff of Reflecting on One's Mistakes.

  This place is a treasure trove of martial arts in the midst of laughter, Lin Heng naturally thought of it, so he rushed to Mount Hua before the crowd from Huashan Sect arrived, all for these Five Mountains Swordsmanship.

  In Huayin City, Lin Heng prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as well as a large amount of food. Then he carried these things on his back and quietly climbed up the Si Gu Cliff.

  The Overhanging Cliff is located outside the South Heavenly Gate of Mount Hua, at the waist of the southern peak. It's the end of the plank road in the sky, with an area of over 100 square meters on the top of the cliff. Three sides are cliffs and one side is a mountain wall. This place is rarely visited by people, and it looks desolate. The only advantage is that this place faces the sun, so although it's steep and dangerous, it doesn't lose its coldness.

  Lin Heng carefully climbed up the cliff, checking all around him along the way, afraid of being discovered. Fortunately, the people from Mount Hua wouldn't be guarding this place because in their eyes, apart from a cave for closed-door meditation, there was nothing else here. Of course, there might be one exception - that would be Feng Qingyang. Lin Heng was precisely afraid of Feng Qingyang.

  But thinking carefully, it seems that Feng Qingyang is not in this place, but lives in a place with a back sun. As long as you don't make too much noise, I believe he won't be brought over. This can be seen from the original work. If Linghu Chong hadn't made such a big commotion, how would Feng Qingyang have come out?

  Standing at the top of the cliff, Lin Heng saw the cave that was neither big nor small and immediately crawled in. This Shiguoyan Cave is not as beautiful as it is shown on TV. Everything here is desolate, just look at this cave, inside there is only a stone bed, a stone table and four stone stools. Of course, if the large bluestone on the wall counts, then that's one more thing.

  Taking a deep breath, Lin Heng walked up to the large bluestone, which was very glossy but had accumulated dust over the years due to lack of visitors. He looked up and saw three big characters "Feng Qing Yang" written on the mountain wall opposite the bluestone. He jumped onto the bluestone and carefully touched the big characters, feeling a mix of emotions in his heart.

  These three big characters are very large and written very deeply, which is not something that ordinary people can do. Not to mention others, just talking about Lin Heng himself, if he were only carving on the mountain wall, he could have done it with his long sword in hand, but writing such beautiful big characters would be absolutely impossible.

  "What a profound and unfathomable skill Wind Clear Yang has!" Lin Heng sighed lightly, and immediately began to busy himself around the surrounding mountain walls. He tapped the wall gently with his fingers, trying to find a hollow spot. Finally, he found it in the corridor leading to the cave entrance. With a surge of energy into his sword, Lin Heng inserted his sword into the wall. Seeing this, he was overjoyed and immediately swung his fist, smashing the mountain wall in front of him in no time.

  "As expected... it's here..." Lin Heng's eyes gleamed, he took out a package, pulled out a torch from inside, lit it with a match, and slowly walked into the cave.

  Lin Heng looked around inside and found what he wanted, then immediately returned to the entrance of the cave, carefully sealed it up, and also sealed himself inside.

  He prepared food, just to study the Five Mountains Swordsmanship in the cave. To avoid being discovered, he naturally had to seal the entrance of the cave. Of course, there was already a gap at the entrance, so he didn't have to worry about suffocating inside. What he feared was that Linghu Chong would come and not find him. At that time, he would be left looking foolish.

  In the cave, Lin Heng lit many candles, illuminating the entire cave. At the same time, he held a torch and walked to the front of a mountain wall.

  Step by step, Lin Heng carefully looked at the martial arts on the stone wall, and his heart was amazed. The Five Mountains Sword Sect is indeed a major force in the Jianghu world today. The swordsmanship depicted on this stone wall is very mysterious and subtle. Among them, the Hengshan Swordsmanship is the most outstanding in the world.

  "Hmph, this Hengshan swordsmanship is indeed sharp...” When looking at these sword techniques, Lin Heng also noticed the methods to break them. It's just that if he didn't look, it would be fine, but once he looked, it almost made his nose crooked. The methods to break the Five Mountains Sword Technique on this mountain wall are also considered to have broken the Five Mountains Sword Technique. But why do you have to break each move one by one? Can't you just connect the moves together?

  "What's the difference between this and not breaking it at all?"

  Look carefully, the way to break through this mountain wall is actually breaking through one move after another of the Five Mountains Sword Method, and each move is broken cleanly. However, if you look again, you will find that these methods of breaking through are just some simple tricks that can't be connected at all. In short, it's just finding the weakness in the moves and then breaking them.

  This method, really isn't a big deal, at least not for Lin Heng. So he didn't understand why Linghu Cong would get so excited after seeing these moves. It's just that every move has its weakness, and if there's a weakness, it can be broken through. The key lies in one's reaction during the fight. It can be said that as long as you react quickly enough, you can change your move when the enemy finds your weakness, and even if they can keep up with you once or twice, what about three or four times?

  So, for Lin Heng, the so-called "breaking method" here is simply a sudden attack method, and it can't be considered a regular method. If you practice according to what they say, maybe you can become an expert in breaking the Five Mountains Sword Method, but don't even think about becoming a martial arts master for your whole life.

  Shaking his head, Lin Heng cleared the miscellaneous thoughts from his mind and sat down in front of the Hengshan School's sword technique to study it seriously. As he did so, he compared and memorized the moves while recording the techniques on the paper he had brought with him.

  In the Five Mountains Swordsmanship, the Hengshan School's swordsmanship is absolutely the most exquisite, while the Songshan School's swordsmanship is the most majestic. When you watch the Songshan School's swordsmanship, you can't see the intricacies of the changing moves at all, what you see is just a powerful and overwhelming attack with each sword strike. As for the other three schools, they are somewhat inferior compared to these two schools. Take Taishan Pai's moves, for example, it also emphasizes using force to overpower others, but compared to Songshan Pai, it's slightly inferior. And as for Hengshan Pai, it also emphasizes the cleverness of the moves, but Lin Heng feels that it's not as good as Hengshan Pai.

  In the end, it was Mount Hua Sect. This sect made Lin Heng feel conflicted, and its swordsmanship also reflected this. Look at the Xi Yi Sword Technique on one side, which is absolutely unpredictable and exquisite in its moves. But then look at the Yang Wu Sword Technique on the other side, which has a majestic aura that overwhelms people with its momentum. These are two different schools of thought that have produced these sword techniques, and while the other four sects also have them, they don't take it to the extreme like Mount Hua Sect does.

  "It's indeed worthy of being the former number one of the Five Mountains! How impressive!"

  Lin was secretly admiring, but his hands were unstoppable. He wouldn't be ashamed of stealing sword techniques for himself, so he didn't feel any pressure at all.

  In the secret cave, Lin Heng didn't know how long he had been there. He knew that all he did was copy and memorize sword techniques, even urinating and defecating were done in the cave without leaving. After finishing copying the sword techniques, Lin Heng still practiced them for several days in the cave to make himself remember them deeply. When he felt it was about right, he wanted to go out.

  But when he walked to the entrance of the cave, he heard voices talking outside through the wall.

  "Oh no, has Linghu Chong arrived?"

  Lin Heng's heart was filled with suspicion, and he couldn't help but press his ear against the wall to listen in on the conversation outside.

  "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? When I was exchanging blows with Little Sister, I always let her..." The voice outside was not loud and seemed to be intermittent, but Lin Heng still roughly heard some of it. He knew that this must be the matter of Linghu Chong being jealous and throwing Yiling's long sword down the cliff.

  "It won't be long before Linghu Cong discovers this place, I can't just wait like this!" Lin Heng was getting anxious, if he was discovered, how would he explain it?

  Knocking his forehead, Lin Heng stood there thinking of a solution. In his view, he couldn't get out now because as soon as he went out, he would definitely be discovered by Linghu Chong. After all, this place wasn't big. To avoid being discovered, he probably had to stay in the cave and wait for him to discover it, then take advantage of his distraction while watching the mountain wall sword technique to sneak away quietly.

  Will he come then?