Afterward, people from the Six Major Sects left one after another. Zhou Zhiruo also returned to Emei with her master's ashes. Zhou Yan promised to visit Emei.
Zhou Yan told Zhang Wuji about Zhao Min's request. Zhang Wuji also wanted to bring Xie Xun back to the mainland, so he agreed. However, he needed to discuss the matter of the Dragon Slaying Saber with his sworn brother.
Because of this incident, Zhao Min was stripped of all her positions by her father, and all matters were handed over to Cheng Kun.
After encountering Zhou Yan, all of Zhao Min's plans ended in failure, and she ended up in such a predicament, appearing very dejected.
She went to the tavern where she had parted ways with Zhou Yan yesterday. Drinking alone, she mocked herself, "Yesterday I was in fine clothes and on a spirited horse, surrounded by thousands. Now I am a lonely person. Am I that detestable?"
With that, Zhao Min shed tears and drank her sorrows away, her mood extremely low.
"Of course not, don't you still have me?" Zhou Yan appeared before Zhao Min.
Zhou Yan's appearance made Zhao Min very happy, but thinking of the women around Zhou Yan, her heart was filled with grievance. She said, "Aren't you going to accompany your lovers? Why are you still here?"
"Of course, it's for you," Zhou Yan replied.
"Alright, anyway, I have nothing now. As long as you leave the other women, I'll go with you," Zhao Min said.
"Don't you want to see the Dragon Slaying Saber? I can take you to see it," Zhou Yan said.
"Oh, really? That's great." Zhao Min was indeed attracted. After all, there were too many rumors in the martial world about the Dragon Slaying Saber, and she naturally wanted to witness it.
They set off for Ice Fire Island, but they found that Zhou Zhiruo had also arrived, and she seemed injured. Zhou Yan asked, "How did you get like this?"
"My senior sister Ding snatched the position of sect leader from me. Fortunately, I escaped with the Heaven Sword," Zhou Zhiruo said.
"Don't worry, I will help you reclaim your position as sect leader," Zhou Yan replied.
"Looking at you, where are you going?" Zhou Zhiruo asked curiously.
"To Ice Fire Island," Zhang Wuji said.
"What are you going there for?" Zhou Zhiruo was confused.
"To pick up my sworn brother, the Golden Mane Lion King," Zhang Wuji said.
"So the Golden Mane Lion King has been there all along. I want to go too," Zhou Zhiruo said immediately upon hearing this, looking at Zhou Yan.
"I disagree." Zhao Min, seeing Zhou Yan and Zhou Zhiruo acting intimately, was already filled with jealousy.
Xiao Zhao was also unwilling for Zhou Zhiruo to go to Ice Fire Island, but she did not speak.
"Let's go together," Zhou Yan said, ignoring Zhao Min.
He had thought Zhou Zhiruo wouldn't appear this time, but since she had, they would go together. After all, he understood their thoughts.
Thus, they chartered an entire large ship and headed for Ice Fire Island.
It is said that three women are enough to make a play, and this is absolutely true. Zhao Min, Xiao Zhao, and Zhou Zhiruo, none of them liked the other, but they were smart enough not to provoke each other.
When they arrived at Ice Fire Island, they found that someone had already arrived. These were people summoned by Xiao Zhao's pigeon message. At this moment, she was very anxious. She didn't want anyone to get hurt, but she had no choice.
Zhang Wuji was anxious for his sworn brother and engaged in a fierce battle with the Three Emissaries of the Persian Great Ming Sect: the Flowing Cloud Emissary, the Marvelous Wind Emissary, and the Brilliant Moon Emissary. The martial arts moves of the three were extremely strange, and even Zhang Wuji could only fight them to a draw, even being at a disadvantage at times.
Xiao Zhao saw her mother and said to Zhou Yan, "I'm sorry," before returning to her mother's side with tears in her eyes.
Everyone understood who had summoned these people.
Zhang Wuji looked at Xiao Zhao's mother and asked, "Who are you?"
"I am Daiqisi, the chief of the Four Great Protectors of the Ming Sect, and also Xiao Zhao's mother," Daiqisi replied.
"Zhang Wuji is the current leader of the Ming Sect. Daiqisi, why don't you pay your respects quickly?" Zhao Min said.
"I am the Sacred Maiden of the Great Ming Sect's main altar and do not need to pay respects to the leader of the Central Plains Ming Sect," she replied.
"What did you do to my sworn brother?" Zhang Wuji asked angrily.
"He hid," Daiqisi replied.
Zhang Wuji then fought the Three Emissaries again and snatched a weapon from them.
This made Zhao Min very curious, and she asked, "What kind of weapon is this that can block the Heaven Sword?"
"This is the Sacred Fire Token of the Ming Sect, forged from a strange stone from outside the heavens. It is incredibly hard and can naturally contend with the Heaven Sword," Zhang Wuji replied.
Several cannon shots were fired. Zhou Zhiruo looked and exclaimed, "Not good, they've used cannons to destroy our ships!"
Zhou Yan said, "Don't worry, as long as they are in our hands, we're not afraid of not being able to return."
Daiqisi heard his boastful words and actually wanted to keep them. She laughed heartily, "What a joke! Do you think you can keep us with just yourselves? Hand over the 'Heaven and Earth Great Shift Sutra,' the Heaven Sword, and the Dragon Slaying Saber, and I'll spare your lives."
"I don't need you to spare me. All of you will stay obediently," Zhou Yan said, then directly attacked Daiqisi.
Daiqisi was surrounded by experts, and they naturally wouldn't let Zhou Yan succeed. They all attacked, but unfortunately, they underestimated Zhou Yan's strength.
With just one exchange, Zhou Yan easily defeated them.
"What powerful martial arts," Daiqisi exclaimed, surprised that such a person had appeared in the martial world.
The Three Emissaries wanted to rescue her, but Zhang Wuji wouldn't give them the chance and blocked them.
Zhou Yan exchanged a few blows with Daiqisi and immediately stopped her. Xiao Zhao quickly said to Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan, don't hurt my mother."
"Don't worry, I won't hurt her, nor will I let you leave me. They are just people from the Great Ming Sect's main altar; I can deal with them all by myself," Zhou Yan said domineeringly.
"Our Great Ming Sect's main altar has twelve Treasure Tree Kings, each with profound strength. Aren't you afraid they will come looking for you if you do this?" Daiqisi said angrily, being restrained.
"Why don't you call them over now? I'll take the opportunity to capture all the experts of the Persian Ming Sect in one go," Zhou Yan suggested.
"You..." Daiqisi was surprised by Zhou Yan's audacity and felt that he wasn't joking, so she stopped speaking.
Zhou Yan acupoint-sealed Daiqisi and then came to Zhang Wuji's side. Zhang Wuji quickly reminded him, "They are using the most powerful martial art of the Sacred Fire Token, 'Sacred Fire Burning the City.' Once hit, the whole body will be burned alive."
"Insignificant," Zhou Yan told Zhang Wuji to step back and said, "Let me experience it."
The three of them attacked Zhou Yan as one. Two Sacred Fire Tokens unleashed terrifying flames towards Zhou Yan, but this most powerful martial art, in Zhou Yan's hands, was directly grabbed and extinguished.
He then said, "This is the Sacred Fire Token technique, but it's nothing special."
Everyone was greatly shocked, not expecting Zhou Yan's martial arts to be so divine.
Even Daiqisi watched with wide eyes, muttering, "How can anyone extinguish the Sacred Fire Token's flames directly? Is this still human?"
Afterward, Zhou Yan also captured the Three Emissaries, acupoint-sealed them, and then said to Zhang Wuji, "With them in hand, we can definitely leave here safely. You go find your sworn brother, and we'll leave together."
"Yes, Uncle-Master," Zhang Wuji immediately went to find Xie Xun.
Not long after, Xie Xun was found by Zhang Wuji. Zhou Yan said, "Let's go."
With these people in hand, the Persian Ming Sect members were indeed forced to board the ship according to their demands and headed for the mainland.
Zhao Min also discovered the text on the Sacred Fire Token. Xie Xun guessed it was the external martial art of the 'Heaven and Earth Great Shift.' Zhang Wuji began to learn it.
Zhou Yan quickly learned it, as it posed no difficulty for him.
However, such a rapid pace of comprehension still astonished Xie Xun and Daiqisi. He was indeed a martial arts prodigy.
Xiao Zhao quickly said to Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan, please release my mother. She was also forced. If she didn't do this, she would have been burned to death by the main sect. Everything she did was for me."
"That's why I brought her away. Do you still want her to go back and be punished?" Zhou Yan said.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhao immediately understood and said, "So you did all this for my own good. That's wonderful."
Zhou Yan held Xiao Zhao in his arms and said, "Don't worry, if those Twelve Treasure Tree Kings dare to come, I'll make sure they never return."
"You are called Zhou Yan. I hope you truly have the strength to protect my daughter." Daiqisi, who was bound, felt a little angry seeing her daughter being held.
"Mother, don't worry, Zhou Yan has that strength," Xiao Zhao quickly said.
"Daiqisi, since you're here this time, why not stay with the Ming Sect? Our Ming Sect has long had little to do with Persia. So what if they come!"
Golden Mane Lion King Xie Xun said.
"I hope so." Daiqisi also did not want to return to the Persian main sect. It was unavoidable before, but now that she saw Xiao Zhao had such a powerful protector, she was relieved.
Having witnessed Zhou Yan's strength, they all felt that those people wouldn't cause much trouble.
Zhou Zhiruo had been watching the Dragon Slaying Saber and Heaven Sword, wanting to uncover their secrets.
Zhao Min directly said, "Lion King, could you lend me the Dragon Slaying Saber to look at? I really want to know what secrets are hidden within it."
"I've studied it for decades without discovering anything. If you can figure it out, it will fulfill one of my wishes." Xie Xun handed the Dragon Slaying Saber to Zhao Min.
Zhao Min observed it carefully for a moment, then handed it to Zhou Yan. She said, "I couldn't figure out anything either. It just looks like an ordinary weapon, nothing special."
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Give me the Heaven Sword."
Zhao Min took out the Heaven Sword, then placed the two weapons together and joined their hilts. To their surprise, the two weapons could be combined.
"I never expected the Heaven Sword and the Dragon Slaying Saber to have such a secret," they all exclaimed in surprise.
Especially Zhou Zhiruo, she was surprised that Zhou Yan also knew the secret of the two weapons.
Then, Zhou Yan spun them a few times, and two pieces of cloth fell out of the Dragon Slaying Saber.
Zhao Min picked one up and was immediately greatly astonished, "It's the 'Nine Yin Manual'!" She looked at the other piece of cloth and said, "This is the 'Martial Chief's Legacy'!"