Lin Chaoying

Lin Chaoying, with her repertoire in martial art skills, had put herself in the top list of the foremost and greatest martial artists in that era namely the famous Five Adept Fighters such as Eastern Erratic, the Southern Emperor, the Western Poison, the Northern Beggar and the Central Divinity.

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Lin Chaoying met Wang Chongyang earlier in her life and they were very close to each other, they even exchanged correspondence while Wang Chongyang was in war with the Jurchens and most of the letters were still neatly kept. It was Lin Chaoying who forced Wang Chongyang out from his long seclusion with severe scoldings after his great lost to the Jurchens armies.

Related Topics:
Wang Chongyang - Jurchens

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Thereon, both of them roamed the realm of martial arts together to assist the helpless and would often train martial arts together to develop their martial arts to a higher level. Both fell in love with each other, unfortunately their prides got in their way. Lin Chaoying would often indirectly show hints of love towards Wang Chongyang, but due to bestowed responsibility to defend the Central Plain, he pretended and refused her. Because of this, Lin Chaoying was deeply disappointed and angered thinking that Wang Chongyang despised her. In the end Lin Chaoying and Wang Chongyang agreed to have a battle to sort out all the differences between them. The two battled at Mount Zhongnan, they exchanged several thousands of stances because Wang held back they two of them reached a draw.

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Lin Chaoying proposed one final duel to end it all. If Wang Chongyang could defeat her, she would leave him alone by committing suicide. But if she won, Wang Chongyang had to surrender the tomb to her or become a Taoist priest or Buddhist monk and live near the tomb for at least ten years. Her underlying message was that if Wang surrendered the tomb to her he should marry her and live in the tomb together. However, if he did not want to do this he could choose to become a Taoist priest or Buddhist monk, that way she prevented him from marrying someone else.

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Wang Chongyang consented and asked how they should duel. Lin Chaoying said that whoever could write on a stone slab with his/her bare fingers would be the winner. Wang Chongyang knew he could not do it and admitted defeat. Lin Chaoying walked over and touched the slab a few times, by touching the slab she had smeared a chemical substance on the slab making the stone soft. Thus, she started to write a poem on the slab and smiled wryly to Wang Chongyang that he was destined to become a Taoist priest.

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Her plan worked and she had tricked Wang Chongyang in surrendering the tomb, however the next day Wang Chongyang became a Taoist priest and lived on Mount Zhongnan.

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This was the time when her breathtaking and unmatchable martial art skills vanished from Jiang Hu-The Land of Heroes.

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After she moved into the tomb with a nameless young maid, who later became her first generation disciple, she scouted the tomb and discovered a strangely built stone chamber where Wang had carved a set of impressive martial art techniques. To counter and keep up with Wang?s, she designed and invented a complete genuine set of martial art, which later she called Scripture of Jade Maiden?s Heart. However, the techniques was never put into practice and the training itself too was never fully accomplished because it required a new partner to be in-synced with during the process if one of them died, aged or had health condition.

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Decades later, she passed away in grief and of heartbreak. Along with all her other martial art techniques and skills she acquired during her lifetime, she combined and streamlined them before she passed on to her nameless disciple who in return taught them to her own recruited disciples, Li Mochou and Xiaolongnü, the-heiress-to-be of Ancient Tomb Sect. Besides that, Lin too laid down a few strict rules for those who became the disciple of Gumu Bai Sect. The nameless maid later hired an old servant, Grandma Sun to look after Li and Long as well as to take charge of the tomb?s household matters.

Related Topics:
Li Mochou - Xiaolongnü

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