Lord Shadow

But she is too weak to do anything. Seeing Wu Mei, she knows the only way to become strong is to learn martial arts

She decided to learn under Wu Mei. She tricked Wu Mei to accept her as her disciple. Wu Mei might be crazy and her actions looks childish but when she is teaching martial arts, she turns into someone else.

She was very efficient and her explanation is easy to understand. It was then that she found out she was very talented in martial arts.

When Azief ask how she had so many techniques of the orthodox martial arts, she explains that Wu Mei had a secret chamber in the Cold Palace.

Inside that chamber is thousands of martial arts manuals, sword arts and sabers teachings. It turns out that sometimes, Wu Mei would sneak into the Martial Alliance Martial Arts Repository and read the martial arts manual that they have collected.

She even had sneak into the Temple of Xi Martial Arts Library and read all of the martial arts of the Temple

However, she did not steal any of the manuals.

Each time she did that she would then return to the Imperial Palace and then write the content of the martial arts into paper and left it inside the chamber

Lin Guifei told Azief that Wu Mei like collecting things. It is why she was interested in her on the first place.

Azief did not expect that there is such an interesting character that possess such ability to sneak into the reputed Temple and the headquarters of the Martial Alliance and then copied all the martial arts there.

Azief could understand why that Wu Mei is able to do such thing.

As you grow stronger and you broke the limits of mortal, your mind also become stronger. Your memory would become stronger and sharper.

Yet, the fact that she is crazy indicates a certain problem. A genius in martial arts but went insane. She too must have her own story.

Lin Guifei then learns the many martial arts inside that chamber.

She spends years in the Cold Palace learning the many martials arts all to one day avenge Wu Qi.

The martial arts manual in the chamber seems to consist all the martials arts in the martial arts world.

There is even a section dedicated to heterodox sect martial arts practices but Lin Guifei did not want to learn it since all of the heterodox sect practices seem to b.l.o.o.d.y for her own taste

She wanted to avenge her love not become a heartless killer machine. Azief nodded when she heard Lin Guifei said it.

One who have a clear vison of what they want should not stray too far else one would lose far away from the road.

Some of them are from the Temple of Xi, and some of them for other major sect like the One Sword manual, the Flowing Sword Arts and even the long lost heaven Sword manual.

But Azief recognize that she did not learned all of those martial arts completely. At most, she skimmed it.

The core of the martial arts she learns is lacking. But it is undeniable that she could change style of attacking and defending easily because she had read all kind of martial arts manual.

Azief could bet that if she fought Elder level martial arts sect or school, they would easily be defeated by her.

At least, all of those orthodox martial arts school would easily be defeated by Lin Guifei.

Azief could only imagine the uproar and the chaos that would erupt if the orthodox sects knew that their secrets arts were learned by the former concubine of the Yong Emperor.

Not to mention how this matter also seems to once again implicate the Martial Arts Alliance.

Azief shakes his head as he did not want to involve himself in the matters of the Martial Arts Alliance.

That is his disciple task. He had long planned to leave a few enemies behind for Xi Feng. It is all to sharpen him.

If he breaks, then that is it for his disciple. He once had asked Xi Feng if he wanted to be stronger. And he wanted to be stronger.

There was never an easy way to be stronger. You always have to pay something. Azief had made that very clear when he asks Xi Feng whether he was certain of his choice.

So, if he dies, then that is it for his disciple. But when Azief remember the written words he had found in Beiyuan, he had a feeling that one day he will meet his disciple once again.

Call it a premonition. He then once again listens to the stories of Lin Guifei and admire the woman even more.

The reason why Xi Feng and the other two Devils could not suppress her is because of her deep understanding of martial arts techniques.

After looking through so many martial arts manual, she too must have noticed it. There is nothing new under heaven in martial arts.

No matter what attack is used, there is always an origin.

If Xi Feng had mastered the Flowing Sword Arts completely she would not be able to break through his defense.

Or if the Two Devils had mastered the Unity in One internal energy technique they would not be so badly defeated

Thus, since she understands this, she could break past Xi Feng defenses, and deflect all the attacks of the two Devils effortlessly.

The reason she could not do the same thing with Azief is because Azief is simply a walking force that could not be stopped.

It won"t matter if she understood and mastered all the manuals of martial arts in that chamber, she would not still be able to defeat him in swordsmans.h.i.+p or hand to hand combat.

This is not only a matter of difference of understanding, it is a difference of force.

She trained for years and she wanted to kill the Emperor.

It is truly a tragic story.

She did not know that Wu Qi survived the execution and become one of the Three Devils of Han and Wu Qi thought she had died in the Cold Palace.

Even he sighed hearing such a tragic love story.

But then one day as she sneaks out from the Cold Palace he heard one eunuch spoke about the Three Devils of Han and it was at that time that she learned that the Three Devils of Han is actually the Yu, Song and Wu family descendant.

She captured the eunuch and then after confirming it she fled from the Imperial Palace.

The Emperor when he heard the news only sighs and instead of chasing her and executing her from running off from the harem, buried the matter saying that she had died

Instead of enjoying her newfound freedom, Lin Guifei went searching for Wu Qi.

Unluckily, she met with some misfortune after she escapes from the Palace. She got involved with the scheme of Jianghu.

She was forced into the forest with severe injuries.

And that is where she meets a family of herbalist who lives inside the forest that nurse her to health.

The herbalist was an old man living with his old wife. They have no children and Lin Guifei was still young. The old couple treated her like they were their daughter

At that time, she was weak after being poisoned showing no signs that she knew of any martial arts

The herbalist couple is protected by the Beast Manor since the members of the Beast Manor when they get injured would come to that peaceful looking hut.

It was there that Lin Guifei learn about the mysterious Beast Manor and its sect members who could communicate with animals.

She also forgets some of her memories and she lives her live peacefully inside the forest. Azief, the Three Devils and Xi Feng all heard the story and all was thinking the same thing.

Her story is like something that came out from a novel. Azief was touched that she had done all that just to be reunited with her love.

They live together for a long time and in the end the old herbalist and his wife died, leaving him the hut.

Things happens and she ended up establis.h.i.+ng the Lin Villa. She took many war orphans that run to the forest or were thrown by their parent to the forest to die.

She teaches them many martial arts from the orthodox sects and she also taught them how to read, write and any other knowledge and all of these orphans referred to her as mother.

Azief was impressed. He finally remembers the people that ambushed him as he steps inside the Villa. Those must be the children that she had taken in