They Said He Was a Jianghu Con Artist, So Why Is He Number One on the Ranking?

There is a legend in the martial world that five hundred years ago, Ling Yuan, the Great Ming Imperial Preceptor, could open the Gates of Heaven with a single sword strike. He was an undisputed martial arts legend. But legends are just legends. When a young man calling himself Ling Yuan appeared in Qixia Town, everyone took him for a joke. Confronted by the Six Great Sects and pursued by the Eastern and Western Depot, he simply paid for his meal and ordered the cheapest bowl of plain noodles. Everyone thought he was just a fraud trading on a famous name. Until... Someone used the long-lost Art of the Bridal Robe, and he casually remarked, “Your internal energy is circulating along the wrong route in three places. I must not have taught you well back then.” Someone laid out the exquisite Celestial Dipper Big Dipper Formation, and he walked straight out of it with his eyes closed, even taking the opportunity to improve it. When the “Sword God” Ximen Chuixue struck at him, his sword shattered piece by piece three feet away. At that moment, the entire martial world fell silent. When the abbot of Shaolin, the head of Wudang, and the lord of the Dragon Guarding Villa all knelt before him, trembling as they cried, “We welcome the Imperial Preceptor,” the young martial heroes who had once mocked him were already scared out of their wits. Ling Yuan wiped his mouth and looked at them. “Can you let me finish this bowl of noodles in peace now?”