Xiao Shi is the youngest apprentice of the old man, and he is only fourteen years old this year. This kid naturally has a sweet mouth, and the big guys like him very much. Especially the old lady, who directly treats him as a son. Usually whenever I do something delicious, I will ask Xiaoshi to eat it together, and I am jealous when I see it.

But he is very good at observing words and feelings, I have been here for a few months, as soon as he saw me, my senior sister was long, and my senior sister circled around me for a short time, and my ears were soft, so he was directly confused.

When I saw him stealing food in the kitchen, I immediately understood most of it. The old man values this kid very much, but the way he values it is to have high standards and strict requirements, and to demand him from the martial arts standards of adult disciples. How could this kid stand it? Punishment is a common occurrence, and the few times I passed by the martial arts training ground, I saw him being punished, either by the wall or squatting under the scorching sun.

I think it must be that he didn't know what he had done today, and he was punished by the old man for not being allowed to eat. Softened his tone, walked up to him and asked softly, "What's wrong, made a mistake again?"

Xiao Shi had obviously not recovered from the shock just now, and his thin shoulders were still trembling slightly. "I didn't get up on time this morning, and I was punished by Master for not being allowed to eat twice. He whispered.

I looked at him sympathetically, then shoved two plates of leftovers from my morning in front of him. But he didn't move his chopsticks, just peeked at me out of the corner of his eye. This kid is clever and must have thought I was going back to tell him about Master.

I was the most annoyed person who was suspicious of me, so I pretended to be angry and said, "If you don't eat it, I'll take it all!" and then made a gesture to take the food away.

"Hey, don't!" Seeing that I was about to take the food away, Xiaoshi panicked, and hurriedly leaned over to protect the two dishes in front of him, and said pitifully: "Senior sister, I just ask you not to..." I interrupted him impatiently.

"Really, thank you, senior sister!" After the bastard got my assurance, he grabbed the steamed buns from the basket and stuffed them into his mouth. I still muttered "Thank you, senior sister, thank you..."

Afraid that he would choke on eating too quickly, he comforted him and said, "Don't worry, your master is drinking and has no time to catch you." Looking at his gobbling up food, I suddenly felt that he was so pitiful: when he left home at a young age, in order to learn kung fu, in addition to practicing Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer, he also had to endure the corporal punishment of the perverted master; in order to survive in the adult world, he learned to observe words and emotions everywhere at a young age, and his life was completely in the hands of others.

"Xiao Shi, what are you practicing martial arts for?" Hearing my question, Xiao Shi put down the half-eaten steamed bun in his hand, stared at me firmly with childish eyes, and said word by word: "Do chivalrous righteousness, eliminate violence and calm the people!"

His earnest look almost made me laugh out loud. "Then you, uh-huh," he cleared his throat and continued to ask, "Then why don't you find a good master, you see that old man makes things difficult for you all day long, and still doesn't let you eat." ”

"Actually, I know that Master is doing this for my good," Xiao Shi lowered his head, took his chopsticks and pulled the remaining vegetable leaves on the plate, and said, "Master wants me to become an apprentice as soon as possible, so that I can become a top master and be able to take charge of myself." ”

"Please, then you should also find a master with strong martial arts, what skills can you learn from this bad old man?" I said disdainfully. "Actually, senior sister, you don't know, Master's martial arts are very powerful. Little Stone hurriedly argued.

I laughed secretly in my heart: If this bad old man is a martial arts master, could it be that all the martial arts masters have gone to soy sauce? Seeing that I didn't believe his words, Xiao Shi was anxious: "Senior sister, Master defeated the Sword Saint back then!"

"Juggernaut, who is Juggernaut?" Xiao Shi's words reminded me of a character in DOTA, a battle game that boys often played in college.

"Senior sister, although I have not seen the honor of the Sword Saint, everyone in the world knows that he is the first person in the Central Plains martial arts. Xiao Shi continued: "After I unified the Central Plains, the emperors of all dynasties respected the rule of culture and recuperated with the people. There has been no war in the past hundred years, and the world is keen on official careers and unwilling to practice martial arts, so the Central Plains martial arts are gradually declining. When the first emperor, the lord of Xianbei sent a letter, threatening that there was a rich land in the Central Plains, but his martial arts were not as good as Xianbei, and his tone was extremely contemptuous. The first emperor was very angry, so he agreed with him to set up a competition in Luoyang, the capital division, and the two countries competed. ”

I have loved reading Jin Yong and Gu Long's martial arts novels since I was a child, and I have great respect for the heroes in the novels. I originally thought that the old man just opened a martial arts hall similar to a martial arts school, but I didn't expect that there was also a love and hatred in the novel here, and my interest was immediately aroused. Hurriedly interjected and asked, "How long ago was this?"

"Well, about forty years ago, I also heard from a few senior brothers. At that time, Xianbei sent ten top masters and threatened to defeat all the martial arts practitioners in the Central Plains. Although the imperial court at that time explicitly forbade the establishment of a faction, people who loved martial arts from all over the country spontaneously rushed to the capital to fight out of righteous indignation. ”

"The result?" I had long been immersed in the story told by Little Rock, urging him to tell it quickly.

Xiao Shi's tone was obviously heavy: "The ten warriors sent by Xianbei are either armed or unarmed, all of them use strange tricks, and they are extremely heavy, not at all like they are here to learn martial arts. In the first three days, nearly 100 people were killed and wounded every day, and in the next few days, no less than dozens of Central Plains warriors were defeated on the stage. The emperor was furious and ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry generals to challenge, but they were all defeated. ”

"Hmph, originally a general is to have a strategy, and personal courage is not necessarily a good general, this emperor is too unreasonable, isn't this a let people go to death in vain?" I scoffed at the emperor's approach.

"Alas, wasn't it because there was no one available at that time! The generals of the forbidden army were all lost, the whole country was terrified, and the martial arts people did not dare to come to the stage to face the battle. ”

"Well, it's really demoralizing. I chimed in.

"For four or five days in a row, no one dared to come to the stage to fight, and everyone in the world was talking about how if the Xianbei warriors had such a high level of martial arts, wouldn't it be easy to defeat Dacheng? In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, the emperor recruited a wide range of capable people with lofty ideals to fight, and promised that as long as he could win a game, he would reward him with a thousand taels of gold. Although the prize money is huge, no one dares to take the stage, and the 30-day fight deadline agreed by the two countries is about to pass. ”

"Smack!" I was so angry that I took the case and said, "The dignified Central Plains is no match for just ten barbarians!

Little Stone was just as angry as I was, his fists clenched, and his face flushed. On the thirtieth day, the Xianbei warriors believed that there were no more martial arts practitioners in the Central Plains, and wrote a request to return to China early, which was rejected by the first emperor. ”

"Grandma, you can't say anything to let these beasts with hundreds of lives in their hands go back!" I slapped the table with a bang, and muttered in my heart: Why don't heroes appear yet, I'm dying!

On the same day, the emperor raised the bounty to 10,000 taels of gold, but still no one came to challenge him. It wasn't until near dusk in the afternoon that a weak scholar suddenly appeared under the ring, and saw that this scholar, who looked dusty and had been in a hurry for a long time, was about to go on stage to fight. The Xianbei warriors on the stage all laughed. At that time, they actually discussed losing to him in a game, so that this weak scholar who seemed to be powerless became the first person in the Central Plains Martial Arts, and humiliated the Central Plains Martial Arts. ”

"I can't believe that they are really vicious..."Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp.

The scholar was neither humble nor arrogant, unmoved at all, and came to the stage with a long sword in his hand. It is said that at that time, several coffin shop owners who were watching the excitement had already ordered the men to go back to the goods. "Damn, I really will aim at business opportunities, and there is no business without treachery.

Before he could stand firm, a Xianbei warrior with a chain hammer had already thrown his weapon at him! Although the scholar dodged the fatal blow, his right foot was already in the air, and he could fall from the ring at any moment. The other party rushed towards him with a smile, ready to kill him who was trying to maintain his body balance! Many people in the audience were already covering their eyes with their hands!" Watching the small stones spitting and the storyteller's eyebrows fluttering, I suddenly thought that this stinky boy might be a good material for storytelling.

"It's too late, it's too fast, the scholar who had been slow to react before suddenly arched his left leg, lowered his body, and jumped between the other party's legs like a white light!"

"Well hidden!

Everyone present cheered that the scholar had escaped, but the Xianbei warrior suddenly spewed out a bloody light and fell to the ground with a bang! A sword mark was pulled diagonally from his neck to his lower abdomen, and it turned out that just now, between the lightning and fire, the scholar had already sent out the fatal blow, and everyone at the scene didn't even notice it! The people in the audience seemed to be stunned, and the scene of the martial arts competition was silent, and then the applause was thunderous! Subsequently, this weak scholar defeated four more opponents, all of whom were killed with a sword within three moves, and after five battles, it took less than half a pillar of incense.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, the scholar suddenly said to the remaining five Xianbei warriors who were eager to try, "Don't you want to avenge your dead companions, then let's go up together!" The crowd in the audience let out an exclamation, can this scholar be able to defeat the simultaneous attack of five masters? Everyone was a little worried.

At that time, the sky was getting dark, and the figures on the stage were already a little blurred, and when the five Xianbei masters rushed towards the scholar with a strange scream, the people present only saw a burst of white light like lightning passing in front of their eyes, and then heard the sound of clanging weapons on the stage. The brazier around the ring was lit, and the scholar stood proudly in the ring like a god, surrounded by corpses.

The people in the audience were completely crazy, and they didn't know who shouted the Sword Master first! Everyone frantically rushed to the front of the ring, shouting the Sword Master in their mouths, and threw the thin scholar high into the air. The happiest person is the owner of the coffin shop, and the battle of the Sword Master has made him ruthlessly blackmail the Xianbei envoy who is not familiar with the place of life A large sum of money.

"It's so enjoyable! Sure enough, he deserves to be a sword master!"

That night, the first emperor summoned this scholar overnight, and immediately rewarded him with 100,000 taels of gold, officially canonizing him as a sword saint. In the face of gold and silver fame and fortune, this scholar was unmoved, and he told the emperor in a calm tone that he had traveled thousands of miles from Yunnan to Beijing not for the bounty and fame. He implored the emperor to allow the people to practice martial arts freely and establish sects, which would be of great benefit to both public and private interests.

For this reason, he would rather give up the ten thousand taels of gold and the name of the Sword Saint that the emperor had rewarded. The first emperor was moved by his sincerity, so he issued an edict to allow the people to practice martial arts freely, and founded sects, all martial arts sects were subject to the sword saint moderation. ”

"According to what you say, that Sword Saint is really not an ordinary person. ”

"That's nature" Xiao Shi said with admiration: Since the Luoyang Ring became famous in the first battle, the Sword Master has become the number one hero of the Central Plains martial arts. The Central Plains martial arts are all their heads. The young people all took the Sword Saint as an example, and martial arts flourished for a while, and various martial arts sects were established one after another, and there were no less than fifty or sixty first-class sects alone. The Sword Saint also often organizes various sects in the Central Plains to learn martial arts and teach swordsmanship, and it can be said that all swordsmen in the world are disciples of the Sword Saint.

In the second year of the Luoyang ring, the unwilling Xianbei lord sent a letter again, asking me to send someone to him to fight in Xianbei, intending to take revenge. The Sword Saint went alone, set up a challenge in Xianbei Jiufang City, and within three days, defeated nearly 100 masters of Xianbei Country, and within five moves, he would definitely hit the enemy's vital point. But none of them were pointed, and no one was injured. The lord of Xianbei was shocked by the heavens, rewarded Dawan Liangju with a horse, honored him as the 'Shenwei General', sent envoys to escort the Sword Saint back to China, and at the same time paid tribute to me, and was willing to reconcile with me forever. ”

"The Sword Master's move is really a great achievement, admire, admire!" "In the past, although I also respected heroes with outstanding martial arts, I didn't think that martial arts could solve all problems. I was deeply impressed by what the Sword Master did, a person can make a country happy and convinced, maybe this is the so-called invincible benevolence.

"I can't see it, you kid is not big, but you know a lot of things. Xiao Shi scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Where, where, I have told me the story of the Sword Master since I was a child, and I don't know how many times I have heard it until now." ”

"However, it was this god-like sword master who was defeated by the master. Xiao Shi's cold words startled me.

What, the sword master with such a high sword skill was actually defeated by this bad old man, this is impossible, right? Looking at my O-shaped mouth, Xiao Shi said with certainty: "Senior sister, this is true. When the master had just created my Zhongnan Mountain faction, the Sword Saint did not issue a token, and the Master went to Luoyang alone to meet the Sword Saint, and the Sword Saint made a request at that time, saying that as long as the master could block him from ten moves, he would give him a pair of tokens, and allow the master to open a faction to accept apprentices in Zhongnan Mountain, if the master could defeat him within ten moves, he also gave him a martial arts cheats.

As a result, the master defeated the Sword Master, and not only got the token, but also got the "Hundred Battles Heart Method" from the Sword Master. Since the two were competing behind closed doors at that time, no one knew what kind of trick the master used to defeat the Sword Master. After the Sword Master lost, he was depressed all day, and soon he went to the west.

"It's a pity, it's a pity. "A generation of martial arts masters ended up like this, and I couldn't help but shake my head and sigh. "Ouch, patronizing and talking to Senior Sister, when is this coming, Senior Sister, I have to go, otherwise Master will punish me again. As he spoke, Xiao Shi picked up a steamed bun and kicked it in his arms, and then trotted back to the martial arts training ground.