The Su family in Yangzhou is a well-known family in the south of the Yangtze River. The Su family has been in business for generations, from the prince of the Su family to the present, it has reached the fourth generation.

The Su family's business covers a wide range, such as teahouses and restaurants, Goolan Washe, and fireworks and willow lanes, all of which are involved, but the most well-known is the silk business. The silk business of the Su family almost covered the entire state capital along the Jiangnan River, from Runzhou in the north to Hangzhou in the south, there are shops opened by the Su family.

The Su family is in the fourth generation, and there are three or five children in the second and third rooms, while the big house has only one daughter. But this daughter is the most capable person in the four generations of the Su family.

Su Wan of the Su family, anyone who has dealt with the Su family knows the name and deeds of this strange woman.

Su Wan just passed the year of Ji Lu, and began to take over the business under the name of Dafang. The identity of a woman made her restricted everywhere, but she soon became familiar with all kinds of business in the business field, and soon participated in the decision-making of the high-level shopkeepers.

At the age of nineteen, he officially replaced his father Su Que and became the leader of the Su family, controlling the main shops and doors of the Su family. Under her leadership, the Su family's business is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a faint trend of becoming the richest man in Jiangnan.

A year ago, under Su Wan's operation, the Su family got the quota of imperial merchants, and they were in the limelight for a while. Since the imperial court had to pay a large amount of annual coins to Liao and Western Xia every year, merchants who got the quota of imperial merchants would get rich rewards as long as they could gather the amount of silk required by the government, and even get the care of the government when doing business, such as tax reductions and exemptions.

However, shopping malls are like officialdom, and the competition is quite fierce. The strong rise of the Su family over the years has also cut off other people's financial routes and made a lot of enemies. These enemies have hired Green Forest bandits to assassinate the core figures of the Su family many times, but the Su family has raised many family members and always protects the safety of the descendants of the Zong family. Over the past few years, large and small assassinations have only caused the Su family to lose some family members, but have not injured the core personnel.

In the Su family's guard system, there is a figure who has frightened countless people in the rivers and lakes, the great sage of the Su family. Fang Dasheng is famous for practicing kung fu outside his family, and he is good at fist and knife skills. Its fists can be divided into gold and jade, and the knife can open mountains and crack stones, all of which are known for their domineering. He once tried to compete with Zhou Dong, a martial arts master who was very prosperous back then, but it is said that he was only slightly inferior.

In addition to Fang Dasheng, the Su family also had nine powerful family members, who were named the eldest and second according to their age until the ninth, but the eldest and third were killed while resisting assassination. Now the remaining seven brothers are put on the rivers and lakes, and all of them are first-class good players.

In the boat, Xu Ziling's luck flowed around his body, and he was suddenly refreshed. got up and looked at the woman next to Mingxia. The woman was dressed in a mink coat and a gold hairpin and jade bracelet, which showed her grace and luxury, and she exuded an approachable temperament in her gestures. She looked like a lady from a large family, but she was green and shoulder-hanging, and it seemed that she was not yet married.

Ming Xia saw that Xu Ziling woke up, and said happily: "Xiao, Ziling, are you okay?" ”

Xu Ziling raised his head and nodded at the woman next to him and asked, "What's going on?" “

Ming Xia glanced at the woman and said, "This sister is Miss Su Wan of the Su family in Yangzhou, and she and I have a relationship in Bianliang. I explained to her just now that she happened to be going to Bianliang and could send us there. ”

The woman named Su Wan was also looking at Xu Ziling while speaking. The impression of the boy on her is not very good, just a handsome ranger, without the elegance of a scholar, nor the temperament of a martial artist, she was subdued by Uncle Fang with one move, and martial arts are commonplace.

She was a little curious about why the famous teacher girl liked such a young man, but she stopped at curiosity and didn't want to ask, she has always been very cold about men and women. Now she is twenty-two years old, not to mention marriage, there are not even many men who can be seen, and several of her cousins, some of whom already have a son and a half daughter.

When she was young, she also liked poetry and songs, and like most women in this era, she also admired those talented literati. However, when those self-proclaimed scholars and talents chanted poems in front of her and showed great hospitality, she could no longer arouse her interest.

Because she could see the true thoughts of those scholars, what they liked was not her Su Wan, but the young lady of the Su family.

Over the years, in the business field, her ability to manipulate people's hearts has become more and more perfect, and there are even fewer men who can enter her eyes. Now when she sees Xu Ziling, she only thinks that he is just a handsome teenager, she has seen too many such teenagers.

Xu Ziling also noticed Su Wan's gaze, but he didn't care, and arched his hand: "Miss Su doesn't care about the boy's offense, but wants to send the boy to Bianliang, thank you here." ”

The woman said lightly: "Thank you for the sake of the teacher, I'm just for the sake of the teacher." ”

When Xu Ziling heard this, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

Seeing that he was deflated, Ming Xia covered her mouth and smiled lightly, and said, "Miss Su is more pragmatic and straightforward, Ziling, don't take it to heart." ”

Xu Ziling shook his head: "I'm not a person with a small belly. As he spoke, he suddenly thought of his Chixiao sword, and his heart was a little touched, and when he looked back, he was on the waist of the big man surnamed Fang, and suddenly shouted: "Uncle Fang, this misunderstanding has also been solved, do you see my sword?" Isn't it ......"

The big man's face turned sideways, and he said coldly: "Who is your Uncle Fang, who is close to Lao Tzu, if you want this sword, you can take it yourself." ”

Xu Ziling had no choice but to look at Miss Su. Su Wan saw Xu Ziling's pleading eyes, and immediately looked down on him a little more, and said to Dahan: "Uncle Fang, since it's his, then give it back to him." ”

The big man snorted lightly, drew his sword and threw it at Xu Ziling. When the sword reached the air, it was like a fish in water, and it made a circle in the air before returning to the scabbard on Xu Ziling's waist.

Su Wanrou's lips curled slightly, she was shocked by this scene, she had never seen this kind of method of using qi to resist things before, but her surprise was only for a moment, and in a blink of an eye, she returned to her light and breezy appearance.

In fact, it's not that Uncle Fang doesn't wait for others, and he won't use qi to protect things. But all the martial artists who can draw qi out of the body when they enter the hall can use qi to defend against things. It's just that the difference between consumption and gain is so great that few people will use this means.

The Chixiao Sword is very spiritual, and it is very close to Xu Ziling, and it is also very expensive for him to control, not to mention those ordinary blades that have no spirituality. Moreover, the lethality of the Imperial Artifact is too limited, and it is far less violent than that of the hand.

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After the farce, the boat continued to sail again. The two women were chatting in the hall with private words that were not salty or light, and the white-haired old man lying on the Taishi chair was closing his eyes and recuperating. Xu Ziling had nothing to do, so he wanted to run to the deck to take a look at the scenery, but he first saw the five or so people guarding on it.

The fifth child was not as violent as Uncle Fang, especially the fifth child, and he didn't hold a grudge against Xu Ziling for slapping him just now, and even greeted him after knowing that he was not an enemy.

Xu Ziling is also a familiar person, and he hit it off with them, chatting with them while watching the coastal scenery. Soon, Xu Ziling learned some information about the Su family from them, for example, the current head of the Su family is the woman named Su Wan, and most importantly, the Su family is very rich.

The five people were very curious about the spiritual sword, and they also asked Xu Ziling about the origin of the Chixiao Sword, but Xu Ziling didn't hide it, after all, he didn't know much. He only knew that this sword was the fire sword in the Five Elements Sword of Zhengyi Gate, and it was also a pure yang sword.

Lao Wu and the others were suddenly amazed, as far as they knew, there were several sects in one sect, including Maoshan, Qingwei, Jingming and so on. Although they all take the Heavenly Master Dao as the core essence, the techniques between the various sects are completely different, and this Chixiao Sword is worth studying no matter which faction it comes from.

True cultivators have never been involved in personnel disputes, and the Five Elements Sword of Zhengyi Gate is a very famous sword for thousands of years, and it has been hidden in the deep pavilion as a treasure of the town religion.

Although the Five Elements Sword is famous all over the world, there are not many people who have seen it, if it weren't for Xu Ziling talking about it, the old five people wouldn't know that this is the famous Chixiao. Including Uncle Fang, who was extraordinary in martial arts, he only felt that this sword was very mysterious at that time, and he didn't recognize its identity.

Xu Ziling suddenly thought of it, the master actually had so many things to hide from him, not to mention the origin of this sword, and he didn't say the internal skills he had been practicing, but only said that it had something to do with Wudang.

Suddenly, I heard the eighth child ask: "Brother Xu, you are also practicing pure yang internal skills, right?" ”

Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Is there a phase of internal strength?" But the master never spoke to him.

Lao Ba looked at Xu Ziling's stunned appearance, and was quite puzzled: "Ordinary martial artists may not know that there is a difference between internal strength, but your master is Zhou Tong, he hasn't told you?" ”

Xu Ziling shook his head.

Lao Ba didn't seem to pretend to understand him, and explained: "There are thousands of kinds of internal strength in the world, but they can be divided into five categories in general. That is, the five categories of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, corresponding to the five phases of King Kong, Zixia, Xuanyin, Pure Yang, and Guiyuan. ”

Xu Ziling heard that luck is in the palm of his hand, colorless and invisible, invisible, and can only be sensed.

The sixth man on the side watched his movements, guessed what he meant, and said: "Before reaching the realm of condensation and transformation, true qi will not show its phase." ”

Xu Ziling was even more puzzled: "What is the realm of condensation and transformation, above the hall and into the room?" ”

Lao Liu nodded: "Entering the hall is the real step into the martial arts, at this time the martial artist can draw qi out of the body, hurt people with qi, and then it is the realm of the spirit of the strange object, at this time the martial artist can condense the shape of the form, hurt people with the form, and enter the hall is also called the first realm of the warrior, and the spirit of the strange object is also called the realm of the warrior." ”

After a pause, the sixth child continued: "When you reach the ultimate realm, the phase of internal strength can be revealed, and you can see the outstanding and shaped. Pure Yang belongs to fire, mostly red, Zixia belongs to wood, mostly purple, Xuanyin belongs to water, mostly blue, Vajra belongs to gold, mostly gold. However, due to the development of the exercises for thousands of years, the colors of the exercises will be different when the true qi is transformed, and the colors are not divided according to the purity of the colors. ”

After the sixth child's explanation, Xu Ziling was like an initiation, as if opening the door to a new world, and asked, "Uncle Fang is the ultimate realm, right?" ”

Lao Wu nodded: "Uncle Fang was in the realm many years ago. He practiced Vajra exercises, so he was known for being domineering. ”

At this time, Xu Ziling remembered that when Uncle Fang slapped his palm in the morning, the pale golden light on his palm overlapped with the color of his palm, he thought it was dazzling at the time, but now he thinks that it is true qi.

Then he suddenly thought of Gongsun Yu who defeated Fang Jie with one finger, isn't her true anger cyan, after fainting and waking up, she saw Ming Xia and forgot about it for a while. Cyan, it should be a change of purple xia or Xuanyin.

But since she is a supreme realm martial artist and assassinated Wang Jun, why didn't she take action herself?

Also, my own master, I thought that his true qi was colorless like myself, but now that I think about it, his true qi is not colorless, but

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