Chapter 43: Political Marriages
Xu Qing thought about the long-term plan for the future, went to bed very late, got up late the next morning, and when Xu Qing and Li Mingyue came to the school in the morning, the competition had reached the fourth game. In the first three games, the captain of the Khitan leader and the first master of the Khitan, Tie Miao, won easily, and in the fourth game, it seemed that Tie Miao was fighting hard. In fact, it's no wonder that he is struggling, his opponent is too strong - it is Luo Zhiming, the third of the "Changbai Three Heroes" who entered the qualifying tournament of the Tang Martial Arts Conference forty years ago.
"Changbai Sanjie" was originally the three elders of the Changbai faction, the first major faction in the martial arts of Datang Liaodong Dao, and Xia Zuo, the current head of the Changbai faction, is the apprentice grandson of Luo Zhihui, the boss of the "Changbai Sanjie". The "Changbai Sanjie" martial arts are strong and strong, and they were originally respected in the martial arts, but because of their remote location, they have little contact with the Central Plains martial arts, and they have rarely walked around in the Central Plains martial arts in the past 20 years, and they are almost not understood by the younger generation of the Central Plains martial arts. A few years later, Goguryeo was wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, and the "Changbai Sanjie" could not gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty, nor could it gain a foothold in the former Goguryeo region that was included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so they had to take the entire Changbai faction to join Silla, the new overlord of the Korean Peninsula.
Luo Zhi will be too old next year, his beard and hair are all white, and his dexterity is no less than that of Tie Miao, who is more than ten years younger than him. The skills of the two are similar, and Luo Zhiming's swordsmanship is slightly better, close to the realm of "heart and sword unity". The so-called "heart and sword unity" refers to the communication between the mind and the sword moves, and the intention is to move, and the move is at will, which is the second highest realm of the sword, and there will be no more than 100 people in the martial arts. The highest level of kendo, "body and sword integration", focuses on the move of cracking the enemy with human instinct, without having to bother thinking about how to solve it. When super masters compete, the time to decide the victory or defeat may only be one hundredth or even one thousandth of a second, it is impossible to come up with a way to crack it in such a short time, and the only way to crack it is to use the body's keen sense of the outside world to counterattack, and the sword moves with the body, not the sword moves at will.
Tie Miao is supposed to lose, but he has experienced countless big battles and small battles in his life, not only has rich experience, but also has a variety of moves. After fighting more than 200 moves, Tie Miao has used dozens of swordsmanship. Luo Laosan has lived in the mountains for a long time, and rarely goes out of the rivers and lakes, not only is the actual combat experience different from Tie Miao, but also the kind of ruthlessness that does not kill him when he makes moves, so it is Luo Laosan who is at a disadvantage. Under Tie Miao's fierce attack, Luo Laosan was finally more than ten years older than Tie Miao, and his energy was faster than Tie Miao's, and gradually Luo Laosan's breathing became heavier, from heavy breathing at the beginning to panting like a cow in the later was just half a cup of tea.
Tie Miao took a fancy to this, so he fought hard with Luo Laosan at the beginning. Compared with physical strength and consumption, only Luo Laosan suffers. Due to Luo Laosan's lack of physical strength, his sword gradually slowed down, and he was finally attacked by Tie Miao into the talisman sword net, and a sword stabbed his left shoulder, injuring his muscles and bones. Luo Laosan was so painful that he broke out in a cold sweat, he couldn't stop snorting coldly, in front of hundreds of pairs of eyes in the audience, he still had to take care of his face, and he didn't dare to shout loudly. Tie Miao retreated, his sword crossed his chest, to prevent his opponent from counterattacking regardless of the rules of the competition. With the sound of the gong, the victory and defeat were divided, and Luo Laosan's right hand was against the bleeding wound, and he retreated hatefully.
Because the competition is to celebrate the birthday of "Concubine Zhen", three rules have been set:
Out of the carpet range is considered a loss.
Whoever bleeds or vomits blood loses, and the winner is not to pursue.
Whoever kills someone in a joust will be disqualified from continuing the joust.
The purpose of these three rules is, of course, to minimize casualties.
Although Luo Zhihui, the boss of the "Three Heroes of Changbai", is Luo Zhiming's eldest brother, the wrinkles on his face are not as deep as Luo Zhiming's, and his beard and hair are not as white as Luo Zhiming's, but he looks like Luo Zhiming's younger brother. Luo Zhihui's eyes were shining, and his cultivation was obviously far above his younger brother, and he deserved to be a famous figure on the list of martial arts conferences forty years ago - forty years ago, the Changbai faction had not yet defected to the former Goguryeo, and it was still a Jianghu sect under the rule of Liaodong Dao in the Tang Dynasty, so he was naturally qualified to participate in the martial arts conference of the Tang Dynasty. Tie Miao looked at Luo Zhihui, and knew from his true aura that a strong opponent was coming.
Boss Luo is not sure of winning, relying on his new arrival, full of physical strength, and has been observing the opponent for a long time, as soon as he makes a move, he strives to solve it quickly. Tie Miao consumed more than half of his physical strength in the last duel with Luo Laosan, and was caught off guard by Luo Laosan, barely parrying more than a dozen moves, and finally lost the game, and ended up the same as Luo Laosan, the difference was only that he was stabbed in the right shoulder. In the Khitan envoys, Tie Miao has the highest martial arts, and once Tie Miao is defeated, the others don't have to appear again.
At the behest of Li Yong, Yu Wenji, the leader of the Xi clan, who had a good personal relationship with King Yan, asked Li Lin, the lord of Anbang, for his younger brother Yu Wenzhong. Then Li Yong deliberately leaked the news. So the special envoy of Silla, Kim Facun, asked the "Lord of Anbang" to marry the prince Kim Yeol. Yelu Bizha, the son of the Khitan chieftain, and Shiraba Naoyi, the son of the head of the Murwei, also asked the lord of Anbang for marriage. The Eastern Turkic chieftain Yabu Gele asked the lord of Ampang for his son's marriage. All courtship was carried out privately with Li Yong, and he was afraid that his competitors would know.
Li Yong was very happy to see that the five clans were all courting according to his original plan, so he promised the envoys of all clans to let the envoys of all clans do their best in the competition, and whichever clan is the strongest will marry the lord of Anbang. The masters of Fan Yang's army, the masters of the Mei family, and Xu Qing were all forbidden to fight. Silla supported the rebellion of Goguryeo and Baekje, which had been eliminated by the Tang Dynasty, and did not sincerely surrender to the Tang Dynasty, Li Yong expected that the Tang Dynasty would send troops to Silla sooner or later, so he did not want his own daughter Li Lin to marry into Silla, so he sent military masters to infiltrate the Xi envoy group to prevent the Silla envoy from winning the competition.
The envoys of various ethnic groups took turns to send samurai to fight, and there were many martial arts competitions, and the top masters would lose when they were tired, which became a wheel war.
Silla also has a special master Luo Zhiwei - the second of the "Three Heroes of Changbai" was not sent out, and he did not dare to send him to play at this time, and only sent some second- and third-rate masters to play against the masters of various ethnic groups. The level of the competition is getting lower and lower, and the audience only feels bored. If Li Yong hadn't been there in person, someone would have been heckling.
Li Mingyue was naturally with her sisters, cousins, and cousins, and she was very sad to learn that her beloved father treated her third sister as an object, an item that could be given away casually, and married the most powerful ethnic minority.
Xu Qing was very angry when he learned of Li Yong's absurd and inhumane measures, and was determined to teach him a good lesson, and patiently watched many competitions, and saw that after the fight, the one that appeared was not as good as the one, and when it was over, he couldn't hold back anymore and flew on the field. The audience erupted in exclamation. Now the ongoing competition has taken on the nature of a competition to recruit relatives, and the masters of the Han nationality of the Tang Dynasty are forbidden to fight. Xu Qing disobeyed King Yan's order and went on the field to face five ethnic minority masters, how could the audience not exclaim?
Xu Qing was full of might, shot like the wind, and defeated more than 60 masters of the five clans in a row, but he was still calm and relaxed, and his face did not change. None of the more than 50 masters in a row was the enemy of Xu Qing's ten moves, and there were no second- and third-rate masters in the five clans, and the only first-class master in Silla, Luo Laoer, and the only first-class master in Khitan who did not appear, Yeluwang, were forced to play, but they were all defeated by Xu Qing.
Boss Luo, who was defeated, bandaged his wounds and played again. Boss Luo concentrated all his body strength on the tip of the sword, and the sword qi covered a radius of two zhang. The blue light flashed, the sword qi was vertical and horizontal, and thousands of sword qi weaved an invisible giant net in the air, scattering it towards Xu Qing. Xu Qing didn't dare to lightly pick up the sword qi of Boss Luo, and stepped on the light footwork "Purple Mansion Lost Step", which is unique in the world of the Snow Mountain School, and walked around the field, interspersed in the sword net, and avoided it every time in the sword wind and body.
Xu Qing stepped up his feet, and his body technique became faster and faster, and gradually three, five, and ten ...... appeared on the martial arts arena So that countless false images of Xu Qing, and finally countless false images blurred into one, the audience felt dizzy when watching from a distance, Boss Luo was in the game, not only to distinguish Xu Qing's real body from countless real and false figures, so that he did not dare to blink, but also turned more urgently than Xu Qing, in order to maintain always face to face with the opponent, not to be attacked from behind, and soon dizzy.
Boss Luo gritted his teeth and insisted, suddenly there was a buzz in his head, a splitting headache, the long sword flew out of his hand, and then his body tilted while rotating, and when it tilted to a certain extent, he fell to the ground with a "bang", and blood gushed out from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, which was extremely weird.
Xu Qing's eyes widened in surprise, and the audience was also dumbfounded, wondering why Boss Luo died so strangely. Xu Qing thought about it carefully, and faintly guessed the strange cause of Boss Luo's death, "He turned in a small circle, I don't know how many times more anxious than me, and he supported it for so long, and the blood and true qi in his body actually broke through his own brain." This truth is not difficult to understand, but it is unheard of by people in the world who have this kind of death, so it is surprising.