"Alright, let's go inside." Dongyun Zhenren raised his hand with a smile, and Dao Shi Zhenren turned around and returned to the main hall.

The four of them just sat down.

"Zhenxu, I haven't thanked you yet, senior brother. The opponent is hard to find, this fight will at least save you a month of hard work. ”

When Wang Xu heard this, he hurriedly got up and thanked Wang Qing seriously.

Wang Qing also hurriedly stood up.

"You're welcome, I've benefited a lot from improving each other, improving each other."

"Alright, thank you. The children of the rivers and lakes don't need to be such mothers-in-law. Jiqing, tell me about your sword. Dongyun, you know a lot about this matter, you can say it. ”

"Well, you can get this sword spirit, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."

With the narration of Dongyun Zhenren, an almost dusty past of the rivers and lakes revealed the truth.

Mingjiao, the protagonist of the story, also came into being and died at the right time, stirring up the rivers and lakes. After listening to their stories, Wang Qing also admired these Xiaoqiang a little, they were almost wiped out several times, and they are still alive and well, and they still have leisure and Kunlun to break their wrists.

The words show that the religion is a foreign religion, and then I don't know the reason, and there is chaos within the church. The three elders were deeply divided, and in the end, the second elder Assasin and the third elder Hajjani led a large number of loyal disciples to the east.

In the second year of Shenlong, the empress ascended the throne. The two young elders set foot on the territory of the Tang Dynasty and began a difficult missionary journey.

However, the fate of the two elders was very different.

Assasin is blonde and blue-eyed, and most of his men are Hu. In the prosperous era of Datang, he was discriminated against, and could only deceive ignorant village women in remote villages and towns. Fortunately, the Mingjiao has a deep heritage, and the ignorant can be regarded as being able to get caught, and they can be regarded as having a foothold.

And Hajjani, who is originally Han, was formerly known as Lu Weilou. The Lu family was originally a big merchant on the Silk Road, although the whole family moved to other countries, but they have always adhered to Chinese orthodoxy, and their descendants must learn Chinese culture. Therefore, with the help of his strong financial resources, manpower and profound knowledge, Lu Weilou easily blended in the upper class society of Chang'an. At that time, the Buddhists offered the secret method, and the royal Buddha suppressed the Tao. The battle between Buddhism and Taoism has reached a white-hot stage. Lu Weilou wisely did not openly establish a religion at this time, but developed it in a low-key manner.

In the first year of Jinglong, the news that the Tang Dynasty royal used the mountains and rivers to refine the palm of the Buddha was leaked, and the aura began to decrease. After the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism were believed, they quickly stopped the conflict and unanimously opposed the refining of the Buddha kingdom in the palm of their hands. After all, aura is the foundation of all cultivation sects, and the foundation is going to be destroyed, who cares about the dispute over Taoism.

Lu Weilou took the opportunity to formally establish Mingjiao. At the same time, Assasin also founded the Assasin religion. Although the two religions seem to be very different, they have the same roots. Outsiders can't distinguish the root of these two foreign sects at all, and they have always been treated as two different sects, which laid the foundation for the later Mingjiao to die many times without being stiff.

With the support of the imperial court, the Mingjiao sect has surpassed many sects in the Central Plains in just over a dozen years. However, Lu Weilou is a generation of masters, familiar with history books, and does not fully trust the imperial court. After the Ming Sect grew stronger, it secretly developed a branch of religion in the Western Regions on the one hand, and secretly supported Assasin on the other.

In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, at the time of the third famous sword conference, in order to strengthen the momentum of Mingjiao, the two great kings of Mingjiao went to the Tibetan Sword Villa to seize the sword "Broken Star".

In the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan, the beggar gang and the Tang Sect joined forces to besiege Mingjiao in Fenghua Valley, but due to the leakage of news, the coalition army was defeated. Mingjiao is becoming more and more indispensable.

After the "Battle of Fenghua Valley", the first position of Mingjiao in the Central Plains was formed, and no one could stop the expansion of Mingjiao.

At that time, Mingjiao was evidenced by poetry.

The dangerous building is a hundred feet proud of the top of the Buddha, and the emperor is not afraid of the sky.

Round battle Five Lakes Killing, wanting to kill the true immortals in the Nine Heavens.

Mingjiao, whose strength has skyrocketed, can no longer hold back its ambitions. The many Dharma Kings who were consumed by the desire for profit and were carried away by successive victories ignored the stop of the sect leader Lu Weilou. On the one hand, he vigorously suppressed the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism, and on the other hand, he began to control the ministers of the court, in a vain attempt to dominate the family.

Finally, the excessively powerful Mingjiao aroused the jealousy of the royal family. In the twenty-fifth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty promulgated the "Breaking Order", announcing that all religions except those on the list were cults and ordered to be dissolved. Mingjiao naturally bore the brunt of the attack, but Mingjiao, which was in its prime, was once again carried away by the victory, and even wanted to challenge the Tang Dynasty, and even planned an event to enter the palace to force admonishment. But all this was soon discovered by the Tiance Mansion, and Tang Xuanzong was furious and ordered the Ming Sect to be completely annihilated and killed.

On the night of March 25, the 27th year of Kaiyuan, through the whistleblowing of the traitors of the Ming Sect, the "Wolf of the Eastern Capital" Tiance Mansion learned that the main figures of the Ming Sect would meet in the Great Guangming Temple.

After coordinating and contacting the various factions, when the high-level leaders of the Ming Sect gathered in the Guangming Temple, the Tiance Mansion sent all the masters of the mansion to attack. With the assistance of Shaolin Temple and other sects, dozens of high-ranking people of the Ming Sect were killed in one fell swoop, and only a limited number of people such as the sect leader Lu Weilou escaped among the masters who participated in the gathering.

After the Daguang Temple incident, the strength of Mingjiao was greatly damaged, and it was hunted down by the whole Jianghu, and once fell on the verge of extinction.

Lu Weilou had no choice but to lead a few remnants to retreat into the Western Regions and go underground for development.

But Mingjiao martial arts are too distinctive, and they will be exposed once they fight.

The core mental method of Mingjiao, the Great Light Root Wisdom Sutra, is different from the framework of Central Plains martial arts based on the five elements and eight trigrams. It is the cultivation of the sun soul, the moon spirit, and the martial arts "Burning Shadow Holy Technique" and "Mingzun Glazed Body", which are even more conspicuous and well-known by the Central Plains martial arts. Not to mention that the weapon is also a double scimitar unique to the Outlands.

In order to hide his identity, Lu Weilou is worthy of being a masterpiece in the world, and his understanding of martial arts is unmatched. Lu Weilou referred to the many martial arts cheats snatched during the heyday of Mingjiao, and created the "Great Sun Light Sutra" of the fire genus and the "Yin Moon Eclipse Sutra" of the wood genus. And based on this, he created many double hammer martial arts suitable for the "Great Sun Bright Sutra", which combined with a large number of military cheats, which can be used immediately and immediately, and has become the main force of Mingjiao's foreign conquest. Most of the supporting "Yin Moon Eclipse Sutra" is swordsmanship, which is vicious and vicious, mainly helping Ming to eradicate dissidents secretly.

With the new martial arts, Mingjiao has established a firm foothold and slowly developed, intending to make a comeback. It can be said that:

The jade flute in the white sand desert blows, and I gradually forget who I am.

The sun and the moon shine together in troubled times, and the bright flame looks forward to returning to the east.

Fortunately, at this time, the Anshi Rebellion supported by Buddhism and Taoism attracted the attention of the entire Central Plains, and Mingjiao had a chance to develop steadily.

Mingjiao was originally developing well in secret, but after nearly a hundred years of development, it has begun to penetrate into the Central Plains again.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Taoist forces gradually prevailed, and during the Huichang period, Tang Wuzong began to destroy Buddhism. The struggle between Buddhism and Taoism in the Central Plains intensified.

Mingjiao took the opportunity to secretly begin to march into the Central Plains, waiting for an opportunity to prepare to fight back.

Originally, everything was going on in an orderly manner according to the plan of the Mingjiao high-level, but everything was afraid of but. The calculations of high-rise temples are often ruined in the hands of some inconspicuous small characters.

The cause of this is not too small. Elder Dark Moon, who was the elder of the Dark Hall of the Ming Sect at the time, had an unfortunate only son who died in battle, leaving only one grandson. To say that the son of this elder is also a leader of the younger generation, Lao Tzu is generally relatively strict with his son. But when a grandfather takes his grandson, especially after his son dies, it is a little spoiled.

It's just this grandson, Shen Xiangdong. Although the character is spoiled by the old man, he is very talented in martial arts. At the age of 20, he completed the "Eclipse of the Lunar Moon Sutra" and ranked among the third-rate masters, and his martial arts ranked among the top five among the young generation within Mingjiao. The old man was overjoyed, and on the day of his martial arts success with Shen Xiangdong, he asked for a famous sword and broken star from the sect leader and gave it to his grandson.

The old man was originally well-intentioned, and the Shattered Star was originally a famous sword created by the Tibetan Sword Villa, and it was also one of the top three famous swords in the Mingjiao collection of weapons. The most important sword was snatched by the Ming Sect elders before the start of the Third Famous Sword Conference, and almost no one had seen it except for the people from the Hidden Sword Villa. Moreover, the Tibetan Sword Villa and the Badao fought many times, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, and after being attacked by the Tang Gate once, they both disappeared into the rivers and lakes. So there is no need to worry about being recognized at all.

Shen Xiangdong's martial arts are great, and he is also known as the sword, although he is only a third-rate master, but he will not be defeated by fighting the sword and fighting hard. Soon made a name for himself in the Central Plains, and he was a leader among the young generation.

And then there's another person, it's really a small character. Ye Chou, the sword slave of the original Tibetan Sword Villa, was originally a descendant of Turkic prisoners of war, without a name, and was called Augly. Later, he was successful in swordsmanship, and was given the surname Ye and promoted to the master of the small hammer. The shattered star came from his hand.

Later, the Tibetan Sword Villa disappeared, and Ye Chou took advantage of the chaos to escape, did not dare to continue to stay in the south, and fled all the way north back to the Turkic homeland. Although the Turks were destroyed by the Tang, most of the Turks returned to the Tang. But shamanism, the state religion of the Turks, remained. Although it has not been deeply rooted and has not been inherited enough, it has always been a small third-rate sect, but it is widely spread among the Turks. After fleeing to the north, Ye Chou joined shamanism in order to seek refuge. Because of his rich knowledge and sword-forging skills, he soon ascended to the top of the shamanic religion, spread out his branches, and established the Fire Hall, which provided weapons for the sect full-time.

It's a pity that shamanism is a small family after all, and many precious resources are not able to compete at all, Ye Choukong has a good skill, but he has never created any famous swords. Ye Chou was haunted until he died, so he described his proud work Broken Star Sword in detail, hoping that the younger generations must recapture this famous sword that carries their dignity and skills.

Ye Chou's great-grandson, Ye Chen, inherited all the sword-forging skills and the position of the master of the Fire Hall. This Ye Chen is also a master of a generation, not only in sword casting, but also extremely talented in martial arts. However, shamanism was really limited in what it could provide, and Ye Chen was unwilling to waste his talents, so he changed his name to Gu Qichen. Incognito tried to infiltrate other sects and steal advanced martial arts to make up for the shortcomings of shamanism.

This year, 22-year-old Shen Xiangdong and 21-year-old Gu Qichen met in Chang'an. Although Shen Xiangdong's identity was announced to the outside world as the young owner of Drunken Moon Villa, when Gu Qichen saw the broken star for the first time, he knew that this was a person from the Ming Sect. Although Gu Qichen is one year younger than Shen Xiangdong, a person who is committed to the growth of the sect and a spoiled child, it is not difficult for Gu Qichen to deliberately befriend Shen Xiangdong.

A year after the two met, Gu Qichen was recommended by Shen Xiangdong to join the Ming Sect as a swordsmith.

At this point, Mingjiao's originally smooth development plan was clouded.