Chapter Forty-Seven: The Great Feast of Martial Arts (I)
Swallow Dock, Shenhezhuang
Rockery, flowing water, grass and trees and even the surrounding carefully come and go of the family servants, in the breeze under the invisible blowing, constitute a beautiful and vivid picture, on the scenery alone, here is not as much as the sea of flowers like the Mantuo Villa, especially in the layout of the pattern, faintly secretly combined the number of techniques, the Qimen Dunjia Nine Palace Gossip hidden in the meantime, but not on the surface, just this arrangement, you can see the original arrangement of the villa of the people in the Qimen number of attainments.
Li Xuan sat cross-legged on the grass, his heart facing the sky, running the true qi in his body in the most formal posture of Taoism, and the surrounding qiē automatically re-converged in his mind with the clarity of the Lingtai, although he did not open his eyes, but a qiē within a radius of ten zhang was actually in Li Xuan's mind.
Since the spiritual mirror image that was destroyed by Li Qiushui in the valley of deafness and dumbness that day, with the continuous making up for this period of time, coupled with the absurdity of the scene in the Vulture Palace, not only re-imaged, but faintly, it seems to have improved more than before, at this moment, even if Li Qiushui does it again, Li Xuan is confident that even if a master of the same level as Li Qiushui comes, he will definitely not be able to escape his own perception.
Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to the marriage after half a month, and the wedding banquet had been used as a bait by Li Xuan from the beginning, a bait that could get him out of the Great Song Dynasty without losing his righteousness.
Although doing this, I am a little ashamed of Yu Yan, who loves me deeply, in this era, marriage may be just a special banquet for men, but for a woman, it is the most important moment in her life, just ...... There is no such thing as absolute perfection in the world, and people's lives are constantly weighing the pros and cons and choosing a path that they think is the most correct.
In the original work, Murong Fu abandoned Wang Yuyan for his great cause of restoring the country. No matter what outsiders think, but at least in his opinion, this is correct, and at the moment, all Li Xuan can do is to make this storm that is about to affect the pattern of the five countries. The damage to Wang Yuyan and even Mantuo Villa was minimized.
At present, many things have begun to be arranged, Li Shan and Li Huo already have enough ability to deal with these things, they don't have to worry about it, what they need to do now is actually no different from Wang Yuyan, that is, waiting for the arrival of the wedding day and adjusting their state to the best.
The fusion of the Yellow Emperor's Heart Sutra and the three major exercises of the Xiaoyao Sect, although after the absurd scene in the secret room of the Vulture Palace, successfully fused the true qi of the three major exercises with his own imperial true qi. But it has not been perfected, strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as a preliminary fusion, and even Li Xuan has some knowledge of the principle but does not know why.
For a martial artist, not being able to truly understand his own exercises is definitely a very dangerous thing, even if it is smooth sailing for the time being, it does not mean that the crisis will disappear because of this. Instead, it will lurk, and when the realm reaches a certain level and really bursts out. But it's deadly.
The emperor's desire to control is usually extremely strong, and for things that are not under his control, even if it is very beneficial to him at the moment, he will still be wary, because Li Xuan did not use too much of the sudden strengthening of the Yellow Emperor's Heart Sutra to improve his skills during this time, but calmed down. Experiencing the changes in the emperor's true qi, in order to completely perfect the new Yellow Emperor's Heart Sutra.
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rivers and lakes
As Qiao Feng left Yanmen in the north and left the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, a series of uproars around Qiao Feng gradually subsided, but the hatred had been buried. It has not disappeared with the passage of time, unless Qiao Feng no longer sets foot in Middle-earth in this life, when Qiao Feng sets foot in Middle-earth again, it will be the time when this hatred completely explodes.
And with Qiao Feng's retirement, another news seems to have become a hot topic in the current Jianghu martial arts, that is, the son of Nan Murong Murong Fu, who was as famous as Qiao Feng in the past, will get married in half a month, and invite all the heroes from all over the world to Yanziwu.
If it was in the past, when Bei Qiao Feng and Nan Murong stood side by side, although Nan Murong was famous, it was absolutely impossible to invite the world's heroes to participate in a wedding banquet, but now, with the disgrace of Bei Qiaofeng, there is already a faint situation in which Nan Murong's family dominates in the rivers and lakes.
As the Western Xia sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to criticize the Song Dynasty for the matter of the Western Xia Yipintang, the imperial court was forced to issue a sea fishing document to Murong Fu under diplomatic pressure, although it attracted the peeps of many evil sects, but it also pushed Nan Murong's prestige to an extreme.
Punish the Xixia Yipintang, repay the grievances with virtue, and help the beggars, this is a very happy thing, especially under the deliberate rendering of the people with a heart, the deeds of the Xixia Yipintang in the Great Song Dynasty openly burned and looted vividly, Li Xuan has become a hero-like existence in the rivers and lakes, and his reputation is prosperous, which can be said to be in full swing.
What makes many Jianghu forces even more gratifying is that Li Xuan did not use his reputation as a day to expand his power in any form, and took advantage of the situation to expand his power for a while, intending to sweep the martial arts, such a thing is not uncommon in history.
Without the conflict of interests, the really capable large gangs will naturally not risk infamy to provoke Yanziwu, and even give cover within the scope of their ability, so that although the imperial court's sea fishing documents have been issued for more than a month, they have not even figured out the specific location of Yanziwu.
At this time, Li Xuan suddenly released the news of the big wedding day, the big banquet in the world, and the rivers and lakes responded in groups, the world's largest gang of beggars has publicly stated that they will go to the banquet in person on the day of the wedding, in addition, there is also the Dali Duan clan will also be congratulated by Duan Zhengchun, the king of the south of Dali Town, and the son Duan Yu on the same day, in addition, Shaolin, Emei, Qingcheng and even Longhu Mountain and other top forces in the rivers and lakes also responded, although it is not like the beggar gang in person, but also sent enough people to congratulate.
There are many top martial arts forces taking the lead, and other gangs that have received invitations have all responded in groups, and even Murong's invitation has now become a symbol of honor and status in the rivers and lakes, and is sought after by many martial arts people.
Of course, there is no shortage of people with ulterior motives, or jealous of Murong Fu's prestige and status, or tempted by the huge bounty of the imperial court, there are not a few such people, and they may even surpass the crowd who sincerely come to congratulate them.
Gusu, the official residence
Wang Qi of Gusu Zhixian looked at the invitation in front of him with a little headache, and the delicate invitation was pasted, and the six big characters on the gilded Gusu Murong were a little dazzling in Wang Qi's eyes at the moment.
The rivers and lakes and the court have always been irrelevant, chivalrous and forbidden, many times, those high-ranking masters never put the court officials in their eyes, and even some people rely on their martial arts to kill the court officials at every turn, as a neighbor of Yanziwu, Wang Qi has been terrified during this time.
As the magistrate of Gusu County, Wang Qi does not know a little about martial artists like ordinary officials, after all, there is a famous master around him, and he goes around the rule on weekdays, and most of the people he hears are this name, and over time, he also has a general impression in his heart.
Like most officials, Wang Qi also has no good impression of this kind of martial arts master who does not put the court in his eyes because of his high martial arts, and on weekdays, most of them are in a state where well water does not violate river water, but with Li Xuan's killing outside Wuxi, he almost wiped out the fierce Xixia Yipintang in one fell swoop, and even Helian Tieshu, who was also famous even in the Song Dynasty, was not spared, Wang Qi was a little scared.
Speaking of South Murong and North Qiao Feng, he doesn't feel anything, for him who has been in officialdom for a long time, many times he can't help but think about problems in the way of thinking of officialdom, thinking that the rivers and lakes are the same as officialdom, but they are masters who praise each other, even if they are powerful, they are absolutely limited.
But with the fall of Yipintang, and after the imperial court issued a sea fishing document, the first thing Wang Qi did was not to gather soldiers and horses to annihilate Yanziwu, but to subconsciously improve the defense around him, how high the martial arts master was, he didn't know, but Helian Tieshu's fierceness, even if it was a Confucian student, he had heard of it, that was the Western Xia warrior who had repeatedly won more with less at the border, and beat the Song army several times and couldn't raise his head. As a result, Wang Qi had to reposition himself as a neighbor.
As for the result, the defense around the great magistrate was more than tripled within three days of the issuance of the sea capture document, and even if he went out, the guards around him were not less than two hundred, Rao is so, every time he goes out, Wang Qi has a feeling of fear, more than two hundred guards can not let him have a sense of security, for fear that one will accidentally provoke this old neighbor, and he will chop himself with a knife, you know, Helian Tieshu is around, but there are a full five hundred Xixia Yipintang masters, But he still died tragically under the hands of the other party, Wang Qi didn't think that his Gusu City guards could be compared with the proud soldiers of Yipintang in Western Xia.
As for sending troops to exterminate Swallow Dock...... I'm sorry, the imperial court order has not arrived, and the county soldiers can't move lightly, for the officialdom, Wang Qi is obviously familiar with it, and there is no awkward use of it.
"Lao Zhao, what do you think of this?" Looking at the invitation in front of him, Wang Qi rubbed his temples that were a little painful, and looked at a middle-aged man dressed as a master next to him, Yanziwu, for him it was Longtan Tiger's Den, he would never go, but if there is no high-sounding reason, if it spreads in the future, it will damage the majesty of the imperial court, and if it spreads in the officialdom, it will definitely be ridiculed by his colleagues.
"If you don't want to go, don't hesitate to hand over this invitation to Lord Zhizhou, a large number of people from the rivers and lakes will gather, and this matter is beyond the scope of our ability." The middle-aged man wiped the goat's whiskers under the remains, with an expression of Zhizhu holding it.
"It's fine." When Wang Qi heard this, he couldn't help but nodded, and his eyes lit up. (To be continued......)