Chapter 5: Six Doors
"Whoosh!" "Smack!"
"Ping-pong!ping!ping!ping!"
Several successive crisp sounds sounded in the backyard of the Wang family.
I saw that in the open space in the middle of the bamboo forest, the silver sleeve knife turned into a butterfly, deftly hovering in the air. And the woodcutter that was about to rust was very busy, and there was no discipline to speak of.
With another hurried blow, the two figures instantly separated and bounced to both sides.
It is Tang Xian and Wang Shan!
And next to the stone bench, there was a honey badger squatting, chewing a large piece of meat and bones in its mouth, gnawing happily. It's the flat-headed brother.
I saw that after Wang Shan's blow, his body fell lightly, standing on a piece of bluestone, his glass white clothes fluttering, and the knife in his sleeve had already been withdrawn into his sleeve.
After Wang Shan fixed his figure, he was secretly shocked in his heart: "I didn't expect this guy's progress to be so fast! After fighting with him twice, he was shocked to the point that his palms were numb!"
Since Tang Xian won Wang Shan that day, Wang Shan, in the name of the Wang family, asked Tang Xian to come to the palace every day to chop wood.
nominally chopping wood, but in fact, he asked Tang Xian to be a sparring partner for himself to prepare for the selection of the six doors in half a month. In his spare time, he can also let Tang Xian talk about a story and listen to interesting stories about the rivers and lakes.
However, after only five days, Wang Shan found that Tang Xian's fighting style had changed dramatically!
Although they are all the same life, the current Tang Xian is able to use his physical body to resist his own moves with internal force blessings.
You must know that with internal strength, you have already stepped into the threshold of cultivation, and you are called a lower ninth rank martial artist, even if it is the lowest level of lower nine rank martial artists, it is much stronger than those croppers who can only brute force.
Thinking of this, Wang Shan twisted his numb arm again.
As for Tang Xian, he was smiling cheaply at this time.
In recent days, too many strange things have happened to Tang Xian, from the original old man Lu's "Commenting on the World" to the "Sea Classic" that appeared inexplicably later, all of which made Tang Xian not have a clue at all.
Is Old Man Lu really a master? Are all these strange things done by Old Man Lu?
Tang Xian was not without suspicions.
In order to verify where Old Man Lu is sacred, Tang Xian has given laxatives to Old Man Lu's meals in the past few days, stumbled on the side of the road, and put nails on the stool. The poor octogenarian old man was not spared, and he angrily chased Tang Xian all over the town with a broom.
On one occasion, Tang Xian stole the toilet paper, and the old man Lu squatted in the thatched house for nearly a quarter of an hour, his legs were sore, and he almost fainted and fell into the thatched pit.
The book says that a real master is a day with a horse, or the kind with a bucket hanging on his arm and a stick of incense under his belly, which is like the old man Lu who can't squat in the toilet?
Therefore, Tang Xian completely gave up the idea that Old Man Lu was a master.
In this way, the origin of the "Sea Classic" is even more clueless.
However, according to the fixed order of meridians every day, circulating the torrent energy in his body, Tang Xian clearly felt that the strength of his body was gradually increasing. On weekdays, it takes two hours to chop firewood for three days, but now half an hour is enough.
What is that torrent force?
No!
Tang Xian once observed Wang Shan's internal force at close range, and found that the internal force was released externally, and even attached to the weapon to enhance the power of the weapon. But the torrent of energy in his body is buried in the meridians, running over and over again, no matter what, it can't extend to the outside of the body, it only strengthens his body.
And not only the body, but also the mind, has also changed dramatically.
In the past, Tang Xian could be said to have spared his life to the extreme, and he couldn't even have a face for the sake of his life.
Now, although for the sake of his life, Tang Xian can still be shameless. But there was an inexplicable sense of war in his bones, and after ensuring that Wang Shan would not hurt himself, the daily battle with Wang Shan became Tang Xian's happiest thing.
Every time after a hard fight with Wang Shan, he will make his blood boil and be very happy.
In Tang Xian's words:
"I can't afford to play. If you want to learn from ...... If you want to fight, you will fight!"
"That's it for today!" Wang Shan rubbed his right hand, which was still numb, and gave Tang Xian a big white eye.
"Gotta order!" Tang Xian shook off the firewood knife, came up with a fart, stretched out a pair of paws, and said with a smile: "I'll rub your shoulders?"
The silver light flashed, and the sword intent in his sleeve was great, with Wang Shan's unique chill!
"Whoosh!"
Tang Xian instantly flashed five meters away, hid behind the flat-headed brother, and stared at Wang Shan vigilantly. The speed of the body is so fast, I am afraid that even those heroes on the rivers and lakes will be amazed.
The flat-headed brother, who was used as a shield, snorted dissatisfiedly and continued to feast.
"Eat, eat, eat, know how to eat!" Tang Xian hated that iron was not steel, and knocked on the flat-headed brother.
When one person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.
Tang Xian came to Wang's house as a sparring partner and commentator, and Wang Shan naturally ate and drank well. By the way, the flat-headed brother also got a lot of benefits, and he ate meat and bones every day, and when he went home every day, his mouth was full of oil, which made the old man Lu who smelled the fragrance of bones drool.
"Cut, Brother Pingtou is much better than you!" Wang Shan also sat down, picked up a piece of watermelon, ate it, and said: "It's only been five days, and I beat the wolf dogs in my home......"
After that, Wang Shan threw the watermelon rind after eating, and asked Tang Xian casually: "In a few days, it will be the day of the selection, listen to my father, this time the selection of Jinzhou is the ...... of the Demon Division of the Six Doors."
"Hmm, that's good!" Tang Xian nodded back.
Six doors, divided into four departments, each with different functions, are: Demon Division, Ghost Suppression Division, Punishment Division, and Secret Agent Division.
As the name suggests, the Demon Division is mainly responsible for eradicating those powerful demon beasts that are causing trouble. The Ghost Suppression Division is responsible for some powerful ghosts derived from cold places.
The main responsibility of these two divisions is to subdue demons and eliminate demons.
The Penal Division is responsible for disputes in the rivers and lakes, hoeing and cutting evil. The secret agent department is the most mysterious, responsible for inquiring about news, and can be said to be the eyes of the imperial court in the rivers and lakes.
The masters of the six doors are like clouds, and the major forces in the rivers and lakes are all fearful, and they have become a sharp weapon for the imperial court to suppress the rivers and lakes.
Not to mention that the six doors are the people who have entered the martial arts list, and even the four famous catchers under him are all the top masters of the rivers and lakes.
Above the imperial court, the six doors and the Jinyi Wei are the two major martial arts forces of the imperial court, known as the imperial eagle dog.
Outside the six gates, the horse steps on the rivers and lakes, and the one who provokes the court belongs to the eagle. In the Jinyi Guard, the Qing Dynasty was a traitor and a dog.
Seeing Tang Xian being so perfunctory, Wang Shan couldn't help frowning, and said, "You and I are of equal strength, if you go to participate in the selection, maybe you will have a chance to ......."
"I'm not destined to eat the emperor's grain, forget it!" Tang Xian lay lazily on the grass, holding a grass root, teasing the flat-headed brother.
Forget it?
Wang Shan bit her lip, through the contact in the past few days, Tang Xian is definitely not the kind of master who pretends to be high. Since he said it, he really didn't want to go.
"That'...... That's one of the two holy places of martial arts in the imperial court......" Wang Shan muttered.
"Hehe, understand!" Tang Xian squinted his eyes and said to himself: "It was said in the commentary that anyone who is called one of the four XX and one of the two XX must be an amazing existence, and it is very bluffing to say it on the rivers and lakes!"
"But...... I am a thief, and in order to have a full stomach, I can steal and cheat. Even if you are arrested and caught quickly, it is not a big crime. But let me go and kill demons, catch ghosts, chase the murderer for thousands of miles??" Tang Xian laughed at himself, paused, and continued:
"You can't do your life's work!
Tang Xian shook his head again and again.
"You can't do the work of your life, so what do you want to do besides stealing and cheating?" Wang Shan no longer entangled in Tang Xian's lack of ambition, and asked with a frown.
"If you want to do something...... Tang Xian paused and said with a smile: "Let's go down the mountain and take a look." ”
"Down the mountain?" Wang Shan paused.
"Well, Old Man Lu has spent most of his life telling stories about the rivers and lakes on Jiuqi Mountain, I really want to go to the rivers and lakes to see with my own eyes, and see if the heroes of the rivers and lakes are as evil as Old Man Lu said in his commentary! Can someone really ...... a sword for a thousand miles?" Tang Xian was very skeptical and curious.
"You are so desperate for your life, and you dare to mess with the rivers and lakes?" Wang Shan pouted.
"It's just a fight!" Tang Xian corrected.
"Besides, the heroes are fighting, isn't it just for people to see? Otherwise, how can you shock the rivers and lakes? The real life and death are all solved in places that we can't see!" Tang Xian said at the head of the way.
"I've seen a lot of big scenes, and what I said in the commentary is definitely better than that of Old Man Lu, and it won't be a problem to eat a full meal when the time comes!" Tang Xian pretended to sleep, squinting his eyes and smiling.
"Is it so difficult to eat a full meal?" Wang Shan's two beautiful eyebrows were tightly entangled.
"You haven't been poor, of course you don't know!" Tang Xian said.
"How poor?" Wang Shan asked.
"Hey......" Tang Xian sighed slightly, sat up, picked up the watermelon skin that Wang Shan had just thrown away, carefully wiped off the soil on it, put it in his pocket, and said softly:
"Watermelon rind can be pickled with pickles and served with porridge, which is particularly fragrant......"