Volume 1 The Age of Chaos Chapter 84 The Invitation of the Polymath
The season gradually turns out of late spring and into early summer.
Qi Wanli didn't know that he had been targeted by the most powerful god in the world, and even his name was directly written on the decree and conveyed to the Pope of the Martial God Temple.
Because of his previous caution, he did not reveal his real name to Zhang Li, so now he can swagger and arrogantly open a bookstore and make a lot of money under the nose of the Martial God Temple. Otherwise, the masters of the Martial God Temple would have gathered here silently and would have invited him to Zhendong City for some sightseeing.
But it's a swagger, but in fact, most of the things have been handed over to others to do.
Now he can't just walk on the street with an undisguised face. The reputation of the Xiaoyao Book Pavilion in Linxue City has begun to spread far and wide during this time, and some transcendents from other places have also come to visit, and Qi Wanli does not dare to guarantee that there will be any transcendent who has seen him and done an appraisal in Breeze City.
After all, the threat of Xingchen Tower is still there, and how many allies Xingchen Tower has, he has not yet figured out the way.
If it weren't for the fact that he had enough interests with the Hanging Pavilion now, he wouldn't dare to casually expose his real name to Li Careful.
As for wearing a white mask to go out, it was even more terrifying, Lin Xue didn't know how many people were squatting and waiting for him, so he hoped that he would be able to give him a few instructions in person without spending money, and the most important thing was to take the "Tai Chi Basic Version" to ask for an autograph. There are even some pretentious young people who claim to have cracked Tai Chi and want to learn from him......
Therefore, he could only stay in his newly bought mansion, from time to time to receive some people who were really willing to spend a lot of money to let him personally guide, chatting and bragging with Bai Qiyu and the Black King every day, and spending his free time studying how to break through the fourth order.
It's still quite happy.
However, today Qi Wanli received a letter of worship.
"Erudition?" he curiously read the large letters on the prayer post, and opened it to read.
The person who sent the post was a person named Yan Xuan, who claimed to be a senior member of the Polymath Society, and was very interested in Bai Xiaoyao's establishment of a library and the creation of a new martial art, and said that the Erudito Society had obtained a record of "Tai Chi" in the ancient ruins, and he didn't know if it was related to Tai Chi, and wanted to meet with Bai Xiaoyao and talk about it.
Qi Wanli remembered that when he was still in the White Bear Tribe, he had heard of the Polymath Society, and the leader of the White Bear Tribe, Fang Bajiu, was also a member of this organization, which was a loose organization that was interested in searching for and studying various knowledge.
It is normal for the Polymath Society to be interested in such a high-profile promotion of Taijiquan, and even to use something that completely violates the common sense of cultivation in this era such as "light gong" in the ring competition.
"I don't know if Li Chengxin knows this Yan Xuan?" Qi Wanli mentioned casually, and then thought, this is not an important matter, Li Chengxin has been riddled with miscellaneous things recently, and is arranging the appointment of a new president in Linxue City, but there is no need to bother her with such a thing.
He handed the greeting post back to Luo Haijie, who sent it to him, and said, "Please ...... this Yan Teacher Yan came this afternoon and said that I am very welcome and will prepare the best tea to welcome you. ”
Luo Haijie nodded, took the sticker, and turned to leave.
Looking at the back of this young brother, Qi Wanli was a little embarrassed, thinking that such a powerful talent actually ran errands for himself.
During this time, it was not that no one wanted to worship under him and become a disciple, but on the contrary, he was not very happy to accept disciples. First, in the future, they will still set up the headquarters of Xiaoyao Academy in the Western Continent and accept apprentices here, will these disciples take them away or not?
Of course, more importantly, many people's qualifications are very ordinary, and a basic version of Tai Chi is stumbling to learn, and he has a headache when he sees it. What's more, now his main concern is not to teach boxing, so he decided not to recruit disciples first, and wait until he went to the Western Continent.
Therefore, Luo Haijie, who is often at the peak of the fourth order, can only serve as an errand for Qi Wanli first......
"Even if you don't accept disciples, you still have to recruit some bodyguards, maids, maids or something, well, let's go back and let Brother Luo do it." He didn't realize that he was creating a new task for Luo Haijie again, so he stretched his waist and began to continue to study how to break through the fourth order by himself.
The time soon came to the afternoon, and the visitors of the Polymath Society arrived as scheduled.
Yan Xuan was a middle-aged man, with a strong smell of alcohol on his body, and he didn't seem to wake up. However, his down-to-earth smile and the habit of opening his mouth with a little foul language from time to time made Qi Wanli not hate him, but subconsciously produced a feeling that this is an old intellectual.
That's right, Yan Xuan has the temperament of an artist, although he looks no different from those idlers who squat in the village smoking and scolding his mother, but there is always some detachment in his temperament.
"Teacher Yan, please be seated. Qi Wanli helped the mask on his face, brought Yan Xuan into the hall of the mansion with a good number of courtesies, invited him to sit down, and instructed Luo Haijie to bring good tea.
Unexpectedly, Yan Xuan smiled, waved his hand and said, "I don't like tea." However, the ice fruit wine in Linxue City is good, do you want to get some?"
Qi Wanli was stunned, but strange people always have their own peculiarities, and it doesn't hurt to love drinking, so he nodded and said to Luo Haijie: "Go ahead." ”
Luo Haijie took the order and left, and after a few words with Yan Xuan, Qi Wanli asked: "Teacher Yan, you said in the post that you are interested in Taijiquan, I don't know what kind of method you are interested in?"
Yan Xuan sat crookedly on the chair, took out a yellowed and tattered book with blurred handwriting from his arms, and handed it to Qi Wanli: "Brother Bai, look at this." ”
Qi Wanli frowned, took the book, but felt slightly surprised. Because the cover of this book is not the crude paper page commonly used in this era, but the plasticized copper paper. This kind of paper has never been seen in this era, which means that this book is most likely something left over from his own era.
It's just that the book has gone through some kind of wind and rain, and it has been so tattered that it is impossible to make out the handwriting on the cover, Qi Wanli carefully opened the book, and the pages inside have long become rotten notes. However, among the countless bad notes, there is a relatively intact copper bookmark.
Qi Wanli glanced up at Yan Xuan, only to see Yan Xuan nodding, so he took out the copper bookmark. I saw a Tai Chi yin and yang diagram printed on it, and there were two lines of words written below, but it was not a simplified character, but a small seal, he hadn't learned much about the small seal, and he could only roughly identify it, it should be two verses.
"This ...... It's a bit like the bookmark attached to the physical book of a fantasy novel......" He thought secretly in his heart, and asked, "What does Teacher Yan mean when he says about the ancient ruins record?"
"That's right. Yan Xuan nodded and said, "We've seen this pattern elsewhere before. ”
He stretched out his hand and pointed to the Tai Chi Yin and Yang diagram on the bookmark, and said, "This thing is called Tai Chi." ”
Then, he retrieved the bookmark from Qi Wanli's hand and continued: "Among the ancient ruins we have studied, only this bookmark is the most complete related to 'Tai Chi', but we can't debate the words on it. ”
"Before, we couldn't understand what Tai Chi was, thinking that it might be a symbol of a sect or a family in its glory days. However, after your Tai Chi was born, some of us in the Polymath Society thought that Tai Chi might be a representative of some kind of truth, some kind of special meaning. So, today I want to ask you, Brother Bai, does your 'Tai Chi' have any special meaning?"
Qi Wanli fell into deep thought.
One thing he missed before, that is, it is possible for people in this era to know a lot of things about the glorious era.
On his own body, he still has the photographs or page cutouts brought out from the White Bear Tribe, which are from the Polymath.
Taijiquan is very powerful, the name is very mysterious, and the propaganda is in place, but it is also very likely that the name has long been known by the Polymado, but no one has concretized it into a real martial art before.
Of course, this is not a big problem, just bluff the past.
Qi Wanli raised his head, his eyes flashed under the mask, and said, "The name Taijiquan does come from some ancient ruin. ”
Yan Xuan was stunned for a moment, but listened to Qi Wanli continue: "I once found a piece of paper in the ruins of an old day, which read, 'Yi has Taiji, is to give birth to two yi', and there are some other mysterious words, I actually don't understand very well. Later, when I studied this set of martial arts, I felt that this boxing method seemed to be somewhat consistent with the word Tai Chi, so I gave it this name. ”
Hehe, I'm talking nonsense, it's always okay, right?
Yan Xuan frowned, reached out to take the ice fruit wine handed by Luo Haijie at this time, took a big sip, stared at the back of Luo Haijie leaving, and fell into thought.
Qi Wanli was wearing a mask, so naturally he couldn't drink, and he didn't care, so he picked up the copper bookmark on the table and looked through it.
The workmanship of this bookmark is actually not very delicate, in the industrial era, machines can make one in a second. But for people of this era, the font strokes on this bookmark are neat, the depth of the carving is completely consistent, and the craftsmanship of the Tai Chi Yin and Yang diagram without any traces of knives and axes may also make people admire it now.
At this moment, he heard Yan Xuan say, "Brother Bai, I have another question. ”
Qi Wanli raised his head and said, "Teacher Yan, please speak." ”
Yan Xuan poured himself another sip of ice fruit wine, smacked his lips, and asked: "I'm not a martial artist, I don't know much about martial arts, but I also bought a copy of your "Taijiquan Basic Edition", which says that this is a kind of martial art that defeats the strong with the weak, right?"
"That's right. ”
"So does it mean that the person who can study this kind of martial art is not at a high level of strength?"
Qi Wanli smiled and said, "Everyone knows that my Bai Xiaoyao is still in the third-order realm, and I can't break through the fourth-order for a long time, so it's naturally not too high. ”
Yan Xuan nodded, and asked again: "Then if it is a very strong and powerful person, will he study this kind of martial art that defeats the strong with the weak?"
"Maybe. Qi Wanli thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's for disciples, juniors, or other relatives and friends who are not high in their own strength." ”
"That'...... Brother Bai, do you have any disciples, juniors, or other relatives and friends who are not high in their own strength?" Yan Xuan continued to ask.
Although the questions he asked became more and more strange, seeing that the middle-aged man was drinking, showing extremely focused eyes, and asking very seriously, Qi Wanli somehow thought from the bottom of his heart that he had no malicious intentions, just out of academic curiosity.
"Nope. He replied honestly.
Yan Xuan smiled at this time, he reached out and scratched his messy hair, as if relieved, and said, "So that's the case, then it's easy to do." ”