The group left Ji Xuanzhuang, and the carriage became a convoy. Li Chengtang and Ran Jingjing took one in front, and Nangong Qingwu rode one alone, following behind to heal his injuries.

Now there is a Ouchi Jinwuwei escort by car, and the journey is like a Qin mission. The three of them only came out of the carriage when they were sleeping at night, and the people of the rivers and lakes would not make enemies with the official family, so no one came to disturb them.

Along the way, although Nangong Qingwu had a lot of questions about Li Chengtang's identity, he didn't have too many opportunities to ask the reason when he followed the carriage to heal his injuries. I can only secretly guess in my heart.

The person who can escort Ximen Ji Xuan and Jin Wuwei, it seems that Li Chengtang is not just an ordinary Jianghu person, and his family background should be related to the royal family.

He originally wanted to assist An Lushan to overthrow the imperial court and achieve a career. Unexpectedly, because of Li Chengtang, he fell short, and was finally abandoned by An Lushan. then returned to the rivers and lakes, but he never wanted to know Li Chengtang without fighting, and gradually had a good impression, but unexpectedly he was related to the Tang royal family. Nangong Qingwu thought so.

Life is really amazing. Not only did he feel a lot, but he also remembered what he had done before.

When he was young, he was proud of the rivers and lakes, and he picked up the masters of various sects, and his personality was arrogant and cold. When he encountered loneliness, he was beaten on his knees and begged for mercy, which was regarded as a great shame. So he studied kendo but could not break through the realm of the grandmaster, so he gave up on himself and entered the WTO to seek prosperity in the world, but An Lushan was useless, and was finally recruited to Chang'an by the court.

failed all the way, and it was ultimately due to his own personality. Thinking of this, I was suddenly taken aback by my heart of fame and fortune. Suddenly, he found another way and had an epiphany of the words in the "Flying Sword Technique" that Ran Jingjing said, and the way of the sword entered a new realm.

Nangong Qingwu occasionally got something, and Li Chengtang also got a lot of previously unknown news from Ran Jingjing.

Since Li Chengtang left Ji Xuanzhuang, he and Ran Jingjing have chatted about a lot of topics along the way, and talked about some of his own conversations with Ximen Ji Xuan.

He got a lot of insider information about the family from Ximen Ji Xuan, and these insider grandfathers had never told him before.

For example, regarding the "Dragon Sword", this imperial sword has the power to slay the dragon. With the "Dragon Sword", you can cut off the luck of the Tang Dynasty and establish yourself as the emperor. Therefore, the "Dragon Sword" is easy to unsheath, so it was banned by the ancestors.

It seems that grandpa must have a plan to let himself lift the ban on the "Dragon Sword". Of course, all indications confirm this.

Because of this, the "Dragon Sword" cannot fall into the hands of others, and must be chased back.

There is also a way to lift the ban, let alone let others know, you must get it first. Only in this way can we ensure the stability of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, he also knew why his grandfather paid special attention to the Ran family, and arranged a nine-stage master like Shangguan Chi in the Ran family. Because the Ran family's "Flying Sword Technique" is greatly related to the opportunity to lift the ban on the "Dragon Sword".

According to the secret information obtained by Ximen Ji Xuan, Li Chengtang was looking for a painter in Ran's house. This depictor is the key to his ancestors' chances, and may also be related to the "Flying Sword Technique".

Ran Jingjing told him that in the inheritance of the teacher's lineage, there was once a master who was good at Danqing. Paintings have been left in various places. I heard that this ancestor is good at Buddhist paintings, and many murals in the Mogao Grottoes are made by this ancestor. That's why my father took them to visit the Mogao Grottoes. It's just that this ancestor is idle and wild, and he didn't know what happened later.

But this ancestor once had a single apprentice. Speaking of this, Ran Jingjing said:

"In the master's door, he has always been regarded as the most useless disciple, he can only paint, I don't know if it is the person Brother Li is looking for, he still lived in Zhuangzi a few years ago, and I don't know where he has gone all these years, I hope that through him I can really find the 'Flying Sword Technique'."

Recovering the "Flying Sword Technique" is Ran Jingjing's greatest wish, and she was very happy when she heard the news, and she couldn't wait to fly back to "Ran Jiazhuang" immediately.

The group walked for more than half a month, and it was about to enter June, and the weather was hot. In front is Qinghe City in Beizhou.

Ran Jingjing, as a girl, was delicate, thinking that she hadn't been home for almost a year, and now she had brought such a handsome lover with her, she always had to dress up, so she asked to repair in Qinghe for a day before leaving.

Li Chengtang thought that he had basically not stopped all the way, and now he was about to enter the territory of Weizhou, and the martial arts ceremony of the "Shenji Gate" was also to be held in June, so he had to be a little brighter. He ordered the guards to rest here for a whole day.

Qinghe is a big city in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also famous in the north and south of the Tang Dynasty because of the Qinghe Cui family. Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Qinghe Cui clan has been a well-known clan gate lord throughout the country, and there are many officials in the imperial court.

Therefore, there are peddlers and pawns in Qinghe City, and there are three religions and nine streams, and everyone has them. Information of all kinds also spreads the fastest. In the past half a month, the "Jianghu Xuan Comment List" has been released, and Li Chengtang found someone to get a detailed list article.

Tianbao's first year's "Jianghu Xuan Appraisal List" is very different from the past. The rankings have almost completely changed, except for the emergence of a lot of new people. In addition, it is divided into three lists, namely the Martial Arts Evaluation List, the Weapons List and the Rouge Gang.

The top seven on the martial arts evaluation list are: Shaolin Rujian, Xiaogushan Lonely Boundless, Turkic Ashinasheng, Kunlun Nangong Qingwu, Tianshan Ye Yuanzhen, Shenjimen Li Chengtang, tied for seventh place is Qin Haotian who is about to join Shenjimen and Song Xingchen of Yijian Villa.

The martial arts evaluation ranks of these seven are: Shaolin Rujian is the Great Arhat Realm, Gu Wuya and Ashina Sheng are the Little Arhat Realm, Nangong Qingwu, Ye Yuanzhen and Li Chengtang are the Great Grandmaster Realm, and Qin Haotian and Song Xingchen are the Little Grandmaster Realm.

In order to show fairness, the martial arts evaluation list also indicates that this list does not include hidden masters.

The weapon list is the first time that the "Jianghu Xuan Appraisal List" has been released, which has especially attracted the attention of Jianghu people. The top 10 according to the birth are: Dragon Sword, Chengying Sword, Fish Intestine Sword, Sun Shooting Bow, Xiyu Sword, Soul Chasing Ring, Feihong Sword, Chuxue Sword, Tianyu Slash, and Jiuli Spear.

These top 10 weapons not only indicate the ranking, but also the current holder.

Among these holders, Li Chengtang knows five. The list indicates that the dragon and Chengying are in the hands of Gu Wuya, the sun-shooting bow is in the hands of a woman named Ayiyi, the Xiyu sword is in the hands of a woman named Nalan Ruoruo, the first snow sword is owned by a son who rides a crane, and the Feihong sword is the treasure of Kunlun's inheritance.

Regarding these weapons, in fact, Li Chengtang only knew the dragon sword and the sun-shooting bow. The weapon list was proposed by him and Ximen Ji Xuan, with the purpose of making Gu Wuya the target of public criticism.

As long as Li Chengtang has the method of understanding the sword, he is not afraid of others snatching the "Dragon Sword", the more people who rob it, the more unstable the loneliness is, and the more beneficial it is to Li Chengtang. It's just that I didn't expect that he still had a collection of Chengying.

Li Chengtang was amazed by the ability of Ximen Ji Xuan and the bad people of the imperial court. I don't know how they got so much information. I didn't know that the Western long sword in Jiu'er's hand was actually a famous sword in the world.

He was not interested in the rouge list, and after reading the weapon list, he said to Nangong Qingwu:

"It turns out that the sword used by my predecessors is a famous sword in the world, I don't know if I can take a look." Li Chengtang was not only very interested when he saw that there were so many swords on the list that were on the same level as the dragon.

Nangong Qingwu suddenly felt a little sad and ashamed, and said hatefully:

"Back then, in the battle with Gu Wuyi, the Kunlun Feihong Sword had been broken by him, and it is not in the hands of the old man at present." He had an occasional realization along the way, and the sword realm rose, and suddenly said: "The old man must have to fight with that old boy to avenge the humiliation of the year!" ”

There were many of them, and they chartered an entire inn. At this time, Ran Jingjing came out with a change of clothes, looked at the rouge list in Li Chengtang's hand, and suddenly said:

"Sister Nian Nian is actually on the top rouge list." looked at it and said "Huh" again: "Jiu'er and Ayiyi are actually on the list!" "Suddenly I was unhappy.

Women love beauty, and when she saw that she was not on the list, she suddenly became competitive and quarreled that she was going to buy clothes and accessories.

Li Chengtang hurriedly comforted:

"What do you want it to do, if you want to go, I'll buy some summer clothes with you and come back."

After hearing these words, Ran Jingjing burst into tears and laughed and became well-behaved.

After the two of them bought their clothes, they changed their clothes and prepared to go downstairs.

I saw that the leader of Jin Wuwei came to report that the Qinghe Cui clan had come to visit. The two looked downstairs, and sure enough, there were two scribe-looking people waiting in the dining room.

Li Chengtang asked, "Who is the Qinghe Cui family?" He was not very clear about the distribution of power in the Tang Dynasty, so he asked this question.

That Jin Wuwei respected Li Chengtang very much, so he told him in detail about the situation of the Qinghe Cui family.

There are two main branches of Qinghe Cui's prosperity: Cui Yan, the eighth grandson of Cui Ye, and Cui Ke, the sixth grandson of Cui Ye.

Cui Yan is a famous scholar in Jizhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty, once served as Cao Wei Shangshu, lieutenant, Qinghe Cui's Zhaoji people, can be called the most respected celebrity in the late Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms, in the era of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Cui Yan's descendant Cui Zongbo was designated as one of the "four surnames" by Emperor Wei Xiaowen, became part of the core ruling group of the upper echelons of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and has been very noble since then.

Cui Ke's branch, the representative figure in the late Han Dynasty was Cui Lin, who was the younger brother of Cao Wei Shangshu Cui Yan. Cui Lin was the auxiliary minister of the four dynasties of Cao Wei, the official to the Sikong, the marquis of Anyang, the end of the three princes to seal the marquis, Cui Lin's descendants once developed extremely prosperous. Cui Linzi Cui Shen, Cui Shen's grandson Cui Yue, grandson Lu Chen, Wen Qiao, etc. are all famous in the world.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Cui Yue and Lu Chen were initially stranded by Duan Mobo, and later became known as Shihu. Cui Qian, the son of Cui Yue, served as the former Yan Huangmen Shilang, Cui Qian's son Cui Hong, who served as an official in the former Qin and Later Yan, and was later reused by Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Cui Yue's family has 13 eunuch records in the Northern Dynasty, and the average eunuch grade of the descendants of Wei is 3.5, which shows its high status. However, in the later years of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the prison of national history broke out, and Cui Hao was razed. Cui Hao's cousin Cui Wei fled to Jiangzuo and served in Liu Song, and did not return to the north until the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of Wei.

Jin Wuwei said this, paused slightly, and continued:

"Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Cui family of Qinghe has become more noble, and there have been five prime ministers, and now there are still Cui families serving as zaifu in the imperial court, and it is better for the little sect master to meet him."