Chapter 23: Tang Gate
In the rivers and lakes, there is a sect called Tangmen.
For a long time, Tangmen has been a martial arts family that cannot be ignored in the rivers and lakes.
Since the opening of the Tang Sect, it has a history of hundreds of years. During this period, it has experienced countless ups and downs, but it is still standing.
The ancestor of the Tang Sect is named Tang Xian. There is nothing more about him than a beautiful legend.
On the rivers and lakes, his deeds are not widely circulated, and the world knows very little about him. But the world knows that the Tang Sect he founded is an important force that can never be ignored in the rivers and lakes.
The Tang Sect is a family of martial arts, but what they rely on to become famous is not his family heirloom martial arts, but the poisonous skills and secret weapons known as the Tang Sect.
The people in the Tang Sect are good at making drugs, they are also good at using drugs, and they are even better at detoxification, and these three skills are absolutely first-class in the rivers and lakes, and no one can match other Jianghu sects.
Most people in the Tang Sect like to collect all kinds of strange insects and plants in order to prepare strange poisons that no one has ever heard of. Many of the poisons they have prepared have never been seen by other people in the rivers and lakes, so it is difficult to find an antidote. Sometimes, even if they themselves can only make poison, they cannot find an antidote. So this poison became a poison without an antidote. The people of the Tang Sect refer to this kind of poison, in general, as absolute poison. Once someone is poisoned, even if it is chronic, the person is already half dead.
They can make poison, and of course they can use it. Their methods of using poison are also the most clever in the rivers and lakes. Even first-class martial arts masters are difficult to see their poisoning methods, so it is easy to get started. They don't have to use their hands to poison them, because they have all kinds of poisons hidden all over their bodies, from head to toe. What usually seems like a casual act may have secretly poisoned you. Fighting with the people in the Tang Sect, the people in the rivers and lakes are also very careful. You may be able to beat him, but you may not be able to poison him. If you hit him, he might just be hurt; He poisons you, but he can kill you.
If they can use poison, they will naturally be able to detoxify. Their detoxification methods are also unique in the world. If there is still a poison in the world that even they can't solve, it is even more impossible for outsiders to dissolve this poison, and this poison can only be regarded as absolute poison. The poison that the people in the Tang Sect are most interested in is actually absolutely poisonous. Because of the peculiar nature of this type of poison, it is difficult to find an antidote, which makes it even more challenging. Many people in the Tang Sect spent their lives in order to prepare an antidote to poison. However, after the efforts of many generations of Tang Sect people, many antidotes to poison were still formulated, and these poisons were no longer counted as poison.
The Tang Sect has two uniques, one is poisonous power, but the other is a secret weapon.
Tangmen's secret weapon techniques are also unique in martial arts. They not only collect all kinds of hidden weapons in the world, but also often develop many unique hidden weapons by themselves. In the Tang Sect, not everyone can use poison, but absolutely everyone is a master of hidden weapons. Hidden weapons are a compulsory skill for every person in the Tang Sect. Every disciple of the Tang Sect, when they were very young, would begin to practice various secret weapon techniques (of course, poison skills and martial arts). When they reach the age of eighteen, they will be given a uniform examination by the master or elder, and those who pass will be issued a dart armor by the master or elder. Only from the moment they get the dart armor can they truly be counted as the children of the Tang Sect. If a young man from the Tang Sect has not obtained the dart armor by the age of eighteen, he will be looked down upon by others. At most, he can only be regarded as a family member of the Tang Sect, and he is not a real disciple of the Tang Sect. There are many strange talents in the Tang Sect, and many young people who are different from each other, after hard training, have already passed the exam and obtained the dart armor before they reach the age of eighteen. Most of these young people later became peerless masters in the Tang Sect.
The Tangmen dart armor is a gold silk close-fitting vest, which is often worn in the innermost layer of clothing, which can not only protect the body, but also can be used to hide poisons and hidden weapons. The Tangmen Dart Armor is actually specially designed for hiding poison and placing hidden weapons. On it, not only are there many poison bags to hide the poison, but those gold wires are tough and hard to break, and they are also used to hang hidden weapons. A piece of dart armor can generally hold dozens of poisons and hundreds of hidden weapons. Some people have also modified their dart armor according to their needs, so that they can hide more. The Tang Sect is not limited to the type of hidden weapon, they have all hidden weapons in their dart armor, silver needles, hidden blades, money darts, phoenix tail nails...... They will use it as long as they like it. Of course, the Tang Sect also has many of its own unique secret weapons, the most typical of which is the Tang Sect bamboo dart. Tangmen's bamboo darts are also made by themselves, a simple one, which is a bamboo dart made directly by sharpening a small bamboo piece. If you are a little more ruthless, you will design a variety of barbs on it, the most poisonous is a bamboo dart with both positive and negative barbs at the same time, and quenched with poison. Once these barbed bamboo darts hit a person, it is very troublesome to take them out.
The Tang Sect is a family of martial arts, but in terms of martial arts alone, its maturity is far less than that of other famous families. The only martial arts they can make people scruple about are the Tang Sect's iron palm and poisonous palm. These two palms are usually the same, the difference is only whether or not poison is used when the palm is released. If there is no poison when exercising, it is the iron palm of the Tang Sect; If poison is used, it is a poison palm. Others, such as the Split Muscles and Wrong Bone Hands, Lotus Fuyun Boxing, etc., although they also have their own styles, they are not peerless martial arts at all.
However, the most powerful thing about the Tang Sect is that it completely integrates these three skills to achieve the realm of martial arts, poison, and hidden weapons. Among the predecessors of the Tang Sect, many people have already reached this realm, and they named this technique the Dream Meteor Shower.
The Dream Meteor Shower is actually not fancy, it just allows people to release all the poisons and hidden weapons on their bodies with extremely strong internal force in an instant. Although it seems very easy, it is extremely difficult to practice. As soon as this move came out, dozens of poisons and hundreds of hidden weapons on the people in the Tang Sect would scatter out like a meteor shower in an instant. Even the top masters on the rivers and lakes will never be able to avoid this move.
Generally, people in the Tang Sect don't understand this method, and those who understand it generally don't use it, because this is actually a desperate method in a critical moment.
Now the head of the Tang Sect is called Tang Mugong, and his father is called Tang Jie. Tang Jie can be regarded as the most coveted figure since the founding of the Tang Sect, he not only completely combined martial arts, poison, and secret weapons, but also pushed the martial arts of the Tang Sect to a peak that had never been reached before.
Tang Jie has four sons, Tang Mugong, Tang Muxiang, Tang Muhe and Tang Muxian, who are the current masters and three elders of the Tang Sect respectively. Tang Mugong, the master of the Tang Gate, has five sons, namely Tang Siji, Tang Sitian, Tang Sihai, Tang Sichong and Tang Sikai, who are collectively known as the Five Heroes of the Tang Gate on the rivers and lakes. Each of the five has a son, who is Tang Zhong, Tang Yong, Tang Guan, Tang San and Tang Kejun, who are also known as the five young men of Tang Men by the people in the rivers and lakes.
Among the five young people of the Tang Sect, the Tang is the most different. Not only is he the eldest, he is already twenty this year, but he is also the only young master who still hasn't obtained the Tang Sect Dart Armor. He doesn't know martial arts, he can't use secret weapons, and he can't use poison. To outsiders, he is simply a waste.
However, the most special thing about him is not here.
Most importantly.
He's a fool.