Liu Jizu listened very carefully this time, and nodded hurriedly: "Master, you just said that there is a self-contained system of using hidden weapons and poisons. Those who use hidden weapons say it, but what do you say about those who use poison?"

Wu Lun was very satisfied that Liu Jizu listened carefully, nodded and continued: "Yes, the poisoner in this Wuwei Valley is evaluated according to the attack range of the poison, and it is measured by 'step', for example, the lowest step poisoner can poison the opponent within a circle with him as the center step, and the standard is to kill the opponent or incapacitate the opponent. ”

Liu Jizu knows that the step here is not like in the previous life, and the step refers to the distance between the front and rear feet when walking. One step here actually refers to the distance between the same foot after taking two steps, which is almost equivalent to about one meter in a previous life.

Liu Jizu asked, "Don't they consider the accuracy of the attack?"

"Using poison is different from using hidden weapons, they are attacking in all directions with themselves as the center. Most of the poisonous powder, poisonous water, poisonous gas or poisonous insects are used, and the methods are mostly large-scale indiscriminate attacks such as spraying. As soon as you get into his attack range, you will generally get hit, so don't think much about this factor. Of course, they also use weapons and hidden weapons, most of which are poisoned, so you have to be extra careful when fighting with their warriors.

The Poisoner is judged by the maximum effective radius that can be attacked, similar to the judgment of the Weapon Envoy in Zhige City. People in the rivers and lakes generally regard the one-step poison master corresponds to the samurai, the two-step to four-step poison master corresponds to the martial artist, the five-step to seven-step poison master corresponds to the grandmaster, the eight-step to ten-step poison master corresponds to the great grandmaster, and the poison master above ten steps corresponds to the martial saint. ”

"Then are they powerful? What are their characteristics, and how to deal with them!" Liu Jizu asked again.

Wu Lun snorted, "Remove it, add ten points! There is a consensus among the people in the rivers and lakes, that is, 'I would rather offend ten envoys than offend one poison master!'." Because the device envoy carries such a large launcher on his back, it moves slowly and is easy to identify, as long as he does not fall into an ambush and dodges when he can't hit it. But the poisoner's launchers are small, some don't even use them, and they can't be discerned from their appearance when they approach you after being disguised and put on makeup. Besides, it is easy for you to be unable to survive or die with a poison master, and in the end you can only be used by him and enslaved for a lifetime.

More than twenty years ago, Wuwei Valley once produced four notorious poison masters, known as the 'Four Poison Demons'. They united to betray the valley of Wuwei and crisscross the rivers and lakes, which is really invincible! When they encounter them, there are only two choices, either they eat their poison and become their slaves, or they are dead, and even begging for death.

In the end, because they did too much evil, Wuwei Valley dispatched their core combat power and set up a clever plan to wipe them out, and I heard that they also invited talents from Shennong Valley to settle them that time. But because I have only encountered a master of hidden weapons, I know a lot about Zhige City, and I don't know much about Wuwei Valley, so I can only tell you briefly. Wuwei Valley is not like Zhige City, Zhige City has a very poor relationship with us, the festivals of both sides are innumerable, and they have been competing with each other, so you should be especially careful when you encounter them in the future.

And the relationship between Wuwei Valley and us from the beginning of its establishment to the present is average, and it can't be said to be good but not bad. Although there are battles, most of them can be controlled within a certain range, which is much better than Zhige City. This may be because the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor once jointly defeated Chi You, and the two have cooperated since the ancestral gate, but that's all. Besides, the Yellow Emperor also defeated the Yan Emperor, which is even more difficult to say. Therefore, when you really want to meet them in the future, you should be polite. Especially pharmacists, after all, they are good at healing. But it's better to stay away from the poisoner, otherwise it's hard to say that one is accidentally planted in their hands.

As for the characteristics, it's really hard to say what they are. The people of the three families are the closest to ordinary people, and when they walk the rivers and lakes, there are all kinds of things, men, women, old, young, able, disabled, very difficult to identify. Unlike the characteristics of our and Zhige City's gatekeepers, most of our two gatekeepers are tall and strong, and they are relatively easy to identify.

However, I heard that Wuwei Valley distinguishes different identities through the colors of gray, white, and black, which can be regarded as a feature, but these three colors are also common colors for ordinary people's clothes. Another feature is that they are generally very clean, but this is not accurate, and you also like to be clean. There are also people who say that the pharmacist has a medicinal smell or a special smell, but ordinary Langzhong and even people who are in the medicinal material business also have a large medicinal smell on their bodies, so it is really difficult for the disciples of Wuwei Valley to identify.

There are several types of people who walk outside: first, they go to various places to collect medicines, buy medicines, and catch poisonous insects, and they like to carry medicine shovels, medicine pestles, fork rods, and other things; second, they practice medicine outside, and they generally carry medicine boxes, medicine bags, medicine gourds, and other utensils; and third, they do other things outside, so it is difficult to judge. In addition, they are different from the warrior protector arranged by Zhige City, they arrange a warrior or poison master to protect the pharmacist, because ordinary pharmacists do not practice martial arts or have a low level of martial arts, and they must be protected and assisted by poison masters and martial artists around them. Speaking of which, it's just a matter of testing you! In addition to the reasons mentioned before, there is another reason why the people of the three sects are reluctant to reveal their identities when they walk the rivers and lakes, which is related to what I just said, do you know what it is?"

Liu Jizu thought carefully for a while, and contacted what Master had just said that the pharmacist needed someone to protect, "Is it because someone wants to attack us?"

"I really don't know if you're smart or stupid, I can't figure out such a simple thing! The main thing to deal with us is for martial arts cheats, the people who deal with Zhige City are for hidden weapons, equipment and production methods, and the people who deal with Wuwei Valley are for medicine, poison and formulas. It's easy to say anything or something, just grab it. However, in addition to exploring the cheats, production methods, recipes, etc., you must be spoken or written by a living person, in addition to exploring them from the real thing. In this regard, our academy does not even have physical objects, and can only rely on people, although Zhige City and Wuwei Valley have physical objects, they have made special treatments. In many cases, even if you get the real thing, you can't imitate it, so if the people of our three sects fall into the hands of the bold gangsters, they will be miserable! These people will use all the torture to make you tell everything you know. In this regard, you should not have illusions, few people can hold up, and it is useless to hold on, and in the end it is a dead end. ”

"And what if you do get caught?"

"It's best to be cautious at all times, to be careful everywhere, not to get caught. Don't let people know your identity if you are caught, in case you are caught by someone who knows your identity, and the other party has bad intentions, you can't escape. The best way to deal with it is to die quickly, which is ideal, not to be guilty, and to protect the secrets of the sect. Wuwei Gu did the best in this regard, they were poisoned, and after eating it, they could die quickly and painlessly. Zhige City also has a way, and they have such a design on their devices that are not extended, and those devices can self-destruct after being activated in an emergency, and at the same time help the carrier commit suicide. The philosophy of our sect is different from theirs. ”

Liu Jizu does not advocate suicide, it is better to die than to live, is there hope to live? He looked at the master expectantly, wanting to hear the answer he hoped for.

Wu Lun saw Liu Jizu's eyes and smiled, "Well, that's good! You look like a person from the academy! When the people of our academy encounter this situation, they must be trying to find ways to deal with it, for example, you can pretend to promise that the other party will tell the secret book, and then paralyze the other party, and then find a way to wait for the opportunity to escape. Or just tell the other party that it's okay, anyway, there are many secrets in the sect, and there is no need to suffer for this, it's just that it's just a loss of integrity. But no matter what you do, it's to run out alive and pass the news back to the sect, so that you won't lose your integrity. ”

"Why is that?" Liu Jizu didn't understand.

Wu Lun smiled a little proudly, "In the Great Zhou Kingdom, except for the ancestral sect and the sect, there is no one who our academy can't kill. The other two sects also dared to say this, and the ancestral sect and the sect had an agreement for their own interests. The three parties can fight each other, and it is no problem to fight or kill, but they cannot rob each other's secrets by searching for each other's disciples. Therefore, our three parties are still distinctive, each with its own strengths, and even the characteristics are becoming more and more obvious.

As for the rest of the sects in the Great Zhou Dynasty, after so many years, no one dared to do such a thing openly. The reason why I am telling you about this is because about a hundred years ago, a group of foreigners came out of nowhere, desperately trying to capture the disciples of our three sects. It's not enough for them to rob us, they also want to get the secrets of the various sects. Since then, the three sects will explain to each disciple before he walks the rivers and lakes, so that the disciples can be prepared, and I will tell you now that it is just a routine.

When this first happened, the three sects thought that the disciple was killed and disappeared outside. It is common for people to be killed and disappeared while walking the rivers and lakes, so no one cares too much, but just sends someone to investigate. But I haven't been able to find out why, and I don't know what happened. As a result, more and more disciples disappeared later, and the three sects began to pay attention to it and intensified their investigations. Later, from all kinds of information and various clues collected, it was speculated that each of the three sects suspected that the other two sects were engaged in ghosts.

There is more and more evidence to support this speculation, and the three sects are constantly fighting for this, and it seems that it will lead to a war between the three sects that has not been seen in a thousand years. But at this critical moment, a disciple of our academy, relying on his strong martial arts, intelligence and wit, escaped with the help of other people who were arrested, and everyone knew that it was not the three sects that captured people, but a group of foreigners. ”

Liu Jizu was very curious when he heard this, "Master, tell me about this in detail!"

Wu Lun shook his head, "This incident has happened for hundreds of years, and it caused a sensation in the entire rivers and lakes back then, but the whole thing was investigated after the fact, and the details are not very clear. About a hundred years ago, when the Zhou Dynasty was at its strongest, it was rich in products and exquisite in its workmanship. Therefore, many countries like to come to trade with us, and the trade volume is amazing, and it has a great impact on the whole Great Zhou.

For example, in the past, our main coins were copper coins, and the amount of gold and silver was small, especially gold, and there were not many people in circulation, and the gold-silver ratio at that time was much larger than now, almost more than one to seventy.

However, since the prosperity of foreign trade, due to the needs of bulk trade, a large amount of foreign gold and silver has poured into the Great Zhou, so we now use more and more gold and silver, especially the imperial court, the government, the people in the rivers and lakes and the merchants. After all, gold and silver are more valuable and easier to carry, and as the amount of gold and silver increases, the gold-silver ratio has also become the current one to twenty and gradually stabilized.

In order to obtain the maximum benefits, these foreign businessmen actually united and formed a foreign alliance. However, domestic trade was controlled by the imperial court officials and the rivers and lakes, among which the court officials were responsible for market management, tax collection, inspection of goods, etc., and the rivers and lakes were responsible for buying and transporting goods from all over the country to the foreign market for sale. Through bribery, the foreign alliance attracted local officials in charge of the alliance and wanted to lower the purchase price together.

Officials are full of their own pockets, so it is naturally easy to say anything, so that foreign businessmen can make profits from it. But this harms the interests of the businessmen, and also damages the interests of the rivers and lakes. Therefore, the merchants also united and formed the Merchants Alliance to confront officials and foreign businessmen. Because of the huge interests involved, the struggle was also extremely brutal and fierce. The three parties used various means, which are beyond the scope of my imagination and understanding, so I will not say more.

In short, in the end, it was the Shangjia Alliance, with the support of our three sects, that won the final victory, but it also offended the Foreign Merchant Alliance. This foreign alliance began to be interested in the Jianghu sect, especially our three sects. They thought that since they were defeated by the rivers and lakes represented by the three sects, they had to take a good look at them, and then find the weaknesses of these sects and break them down individually. So they devised a plan in a frenzy, which was said to be called the 'Fire Stealing Plan'. ”