The capital is the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, but I don't know that this Tang is even more dirty and chaotic. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, floods and droughts have occurred in various prefectures and counties all over the world, among which Henan Province is the most serious, and even "the wheat is only half harvested, the autumn crops are almost none, and the winter vegetables are at least". Natural disasters have been like this, but since the last emperor Tang Yizong, "the use of troops is endless, and the more urgent the accumulation", the states and counties do not talk about the disaster, and hide the bullying from the superiors and subordinates, resulting in "the people are in exile and have nowhere to complain", and the evil of people has also reached the extreme. On the occasion of the anger of the heavens and the resentment, there is a nursery rhyme among the people who sing: "The golden toad opens its eyes, but the world of Caozhou is opposed." ”

So Wang Xianzhi, who ran around the rivers and lakes all the year round and sold illicit salt, gathered thousands of people in Puyang County, Puzhou, with Wu Juncai as the military advisor and Shang Junchang as the general. With this article and martial arts, he stirred up turmoil in the world, and everyone in the world knew it. Wang Xianzhi's men and horses were invincible along the way, and the officers and troops were defeated and retreated everywhere they went, but in just one year, they reached Caozhou. He took Caozhou as a base, repaired there, and his people called themselves "the general of the heavens and the average" and "the commander of all the heroes in the sea", and his men and horses were called the "grass army", and preached all the ways, reprimanding Li Tang officials for corruption, heavy servitude, unequal rewards and punishments, and many evils, hoping that the heroes and heroes of the world would respond.

The rivers and lakes have never been involved in the affairs of the official family, originally they were not interested in Wang Xianzhi's rebellion, not to mention the Han Dynasty and Jin Dynasty before Li Tang, in recent decades alone, there have been several rebellions, such as Qiu Fu in Xiangshan County, Taizhou, Huainan Province, and Pang Xun in Guizhou, Lingnan Province...... People in the rivers and lakes are accustomed to seeing it, and one by one they just look on coldly and ignore it.

However, with Wang Xianzhi's victories again and again, a news gradually came out from the grass army, which made the martial arts and green forests who were watching began to move. It is said that there is a martial arts master named Chu Jiang Kai under Wang Xianzhi's account, whose martial arts have reached the peak, and the people sent by the imperial court to assassinate Wang Xianzhi were all killed by him alone. However, the appearance of a top master alone cannot stir the stagnant waters of the rivers and lakes, and what makes the heroes of the rivers and lakes throb is the martial arts displayed by Chu Jiangkai is the "Taibai Sword Technique" that has been extinct for a hundred years, and it is this unpredictable sword law that the officials and the masters of the government and the opposition are helpless against it. Although there are many people in the rivers and lakes who covet the "Taibai Sword Technique", it is the "Qinglian Jue" behind the sword technique that really stirs the waves in the rivers and lakes.

This "Qinglian Jue" is rumored to be a set of cheats created by the Qinglian monk Li Bai when he drank and invited the moon in his later years, and his spiritual aperture suddenly opened, and his thoughts suddenly came, and the "Taibai Sword Technique" was just a part of it. And this sword technique alone has made Chu Jiangkai almost invincible, so you can imagine how powerful the "Qinglian Jue" will be. It is said that this "Taibai Sword Technique" is to turn verses into moves, so the tricks are endless, and there are many changes, and there are almost no weaknesses. It's a pity that not long after Li Bai created this peerless secret book, he was boating in the river at night, when the bright moon in the sky was reflected in the water, he was drunk, mistook the moon in the water seriously, and plunged into the water to catch the moon and died. After Li Bai's death, "Qinglian Jue" disappeared. Now that Taibai swordsmanship has reappeared in the rivers and lakes after a hundred years, how can many giants in the rivers and lakes not be moved?

The first to get the news was naturally the world's number one gang all over the three hundred and sixty states of the Tang Dynasty - the Salt Gang. Although the imperial court has always been particularly reluctant to smugglers and traffickers of salt, in recent years, there have been worries about riots at home, and the trouble of Nanzhao outside, and the salt gang has been dormant for a long time, so the imperial court is not very embarrassed.

At this time, the former Wu County had already been changed to Suzhou again. In the west of Suzhou City, there is the Taihu Lake with wet water and vast smoke waves, and in the middle of the lake is a continuous green mountain, which is painted on the surface of the lake like splashing ink, which is Dongting Mountain. At the foot of Dongting Mountain, in the heart of Taihu Lake, is where the helm of the Salt Gang is located.

The place where the salt gang meets is called the "Hall of Life". The reason why it is named here is only because of a sentence of the ancients: "Born to be salted, life is said to be salt." It means that what is made naturally is called salt, and what is made by man is called salt. And the salt gang became a gang because of salt, so the first generation of gang leaders took the word "life" as the name of the hall, implying that "people can win the sky".

At noon on this day, the two rows of chairs lined up in two long queues, and the chairs were all occupied by the elders of the gang and the helmsman, and a white fox fur chair in the middle was on the top, which was naturally the gang leader Lei Yuan.

The helmsman at the bottom stood up and saluted and asked, "I don't know why the helper called me and others this time?"

Lei Yuan sat upright in the lobby with a solemn face, and replied loudly: "I summoned all the helmsmen here today to come for the way out of my salt gang. ”

When the helmsman heard this, he didn't know what the helper said, and Lei Yuan said: "If it's chaos today, my green forest has been silent for too long, and it's time to stir the rivers and lakes again." And that Wang Xianzhi was born in the Salt Gang. The first master Yang Banhu is half of his master, and he can be regarded as my senior brother. Now that he has raised his troops, he has sent a letter to me on the rivers and lakes and written a letter to me, hoping that my salt gang will enter and leave the Jianghuai area and echo the north and south of the grass army, what do you think?"

Everyone at the bottom talked a lot, and another helmsman got up, with a rough face and a burly figure, and opened his mouth before everyone, but he didn't talk about Wang Xianzhi: "I don't know if the surnamed Chu has the legendary "Qinglian Jue", if you can grab the Qinglian Jue, you don't have to be afraid of his mother's bullshit martial arts decency." ”

Everyone nodded one after another, for hundreds of years, the martial arts have always pressed the green forest, which really made the Salt Gang hold back this unwilling anger.

Lei Yuan pressed his hand: "It should be true that Chu Jiangkai is the descendant of Li Taibai, otherwise how could Wang Xianzhi be able to drive straight into the city with only a few thousand people, pull out the city and plunder the land? And not only did the "Taibai Sword Technique" come out, but also the Taibai Sword, which ranked sixth in the "Weapon Spectrum". This Chu Jiang Kai sword magic weapon has it, I am afraid that it has already reached the top of the martial arts, we don't have to be enemies with it, besides, the grass army and the salt gang have an inextricable relationship. ”

The first person on the left is the Salt Gang's left envoy Shui Mo, and the first chair in the right column is empty but no one sits. He frowned slightly, his voice seemed to be a little weak, and said: ""Qinglian Jue is now, and the rivers and lakes will be chaotic." If we don't take it, others will take it, and when the time comes, ......"

Without waiting for the left envoy to finish speaking, Lei Yuan said: "So, we have to help Wang Xianzhi and Chu Jiang open." ”

Although everyone at the bottom also felt that it should be so, they hesitated, after all, rebellion is not a joke, and it is not important to have a little conflict with the government, and the rebellion can be ......

Lei Yuan seemed to know everyone's concerns: "Now is not the time to rebel, the Salt Gang can't clearly oppose the imperial court, not to mention that although Gao Piao's tiger was transferred to the west to be the 'Jiannan Xichuan Festival Envoy', he never forgot to keep an eye on us." He is not easy to mess with, but he is afraid that the slightest abnormal movement will not escape his eyes. So I can only help each other in secret. In addition, our gang also has a strange soldier who can make this world more chaotic. ”

As soon as Lei Yuan's words came out, everyone in the hall showed surprise, and everyone didn't know when there was such a strange soldier in the Salt Gang, and they didn't know which rudder this strange soldier was, but seeing that the gang leader looked calm and full of certainty, they didn't say anything more. After the discussion, the helmsmen retired, and then the rudders of the Salt Gang sent people to Caozhou.

This salt gang is the leader of this green forest, but none of the martial arts factions can afford to sit at the head of this martial arts line. This is because there are three major schools in Wulin, namely the Confucian Tianren School, the Taoist Maoshan School, and the Shaolin School of Buddhism. These three sects belong to three religions, with different purposes and different doctrines, so it is difficult to unify them. But if you only talk about martial arts, there is one person in the martial arts who can be as famous as Lei Yuan, the leader of the Salt Gang, and that is Ling Xiao, the head of the Heavenly Sect. The two of them have been famous in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, the so-called: "There are two pride in the sky, a sword and a sword; "This sword is pointed at the Heavenly and Human Sect Lingxiao.

The mountain gate of the Tianren faction is located on the lotus peak in the west of Huashan, this lotus peak has a unique road up the mountain called "Xiaocanglongling", which is the most steep and difficult to climb. At the top and bottom of this mountain road, there is a huge stone, and the stone is engraved with a very vigorous seal character - the top of the mountain is the word "sky", and the bottom of the mountain is the word "person". These two words are three zhang in size, and each stroke is not only consistent, but also has a bit of momentum to look at everything. This Tianren faction, with Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty as its ancestor, has been the most important martial arts sect of Confucianism for thousands of years. On the top of the mountain gate, these two lines of sentences are also engraved:

The taste of the world Bodhi is all because of the Zen mind;

Hongchen Dojo is only because the avenue is invisible.

The main hall of the Celestial Sect is made of huge rocks and thick wood, which is very spectacular. The blue plaque on the temple eyebrow is golden, and the four words "the unity of heaven and man" are written on it. At this time, there was a man dressed as a messenger in the middle of the main hall, and he saw that he looked respectful, and he didn't even dare to look directly at the long figure like a jade tree and a branch above. The head Ling Xiao put down the letter in his hand, and there was no trace of expression floating on his clear face, which made the messenger uneasy.

Ling Xiao put his left hand behind him, and a pair of slender and deep phoenix eyes stared at the two heavy mahogany boxes with gold and silver edges in front of the hall, and thought to himself: "The things sent by the surnamed Tian this time are not light. The world was in turmoil, and this guy actually invited each other with personal friendships, asking the heavens to send out the mountains and use the forces of the rivers and lakes to secretly help the imperial court get rid of Chu Jiangkai. Heh, isn't it caused by you eunuchs and traitors that the world has fallen to such a point?!" After thinking about it, Ling Xiao turned his gaze to the envoy, and the messenger was swept away by this gaze, but it was like falling into an ice cave: "Go back and tell Chief Manager Tian, just say that although the Heavenly and Human Sect has long stopped asking about the affairs of the imperial court, but Chief Manager Tian's face still needs to be given, and I will send someone to go down the mountain in the name of experience to help one or two." When the messenger heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, bowed down, and went back to his life.

Ling Xiao used his internal strength in his palm, and the letter turned into dust in a moment. With a wave of his wide sleeves, several disciples stepped forward and lifted the two large boxes that were an eyesore.

"Frost, Autumn!"

"In!"

As soon as Ling Xiao's call fell, I saw two young people, a man and a woman, walking quickly to the front of the hall and standing with their hands arched.

"Order the two of you to go down the mountain to practice, and by the way, go to Caozhou to meet the so-called Li Taibai heirs for a while. After that, Ling Xiao's lips moved slightly and then transmitted to the two: "There must be a lot of people who are going to Caozhou, you two don't have to come hard, just retrieve the "Qinglian Jue" and the Taibai Sword in the chaos." ”

When they had heard this, they withdrew from the temple.

Ling Shuangzheng and Yue Hangqiu, the two brothers and sisters, grew up together in Huashan since childhood, one is Ling Xiao's only son, and the other is Ling Xiao's most distressed female disciple. Ling Shuang was okay, but this Yue Hangqiu was still going down the mountain for the first time. After the two of them left, an old man in gray clothes and gray hair, who looked like an elder, asked in a low voice: "Senior brother, since the "Qinglian Jue" has been released, the people who want to compete on the rivers and lakes are afraid that they are like carp crossing the river, why did they only send two juniors to compete?"

Ling Xiao smiled when he heard this. When the gray-clothed elder saw that the head of the house was like this, he stopped asking and went alone.