Since ancient times, kendo has been called the way of the gentleman, representing benevolence, righteousness and righteousness.

Confucianism has always advocated self-cultivation and Qi family governance of the world, which happens to coincide with the idea of swordsmanship, so since ancient times, the sword is the object that Confucian scholars must wear when traveling, and the past dynasties have inherited the past and forged ahead, the emperor is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, this trend prevails, and gradually the sword represents the supreme right.

Although the sword is often mentioned together, the status of the sword has always been above the sword, regardless of the temples and rivers, there are many more people with swords than people with swords, but this situation has changed in the former Tang Dynasty.

In the pre-Tang Dynasty, the prevalence of the Tang knife made the fame of the knife surge, and for a time the folk respect for the knife reached an unprecedented prosperity, and the types of knives were more than the sword, only in the "Tang Liudian" it was mentioned that the knife system has four, one is called the Yi knife, the second is the obstacle knife, the third is the horizontal knife, the fourth is the Mo knife, most of the rangers like the slender and light, and the appearance is more like the horizontal knife of the sword.

After arriving in the Great Song Dynasty, although the knife is not as popular as the former Tang Dynasty, but it is as famous as the sword, there are many people who use knives on the rivers and lakes, some people advocate following the sword list in the past few years, to list a famous knife list, but unfortunately it has not been formed, the reason is nothing more than that the fame of the sword list is too great, and the characters on the sword list can stir up disputes in the rivers and lakes with a move, as for the good man who uses the knife, except for one Chen Shou who makes the two-handed knife more angry, nothing else is famous.

The knife in front of him seems to be a horizontal knife, but it is one finger wider than an ordinary horizontal knife, and it is four or five inches longer than the two-handed straight knife in the fat man's hand, which looks like a shadow of a strange knife.

The blow was not successful, the eyes of the green-shirted swordsman were a little colder, his wrist drew an arc in front of him, and then slowly crossed the knife behind him, the knife edge was upward, and he kicked it violently under his feet, and suddenly rushed towards the idiot like an arrow from the string, and the idiot took the initiative to meet it, and the sword in his hand drew a small semicircle in the air, and a cold light slid from the blade to the hilt, making a clanging sword sound.

The speed of the two was extremely fast, seeing that the blade of the sword reached the chest of the green-shirted swordsman, the knife behind him was pulled out suddenly, and the speed was even faster than just now, when the swords collided, with the two of them as the center, all the sand and stones around them flew away in an instant, and then they saw a series of clanging sounds, and sparks splashed around the two, but they couldn't see the shadow of the sword.

The man in Mai didn't expect the idiot to be so powerful, his brows were getting tighter and tighter, seeing that the swordsman in the green shirt seemed to be unable to take him down in a short time, the man in Mai didn't plan to watch the excitement anymore, but beckoned the thieves around him to rush up.

The fat man protected the little insects and blocked three or four bandits, and every time he slashed, he could shake these bandits back again and again, and there was no danger for a short time.

At this time, the most pitiful ones in the field were Zhang Shaoyang and Xiucai, there were also four or five bandits in front of them, and the big man in sackcloth approached with a cruel smile, obviously thinking that these two people were the best to slaughter, so let's start with the two of them.

"Brother Shaoyang, what should we do?" Xiucai's face turned pale, but he was finally not too frightened to walk, and the two of them retreated while thinking about how to get out.

Zhang Shaoyang looked at the idiot who was being held, as well as the fat man and the little insect who were blocked on the other side, and his heart couldn't help but sink: "Find a way to drag them down, and when Brother Yu arrives, we will be saved." ”

"That's it. Xiucai's voice trembled a little.

Zhang Shaoyang was quite calm, his eyes glanced at the entrance of the canyon, and there was no unintentional figure of Yu.

"Boy, do you still expect someone to save you?" the big man in Mai saw Zhang Shaoyang's movements and sneered.

"A few heroic brothers, my family is a wealthy businessman in Jiangling, as long as you let us go, when I return to Jiangling, I will ask my father to send you a thousand taels of silver, and the person who wants our life will not be so generous, what do you think?" Zhang Shaoyang said.

"It sounds very tempting, but hundreds of miles away in Jiangling, Lao Tzu let you go, who I want to go to with this money, it's not cost-effective. The Mai man smiled playfully.

"Big brother, the integrity of the scholar is the most important, if you let us go, a thousand taels of silver is guaranteed to be cashed, if you are too little, it doesn't hurt to add another five hundred taels. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, dying early and dying late is a matter of a knife, report to Hades earlier, maybe you can vote for a good family in the next life." The big man in Mai didn't want to delay with him any longer, so he greeted him with a hand, and suddenly several thieves rushed up with knives.

Zhang Shaoyang's heart was finished, and he retreated again and again, and now he had reached the foot of the cliff, seeing those bandits slashing and killing, Zhang Shaoyang shouted: "Run!"

After saying that, he dragged Xiucai to flee along the stone wall, and rushed to intercept the three bandits, Zhang Shaoyang's eyes were red, he picked up a fist-sized stone under his feet and threw it over, and smashed it on the head of one of them impartially, only to see that the person fell straight upright, Zhang Shaoyang hurriedly snatched the knife from his hand, and slashed at the remaining two.

These thieves pretend to be pretentious on weekdays, scare and scare people, except for the eldest brother and the second brother who have killed people, the rest of the people have killed chickens in the village at most, and when they saw this deadly scholar, they went crazy and slashed a breath, they didn't dare to approach, and they were chased by Zhang Shaoyang, so there was such a spectacle, the two thieves in front of them ran wildly, the two scholars in the back chased fiercely in the back, and behind the scholars, there was a large group of thieves wielding knives...

It's not that it's useless to be a scholar, if you make a scholar anxious, how can you be more powerful than a thief?

Zhang Shaoyang didn't think so much about it at this time, someone wanted his life, and he couldn't stretch his neck over for slaughter.

A few days ago, he couldn't even swing the three-pound sword in his hand a few times, and at this time, holding this more than ten pounds of big knife was like twisting a peach branch, which was really strange.

Soon two more thieves gathered and cut off Zhang Shaoyang's way, only then did Zhang Shaoyang wake up, and at this moment he realized that he was blocked in a dead corner, behind him was a cliff, but he was getting farther and farther away from the idiot and the fat man.

Zhang Shaoyang's heart sank, the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were rubbing, he couldn't help but clench the handle of the knife with his hand, his fingers turned white, and there was a tingling sensation in his palm.

"Run, keep running for Lao Tzu!" The big man in sackcloth viciously pushed away the two people, and saw that Zhang Shaoyang was still holding the knife in his hand, he took the knife in his hand and slashed it violently, Zhang Shaoyang suddenly felt that his arm was numb, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground, making a jingle sound.

"You bunch of waste, show Lao Tzu clearly, see how Lao Tzu kills people. The big man in Mai had a hideous face, the knife in his hand was upside down, and he walked straight towards Zhang Shaoyang and the others.

Xiucai gasped for breath, with a cry in his voice, he didn't expect to come to the capital to take the exam once, and his ambition had not yet been realized, but he was going to die here.

He was a little unwilling, but more fearful, he held Zhang Shaoyang's sleeve tightly with his hand, although he knew that there was no road behind him, he kept retreating.

Could it be that you are really going to die here?

Zhang Shaoyang is not reconciled, he has experienced great disasters and disasters, he fell into the river when he was in Jiangling, and he didn't die after soaking for a few hours, he really wanted to die so aggrieved on the way to the exam, so he didn't let the group of young masters in Jiangling laugh to death?

Inexplicably, he thought of Gao Jingshu again!

To tell the truth, he thought more than once about taking the top prize and going back and marrying Gao Jingshu into the gate of the Zhang family, after all, such a beautiful woman, who doesn't want to be alone? But after thinking about it, Zhang Shaoyang felt a little funny, after all, that woman had never taken him in his eyes.

Even if she was rescued from the ghost gate, she never did!

Zhang Shaoyang shook his head, and when he saw the bandits swarming up, he looked at the end of the canyon, which was empty.

"Brother Yu, help!" Zhang Shaoyang shouted at the canyon in despair, and his voice rumbled in the canyon.

At this moment, he only felt a strong pull behind him, and then he only heard Xiucai shouting in horror, and the two fell down one after the other.

In the blink of an eye, there was darkness in front of them, and the two seemed to have fallen into an endless passage, a dizzy tumbling mixed with a violent stinging pain all over their bodies, and they seemed to change direction several times in the process.

Zhang Shaoyang subconsciously hugged his head and let himself roll towards an unknown place, until he finally slammed into a hard thing, Zhang Shaoyang fainted directly, and he was unconscious after that.