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It was dawning.

The valley was still as silent as late as night, and there were no insects chirping, no birds chirping, and no wild beasts roaring, only the sound of the whirring wind blowing through the valley, which was as terrifying as a ghost crying.

May of the twentieth year of Shaoxing.

I left Qingya Valley and embarked on a journey to find Shu Yao. At that time, I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, I didn't know where it would end, and I didn't even know where I was going to take my first step out of the Cliff Valley.

All I know is that I can't wait any longer. If she finds Shu Yao a day earlier, she will be less dangerous, and even a little more vigorous.

Following the river that flowed through the valley, I had walked out of the Qingya Valley in about two hours. The wound in my chest had not yet healed, and every few moments of the two-hour journey, I would feel a faint pain in my chest, and then I would have to sit down and breathe for a while, otherwise the pain would intensify and I would be embarrassed.

Standing at the mouth of the valley where the two mountains overlap, I looked back at the lush green cliff valley, where a faint layer of clouds and smoke slowly drifted above the trees, wrapping the dark green valley like a fairyland in calligraphy and painting.

The clouds and smoke swayed, changing shapes, and at the same time, the color became a little thicker, and gradually it turned into a dark black, as if a dark cloud had risen in the valley, as if a rainstorm was coming.

This strange valley.

I shook my head with a wry smile, remembering the place where Yu Shisan insisted on living for three years, and I was more fortunate than him, because the Tibetan Dragon Stream where I lived was, after all, a good place with beautiful scenery and a comfortable and pleasant climate.

Hidden Dragon Stream!

It occurred to me that maybe I should go to the Hidden Dragon Stream. Since Chen Boyang is really dead, will Shu Yao never leave the Hidden Dragon Stream at all?

With such a bit of luck, I took the first step to go to the Tibetan Dragon Stream.

2

Twenty years in Shaoxing.

An undercurrent of power struggle is quietly brewing in the imperial court. Qin Hui, who was scolded as a traitor by the people, has been in power for more than ten years, and even Zhao Gou does not dare to compete with him. However, as he grew older, Zhao Gou became more and more unable to bear the situation that he was restricted by Qin Hui everywhere, and the struggle between imperial power and relative power has gradually surfaced.

Qin Hui also gradually felt the danger of his situation, he was more nervous to cultivate forces, and tried his best to cultivate his son Qin Xi, hoping that after a hundred years, Qin Xi could inherit the important position of prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and this was to ensure that his Qin family would not be counterattacked by Zhao Gou.

In addition to the power struggle between the government and the opposition, Qin Hui set his sights on the rivers and lakes that he had never put in his eyes.

The major sects in the rivers and lakes, since experiencing the rebellion of Shaoxing for 16 years to govern the world, took the opportunity to gather and forced the imperial court to change its strategy and seek a glimmer of life.

Although, in the past four years, the livelihood of the various sects is still difficult, but compared to the years when I was the leader of the martial arts alliance, it is much more comfortable.

One is because of the chaos in the world, all the five major sects have been suppressed, and half of the rivers and lakes have been lost.

The strength has been greatly reduced, and Zhao Gou's fear of the rivers and lakes has decreased a lot.

The second is because of Qin Hui's intention to win over, which made the supervision of the various sects by officials in the court a little lax. It can be said that as long as the major factions do not commit chaos, officials from top to bottom will turn a blind eye to the actions of the various major factions.

It is in this environment that the various sects such as the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing their magical powers, and the gap between the sects is becoming more and more obvious.

Crescent Mountain solemnly resumed its old business, relying on its deterrence of the surrounding bandits and bandits, and started the business of bodyguards and bodyguards. In particular, Murong Shun is shrewd and trustworthy, and is well received by various dart bureaus, but in a few years, the Crescent Moon Villa has a prosperous business and a wide range of financial resources, and it has become the richest sect on the rivers and lakes.

The Kuocang faction learned the Shuangdaomen of the year, opened martial arts halls in various places, and sent capable disciples to take care of it and recruit apprentices. However, Chen Boyang was deeply thoughtful, and he was worried that the behavior of the Kuocang faction would remind the imperial court of the Shuangdaomen back then, so he strictly ordered his disciples to control the number of apprentices, and each martial arts hall should not recruit more than twenty disciples. Even if the tuition fee is high, there are still many children from well-to-do families who are scrambling to be the first, and even asking people to find relationships have to go to the martial arts hall of the Kuocang faction to learn some skills.

In the past, the Nanhua faction used to open brothels for a living, but after many years of cultivation of poetry and classics, Situ Qingchen always felt that the old business of the Nanhua faction was insulting and insisted on refusing to repeat it. Just when other sects were making a lot of money, Situ Qingchen ignored public opinion and continued to create. Without He Baiqi's reprinting and piracy, Situ Qingchen's masterpiece gradually improved. In the private sales soared, the Nanhua faction was very busy, and those disciples who had lost weight back then were also getting fatter and fatter.

The Qingyun faction has become the most mysterious sect on the rivers and lakes. Over the years, Yi Careful has been obsessed with martial arts, and has no intention of taking care of the affairs of the Qingyun Sect, and has handed over all the livelihood and mundane affairs of the sect to the invincible martial arts of Excalibur. Wu Lian has a generous personality, even a little dull, and has not been able to find a path suitable for the Qingyun faction to seek wealth. Seeing that Bai Jingxing's family fortune accumulated by the Qingyun Sect for more than 20 years was about to be eaten, Wu Lian, who was worried and had nothing to do, found Yi Xin and asked him to perform his duties as the head of the family and seek a livelihood for the Qingyun Sect. According to legend, at that time, Yi Cheng did not say a word, and went down the mountain with his men, and at dawn he drove back with a double-wheel carriage, and ordered the disciples stationed at the mountain gate to move all the wooden boxes on the carriage back to the Qingyun Sect. When the ten large wooden boxes that were heavy and abnormally heavy were piled up in the hall, Yi Careful picked up the lids of the ten wooden boxes with a sword with an indifferent face, and in an instant, the hall was snow-white, and the white silver made all the disciples stunned. Since then, Yi Caution's prestige and status in the Qingyun Sect have skyrocketed, and he is no longer underestimated. People in the rivers and lakes say that seven years of hard training is not as good as ten boxes of silver, and having money may not make the ghost grind, but it can make people surrender.

The most miserable of the five major sects is the Dragon and Tiger Gang. Zhou Wang'an has a simple temperament and is loyal, in my opinion, he can be regarded as a rare good person in this Jianghu. However, the week

Wang'an, however, has always disdained to be in cahoots with other sects that are covered in copper stench, so he has never been keen on business. Not only that, but he often ridiculed other sects, saying that money is dung, and they are all laymen who dig dung. He said to his disciples that in the eyes of the people of the rivers and lakes, there can only be swords and chivalry, not gold and silver. As a result, the Dragon and Tiger Gang tightened their waists, made a living from farming and hunting, and still lived a hard life as in the past.

I remember that in the past, when I was the leader of the martial arts alliance, Li Xiaoqian once taught me that the key to whether a unit mixes well or not lies in the ability of the leader. What I understand is that whether a gang has meat to eat depends on whether the leader of the gang has the ability to do so.

Looking at the development of various schools in recent years, I have a deeper understanding of this truth.

(End of chapter)

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