At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the twenty-second year of Guangxu.

At this time, the imperial court had ruled the world for more than 200 years. In history, any dynasty and any system will begin to decay and degenerate after more than 200 years of operation, officials will become corrupt and incompetent, civil land annexation will be serious, and the people will live in poverty, and the rule of feudal dynasties will begin to come to an end, and the Qing Dynasty at this time is of course no exception. If we only look at the past history, there will soon be new forces that will rise up, break the old rules, overthrow everything, redistribute the benefits, and establish a new dynasty in a ruined land, and the new dynasty will be full of vitality, and the world will move towards the next stable hundreds of years.

However, the situation was based on the fact that there was only one powerful empire ruling the whole world, and the current era is different from the previous cycle of dynasties. With the development of the times and the progress of technology, the boundless seas and deep mountains that used to divide the world, block the contact between different civilizations, and turn their respective civilizations into world islands have become enough to be conquered by ordinary people, and the ties between all countries in the whole world are becoming closer and beginning to be able to connect with each other. With the advent of ocean-going ships and steel giants, the sea can finally be freely traveled by human beings, and the empire that never sets on the west has established its supreme hegemony on the sea, and then began its own trade around the world...... with the Colonial Road.

For the Sunset Empire, which is a powerful and advanced civilization, it is obliged to bring all kinds of advanced creations and civilization ideas to the backward and autocratic Qing Empire, and by the way, collect some insignificant rewards.

For the Qing government, the foreign powers that came across the sea brought not only trade, but also exploitation and war.

The Qing government first started a war because it relied on poisoning the people to sweep away the opium of snowflakes and silver and the sun never sets. However, under the disparity in strength between the two sides, it ended in a disastrous defeat, and had to sign all kinds of treaties that humiliated the country and ceded land and paid compensation, and at the same time, it could no longer refuse free trade in its own territory from foreign capitalists.

However, it didn't take long for him to continue to cede land to protect himself because of the backward equipment and system, and then open commercial ports everywhere in the interior so that the people of the island countries could settle in and invest in the country, so as to better exploit themselves.

As the capitalists who lived by exploitation ran rampant in the country, and the common people were wantonly exploited and oppressed by foreign capitalism, a large amount of silver and abundant domestic resources continued to flow overseas, strengthening the enemy country and weakening itself. At this time, the decaying and old feudal dynasty was crumbling, and the once rich and powerful ancient eastern countries also showed their weakness in front of the world powers.

In these troubled times, martial arts prevail everywhere in the country, although martial arts are vulnerable under foreign guns and cannons, but in today's world, the people at the bottom can only talk about this last straw to comfort themselves.

Early in the morning, in a compound in Shiyan County at the foot of Wudang Mountain. Mo Chen was lying flat on the bed with his eyes closed at this time, as if he was asleep, but the expression on his face kept changing, and his body moved unconsciously as if he had fallen into a nightmare.

Suddenly, Mo Chen opened his eyes, sat up suddenly, gasping for breath, and a head of sweat broke out on his head.

"Whew, whew, whew. After gasping for a while, Mo Chen seemed to gradually calm down, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and his breathing slowly smoothed out.

"Huh. With a self-deprecating sigh, Mo Chen touched his head, the smooth scalp on the front half and the thick braid on the back half made Mo Chen determine where he was. Looking at the sky, Mo Chen put on a gray long-sleeved shirt and got out of bed.

Recently, I don't know if it's because of too much pressure, Mo Chen has been having some weird nightmares. In the dream, there are two versions of themselves in different eras, one is Mo Chen, a young man who lives in a future fantasy city with high-rise buildings and bright lights, and is a citizen who 'grows flowers'. The other is Mo Chen, a young man who cultivates strange martial arts in a dynasty called the 'Great Chen Dynasty', among the gangs in a remote county. These dreams kept staggering all night, although most of the details were blurred, but some of the scenes were extremely real, and sometimes Mo Chen, who had just woken up, couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality. But as long as Mo Chen touched his head, he knew where he was. Because no matter which world Mo Chen dreamed of, there was no situation where the authorities wanted the people to have such a big back and long braids. Thinking of this, Mo Chen was inexplicably a little disgusted with his hairstyle, shook his head, and suppressed the strange feeling in his heart. Every time Mo Chen wanted to explore the strange dreams in his mind, for some reason, these scenes would be replaced by the last terrifying scene in the dream for a long time, and it was that scene that spurred Mo Chen, so that Mo Chen didn't dare to relax in the slightest after going all the way down so hard.

It was a picture of Mo Chen's mother, but that picture never brought Mo Chen any warm feeling. Because it was her last scream to Mo Chen with a hoarse voice and a hideous expression: "Revenge!" Since then, until now, Mo Chen has been awakened by such nightmares every day.

Mo Chen will never forget his own figure reflected in his mother's hideous expression and refusing to close her eyes at that time, the helpless, frightened, and trembling figure.

Thinking of the situation at that time, Mo Chen clenched his fists tightly, picked up a sheathed long sword placed next to the bed and walked out of the room.

Mo Chen, who was holding a long sword, walked out of the house and came to the courtyard, drew his sword out of its sheath, and practiced swordsmanship with the light that had just appeared in the sky.

I saw Mo Chen first stand up straight, pull his back with his chest in his hand, and then relax his arms, and his strength sank his shoulders and elbows, and naturally swung his sword forward. At the same time, he stepped forward with his hips and knees, and swung his sword constantly while walking, and the long sword in his hand showed splitting, hanging, teasing, stabbing, pointing, and so on. The long sword came and went in the air, not only with steady force, but also extremely fast, constantly bringing out the sound of breaking the air. Mo Chen's body always maintained a straight posture when practicing swordsmanship, the whole body was centered on the waist, the hands and feet were loose and there was no hips, and the head was also looking straight ahead with a virtual collar.

This set of Taiyi Xuanguang Sword of Wudang Taiyi Gate was slowly used by Mo Chen, and the speed and slowness between the casts were intertwined, and the rigidity and softness were intertwined. When you make a move, the sword walks with you, and you carry the sword with you.

Time passed quietly with the sound of breaking the sky, and Mo Chen, who kept wielding his long sword, unintentionally passed away, and the sun slowly peeked out of the sky. The warm sunlight spread all over the world with the appearance of the sun, shining in the courtyard where Mo Chen was. The unobstructed sunlight shone on the courtyard, and it was naturally the soft light on Mo Chen, who was wielding a long sword in the courtyard, and his sword.

Mo Chen didn't seem to be aware of this, and his body movements did not pause in the slightest, but the bright long sword in his hand changed. The sunlight shone on the clear sword body and reflected a brilliant light on the surrounding walls and ground, and as the long sword in Mo Chen's hand danced, the light also kept changing positions. Gradually, Mo Chen's speed of swinging the sword became faster and faster, and the change of his body shape became more and more urgent, at this time, from a distance, Mo Chen's body was moving, it seemed to be slow and fast, his steps seemed to be straight in the stepping, like a square circle, and the figure that turned back and forth outlined a huge gossip like an illusion. The long sword wielded in his hand seemed to turn into a constantly moving band of light under the sunlight in the sky, and the band of light swam faster and faster, and finally seemed to become a bright ball of light, and finally the light cluster exploded, and a bright sword light rushed forward with Mo Chen's figure in an instant, and finally Mo Chen stood up and collected his sword.

Slowly exhaling a breath, Mo Chen put the long sword in the scabbard on the ground beside him, and returned to the middle of the courtyard.

Standing still, Mo Chen relaxed his whole body, opened his mouth and took a deep breath and swallowed it, this breath kept rolling between his chest and abdomen, and finally Mo Chen spit out a long time, forming a white air arrow that rushed in front of him and dissipated. Then the whole body shook slightly, making a dull sound, like an old cow roaring, and at the same time, Mo Chen's back naturally shook from side to side, and his spine was like a big dragon writhing. This is Mo Chen's reckless strength with the secret of the Wudang family, swallowing qi to refine and strengthen the internal organs, shaking his back and condensing the strength of his muscles and bones with the spine dragon. With the activity of the spine dragon, the strength of the hands and feet was naturally accessible, Mo Chen's footsteps were gently lifted to the ground, his fingers were clenched into fists, and his arms were slammed forward with the strength surging from his feet and back.

'Smack'

It was like a whip struck through the air, making a loud sound. This is a single whip in Taijiquan, when it is cast, it is fierce and domineering, in the legend, the master of chemical strength is displayed, a whip is enough to explode the bluestone grinding plate, Mo Chen tried it out at this time, although it looks very powerful, but it is 108,000 miles away from that realm.

Mo Chen's movements did not stop, and the fierce and domineering techniques in Taijiquan kept being displayed. Walking under his feet, his arm clenched into a fist and threw it into the air like a whip, or like a hammer smashing, or like a cannon bombardment, along with Mo Chen's movements, there was a loud popping sound in the air. Although this Taijiquan fist is fierce and unparalleled, the punch is like a hammer and a cannon, and almost no one dares to block it when fighting with others, but it consumes great physical strength. It didn't take long for Mo Chen to feel his blood boiling, and his skin was flushed, so he stopped.

Then Mo Chen staggered his feet on the spot, his center of gravity drooped, and his arms were raised in front of him in a three-body pose. The three-body pose is the foundation of Xingyi boxing, and Xingyi boxing as one of the world's most fierce boxing methods, different from Taijiquan is to rely on the special practice of strength to show the fierce and unparalleled boxing method, the reason why the practitioners of Xingyi boxing dare to fight hard and rush hard, grab the middle line, depends on its fundamental three-body style for the body's muscles, bones, qi and blood of the powerful exercise effect. The heat emitted by the galloping heat in his body was forced back as Mo Chen posed for a three-body locking of the pores of his whole body, penetrating into the muscles, bones and flesh, and the red skin of Mo Chen's whole body slowly recovered, and finally Mo Chen shivered excitedly, and then stood up.

"Yes, yes, you have already practiced kung fu at this time. Whether it is the Taiyi Xuanguang Sword, Taijiquan, Mangniu Jin or your own family heirloom Xingyi Three-Body Style, you have already practiced it very thoroughly. As long as the time comes, your kung fu will naturally go to the next level. At this time, a voice came from behind Mo Chen, and at the same time, a thin old man with white beard and white hair, wearing a white coat and high spirits walked into the courtyard.

Although the old man was wearing a white coat, judging from the thick white hair tied up on his head, he should be a registered official Taoist priest.

Because under the rule of the Qing Dynasty government, ordinary people had to keep braids, but Taoist priests were able to keep their hair openly without being killed because of the ten non-conformities issued by the imperial court.