Chapter 1 The Evolutionary Tree of Martial Arts
"Xi'er, next month is the semi-annual star assessment meeting of the Shuwu Pavilion, how are you preparing here......? If ...... on the other side of the phone, Dad seems to be a little inclined to say something. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Dad, don't worry, I'm fully prepared for the star assessment meeting, I will definitely carry forward the Tianyang Shuwu Pavilion, you can just recuperate with peace of mind." Don't talk about it, I'll go back to the Shuwu Museum, and I'll talk next time, long-distance phone calls are expensive. ”
Lu Shaoxi hung up the phone in a hurry, feeling extremely annoyed, because he didn't want his family to worry, every time he talked to his father on the phone, he reported good news and not bad news, the problem is that he can't hide it anymore, if his father knows that his life's work will be closed next month, will he be so angry that he won't recognize him as a son?
The autumn night was already cool, Lu Shaoxi sighed helplessly, tightened his coat, and quickened his pace. Stepping on the yellow leaves all over the ground, Lu Shaoxi soon came to a bookstore with a sign of "Tianyang Martial Arts Bookstore". The bookstore doesn't look too big, the wooden signs are very delicately made, the font is hand-carved, and the vermilion iron door still seems to tell the prosperity of the past, but the rust on the iron door and the cold yellow leaves at the door remind that the bookstore is in a much worse condition - this is the Shuwu Hall he inherited from his father.
Lu Shaoxi took out the key and was about to open the door, but saw a piece of paper sandwiched in the crack of the door.
Looking through the dim light, I saw that the beginning of the piece of paper reads: "Mr. Lu, your bookstore is still in arrears for three months......
Lu Shaoxi didn't need to read it to know that he was urging the venue rent. Alas, what a misfortune is not a one-way street.
When he was a junior, he deliberately applied for a one-year suspension of school to inherit his father's book and martial arts hall, and it has been almost a year now, originally planning to earn some money to subsidize the family, while sticking to his father's dream. Unexpectedly, the business is getting worse and worse, and by this month, I can't even mix up food. A few days ago, I also received an ultimatum from the Hidden Martial Arts Administration, if it can't pass the half-star rating at next month's star assessment meeting, this Tianyang Book Martial Arts Hall must be forced to close.
But I really don't blame him, he has only been practicing martial arts for a year, and he doesn't have any good exercises and secrets, and he can practice to the double level of refining the body, which is considered to be a rapid progress. The problem is that in the hermit martial arts, the dual strength of refining the body is really so low that it can't be lower. The Changfeng Shuwu Pavilion on the opposite side of the street is only a half-star rating, but the owner of the pavilion, Hu Fatzi, is also a five-fold strength in refining the body, far better than him.
Lu Shaoxi opened the door of the Shuwu Pavilion, passed through the large and small bookcases, returned to his small room of less than five square meters, and collapsed on the bed tiredly.
But as soon as he stuck to the bed, there was a sharp pain in the wound on his back, and he couldn't help but scream "ouch", and hurriedly sat up, only then did he remember that he still had injuries on his body.
With a bitter face, he took out the medicine box from under the bed and found bone-setting medicine wine and cotton, and took off his shirt, revealing his scarred upper body.
When the cotton sticking to the medicinal wine stimulated the sore part of the wound, Lu Shaoxi suddenly bared his teeth and cracked his mouth.
"Damn Fat Hu, you wait, one day I will give you back ten times the beating I took today!" Thinking of the culprit who caused these countless bruises, Lu Shaoxi clenched his fists unwillingly.
Today he went out to borrow money from friends, only barely borrowed twenty yuan, and on the way back, he unfortunately met Hu Fat Man from the Changfeng Book Martial Arts Museum, Hu Fat Man sneered in his mouth, Lu Shaoxi was young and vigorous, how could he bear it, so he went to the Changfeng Book Martial Arts Hall to "learn" with him, but how could the second body refining be the opponent of the fifth body refining body, and the result was naturally beaten to the ground, and the whole body was injured......
finally wiped the bruises on his body with medicinal wine, and Lu Shaoxi's drowsiness disappeared. He casually ate a cup of instant noodles and returned to the front store, sorting out all kinds of martial arts books in the bookcase as usual, and wiping the dust on the bookcase.
It's a habit he's been in since he was a child, and he's forgotten when he's been wiping down these bookcases with his father.
In 2030 A.D., the Longxia Continent has long been the world of hot weapons such as guns, and even laser guns have begun to be promoted in the army.
This hidden martial arts, known as "hidden martial arts" by insiders, still has countless martial arts sects, especially with the combination of martial arts and technology, the development of countless new martial arts, it is said that the powerful nine martial arts to the highest level, can completely open mountains and split the sea, the power is not inferior to ordinary missiles. To this end, the state has also set up a special "Hidden Martial Arts Administration" for the unified management of these hermitage sects, and the peerless powerhouses in the hermit martial arts will even be incorporated by the state and granted special positions and powers to the army, which plays a vital role in the confrontation between countries.
Shuwuguan is a hidden form of the continuation of the hermit martial arts sect in modern society. These venues are basically built by the Hidden Martial Arts Administration and rented to qualified martial arts people. Generally, the front store sells martial arts books, and there will be a hidden sealed place in the back as a martial arts dojo for receiving apprentices.
In fact, this is a default custom of the hermit martial arts, selling books is the same as "selling and losing", and if you sell "lose", the rest is naturally "winning", which means to please the lottery.
As soon as the people who practice martial arts see that the store in front of them only sells martial arts books, they know that this is a book martial arts hall and the owner of the museum is a fellow practitioner, so they will naturally come to the door to find out if there are any good secrets, or come to the door to ask for advice and learn, or learn from a teacher. In fact, selling the secrets of the grade at a high price and accepting the tuition fees of the apprentices are the main sources of income for the Shuwu Museum.
The Shuwu Pavilion has a total of eighteen levels from half-star to nine-star, and the higher the star, the more attention it will receive from the Hermitage Martial Arts Administration, and there will even be special state allowances and subsidy funds, etc., to enjoy various privileges.
Lu Shaoxi's father, Lu Tie, is a martial arts addict who is addicted to martial arts, and he accidentally came into contact with the hermit martial arts, and since then he has been determined to become a martial arts powerhouse. He has never met the Master, but relying on a second-grade martial arts secret book and amazing perseverance, he has cultivated the strength of gathering qi and established this "Tianyang Book Martial Arts Hall". The Tianyang Shuwu Hall started from scratch, and was rated as one and a half stars in its heyday, and there were more than a dozen nominal disciples in the hall, which can be described as a glorious time.
But just a year ago, Lu Tie encountered a terrifying strong opponent in the two-star challenge, and was seriously injured in a few moves, and since then he had to withdraw from the hermit martial arts and return to his hometown in the countryside to recuperate, and his disciples were scattered, and this Tianyang Book Martial Arts Hall was passed on to his son Lu Shaoxi, who was still in the third year of college.
Lu Shaoxi was "constrained" by his mother, who valued literature and light martial arts, and did not get permission to practice martial arts until he took over the Tianyang Shuwu Museum. As a result, as soon as the half-year period arrived, trouble came, according to the regulations of the Hidden Martial Arts Administration, the Shuwu Pavilion had to take a rating review meeting every six months, Lu Shaoxi went to participate, but with his half-baked strength, how could he pass the review, so the star rating of the Tianyang Shuwu Hall was directly cleared, and the Yuanzhou Branch of the Yinxiu Martial Arts Administration Bureau also sent an ultimatum letter recently, if he, the owner of the museum, could not even pass the half-star in the assessment meeting next month, the Tianyang Shuwu Hall would be withdrawn from the opening permit and forced to close......
"It's okay, I can't survive it anyway, so I just buy these books at a discount and pay off the debt......"
Lu Shaoxi reluctantly looked at the hundreds of martial arts secrets in those bookcases, almost all of these martial arts secrets were collected by his father for many years, although most of them were rated as low-grade secrets, but there were also a few first-class secrets, but these rare books were priced at more than 10,000 yuan, and ordinary people would not care about them at all, and when the hermit martial artists came to find books, they didn't look down on the secrets of this mere product, so Lu Shaoxi's bookstore's business was really light. Later, he had to buy a large number of popular health martial arts books on the market, such as "The Secret of Taijiquan", "Learning Xingyi Boxing from Zero", "Health Baduan Jin" and other popular health martial arts books on the market, but where can he compete with the major e-commerce discounts and coupons, and the books sold in the past six months are only a handful.
Thinking that he owed the bureau three months' rent, more than 19,000 yuan a month, which was almost 60,000 yuan, he could only sell all these secrets at a discount, pay off the debt, and then close this book and martial arts hall, return to the campus to study, and honestly find a job after graduation in the future, and become a salaried worker......
For this almost foreseeable future, Lu Shaoxi was helpless and had no other way, he leaned on the bookcase and let out a long sigh.
Suddenly, I felt a shock behind me, and the bookcase seemed to shake a few times, huh, earthquake, Lu Shaoxi jumped up suddenly.
Strange, the ground didn't shake, he looked at the bookcase again, and unexpectedly found that the bookcase was shaking, and the amplitude of the vibration was getting bigger and bigger, and the secret notes in the bookcase were shaken down one after another.
What's going on?
Lu Shaoxi hurriedly pressed down on the bookcase, feeling the vibration coming from under the bookcase, he looked down, and saw a thick black book in the corner of the bookcase jumping up and down like a restless beast, hitting the entire bookcase with it.
Hey, isn't this the weird old man who gave him a book? Why does this book beat on its own? Wouldn't it be a hell of a mess?
Lu Shaoxi kindly helped an old man who was knocked down by an electric car yesterday, and the old man looked at him for a while and said that his bones and chivalrous heart will become a great weapon in the future, and he insisted on selling him a thick black book at a price of 5 yuan, saying that it was a magical secret that flew from another time and space, and it contained shocking secrets.
At that time, Lu Shaoxi took a look, except for the five words "Martial Arts Evolution Tree" on the cover that could be recognized, the content in the book was all incomprehensible garbled characters. He didn't want such a broken book at all, but he was so entangled by the old man that he couldn't do it, so he had to pay 5 yuan for dinner to buy it, and the more he thought about it when he got home, the more he felt that he had met an old liar, so he had to sigh and throw this black book to the bottom of the bookcase.
Fortunately, Lu Shaoxi has always been bold, seeing that this black book continues to jump like this, the entire bookcase is afraid that it will fall apart, so he simply gritted his teeth and reached out to hold down the black book. Who knew that as soon as his hand touched the black book, the black book suddenly emitted a strong light, stabbing Lu Shaoxi's eyes with pain.
"Ding! Find a suitable host candidate, the martial arts evolution tree system is about to be attached!"
With a cold mechanical sound, the light enveloped Lu Shaoxi in an instant. Before Lu Shaoxi could react, he felt that something had entered his mind and merged with his brain, and the severe pain made Lu Shaoxi faint all of a sudden......