Chapter 1 Old Things in the Rivers and Lakes
Xingchen Tower was once a place that countless martial arts practitioners in the world yearned for.
It is too white and firm, and the stars are in the forest. Go to the sky for 300 miles, Mier is out of the world. These two poems describe the Xingchen Tower that once sat on the Taibai Peak of the Qinling Mountains. About one or two hundred years ago, the Xingchen Tower was born, and most of the people in the world did not know its origin, but at that time, no one knew about the three pillars in the world.
Because, Xingchen Tower was created by the disciples of the Three Pillars of the World.
It is rumored that in that year, the Heavenly King Sect appeared a real amazing talent, in the first few years of his entry, not only learned his master's things, but also learned all the martial arts of the Heavenly King Sect, after six years of entry, he began to visit the Spirit Mirror Gate and the Fengshen Pavilion, seeking a more powerful and profound way of martial arts, and traveled all over the world, looking for those mysterious inheritances lost in the land of Shenzhou. In the process, he also got to know his future wife, a disciple from the Wind God Pavilion.
This person's name is Wu Zijing, as his name suggests, what he has pursued in his life is the endless martial arts. He and his wife, Miao Nu Yang Asha, have been wandering on the rivers and lakes for ten years, learning countless martial arts, but he always feels that something is missing. Until one day, he passed by a private school, and saw a group of children arguing about a small issue that seemed very childish, and suddenly the mouth stopped.
Wu Zi actually thought that although he and his wife were both top figures in martial arts, they were just two people, and no matter how smart they were, they also had their own limitations. There are thousands of kinds of martial arts in the world, and life is only a short hundred years, how can they be thoroughly studied? How can they find the ultimate? Chu Fangyu, Tang Fifteen, and Bu Chan, who founded the three pillars of the world, are also unrivaled figures in the world, so why haven't they been able to find the ultimate either?
Perhaps, this is something that a generation cannot do. Only inheritance, only the collision between people, can we find the true limit of martial arts, and find the realm of the legendary flying immortals. Wu Zijing, who figured this out, came to Qinling, found Taibai Peak, which had the same name as his original sect, and established Xingchen Tower here.
In fact, when Xingchen Tower was first founded, it was not a martial arts sect. After Wu Zijing and Yang Asha established the Star Tower, the first thing he did was to send invitations to the brothers and sisters he knew well in the three pillars of the world, as well as some elders. Here, there are countless martial arts in the world that he has collected over the past ten years, and the collection of martial arts alone even surpasses the Tibetan Pavilion of the Lingjing Gate, so he invited the geniuses in the three pillars of the world to come here to study martial arts.
From this day on, "pursuing the ultimate in martial arts" is no longer a matter of Wu Zijing alone, but belongs to the pursuit of the entire Xingchen Tower. From this day on, every disciple who has achieved success in the Three Pillars Middle School of the World can choose whether to go to the Star Tower to study martial arts, where they will participate in the intensive study and improvement of the martial arts of their predecessors, and at the same time, they can also learn the most powerful martial arts in the world.
Soon after, Wu Zi had a son with Yang Asha.
This child's name is Wu Zhengyang, and since he was born, he has lived in a place that people in the world who practice martial arts dream of. Wu Zhengyang's enlightenment reading materials are not the Three Character Sutra or the Disciple Gui, but the Yijin Sutra; Wu Zhengyang's childhood toys were swords, archers, and eighteen weapons; Wu Zhengyang had already learned how to breathe and how to regulate pranayama before he was sensible. Wu Zhengyang, who inherited the talents of Wu Zijing and Yang Asha, has begun to show ...... when he was a teenager Beyond his father's intellect.
For the vast number of martial arts classics, he can not only learn them at a very fast speed, but also point out the deficiencies and areas that can be improved in many martial arts. As Wu Zhengyang grew up day by day, his realm gradually became more and more profound, and when he was sixteen years old, Wu Zhengyang tied with his father in a competition.
Wu Zi was pleasantly surprised, he thought that his son was a genius who surpassed the mortals in the world, and he was also a gift from the heavens to Xingchen Tower. Perhaps, there is no need to wait for a hundred years later, and there is no need for several generations of inheritance, maybe with Wu Zhengyang's ability, he will be able to find the extreme realm of martial arts in his lifetime!
So, Wu Zi actually asked Wu Zhengyang to go to the world for a walk after a candle night talk with Wu Zhengyang. Because Wu Zi actually saw what he wanted and what he should do in the chaotic world, he decided to let his son go for a walk and find his own heart. However, Wu Zhengyang never returned to Xingchen Tower after leaving.
It's not that the world of flowers is too tempting, but that there are too many variables in this world. Wu Zi, who was dedicated to studying martial arts, actually forgot that when he first set foot in the rivers and lakes, although he had a body of martial arts, he was not invincible in the world, he acted carefully, his mind was delicate, and he tried to be steady and steady at every step, if it weren't for this, he would not have collected so many martial arts. But Wu Zhengyang is different, he has lived in praise since he was a child, and he has reached the realm of a top master at a young age, and Wu Zhengyang, who has lived in a paradise since he was a child, does not know what human feelings are. Not long after leaving Xingchen Tower, Wu Zhengyang offended many forces on the rivers and lakes, some people offered him a reward, and some people said that he relied on his martial arts to do whatever he wanted. Similarly, the young and high-spirited Wu Zhengyang also found many like-minded friends, who drank a lot of wine, ate a lot of meat, were happy, and dared to love and hate.
However, the longer he spent on the rivers and lakes, the more confused Wu Zhengyang became. Wu Zi actually let him come to this world, so that he could understand his true heart and let him understand why he wanted to pursue the ultimate in martial arts, but Wu Zhengyang was caught in the battle of the rivers and lakes. He couldn't understand that if the people who practiced martial arts in the world couldn't get along calmly, how could they pursue the ultimate in martial arts every day?
Finally one day, when Wu Zhengyang was looking through the history books, he saw a story, a story thousands of years ago, before the establishment of the three pillars of the world. At that time, it was still a troubled time, the princes were strife, and the heroes were divided, but there was a fish dragon sword god in the martial arts, he founded the martial arts league, which accepted the people who practiced martial arts who had nowhere to go in the world, and became an ideal country that martial arts people yearn for, if it wasn't for that accident, that ambush, maybe the martial arts alliance would have been passed down to this day, and the martial arts in the world would not be so chaotic.
Wu Zhengyang figured it out, he wanted to revitalize the martial arts alliance, he wanted to establish an alliance like the fish dragon sword god, so that the martial arts people in the world would have an organization. He knows countless martial arts, and can make the people who are involved in his alliance become stronger, and there will definitely be many people who are willing to join; when there are more and more martial arts people and sects who join his alliance, he can make the martial arts in the world harmonious and unified, and at that time, wouldn't it be more convenient to gather the strength of all the martial arts people in the world to study the ultimate in martial arts?
Thus, the Ichthyosaurus Alliance was born.
However, "unifying the rivers and lakes" is an innumerable difficult task compared with the study of martial arts, not to mention that the world was prosperous at that time, even if there were many martial arts sects and people in the rivers and lakes who were willing to invest in the Fish and Dragon League, but there were also several big forces who thought that the Fish and Dragon League was just a thing that sold dog meat with a sheep's head, and Wu Zhengyang was the same as those demons and demons who had appeared in the world before, in order to realize his desire to control the rivers and lakes.
However, Wu Zhengyang's desire to establish the Fish and Dragon Alliance is indeed good, and it has also been supported by Wu Zijing and the three pillars of the world at that time.
As a result, the disciples who have learned in the three pillars of the world have one more choice - to join the Fish and Dragon League and participate in the cause of unifying the world's martial arts.
But people change, and so do things.
When the Ichthyosaurus Alliance first appeared, it was to pave the way for the research of the Star Tower. But the task of the Fish and Dragon Alliance is too arduous, far beyond Wu Zhengyang's imagination at the beginning, and this thing is being done, and it is off track. As he gets older, Wu Zhengyang is no longer the young man with enthusiasm and dreams, he has become a deep middle-aged man, who has been constantly participating in the dumping of power for many years, and he has long been unable to remember the original intention of "profound martial arts in the world", but really wants to dominate the rivers and lakes. When something has been done for decades but can't be done, people's minds change.
Wu Zhengyang found that the reason why those Jianghu forces were able to confront him was mostly because of the background of the DPRK and China. Some sects are supported by the frontier marshal, and some forces are in the hands of the current courtiers, and whenever the confrontation between the Fish and Dragon Alliance and them comes to a critical moment, there will always be some irresistible forces to intervene. Therefore, Wu Zhengyang also began to turn his attention to the imperial court.
Later, a lot of things happened, and the struggle between the Ichthyosaur Alliance and the forces in the rivers and lakes became the struggle of several big forces in the imperial court, and Wu Zhengyang's ideas began to slowly penetrate into the entire Ichthyosaur League. Later, Wu Zi failed to find a way to prove the Tao with martial arts until the day he died, and Wu Zhengyang was not able to complete the unification of the world's rivers and lakes until the day he died.
Time has passed, many things have changed, and dynasties have changed. More than a hundred years ago, the Mongolian cavalry from the northern steppe entered the Central Plains and suppressed the world with bloody killings, and the power of millions of cavalry was by no means something ordinary people could resist, so whether it was Xingchenlou or the Fish and Dragon Alliance, they gradually turned from light to dark, but their inheritance was not broken, in addition to absorbing disciples from the three pillars of the world, they also sent out the world to walk in the world like the three pillars of the world to find extremely talented teenagers. It was during this time that the "Five Great Hidden Sects" began to circulate in the world, and under the suppression of the Mongols, many people dreamed of being able to join the Five Great Hidden Sects to seek refuge.
In this process, the Fish and Dragon League began to grow stronger, it inherited the idea of the Wulin League thousands of years ago, and provided a real place for the people of the Central Plains to help and support each other. It was also at this time that a core began to appear in the Ichthyosaur Alliance, called the "Dragon Head", and only the most powerful and powerful people in the Ichthyosaurus Alliance could enter, and they basically controlled the operation of the entire Ichthyosaur Alliance. In fact, as one of the five hidden sects looking for disciples, the Fish Dragon League is also directly absorbed into the dragon head, so one of the five hidden sects is actually not the Fish Dragon Alliance, but this "dragon head".
Later, the Mongol tyranny did not last long. The world is full of heroes, the Ichthyosaurus Alliance has entered the world deepest, and there are countless righteous people in the alliance who are willing to rebel against the Mongols, so after a period of contact with the world's heroes, the dragon head at that time finalized a warlord, and the powerful Ichthyosaurus Alliance fought side by side with this warlord, and really overthrew the rule of the Mongols. And that warlord became the ancestor of the dynasty, and the Fish and Dragon Alliance was transformed into the largest alliance in the world, and faintly had the momentum of dominating the rivers and lakes.
But what the dragon head didn't expect was that after Emperor Taizu sat firmly in the world, he suddenly stretched out a blunt knife to the Fish Dragon Alliance. In fact, this is very easy to understand, on the side of the couch, how can he allow others to snore? He even wants to make fun of the three pillars of the world, let alone a powerful Jianghu force around him? But Taizu didn't want the world to say that he crossed the river and demolished the bridge, so he didn't make a heavy hand, but supported some equally powerful forces to confront the Ichthyosaur Alliance, and from time to time they stumbled, and slowly, the Ichthyosaurus Alliance was constantly weakened.
This is also one of the reasons why the Ichthyosaurus League had to be transformed and incorporated into the imperial court in the form of "Ichthyosaurus". If the Ichthyosaurus Alliance does not give up their own power and devote themselves to the court with absolute loyalty, perhaps it will not be long before a blunt knife will turn into a sharp knife. The Fish and Dragon Alliance is not protected by the dangerous terrain like the three pillars of the world, it is an alliance that envelops the people of the world, and there are not many dragon heads, but there are more than 100 people, if the imperial court really wants to break up the Fish and Dragon Alliance, it is just a kung fu to turn over the hand.
"Mother, ...... What about the Star Tower? Why was the Star Tower destroyed again? This is in alliance with the Ichthyosaurus...... What does it matter?"
On the side of Lin Mobai's bed, Ning Wushu, who had changed back into women's clothes, asked with some doubts. Beside her, there was Leng Qianqiu sitting in a wooden wheelchair, Leng Qianqiu could also listen attentively, and her two hands tightly clasped the handle of the wheelchair, revealing the tension in the center.
On the hospital bed, Lin Mobai's face was still very bad, she was lying on the bed with a cushion behind her, and said with a faint breath: "This is another story." Let me ask first, young man surnamed Leng, although you use the Youfeng Sword Technique, you have practiced the Imperial Sword Technique, right?"
Leng Qianqiu's eyes flashed and nodded.
Lin Mobai didn't show a look of surprise on his face, and said: "A few decades ago, there was a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes, and all the sources were that "True Immortal Dao Book". There are five volumes in this Taoist book, which respectively record the five methods of the Imperial Sword Formula, the Heavenly Thunder Formula, the Immortal Formula, the Wind and Rain Formula, and the Heaven and Earth Formula. Li Jingzhen learned a volume of Heavenly Thunder Technique, so he had Five Thunder Palms, my younger brother Lin Wangshu practiced the Wind and Rain Technique, Xiao Leng, you learned the Imperial Sword Technique, so you have such an amazing sword technique. Back then, I learned the Edgeworth Technique and the Longevity Technique. ”
Ning Wushu was shocked in his heart, getting a volume of the True Immortal Dao Book was enough to give birth to peerless masters such as Li Jingzhen, Lin Wangshu, and Leng Qianqiu, and his mother actually studied two volumes back then? No wonder even Li Jingzhen had to retreat when he saw her! And what a terrifying thing is this True Immortal Dao Book, if someone practices six volumes, can he really reach the realm of "the ultimate in martial arts" that Wu Zijing pursued?
Lin Mobai glanced at his daughter, her face gradually became gloomy, and she said lightly: "But it is precisely because of this True Immortal Dao Book that the Xingchen Tower has been destroyed and countless people have died......"