The territory of the Wu Dynasty is millions of miles, and the four major schools of "one temple and one sect, two palaces for men and women" have been set by the Xianting, which have lasted for nearly a thousand years.

"Temple" is the Great Compassion Temple, a group of ascetics, eat fasting and chant Buddha, there is no dispute with the world, but the rivers and lakes are respected by martial arts, the Great Compassion Temple has a long heritage, the heritage is profound, it is the Taishan Beidou in the rivers and lakes, ranking first in the Wu Dynasty sect.

"Zong" is Qingyun Sect, a group of Taoist priests, good at swordsmanship, pay attention to inaction, like alchemy to meditate on yin and yang, the town school of the peerless "True One Sword", practice to the realm, to one into ten thousand, to ten thousand as one, a hundred steps away, take the head of others, ranked second in the Wu Dynasty sect.

"Men's Palace" is the Jixia School Palace, a group of sour Confucian students, worship Confucius and Mencius as sacred, raise a body of righteousness, to reason into the congenital, talk about the six royals of the gentleman, and become the top master. Or live in the countryside, or crisscross between the temples, saying that where the world is uneven, where the avenue is, there are Jixia Xuegong people, ranking third in the Wu Dynasty sect.

The "Women's Palace" is the Ruizhu Palace, where a group of women who are unwilling to the fate of the world get together to fight against fate. In this world where men are superior to women, they oppose the equality of men and women. However, because of the support of the fairy court, and the strength of the female cultivators in the door is also good, and the female cultivators are quite famous, they often make the heroes of the rivers and lakes fall under the pomegranate skirt, and the wind blows loudly on the pillow, so the strength cannot be underestimated, ranking fourth in the Wu Dynasty sect.

These are the four major factions of the righteous path set by the Immortal Court.

As for the Demon Dao, there is only one "Hehuan Sect" into a climate, and there are many lewd and evil people in the sect, practicing the method of double cultivation and crooked ways, which is shameful for the uprightness of the rivers and lakes.

That's pretty much all there is to the sect.

In terms of Jianghu masters, there is no clear ranking.

After all, the top grandmasters on the Tianlong list have lived for two hundred years, and they are all old kings, and they have not changed for decades, and they have not seen them really make a move for decades, so it is really difficult to judge the level of their strength.

The Tianlong List set up today is still ranked by Bai Xiaosheng thirty years ago based on the few battles between the family and the high-level leaders of various sects.

Among them, the number of people on the Tianlong List is only thirty-six, and they are all top figures and top grandmasters in the rivers and lakes.

The Dabei Temple, the head of the four major sects, has nine old monks of the "Hui" generation, who occupy a quarter of the Tianlong List; the two palace masters of the Ruizhu Palace, Chunhua and Qiuyue; the two Taoist masters of the Qingyun Sect, Fuchenzi and Xiaoyaozi; Zhu Gang and Cheng Chang, the two scholars of the Jixia School Palace, who "entered the innate with reason and became the supreme grandmaster"; and the Huanxi Venerable Master and the Shura Demon Queen of the Demon Dao Hehuan Sect have a total of 17 people.

There are also the seven ancestors behind the seven great families, the three supreme grandmasters of the current royal family, and the five guest secretaries in the "six doors" of the Wu Dynasty, who are specially responsible for dealing with the grievances of the rivers and lakes, a total of fifteen people.

In addition, Wei Qingfeng, Chi is blunt, shark angler, and cliff monk are either hidden in the world, or they are wandering the rivers and lakes of martial arts predecessors.

These people combined, a total of thirty-six people, formed the Tianlong Bang and formed the absolute power that ruled the Wu Dynasty.

Any solid form of government cannot be separated from the wrestling and compromise of many forces. In the same way, ruling a country of millions of miles requires sufficient means.

The Immortal Court has ruled this world for a long time, and in addition to the absolute power suppression, the reason why the Wu Dynasty has been peaceful for many years is also the family competition once in thirty years and the golden scale test once every ten years.

Under the control of the fairy court, all parties are fighting, the strong ones get benefits, the weak ones are out of the game, and the survival of the fittest is very fair and useful.

The family is more than the major families wrestling, and the golden scale tries the younger generation to compete, and it is also very comprehensive, which can not only let the top grandmasters who have accumulated years understand each other, but also let the younger generation quietly come out.

And this year is an important year.

The family competition once every thirty years and the golden scale test once every ten years got together, and the old emperor also happened to be terminally ill at this time, and those princes who had the opportunity to reach the top did their best to win people's hearts everywhere.

Everywhere in the martial arts, hermits were born, and the younger generation began to walk the rivers and lakes, emerging in the rivers and lakes, and they were in turmoil for a while.

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Smoke and rain city, smoke and rain building.

Yanyu City is the place where Xianting holds the family competition and the golden scale test, Yanyulou is the most prosperous restaurant in Yanyu City, just a plate of soup and vegetables, it costs ten taels of silver, ordinary people are simply unbearable, those who come here are some rich squires, dignitaries and nobles.

But at this moment, on the seat of the best wine table near the lake in Yanyulou, there is a poor monk with tattered clothes, sloppy description, and at a glance, you can see that there is no silver taels.

Yanyu Building is built near the lake, overlooking Yanyu Lake in front, pillowing on the Golden Scale Mountain, a hundred-foot tall building, majestic and magnificent.

Ascending on it, you can take in the shadow of a sail in the Yanyu Lake, and see the 36,000-step golden scale dragon road of the Golden Scale Mountain at a glance.

Ordinary people spend a lot of money on climbing the building to forage for food in order to see the beautiful scenery, and they may not have the opportunity to sit on the lake side of the high-rise building and see the sparse sails and shadows in the rainy lake.

But this poor monk calmly set himself in this excellent position to enjoy the scenery by the lake, and he was not afraid that the shopkeeper of Yanyu Lou would come to drive people away.

The poor monk only needed a pot of boiling white water to make tea with his own wild tea.

The cheapest pot of tea in Yanyulou costs at least twenty taels, but white water doesn't need money, so the poor monk asked for a pot of white water.

The poor monk took out a dozen broken tea leaves from his cloth bag, carefully placed them in the teapot, and carefully closed the lid.

After a while, the tea fragrance of wild tea unconsciously diffused.

Aromatic and refreshing.

The poor monk picked up an upside-down teacup from the table and poured himself a cup.

But as if sensing something, he smiled at the corner of his mouth, and picked up another teacup from the table, poured the same tea, and then, with a gentle push, the cup full of tea slid to the corner of the table, and in the process, not half a grain of tea was spilled.

It seems that there are visitors visiting.

As soon as the poor monk pushed the teacup to the corner of the table, a Confucian student in green clothes came upstairs with a folding fan in his hand.

"It is said that the scenery of the Yanyulou is a must in the Wu Dynasty, the lake and the mountains, graceful and beautiful and magnificent, I saw it today, and it really deserved its name, haha. ”

As he spoke, he slapped the folding fan in his hand, put it away, inserted it into his waist, came to the poor monk's table, shook his robe, divided his clothes, and sat down calmly.

Confucian students in Tsing Yi were the "uninvited guests" of poor monks.

That cup of hot tea was right in front of him.

The Confucian in Tsing Yi was not polite, pinched the teacup, and took a sip.

"Hmm-"

"This tea smells fragrant, but it is more than ten times more bitter than ordinary tea, and it is said that Yanyulou is a must, and it is a bit exaggerated to taste it today. Tsing Yi Confucian said with a frown.

On weekdays, he is used to eating and drinking!

"The donor is in love, and he has wronged Yanyulou. This tea is not the tea of Yanyulou, just the wild tea picked by chance when the little monk was in the countryside when he was ascetic, if the donor is not used to drinking, he can go to the shopkeeper to call a pot of good tea, the little monk will never mind. ”

The poor monk's gray and white monk's robe was full of red, black, and green patches, and there was not a single good dress, not a pair of good shoes, and the money bag was empty, so naturally he had no spare money to order a pot of twenty taels of good tea for himself.

"Haha, I see, that's what happened to me!"

The Confucian student in Tsing Yi listened to the words of the poor monk, and a dry laugh resolved the embarrassment.

"It doesn't matter, my Great Compassion Temple cultivates my body with asceticism, but I never force others to follow the penance, the donor can do as much as he can, big fish and meat, good wine and food, and the little monk will never mind. ”

The poor monk is a disciple of the Great Compassion Temple, the head of the four major sects of the Wu Dynasty, and a round monk.

The golden scale test is approaching, and the round monk breaks through the bronze man lane of Dabei Temple, travels the world, wades into the red dust, tempers his heart, and prepares for the golden scale test half a year later. It is said that the younger generation, he learned alone, a leaf can hurt the enemy, which can be described as a stunt.

"The round Zen master is open-minded, and Xiaosheng admires it. ”

As he spoke, the Confucian in Tsing Yi picked up the teacup again and put the bitter wild tea into his mouth again.

Bitterness also has a unique taste of bitterness, the ascetic experience of the Great Compassion Temple is red dust, the wind and food are camping, the fate of the fast, taste the various states of life, Tsing Yi Confucian students come from the rich family of poetry and books, Zhong Ming Ding food, has never experienced, can not taste a taste.

"After the round Zen master traveled through the Bronze Man Alley, did he have some gains?"

"Yes. ”

"What is it?"

"I didn't know anything in the mountains before, I didn't know anything about the mountain every day, I didn't have a wide horizon, I just thought that the world was like that, and I didn't know that there were a lot of delicacies in the red dust, and the women were extremely beautiful, which was really dizzying, and I didn't want to be a poor monk who ate fasting and chanted Buddha, every day and night, tossing and turning. ”

“...... Round Zen Master is not joking. ”

The Confucian in Tsing Yi was so shocked that he almost squirted out the hot tea in his mouth, he thought that this round Zen master who was born in Buddhism was going to tell him a great truth, but he never thought that it was such a big rebellion.

"Amitabha, the monks don't speak, the little monk said the truth, the ascetic is too bitter, the little monk sometimes really wants to be like you, grow your hair and read, add fragrance to the red sleeves at night, be soft and white jade, smell the fat powder, hold the beauty, and be a chic and romantic person. ”

"Zen Master Yuanzhi, have you ever said these things to your master?"

"No!" the round monk glanced at the Confucian in Tsing Yi and added, "I don't dare! ”

“......”

The Confucian in Tsing Yi was speechless for a while, but then burst out laughing, and said, "I found that the Zen Master Yuanzhi is not as old-fashioned and dull as I imagined, but it is very interesting! ”

"Yuan Gongzi praised it falsely, and he just told the truth. ”

The round monk himself picked up the teacup and drank all the tea in the cup.

When the cup was empty, he lifted the teapot and added another cup for himself.

"I'm embarrassed to say that. ”

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