Chapter 231: Wanting to Take First
Of course, Yue Buqun knew that as long as he defeated Zuo Lengchan in martial arts and sword fighting, he would be able to take the head of Wuyue into his pocket.
However, sitting in the position of the head of the Five Mountains is only a choice within the power of Zuo Lengchan and the Songshan Sect, not the best goal of the other Yue Buqun and the Quanzhen Sect.
The difference here stems from the gap in strength and vision between the two sides.
The Songshan faction has more than ten first-class masters such as Songshan Taibao from Zuo Lengchan, and there are more than 1,000 elite disciples of Songshan present, and the many peripheral subordinates and miscellaneous disciples who are subordinate to the interests below have multiplied several times.
With such strength, it is only slightly inferior to Shaolin and Wudang, and it is several times stronger than the first-class famous factions in the rivers and lakes such as Hengshan, Hengshan, and Taishan.
Even if he is arrogant, he has to regard the Songshan faction as the top force in the rivers and lakes, and is listed at the same level as Shaolin and Wudang.
Therefore, Zuo Lengchan may not be sure to annex the Quanzhen Sect, but he is sure to annex the three factions of Hengshan, Hengshan, and Taishan, which will expand the sphere of influence several times and change the strategic situation, so that it is possible to gradually resist or even suppress the Quanzhen Sect in turn.
But what about the True Religion?
Since Yue Buqun, the master of the Gai Dynasty, there is still Feng Qingyang, a peerless master, followed by Feng Buping, Ling Hu Chong, the two top masters, and then there are also two veteran first-class masters who are not worried about Cheng and Yu Ming, and then there are several new first-class masters of the younger generation such as Lin Pingzhi, Yu Renyan, and Luo Fan.
At first glance, there are too few first-class masters of the Quanzhen Sect, not only are they not as good as the dozen or so of the Songshan faction, but they are also not as good as the twenty or thirty of Shaolin and Wudang!
However, this is purely in terms of the depth of skill, if you talk about swordsmanship and actual combat ability. There are still fifty or sixty elite true disciples in the Quanzhen Sect who have practiced the sword cutting technique.
As an alternate for a descendant disciple. Each of them is the best of the second-rate masters. All of them have the power to fight with first-class masters, and only any two of them need to work together, because of the same source of sword interception, it is enough to defeat most of the first-class masters at the moment.
In this way, these fifty or sixty elite true disciples are comparable to thirty first-class masters...... And below them, there are more than a hundred ordinary true disciples who are equivalent to the middle and upper echelons of second-rate masters.
Further down, there are three or four thousand registered disciples. Occasionally, a large number of them have reached the level of second-rate and third-rate masters, but because of their limited potential, they have not been promoted to true disciples, and their quality is slightly better than that of Songshan's elite disciples.
Of these three or four thousand registered disciples, more than 1,000 of them were mixed into the military institutions of the imperial court, and more than 1,000 were scattered in various branches of Taoist temples in the rivers and lakes.
Even the tens of thousands of anonymous disciples who are the most poor in martial arts have all received training in mathematics and accounting, metallurgy and forging, medicine and pharmacy, religion and so on, and there is no shortage of shopkeepers to run the industry. There is no shortage of weapons to rebel, and there are also military doctors who can treat internal and external bruises. There is no shortage of magic sticks to soothe the hearts of the military and civilians!
It can be said that the current thriving situation of the Quanzhen Sect is all due to these grassroots anonymous disciples scattered in the southeast, northwest, and outer regions of Middle Earth, while the number of registered disciples and true disciples with good martial arts are just acting as thugs and bodyguards!
Even further down, there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary Taoist priests and millions of Quanzhen Dao believers......
Don't look at the White Lotus Sect, Maitreya Sect and other cults, there are many people on weekdays, they are both mysterious and domineering, but compared with the orthodoxy of the Quanzhen Dao, which has been around for hundreds of years, it is just a small thing!
After more than 20 years of painstaking management and intentional infiltration, in addition to the strong martial arts and the domination of the Daomen, the rest of the power tentacles of the Quanzhen Sect have long been deeply rooted in various strata such as Shinong, industry and commerce.
On the rivers and lakes, the figures of the Demon Sect and the cult are only afraid of the top masters of the Quanzhen Sect, headed by Yue Buqun and Feng Buping, and the thousands of elite disciples of the Quanzhen Sect; in addition to Shaolin and Wudang, they are also extremely afraid of the religious influence of the Quanzhen Sect; and the Songshan Sect is envious and jealous of this, but also looks down on the wealth and arrogance of the Quanzhen Sect......
However, regardless of good or evil, what the forces of all parties see and know is only the tip of the iceberg of the Quanzhen Sect, and at most it is the tip of the iceberg of different levels from far and near, and they are all afraid of it!
It is no wonder that with Yue Buqun's character of planning and then moving, and his style of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he also confidently believes that thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are already in the bag of the Quanzhen Sect, which shows that the various tangible and invisible forces of the Quanzhen Sect are by no means comparable to any Jianghu forces!
Therefore, Zuo Lengchan and the Songshan faction knew that they might not be able to sit in the position of the head of the Five Mountains even if they tried their best, but Yue Buqun was not satisfied with just sitting in the position of the head of the Five Mountains.
Yue Buqun wants the Quanzhen Sect to completely annex the five mountains, and then rely on the momentum of a higher level and the sky to subdue Shaolin Wudang, and wrap the two into his imperial hegemony of reopening the sun and the moon, and be willing to be an eagle dog, just like Shaolin once helped Tang Taizong Li Shimin pacify the world, and Wudang once helped Ming Chengzu Zhu Di to forcibly seize the throne.
Zhu Yuanzhang struggled for 17 years from a single cloth cloth to the founding of the country and the emperor, while Tang Gaozu Li Yuan relied on the benefits of his family's successive eunuchs to go from raising troops to grab land to unify the world in only five years.
That's the difference between a rags-to-riches and a well-established one!
The accumulation of more than 20 years of Quanzhen Sect can be said to be deep-rooted, firmly based on the dangerous and rich land of China and Bashu, and the foundation is incomparably strong!
If Yue Buqun rules the entire martial arts righteous path again, ascends to the leader of the martial arts alliance, and orders countless heroes in the rivers and lakes, it is enough to mix in three or five years......
It's a pity that it is very easy for Yue Buqun to make the people of the rivers and lakes afraid and jealous of the Quanzhen Sect, but it is very difficult to make the people of the rivers and lakes sincerely admire the Quanzhen Sect and be willing to follow the Quanzhen Sect and work hard.
And today, the Quanzhen Sect coerced the Wuyue, and it was easy to hold the authority of the Wuyue, but if you want to convince all the disciples of the Wuyue, give up the view of the door, and lean towards the Quanzhen Sect, it is definitely not something that Yue Buqun can easily achieve by defeating Zuo Lengchan.
Even with the wisdom of Zhuge Wuhou, he had to capture Meng seven times in order to completely subdue the barbarians and win their allegiance......
Yue Buqun not only wants to subdue Wuyue, but also to be upright and clean, so as to take Wuyue as the vane of other Jianghu sects, and do not hesitate to spend a lot of money!
In any case, the various factions of Wuyue are all famous sects that have been inherited for hundreds of years, and the disciples are more or less full of chivalrous dignity and arrogance in their bones, and they seem to abide by the rules. In fact, it is more rebellious and stubborn than the sideways.
Before coming to Songshan. Yue Buqun had already planned it. In this trip, we must brutally abuse the other four factions of Wuyue from body to soul, crush their dignity and arrogance, so that they can be subdued and transformed into their own people, and they will fight the world wholeheartedly.
However, to his surprise, Yuyinzi, who was originally arranged casually, turned out to be a hidden 'actor', and suddenly began to play, forcing Zuo Lengchan into a desperate situation where he could only fight with him.
That's exactly what I said. Little people also have great wisdom...... Zuo Lengchan suffered a loss by underestimating Yuyinzi, a mad dog who doesn't want to be old-faced!
Of course, it was simple and rude to fight Zuo Lengchan at the beginning and win the head of Wuyue by force, but it was not in line with Yue Buqun's careful plan, so he refused this kind of battle that was sure to win in the eyes of others.
Facing the stunned expressions of everyone present, Yue Buqun muttered: "Brother Zuo and Yue competed with a sword to win the handsome, and it was also a method to determine the ownership of the head of Wuyue......
It's just that Yue Mou thought that this method was too sloppy, and now my five Yue Sword Sects have become one. It is to select the best and appoint the talents, and agree on the head of the five mountains. Instead of competing for the leader of the Wuyue Alliance as before, the strong in force are respected......
If you want to be the head of the Wuyue Sect, you should study the swordsmanship of each faction of the Wuyue Sword Sect, and make some achievements, so that you can teach your disciples......
Otherwise, even if Brother Zuo or my Yue defeated the other heads of the four factions, it would only be the Songshan Sword Technique or the Quanzhen Sword Technique that would dominate, and they would not be the real heads of the Five Yue Sect.
What's more, if Brother Zuo became the head of Wuyue and ordered all the disciples of Wuyue to practice the Songshan Sword Technique, or if Yue became the head of the Five Mountains and ordered all the disciples of Wuyue to practice the swordsmanship of the Quanzhen Sect, wouldn't it be called the Merge Sect, but in fact, the Songshan Sect or the Quanzhen Sect embezzled the other four factions?
If this is the case, then the four factions that failed to be elected as the heads of the Five Peaks will break the ancestral inheritance, and the heads of the sects are also the sinners of the master through the ages.
Yue Buqun's words were not salty or light, procrastinating, so that outsiders still did not understand why he refused to fight with Zuo Lengchan, but the heads and disciples of the five mountains present couldn't help but be worried.
In fact, this is also the root of the portal's view, when the head of the five mountains want to really eliminate the estrangement, order the factions, there are only two choices, one is to make each faction offer internal strength, swordsmanship martial arts cheats, the five Yue martial arts are mixed into one, each disciple has a different faction of martial arts, naturally it is not good to divide what mountain faction;
The second is to set the martial arts of the own faction of the head of the Five Peaks as the orthodoxy of the Five Yue Sect, and spread it to the entire Five Yue Sect, and the original martial arts of the other four factions were all reduced to side branches, or even gradually eliminated. Just like after the Great Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, it forced the cars to be on the same track, the books to be the same, and the abolition of weights and measures and writing in the rest of the countries, which was a necessary means to strengthen the rule!
The reason why Yue Buqun didn't mention the first choice was because he knew that asking each faction to hand over the martial arts secrets was tantamount to asking for the lives of each faction, it was a nest of ants, and now the merger faction had not yet succeeded, so it was not appropriate to pierce it, but the second choice alone was enough to make the disciples of each faction hesitate and resist the merger faction.
Zuo Lengchan was already full of energy, ready to fight with Yue Buqun, he didn't want Yue Buqun to talk about things suddenly, causing him to be unable to advance or retreat, and it was quite uncomfortable to go up or down, but he was scheming in the end, and he was the first to turn around and understand Yue Buqun's plan.
Others may not know Yue Buqun's swordsmanship, but he and Mo Da are clear, in the Shaolin Temple outside Yue Buqun's domain in the East undefeated battle of the decisive battle, Yue Buqun once performed the swordsmanship of Songshan and Hengshan.
According to this calculation, Yue Buqun must be proficient in the swordsmanship of the various factions of the Five Mountains!
Could it be that Yue Buqun's words were to flaunt his own swordsmanship attainments, and to show that he was more suitable to serve as the head of Wuyue by being proficient in the swordsmanship of the various factions of Wuyue?...... This thought flashed through Zuo Lengchan's heart, but he immediately denied it, Yue Buqun would never be so shallow!
Sure enough, at this time, Feng Buping got up and said loudly: "All of you are from the same sect of the Five Mountains, if someone is good at the swordsmanship of the various factions of the Five Peaks Sword Sect, it is very suitable for him to be the head of the Five Peaks Sect."
According to common sense, the swordsmanship of each faction of the Wuyue Sword Sect has been tempered by countless good hands for hundreds of years.
Even if some people are taught by the famous teachers of the five factions, after decades of hard training, they may not be able to learn all the swordsmanship of the five factions, and the secret tricks of each faction are not passed on by the disciples of the non-sect. ”
Everyone nodded after hearing this, secretly feeling reasonable, but Mo Da's eyes narrowed, and he turned his head to look at Yue Buqun, as if he had an understanding.
Feng Buping continued: "However, there are exceptions to everything...... Sect Master Yue of the Sect of the Sect of Sect Yue successively fought with the Demon Sect and the Undefeated Dongfang, and after fighting hard, although he was not defeated, he did not win......
Since then, I have known that my Huashan swordsmanship has its limits, and then I have studied the swordsmanship of each faction of Wuyue, and I know that each faction has its advantages and disadvantages......
As a result, Sect Master Yue made a great vow to remove the five Yue swordsmanship and integrate them into one, so as to achieve a set of peerless swordsmanship......
Fortunately, a few years ago, Sect Master Yue finally perfected this swordsmanship and called it 'Sword Interception'!
But as long as my Wuyue sect is based on the swordsmanship passed down by the master, I can study the sword cutting technique a little, and I can enter the door immediately, and I can touch the class in a short period of time, and get a glimpse of the essence of the superior martial arts of the five schools!
Sect Master Yue has already decided that after the merger of the Five Peaks, no matter who is elected as the head of the Five Peaks, he will sacrifice the Sword Interception Technique for the Five Peaks Fang Family's Dharma Eye Axe to ......."
As soon as these words came out, the disciples of the various factions of Wuyue immediately buzzed and whispered, even Zuo Lengchan, Fang Zheng, and Chong Xuan all gasped, no one dared to doubt that the martial arts created by Yue Buqun were not good, but deeply suspected that if Yue Buqun really did this, he would have a great plan!
After all, even if the five factions of the Five Peaks merge, each faction will never want to share their original superior martial arts with other families, and according to Feng Buping's words, Yue Buqun will not only not cherish himself with a broom and be stingy with the original Huashan martial arts, but will also award the immortal mastery created by his painstaking solitary work and the great achievement of martial arts to the disciples of other factions.
This move is by no means elegant and generous, and if it is not publicized in public, several people will not believe it...... At the very least, Zuo Lengchan had never thought of passing on his cold ice true qi to the disciples of the other four sects!
As a matter of fact, Yue Buqun's move was by no means a whim, but was actually carefully considered -- there is a lot of chaos under Fang today, the Quanzhen Sect is about to raise troops, and many advanced firearms that have been secretly developed over the years will also be unveiled one by one...... At that time, the martial arts will be shocked to find that the deterrent power and existence value of martial arts will immediately shrink significantly!
Of course, before that, Yue Buqun would carry forward the general outline of the upper volume and the middle volume of the sword cutting technique, and take advantage of the twilight of the cold weapon to squeeze out the value of the sword cutting technique, and push himself to the altar of the great martial arts master of Dharma and Zhang Sanfeng in one fell swoop!
As for the sword path chapter of the second volume of the sword interception technique, "The Sword Heart Leads to the Xuan, the Great Road Leads to the Sky", I am afraid that no one in the world can understand it except for himself and the undefeated Dongfang and the clear wind, so there is no need to take it out to provoke criticism! (To be continued.) )
PS: Notice, confirm that the next world will write Datang!