Chapter 18 Wudang Anecdotes
"One of the six sons of Wudang, the Rotten Wood Daoist?!" After listening to Ebony's words before, the Jade Master also vaguely guessed that Shangguan Xiong must have a relationship with Wudang, but he didn't expect that he was the Rotten Wood Daoist back then, and he was very surprised.
"Exactly!" Ebony looked indignant, "In the past twenty years, Poor Dao has seen that although he does not follow the right path, he has not done any evil deeds, and he has worked hard alone, and the Chu Xiang League has also flourished...... But I never expected that he, who is nearly half a hundred years old, still hasn't let go of the resentment in his heart, and he still hasn't been able to break through the 'love' barrier, and he will take revenge on me Wudang with such despicable means, and even involve you Kunlun...... This time, Poor Dao will never spare him! Even if he fights for this old life, he will personally punish him!"
Seeing that he was so excited, the master and apprentice of the Jade Master looked at him in a daze, waiting for him to continue.
Xiaodao came in and made tea for the three of them, and then stepped out lightly.
Ebony also ignored the hot tea, took a big sip, and continued: "This Shangguan Xiong was originally a descendant of the Shangguan family of the Iron Palm Gang. Three hundred years ago, the Tiezhang Gang, a big gang that was once prominent and dominated Chuxiang, has been reduced to an ordinary fisherman on the shore of Dongting Lake forty years ago...... What's even more pitiful is that after repeated turmoil in the rivers and lakes, the Shangguan family has not only exhausted its wealth, but even the family heirloom Iron Palm Divine Skill has not been able to pass it on......"
"The family teacher Tianshui Zhenren, forty years ago, passed through Yueyang, met Shangguan Xiong, who was only nine years old at the time, and saw that he had a strange skeleton and a tough personality, and liked him very much, so he wanted to take him as an apprentice. The Shangguan family was naturally overjoyed and agreed, and later the family teacher brought him back to Wudang and gave him the Taoist name 'rotten wood', with the meaning of 'rotten wood cannot be carved' to inspire him to work hard...... The family teacher really didn't see the wrong person, among our six personal disciples, it is true that the number of rotten trees is the most talented and the most diligent......"
"Brother Dao is too humble!" Master Yu interjected, "Among the six sons of Wudang, it is natural that Brother Dao Tui has the strongest martial arts and the highest achievements!
Ebony waved his hand and said with a straight face: "It's not that the poor Dao is humble, the Daoist brother is wrong! The family teacher has already judged: Among the six of our senior brothers, Senior Brother Fengmu and Senior Brother Rotten Wood are the most talented, and the other four have ordinary qualifications...... Hey, if Senior Brother Fengmu doesn't die, he will be the head of the house!"
The head of the jade shook his head and sighed: "I think back then, the six sons of Wudang were envious of the martial arts! Isn't there such a sentence in the rivers and lakes: 'Tianshui Dao people, Bole heirs, and the six sons of the sect, heaven and earth are horizontal!' Poor Dao was young at the time, and it was a pity that he didn't have the opportunity to meet the six Taoist friends one by one...... I remember that the family teacher Xuan Ming Zhenren often said: 'I don't obey him for anything, but I obey his apprentice's vision...... A few of you, you have to fight for your teacher! Otherwise, you won't have the face to see Tianshui again...... Daoist!'" In fact, Xuan Mingzhen's original words were, "I don't have the face to see that guy from Tianshui again", and the head of the jade sect was embarrassed to say disrespectful words to the elders.
Ebony shook his head lightly and said modestly: "It's too famous!" He pondered for a while and continued: "Back then, the Tang Sect was a disaster for the rivers and lakes, and the family teacher led my Wudang disciples to crusade against the Tang Sect with the martial arts factions. The poor uncles of Bai Shui and Bishui, Feng Mu and Chi Mu all died in this battle, and even the family teacher was hit by two rainstorm pear flower needles, relying on his profound skills to pick up a life, but his vitality was greatly injured from then on. Poor Dao was lucky not to be injured and survived...... Fortunately, at that time, the junior disciples of Dead Wood, Rotten Wood, and Lingmu were still young, and the family teacher did not take them down the mountain to participate in the battle and escaped this catastrophe. ”
The head of the jade said: "Isn't our Kunlun miserable in this battle? Although there are only twenty-seven people sent by our Kunlun, they are all the elites of our faction, and only four senior brothers survived, but they were all injured to varying degrees, and they died one after another...... The family teacher, three uncles, uncles, and nineteen brothers all died. It was also a fluke that the family teacher did not take the poor road down the mountain to participate in the war at that time, so he also escaped this catastrophe...... At that time, Poor Dao was only twenty-six years old, and his martial arts were usually tight, but he had to take charge of the Kunlun Portal alone......" Speaking of this, thinking back to the bleak scene at that time, his eyes were slightly red.
Ebony comforted: "Brother Dao don't have to be sad! Now, under your painstaking cultivation, hasn't the Kunlun faction also produced so many outstanding disciples! I think that the ancestors of Kunlun and the Lingshi are also very happy under the Nine Springs!"
Because it is not a glorious thing for the various sects to join forces to attack the Tang Sect, most of the elders of the various factions are reluctant to mention this history to the younger disciples. Dongfang Zhen didn't know about the war between the various factions and the Tang Sect back then, and was busy asking about the past. Erdao briefly told him about that period of history, which made Dongfang sigh.
Ebony ordered the trail to remove the light tea and brew new tea from the new, and it seemed that he had to talk about it a lot.
After taking a sip of the freshly brewed tea, Ebony continued: "After this battle, all factions have suffered great losses, and of course our Daomen factions are not excluded. Because many senior masters of the Taoist sect died at that time, the family teacher was worried that the martial arts of each sect would be lost, so he called on the young disciples of each sect to go to Wudang to seek advice and study together to seek correct solutions if they had doubts during the practice. Later, he simply opened a knowledge hall in the Yuxu Palace to receive disciples from various factions who went up to the mountain to seek advice......"
"Yes! Poor Dao is fortunate to have come to consult Tianshui's predecessors at that time! Fortunately, thanks to his old man's guidance, several of my Kunlun sect's stunts will not be lost in the hands of Poor Dao!"
Ebony smiled and nodded, and continued: "Twenty-three years ago, I remember that it was summer, and Huashan sent Brother Sansheng Dao and Senior Sister Xu Qinxin to come to Wudang and ask for guidance to study Zixia Divine Skill and Jade Maiden Sword Technique. Because of that Xu Qinxin's junior sister, not only has extraordinary martial arts, but also is beautiful and intelligent, both the dead wood and Lingmu junior brothers have a heart of admiration...... Oh, Senior Brother Lingmu is Senior Brother Yueyang Loushang...... The two of them, Rotten Wood is smart and strong, Lingmu is proud and confident, and they have excellent martial arts and talents, and they all want to capture Senior Sister Xu's heart......"
Later, Senior Sister Xu chose rotten wood, and the two had a personal relationship. Senior Brother Lingmu paid attention to Senior Sister Xu all day long, and soon discovered the private relationship between the two, and he was jealous, so he told the family teacher. The tutor was so angry when he heard this, that he vomited a large pool of blood at that time. According to what the tutor told me, he was not only angry at the adultery between Yumu and Senior Sister Xu, but also angry at Lingmu for falling in love. The family master originally pinned his hopes on them to assist me in the Everbright Wudang faction, but he didn't expect that a female disciple of Huashan would ruin his two beloved apprentices. ”
Then the tutor discussed with me how to deal with the matter. We all know that the Jade Maiden's swordsmanship can only be successfully studied by a virgin who has a heart like stopping water, and now that the rotten wood has ruined the innocence of others, how can we practice the Jade Maiden's swordsmanship? How to explain it to Wuji Zhenren, the head of Huashan at that time? We weighed it again and again and decided not to tell Wuji Zhenren about this, but just to find an opportunity as soon as possible to send Brother Sansheng Dao and Senior Sister Xu back to Huashan without a trace......
Ebony picked up the tea bowl, his eyes were dazed, and he fell into the memories of the past, "I didn't know that after Senior Sister Xu returned to Huashan, she found that she actually had the flesh and bones of rotten wood in her stomach." Paper can't contain the fire, and this matter was finally discovered by Wuji Zhenren, so he recruited Brother Sansheng Dao and Senior Sister Xu to ask. Brother Sansheng Dao was studying Zixia Divine Skill during that time, and he didn't know anything about it, so he was immediately stunned. Senior Sister Xu was at a loss, so she had to be ashamed to tell the matter. ”
Wuji Zhenren was furious, so he wrote a letter to the tutor, the specific content is unknown, but after reading the letter, the tutor immediately spewed out a mouthful of bloody arrows, spraying the letter paper drippingly, and soon became ill...... And that senior sister Xu, under shame and indignation, jumped off the desperate ravine of Canglong Ridge in Huashan on a dark and windy night......"
"Ahh He is not the kind of pedantic person who follows the rules by nature, and thinks that since the two are happy with each other, there is nothing wrong with having a private affair, so he is both shocked and sorry for Xu Qinxin's death.
Ebony glanced at him, shook his head regretfully, and continued: "About two months later, Rotten Mu finally learned of Senior Sister Xu's death, and was so sad that he went to the bottom of the Canglong Ridge in Huashan Mountain, retrieved Senior Sister Xu's bones, and brought them back to Wudang. He held the bones of Senior Sister Xu, found the family teacher, and angrily counted the family teacher, saying why he didn't agree with him proposing to Wuji Zhenren...... said that the tutor and Wuji Zhenren forced her to death...... Saying that they are sanctimonious, what kind of murder without seeing blood, and so on. The family teacher was so angry that he vomited blood, and when he saw that he had caused a catastrophe, he fled from Wudang...... By the time the poor road heard the news, the tutor was already dying. Before he died, he took my hand and said that the rotten wood was not inferior and was naturally rebellious, and asked me to kill him to clean up the portal for Wudang and remove this disaster for Wulin. ”
After burying his teacher, he went down the mountain angrily, and after several months of work, he finally found him in Shonan. We had a big fight, and his martial arts were no longer trivial...... To tell the truth, the poor road was not as good as it, but he also felt that he was at a loss, but he didn't dare to kill him, and he was finally restrained by the poor road. Poor Dao counted his disloyalty and unfilial piety, and was willing to destroy his future for the sake of a woman. However, he angrily said that I inherited the ruthlessness and unrighteousness of the family teacher, so I admired the family teacher the most, so I was made the head of the family. He also said that because I was a fellow villager with Lingmu, I regarded him as an outsider, and joined forces to denounce him, wanting to put him and Senior Sister Xu to death. In the end, he also said that our Taoist sect is hypocritical, exterminating humanity and other crazy things, he is ashamed to be with us, he said that he actually thinks that life is not interesting, and wants me to kill him. But I couldn't bear to kill him, and I couldn't bear to think that he was wandering alone on the rivers and lakes, and I couldn't bear to waste his martial arts. Poor Dao was heartbroken, gave him a few slaps in the face, and after a lesson, he still let him go. ”
Before he left, Poor Dao warned him that he had been expelled from Wudang, and that he should not mention that he was a disciple of Wudang in the future, which would disgrace Wudang, and warned him not to do evil in the rivers and lakes, and to bring disaster to Wulin, otherwise, I would personally come to take his life again. ”
But he sneered and said, "Okay! Waiting for me at any time!" I swear here: In my lifetime, if I don't destroy Wudang, I swear not to be a man!' I thought he was talking angrily, and my Wudang faction is not so easy to say and destroy, so I ignored it and let him go...... Hey, it's a problem to raise a tiger......"
"Senior Brother Lingmu is also saddened by Senior Sister Xu's death...... Hey, he is really a person of the most affectionate and sexual, for this senior sister Xu, who has been dead for many years, he has not married yet! He once told me that the rotten wood is his life-and-death enemy, and he wants me not to worry about it, and he will look at the rotten wood to death, and the rotten wood will not want to move Wudang in the slightest...... Later, Senior Brother Lingmu took charge of Yueyang Tower, watching the rotten wood grow stronger day by day, he was worried, and he proposed to me many times that he should get rid of the rotten wood as soon as possible while he was still stronger than the other party. But I always cared about the feelings of my fellow disciples, and refused to agree, and persuaded him to show mercy to the rotten wood...... For this kind of wolf ambition, but he has good thoughts, and now he has harmed Zishi's life! It's my big mistake!"
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The afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled on the mountains, and the mountains are golden, which is very spectacular.
Dongfang shook out of Zixiao Palace, strolled on the square in front of the view, remembering the past of Wudang that Ebony had said earlier, and somehow, his heart was panicked.
"Brother Dongfang!" Sang Qinghong, who walked over under the ginkgo tree, with a slim figure and a slender figure, made Dongfang tremble.
"Here you go!" A slender hand as white as jade stretched out in front of Dongfang Zhen, holding a delicate little judge's pen in his hand.
Dongfang Zhen glanced at Sang Qinghong, and saw that her cheeks were slightly red, her eyes were a little shy, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of joy. He took the judge's pen and asked softly, "Zhao Yanhao's thief?"
Sang Qinghong nodded and said in a low voice, "I specially borrowed it from Senior Brother Qingshi." Brother Dongfang, take a good look, if you encounter him again next time, understand his blade, so that you can take precautions as soon as possible. ”
"Thank you!" Dongfang Zhen glanced at her gratefully, and while looking closely, he walked to the stone steps not far away and sat down.
It is about a foot long, made of bronze, and has four protruding back lines in the middle, which looks antique and very exquisite. Who could have imagined how terrible this pen would suddenly become once it was in Zhao Yanhao's hands.
Dongfang Zhen was carefully checking the judge's pen, and he caught a glimpse of a pair of navy blue bow shoes that were stopping motionless not far away, and looked up to see Sang Qinghong looking at him stupidly. When Sang Qinghong saw Dongfang Zhen looking over, she hurriedly turned her gaze away, her face hot.
"Miss Sang, come and sit!" I don't know if Dongfang Zhen felt her thoughts, in Sang Qinghong's eyes, Dongfang Zhen beckoned to her in a chic manner.
Sang Qinghong scurried around with a deer in his heart, walked over slowly, and sat down cautiously on the stone steps three feet away from him.
"It's beautiful!" Dongfang exclaimed.
Sang Qinghong was shy and anxious, her face was red and her head was lowered, but her heart was sweet. After a while, he finally mustered up the courage to glance at Dongfang Zhen, and saw that he was staring at the judge's pen and shook his head and sighed, knowing that he didn't mean her, his embarrassment suddenly decreased, but his heart was inexplicably disappointed.
Dongfang Zhen finally stopped admiring the judge's pen, turned his head and said, "Miss Sang, the 'Chu Xiang League' will not be conducive to Yueyang Tower. I have discussed with the master, and we are going to assist the owner of the commercial building, so we can't accompany you back to Kongtong Mountain. ”
"Really?" Sang Qinghong's tone was a little disappointed, stunned, and a little confused for a while, but he didn't know how to say it.
Dongfang Zhen looked at her for a moment, and said with a smile: "Miss Sang, it's just that you and Senior Brother Zhong go back, are you a little scared?"
"Hmm...... It's not ......" Sang Qinghong bullied Ai Ai Dao.
"Actually, I also want to go back with you!" Dongfang Zhen groaned, "It's just that we have to go to Yueyang Tower first...... Otherwise, you and Senior Brother Zhong will wait in Wudang, and when we are done, we will come back, and then we will go back together." ”
"We ...... Can I go to Yueyang Tower with you?" Sang Qinghong asked, with anticipation in her eyes.
"But you can...... It's just that the two sides are fighting, which is quite dangerous, in case ......" Dongfang Zhen hesitated.
"I'm not afraid of danger!" Sang Qinghong hurriedly said, "Big Brother Dongfang also underestimates me too much, anyway, I am also a disciple of the Kongtong Sect!"
"Miss Sang, you're going to be mistaken!" Dongfang Zhen distinguished, "I don't mean to underestimate your martial arts! I mean, this trip is very dangerous, just in case...... In case the girl wants to have three long and two short, how can we explain to the seniors of Broken Hongzi?"
"At least I still have the ability to protect myself. Sang Qinghong said confidently.
Dongfang Zhen glanced at her with a somewhat complicated expression, nodded slowly, and said softly, "Okay." However, you have to promise me: when you get to Yueyang Tower, once you fight, you will always be by our side!"
Sang Qinghong only felt that her heart was full of joy, and she hurriedly admitted: "Okay! I will follow you all the time!"
Both of them were silent for a while, and Sang Qinghong finally mustered up the courage to ask what she had been wanting to ask these days, and said with a red face: "Brother Dongfang, you ...... Are you married?"
"No!" Dongfang Zhen shook his head and chuckled self-deprecatingly, "If you don't practice martial arts well, you can't achieve anything, you can't support yourself, how can you still have the ability to start a family?"
Sang Qinghong's heart that had been hanging for the past few days suddenly relaxed, and she didn't know why she still had the courage to ask: "Brother Dongfang, are you ...... Do you already have someone you like?"
Dongfang was stunned, he didn't expect her to ask this question. In fact, there are not a few girls who like him in the rivers and lakes over the years, but he doesn't pay much attention to it, and occasionally when he has a heartbeat, he immediately suppresses it again, and always wants to wait for a career in the rivers and lakes before thinking about marriage.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Sang Qinghong regretted that he had asked this question recklessly, and he was uneasy in his heart, so he hurriedly lowered his head, and his index finger involuntarily wrung his cuffs desperately.
"How can any girl look up to me!" Dongfang Zhen said humbly, turned his head to look at Sang Qinghong, saw that she was embarrassed, and hurriedly raised his head to look at the sky.
Sang Qinghong was ecstatic, and suddenly had a feeling that she had been waiting hard these days and finally got the result. She also raised her head to look at the sky, silently grateful to the heavens in her heart, and suddenly felt that the sky was so blue, the white clouds were so soft, and everything was so beautiful.