"I've read all the files, how about it?"
Returning to the study room again, Liu Xin opened his mouth and got straight to the point.
But Fang Zihang, who had just fallen into a flash of memories, now had a cold murderous intent in his eyes.
“Although the case of the Black Blade Clan was a case of extermination, because it was a Jianghu matter, the court did not interfere too much.
At that time, Marquis Wu of Emperor Wu City did not have such strong control over the world as he does now.
The person responsible for investigating the Black Knife Sect case at that time was one of the eight affiliated sects currently under the Emperor Wu City.
Bifeng Mansion. "
“I know that Bifeng Mansion is the number one sect in Fujian.
My Black Blade Sect was formerly affiliated with Bifeng Mansion. "
Fang Zihang said, but when he saw the unclear look on Liu Xin's face, his heart suddenly thumped.
"No way, this is under the command of Emperor Wu City.
A famous sect! "
"Nothing is impossible. The world is not black and white. There are also some gray forces."
Liu Xin did not go into more depth on this issue, but directly told what he knew.
"Bifeng Mansion was inherited from the period of Emperor Wuyang. He was originally a city lord of Bifeng Mansion in Fujian. Later, he submitted to Emperor Wuyang, but he did not want to become a court official, so he became a powerful force in the world.
Bifeng Mansion is also called General Mansion in the Jianghu.
The reputation of the Four Dragon Generals has been passed down to this day.
And because Bifeng Mansion only recruits disciples in a certain area, it is extremely regional and has its own system.
He doesn't participate in too many political affairs.
Emperor Wu City unified the world, and Bifeng Mansion surrendered on its own initiative, so the system remained intact. "
Liu Xin talked eloquently. As for the opponents of the Holy Sect, the secret investigation team also studied Emperor Wu City very thoroughly.
All the information including the Eight Auxiliary Sect is clearly understood.
This is what Emperor Wu City is doing.
The Holy Sect and the Evil Sect must have been figured out by each other inside and out.
Therefore, everyone has some secrets about each other, but they just understand each other tacitly.
"It sounds like a very ordinary sect, senior brother."
Xiao Qi didn't find anything unusual in Liu Xin's narrative.
“That’s the genius of it.
The eight auxiliary sects of Emperor Wu City conduct an assessment every two years.
The strength of Bifeng Mansion has always been at the bottom.
But just after the Black Blade Clan was destroyed, a peerless genius appeared in Bifeng Mansion.
He was good at using swords, and his sword skills were unpredictable. In the competition between the eight major sects that year, Bifeng Mansion was only one step behind Kunli Sect.
Since then, it has ranked second and third among the eight major sects.
Emperor Wu City has more resources.
At the same time, the Bifeng Mansion and the Xingxiu Sect are not colluding clearly, and there is an unknown amount of filth between the two parties.
And the current acting lord of Emperor Wu City, Shangguan Dao, likes Taoist alchemy the most. "
"What does this have to do with Shangguan Dao's love for Taoist alchemy?"
Xiao Qi asked if he didn’t understand.
Fang Zihang also looked confused.
None of them knew what the connection was.
"Xiao Qi, if you can return to the sect, you should go to the archives and study for a few months.
Especially the files of the covert investigation team, please read them more.
The files of my Holy Sect are enough to give you a rough idea of what this world is like. "
After Liu Xin gave Xiao Qi a lesson, he continued:
"Shangguandao is obsessed with alchemy, and the Xingxiu Sect was originally renamed from the Five Poison Sect. The predecessor of the Five Poison Sect was the Taoist Alchemy School."
"Now you know the possible relationship between the two."
Liu Xin looked at Xiao Qi. Xiao Qi was dumbfounded by his senior brother's eyes, but his head was still alert and he understood immediately.
“You are saying that there is a connection between Bifeng Mansion, Shangguan Dao and Xingxiu Sect.
But what does this have to do with the Black Knife Sect? "
Fang Zihang suddenly fell into deep thought, but he quickly raised his head and looked at Liu Xin. He wanted to see what Liu Xin said first and see if it could corroborate his own thoughts.
"We have to start from the beginning."
Liu Xin saw that the water on his desk was boiling, so he poured a cup for each of them.
This small tea stove was prepared for him by his aunt herself. She said that Liu Xin didn't like having servants to take care of it, so she could only buy some utensils and put them in the study for easy use.
This is Liu Xin's first time using this tea stove.
"Brother Fang should introduce the history of Black Blade Sect, right?"
Liu Xin turned the topic to Fang Zihang.
Fang Zihang pondered for a moment, nodded and began to narrate.
“Heidaomen was originally under the command of Bifeng Mansion.
During the period of Emperor Wuyang, Bifeng Mansion helped Emperor Wuyang regain his kingdom. For that battle, the good and the evil in the world temporarily put aside their old grudges and fought side by side.
The founder of the Black Blade Sect was originally a member of the devil's path and was the genius of that era.
Later, after joining Bifeng Mansion, he established a killer team to hunt down the upper-level officials of the Northern Barbarian Kingdom.
For this team, the ancestor of the Black Knife Sect and the Bifeng Mansion spent a huge amount of resources to create twelve black knives.
With the appropriate weapons, the ancestor of the Black Sword Sect killed many powerful men from the Northern Barbarian Kingdom. It was precisely because of the existence of the Black Sword that the Bifeng Mansion made great achievements in front of Emperor Wuyang. In the end, although he did not enter the imperial court, Although he was an official, he was given a whole house to allow Bifeng Mansion to develop.
After that period, Bifeng Mansion became the number one sect in the entire Fujian Province and entered its heyday. "
After a pause, Fang Zihang took a sip of water. All this history was engraved in his bones. Now when he narrates it, it feels like he has returned to that era, and he is proud of it.
Xiao Qi listened quietly. What he liked most was listening to these Jianghu stories.
“After more than a hundred years of development, Bifeng Mansion has reached a bottleneck period.
The strongest one in Bifeng Mansion was the Black Sword Army. The strongest member of the Black Sword lineage at that time was the Dark Dragon General, one of the Four Dragon Generals.
However, because Bifeng Mansion belongs to the righteous path and cannot blatantly carry out assassinations, the originally strongest force has become the weakest.
In order to develop better, the city lord of Bifeng Mansion at that time ordered the Black Blade Sect to be separated from Bifeng Mansion and establish its own sect. This is the origin of the Black Sword Sect.
When the Black Blade Sect was founded, there were only six people in the whole sect, and they were also one of the only six inheritors. Our Fang family was one of them.
Black Blade Sect lost the support of Bifeng Mansion. Under the leadership of Dark Dragon General, the leader of Black Sword Sect at that time, Black Sword Sect embarked on the path of hunting down demonic warriors.
But in the process, the Black Blade Sect gradually declined.
In one operation, the Dark Dragon General was discovered by Zhengdao and was killing Zhengdao warriors to make ill-gotten gains, which resulted in the Black Blade Sect being almost wiped out.
In the end, only the weakest lineage of the Fang family remained.
Then came the period when the Black Blade Sect was in its greatest decline. Zhengdao Jianghu didn't even know that there was such a force as the Black Sword Sect.
It's just that in my grandfather's generation, he was extremely talented and modified the Black Sword Sect's techniques to make them less extreme.
The Black Blade Sect finally rises again.
The Bifeng Mansion saw that the Black Blade Sect was on the rise, so they came over to win over me again, hoping to merge the Black Sword Sect into the Bifeng Mansion.
But how could my grandfather agree? For decades, the Black Blade Sect has been suppressed, with a low reputation and very few disciples.
After my grandfather passed away, my father wanted to develop the Black Blade Sect, so he took refuge in Bifeng Mansion.
From then on, Black Blade Sect's resources were restored and they were no longer suppressed.
At this time, there are eight black sword handles hidden in my Black Sword Sect.
My father accepted seven disciples, and I became the senior brother.
Unexpectedly, the talents of the brothers are all very strong. Even eight of the brothers, including me, successfully entered the Dacheng Realm.
Later, I was invited by Bifeng Mansion to explore an ancient martial arts ruins, but when I returned, the Black Blade Sect had already been wiped out..."
At the end of the sentence, Fang Zihang's eyes dimmed again.
"Brother Fang, didn't you find the problem?"
Liu Xin's words made Fang Zihang raise his head suddenly, wondering what the other person meant.
Xiao Qi also looked confused.
"The Black Blade Sect has experienced ups and downs, but it has never risen all at once!"
Fang Zihang's words were like a thunderbolt in the darkness, illuminating the dark sky.
"You...what do you mean?"
Fang Zihang vaguely caught something, but he didn't seem to catch it.
“The first rise of Black Blade Sect was when the founder of Black Blade Sect established an assassination team with the help of Bifeng Mansion.
This was true given the circumstances and resources at the time.
Then there was a long period of plateau, and even if there were ups and downs, they were not big.
One of the downfalls of Black Blade Sect was because of Bifeng Mansion.
So what about this time?
With the sudden rise of the Black Blade Sect, all eight of your father's disciples were promoted to the Dacheng Realm. Do you know how many resources are needed?
Your father must not have told you how much it costs to train you.
Why there are so few people in the Dacheng realm in the world is not because of talent.
Advancing to the Dacheng Realm is just a matter of opening up the Ren and Du Lines. In fact, there is no big threshold.
But it stopped countless people, and the reason was due to resource issues.
Only with sufficient resources can warriors receive training from an early age and improve their physique, so that when attacking the Ren and Du meridians, the meridians will not be so fragile and explode at the first impact.
More than 90% of the world's warriors do not have that resource. "
Fang Zihang fell into silence. Indeed, as Liu Xin said, he never paid attention to how many resources his father poured into a few people.
He has always believed that this was natural and natural.
Among the other three people, only Liu Xin, the senior brother of Shengzong, knew the resources needed to train a warrior.
Because as the senior brother, he arranges all the basic matters of practice.
The sect leader of the Holy Sect is essentially the future manager of the Holy Sect.
As a manager, it is impossible to only know about cultivation. A person's cultivation level cannot guarantee the prosperity of a sect.
Therefore, Liu Xin knew how much resources it would cost to train a high-level warrior.
Take Xiao Qi as an example. Among the brothers, Xiao Qi was the only one who was not promoted to the Dacheng Realm.
When planning resources, the value of Xiao Qi's training resources was far lower than that of the others.
Not to mention himself, he couldn't even estimate the cost of training him.
The master gave him countless treasures of incalculable value. Otherwise, how could he have been able to compete with people a generation above him in the world at this age?
As far as people themselves are concerned, even if there is a gap in talent, it will not be that huge.
When everyone is born, they are just a few kilograms of meat. The difference is just a little bit.
The difference in the final combat power of a warrior still depends on the overall ability.
After Liu Xin said this, Fang Zihang already realized the problem.
But he can't figure everything out yet, but Liu Xin is different. He has experienced one sect annexing another sect.
And now the relationship between Bifeng Mansion and Black Blade Sect seems to have the same meaning.
"I believe that the rise of Black Blade Sect in your father's generation must be closely related to Bifeng Mansion.
It was even planned by Bifeng Mansion behind the scenes.
But I'm not sure yet. I need to know the current movements of the third, fifth and sixth sons of your Black Blade Sect.
This is information I can't get here.
Although the Jin Yiwei and the secret investigation team have recorded the case of the Black Knife Clan's extermination, they have not investigated in depth.
So I need your information for further analysis. "
At this time, Fang Zihang was completely convinced by Liu Xin. He didn't expect that he could analyze so many things just by relying on these files.
Although he had been obsessed with these files before, he mostly recalled them while reading them.
Most of the content written in the dossier was something he knew, and it was also the most basic content.
"Actually, I only know about the situation of the fifth and sixth of them. I know a little about the situation of the third, but not in detail.
As for Lao Ba, I know the least about his situation. "
"Now the situation of Black Sword Laoba is clear. He joined the White Lotus Sect and became one of the four major missionaries.
But it has already been executed, so there is no need to discuss it. "
Fang Zihang nodded, his palm already rubbing the scabbard of the black knife.
“Let’s talk about Lao Wu and Lao Liu first.
The two of them should now be serving under the commander of the Fujian Provincial Capital. It is said that the sixth one is already a fellow commander, and the fifth one is serving under him. "
"A senior brother serves under his junior brother?"
Xiao Qi felt that this story was worth listening to, and at the same time, his eyes wandered over Liu Xin from time to time.
Liu Xin felt that his junior brother should make some repairs, otherwise he would not be able to put up roof tiles for three days.
“Lao Liu is a lively person and is good at communication.
Lao Wu is a boring gourd, but Lao Liu and Lao Wu have a very good relationship. They seem to be from the same clan.
Lao Liu is the direct lineage, and Lao Wu is the collateral branch.
So in the past at Black Blade Sect, Lao Wu had always taken care of Lao Liu, and Lao Wu was like Lao Liu's servant. "
"The relationship between your senior brothers is really strange."
Xiao Qi frowned just listening to this. He hated this kind of affection between senior fellow apprentices.
How can brotherly feelings be mixed with other things?
Just like their senior brothers, they all have different statuses.
But several people have never explored their own identities.
But in the process of getting along, even as young as Xiaoqi, he can still find the differences in other people's identities.
For example, the senior brother they all respect, he is just an orphan.
But the identity of the second senior brother Xiong Er was different. His father was already a famous figure in the world by then.
If we put the relationship between the eldest brother and the second brother in Black Knife Sect, the eldest brother would be the one taking care of the second brother every day.
Even the other senior brothers are far inferior to the second senior brother in terms of status, so the second senior brother becomes the one with the highest status among the senior brothers.
If this was really the case, Xiao Qi felt that she would not be able to bear it and ran away down the mountain.
But the good thing is that among their brothers, Xiong Er never talks about his life experience. Although he has an aloof personality, he is a good cook.
When he was in the mountains, Xiong Er would often hunt some wild game in the mountains as an excuse to practice shooting.
When they get it back, they will say that they just happened to encounter these prey, and they brought them to the gunpoint themselves.
Then he began to peel the skin skillfully, and cooked a delicious meal for all the brothers.
At this time, everyone's relationship is extremely harmonious.
There seems to be a gap between the brothers in the Black Blade Sect.
"Maybe they were the geniuses that Weng Bingliang forced into your Black Blade Sect.
At that time, including your father, everyone thought that it was time for the Black Blade Sect to rise.
Everyone thought that the talents of these disciples recruited were amazing.
But in fact, in your grandfather's generation, there were not so many geniuses emerging at once. "
Fang Zihang thought about it again and found that it was indeed the case.
My grandfather was far more talented and powerful than his father.
In my grandfather's generation, the Black Blade Sect was indeed experiencing a decline in talent.
But they have always attributed all this to Weng Bingliang's suppression of them.
Fang Zihang's father once believed that it was his decision that led to the rise of the Black Knife Sect.
"But I have a question. Our Black Blade Sect is a small sect. Is there anything worthy of Weng Bingliang's covetousness?
It's worth the huge price they paid and the long time it took them to lay out. "
“Perhaps it’s not because of the treasures in your Black Blade Sect that attracted Weng Binliang.
Simply because of the general trend.
Weng Bingliang may just need an obedient Black Sword, or maybe he just wants to have the power of Black Sword.
But I don't want this power to exist alone. "
"Brother, your words are a bit confusing to me."
Xiao Qi scratched his head. Although his cultivation was good, he was still too young when it came to dealing with others.
There are some things that he can't understand even if he says them.
Fang Zihang was different, he had already vaguely thought of something.
"Let me tell you a similar case.
Kunli Sect, the strongest among the auxiliary sects in Emperor Wu City, was originally only one of the six major sects in one place.
Later, the reason why it became the leader of the Eight Auxiliary Sects was because it annexed the other five sects.
He nourished it with the foundation of the other five sects, causing his strength to skyrocket.
Finally got to where we are now. "
"So my Heidaomen, like those five Chinese, were all annexed by Weng Bingliang."
Fang Zihang said in disbelief.
Although he thought so in his heart, he still couldn't believe this fact.
If this is the case, the target of his revenge will become a huge sect force.
Weng Bingliang is definitely not something that he, a casual cultivator, and a guy with some reputation among bandits can deal with.
Seeing the sadness in Fang Zihang's eyes, Liu Xin comforted him.
"You don't need to face an entire sect, you just need to find the murderer who really caused your Black Blade Sect to be wiped out.
So I need you to continue talking about the situation of the third child. "
