Li Mansion, main hall.
Qin Qiong's words made Li Zexuan fall into deep thought.
Compared with the two battle-hardened veterans in front of him, he is indeed a fledgling kid. Although he is now a martial arts master, his actual combat experience is really lacking. He was able to struggle with the black-clad assassin for so long yesterday. It's just a fluke, but how can there be so many flukes in life?
"What Uncle Qin said is absolutely true. I'd like to trouble you to introduce my nephew to you when the time comes!"
Li Zexuan cupped his hands and said.
"Haha~! Why bother! If you want to challenge someone, just go to me, Old Cheng!"
Cheng Yaojin patted his belly and laughed.
Qin Qiong's face was speechless. Cheng Yaoya really didn't look like an elder at all when he was playing Baolai.
After the three of them laughed for a while, Qin Qiong returned to the topic: "Xiao Xuan, I have heard of the trick the assassin used when he escaped yesterday."
Li Zexuan recalled for a moment and said, "Uncle Qin is talking about the Seventh Cultivation Blood Rain trick?"
"Exactly!"
Qin Qiong stood up, put his hands behind his back and said: "It is said that there is a rare and exotic venomous snake in Miao territory called Qixiu Snake. It has seven heads in its body and is extremely poisonous. Regardless of humans or animals, as long as they are bitten by one of them, they will immediately see blood seals. Throat. The last move of the assassin in black, Seventh Cultivation Blood Rain, was probably made using the blood of this venomous snake. Moreover, the Seventh Cultivation Snake also moves extremely fast, and the body method of the black-clothed assassin is strange, like a snake charm. Combining these two points, I guess his origin is probably an evil cultivator related to the Seven Snake Cultivators!"
Li Zexuan's expression gradually became serious. He pondered for a moment and said with some worry: "That means that this assassin is from Miao territory?"
Li Zexuan, who has read countless modern online novels, has a deep fear of Miao Jiang. No matter how good his skills are, he can't deal with those weird and invisible poisons!
"But that's not necessarily the case!"
Qin Qiong shook his head and said: "I just said that the snake blood he used for practicing came from the Miao Territory, but I didn't say that he also came from the Miao Territory. As far as I know, people from the Miao Territory are generally not born, and they rarely interact with Contact with the outside world. Although poisonous substances like the Seventh Cultivating Snake are rare, there may not be any indigenous hunters in the Miao Territory selling them to the outside world!"
Li Zexuan felt that it made sense. He nodded and asked, "Does Uncle Qin know of any sects in the world that use the poisonous blood of the Seven Snakes to practice their martial arts?"
Qin Qiong had obviously thought about this problem for a long time. When he heard this, he shook his head and said: "I don't know. Although I have martial arts skills, I have never walked in the world. As far as the famous sects I know, I am definitely not There would be someone practicing such vicious martial arts. I think this assassin must be from an unknown remote sect, or there may be no sect at all."
A few days after Qin Qiong was born, his father Qin Yi passed away. Most of Qin Qiong's tricks were learned by himself based on the Qin family's tricks. Later, he defected to his former Sui patron, Yang Lin, and became Yang Linqian. Son, Yang Lin has personally taught him martial arts many times, so Qin Qiong has been taught by famous teachers on the way of martial arts. However, his martial arts are all used on the battlefield, so he doesn't know much about Jianghu sects. Not too much.
"Then what famous sects are there in today's world?"
Li Zexuan was really curious about this. In his memory, Master Lingxu did not popularize these martial arts common sense to him.
"Tsk! You kid doesn't even know this, but you're still a descendant of an immortal!"
Cheng Yaojin sneered and immediately began to despise Li Zexuan for being ignorant, and then he explained:
"Nowadays, the three most prosperous sects in the world are Longhu Mountain Tianshi Tao, Songshan Shaolin Temple, and Qinchuan's Taibai Sword Sect! The first two are equally powerful, and no one can be said to be stronger than the other! The other sects are all Headed by these three sects. You kid was lucky enough to be able to enter the Celestial Master's Way and become the direct disciple of Master Lingxu! Even the martial arts practitioners in the world would not envy you!"
"Hehe~!"
Li Zexuan scratched his head in embarrassment, and then he suddenly remembered "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" he had watched in his previous life, and asked tentatively: "Have Uncle Cheng ever heard of Cihang Jingzhai?"
If there really was Cihang Jingzhai, then he really wanted to meet the legendary fairy Shi Fei Xuan. Of course he didn't have any thoughts about her, he just admired her purely. After all, Shi Fei Xuan should be almost thirty years old now. Bar?
"Cihang Jingzhai? What is this? I've never heard of it~!"
Cheng Yaojin picked his nose imagelessly and shook his head.
"Has Uncle Cheng ever heard of the Jing Nian Zen Sect, Yin Kui Sect, Huajian Sect, Mo Xiang Sect, Butian Pavilion, and Pegasus Ranch?"
"No~!"
"Have Uncle Cheng heard of the Wudang Sect, Emei Sect, Quanzhen Sect, Qingcheng Sect, and Huashan Sect?"
"No~! Xiaoxuan, where did you hear about these sects?"
Cheng Yaojin's expression became more and more weird. The names of the martial arts sects mentioned by Li Zexuan all sounded serious and did not look like they were made up at all, but he had never heard of any of them!
Could it be that I am too ignorant?
Cheng Yaojin started to doubt life a little at this moment!
"Uh~~! It's nothing. I just saw it in an unknown storybook. It's all nonsense, ahem, nonsense!"
A hint of embarrassment also appeared on Li Zexuan's face. The current martial arts world seems to be a little different from what he imagined! Why do you feel so... so withered? Yes, it is withering.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as the origin of martial arts, but it is only the origin. Shaolin Temple is the most significant representative. According to historical records, Shaolin Temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. However, the prosperity of martial arts began in the Song and Ming dynasties, and most of the famous sects with documented history also arose in the Song Dynasty.
For example, a Taishan Beidou sect in later generations of martial arts, the Wudang Sect, originated from the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty; the Beggar Clan, the largest gang in the martial arts world, originated from the late Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty; Zhenjiao began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty.
As for other sects such as Emei, Kongtong, Kunlun, and Baji, they emerged even later. This is one of the reasons why the historical background of modern martial arts novels is mostly concentrated in the Song and Ming dynasties. After all, if martial arts novels cannot be written about these sects, wouldn’t it be overshadowed?
Of course, the decline of martial arts in the Tang Dynasty is also related to the general background of this era.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, too strong centralized power was not conducive to the development of folk martial arts.
In the Song Dynasty, the court had little control, and the political environment in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was relatively relaxed, which provided a very good soil for the vigorous development of martial arts sects.
The late Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty, Tumubao, and the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty also gave modern martial arts novelists many good opportunities to make big fuss!
Throughout the dynasties before the Song Dynasty, there were still relatively few large-scale martial arts schools.
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