Li Mansion, main hall.

Qin Qiong's words made Li Zexuan fall into deep thought.

Compared with the two experienced battlefield veterans in front of him, he is indeed a fledgling kid. Although he is now considered a martial arts master, his actual combat experience is really lacking. He was able to entangle 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 fight with someone, just go to me, Lao Cheng!"

Cheng Yaojin patted his belly and laughed.

Qin Qiong's face was speechless. The demon Cheng really didn't look like an elder at all when he played 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 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.

Throat. The last move of the black-clothed assassin, Seventh Cultivation Blood Rain, was probably made using the blood of this poisonous snake. Moreover, the Seventh Cultivation Snake's traveling speed is extremely fast, and the body technique 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 do anything about 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 to practice 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 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. He shook his head when he heard this 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 that I know, they are 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 Lingan.

His son, Yang Lin, had personally taught him martial arts many times, so Qin Qiong had been taught by famous teachers along the way of martial arts. However, his martial arts were all used on the battlefield, so he didn'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 the Tianshi Tao of Longhu Mountain, the Shaolin Temple of Songshan Mountain, and the Taibai Sword Sect of Qinling! The first two are equally powerful, and no one can be said to be stronger than the other! The other sects are all based on

These three sects are the leaders. You kid was so lucky back then that you were able to enter the Celestial Master's Way and become a direct disciple of Master Lingxu! Not even the martial arts practitioners in the world would 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 immediately 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. 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 without any image, shook his head and said.

"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~!"

"Wudang Sect, Emei Sect, Quanzhen Sect, Qingcheng Sect, Huashan Sect, have Uncle Cheng heard of it~?"

"No~! Xiaoxuan, where did you hear about these sects?"

Cheng Yaojin's Lian Sen is getting more and more weird. The names of the martial arts sects mentioned by Li Zexuan still sound serious and don't look like they are made up at all, but he has never heard of any of them!

Could it be that I am too ignorant?

Cheng Yaojin began 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 does it feel so... so withered? Yes, it is withered.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as an origin of martial arts, but it is only the origin. Shaolin Temple is a 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, like those in

Most of the famous sects with documented history arose during 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 world, originated from the late Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty; and the first authentic Taoist sect, Quanmen,

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 you write martial arts novels without writing about these sects, you will not be able to write about these sects.

Doesn’t it look a lot 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, the centralization of power was too strong, which 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, 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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