After Zheng Gui and his two senior sisters agreed that he would lead the team to Hangzhou in western Zhejiang to visit the Haisha Gang, Dingxian and Dingjing personally ordered the generals of Yiqing, Xu Mengqing, Liang Qi and other seven disciples.
Let them go with Zheng Gui.
After a day of preparation, Zheng Gui, wearing a cleanly starched monk's robe, went down the mountain with seven female disciples including Yiqing, carrying his baggage and sword.
Dingxian and Dingjing did not come forward to see off Zheng Gui and the others, but after they came down the mountain, Dingxian still took out a few letters and ordered Yi Xundao beside him: "Send the letters to Qingjing Temple in Laohekou, Huiguo, with flying pigeons.
There are several places in the nunnery and Shanjian Temple.”
Yi Xun held the letter and left. Dingjing opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Junior Sister, you still miss your junior brother, but it is much better to have someone taking care of you."
Dingxian said calmly: "I just want the lower court and the Buddhist friends to take care of me. If there is no crisis, that's it. If there is a situation, they are local snakes and can give early warning."
As a few white doves flew away, the Hengshan Sect also began to mobilize its long-hidden energy.
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Zheng Gui is the oldest, but the youngest. He is only under eighteen years old, but Liang Qi and Xu Mengqing, the youngest of the seven female disciples, are also over eighteen years old.
However, even though Zheng Gui was young and had no experience in martial arts, Yi Qing had to ask Zheng Gui for instructions on all major and minor matters along the way.
Zheng Gui knew that the Hengshan sect had strict rules, and as he was an elder, he had the upper hand. However, this was his first time going down the mountain, and it was also his first time truly entering the world. He knew that he knew nothing, so even if he took that road, why would he?
He didn't know how to rest, and he didn't know how to rest or settle down. Therefore, Zheng Gui asked Yi Qing exactly what he asked, and he would ask many times when he encountered something he didn't understand.
After coming down from Hengshan, they headed south. Because they did not want to cause trouble and were even more worried about revealing their whereabouts, Zheng Gui, Yiqing and his party did not meet with the subordinate forces of the Hengshan sect or other Jianghu sects, but just rushed on their way.
Although the eight people could not move very fast on the horses they bought at the horse and mule shop at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, they still left the Shanxi boundary on the 4th or 5th day.
Taking a boat across the Yellow River from Fenglingdu, Zheng Gui looked at Fenglingdu and was filled with emotion. In this world, there is no Quanzhen sect, which was once the largest martial arts sect, nor Yang Guo, the hero of the Condor, nor the Nine Yin Manual.
It has never appeared before.
Because the world of Swordsman is an almost imaginary world and has little connection with the Condor Trilogy, there will be no stone carvings of Wang Chongyang’s Nine Yin Scriptures in the Zhongnan Mountain Tomb, nor the Nine Yang Scriptures in the Kunlun Secret Realm.
The same won't happen.
Zheng Gui had long given up the idea of searching for these adventures left by his ancestors, but he knew that Feng Qingyang possessed the Dugu Nine Swords passed down by Dugu Qiubai, and there might still be some leftovers in the barren valley outside Xiangyang City, but since Feng Qingyang
Yang had already had an adventure, so it would be a waste of time for him to go there again.
Before going down the mountain, Zheng Gui knew that the only magical secrets that could be found in today's martial arts world were the "Evil Sword Manual" from the Lin family's old house in Fuzhou and the lost swordsmanship of the Five Mountains Sword School in the Siguoya Grotto in Huashan Mountain.
Although Zheng Gui is a monk, there seems to be no difference whether or not he says that, but he has no intention of being a monk for the rest of his life. He is absolutely unwilling to let him practice the self-gong magic skill, but he can use it for profit.
, it is also possible to increase your knowledge and improve your understanding of martial arts by watching.
After all, the Shaolin Temple showed the "Sunflower Book" to the Huashan sect, the leader of the Five Sacred Mountains. Within a few decades, two sects of the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect were derived. This is the reason why the secrets of magical skills inspired martial arts. Zheng Gui knew the upper limit of the Hengshan sect's martial arts.
It's not as good as Shaolin Wudang, so naturally I don't want to miss the opportunity to learn from the evil sword manual.
Therefore, even if Zheng Gui does not practice, he must obtain the sword manual to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, when he went down the mountain this time, he thought about going south to Fuzhou from western Zhejiang. Only after he got the sword manual to ward off evil spirits can he plan to conquer Huashan again.
I have thought about the swordsmanship carved on the cliff.
When he arrived in Henan, the landscape was completely different from that of Shanxi. Since there was no map or navigation, Zheng Gui could only remember the way he came and sketch the route map in his mind.
After arriving at Huaiqing Mansion, Yiqing, Zheng Gui and others did not bother to see the nearby Wangwu Mountain, so they directly hired a boat. The seven of them took the boat together and headed east along the Yellow River. Five days later, they arrived near Kaifeng, where there is Shanjian Temple.
The master who presided over the ceremony personally greeted him at the pier.
Everyone disembarked and rested for the night, and learned the first-hand information.
Master Yibei is the re-disciple of one of Master Cixin’s sisters. Her mentor’s name is Dingxi. Recently, it is said that she is in retreat to meditate on Buddhism and rarely appears in public.
In the past ten years, Yibei has been in charge of the affairs of Shanjian Temple in Kaifeng. He is regarded as the leader of the lower house of the Hengshan Sect. He has been responsible for the affairs of the Hengshan Sect in Kaifeng and is also responsible for collecting information about the world.
After being introduced by Master Yibei, Zheng Gui, Yi Qing and others also learned that Dingyi had arrived at the Taihu Branch of the Tianhe Gang a few days ago, and had a palm-to-hand confrontation with Huang Boliu, the leader of the Tianhe Gang, and then the Tianhe Gang released Xu.
Mr. Liang.
Although Yi Bei didn't know whether Taihu had the upper hand against Zhang Dingyi at that time, seeing that the Tianhe Gang readily let go of the sons of the Xu Mansion and the Liang Mansion, he knew that Huang Boliu must not have taken advantage.
Early the next morning, Yibei sent Zheng Gui and his party aboard the ship. Before leaving, he took out a letter and said: "Uncle Dingyi, this is an autographed letter from Uncle Dingyi. She knows that you are going to Hangzhou, and she is worried about the sea sand."
Gang leader Yun wanted to plot against you and the junior sisters, so he went to Yaoshi Liuli Temple in Jiaxing to take charge..."
Zheng Gui took the letter and read it, then handed it to Yi Qing and said, "Just tell me, Senior Sister Dingyi, that I understand."
After saying that, Zheng Gui turned around and got into the boat. After Yiqing and others said goodbye to Yibei, the white-topped wooden boat owned by the boatman, a believer in Shanjian Temple who knew the roots of the temple, cut through the water like an arrow from a string and disappeared into the eastern morning.
In the fog.
The wooden boat is divided into two floors and can accommodate more than ten people. Because there are differences between men and women, Zheng Gui and the boatman live on the lower floor, while Yi Qing and other seven people live on the upper floor. This boat is more spacious than the boat they found at Fenglingdu.
Comfortable.
Because the Yellow River had not changed its course during the Boxer Rebellion period in the late Qing Dynasty, and its outlet was still in Haizhou, the wooden boat did not enter Shandong when it reached Guide Mansion, but headed towards Dangshan and Xuzhou.
After arriving in Xuzhou, the wooden boat no longer went down the river, but instead entered the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and headed south.
Collecting taxes at checkpoints in various places is very cumbersome, and tax collectors and water transport patrols often set up private checkpoints to collect fees. If the Hengshan Sect raised the banner of a sect, it would probably be able to scare away many of the exploiters of water transport patrols and river yamen.
However, there were many disciples of Tianhe Gang and Haisha Gang on this canal. Zheng Gui, Yi Qing and others naturally did not want to cause trouble to avoid being attacked by thieves, so they gave some money to the boatman and let him go around.