In the sixth year of Yongtai, there lived a nineteen-year-old boy named Shen Youran.
At that time, he was unknown, and almost no one knew who he was, where he came from, and who he learned his martial arts from.
The first time people got to know him and remember him was at the Young Heroes Conference held during the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, and the person who invited him was Gu Qizong, the head of the Tianqi Gang who was responsible for hosting the conference at that time.
There is no doubt that Gang Leader Gu also used the authority of "special invitation based on the organizer's personal judgment" to get Shen Youran into the conference.
But unlike today's Shen Clan Leader, Gu Gang Leader does not have any enemies like the Cao Gang. He is very popular. Regardless of whether he is good or evil, or in the officialdom, Gu Qizong's evaluation is that he is heroic, chivalrous and courageous; let alone Friends and even enemies admire him.
Therefore, no one questioned why Gu Qizong invited such an unknown boy to attend the meeting, and Gu Qizong himself never explained it to anyone.
As a result, Shen Youran became the biggest dark horse in that year's conference. With both civil and military skills, he easily won the championship with overwhelming force.
Just when everyone thought that this "no-sect-less" Shen Shaoxia would take advantage of the opportunity to join the Tianqi Gang, which was at its peak at that time, he chose to join the Luoyang Zhengyi Sect, which was still quite weak at that time.
Youdao is thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.
In the blink of an eye, twelve years have passed.
Today, Shen Youran is the youngest sect leader in the history of the Zhengyi Sect and is famous in the world. The Zhengyi Sect, which was once the weakest among the four sects and three gangs, has also risen rapidly under his leadership.
However, the Tianqi Gang has disappeared from the martial arts world...
As for the reason for its disappearance, it is not a secret, because it involves a very sensational event for the entire martial arts world-in the seventh year of Yongtai, the 13th martial arts sect headed by Tianqi Gang, Gu Qizong Under the leadership of the leader, they went to besiege and suppress the main altar of the Five Spirits Sect, the largest evil sect.
In that battle, thousands of members of the Wuling Sect were almost wiped out. Seeing that the situation was over, the leader Yi Shixiong set fire to the altar, hoping to burn with the thirteen martial arts people.
The main altar of the Five Spirit Sect was hidden in the heart of the mountain, based on a natural cave and expanded with a large number of bricks and wood. After the fire, the entire cave altar was filled with thick smoke and quickly began to collapse. You will definitely die if you stay inside.
In the end, the men and horses of the thirteen sects, not counting the casualties in the previous fight, the people who escaped from the fire in the end... were less than 30% of the number when they came; fortunately, the heads of those sects They all came out successfully.
But... Gu Qizong was the only one who didn't come out.
Because when the fire broke out, Gu Qizong was dueling with Yi Shixiong. The two were fighting inextricably, so Gu Qizong could not escape at all.
In this way, a generation of unparalleled heroes finally died together with the leader of the Demon Cult, buried in a sea of fire, and buried in the ruins of a collapsed cave, with no bones left.
After Gu Qizong's death, the Tianqi Gang gradually declined. Originally, they suffered the heaviest losses in the duel with the Five Spirits Sect, not to mention the loss of the gang leader's huge influence on the sect; three years later, the Tianqi Gang finally became unsustainable. In desperation, the tree fell down and the hozens dispersed.
This is how things are in this world. It is said that prosperity will inevitably decline, and excess is not enough.
Precisely because Gu Qizong's martial arts and charisma are unparalleled in the world, all the cohesion of the Tianqi Gang comes from him alone. When he is not around, the problems that have been covered up by his light emerge, and eventually bring him down. The foundation laid is swallowed up.
When Gu Qizong died, he was only thirty-one years old, exactly the same age as Shen Youran now. He practiced innate boy skills, so he never married and had no descendants.
To this day, although many people still remember him, his name is rarely mentioned anymore...
Jianghu is such a place. No matter what status and achievements you have achieved, once you die, you will be forgotten by people within ten years; and behind you, there will always be groups of ambitious and domineering people. A new generation of people appears and takes the lead again.
No one... can rule the world for eternity.
Of course, some things will not be forgotten as life passes. On the contrary, they will become more intense as time goes by, like fine wine.
For example - hatred.
Shen Youran was burdened with hatred. For some reason, he vowed to avenge Gu Qizong, and his target for revenge was...the entire martial arts world.
This meeting of young heroes is the "first step" in his entire revenge plan. Although this step is complicated to implement, he has now completed 70% of the matter, which can be said to be quite smooth.
As for who will win the "martial arts test" in the end, Shen Youran actually doesn't pay attention to it and doesn't care anymore.
Among the two teenagers who will appear in the next eight-to-four match, there is one who doesn't care about the outcome of the competition. This person's nickname is Chunkong.
Although Chunkong is only in his early sixteenth year, his seniority and reputation in the Shaolin Temple are not low. As mentioned earlier, when Sun and Huang met Chunkong for the first time, they saw him "wearing a monk's robe and wearing a scar on his head." , fair eyebrows, white teeth and red lips." Here is a detail... Generally speaking, according to the rules of the Shaolin Temple in this universe, young novice monks aged sixteen or seventeen are usually not qualified to leave ring scars on their heads. You have to Only when you have made achievements in practice and gained certain recognition in Buddhism can you be qualified to have the master burn a scar on your head.
So why is Chun Kong different from others? This matter has to go back...
On a snowy night sixteen years ago, Master Jingchen of Shaolin Temple picked up an abandoned baby in a dilapidated temple.
When Jingchen found the child, he was already breathless and motionless, and the tears on his face were covered with frost. It was obvious that the child had been left in the temple for at least an hour or two, and he was freezing and hungry. I kept crying until in the end I didn't even have the strength to speak out.
At that time, Jingchen was traveling as an ascetic, relying on alms and staying overnight to pay for his food and accommodation. He had been hungry for two days and one night that night, and he finally managed to get half a bowl of white porridge, and braved the wind and snow to go to a room. I ruined the temple and wanted to light a fire to heat the porridge and drink it, but I didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen again.
A monk is compassionate, let alone an eminent monk like Ji Chen. As soon as he saw that the child was still breathing, he quickly opened his clothes, put the baby into his arms, directly used his body temperature to warm the child, and quickly lit a fire. I carefully blew the hot white porridge to a mild level, and patiently fed it into the child's mouth one bite at a time, but in the end he didn't even take a bite.
Chunkong miraculously survived like this.
Later, Jingchen took him back to Shaolin, but did not give him a name, just calling him "Wa'er".
Chunkong had a predestined relationship with the Buddha since he was a child. He was exposed to it every day. As soon as he learned to speak, he could recite Buddhist scriptures. He was said to have a solid foundation of wisdom and a clear mind. When he was five years old, Jichen finally accepted him as his disciple and gave him the title of "
"Chunkong" is the Dharma name.
That year, Master Jingchen was already fifty-three, and his next generation, the "Chun" generation disciples of the same generation as Chun Kong, the youngest ones were almost thirty.
Therefore, the forty-year-old backbones in Shaolin Temple today are actually the same generation as Chunkong; the senior monks in their sixties and seventies are Chunkong's masters and uncles; and those in their twenties and thirties have to take care of them.
His name is "Little Master Uncle".
In terms of Buddhism, Chunkong was born like a golden cicada. When his brothers and fellow disciples talked to him about Buddhist scriptures, they always used the term "asking for advice". He went to small temples in some places to teach them about his spiritual practice.
There is no problem for the abbot to give lectures and teachings.
In terms of martial arts, there is a rule in Shaolin that many people should know - the more advanced the martial arts, the more the corresponding Buddhist teachings are needed to resolve hostility; that is, the level of martial arts you can learn depends on how profound your Buddhist teachings are.
Therefore, what Chunkong learned from elementary school was one of the most superior internal skills of Zen Buddhism: the Lankavatara Mind Method, whose full name is "Lengjia Abhadra Treasure Heart Method".
How powerful is this internal strength? Let's put it this way... It's on the same level as the "Reverse the Universe". As long as you practice it seriously for ten years, you can definitely reach the level of a first-class master in terms of internal strength alone.
Chunkong started practicing martial arts at the age of nine and has been practicing for seven years so far.
Because he had a good foundation in internal energy and learned moves quickly, his master "taught him a few moves casually" as for the moves. Master Jingchen himself was better at mastering the moves, so he taught Chunkong a set of Skanda Palm and a set of moves.
The Great Merciful Qianye Hand helped him lay the foundation for Prajna Palm.
To sum up, Chunkong's strength is not very clear to outsiders, but according to his master's estimation, he can already compete with the monks who study high-level martial arts in Bodhidharma Academy.
It can be said that Chun Kong is the biggest dark horse in this Young Heroes Association, but he himself has no fighting spirit at all...
In the previous literary test, Chunkong wrote a lot of Zen stuff and handed it in. Qiao Chengshu, the "hard-faced scholar" who was in charge of invigilating the exam, was stunned for a moment, so he gave him the first place in the literary test.
The person who ranks first in the literary test is the only one who can pass all the first four rounds and directly enter the quarterfinals. In other words, Chunkong, who appears in the first round of the eight-to-four round, was still a martial arts test before that.
He has never played before and has not yet shown his super strength.
So in this current competition, which unlucky guy is going to fight Chun Kong?
You can recall, who was the person who fought all the way up from the first game of the first round, that is, the branch in the lower left corner of the promotion table?