ps: This chapter is for book friend Xiaoxiang Feiyu’s reward of 10,000 starting coins.
Su Xin held the invitation letter from the Jiangnan Society in his hand, but there was a look of surprise on his face. He almost forgot that his current ranking was the 23rd in the list of people, and he was qualified to be invited by the Jiangnan Society.
The so-called Jiangnan Meeting is a grand martial arts meeting held by the Jiangnan Xiao family, one of the six great families.
Although the Xiao family in Jiangnan, one of the six aristocratic families, is not as old as the Shangguan family in Runan, it is the strongest among the six aristocratic families, and its background is astonishing.
It is said that thousands of years ago, when the world was in chaos and the former overlord Jin was just a small country, the Xiao family was already king in the south of the Yangtze River, and the country was named Daliang.
However, later, when the world was fighting for hegemony and the Jin Kingdom rose, all the small countries were destroyed, and Daliang was naturally destroyed as well. The descendants of the Xiao family lived in the world and became the Jiangnan Xiao family, one of the six aristocratic families.
The Xiao family in the south of the Yangtze River was born into a royal family with a noble status. When the Eastern Jin Dynasty became the overlord of the Central Plains, it was also afraid of the remaining power of the Xiao family and feared that all of them would be destroyed, so they named the Xiao family as Pinghou and inherited it hereditary.
Now that the Zhou Dynasty dominates the Central Plains, it also wants to appease the Xiao family, so it gave the Xiao family a title of Anhou, which is also hereditary.
Because of this, Xiao Huang, who is second on the list of people, is nicknamed "Xiao'anhou".
His father, the head of the Xiao family, is the Anhou of this generation, and his own strength is also second on the list. No one in the younger generation of the Xiao family can compete with him. The head of the next generation is almost determined to be him, so he was chosen
He is called 'Xiao'anhou'.
However, in Su Xin's view, the so-called Pinghou and Anhou are more ironic than honorary.
Whether it is the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Great Zhou Dynasty, look at the titles they gave: Pinghou and Anhou. That means that although your Xiao family used to be a royal family, it is not your turn to make the decision in this world now. I will give you a title, honestly.
In fact, just stay in Jiangnan peacefully and don't go out and cause any trouble.
Of course, this title is a symbol of strength in the eyes of Jianghu people, and even the imperial court wants to win over their Xiao family.
The Jiangnan Meeting started out as a tradition for the Xiao family to attract followers, and later evolved into a grand gathering that all young martial artists in the martial arts community could attend.
The development routes of aristocratic families and martial arts sects are completely different. Although the family bloodline can guarantee the loyalty and unity of the family and the cohesion is stronger than that of the sects, how many geniuses does a family have? The martial arts sects attract young talents from the entire world.
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Because of this, these big aristocratic families have the tradition of recruiting disciples. The Xiao family even found a new way to hold the Jiangnan Meeting to recruit talented and potential young warriors from no sect or small sects to join the Xiao family and train them carefully.
This kind of diners trained from a young age are undoubtedly much more loyal than the diners recruited later with huge sums of money.
Moreover, they can also marry the children of the Xiao family. After a few generations, they can completely integrate into the Xiao family and become a member of the Xiao family. It is precisely because of this strategy that the Xiao family has gradually grown and become the head of the six aristocratic families.
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This was the purpose of the Jiangnan Club at the beginning, but later the Xiao family also invited some famous young heroes to come to the Jiangnan Club to comment and appreciate it. As more and more people came to the Jiangnan Club, some changes took place in the Jiangnan Club.
With the establishment of the Six Doors list, the young heroes of the younger generation in the world are fighting more and more fiercely.
However, the martial arts community in the Central Plains is so big, sometimes even if you want to step on the opponent and come to challenge, you may not be able to find someone. There are not many martial artists who have been in retreat in the sect all year round.
Therefore, some warriors gathered at the Jiangnan Meeting. When the Xiao family recruited disciples, they would let them compete. If the strong men wanted to take action, they could also go to the Jiangnan Meeting to try their skills and update their rankings.
Later, the scale of the Jiangnan Association became larger and larger, and more and more young martial artists came. The Xiao family found that there was an opportunity to enhance the reputation of the Xiao family, so they completely expanded the Jiangnan Association and turned it into a young martial arts society.
The event of a generation.
All warriors in the entire martial arts world who are thirty-five years old can participate. The top three finalists, regardless of whether they join the Xiao family or not, will receive a heavy gift. The remaining top dozens of warriors are also eligible to be admitted to the Xiao family.
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If the warriors on the human list want to take action, there is a special arena for everyone to compete. The top thirty warriors on the human list are even more qualified to be invited by the Xiao family to personally send invitations to Jiangnan Club, and become one of the judges to evaluate those casual cultivators. Their status
Just like the elders in the Xiao family’s Yuan Shen realm.
In Su Xin's opinion, this move was indeed wonderful, and it cleverly captured the minds of some warriors.
Why is the competition among martial artists so fierce? It’s just for a ‘name’.
Now let them serve as the judges of the Jiangnan Club. They are both young generation martial artists. The people below are fighting in the ring just to attract the attention of the Xiao family and become the Xiao family's disciples.
But they can sit on a high platform and comment on these warriors together with the elders of the Xiao family's Yuan Shen realm. I believe many warriors will want to give this vanity a try.
Therefore, it is an honor in itself to be invited by the Xiao family to personally issue invitations to this Jiangnan gathering.
However, this time the Jiangnan Conference was different. The imperial court actually participated in it and asked Gu Donglai, the general manager of the Jiangnan Road March, to join forces with the Xiao family to hold the Jiangnan Conference.
I don’t know if the imperial court was jealous of the Xiao family recruiting a large number of potential young warriors every year, so they suddenly got involved.
But these have nothing to do with Su Xin now. He had originally planned to go to the Central Plains.
Now that he has broken through to the peak of the Spiritual Aperture Realm, he still needs a certain amount of opportunity to break through to the Divine Palace Realm. The Central Plains is undoubtedly a good place to go.
After putting away the invitation and sending Chen Qiao away, Su Xin decided to set off for the Central Plains. However, by this time, the news of Su Xin's appearance in Lingzhou Mansion had already spread.
When Su Xin killed Zhu Zefang and others, everyone thought that Su Xin must have found a secluded place to recuperate, but no one expected that he would be so courageous and stay in Lingzhou, not far from the place where the incident occurred.
Recuperate in the house.
You must know that although he killed Zhu Zefang and others, there is no guarantee that other lay disciples of Shaolin Temple will not come to him for revenge, and there are still people in Zhujiazhuang. This Su Xin is also extremely bold.
Su Xin was still alive and well. The news spread to other lay disciples of Shaolin Temple, but they remained silent.
Just like before, some warriors mocked them for bullying the weak and fearing the strong, but they were scared by Su Xin.
The lay disciples of Shaolin Temple are a group, but it is not such a close group. Unless something happens that threatens their entire group, otherwise if something happens to anyone, they will find a few close friends or come up with something to invite them.
My colleagues went to help.
For example, this time Zhu Zefang found Duan Tianya and brought out Zhou Changxin with a yellow-level weapon.
The lay disciples of Shaolin Temple will indeed be unanimous in dealing with the outside world, but the premise is that if they are unanimous in dealing with the outside world, even if they cannot benefit, they cannot harm their interests.
With Su Xin's strength now, it is obvious that four or five warriors at the divine palace level can't do anything to him. If there is no benefit from this, who is willing to go up and die?
They would not move unless the leaders of the Shaolin Temple's lay disciples who had broken through to the Yuanshen realm spoke up.
But it's a pity that those few beings in the Yuanshen realm didn't say anything, whether it was because of something or other reasons, so they had to pretend to be deaf and mute and pretend they didn't know the news.
Those lay disciples in Shaolin Temple can pretend not to know, but the people in Zhujiazhuang cannot.
In the more than half a year since Zhu Zefang's death, their Zhujiazhuang could be said to have been extremely miserable.
Originally, Zhujiazhuang was not very strong. It was not until Zhu Zefang returned from Shaolin Temple, and with his cultivation in the Divine Palace realm, that Zhujiazhuang was able to rise from Hannan Road and become a small force.
But now that Zhu Zefang has been killed, many other lay disciples of the Shaolin Temple in Hannan Road have come to express their condolences, and all of them are innate warriors. What's the result?
After expressing condolences, he didn't even fart, patted his butt and left, which made the people of Zhujiazhuang grit their teeth.
Why don't you leave some skills and elixirs to take care of the growth of the descendants of your former sect, and then leave like this?
But it's a pity that their complaints are useless. Although they are both lay disciples of Shaolin Temple, their relationship with Zhu Zefang is not as close as that of Duan Tianya. They just have a trace of love for each other. It's good to be able to express their condolences. I still want something.
, are you kidding me?
And it is precisely because of the attitudes of some people that Zhujiazhuang is currently in an extremely bad situation.
In the past, the people of Zhujiazhuang, under Zhu Zefang's power, occupied a lot of land and businesses around Zhujiazhuang.
The other martial arts forces all gave face to Zhu Zefang. It should be said that they would give face to the Shaolin Temple lay disciples behind him, so they all took a step back.
And now that Zhu Zefang is dead, looking at the attitude of other Shaolin Temple lay disciples, it is obvious that they have no intention of continuing to help Zhujiazhuang, so why are they still hesitating? In the past six months, Zhujiazhuang’s land and business have almost all been cannibalized
It's almost empty.
The people of Zhujiazhuang couldn't bear it any longer, so the only remaining elder in Zhujiazhuang, Mr. Zhu, came out and summoned all the second generation disciples of the Zhu family to discuss matters together.
Mr. Zhu is already seventy or eighty years old. He is not an innate warrior. He is now old and decrepit. After Zhu Zefang returned to the Zhu family more than ten years ago, he has stopped doing things.
But now this situation has him unable to help. Zhu Qifang, the current owner of Zhujiazhuang, simply cannot afford to support Zhujiazhuang.
Even if it were the other second-generation disciples of Zhujiazhuang, it would be the same. Although they were also in the innate realm, in terms of strength and courage, they were still far behind the deceased Zhu Zefang.
Although Mr. Zhu is not in the innate realm, he has trained Zhu Zefang, Zhu Qifang and several other innate warriors. This is not easy.
Moreover, in terms of prestige, Mr. Zhu is the highest being in the Zhu family village, so when the old man of the Zhu family speaks, Zhu Qifang and others can only stand aside and listen to his instructions. (To be continued.)