The State of Jin is located to the east of the State of Wei. It has a vast territory and the prevalence of martial arts. Even ordinary people know how to handle crops. The imperial family even started with martial arts. They unified the entire Jin State with absolute force and had a huge number of people.
A super first-class warrior.
Due to the strength of the imperial court, the Jin Kingdom maintained relative stability despite its large number of warriors. Even if you were a top expert, you could not take action in a city under official jurisdiction, otherwise you would be hunted down by the imperial court.
Although there are many top-notch masters in various sects, they pale in comparison to the behemoth of the imperial court and can only succumb to its jurisdiction.
However, these sects are not stupid. With their powerful force, they have penetrated into all walks of life. Most of the private industries have the shadow of martial arts sects behind them. They and the court have formed a special balance.
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One day at noon, the sun was shining brightly.
In Ruzhou, Jin State, on the official road outside Daliang City, many walking merchants and farmers were in a hurry, wanting to enter Daliang City early to escape the scorching sun. There were also many people who were not in a hurry, resting at the wine shops along the road.
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This wine shop is about ten feet long and wide. It is built between the official road and a small forest. It is built of bricks and has a layer of lime poured on the surface. The four words "Daliang Wine Shop" are printed on the side of the plaque hanging on the railing on the second floor.
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This is a tavern built by the government. It is strictly forbidden for warriors to do anything. It is the only safe area outside the city. Even warriors with a life-and-death feud will only curse a few times when entering this tavern.
"At this critical moment, the leader of the Diancang Sect, Yu, used a quick sword, like a sudden burst of wind, shooting out stars, covering several gates of the Blood Knife Sect, Ma Laogui."
"But Old Ghost Ma is not an ordinary person. The blood knife in his hand turned into a pair of swords with a click. The Weeping Blood Knife Technique is not a single-blade technique at all, but a double-blade secret. It integrates offense and defense. It can be said that it is late and that it will be faster...
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On the big table in the middle of the second floor of the wine shop, there was a wretched old man who looked to be in his sixties. He was holding a feather fan in his hand and vividly describing a great battle. He was also making moves from time to time.
In addition to the traveling merchants, there were also many martial arts people dressed as warriors in the wine shop. They drank tea, ate food and wine, and listened with great interest.
"Boom!"
Suddenly there was a loud noise outside, the whole restaurant was shaken, and the sound of storytelling stopped abruptly.
The guests were all startled and looked out one after another, only to see a huge meteor hammer appearing in vain on the official road not far away.
It looked to be about half the size of a human being, covered with steel thorns, and covered with rust and blood. The bolas was half buried in the soil. There seemed to be a person struggling underneath, holding the bolas with his exposed palms, trying to
Push it away.
"The official roads have been reinforced with mud and stones, but a half-hole was broken out. Could it be that a top-notch master!"
"This man is still alive, is he practicing some kind of horizontal kung fu?"
As soon as these thoughts flashed through the minds of the people in the tavern, a burly man with a bare upper body and a chain around his waist rushed in from a distance. The ground rumbled. He didn't seem to have performed any light skills.
Brute force is running.
"Haha, Fang Hua, you were finally caught up by Gu. Let's see how you can escape this time."
The sturdy man quickly came to the meteor hammer. With one hand, he threw out the chain from his waist. The tail end was delicately fastened to the two steel thorns. With a flick of his arm, he picked up the meteor hammer.
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On the ground was a man in brocade clothes, his face was bloody and bruised, and one of his eyeballs was stabbed. Hearing the voice of the burly man, the man was very frightened, and kicked the ground with his legs, trying to escape.
"boom!"
There was another loud noise, and the man's legs were hit by the meteor hammer, slamming into the ground. He let out a scream: "Ah, Gu Yu, I don't want the Holy Martial Order anymore, spare my life!"
The burly man looked ferocious: "Fang Hua, if I want to blame you, I blame you for practicing the techniques inside. Only by killing you can I remove this mark of the Holy Martial Order. Go to hell."
He wildly waved the meteor hammer in his hand and hit the opponent's head hard. The powerful brute force smashed the bottom with a loud bang and stirred up waves of sand and dust.
At this moment, the burly man's expression changed, and from the woods behind the tavern, a xuanhua board ax flew towards him like a black whirlwind with a heavy roar.
The burly man's hands were swinging the meteor hammer to hit the man on the ground. He couldn't defend himself, so he simply let go of the weapon in his hand, crossed his arms, and blocked it in front of him.
"Bang!" There was a sound.
The Xuanhua ax directly cut off the two forearm bones of the sturdy man and struck him on the sternum. The remaining power was not reduced, and the big man's burly body was blown away.
At this time, a small bright silver weapon drew an arc in the air and hit the big man's neck. It turned out to be a palm-sized silver axe.
The burly man's eyes bulged, his expression was extremely frightened, and his mouth squirmed: "Beast King...Bear..."
Accompanied by the sound of falling to the ground, a sturdy man with dark skin wearing animal skins walked out of the woods. He had thick hair and an unclear appearance. He looked like a savage. There was also a giant brown bear beside him.
The man and the bear looked like they were walking, but in fact they were very fast. They quickly came to the body of the sturdy man. The strong man had two axes, one large and one small, on his waist, and he and the brown bear were carrying one body each.
, returned to the woods.
It wasn't until this person disappeared that the people near the tavern and the official road came back to their senses.
Although there are no martial arts masters among them, they still have good eyesight.
That burly man could swing the huge meteor hammer so flexibly, and even smashed half of the official road into a hole. I am afraid that his strength was two to three thousand kilograms. With this kind of strength alone, he was comparable to a top-notch master.
But such a warrior was easily killed by a man wearing animal skins. The speed of the two axes was so fast that no warrior around him could clearly see it. This showed that his strength was terrifying, and he was probably a truly top-notch master.
"I didn't expect that the Holy Martial Order would appear again!" The wretched old man who told the story murmured in a low voice.
Although his voice was not high, the tavern was silent. Everyone heard the old man's words and looked over with doubts. However, some warriors' eyes flickered, as if they remembered something.
"Storyteller, what is the Holy Martial Order? Yue has been in the world for more than ten years and has never heard anyone say it."
"It actually provoked a top-notch expert to take action. Could it be that it involves a top secret book or a golden treasure?"
The wretched old man glanced at everyone, turned his eyes in a circle, and when he saw everyone looking at him, he coughed lightly: "About this Holy Martial Order, hey, why is this tea gone..."
"Dong dong..."
A warrior directly handed over a piece of silver and said impatiently: "Old man, these silver coins are equivalent to two months of your tea money, please tell me quickly."
The old man chuckled, put the silver into his sleeves, poured a cup of tea, moistened his throat and said, "By the way, this Holy Martial Order first appeared sixty years ago, when the little old man was just born."
"According to Master, many cities in the Jin Kingdom had amazing visions that day. Colorful light pillars shot straight into the sky. The source of these visions were tokens with the three words 'Sacred Martial Order' engraved on them.
Character."
"In the city? Light pillar?"
The old man continued: "Later, according to statistics from warriors, there were at least two to three thousand Holy Martial Tokens. Those who got the Token discovered that it contained a kind of skill."
"Kung Fu?"
"Martial arts secrets?"
Many warriors in the tavern have a fiery look on their faces. They have been practicing for more than ten years, but they are still second- and third-rate warriors. This is because the techniques they practice are ordinary. If they have top-notch secrets, their cultivation may be greatly improved, and they may even be able to
Go to the government to find a position.
The wretched old man was a little dissatisfied with the person who interrupted, curled his lips and said: "No one knows what the technique is. I heard that only the holders of the Holy Martial Order know it, but the strange thing is that if they reveal even the slightest bit, there will be seven holes."
It is very strange to bleed to death."
"Sixty years ago, because of the Holy Martial Order's skills, there was a bloody storm in the martial arts world. In the end, the Holy Martial Order was divided up by various sects, and only a small part fell into the hands of idle warriors."
"Since then, many physically powerful warriors have gradually appeared in the martial arts world, and everyone has suspected that the skills in the Holy Martial Order are some kind of powerful horizontal training skills."
"However, although this Kung Fu is powerful after being practiced, it is still inferior to the inherited Kung Fu techniques of the major sects."
"It wasn't until twenty years later that these warriors who practiced horizontal kung fu, for unknown reasons, began to kill each other, as if they wanted to seize each other's holy martial orders. This situation only lasted for half a year, and these warriors disappeared."
"What's strange is that not long after they disappeared, thousands of sacred military orders reappeared throughout the Jin Kingdom."
The wretched old man took another sip of tea, foaming at the mouth and said: "It seems that there is a cycle behind it. The Holy Martial Order appears every twenty years, and thousands of warriors also disappear."
"The strange thing is that the imperial court ignored the emergence of the Holy Martial Order, and the major sects also remained silent. In addition, the warriors who killed each other did not deal with others, so the strangeness of the Holy Martial Order did not cause any sensation."
"Calculating the time now, exactly sixty years have passed since the first Holy Martial Order appeared. Tsk, tsk, it's also the little old man's 60th birthday."
After listening to the old man's words, a warrior suddenly asked: "Where have all the warriors who practiced the Holy Martial Order martial arts gone? It's impossible for them all to die."
The old man shook his head and said: "I didn't know that most people in the martial arts world feel that the skills practiced by these people are flawed and they can easily go crazy."
"There are still a small number of people who actually think that this is how immortals choose their disciples. The surviving warriors have all entered the immortal sect to practice some kind of immortality."
The old man said contemptuously: "These people don't even think about why the imperial court is not interested in practicing the art of immortality."
Most of the warriors in the tavern showed sneers. There is no such thing as flying immortality in this world. Only a few people's expressions changed slightly.
With a slight cough, the old man opened the feather fan again: "Little old man, let's continue from last time. Speaking of that old weirdo..."
The mellow voice of storytellers came from the tavern again, but the minds of the warriors below were elsewhere, and a few people left in a hurry...