In the sixth year of Yongtai, there lived a nineteen-year-old boy named Shen Youran.
At that time, he was unknown. 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 Meeting 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 meeting 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 Master Shen, Gang Leader Gu does not have any enemies like the Cao Gang. He is very popular. Regardless of good or evil, official circles, Gu Qizong’s evaluation is that he is heroic and capable. Yun, he is heroic and courageous; not to mention his friends, even his enemies admire him.
So, no one questioned why Gu Qizong invited such an unknown boy to 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 in full swing at that time, he chose to join the Tianqi Gang, which was still quite weak at that time. Luoyang Justice Gate.
Youdao is thirty years east of Hedong and thirty years west of 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 in the martial arts world...
As for the reason for its disappearance, it is not a secret, because it involves an incident involving A very sensational event in the entire martial arts world - in the seventh year of Yongtai, the 13th martial arts sect headed by the Tianqi Gang, under the leadership of Gu Qizong, went to encircle and suppress the main altar of the Wuling 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 Spirits Sect is 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 covered with thick smoke. It filled up and quickly began to collapse, making it certain to die if you stayed 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; thankfully Yes, all the heads of those sects came out smoothly.
But... Gu Qizong alone did not 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.In the middle, no bones remain.
After Gu Qizong’s death, the Tianqi Gang gradually declined. Originally, they suffered the worst 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 The Qi gang was finally unable to continue, and in desperation, they had no choice but to fall apart and disperse.
This is how things are in this world. It is said that everything that flourishes 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, and when he is not around, the problems that were covered up by his light will all disappear. Emerged and eventually swallowed up the foundation he had laid.
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.
Today, although many people still remember him, his name is rarely mentioned anymore...
Jianghu is such a place, no matter what you have obtained No matter what your status and achievements are, once you die, you will be forgotten by people within ten years; and behind you, there will always be batches of ambitious and domineering new generations emerging to take the lead.
No one... can rule the world for generations.
Of course, some things will not be forgotten as life passes. On the contrary, they will become more intense as time goes by, just like fine wine.
For example - hatred.
Shen Youran was burdened with hatred. For some reason, he vowed to avenge Gu Qizong, and the target of his 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, in fact, Shen Youran no longer pays attention or cares.
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 legal name 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 that he Wearing monk's robes, ring scars on the top of his head, beautiful 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 be on the head. If you have a ring scar, you must have achieved some achievements in spiritual practice and gained certain recognition in Buddhism before you are qualified to have the master burn the ring scar on your head.
So why is Chun Kong different from others? We have to go back to this matter...
On a snowy night sixteen years ago, Master Jichen 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 abandoned in the temple.For at least an hour or two, he kept crying due to cold and hunger. In the end, he no longer had the strength to make a sound.
At that time, Jingchen was traveling as an ascetic, relying on alms and lodging for 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. I came to a ruined temple in the wind and snow, and wanted to light a fire to heat the porridge and drink it, but I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing 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, and directly used his body temperature to warm the child. , and quickly lit a fire, carefully blew the hot porridge until it was mild, 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 root of wisdom and a clear mind. When he was five years old, Jichen finally accepted him as his disciple. His disciples gave him the Dharma name "Chunkong".
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 20s and 30s Anyone who is ten years old has to call him "little uncle".
In terms of Buddhism, Chunkong was born like a golden cicada. His brothers and sisters of the same generation always used the term "ask for advice" when talking to him about Buddhist scriptures. He went to some places based on his practice. There is no problem in giving lectures and teachings to the abbot in the small temple there.
As for 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, how profound is your Buddhist teaching before you can learn it? What level of martial arts.
Therefore, Chunkong learned one of the most superior internal skills of Zen Buddhism from elementary school: 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 belongs to the same level as "Reversing the World". As long as you practice 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 very quickly, his master "taught him a few moves casually" in terms of moves. Master Jingchen himself was better at handling the moves, so he taught Chun Kong Yi A set of Skanda Palm and a set of Great Compassionate Qianye Palm, by the way, gave him a solid foundation for Prajna Palm.
To sum up, although Chunkong’s strength is not very clear to outsiders, 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 Chunkong is the one who won this time.The biggest dark horse in the 2016 Heroes Association, but he himself has no fighting spirit at all...
In the previous literary test, Chun Kong wrote a lot of Zen stuff and handed it in. Qiao Chengshu, the "hard-faced scholar" who invigilated 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 get all byes in the first four rounds and directly enter the quarterfinals. In other words, Chunkong, who appeared in the first game of the eight-to-four round, will Before this, he had never fought in a martial arts test and had not yet demonstrated his super strength.
So in this current competition, who is the unlucky guy who wants to fight Chunkong?
Everyone 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 bottom left corner of the promotion table?
That's right...it's Lei Buji.