Mysterious Martial Arts: The Record of the Swordsman

Chapter 49
A month has passed without knowing it, and many things have passed quietly.

The ancient city of Minyue in Wuyi Mountain collapsed, and the roads in Wuyi Mountain were completely cut off. The entire Chong'an County seemed to have returned to the prehistoric and ignorant, and the interruption of commercial roads made Xiamei Town strangely quiet.

That mountain city was completely buried under the deep mountains and deep valleys. Unless someone uses the power of all people to dig it out, it will never see the sun again.

The earthquake that lasted all night will also become a lingering memory in Chong'an County and even the entire Jianning Prefecture, following the strange tales in the ancient village of Xuancoffin.

The earth-shattering earthquake is certainly frightening, but what is even more frightening is the unknown itself.

Why did the people in the martial arts disregard dissuasion and broke into the Nine Dragons Lair at night?
Why did the Qing soldiers of the brigade run from the county to the mountains collectively under the evil spirit?
Why is there a strange sound like a dragon's chant suddenly coming from the empty mountain?
Why did the military officer of the county government mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night, and was found dead in the lower reaches of Meixi after dawn, with his abdomen completely gouged out?
Why were the cliff coffins on the rocks in the deep mountains of Wuyi and the mass graves in Sanliting pried open inexplicably, and all the corpses disappeared overnight?

All sorts of weird situations happened overnight, and more rumors of strange powers and gods spread from the mouths of the townspeople, adding layers of haze to the panic-stricken people.

The people in the town agreed that the Qing soldiers were bewitched by evil spirits, so they killed all the guests in Mr. Ma Dashan's house indiscriminately, and then rushed into the mountains and were buried in a cliff.

These inspector soldiers, whose names or surnames were registered or whose identities were not recorded, completely disappeared into the vast mountains, and were sent to the county government as papers of life lawsuits.

The gate is open all day long, but the mansion has never seen any servants or magistrates entering or leaving. It was sent into the kitchen stove of the county government office, where it turned into wisps of ominous white smoke and rose to heaven.

The people in the town were terrified, but they accepted all this calmly, just like they accepted this county government office that only opened its doors at night to settle cases, dissipating all the flashy emotions in gossip.

There is a little more serenity in the sound of clappers playing at night.

As the mountain road business road was slowly repaired, the news from the outside finally came in.

The most outraged was the Qing court.

Buried in the mountains of Wuyi are not only the hopes of Shunzhi's cultivation, but also the elite soldiers who were mobilized into the mountains from the three neighboring provinces.The remnants of the soldiers who escaped by chance reported without exception that they were attacked by Shandu who was spitting out his fangs.

After seeing the brutal sprites that skinned people alive and gnawed horse bones, they all suffered from severe phobia of the woods, and even the noise of the bushes would bring them deep fear.

As a result of the emptiness of troops, Zheng Chenggong started the third Northern Expedition.

Facing the Qing army's three-way encirclement and suppression of the Yongli regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, as Chen Jinnan said, has joined forces with Zhang Huangyan to adopt the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao. Nanjing, the old capital of the Ming Dynasty, greatly eased the pressure on the Yongli regime.

At this time, as long as Nanjing is captured, the Ming Dynasty is expected to be restored, and the situation in the fight against the Qing Dynasty will be very good.

Emperor Shunzhi, who had been waiting for news from Keba for a long time, panicked. His serious illness worsened again, and he fell into a state of trance and insanity. Outside the pass, it was finally blocked by the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

At this time, the road traffic was interrupted by the earthquake. No one expected that Chen Jinnan's strategy would be so successful. Zheng Chenggong was dazzled by the victory at this time, and he only felt complacent in the face of the soon-to-be-recovered old city.

Zheng Chenggong, who thought he could capture Nanjing without bloodshed, was convinced by the Qing army's feint-surrender plan that he besieged Nanjing for a month without attacking it. In the end, he was flanked by the defenders in the city and the reinforcements mobilized by the Qing court from the two lakes. He had to retreat in a hurry. The Northern Expedition, which was close to success, ended in anticlimactic failure.

The leak that the demon monk Keba spoke of was also confirmed to be Sun Kewang, a general under the command of Emperor Yongli.After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he betrayed the reality of the Southwest Army, and by manipulating the information held by the Nanming government, he sold his former comrades to the bottom.

This time the 72 army was defeated and [-] generals were killed. Zheng Chenggong returned to Fujian, and he was not as discouraged as others.Standing on the seashore with rolling waves in Xiamen Port, he remembered the news sent by his guide He Bin: there is a big lonely island occupied by Hong Yi.

At this time, no one could have guessed that that was the place where Zheng Chenggong made his achievements—except Jiang Wen.

The gears of history have never stopped, just like the Anti-Qing Dynasty has never ended, it will always begin.

After hearing the news, Chen Jinnan left with the remnants of the Jagged Boys, or Chen Jinnan is dead, and now Zheng Chenggong's aide, Chen Yonghua, is alive—from the day he retired from the world, he will shed his false name in the world. Complete your mission well.

Jiang Wen promised that Chen Jinnan would go to Xiamen and Taiwan, and let the Dutch Hongyi experience the real martial arts of the Central Plains—such as bird guns, tiger crouching guns, and swarming bees.

The Southern Shaolin disciples who came later found Guan Hong Xiguan along the road that was badly damaged after the earthquake, and told him that someone had seen Zen Master Zhishan who had long been thought dead in Guangzhou.

The lost disciples of Shaolin are now gathering in Nanchan Temple, while the people of Wudang sect are also gathering towards Guangzhou day and night.

In the face of Wudang's increasingly obvious trend of pulling sideways, Southern Shaolin does not intend to sit still. The monk group headed by Sande monk is reorganizing the No. 30 sixth room of Southern Shaolin to train lay disciples to compete with Wudang.

It can be predicted that in the future, the city of Guangzhou will become the center of the most turbulent storm in the rivers and lakes.

Jiang Wen told Hong Xiguan that if you want to fight against the Qing Dynasty, you should not fall into the Qing government's plan to drive away wolfs and tigers. Guangdong is still gratifying to be a repeated tyrant with extremely vicious thoughts, and there is absolutely no way out if you fall into the trap.

The only way is to cooperate with Li Dingguo, the last famous general of the Yongli court in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and assist him to expand from Yunnan to Guangdong, so as to realize the real linkage between the court and the rivers and lakes, so as to earn a way out of the dead end.

In order to reassure Hong Xiguan, Jiang Wen also promised to go to Guangzhou in person when the time is right, and bring Hong Wending back for him to have a look.

Feng Daode also left.

In fact, he was the first to leave, but he found Jiang Wen alone, and warned him not to get involved in the Wudang Shaolin affairs, let alone thinking about anti-Qing and restoring Ming Dynasty, this was his advice.

For this gloomy Taoist, Jiang Wen always felt that he was full of contradictions, just like his martial arts system of half Shaolin and half Wudang.

He always does things against his own wishes and against other people's likes and dislikes, but no matter what, he will still do it without hesitation.

The result of the conversation that day was an unhappy breakup.

Feng Daode said nonchalantly that the ancient bronze sword in Jiang Wen's hand was hidden by the uncle of Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang, and should belong to Wudang.

And Jiang Wen asked him without giving an inch, do you know what Yitian Slaying Dragon Kung Fu is?Do you know the truth about the cause of their Sanfeng Patriarch's death?

The head of Jiang Da said that he would go to Wudang Mountain in person. If the other party wants to know the truth about these things, they should honestly wait for him to come to the door, and at the same time, don't tell others what he did in Wuyi Mountain.

The last ones to leave were those martial arts practitioners who escaped by chance.

Jiang Wen didn't expect these guys with big mouths to keep their secrets. Anyway, after drinking two catties of dirty wine, they would spill everything out.

But he was already prepared, and he first told these martial arts figures some inside stories, satisfying their curiosity.Since then, there have been rumors in the rivers and lakes that the Wuyi hero Qin Duanyu broke into the hall of the King of Destruction with a fragment of the World Stone in his hand, and sealed the underground demon god Jianghu.

Washed away from the restless dust, the head of Jiang University, who was alone, finally brought three apprentices back to Dawang Peak on the day of the [-] month and Gui Chou day, full of complaints, brewing the matter of establishing a sect.

(Konggu Longyin volume, final.)
(End of this chapter)