Taiping Inn

Although the Taiping Sect has closed its doors, it still has a strong presence in the martial arts world. In the final analysis, there are two reasons: one is that the Taiping Sect has established a large number of Taiping Inns and Taiping Banks, which are spread all over the place, even in the wilderness; the other is that the Taiping Sect has laid a large network in the martial arts world with Taiping Inns and Taiping Banks. Through this large network, the Taiping Sect can find out and pass on many unknown news. In addition, the Taiping Sect's divination method makes the Taiping Sect more informed of many news than the Tingfeng Tower, which makes a living from this, and the Qingluan Guard, which has become increasingly weak in recent years.

Three days after Li Xuandu and others left Penglai Island, two pieces of news spread in the martial arts world.

The first piece of news was that the old sword god Li Daoxu publicly spread the news in the martial arts world and expelled his fourth disciple Li Xuandu from the sect. However, the old sword god's words are also quite interesting. He only said that he was expelled from the sect, but did not mention the friendship between the master and the apprentice, which seems to be a lingering feeling.

The three words "Li Xuandu" are not well-known in the martial arts world. If that were the case, it would not cause much trouble in the martial arts world. However, Taiping Sect immediately changed the Shaoxuan List and ranked the latest ten people on the Shaoxuan List. Yan Feiqing, who was originally ranked first on the Shaoxuan List, dropped one place, and the top of the list became Li Xuandu. Moreover, Taiping Sect also specially noted on the list that Li Xuandu was the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal of that year.

Many people in the martial arts world who were late to realize it finally realized that it was no wonder that after the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal came out of nowhere, he was only a young man, but he could travel around Jiangbei and Heshuo with one sword. It turned out that he was a disciple of the old sword god. But then more questions came one after another. Why did the old sword god expel the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal from his master? Where did the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal go after the second year of Tianbao? Why did the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal fall from the Taixuan List and the Shaoxuan List one after another? Now that the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal has re-topped the Shaoxuan List, when can he re-enter the Taixuan List?

After Li Xuandu regained the top spot on the Shaoxuan list, the rest of the people dropped one place in turn, and a few new faces were added, namely the second person Yan Feiqing, the third person Li Taiyi, the fourth person Su Yunyan, the fifth person Gong Guan, the sixth person Qin Su, the seventh person Yu Qingning, the eighth person Zhang Yanling, the ninth person Lu Yanbing, and the tenth person Su Yunjiao.

Yan Feiqing, Su Yunyan, Gong Guan, Qin Su, Lu Yanbing and others are old faces. Yu Qingning and Li Xuandu are both returning to the Shaoxuan list. There are only three new faces who have really been added, namely: Li Taiyi from Qingwei Sect, Zhang Yanling from Zhengyi Sect, and Su Yunjiao from Cihang Sect. Especially Li Taiyi, who had no clues before, actually soared into the top three positions on the Shaoxuan list, surpassing Su Yunyan, which is really surprising.

However, news soon came out that Li Xuandu and Li Taiyi had fought swords on the Wangxian Terrace. Many famous people of Qingwei Sect, as well as Zhang Haishi and Taiwei Zhenren, all went to watch the fight. In the end, Li Xuandu won by a narrow margin. It can be seen that the gap between the top three of the Shaoxuan list is very small now, and the victory or defeat is just a hair's breadth. In this way, Qingwei Sect has three seats in the Shaoxuan list. Even if Li Xuandu is excluded, there are still two seats, which is enough to compete with Zhengyi Sect.

As for Zhang Yanling, there are also rumors in the martial arts world that he is a branch of the Zhang family. He was spotted by the Great Heavenly Master a few years ago and brought up carefully. It is reasonable that he has achieved what he has today.

Finally, there is Su Yunjiao. In terms of fame in the martial arts world, Su Yunjiao is far better than Li Taiyi and Zhang Yanling. After all, everyone knows that there are two Su fairies in the Cihang Sect, and they are specially distinguished by size. It is reasonable and unexpected that she can be on the Shaoxuan list this time. In the eyes of many people in the martial arts world, it is only a matter of time for this little fairy Su to be on the Shaoxuan list, but it should not be now. People have to wonder if Su Yunjiao has had some adventure recently.

If we look at the entire martial arts world from the Shaoxuan list, only two people from the ten evil sects are on the list. Even if we consider that this list was made by the Taiping Sect, it is inevitable that there are some biases and deviations. There are still too few outstanding young handsome men in the evil way, which makes people have to suspect that the ten evil sects are in a situation of lack of successors.

However, a great master of the evil sect once said a famous saying: "Since the people of the righteous sect say that we are the evil sect, then we accept this statement. But for some reason, I have only seen these disciples of the righteous sect fall into the evil sect, but I have never heard of any evil sect disciple turning over a new leaf. It is really strange. It seems that no matter how many young and handsome people there are in the righteous sect, they are all cultivated for us evil demons and heretics." In addition, the previous vague rumors that Li Xuan was going to marry into the Qin family further confirmed this famous saying from the side.

In addition, there are Confucianists among the three religions, headed by the three major academies. Confucianists are different from Taoism and Buddhism. They are good at cultivating the spirit of righteousness, but it is difficult to achieve it quickly, and it must be done through decades of hard work. If both of them practice for ten years, the Taoist will have achieved some success, but the Confucian will still be powerless; if they practice for thirty years, the Taoist will still have the upper hand; if they practice for fifty years, they will be evenly matched; it will take Jiazi years for the Confucian to gradually become stronger; it will take seventy years for the Confucian to have the upper hand, so the Shaoxuan List is destined to have no chance for the Confucian.

In the past few years, the world has become increasingly chaotic, and the court is no longer prosperous. After the death of the four ministers, the several major palaces have also become increasingly weak. There are very few masters like Xu Shisong and Qin Xiang, and it is really difficult to compare with the two ways of good and evil.

However, there are also rumors that there are three great priests in the three major palaces. If the three join forces, even the gods on the Laoxuan List will find it difficult to defeat them. I don't know whether it is true or not.

This is how the Jianghu is. There are all kinds of rumors flying around. Except for the real Jianghu giants and the parties involved, it is difficult for others to distinguish the truth from the false, because most of the rumors are half true and half false, and the rumors are contradictory. It is extremely difficult to unravel the truth. If you are not careful, you will get a result that runs counter to the truth.

Because of these two pieces of news, many speculations and rumors have arisen in the Jianghu. The most widely circulated one is that Li Xuandu has followed in the footsteps of Zhang Luanshan. The old sword god originally wanted to let his fourth disciple marry the eldest lady of the Qin family to form an alliance with the Butian Sect in Liaodong. Who would have thought that after seeing the eldest lady of the Qin family, the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal was fascinated and drowned in beauty and the trap of cosmetics, and finally couldn't extricate himself. This made the old sword god furious and expelled him from the sect. A legend, with details and details, as if the whole thing was witnessed, made many righteous people sigh and lament, and from then on, there was another story in the martial arts world about an evil witch seducing a righteous man into falling into evil.

Another legend originated from Zhongzhou, and the root cause was that Li Xuandu, Yan Feiqing, Su Yun'an and others joined forces to attack Zaoge Sect. So these rumors said that the old sword god was dissatisfied with Li Xuandu's friendship with Yan Feiqing, and forced him to break up with Yan Feiqing. Li Xuandu was unwilling to do so because of his friendship, so he was expelled from the sect by the old sword god.

However, compared with the previous statement, the latter statement is not so "exciting", especially many female heroes, who obviously prefer the first statement, that the Purple Mansion Sword Immortal was expelled from the sect because of Miss Qin, which made many women fascinated and envious of Miss Qin, and they all wanted a lover who was willing to break up with the sect for themselves.

At this time, Li Xuandu didn't know that he was already famous in the martial arts world. He was no longer the evil star that made people tremble with fear. Instead, he became a lover in the eyes of many women. In fact, whether it was an evil star or a lover, it was not what Li Xuandu wanted. He would kill people, but he didn't enjoy killing. He was in love with Qin Su, and he didn't think that love between men and women was the top priority in his life. If it was a peaceful and prosperous time, and he met Qin Su, maybe Li Xuandu would really go to the martial arts world with her, regardless of the struggle between good and evil, and the fighting in the martial arts world. He would travel around the world, see the mountains and rivers, and even take a boat to the sea to Posazhou and Fenglinzhou. In his spare time, playing the piano, chess, books, paintings, poems, wine, and swords, wouldn't it be beautiful? But born in a chaotic world, a real man, with a body of seven feet, how could he not want to serve the country and save the world? That's why he would ridicule Ning Yi, and he would also be prejudiced against those who were determined to escape from the world and live in seclusion to seek freedom.

This time, Li Xuandu went to see Yu Qingning not just for the Xiao family's affairs. Since the Qingwei Sect could not be changed, he had to start from other aspects, eradicate the traitors, recover the country, and seek peace in the world. The righteous sects headed by the Zhengyi Sect were undoubtedly a better direction.

When Li Xuandu and his party returned to Langya Prefecture, Yu Qingning and his party had already arrived here and were waiting for them at the Governor's Office.