The years when I explored the fairyland.

Chapter 83 81: Guarding Order

Sure enough, in the following days, things developed almost exactly as they expected.

More and more people from the martial arts world gathered in Baisha City. They registered and received their badges, which meant they had chosen sides.

There were also those famous independent masters, small sects like Xuanzhen Temple, and powerful ghostwriters. No matter how much they didn't want to get involved in this fight, they all received invitations from Yunya Sword Sect and Wenxiang Temple.

You read that right, both parties sent it!
So, this is an 'either-or' choice. As long as you still want to stay in Tianquan County, there is no third possibility.

Of course, as masters, they enjoy certain preferential treatments, at least they are more prestigious than those casual players.

When these people enter Baisha City, choose their "camp", and accept missions, there will be repeated attacks, ambushes, and countless life-and-death battles...

The central area of ​​Baisha City, which was demarcated by the agreement, has long been deserted of civilians. Instead, it has become a battlefield for martial artists to fight each other and a meat grinder where lives are harvested.

Sometimes, Chu Zhou felt that the scene before his eyes was quite magical. He even found it difficult to understand why the situation had developed to this point.
Why did the small city of Baisha become the center of conflict?

But maybe it is true that novels are about logic, while reality is full of absurdity.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the government’s response was timely and strong.

Those joint teams were a mixture of martial artists from martial arts schools, soldiers, constables, yamen runners, and even gang members. They were all wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, holding bows and crossbows, and patrolled the streets over and over again.

They naturally had no control over the battlefield in the center of the city, but in other areas, they worked in three shifts for twelve hours without stopping.

The patrol density is so high that they have to make a circle every quarter of an hour.

The density was so high that it made everyone in the martial arts world feel numb.

That’s not even counting the expert team composed of Lianzang martial artists and disciples of Xuanzhen Temple. As long as the signal is sent, they can arrive in the shortest time possible.

And Chu Zhou, the man in straw raincoat and bamboo hat sitting in the back.

Any true master or skilled martial artist would be happy to chat with others and talk about life.

Let’s learn some martial arts at the same time!
Of course, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world who always think of poisoning, sneak attacking, assassinating, or assaulting others while they are eating or sleeping.

Regardless of whether they succeed or fail, as long as they take action, they will be wanted by the government.

In today's Baisha City, the government has extended its tentacles to every street and every household through patrol teams, constables, gangs, martial arts schools and families, and almost all the movements on the streets are turned into information collection.

As long as these people do not have Luo Gan's ability to hide, they cannot escape the surveillance of the people.

Then, when it is time to attack, attack; when it is time to kill, kill; when it is time to hang a body, hang the body without showing any weakness.

With such strength as a guarantee, and a group of martial arts people also need a stable environment to eat and rest, the order in Baisha City was barely maintained.

Of course, this process is not always smooth.

There were some warriors who thought that they were meddling in other people's business, so they gathered their experts to launch several attacks, but they were all badly defeated by Chu Zhou.

Especially after one incident when four martial artists attacked at the same time, two were killed and two were injured, this kind of thing almost never happened again.

Over time, the name of Chu Zhou, the master of Xuanzhen Temple, became more and more famous, and the order in Baisha City became better and better.

Nowadays, even if they belong to two different parties, if they meet in a restaurant, they will just look at each other, say a few trash words to each other, and will never fight.

It is worth mentioning that the arrival of a large number of people from the underworld also stimulated consumption.

Especially since these people are not short of money, and with the government's fine-tuning of prices, Baisha City appears to be in an abnormally prosperous state.

There was a labor shortage in many restaurants and teahouses, and those shop owners offered wages far beyond the ordinary to attract tenants and civilians from the surrounding areas to work there.

As a result, many people made money, and Baisha City began to prosper.

As time went by, when order was gradually recognized and accepted by everyone, Chu Zhou and his friends' lives became much calmer.

Time passed in this calm yet intense state, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

……

night,
Government office, in a room.

Chu Zhou flipped through the thick letters, and whenever he was interested in something, he would stop and read it carefully.

These letters all came from Wei Jinkui, and they mainly contained information about his disciples' investigations outside.

There are reports about the situation in Anyue City, Yunya Sword Sect and Wenxiang Temple, as well as the situation in various parts of Tianquan County...

In a sense, Wei Jinkui was responsible for collecting external information. Almost all of his disciples were sent out, and through Wei Jinkui's network of relationships in Husha Pavilion, they found out some public information.

In fact, they had not agreed to use letters to convey information before, but given the situation in Baisha City, it seemed uncertain whether Chu Zhou and the others could return.

Therefore, Chu Zhou made an agreement with Wei Jinkui to communicate via letters.

The first letter he received was about the secret technique of the blue butterfly of Taoist Qingjing. It was obvious that this person was not an ordinary person.

Chu Zhou was already somewhat certain that this person was sent by the Alien Alliance, but he couldn't figure it out. If the other party was seeking revenge for the Broken Taoist, why didn't he make any move for such a long time?

Instead, he helped Xuanzhen Temple deal with a member of the Red Lotus Sect?
This made Chu Zhou very confused, but no matter what, Chu Zhou didn't have time to pay attention to him now, so he just left him there. Now, Chu Zhou paused in his reading, took out another page from the letter, and read it carefully.

This letter contains information about the county lord Ji Mingqian.

Before, Chu Zhou asked Wei Jinkui to inquire about it, and now he finally got the news. After reading it carefully, Chu Zhou roughly understood Ji Mingqian's situation.

At the beginning of the Dayun Dynasty, in order to consolidate the local political power, many royal family members were sent out and conferred titles of vassal kings.

In terms of results, it was certainly effective, but later it also led to rebellion among the kings and the struggle for the throne.

By this time, although the local princes were still in existence, their power had been greatly weakened. Not only were they deprived of their military power, but most of them were also restricted in their personal freedom.

For example, one cannot leave the fiefdom without an imperial edict.

However, although they did not have to provide soldiers, they were given enough money and power within the fiefdom.

Therefore, the most common thing that vassal kings like King Zhou of Chishui Prefecture did was to exert themselves on women.

That is to say, concubines were married one after another, and children were born one after another.

King Ji Guoyan of Zhou had nearly seventy children. Excluding those who did not survive, there were thirty male heirs and twenty-eight female heirs.

And these are just the current numbers, not counting those who are already pregnant but have not yet given birth.

With so many offspring, they are naturally less valuable. Except for the few legitimate children of Princess Zhou, the others can only be said to be good as long as they are alive.

Ji Mingqian was the 25th son. He was neither up nor down in status, so naturally he was not favored. Moreover, his mother was a singer, and he was only taken into the palace because of her beauty.

It was only because she was favored a few times that she became pregnant, otherwise she would have been sold to an unknown place long ago.

Without the support of his maternal family and not favored himself, one can imagine what kind of life Ji Mingqian had as a child.
Apart from having enough food and drink and the right to receive education, in other aspects, he is not even as good as ordinary kids from wealthy families.

At least, ordinary rich kids won’t be bullied by their elder brothers at home, let alone by servants.

It was under such circumstances that Ji Mingqian, through his hard work, was able to pass the imperial examinations and even passed the palace examination, becoming a Jinshi.

To be honest, in a place like the Zhou Palace, there are far more people who have achieved some success in martial arts than those who study hard to take imperial examinations, and Ji Mingqian is one of them.

Moreover, for some unknown reason, Ji Mingqian was envied and excluded by his elder brother, the eldest son of the Zhou Palace, so he was exiled to Baisha County and only got the position of county magistrate.

This matter is considered public news in the capital of Chishui Prefecture.

Nowadays, there are rumors about the chaos in Tianquan County and the struggle between the two major sects. The reason is that the imperial court has been turning a blind eye to it and has not come to a conclusion.

Well, Chu Zhou also agreed that Ji Mingqian really did not lie to him.

If he had not been the 25th son of King Zhou, his job as a county magistrate would probably have been smoother.

So, sometimes being born into a royal family is not necessarily a good thing.

After reading the letter, Chu Zhou couldn't help but shook his head.

After all, the level that Wei Jinkui can reach is limited, and the information he can obtain is only so much.

However, he was completely unable to piece together the complete situation in Chishui Prefecture through this information, let alone predict what the two major sects in Tianquan County would do next.

Shaking his head, Chu Zhou threw all these out of his mind. Then, he stood up, kicked off his shoes and socks, and stood on the ground barefoot.

Then, he walked to the wall, stretched out his hand slightly, and pressed his five fingers on the wall. Then he bent over, jumped lightly, and stepped his feet on the wall.

Just like that, he was hanging on the wall.

But this is not the end. He twisted his body slightly, stretched his limbs, and began to crawl all over the wall, like a gecko, changing direction at will.

When he encounters a place with pendants, he will even use the strength of his limbs to jump directly over. When he reaches the other side, he will press the wall with both hands and step on it barefoot.

If you look closely, you can easily find that the small muscle groups in his fingers and toes, where they are touching the wall, have been mobilized to the extreme, forming a spiral force that acts like a suction cup, keeping him stuck to the wall.

This is what he learned from the "Gecko Wall-Crawling Technique". He can walk on upright or even outward-leaning walls at will, just like a gecko.

Of course, the authentic Gecko Wall Climbing Technique actually uses a special method of operating internal force to form a suction cup, but Chu Zhou is more direct and achieves this effect by manipulating small muscle groups.

In fact, this martial art is not practical for Chu Zhou.

Because, even if there is a cliff thousands of feet high, he can just step on the air and jump up directly.

But it still made him feel very interesting.

When the muscles, skin and bones grow strong to a certain level, the functions and effects that can be developed are actually far beyond his imagination.

Of course, this is just one of his gains during this period.

　The first update is here...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)