I'm here in the martial arts world just to find love.

Jiang Chao naturally knew how much his words would impact the naive young girls of this era.

He said this for one reason: after that separation, he had indeed missed the girl he had fallen in love with at first sight for a long time.

On the other hand, it was to leave a deep impression on the girl.

She made sure that no one else could catch her eye anymore.

After all, he was about to embark on a journey through the martial world.

The world of martial arts is bound to be filled with swords and shadows. Liu Yiyi comes from a respectable family and is gentle and weak. She is not suitable to roam the world with him, nor is it safe for her.

So he came to confess his love to the girl, to make her understand his feelings for her, and then, when they were both adults, he would come back to marry her.

This is certainly a bit selfish, even a bit despicable.

But there was no other way; the world was so vast, and he wanted to go and see it.

His life had been too smooth for the past sixteen years. So smooth that he even felt a little bored, so he wanted to go out and see some different scenery.

As the saying goes, "Peach blossoms and spring breeze, a cup of wine; rivers and lakes, night rain, ten years of lamplight."

He also wanted to see what the world was really like.

To leave too many regrets for the rest of one's life.

"Yiyi, your flowers and plants here are so beautiful, can I take some with me?"

The sudden words rang in her ears, and Liu Yiyi, whose mind had been blank, finally came back to her senses.

She looked at the boy holding the tree branch, who had just been expressing his longing for her, and now looked eager to try his luck. A bad feeling immediately rose in the girl's heart, and she quickly said:

  

"Don't……"

But it was too late. The boy used a tree branch as a sword, swung his arm, and swept it across the rare and precious plant she had carefully nurtured.

brush!

Pink and purple flowers and emerald green leaves fluttered in the air and scattered all over the ground.

"what!"

The girl let out a heart-wrenching scream, followed by an outburst of barely suppressed rage.

"Jiang! Chao!"

The mischievous boy laughed heartily, tossed the branch in his hand aside, grabbed Jiang Duohonghua, and rose into the air from the courtyard.

The boy's voice came from afar:

"Yiyi, don't be angry. In three years, I'll give you a sea of ​​flowers. Please wait for me."

After releasing her pent-up emotions, the girl stared blankly at the mess on the ground. After a long while, she finally chuckled.

"You scoundrel, who's waiting for you!"

……

Jiang Chao fled the Liu family's residence as if escaping, landing in a deserted alley. He patted his chest, thinking to himself how close he had come to disaster.

Although he was adept at sweet talk, he knew nothing about love. All the words he had prepared were left unsaid after he was alone with the girl.

He was so suffocated that his internal energy circulation became sluggish, and he almost suffered a qi deviation.

That's why, out of desperation, they found an excuse to vent their anger on those innocent flowers and plants.

"Sigh, I hope Yiyi won't hold a grudge against me."

Jiang Chao sighed, only then remembering that his mount, the white dragon horse, was still tied up in the Liu family's stable.

The boy slapped his forehead and muttered to himself:

"Forget it, let's just consider it a token of our love. It's too conspicuous for Xiaobai to follow me around the world, and it's not really appropriate."

Qingzhou City is a large city with a large population, a bustling commercial hub, and is very prosperous.

As Jiang Chao's first stop in the martial arts world, Qingzhou City was a melting pot of all sorts of people and a great starting point.

However, this is, after all, the territory of Fengxue Temple. The martial arts practitioners here dare not act recklessly because of the prestige of Fengxue Temple. Therefore, although there are many martial arts practitioners in the city, there are very few troublemakers.

Jiang Chao's purpose in coming here was to cause trouble for the Qin family, so he couldn't just go straight to their door and kill the entire family.

Everything needs a set rules, and upholding justice and punishing evil is no exception.

He needs to first find out about the Qin family's various misdeeds and expose their crimes to the public before he can take action in a justifiable way.

Anyway, the government these days is inactive and can't be relied on at all, so we have to take matters into our own hands.

Jiang Chao was quite confident in his own martial arts skills.

He might not be able to handle a grandmaster like his father who had been famous for a long time, but he was more than capable of dealing with ordinary martial arts masters.

He was hailed as the "prodigy of Jiangnan," and that reputation was well-deserved.

He had mastered the Snowstorm Sword Technique in the Snowstorm Temple by the age of twelve, and even created a new sword technique based on it.

The only problem is that the sword technique hasn't been named yet.

He doesn't like names that are too common or cliché.

He couldn't think of anything unconventional, so he had to put it aside for the time being.

In the words of his father, Grandmaster Jiang Buwen, he was just being pretentious.

Despite possessing such talent for swordsmanship, he spends his days idly, wasting his talent.

Jiang Chao didn't care at all and continued to do as he pleased.

He didn't want to practice swordsmanship, which was so hard and tiring.

That's enough to roam the martial arts world; why bother becoming the best in the world?

Speaking of the best in the world, I heard that there is a sword genius in Beiman Mountain who, at a young age, has already become a junior master. His swordsmanship can cause strange phenomena in the world.

He is expected to reach the level of a grandmaster in swordsmanship in the future.

If he has the chance in the future, he should get to know the other person better and make friends with them.

However, let's leave it at that for now. The feud between Beiman and Daliang is quite serious.

Either you seize my border and plunder my people, or I slaughter your cities and steal your grain; the fighting becomes fierce and evenly matched.

As someone who's just navigating the world on my own, there's no need for me to get involved in the conflicts between two countries.

Jiang Chao wandered around Qingzhou City for two days and easily gathered a lot of information about the Qin family.

Speaking of the Qin family, like the Liu family, they are both prominent families in Qingzhou City. It is said that in the early years, the Qin family had a general among their ancestors.

That general was renowned for his military exploits and was posthumously honored as the Great General Protector of the Nation.

Unfortunately, these are all things of the past, belonging to a previous dynasty.

The Qin family of Qingzhou today is just an ordinary family with a slightly deeper foundation than other aristocratic families, nothing more.

If there's anything special about the Qin family, it's that they have many descendants, unlike the Jiang family, where he is the only son in his generation.

The reason why the Qin family has committed so many atrocities in the past six months is actually quite simple: it is mainly to live up to the title of "Prince Consort".

Qingzhou is thousands of miles away from the capital. In addition, transportation was inconvenient and information transmission was extremely slow in those days. Naturally, the Qin family relied on the status of the future imperial son-in-law to ignore the existence of other forces and acted recklessly.

As for how the Qin family's nephews were chosen by the royal family to be the emperor's sons-in-law, this story begins with a tribute item.

It is said that...

It is unknown where the Qin family obtained this treasure. It is said that this item is an ancient relic that can not only prolong life, but also bring back those who are seriously ill from the underworld.

A year ago, upon hearing that the current sage was critically ill, the Qin family immediately presented this item to him. It is said that the sage is now clinging to life by that treasure.

Upon learning the reason, Jiang Chao thought to himself, "No wonder."

Given the Qin family's power and position, vying for the position of imperial son-in-law is truly a pipe dream.

Their success was probably all thanks to that precious treasure.

That's just pure luck.

Upon learning these inside stories, Jiang Chao did not immediately take action against the Qin family of Qingzhou, nor did he stand up for the persecuted and oppressed people like other chivalrous heroes. Instead, he planned to continue to observe for a while.

It wasn't that he was afraid of the Qin family's power. Given his status, even with the royal family's backing, the Qin family couldn't really do anything to him. After all, the Fengxue Temple was aloof from the world, and the Yu family was incredibly wealthy. Even the royal family would have to think twice before taking action against him for the sake of a small family like the Qin family, or for the sake of the so-called royal face.

In an era rife with martial arts sects, where heroes used their martial arts to defy the law and local government power was lax, a martial arts grandmaster who could disregard the imperial guards and freely enter and leave the palace was undoubtedly someone not to be trifled with.

There has always been a delicate balance between the imperial court and the common people. No one would be foolish enough to break this balance, otherwise the destruction of the country would be more than just a matter of words.

All dynasties have followed this path, and the Great Liang, which had been established for less than a hundred years, was no exception.