Golden Greenery

It is said that if you live to a certain level, you can sense some signals from the underworld. One month before his death, Xu Zhu clearly felt that his life was approaching. So Xu Zhu didn't wake up from his sleep on this sunny morning, and Yang Yi was actually mentally prepared.

Ten years after leaving Guangmingding, where he had lived in seclusion for most of his life, Xu Zhu died. This low-key martial arts legend lived a full hundred years old.

According to Xu Zhu's last words, Yang Yi and Wang Zhe took his ashes back to Shaoshi Mountain and buried them on a hillside overlooking the Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest. In the Pagoda Forest was the former abbot of Shaolin Temple, Zen Master Xuanci, who was Xu Zhu's biological father.

During the ten years since he returned to the Central Plains, Xu Zhu had been anonymous and only did three things.

The first was that he taught Wang Zhe and Lin Chaoying the martial arts of Xiaoyao Sect. Xu Zhu never accepted any disciples in his life, and they were the only ones who could be regarded as his personal disciples. However, since Wang Zhe and A Diao were of the same generation as Yang, they were not masters and disciples of Xu Zhu in terms of status, but only had a 'guidance' relationship.

Although I don't care about Jianghu matters, since I am a Jianghu person, I still have to follow some Jianghu rules. However, everyone is not a rigid person who must follow rules and regulations.

In fact, Xu Zhu taught them both martial arts initially because Wang Zhe couldn't beat A Diao.

Wang Zhe is very decent-looking. He may be a little less fairy-like than Lu Yan, but he is more heroic. Moreover, he is not only a scholar who has achieved fame, but also a rebel leader who has led troops on the battlefield. He has a genuine civil and military temperament.

Love always comes so unexpectedly. A Diao said that she likes Wang Zhe because she wants to be his Taoist companion.

Persian women are much more straightforward in expressing their emotions than women in the Song Dynasty. Although A Diao was embarrassed to confess to Wang Zhe directly, she still clearly told her sister Akademo her thoughts.

On the way back from Persia, Yang Yi always said that he would find a good man for A Diao who was worthy of her. Obviously, Wang Zhe is such a good man of good quality.

Yang Yi went to talk to Wang Zhe as a matchmaker, but the good man hesitated and refused.

His reason was, "The Tatars have not been exterminated, so why get married?" Maybe this was his selfless and noble spirit of dedication, but it was also possible that he felt that A Diao was a Persian girl, and suddenly he couldn't accept it.

Although Wang Zhe is a strange man, he has not traveled to many places like Yang Yi. Without Yang Yi's worldly vision and structure, he still cannot escape the slightly narrow self-esteem of Central Plains men.

In fact, from the perspective of the Central Plains people, except for the Song people themselves, all barbarians are pan-Tatars, including the Persians. Wang Zhe was determined to expel the Tartars, but now he was suddenly asked to accept a Tatar captive.

It does require a psychological adjustment process.

Yang Yi meant that there was no rush and feelings could be cultivated slowly, but Wang Zhe's polite refusal hurt A Diao's self-esteem. The murderous Protector of the Saint's Palace couldn't swallow this breath, so she directly knocked on the door.

Wang Zhe never beat her. He and Zhou Botong couldn't beat A Diao together, and they lost in disgrace.

This time Wang Zhe was even more unwilling. Such an unruly and rude wife was so inconsistent with the aesthetics and family values ​​of Central Plains men. Therefore, A Diao would beat him from time to time, beating Wang Zhe so much that he simply hid and hid in the Tomb of the Living Dead.

The Tomb of the Living Dead is located three miles away from Wang Zhe's small courtyard. It was a secret bunker he built specifically to store food and weapons when he launched an uprising. The underground building built according to the mountain has a large space inside and is winding. If decorated properly, it can look like an underground palace.

A Diao broke into the Tomb of the Living Dead and drove Wang Zhe out.

Wang Zhe was so angry that he was shaking all over. Yang Yi and A Ke looked sad and didn't know what to do. If there is an old man in the family who has a treasure, Xu Zhu said to Wang Zhe: I will teach you martial arts. It will be easier if you can beat her first.

Wang Zhe's martial arts is mediocre, and he can't blame "Nine Yin Manual", but Yang Yi. Because Yang Yi's knowledge of martial arts was too broad, and because he was compiling the vast Taoist classic "Wanshou Taoist Canon" when he wrote the "Nine Yin Manual", it was inevitable that it would be contaminated by some Taoist esoteric metaphysical descriptions, resulting in the "Nine Yin Manual". It is not easy to be understood, and the starting point for learning is very high.

Let’s take football in later generations as an example. It's like Zhuo Yang wrote a scoring textbook to explain how to shoot from various angles and positions, but he did all this from the standpoint of a football super genius.

Because some moves look so simple to Zhuoyang that even a dog can do it, but in fact most players may not be able to do it. For example, if there are two defenders double-teaming, Zhuo Yang will think that it is enough to get past them.

Moreover, this football textbook is written in traditional Chinese.

Wang Zhe had no martial arts enlightenment before he came into contact with the "Nine Yin Manual", and he had no one to guide him during the learning process. He relied entirely on his own guessing. So he has no problem beating ordinary martial arts masters, but A Diao is not an ordinary person.

Yang Yi didn't have time to teach anyone martial arts anymore. He was no longer immortal. He suddenly felt that life was short and time was fleeting. He didn't want to waste any more time practicing his own martial arts. Jiang was still too old, Xu Zhu taught Wang Zhe Xiaoyao sect martial arts, and also taught him the "Nine Yin Manual" which he had already studied deeply, and at the same time continued to teach these to A Diao.

So, the fight was still a fight, but it turned into a discussion of mutual improvement, no matter how you look at it, there was ambiguity in it.

Now that Xu Zhu was taking care of them, Yang Yi and A Ke, who had been searching for inspiration in Zhongnan Mountain for two years without success, relaxed and traveled hand in hand across the great rivers of the Central Plains. This journey lasted for six years.

The second thing Xu Zhu did was to return the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and the Dog Beating Stick Technique to the Beggar Clan, comforting his sworn brother Qiao Feng, and fulfilling his greatest wish.

More than seventy years ago, Qiao Feng was the ninth leader of the Beggar Clan. Only seventy years later, the leader of the Beggar Clan has reached the eighteenth generation. Especially during the more than 20 years since the Jurchens from the Jin Kingdom went south, the Beggar Gang, which led the northern people to resist bravely, has had six gang leaders change at random, and all of them died in battle.

While teaching Wang Zhe and A Diao martial arts, Xu Zhu visited many times and finally found the 18th generation gang leader who had just taken office. He was a very young beggar leader named Hong Xiangyang. His parents were kidnapped to the north during the Jingkang period. Song Dynasty people.

In other words, Hong Xiangyang was born into a slave family in the Jin Kingdom, and five of his six previous brothers were killed by Jin people during Jingkang.

Later, after his parents died, young Hong Xiangyang killed the slave owners of the Jin Kingdom and fought all the way back to the Central Plains. He had no food and clothing and was taken in by a beggar gang. Because he was originally the seventh eldest child in his family, everyone called him "Hong Qi" according to custom.

When Xu Zhu found him, Hong Qi, who had just turned 20, became the gang leader, not for any other reason but because he was the most capable fighter among the beggar gang whose martial arts had declined. After Xu Zhu taught him the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and the Dog Fighting Stick Technique as an "old friend of the rivers and lakes", Hong Qi became even better at fighting, and he became the first person since Qiao Feng more than seventy years ago. The leader of the Beggar Clan who has mastered two high-end martial arts skills.

The third thing is that Xu Zhu did not revise the "Nine Yin Manual" because he felt that Master's writing was very good, profound and profound. Xu Zhu is a person who really knows things and can really understand. He believes that there is no need to change a word, and it cannot be changed.

Inspired by the "Nine Yin Manual", Xu Zhu summarized his vast martial arts thoughts in his life according to the principle of yin and yang in the "Nine Yin Manual", integrating Shaolin Temple, Xiaoyao Sect, and Dragon Subduing Palm, and also Including many things about Yang Yi and Dugu Qiubai, Xu Zhu compiled these essences into a volume and also wrote a book.

Looking at the Master's "Nine Yin Manual", he named his book "Nine Yang Manual".

Xu Zhu is a low-key person, even more low-key than his master. In order to make up for his guilt for the martial arts community in the Central Plains, and to repay the kindness of Shaolin Temple for raising him, Xu Zhu found a time to sneak into Shaolin Temple secretly, and stuffed his "Nine Yang Manual" into the sea of ​​books in the library, waiting for it. Destined person.

While Xu Zhu was doing all this, Yang Yi and A Ke were wandering around looking for inspiration. The two of them held hands and were just a couple of gods, not entangled in any worldly affairs or world affairs. Saint Ake didn't even bring her holy fire bow, but the sun and moon harp.

When they returned to Zhongnan Mountain, A Diao and Wang Zhe were still fighting, and they had turned into a team.