Spring and Autumn Confucian Heroes

Chapter 5 Secret
On the trail, Huan Chang walked slowly towards a village with his painting basket on his back.

"Achang, I think you look pretty good these past few months."

Recently, Yang Feng heard about his brother's reputation in the countryside, and felt very curious, so he wanted to follow Huan Chang to see it with his own eyes.

But what puzzled him was that Huan Chang was very eager to practice martial arts before, but now he didn't mention it. Instead, he followed his master's advice and immersed himself in calligraphy and painting every day.

Huan Chang smiled and didn't answer.

Breaking the rules of practice and entering the Tao in an alternative way, even for many warriors, this matter is unheard of.

Although Yang Feng was instructed by Xu Wang and became a warrior at the peak of the hall, after all, he still has little knowledge and doesn't understand these things at all.

In fact, Shujian Pavilion has always been a single pass.

Xu Wang just pointed at Yang Feng casually, but he didn't treat him as a disciple.

Even if Yang Feng wanted to become an outer disciple, he didn't have that qualification at all.

In the past, Huan Chang may not have understood the true meaning of the three words Shu Jiange, and he did not know how powerful his sect was.

He also asked the master, but Xu Wang always frowned, and he didn't want to talk too much about things related to the sect.

Xu Wang avoided talking about sect matters, and Huan Chang became more and more curious.

Don't forget that Huan Chang has been reading poetry and books since he was a child. Although his family is not very rich, he has a lot of books.

Huan Chang didn't get any useful information from Xu Wang, so he kept looking through various classics, trying to find out the records about Shujian Pavilion.

Although there are many books in the family, Huan Chang searched almost all the books, but he couldn't find a word about Shujiange.

For a while, Huan Chang even felt that the sect he belonged to had no reputation at all.

But unintentionally, Huan Chang found a yellowed book from a corner, and when he saw the contents, he was shocked.

This yellowed book not only mentioned Shu Jiange, but also recorded a history that was deliberately erased.

In the mainland of Kyushu, 2000 years have passed since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty and the enfeoffment of the princes of the world until today.

800 years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the once glorious empire has completely declined. Instead, the vassal states that were enfeoffed at the beginning have gradually become stronger.

The prosperity of the princes naturally brought ambition and war.

The princes have reformed their internal affairs and trained their troops one after another, and the countries have continued to conquer each other, and the people are in dire straits.

The war has promoted the development of martial arts. When one after another of the talented and brilliant people got tired of the war, they hid in the deep mountains and old forests to practice.

Not only these martial arts masters, but also many common people hid in the mountains to avoid the war.

Those martial arts masters naturally wanted to find disciples and pass on what they had learned in their lives, and gradually formed one school after another.

These sects do not obey the discipline of the princes, but they will not interfere in the state affairs of the princes. They study martial arts every day and pursue the ultimate Tao.

It is also because the various sects are obsessed with studying martial arts that the martial arts began to prosper, and the powerhouses of the sects far surpassed the vassal states.

The rise of the sect did not attract the attention of the princes at first.

However, martial arts developed to a certain level, and the lethality of the top masters became stronger and stronger, which finally aroused the vigilance of the princes, and also attracted the princes' suppression of the sects in the country.

There was a vassal who once sent troops to wipe out a large faction in the territory, but he unexpectedly got into trouble.

The first elder of this sect is an extremely strong man at the peak of transformation.

This man entered the palace alone with a single sword, beheaded the monarch first, and then killed all 38 members of the princes' clan, and then under the siege of [-] elite soldiers, killed half of them and retreated.

After this battle, the world was shocked.

Although the princes know that after a long time of metamorphosis among the various sects, those who are at the peak of martial arts have reached an appalling level.

But no one thought that the real superpower would be so terrifying.

The pressure brought by the sects made the princes fearful, and they stopped the war one after another, wanting to obtain the cultivation methods of the various sects.

However, the wariness of the major sects towards the princes is extremely strong, and the acceptance of disciples is also very strict.

Not only that, since the top fighters in martial arts showed their skills, the sects that were indifferent to the world at the beginning also showed their sharp fangs.

They stand on their own in the land and refuse to obey the discipline of the princes.

Dapai disciples also often travel around the world, and whenever they encounter injustice, no matter what the status of the other party is, they dare to take care of it.

Some vassals and monarchs ruled brutally, and some warriors even dared to openly assassinate the monarchs, regardless of the vassal laws.

Such a group of warriors were finally crowned with the title of 'Xia' and respected by the world.

Not only that, every kind of martial arts is a kind of Tao, and martial arts, Tao and life are also closely related. The emergence of martial arts also gave birth to a large number of Confucian scholars.

These Confucian scholars expounded Taoism with martial arts, practiced martial arts with Taoism, created their own schools of thought, promoted truth, goodness and beauty, and promoted their own Taoism among the vassal states.

Confucianism builds morality with literature, and chivalry helps the world with martial arts.

That era was the most glorious time in the Kyushu Continent. Although the princes were in a dominant position, they were trembling and did not dare to act at will.

Some are just open minded and energetic chivalrous men.

However, time can change many things.

Even those Confucian scholars who entered Taoism with martial arts, as well as knights who have been praised by the world, will have a bad day.

Power, fame, and desire have corrupted a large number of people after all.

The rise of sects and the deterioration of Confucian scholars and knights made the princes miserable.

Those powerful super sects can even decide the life and death of a vassal state on their own.

When Confucian scholars do not only pursue Taoism, when knights walk the world not only for righteousness, when various sects divide one side and obstruct the princes' government orders.

In the past, Confucianism used literature to establish morality, and chivalry used martial arts to help the world, and finally evolved into Confucianism using literature to disrupt law, and chivalry to use martial arts to violate prohibitions.

There are even powerful sects manipulating some small vassal states, letting them launch wars to expand their power, to promote their own sect's understanding of the Tao, and to expand the sect's influence.

Driven by desire, the mainland of Kyushu, which had been peaceful for 400 years, finally began to be in endless war again.

After 300 years of war, the once large and small vassal states have become fewer and fewer, and the population of the Kyushu mainland has dropped dramatically.

As for those sects, large and small, there are more and more of them.

The abnormal development of the sects finally angered the princes of the world.

Heroes emerge from troubled times.

300 years ago, five unrivaled heroes emerged, they are Duke Huan of Qi, Duke Xiang of Song, Duke Wen of Jin, Duke Mu of Qin, and King Zhuang of Chu.

These five vassals were the most powerful vassal states at that time.

After secretly accumulating power and uniting some people with lofty ideals, the princes finally launched the most violent counterattack against the various sects.

At that time, although many sects stirred up the situation in the world, there were still some sects who were devoted to the Tao, hiding in the world and not caring about world affairs.

Although this hidden sect has a small population, the masters in the sect are very terrifying.

The five princes secretly contacted the five hermit sects, understood them with emotion, moved them with reason, and finally won the support of the five hermit sects.

In this way, the overlords who had planned for a long time, combined with the top experts of the five hidden world sects, set off a bloody storm on the mainland of Kyushu.

Many sects that betrayed their purpose were completely wiped out in that battle, and even some super sects almost perished.

"Hey."

Thinking of the records in that book, Huan Chang sighed deeply. He did not expect such a secret to exist in the Kyushu Continent.

However, when the book recorded here, it also came to an abrupt end.

As for the war between the five princes and sects, who will win and who will lose has not been written down.

"Once the five major vassal states, Qin State has been reduced to a small state. Although Song State still exists, it has changed its master."

"As for the powerful state of Jin, it was completely subjugated and split into three states: Zhao, Wei, and Han."

"From this point of view, the princes should have lost that battle."

Although Huan Chang had thought about this, but when he thought of the major sects today, he was still a little uncertain.

After all, although the princes do not dare to easily provoke the major sects nowadays, they are not as unscrupulous as they were 300 years ago.

It seems that these sects have also been restrained.

More importantly, the hermit sects that followed the five princes did not perish. If you think about it this way, it seems that the major sects did not win.

Huan Chang could imagine that if the major sects really won the battle, the five hidden sects that helped the princes would definitely be razed to the ground.

But at least, although Shujian Pavilion is hidden in the world, it has not been destroyed after all.

That's right, the five hidden sects that helped the princes at the beginning included Shujian Pavilion, which was Huan Chang's sect.

According to a few words in the book, the suzerain of Shujiange followed Song Xianggong at that time, and was besieged by masters of eight hundred sects.

But in that battle, the Suzerain of Shujian Pavilion held a pen in his left hand and a sword in his right hand, guarding Song Xianggong closely, never leaving a single step.

After the First World War, more than half of the eight hundred masters were killed or injured, and the rest were all terrified and fled in embarrassment.

It should be noted that these 800 people are not ordinary soldiers, but real masters, and the worst one is a strong man in the burglary realm.

Even, it is not uncommon for even the most powerful people in the realm of metamorphosis.However, the suzerain of Shujian Pavilion is still killing the Quartet, and his demeanor shines on Kyushu.

From this, we can see how terrifying the original Shujian Pavilion suzerain was.

"Shujian Pavilion is almost a single lineage, and each generation of disciples must have the best strength in the world to be eligible to inherit the mantle of Shujian Pavilion."

There was a light in Huan Chang's eyes, and there was yearning and longing in it.

He knew that the master didn't explain the past of Shujiange to him because he didn't want to put pressure on him.But since Huan Chang is the descendant of the contemporary Shu Jiange, he naturally has to shoulder the important task of revitalizing the sect.

After all, since the battle in 300 years, there have been no rumors that Shujian Pavilion is on the mainland of Kyushu.

The glorious past seemed to have been deliberately erased.

A firm look flashed in Huan Chang's eyes, he clenched his fists and thought: "Shujian Pavilion, absolutely can't be so unknown!"

(End of this chapter)