The years when I explored the fairyland

Sure enough, in the following days, the development of the matter was almost the same as they expected.

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

In addition, those famous independent masters, small sects like Xuanzhen Temple, and powerful ghostwriters, no matter if they did not want to get involved in this fight, they all received invitations from Yunya Sword Sect and Wenxiang Temple.

You read it right, both sides sent invitations!

So, this is an "either this or that" choice. As long as you still want to stay in Tianquan County, there is no third possibility.

Of course, as masters, they have certain preferential treatments, at least they are more respectable than those independent Jianghu people.

When these people entered Baisha City, chose their "camps", and accepted the missions, there would be repeated attacks, ambushes, and countless life-and-death battles...

The central area of ​​Baisha City, the area divided by the agreement, had long been devoid of civilians. Instead, it became a battlefield for martial artists to fight and a meat grinder for harvesting lives.

Sometimes, Chu Zhou felt that the scene in front of him was quite magical. He even found it difficult to understand why the situation had developed to this point?

Why did the small Baisha City become the center of the fight?

But perhaps it was true that novels talk about logic, and reality is only absurd.

The only thing to be thankful for was that the government's series of responses were timely and powerful.

Those joint teams were mixed with martial arts gym warriors, soldiers, constables, yamen runners, and even gang members. They were all wearing armor and holding bows and crossbows, patrolling 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.

The patrol density is so high that it even takes a quarter of an hour to make a circle.

That density makes the Jianghu people's scalp numb.

That's not to mention the group of masters composed of Lianzang martial artists and Xuanzhenguan disciples. As long as the signal is sent, they can arrive in the shortest time.

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

Any real master, Liansui martial artist, he is happy to find someone to talk about everything and talk about life.

By the way, exchange martial arts!

Of course, there is no shortage of smart people in this world who think of poisoning, sneak attack, assassination, or strong attack when others are eating or sleeping.

No matter whether they succeed or fail, as long as they take action, they will be wanted by the government office.

In today's Baisha City, the government office has extended its tentacles to every street and every household through patrol teams, constables, gangs, martial arts halls and families, and almost all the wind and grass movements on the street have been turned into information collection.

As long as these people don't have the ability to hide like Luo Gan, they can't escape the surveillance of the people.

Then, they will fight when they should, fight when they should, and hang the corpse when they should, and they will not show weakness.

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

Of course, this process is naturally not smooth sailing.

There are some warriors who think that they are meddling in other people's business, and they have gathered several masters to attack, but they were all defeated by Chu Zhou.

Especially on one occasion, four marrow training warriors attacked at the same time, but two died and two were injured. This kind of thing almost never happened.

Over time, the name of Chu Zhou, the master of Xuanzhen Temple, has become more and more popular, and the order of Baisha City has become better and better.

Nowadays, even if they belong to two parties, they can meet in a restaurant, just look at each other, spray a few trash words, and 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 has shown a kind of abnormal prosperity.

There are many restaurants and teahouses that have a labor shortage. Those shops offer salaries far beyond the ordinary to attract tenants and civilians from all around to work.

As a result, many people have made money, and Baisha City has become more prosperous.

As time goes by, when the order is gradually recognized and accepted by everyone, Chu Zhou's life has become much calmer.

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

...

Night,

In the government office, in the room.

Chu Zhou flipped through the heavy letters, and stopped to read them carefully whenever he was interested.

These letters all came from Wei Jinkui, and they mainly contained the investigations of his disciples outside.

There are some about the situation in Anyue City, some about Yunya Sword Sect and Wenxiang Temple, and some about the situation in various places in Tianquan County...

In a sense, Wei Jinkui is responsible for collecting external information. Almost all of his disciples have been sent out. Through Wei Jinkui's network of connections in Husha Pavilion, he can find out some open news.

In fact, they didn't agree to use letters to convey information before, but the situation in Baisha City is here, and it seems that it is a long way to go for Chu Zhou and his friends to go back.

So, Chu Zhou made an agreement with Wei Jinkui to communicate by letter.

And the first letter he received was about the secret technique of the blue butterfly of the Taoist Qingjing. Obviously, this person is really not an ordinary person.

Chu Zhou is already somewhat sure that this person is sent by the Alien Alliance, but he can't figure it out. If the other party is to avenge the Taoist Polan, why hasn't there been any movement for so long?

But he helped Xuanzhen Temple deal with a Red Lotus Cultist?

This made Chu Zhou very puzzled, but Chu Zhou had no time to pay attention to him anyway, so he just left him there.

Now, Chu Zhou paused and took out another letter from the letter and read it carefully.

This letter was about the information about the county lord Ji Mingqian.

Before, Chu Zhou asked Wei Jinkui to inquire about it. Until now, there was finally news. After reading it carefully, Chu Zhou roughly understood Ji Mingqian's situation.

At the beginning of the founding of the Dayun Dynasty, in order to stabilize the local regime, many clan members were sent out and vassal kings were conferred.

In terms of effect, it was of course very effective, but later it also led to the rebellion of the kings and the struggle for the throne.

At this time, although the vassal kings in various places were still there, their power had been greatly weakened. Not only were they deprived of military power, but most of them were also restricted in their freedom of life.

For example, they could not leave their fiefdoms without an imperial edict, etc.

However, they could not give soldiers, but they still gave enough money and power in the fiefdom.

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

That is, he married concubines one after another and gave birth to children one after another.

King Zhou Ji Guoyan had nearly 70 children. Except for those who did not survive, there were 30 male children and 28 female children.

This is just the current number, not counting those who are pregnant but not yet born.

With so many children, they are naturally worthless. Except for the few legitimate children of Zhou Wangfei, the others can only be said to be alive.

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

That is, she was favored several times and became pregnant, otherwise she would have been sold to who knows where.

Without the support of his mother's family and not favored himself, you can imagine what kind of life Ji Mingqian lived when he was a child?

Except for being able to eat and drink enough and having the right to receive education, other things were not even as good as ordinary rich children.

At least, ordinary rich children will not be bullied by their elder brothers at home, let alone by servants.

It was under such circumstances that Ji Mingqian actually passed the imperial examination by studying hard, and even passed the palace examination and became a Jinshi.

To be honest, in a place like Zhou Wangfu, there are many more people who have achieved some success in martial arts than those who study and take imperial examinations. Ji Mingqian is also a rare flower among them.

Moreover, for some reason, Ji Mingqian was also envied and excluded by his elder brother, the eldest son of Zhou Wangfu, so he was sent 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 also rumors about the chaos in Tianquan County and the struggle between the two major sects. Why has the court always turned a blind eye and no conclusion?

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

If he did not have the identity of the 25th son of King Zhou, he would probably be more successful as a county magistrate.

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

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

The level that Wei Jinkui could reach was limited after all, and the information he could get was limited.

And through these messages, he couldn't piece together the complete situation of Chishui Prefecture, let alone predict the next move of the two major sects in Tianquan County.

Chu Zhou shook his head and 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, pressed his five fingers on the wall, and then he bent over, jumped lightly, and stepped on the wall with his feet.

Just like that, he actually hung on the wall.

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

When he came across a place with a hanging device, he would even use his limbs to jump directly over. When he reached the other side, he would press the wall with both hands and step on it barefoot.

If you look closely, it is not difficult to find that the small muscle groups of his fingers and toes, where they were touching the wall, were mobilized to the extreme, and formed a spiral force, like a suction cup, which made him stick to the wall.

This is what he learned from "Gecko Wall-Walking Skill", which allows him to walk freely on upright or even outward-leaning walls like a gecko.

Of course, the genuine Gecko Wall-Walking Skill actually uses a special method of operating internal force to form a suction cup, and Chu Zhou is more direct, operating small muscle groups to achieve this effect.

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

Because even if there is a cliff of ten thousand feet, he can step on the air and jump directly.

But this still makes him feel very interesting.

When the muscles, skin and bones grow 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.

Here is the first update...