Chapter 187: Jiangnan Club (Reward and Change)
PS: This chapter is for the book friend Xiao Feiyu's 10,000 starting coins to reward and update.
Su Xin held the invitation letter of the Jiangnan Club in his hand, but his face showed surprise, he almost forgot that his current ranking was the twenty-third on the list, and he was eligible to be invited by the Jiangnan Club.
The so-called Jiangnan Club is a martial arts event held by the Jiangnan Xiao family, one of the six great families.
Although the Jiangnan Xiao family, one of the six great families, is not as long as the Runan Shangguan family, it is the strongest of the six major families, and it is amazingly big.
It is said that thousands of years ago, when the world was in turmoil and the former overlord Jin was only a large number of small countries, the Xiao family was already king in the south of the Yangtze River, and the country was called Daliang.
However, later the world competed for hegemony, the Jin Kingdom rose, all the small countries were destroyed, and the Great Liang naturally also collapsed, and the descendants of the Xiao family lived in the rivers and lakes and became one of the six great families of the Jiangnan Xiao family.
When the Eastern Jin Dynasty became the overlord of the Central Plains, it was also afraid of the remaining strength of the Xiao family, and was afraid that its jade would be burned, so he named the Xiao family as the Pinghou and hereditary replacement.
Now that the Great Zhou Dynasty dominates the Central Plains, it also wants to appease the Xiao family, so it gives the Xiao family an Anhou, which is also hereditary.
Because of this, Xiao Huang, who is second on the list, is nicknamed 'Xiao Anhou'.
His father, the head of the Xiao family, is the Anhou of this generation, and his own strength is also the second in the list, and the younger generation of the Xiao family has no one to compete with, and the head of the next generation is almost determined to be him, so he is called 'Little Anhou'.
However, in Su Xin's view, the so-called Pinghou and Anhou are not so much honors as irony.
Whether it is the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the Great Zhou, look at the titles they gave: Pinghou, Anhou, that means that although your Xiao family used to be a royal family, but now it is not your turn to be the master in this world, give you a title, be honest, stay in Jiangnan peacefully, don't go out to get any moths.
Of course, this knighthood is a symbol of strength in the eyes of the people of the rivers and lakes, and even the imperial court has to envelop their Xiao family.
And this Jiangnan meeting was originally a tradition of the Xiao family to recruit guests, and later evolved into a grand event that the younger generation of martial artists in the whole martial arts can participate.
The development route of the family is completely different from that of the martial arts sect, although the family bloodline can ensure the loyalty and unity of the family, and the cohesion is stronger than that of the sect, but how many geniuses are there in a family?
Because of this, these big families have a tradition of recruiting guests, and the Xiao family has found another way to hold the Jiangnan Meeting, recruiting talented and potential young warriors from no sect or small sect to join the Xiao family's careful training.
This kind of doorman who has been cultivated since childhood is undoubtedly much more loyal than the doorman who was recruited with a lot of money in the later period.
And they can also marry the children of the Xiao family, and after a few generations, they can completely integrate into the Xiao family and become a member of the Xiao family.
At the beginning, Jiangnan Club was such a purpose, but later the Xiao family also invited some famous young men and women to come to Jiangnan Club to comment and appreciate, and there were more and more people, and Jiangnan Club underwent some changes.
With the list of founders of Six Doors, the young generation of young men on the rivers and lakes are fighting more and more.
However, the Central Plains martial arts is so big, sometimes even if you want to step on the other party's upper position to challenge, you may not be able to find someone, and there are few martial artists who have been in the sect as otaku all the year round.
Therefore, some martial artists will gather at the Jiangnan Club, and the Xiao family will let them compete when recruiting guests, and if the strong ones on the list want to do it, they can also go to the Jiangnan Club to try their skills and update the ranking of the list.
Later, the scale of this Jiangnan Club became larger and larger, and there were more and more young generation of martial artists coming, and the Xiao family found that this could enhance the reputation of the Xiao family, so they completely expanded this Jiangnan Club and made it a grand event for the young generation of martial arts.
All martial artists aged thirty-five in the entire martial arts can participate, and the top three finalists in the end can get a heavy gift regardless of whether they join the Xiao family or not, and the remaining top dozens of martial artists are also eligible to be recruited by the Xiao family.
And the top 30 martial artists on the list are even more qualified to be invited by the Xiao family to come to the Jiangnan Association to become one of the judges who evaluate those loose cultivators, and their status is the same as that of the elders of the Xiao family's Yuan God Realm.
In Su Xin's opinion, this move is indeed wonderful, and it cleverly captures the minds of some martial artists.
Why is the competition so fierce? It is nothing more than a 'name'.
Now let them serve as judges of the Jiangnan Association, they are also the younger generation of martial artists, and the people below are fighting in the ring just to attract the attention of the Xiao family and become the disciples of the Xiao family.
But they can sit on the high platform and comment on these martial artists with the elders of the Xiao Family's Yuan God Realm, and this vanity believes that many martial artists will want to give it a try.
Therefore, it is an honor in itself to be invited by the Xiao family to personally issue an invitation at the Jiangnan meeting.
However, this Jiangnan meeting was different, and the imperial court even participated in it, so that Gu Donglai, the head of the Jiangnan Provincial March, united with the Xiao family to hold the Jiangnan meeting together.
I don't know if this imperial court is red when it sees that the Xiao family has recruited a large number of potential young warriors every year, so it suddenly intervenes in it.
However, these have nothing to do with the current Su Xin, he originally planned to go to the Central Plains.
Now that he has broken through to the peak of the Spirit Aperture Realm, if he wants to break through the Divine Palace Realm, he still needs a certain amount of chance, and the Central Plains is undoubtedly a good place to go.
Putting away the invitation and sending Na Chen Qiao away, Su Xin decided to set off for the Central Plains, but at this time, the news of Su Xin's appearance in Lingzhou Mansion had already spread.
When Su Xin killed Zhu Zefang and the others, everyone thought that Su Xin must have found a secluded place to recuperate from his injuries, but no one expected that he would be so bold that he would stay in Lingzhou Mansion, which was not far from the place of the incident, to recuperate.
You must know that although he killed Zhu Zefang and others, it is difficult to guarantee that other lay disciples of Shaolin Temple will not come to him for revenge, and there are still people in Zhujiazhuang, this Su Xin is also bold.
Su Xin is still alive and well, and the news reached the other lay disciples of the Shaolin Temple, but they were silent.
Just like some warriors mocked them for bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, they were afraid of being beaten by Su Xin.
The lay disciples of Shaolin Temple are a group, but they are not such a close group, unless there is something that threatens their entire group, or anyone who has something happens, they will find a few close friends or take out something to invite the same door to help.
For example, this time, Zhu Zefang found Duan Tianya, and also took a yellow-level weapon and asked for Zhou Changxin.
It is true that the lay disciples of Shaolin Temple will unanimously communicate with the outside world, but the premise is that if they are unanimous with the outside world, even if they cannot benefit, they cannot harm their interests.
Now Su Xin's strength, it is clear that the martial artists who come to the four or five Divine Palace Realm can't help him at all, so there is no benefit, who wants to go up and send him to death?
Unless they were born in the lay disciples of Shaolin Temple, those leaders who broke through to the Yuan Shen Realm would not move.
But it's a pity that the existence of those Yuan Shen Realm didn't know if there was something or for other reasons, and they didn't squeak, so they had to pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if they didn't know the news.
Those lay disciples of Shaolin Temple can pretend not to know, but the people of Zhujiazhuang cannot.
In the past six months since Zhu Zefang's death, their Zhujiazhuang can be said to be extremely miserable.
Originally, Zhujiazhuang's strength was not very strong, but it was not until Zhu Zefang returned from Shaolin Temple, coupled with his cultivation in the Divine Palace Realm, that they Zhujiazhuang was able to rise from Hannan Road, which can be regarded as a small force.
But now that Zhu Zefang has been killed, there are many other lay disciples of Shaolin Temple in Hannan Province who have come to mourn, all of them are innate martial artists, what is the result?
After the condolences, he didn't even let out a fart, patted his ass and left, which made the people in Zhujiazhuang grit their teeth.
Why don't you leave some exercises and pills to take care of the growth of the descendants of the former classmates, and just leave?
But it's a pity that it's useless for them to complain, although they are both lay disciples of Shaolin Temple, but these relationships with people Zhu Zefang are not as close as Duan Tianya, Dingtian just has a trace of incense, it's already good to be able to come to condole, and you still want things, what are you kidding?
And it is precisely because of the attitude of some people that Zhujiazhuang's current situation is extremely bad.
In the past, the people of Zhujiazhuang were under the authority of Zhu Zefang, but they occupied a lot of land and business around Zhujiazhuang.
The other martial arts forces all gave Zhu Zefang a face, and it should be said that they would give face to the collective disciples of the Shaolin Temple behind him, so they all took a step back.
And now that Zhu Zefang is dead, looking at the attitude of the other lay disciples of the Shaolin Temple, they obviously have no idea of continuing to help Zhujiazhuang, so what are they hesitating about? In the past six months, almost all of Zhujiazhuang's land and business have been eaten away.
The people of Zhujiazhuang couldn't bear it anymore, so the only remaining elder in Zhujiazhuang, Zhu Old Man, came out of the mountain and gathered the second generation of disciples of the Zhu family to discuss it together.
Old man Zhu is already seventy or eighty years old, he is not a congenital martial artist, he is now old, and after Zhu Zefang returned to Zhu's house more than ten years ago, he has no longer cares.
But now this situation can't help but come out, Zhu Qifang, the current owner of Zhujiazhuang, can't support Zhujiazhuang at all.
Even if they change to other second-generation disciples of Zhujiazhuang, it is the same, although they are also in the innate realm, but no matter the strength or courage, they are too far away from the dead Zhu Zefang.
Although Old Man Zhu is not in the innate realm, he has cultivated several innate martial artists such as Zhu Zefang and Zhu Qifang, which is not easy.
And in terms of prestige, the old man Zhu is the highest existence in Zhujiazhuang, so as soon as the old man of the Zhu family spoke, Zhu Qifang and others could only stand aside obediently and listen to his orders. (To be continued.) )