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Chapter 1876 Liu Xu's Martial Arts Line
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Although Liu Xu was quite dissatisfied with the fact that the story had not been completed after 20 years, it was actually Liu Xu's own fault. Who made Liu Xu write a martial arts novel at the beginning of "Stealing Song"?

Therefore, the entire book "Stealing Song" has been advancing in parallel with the two main plots of the struggle for hegemony in the world and the disputes in the martial arts world.

Liu Xu started writing about the disputes in the martial arts world in order to increase the chances of several plot climaxes and help himself break through. The most important thing in constructing a martial arts novel is to have an outline of the martial arts world. It is naturally very difficult to describe a martial arts world from the beginning, so Liu Xu took a shortcut, which was to directly move the martial arts era in Jin Yong's novels into the novels of Qian Song.

Looking at all of Jin Yong's novels, except for The Sword of Yue Girl, which is set in the Spring and Autumn Period, the earliest novel, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, is set in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, that is, the period from the late period of Emperor Renzong of Song to the period when the three emperors, Emperor Yingzong of Song and Emperor Shenzong of Song, alternated.

Therefore, the timeline of "Stealing Song" is actually blank, but not completely blank. In "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", four top masters who were quite active during this period were mentioned.

The oldest among them is Duan Siping, the founding emperor of Dali Duanshi, Duan Yu's ancestor, and the super master who created the two unique martial arts of Six Meridians Divine Sword and One Yang Finger.

The second was Murong Longcheng, a hero of the Murong family. He created the magical skill of Dou Zhuan Xing Yi and once had the opportunity to restore the Great Yan and compete with Zhao Kuangyin for the world. Unfortunately, he failed in the end and had to run away to settle in Yanziwu in Gusu City.

There is also Xiaoyaozi, the founder of the Xiaoyao Sect and the master of the three Xiaoyao elders. He is undoubtedly the top master, almost like a god, but there is no more specific description about him.

The last one is naturally Zhao Kuangyin himself. With the character and martial arts of the Murong family, how could they give up the fight for hegemony just because people in the world have made up their minds? It must be because they could not defeat Zhao Kuangyin, so Murong Long can only end up regretfully now.

To sum up, Liu Xu made up a Jianghu plot for him in "Stealing Song".

According to Liu Xu's description, before sending Jingniang thousands of miles away, Zhao Kuangyin went to the south of the Yangtze River for adventure. At that time, there were two people with the highest martial arts skills in the entire martial arts world, one in the south and one in the north. They were Duan Siping, the founding emperor of the Duan Kingdom of Dali, and Chen Tuan, a Taoist master on Mount Wudang, known as Xiaoyaozi in the martial arts world.

Moreover, the two of them happen to be one Buddhist and one Taoist, and are the representatives of each of them.

At this time, the whereabouts of the immortal master Chen Tuan was unknown, and Zhao Kuangyin could not find him, but Duan Siping was still alive, so Zhao Kuangyin planned to go to Duan Siping for advice. As a result, Zhao Kuangyin met Murong Longcheng, a genius who had just left home to venture into the world. After a fight, the two became close friends.

The two agreed to visit Duan Siping together, because Duan Siping's Dali Kingdom was located in Yunnan, and Gusu belonged to Southern Tang. There was also a Southern Han between Dali and Southern Tang, so they naturally had to pass through the territory of Southern Han. At this time, the emperor of Southern Han was Liu Yin, whose rule was extremely tyrannical. The people were plundered and killed by him in various ways, and their lives were miserable. Zhao Kuangyin and Murong Longcheng naturally couldn't stand this evil, so they began to do justice, but they were wanted by Southern Han and were chased by the army. When they were about to be surrounded and killed, they were fortunately rescued by Jin Wang Liu Hongxi and stayed in his mansion to recuperate.

In front of Zhao Kuangyin and Murong Longcheng, Liu Hongxi's performance was wise and brave. He not only cared for the people, but also repeatedly corrected many wrong decisions, protected many heroes in the world, and found rare medicines for Zhao Kuangyin and Murong Longcheng to help them treat serious internal injuries. Zhao Kuangyin and Murong Longcheng both admired Liu Hongxi very much.

Unexpectedly, one day when several people were drinking, Liu Hongxi drank too much and burst into tears in front of them. He said that he was determined to make the Southern Han dynasty last forever and let the people of Southern Han live the good life like the Tang Dynasty again. However, his brother the emperor did not trust him and wanted to kill him several times, but he escaped by luck. Now he heard that his brother the emperor had made up his mind to kill him, so he would not live for a few days, so he couldn't help crying.

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin and Murong Longcheng, who were young and simple-minded, naturally trusted Liu Hongxi very much, so they offered to help him kill the tyrant.

Liu Hongxi was overjoyed and discussed a plan with them. They decided to take action when Liu Yin was holding a banquet with the kings, because Liu Yin liked to watch martial arts masters fight, and during the banquet he liked to let several martial arts masters fight in front of him until one of them was killed.

Liu Hongxi suggested that at this time Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin were both considered masters in the martial arts world and had offended Liu Yin, so Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin could pretend to be captured. Then Chen Daoyang, a commander who was a confidant of Liu Hongxi and also one of the top masters, suggested that Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin, the two good brothers, fight each other until one of them completely killed the other.

With Liu Yin's character, he would definitely not refuse such an interesting proposal, and this was also the only opportunity to pick up weapons at the banquet. After Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin got weapons at the same time, they pretended to fight first, and then took the opportunity to assassinate Liu Yin. Because Chen Daoyang, who protected Liu Yin, was their own man and would help them at critical moments, Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin only needed to defeat Liu Yin's personal eunuch, Kuihua, who was also one of the top masters.

The plan was executed very smoothly at the beginning, but unexpectedly something unexpected happened in the middle. The eunuch Kuihua may have smelled the crisis and proposed that Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin were only allowed to fight with bare hands and were not allowed to use any weapons.

Without weapons, it would obviously be difficult to defeat the eunuch Kuihua, who had extraordinary fighting power. But at this point, the two had no way out. In the end, Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin decided to assassinate the emperor with their bare hands and start a fierce battle with the eunuch Kuihua.

Fortunately, Zhao Kuangyin had been studying his Taizu Changquan all the time, and he finally mastered it at the critical moment of life and death. Together with Murong Longcheng, who had already created the prototype of Dou Zhuan Xing Yi, the two of them actually killed the sunflower eunuch holding the Emei Spear, and then successfully strangled Emperor Liu Yin to death. Zhao Kuangyin also picked up a copy of "Sunflower Manual" from the sunflower eunuch's chest, allowing Liu Hongxi to succeed to the throne smoothly.

However, the following plot is naturally predictable. In order to cover up the truth that he assassinated his brother, Liu Hongxi publicized that it was Murong Longcheng and Zhao Kuangyin who did it. He also wanted to poison the two of them. Unexpectedly, Zhao Kuangyin, who had studied the "Sunflower Manual", recognized the poison, so he took the opportunity to kill them. Under the pursuit of the Southern Han army, he had to flee back to the north and lost the opportunity to meet Duan Siping.

Later, he traveled thousands of miles to rescue Jingniang. After experiencing these two major events, Zhao Kuangyin finally understood the importance of power and eventually joined Guo Rong's army and became Guo Rong's subordinate.

During this period, Zhao Kuangyin also invited Murong Longcheng to join, but Murong Longcheng could not stand Guo Rong's adoptive father Guo Wei's attempt to seize the throne. In addition, he himself was a descendant of the Great Yan royal family. In the end, he decided to join the army of Northern Han. Then, after he climbed to a high position, he would follow suit and seize the imperial power of Northern Han, and revive Great Yan on the basis of Northern Han!
(End of this chapter)