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Chapter 535 The world is full of ups and downs

At this moment, the city of Xiangyang was full of vitality, with everything flourishing.

Although the capital of the Xin Dynasty was Lin'an City, Zhang Junbao, the supreme leader of the Xin Dynasty, did not live in Lin'an City.

With his current supernatural powers, he can travel between Xiangyang City and Lin'an City in a moment, and living there will not affect his management of the new dynasty's court at all.

As for why Zhang Junbao wanted to live in Xiangyang City, the reason was quite simple. It was naturally because Guo Xiang was in Xiangyang City.

Compared with Xiangyang, Lin'an City is indeed more prosperous.

As the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an City was resplendent with red and purple streets, and was dotted with restaurants, teahouses, and various shops. Life in Lin'an City was more than luxurious.

However, Guo Xiang grew up in Xiangyang. Compared with the extravagant and decadent city of Lin'an, she preferred the small city scenery of Xiangyang, so Zhang Junbao naturally accommodated her and continued to live with her in Xiangyang.

In fact, compared with the sweet and soft Guo Xiang, the pile of troubles in Lin'an City would only give Zhang Junbao a headache.

This led to an increasing flow of people into Xiangyang City, while Lin'an, as the capital, became increasingly depressed, and people with real abilities were no longer willing to stay in Lin'an City.

This is especially true for martial artists.

For the martial artists in the world of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, wherever Master Zhang is, that’s where the capital is.

As for Lin'an City, that is a piece of shit, not even dogs would go there.

Scholars, farmers, merchants, businessmen, peddlers, and people from all walks of life gathered in Xiangyang City.

At this moment, Xiangyang City is full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Any seemingly inconspicuous person may be a hidden master.

A white-haired Taoist priest setting up a stall on the street, a down-and-out swordsman sleeping drunk outside a restaurant, a gentleman-looking scholar, and a beggar begging on the street.

Many of the people who look so miserable have such terrible origins that it would scare people to death.

Among these powerful men, the most famous are the New and Old Eight Wonders. The so-called New and Old Eight Wonders are honorific titles given by the martial artists in Xiangyang City to the sixteen top masters who emerged after the emergence of Jindan martial arts.

The members of the old Eight Great Masters are all familiar to everyone, and each of them was once a famous figure in the martial arts world, including the East Evil Huang Yaoshi, the West Poison Ouyang Feng, the Southern Monk Yideng, the North Beggar Hong Qigong, the Central Divine Power Wang Chongyang, the Divine Condor Hero Yang Guo, the Old Naughty Boy Zhou Botong, and the most heavyweight, Zhang Zhenren's father-in-law, the hero Guo Jing.

The identities of the new Eight Supremes are even more complicated.

The so-called new eight supreme masters are new only in name, meaning that their names are not as well known to people in the world as those of the old eight supreme masters, but this does not mean that all the new eight supreme masters are newcomers.

The reason for this is naturally because there are several people among the new Eight Great Masters who were resurrected by Zhang Junbao using the method of reversing yin and yang, just like Wang Chongyang, Hong Qigong, and Ouyang Feng.

Of course, Zhang Junbao did not resurrect these people for no reason. Almost all those who were resurrected by him were people who could provide great help in helping him deduce and perfect the Golden Elixir Martial Arts.

Not only are they extremely powerful in martial arts, but each of them is a master who is capable of founding a school of martial arts. They all have the experience of creating a peerless magical skill. They can be called scientists among martial artists and are definitely precious treasures lost in the long history of the Yitian world.

It took Zhang Junbao a lot of effort just to find the burial places of these people, not to mention that after finding them, Zhang Junbao had to personally reverse the yin and yang for them.

But it's all worth it.

Just saying the names of these people can make people understand their value.

The Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai, the Grand Master of the Ancient Tomb Lin Chaoying, Huang Shang, and the Drunken Monk.

These four people created the four peerless martial arts: Dugu Nine Swords, Jade Girl Heart Sutra, Nine Yin Scriptures, and Nine Yang Divine Art.

Of course, the value of the Jade Girl Heart Sutra is slightly lower. Logically speaking, Lin Chaoying's achievements are not enough for Zhang Junbao to personally resurrect her, but Lin Chaoying's network of contacts is really powerful.

She is not only the founder of the Ancient Tomb School, but also Wang Chongyang's old lover. It can be said that the group of people who are closest to Zhang Junbao are almost all related to Lin Chaoying.

Especially the hero Yang Guo, who is the great disciple of Lin Chaoying.

Not only had Yang Guo helped Zhang Junbao and taught him martial arts, but he had also been very kind to Guo Xiang. Because of these relationships, Zhang Junbao could make an exception and help Lin Chaoying even if she was just an ordinary warrior.

Moreover, Lin Chaoying is not an ordinary warrior. Although she is not as talented as the other three, the Jade Girl Heart Sutra she created is definitely an academic-level internal energy method. It can be ranked in the top ten among the internal energy methods that appear in the book The Return of the Condor Heroes. She is definitely not a simple character.

The most important thing is that Lin Chaoying's burial place is not difficult to find, and she has not been dead for long. Although resurrecting Lin Chaoying is more troublesome than resurrecting Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng, for Zhang Junbao it is nothing more than a little more effort.

However, resurrecting the other three was not so easy. The first person Zhang Junbao found was Dugu Qiubai.

After all, his burial place was in the sword tomb. With Yang Guo leading the way, Zhang Junbao easily found Dugu Qiubai's tomb.

But even in this way, resurrecting Dugu Qiubai is still not an easy task, because he has been dead for too long.

When Zhang Junbao dug up Dugu Qiubai's tomb, the aura of his soul on his remains had dimmed as dust and was almost completely annihilated.

Once the soul's aura is completely annihilated, in the world of Yitian where there is no reincarnation, unless one has the means to reverse time like the Lord of the Universe in Devouring the Stars, it means that this person has completely disappeared.

From Zhang Junbao's perspective, when he found Dugu Qiubai, Dugu Qiubai should have been dead for more than seventy years.

Fortunately, Dugu Qiubai's sword intent was so powerful that even if his body decayed and lost the support of his essence, his sword intent that filled the world could still be transformed into an inexplicable force to sustain his soul and retain a bit of his spiritual light.

Dugu Qiubai's situation was not even worse. The worst situation was that of Huang Shang.

Huang Shang was born in 1044, which is about 220 years ago. He is even older than the three protagonists of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Xiao Feng, Xu Zhu and Duan Yu.

When the Three Wonders of the Heavenly Dragons forced the Liao army to retreat at Yanmen Pass, Huang Shang was already fifty years old. Logically speaking, a person born so long ago, even if he was a top martial arts master with an extremely strong soul and will, should have returned to dust and completely disappeared under the baptism of time.

After all, Dugu Qiubai's powerful swordsmanship could only last for seventy years after his death, and Huang Shang was born more than two hundred years ago, so how could he possibly persist?

But fortunately, Huang Shang has one advantage, which is that he can survive very long.

Although he was born in 1044, he lived until 1164, a total of years old, which means he only died for years.

Furthermore, the martial arts that Huang Shang practiced were from the Taoist school. In addition to refining Qi, it also included a large number of methods for nourishing the spirit.

He lived to be 120 years old. During this long period of time, not only did he develop extremely powerful internal strength, he also cultivated a superb Taoist skill, and tempered his soul into a unified whole. This is how he was able to retain a glimmer of spiritual light despite the erosion of a hundred years.

Of course, this ray of spiritual light was extremely weak, so weak that if Zhang Junbao's spiritual power had not been extremely powerful, he would not have been able to capture this ray of spiritual light from Huang Shang's corpse.

The situation of the Drunken Monk was much better. He and Wang Chongyang belonged to the same generation. Although he was much older than Wang Chongyang, he did not die much earlier than Wang Chongyang, so the loss of his soul was not that great.

The only trouble was that his tomb was difficult to find. However, Zhang Junbao learned from Xu Chenzhou's information that the Drunken Monk lived in Shaolin Temple in his later years, so he sent Wang Chongyang to lead people to search around Shaolin Temple. After a lot of effort, they finally found his tomb.

After finding the tomb, Zhang Junbao resurrected the Drunken Monk in a matter of seconds, and the process was even easier than resurrecting Lin Chaoying.

As for the other two, since their conditions were so bad, even Zhang Junbao took a long time to successfully reverse the yin and yang for them.

Of course, this was just a side job for Zhang Junbao, because he had someone else who had to be resurrected, Guo Xiang's grandmother Feng Heng.

At that time, Feng Heng's soul was extremely weak, and it was only with the day and night worship of Huang Yaoshi and the servants on Peach Blossom Island that it was barely able to keep from dissipating.

Therefore, Feng Heng's spiritual state is not much better than Dugu Qiubai and Huang Shang.

In order to preserve Feng Heng's soul, Zhang Junbao took great pains to create a set of skills and combined with the soul-nourishing formation provided by Yang Chan, he was able to barely keep Feng Heng's soul alive, preventing it from dissipating and allowing it to slowly recover over time.

This soul-nourishing formation that restored Feng Heng's soul could also work for Dugu Qiubai and Huang Shang, so Zhang Junbao simply put the two people's souls that were about to dissipate into the formation and did not do anything else.

These two were indeed warriors who had once cultivated to the pinnacle of martial arts. Even if they only had a little spiritual energy left, the speed at which their spirits recovered was still not something Feng Heng could match.

With the nourishment of the soul-nourishing formation, it took the two of them only one month to restore their souls to the point where they could be resurrected.

Feng Heng had been recuperating in this formation for nearly four months, but still had not met the requirements for resurrection.

Zhang Junbao had exerted so much effort, it was naturally impossible for him to just restore the souls of the two people for fun. After the strength of the two souls reached the standard, he immediately resurrected them.

After their resurrection, Dugu Qiubai and Huang Shang did not disappoint Zhang Junbao. In a very short period of time, they comprehended the Jindan martial arts and figured out their own unique Jindan martial arts skills.

The most abnormal thing is that although the two of them have practiced Jindan martial arts for several months less than Guo Jing, Yang Guo and others, they are still able to hold their own when they really fight, truly interpreting what the top martial arts genius is.

Except for these four people, the remaining four among the new eight masters are also not ordinary people.

Among them is Hu Qian, who created the Dragon Roar Iron Mountain with his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and Iron Shirt.

Originally, Hu Qian was just a third-rate figure in the underworld. He had learned some external martial arts, and being able to deal with a dozen strong men was already his limit. There were a lot of men like him in the underworld, and it was nothing rare.

But after Zhang Junbao preached the Dharma throughout the world, Hu Qian gradually came to the fore. He first created the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt based on the Iron Shirt and the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and then further created the subsequent technique, the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell Cover. He then combined these two techniques into one, integrating them into his own golden elixir martial arts magic, the Dragon and Tiger Intersection Yin and Yang Great Compassion Sutra.

This magical skill absorbs the essence of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Iron Shirt, Golden Bell Cover, Nine Yang Divine Art, Nine Yin Scriptures and other peerless martial arts, integrating them into one.

The body is refined by the roar of dragons and tigers, and the spirit is refined by the intersection of yin and yang, so as to temper the immortal body of dragon and tiger yin and yang. It is said that when cultivated to the highest level, one can be indestructible and eternal.

Besides him, the other three are He Zudao, one of the Three Saints of Kunlun, Wen Tianxiang, who has great integrity and righteousness, and Madam Zhang Guo Xiang, who no one dares to give a nickname but is known by everyone.

It is not surprising that He Zudao can become one of the new Eight Great Masters. He is upright and talented. In the bitter cold land of Kunlun, he relied on his natural talent to practice peerless martial arts and almost defeated the entire Shaolin Temple by himself.

If Zhang Junbao had not appeared out of nowhere, with his extraordinary martial arts, there would have been few people in the world who could be his match.

This time, because Zhang Junbao joined the chat group, He Zudao did not make a vow to never set foot in the Central Plains for the rest of his life. So after Zhang Junbao spread the Golden Elixir martial arts, He Zudao also came to Xiangyang.

His martial arts were naturally extraordinary, and after learning the Golden Elixir martial arts, he was like a tiger with wings. He soon stood out in Xiangyang City and won the title of the New Eight Wonders.

As for Guo Xiang, there is nothing much to say. As Zhang Junbao's closest person, she has the upper hand over others. Not to mention how many delicious things she has eaten with Zhang Junbao, just the fact that she can get guidance from Zhang Junbao every day is enough to make others envious.

Moreover, the others were asking Zhang Junbao for guidance and were grateful to be able to stay with Zhang Junbao for a while longer.

But Guo Xiang is different. On the contrary, it is Zhang Junbao who sticks to her. Even when the atmosphere is romantic, Guo Xiang would dislike Zhang Junbao's advice that ruins the atmosphere.

With such unique training conditions, it would be strange if Guo Xiang’s martial arts skills were not very high.

The most abrupt existence among these new eight unique figures is naturally Wen Tianxiang, who is a pure scholar.

Although Wen Tianxiang is indeed very famous, his fame among the people is even greater than the combined fame of the Five Great Masters of the Central Plains.

But the problem is that Wen Tianxiang became famous because of his character and talent, and had nothing to do with martial arts.

In fact, before Zhang Junbao preached to the world, Wen Tianxiang did not know martial arts.

But this is the power of Jindan martial arts. Although it is a martial art, it is more of a great way. Among the 360 ​​professions, each one can lead to the way!

(End of this chapter)