Martial Forest

Chapter 43: This New World

They talk about a lot of things

Bai Qingniu told him that there is a village on the foot of mountain, where he could trade the fur clothing and bought some supplies. Li Xian noted this.

Li Xian also found that he is right now in Henan, and that this mountain forest is not far from the Righteous Temple.

This forest is also called the Black Forest by the locals.

Li Xian also learns that while this Tang dynasty have similarities with the Tang dynasty of his world, it is also slightly different.

Of course, if Li Xian have the chance to research the histories of this world they might be even more differences between this world and his own world.

Martial arts are prevalent not only in Tang but in other places as well.

In the steppes, the people there also have their own form of martial arts, with their ability in archery and horse riding acknowledged all over.

From what Li Xian understand the people of this world while they could not fly into the air like some immortals in Xianxia stories, their body is stronger than normal humans if they could access the energy of the world.

Grandmaster level martial arts experts usually live in seclusion and its very powerful that they could defeat thousands of people alone but they rarely participate in the matters of the world, preferring to live on top of mountains, secluding themselves away from the people

All the past dynasties make use of the martial artist living in Jianghu and even recruited some of them into imperial court and many emperors have backgrounds in martial arts.

He also found out that the system helps him by changing the years to AD.

He did not think that the system has such feature.

It appears that this system is not as inflexible as he thought.

When the old senior talk about the reign of the current emperor he spoke that this is the second year of Tianfu, he even spoke about the event of the year of Dashun, of the events of the times of Jingfu and Li Xian felt a headache trying to adjust the era dates.

He wishes that the system could convert this to AD since he read the index of the history of the games in Gregorian calendar.

And the system somehow listens to him and convert the era dates to AD.

But even he knows that the second year of Tianfu is only two years before the death of Emperor Zhaozong.

That is when the assassination of the Emperor would happen by Zhu Quanzhong, Zhu Wen.

Bai Qingniu told him that the martial arts world will gather at the Righteous Temple to discuss the matter of Zhu Quanzhong, Zhu Wen

There is signs that the Emperor is about to be deposed again.

The eunuch Liu Jishu in the third year of Guanghua deposed the Emperor and only restored back the throne in the first year of Tianfu.

Tang dynasty is crumbling away and all kinds of warlords rises up and the Righteous Temple is calling all the great masters of the martial arts world to talk about the matter.

Li Xian of course knows that this downward trend is not salvageable. He also knows that the Emperor will not be deposed but would be assassinated and Prince of De, the competent successor of the Emperor would also be killed in such a sad tragedy in the Jiuqu Pond.

Li Xian then thought to himself about the matter that will happen in the next two years. He could only strengthen himself and prepare himself so he could survive the turbulent years.

Maybe he could also participate in the matter.

If he involves himself on the matter of Zhu Wen trying to assassinate the Emperor, Li Xian believes there would be   a quest generated and the rewards will also be very large.

He also asks about the other forces in the world, asking who is the Broken Sword sects and the current events of the world.

Li Xian learned of the names of the many sects and martial arts school in the martial arts world, their specialties and their type of martial arts and their crest and symbols and he put it in his mind

He learned that many of the great founders is still in their infancy. After all, Zhaozhong is still there.

And there is one thing that Li Xian wanted to know. Could he prevent things from happening? The death of Zhaozong could it be averted?

The deaths at Jiuqu Pond could it be stopped?

He did not care much whether Tang rises or fall, what he cares about is his own matters.

Quest that would be generated under such situation probably would yield a lot of points. Whether a dynasty rises or fall, is never his concern.

Maybe because he come from a future of a similar world, the rise and fall of a dynasty never could be blamed on a single person. It is the collective blame of the people living in that era.

And sometimes the dynasty falling is the result of that dynasty wrongs and faults and it could never be said each falling dynasty is something to be mourned.

The only difference was that sometimes, there are person that accelerated the fall and rise of dynasties. Tang dynasty reaching this point had many factors.

And who is to say what comes after would not be good. Nonetheless, maybe this world future would also be different since this world is not exactly the same as he is.

Li Xian ponder this as he asks all kinds of question to Bai Qingniu.

Bai Pingting and Xu Wen only listen from the side as they both talked surrounding the fire in the middle of the yard while eating their pheasant on a woven plate made of leaves.

There were many things that Li Xian did not know that he knows now. He already judged where he is and when then they talked about the scouts.

Bai Qingniu then said, that they will wait another week before coming down. He once again offers him to follow them to see the outside world.

Li Xian this time is firm.

Before, he did think to himself to wander the world.

But Shi Yuan ability wakes him up.

He did not want to go out and be at the mercy of another. He believes with the system; it would not be too late for him to come out from the mountain after two years.

Li Xian also had an objective now. he wanted to participate in the matter of the assassination of Zhaozong Emperor.

He believes in the next two years, if he manages to get enough points, he could level up his lightness skill and could roam about the imperial city easily when that day comes.

Bai Qingniu only sighed but the old senior told him that if he has any matter, he could go to Chang’an to the Bai residence and ask for help

Li Xian ask the old senior whether he would attend the meeting and he shake his head. Bai Qingniu said that there are all kinds of bad omens now.

It is like Heaven is telling him that the journey forward is inauspicious.

he did not want to get mired into another conflict. The only reason he came is because of the Codex of Ten Thousand Herbs belonging to the Butterfly Valley.

But because of that he nearly lost his lives, lost his granddaughter and his disciples lives. How could he be so unmindful to Heaven warning and signs

Bai Qingniu plans to go back to Chang’an and resume his work healing the sick.

He is already old and the journeys have already taxes his body. He wanted to stay another week in the forest since it is better to be safe than sorry.

Maybe tomorrow all the scouts would go to the Righteous temple to join the meeting, but maybe some of them would still stay so a week would be good enough for them to wait until the surrounding is truly clear.

Bai Qingniu also told Li Xian that the mountain air is good for him.

Li Xian did not mind but he does think that he has to hide more and when he thinks of hiding he think of the streams of water up there on the upper part of the area of this forest.

He nodded to himself and said to Bai Qingniu that he did not mind While Li Xian and Bai Qingniu is talking with each other, Bai Pingting steal a few glances toward Li Xian.

She then shakes her head and avert her gaze. This act did not escape Xu Wen eyes and he smiles and shakes his head.

Li Xian ask a few more things and when night came, they all went to sleep.

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