"The weather is cold, I invite you two gentlemen to take shelter from the wind at my humble abode!"
Shi Feizhe was dazzled and saw the woman coming to the campfire like a ghost and repeating the same sentence to them.
Although they were very close, Shi Feizhe could not sense any breath of life from her.
The woman stared at them, especially Hua Xiaomei, as if she was staring at a big meal, and the longing in her eyes was about to overflow.
This made Shi Feizhe's hair stand on end! Damn it, are there ghosts in this world?
With a "whoosh", Hua Xiaomei opened her fan, and on the front of the fan was a picture of a hundred flowers in full bloom.
He waved his fan, blowing a fragrant breeze towards the woman in white, and then said seriously: "No!"
The woman was silent for a moment amidst the fragrant breeze. Then, several figures quickly moved backwards and disappeared into the black night.
"What is this?" Shi Feizhe saw the woman in white walking backwards, always facing them. He felt a chill. What on earth was this?
Is it a human? Is it a ghost?
"A demon girl! A demon girl from the Tiannu Sect!" Hua Xiaomei slammed her fan shut and said, "Fortunately, she's just a demon girl who has just entered the Transcendence Stage, otherwise it would be really troublesome!"
"Tiannu Sect?" Shi Feizhe repeated, then said, "What is that?"
Hua Xiaomei glanced at Shi Feizhe and said, "Little brother, you've just been traveling around the world!"
"I'm not even a gangster, so how can I be considered a wanderer?" Shi Feizhe shook his head and said.
"Once you enter the martial arts world, it's like entering a deep sea. You have no choice but to be a martial artist!" Hua Xiaomei sighed and continued, "The Tiannu Sect is a peculiar sect that only accepts female disciples."
"Oh?" Shi Feizhe looked at Hua Xiaomei curiously. It seemed that Hua Xiaomei knew something about the Tiannv Sect!
In this world, there are martial arts masters of both sexes, so the status of women is not that low.
"The Tiannu Sect's unique secret manual, 'The Seven Treasures Glazed Sutra of Form and Formlessness,' was originally passed down from the Danse Temple. It emphasizes the balance between form and formlessness, achieving a pure glazed purity. Somehow, it ended up in the possession of a woman."
"Then, she mastered it and went crazy!"
"Huh? Practicing martial arts can make you go crazy!" Shi Feizhe felt incredible.
"It's impossible not to go crazy when practicing martial arts!" Hua Xiaomei said quietly:
"The inheritance of martial arts requires not only secret manuals, but also personal instruction and explanation from a master. Only by carefully explaining the dialects, terminology, ambiguous words, and metaphors within the manual can one fully understand it. Only then can it be considered a martial arts inheritance."
"Every martial arts manual is written by humans. Since it's written by humans, it naturally has their own speaking and writing habits. Jiuzhou is so big, and just the dialects alone are enough to give you a headache. Not to mention some words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings."
"The 'Seven Treasures Glazed Glass Sutra' was written by a monk from Danse Temple. It uses a lot of Buddhist terminology and metaphors. The woman didn't understand these, and she simply practiced after seeing the secret manual."
Shi Feizhe felt a chill on his back when he heard this.
He didn't understand anything about "dialects, terminology, ambiguous words, and metaphors" when he practiced the "True Source Sword Finger Technique".
Just like modern people reading the "Tao Te Ching", they recognize the words, but do they understand the meaning?
He won’t go crazy too!
I thought about the many dialects on the Internet in my previous life, such as "sticky bag", "solid but not bad", "chaob", "doornur", and "pushie".
I think it is the same in this world. There are many words that seem normal to locals but are not well understood in other places.
As for homophones and simplified characters, there are even more.
"Some of the secret manuals in the martial arts world are passed down from ancestors, and the rest were compiled by the imperial court during the Da Cai period a thousand years ago, gathering the power of the world and the wisdom of everyone. The wording used in many secret manuals is very different from that of today." Hua Xiaomei said.
Cai was a dynasty that unified Kyushu a thousand years ago. Later, the dynasty collapsed and Kyushu entered a situation of martial arts separatism, which has continued to this day.
"No wonder, practicing martial arts is bound to drive you crazy!" Shi Feizhe suppressed his suspicions that he might go mad after hearing what Hua Xiaomei said. After careful consideration, he understood the other meaning of this sentence.
Martial arts is the most direct way to break through class barriers and gain power. When a martial artist gains power through martial arts, they will inevitably encrypt their martial arts skills to ensure that they can be passed down to their children and disciples, thus ensuring the continuation of their power.
In the past, ancient officials all underwent years of study, and official documents were written with strict rules and formatting. In this chaotic world, where are the rules for writing and formatting? Martial arts manuals are written the way I want them to be written!
In the ancient world of the past, knowledge could be used to monopolize the class. Isn't the martial arts of this world also a kind of knowledge? And it's powerful knowledge!
It's like an enhanced version of the ancient imperial examination. How can it not drive people crazy?
In fact, most people in the martial arts world are like Shi Feizhe, who are eager to practice martial arts in order to achieve class advancement.
Therefore, if there is a martial arts secret book, no matter whether it is true or false, there will be people who risk their lives to practice it.
Considering the difficulty of inheriting martial arts secrets, the probability of people dying from practicing them is very high.
If such a person does not die, then there is probably something wrong with his training.
There is either something wrong with your body or something wrong with your brain!
This world is too realistic and too crazy!
"It's always so difficult for cattle and horses to stand out from the crowd!" Shi Feizhe couldn't help but sigh after thinking about this.
"Little brother, you're right. Since ancient times, it's been difficult to stand out! After that woman went crazy, she called herself the Glazed Pure Buddha Mother and founded the Tiannu Sect!" Hua Xiaomei returned to the Tiannu Sect and continued:
"The people of the Tiannu Sect believe that everything is external, and everything is also formless. People in the world walk in external appearances and live in formlessness. Therefore, they do some crazy and creepy things."
"How crazy is it?" Shi Feizhe asked.
"If they like a man, they will invite that man home. Then they will have sex with him every day." Hua Xiaomei glanced at Shi Feizhe and said.
"Huh???" Shi Feizhe was shocked and said, "These people are crazy!"
"That's really sick!" Hua Xiaomei nodded and said, "Love means being together, inseparable for a single moment. They let men become part of their strength, so they can be together for eternity."
“…”
This is too crazy!
"How can this be explained as being together? These crazy women are seriously ill!" Shi Feizhe said with a bit of fear: "Thank you, Brother Hua, for saving my life!"
"Ahem...!" Hua Xiaomei coughed awkwardly and said, "Actually, I should have been the one who affected my little brother."
"What do you mean?" Shi Feizhe asked.
"Although those women from the Tiannv Sect are crazy, not everyone can be attracted to them! Men like me must protect themselves well when we go out!" Hua Xiaomei said with her hands spread out.
"If it weren't for me, the demon girl from the Tiannu Sect might not have come to trouble little brother."
“…”
You are so...
What’s the point of you being more handsome than me?
Even though you are handsome, you are still entangled by the crazy woman from the Tiannu Sect!
Shi Feizhe cursed in his heart!
What’s the point of you being more handsome than me!