Chapter 207: Chapter 8 Centuries of the World, Great Waves Sifting Sand_3
“Sir, here are the documents you requested.”
Lu Mengyang placed the package on the table, opened it, and revealed dozens of small booklets:
“There are dozens of major Jianghu Sects in the world, each documented in a separate booklet. In addition, to make it smoother for you to read, I have written a summary myself, which is the top booklet.”
Upon hearing this, Li Fei picked up the top booklet and flipped through it.
He noticed that some of the ink on the pages wasn’t dry yet, indicating it had just been written.
He looked up at Lu Mengyang, “I appreciate your effort, thank you.”
“You don’t have to be polite, Sir, it’s my duty,”
Lu Mengyang said with a smile, waving his hand, “If there is anything you need in the future, you’re welcome to contact me anytime, or just give me a call.”
“Alright, give me your phone number,”
Lu Mengyang then handed him a piece of paper with the number written on it.
Li Fei gathered all the items, stood up, and left the pawnshop.
Lu Mengyang’s farewell echoed behind him.
Li Fei returned to his dormitory at Wuda at past two in the morning.
Each student at Wuda is provided with a private dormitory, so Li Fei didn’t have to worry about disturbing anyone.
He turned on the desk lamp and started reading the summary booklet written by Lu Mengyang:
“The major forces in the World’s Jianghu are led by the Buddhist and Taoist families, with the Buddhists headed by the Pudu Temple and the Taoists led by the Taoist Three Sects…”
In the booklet, Lu Mengyang had outlined some of the top Sect forces and the most prominent masters to give Li Fei a rough idea.
The mainstream forces in the Jianghu were represented by the Buddhist family, headed by the Pudu Temple, and the Taoist family, represented by the Taoist Three Sects, including the Daluo Sect, Wuwei Sect, and Yuhua Sect, with the Daluo Sect in the lead.
Li Fei recalled listening to the radio, hearing about the president of Wu’an University personally visiting Qingxu True Monarch from the Daluo Sect to discuss the arrangements for the first martial arts competition, inviting outstanding students from the Zhi Ge Department of twelve universities to exchange martial skills with the elite disciples of the Taoist Three Sects! (See Volume 1, Chapter 12)
The venue for the first martial arts competition was at Wuda.
But at that time, Li Fei was still training in the Martial Arts Hall in Xing City and missed that grand event.
He continued reading.
After discussing the Buddhist and Taoist families, Lu Mengyang mentioned in the booklet “One Tower, One Pavilion, Three Mountains, Four Sects, Seven Families.”
These represent the sixteen most eminent forces in the Jianghu, besides the Buddhist and Taoist families, where “One Tower, One Pavilion, Three Mountains, Four Sects” are nine Jianghu Sects and “Seven Families” are seven Martial Arts Families with thousand years history.
Including the Buddhist and Taoist families, Da Lan Dynasty, had twenty of the most eminent Jianghu forces, each at least guarded by a Martial Arts Grandmaster, with the strongest ones even having ‘The World’s Number One.’
Li Fei read the contents of the booklet with great interest.
The top Martial Arts inheritances were half within the court and half in the Jianghu.
However, the most supreme masters were mostly from the Jianghu!
“One Peak, Three Evils, Five True Monarchs, Seven Martial Saints.”
These were the sixteen most influential figures of the Jianghu in the last hundred years of the Da Lan Dynasty, succinctly summarized by Lu Mengyang in a single sentence.
Although Lu Mengyang only described these supreme masters briefly, Li Fei could still appreciate the unique flair of each figure from the descriptions.
That night, the light in Li Fei’s dormitory stayed on all night.
Through the booklet in his hands, he reviewed the century of Jianghu in the Da Lan Dynasty.
Watching the rise and fall of eras, observing the interesting characters…
PS: Specifics about “One Tower, One Pavilion, Three Mountains, Four Sects, Seven Families” and “One Peak, Three Evils, Five True Monarchs, Seven Martial Saints” will be detailed in future chapters, so they are not elaborated here in this chapter.
This book thoroughly sets up both the court and the Jianghu, and I hope to fully share the story in my mind with everyone.