Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 672 Imperial Edict
Baiwu Castle.

In the inns, restaurants, streets and alleys, everyone is discussing the latest gossip.

"Have you heard? Shi Yanwen has been caught!"

"Ah? Is this true?! That's Shi Yanwen!"

"It's true, it's true... When the people from the Shang Tonghui brought him back, I saw it with my own eyes. It was definitely Shi Yanwen! He was beaten so badly, and he was poisoned and shot with arrows. There was blood all over his body..."

"Hiss... so cruel!"

The heroes of the past have become the enemies of today.

One by one, the gangsters spread Shi Yanwen's miserable situation in vivid detail to every corner of the town, and everyone who heard it sighed and felt extremely melancholy.

"By the way, Shi Yanwen is so powerful, how did the people from Shang Tonghui capture him?"

"This brings us to President Xuan Zhixuan. Everything depends on his planning."

"Explain it?"

When the narrator mentioned this, he immediately became excited.

"President Xuan Zhixuan found out Shi Yanwen's whereabouts in advance, and then lured him into the encirclement, and sent all the heroes of the Shangtong Society to attack him..."

"Well... the Shangtong Society's heroes are quite powerful, but it's unlikely that they can capture the famous Shi Yanwen, right?"

"Of course! The heroes of the Shangtong Society only serve to consume their physical strength. The main force still relies on President Xuan Zhixuan!"

"He fought Shi Yanwen alone. The two fought for five hundred rounds. The battle was so intense that the sky and the earth lost their color, the sun and the moon lost their luster, and even the gods and ghosts were frightened..."

"What?! So President Xuan Zhixuan is so powerful? You really can't judge a person by his appearance..."

The narrator is obviously a mysterious person. In order to enhance his reputation and personal image, he does not hesitate to use exaggerated methods to carry out false propaganda among ordinary people.

Not only did he describe the "fight of fifty rounds" between Xuan Zhixuan and Shi Yanwen as "a battle of five hundred rounds with no one better than the other", he also directly omitted the despicable means of "using poison".

"...Unfortunately, Shi Yanwen is the 'white devil' after all. His strength is so terrifying that even if the president tries his best, he cannot defeat him."

"Then how did the Shangtong Society finally capture Shi Yanwen?"

"That's because the president had teamed up with the imperial court in advance and set up a trap outside the ambush point, a killing array that was set up from all sides!"

"What?! People from the imperial court are involved as well?!"

If only the people from the underworld came to judge, then Shi Yanwen's "crime" could still be explained, but if even the Suzaku Dynasty came to judge, then the situation would change completely!

"Of course not! The brothers Shi Yanwen and Cang Jingren have teamed up to tease the court and the martial arts world for decades in order to seize power. The Shang Tong Society is not the only one that wants to bring these two to justice."

"The fighting between the imperial court and the martial arts world is different. As long as their army goes out, no matter how powerful Shi Yanwen is, he will die on the spot!"

"Huh... No wonder the people from Shang Tonghui were able to capture Shi Yanwen."

"After all, compared to the martial arts world, the imperial court is more powerful!"

As they were talking, a man suddenly ran over and shouted, "Big news! Big news! People from the imperial court came to Baiwu City to reward President Xuan Zhixuan who captured Shi Yanwen!"

"Is there such a thing?!"

"Let's go and have a look!"

Everyone in the restaurant stood up and ran towards the Shangtonghui headquarters.

The headquarters of Shangtonghui was established in the center of Baiwu City. In front of the headquarters was a large square. At this time, a large number of people from the martial arts world and many ordinary people living in the town gathered here to join in the fun.

At this time, the person sent by the court, Cao Duzhu of the East Factory, was holding an imperial edict, commending Shang Tonghui and Xuan Zhixuan in front of the people of Baiwu City. "The Emperor of Fengtian Chengyun decrees: Shang Tonghui has made great contributions in capturing the criminal Shi Yanwen, and is hereby named the 'Wulin Arbitration Court' to judge all the forces in the martial world on behalf of the court..."

"Appoint Xuan Zhixuan, the president of Shangtong Association, as the first president of the 'Arbitration Court', responsible for managing all matters of the Arbitration Court..."

"Appreciate this!"

Wulin Arbitration Court?
In the past, the Baiwu Association led by Shi Yanwen was also doing "trial work" against Jianghu people, but it had never received an official certification, so the name was only circulated among the people.

Now, the Suzaku Dynasty has given the Shangtong Society an official stamp of approval.

The reason for this is that Xuan Zhixuan Zi, to some extent, attributed the credit of 'capturing Shi Yanwen' to the imperial army, thus enhancing the prestige of the Suzaku Dynasty among the people and the martial arts world.

This is the benefit of knowing how to behave, understanding the ways of the world, being familiar with officialdom and political struggles, and knowing how to share profits and merits!
There are three imperial decrees in total.

First, it recognized the legitimacy of the Shangtong Society's trial of Jianghu people, as well as Xuan Zhixuan's status;

The second is to order the Shangtong Society to hunt down Zang Jingren and Qiao Rulai, and then find a time to publicly try them together with the now captured Shi Yanwen and the other two;

As for the last thing, it was to order Xuan Zhixuan to lead all the major sects to search for the spiritual weapons and spiritual places in the "Nine Dragons Book" and seize the earth's energy before Miaojiang.

The first two things are fine and understandable.

But the last item, 'seizing the earth', was actually announced publicly, which meant that the Suzaku Dynasty had, in a sense, declared war on the Miao Territory.

This imperial edict from the Suzaku Dynasty was not only sent to the Shangtong Society, but also to all the major sects in the martial arts world, headed by the Five Mountains and Seven Sects.

Within a few days, these three things spread throughout the entire Southern Wulin.

Upon learning that the Suzaku Dynasty had broken its promise to "join forces to capture the Cangjing Man" after capturing Shi Yanwen, the female tyrant was instantly furious.

However, fearing the huge impact of revenge, the female tyrant did not dare to act arbitrarily. She had to swallow her anger temporarily and lead her army back to Miao territory to report to the Miao King what happened there.

As soon as the female tyrant left, the Suzaku Dynasty deployed troops on the border.

When the news came out, everyone in the dynasty thought that the two countries were about to go to war. From the imperial court to the martial arts world, everyone was worried. Other areas of the southern martial arts world were also affected and were on edge.

At the same time, court officials and martial arts sects have different opinions on Emperor Suzaku's decision to "plan the Nine Dragon Book and seize the earth's energy."

Among them there are supporters and opponents, and they discuss it every day.

Most of the supporters are radical and militant.

This kind of people believed that the incident of the 'Nine Dragons Heavenly Book' was first instigated by the people of Miaojiang, and that the Suzaku Dynasty, adhering to the principle of 'it is impolite not to reciprocate', should of course retaliate.

The opposition has many reasons.

Some believed that the Suzaku Emperor was too young and the foundation of the court was not stable, so he should not raise troops at will; others were dissatisfied with the fact that he let the Shangtong Society take the lead in this matter and suppress other martial arts sects.

You know, the reason why the Suzaku Dynasty was established in the past and the royal family has been able to maintain its position in the southern martial arts world for nearly a hundred years was all due to the help of the Five Mountains and Seven Sects.

However, in recent years, the royal family has carried out drastic rectification and reforms on the martial arts world several times. The major sects have long been dissatisfied, and many suspicions have also arisen.

This time, the royal family simply abandoned the people from the Five Mountains and Seven Sects and turned to appoint a new martial arts force, a person who had just emerged in the martial arts world and whose origins were unknown.

As a result, all the accumulated dissatisfaction and suspicion finally exploded completely.

A few days later, Xuan Zhixuan announced in the public pavilion that the Shangtong Association would hold a martial arts conference in Wuji Mountain at the beginning of next month, and invited the leaders of all major sects to discuss the use of the contents recorded in the "Nine Dragons Heavenly Book" to seize the earth's energy.

Since this was an imperial decree, all sects had no choice but to obey;
And because it concerns the status of the martial arts world, the leaders have no choice but to go.

(End of this chapter)