Chapter 714: Social Club (4)
After leaving seclusion, Qi Honglei had challenged martial artists from all walks of life and remained undefeated, sweeping through the martial arts world of the mainland.
Whether it was traditional martial arts, sanda, boxing, muay thai, or any other combat style, no one could last more than three seconds against him.
Having reached the peak of his abilities and finding no worthy opponents, Qi Honglei returned to Mount Hua and chose to live in solitude once more. He silently refined his martial arts and honed his techniques in the long years of isolation. Eventually, he founded the Mount Hua Sect.
This piece of information piqued Li Xiaofei’s curiosity. He had only ever read about such events in wuxia novels, yet here they were, happening in the modern world. Since this data came from an official investigation, the likelihood of it being fabricated was extremely low.
This made Li Xiaofei all the more intrigued by the mysterious valley of Mount Hua and the abandoned Daoist temple within it. He decided that once the exchange event was over, he would investigate it himself.
Secret manuals and alchemy pills were extremely rare in modern society. Even if they did exist, they were difficult to cultivate, and the art of refining pills had long been lost. Yet, an abandoned temple had somehow produced a master swordsman?
When he scanned Qi Honglei, Li Xiaofei estimated that the Wukong Sword Master’s cultivation level was roughly at the sixth stage of the Qi Refining Realm.
Zhang Hongjing continued introducing a few other ancient martial arts experts who would be competing. One of them was the leader of the Kongtong Sect, known as Daoist Sanjue.
He was said to have mastered three supreme martial arts: hidden weapons, palm techniques and lightness skill. His appearance truly embodied the ethereal aura of a Daoist master. It was far more otherworldly than Wang Zilai, the young celestial master of Wudang.
Then, there was a young man who appeared completely out of place, dressed in the simple attire of a rural farmer. According to the records, he was a shepherd boy from the northwestern Loess Plateau, named Li Baoguo. His martial arts heritage consisted of a single saber technique passed down through his family.
Official reports stated that Li Baoguo’s great-grandfather had been a well-known northwest bladesman known as Old Gawa before the founding of the nation. Li Baoguo was the only one of his generation who failed to get into college. As a child, he disliked studying. Instead, he picked up an old, dusty martial arts manual that had been used as a table wedge in his family’s ancestral hall.
By tinkering with it, he had actually managed to develop a few deadly saber techniques of astonishing power.