Chapter 516 Changwu Hall
The next day.
After breakfast, Wei Changtian and Liang Qin took a car out and prepared to go to a martial arts hall called "Changwu Hall" to watch some sparring matches.
Different from sects and gangs, although the martial arts schools in this world also teach people to practice martial arts, what they practice are actually some inferior internal skills.
After all, the more powerful martial arts techniques are basically controlled by large sects and forces, and will not be easily passed on to outsiders.
Therefore, there are not many martial arts techniques circulating in the world that can be practiced at will.
Most of these exercises have several characteristics.
It’s easy to get started, has obvious advantages and disadvantages, and the upper limit is not high.
Take the most popular internal skill in Daning, Sanqing Gong, for example.
Although the name "Sanqing" sounds very domineering, it is actually just the lowest level "yellow level" skill. The system price is 20 system points, which is not even as good as a puppet pill.
It is different from the Guiyuan Gong practiced by Wei Changtian, or the Tianluo Gong secret of the Tianluo Sect, or the Longxiang Gong practiced by Xiao Feng, etc. These are the "heavenly-level" skills.
The Sanqing Gong can neither help practitioners to achieve a breakthrough "naturally", nor does it have an internal strength that is invincible at the same level, nor does it have any special ability to raise the realm to a higher level in a short period of time.
Its only benefit is that it can enable practitioners to quickly "enter the realm" and reach the ninth level.
At first glance, such a feature seems to be better than nothing and quite useless.
After all, entering the realm of cultivation is just the beginning of cultivation. It seems that there is no difference whether it is fast or slow. The more important thing is whether you can go a long way in the future.
But in fact, for many warriors in this world, the ninth level is both the starting point and the end point of their path of cultivation.
Among all the practitioners in the world, about 80% will never be able to reach the middle third level in their entire life.
Among these 80% of people, almost half cannot even break through to the eighth level.
That is to say, among all the practitioners in this world, 40% will remain at the lowest level of the ninth grade for their entire lives.
For these people, they don't care about the shortcomings of Sanqing Gong, such as "it can only be practiced to the seventh level at most" and "it is very slow to absorb the true Qi of heaven and earth after reaching the seventh level". This is because they can't reach the seventh level anyway.
On the contrary, the only benefit of Sanqing Gong is what they need most.
As long as they could get a rank, they could find a job in the government or the army and become an "official" from then on, no longer having to work in the fields facing the loess and back to the sky.
The purpose of cultivation is just to stop farming. Such a "pursuit" is undoubtedly far from the grand visions of "seeking immortality" and "becoming a god or immortal" written in novels of previous lives.
But in fact, this is indeed the real thought of most grassroots practitioners.
And it is precisely because of this that martial arts schools such as "Changwu Hall" were born.
There is no need to join a sect with complicated rules, no need to be loyal to any force, and no need to kowtow to become a disciple.
For just one or two taels of silver, these martial arts schools can teach you an internal skill and also give you a free martial art.
You pay the money and they teach you the skills. Once you've mastered the techniques, you can leave without any responsibilities or burdens.
If you fail to learn the skill, they will even refund your money. With reasonable prices and fair service, many martial arts schools have gained a firm foothold in the martial arts world by relying on these two points, and most of them have made a lot of money.
According to the professional terminology of the previous life, this should be called accurately grasping the "sinking market."
We teach those things that the orthodox sects and gangs do not teach.
And we guarantee to teach you until you learn it, and sell at a low price but high volume.
It can be said that most of the warriors in this world are actually taught in this kind of "training class"-like martial arts school.
In Daning, the biggest business operator is Changwu Hall.
As we all know, if a company wants to grow big, it must develop in multiple areas.
After all, if you only do a certain business, your ability to resist risks will be too poor, and you will be doomed if you encounter any problems one day.
Therefore, in the past, any company worth mentioning would actually be involved in many unexpected businesses.
Even Shaolin Temple has entered the real estate industry, so what else is impossible?
Of course, the head of Changwu Hall obviously does not have the foresight and foresight of the abbot of Shaolin Temple in his previous life. When it comes to expanding the scope of business, his thinking is still somewhat limited and not bold enough.
Therefore, after Changwutang basically monopolized the sinking market of "martial arts training" in Daning, the new business it developed next was still related to "martial arts".
To put it nicely, it is "exchange of ideas"; to put it bluntly, it is a "competition".
At first, Changwu Hall would only invite some disciples from famous sects to compete in its own venue from time to time. The main purpose was to enhance the status of the martial arts hall and play a publicity role.
Unexpectedly, this move turned out to be very popular. Not only warriors, but even many ordinary people came to watch. Some smart people even started betting and made a lot of money.
Changwu Hall saw that this was so profitable, so they gradually normalized the "competitions" and transformed them into various "competitions".
Organize your own competitions, sell your own tickets, and set your own betting pool.
The money earned is then shared among the major sects.
Changwu Hall and the major sects not only made money but also increased their popularity, and the people also had a great place to relax and have fun.
Such a win-win move naturally became more and more popular, and over time these originally perfunctory "competitions" became more and more authoritative.
"Golden Summit Sword Contest", "Holy Son List", "Purple Mountain Martial Arts Show". A series of well-known martial arts competitions were born in this way. In order to get a good ranking in the competition, the major sects gradually began to send some core disciples to participate.
The most amazing time was when Changwu Hall even found four third-rank masters and held a "show match" in the capital.
It is said that the ticket revenue from that exhibition match alone was as much as 10,000 taels, and the total amount of bets was as high as more than 100,000 taels . Since then, the Changwu Hall in each state has regularly held "martial arts performances".
Today, Wei Changtian and Liang Qin are here to "appreciate" some martial arts competitions.
Of course.
With Wei Changtian's current strength, he only watches others sparring for fun, so he is not really interested in it.
But Liang Qin couldn't help but like it.
She would often come and see it when she had nothing to do, and now that she was married she wanted to share the fun with her husband.
Wei Changtian had nothing to do recently, so he agreed.
They had just gotten married, so he still wanted to spend more time with Liang Qin.
After all, I will set off for Huailing in a few days, and no one can say what will happen next.
Liang Qin might become a widow As to why Wei Changtian suddenly decided to go to Huailing, Chu Xianping's guess yesterday was half right and half wrong.
His trip to Huailing was not entirely for Li Wutong, or perhaps Li Wutong was just a fuse.
If he really just wanted to save people, Wei Changtian could have sent someone to tie Li Wutong back halfway.
Therefore, his real target this time was Ning Yongnian.
As the saying goes.
It is better to lose a piece than to lose the initiative.
In this chess game of the world, Wei Changtian would rather lose Li Wutong than lose the initiative in the overall situation.
(End of this chapter)
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