The Guan family's ancestors were from the Guarjia clan of the Plain White Banner. After the establishment of the Great Xia Kingdom, they changed their surname to Guan and became the most successful branch of the Guarjia clan.
Besides the Guan family, the Hu and Wang families also prospered. In addition, other members of the Guarjia clan who changed their surname to include the Shi, Wu, Gao, Gu, and Bai families.
The current head of the Guan family is named Guan Mingsheng, who is also Guan Lu's uncle.
Guan Mingsheng is over sixty years old and has reached the peak of his internal strength cultivation. He runs a martial arts school that specializes in teaching martial arts routines. Therefore, although he has not entered the entertainment industry, many people in the entertainment industry are his disciples and grand-disciples.
Therefore, many members of the Guan family are involved in the entertainment industry.
However, as he got older, Guan Mingsheng rarely managed the martial arts school anymore, and almost completely handed it over to Guan Lu, who had the best martial arts talent.
Furthermore, he planned that once Guan Lu broke through to the Dark Force level, he would hand over the martial arts school entirely to his nephew.
Inside a binary-coded courtyard house.
Guan Mingsheng was lying on a grand chair under a leafy tree in the front yard, occasionally waving a palm-leaf fan in his hand.
The courtyard gate was open, so Guan Lu strode in and said to Guan Mingsheng, who was sitting in the armchair, "Master, are you resting?"
Guan Mingsheng, who had been lying in the armchair, suddenly sat up and stared at Guan Lu's slightly pale face: "Lack of vital energy, are you injured?"
"Two of my ribs were broken, and when I jumped off the Great Wall, which was more than 20 meters high, I was injured in the shock!" A look of resentment flashed in Guan Lu's eyes.
"You've broken through to the Dark Force realm?"
Guan Mingsheng asked in surprise, because with his nephew's peak Ming Jin cultivation, jumping down from a height of more than 20 meters would definitely not be as simple as just injuring his internal organs!
"Yes, sir, I practiced my martial arts along the Great Wall today and just entered the realm of internal strength!"
Guan Lu nodded.
Upon hearing this, Guan Mingsheng felt a surge of anger. He had been grooming Guan Lu as his successor, and now he had been forced to jump off the Great Wall, which was over twenty meters high. How could he not be furious?
"Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Guan Lu did not hide anything and recounted the whole story in its entirety without embellishment.
"You! You!"
After hearing Guan Lu's story, Guan Mingsheng couldn't help but scold him: "You're almost thirty years old, how could you be so impulsive!"
There are indeed rules in the martial arts world that forbid peeping at people practicing martial arts, but what era are we living in now? Nobody adheres to those rules anymore.
Moreover, the Great Wall is a tourist attraction. If you go to the Great Wall to practice your skills and someone sees you, can you blame them?
Guan Lu feigned shame: "I had just broken through to the Dark Force level at the time, and I was full of vigor and perhaps got a little carried away!"
Guan Mingsheng could understand this. After breaking through to the Dark Force realm, he had beaten up all his fellow martial artists of his generation.
"What are your thoughts?" Guan Mingsheng asked.
"I can't swallow this insult. I have to get my revenge!" Guan Lu felt extremely aggrieved when he thought about how Gao Yan had forced him to jump off the Great Wall and run away.
"How do you want to vent your anger?" Guan Mingsheng continued to ask.
Guan Lu: "I don't know, that's why I came to ask you for some advice."
"Have you found out anything about them?" Guan Mingsheng asked.
Guan Lu nodded: "I checked. The other party's name is Gao Yan, he is twenty years old, and he does not come from a martial arts family. I don't know where he learned his skills, but I estimate that he is at least at the late stage of Dark Force, or even the peak of Dark Force!"
"Not too stupid!"
Guan Mingsheng said calmly, then stood up from the armchair and paced back and forth in the courtyard with his hands behind his back. His Guan family were Manchus, and during the Qing Dynasty, most martial arts families were involved with rebellious forces.
Therefore, the Guan family has almost no connection with the martial arts families of today.
Even now, they are not qualified to get involved in certain industries that martial arts families are involved in. Otherwise, the Guan family would not have entered the entertainment industry, since the entertainment industry was considered a low-class industry in ancient times.
Despite the uproar in the martial arts world caused by Gao Yan's annihilation of the Ma family, and the fact that most martial arts families consider him one of the people not to be trifled with.
However, this news only circulated within martial arts families, and ordinary people had no right to know it. As for the Guan family, no one would tell them on their own initiative!
Therefore, Guan Mingsheng had no idea about Gao Yan's background.
After a long pause, Guan Mingsheng stopped and slowly said, "Seeking revenge in private is not advisable, after all, this is a strategically important area around the capital. Here's what we'll do: I'll contact the Wang, Wu, Hu, and Gao families and set up a trap for them. If they succeed, all grudges will be settled; if they fail, it's just bad luck!"
Upon hearing this, Guan Lu's eyes lit up, because the challenge his uncle was talking about was not something that could be easily overcome. The challenge consisted of three stages, and only by overcoming all three stages could one be considered successful.
The first level was guarded by a bare-handed martial artist with internal strength, the second level by two martial artists with internal strength wielding weapons, and the third level by three martial artists with internal strength wielding weapons.
The Guan family, including him, only had two hidden strength experts, so naturally they didn't have the manpower to set up the situation. Therefore, they had to ask other families for help, since their ancestors were all from the Guarjia clan, and they generally wouldn't shirk their responsibilities when something happened.
Of course, there are benefits to passing the test. In the old days, failing to pass it would have meant certain death, but now you won't die, though you'll still have to stay in the hospital for several months.
However, if they successfully pass all three challenges, these families must bring fame to the challengers.
Guan Mingsheng is a decisive and efficient person.
Once he had an idea, he immediately called the heads of several households and invited them to his courtyard house to discuss the matter.
Six o'clock in the evening.
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