"Wang Xianzhi, the city lord of Wudi City?"
Li Chang'an looked at the old man in front of him with some surprise.
In his mind, the four great legends of the martial arts world, no matter what, must have the air of a master.
Even if one's clothes and appearance are ordinary, one's temperament should still be extraordinary.
The old man in front of me looked exactly like a farmer who had just finished working in the fields; he didn't look like a martial arts master at all.
"I am Wang Xianzhi, and I greet Your Highness!"
While Li Chang'an was sizing up others, others were also sizing him up.
The moment Li Chang'an appeared, Wang Xianzhi felt a chill run down her spine and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.
Among the four legendary figures in the martial arts world, he and Zhang Zhenren of Wudang are generally considered to be the most powerful fighters.
Nameless and Mud Bodhisattva, one is unparalleled in swordsmanship, the other is capable of calculating the heavens and the earth. Both are invincible in their respective fields, but when it comes to the true level of martial arts, both of them have to take a backseat.
The higher one's martial arts level, the more one can see in Li Chang'an.
When Zhang Xianzong first met the heavens, he saw the heavens open their eyes, and the sky was filled with thunder. If he made any move, he would be doomed.
Wang Xianzhi, on the other hand, saw Li Chang'an standing on the Heavenly Dao, with countless golden figures behind him.
Each golden figure stood above the Heavenly Dao, radiating an aura of world-destroying power.
Looking at these golden figures, Wang Xianzhi felt an instinctive sense of fear, but he gritted his teeth and refused to bow his head to them.
As a warrior, he had his pride.
I'd rather die standing than live kneeling.
After a while, the golden figures slowly disappeared from behind Li Chang'an. Wang Xianzhi breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a chill down her back. When she reached up to touch her clothes, she found that they were soaked with cold sweat.
"Don't be nervous. I've come to you to discuss something. By the way, where's Chief Ke?"
Upon hearing Li Chang'an's question, Wang Xianzhi took a couple of breaths to calm down before speaking, "My foolish disciple is constantly worried that the prince's meeting with me is a prelude to his attack, so he lives in constant fear."
"Seeing his condition, I didn't bring him along to meet the Prince."
"I can see that my disciple greatly admires Your Highness and doesn't want to see me clash with you. So I came alone to ask Your Highness what you need me for."
"Heh~, it's nothing major. I just wanted to ask Lord Wang what his views are on the martial world."
Li Chang'an waved his hand, and two chairs appeared out of thin air: "Lord Wang, please sit down."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Wang Xianzhi was not surprised by the appearance of the two chairs. No matter how miraculous this was, it was not as miraculous as the yield of 8,000 catties of grain per mu.
Now, throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, as long as a family grows this kind of grain, no one will say that Li Chang'an is a fraud.
Everything can be faked, except for the grain grown in the fields.
In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chang'an was a god.
Sitting in the chair, Wang Xianzhi pondered for a moment before saying, "Your Highness, what I think is not important; what matters is what Your Highness thinks."
“In every dynasty, at the beginning of its establishment, people would be sent to warn those martial arts sects and make them obey the orders of the court. When the prince sent my disciple to find me, I knew that the prince probably wanted to recruit those martial arts people into his service.”
"I just don't know what Your Highness needs me to do."
Li Chang'an looked at him and waved his hand: "Lord Wang is joking. I have never thought of putting those martial arts sects in a bad light, nor have I thought of recruiting those people to my side. Lord Wang, you are overthinking it."
Upon hearing this, Wang Xianzhi was taken aback: "Your Highness, did you not come to me to win over those people in the martial arts world?"
Li Chang'an smiled and said, "Lord Wang, that's too small."
"You've narrowed your perspective!"
"What I've always wanted to do isn't to win over people from the martial arts world, but rather to figure out how to eliminate them."
"I don't want to give those martial arts sects a hard time. What I'm thinking about is finding a reason to kill them all."
"There are too many and too complicated problems in the martial arts world. Grudges and feuds, conflicts between Buddhism and Taoism—these things are too troublesome to deal with."
"I dislike trouble, so I've decided to kill all those who cause this trouble."
“I’ve already killed millions of island nations, so a few more won’t make a difference.”
"These matters are originally grudges among you martial arts people, and I don't want to get involved."
"But you people shouldn't have dragged ordinary people into your grudges."
“You shouldn’t have tried to take advantage of ordinary people.”
"I won't say anything about you martial arts practitioners who establish sects and teach martial arts."
"But you are so focused on practicing martial arts that you don't farm or work, so you have no income. Yet you've come up with the idea of collecting protection money from the local people near your sect."
"You say you're acting as chivalrous heroes to protect the local people, so you're charging them money? What kind of chivalrous heroism is that?"
“You people not only take money from ordinary people, but also seize their land. What are you trying to do?”
"I went through countless hardships to reduce the imperial tax revenue, and yet you martial arts sects are demanding money from the common people."
"If you don't pay, you'll try to seize other people's land, kidnap their wives and daughters, and force them into slavery to serve you."
"You're doing all the things that those corrupt officials in the imperial court wouldn't dare to do now."
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