#527 - Changwu Hall
The next day.
After breakfast, Wei Changtian and Liang Qin took a carriage together, preparing to go to a martial arts gym called "Changwutang" to watch a few sparring matches.
Different from sects and gangs, the martial arts gyms in this world also teach people martial arts and cultivation, but what they practice are actually some second-rate internal energy combat skills.
After all, the more powerful cultivation methods are basically controlled by the major sects and forces, and they are not easily spread.
Therefore, there are not many cultivation methods circulating in the martial world that can be practiced at will.
And these cultivation methods mostly have several characteristics.
They are easy to get started, have obvious strengths and weaknesses, and have a low upper limit.
Take the most popular internal energy in Da Ning, the Three Purities Skill, for example.
Although the name "Three Purities" sounds very domineering, it is actually only the lowest-level "Yellow Grade" skill, priced at 20 system points in the system, even less valuable than a puppet pill.
Unlike the Guiyuan Skill practiced by Wei Changtian, or the Tianluo Skill secretly passed down by the Tianluo Sect, or the Dragon Elephant Skill practiced by Xiao Feng, which are all "Heaven Grade" skills.
The Three Purities Skill cannot help cultivators to "achieve success naturally" when breaking through, nor does it have the internal force intensity to be invincible at the same level, nor does it have the special ability to raise the realm in a short period of time.
Its only advantage is that it can allow cultivators to quickly "enter the ranks" and step into the Ninth Rank realm.
At first glance, such a function seems better than nothing, and is quite useless.
After all, entering the ranks is only the beginning of cultivation, and whether it is faster or slower seems to make no difference. What is more crucial is whether the road ahead can be long.
But in fact, for many martial artists in this world, the Ninth Rank realm is both the starting point and the end of their cultivation path.
Among all the cultivators in the world, about 80% of them will never reach the Middle Three Ranks realm in their entire lives.
And among these 80%, almost half of them cannot even break through the Eighth Rank realm.
That is to say, 40% of all cultivators in this world will stay in the lowest Ninth Rank realm for their entire lives.
For these people, they don't care about the disadvantages of the Three Purities Skill, such as "can only be practiced to the Seventh Rank at most" and "the absorption of heaven and earth's true energy is extremely slow after entering the ranks." Because they can't reach the Seventh Rank anyway.
On the contrary, the only advantage of the Three Purities Skill is what they need most.
As long as they can enter the ranks, they can find a job in the government or the army, and become an "official man" from then on, no longer having to work hard in the fields with their faces to the soil and their backs to the sky.
The purpose of cultivation is actually only to avoid farming. Such a "pursuit" is undoubtedly far from the grand visions of "seeking longevity" and "becoming gods and immortals" written in previous novels.
But in fact, this is indeed the true thought of most bottom-level cultivators.
With just one or two taels of silver, these martial arts gyms can teach you an internal energy skill and also give you a martial skill as a bonus.
You pay the money and they teach you the skill, and after you have learned it, you can leave without any responsibility or burden.
If you can't learn it, they will even refund your money.
With conscientious prices and honest service, many martial arts gyms have gained a foothold in the martial world with these two points, and most of them have made a lot of money.
According to professional terms from the previous life, this should be called accurately grasping the "sinking market."
We teach people that orthodox sects and gangs don't teach.
And we guarantee to teach you until you learn it, with small profits but quick turnover.
It can be said that most martial artists in this world are actually taught by this kind of "training class"-like martial arts gym.
And within the territory of Da Ning, the one that has made this business the biggest is "Changwutang."
As everyone knows, if an enterprise becomes big, it must diversify its development.
After all, only doing a certain business has too poor risk resistance, and it will be finished if it encounters a problem one day.
Therefore, in the previous life, all the companies that could be named actually involved many unexpected businesses.
Even the Shaolin Temple has entered the real estate industry, so what is impossible?
Of course, the master of Changwutang obviously does not have the foresight of the abbot of Shaolin Temple in the previous life. His thinking is still somewhat limited and not bold enough when expanding the business scope.
Therefore, after Changwutang basically monopolized the sinking market of "martial arts training" in Da Ning, the new business it subsequently launched was still related to "martial arts."
To put it nicely, it is "sparring"; to put it bluntly, it is running "arenas."
In the beginning, Changwutang would only occasionally invite disciples from famous sects to spar in its own venues, mainly to enhance the martial arts gym's status and serve as a publicity.
As a result, unexpectedly, this move was very popular. Not only martial artists, but even many ordinary people would come to watch, and even those with active minds opened gambling tables and made a lot of money.
When Changwutang saw that this matter was so profitable, it simply gradually normalized "sparring" and evolved it into various "competitions."
They held their own competitions, sold their own tickets, and opened their own gambling tables.
Then, the money earned was divided with the major sects.
Changwutang and the major sects both made money and increased their popularity, and the people also had a good place for leisure and entertainment.
Such a win-win situation naturally became more and more popular. Over time, these originally perfunctory "competitions" became more and more authoritative.
"Golden Summit Sword Debate," "Saint Son Ranking," "Purple Mountain Martial Arts Performance". A series of resounding martial world competitions were born in this way. In order to obtain a good ranking in the competitions, the major sects gradually began to send some core disciples to participate.
The most awesome time, Changwutang even found four Third Rank experts and held a "performance match" in the capital.
It is said that the ticket revenue from that performance match alone was more than ten thousand taels, and the total amount of bets on the gambling table was as high as more than one hundred thousand taels.
Since then, Changwutang's branches in various states have regularly carried out "martial arts performance" activities.
And today, Wei Changtian and Liang Qin are here to "appreciate" a few martial arts competitions.
Of course.
With Wei Changtian's current strength, watching others spar is just watching the excitement, so he is not very interested in it.
But Liang Qin likes it.
She often comes to watch by herself when she has nothing to do, and now that she is married, she wants to share the fun with her husband.
And Wei Changtian has nothing to do recently anyway, so he agreed.
The two have just been married, and he still wants to spend more time with Liang Qin.
After all, he will be leaving for Huailing in a few days, and no one can say what will happen after that.
Maybe Liang Qin will become a widow.
Regarding why Wei Changtian suddenly decided to go to Huailing, Chu Xianping's guess yesterday was half right and half wrong.
His trip to Huailing is not entirely for Li Wutong, or rather, Li Wutong is only a fuse.
If he really just wanted to save people, then Wei Changtian could have sent someone to tie Li Wutong back on the road.
Therefore, his real purpose this time is Ning Yongnian.
As the saying goes.
Better to lose a piece than to lose the initiative.
In this game of chess in the world, Wei Changtian would rather lose the piece of Li Wutong than lose the initiative of the overall situation.
