Chapter 34: Declaration of Martial Arts

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  What is called a declaration of martial arts, is actually signing a life and death warrant. This family's goods are the struggle for the family's status, with fame and profit, even related to the rise and fall of the family, it is a fight to the death, no room for sentiment.

  Even if they are friends off stage, once on stage they become sworn enemies. Defeating their opponents and defending the family's reputation is their only pursuit!

  The five forces participating in the struggle for the cold door seat are Guancheng Gufu, Guancheng Wenhua, Donglintun Niu Jia, Jiudutun Lan Jia and Jiudutun Li Jia.

  Among them, the Li family was originally a poor nobleman and belonged to the defender. The other four families were challengers. However, because the Gu Xiang Ancient House, Gu Xiang Wen House, and Donglin Town Niu House three houses were all challenging the Qin Family's cold door seat, while the Qin Family went to fight against the rich family for contention, so the Qin Family's one seat would be contested among these three families.

  Another cold war occurred within Jiudu Town between the sworn enemies of the Lan and Li families.

  After the five poor families rose to power, each made a passionate speech, signed a life-and-death warrant, and stepped down. With war looming ahead, they didn't want to say much more, so let's get on with it!

  For family, for survival, even if it means bleeding or dying, we must advance forward with our lives on the line!

  Family is the foundation of survival; family can share weal and woe, entrust life and death; for the sake of family, one would not hesitate to die!

  Between the two families, Zhou and Xia were both powerful forces in the county town. The two families had many contradictions in business and were sworn enemies. After taking office, they gritted their teeth and vowed to make their opponents die miserably.

  As for who will die miserably and at whose hands the deer will die, it depends on who wins.

  At this time, the competition between families is no longer what everyone expects. What they expect is - the struggle for the seats of the wealthy families.

  Everyone wants to know what mentality the Qin family has when challenging the wealthy families. Do they really have the confidence to challenge the wealthy Xu family?

  Everyone is eagerly awaiting.

  First, the representative of the challenged Hao Men Xu Shi faction gave a speech.

  The representative of the Xu family is a clan uncle of Xu Sanli, who is a high-ranking elder of the Xu family.

  The old man's face was clearly enraged, his tone scornful and furious: "I had never heard of the Qin family before this, I don't want to say much. Just a few words, since my family, the Permit Family, rose to power, all those who dared to challenge us have ceased to exist. The Qin family will not be an exception this time!"

  This speech is arrogant and domineering, fully demonstrating the demeanor that a wealthy family should have. Without real power, one wouldn't dare to utter such arrogant words.

  Moreover, this conversation was very smooth and closely related to the Qin family's article, without involving the Da Xi Shi family at all.

  The person in charge smiled slightly and made no comment, saying to the Qin family side: "Let's have a representative from the Qin family come up too."

  Qin Lianshan had no choice but to continue at this point, and just as he was about to go up, he was stopped by Qin Wushuang.

  Qin Wushuang walked calmly onto the stage, his eyes firm and resolute as he faced the gaze of tens of thousands of people. He began to speak slowly, "Ladies and gentlemen, on the day I took the Wu Tong test, a few nobles in fine clothes blocked my father and me, lecturing us on so-called noble etiquette. One of them even warned my father, saying that the key to being a person is knowing when to advance and retreat, and having the awareness to let go when it's time to do so. Perhaps you all don't know what this means. To put it bluntly, although this noble was from a wealthy family, he was still greedy and wanted to plot against my Qin family's business. He planned to use threats to force my Qin family to voluntarily give up our humble position and hand over our business with both hands. I'd like to ask you all, in the world of martial artists, is there such logic that one should yield without a fight? Who would be willing to be such a coward?"

  The voice was high-pitched and inflammatory, very provocative.

  "We will not yield! We will not be cowards!"

  "That's right! Want to take over the Qin family business, this is not surprising. Our Baiyue country emphasizes the survival of the fittest, the strong prey on the weak. If you have the ability, come and take it! As for who this wealthy old master is, I'm sure everyone has already guessed! That's right, it's Xu Sanli, Master Xu! At that time, I told him that the seat of the humble family would be left to him by my Qin family. However, there was one sentence that I didn't say at the time!"

  Qin Wushuang paused for a moment, and the tens of thousands of people below the stage all shouted in unison: "What did you say?"

  Qin Wushuang smiled slightly and said: "What I want to say is - if Master Xu wants to plot against the humble position of my Qin family, then he should use the noble position of his own Xu family in exchange!"

  Suddenly, Xu Sanli's eyes flashed with a cold light, full of murderous intent.

  Qin Wushuang's words had truly touched the reverse scales of this strong man. Even if the Qin family had obtained the support of the Da Xie clan, this was still too arrogant.

  Is it possible that you, Qin family, have connections with the Di family, but our powerful Xushi family has not found an even stronger backer?

  In Luojiang City, the Shi family is an invincible existence, but looking at the entire Baiyue Kingdom, they are only the lowest among the top noble families.

  Xu Sanli made no attempt to conceal his murderous intent, his voice cold and menacing as he said: "Qin family child, I will make you understand what it means to regret!"

  Qin Wushuang sneered calmly, "I'm waiting! I say, Patriarch Xu, you're still not calm enough. Don't forget: when you come out to mingle, you'll eventually have to pay the price! Is it only allowed for your Xu family to plot against me, but my Qin family can't plot against you? There's give and take, this is what's called fair play!"

  "Hahahaha, a little martial arts brat, spouting nonsense here. I'd like to see what you have to say about fairness and justice to an old man like me!"

  Qin Wushuang smiled faintly and didn't say much. However, his confident expression had a great impact on the people below the stage, who erupted into waves of cheers.

  Xu Sanli saw the commotion below the stage, clearly a provocation aimed at the Xu family! He was furious in his heart, could it be that this damned Qin family would actually have more popularity than the prestigious Xu family?

  He didn't believe it, looking at Qin Lian and his son, there were only three people in total, including a daughter who had no martial arts talent.

  How can the declining Qin family challenge our prestigious House of Xu?

  According to the rules, the competition for the cold door is held first.

  The person in charge said: "Xu Zu Zhang, there is something that must be discussed with you."

  Xu Sanli said calmly: "Please speak."

  "According to the rules, the Qin family has come to challenge your Permitted Clan. If the Permitted Clan wins, you will still be the noble Permitted Clan and the Qin family will automatically lose their original humble clan qualifications. However, if the Qin family wins, they will take over the noble clan qualifications of the Permitted Clan, and you, according to the rules, should be demoted to the humble clan status of the Qin family. But the Qin family's humble clan status has already been challenged. So, if you want to contend for this humble clan status, you must participate in this competition in advance and secure this humble seat first."

  Xu Sanli was annoyed in his heart and secretly thought: What kind of broken rule is this? Does it look down on me, the Xu family? The cold gate seat... Is it to bring out the cold and humiliating people?

  I am from the prestigious Xu family, how could I possibly lose?

  At this time, Yangkou refused: "No need, just a humble door, my Xu family hasn't taken it seriously yet!"

  He went all out to help the Gu family win this cold door seat, not because he valued the cold door seat itself, but because he had his eyes on the Qin family's assets. As for the Xu family themselves trying to secure a cold door seat, it was impossible for them to give up their car and keep their foot soldiers, nor could they bear the shame of losing face.

  Although contending for this humble position can be considered as finding a way out in case of losing this noble competition.

  The person in charge nodded slightly: "Alright, since you're not arguing, if the Xu family loses this competition for a noble title, they will be directly demoted to commoners and won't even have a seat among the lower nobility!"

  Xu Sanli puffed out his chest and said: "Thanks for your concern, I, Xu, will never lose!"

  The person in charge smiled: "I just told you the rules, this is also a kind of respect for the rich and powerful."

  Although so, in Xu Sanli's view, this is a humiliation for the noble Xu family. Otherwise, why would they mention something like a humble seat?

  In this way, Xu Sanli thoroughly rejected this last resort.

  The person in charge said loudly: "Next, the 'Theory Rules' will be announced. The vacant cold door seat of Qin family in Donglin Town will be competed by three families, and the final winner will get this seat; Li family and Lan family in Jiudou Town will compete for another cold door seat. The rules are as follows..."

  After the announcement was made, there were no objections from any party and the rules were signed.

  The next step is the struggle for fame between the Zhou and Xia families, there's nothing to say. The winner is the noble family, the loser is the humble door, a game between the two families. Either maintain the original status or swap positions!

  The rules of the Qin family and the Haomen Xu family have been made clear: if the Qin family wins, they will be promoted to a Haomen, and the Xu family will be demoted to commoner status; otherwise, the Xu family will continue to hold their Haomen seat, and the Qin family will be demoted to commoner status.

  "Xu Clan Leader, Qin Clan Leader, regarding the competition rules, you two can discuss the details! According to the rules, a Cold Gate match is a single win or lose; a Wang Clan match is best two out of three; and a Hao Clan match is best three out of five!"

  The person in charge is tireless and must first establish the rules, maintaining fairness and justice within this system, so that both losers and winners have nothing to say.

  Xu Sanli sneered: "Five rounds of competition, the Qin family has already lost. There are only two males in their household! They don't even have enough people to make up three wins."

  "It seems like there's a rule that allows one person to fight five consecutive matches, right?" Qin Wushuang said calmly.

  "One person wins five games in a row? Are you sure your brain hasn't been squeezed by the door?" Xǔ Sān Lì sneered repeatedly.

  The person in charge interrupted, "One person can fight five rounds, it's also possible according to the rules. However, this way is very difficult to show fairness, what if a certain family only has one strong person and the others are ordinary; while this strong person happens to be just a little bit stronger than the strong people of other families, and then they take advantage of the loophole by fighting five rounds alone."

  Qin Wushuang nodded, indicating understanding. It's just like a certain family having only one true martial fifth stage, with the power of one person, defeating another family's five strong true martial third and fourth stages.

  This is a typical hole card, in terms of average strength, the latter is definitely stronger; however, the former has only one strong player coming out continuously, which is unfair.

  "With rules, let's follow them!" Qin Wusuo had already thoroughly studied the rules and was confident.

  "If we follow the rules, the first battle is a one-on-one duel; the second battle is a one-on-two; and so on, until the fifth battle, which is a one-on-five!" The person in charge reminded, "This rule makes it very difficult for one person to fight alone!"

  Qin Wushuang said calmly, "Isn't it a best-of-five match? It doesn't necessarily have to go all the way to the fifth game."

  The person in charge said: "Then the people from the Qin family who go to war must have the ability to fight one against three. Only then can we ensure that we pass the three battles!"

  "Can one defeat three?" Qin Wusuo laughed and said lightly, "Then let's have one against three!"

  As soon as this statement came out, the audience was in an uproar! This martial arts child is really arrogant enough to challenge three people at once, and it's against the powerful Xushi family! Which member of the Qin family has such fierce fighting power?

  Even Lian Zong Qin Lianshan couldn't help but be shocked, his body slightly trembling as he stood up involuntarily.