Chapter 5

Baihu Xiang is indeed the best bone structure among the Qin family's descendants, but it's not unique. Just now, Qin Ming also had the Baihu Xiang, so there's no need to be so excited that your hands tremble when feeling the bones.

At this moment, the old patriarch on the stage's face darkened, looking very serious.

"Qin Long's bone structure, from now on, will be uniformly referred to as Baihu Xiang in front of outsiders."

Qin Chao immediately understood that 'Baihu Xiang' was not Qin Long's true bone structure. He only heard the old patriarch's stern voice: "Qin Long has a clear and graceful shoulder and back, with a slender and well-knitted bone structure. Especially, the ligaments between the bones are extremely resilient. His bone structure, remember, is the Blazing Red Dragon."

"Blazing Red Dragon!"

There was a collective intake of breath from the crowd, and everyone immediately understood why the old patriarch had shown such an incredulous expression when feeling the bones earlier.

The Baihu Xiang is already one of the best bone structures for martial arts practice.

As for the Dragon, it is one in ten thousand, the ultimate bone structure. It is said that only one in a million people has this kind of talent. The Qin family has indeed had several Dragon bone structures, such as their ancestor Qin Gongwang, who created the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber, who had the Dragon bone structure.

"Remember, from now on, Qin Long's bone structure will be referred to as Baihu Xiang. The words 'Blazing Red Dragon' must never be spoken outside this ancestral hall." The old patriarch sternly instructed.

Immediately, the adults began to remind the children around them.

Qin Le Dao bent down.

"Chao'er, do you remember what the old patriarch said? If anyone asks about Xiao Long's bone structure in the future, you must say it's Baihu Xiang. Even if your father and mother ask, you should still answer this way." Qin Le Dao instructed solemnly.

Qin Chao, however, looked puzzled.

"Blazing Red Dragon, Blazing Red Dragon!"

Suddenly, Qin Chao's body trembled. "I understand!"

"It's him, it's him!"

Qin Chao looked at the child on the stage named Qin Long with shock, feeling extremely astonished. "It's him, 'Red Dragon King' Qin Shenglong. Then the first child who went up, Qin Qi, must be 'Old Black Bear' Qin Shengqi. So this place... is the Qin Family Village."

"This place..."

"Should be the world of 'Demons and Gods' from over a thousand years ago, 'The Lustful Monk,' and 'The Jade Maiden's Romance'!"

"It's the Northern Song Dynasty..."

Qin Chao felt an overwhelming surge of excitement. "I remember 'Demons and Gods,' I know a bit about 'The Lustful Monk,' and I've read part of 'The Jade Maiden's Romance.' This is the Qin Family Village, not the Qin Family Village in Yunzhou, but the Qin Family Village in Dali. However, the ultimate move is the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber, and only fifty-nine out of the original sixty-four moves remain. The five most powerful moves are lost, and they can only be found at the Gu Su Wang Family."

"Not just 'Demons and Gods,' but all the information related to 'Demons and Gods,' I remember."

Suddenly, it was as if a door had opened.

In the depths of Qin Chao's mind, names of people appeared, lines of text flashed, and scenes popped up.

Jiao Feng, Duan Yu, Xu Zhu...

Xiaoyao Sect, Beggar Gang, Shaolin...

Cihang Jingzhai, Xiantian Sect, the Four Great Manuals...

Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Mohism, Legalism... the descendants of the Hundred Schools of Thought debating on Mount Hua... the great destruction of the Qin Family Village...

Countless memories flooded his mind, from Jin Yong's 'Demons and Gods,' from 'The True History of the Martial World,' from other scholars' annotations of 'Demons and Gods,' and from various martial arts novels describing the Huizong era.

"In 'Demons and Gods,' Wang Yuyan's first formal appearance in the martial world was when she met the deputy chief of the Qin Family Village in Yunzhou, Yao Boudang. When Yao Boudang reported his family name and background, Wang Yuyan immediately pointed out the origin of his martial arts and mentioned that the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber originally had sixty-four moves, but later generations only knew fifty-nine. This greatly surprised Yao Boudang, as even he didn't know that the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber originally had sixty-four moves."

"In 'The True History of the Martial World,' the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber of the Dali Qin Family Village also only had fifty-nine moves, and the other five moves were never completed even during the Yongle era."

"In the annotations of 'Demons and Gods' by experts, the rise of the Dali Qin Family Village was led by Qin Long."

"And there should be another famous person here..."

Qin Chao looked around excitedly, searching for the little girl, but the ancestral hall only had boys, and girls had no place.

"'Red Dragon King' Qin Shenglong has a cousin, who is the most popular female character in Jin Yong's 'Demons and Gods,' Mu Wanqing. Mu Wanqing should be here in the Dali Qin Family Village, she must be. Qin Shenglong is only three years old, so Mu Wanqing should be around three or four years old. Then... Qin Hongmian, the wielder of the Asura Saber, should also be here."

Qin Chao recalled the memories of the past three years. "Why haven't I seen Qin Hongmian? Right, as a child, I wouldn't know the names of some adults. Even if the Asura Saber stood in front of me, I would only call her aunt or cousin. But little Mu Wanqing... which child is she? Never mind."

"Haha, martial arts!"

After three years of life, Qin Chao had already accepted the fact of his rebirth, but he never expected that it wasn't in a different world, but rather in the Northern Song Dynasty, and in a world described in many martial arts novels like 'Demons and Gods,' 'The Jade Maiden's Romance,' and 'The True History of the Martial World.' Even more surprisingly, the family he was reborn into was the Dali Qin Family Village.

"I should have known. The red dragon head on Qin Long's neck, the red dragon birthmark on his neck, he must be 'Red Dragon King' Qin Shenglong."

It's already rare for someone to be born with a birthmark, and even rarer for the birthmark to be a complete and recognizable shape, let alone an animal, and even more so a traditional Chinese five-clawed dragon.

When Qin Chao first saw Qin Long's dragon-shaped birthmark, he found it incredible but never thought much about it. It wasn't until he heard the old patriarch say that Qin Long's bone structure was the Blazing Red Dragon and remembered that the bone structure of the young Qin Qi was a bear that he suddenly recalled the 'True History of the Martial World' he had read years ago.

'The True History of the Martial World' describes real history from a different perspective, sourced from the tomb of Emperor Yongle, where the 'Yongle Encyclopedia' was found. The 'Yongle Encyclopedia' has 94,000 volumes, far more than the 22,937 volumes of the 'Yongle Encyclopedia.'

The 'Yongle Encyclopedia' is a large-scale social encyclopedia compiled during the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, almost completely including all kinds of books from that era. Unlike Emperor Qianlong's compilation of the 'Siku Quanshu,' which made many deletions and alterations, the 'Yongle Encyclopedia' included almost all books without any changes.

The 'Yongle Encyclopedia' is considered the largest encyclopedia in the world.

If it could be fully collected, reading the 'Yongle Encyclopedia' would provide a complete understanding of the historical truth of ancient Chinese feudal society before the Yongle era.

The 'Yongle Encyclopedia' unearthed from Emperor Yongle's tomb, the 'Martial World History,' contains even more content than the main 'Yongle Encyclopedia,' with over 70,000 more volumes and nearly ten billion more words. Even if some of the historical descriptions are absurd, there is more truth.

"Official history writes about literature, while wild history writes about martial arts."

"Reading wild history is like reading 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio,' filled with various acrobatics, strange ghosts, and monsters, but behind these strange stories are the bitter tears of life's disappointments."

Martial world history is different from official history, mainly describing the wild history of the martial world. However, it is far more detailed than the official history written by the historians of the feudal dynasty, not only in terms of people's lives and customs but also in various street fights and swordsmen. Even the descriptions of court figures are more detailed than in official history.

If it weren't for the appearance of immortals, foxes, and ghosts in these wild histories, orthodox historians might even consider them the true official history, while the so-called official history written by orthodox historians is actually a falsified history of the victors.

Therefore, the large-scale online game 'Demons and Gods' based on 'The True History of the Martial World' is recognized by historical experts as a true historical recreation, with a historical accuracy of over 90%.

"In the wild history, when talking about martial bone structures, it mentions that the Dragon bone structure has nine types: Golden Dragon, Green Dragon, Red Dragon, Green Dragon, Black Dragon, and White Dragon. If I hadn't played the 'Demons and Gods' game and carefully read 'The True History of the Martial World,' I wouldn't have known that Qin Shenglong's bone structure is the 'Blazing Red Dragon.'"

"Haha, Red Dragon King, Mu Wanqing, Duan Yu..." Qin Chao's eyes were filled with wild excitement. To play the 'Demons and Gods' game well, he had repeatedly read the history of this period in 'Demons and Gods' many times. Some segments in 'The True History of the Martial World' he could recite backward. He even clearly knew that in this Qin Family Ancestral Hall, among the densely packed ancestral tablets, the tablet in the center of the main row was the tablet of Qin Gongwang, the creator of the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber. The words on this tablet were written by Qin Gongwang himself before his death, different from other tablets, which read:

"Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber Qin Gongwang."

It did not have the usual words like 'Filial Father' or 'Ancestor,' and it had five extra words, 'Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber.' Others thought this was Qin Gongwang boasting about his achievements to future generations, but Qin Chao knew that these seemingly ordinary five words held great mysteries. Later, a Qin family descendant named Qin Danwen discovered the essence of the Five Tigers Interrupting Gate Saber from these five words and, after much contemplation, broke through to almost reach the pinnacle of this saber technique.