Chapter 779: Duel of Masters

For the next period, Miss Luo Quan basically livestreamed in the morning and watched those lectures on Taoism on Bilibili in the afternoon.

Although she had no intention of practicing Taoism, to make the Golden Core exert its maximum effect, she indeed needed a certain amount of Taoist knowledge, or rather, insight.

And this thing couldn't be learned quickly; it required learning basic theories and then gaining insights for oneself.

Those with good comprehension could gain something in a few days.

Those with poor comprehension might need years of pondering.

However, Miss Luo Quan was not in a hurry to digest the Golden Core, so she was not particularly anxious in her mindset; anyway, everything followed fate.

And these past few days, a big event happened in China: Daoist Priest Cheng Shixing of Mount Wudang and the high monk Master Yanwu of Shaolin Temple issued a challenge to each other, agreeing to a peak duel in the capital on the 15th of this month to verify each other's practice.

People who have left the secular world shouldn't be so obsessed with winning or losing, but mainly because these two were forced by netizens to have no other choice.

Originally, one was livestreaming on Douyin, and the other was livestreaming on Constable, minding their own business.

Both had practiced martial arts since childhood and had extraordinary skills, wanting to gain attention through the internet era and incidentally promote the religion behind them.

This was originally understandable.

But as the saying goes, "there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts"; when two people with high martial arts skills were doing the same thing on the internet, it was inevitable that they would be compared by busybodies.

Not to mention that one was Taoist and the other was Buddhist; in ancient times, they were like fire and water, and they wouldn't need others to come, they would want to compete with each other to see who was better.

Of course, with the development of the times, life was actually not easy for both sides, and the conflict was not as intense as before, so Wudang and Shaolin were basically in a state of ignoring each other.

However, Daoist Cheng and Master Yanwu ignored each other, but the media and marketing accounts liked to create controversial news to gain traffic.

Today, they spread rumors that Daoist Cheng criticized Shaolin martial arts as flowery fists and embroidered legs; tomorrow, it was Master Yanwu laughing at Wudang Tai Chi as having a name but no reality.

This posture seemed to wish to rekindle the old grudges of these two century-old sects, making them fight to the death.

This scene reminded melon-eating netizens of Zhao Min in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber; that grandma once planned to use the method of sowing discord to eliminate the two martial arts leaders of Shaolin and Wudang, but unfortunately, she failed in the end.

The 21st century didn't have Zhao Min, but some people were worse than Zhao Min.

Zhao Min did this poisonous plan for her own country, while those media were simply for money, or a few clicks.

However, although this irresponsible fire-stoking made the two monks very annoyed, the biggest problem was that netizens were actually very curious about the outcome of these two.

We all understand the truth; this society needs harmony and friendship.

So who is more powerful, Shaolin or Wudang?

Every day in the livestream, people were asking, and the media kept hyping it up.

Finally, the two masters couldn't bear it on the same day and issued a challenge letter to each other with a tone that was considered relatively polite.

The challenge letter said that they only represented individuals and had nothing to do with the sect behind them or the entire religion; they just wanted to meet through martial arts and incidentally let the storm on the internet subside.

Of course, although it was said so, it was actually a head-on confrontation between Shaolin and Wudang; after all, these two masters were of the same generation and had a relatively high seniority in their respective sects, having a certain representativeness.

In short, after the challenge letter was issued, the media completely ushered in a carnival, calling this event the martial arts conference of the new era, competing for the new martial arts leader.

This propaganda was so exaggerated that it could be said to be as outrageous as it could be.

In fact, it wasn't that there hadn't been boxing matches like Taoists fighting monks in previous years, but they were basically organized by livestreaming platforms to attract eyeballs.

And the so-called Taoists and monks were probably not real, and the process of the competition was also quite ugly, completely two people who didn't understand martial arts swinging "turtle fists" at each other.

And the final result was also quite comedic; these two hammered each other thirty-something times on the ring before falling down at the same time and then both fainting and being sent to the hospital.

It meant that there was no winner or loser, which coincided with the doctrine of the mean advocated by the Chinese nation; it belonged to a victory without winning, and there was no loser.

Then this battle became a joke in the traditional martial arts circle of the new century, regarded as a classic by many people who looked down on traditional martial arts, and used to mock those who loved traditional martial arts.

However, after Miss Luo Quan appeared, there were fewer people mocking traditional martial arts, because Miss Luo Quan's martial arts were truly capable of killing people, and also proved that traditional martial arts had combat effectiveness.

And this battle between Daoist Cheng Shixing and Master Yanwu naturally became a big event in the traditional martial arts circle; they all wanted to see how powerful the martial arts of these two were.

Previously, Daoist Cheng proved Wudang's light-body technique to netizens with a 28-meter triple jump.

And Master Yanwu was not to be outdone; a pair of iron sand palms were practiced to be like steel; seven or eight solid blue bricks were stacked together, and he could smash them with one palm.

And it wasn't just that only the palms were so fierce; his fingers and forehead could also achieve similar effects; it was unknown if he had practiced the Golden Bell Cover and Iron Shirt.

Anyway, the martial arts of these two made a group of netizens admire them, so this peak duel was indeed full of highlights; the number of livestream reservations on the night of the competition exceeded 5 million, and all platforms had livestreams.

Miss Luo Quan, like most melon-eating masses who didn't think it was a big deal, also clicked on the reservation in the relevant livestream room on Bilibili, and at the request of fans, would also provide commentary for the duel between the two masters.

And after Bilibili got the news, I don't know which genius had the idea, directly setting Miss Luo Quan's livestream room as the official Bilibili commentary livestream room.

Miss Luo Quan was also dumbfounded after knowing it.

She originally just wanted to join the fun with the fans; who knew she would become an official commentator.

Anyway, she was currently the number one woman in domestic traditional martial arts, so it was reasonable for her to commentate on the traditional martial arts duel.

Miss Luo Quan didn't decline; since you let me come, then I'll come, but don't blame me for whatever program effect I make then?

Time quickly came to October 15th.

Under the carnival-style reporting of countless media, this peak duel between Shaolin and Wudang not only caused a sensation in China but even spread abroad.

Japan, the United States, the UK, and France all had not low attention, and YouTube and Twitter now also had images of the duel scene, as if they were going to conduct a global livestream.

For today's commentary, Miss Luo Quan specially wore a gorgeous evening dress, with beautiful and generous makeup, making the fans in the livestream room shout that they didn't recognize her:

"My god, which family's big beauty is this?"

"This is too formal, right? Like attending an awards ceremony."

"This is a global livestream, and Miss Luo Quan is also one of the official commentators, so she must take it seriously."

"Speaking of reason, one day a female Daoist priest will also come out and bump into Miss Luo Quan to see if her martial arts are really the world's number one for women."

"Great, I like watching girls fight the most."

"Forbidden 'Great'!"

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Before the competition started, Miss Luo Quan's styling today was the first to hit the trending search, and many foreign fans didn't even watch YouTube, specially coming to Bilibili's livestream room to support.

However, when they wanted to send bullet comments, they found that their level was not enough and they had to answer questions, and the result was that all the questions were in Chinese, and then they were completely paralyzed.

Miss Luo Quan didn't know this, but was popularizing the martial arts characteristics of the two sects to the audience:

"First is Shaolin, known for its fierceness, mostly external skills, relying on a tempered body to roam the martial arts world; in addition, there are 72 stunts in the Scripture Pavilion, each of which is a top-notch martial art outside, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to master one."

"As for Wudang, the martial arts style is elegant, combining hardness and softness, attaching great importance to internal cultivation; masters all have a strand of true Qi in their bodies, which looks ordinary on the surface, but once they move, it is stone-splitting and tree-cracking, which is no small matter."

"As for martial arts manuals, although there are not as many as Shaolin Temple, a set of Tai Chi that everyone knows has reached a height that no one can reach."

"Ask anyone in China, who doesn't know Tai Chi?"

"So this duel can be described as meeting a good talent and meeting an opponent; no one dares to say they can win until the last moment!"

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Amidst Miss Luo Quan's serious nonsense, the audience with full question marks sent bullet comments:

"Why is this like storytelling? And what is this 72 stunts in the Scripture Pavilion? Why don't I know Shaolin Temple has this thing?"

"Not right, I have some impression, it seems there is really this saying."

"Fart! That's a setting in martial arts novels!"

"You are also straightforward; Miss Luo Quan is talking nonsense with you."

"Damn, you old hag are very bad."

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These bullet comments made Miss Luo Quan laugh until she trembled: "No way, I just felt it was too boring before the opening, specially to liven up the atmosphere; you wouldn't really believe it, right?"

"Everyone, don't take the settings in martial arts novels as reality; traditional martial arts are not as mysterious as you think, and the power is not that great."

Just as she was talking, today's two protagonists appeared.

First was Daoist Cheng Shixing wearing a dark blue Taoist robe; his attire was the same as when he was livestreaming before, quite simple.

And Master Yanwu was about the same, wearing a martial monk's short outfit.

Compared to when livestreaming, Master Yanwu looked more robust offline, a size larger than Daoist Cheng.

If placed in a formal fighting competition, this was a contest between two weight classes, almost without any suspense.

In high-level fighting competitions, sometimes five kilograms meant absolute crushing in power.

And Master Yanwu looked at least 30 jin heavier than Daoist Cheng, maybe even more.

In the foreign livestream room, the chat had already started saying that this was an unfair duel; there was no reason for a lightweight athlete to fight a heavyweight athlete.

However, there was no movement on the Chinese side yet.

Because there is an old Chinese saying, "don't judge a book by its cover."

Especially in the traditional martial arts circle, sometimes the thinner the person, the stronger the martial arts might be.

Miss Luo Quan was an example; such a thin girl could hammer down more than a dozen big men; who would believe this if it was said out?

So before doing it, one must never draw conclusions rashly.

There were quite a lot of spectators at the duel scene, with slightly fewer young people, mostly middle-aged and elderly people, and these middle-aged and elderly people looked rich or expensive at first glance.

Logically speaking, at this age and with these conditions, they shouldn't be interested in traditional martial arts; I didn't expect these old people to come to the scene in person, and I didn't know what it was for.

"Please invite the two masters to the ring for a friendly greeting before the game!"

The host held the microphone and said to Daoist Cheng and Master Yanwu.

The ring was very large, more than 150 square meters, and it was on flat ground, without ropes, giving the players plenty of space to play freely.

After the two masters faced each other, they shook hands and greeted each other very harmoniously, saying some flattering words.

However, everyone knew that this was just polite, and once they started fighting, who knew how ruthless they would be.

After the greeting, the host read the duel rules.

First of all, this was a no-rules fight, and there was no time limit; whoever fell down first and couldn't get up or admitted defeat, it would be over.

Of course, there were some restrictions on the hitting parts, such as kicking the crotch or poking the eyes, which could not be used.

After all, this was meeting through martial arts, not a life-and-death battle, so there was no need to use such insidious and vicious means.

After finishing the precautions, the host faced the camera and said solemnly:

"Below I announce, Shaolin Wudang meet through martial arts, officially start!"

The screen switched, and Daoist Cheng and Master Yanwu had each retreated seven or eight meters, leaving some space for each other to react.

As the gong sounded, the two began to circle around the field.

After watching for a while, Miss Luo Quan began to commentate:

"Everyone, don't think that they haven't started fighting; look at the eyes of these two masters, hiding murderous intent!"

"Internal power has already started to compete in the middle of this field; any ordinary person who dares to walk in will be seriously injured!"

"I believe your evil!"

"Are you also from the Hunyuan Xingyi Tai Chi sect?"

"Look at my lightning five-whip!"

"Luo Bao, you are lying to me that I don't understand traditional martial arts; obviously internal power has colors."

"Don't argue, I feel the murderous intent on these two masters through the screen."

"Haha, are you trying to laugh me to death?"

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In terms of talking nonsense, Miss Luo Quan was professional.

Mainly because there was really nothing to commentate on now; these two were circling around the field; if she didn't say something to ease the awkward atmosphere, then her commentary was too incompetent, right?

Anyway, everyone was just having fun, and her making a joke was harmless.

However, after the duel officially started, Miss Luo Quan didn't giggle anymore, but observed seriously.

After the two masters circled for about five or six laps, perhaps feeling that circling any longer wasn't the way, they finally gradually approached the middle, and their hands were raised in a probing manner.

Finally, Master Yanwu couldn't hold his breath and took the lead in attacking Daoist Cheng.

His face suddenly turned from white and fat to flushed, and he shouted and kicked forward.

Everyone was watching the kick Master Yanwu made.

And Miss Luo Quan saw that Master Yanwu's other foot on the ground actually sank three points into the floor.

This force, if it kicked an ordinary person, could there still be a living person? ===== CHAPTER 780 =====