Seek the Way in all realms

By Leroy Jackson

The protagonist travels through the worlds of the heavens and the earth and finally attains transcendence! Confirmed worlds include the Golden System of Martial Arts, the Great Tang Dynasty, the Two Dragons, Mortal Immortality, Pan Long, Shadow of Heaven, and the Flood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eva Webb
• Release date: Jan 31, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869392527

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Chapter 2: Descending the Mountain

    When the master died, these younger disciples would be miserable, they could only follow their senior brother to muddle through, and once their cultivation left here, they wouldn't even be able to keep their names as inner disciples!

    This period of the Huashan School is not the opening of the Huashan Sect, the light of the inner disciples are thousands of people, the outer disciples are more than countless, this child strength has been straight forward Shaolin Wudang, than the other four mountains add up to the strength of the strength of the so on one or two points!

    Of course, the identity of their Huashan direct lineage will not change, as long as the cultivation to, naturally, can actually rise, compared to the outer disciple is still much better, Li Mu but know Huashan sect of the outer disciples but a lot of second and third-rate good, unless for the sect to establish a great merit, or else they will always be an outer disciple!

    As an inner disciple, in addition to good benefits, the most important thing was the secret martial arts, many of the outer disciples, were practicing unimpressive external kung fu, and could not even see internal kung fu.

    Of course to give you a secret book of martial arts, ordinary people can not practice the results to come, in order to ensure that the work of the law is not leaked, many of the contents of this are used in coded language, is to rely on the elders in the door of the word of mouth.

    If you take the secret book and practice it haphazardly, ten ** are going to go off the deep end, and the rest are the lucky ones whose protagonist's aura is turned on, and they just happen to be given the right montage!

    All of this is not difficult to defeat Li Mu, as a traveler how can not have a golden finger? His standard equipment is not a system, but the legendary book of the earth, whether it is Zhen Yuanzi's family belongings, Li Mu does not know.

    Anyway, without knowing how it happened, the Earth Book found him and brought him to this martial arts world in the process. As his cultivation was still shallow, or equal to none.

    So far, Li Mu had only discovered a role in deducing the gong method, and he was able to make a breakthrough so quickly thanks to the fact that the Earth Book had made small modifications to Huashan's basic internal martial arts based on his physique, so that the gong method was a perfect match for his physique.

    Of course, on the surface is not to see the difference, in fact, the same is the basic internal energy of Huashan, Li Mu cultivation out of the internal energy will be so two or three times faster than the next person, because of the high degree of fit of the gong method, even the bottleneck of the breakthrough is weakened by a lot, and his internal energy is also more pure.

    This advantage would be very big, in Li Mu's opinion this function can be much more bullish than any system, after all, relying on external forces to enhance the cultivation, can never be compared to their own cultivation out!

    Senior Brother Li, just now Senior Brother Liu came over to inform us that we have to move out within a month, what can we do?

    Despite having expected it, when it really happened, Li Mu's mood was still not good, and it was estimated that any person who encountered such a situation would not feel good in his heart!

    Li Mu spoke out to comfort him, Don't worry, Master Wang, just move away, I've already made a deal with Uncle Feng, we'll take over the errand of guarding the grain depot in Huayin County, we'll just go straight down the mountain!

    It couldn't be helped, without the shelter of the master, these disciples of theirs also needed to do tasks, but of course under normal circumstances, they wouldn't be given tasks within the sect for three years.

    However, Li Mu is clear that it is dangerous to stay in Huashan Sect, who knows when the sword qi dispute will be fought? It would be better to take advantage of the fact that the master has just passed away and his connections are still there, and take the opportunity to seek a free position and go out to avoid trouble!

    Huayin is right under the nose of the Huashan Sect, who would have the guts to come over and mess things up? Even if they did, they wouldn't rob a grain store, would they?

    How humiliating is this?！

    Even if they are hostile forces, they are not so boring, and burning down the granary can't affect the Huashan Sect's sub-ho, ah? In its heyday, the Huashan Sect was not short of money, and the protection fees from its territory alone were enough to maintain its daily expenses.

    For example: the entire northwest region of salt, iron, tea, silk, grain trade, all have a share of the Huashan school of dry shares, otherwise waiting to go out and be robbed!

    As for bringing these few senior brothers and sisters with him, it was also something that could not be helped, not to mention the fact that there were more than thirty disciples of his master, and there were also more than twenty senior brothers and sisters on his head, but all of these people had already left the master.

    The contact with these senior brothers and sisters is naturally not much, they did not take the initiative to come to pick up the people, already enough to explain the problem, Li Mu will have to bring their own, anyway, they have the sect issued a share of silver every month, do not need to use him to raise.

    After getting along for a few months, our relationship was not bad, so we simply took it away to train ourselves, so that we could have a few more minions in the future.

    Senior Brother Wang asked in surprise, Senior Brother you're going out on a mission so soon? Isn't there still three years of mourning left?

    Li Mu explained, "It's not just me, it's all of us! Think about it, with Master gone, can there be a good mission that will be our turn after three years?

    With our kung fu, what else can we do besides doing odd jobs on the mountain? The Huashan Sect has no shortage of servants. Will we have a good life if we stay?

    Taking advantage of the fact that there are still some favors left now that Master has just passed away, I just went and begged Uncle Feng to arrange an easy seat for us, so that we can come back when our cultivation level is high!"

    Master Wang said with some hesitation, But what about our cultivation resources, once we get off the mountain, I'm afraid that there's no way to obtain this once-a-month medicinal bath!

    Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, Senior brother you think too well, Master passed away, even if we continue to stay on the mountain, it's impossible to have it, hasn't this month's medicinal bath been canceled?

    Ah! Master Wang exclaimed, as he snapped to the thought that these cultivation resources were issued to the elders, who would then distribute them amongst themselves.

    For example, due to his good qualifications, Li Mu's predecessor's share of the medicinal bath was three times a month, while the less qualified Wang Shidi only had one chance a month.

    Under normal circumstances, using a medicinal bath would double the speed of cultivation in the next few days, and this was the standard for the big sects, the small sects didn't even have a recipe.

    However, this was only effective at the beginning of practicing martial arts, and for someone like Li Mu who had already broken through the late third stage, this increase was already negligible.

    A medicinal bath that could increase his cultivation speed, the Huashan Sect couldn't afford to use it either! Other than a few talented disciples, who could obtain a limited share, others should not think about it!

    It was said that an ordinary medicinal bath would cost roughly ten taels of silver at a time, while a more upscale medicinal bath that could be effective for Li Mu right now would cost hundreds of taels of silver.

    If the supply was left open, elite disciples like Yue Buqun would have to consume tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, just to increase the speed of cultivation by more than double, it was obviously not worth it and there were not that many medicinal herbs to consume!

    Li Mu smiled and said, Senior Brother Wang, notify the senior brothers and sisters to pack up their things, we're ready to go down the mountain!

Chapter 3: Life Under the Mountain

    Watching over the grain depot was originally just a task for outer disciples, and it didn't need to be the responsibility of inner disciples at all, except that under the care of Senior Uncle Feng, this position fell on Li Mu's head. m.

    Of course this didn't require him to personally suffer the granary, his position was that of an outer sect deacon, responsible for managing the outer sect disciples of Huayin County, if it was outside, he could basically be in charge of the Huashan affairs of a county, or even a prefecture.

    It was only that this was the foot of Mount Hua, and there were a bit too many outer door deacons, so everyone would have to divide one item each.

    Other departments have long been in charge of someone, so Li Mu can only receive a sub-management of the grain depot restrictions, specific matters are still outside the disciples do, he just go to mix.

    This kind of situation is also tacitly recognized by the sect, like Li Mu, the master died, and their master brothers and sisters did not leave the master, this is not the first time that this kind of situation occurs, basically as long as the war with the demonic sects will happen, the sect is also taken care of.

    Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, if you stay on the mountain, disciples like Li Mu who don't have a mountain to rely on will naturally have a hard time, especially with the sword qi fight, it's hard to not have conflicts with others ah!

    This is also the reason why Li Mu's senior brothers and sisters didn't come over to pick them up, on the one hand, they didn't have too deep of feelings, on the other hand, it's that they had a hard time, they had to go out to do quests from time to time, and they didn't have much time left on the mountain, and they didn't have the energy to take care of them!

    For his choice, Uncle Feng also understand, go down the mountain to avoid the wind, and so on the future martial arts high and then come back, this is also a common thing, taking into account his age is still small, there are a few younger siblings to take care of, will let him receive a free job to go down the mountain to mix.

    That's right this Elder Feng, is Feng Yunyun's master, only his strength is much stronger than Li Qingfeng, is the core elder of Huashan Sect, Li Mu's master and he worshipped the same master, and is also his senior brother, the two people in the sect are very good relations, so the first time Li Mu turned to him for help.

    If there was no sword qi dispute, Rev. Li's brothers could still stay on the mountain, and they didn't even have to move, the relationship within the Sword Sect was still very harmonious.

    Li Mu's senior brothers were: wang indeterminate, liu bufan, zhou bu lin, xiang nevertheless, li bufan, li bufang, and two junior sisters: zhou bu yao, and luo bu min.

    All of these names were taken by his master, they belonged to the Bu Zi generation, so all of their names had a Bu character in the middle, and Li Mu had now become Li Bu Mu.

    The older Wang Indeterminate and Li Mu were about the same age, both fifteen, and the other several senior siblings were all thirteen or fourteen, except for the youngest senior sister Zhou Bu Yao who was only ten.

    Other than Li Mu who had broken through to the late third stage, everyone else was at the uninitiated realm, and Wang was not sure if he had reached the edge of breaking through.

    In contrast to the opening of the Laughing Pride, they are not at all less qualified than the group of disciples that Yue Buqun had taken in, and basically before the age of twenty, they could break through to the Third Stream Realm.

    Time rushed by, and soon it was time to go down the mountain, Li Mu took his senior brothers and sisters and reluctantly left the former residence, unless one of them broke through the first-class realm, this place would have nothing to do with them anymore.

    Senior brother, when will we be able to come back again? Just after saying that the tears of the youngest senior sister had already rolled down her face.

    Li Mu comforted, Soon, as long as we practice hard, we can come back again someday!

    Several people are not in a good mood, with a large bag on the road, although the road from Huayin County is not far, but several people still spent most of the day.

    This was still the case when everyone had martial arts in their possession, otherwise it would not be so easy for teenagers in their early teens to walk this lying road.

    Along the way Li Mu encountered two times the disciples of the two sword and Qi sects against each other, he was afraid to pass through, afraid of being affected by the fish in the pond, but fortunately, looking at them a bunch of brats, no Qi sect disciples had the good sense to come out and look for trouble.

    ......

    Arriving at Huayin County, Li Mu directly brought his senior brothers and sisters to the small courtyard that the sect had arranged for them and settled down.

    Just once again, he lived a regular life, every day was practicing, and occasionally instructing his senior brothers and sisters to practice martial arts, as for the sect tasks, this did not need him to worry about yet.

    The original outer disciples would do a good job, no one could expect a fifteen year old brat to actually take charge, as long as he didn't add to the chaos.

    This is also exactly what Li Mu's mind, the martial arts world will always use fists to speak, do not take advantage of the present to practice hard, once the sword qi dispute has passed, the name of Huashan disciples will not be good, and may even cause trouble to kill people!

    Li Mu didn't believe that all the inner disciples of Huashan Sect died in the sword qi fight, and in the end there were only five people left, including Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongzhe, and Feng Yunyi, knowing that there were more than a thousand of them.

    Could it be that disciples as young as a few years old would participate in the Sword Qi Competition? People aren't crazy enough to break the foundation of the Huashan Sect, right?

    Moreover, there were not a few inner sects that were doing tasks under the mountain, and since the sword qi dispute had suddenly erupted, it was unlikely that all of these people would rush to the meeting, so where did they go?

    Outer disciples can be traitors and switch to other sects, but inner disciples are absolutely impossible, this is a big taboo in the jianghu, no that famous sect dares to accept it!

    With the hatred between the Huashan Sect and the Devil's Sect, they just defected to the past, but also can't escape a word of death, as long as they are not stupid they may also defect to the past, then there are only two possibilities, either to die, or to hide in anonymity!

    The forces that might strike at them, this was too much, besides the enemies that had a beef with the Huashan Sect, the major famous sects were estimated to be the main force, only that they were doing it in the dark.

    Thinking of this, Li Mu practiced harder, anyway, the improved Huashan basic internal martial arts, can be practiced all the time, and the year's Quanzhen heart method has the same beauty, before the innate don't have to worry about the problem of the gong method!

    In addition to practicing martial arts, they also had to take lessons, and there was no mistake, Li Mu also invited an old Taoist to give them lessons, except that the textbooks were not the Four Books and Five Classics, but Taoist texts.

    Huashan, as a famous Taoist mountain, there are many Taoist priests who dive here, and once the Huashan Sect was one of them, only to be slowly transformed into a real jianghu sect later on.

    However, the incense love is still in, Huashan sect also did not expel these Taoist priests, everyone occupies one side, quite a few points of well water does not offend the river water flavor.

    This is also Li Mu undoubtedly in the middle of the Taoist texts found that Taoist texts help the internal martial arts realm breakthrough, Huashan internal martial arts originated from the Quanzhen religion, and Taoism is inextricably linked, many of the concepts in it are derived from the Taoist texts.

    Although the younger brothers and sisters did not understand why they had to learn this, however, Huashan disciples were also required to practice literature, only that they learned the Confucian texts within the Four Books and Five Classics, and only sought to improve their cultural level.

    They didn't object, it's not like they're going to take the imperial examinations, and it's the same for them, the jianghu people, to take anything as a textbook.

Chapter 4: Mt. Taibai

    Time rushed by, in a flash three years had passed, Li Mu's internal energy had also improved from the late third-rate three years ago to the current late second-rate, if not to build a firm foundation, now he would have broken through the first-rate long ago.

    In addition to his internal breakthrough, his swordsmanship had also improved greatly, and with the help of the earth book it was now perfect, and his lightness was practiced to the peak, no worse than the elders in the sect.

    Even a few of his senior brothers and sisters had broken through the Third Stream Realm under his urging, of course this was also due to their good qualifications, after all, being able to enter the Huashan Sect also depended on the roots.

    (Laughing World root bones can be categorized as: inferior, medium, superior, and super)

    The core disciples of the major sects are undoubtedly first-class qualifications, but also individual geniuses are super-class qualifications. The same qualification, the speed of cultivation is not necessarily the same, this depends on the martial arts and personal fit, there is also enlightenment!

    The root bone could be detected, but there was no way to detect the fit and enlightenment of the gongfu, this would depend on luck!

    The Huashan Sect's criteria for accepting disciples is to have a clean background, with lower qualifications to enter the outer sect, upper qualifications to enter the inner sect, and medium qualifications depending on luck and connections; good luck or connections with the big shots in the sect will allow you to enter the inner sect, and vice versa for the outer sect.

    Outer disciples in addition to, the sect itself cultivated outside, also accept halfway to defect over, only these people are not trusted, can only learn some of the first shallow, or crippled gong method.

    The outer disciples that they had cultivated still had the hope of entering the inner sect, that is, they had performed great feats to be accepted by the elders, or their martial arts skills had broken through the second-rate realm.

    Three years is enough to change a lot of things, due to the influence of the Dao Scriptures, Pastor Li Brothers several people, have changed, especially the temperament of a few more silk not eat earthly fire flavor.

    Senior brother can we return to the mountain, now that all of our martial arts have broken through the Third Stream Realm, we also have the power to defend ourselves!

    The person who came was none other than Junior Sister Zhou Bu Yao, who had just broken through the Third Stream Realm, and after consolidating her realm, the first time she came out of seclusion, she wanted to return to the mountain.

    Li Mu shook his head and said, ''You can't have not heard about how the atmosphere in the mountains is, right?

    In the past six months the disciples of the two sword and qi clans have already had eight of their martial arts completely disabled because of private fights, two of them even died, and now if you go back with this three-legged kung fu of yours, you won't be bullied to death by others!"

    Zhou Bu Yao's face sank, if it was said that three years ago everyone was still only fighting in literature, now everyone had already started fighting in martial arts, and when they didn't say anything, they would compete in martial arts to determine the winners and losers, and the love of the same clan had been pretty much consumed.

    Zhou Bu Yao said unwillingly, So we're just going to stay here all the time? But this is too boring, isn't it?

    Li Mu smiled slightly, he knew that his senior siblings were at the age of being lively and active, trapping them here for three years already, and now that their martial arts had broken through, they naturally couldn't sit still.

    Go gather everyone over, we're ready to move!

    Zhou Bu Yao immediately jumped up and ran out, it looked like she was tired of staying in the small courtyard.

    In order to cover his tracks, Li Mu didn't live in Huayin City all the time, but utilized the belongings left behind by his master to set up a small compound outside the city.

    Huayin can't stay any longer, Li Mu secretly thought to himself. These three years hadn't been in vain, besides practicing martial arts, he had also learned two minor spells, Qi Looking and Hidden Qi, from the Earth Book.

    Well, this shouldn't be considered a spell, it didn't have any offensive power, and he might not be the only one in the world who could do it, it was a spell that appeared when he was studying the Taoist scriptures, which undoubtedly triggered a change in the earth book.

    Through experimentation, he realized that if he used the Hidden Qi Technique and hid his breath, as long as he wasn't directly seen, none of the elders in the sect would be able to discover him.

    Looking at the qi art is somewhat powerful, he can observe the strength of the qi, like the fortune-teller said the blackness of the Hall of India, that is the qi exhaustion of the mold attached to the body, to be unlucky signs.

    Now he discovered through observation that the Huashan Sect's qi had split into two and was still entangled with each other, and what had been the phase of the augur had morphed into a battle between two pythons, and the day of trouble was not far off.

    What was even more tragic was that the changes in the Huashan Sect's qi had also affected the changes in the qi of these disciples of theirs, and everyone's qi had been lowered by that much or two points.

    It was no wonder Li Mu wasn't worried, once civil unrest broke out, their qi wouldn't hit rock bottom and then be so unlucky that they would have to spill their teeth if they drank water, so it was best to find a safe place to hide first.

    ......

    Li Bufan asked with concern, Senior brother, junior sister said we're moving, are we going back to the mountain?

    Li Mu glanced at him and teased, Do you want to separate from us? You know that once we return to the mountain, we will all go our separate ways.

    Li Bufan blushed and hurriedly explained, No, I just ......

    Li Mu didn't continue to joke and said cautiously, "I just went out to poke around the mountain, the current Huashan Sect is no longer the former Huashan Sect, the two Sword and Qi Sects have already torn their faces apart, and both sides are going to fight at any time.

    At this time, Huayin is no longer suitable for us to stay, and you have all broken through the Third Stream Realm now, so you are free to choose whether to go out with me or return to the mountain to participate in this battle!"

    Xiang but doubtfully said, Senior brother we are also disciples of the Sword Sect, don't we go back to help?

    Li Mu sneered, How can I help? To help kill Qi Sect disciples? We are all Huashan disciples, for a sword qi dispute, we kill each other, can you do it?

    The crowd was in deep thought, they had never killed anyone when they were growing up, and to suddenly ask them to lay their hands on their fellow disciples was just too difficult!

    Despite not having any favorable feelings towards the Qi Sect, this didn't mean that they, in fact, viewed the other party as a life and death enemy.

    This was also the reason why they hadn't stayed on the mountain all the time, not participating in the sword qi battle, so naturally they couldn't talk about hatred.

    Wang Indeterminate thought for a moment and said, Elder brother is right, we are not able to participate in the sword qi fight, if we deal with the Demon Sect, we are duty-bound to do so, but this is an internal fight of the Huashan Sect, and there is no rule of the sect that states that Huashan disciples have to take part in it!

    Li Mu nodded with satisfaction, it was good that there wasn't any rule of the sect that stated that Huashan disciples had to participate in the sect's infighting.

    Anyway, their master had died early, and this infighting was no longer any of their lineage's business, and no matter who lost or won, they would not be held accountable.

    Luo Bu Min asked, Where are we going when Senior Brother leaves Huayin?

    Li Mu thought for a moment and said, Baoji Taibai County, Taibai Mountain is rich in Ganoderma lucidum, it is one of the most important medicinal material origins of my Huashan Sect, and it is also the largest medicinal material origin under the control of our Sword Sect, so I intend to head over there to manage the Outer Sect's industry!

    Managing medicinal herbs is a lot of oil and water, medicinal herbs can be much more profitable than food, but also much easier to start, as long as you don't go too far, it's also very difficult for the sect to find out.

    The premise is that you yourself cultivation to use up, if you take out to sell, in Shaanxi territory, certainly can not escape the eyes of the sect!

chapter v. seeking outside employment

    After making a decision, Li Mu once again stepped into the Huashan, and the last time is different, this time he also took out the master's life left behind a three hundred years of ginseng, looking for someone to do things how can you not send gifts?

    Three years ago is the master just passed away, at that time we take into account the past love affair willing to help a hand, three years time past, God knows this love affair still left how much, coupled with their brothers and sisters and so much, it is estimated that has long been used almost.

    It was also that he was resourceful enough, when he heard the news of his master's accident, he decisively went to rummage through the boxes with a few senior brothers and sisters to hide the valuable things.

    Huashan sect is also a famous sect, just sent people to check it out, did not find anything important and left, as for the matter of forcing to rob the relics, they still can not do it!

    Stepping into the Huashan Sect again, Li Mu realized that the atmosphere on the mountain was already tense, and he didn't cause any trouble, going directly to Uncle Feng's courtyard.

    There was no way, after crossing over, Li Mu had only met this Uncle Feng under his master's leadership, and the other elders, he was not familiar with, so it was natural to look for someone familiar to help him.

    Three hundred years of ginseng, which was already rare, had the effect of fixing the root and cultivating the vitality for martial artists, and could also be used to enhance the internal force, except that Li Mu's cultivation speed was very fast, and there was no need to use external substances to enhance it!

    Take it out as a gift, but it's just right, it's also a good idea, Uncle Feng may not be able to use it, but his disciples are sure to have someone to use it!

    Behind every genius disciple, there was someone who supported them, how could the resources be less when they had to maintain a high rate of cultivation growth without being able to injure their foundation?

    Seeing a man walk out from the courtyard, Li Mu greeted him with an arch and said, Long time no see from Senior Brother!

    The person who came is exactly never abandon, only now he is still tender teenager, no smile proud appearance is sinister, mean, see Li Mu for a moment did not think of.

    Doubtfully, he asked, Senior brother is under that senior uncle?

    Seeing that Never Abandon no longer recognized himself, Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, My master, Li Qingfeng!

    From the Neverwinter reacted at once and said in surprise, So it's under Master Li's disciple, you're Senior Brother Li Mu?

    Li Mu replied, Senior Brother remembered Little Brother?

    From the never abandoned thought about it and said, Of course, three years ago we even met it, since you came down the mountain after, master has mentioned you in front of us many times, saying that if you don't die, you will become a great man in the future!

    Li Mu secretly thought, "Is there such a thing as talking like this? Even if your master said it, you can't just say it straight in front of me!

    Senior brother, I'm here to pay a visit to Senior Uncle Feng, do you think it's convenient? Li Mu asked

    From the never abandoned thought about it and said, Convenient, how not convenient, master is inside, other people come maybe he won't see, you come he will definitely see!

    Li Mu was surprised and asked, Oh, why is that?

    From the never abandoned thought and said: is not your those senior brothers and sisters, every now and then come over, and are all trivial chicken skin, more often than not the master must be annoyed, your kid has not come for three years, but also really calm ah!

    Li Mu thought to himself that really, the affection left by the master has been almost consumed, this is the case on Uncle Feng's side, where the other uncles and masters are, how much better can they be?

    However, once he remembered, the number of disciples his master had taken in, Li Mu understood, it was not that these senior brothers and sisters ran diligently, it was entirely that there were too many of them, even if an individual came once a day, that was more than twenty times, could it not be annoying?

    If you look at it from the age point of view, his eldest senior brother is already in his thirties, and only just broke through the early stage of the Second Stream three years ago, and the other senior brothers and sisters are not doing well, and there are only three of them who have broken through the Second Stream realm, and in the eyes of Uncle Feng, the potential of these people has already been exhausted.

    Disciples who don't have a chance to break through the first-class realm won't be valued, which is why Li Mu will be valued, three years ago he was at the late third-class stage, and has every chance to break through the first-class realm.

    Don't look at the Huashan Sect's many first-rate experts and think that first-rate experts are worthless, in fact, as long as there is one of these people, in the outside world, they can support a medium-sized sect, and if there are two or three of them, they can be considered as a large sect.

    So many elders of Huashan Sect, basically have accepted a large group of disciples, but they can not guarantee that among these disciples, there will be a few people who can break through the first-class realm, in addition to the dozen or so stormy figures of this generation, others want to break through the first-class, it depends on the luck of the draw.

    Li Mu said awkwardly, This one makes it difficult for Uncle Feng!

    From the uncaring, he said, Let's go, let's go see master first, and we'll spar later!

    Suddenly having a bad premonition, Li Mu felt that this from senior brother was so enthusiastic, most likely intending to fight with him to find confidence, but I'm afraid this would disappoint him.

    This Uncle Feng's name was Feng Qingyun, three years ago his martial arts was already at the peak of the first class, and at any time he might break through to the super first class realm, stepping into the courtyard, Li Mu realized that something was wrong, and that he should have broken through by now.

    Seeing Feng Qingyun, Never Abandon still bowed and greeted him in a regular manner, then said, Master, Senior Brother Li Mu is here!

    Feng Qingyun said calmly, I saw it a long time ago, didn't you already bring someone here?

    Li Mu hurriedly stepped forward to salute and said, Disciple Li Bu Mu pays his respects to Uncle Feng!

    Feng Qingyun carefully sized him up before saying, There's no need to be polite! Li Bumu you're very good, you only just broke through the late third stage three years ago, and now you've already broken through the second stage, if Senior Brother Li knows this in his grave he would also feel gratified!

    Li Mu hurriedly said, I don't dare, disciple is terrified!

    Feng Qingyun smiled and said, What don't you dare, among so many disciples of Senior Brother Li, you have the best qualification, and your heart cultivation is far beyond your age, within fifteen years you will surely be able to break through the first-class realm, even if it's the super-first-class realm you have a great chance to break through, and Senior Brother Li is considered to be a successor!

    Li Mu did not think that Uncle Feng's evaluation of him was so high, knowing that he had already hidden part of his cultivation, showing outside only just broke through the second-stream realm, and compared to the core disciples in the Huashan Sect, it was still slightly inferior.

    But this was also a normal level, who told him that his master had passed away? Without enough resources to figure things out on his own, to be able to reach the current level so quickly was already very impressive.

    Seeming to see his embarrassment, Feng Qingyun spoke slowly, Say, why are you here this time? You brats are the ones who don't come for nothing!

    Li Mu said awkwardly, Disciple came here this time, mainly because he wants to seek an outside position!

    Feng Qingyun nodded, without his master to back him up, the resources allocated in the sect were limited, it was normal behavior to try and seek them out on one's own.

    This outsider can not help, each elder has a bunch of disciples under their door, the resources in their hands, the disciples under their own door are not enough to share, naturally, it is impossible to give it to someone else, otherwise the disciples under their door will make a fuss!

Chapter 6: First-class Realm

    The master-disciple relationship in the Laughing World isn't that far off from a father-son relationship. Top X 23 U S

    Once a teacher, always a father is not an empty phrase, but a real father-son relationship!

    So even if he valued Li Mu again, Feng Qingyun could at most only give him a certain amount of care, as for providing him with cultivation resources, then don't even think about it, the disciples under his door are all still looking with bated breath?

    Feng Qingyun asked, Oh, what position does your kid have his eye on?

    Li Mu replied without hesitation, Taibai Mountain Outer Sect Steward!

    Feng Qingyun didn't answer directly, instead he said, Show me your skills first, come out with your sword!

    Li Mu arched his hand then said, Senior Uncle, disciple has offended!

    To say that Li Mu drew his sword, directly is a move of white clouds out of the mountain, to Feng Qingyun launched an attack, followed by a pale pine to welcome guests, boundless fallen trees under the Xiaoxiao.

    The swordsmanship is all Huashan Sword Technique, the moves are naturally combined at will by Li Mu, anyway, he is a disciple of the Sword Sect, and advocates living and learning, no matter what moves you use, as long as you can fight.

    The two quickly exchanged more than a hundred moves, Li Mu because of the lack of experience defeated, see from from never abandoned dumbfounded, he really can not believe that this Li junior brother was able to master to exchange hands for so long.

    Of course, this was the result of Feng Qingyun not using his full strength, the two sides were just competing in swordsmanship, otherwise on Li Mu's current martial arts, it would be good to be able to support and ten or so moves.

    Although he lost, Li Mu did not have any frustration, even though his sword realm might not be much lower than Feng Qingyun's, his experience in fighting people was far worse, and it was only normal that he lost!

    After collecting his sword, Li Mu hurriedly said, More guidance from Senior Uncle Li Feng!

    Feng Qingyun said with satisfaction, ''You are very good, with your current martial arts, even against a late second-rate martial artist, you can still not lose, it is common for our Sword Sect to win against the weak!

    You're doing a great job. I was worried that you'd just practiced hard and wasted our Sword Sect's skills.

    Don't worry, there's a place for you among the Outer Sect Stewards of Mount Taibai!"

    Li Mu quickly said, Thank you, Uncle Feng!

    Feng Qingyun waved his hand, then said, Do you not abandon see? Where did you fall short?

    From the fact that Neverwinter was still confused, seeing that Uncle Feng was educating his disciple, Li Mu understood that he no longer had any intention of continuing to instruct him.

    Li Mu very sensibly found an excuse to apologize to Feng Qingyun, left his gift, and left in a hurry.

    Now he probably understood why the sword and qi dispute had suddenly erupted, the strength of the Sword Sect was growing too fast, and if he didn't fight, the Qi Sect was afraid that they wouldn't be able to win.

    Of course there must be other forces in here that have secretly provoked and intensified the conflict between the two sides, there are too many strengths involved for Li Mu to dare to continue to investigate in depth.

    Even the cause of the master's death, Li Mu did not go to find out, not that he did not want to, but the force is not as strong as it should be, and after coming to this world for so long, he realized that this world is not so simple.

    There are as many martial arts sects under the sky as there are hairs on the ground, and in Shaanxi alone, where the Huashan Sect is based, there are more than a dozen small and medium-sized sects, only that they are all vassals of the Huashan Sect.

    And in the whole world, there are only five top forces, Shaolin, Wudang, Sun and Moon Sect, Wuyue Sword Sect, and the Ming court!

    That's right, the court, which has never had much of a presence in the Laughing Wanderer, is also a top power in this world, and one of the most powerful ones at that.

    Only they were boycotted by the entire martial arts world, and this Great Ming Dynasty basically seldom interfered with the affairs of the Jianghu, even to the Huashan Sect, such as the dominant major sects, did not care about it.

    Of course this is only the lair of the major sects, the control of the government in ordinary areas is still very strong, there are Department Six, Jinyiwei, the East Chamber, the Danei Secret Service, these powerful institutions in the suppression of the world.

    Under these top forces, there are more than thirty first-class sects, such as: the Beggars' Association and the Yellow River Gang on both sides of the Yellow River; the Iron Sword Sect and the Qingliang Temple in Shanxi; the Qingcheng Sect, the Emei Sect, and the Tang Sect in Sichuan; and the Five Poisons Sect and the Points of the Cang Sect in Yunnan ......

    In these martial arts sects, there were one or two first-rate experts at a minimum, and ten or so first-rate experts at a maximum, while the top forces had at least fifty to sixty first-rate experts, and there were also super first-rate experts and Houtian Grandmasters in existence.

    So many forces mixed with fish and dragons, Li Mu now understands why in the Laughing Pride Wanderer, the factions clearly know the ambitions of the Songshan faction, but also none of them want to make a scene to withdraw from the Wuyue Alliance.

    It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they didn't dare! In addition to the Sun Moon Divine Sect, the public enemy of the Five Mountains, there is no telling how many enemies the major sects have made when grabbing territory?

    Once they withdrew from the Cinque Terre Alliance, in a matter of moments everyone would be at risk of exterminating their sects, so everyone had to take a chance and stay on the boat of the Cinque Terre Alliance all the way!

    Without territory, there would be no resources, and without resources, there would be no way to continue to cultivate future generations of sons and daughters, which was a vicious cycle.

    Huashan Sect did not fall behind, Yue Buqun painstakingly has not been able to take off, not the ability is not strong, but the Huashan Sect has no longer have the financial resources to cultivate the younger generation of sons and daughters.

    In the original Huashan Sect, as soon as it came out, there were only so many dozens of people left in Hsi scattered, and compared to now, that was the strength of an ordinary Elder's Sect.

    If not for Yue Buqun broke through the super first-class realm and became one of the top ten masters in the open world, the Huashan sect's strength, wanting to get a foothold in the jianghu are difficult.

    However, all of this had little to do with Li Mu, right now all he had to do was to break through the first-class realm first. As long as his cultivation broke through, the sky would be the limit when he went to Changbai Mountain.

    Understanding the importance of qi, it was impossible for Li Mu not to go and fight for it now, once the sword qi fight happened, he would have to take control of the Huashan Sect's power in the Taibai Mountains to fight against the suppression of foreign forces.

    Anyway, it is not possible for the famous sects to lay hands on them in the open, and the power of the Sun Moon Divine Sect has not yet penetrated into Guanzhong, so it is still feasible to gather a few hundred Huashan disciples to deal with some stray fish.

    Returned to the small courtyard, and senior brothers and sisters to say hello, Li Mu entered the closed state, his cultivation realm has long been there, only in order to lay a firm foundation, only suppressed a few months, and now let go of the bottleneck breakthrough is naturally smooth sailing.

    The internal force turning into qi was the sign of breaking through the third stream realm; while the internal force accumulated to a certain extent could be compressed and turned into liquid droplets, which was the sign of the sudden compression of the stream realm; in order to break through the first stream realm, it was to allow the liquid droplets in the dantian to converge into a stream.

    Li Mu was now controlling the internal force in his body, circulating through the eight veins of the Qi Jing, and with each cycle, Li Mu's internal force strengthened by one point.

    After thirty-six large circumference days, as if the water flow broke the gate, with a boom, the internal energy in Li Mu's body completely converged, and he couldn't help but let out a long whistle.

    After running two large circumference days again and consolidating his realm, Li Mu came out of the gate, and after a day in seclusion, his stomach had long been croaking with hunger.

    A few senior brothers and sisters, had already gathered around, looking at Li Mu with a smile on his face, they knew that this breakthrough had gone well, of course they didn't know that Li Mu had already broken through the first-class realm, they only thought that he had broken through a small realm.

    Li Mu did not say anything, directly picked up the food and ate it, there is no way that the consumption of practicing martial arts is also very large, it is not unreasonable to be poor in literature and rich in martial arts!

    ......

Chapter VII. Departure

    Each major realm was a watershed of strength, and after his cultivation breakthrough, Li Mu realized that his strength had increased by at least five times, and the so-called level-crossing combat was almost non-existent.

    To be able to break through the first-class realm of the experts, there is no waste, whether it is internal energy or sword skills are practiced to its profound realm, here refers to the Huashan School, outside the first-class experts Li Mu has not yet come into contact with.

    Shifu.

    Elder brother you've made a breakthrough?

    Senior brother has definitely made a breakthrough!

    ......

    Stop!

    Li Mu decisively interrupted the junior siblings' chatter, then said with a stern face, Have you all packed up? We're leaving for Mount Taibai tomorrow?

    Luo Bu Min grabbed the lead and said, Don't worry, Senior Brother, we've already packed up and are just waiting for you!

    Li Mu glared at her and said, Then don't you guys need to practice? With you guys being so lazy, when will you be able to break through the first-class realm?

    Junior Sister Zhou Bu Yao suddenly spoke up, Don't lie to us, Senior Brother, how can a first-class realm be so easy to break through, the cultivation speed of a few of us is already considered to be fast, there are not many people in the entire Huashan Sect who can match it!

    Li Mu shook his head and said, If you want to think that way, don't even think of breaking through in this life, there are quite a few people in Huashan Sect who are qualified to break through the first-class realm, only that there are not many people who survived and broke through in the end! Do you know why?

    The youngest senior sister shook her head in confusion, indicating that she didn't know. Li Mu surrendered his gaze to the other senior siblings, only to see that the crowd had the same reaction.

    So he opened his mouth and explained, That's because they are all dead! Once you enter the jianghu life and death can't be helped, without a good martial arts skill, even if the qualification is good, you will die halfway, the enemies of the Huashan Sect won't let you grow up!

    Li Bufan asked, Does Senior Brother mean the Demon Cult?

    Li Mu shook his head once again and said, All the Jianghu forces do not want the Huashan Sect to continue to grow, and even those within the Huashan Sect may not want us to break through to thin out their interests!

    Seeing that several people seemed to understand, Li Mu didn't continue to explain, and directly changed the topic, What I said just now, you all forget about it and pretend you didn't hear anything, now all go and check your traveling manners once again, and we'll set off tomorrow morning.

    ......

    The next morning, Li Mu took his senior brother and sister to the outer courtyard at the foot of Mount Hua, and this time, it wasn't just the few of them who went to Mount Taibai, there were more than fifty outer disciples as well.

    Going out to do missions also requires rotation, you can't just let those disciples stay in one place for the rest of their lives, right? This was a world where martial arts were honored, and everyone needed to cultivate martial arts!

    Especially the outer disciples, who took on most of the chores, if there was no rotation, where would they find the time to practice?

    After Li Mu paid his respects to the outer sect elders in charge, he summoned the outer sect disciples who would be traveling to Mount Taibai this time, and asked directly without any nonsense, Are all the people here?

    Only an old man replied, Reporting back to senior brother, all fifty-eight outer disciples have arrived!

    Regardless of how early or late they were initiated, the outer disciples had to address the inner disciples as senior brothers, which was a rule of the Huashan Sect.

    After thinking about it, Li Mu asked, What's your name?

    The old man replied, Huashan outer disciple Zhu Fangzhou!

    Li Mu nodded and said, Since everyone is here, let's go!

    He knew that these people were only superficially respectful, in reality, many of them didn't put him in their eyes, only limited by the Huashan Sect's door rules, they didn't dare to take offense. There was no way to be too young, it was normal to be underestimated.

    As for Zhu Fangzhou, the fact that he was already not young and still had to come out to run missions was enough to show that this was an old fart and still had ambitions.

    With the frequent fights in the jianghu, it wasn't easy to survive, and most of the outer disciples had already gone home to retire at that age, or had gone to clean positions in the back.

    Although Taibai Mountain is good, but the jianghu fighting is also rare, the jianghu forces interested in this place is not one or two, every time the Wuyue Sword Sect and the devil sect war, this place will be attacked.

    As for whether or not there is a relationship with the Devil Cult, Li Mu doesn't know, but there is definitely a relationship with the neighboring martial arts forces. Usually deterred by the strength of the Huashan Sect did not dare to make a move, once the Huashan Sect's strength was not as strong as it should have been, they would send people to test the waters.

    This is the jianghu indeed hot nature of the weak and strong! Of course, once the other martial arts forces weakened, Huashan Sect will divide their interests, everyone's turf is not falling from the sky, but a generation of generations to fight down!

    It's just that the famous sects need a cover-up, and they all do it in the dark, while the demonic sects are openly robbing in the open, and essentially everyone is the same.

    Li Mu chose to go to Mount Taibai, besides the fact that it was rich in medicinal herbs and the Huashan Sect was relatively strong here, a big reason was still qi luck.

    Counting the major martial arts strength in the jianghu, most of them are perched on famous mountains and rivers, in addition to being far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, the chi is also an aspect.

    Perhaps they themselves do not know, but the major Jianghu forces in the long inheritance of the sects, are in the famous mountains and rivers are based, and in other areas of the establishment of Jianghu gangs, are like a meteor crossing, rarely able to inheritance for hundreds of years.

    Li Mu, who is equipped with the art of looking at qi, will naturally pay attention to it, even if it is to avoid trouble, it is easier to turn misfortune into good fortune by using the qi of Taibai Mountain!

    (Remarks: Xuan De Dong Tian, the 11th cave of Taoism in Taibai Mountain)

    Originally, Li Mu was prepared to let his senior brothers and sisters ride in the carriage, but they refused on the grounds that people in the jianghu should ride horses, and then their group of sixty-seven people set off.

    Huayin is just over 300 kilometers away from Mt. Taibai, and everyone was armed with martial arts skills and arrived at their destination the next day. I have to say that horses in the martial arts world are just as strong, and thousands of miles of horses really aren't a legend!

    A few senior siblings were now double-beaten eggplants without any spirit, if it wasn't for the sake of face, it was estimated that they would have been unable to hold on a long time ago.

    Reality tells them that the legend of chivalry are false, they imagined chivalry, once did not encounter, along the way, the mountain bandits, bandits, see the Huashan sect's flag are hiding far away, for fear of being chivalrous!

    ......

Chapter 8: The Sect's Underpinnings

    Going west to Taibai Peak and climbing at sunset. Top X 23 U S

    Taibai spoke to me and opened the heavens for me.

    I would like to ride on the cold wind and go straight out of the floating clouds.

    Raise your hand to the moon, and walk forward if there is no mountain.

    Once you leave Wugong, when will you return?

    Li Mu and the others came at a good time, just in time for the opening of the mountain in June. This is the most suitable time of the year for traveling in Taibai Mountain.

    There is no changeable weather in the past, the sun shines brightly, even covering the sky even pyrexia, at this time of the year also dispersed.

    After stopping for the night in Taibai County at the bottom of the mountain, Li Mu and the others went up the mountain. As the Huashan Sect's most important source of medicinal herbs, the number of disciples guarding this place was somewhat beyond imagination.

    There were more than eight hundred outer disciples, more than thirty inner disciples, and even a Sword Sect Elder in attendance. This was already the entire force of a medium-sized sect in the outside world, but to arrive here just to guard Mount Taibai was enough to see the importance the sect placed on it.

    Taking the token from the sect, Li Mu quickly completed the handover. Now he was paying a visit to Elder Liu, who was sitting at Tai Bai Mountain,