After Meng Xiuyuan left Li Clan's ship, he didn't stay in Pengcheng any longer and headed southwest, aiming straight for Wudang Mountain.
Just because of this, it is indeed time to go back.
Not only was the one-year appointment with Shi Long approaching, but he himself also felt that he needed to find a quiet place to practice meditation for a while.
When he heard Li Shimin and Li Xiuning talk about trying to persuade Li Yuan to start a rebellion on the boat, Meng Xiuyuan knew that the most chaotic period of this era was about to begin.
The Sui Dynasty collapsed, warlords fought, and the people were in chaos, right before our eyes.
To step into such a troubled world, Meng Xiuyuan felt that his current martial arts training seemed a bit unsafe.
It wasn't that he was too cautious, but after enduring a worthy battle last night, Meng Xiuyuan finally got a glimpse of the secret and understood the magic of martial arts in this world.
A martial artist who seems to live up to this level, although he can be called a long-established master, is still far behind the great masters of martial arts such as "Sanren" Ning Daoqi, "Master Yijian" Fu Cailin, and "Martial Master" Bi Xuan
, there is still a long way to go.
And even though he is not the top figure, he can suppress Meng Xiuyuan to a great extent in reaction, prediction, insight and other aspects. Therefore, under the situation that the "basic attributes" such as physical body and skill are completely crushed,
He ran away for a long time.
Obviously, this is the advantage brought by the so-called "spiritual realm".
Meng Xiuyuan has now offended a demonic giant like the Yingui Sect. If he wants to act according to his heart and without any scruples in this world, he should not have such a shortcoming.
Otherwise, when facing the truly top players, it may be difficult to be sure of winning against many.
If he wants to do his part in this troubled world, he must have martial arts that can protect him under any circumstances.
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It is about a thousand or two thousand miles from Pengcheng to Wudang Mountain.
Originally, according to common sense, it was most convenient to take the Grand Canal-Yangtze River-Hanshui route by water. However, for the sake of safety, Meng Xiuyuan finally chose to walk by land.
After all, the Yingui Sect is in the dark, and Meng Xiuyuan is in the light. If he doesn't want to harm the villagers and Shilong on Wudang Mountain, he must get rid of the prying eyes and tracking of the Demon Sect on the road.
The method is also very simple, just use your true energy, run at a loose pace, and run along the wilderness and cliffs.
Meng Xiuyuan was confident that with his current energy and physical strength, even if the demon from the Yingui sect changed horses continuously, he would never be able to catch up with him if he used Qinggong.
In this way, in just a short period of time, Meng Xiuyuan returned to Wudang Mountain with all his travels.
In the early morning mist, Meng Xiuyuan wandered up the mountain road, thinking about what the mountain would be like a year later.
Unexpectedly, before he reached the top of the mountain, he saw three familiar figures in the distance.
Looking intently, he saw that it was Shi Long, Gao Zhong, and Xu Ziling who were practicing martial arts in an open space. Judging from the sharp and calm movements of the two young men, it was obvious that they already had considerable skills.
"Brother Shi, congratulations on gaining two good disciples..."
Meng Xiuyuan immediately smiled and said softly, and flew down in front of the three of them.
When the three of them saw a figure falling from the sky, they first subconsciously took a stance to defend themselves against the enemy. Then they realized what they were doing, looked at Meng Xiuyuan and exclaimed:
"Mr. Meng..." "Master Meng!"
Meng Xiuyuan saw the surprise in the eyes of the three people, and couldn't help but feel warm in his heart. He smiled and was about to answer, when he heard a sudden noise in the forest not far away.
"What's wrong, but the enemy is attacking the mountain?!"
"I said, these peaceful days will not last forever..."
"Shut up, everyone, and get in line!"
Immediately, dozens of strong men were seen emerging from the mountains and forests, all wearing wooden armor, holding long spears, and their movements were very agile.
After careful identification, it was discovered that they were all villagers who had been sheltered in the mountain by Meng Xiuyuan.
"Brother Shi, is this also your work?"
Meng Xiu looked at these strong men with obvious signs of training from a distance, and subconsciously asked Shi Long.
Shi Long turned his head and glanced at the rushing warriors. He first sneered, and then replied to Meng Xiuyuan:
"Mr. Meng misunderstood, I don't dare to take credit for this..."
If you have to say it, it should be your own handwriting."
When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.
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Those local heroes saw Meng Xiuyuan's face clearly, and the misunderstanding was naturally resolved.
Dozens of people came with murderous intent and returned happily. They ran to the top of the mountain one after another, telling the villagers to prepare well and hold a banquet to welcome the return of Meng Xiuyuan, the "great benefactor".
Meng Xiuyuan and Shi Longzhui stayed behind, chatting while walking, and finally figured out what was going on.
It turned out that when Shilong, Kou, and Xu arrived at Wudang Mountain a year ago, the "Ministry Protection Group" on the mountain had already begun to take shape. If the two parties had not communicated in time and mentioned Meng Xiuyuan's name, a fight almost broke out.
"No, I remember that I just taught a few young people casually.
How come there was such a large scale and so many people in such a short period of time?"
When Meng Xiuyuan heard Shi Long say this, he couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Shi Long saw that Meng Xiuyuan was really concerned about this matter, so after recalling it carefully for a moment, he explained in detail:
"I don't have much contact with these villagers, and I have never asked them personally. It's just that two boys, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, are familiar with these people and have vaguely mentioned it to me.
It is said that before we came, there were two or three waves of bandits coming to the mountain to harass us.
Relying on the martial arts you taught and the vitality left behind, these villagers killed all the bandits and seized some silver and property.
The people in the village felt both the benefits and the threats, so they organized themselves one after another and practiced hard under the hands of those young people who knew martial arts.
As time went by, most of the men on the mountain who were in decent health joined the 'Guardian Group'.
They farm in the morning and practice martial arts in the afternoon. They earn two incomes from farming and luring and killing bandits. Their lives are much more prosperous than before..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Meng Xiuyuan was stunned when he heard this, and felt that this matter far exceeded his expectations. After a long while, he suddenly sighed in a low voice:
“In troubled times, people’s minds indeed change.
Even these honest and honest villagers no longer want to live a normal life after gaining a little strength.
No wonder there are warlords and thieves everywhere in the world..."
Speaking of this, Meng Xiuyuan couldn't help but think of the time when he taught martial arts to these villagers, and he was not sure whether he was careless at the time.
Fortunately, these villagers were of good nature and did not go down the mountain to plunder and do evil, which made Meng Xiuyuan feel a little more at ease.
Shi Long didn't care much about this topic and nodded in agreement. After a while, he took the initiative to chat with Meng Xiuyuan about his affairs with Gao Zhong and Xu Ziling over the past year.
From what Shi Long said, it was obvious that he liked these two smart and loyal young men very much, so he still keeps them by his side and often teaches martial arts in person.
However, he did not formally accept them as his disciples, for no other reason than because Meng Xiuyuan also taught these two martial arts. Shi Long did not want to take advantage of Meng Xiuyuan and took these two talented young people under his sect. "
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Meng Xiuyuan smiled when he heard this, but did not try to persuade him. He just said that Shi Long was as upright and temperamental as ever.
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In the days that followed, Meng Xiuyuan returned to his "Zixiao Pavilion" on Wudang Mountain with peace of mind, and devoted himself to studying the last two images of "The Secret of Immortality".
With Shi Long, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling as companions, the days on the mountain were not lonely at all.
In these troubled times, the slightly remote Wudang Mountain has become a pure land. Except for the occasional small group of bandits and bandits who come up the mountain, no major changes have ever happened.
In this way, the days fly by so fast, and in the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed.
It wasn't until this day that a familiar old friend came to the mountain, and Meng Xiuyuan's peaceful life was broken.
"Mr. Lu, why are you here...
And what are you doing carrying such a big guy on your back?"
When Meng Xiuyuan was practicing Kungfu, he heard a message from Kou Zhong saying that an old man was coming to visit, and he immediately thought that it was this old man.
However, when he saw him walking through the door with a large wooden box on his back, Meng Xiuyuan was still a little confused, wondering what the old gentleman had in mind.
After not seeing each other for several years, Lu Miaozi's personality and temperament have changed a lot. He is less aloof and eccentric as a genius, and more amiable as an ordinary old man.
As soon as he saw Meng Xiuyuan's face, he smiled and said:
"I came to visit Brother Meng this time. I have something to ask for, so naturally I have to prepare a small gift..."
Meng Xiuyuan was stunned when he heard this. He was about to ask him what was going on, but saw that he had already taken off the wooden box from his back and slowly placed it on the table.
The wooden table, which was made of solid material and was also made by Lu Miaozi himself, made a faint "squeaking" sound because the wooden box fell.
"Brother Meng, come quickly. I spent a lot of effort preparing this for you."
While speaking, Lu Miaozi opened the wooden box, and a faint white light shone on his face.
Meng Xiuyuan was surprised by the sight. He quickly walked around to Lu Miaozi's side and looked into the wooden box. He saw a long, bright white sword that was more than five feet long and as smooth as mutton-fat jade, lying inside.
"this……"
Meng Xiuyuan was stunned by the sight, but he didn't expect Lu Miaozi to give him a sword that looked quite good.
"Brother Meng, don't you remember, back then I asked you what kind of weapon you should use.
You said you were using a sword, so I asked people to search for suitable materials everywhere, and finally found such a strange stone on the coast of the East China Sea, so I can make a magic sword for you..."
Meng Xiuyuan was startled when he heard the sound, remembering that Lu Miaozi did indeed say something similar back then, but he didn't expect that after so many years, the old gentleman still hadn't forgotten it.
"Mr. Lu, there is no need for this between us.
What you want to ask me to do is to deal with Zhu Yuyan from the Yingui sect, right?
In fact, to be honest, I myself have developed quite a bit of grudge against the Yingui sect.
You don’t need to spend so much time, I’m planning to go down the mountain in the next few days and take action against the Yingui faction..."
Meng Xiuyuan heard Lu Miaozi talk about how powerful the sword was, and saw that the sword with a faint light shining from its entire body was indeed not an ordinary thing, so he immediately rejected it.
Lu Miaozi seemed to have expected that Meng Xiuyuan would say this, and immediately smiled slightly and said to Meng Xiuyuan:
"Brother Meng, there is no need to shirk. A sword matches a hero. This sword I made, no one else can exert its power except you.
If you don't want it, it will really be a waste of natural resources and make this treasure covered in dust..."
While speaking, Lu Miaozi turned the wooden box slightly towards Meng Xiuyuan, and then said warmly:
"If Brother Meng doesn't believe it, just pick up this sword and try it and you will know."
After hearing what Lu Miaozi said, Meng Xiuyuan couldn't refuse. He stretched out his hand and tried to use his strength to take the smooth jade sword into his hand.
Unexpectedly, under his strength, the sword only shook slightly, with no intention of leaving the wooden box.
"Um?!"
Meng Xiuyuan let out a light sigh, feeling something was wrong in his heart. He immediately used up seven or eight of his power, reached out to take it again, and the jade sword slowly floated out of the wooden box.
Sure enough, this sword is incredibly heavy once you hold it in your hand.
"The texture of this extraordinary stone is extremely dense. Even if I mixed some metal into it using a secret method and made it into a sword, it would still weigh two hundred kilograms.
In the world, except for people like Brother Meng who have tempered their bodies to perfection, there is no other person available...
But Brother Meng, this sword is by no means just a solid and heavy dead object.
It’s so magical, you can only understand it by trying it yourself.”
Lu Miaozi smiled slightly and explained softly to Meng Xiuyuan.
When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, his curiosity was aroused by Lu Miaozi, and he immediately got lucky and used the most common Wudang sword technique.
And at the moment when he was lucky enough to dance the sword, a sword light suddenly rose naturally from the jade sword, illuminating the entire Zixiao Pavilion in bright white.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, a strange and inexplicable feeling rose in Meng Xiuyuan's heart. He only felt that at this moment, he seemed to be faintly integrated with the sword in his hand.
After Meng Xiuyuan stopped his attack, he couldn't help but look at the jade sword in front of him in surprise, feeling quite puzzled in his heart.
In his previous life, he had even used the Yitian Sword and the Dragon-Slaying Sword, but there was still no weapon that gave him such a feeling that flesh and blood were connected, that man and sword were one.
Lu Miaozi looked at the surprised expression on Meng Xiuyuan's face from a distance, and couldn't help but be very satisfied. With a smile on his face, he immediately said:
"It seems that Brother Meng is satisfied with my gift, so I can feel embarrassed to express my request..."
As he spoke, Lu Miaozi's smile gradually faded, and then he said to Meng Xiuyuan in a slightly serious voice:
"Brother Meng, Pegasus Ranch is currently under siege by four major bandits and is in crisis.
I, Lu Miaozi, am incompetent, and I am still afraid that the witch Zhu Yuyan will find my whereabouts and come to take revenge on me, so I dare not take action myself, so I can only ask Brother Meng to help me.
I have let down Qingya and Xiuxun’s mother and daughter for many years. Today, they are in crisis, and I cannot ignore it..."
"Four major bandits?" Meng Xiuyuan heard this and felt as if he had heard it a little bit.
Lu Miaozi nodded solemnly, and then explained to Meng Xiuyuan in detail:
"The so-called Four Bandits are four groups of powerful criminals who have been running rampant across the country in recent years. They leave no dogs or chickens behind wherever they go. Their notoriety can make a child stop crying.
Among them, Xiang BaTian, the "not a blade of grass", is ruthless and murderous. Rumor has it that he likes to peel off people's skin and cramps, torture them to death with various tortures, and then disembowel their bodies and make sober soup. He is the most cruel among the four major bandits.
, the most terrifying thing is that there is no grass growing wherever it passes, so it has this nickname.
Fang Jian Ding, who "doesn't leave chickens and dogs alone", is not only cruel and easy to kill, but also lustful and will not let go of any woman who is slightly attractive. Moreover, he is cruel by nature and likes to torture and kill women. The women who fall into her hands are not
One can live for more than three days.
"A Thousand Miles of Scorched Earth" is a frivolous, sinister and scheming person. He is the think tank of the Four Bandits. The fact that the Four Bandits have been able to escape from being rounded up by various forces many times is mostly due to him. Moreover, his personality is ruthless and cruel.
He likes to destroy and will set fire to wherever he passes, so he is known as a Thousand Miles of Scorched Earth.
As for Cao Yinglong, he has the highest martial arts among the four major bandits and is the most difficult to deal with. His people come and go like the wind, and he will retaliate with anger. He once wiped out a whole family with just one word, so he is known as the ghost crying god..."
Having said this, Lu Miaozi paused for a moment, looked at Meng Xiuyuan and continued sincerely:
"Each of these four bandits is powerful, among which Cao Yinglong is the most powerful, with thirty thousand men under his command.
Although Pegasus Ranch could barely withstand the attack due to natural hazards, it was invaded and invaded several times by martial arts masters from the other side. The situation was already somewhat dangerous.
I hope Brother Meng can lend a helping hand to help Pegasus Ranch survive this crisis..."
Meng Xiuyuan smiled and shook his head when he heard this, and said jokingly to Lu Miaozi:
"Mr. Lu, you lost money on this business this time.
If you had told me that there was such a wicked person, and you didn't need to give him a sword as a gift, I would have meddle in his own business."
When Lu Miaozi heard Meng Xiuyuan's promise, he couldn't help but feel a big stone falling in his heart. He also smiled and said to Meng Xiuyuan:
"I've never made a loss in business.
Those four bandits are quite powerful. Brother Meng took my sword and killed them. In the end, it was my Pegasus Ranch that benefited..."
Meng Xiuyuan heard the sound, subconsciously touched the long sword that was as gentle as jade, and then said with a smile:
"To deal with a few thieves, you don't need such magical weapons.
This sword will at least be useful when we face the Yingui Sect in the future and kill that witch Zhu Yuyan."
Lu Miaozi was stunned when he heard this. He knew that Meng Xiuyuan had never been a person who liked to talk big, so he immediately asked:
"Brother Meng, have you achieved great success recently?"
Meng Xiuyuan was not too modest, smiled and nodded:
"I did get something. I'm just trying to find a few heads that deserve it."