The next day.
At dawn, Li Jiang stretched out and got out of bed. He had a full sleep, and it seemed that the fatigue accumulated during this period had disappeared.
After searching around the room, he found a wooden basin in the corner with a cloth draped over it. He felt that these were toiletries, so he took them and walked out of the room to the open space in front of the room.
Looking left and right, there was a well surrounded by a brick wall about half a meter high, about ten meters in front of the right side of the room. Li Jiang walked over, and when he got closer, he discovered that many places on the brick wall were open.
There is a gap, and an old wooden pulley is supported on it.
Although Li Jiang had never used this set of water-lifting equipment, he had seen it for a while. He turned the pulley a few times and put down the bucket. After hearing the "plop" sound of water, he turned the pulley again and lifted the water up.
The well water in the early morning was cold, which was really refreshing. Li Jiang rinsed his mouth with the well water and washed his face, and he completely woke up.
After walking back to the room and putting back the toiletries, Li Jiang was ready to go outside to see if there was any breakfast. As soon as he went out, he saw the mute waving to him at the edge of the pine forest, motioning for him to come over.
Li Jiang nodded, followed the mute's back, and walked quickly through the woods to the platform on the top of the mountain where Mu Ren Qingti had sneaked up yesterday evening.
There were already a few people in the open space on the platform. Mu Renqing and Mute were standing on the edge. In the middle, a thin black boy was boxing. Li Jiang didn't understand what he was doing, but he just looked awesome anyway.
Seeing this scene, Li Jiang understood, isn't this Yuan Chengzhi!
When Mu Renqing saw him coming out, he nodded to him, then turned to watch Yuan Chengzhi boxing.
Li Jiang had no choice but to walk over and stand next to the mute. He didn't watch Yuan Chengzhi practice, and he couldn't understand it anyway. He only looked outside the platform, where he saw the gentle hillsides, deep canyons, green woods, and faint...
The mist is floating on the top of the mountain, and the mountain wind is whistling and whining. It is really a fairyland on earth, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Mu Renqing laughed while watching Yuan Chengzhi boxing. After he finished practicing, he said: "Qiu Shan couldn't help praising you for being smart. I didn't believe it at first. You have achieved such success in practicing Hunyuan Palm in the past two years. It's really good.
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As soon as Yuan Chengzhi heard Cui Qiushan's name, he wanted to ask him about his well-being, but the old man was talking and did not dare to interrupt him. When he stopped talking, he hurriedly asked: "How is Uncle Cui doing in Chuangwang? How is he?
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Mu Renqing replied: "He followed General Li Chuang to fight in Huguang area." After hearing this, Yuan Chengzhi laughed happily.
Mu Renqing stopped paying attention to him, turned around and waved to Li Jiang, motioning for him to come over. Li Jiang retracted his distant gaze, pretending to hesitate, and waited for a while before walking slowly over.
When Mu Renqing saw him coming, he said to him: "Boy, what do you think of this place? Do you still like it?"
Li Jiang flatly said: "Not so good! Aren't all mountains like this?"
Mu Renqing's eyes widened after hearing this, and he said in a more serious tone: "I'm asking you about the Huashan Sect, not about the scenery in the mountains!"
"Just these few rooms, haha."
"Boy, how many people want to enter our Huashan Mountain, but can't. You really don't know what is good or bad."
Yuan Chengzhi, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but secretly dumbfounded when he saw this man talking to his master like this. He thought that his master had a weird personality and this brother would probably suffer a lot.
Mu Renqing stopped talking and walked towards the house. Yuan Chengzhi and Mute followed suit. When Li Jiang was wondering, Mute came back and pulled him, asking him to follow.
The four of them walked to the open space in front of the house. Mu Renqing first ordered the mute to prepare things, and then he turned back to the house to get a painting to hang on the wall of the main hall. The painting was of a middle-aged scholar with an elegant expression.
It didn't take long for the mute to bring an incense table and place it under the painting. He also handed Li Jiang a robe and a cloth belt.
Li Jiang took it and took a look. It was made of rough blue cloth. Without saying much, he put it directly on his body and tied it casually around his waist with a cloth belt behind the right fold.
At this time, Mu Renqing had already lit the incense candle and kowtowed respectfully to the portrait. Then he turned to Li Jiang and said, "This is Master Feng, the founder of our Huashan sect. Come and kowtow."
Yuan Chengzhi obediently went over and kowtowed. After kowtowing nine times, Mu Renqing smiled and asked him to stand aside.
After Yuan Chengzhi walked away, Mu Renqing looked at Li Jiang again with bright eyes. Li Jiang knew that he wanted to ask him to kowtow, but he was very resistant in his heart. Since he was a child, except for his elders, he had never kowtowed a few times.
He hesitated for a moment and saw that Mu Renqing's eyes were becoming more and more severe. As a last resort, he could only comfort himself, I am considered a beginner, and the elders of the sect are also elders, so that's it!
So Li Jiang walked over and knelt down in front of the portrait, kowtowed nine times, and stood up before Mu Renqing shouted to stop.
Mu Renqing's face was serious and he did not speak. He just used his eyes to signal the mute who was standing at the bottom. The mute returned to the house and took a cup of tea and handed it to Li Jiang.
Li Jiang didn't know what he meant. Just when he was about to speak, Yuan Chengzhi whispered to him: "Go and serve tea to the leader, and then kowtow three times."
emmm, what do you mean? Li Jiang was confused. Didn’t he just kowtow to get started? Why do he still kowtow?
Seeing that he was stunned, Yuan Chengzhi pushed him and said, "Go quickly. Just now you just paid homage to the ancestor. Now the master wants to accept you as his apprentice, and you have to pay homage to him and serve him tea."
Damn it, Li Jiang shouted in his heart, is it easy for me to learn martial arts? If you don't start first, you will become a kowtow.
Thinking about the way home, Li Jiang had no choice but to accept the situation. He took the tea bowl from the mute's hand, walked to Mu Renqing and knelt down, raised the tea bowl above his head with both hands, and said: "Master, please use tea!"
With a flick of his hand, Mu Renqing took the tea bowl, took a sip, nodded to him and said, "Kowtow."
Li Jiang gritted his teeth and kowtowed three more times to Mu Renqing, then raised his head.
Mu Renqing twirled his beard and smiled, saying: "Li Cheng, please get up." Li Jiang stood up hurriedly.
When Mu Renqing saw Li Qing kowtow and pay homage to his master, he felt a little proud. It was the joy of a gentleman to win over the world's most talented people. What's more, there were two more with Chengzhi.
So he said with a smile: "From now on, you are a disciple of my Huashan sect. I accepted two apprentices many years ago. Since then, I have never met any smart children who are willing to learn. I have only accepted Chengzhi in these years. Originally, I have accepted two disciples.
I don’t plan to pass on any more people, but seeing that you are lonely and helpless, I will accept you as my fourth disciple and my close disciple. You must learn well and don’t embarrass me."
He kept looking at Li Jiang when he spoke.
Yuan Chengzhi nodded in agreement beside him, and the mute also smiled with a smile on his lips. But Li Jiang had no expression on his face, as if he didn't care at all.
Mu Renqing was not upset when he saw this. He thought that you had already joined my family and had decided on the title of master and disciple. You can just train him well in the future.
He continued: "My surname is Mu, my name is Mu Renqing, and people in the world call me the Divine Sword and the Immortal Ape. Remember this, don't let people ask you questions next time, and don't open your mouth and make people laugh."
Yuan Chengzhi laughed, thinking that his master was the same as what he said today when he started. They said he had a weird temper. In fact, he was amiable and his conversation was very humorous.
If Li Jiang knew what Yuan Chengzhi was thinking at this time, he would definitely not agree, because Mu Renqing only did this to people close to him, and others would depend on his mood at the time.
The Divine Sword Immortal Monkey Mu Renqing is considered the best in martial arts in the world. He has been a chivalrous and righteous person in the world. He has never met an opponent in the past twenty years. This is because most of his actions are done in secret, without leaving his name, and others often do not know about it.
Because of his benefit, his reputation is not very famous.
He has a very withdrawn temper, and this time he felt very pitiful to see Li Jiang alone as a half-year-old child. In addition, because of his temper, after a cursory look yesterday, he saw that his bones were extraordinary, so he made an exception for him.
The eldest disciple is good at calculations and has average martial arts skills. The second disciple has strong martial arts skills, but is dull and inactive.
The third disciple, Yuan Chengzhi, is charged with a blood feud. He will definitely have to enter the arena and the court in the future. He will fight openly and secretly. If he can save his life, it will be good.
As for this Li Jiang, he is well-educated, has a calm personality, is flexible in his work, and has no roots and no care for the outside world. In the future, he may be the one to inherit the Huashan Taoism.
Mu Ren was childless and had no children. He traveled alone in the world with his sword. At the age of old age, when he saw these two talented people standing in front of him today, he felt as much fondness in his heart as if they had met a master.
At this time, he brought up the old matter again and said with a smile: "Your two senior brothers are twenty or thirty years older than you. Their apprentices are much older than you. They may blame me for giving them trouble now."
Two little junior brothers. Hey, if you don't work hard, you will be compared with their disciples and grandsons in the future, and they will have more reason to blame me, an old fool."
Yuan Chengzhi quickly clasped his fists and bowed: "Disciple must work hard. I will live up to your expectations, master!"
Chapter completed!