The road is vague

Chapter 185 Beishan Sect

Two days later.

Li Mo and Zhang Qin returned to Shanbei Village together.

When he saw the memorial archway of his mother Zhou Mei, although he was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but burst into tears and solemnly paid homage to the archway.

Then the two continued walking towards the village.

Many new houses have been built in Shanbei Village, and a spacious main road has been added. There are endless wine shops, tea stalls, noodle shops and butcher shops on both sides of the road. The changes are quite huge, and it has become one of the richest villages in the surrounding area.

When passing the depression at the west end of the village, he couldn't help but take another look.

Then he looked up at the direction of the land temple, and the night ten years ago seemed to be vivid in his mind.

"Since the establishment of the Beishan Sect, we've had an endless stream of people coming to our Shanbei Village. Life in the village has become much more convenient now, and every family has started a small business..."

After a while.

Li Mo returned to his home.

He once commissioned Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhao to build five brick and tile houses, which have now been completed and locked.

Zhang Qin's house was also renovated, and the specifications of the two houses look similar.

"Wait a moment, I'll go back and get the key for you!"

Uncle Zhang was brewing rice wine at home, while Aunt Zhao was looking after Zhang Qin's youngest son.

after awhile.

Zhang Qin handed the key to Li Mo. After unlocking the door and entering the house, Li Mo discovered that not only were his parents' belongings still there, but the house was also furnished with a lot of new furniture and even children's supplies.

"They are all from my mother. When she bought them for my youngest son, she also prepared one for you. She said you would definitely use them in the future."

Li Mo couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

"Aunt Zhao, thank you for your concern."

At this time.

Two children ran over from outside the door, laughing.

"Daddy, Daddy!"

The sister took her brother and circled around Zhang Qin.

Seeing this, Zhang Qin smiled from the bottom of his heart. He gave the two the gifts he had prepared yesterday and picked them up one in each hand.

Li Mo also hurriedly gave the gifts he had prepared to the brother and sister.

"Why don't you thank your uncle quickly?"

"Thank you uncle!"

The brother and sister ran away happily, and Li Mo sighed.

"She's grown up so fast. When I came back that year, my sister-in-law hadn't given birth yet."

"Yeah, it was really fast."

Zhang Qin couldn't help but sigh.

"Look at the Beishan Sect. It's only been a short time, and many of the buildings haven't even been completed, yet they already have two to three thousand disciples. Our Shanbei Village has only been able to develop so rapidly thanks to them."

after awhile.

Li Mo followed Zhang Qin to Zhang Qin's home.

My sister-in-law had already prepared the meal. After Li Mo came in, he greeted everyone.

"Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhao, and sister-in-law."

"Xiao Mo, you haven't been back for several years. You should eat more!"

Uncle Zhang's voice was so loud that it sounded like he was shouting.

Seeing this, Aunt Zhao next to him pointed at Uncle Zhang's ear helplessly, shook her head and sighed as she explained.

"Your uncle Zhang is old and has become a little hard of hearing in the past two years. He can't hear clearly. You should speak louder to him, ahem..."

As Aunt Zhao spoke, she started coughing as well.

Seeing this, Li Mo couldn't help but think of his mother's past before her death.

"Let me show you."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Zhao waved her hand, shook her head and smiled.

"I went to town and checked. It was just cooking fumes. It's nothing."

Zhang Qin looked surprised.

"By the way, Li Mo used to be a doctor. He must be better than the doctors in town. Mom, just let Li Mo take a look at you."

Aunt Zhao couldn't persuade the two of them, so she could only let Li Mo observe, listen, ask and feel.

After asking some questions, Li Mo looked thoughtful.

"How is my mother?"

"Aunt Zhao is indeed not sick, she's just... old."

Zhang Qin breathed a sigh of relief, while Aunt Zhao looked at him with a reproachful expression. Neither of them took it seriously.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are things that everyone must experience. Mortals must learn to face all of this, but for monks, this is a reality that they must constantly escape and are unwilling to face.

"Li Mo, do you think my two children can enter the Ministry of Destiny in the future?"

Zhang Qin suddenly said this.

Li Mo understood what he meant. After thinking for a while, he signaled the two children to hold their hands tightly. He wanted to use the amplified spiritual power after practicing the Seven Apertures Return to Origin Technique to explore whether there were any hidden spiritual roots in the two children's bodies.

After a while.

He sighed and shook his head.

When Zhang Qin saw this, he immediately looked disappointed.

Li Mo hurriedly explained.

"Brother Zhang Qin, you misunderstood. What I meant was that I don't have the ability to detect spiritual roots yet. It's better to wait until they become children and then take them to the Tianming Division of Bai'an County for an examination."

"So that's it."

Zhang Qin turned sadness into joy and breathed a sigh of relief.

After eating and drinking, Li Mo returned home.

The room looked deserted because no one had lived there for a long time, so he found some firewood, lit the stove, and boiled a pot of water.

After a nice bath, he stretched out on the bed.

From then on, this place became popular, and wandering ghosts would no longer come in easily.

……

the next day.

Li Mo came to Beishan School.

As Zhang Qin had said, the Beishan Sect had developed two to three thousand disciples in just a few years. The vast Muzhou region only had three secular martial arts schools, with less than one per prefecture. Furthermore, since practicing martial arts didn't require any spiritual roots, their rapid expansion far outpaced even the major sacred mountain areas.

After these people have completed their studies.

Some will stay on the mountain to continue the sect's inheritance.
The other part will go to major cities and become mansion guards, guests of wealthy people, bodyguards of escort agencies, martial arts masters, etc.

Some of them will become bandits for various reasons.

When Dou Chi learned that Li Mo was coming to visit, he immediately led several formal disciples who he had trained with great effort and strode over. His steps were strong and he looked at Li Mo with a smile.

"Haha, General Li, how are you?"

Compared to Li Mo's unchanged appearance, this Xiantian realm warrior has obviously aged in just a few years.

"Master Dou, long time no see."

Li Mo bowed and smiled.

Then, under the guidance of Dou Chi, Li Mo entered the Beishan School.

Inside the mountain gate, a large number of male and female disciples were practicing the Beishan School's martial arts in unison. The sounds of shouting and killing were endless, and everyone exuded a spirit of vigor and strength, which was completely different from the practice method of the Lingmu Sect.

Dou Chi cordially invited Li Mo into the main hall of the Beishan Sect, but Li Mo said he wanted to pay his respects to his mother first.

“The dead are the greatest.”

Zhou Mei's tomb is located on the hillside of Beishan Mountain.

There used to be a mountain temple here, where the surrounding villagers worshipped the mountain god.

When the Beishan School was founded, it deliberately avoided the mountain temple to avoid attracting some unknown things.

After paying homage devoutly in front of the cemetery, Li Mo followed Dou Chi into the main hall of the Beishan Sect. They were so engrossed in a long conversation that they completely forgot about time.

It was not until noon the next day that he stopped, feeling unsatisfied.

"Master Dou's teachings on the way of life cultivation, cultivating the innate qi and combining it with the power of the primordial spirit to form a dual cultivation of nature and life, have truly benefited me greatly. I am grateful for your guidance."

Li Mo said sincerely.

Dou Chi shook his head.

"Using force to prove the truth is nothing more than the so-called dual cultivation of body and soul in this Dharma-Ending Age. It is said that thousands of years ago, when this land was still under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty, dual cultivation of body and soul was a common practice among cultivators of all sects. At that time, cultivators seemed to call this so-called innate energy "primordial energy..."

According to Dou Chi, the real secret of dual cultivation of sex and life does not lie in the techniques, but in a kind of vital energy that is on par with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If one cannot master the method of utilizing vital energy, one cannot truly cultivate both sex and life.

The internal strength of a martial artist is his or her own vital energy. By utilizing this energy, one can become a so-called life cultivator. It's just that the way of applying this vital energy is relatively low-end.

He had a new understanding of the various changes in his body after swallowing the Creation Pill for a long time. He suspected that the so-called Creation Pill was a kind of pill based on vital energy, so it showed the characteristics of strengthening the Dantian meridians, which was completely consistent with the description of the life cultivator.

This made many of Li Mo's doubts suddenly clear up.

No wonder Liu Biao said that he was just a physical practitioner. He obviously knew the secret.

If one cannot master the vital energy and only uses spiritual energy to refine the body, he can only be considered a body refiner.

"The Great Zhou Dynasty."

Li Mo murmured in a low voice.

Dou Chi couldn't help but reveal a satisfied smile.

"General Li's theory of the primordial spirit and soul has also benefited me immensely..."

Both sides achieved satisfactory results in this Taoist exchange. After Dou Chi personally sent Li Mo to the gate of Beishan School, Li Mo bowed and said goodbye.

……

After finishing his trip to Hua'an Town, Li Mo returned to Bai'an City again.

He still had a few remaining Tianling Pills on hand, but he did not use them to increase his magic power. Instead, he carefully kept them for future use in case of mana stagnation.

He then spent another two months to consolidate his current mid-stage foundation-building mana realm.

After stabilizing his cultivation level in the middle stage of foundation building, Li Mo decided to take advantage of the abundant spirit stones on hand to refine a set of six disasters and six tribulations matrix puppets.

Matrix puppets must be refined as a set.

Even though Li Mo already had the example of the Six Ding and Six Jia matrix puppets, he was not absolutely sure that he could refine the Six Disasters and Six Tribulations matrix puppets, so he had to be cautious and take it seriously.

The only good news was that he had plenty of spirit stones on hand.

However, things always develop in unexpected ways.

On September 10th, just as Li Mo was busy preparing to refine the six disasters and six tribulations matrix puppet, a rapid alarm suddenly sounded from the Tianming Division of Bai'an County.

After hearing the news, Li Mo rushed to the Ministry of Destiny as soon as possible.

He took out the general flag badge, opened the secret room, and walked in with the two deputy general flags Zhu Wei and Ma Xuanji.

"This is?"

Ma Xuanji looked surprised.

A strange mechanical device was floating in the air of the secret room. It seemed to be composed of more than twenty rings. Each ring had its own unique operating trajectory, constantly fitting and separating, emitting a mysterious light.

"This is the Divine Armillary Sphere. It can easily communicate with each other within the scope of a county. It is much faster than sending a letter by flying sword."

After Li Mo explained briefly, he looked at Ma Xuanji.

"It's a mechanical device made by your Shenji Sect."

Ma Xuanji nodded.

As he spoke, Li Mo walked under the circle, cast a spell towards the light and shadow in front of him, and saw the figure of a female cultivator.

This person was actually the deputy head of the Special Service Hall, Bai Jingjing.

As a Jindan-stage cultivator, Bai Jingjing is not only the deputy head of the Special Service Hall, but also the dual cultivation partner of Ye Shoutian, the head of the Law Enforcement Hall. Therefore, she is regarded as a member of the Ye family by the individual disciples.

"Attention, all counties in Anbei County, the Tianming Division. Lead your capable small flag teams to gather at the county capital within five days. We have an important mission to carry out!"

The magical armillary sphere can only make one-way communications and cannot be used for immediate contact. After Li Mo wrote down the content, the light and shadow quickly disappeared.

The three of them looked at each other and their expressions changed slightly.

However, there is now a flying boat flight to Bai'an County every day, so there is no need to worry about rushing.

Then Li Mo brought Zhu Wei and Ma Xuanji and strode to the office area.

"Everyone, assemble immediately!"

Following Li Mo's order, fifty-four inspectors quickly assembled into seven teams. Several others had gone out on missions and had not returned yet.

Li Mo quickly called out the troops, called out three of the teams, and looked at Ma Xuanji.

"Deputy General Ma, please come with me to carry out this mission."

"Yes!"

Zhu Wei had anticipated this.

He knew that Li Mo would definitely not feel at ease leaving Ma Xuanji alone in the Tianming Division.

Although he didn't know what happened between the two, he knew that Li Mo would never do anything without a purpose.

(End of this chapter)