The Counterattack of the Villains

Li Mu held a pebble between his index finger and thumb and stared at a tree two feet away.

On that tree, I saw a strange snake with a faint golden light on its body, a horn on top, and as thick as a child's arm, coiled on the branch, and the snake kept spitting.

Suddenly, the strange snake scurried away, and Li Mu almost saw a flash of golden light. A squirrel on the tree entered the strange snake's mouth, and a small bag bulged in its throat.

"Pah...pah"

While the strange snake was trying hard to swallow the squirrel, Li Mu's luck ejected the stone between his fingers, hitting the side of the snake's head.

The seven-inch attack requires higher accuracy and is easy to miss, so Li Mu places the attack target on the snake's head.

Anyway, he didn't expect to kill him with one blow, he just wanted to knock him out.

After knocking down the strange snake from the branch, Li Mu pulled out the sword from his waist and reached the strange snake in a flash.

"laugh"

The sword light passed by, and the snake's head flew away in response. Li Mu skillfully lifted the snake's tail, and threw the still curling and twisting snake body into a bamboo basket hanging on his waist.

After shaking the bamboo basket and checking the quantity inside, Li Mu nodded with satisfaction and immediately returned to the Jianzhong Valley.

The terrain of Jianzhong Valley is flat and very wide, and the weeds about a foot long are swaying left and right with the breeze.

On the inside of the valley is a mountain wall with a cave.

This cave is very spacious, with a width of more than ten feet, but its depth is shallow, less than three feet.

There are many ancient pots and pans in the cave, as well as furniture that has almost rotted away.

Only the stone beds, tables and benches remained intact, remaining unchanged despite the passage of time.

It is thought that Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, who retired to hermitage, or their descendants once lived here, so there is such a thing.

But now two or three hundred years have passed, things and people have changed, and I am afraid no one knows about this place anymore.

Li Mu went to the cave and took out a porcelain bowl. He went to a stream not far from the cave and cut open the bellies and guts of the Bodhisattva snakes he had harvested today, cleaned them and put them into the bowl.

It has been two months since he came to Jianzhong Valley. He does nothing else every day but searches for Bodhisattva snakes, and then kills them to get their gallbladders to practice martial arts.

His skills have improved so much in the past two months that he has practiced hard for more than half a year, and he has also practiced less than half of the fourth volume of Jiuyang Divine Skill.

If this continues, according to Li Mu's estimation, he will be able to perfect his kung fu in at most half a year, and in another half a year he will be able to open up the Xuanguan acupoints all over his body and achieve the great success of the Nine Sun Magic Kung Fu.

In this way, he could complete his main goal of going down the mountain in a little more than three years.

The remaining time can be spent working towards secondary goals.

…

Due to the advantage of foresight, Li Mu practiced the Nine-Yang Divine Art without any surprises or dangers.

He opened the entrances one by one step by step, so that the acupoints all over the body were gradually connected and unimpeded.

A year after he came to the Sword Tomb Valley, he brought up his tyrannical skills while practicing, and attacked the last and most important gateway of life and death.

There was no surprise. After only a moment of stalemate, the entrance was broken open by Jiuyang Zhenqi.

Li Mu only felt a roar in his body, a sound of dragons and tigers, and all the stagnation disappeared instantly. The true energy was rushing through the meridians without any hindrance.

There is no need for Li Mu to actively stimulate it, the true energy will circulate on its own, endless and extremely condensed.

It was like streaks of mercury flowing around in his meridians, making Li Mu feel extremely comfortable.

At this point, it took Li Mu three years and two months to finally practice the Nine-Yang Divine Art to the point where the Yang pole and the Yin arise, the Yin and Yang merge, the water and fire complement each other, and the dragon and the tiger meet.

From now on, acquired energy becomes innate, true energy is generated by itself, never runs out, and there is no need to worry about being too discouraged.

The most important thing is that now that the Nine Yang Divine Art has the yin and yang, and the yin and yang work together, Li Mu no longer needs to remain a virgin.

Even if he went back to marry Ning Zhongze immediately, it would not have any impact.

Although his martial arts was great, Li Mu was in no hurry to return to the mountain.

To revitalize a sect and further develop it, it is not enough to have strong martial arts skills. You must also have disciples, a large number of disciples.

But raising disciples requires money and food, which is the same as raising an army. Before the disciples can generate income on their own, they have to rely on the sect to support them.

That's why the Huashan sect in the original plot is so miserable. The whole sect has only about twenty people in total, and most of them are useless.

There are only four or five junior disciples with names and surnames who are somewhat capable, and one of them is an undercover agent from another faction.

Although the Huashan Sect's vitality was severely damaged due to the sword fight, the martial arts inheritance has not been lost. As long as they are willing to open the gates wide, they can accept a large number of disciples.

Why didn't Yue Buqun in the original drama recruit many disciples?

Nothing else, just a problem, I can't afford it.

This is also the biggest reason for the decline of the six major sects.

Under the pressure of the imperial court, the sect has no financial resources at all, and even eating is a problem. Who has the time to practice martial arts?

So if he wanted to revitalize the Huashan Sect, Li Mu had to get money, a lot of money.

This is not a difficult thing for him.

The world of martial arts in Jinshu is of the same origin and is in the same world in different time periods, so many things naturally exist.

Such as treasure.

Now Li Mu has the opportunity to get his hands on two treasures, one is the treasure of Emperor Jianwen in the Wei Guogong Mansion in Nanjing, and the other is the treasure of "Liancheng Jue" in Tianning Temple outside Jiangling City.

At that time, King Zhu Di of Yan rebelled and launched the Jingnan Campaign.

When the army was approaching, Emperor Jianwen transferred all the gold, silver and jewels from the palace and hid them underground in the Duke's Mansion of Wei, hoping to use them for the restoration of the country someday.

It's a pity that the treasure was not used in the end, and only a treasure map was left.

The existence of this treasure was only known to the Duke of Wei at that time, Xu Huizu, son of Xu Da.

After Xu Huizu died young, no one knew about him anymore.

It wasn't until the time of "Blue Blood Sword" that the treasure map fell into Yuan Chengzhi's hands, and he discovered and unearthed the treasure.

Yuan Chengzhi exchanged the treasure for military supplies, gathered his father's old subordinates (Shan Zong), and established the "Golden Snake Third Battalion", which became one of his team members who later fled the Bo Ni Kingdom.

This is the only treasure among all the treasures in the Golden Book World that has been discovered, recovered, and functioned normally.

In other words, this treasure is still lying safely under the Wei Guogong Mansion in this era.

But today's Duke's Palace of Wei is not like the one in the "Blue Blood Sword" period.

At that time, the city of Nanjing had been captured by Li Zicheng, so Yuan Chengzhi could naturally dig for treasures calmly.

But today, Duke Wei of this generation still lives in the Duke of Wei's mansion!

It is not difficult to imagine how tightly guarded the Duke's residence is. It is simply unrealistic to think of digging for treasures from someone else's house and having to bring them out.

Then it seems that the only thing Li Mu can choose is the treasure of "Liancheng Jue".

The treasure of Liancheng Jue was hidden by Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was not discovered until the early Qing Dynasty, and it naturally existed in this era.

It's just that the gold and jade treasures in the belly of the big golden Buddha are poisonous, so it takes some trouble to get them safely.

But no matter what, the difficulty is always much lower than the treasure in Wei Guogong's Mansion.

He doesn't even need to take it all out, just put it in a bag and it will be enough to support the Huashan Sect for decades.

After all, there is a difference between raising disciples and raising an army.

The sect only needs to provide the disciples with food and clothing, and at most a sword.

There is no need to pay military salaries, prepare weapons and armor, various ordnance, and even war horses like the army.

Li Mu doesn't plan to move the big golden Buddha for the time being, so as not to alert others and leak it out.

First, get some gold and jade treasures from the Golden Buddha's belly to support it. When the Huashan Sect rises again and has sufficient manpower, it will not be too late to try to move them all back to Huashan.

With a plan in mind, Li Mu set off immediately.

He has mastered the Nine-Yang Divine Art, so there is no need to carry the four volumes of the Lankavatara Sutra with him, and there is no way to explain it when he takes it back.

He followed Zhang Wuji's example and wrapped the four volumes of scriptures in oilcloth and buried them in a cave in the Jianzhong Valley, taking only the "Medical Classic" and the "Poison Classic" with him.

These two scriptures are also of great use to him, and he can slowly study them in detail in the future.

Zhang Wuji can learn it in a few years. He spent twenty years "chewing carefully and eating slowly" and he will never learn worse than Zhang Wuji.

Even if it is temporarily useless in this world, it can still be used in other worlds in the future.