The Counterattack of the Villains

Li Mu's uprightness made Xia Hou have a favorable impression of him. Although he wanted to see Li Mu's magic weapon Flying Sword, he didn't say anything for the time being.

Immediately, he drew out the long sword, threw the scabbard aside, grasped the handle of the sword tightly with both hands, and put the sword blade against his cheek, secretly gathering momentum.

Li Mu allowed General Xiahou to gather his strength and did not take the initiative to take action. He stood there indifferently, as if his whole body was full of flaws.

But the long sword in his hand was faintly glowing with red sword light.

After a few breaths, General Xiahou had enough momentum. He kicked off the ground and jumped forward. With a loud shout, the sword filled with true energy slashed diagonally towards Li Mu's shoulder.

Facing this powerful and heavy vertical slash, Li Mu just held the sword horizontally with one hand, raised the long sword above his head, and held it steady.

"Qiang"

The moment the two swords clashed, Li Mu's feet sank slightly, leaving a pair of inch-deep footprints on the ground in the atrium.

The strong wind roared with the two people at the center, bringing up dust all over the ground. Everyone in the Zhongzhou team who was watching the battle retreated under the eaves with Shi'er.

Xia Houjiang felt a counter-shock force that spread along the blade of the sword to his arm, and he was secretly shocked at Li Mu's profound skill.

When the sword failed, Xia Houjiang immediately sheathed his sword and instantly changed the vertical slash into a horizontal slash, adding three points of force.

Li Mu took advantage of the enemy's opportunity. When the big sword came towards him, the long sword was already at his side.

After blocking the sword this time, Li Mu stepped sideways, flipped his wrist, and drew an arc with his sword, drawing General Xiahou's sword aside, leaving the space between his chest and abdomen wide open.

Then, without stopping at all, his long sword slashed forward like a flowing stream. The target was General Xiahou's belly, and General Xiahou had to retreat to avoid its sharp edge.

When Li Mu's long sword passed in front of him, General Xiahou, who had just retreated, stepped forward again and thrust his sword towards Li Mu's right shoulder.

Li Mu dodged sideways, lightly pushed on the ground with his feet, and flew backwards lightly, just in time to dodge the diagonal kick that followed the straight thrust.

"Shua"

General Xia Hou held on tightly and swung his sword, and the stone lamppost on which Shi'er often sat to rest was cut into two parts diagonally.

For a moment, figures flashed in the atrium, and the sword energy was fierce.

General Xiahou's sword is powerful and fast. He can draw the sword quickly and turn around quickly, but his moves are straight forward, slashing and slashing.

Li Mu responded calmly, and in his blocking and defense, he always included changes in counterattacks. His body and footwork were extremely agile, and he mastered the basic Emei sword technique to perfection.

Obviously, like Chu Xuan, he followed the dexterous route, commonly known as technical flow.

However, General Xiahou and Yan Chixia, like Zheng Zha, have a fierce approach to opening and closing.

But according to Yan Chixia's evaluation of General Xiahou, General Xiahou's sword was too sharp, his moves were erratic, his sword was too hot, and his sword was too fast and inaccurate.

At this moment, Li Mu also felt these situations, but only masters of his and Yan Chixia's level could feel it, and ordinary people might not be able to feel it.

In other words, if Xiahou will fight against someone of the same level or inferior to him, these shortcomings will not be considered shortcomings.

Li Mu gave face to Yan Chixia and did not defeat General Xiahou with three or two moves. Instead, he always held back a little strength, as if he was feeding General Xiahou with moves.

The fight continued until there were two hundred moves, and the face was already enough, so he defeated General Xiahou by half a move, ending the competition.

Since the point was reached, Li Mu did not hurt him. After taking back the sword, he cupped his fists and said, "Brother Xiahou, I accept."

Xia Houjiang sighed and shook his head, admiringly saying: "Brother Li is indeed an Emei authentic sect. He is really powerful. I admire you."

"In terms of swordsmanship alone, Brother Li is still above Yan Chixia. You haven't tried your best. Can't you feel it?"

"As the saying goes, there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky. It seems that in this life, I will never have the chance to be the best sword in the world."

Li Mu, the head of the Emei sect, can easily defeat him. There must be many Emei sects who can defeat him.

In the past, Yan Chixia was the only obstacle between him and the best swordsman in the world.

Nowadays, let alone the best swordsman in the world, it is still unknown whether he can rank among the top ten swordsmen in the world.

No matter how strong-minded General Xiahou is, he still feels a little frustrated.

After all, it’s time to sit in a well and look at the sky!

Through this battle, Li Mu had almost tested General Xiahou's combat power.

If Zuo Qianhu's comprehensive combat power value can reach the Golden Core stage, then General Xiahou's combat power value is approximately at the peak of foundation building.

The reason why they are not on the same level is partly because of his skill, but also partly because his fighting methods are far less unpredictable than Zuo Qianhu.

However, even if the combat power is only at the peak of foundation building, it is not low. After all, none of the senior members of the Central Continent team who are in the foundation building stage have reached the peak yet.

In addition, he has rich fighting experience and very mature swordsmanship. Even the mainstays of the Zhongzhou team such as Zhang Jie, Zhan Lan, Zhao Yingkong, and Zelan may not be able to beat him with their swordsmanship alone.

Therefore, General Xiahou can be regarded as a senior reincarnation warrior, and he has the value of winning over him.

Therefore, after Li Mu listened to his words, he said sincerely: "Brother Xiahou, why should you belittle yourself? If you can practice swordsmanship to such a level in the ordinary world, you are already a genius."

"Both Elder Yan and us have learned extraordinary martial arts, but Xuanmen techniques that transcend the ordinary."

"If you are in the same condition as us, you may not be inferior to us. Besides, you are thirty years younger than Elder Yan."

"Thirty years later, when you reach Elder Yan's age, you will be respected by all the swordsmen in the world."

These words made Xiahou General Dasheng feel that the Emei Sect was a sect of cultivating immortals, and what he learned were ordinary martial arts.

But even with his ordinary martial arts, he was able to fight Yan Chixia for dozens of lilies, which was quite difficult.

If he could also get Yan Chixia's fate, the situation would definitely be reversed.

Thinking of this, Xiahou suddenly became enlightened and all the frustration in his heart disappeared.

His eyes flickered slightly, and he cupped his fists at Li Mu and said, "Brother Li, if I want to join the Emei Sect, are you willing to accept it?"

Li Mu laughed and said: "With Brother Xiahou's qualifications, I believe no sect will refuse."

"If you really intend to join the Emei Sect, I can accept a disciple on your behalf. In the future, you and I will become brothers and sisters."

After saying this, without waiting for Xiahou Jiang's response, Li Mu said seriously: "But there is one thing I must make clear to you first."

"Following the war between good and evil more than 400 years ago, now it's time for the Dao to eliminate evil. I'm afraid it won't be long before a new round of war between good and evil breaks out."

"Once you choose to join the Emei Sect, you will have to fight against the devil. You will be in danger of death at any time. Are you still willing to join the Emei Sect?"

After hearing what Li Mu said, General Xiahou smiled casually, lifted up the hem of his clothes, knelt down and worshiped: "Disciple, General Xiahou, pay your respects to the master... uh... brother?"

Li Mu smiled and said: "I am fifty-three this year, you should call me senior brother, and these guys are all sixth-generation disciples."

"The youngest among them is nearly forty years old, and the elder is sixty or seventy years old. You should be the junior disciple among the six generations of disciples after you enter."

"These young men are seventh-generation disciples, and they are all your nephews."

Fifty-three? Sixty-seventy? This doesn’t look like it at all!

However, Xia Houjiang immediately remembered that the Emei Sect is a sect of cultivating immortals, and it is completely normal for its exercises to have the effect of preserving beauty and immortality.

This also made General Xiahou more determined to worship Emei.

"My disciple, General Xiahou, pays homage to the head senior brother and has met all the senior brothers and sisters."

Xiao Honglu, Zelan, and Shier stood side by side, bowed to him and said, "Disciple pays homage to Master."

General Xiahou knelt down because Li Mu was accepting disciples on behalf of his master, which meant that Li Mu was receiving this bow for his master. Normally, he would not need to kneel down when he was a disciple.

Although Shi'er felt that the head master's uncle seemed to be a bit casual in accepting his disciples, he did not have any objections to General Xiahou as they already knew him thoroughly and were old acquaintances.

This guy is just a little obsessed with the title of the best swordsman in the world. His character is not bad, and he is quite famous in the Jiangnan area.

Li Mu stepped forward to help General Xiahou, patted his arm, and said: "Junior brother, you know that joining the Emei Sect is very dangerous, but you still have no hesitation."

"It can be seen that you are also a hero with a righteous heart. It is a blessing for Emei to have you as a disciple of the Emei Sect."

"Don't worry, once you learn the secret knowledge of the Emei Sect, I will definitely give it to you and I will never hide it for myself."

General Xiahou said gratefully: "Thank you very much, Senior Brother. Swordsmen like us are supposed to support justice. Only in this way can we live up to the three-foot green peak in our hands."

Li Mu said with appreciation: "Well said, while Elder Yan is in retreat, I will first teach you the Emei Town Sect's exercises."

"As for the sword technique, you have been practicing swordsmanship for many years and your foundation is very deep. I believe you will be able to learn it soon."

"In the next period of time, your main training direction will be the art of sword control in Emei."

Xia Houjiang's eyes lit up, he looked at the long sword behind Li Mu, and said slightly excitedly: "Brother, head master, can you let me see Emei's sword-wielding skills?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Of course it's no problem."

He returned the ordinary long sword in his hand to Zhan Lan and walked back into the arena. With a flick of his sword finger, the long sword behind him was immediately unsheathed and shuttled back and forth in mid-air under his control, as fast as a flash of light in a movie.

"Shuashuashua..."

Under the extremely high frequency of flying swords, the remaining half of the stone lampposts in the atrium quickly became riddled with holes.

Then Li Mu made a seal with both hands, and the flying swords turned into thirty-six, and rushed towards the stone lamppost, directly turning it into rubble.

The hand technique changed again, and thirty-six flying swords flew into the sky, quickly dividing again.

In an instant, the thirty-six flying swords turned into thousands of flying swords. The dense flying swords filled the sky. As Li Mu pointed towards the ruins of the main house, countless flying swords fell like rain.

General Xiahou just watched helplessly. It was just the ruins of the main house that collapsed and turned into a pile of broken wood.

Those flying swords disappeared as soon as they hit the ground, leaving only their true bodies.

Li Mu's hand technique changed again, and the flying sword flew back above his head. The tip of the sword pointed toward the sky, the hilt pointed toward the ground, and his sword pointed toward the end of the hilt.

General Xiahou was stunned to see Li Mu turning into a giant sword and rising into the sky right in front of him.

The location of the sword tip is where the body of the flying sword is, and the sword body is composed of Li Mu's body.

General Xiahou murmured to himself: "This is the true union of man and sword."

After the giant sword circled in the sky, it plunged into the uninhabited east wing opposite.

"Boom"

The sword energy exploded suddenly, and the east wing, which covered an area of ​​no less than two acres, was turned into ruins under their noses.

Zhang Qin and others were quite dumbfounded. They stayed here for less than a day and almost demolished this beautiful house.

Fortunately, this is a house that has been abandoned for many years, and the owner's family has long been extinct, otherwise others may not let it go.

The giant sword flew out of the ruins and fell back into the atrium, reappearing Li Mu's figure. The flying sword also spun around and returned to its sheath.

Li Mu walked towards the shocked General Xiahou and said with a smile: "My current level of cultivation is not enough to use the Emei Sect's strongest sword technique, but you will have the opportunity to see it in the future."

Practicing Shushan Sword Technique requires a corresponding level of cultivation. If the level is insufficient, it cannot be practiced.

You can master the art of sword control at the foundation stage, you can master the Ten Thousand Sword Techniques at the golden elixir stage, and you can master the Heavenly Sword at the Nascent Soul stage. The strongest sword god can only be mastered at the god transformation stage.

Xia Hou opened his eyes wide and exclaimed: "Isn't this the strongest sword technique?"

Li Mu laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Of course not. Currently, the strongest sword technique in Emei can only be mastered by our senior sister and your senior brother named Zheng."

"You will have the opportunity to meet them when you meet them in the future. Now I will teach you the main practice skills first."

Xia Houjiang was in great spirits, clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, senior brother, head master."

General Xiahou has been practicing for many years and has a very solid foundation. After Li Mu taught him the mental method, he only briefly explained it and he quickly mastered it.

There is one more person in retreat. He needs to convert his true energy into the power of the fire spirit before he can start practicing sword techniques.

General Xiahou's cultivation level was not weak. Six hours later, all of his true energy was transformed, and his cultivation level was stable at the late stage of foundation building. He happened to be the mainstay of the Zhongzhou team.

Two hours after he finished his seclusion and began to learn the Shushan Sword Art from Li Mu, Yan Chixia finally came out of seclusion.

His cultivation realm is at the late stage of Nascent Soul, which is a small realm higher than Li Mu. However, with the fourth-level intermediate level of Gene Lock, he can fight the old ghost who transformed into a god.

…

At midnight, on the roof of the west wing, Li Mu said to Zhang Qin: "Honey, everything is ready now, it's almost time for us to take action."

"After dawn, you take them to Changzhou Mansion and meet up with Zheng Zha and the others. I will go to the capital at night to get King Xin here."

Zhang Qin said with some worry: "Now there is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den on the other side of the capital. Can you do it alone? Why don't you let Yan Chixia accompany you?"

Li Mu shook his head and said: "No, it's more convenient for me to be alone. Even if something goes wrong, I can get away easier. There is no top expert in the team, so I don't worry."

Zhang Qin knew that he could not persuade Li Mu, so he had no choice but to say: "Well, your own safety is the top priority in everything. The Zhongzhou team can't live without you, and I can't live without you."

Li Mu hugged her into his arms, pressed a kiss on her lips, and said with a smile: "I know, don't worry, no one in this world can leave me."

"As long as we protect Fu Tianchou, we will be invincible, so Fu Tianchou's side is the top priority."

Zhang Qin said: "Well, with Zheng Zha, Lord Bachi, and Yan Chixia here, they can protect Fu Tianchou Zhouquan."

Li Mu nodded and said: "Then I'll go, you should be careful too."