The Counterattack of the Villains

After dealing with Qiao Feng, Li Mu no longer took his wife and children around, but returned to Liangshan, diligently cultivated his internal skills, and devoted himself to developing his sect.

He never told Qiao Feng about the Sky Sword Sect and planned to give him a surprise in the future.

Therefore, Qiao Feng only knew Li Mu's name and knew nothing about his identity and origin. Qiao Feng still would not tell others that he had another master.

Half a year later, he successfully became a disciple of Wang Jiantong and began to practice the Dragon Subduing Palm and Dog Beating Stick techniques.

It's just that the dog-beating stick technique doesn't suit his style. He just learned it so that he could pass it on in the future, but he would probably not be able to use it against the enemy.

More than a year after Li Mu and his wife returned to Liangshan, Wu Yazi brought Su Xinghe to visit them.

By this time they had eliminated Ding Chunqiu, and the Xingxiu Sect no longer existed.

Ruan Xingzhu originally wanted to keep his master in Liangshan, and Li Mu also intended to enshrine him as the Supreme Elder.

Unfortunately, he was declined by Wu Yazi. He has joined his senior sister, Tong Lao of Tianshan Mountain, and now lives in the Lingjiu Palace at Piaomiao Peak in Tianshan Mountain.

Now, he is taking his apprentice Su Xinghe and his disciple Sun Wangfen Xue Muhua to study medical skills together, trying to restore his senior sister's body.

Seeing this, Li Mu and his wife could not say anything more. Wu Yazi and Su Xinghe stayed in Liangshan for half a month, then they left and returned to Tianshan.

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The Changkong Sword Sect has money, masters, superior skills, and territory. In the words of the cultivation style, it has no shortage of wealth and skills, and its development has been extremely rapid.

Li Mu did not accept more direct disciples, because Ruan Xiong and others had already entered the martial arts hall. They only needed to continue to accumulate internal strength and improve their cultivation, and then they also began to accept direct disciples.

As the direct disciples and inner disciples grew up, the Changkong Sword Sect flourished.

In just ten years, the number of elite disciples exceeded one hundred, the number of inner disciples exceeded five hundred, and the number of outer disciples was three times that of the inner disciples, and most of them were orphans.

Only a small number of residents from towns with a radius of a hundred miles sent their children to the Changkong Sword Sect to learn skills from their masters.

And the disciples have already exceeded the six thousand mark, most of them are young and strong, and come from all over Qilu.

Most of them are kind people, because the Changkong Sword Sect is very strict in controlling the origins of its disciples.

Although I dare not say that there are not even one treacherous person, there are definitely not many.

Once he becomes a disciple of Changkong, if it is discovered that he has committed crimes in the past, he will lose his martial arts skills and be expelled from Liangshan, or he will be sent to the officials for investigation.

Not all of these disciples live in Liangshan, and many of them have their own businesses, but they are just under the Changkong Sword Sect in name.

When the sect has something to do for them, they go and do it themselves. When there is nothing to do, they can live their lives as usual and just go to the Changkong branch in each town to report in every month.

Naturally, there is no salary to be paid in this situation. The disciples who are stationed in Liangshan can receive a monthly salary of five taels of silver, which is six taels a year.

In this era when living expenses only cost one and a half taels a year, an annual income of six taels is already considered middle class.

But if those disciples outside the country encounter something, they can also turn to other disciples or even the sect for help, and the other disciples and sect will definitely help them solve the problem.

This also made the Changkong disciples extremely united.

This model was established by Li Mu after learning from Hongmen.

With the successful example of Hongmen, as long as there are no problems with the Changkong Sword Sect, the Changkong Disciples will sooner or later become a super power that spreads all over the world, no less powerful than the Beggar Clan.

In terms of capital, the Changkong Sword Sect also has its own business, which is a business partnership with the Jingxi East Road Comfort Envoy.

The pacifier on the east and west roads of Beijing was the former prefect of Jeju.

After the development of the Changkong Sword Sect, the performance of the Jeju prefect continued to rise. A few years ago, he was promoted to the position of pacifier of the East and West Roads in Beijing. His official rank was also promoted from the fourth grade to the third grade, jumping two levels in a row.

The current governor of Jeju is on the same side as him and is responsible for direct communication with the Changkong Sword Sect.

Li Mu didn't come up with anything that affected the development of the times.

He only invented daily necessities such as soap, soap, washing powder, toothpaste, etc., which replaced soap, soap powder, soap juice and other products.

This has already made the Changkong Sword Sect rich, and there is no need to touch the treasures of Tianning Temple.

Daily consumables can be said to be the largest and most popular items in the market, because everyone uses them and will continue to use them.

The key now is to monopolize the business. Li Mu is backed by the government, and the Jeju prefect is backed by the Jingdongxilu pacifier. Naturally, there are also people behind the pacifier.

Although most of the business income is taken by a certain big boss in the Kaifeng Mansion in the capital, it can be exchanged for strong support from the government, which is a huge gain without any harm.

It's just to make less money. It's useless for Li Mu to ask for so much money. It's enough to support the development of the sect, but he can't take it away.

After the disciples grew up, they naturally needed to travel around the world. As a result, the bandits and bandits in the land of Qilu and the heroes of the green forest suffered a great disaster.

The public security situation in Qilu was completely improved, and the bandit land that was once rampant became the safest place in the Song Dynasty.

These are all the achievements of officials from various states in Qilu. Naturally, they are very close to the Changkong Sword Sect.

Today's Changkong Sword Sect is the undisputed largest sect in Qilu.

Li Mu's most important decision about the Changkong Sword Sect lies in the eight words "The great chivalrous person serves the country and the people".

When the Song Dynasty went to war with Xixia, he sent a large number of masters to the border to help the Song army fight, and made numerous achievements.

Of course, it is not a frontal battle, but a hidden front such as spying, passing on intelligence, assassinating Xixia generals, and dealing with Xixia Yipintang masters assassinating one's own generals, etc.

To put it more clearly, it's the work of agents and special forces.

Li Mu even took action personally, killing more than thirty Xixia Yipintang masters on the border, and killing several Xixia generals among thousands of troops. The Song officers and soldiers were shocked to see them.

Many Changkong disciples took this opportunity to directly join the army and eat the imperial rations under the recommendation of the military generals. Ruan Baiming was one of them.

Just as his original destiny was, he served under the famous Song Dynasty general Zhong Pu and was a colleague of Yi Sunchen.

With Li Mu's situation, he would naturally not deal with the court like other people in the martial arts world. Instead, he strongly supported his disciples to join the army or study for merit.

As long as there are a few talents in high positions in the future, the Changkong Sword Sect will be extremely stable with this incense.

The various achievements of Li Mu and his Changkong Sword Sect were greatly appreciated by the Song court.

A great chivalrous person serves the country and the people, which once again became the slogan for Li Mu to win the favor and support of the court and be admired and supported by people in the world.

When the names "Northern Qiao Feng and Southern Murong" appeared in the world, Li Mu was already called "Giant Hero" by people all over the world, which was a more noble title than "Great Hero".

The title of "Hero" has become widespread in the martial arts world, but there is only one "Juxia" in the entire Song Dynasty.

And because he charged into the formation alone, broke the Xixia shield formation, and killed the Xixia general, he used the unique skill of a sword of ten feet, so he was revered as the "Sword God".

After the war, Li Mu returned to Liangshan, but his name spread throughout the world in a very short time.

At this time, Qiao Feng finally knew the origin of his master, and for a moment he felt honored and proud.

During the Song-Xia war, he actually took part in the war with his Beggar Clan disciples, but they were not in the same place as Li Mu, so they just passed by each other.

Originally, he wanted to go to Lu Di to meet his master, but unfortunately he was now the leader of the Beggar Clan and was so busy with his affairs that he couldn't go to Lu Di.

I had no choice but to send someone to send a handwritten letter to say hello to the master and his wife. When I have some free time in the future, I can go to Ludi to see the master and my wife and to visit my little junior sister.

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As time went by, the Changkong Sword Sect centered on Qilu, expanded northward to the Yanzhao region, and southward to the Jianghuai region.

If the Changkong Sword Sect's sphere of influence were drawn on a map, it would almost cover eastern China.

In the west, the Central Plains, Shaanxi, and Huguang areas, the tentacles cannot yet be extended.

After all, although Li Mu is well-known, the martial arts in the Central Plains is the core of the martial arts in the Song Dynasty. There are too many forces and the situation is too complicated. It will involve a lot of energy from the Changkong Sword Sect, and the gains outweigh the losses. Li Mu does not intend to dominate the martial arts.

Therefore, he has no plans to develop westward at all. His plan is to let the Changkong Sword Sect spread along the eastern, southeast, and southern coastal areas to the southwest.

In this way, it will be more convenient to launch military campaigns in the future.

They can even take the sea route by boat, follow the coastline to the North Sea, and cross from Guangxi to Dali, which is not only easier, but also convenient and fast.

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In the past ten years, Ruan Xingzhu gave birth to two more children to Li Mu, but I don't know what was wrong with them. They were all daughters.

The third child's name is A Xiu, and the fourth child's name is A Mei.

Originally, Li Mu also wanted to try to see if he could break the shackles of the original plot and let Ruan Xingzhu give him a son.

But after giving birth to four daughters in a row, Li Mu really didn't want to have another baby, and Ruan Xingzhu was not a fertility machine.

Therefore, from now on living as a couple with Ruan Xingzhu, he will "refine his Qi" and leave no more descendants.

In Swordsman World, Ning Zhongze inexplicably never got pregnant again after giving birth to Yue Lingshan, and this world can only give birth to daughters.

Li Mu sometimes wondered whether there really was something like "the way of heaven" in each world, and whether there were any plot corrections.

But apart from having children, he didn't feel any plot corrections in other aspects.

Yun Zhonghe, one of the four evil men, had been killed by his disciples who traveled around the world a few years ago.

Yue Lao Sanyue Canglong was also completely subdued by his disciples after giving him a few good treatment, and now he is working as a deacon and elder in the outer sect.

Although his character and temper were still violent, he only looked evil, and he was never seen breaking anyone's neck with a "click".

Ruan Xingzhu couldn't give birth to a son, but Li Mu and herself didn't care much about it, but it made old boxer Xu, Ruan Xiong and others turn their heads with worry.

When Mrs. Ruan complained about her failure, it was Li Mu who explained popular science to them.

Women are only responsible for giving birth to children, but giving birth to children depends on whether the offspring a man puts into the mother's body is a boy or a girl, and it has nothing to do with the woman.

After knowing this, Ruan Xiong and others had nothing to say, but they were still worried. Even Ruan Xiong secretly persuaded Li Mu to accept another one.

Li Mu and Ruan Xingzhu's relationship has grown stronger over time, but they refuse to take concubines, not even a bunch of old guys.

However, given the current status of the Changkong Sword Sect and the good life they live, they are no longer so obsessed with their status as relatives of the emperor.

If this wasn't Li Mu's obsession, they all wanted to persuade Li Mu to forget it and just become a giant in the Song Dynasty.

Li Mu's argument was that the throne of Dali should have been his, and he could disdain his things, but others could not take them away on his own initiative.

Even if he only sat on the throne for a day, as long as he sat on it, it meant that he had taken back what belonged to him, and it didn't matter what happened to him after that.

After hearing what he said, everyone stopped talking and let him go.

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In the blink of an eye, another six years have passed. This year, the plot that Li Mu has been waiting for for a long time finally happened.

In recent years, many martial arts masters have been killed by their own stunts, and everyone in the world speculated that Nan Murong was responsible.

After receiving this news, Li Mu knew that Ruan Xingzhu's skill would skyrocket again.

After A'Zhu and A'Zi started practicing internal skills, Ruan Xingzhu gave each of them some skills to help them grow up faster, so her own skills were somewhat depleted.

These sixteen years were equivalent to no cultivation. If Li Mu hadn't asked her to keep more than fifty years of internal energy accumulation at all times, she would have wanted to pass on more.

After keeping Murong Bo for so many years, this skill-making machine has matured, and it's time to pick peaches.

This guy has accumulated 40 to 50 years of experience. As long as he can get his skills, Li Qiu Shui's skills can basically be absorbed.

With the skills of these two, the four daughters can also join the ranks of top masters in the blink of an eye.

Li Mu then made some arrangements. He sent A'Zhu to lead a group of elite disciples to Jiangnan and explained some things to her.

When A'Zhu heard that he was going to help his senior brother, he was very interested and left for Wuxi with ten elite disciples.

Li Mu then put Ruan Xingzhu in charge of the sect and gradually dispatched elite disciples and inner disciples to Dali along the route he had drawn.

He himself took Yue Canglong and a group of outer disciples to Wuliang Mountain in Dali to do business.

It's just that they will separate on the road, and he will only leave some things to Yue Canglong and his disciples.

Knowing that Li Mu was planning to take action, Ruan Xingzhu did not ask to go with Li Mu, but decided to personally lead his elite disciples to the North Sea by boat.

Those outer disciples were actually sent by Li Mu to absorb Duan Yu's internal energy.

The four villains in the original plot played a key role in Duan Yu's chances.

Now that the Four Great Evils no longer exist, Li Mu needs to make up for the gaps in the middle if he wants Duan Yu to have a chance.

As for those outer disciples who have lost some or even all of their skills, their efforts will not be in vain.

After this incident is over, Li Mu will let them enter the inner gate and practice Jiuyin Divine Art as compensation.