Fortunately, it was just a false alarm.
Li Mu's mother's eyes had only recovered a little, and she could barely see. It would take a period of treatment to fully recover.
Moreover, she hadn't seen Li Mu in the past eight years. When Li Mu ran away from home, he was just a child. Now, eight years had passed, and his appearance had changed a lot. In fact, Li Mu's mother couldn't recognize him.
Feng Yuanxing arranged a welcome party.
Feng Yuanxing knew that Li Mu didn't like extravagance, so it was just a small internal banquet. The guests were all acquaintances, such as Ma Junwu, Zhen Meng, and a few county officials. They had been diligent and dutiful these days, so Feng Yuanxing brought them to meet the big boss, Li Mu, as a kind of reward.
At the party, Shangguan Yuting showed up and sat on the right side of Li Mu.
Feng Yuanxing and others roughly understood that this cold and beautiful figure, who was as beautiful as a moon fairy, was probably the future wife of the county magistrate. Li Mu was 15 years old this year. According to the laws of the Western Qin Empire, he was completely old enough to marry a wife and a concubine.
On the Divine Land, population was an important standard to measure a country's power.
In the martial arts world, the contrast of power between empires was still similar to the system of feudal society in China on Earth. The more people, the more power. Therefore, not only the Western Qin Empire, but also the Northern Song, the Southern Chu, and even other barbarian states all had relevant laws to ensure the fertility of the population. In the Western Qin Empire, there was only one law, which was simple and straightforward: if a man didn't marry at the age of 16, his parents would be guilty; if a man didn't marry at the age of 15, his parents would be guilty.
Therefore, according to Feng Yuanxing and others, the county magistrate's marriage should be put on the agenda now that the county magistrate's situation had been stabilized.
In Taibai County, Li Mu was a real eligible bachelor. Many rich businessmen, celebrities, and big families were coveting Li Mu. They wanted to give their daughters to him. Even if they could not get the position of the official wife, it was good to get the title of a concubine.
But now it seemed that the county magistrate came back from Chang 'an City with a group of fairy-like beautiful girls, so those rich businessmen and famous families could calm down.
It had been more than a month since Li Mu left Taibai County last time.
Li Mu sat on the main seat and glanced at everyone present. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
In the blink of an eye, it had been more than half a year since he came to this world. During that time, he had met a lot of people and learned a lot of things. What he was most proud of was that his cultivation and strength had improved faster than he had imagined. In particular, during the 15 days of closed-door training in Chang 'an City, his strength had improved by leaps and bounds. Eighty percent of his internal qi had been transformed into natural qi, and the improvement of his combat skills and strength was immeasurable.
He had already glimpsed the profound meaning of this world's martial arts.
This had opened a window for him on the path of Martial Arts that he was about to embark on.
The people sitting in front of him were his first group of friends in this world.
Ma Junwu's wounds were healed, but he lost an arm and could no longer use an arrow. For a man who was determined to become a top archer and join the Holy Archery Battalion of the Guanshan Pasture, it was undoubtedly very cruel. These days, Li Mu had been thinking about how to make it up to him. And now, he had come to a conclusion.
He raised his hand, and a blue paper book flew in front of Ma Junwu.
"Your honor?" Ma Junwu was surprised.
Li Mu said, "This is a secret book I specially found for you. Even if you lose an arm, you can still practice it … It's said that when you reach the Sage Realm, you can regrow your broken limbs and grow flesh. Junwu, don't give up. As the saying goes, hardships and hardships lead to success. Maybe the loss of an arm is your lucky chance. Maybe you can make great achievements in martial arts in the future."
Hearing that, Ma Junwu took the paper book, unable to contain his ecstasy.
He had thought that after losing an arm, his strength was greatly reduced, and he was already a good-for-nothing. He could no longer serve the county magistrate and would sooner or later withdraw from the core of Taibai County government. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate cherished the old friendship and specially searched for martial arts secret books for him …
"Thank you, Your honor." Ma Junwu knelt down gratefully and thanked him.
Li Mu was an Earthling, so he was not used to this kind of etiquette. But when in Rome, do as the Romans do, so he accepted Ma Junwu's bow.
Later, he gave Feng Yuanxing, Zhen Meng, and the others Cultivation Methods to practice.
These were all prepared in advance.
Those people were all overjoyed.
The Cultivation Methods Li Mu gave them were all advanced martial arts secret books that they dared not dream of in ordinary days.
This was also a means for Li Mu to win people's hearts. At the current stage, Li Mu still had a lot of things that needed these people to do. Therefore, the higher their strength and the more capable they were, the more helpful they would be to Li Mu.
After the battle in Chang 'an City, Li Mu gradually realized that a single tree could not make a forest. If he wanted to get out of that planet within 20 years, he could not do it alone. Even if he had mastered the immortal's Cultivation Method, it was absolutely impossible for him to do it alone.
Because cultivation was never a matter of one person.
People like Li Gang and the Second Prince, with their talent, identity, and status, would definitely advance faster than those poor rogue cultivators. This was because they had countless resources at their disposal and countless people working for them. That was why they could stand on top of countless warriors.
Li Mu realized that it was time for him to cultivate his own force.
In Chang 'an City, if it were not for Zheng Cunjian's channel, he would be in a very passive situation like a blind man. And he could not always rely on Zheng Cunjian, because the heartless scholar, after all, was a man of Li Gang, the scumbag magistrate.
Who was Li Gang?
Although he showed up and killed the head of the Ghost Sect when Mrs. Tang and the others were in a desperate situation, he was really a good man with a sense of justice. It was just a coincidence. He saved people in order to kill people, not to kill people in order to save people. It sounded a bit awkward, but the difference was big, because it was the difference between motive and purpose.
Killing the head of the Ghost Sect was to weaken the power of the second prince.
If it were not for this purpose, Li Gang would not have shown up even if Mrs. Tang and the people of the Xiongfeng Martial Arts Club were all killed by the Ghost Sect.
Because later, he, Xu Sheng, and the second prince, three peak Celestial Beings, had a terrible aftermath that destroyed the world. All the creatures covered by the evil iris were killed, but he did not mean to protect the main altar hall. Obviously, he left the people in the hall to their own fate. If it were not for Li Mu, perhaps the people of the Xiongfeng Martial Arts Club, Mrs. Tang and her daughter, Princess Qin Zhen, and others would have been shocked into ashes by the aftermath of the battle between three peak Celestial Beings like Chu Nantian, the future leader of the Heaven Sword Sect.
For his own interests, Li Gang could not only ignore the life and death of Mrs. Tang and the others, but also the life and death of Princess Qin Zhen, which was the same as his choice to abandon Li Mu's mother for the sake of his own status.
The Secular Sword Whiz practiced the Secular Swordsmanship.
The secular world was fickle and fickle.
Li Gang could be said to have mastered the essence of this swordsmanship.
For such a person, Li Mu had always been on the alert.
On the premise that the two sides did not have a violent conflict, Li Gang could turn a blind eye to it and let Zheng Cunjian pass all kinds of information and intelligence to Li Mu. But once this delicate cooperation broke down, Zheng Cunjian would not dare to disobey Li Gang even if he was under the Life-and-Death Spell. At that time, Li Mu would suddenly become blind and deaf.
It was better to rely on himself than others.
These days, Li Mu had been thinking clearly when he was not practicing.
He wanted to establish his own force.
And Feng Yuanxing and the others could be regarded as Li Mu's trusted subordinates.
Li Mu decided to start with these people.
Anyway, those secret manuals that Li Mu bestowed were all "delivered". So, why not be generous at others' expense?
The atmosphere of the whole banquet became heated because of Li Mu's generous rewards.
All the officials who were qualified to attend the banquet received a copy.
Everyone was happy.
An hour later, the banquet was over.
The crowd dispersed.
Li Mu and the little attendant Qing Feng returned to the original county government compound.
Li Mu's mother ordered the maids to bring hot water and help Li Mu take a bath and change clothes.
After that, Li Mu put on the clothes made by his mother and went to his study to have a secret talk with Qing Feng.
If Feng Yuanxing, Ma Junwu, and other officials were the first batch of Li Mu's trusted subordinates, then Qing Feng was the most reliable of the trusted subordinates. He was far more reliable than those officials.
The little attendant, whose legs were disabled, sat in a special wheelchair. But he was in good spirits with a ruddy face. When he opened his mouth to report what happened in the county these days, Li Mu waved his hands to stop him. He had no interest in the county affairs at all.
"There's still no news from Ming Yue." Li Mu said with a little guilt.
On that day, he easily trusted the old beggar and that yellow dog. As a result, Ming Yue, the naturally naive foodie attendant, had been missing for several months without any news. That made Li Mu feel quite ashamed when he faced Qing Feng. That was because the two little attendants were actually as close as brother and sister, though they often criticized each other in daily life.
"I'll find her." Qing Feng said firmly.
Li Mu nodded and took out several books from the storage space. He said, "These are some secrets about mechanisms, casting, alchemy, poisons, and refining medicine that I found in Chang 'an. They are all the contents that you are interested in. Take them and read them first. And this one, Introduction to Taoist Magic Arts for First Graders, is the most precious. Keep it carefully and never lose it. It can be the foundation of your main direction in the future …"
The Introduction to Taoist Magic Arts for First Graders was naturally written by Li Mu himself. He had sorted out some of the entry-level Taoist magic arts of the five elements that the old faker had told him before. Since he had already practiced the simplified version of the Xiantian Skill, the little attendant could now systematically practice Taoist magic arts.
In Li Mu's view, the direction that the little attendant was interested in was obviously the auxiliary path.
However, the old faker once said that among the great forces that dominated the universe, once the masters of tactical deployments, galaxy alchemists, alchemists, and mechanism masters reached a certain cultivation level, they would all have a very noble status, even higher than the warriors in the same realm.
Therefore, the path that Qing Feng chose was not wrong, but it was a little more difficult than that of ordinary people.
Everything depended on his luck.
After the secret talk, Qing Feng left.
In the next few days, apart from practicing in closed-door training, Li Mu seldom went out to repair and improve the Earth Evil Polaris Formation.
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