In the Heavens

Looking at the information collected in his hands, Li Mu realized that his worries were in vain. After King Anhua raised the anti-flag, he didn't want to take the initiative to attack, but chose to retreat.

If it is in the land of Bashu, it is not impossible to maneuver. Relying on the wealth of the Land of Abundance, there is still hope for being king for decades.

But in the northwest, if you want to replicate the rise of Xixia, you must at least consider the actual situation!

"Crossing the south of the Yangtze River" has become a thing of the past. Even if there is no severe drought, it is difficult to gather military rations locally.

According to the past practice, the imperial court has to import hundreds of thousands of grain and grass to the Northwest Seven Guards every year to meet the needs of the frontier army.

I don't know if Shaolin's brain was flooded, and he actually chose that idiot King Anhua. It's right to think about it, except for idiots, no one will rebel at this time.

Regardless of the level of the New Deal implemented by Zhengde, at least the revenue of the national treasury has increased, and its own internal treasury has also become richer.

When the world is peaceful and the court still has money, a rebellion can only be achieved in the Jingnan battle.

There is no need to worry about the next situation, the situation of the Huashan faction has also stabilized, and Li Mu will naturally have leisure time.

It has been so long since I came to this world, and I have never wandered in the rivers and lakes, which is an insult to the name of a time traveler.

Seeing Ning Zhongze, who had completed the removal ceremony and returned to normal attire, Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Junior Sister, now that you are out of filial piety, let's go down the mountain for a walk!"

Time is the best healer. After three years of filial piety, Ningzhong has gradually recovered from the grief of losing his father.

The little girl of the past has grown up now, and has become slim and beautiful.

Ning Zhong hesitated and said, "Brother, isn't this very good?"

It could be seen that she was tempted, but she was a little embarrassed. When the people in the world were young, who didn't have a dream of fighting the sword and fighting for justice?

It's just that as he grows older, his dreams are finally defeated by reality, and he has no choice but to become the person he hates the most.

Reaching out and touching Ning Zhongze's nose, Li Mu teased and said, "What's wrong?

You are my fiancée, what do we do when we go out together. Could it be that the junior sister is reminding the senior brother that it's time to prepare for the wedding? "

In this world of early marriage, if they were among the people, the two would have reached the age to get married long ago.

People in the Jianghu usually get married relatively late, but Li Mu, who is almost 25 years old, is about the time. Most of the brothers and sisters were married at his age.

The latest was delayed until the age of twenty-seven or eight. This part is usually because it happened to catch up with the filial piety period and had to be postponed.

It couldn't be any later. In this era where "if you are not married at 30, you should not marry again", if you delay it, you will die.

People in the Jianghu are no exception. If they are approaching thirty, even if their parents are bereaved, they will get married first and then mourn.

Hearing a "hum", Ning Zhong ran away shyly. Li Mu, who understood, immediately chased after him.

...

After arranging the affairs in the door, Li Mu took Ning Zhongze down the mountain. It's just that the imaginary world of two did not appear. In order to avoid gossip, there were more than 20 Huashan disciples accompanying him.

It's not easy to be the head of the sect, every word and deed will be seen with a magnifying glass, and it is destined not to be controlled by one's temper.

It took nearly a month to visit mountains and rivers, stop and go all the way, before arriving at the first destination of Quanzhen Ancestral Court - Zhongnan Mountain.

Looking at the cloud-shrouded Zhongnan Mountain, Li Mu couldn't help thinking of Wang Wei's poem:

Taiyi is near the capital of heaven,

The mountains meet the corners of the sea.

The white clouds looked back,

There is nothing to see in the green mist.

Then there is no more. The knowledge reserve of poetry is limited, and I can only remember these two sentences in total.

Fortunately, the Huashan disciples who accompanied him were not knowledgeable masters, so they didn't realize that their sect master pretended to fail.

As the ancestral court of Quanzhen, even if it has declined, there is still no shortage of monks, temples and Taoist temples on Zhongnan Mountain.

Even the Chongyang Palace, which was destroyed by the war in the past, has been erected again, but it is a pity that it will never regain its former glory.

Without the ability to order the world to be true, the current Chongyang Palace is just an ordinary Taoist temple, with more historical significance at most.

After visiting Zhongnan Mountain and visiting many of his comrades, Li Mu still couldn't find any trace of the Ancient Tomb Sect, which may have long since disappeared in the long river of history.

After all, with the inheritance model of the Ancient Tomb Sect, as long as some accident happened to the disciples in the arena, it would be a matter of minutes to cut off the inheritance.

Without someone from the Ancient Tomb Sect to lead the way, it would be a dream to find the Zhongnan Ancient Tomb.

As a famous Taoist mountain, Zhongnan Mountain has always been regarded as a geomantic treasure, and there are countless dignitaries buried here.

According to Li Mu's knowledge, there are eight hundred ancient tombs in Zhongnan Mountain. If you want to find the ancient tomb sect in the past, you must form a troop of Mojin Xiaowei.

Rao is that Li Mu's integrity is not much left, and he is still not sensitive to such unconscionable things as tomb robbery.

What's more, after so many years of changes, who knows if the ancient tomb still exists? Maybe in a certain earthquake, it collapsed.

Li Mu did find the only clue, the pool of water, and not only did he find quite a few, but unfortunately none of them matched the description in the original book.

Either the distance is too far, or it is a pool of palms, the bottom of which can be seen with the naked eye, and it cannot hide the entrance of the ancient tomb at all.

Fortunately, Li Mu has no shortage of secret books on magical skills, and he doesn't have a deep obsession with ancient tombs, otherwise he would have to die of anger.

After wandering around the mountains for days, Ning Zhong couldn't help asking: "Brother, you are always wandering around the mountains, do you want to find immortals and ask questions?"

Li Mu shook his head: "Junior Sister, you really know how to joke. The world has been in decline for a long time, and now it is difficult to achieve even innate, how can there be immortals living in this world?

What's more, my Huashan faction is originally a branch of Taoism, and has its own inheritance, so why do you need to ask for fish? "

Hearing "the decline of the heaven and the earth is difficult to achieve", the expressions of the accompanying people suddenly became serious.

This is the secret of martial arts. Everyone only knows that it has been extinct in the past hundred years, but they don't know the reason behind it.

Ning Zhongze's curiosity was also aroused. Although she was the daughter of the former head, she had more opportunities to get in touch with the secrets of the world, but because of her age, she didn't know much about it.

"Brother, why is this?"

Looking at the expectant expressions on everyone's faces, Li Mu explained with a smile: "Buddhism has the saying that the world is ending, and my Taoism also has a record of the beginning and the beginning.

According to the speculation of the ancestors, people have birth, old age, sickness and death, and the world also has its life limit.

In ancient times, the world was in the prime of life, and the world was full of aura, and martial arts cultivation was not as difficult as it is now.

Not only are the innate masters emerging in endlessly, but even the masters of heaven and man above are not uncommon. According to legend, martial arts are so extreme that they can even shatter the void and ascend to the fairy world.

Some unofficial histories also record that, apart from martial arts, there are also a group of people who cultivate immortality and practice Qi, and specialize in chasing the way of longevity.

But with the passage of time, the heaven and the earth are gradually declining, and the aura is getting thinner day by day. Not only the cultivation of immortality and Qi training has become a dream, but even the cultivation of martial arts has become as difficult as reaching the sky.

Especially in the early years of the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu wanted to solve the threat of people in the martial arts and make the country permanent. Feng Shui master Liu Bowen was ordered to lead people to cut off the dragon veins of Kyushu.

According to ancient legends, the ancestors of our human race once arranged formations to gather the aura of heaven and earth with the dragon veins of Kyushu, creating the ancestral vein of the world's aura.

Only then did the land of China have outstanding people, far beyond the development outside the territory. After the dragon veins of Kyushu were broken, the famous mountains and rivers returned to the mortal world, and the advantages of the land of China no longer existed.

The gathered aura of heaven and earth scattered between heaven and earth again, and martial arts also declined, resulting in the current innate extinction. "

Seeing the aggrieved expressions on everyone's faces, Li Mu knew that everyone was very angry. Any martial artist who hears this news on the first day of junior high school will be furious.

"Damn it, I think I still admire Zhu..."

Before Ning Zhongze could complain, Li Mu interrupted: "Okay, Junior Sister. I can say these things, but you can't.

These news are all recorded by the big forces, but they are rarely circulated in the martial arts. Presumably you should understand why.

The matter has come to this point, as a piece of common sense accumulation, just rot in the stomach. If it is spread out, it will lead to death. "

The imperial court also watched people order food. For a master like Li Mu, when he scolded the emperor and the imperial court, no one even asked about it.

If it's an ordinary small character who does the same thing, you have to be careful. In case the people in the yamen heard about it, they didn't mind adding to their credit book.

In fact, there is another guess that Li Mu didn't say. That is, in recent years, there have been many natural and man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty, and he suspects that the world is beginning to recover.

If the guess is true, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty, which is still in full swing, will collapse under the backlash of heaven and earth in a short time.

Just the recovery of heaven and earth does not mean the recovery of spiritual energy. It is also possible that it is a flashback before going to extinction.

The sense of crisis is the source of motivation for Li Mu's cultivation. Even though he knows that his current martial arts will not be of any use in the face of the general trend of the world, he is still unwilling to relax in the slightest.

During the trip to Zhongnan Mountain, although he did not find any martial arts secrets, Li Mu still gained a lot.

Communicating with a group of Taoist hermits gave Li Mu a clearer understanding of the future.

Originally, he wanted to go to the Central Plains for a stroll, but he didn't expect that trouble had already found him first.

The imperial court's anti-insurgency army has not yet set out, but Yang Yiqing, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Zhang Yong, the supervisor of the army, have already entered Guanzhong first, and all of them have arrived at Huashan.

Face is given to each other. Although the two came to the wharf to worship in order to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, Li Mu still couldn't lose his courtesy.

In any case, it is still under the Ming Dynasty. Even if a martial arts overlord like the Huashan faction is at most a prince along the way, he can't afford to offend the lord of the world for the time being.

When Li Mu hurried back to Mount Hua, the two of them had already arrived at Mount Hua first, so they stayed directly on the mountain regardless of whether they were welcome or not.

Standing on Chaoyang Peak, looking at the Huashan disciples practicing swords in the martial arts field, Yang Yiqing, who was a civil servant, asked: "Eunuch Zhang, you are a rare master. How are these Huashan disciples' strength?"

Running to the top of Mount Hua was naturally not purely for worshiping the pier. It might not be difficult for the imperial court to suppress the Anhua King's rebellion, but the situation in the Northwest is complicated, the folk customs are tough, and banditry is serious, and it is not easy to restore the situation.

For some matters, it is easier for the court to solve them than to let people in the rivers and lakes take action.

Zhang Yong, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, said coldly: "Fair! It's not suitable for fighting in the army, but the combat effectiveness of a single person is not bad.

If they confront each other head-on on the battlefield, a battalion of elites can defeat them; if they fight in the mountains and forests, as far as the hundreds of people we see now, even a town of soldiers may not be able to take them down. "

Yang Yiqing couldn't believe it: "How powerful are they?"

Although he knew that martial arts masters were not to be trifled with, this exchange data still shocked him.

Perhaps it was because he was in the big palace and knew more secret information, Zhang Yong sighed: "It's nothing strange, if they don't have any strength, why should they become the three overlords of the martial arts.

In fact, the best way to deal with martial arts masters is to use martial arts masters. The army's threat to these martial arts people is actually not that great.

All dynasties have tried to wipe out these martial arts sects, but no one has been able to succeed throughout the past and present.

People in the martial arts are too great a threat to the army's logistics. If we don't settle them first, once the army goes deep, our food roads will be in danger.

The Northwest Wulin has always been respected by the Huashan faction. If we want to successfully suppress the rebellion this time, we must first get rid of them. "

If it is left in the past, there is no need to go through this more, and people in the martial arts will not jump out to make trouble at this time.

It's different now, because of the events of the past few years, the relationship between the imperial court and various martial arts factions has become very tense. No one can guarantee whether these guys will make trouble for them at this time.

You don't need to do too much, as long as you set off a fire at a critical moment, the counter-insurgency army on the front line will have to starve.

As the person in charge of this counter-insurgency operation, the two must take precautions to avoid such accidents.

Yang Yiqing nodded and said: "Elder-in-law, don't worry, Mr. Yang also served in Guanzhong, and he has dealt with the Huashan faction several times, so he knows how to deal with it.

Now I just feel indignant at the behavior of these guys who have nothing to do with force, but don't want to serve the country. "