In the Heavens

Since ancient times, Huashan has been said to be "the most dangerous mountain in the world". After coming out of the martial arts training ground, along a winding stone path, after walking for more than ten miles, a small courtyard appeared in front of us.

The small courtyard is built on the hillside, taking nature as its refuge, incorporating Taoist culture, subtle and elegant, secluded, elegant and well-proportioned.

Stepping into the small courtyard, the first sight is two middle-aged men fighting on the chessboard. Coupled with the green smoke from the tea next to it, it has a bit of fairy air.

The two players playing chess were Li Mu's master Zhou Qingyun and his uncle Yu Qingfeng. The two can also be regarded as alternatives to the Huashan School, without the sharpness of the people in the rivers and lakes, but like two Taoist priests who see through the world of mortals.

Just when Li Mu was hesitating whether to go forward, Liu Bufan, who was with him like a stubborn man, walked over carelessly, made a long bow to the man in Tsing Yi on the left, and said, "Master, Junior Brother Li has brought you here."

Apart from lamenting the straightforwardness of the sons and daughters of the world, Li Mu could only salute: "Disciple Li Bumu, I have met Master and Uncle!"

After the sound of "En", the two continued to play chess, as if everything around them had nothing to do with them.

Seeing this, Liu Bufan pulled Li Mu back a few steps, and said in a low voice: "Junior Brother Li, go to the back and rest for a while!

I don't know what's going on, Master and Uncle Yu have recently become obsessed with chess, and they won't give up until they finish playing, and they don't even pay much attention to the affairs of the door. "

Li Mu was slightly taken aback, he really didn't know this. Although they are under the same master, they are also close and distant. Compared with Senior Brother Liu, who was single-handedly brought up, the other disciples are obviously farther away.

There is nothing to envy, Liu Bufan's parents sacrificed their lives for this treatment.

It is inevitable that accidents will happen to the sons and daughters of the world, especially the vanguard of the Huashan Sect against the Demon Cult, and the casualty rate of disciples is extremely high.

Liu Bufan's parents died in a mission. As an orphan in the family, there is naturally preferential treatment. As long as the qualifications are passable, key training will be carried out.

Generally speaking, these disciples have the highest loyalty to the sect.

"Oh! But because of the fight at the door?"

Different from the simple-minded Liu Bufan, Li Mu thought of more. With so many people in the Huashan faction, it's only normal that some of them don't want to get involved in the fighting within the sect.

The two camps of sword qi have long been established, and they will be passively involved whether they want to or not. If you can't avoid it and can't change it, then you can only find a way to escape.

Liu Bufan replied angrily: "They are all the bastards of the Qizong, without a trace of heroism, and they refused to accept the loss of the contract, unexpectedly..."

After figuring out the ins and outs, Li Mu didn't have the slightest intention of fighting against the enemy, but only had a face full of helplessness.

The Huashan School originated from Quanzhen. Although it has undergone hundreds of years of evolution, the characteristics of Taoist inner strength, such as being peaceful and slow to practice, have still been inherited.

Against this background, the disciples of Jianzong who paid more attention to swordsmanship naturally crushed Qizong in the early stage. When Qizong disciples break out and turn around, it is usually after the age of thirty or forty.

That is to say, they are young and energetic, and cannot stand stimulation, but as long as they are rational, Qizong disciples will not accept this kind of "fighting" that is destined to be abused.

From Li Mu's point of view, it's not necessarily because the Qizong disciple lost the martial arts competition and ran to call the parents.

Young people are very face-saving. Unless they have to, under normal circumstances, everyone will not publicize their black history, let alone tell their elders.

Since it is a fight with weapons, accidents are inevitable. Especially in the case where both parties are not good at learning, the probability of accidents is even greater.

If you don't pay attention, the wounded will appear, and you can't hide it if you want to. In order to reduce one's own responsibility, it is inevitable to add fuel and vinegar, and push the responsibility to the other party.

It just so happened that the high-level leaders of the two sword qi sects were fighting fiercely, so they used excuses to go up, and they didn't investigate the truth of the incident at all.

There were already many contradictions, and if the turmoil continued, it would lead to disaster sooner or later.

There is never a shortage of smart people in this world, even Li Mu can see the problem, and the middle and high-level people who have been in the rivers and lakes for decades will naturally also find out.

Maybe it was too self-confidence, or maybe it was blinded by interests, everyone tacitly chose to pretend to be confused.

After all, no one would have imagined that because of these conflicts piled up between the two sword qi sects, they would finally break out into a battle that almost ended with them both.

...

After all, he is a person in the rivers and lakes, and he cannot really be a idle cloud and a wild crane. This chess game ended much faster than Li Mu expected.

After sending off Master Uncle Yu, Zhou Qingyun focused his attention on Li Mu. One hand was clasped behind his back, the other was stroking his beard, and his eyes kept sizing up Li Mu.

"The breath is thick and solid. It seems that you have really worked hard recently."

Even though he tried his best to conceal it, the expression on his brow still betrayed the joy in his heart.

There are many disciples of the Huashan Sect, so there is no shortage of second-rate disciples, but there are not many who can break through the second-rate realm at Li Mu's age.

Genius is always easy to attract attention, other times it's fine, and now Li Mu is absolutely unwilling to be in the limelight.

It's just that there's no other way. I just broke through the realm not long ago, and I can't restrain my breath perfectly, so I can't hide it from Zhou Qingyun's eyes.

"It's all because the master taught well, and the disciple was just a fluke..."

Before Li Mu finished speaking, Zhou Qingyun interrupted: "Don't talk nonsense, if it's all thanks to my teaching, why is it you who made the breakthrough and not someone else?"

While speaking, he glanced at Liu Bufan. The meaning of hating iron but not steel is simply beyond words.

That's the best it can be at most, no one wants to encounter the bottleneck of martial arts, but it is unavoidable.

Once you encounter it, you must either use the treasures of heaven, material and earth to assist in breaking through, or you can only rely on time to grind slowly, in order to "accumulate thick and thin".

Generally speaking, the better the aptitude, the easier it is to break through. If it weren't for the help of the jade plate, Li Mu might have spent several years at the top of the third class.

Perhaps realizing that he had lost his composure, Zhou Qingyun waved his hand: "Okay, since you have already made a breakthrough, you should also have a place in this competition.

In Jianzong, you only need to pay attention to Wang Buding and Cheng Buyou, while Qizong needs to pay attention to Yue Buqun, Ning Buzhou, and Zhang Bucheng, and the rest are not worth mentioning. "

At its peak, there were thousands of disciples of the Huashan School, so it is naturally impossible to have only these few good seedlings. In order to ensure the inheritance and development of the school, the Huashan School opens its gate every three years.

Even if it is the same generation of disciples, the time span between the earliest disciples and the latest disciples may be more than ten or twenty years apart. It is obviously meaningless to force them to compete together. Therefore, competitions in the sect are often only held among the same group of disciples who have started.

You can know autumn by seeing a leaf. There are so many good seedlings in the same batch of disciples as Guang and Li Mu, which is enough to show the prosperity of Huashan School at its peak.