Chapter 396 Occupy the Jiangnan area!

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Uncle Xiao, Brother Xiao, what are your plans next?"

When Xin Zhen said this, both the father and son were a little confused.

Xiao Yuanshan thought for a moment and said, "I plan to take Feng'er back to Liao to have a look. After all, all our people are in Liao."

Xin Zhen nodded and said, "That's right, what's next?"

Xiao Yuanshan sighed and said, "Let's find a place to live in seclusion from now on. I don't have any other ideas. As for Feng'er, it depends on him."

Xiao Feng said: "I don't have any ideas. Although I am not a Song person, I don't want to be an official and fight against the Song people. I also want to find a place to live a good life with Ah Zhu."

Xin Zhen nodded and said, "Let's go back to Gusu. I think my sister-in-law will like living here. Besides, I also want to ask you two for help with something."

Xiao Feng's spirits perked up, and he said, "Please speak, my dear brother. I will agree to anything."

Xiao Yuanshan also said: "Master Xin, please tell me, you saved my father and me, and we should give you something in return."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Huashan Sect has just been established and its foundation is not yet stable. The Central Plains martial arts community sees me as an enemy. If they attack together, Huashan Sect will probably be in danger.

Therefore, I would like to ask you two to help me protect Huashan Sect. It won’t take long, just five or six years will be enough.

In five or six years, when these disciples have grown up, they won’t be afraid anymore.”

Xiao Yuanshan smiled and said, "It's a small matter. It's just right that I can eat and live for free here. The scenery here is so beautiful, it will be comfortable to live here."

Xiao Feng also smiled and said, "That's right, I will bother you from now on, brother."

Xin Zhen laughed loudly: "If you are willing, I would be happy if you could live here for the rest of your lives. Huashan Sect would like to invite you two to serve as worshippers. From now on, I will leave everything to you."

They did not avoid other people when they spoke, and when those gangs and martial arts houses heard it, they all had different expressions. They did not recognize Xiao Yuanshan, but they all recognized Xiao Feng. Everyone had heard of the names of Murong in the south and Qiao Feng in the north. When they heard that Xiao Feng was going to be a worshiper of the Huashan Sect, many people who had some ideas in their minds immediately stopped.

Because it was a difficult time, no one knew when the Beggars' Sect of Shaolin Temple would come and how they would react, so the Xiao father and son settled down with peace of mind. It would only take about five or six years, and after five or six years, they could go wherever they wanted.

Two months later, Xiao Feng and Azhu got married in Yanziwu. The guests were mainly from Huashan Sect, Xiaoyao Sect, and Pingjiang Prefecture's gangs and martial arts villages. Xiao Feng's old acquaintances were not invited, but some rumors spread, and many people still secretly sent gifts.

Xin Zhen had free time, and while teaching his disciples, he also opened up his school. As long as someone was of good age, character and qualifications, he would accept him as his disciple. After all, there would be many places that would need people in the future, and the more disciples, the better. The more first-class masters there were, the greater the ability to respond in the future.

At that time when the world was hanging in the balance, the entire Chinese land was filled with the smell of blood and smoke of war. Every additional first-class master among the Chinese people would bring more strength.

Although Xin Zhen and Murong Fu were both preparing to intervene in world affairs in Yanziwu, their approaches were very different.

Murong Fu was looking for strength everywhere, while Xin Zhen was cultivating his own strength.

Xin Zhen still followed the same path as before in Quanzhen Sect, and planned to make disciples the core, and then let the disciples go to different places to gather strength. When they joined together, they would be a force that could change the world. Xin Zhen was originally on guard against Shaolin Temple and Beggars' Sect, but unexpectedly, the two sects stopped fighting, probably because they felt that they had no chance of winning against Xin Zhen. If they really fought against Xin Zhen, they would inevitably suffer a great loss.

This just happened to give the Huashan Sect the best opportunity for development.

Xin Zhen took the opportunity to recruit many disciples and trained them carefully, and the Huashan Sect grew rapidly.

A year later, Shen Liqiu and other first batch of one hundred or so disciples had all reached the level of second-rate masters. With these one hundred or so second-rate masters, the Pingjiang Prefecture's martial arts world was completely controlled by the Huashan Sect. Some gangs did have a few first-rate masters, but after Xin Zhen went there a few times, they had no power to resist at all.

The Huashan Sect controlled the golden waterway of Pingjiang Prefecture, so wealth naturally rolled in, and the foundation of the Huashan Sect was completely consolidated.

With this stable source of funds, he was naturally able to support a large number of disciples. Xin Zhen did not mind having too many disciples. Before Xin Zhen joined, Quanzhen Sect had 80,000 disciples. It was thanks to the foundation of Quanzhen Sect that Xin Zhen was able to confront Mongolia head-on, destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally unify the world.

Xin Zhen naturally knew the advantages of having many disciples, so how could he despise having too few disciples?

Five years later, there were more than a thousand disciples in the Huashan Sect, and more than a hundred of them had reached the level of first-rate masters, three or four hundred were second-rate masters, and countless were third-rate masters.

At this time, Xiao and his son returned to the Liao Kingdom, the Xiaoyao Sect also returned to the Xingxiu Sea, and the Huashan Sect began to extend its tentacles to Pingjiang Prefecture.

Pingjiang Prefecture alone cannot support more disciples. If Huashan Sect wants to continue to develop, it must have more territory.

However, wherever there is a source of money, there will be the underworld.

The Huashan Sect first used Pingjiang Prefecture as its support and radiated throughout the entire Jiangnan region. It was originally thought that the forces of the Beggars' Sect and Shaolin were all in the north, and Jiangnan should be easier to take over. Unexpectedly, it encountered an opponent that even Xin Zhen could not have imagined.

Beneath the splendor of Jiangnan, there is actually a giant crocodile hidden, which is the extremely powerful Ming Cult in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.

Although the leader of Fang La has not appeared yet, the Ming Cult has taken root in Jiangnan for a long time. The Ming Cult's mission is to overthrow the imperial court. It is not very famous in the world. It just works silently in Jiangnan, waiting for the opportunity to raise the flag of rebellion, but unexpectedly it is targeted by the Huashan Sect.

The Huashan Sect wants to occupy Jiangnan, which is clearly an attempt to uproot the Ming Cult. How could the Ming Cult agree to this?

Thus, a large-scale conflict between the Huashan Sect and the Ming Cult began.

The Ming Cult at this time was certainly far inferior to the later Ming Cult. Under the personal leadership of Xin Zhen, the roots of the Ming Cult were repeatedly destroyed. After about half a year, the Huashan Sect completely drove the Ming Cult out of Jiangnan.

It’s not that Xin Zhen didn’t have feelings for the Ming Cult, it’s just that the Ming Cult wasn’t strong enough at the time and couldn’t accomplish anything big, so it would be better for them to give up the place and let him take over.

With the lucrative Jiangnan region, the expansion of the Huashan Sect suddenly increased tenfold. In just one year, the number of Huashan Sect disciples increased to more than 2,000, and it controlled even more gangs. At this time, the power of the Huashan Sect was already extremely astonishing, and it also attracted the attention of the government.

However, Xin Zhen had been a prime minister and emperor after all, so he naturally knew how to deal with the government. First, he concealed his strength through various means, and second, he corrupted and controlled local officials, making them keep secret the existence of the Huashan Sect.

(End of this chapter)