Chapter 130: Small Forbidden Pill, Before Departure

After listening to Li Ming's instructions, Li Jiuhua's eyes flashed with excitement and he nodded heavily.

"Please rest assured, Master. I will do my best to cooperate with you three and will not let you down."

"Ok!"

Li Ming also nodded with satisfaction.

Li Jiuhua was the candidate he carefully selected. Before, Li Jiuhua was the core disciple of the martial arts school and also one of the first batch of people to join the martial arts school.

However, during the last internal traitor incident, Li Jiuhua took the initiative to step forward and admit that he was the internal traitor sent by the Giant Whale Gang. He also expressed his willingness to turn back and make amends.

Li Ming stripped him of his status as a core disciple and sent him to another courtyard for retraining.

Li Jiuhua did not disappoint him. Although he lost the status and treatment of a core disciple, he was still diligent and hardworking in the other courtyard.

Li Ming also asked the Law Enforcement Hall to secretly monitor him for a period of time to confirm that Li Jiuhua had indeed cut off contact with the Giant Whale Gang.

There were even a few times when the Giant Whale Gang sent people to contact him secretly, and Li Jiuhua reported the matter to the martial arts hall's law enforcement hall as soon as possible. He did not make any secret moves. He was only thinking about clearing his identity and becoming a core disciple of the martial arts hall again.

And he was also good enough. Although he had enjoyed the preferential treatment that Li Ming gave him when he was a core disciple, his own comprehension and aptitude were also not bad. Not long after he arrived at the villa, his cultivation level improved to a higher level.

Without the treatment of a core disciple, Li Jiuhua is now close to the innate realm, and is one of the best even among his core disciples.

It was only after extensive investigations and ensuring that there was no problem with him that Li Ming was willing to give him a chance and re-employ him.

Li Jiuhua was called over and told to hide in the dark and concentrate on collecting intelligence for the martial arts school. Although he would receive relatively good treatment and would no longer be a disciple of other academies, he would no longer be allowed to appear in the public eye.

The fact that Li Jiuhua was chosen by the Giant Whale Gang to infiltrate the martial arts gym as a spy shows that he has a good brain and talent in this area. It is also very suitable for him to do this task now.

After listening to this, Li Jiuhua hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

This is how the current scene came about.

Li Jiuhua didn't expect that Master Li's so-called request for him to collect intelligence actually meant that he would be directly equipped with three Grandmaster-level experts, and they all belonged to the famous Black Stone!

Li Jiuhua was very smart. He knew Master Li's intentions and his own mission. He had made up his mind not to let the master down.

Soon, Li Ming finished assigning the tasks and told Feiyou Chen to send someone to keep a close eye on the group of Western Factory people hiding in the dark, and then waved his hand to let them leave.

The three color puppeteers bowed and left with Li Jiuhua.

From then on, Li Jiuhua disappeared into the martial arts hall.

The vast majority of the disciples did not notice him, but a few noticed something was wrong and discussed it in private.

But apart from the core disciples, others did not know that Li Jiuhua was once a traitor in the Giant Whale Gang, and soon forgot about him.

Shortly after Li Jiuhua left, some disciples disappeared from the martial arts school one after another.

The explanation given by the martial arts school was that they had learned enough and took the initiative to apply to leave and return home.

Although Qianming Martial Arts School has strict control over the disciples of the branch courtyards, it does not prohibit them from leaving like a sect.

In addition, in the following period of time, as the construction of the martial arts school became better and better, a group of talented disciples were recruited one after another, and many of them have been assigned to the newly built villas outside the town.

Today, the size of the martial arts school has reached nearly a thousand people. In terms of the number of people alone, it is comparable to the top sects in the martial arts world.

Therefore, not many people paid much attention to these disappeared disciples and soon forgot about them.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

The martial arts school run by Li Ming has become more and more prosperous, and the quality of his disciples is also improving.

Ever since the rules within the martial arts school were clarified and the rules for promotion and demotion were established, the enthusiasm of the disciples has been thoroughly mobilized and the results have been very obvious.

There were three core disciples who joined the martial arts school early on and could not keep up with the progress. After nearly a year, they still had not reached the post-natal realm and were eliminated.

One of the three disciples chose to work hard in another courtyard, while the other two applied to be transferred to the Foreign Affairs Hall.

However, there are more than twenty people who have passed the layers of examination and become core disciples from the other academies below based on their strength and qualifications!

Most of them were those selected by Li Ming before. They had excellent martial arts qualifications and were admitted to the martial arts school for training free of charge.

I have to say that Li Ming's method is very effective.

Most of these disciples came from poor families, and some were even children of disaster victims who had fled from far away. They could not afford to raise them, so they sent them here to try their luck.

But their martial arts aptitude is not weak. After passing the screening, with the support of the martial arts school's resources, their strength increased rapidly.

If it weren't for Li Ming, they might never have had the chance to come into contact with martial arts in their entire lives, let alone learn something like this. The cost of learning martial arts and the resources required alone would be enough to stop them.

So it was Li Ming who gave them the opportunity to learn martial arts, and at the same time gave them the opportunity to completely change their destiny.

This resulted in this group of disciples having the highest loyalty to Li Ming, and they could basically be trained as the martial arts school's direct descendants.

However, this is only a small part that Li Ming discovered and selected. It is enough to imagine that in this world, there are still many talented pearls who are submerged at the bottom because of their humble birth and have no chance to come into contact with martial arts throughout their lives.

Sometimes talent is such a strange thing, more like a lottery. Even among ordinary people, there may be geniuses with extraordinary gifts. Even the offspring of two geniuses may not necessarily have outstanding martial arts talents.

Sometimes what’s lacking is just the opportunity to realize one’s talent.

Now, this group of disciples who have just been promoted into the core circle have all broken through to the acquired realm. It seems that the speed of improvement is still very fast. With the resources of core disciples, they will soon be able to approach the threshold of the innate realm.

In addition, after these two months, someone among the original core disciple group finally made a breakthrough.

Another three disciples entered the innate realm with the help of resources.

The martial arts hall now has six innate realm disciples and dozens of elite acquired realm disciples, in addition to the hall owner Li Ming and the relatively special Xuan Cheng and Zhou Botong!
This kind of strength, even in the martial arts world, is comparable to that of many famous sects.

Not to mention, these disciples of Li Ming eat Yiqi San as snacks every day. They are generally much stronger than warriors of the same level, and the sophistication of their practice techniques is far beyond that of any sect in the world.

Therefore, even if Li Ming is not here now, if any force wants to attack the martial arts school, they will have to think twice without the intervention of a grandmaster.

Originally, this group of disciples would not be able to break through so quickly. After all, the threshold for entering the innate realm from the acquired realm is extremely high. Many warriors are stuck at this step for their entire lives, and it is not easy to move forward.

But Li Ming still had a large number of attribute points left in his hands last time, plus those he had collected recently, he was quite wealthy.

Anyway, his current cultivation level could not be improved rapidly in a short period of time. In addition to gradually improving his existing skills and martial arts, he tried the gold lottery several times and spent tens of thousands of attribute points.

The harvest was fruitful, including a method of refining a small forbidden elixir included in the Xiaoyao Qixue.

Li Ming worked hard to make a few pills, but the success rate was not high, which showed that this pill was still quite precious.

It just so happened that several disciples in the martial arts hall had reached the peak of the acquired realm, so Li Ming gave them a try.

As the name suggests, the Small Forbidden Breaking Pill has a huge auxiliary effect in helping warriors break through the bottleneck between realms.

As expected, anything produced by Xiaoyao must be a top quality product.

After using the elixir, the three disciples successfully entered the innate realm and started a new stage of martial arts training.

This made Li Ming even happier. The small forbidden-breaking pill was useful, which meant that the growth rate of the martial arts hall disciples would be faster than he expected. It was estimated that there would be many innate realm warriors soon.

I just don't know if this will be useful for the innate breakthrough grandmaster.

However, Li Ming was just thinking about it. Now the three disciples were too young and lacked experience. Even if they piled up more resources, they could not reach the Grandmaster level so quickly.

But apart from them, the one who was most depressed was Jiang Yuyan.

She is now certain that Li Ming's training approach for her is indeed different.

Two months passed, and Yang Guo and Lin Pingzhi both learned two more martial arts, but Jiang Yuyan was still practicing the art of grafting.

Even though she had already mastered the art of transplanting flowers and trees, Li Ming still had no intention of teaching her other martial arts.

And no one knows what kind of martial art this is, and it really has no fighting power. Apart from the fact that Jiang Yuyan is in good physical and mental condition recently, she doesn't think she can fight.

Every time she watched other disciples in the martial arts hall sparring, she could only watch from the side with a little envy in her eyes. But she changed her mind and felt relieved.

Originally, I came here to repay my gratitude. As long as Master Li Ming is satisfied, it doesn't matter whether I learn anything or not.

Being able to stay with Master Li Ming makes me feel very happy.

Jiang Yuyan thought so in her heart, but she buried this feeling deep in her heart and did not tell anyone else.

Anyway, there was nothing to do after practicing the art of grafting, so Jiang Yuyan simply made use of the time to wash clothes for Li Ming and do some housework.

However, Li Ming refused and told her that if she was really bored, she could go to the library and read some content that interested her.

Jiang Yuyan had no choice but to obey.

Recently, apart from practicing the art of grafting, which had lost its novelty, she spent most of her time in the library, where she developed quite a few interests.

During this period, Ganglu of the Vajra Sect also delivered the thirteen unique skills of the Vajra Sect to Li Ming as he had promised, along with more than a dozen disciples of the Vajra Sect.

As Ganglu had said before, these disciples were no older than thirteen or fourteen years old and were relatively easy to discipline.

Recently, the Vajra Sect has defected to Yuan Ting, and they are all disciples of the Ganglu lineage who are unwilling to cooperate.

Li Ming did not hesitate. According to the previous agreement, after accepting the martial arts secrets, he also arranged for this group of disciples to be trained in another courtyard, intending to observe them for a period of time.

As for Xuan Cheng, his mentality is a little different from before.

Xuan Cheng originally joined the martial arts school just for these secret manuals that were related to Shaolin.

But after staying in the martial arts school for a while, especially after seeing the way the Yanwu Hall trained its disciples, Xuan Cheng had more ideas instead. He was no longer simply coveting these martial arts as before, but wanted to continue staying in the martial arts school.

Therefore, Xuan Cheng was not so enthusiastic about this batch of martial arts, and did not take the initiative to ask Professor Li Ming to teach him.

The only thing that made Li Ming speechless recently was that after he helped Jiang Yuyan redeem herself, many people had been thinking about him, thinking that he liked this kind of plot.

These days, one can often see people performing near martial arts gyms, such as a woman selling herself to bury her father, or a bully trying to sell a woman into prostitution, and they all happen to perform near martial arts gyms.

All of these women looked gentle and lovely. They were selected based on Jiang Yuyan's appearance. From time to time, they would cry heartbreakingly near the martial arts gym.

Needless to say, this is a deliberate performance by various forces to see if they can take an unconventional approach and use this method to get the people they choose into the martial arts hall.

At the beginning, everyone in the martial arts hall was interested in watching the show, but after a while, they became impatient.

Li Ming ordered Di Yun and the disciples on duty to drive them away directly if they encountered such a thing again. If they refused to listen to his advice, they would bear the consequences themselves.

This happened a few times, and when everyone saw that Li Ming was not fooled, the area around the martial arts gym finally became much quieter, and similar farces died down.

Just like that, two months passed in a flash...

Soon, the day of the Juxianzhuang Heroes Conference approached.

Recently, more and more martial artists have been passing through Qixia Town.

The various news they brought also made people clearly feel that the atmosphere in the martial arts world was becoming increasingly tense, in stark contrast to the peaceful atmosphere in Qixia Town.

Things have been getting increasingly unstable in the martial arts world lately.

The old monster Xingxiu and the four evil men were active frequently and caused many murders in the world.

The Sun-Moon Divine Sect also showed signs of becoming increasingly active, constantly coming into conflict with the righteous sects.

Some time ago, masters from the Emei and Wudang sects fought with followers of the Sun and Moon Sect, and many people were injured.

What’s more crucial is that several more sects were destroyed inexplicably. Just like the previous situation, there were few survivors and they were destroyed very quickly.

And as luck would have it, these forces had some conflicts with the imperial court some time ago, or did not obey the imperial court's orders.

This made more people certain that this incident must have been done by the imperial court.

For a time, many martial arts forces felt insecure, and several sects announced the closure of their mountain gates and temporarily withdrew from the martial arts world.

This group of warriors have always been undisciplined and have never given face to the government. They have fought and killed too many times and are afraid that they will be the next one to be found by the imperial court.

Due to this concern, there are an unusually large number of warriors coming to participate in the Juxianzhuang Heroes Conference this time.

Many people have no interest in how to deal with Qiao Feng, but they just want to take this opportunity to discuss what to do next.

Among them, many people deliberately passed by Qixia Town to see this famous martial arts school.

In Qianming Martial Arts Hall——

At this moment, several disciples were standing in front of Li Ming, with different expressions on their faces.

"Master, are you really going to attend the Heroes Conference in Juxian Manor?"

Yang Guo's face was filled with worry.

Ever since he joined the martial arts school, no one has ever seen Li Ming leave, so everyone has become accustomed to the feeling of Li Ming being in charge.

Now that he suddenly knew that Li Ming was leaving, Yang Guo couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Don't worry, I will arrange everything before I leave. However, you can't let Zhou Botong run around while I'm gone. Try to keep him in the martial arts hall."

As Li Ming spoke, he turned his gaze to Lin Pingzhi next to him.

"The personnel have been selected." Lin Pingzhi said hurriedly.

This is the first time that Li Ming is traveling far away from Qixia Town. Naturally, he is not going to act alone, but plans to take Lin Pingzhi and seven more outstanding core disciples with him.

Of course, this action was not revealed to outsiders. Except for the four disciples in front of him, even the disciples in the other courtyards of the martial arts hall did not know that Li Ming planned to go to Juxian Manor.

Recently, many people have been asking about this, but according to previous practice, everyone generally believes that Li Ming will not leave the martial arts gym.

Moreover, everyone generally believed that although Qianming Martial Arts School seemed prosperous, it actually had too many enemies. It would be fine if Li Ming was in charge at ordinary times, but if he dared to leave the martial arts school, there was no telling who would take the opportunity to take revenge.

After Li Ming and Lin Pingzhi finished talking, they turned their gaze to Mo Xiaobei.

As soon as he saw the master's gaze, Mo Xiaobei acted a little guilty.

Because she had been too playful recently. Ever since she met Zhou Botong, the two of them had hit it off immediately and had been playing together a lot, even neglecting her martial arts practice.

"Xiao Bei, what about you?"

Mo Xiaobei thought about it for a moment, then said, "Disciple should go too. Mr. Mo Da sent me a letter not long ago, telling me about this matter. This time, all of our Five Mountains Sword Sects will attend together, and I am the new leader of the Five Mountains, so I can't refuse."

Li Ming nodded.

This was something he had heard before. Mo Xiaobei would lead the Five Mountains Sword Sect to attend this Heroes Conference. However, considering Mo Xiaobei's identity, it would be better to let her act together with the Five Mountains Sword Sect and others.

After asking all the questions, Li Ming asked Lin Ping to go ahead and prepare.

Then he lowered his head and looked at the small piece of paper in his hand with a cold look in his eyes.

"Before I set off on my own... there are some unstable factors that really need to be resolved."

-

Outside Qixia Town, ten miles west, there is a half-abandoned City God Temple on the side of the road.

At this moment, some figures were lurking in the temple.

Most of them were in plain clothes, obviously disguised, but from the aura faintly revealed by these people and the gleam in their eyes, it can be seen that they are all people with martial arts skills.

Surrounding them was a bald guy with eagle eyes, pale skin that was a little scary, and a fierce look on his face.

He is none other than the Third Inspector of the Western Factory—Ji Xueyong.

(End of this chapter)