Chapter 25: Breakthrough and Lin Pingzhi's Misfortune
"Don't worry, if that evil villain dares to come, I will definitely not stand idly by."

Li Ming responded immediately.

Li Ming is not a person who likes to meddle in other people's affairs, but for a flower thief like Tian Boguang, everyone has the right to kill him.

However, based on various rumors, Li Ming estimated that Tian Boguang's strength should be between the peak of the acquired realm and the innate realm, and would not be stronger than Huang Xiao.

With Li Ming's current strength, he is relatively confident that he can deal with him.

With Li Ming's words, Captain Xing felt reassured.

After all, Li Ming’s combat capability is now extremely strong in their minds, and as long as he agrees to take action, they will have an inexplicable confidence.

After talking about Tian Boguang, the food ordered by Captain Xing was served. Without saying a word, he took Xiaoliu and started to wolf it down.

"Old Xing, eat slowly. You don't have anything to do." Tong Xiangyu reminded.

Captain Xing shook his head and said vaguely, "Of course not. Magistrate Lou said that the bandit problem in Black Wind Village has been eliminated, and our town will start replanning and expanding in the next two days."

"Oh, by the way, Master Li, you should also take a look at how your martial arts school will be expanded and how much space it will occupy, so that Magistrate Lou can make plans when the time comes."

This was something that had been agreed with Li Ming before, and Li Ming nodded in agreement.

"Really? Our town is going to expand?"

"Of course, I will be busy with this matter for the next period of time. After the expansion is completed, the town may need to introduce new businesses. Look, the place across from your Tongfu Inn is a good one. Someone has already taken a fancy to it and wants to open a new restaurant there!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the smile on Tong Xiangyu's face froze.

"Opening a restaurant across from our inn, isn't that stealing our business?"

Tong Xiangyu has keenly sensed a strong sense of crisis.

However, the other diners in the inn lobby became excited upon hearing the news.

"Really? Oh, we finally have a new restaurant in our town. We've long been tired of eating these salty meals. We must go to the new restaurant to show our support!"

Upon hearing these words, the already anxious shopkeeper Tong's face turned green.

Captain Xing saw that something was wrong, so he hurriedly took a few bites of food and picked up the remaining half chicken.

"Well, Manager Tong, I have to hurry back to the government office, so I won't talk for now."

Before he could finish his words, Captain Xing had already escaped with Yan Xiaoliu.

Li Ming was thoughtful after hearing the news. Knowing the plot well, he immediately had an idea -

"Diagonally opposite the Tongfu Inn? Could it be the Yihong Tower that is as beautiful as Diao Chan..."

In the next few days, Qixia Town and Qianming Martial Arts School both began to expand.

Next to Qianming Martial Arts School is a large piece of vacant land on the west side of the town.

After Li Ming submitted his request, County Magistrate Lou approved it after a casual glance.

Although Magistrate Lou was somewhat puzzled as to whether a martial arts school needed to occupy such a large space, he did not ask any more questions.

In addition, Li Ming demolished several idle warehouses nearby that he had bought from Manager Wei, and the area around Qianming Martial Arts School suddenly became much more spacious.

As for how to expand the martial arts school, Li Ming already had an idea in his mind, and the next step was to find someone to do the construction.

In just a few days, Li Ming spent a lot of money, but his efficiency in spending money was indeed high, and the construction of the martial arts school has already begun.

[Martial Arts School expands, gaining attribute points +20]

[Martial Arts School expands, gaining attribute points +50]

……

What surprised Li Ming was that, along with the construction of the martial arts hall, he could continue to obtain attribute points from the system! And the accumulated points were quite a lot!

According to the current progress, the expansion period of the martial arts school will last at least one or two months, which means that during such a long period of time, I will continue to make profits in this way!

But it makes sense if you think about it. The expansion of the martial arts school is indeed a development.

In this way, Li Ming could obtain a considerable amount of extra attribute points every day. The Xiantian realm, which was supposed to take some time, was now within reach...

Finally, one night, as Li Ming consumed a number of attribute points, the scale of his internal force finally broke through a certain critical point and underwent a qualitative change.

As a familiar yet unfamiliar warmth spread throughout his body, a very mysterious feeling spread throughout Li Ming's limbs and bones.

The Xiaoyao Heart Sutra was running rapidly, allowing the newly emerged internal energy to flow and continuously travel through the meridians throughout the body.

And with each circle he walked around, his internal strength became more solid and profound, while certain congested areas in his meridians were also constantly changing.

Finally, when the internal force reached a certain level, accompanied by a loud noise echoing in his ears, Li Ming felt that his Ren and Du meridians were completely opened, followed by a rapid increase in the scale of his internal force!
[Xiaoyao Heart Sutra, fifth level! ]

The inner strength and mental method had another breakthrough. Although the intensity of the inner strength had increased a lot, the space occupied by the inner strength was smaller instead. It was condensed like a substance and was still getting stronger.

After a long while, Li Ming slowly opened his eyes.

I looked at my palms. Is this what it feels like to be in the innate realm?
With his meridians opened up, Li Ming finally broke through to the innate realm.

The changes brought about were also very obvious. Li Ming could clearly feel that his ability to control various martial arts skills had become stronger. Whether it was his understanding of martial arts or the sharpness of his six senses, they were incomparable to before, which brought about a significant increase in combat power.

Li Ming estimated that with his current strength, the Thirteenth Sword, which he could only use twice before, should not be a problem to use it repeatedly seven or eight times now. This does not even take into account the powerful internal force recovery speed brought about by entering the Innate Realm and the improvement of his internal strength.

At the same time, a prompt appeared on the system interface in my mind.

[Congratulations to the host for entering the Xiantian realm, and gaining attribute points +500]

【Obtain the Fourteenth Sword! 】

Li Ming couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw it.

The attribute points are not many for him at the moment, but this fourteenth sword is too important!

After witnessing the power of the thirteenth sword that could reverse the innate power, Li Ming could roughly guess the domineering power of the fourteenth sword.

In the original novel, Yan Shisan also achieved a qualitative leap in his strength by realizing the fourteenth sword. Of course, if Yan Shisan wants to defeat his lifelong enemy Xie Xiaofeng, he must realize the even stronger fifteenth sword.

But at least for Li Ming at the moment, the fourteen swords are enough.

He frequently exchanged internal energy from the system, and with the help of top-level skills such as the Xiaoyao Heart Sutra, his internal energy was much stronger than that of warriors of the same level.

Now with the addition of the fourteenth sword and various other sophisticated martial arts, Li Ming estimated that ordinary innate realm masters would not be his match.

In this way, the sense of crisis is much smaller, and Li Ming is now more confident in his own strength.

He estimated that even if Tianzun's people came to cause trouble, they would not be more powerful than Xiantian, so he didn't need to worry at all.

A few days later...

It was a cloudy day in Qixia Town. The chill was even stronger in the morning. There were far fewer pedestrians on the street than usual. Even if there were people passing by, they would tighten their collars and walk hurriedly.

The disciples in Qianming Martial Arts School started practicing martial arts early, and shouts could be heard from time to time.

Outside the martial arts hall, along the wall that was under renovation, a hunched and disheveled figure slowly walked towards them.

He had unkempt hair and ragged clothes, with a hunched back, like a poor hunchback, and a large sore on his face that obscured his true appearance.

Most people passing by him would just take a quick look and walk away quickly, thinking he was a beggar from somewhere and not paying much attention to him.

But no one noticed that under his messy hair, there was a pair of young eyes. If you look closely, you will find that this person is no more than a teenager, very young, and the hunched back and the sores on his face are all disguised.

Hearing the sounds of martial arts practice in Qianming Martial Arts School, a sense of familiarity came to his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

"Back then, my escort agency had the same scene every morning, but now... everything is shattered."

He is Lin Pingzhi, the young leader of the Fuwei Escort Agency!
At this time, his family was broken up, his parents' life and death were unknown, and he was being hunted by Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng Sect. He ended up here in disguise.

Lin Pingzhi slowly leaned against the wall of Qianming Martial Arts School and sat down on an open space, thinking wildly in his mind.

Not long after, Xiaomi came over yawning and stretching. Seeing Lin Pingzhi huddled in the corner, he raised his eyebrows and walked over without any hesitation.

"Hey, hey, where are you from? Do you know the rules? This is my territory."

"what?"

Lin Pingzhi, who was mistaken for a beggar, was confused, but before he could say anything, he heard a flurry of footsteps on the street.

Soon after, a group of warriors wearing the same uniform and carrying swords appeared. They looked around the street aggressively and walked towards Tongfu Inn.

It seemed that they were tired after traveling all the way here and were looking for an inn to stay.

As soon as he saw them, Lin Pingzhi's face changed drastically and he quickly buried his head deeply.

Because this group of people are none other than the disciples of the Qingcheng Sect who have a great grudge against him for destroying his entire clan!

The leader was none other than Luo Renjie, one of the four beauties of Qingcheng!

The appearance of these Qingcheng Sect disciples means that the Qingcheng Sect's leader Yu Canghai is also nearby!
Lin Pingzhi was in a state of confusion. He was afraid that the other party would discover him. At the same time, he was also thinking about his parents whose life or death was unknown. Are they in their hands?

A group of Qingcheng disciples walked into Tongfu Inn, and soon they heard loud noises.

"Hurry up, waiter, bring us all the specialties you have, and get us a few more bottles of good wine!"

Just at this moment, Li Ming, who had just finished checking his disciples' morning exercises, walked out of the main entrance of the martial arts hall. He saw Xiaomi entangled with Lin Pingzhi and walked over out of curiosity.

But as soon as I got closer, a new prompt popped up on the system interface in my mind.

[Matching object detected: Lin Pingzhi]

[Matched successfully, the martial arts with the highest degree of compatibility: Exorcism Sword Technique]

[Triggering the conditions for passing on the skills, the Exorcist Sword Skill is on sale for a limited time: 500 attribute points, would you like to purchase it? ]

"Hmm? Lin Pingzhi?"

Li Ming was stunned, and then his eyes fell on the hunchbacked Lin Pingzhi.

(End of this chapter)