Chapter 73: Martial Arts Hall Renovation, Xiaoyao's Unique Elixir
This picture is so beautiful that it makes me excited just thinking about it.

In response to Yue Qing's request, Li Ming immediately agreed.

In recent times, there have indeed been frequent cases of people sneaking into the martial arts gym.

At the beginning, there were just some small-time people who wanted to see if there was a chance to steal a few skills.

Later on, there were even cases of new disciples entering the martial arts school secretly.

Although there were disciples patrolling in shifts, and Li Ming could see everything happening near the martial arts gym, he had never been successful.

But it is also very unpleasant to be targeted by thieves every day.

If I can follow Yue Qing's idea and make a major renovation to the martial arts hall, I'm sure it will save me a lot of effort. The arrangement of those mechanical techniques can also greatly enhance safety.

Moreover, they can let the most outstanding disciple of Lu Ban's Divine Axe Sect to take charge of the design and construction. This treatment is difficult for many famous sects to have.

Yue Qing got Li Ming's approval and felt completely relieved.

Master Li didn't even hesitate too much about my request, which showed that he trusted me enough.

This also made Yue Qing determined to do his best and demonstrate his abilities.

Yue Qing had been imprisoned for such a long time, doing things he didn't want to do, and he was already fed up with it.

Now free, he immediately rediscovered his former enthusiasm.

I didn't hesitate and made a list while thinking and writing.

The above includes the materials, tools, manpower and estimated time required.

Li Ming took it, glanced at it, and roughly estimated the price in his mind.

Sure enough, it was much more expensive than the original budget, and the things that Yue Qing specifically requested were generally supplied at the best quality.

However, Li Ming is not short of money now, and what he is least afraid of is increasing the budget.

He nodded in agreement immediately.

After Yue Qing finished explaining, he rolled up the rough plan drawing, said he would take it back to study, and then left.

For the next period of time, Yue Qing completely entered workaholic mode and transformed his temporary hut into a messy studio.

When Li Ming went to see him again a few days later, he found that Yue Qing had taken away a small rough plan, but now the room was full of various drawings of different sizes.

Li Ming picked up one at random and found that it was a design of a regional mechanism. Its complex structure alone made it look very professional.

Yue Qing had a charcoal pencil on his ear, one foot on the chair, and was leaning over the table to study carefully.

Looking inside the room, it can no longer be described as simply messy, there is absolutely no place to step.

It seems that Yue Qing has been very busy in the past few days.

Xiaer came in with a bowl of porridge, presented it to her father Yue Qing, and told him to eat.

But Yue Qing didn't even raise his head. He just hummed and casually picked it up to take a sip. His eyes were focused on the drawing and didn't move away.

Xia'er looked at Li Ming, a look of helplessness flashing in her eyes.

"Please forgive me, my father has always been like this."

Li Ming waved his hand. Yue Qing was working hard for his sake, so of course he wouldn't say anything.

However, this also allowed him to see what the genius of Luban Divine Axe Sect looked like when he was busy.

A sense of responsibility alone is not enough to support this level of focus.

Li Ming also realized that Yue Qing was not just busy with the mentality of repaying him, but was really passionate about what he did and had a sense of self-realization.

It can only be said that to have skills as high as Yue Qing's, both talent and genuine passion are indispensable.

Only when the two are combined can something be achieved.

In the eyes of others, Yue Qing may seem to be working hard and extremely hard, but Yue Qing himself even enjoys it.

Li Ming did not disturb her. Before leaving, he just told Xia'er to take good care of Yue Qing. If she needed anything, she could just tell him.

Soon after, Yue Qing's design was initially completed, and he began to renovate the martial arts hall.

As a result, there was no peace and quiet in the martial arts hall.

There are already quite a few disciples now, and they practice martial arts in the hall every day. The previous expansion was only built outside the hall and did not have much impact on them.

But now Yue Qing started directly with the main part of the martial arts hall, and renovated it one by one according to the layout of the courtyard.

Some of the outside expansion parts that did not suit his taste were simply demolished and the couple started over.

As a result, the disciples' normal lives were affected.

Many disciples came to Li Ming to complain, but Li Ming still did not interfere. He gave Yue Qing great trust and only arranged for the disciples to practice in other courtyards temporarily.

It seems that the martial arts school will not be able to rest for some time.

Once the construction started, Yue Qing's own perfectionism and obsessive-compulsive disorder were fully revealed.

It is often heard that Yue Qing is not satisfied with his finished designs and makes temporary modifications or tears down some of his already built things to start over.

Correspondingly, expenses were also increasing. Fortunately, Li Ming had money, so he immediately increased his spending, and a large amount of money flowed out every day.

The martial arts hall's large-scale construction was so spectacular that it naturally attracted a lot of attention and discussion from people in the town.

At the same time, with the secondary construction of the martial arts hall, the attribute points Li Ming could get from it every day were further increased.

[Further improvement of the martial arts hall, gaining attribute points +70]

[Martial Arts School expands, gaining attribute points +80]

[Martial Arts School expands, gaining attribute points +75]

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The continued profits from construction are almost catching up with the benefits brought by the three disciples' martial arts practice.

In the following days, things basically progressed at this pace.

Although he was busy every day in the martial arts hall, no other unexpected situations occurred and Li Ming finally had some peaceful time.

As Li Ming's name and his several military achievements spread throughout the martial arts world, especially the death of Shangguan Yundun at his hands, many guys who were ready to make some moves calmed down again.

In the world of martial arts, strength is everything.

All the forces in the martial arts world have also tacitly agreed that the area around Qixia Town is the sphere of influence of Qianming Martial Arts School, and no one dares to cause trouble easily.

Instead, more people from surrounding sects or gangs came to visit, and many of them wanted to make friends with Li Ming, the rapidly rising master.

Sometimes there were people who offered generous conditions to attract him to join, but Li Ming always declined them.

Qixia Town is conveniently located and has many businesses. Now that the security environment has improved, more warriors have come here to broaden their horizons, and naturally business is becoming more prosperous.

This made Captain Xing and Yan Xiaoliu very excited. They patrolled the streets every day to maintain order.

The government's tax revenue increased, and Magistrate Lou was much happier. Even so, the monthly wages of Captain Xing and his apprentice also increased.

With the expansion of Qixia Town, the town is thriving.

During this period, County Magistrate Lou also talked with Li Ming several more times, but what County Magistrate Lou was worried about, that Black Stone would come knocking on his door, never happened.

According to convention, he should have come to extort money at this time of year in previous years, but this time there was no movement at all, and even the surrounding prefectures and counties had no news of Heishi's trace.

This made Magistrate Lou feel much more relieved. For the time being, he didn't have to flee to his hometown in Lingnan to avoid disaster as planned.

Li Ming, on the other hand, had some guesses.

I heard that the news about Rama's body has been circulating in the martial arts world recently. I guess the leader of Black Stone, King Chakravartin, is rushing to fight for the body and has not taken care of other things for the time being.

After all, although the Black Stones are powerful, they are few in number, so it is not surprising that they are short of manpower in the fight for the remains.

In addition to Black Stone, surprisingly, even those forces that suffered losses at the hands of Li Ming, such as the Songshan School and the Jinqian Gang, are also very low-key.

The expected situation of sending people to retaliate did not happen.

Perhaps the Songshan School had not had time to take action, as Li Ming had already confirmed his master's strength in a short period of time, so they were forced to shelve their plans.

After all, judging from the rumors heard in Tongfu Inn, Zuo Lengchan is also quite busy -

He usually has to take care of all the trivial matters in the martial arts world, and from time to time he has to give orders to the other four sword sects to demonstrate his status as the leader of the Five Mountains.

Even the most ordinary warriors in the world can feel his ambition.

Zuo Lengchan obviously wanted to integrate the resources of the Five Mountains Sword Sects to see if he could compete with higher-level forces like Shaolin and Wudang.

It is human nature to strive for higher goals.

Li Ming even heard that Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng Sect, after being silent for a while, suddenly came out of seclusion with great improvement in his skills and began to frequently move around in Shu, obviously wanting to seek a higher status in the martial arts world.

This attempt to redistribute the cake has caused dissatisfaction among several traditional powerful sects in Shu, including the Emei Sect.

It is rumored that an elder of the Emei Sect had a conflict with Yu Canghai, but unexpectedly, he was defeated directly by Yu Canghai.

This also greatly increased the reputation of the Qingcheng Sect.

Many people guessed that Yu Canghai's great improvement in strength might be related to the rumor that he bought the Exorcism Sword Technique at Qianming Martial Arts Hall. Although Yu Canghai himself never admitted it, it also attracted more people to secretly raise money and plan to come to Qianming Martial Arts Hall to buy this sword technique.

Li Ming was not surprised by these recent interesting stories in the underworld.

The Exorcism Sword Technique has the property of being quickly learned, and it seems that Yu Canghai has made some progress.

Since Yu Canghai's strength can be improved so quickly, Yue Buqun must have made considerable progress as well.

It’s just that Yue Buqun’s thoughts are obviously more profound, and he is still keeping a low profile until now, unlike Yu Canghai, who can’t wait to jump out.

Compared with Zuo Lengchan, the silence of the Jinqian Gang is quite surprising.

It seems that the Money Gang has remained silent since the fake silver bill case was uncovered.

Shangguan Jinhong was not involved in this matter, and the court did not disclose the relationship between the Jinqian Gang and this matter to the outside world. They just put the fake silver bill case on the head of the dead man Luo Ma.

Since there was no news, Li Ming didn't pay too much attention to it.

He was still accumulating attribute points and running the martial arts school step by step every day.

However, Li Ming also discovered that since he entered the Grandmaster realm, his speed of improvement has been forced to slow down a lot.

Perhaps it was because his own cultivation had already reached an extremely high level, and the price of exchanging internal energy with the system had now risen to several thousand attribute points.

In the meantime, he bought a lot of martial arts from various schools to teach his disciples who had already laid a solid foundation.

His three direct disciples are also growing very fast.

Lin Pingzhi's Jade Maiden Sword Technique has reached the middle stage.

The original intention of the Jade Maiden Sword Technique was to suppress the Quanzhen Sword Technique. If one wants to practice it to the late stage of perfection, one needs to be proficient in both.

After Lin Pingzhi switched to the more rigid Quanzhen sword technique, his speed suddenly slowed down and he lost his spirituality, so he could only improve his skills bit by bit.

On the contrary, Lin Pingzhi was very keen on the sinister three-no and three-no techniques, and had already mastered them very well.

In order to improve his understanding of the Three No's and Three Don'ts, Li Ming lent him the Secret of the Five Poisons.

But Lin Pingzhi couldn't stop himself, his eyes lit up and he was extremely excited.

It was also the first time that Lin Pingzhi took the initiative to make a request to Li Ming, saying that he wanted to practice the martial arts recorded in the book.

This made Li Ming worry again, wondering whether Lin Pingzhi would be like Li Mochou and run towards the devil.

However, Lin Pingzhi's progress in the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was still very fast. With the help of the cold jade bed, he was quickly approaching the late stage of the acquired realm. He was also the fastest among the three disciples.

Ever since Mo Xiaobei started practicing Xiantian Gong, his talent in martial arts has been fully displayed.

The efficiency of Xiantian Gong is extremely high, and now he has already gained considerable internal strength.

She also mastered the related martial arts that Li Ming taught her, including the Five Mountains Sword Technique and the method of breaking it.

Despite his young age, he has already successfully entered the acquired realm.

Yang Guo, on the other hand, was still slowly laying the foundation, and the miscellaneous studies in various fields took up a lot of his time every day.

It was because Yang Guo was gifted and intelligent that he was able to handle the situation with ease. If it were someone else, they would have been unable to cope with it.

There are some core disciples with good qualifications in the martial arts school, and they have more or less demonstrated their talents.

With the help of Xiao Peiyuan Dan as a foundation, several people have broken through to the post-natal realm in recent days.

For this group of good seedlings with good conduct, Li Ming, after confirming their loyalty, gradually allowed them to use the cold jade bed to improve their progress. At the same time, he seized the opportunity and let them use the precious blood of the viper.

I believe that in the near future, one of my disciples will be able to approach the innate realm.

At least Li Ming was very satisfied with the training progress.

As the days passed by peacefully, Li Ming's cultivation level could not be improved at a fast speed for the time being, so he had more time to collect the necessary relevant materials.

Before, Li Ming had collected some materials needed for refining pills through Manager Qian's Wanli Trading Company and several other trading companies in the town.

He now has in his hands the methods of refining the Xiaoyao Sect's unique elixirs, the Nine-Transformation Bear Snake Pill and the Broken Tendon and Rotten Bone Pill, and has been planning to try to make them.

However, the materials needed for these two kinds of elixirs are relatively precious and cannot be easily collected from the streets.

Several of the main medicinal herbs are only produced in a corner of the southwest. They are always in short supply on the market and only appear occasionally.

So it has been postponed until now.

Finally, in recent days, news came from Wanli Trading Company that they had helped him collect all the necessary materials, which cost him several thousand taels of silver.

It’s not cheap, but it’s a piece of cake for Li Ming.

The payment was made quickly and the delivery of the goods was completed.

Then I bought some tools needed to make pills, such as a mortar or a jade grinder...

Now, Li Ming can finally give it a try.

It was the first time for Li Ming to make pills, and he felt a little excited.

According to the unique formula and refining techniques of the Xiaoyao Sect that he remembered in his mind, Li Ming began to try to make his first batch of pills.

As a result, the proportions were not adjusted well and it did not take shape at all.

This first batch of materials was wasted.

Li Ming didn't believe it. He thought about it for a while, learned from the lesson just now, and started refining the second batch immediately.

The materials in hand are used as if they are free.

The first few times, there will always be a lot of friction.

But with Li Ming's understanding, he quickly figured out the trick, and the quality of each batch was better than the last.

Later on, the pills he made were crystal clear and round, with excellent quality. You could smell the fragrant medicine when you took them out.

Li Ming has completely mastered the production techniques of Nine-Turn Bear Snake Pills and Tendon-Breaking and Bone-Rotting Pills.

By the time the materials in his hands were used up, Li Ming already had hundreds of these two kinds of pills.

This made Li Ming feel a sense of accomplishment.

He has already tested the effects of the tendon-breaking and bone-rotting pills.

Until now, Wan Dajin still secretly comes to Li Ming from time to time and takes the initiative to report to him some information collected from within the Beggars' Gang.

He did this mainly because he was afraid that the toxicity would take effect after he lost his value, and Li Ming would not care about him.

But I haven't tried the Nine-Turn Bear Snake Pill yet, but the effect should be amazing.

In the original Tian Long novel, Boss Wu was shot in the abdomen and was in danger of death. He took the Nine-Turn Bear Snake Pill and was soon able to move freely.

After the injury heals, the effect of the medicine will be of great benefit to one's martial arts skills.

If a pill with this kind of effect were thrown into the wild, it would probably be sold at a sky-high price, causing many people to scramble for it.

After doing all this, Li Ming asked various businesses to help him pay more attention to the information of these materials.

As long as it appears on the market, we will buy it. Money is a small problem.

Li Ming was in a good mood having successfully expanded his skills.

In the next few days, Li Ming accumulated another batch of attribute points.

This time he did not use it to exchange for internal energy, but opened the system interface in his mind -

The newly unlocked lottery interface popped up.

He only used this once, and it was a golden lottery opportunity given by the system.

If you want to draw a lottery now, you have to use the attribute points in your hands to exchange for a chance to draw a lottery.

But every time he saw the price, Li Ming couldn't help but feel a little painful.

One thousand attribute points can only be redeemed once for a silver lottery.

The gold lottery requires 10,000 attribute points!

If he had not recently entered the Grandmaster realm, his progress in martial arts had slowed down, and the cost-effectiveness of exchanging for internal strength had decreased, he would not have been willing to use attribute points for the lottery.

He took a look and first chose to redeem five silver lottery opportunities.

Five thousand attribute points were spent.

Li Ming stared at the lottery wheel and used the lottery opportunities one after another.

Soon, as the wheel turned, five chances to draw were consumed one by one.

The system will then pop up a prompt.

[Get Xiaoyao Xiaohuan Dan +10]

[Get the method of refining Xiaoyao Yiqi Powder]

[Obtain secret skill: Seven Star Gathering]

(End of this chapter)