Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

During this change, many industries of the Tiantong Church were affected and temporarily shut down. There were even some fearless investors who attempted to take them over, but before they could do so, Song Wu stepped in to deal with them.

Afterwards, Song Wu came to Longhu Mountain and explained the situation to Zhang Zhiwei, as well as how much charity funds he had donated to the Tiantong Church in recent years because he was moved by the church's good deeds...

He also invited Zhang Zhiwei and Zhang Jingqing to attend the capital establishment conference in Nanjing, but was rejected by Zhang Jingqing and Zhang Zhiwei.

It is worth mentioning that the Axe Gang was greatly affected by this major change. Wang Yuqiao's sworn brother, the former second in command of the Axe Gang, withdrew from the Axe Gang, joined the Jinling forces, and became the leader of a famous secret organization.

Because of this relationship, the principal of Jinling tried his best to win over Wang Yuqiao and invited him to attend the Jinling Capital Establishment Conference.

Wang Yuqiao was very dissatisfied with his behavior. Although he went to the capital conference, he tore up his original speech at the venue and talked about helping workers and peasants in front of tens of thousands of people. The principal was so angry that he cursed at him and sent someone to assassinate Wang Yuqiao that night.

Among the assassins was the former second in command of the Axe Gang and Wang Yuqiao’s sworn brother.

However, Wang Yuqiao was very skilled and his nickname of the King of Killers was not for nothing. This time the assassination was thwarted by him and all the people were captured alive.

Considering the brotherhood they had in the past, Wang Yuqiao did not kill him and let him go, but the two of them were no longer friends.

After that, Wang Yuqiao started to confront the principal. He made several assassination attempts on him, as if he would never give up until his death. This made him so nervous that he could not sleep or eat, and he had to hire many experts to protect him.

He even sent someone to find Zhang Zhiwei, promising him a large sum of money to ask for help, but Zhang Zhiwei refused.

Although Zhang Zhiwei and Wang Yuqiao did not have much friendship, they had some tacit understanding when they were in Shanghai, and he would help them both in public and in private.

However, despite this incident, the Northern Expedition's offensive continued.

A month later, he defeated the Zhili warlords again, captured the Shang capital, and took over the entire Yuzhou.

The Zhili Wu warlord had no choice but to flee to Sichuan. Seeing that the Northern Expedition was gaining momentum, the Shanxi warlords changed their flags and joined the Northern Expedition.

Afterwards, Jiangcheng sent a large army down the river to march eastward to attack Nanjing, and Nanjing gathered its forces to resist.

Seeing this, the coalition forces of Zhang Dashuai of the Fengtian clique and Sun Dashuai of the Zhili clique took the opportunity to counterattack the Northern Expedition Army. Under internal and external attacks, the Nanjing side was defeated. Under pressure, the principal stepped down. The Northern Expedition Army was unified again, but its internal structure was loose, and each warlord still had his own troops and dominated one side.

During this period of time, perhaps because Marshal Zhang rashly launched an offensive against the interior, the sharpshooter Li Shuwen and the last martial arts champion of the previous dynasty, Zhang Sanjia, both left the Northeast.

Li Shuwen returned to Cangzhou, Hebei to retire.

Zhang Sanjia did come to Longhu Mountain once, met Zhang Zhiwei and informed him of the situation in the Northeast.

Since the last incident, the relationship between Marshal Zhang and the Japanese pirates has eased. I don’t know what method he used, but he actually borrowed a large sum of money from the Japanese pirates. This is also the confidence that gave him the courage to send troops to the south.

However, as a result, he and Li Shuwen could no longer stay.

Zhang Zhiwei expressed his understanding. He could not say anything about Marshal Zhang's actions. After all, he could not really regard him as a hero who served the country and the people.

Marshal Zhang might have known that it would be fruitless to look for Zhang Zhiwei, so during this period, he never contacted Zhang Zhiwei.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhiwei took Zhang Sanjia to meet Zhang Jingqing.

As soon as Zhang Jingqing saw Zhang Sanjia, he knew that he had a connection with the Tianshi Mansion. Through some methods, he determined that he was the direct descendant of the Patriarch Tianshi.

Zhang Jingqing once asked him if he wanted to stay in Longhu Mountain. If he was willing, he could give him the ordination and teach him the Thunder Method.

This can be considered as the privilege of the Zhang family in the Tianshi Mansion.

When Zhang Sanjia heard about thunder magic, he was quite interested at first, but after asking, he found out that only a boy can practice the Yang Five Thunders, and a non-boy can only practice the Yin Five Thunders.

He was a middle-aged man, and although he was obsessed with martial arts and had not married or had children, he was not a virgin and had no chance to practice Yang Wu Lei.

As for Yin Wu Lei, he took a look at it and gave up. It was not that Yin Wu Lei was not strong, but that it did not suit his style.

Moreover, having practiced martial arts for half his life, he did not want to be a Taoist priest at his old age, especially now that his country was in ruins and the mountains and rivers were shattered, he could not wait to practice Taoism.

So after recognizing his ancestors, he stayed in Longhu Mountain for a few days, then said goodbye to everyone and went down the mountain.

When he was going down the mountain, he came to see Zhang Zhiwei on purpose.

When Zhang Zhiwei asked him what his plans were, he couldn't say anything. He just said that the Northern Expedition Army was in full swing recently and had the potential to sweep across the world and unify the country. He was a little hesitant about whether to join the Northern Expedition Army.

Zhang Zhiwei asked him what he was hesitating about.

Zhang Sanjia said that many of the current Northern Expedition troops were former warlords who had merged into the army. Many of these warlords were not good people, and if they retained military power, they would probably have trouble maintaining stability in the future. He had a bad impression of these people and didn't want to go.

Zhang Sanjia also told Zhang Zhiwei that in fact, during the first Eastern Expedition, he wanted to leave the Northeast and follow.

However, before he set out, the gentleman he wanted to follow died of illness, so he continued to stay with Marshal Zhang for a while.

Now he doesn't know where to go, so he plans to travel around and make plans later.

Seeing that he was like a headless fly, Zhang Zhiwei gave him a suggestion, asking him to go to a place at the border of Hunan and Jiangxi and stay there for a while, perhaps he could get his own answer.

Although Zhang Sanjia was much older than Zhang Zhiwei, he admired Zhang Zhiwei very much, especially after he learned that Zhang Zhiwei single-handedly destroyed the Japanese pirate fleet, he simply respected him like a god.

This trip to Longhu Mountain was more about paying a special visit to Zhang Zhiwei than returning to one's roots.

Now that he had received instructions from Zhang Zhiwei, he naturally obeyed them. He immediately went to Zhang Zhiwei to ask for a few pieces of armor and horses. In less than half a day, he arrived at the place Zhang Zhiwei mentioned.

But he did not find the answer Zhang Zhiwei asked there. However, he was not in a hurry. Zhang Zhiwei asked him to stay for a while, so he built a hut there and lived there, wandering around and practicing boxing every day.

Finally, not long ago, he sent a message through Feihe to tell Zhang Zhiwei that he had found the answer and had now left that place.

Zhang Sanjia did not say in his letter where he went specifically, and Zhang Zhiwei did not ask, or even reply.

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There were lightning and thunder in the sky above Tianmen Peak, and heavy rain followed. Zhang Zhiwei sat cross-legged in the practice barrier set up by the crooked tree. The wind and rain from the outside world could not affect him.

After practicing the Yang Five Thunders, he then practiced the Yin Five Thunders.

After the training was over, he opened his eyes and the stardust enveloped him like a curtain woven from gauze.

The wind and rain from the outside world blew against the curtain, and the curtain swayed slightly, silently.

This curtain blocks out the wind, rain, and thunder. Otherwise, the crooked tree, standing alone on the top of the mountain, would surely be struck by lightning.

Looking at the raindrops outside, Zhang Zhiwei opened his mouth and spit out a stream of white energy, which dissipated in the rain like a dragon returning to the sea.

Zhang Zhiwei stood up and looked at the Tianshi Mansion from Tianmen Peak. With his eyesight, he could see the raindrops falling on the eaves of the Tianshi Mansion. On rainy days, there were not many pilgrims, and the Taoists sat under the eaves in groups of three or four, watching the rain and chatting.

There is only one exception.

At the foot of the mountain, a crazy farmer wearing a straw raincoat and a hoe was waving it in the rain. With just ten or so strokes, the entire field was turned over.

Lu Ci's movements of hoeing the ground look almost the same as three years ago, but the artistic conception is quite different.

Before, when Lu Ci started to hoe the ground, he felt as if he hated the sky for not having a handle and the earth for not having a ring. He was determined to forge ahead and was extremely brave.

But now, his movements were light and careful. It did not seem like he was hoeing the ground, but rather as if there was treasure hidden in the soil. He was digging for the treasure carefully, digging for wealth from it with all his heart. Every time he dug with the hoe, he felt physically and mentally satisfied.

Lu Ci had been hoeing from the pouring rain until the rain stopped. In the deserted fields, many figures carrying hoes began to appear one after another.

These people were standing on the edge of the field, staring blankly at Lu Ci. They were all tenants from nearby areas, renting land from Longhu Mountain. Every year, they needed to hand over a portion of their harvest to Longhu Mountain.

However, compared with ordinary landlords, the amount they handed over was extremely low, and most of the fruits of their labor belonged to themselves, so their enthusiasm for work was still very high, which is why they came as soon as the rain stopped.

However, at this moment, they had no intention of working in the fields. They just stared blankly at the figure waving the hoe in the field.
The hoe flew up and down, and every time the hoe was swung, a large piece of the ground was turned up. Even if there was a large rock underneath, it would be as fragile as tofu under his hoe.

There were a lot of weeds in the field. He used the hoe to dig the field, and when he lifted it up, his hand shook and the weeds flew to the edge of the field and piled up neatly.

The old farmers who were watching from the surrounding area looked at Lu Ci's back and talked in low voices:

"He is simply the best of the best laborers. He is much better than us old farmers. If I had his ability, I could support ten more kids!"

"Indeed, I think ten whole laborers are no match for him alone. Do you think he is the reincarnation of Zhu Bajie?"

"Some time ago, he heard a storyteller telling the story of Journey to the West. In the story, the reason why Zhu Bajie was able to marry into Gao Laozhuang was because he was good at working. He could turn over all the land in the village by himself. Isn't this the same as him?"

"What are you talking about? He's helping us hoe the fields, and we're talking about him behind his back. Is that fair?"

"That's true. Look at my stinky mouth. What I say is really unpleasant!"

"Let's not talk about that for now. Do you see those weeds? When they dry up, you can pile them up and burn them. Spread the ashes on the fields to make the land more fertile."

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Lu Ci didn't care about the tenants whispering on the edge of the field.

In the past, he would avoid people and hoe the fields at night, but later he just didn't care about that anymore and would dig whenever and wherever he wanted.

After finishing digging this area, Lu Ci didn't even say goodbye to the people around him. He carried the hoe and left amid waves of thanks.

Lu Ci has made progress, and Lu Jin has also made considerable progress, but he is not in Longhu Mountain now, he is in Trinity Gate.

After a few years, Lu Jin became taller and taller, and when he walked, he gave people an inexplicable feeling of being unshakable.

He is a very good person.

This kind of righteousness not only refers to his righteous mind, but also to his righteous body. It is as if there is a stick inside his body, built into his spine, allowing him to maintain this righteousness no matter whether he is walking, standing, sitting, lying down, or performing various movements.

This is not the method of Zhang Zhiwei's teaching, nor is it the method of the Trinity Sect, but the method of the Lu family.

Lu Jin did not have any unique skills like the Wang family and the Lu family, but he was upright. In the words of Old Master Lu, he had to be upright and impartial.

Lu Jin didn't understand it before. When Zhang Zhiwei asked what was special about the Lu family, Lu Jin complained to Zhang Zhiwei, saying that their Lu family didn't have any family secrets. If they had to say something, it was only the long and boring family rules, which every member of the Lu family must remember.

But later, he gradually understood this truth, gradually found the roots of the Lu family, and integrated it into his own practice.

If an ordinary person were to see Lu Jin standing there now, he would only think that he is tall and straight, upright, and reliable at first glance.

But if you are an expert, you will find that Lu Jin's entire body, from the Baihui point on the top of the head to the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet, seems to be supported by a pillar.

This is the foundation formed by the condensation of his spirit, energy and spirit, the foundation that stands tall and upright. It is also this foundation that has supported the Lu family for thousands of years.

Of course, this foundation is also beneficial to spiritual practice.

In the spiritual practice, there is a method called standing still. There are many ways of standing still, and there are also many theories, but no matter which one, the root is to find some kind of physical and mental support, and cultivate and strengthen it.

Although the Lu family does not have any inherited means, their lengthy family precepts are actually means. As long as they follow them, they can find this physical and spiritual support and form the unique character of the Lu family.

This kind of support will not have an immediate effect like other means, but it can greatly benefit the Lu family in their practice. This is also the reason why the Lu family can produce so many geniuses.

After finding this support, Lu Jin's level of reverse life has been greatly improved. His strength has surpassed that of his senior brothers Shui Yun and Chang Qing, and is approaching that of Zuo Rutong's eldest disciple Cheng Zhen.

Of course, Lu Jin has no intention of competing with Cheng Zhen now. He is only thinking about getting back at that bastard Lu Ci.

"It's time to go to Longhu Mountain to settle accounts with that bastard Lu Ci!"

Lu Jin walked quickly towards his master's room.

He knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

Zuo Rutong's gentle voice came.

Lu Jin pushed the door open and walked in. Inside the room, Zuo Rutong was sitting cross-legged on a cushion, dressed in white with fluttering white hair.

The previous Zuo Rutong, because of maintaining reverse rebirth for decades, had severely damaged his mind and innate Qi, and was already on the verge of death, looking extremely old.

But after practicing the Saint Thief Technique, his innate Qi has been replenished, and his originally wrinkled skin has relaxed, returning to his youthful appearance and white hair.

At first glance, Zuo Rutong now looks like a young man, but upon closer inspection, he seems like a middle-aged man, and upon even closer inspection, he looks like an old man.

Lu Jin looked at his master and felt that he was becoming more and more unfathomable. It was impossible to guess what realm he had reached. He was afraid that only Senior Brother Zhang could tell.

Zuo Rutong asked him what was the matter, and Lu Jin did not lie. He said that he wanted to go to Longhu Mountain to get back at Lu Ci.

Zuo Ruotong did not agree, saying that he was still too impetuous, and asked him to continue practicing in Sanyi Sect, settle down for a few years, and then go to Longhu Mountain. (End of this chapter)