Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 461 How many innate warriors are there in Darong?

Chongshan Pass, the front hall of the Marquis’ Mansion.

At this time, Yang Zhengshan was meeting a guest, and his guest was Ji Zhen, the leader of Hengdao Sect.

In the hall, after some pleasantries, Yang Zhengshan and Ji Zhen took their seats as host and guest. Ji Hai stood behind Ji Zhen, while only Yang Mingcheng was beside Yang Zhengshan.

Holding the tea, Yang Zhengshan said with a smile: "I have long admired Senior Ji's name, and I am very happy to meet you today!"

Ji Zhen is almost eighty years old, more than twenty years older than Yang Zhengshan, so it is reasonable for him to call himself a junior.

When he said that he admired Ji Zhen, it was not considered as flattery. Ji Zhen was the best master in Liaodong, and the Hengdao Sect dominated Jizhou. However, both Ji Zhen and the Hengdao Sect had a very good reputation in Liaodong.

Reputation may be biased, but for decades, Ji Zhen and Hengdaomen have had a good reputation, which is enough to show that their style of doing things is very upright.

Yang Zhengshan had dealt with Ji Hai many times. Over the years, Tenglongwei and Chongshan Town had a lot of cooperation with Hengdaomen. He could also see that Hengdaomen's style was very good.

It is no exaggeration to say that Ji Zhen is a hero of his generation.

So Yang Zhengshan really has admiration for Ji Zhen.

"Your Majesty, you guard the border, protect the safety of the people, and save them from danger. You are the role model for warriors of our generation! It is my blessing to meet your Majesty!" Ji Zhen said, stroking his snow-white beard.

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

After laughing loudly, Yang Zhengshan took a sip of tea and said, "Senior Ji should have entered the Xiantian realm, right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the hall fell silent.

Ji Zhen stroked his beard with an indifferent expression. Ji Hai looked at Ji Zhen's head of silver hair with a gleam in his eyes.

Speaking of which, Ji Hai didn't know whether his master had broken through to the innate realm. Although he had such a guess, Ji Zhen had never made it clear to him, so he was not sure in his heart.

As for Yang Mingcheng, he looked at Ji Zhen curiously. Yang Zhengshan had told him before that Ji Zhen might have reached the innate realm. Now that he had seen the real person, he was full of curiosity.

After all, this was the first innate warrior he had seen. No, it should be the second one. It’s just that he didn’t know that Yang Zhengshan had already broken through.

Ji Zhen smiled and said, "Compared to the Marquis, I am still a step behind!"

Yang Zhengshan smiled, "Speed ​​is not important, as long as I can cross this threshold!"

Ji Hai was stunned, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Yang Zhengshan with an incredible expression.

Doesn't this mean that both of them have broken through to the innate realm?

If Ji Zhen had just said that he had made a breakthrough, he would have been more happy than surprised. But when he learned that Yang Zhengshan was also a congenital warrior, he could only be surprised!

"Dad is a congenital warrior?" Yang Mingcheng was a beat slow to react, but he couldn't help but ask.

"Well, you're an adult, and you're still making a fuss!" Yang Zhengshan glanced at this fool, and then looked at Ji Hai. Although he was surprised, he had no intention of interrupting him.

"Haha, Mingcheng has a straightforward character. I am very envious of having such a successor!" Ji Zhen looked at Yang Mingcheng with admiration in his eyes.

Being honest and sincere is not a shortcoming. On the contrary, for people close to you, it is the most trustworthy quality.

In martial arts, being honest and sincere is the best quality. One needs to be down-to-earth on the path of martial arts. It is not a good thing for a martial artist to be too smart.

On the contrary, those who are stubborn and honest will go further.

Treat warriors with sincerity, and they will also treat me with sincerity.

Although there is a saying that once a teacher, always a father, but in reality, the relationship between a master and a disciple is not as close as that between a father and son.

Ji Zhen has no children, and the person closest to him is his apprentice.

So his favorite disciples are those like Yang Mingcheng.

This is not to say that Ji Hai is a bad person, but that if he could accept Yang Mingcheng as his apprentice, it would be a blessing he has been longing for.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for Yang Mingcheng to become his disciple. With Yang Zhengshan as his father and being the heir to the Jing'an Marquis Mansion, Yang Mingcheng will definitely not become a disciple of the Hengdao Sect.

Yang Mingcheng felt a little embarrassed when he heard Ji Zhen's praise.

Yang Zhengshan smiled and said, "I asked you to come here because I have something to ask you!"

"My Lord, just speak directly. I will tell you everything I know!" Ji Zhen said.

"How many innate warriors do we have in Dayong?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

He knew very little about the innate warriors of Dayong. One reason was that he had always lived in the northeast of Dayong. Not to mention the Dayong martial arts world, he knew very little even about the innate warriors in the Dayong court.

The second is that his previous identity and status were relatively low. He was just an old farmer in the countryside, and he has only risen to prominence within a few years, so he has had very little contact with martial arts masters.

In comparison, Ji Zhen's experience is much richer, and he is in the martial arts world, with a wide range of sources of information. His understanding of innate warriors is definitely far greater than Yang Zhengshan's.

Ji Zhen thought for a moment and said, "It's not too much, but it's not too little either!"

"Oh, how many exactly?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Ji Zhen shook his head slightly, "I don't know the exact number, but I estimate that there are no more than 40 innate warriors in the entire Darong!"

"So many?" Yang Zhengshan was stunned.

He previously thought that it was amazing that Darong had more than a dozen innate warriors, but he didn't expect that there would be nearly forty!
"Well, the lifespan of innate warriors is much longer than that of ordinary people. The long-lived ones can even live to be thirty-sixty years old. However, some old antiques like to stay in the deep mountains and forests. Unless you are familiar with them, you will not even know of their existence!" Ji Zhen said.

Innate warriors like to avoid the world. This does not mean that they will completely detach themselves from the secular world, but that they no longer have any desire for the secular world. Whether it is power, money or beauty, they no longer have much appeal to them.

What they pursue is the highest level of martial arts.

Therefore, they rarely appear in the world or in the court.

Of course, they will not be completely separated from the secular world. They also need basic necessities of life and resources for cultivation.

But if they want basic supplies, they can ask their disciples to prepare them. Since they are innate warriors, how could they not have several disciples?

Even if they didn't have any disciples, they could still buy it themselves. If an old man appeared in a town, few people would care. As for cultivation resources, secular resources were no longer of much use to them. Even precious medicines were rarely of interest to them.

Just like Ji Zhen, perhaps it won't be long before he passes the position of the leader of the Hengdao Sect to Ji Hai. Then he will live in seclusion in the Hengdao Sect and will not go out for more than ten years or even decades. After decades, probably few people in the secular world will remember him.

Even if he didn't live in seclusion in Hengdaomen, if he wanted to go out for a walk, he wouldn't go to a bustling place, but instead to some deep mountains and forests.

He had already experienced the prosperity of the world, and it no longer had any appeal to him, but there were still many natural treasures hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and that was what he wanted.

Perhaps he would seek to communicate with like-minded people, but his like-minded people were probably just like him, and had basically become detached from the secular world.

Therefore, it is rare to see innate warriors in the secular world.

"If there are so many innate warriors, we should have innate warriors in Liaodong as well, right?" Yang Zhengshan continued to ask.

"Yes, but I have only heard of that old senior who lives in seclusion in Changqing Mountain, but have never seen him!" Ji Zhen said.

Well, this is a hermit who likes to live in the mountains and forests!
"What about the court? Are there any innate warriors?" Yang Zhengshan was still more curious about the innate warriors in the court.

Ji Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "Does the Marquis know about the Three Valleys?"

"Three Valleys!" Yang Zhengshan shook his head.

Ji Zhen explained: "It is the Wanfu Mountain, Wanshou Mountain and Wansui Mountain to the west of the capital! The three mountains are the Three Valleys!"

Yang Zhengshan suddenly realized that he certainly knew these three mountains. There was a Mahayana Temple on Wanfu Mountain, but he had never been there.

"The Three Valleys is where the court worships innate warriors. There should be seven or eight innate warriors there!"

"In addition, there are also some innate warriors among the nobles in the court!"

At this point, Ji Zhen looked at Yang Zhengshan and said with a smile: "For example, the Changping Marquis Mansion!"

"Marquis Changping's Mansion!" Yang Zhengshan showed a look of surprise again.

"The grandfather of the current Marquis of Changping has never passed away!" Ji Zhen said.

Yang Zhengshan's pupils suddenly shrank.

He really didn't know about it.

Meow!

The Marquis of Changping's Mansion is actually hidden so deeply?
Their Yang family and the Changping Marquis Mansion are relatives, but they didn't even know that the Changping Marquis Mansion has an ancestor who is in the innate realm.

"Otherwise, why do you think the Changping Marquis Mansion has been passed down for more than three hundred years!" Ji Zhen said.

Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard. He always thought that the Changping Marquis Mansion was unwilling to integrate into the circle of nobles in order to avoid the emperor's suspicion. Now it seems that the Changping Marquis Mansion simply disdains to integrate into the circle of nobles.

"What about the other nobles?" Yang Zhengshan continued to ask.

Ji Zhen shook his head slightly, "I don't know about this. The reason why I know that there is a congenital master in the Changping Marquis's mansion is because Changping Marquis used to be a general in Chongshan Town. As for other nobles, I have no contact with them and I don't know them!"

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "Then inside the imperial city?"

Ji Zhen smiled helplessly, "I have never been to the Imperial City!"

Yang Zhengshan was sweating, thinking that his question was a bit too much.

If it was about the affairs of the martial arts world, Ji Zhen would naturally be knowledgeable, but if it was about matters within the court and the imperial city, it would be normal for Ji Zhen not to know about it.

Yang Zhengshan remembered the three old eunuchs he had seen beside Emperor Chengping!
It seems that there should be more than a dozen innate warriors in the court, almost half of Darong.

I just don’t know what kind of strength and cultivation these innate warriors have.

Get started, control the energy, the mystery, enter the details, enter the Tao!

There are five levels in the innate realm. Are there any innate warriors at the entry level?
If there is, Yang Zhengshan would like to ask for advice.

Although Yang Zhengshan's innate realm has reached the level of entering the Tao, to be honest, his understanding of this level is very shallow.

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan exchanged some cultivation experiences with Ji Zhen.

Compared with Ji Zhen, Yang Zhengshan is much inferior in foundation and his understanding of martial arts is more superficial.

However, Yang Zhengshan's cultivation in the innate realm is much deeper than Ji Zhen's, and he has his own understanding of controlling Qi.

Both of them benefited a lot from the communication.

However, the ones who benefited the most were Yang Mingcheng and Ji Hai.

Both of them have already begun to practice innate skills and are in the stage of condensing innate true qi. Even if they can only understand a few words of the communication between Yang Zhengshan and Ji Zhen, it is still a considerable gain.

After some communication, Yang Zhengshan and Ji Zhen both felt a little unsatisfied, so Yang Zhengshan decided to let Ji Zhen stay in the Marquis' Mansion for two days.

The main reason is that both of them have reached the innate realm, and have never communicated with people of the same path. Today they rarely meet people of the same path, so both of them are reluctant to separate.

Uh, isn't that a bit annoying?

That’s what I mean anyway!
Just like a couple who have just confirmed their relationship, they have endless topics to talk about, are excited about everything they do, and wish they could be together all the time.

Two days later, Yang Zhengshan sent Ji Zhen away. Although he wanted to communicate with Ji Zhen for a few more days, Ji Zhen still had to go to Kyoto and it was not appropriate for him to stay in Chongshan Pass for too long.

As for why you want to go to Kyoto, it’s actually not difficult to understand.

If you become a congenital warrior, you must at least inform the court.

For the court, innate warriors are an unstable factor. Informing the court can avoid any misunderstandings and troubles in the future.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan has no plans to expose his cultivation level yet, and he asks Ji Zhen and Ji Hai to keep it secret for him.

(End of this chapter)