Apprenticeship at Qingcheng Mountain, Senior Brother Yu Canghai

Chapter 253: Second Master Li: Disciple greets Master!
Yangzhou City.

Shilong Martial Arts Field.

No...now it should be called Qingcheng Sect Yangzhou Taoist Temple.

Since the arrival of Elder Xuancheng, all the disciples of the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple have been wearing Taoist robes, tying their hair into Taoist buns, and dressing like real Taoists.

Xuan Cheng and Shi Long also get along quite well.

During the time when Shi Long obtained the Secret of Immortality, in order to comprehend and understand the mystery of the Secret of Immortality, he also read a lot of Taoist scriptures and tried to meditate to gain enlightenment.

We can barely be considered half fellow Taoists with Xuan Cheng!

"Elder Xuancheng, good news, good news!"

On this day, Shi Long, with a happy look on his face and wearing a Taoist robe, strode into Elder Xuan Cheng's residence with fast steps.

It just so happened that Elder Xuancheng was teaching his two disciples, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling. Both of them, without exception, wore Taoist robes.

The reason why Xuancheng taught Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling was that Shilong really didn't like teaching disciples and his teaching was not very good, so Shuanglong was more willing to ask Elder Xuancheng for advice on his doubts in martial arts training.

"What good news?"

Sitting on the main seat, Taoist Xuancheng, who was explaining martial arts and imparting his training experience to Shuanglong, looked up at Shilong when he heard this.

"The news just came in, the master swept through the three major forces in Shu in a very short period of time, and defeated all the masters including Jie Hui, the master of Duzun Fort, Fan Zhuo, the leader of Sichuan Gang, Feng Zhen, the monkey king, Mei Jisina, Luo Feng, the big boss, and Chuan Mouxun, the wind general. It is said that An Long, the master of Tianlian Sect, one of the six sects of the two sects of the Demon Sect, was so scared that he fled Shu with Tianlian Sect overnight. Now he has become a laughing stock in the martial arts world, and the master is now known as the number one master in Shu."

Shi Long said with some excitement.

During the time when Chu Yuan was away, the development of the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple was also very rapid.

Even Shi Long followed Chu Yuan's advice and used his reputation to persuade the wealthy and powerful in Yangzhou City to gain their support and set up a "Taoist army" of 5,000 people.

Originally, the Jianghuai area was the territory of Du Fuwei of the Jianghuai Army.

However, with the emergence of the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple and the "Taoist soldiers", the Jianghuai Army has had several frictions of varying sizes with the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple. The Jianghuai Army also regards the Taoist soldiers of the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple as a thorn in their side. The atmosphere between the two sides is full of tension and is almost at the point of going to war.

At this time, such good news came from Bashu, which was like a shot in the arm for the Qingcheng Sect's Yangzhou Taoist Temple.

"Really? It seems that the leader's martial arts has improved again."

Elder Xuancheng sighed.

In the martial arts world, anyone who is known as the best master in a certain place is already considered a top master in the whole world.

"Of course it's true. The news has spread everywhere. It can't be false."

Stone Dragon Road.

"Master, Elder Xuancheng, is the Lord of the Duzun Fort very powerful?"

Xu Ziling asked curiously from the side.

"Very powerful. His sworn brother is Song Que, the patriarch of the Lingnan Song family, one of the four great families in the world and the best swordsman in the world. His sworn brother is An Long, the leader of the Tianlian Sect of the Demon Sect. They are not weaklings."

Shilong explained.

These names were the ones he needed to look up to in the past.

But since meeting Chu Yuan, everything seems no longer so out of reach.

"Master, didn't you and Elder Xuancheng say before that the Demon Sect was very powerful? How come there are still people who were scared away by the Sect Master?"

Kou Zhong's focus was particularly peculiar. He remembered that his master Shi Long and Elder Xuan Cheng had said before that the Demon Sect was one of the top three major forces in the world.

"The Demon Sect is just a general term. The Demon Sect is divided into two factions and six paths. Some of them are strong and some are weak. The Tianlian Sect is made up of a group of merchants. The Tianlian Sect is relatively weak among the two paths and six factions of the Demon Sect."

Stone Dragon Road.

"So they are just a group of businessmen. No wonder they were frightened by the leader and fled Shu overnight."

Kou Zhong found it a little funny.

In the eyes of people of this era, businessmen have a low status and cannot be compared with those powerful and influential people.

"Speaking of which, the reason why the Sect Leader attacked those masters in Shu was because of An Long. Rumor has it that An Long offended the Sect Leader, and wanted to invite all the masters in Shu to fight against the Sect Leader together. As a result, the Sect Leader took the initiative after knowing this, and took the lead in sweeping the entire Shu martial arts world with his own strength. But this is just a rumor, and we don't know whether it is true or not."

Shi Long seemed to have thought of something happy, and he smiled again.

"No wonder An Long led the Tianlian Sect to flee Shu overnight. It turns out he was afraid of revenge from the Sect Leader."

Xu Ziling suddenly realized.

"Alright, you guys continue to consult Elder Xuancheng and practice hard. The Sect Master is so powerful, we can't hold him back."

Shilong continued.

"As ordered."

"Yes, Master."

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling responded one after another.

……

Guanzhong.

Taiyuan.

It was called Jinyang in ancient times.

Historically, it was the capital of three regimes: Zhao, Former Qin, and Northern Han.

Jinyang is located to the west of the Luliang Mountains, to the east of the Taihang Mountains, and to the south of the Taiyue Mountains.

Taiyuan is located in the Taiyuan Basin in the middle of these mountains. With these mountains as support, the safety of Taiyuan can be greatly guaranteed.

Because of this, Taiyuan was also an important border city for resisting nomadic peoples such as the Turks on the grassland.

The Li family, one of the four major families in the world, is the owner of this city.

Before Emperor Yang of Sui was attacked and killed by Yu Wenzhi and rebelled, Li Yuan, the head of the clan, was appointed by Emperor Yang of Sui as the ambassador of consolation in Hedong, Shanxi, the governor of Taiyuan, and the supervisor of Jinyang Palace.

He became the governor of this region.

The Li family has been operating for many years and has long become the master of this area.

this day.

A young Taoist priest wearing a black Taoist robe, with bright eyes and extraordinary temperament, and a beautiful woman wearing light yellow clothes, came to the outskirts of Taiyuan city together.

Since the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, various regions have been divided and the world has begun to go to war. The local overlords and warlords have begun to guard against spies infiltrating into the areas under their control.

The same is true for the Li family. Nowadays, in Taiyuan City, all citizens going out and entering are subject to detailed inspections.

The Taoist priest and the woman standing outside Taiyuan City were naturally Chu Yuan and Fu Jun'er.

"Why are we in Taiyuan?"

Fu Jun'er looked at Chu Yuan, who was standing in front of her with his hands behind his back, gazing at the magnificent city in front of him, with a puzzled look.

She really couldn't understand why Chu Yuan was in Shu just now and had just swept away all the martial arts masters in Shu, but the next moment he suddenly decided to come to Taiyuan in Guanzhong.

Chu Yuan retracted his gaze, turned around and asked Fu Jun'er beside him: "What is in this city?"

Fu Jun'er hesitated for a moment and said in an uncertain tone: "The Li family, one of the four major families in the world."

Chu Yuan said: "Since my previous moves have already established my reputation, the next step is naturally the next move."

In troubled times, no matter individuals or forces, they cannot escape the general trend of the world.

If you don't want to be swept away by the general trend, you can only plan ahead, become a part of the general trend, and reap the greatest benefits.

Fu Jun'er frowned: "I don't understand."

Chu Yuan said: "The Central Plains inherited the Yanhuang Dynasty and the Yao and Shun Dynasties. It is the center of the world's culture and is very profound. If you, a Korean, could understand it, you would not be in my hands now."

Fu Jun'er looked at Chu Yuan with cold eyes and clenched her fists.

If she had not been without a sword and her true energy was sealed, and she knew she could not defeat Chu Yuan, she would have drawn her sword to kill Chu Yuan long ago.

Chu Yuan was too lazy to care about the feelings of a Korean. He was telling the truth, but sometimes the truth is the most hurtful and the most difficult to accept.

"Come on, let's go into the city."

Chu Yuan turned around and said.

Watching Chu Yuan walking forward, Fu Jun'er loosened her fists that had just been clenched.

Although I was angry, I couldn't beat him, so I had to endure it.

"How can we enter the city when the gate is strictly checked?"

Fu Jun'er took a few quick steps and caught up with Chu Yuan and asked.

"I'll take you in."

Chu Yuantou didn't reply.

Fu Jun'er thought of Chu Yuan's advanced martial arts skills and suddenly she no longer had any worries.

Because this city is located on the border, it is a fortress for resisting nomadic peoples such as the Turks. It is built very tall, at a height of four meters. However, for Chu Yuan's advanced lightness skills, it is just a matter of a light leap.

The two found a deserted place, and Chu Yuan picked up Fu Jun'er again and performed the light skill "Xiao Yao You". With an arrow, they shot like a roc with its wings spread, soaring more than twenty feet into the sky, passing over the city wall below, and landing steadily in Taiyuan city.

Fu Jun'er looked very calm about all this.

Although she looked a little embarrassed, she had gotten used to it.

After experiencing this kind of thing many times, you will naturally get used to it.

After entering Luoyang City, Chu Yuan found out the location of Li Mansion and took Fu Jun'er to the Mansion.

Passing through the busy streets, Chu Yuan and Fu Jun'er came to the east of the city where Li's mansion was located and found the Li mansion.

The Li family’s mansion is very grand.

There are drum stones and horse posts at the entrance, plus a red-painted door with copper rings. Above the door there is a plaque with blue background and gold patterns, and nearly ten steps.

The entrance was heavily guarded by a team of elite soldiers wearing armor and holding spears, divided into two teams.

"Who comes to the Li residence?"

Seeing Chu Yuan and Fu Jun'er walking towards them, a soldier asked.

"The head of Qingcheng Sect, Taoist Qingyang, has come to visit Ambassador Li, the consolation ambassador."

Chu Yuan said loudly.

The soldiers standing at the door looked at each other for a moment, then they remembered who this person was.

It was none other than Taoist Qingyang, the "number one expert in Shu" who had recently become very famous in the martial arts world and had just caused a big stir.

"Master Qingyang, wait a moment. We will go in and report."

The soldier said politely.

With Chu Yuan's status and strength, he is fully qualified to seek an audience with their masters, and even their masters have to treat him with courtesy when they see him.

"Go."

Chu Yuan nodded.

……

Li House.

In a front yard hall used for receiving guests.

Li Yuan was an old man in his fifties, with a high and protruding forehead, but a broad and neat forehead, narrow eyes, many wrinkles on his face, loose skin, and he wore a purple robe with cloud patterns, and had a noble temperament.

The other party sat high on the main seat.

After asking the servants to serve tea to Chu Yuan and Fu Jun'er.

Li Yuan smiled and bowed to Chu Yuan: "Qingyang Taoist and Luosha Nu have come from afar this time. I don't know what important matter they have. If they can be of any use to me, Li Yuan will definitely not refuse!"

Chu Yuan didn't figure out for a moment who the "Rakshasa woman" Li Yuan was talking about!
However, when Chu Yuan saw that Li Yuan's gaze fell on Fu Jun'er, he realized that the "Rakshasa woman" Li Yuan was referring to was actually Fu Jun'er.

Although he habitually regarded her as an unknown Goryeo assassin, she was a disciple of Fu Cailin and had a reputation in the martial arts world, namely "Rakshasa Woman".

When Fu Jun'er saw Chu Yuan's expression, she seemed to have guessed what was in Chu Yuan's mind. She raised her head high and snorted softly.

It seemed to be saying, Chu Yuan, don't underestimate her.

After all, she was a disciple of Grandmaster Yijian Master Fu Cailin. If she hadn't met Chu Yuan, no one in the Central Plains would have been able to do anything to her.

Chu Yuan found it funny and ignored Fu Jun'er. He looked at Li Yuan who was sitting on the main seat and said, "Speaking of which, I did come to Taiyuan for something, but it's not that I need Lord Li's help. Instead, I want to discuss something that will benefit both the Li family and the Qingcheng Sect."

Li Yuan asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

Chu Yuan said: "I want to take Lord Li's second son, Li Shimin, as my disciple. If Lord Li and Master Li are willing, I and the Qingcheng Sect will help the Li family in the future."

This was the purpose of his coming to Taiyuan, to accept Li Shimin as his disciple and establish the Li family.

As he spoke, Chu Yuan looked at the middle-aged man standing at the door. He had a fair and beardless face, looked like a eunuch, and had a somewhat feminine temperament.

This person's martial arts skills are not low, and it seems that he is at least at the level of innate perfection.

It seems that he is not the only one making the move.

Others were also making their moves.

I just don’t know which force this person belongs to and which expert he sent to be by Li Yuan’s side?
Chu Yuan’s words shocked Li Yuan!
Now that Yang Guang is dead, chaos is about to come to the world.

The situation of warring statesmen fighting for supremacy has begun, and almost every once in a while, there are rebel kings who claim to be emperors.

As one of the four largest families in the world, the Li family does have plans to become emperor, but they are not fully prepared yet and are still waiting and watching.

According to Chu Yuan, he wanted to take his two sons as disciples, and then this Taoist Qingyang and the Qingcheng Sect behind him would fully support the Li family.

Although the Qingcheng Sect is only a sect that has just become famous in the martial arts world, with the Taoist Qingyang in front of him sweeping the Shu martial arts world single-handedly not long ago, I am afraid that the Shu martial arts world will have to respect the Qingcheng Sect in the future.

If the Li family wanted to dominate the world, Shu was a place they had to fight for.

Li Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "I have no objection to this, but I don't know if my second son is willing."

As long as he agreed to this, his two sons would just have an extra master who was younger than them.

The Li family can not only get help from a young master who has mastered "The Secret of Immortality", one of the four great books in the world, but also get help from a Taoist sect. Why not?

Chu Yuan said: "As long as Lord Li agrees, it will be fine. Young Master Li's place is very simple, just leave it to me."

Doesn’t Cihang Jingzhai want to take charge of the world and elect a wise king for the people?
He took a step ahead and intercepted the situation first.

Although in the TV series and movies of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er is quite different from the historical version, with a somewhat selfish and hypocritical character, unkind and unjust, and he would destroy the bridge after crossing it...

This is in stark contrast to Shuanglong, who is sincere, righteous, daring to love and hate, and upright and innocent.

But after a careful analysis, Chu Yuan felt that Li Er, as a favored son of heaven with no shortcomings in history, who wiped out the foreign tribes on the grassland in one fell swoop and was called the "Heavenly Khan", could not be without any merits and finally conquered the world.

Either the TV series made a random adaptation to highlight the protagonist Shuanglong, or the author of the novel deliberately weakened Li Er in order to highlight the protagonist.

After all, Li Er is so outstanding!

The two dragons obtained it through cheating and mastered the "Eternal Life Secret", and became the protagonist.

And Li Er’s actions are the protagonist himself.

If the true deeds of Mr. Li Er were written down, the Twin Dragons would pale in comparison to him, and it would seem that Mr. Li Er was the real protagonist.

Li Yuan was delighted when he heard this and said, "Then I'll trouble Taoist Qingyang."

Chu Yuan said: "No trouble."

……

Li Shimin had just gone south to the coastal area and originally wanted to continue to order a batch of weapons from the Dongming Sect.

But unexpectedly, they found out that when the Li family ordered weapons from the Dongming faction, the Dongming faction had secretly left behind an account book as a backup.

If this account book was sent to the hands of the foolish emperor Yang Guang, the consequences would be unimaginable.

However, things are unpredictable. Who would have thought that Yang Guang's confidant Yu Wenzhi would suddenly rebel.

Not only did he kill Yang Guang, but he also established a fake emperor.

Now it would be useless even if the Dongming Sect continued to keep the account book.

Later, Li Shimin unexpectedly learned that the reason why Yu Wenzhi suddenly rebelled was because Yang Guang gave him the task of seizing the "Eternal Life Secret", but a young master Qingyang Taoist who suddenly appeared was unable to complete it, which made him desperate and directly rebel and kill the tyrant Yang Guang.

After Yang Guang's death, local tyrants proclaimed themselves emperors one after another. Fearing any unexpected events, Li Shimin did not dare to stay in the south for long and returned to Luoyang.

Riding a horse into the familiar city of Taiyuan, everything was normal.

However, Li Shimin discovered that standing on the street ahead was a young Taoist priest with an extraordinary temperament, his hair tied up with a hairpin, but with a hint of childishness on his face and bright eyes, blocking his way.

Seeing that his horse was about to hit the other party, Li Shimin quickly pulled the reins of his horse and said, "Master, you are blocking my way."

At the same time, he felt a little strange, because when he returned to Taiyuan City, he took off his disguise outside the city and restored his original appearance.

Logically speaking, the people in Taiyuan City should all know him and would not block his way.

The young Taoist priest remained motionless, standing where he was and said to Li Shimin, "Sir, we are destined to be together, how about you become my disciple?"

Li Shimin looked at the other person's appearance and found that the other person was several years or ten years younger than himself. With such a huge age difference, how could he worship the other person as his teacher?
Thinking that he would have to call this young Taoist priest, who was much younger than himself, his master in the future, Li Shimin began to back out.

Li Shimin said, "Master, you are joking. There is such a huge age gap between you and me, how can I be your disciple? How about you let me go and we can be friends in the future?"

He realized that since this young Taoist priest dared to stop him on the street, he must have an extraordinary background, so he was very polite to him.

The young Taoist priest did not move at all and said to Li Shimin, "Young Master, please think about it again."

Li Shimin still wanted to refuse, but suddenly found that he and the young Taoist were suddenly isolated from the entire world.

Everything around, the passers-by, the clouds in the sky, the busy shops, all stopped at this moment, without a single sound.

Only he and the young Taoist priest in front of him were alive.

Can move freely and make sounds.

Li Shimin swallowed back the words he was about to say. He knew that he had met a master!

Li Shimin changed his mind and made a new decision.

His expression became serious, he dismounted, straightened his clothes, knelt solemnly on the ground, performed the master-disciple ceremony to the young Taoist in front of him, and said: "Disciple Li Shimin greets the master."

A good man will not suffer a loss in front of him, and a real man can bend and stretch.

What's more, this is such a rare master who wants to take me in as his disciple.

What does appearance and age matter? Maybe they have some secret to keep their youthful looks.
(End of this chapter)