Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 13 Even the best can’t save dozens of elderly second-rate people!

The gold-based martial arts take place in different periods of the same world. In Liu Mang's memory, there are indeed some places where advanced martial arts may exist, such as the Chongyang Inscriptions in Zhong Nanshan's Tomb of the Living Dead, the Dugu Sword Tomb outside Xiangyang City, or the Xiaoyao Sect's martial arts stone carvings in the Lingjiu Palace on Tianshan Mountain. What's more, one can go out to the sea and salvage a piece of stone wall fragment from the Xiake Island. These are all worth a try.

But it was unreliable to go out to sea to salvage debris. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and there was a high probability that nothing would be found. Although he could fight for the other three items, he had to go and look for them personally. If he brought other people with him and the news leaked out, all the major sects, including the Sun and Moon Sect, would probably follow him and take advantage of him!

There is no rush to explore the ruins. Now that he has broken through to the highest level, it is time to give guidance to the priests who joined the escort agency more than a year ago. He doesn't know how many of them have made a breakthrough themselves.

Liu Mang called Chief Escort Shi and together they walked towards the new headquarters building of the escort agency.

The headquarters building was built at the same time as the arena was built two years ago, and was not completed and delivered until four months ago. It is used specifically for the residence and office of the escort agency personnel. Liu Mang spent about 20 days designing the five-story building based on his knowledge from his previous life. It covers an area of ​​more than 2 square meters, with offices on the first floor and living on the upper floors. It is also equipped with two large martial arts arenas, 10 small martial arts arenas, and 60 quiet rooms. The fourth and fifth floors are specially used for worshippers and escort leaders to live and rest.

When it was first designed, it was configured to accommodate 4,000 people living and working. Except for the waiters and escort leaders who each had a suite, all other escorts had dormitories. There were also some public activity rooms, libraries, warehouses, canteens, etc. All functions were designed to be in line with those of modern society. Anyway, everyone liked it.

The headquarters building was different from the conference venue and had much higher requirements, but with a construction period of almost two years, it was not much more expensive than the conference venue and was completed at 80 taels. Thanks to the 61 sacrifices who took the initiative to help, there was no need to spend money to hire experts to do the construction.

The contractors were originally reluctant to let the client do the construction in person, but the second-rate top masters showed them what speed meant. Not only could they do the work of hundreds of people, but most of the difficult tasks were nothing to them. Not charging money could also improve efficiency, so the contractors agreed. They didn't want to make any money by cutting corners. The reward for one day's advance in the construction period was far greater than the deduction of one week's material fee.

After all, it is an ancient construction project. Material costs are not the main expenditure. Labor wages, accommodation and meals are the big expenses. Besides, the materials are still purchased by Party A.

In this way, the new worshippers were integrated into the escort agency during the construction. The second-rate masters worked hard on the construction site for the benefit of the escort agency, which moved the escort masters and escort leaders very much. They completely accepted this group of leaders who received a hundred times their salary just after they arrived. After all, when there was something going on, they would really do it, while they would just watch the fun.

As mentioned before, the escorts and the leaders are all salaried workers, and very few of them would risk their lives with Liu Mang. Collective honor is also scarce. If they encounter a robbery while escorting the escort, it is a professional ethics, and they have to fight when they have to. If they are asked to do something during normal times, it is extra work and they have to be paid extra. It is impossible for them to move bricks.

But these offerings are different. What they ask for is not money, but the skills and guidance of the chief escort. This depends entirely on the personal preference of the chief escort. How could they miss such a good opportunity to show their faces in the construction of the headquarters building?
If you work harder and more diligently, and "accidentally" get spotted by the chief escort, wouldn't your favorability increase greatly? Wouldn't you have the opportunity to give advice?

With different pursuits and different perspectives on things, two groups of people with very different pursuits get along well with each other under the Fuwei Escort Agency. I don’t know if Liu Mang had thought about this issue beforehand.

In a small meeting room on the first floor of the headquarters, Liu Mang summoned all 61 priests to gather here. He took the list and called out the names one by one. He used pure internal force to fight with each one who came up, and identified their cultivation through the feedback of the force. In just a cup of tea, Liu Mang got the result.

3 first-rate people and 58 top second-rate people!
Liu Mang frowned a little because the result was not ideal.

In his estimation, these people could reach the high-level second-rate or above by practicing ordinary skills. If they switched to advanced skills, at least ten of them should be able to break through to the first-rate level in terms of internal strength. If they spend a few more years improving their martial arts, they would be able to reach the lower-level first-rate level in terms of strength.

But he didn't expect that only two people had made a breakthrough in their internal strength, and some of them were just one step away from success. This was beyond his expectations.

He quickly asked what was going on. After an hour of questioning and discussion, Liu Mang analyzed the reason and found out it was due to age!

The cultivation of internal strength is divided into two parts. One is the accumulation of internal strength, the other is the connection of meridians. If you want to reach the first-class level, you must connect all twelve meridians to form a circulation.

However, the meridians are obstacles to the flow of internal force. The older you are, the stronger the obstacles. If you cannot open up the meridians within a certain age, and when the internal force accumulates to the upper limit of the current level, you will not be able to break through the obstacles, then you will no longer be able to rely on your own strength to open up the meridians.

Since his debut, Liu Mang has met several second-rate elderly warriors who broke through to the first-rate level. All of them broke through with the help of the world's correction force, which led him to ignore this problem!

Looking at the worshippers in front of them, whose average age is 50, there are not many young people. Most of them have already cultivated to the peak of the second-rate when they were recruited, and their internal energy accumulation has long been exhausted.

Changing to a more advanced Sanyang Gong only slightly enhanced the quality of the internal force, and the quantity could no longer be increased. Whether or not one could achieve a breakthrough depended on luck. After all, people could not be generalized, and some people would always have less obstruction in their meridians than others.

Liu Mang remained silent. After spending so much time and money, the result he was waiting for was just a matter of luck?

If he cannot break through the realm, his internal strength cannot continue to accumulate; if his internal strength cannot continue to accumulate, his realm cannot be broken through, and he will fall into an endless cycle! This is not a problem that can be broken through by pointing out some key points. Let alone that he is just Jue Ding, even if Jue Shi came, he could not solve the hardware problem by verbal guidance!
Now there is another way, that is, he uses his own powerful internal force to forcibly connect the twelve meridians for them, but this method consumes a lot of energy. With his skills, it would be very painful to connect one person in a year.
Liu Mang was confused. What should he do?
After thinking it over in vain, Liu Mang simply gave up thinking about it. Since he was already here, he might as well give them a lesson. With his guidance and some tips, everyone would be able to avoid some risks during their practice and accumulate internal strength much faster. At the same time, with his internal strength refining method as a top master, the quality of their internal strength could be improved while keeping the quantity unchanged, which would also increase their chances of breaking through to the first-class level.

The course lasted about a month. Everything that needed to be taught was taught and everything that needed to be tried was tried, but apart from breaking through two first-class marks, there were no other results.

Although Liu Mang was not satisfied, the priests were extremely satisfied. They had been employed for less than two years, and Chief Escort Lin had already trained four top-notch people. His guidance in all aspects was very detailed and easy to understand. Even their fathers had never taught them so seriously! The priests were so moved that they cried, and they wanted this heavenly life to last forever.

But the priests were not recruited here for free. They were paid 100 taels of silver per month, and of course there was work for them to do.

Their current job is to educate and train the existing idle escorts at the headquarters, as well as to train and integrate another newly recruited 1000-man guard team. Of course, the most important thing is to solve the serious supply work that requires experts from various parts of the escort agency.

However, as Liu Mang was eager to train them into first-rate masters, he temporarily suppressed the task of leaving Fuzhou City and only allowed them to leave the city to pick up their relatives to live there three months ago. For the rest of the time, he strictly ordered them to practice new internal skills, and only then did he force out two first-rate masters.

But now they have basically succeeded in the renovation. Those who can enter the first-class have already entered, and those who cannot can only see if they have any opportunities in the future.

Therefore, the backlog of tasks can be released. After nearly two years of full-paid training, he has been conscientious enough as a capitalist. Now, it is time for the worshippers to create some benefits for him. He does not ask for a return on investment, but only for them to have something to do and not worry about his training all day long!
While the priests were attacking the disobedient ones everywhere, Liu Mang, the chief escort, came to Zhongnan Mountain.

Mount Zhongnan, also known as Mount Taiyi, Mount Difei, Mount Zhongnan, and Mount Zhounan, or simply Mount Nanshan, is located in the middle section of the Qinling Mountains in the territory of Xinjiang Province, south of the ancient city of Chang'an (Xi'an). Mount Zhongnan starts from Mei County, Baoji, Shaanxi Province in the west and ends at Lantian County, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in the east. The terrain is difficult and the roads are rugged. There are five large valleys and more than a hundred small valleys, stretching for hundreds of miles.

But these are not the reasons why Liu Mang came here. He came here mainly because this is the holy place where the Quanzhen Sect of Taoism originated. Several hundred years ago, Wang Chongyang established the Quanzhen Sect here and built a Chongyang Palace. It was the number one sect in the world and enjoyed a high reputation in the martial arts world. The Chongyang Relics, which contained part of the Nine Yin Scriptures, were in the Tomb of the Living Dead not far from the Chongyang Palace!
But apart from knowing these, Liu Mang didn't know anything else. Not to mention that the ancient tomb could not be found, even the Chongyang Palace of Quanzhen Sect, which was once at its peak, could not be found. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, the former glory had long been buried in the earth. Today, there is no trace of Chongyang Palace in Mount Zhongnan.

Before coming here, Liu Mang guessed that it would be difficult to find, but he didn't expect it to be this difficult.

It was said that there was a pond connected to the ancient tomb, but after two months, Liu Mang searched dozens of ponds and found nothing, which made him doubt his memory.

After another month, Liu Mang finally searched all the ponds in Zhongnan Mountain after practicing martial arts every day, but he found nothing!
"How could this happen?" Liu Mang was very surprised. If you said that you found the ancient tomb and found that the stone carvings were corroded and disappeared, he could understand it. But it was strange that you couldn't find the place at all. It wasn't a crowded place, so it didn't make sense that the huge pool of water connecting to the ancient tomb would disappear.

Three months, a full three months, except for practicing, eating, and sleeping, he had been looking for it. Seeing that all his efforts were wasted, Liu Mang was so angry that his face turned black!

Unwilling to accept defeat, Liu Mang desperately thought about what he had overlooked. He had searched all the ponds without missing a single one, and it was indeed not the one he had missed. So could it be that the waterway had collapsed and caused the pond to disappear?

Liu Mang made a bold guess and thought it was possible, but if this guess was true, how should he search?

Hundreds of years have passed, and even if the pool of water was a huge deep pit at the beginning, it must have been filled up by the erosion of mud and water.

Even if the waterway collapsed late and the dried-up pool had not been buried by the soil, he would have no way of confirming whether it was the same pool as before. He couldn't just go down and dig if he saw one that looked like it. It would probably take at least ten or twenty years to get it!

Is there really no chance? Liu Mang was at a loss. He was a time traveler who knew many secrets that shocked the world. If he revealed any one of them, it would cause a stir in the martial arts world. But in the end, he couldn't use it?

The Chongyang Inscription cannot be found, and the Dugu Sword Tomb is also difficult to find, not to mention the Lingjiu Palace, which took even longer.

I came here with a cheat, but I can't show off in front of the characters anymore? Even if I'm destined to be invincible in the future, the wonderful times are over, and I can't find any acquaintances in the entire arena. His time travel is too unsuccessful!

Wait! A cheat? ! !
The Taixuan Sutra of Xiake Island, the cultivation method of the martial arts world, if you find it, you will take off. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find it.

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