Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 302: Not raising their wages would only temper their character!
Although Chunyang Palace is the big brother of all forces in the martial arts world, it is not the sect with the largest number of disciples.

From the time when Chunyang was founded by Lu Zu to the present day, which has been nearly a hundred years, the entire sect, including the third and even fourth generation disciples, has only three or four hundred people in total.

Among these three to four hundred people, only seven to eight percent can really serve as combat forces when an accident happens to the sect. The remaining two to three percent are all newcomers who have only been in the sect for three to five years and have not yet mastered their skills.

Prior to this, in order to guard against possible enemy attacks, most of the disciples in Chunyang Palace were gathered together in Taiji Square, ready for battle.

But as Qi Jin brought back the news, Li Wangsheng announced that nothing had happened and asked his disciples to go back. Most of the disciples who had gathered here dispersed.

However, there are still some disciples who do not have any complicated homework today and choose to stay here, intending to talk, take a walk, practice sword skills, and exchange martial arts with their brothers and sisters.

When Lu Ping followed Li Wangsheng and Yu Rui up, he happened to see a group of Chunyang disciples gathered in twos and threes, some meditating, practicing swords, some sweeping snow, and raising cranes. It was very lively.

It looks similar to the tour group that took a winter tour in the Cultural Park...

At the same time, the Chunyang disciples also noticed Lu Ping who was walking with Li Wangsheng and Yu Rui, and they began to whisper to each other.

Chunyang disciple A: "Look, who is that person? We have never seen him before in our sect!"

Chunyang female disciple B: "Oh, oh, oh!! What a young and handsome boy! Which sect is he from?"

Chunyang Junior Disciple C: "How could an ordinary disciple be accompanied by the Sect Master and Uncle Yu Rui in person? I think he might be a member of the royal family?"

"Why would someone from the royal family come to our place? In my opinion, he should be related to the sword energy that surged into the sky just now!"

"Sword energy of that level is difficult even for the head of the sect to use. Do you think a junior can use it?"

"That's hard to say. What if he is a rare sword genius? I heard that the sword master back then also became famous in one battle when he was a teenager."

The Chunyang disciple D who was speaking seemed to have great admiration for the famous Sword Saint. When he mentioned this matter, his face was filled with reverence.

"Speaking of the famous sword competition, have you heard the news? This year, Cangjian Villa and Badao Villa jointly held the 'Sword Competition'..."

"I heard that three people will form a team and compete for the title. The winner will not only receive a prize, but also a pair of peerless swords. It's so exciting!"

"Winning martial arts competitions and competing in the martial arts world is what our new generation of knights should be like, instead of growing vegetables and raising cranes on the mountain all day and living on that little salary..."

"Do you think the headmaster and the uncles will agree to let us go down the mountain to participate in the competition?"

At this point, the discussion suddenly quieted down, and then several Chunyang disciples sighed at the same time, obviously having anticipated the outcome.

The voices of their conversation were carried along by the mountain wind and into the ears of Lu Ping and the other two.

Lu Ping asked curiously, "Are the salaries of disciples of Chunyang Palace very low? I remember that your sect is very rich, right?"

"Nothing!"

Li Wangsheng was visibly feeling guilty, and he raised his voice by several decibels, "The monthly salary that the disciples of Chunyang Palace receive is more than enough for daily expenses and social interactions!"

"Besides, those who practice Taoism should be pure-hearted and indifferent to fame, wealth and fortune. They should not take money too seriously. Once they save too much money, their disciples will be easily tempted by worldly things and eventually lose control and go astray."

"I deliberately didn't raise their salaries, just to temper their character!"

"Those disciples who complain about this still don't understand my good intentions..."

Lu Ping was immediately filled with respect when he heard this.

This old Li is indeed a dishonest guy!!
After a pause, Lu Ping asked another question.

"Just now, your disciples mentioned that in three months, Cangjian Villa and Badao Villa will jointly host a 'Sword Competition'. I wonder if Chunyang Palace is interested in participating?"

Li Wangsheng pondered for a few seconds and expressed his attitude towards this competition: "Swordsmanship competition..."

"The attitude of Chunyang Palace is that it does not prevent its disciples from participating. Whether or not one can win an invitation to participate in the competition and what rank one gets after the competition depends entirely on one's ability."

"Before this, Cangjian Villa did send a few competition tickets to Chunyang Palace, but due to various considerations, I did not directly distribute those competition tickets to my disciples."

Lu Ping was curious when he heard this: "Oh? Then how does Sect Leader Li plan to deal with this?"

"I plan to use them as prizes for this year's sect's annual meeting." Uh...

So your consideration is that there will be nothing to present at this year's annual meeting, right?

Don't you think it's shabby to use competition tickets as prizes?
Lu Ping finally understood that Old Li had no ulterior motives at all. He was simply thinking about "recycling" and saving money for the sect's annual meeting this year!

But I have to say that this is the way to be a capitalist.

Fortunately, I am not a member of the Chunyang Sect, otherwise even the leader of this sect would be stingy, and the disciples would have to get a salary of three thousand and do work worth nine thousand?

"Master Li, Master Qingxu, didn't you two say you would take me to visit Chunyang?"

"Yes, Taiji Square belongs to Chunyang Palace, you must come!"

Lu Ping looked around and nodded, saying, "This place does have a wide view and beautiful scenery, but there is no road ahead."

This is the real world, not the game "Fingertip Jianghu", so there are no teleportation stones on Tai Chi Square that can teleport to other places.

"Hehehe... Who said there's no way? That's it!"

Li Wangsheng shook his head, chuckled softly, and brought Lu Ping to the edge of the square.

Tai Chi Square is located on a high ground, on the top of a mountain, and on another mountain opposite it, there is another building.

The two are far apart from each other, with no road or suspension bridge in between for passage. They are simply connected by a flying rope. If one is not a person with great martial arts skills, one can only stand on the Tai Chi Square and look on, unable to find a way to enter.

Lao Li pulled Lu Ping to the rope, obviously wanting to take this route.

Lu Ping looked into the distance for a while and estimated that there was at least thirty or forty feet between the two peaks, so he asked, "What's that over there?"

Yu Rui stepped forward and answered, "That's Guanwei Pavilion."

"Guanwei Pavilion...?"

"It is where the Taoist scriptures of Chunyang Palace are stored."

Yu Rui paused after speaking, and then added, "As I said before, I have also put in the box the fragments of the Pure Yang Book that Master discarded in Huashan, which I collected from my disciples."

Lu Ping suddenly realized: Isn’t that equivalent to the Sutra Library of Shaolin Temple?

Since the Chunyang Taoist Canon is stored inside, I believe that some of the Chunyang Palace's martial arts secrets must also be collected in it. Is it appropriate to tell myself this?

"Do I have the honor to see the Pure Yang Taoist Canon?"

Yu Rui smiled and shook his head: "Young man, you really think too much. We are just passing by and we are not going in."

As expected, these books are the treasures of Chunyang Palace and cannot be shown to anyone casually!

But Lu Ping still had doubts in his heart: "If that's the case, why do we go this way?"

Li Wangsheng replied: "Because it's close."

Well, the reasons are impeccable.

The distance of thirty or forty feet between the two mountains was a piece of cake for Lu Ping and his three companions, and they could fly over it easily.

Lu Ping also witnessed for the first time the Chunyang Palace's light skill - the Eight Steps Chunyang.

The effect of the Great Qinggong is almost the same as in the game. One can fly at least dozens of feet at a time. Combined with the Pure Yang technique that cultivates both inside and outside, when practicing the technique, one is filled with true Qi and has a profound Taoist aura. One really has some of the postures of Lie Zi riding the wind.

In other words, Lu Ping has made some progress in practicing the Water and Wind Step, otherwise he would have been surpassed.

Under the shocked gazes of the Chunyang disciples, Lu Ping and the other two acted nonchalantly and flew from Tai Chi Square to Guanwei Pavilion one after another.

When taking off, Lu Ping could still vaguely hear the exclamations coming from behind him.

(End of this chapter)