The world begins with refining skills

Chapter 166 Hong Qigong

The next day, when the morning light was just breaking, Mu Sheng went to the yard as usual and took a breath of the purple air.

The purple air enters through the mouth and nose, falls into the dantian, and is refined into a wisp of golden true energy. It then flows from the dantian along the meridians to the entire body, penetrating into the flesh, blood, tendons and bones.

Red blood overflowed from Mu Sheng's body cells and blended with the golden internal energy to form a wisp of golden-red energy, which then gathered into his dantian through the meridians throughout his body.

Then it went upstream from the Dantian and rushed into the Nigong Pill. After being infected by the spiritual power in the sea of consciousness, it turned into Dragon Elephant Hunyuan True Qi, and then flowed back into Mu Sheng's body from the Nigong Pill, pushing his physical skills forward a little bit.

"It's still faster to swallow the morning glow energy. This breath is as effective as Hunyuan Swallowing the Sky absorbing most of the energy from heaven and earth for half a day."

Mu Sheng sighed as he sensed the invisible increase in true energy in his body.

Many people are misled by the extremely long time required to practice the Dragon Elephant Prajna Paramita Technique, thinking that if it takes so long then there must be no other thresholds.

Big mistake!

Diving will not raise a real dragon. It is like trying to fill a ten-cubic-meter bucket with eleven-cubic-meter water. The part that exceeds the capacity will automatically overflow.

That is to say, Mu Sheng had the help of the panel, otherwise in this world with scarce vitality, even if you practiced for a thousand years, you would never be able to reach the eleventh level of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra.

"Gah~gah~"

A black crow fell vertically from the sky, squatted on Mu Sheng's shoulder, and transmitted a series of images into his mind.

This was a habit that Mu Sheng developed in the world of Xiaoao. Every day, he would send his crow reconnaissance team to patrol within a radius of ten miles to prevent himself from being surrounded by a large army.

Even though it is no longer necessary now, the habit remains.

"Brother Eagle is five miles to the south. Wait, Brother Eagle, Ouyang Feng?"

"I was wondering what I forgot yesterday. It turns out I forgot the pendant on the Divine Eagle's leg. Don't let this old lunatic get lost again."

It’s not that Mu Sheng’s memory is bad. With his current mental strength, although he can’t remember everything he sees, it’s not much different. He simply didn’t take this matter to heart.

"Forget it, let's send a few mobile vision devices to look for him. It doesn't matter if we can't find him. Ouyang Feng has been drained by me anyway."

During these two months, Mu Sheng had already mastered all of Ouyang Feng's martial arts, including the Nine Yin Scriptures that he practiced in reverse, which could be considered a kind of martial arts experience.

As a result, Ouyang Feng became even crazier than before. In the original novel, he was able to recover from his madness after seeing Hong Qigong again, but now it is probably unlikely.

After finishing his morning exercises, Mu Sheng took a stroll to see the scenery of Jiaxing. When he came back, he was just in time for breakfast.

"Master, Uncle Guo and Aunt Guo asked me to invite you to have breakfast together." Yang Guo was waiting for him outside Mu Sheng's room.

"Treat me breakfast? Let's go, I'm hungry too."

Later, under the guidance of Yang Guo, Mu Sheng came to a small courtyard with unique landscape. This was the residence specially arranged by Lujiazhuang for Guo Jing's family.

When the two of them arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Guo Jing came out to greet them.

"Brother Mu, please come in." With a smile on his face, Guo Jing led Master Mu Sheng and his disciple through the garden to a pavilion.

There were a few other people in the pavilion besides Huang Rong. One was Guo Fu, who was dressed in red from head to toe. Next to her were Wu Xiuwen, who had a conflict with Yang Guo yesterday, and his brother Wu Dunru.

One of the brothers had blood oozing from his broken arm, and the other had a weak breath with noises. Their faces were paler than the other, and if you didn't know them well, you would think they were two tuberculosis patients.

Next to Xiao Wu and Da Wu were a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar and an old beggar in tattered clothes.

The former is the elder of Xiao Wu and Da Wu, and the latter is Lu Youjiao who has just taken over the position of the leader of the Beggars' Sect.

"Brother Mu, let me introduce you. This is Zhu Ziliu, a disciple of Master Yideng, the Southern Emperor, and a scholar who studies and fishes," Guo Jing pointed at the middle-aged scholar and introduced him.

Zhu Ziliu saluted Mu Sheng, not daring to be disrespectful. Then Guo Jing pointed at the old beggar and introduced him:

"This is the new leader of the Beggars' Sect, Lu Youjiao."

Lu Youjiao also hurriedly saluted. Even though he had basically confirmed that Mu Sheng was the murderer who destroyed the Jingzhou branch, he did not dare to express any dissatisfaction.

"This is my little girl Guo Fu."

"Guo Fu meets Uncle Mu." Guo Fu greeted Mu Sheng obediently, her two big eyes full of curiosity.

She went to take care of the two Wu brothers after they were injured yesterday. She did not see the evenly matched fight between Yang Guo and Dalba, nor did she see Mu Sheng's crushing destruction of King Jinlun.

But afterwards, she heard from many people how they could crush weapons with their bare hands and how their bodies could become indestructible, which was really hard for her to believe.

"These two are my two traitors," Guo Jing said, looking at the two Wu brothers and scolding them, "Why don't you come over here and kowtow to Brother Mu to apologize!"

The two Wu brothers did not dare to disobey Guo Jing, and reluctantly kowtowed three times to Mu Sheng.

Huang Rong, who was standing by, felt that she was about to get pregnant again when she saw the two of them acting like this. After the couple left Mu Sheng yesterday, she mentioned to Guo Jing about asking the two Wu brothers to apologize to Mu Sheng.

At first, Guo Jing wanted to wait until the injuries of the two men improved before making any decision, but she insisted again and again just to be more sincere so as to expose the matter.

She had also verified what Yang Guo said yesterday with Taoist Master Sun from Quanzhen Sect. Adding on what Lu Youjiao had told her overnight, she was even more certain of Mu Sheng's recklessness.

But the other party's martial arts skills are so terrifying that such a person can only be a friend, not an enemy.

As a result, these two losers gave her such a miserable situation. They are really hopeless.

"Hehehe"

Mu Sheng smiled and helped the two Wus up: "My two nephews, please get up quickly. Guo'er told me what happened yesterday. It was just a fight between children."

"But you two nephews need to exercise. Your bodies are as fragile as a piece of paper. Guoer told me that your arm burst without him even using any strength. He was so scared that he thought you were going to blackmail him."

Mu Sheng said this and patted Wu Xiuwen's shoulder with his broken arm. The muscles on Wu Xiuwen's cheek twitched continuously, and then he patted Wu Dunru's shoulder.

"You too, you should practice martial arts well in the future. As a disciple of Master Guo, your martial arts skills are so poor. Those who know you will think that you two are dull and don't work hard. Those who don't know will think that Master Guo is mistreating you."

"You are so petty!"

Huang Rong complained in her heart, and at the same time became more resolute in her judgment that she must not offend this person.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and thank Uncle Mu for his teachings," Huang Rong scolded the two.

"Thank you Uncle Xie Mu for your teachings," said Xiao Wu and Da Wu with red faces.

After the two of them expressed their gratitude, they were sent away by Huang Rong so as to avoid being an eyesore.

"What good kids! Look at them, their faces are red with shame. They must know they are wrong," Mu Sheng said to Guo Jing and others after looking at the direction the two men left.

Several people looked at each other, not knowing whether Mu Sheng was being sarcastic or mocking!
"Hehe. Hehehe." Huang Rong laughed awkwardly a few times, and became more and more disliked towards the two idiots, Xiao Wu and Da Wu.

"Brother Mu, come and try these dishes, they are all cooked by Rong'er herself." Guo Jing spoke up to break the awkward atmosphere. "Oh! Then I must taste them carefully, I have heard that my wife Guo cooks delicious dishes." Mu Sheng said with a smile, and then picked up a piece of fish and started eating.

Others also started to pick up their chopsticks, exclaiming in admiration from time to time, and soon all the dishes on the table were eaten up.

After breakfast, servants quickly cleared away the tableware and brought up tea and snacks.

"Brother Mu, I invited you here today to apologize to you and also to ask about your opinion on this Heroes Conference," Guo Jing said after pouring a cup of tea for Mu Sheng.

"I wonder if Brother Mu is interested in taking on the position of leader of the martial arts world and leading the martial arts heroes to resist the invasion of the Mongols?"

Guo Jing looked at Mu Sheng expectantly. Although Huang Rong asked him to ask this question in order to test Mu Sheng, Guo Jing hoped from the bottom of his heart that Mu Sheng could become the leader of the martial arts world.

After all, with Mu Sheng's martial arts that were like those of a god, the probability of successfully resisting the Mongols would increase several percent.

"Leader of the martial arts world?" Mu Sheng looked at Guo Jing in surprise and asked, "Why did you resist the Mongols, Mr. Guo?"

"Why?" Guo Jing didn't understand why Mu Sheng asked such a question. After thinking for a while, he said:

"Guo Jing grew up on the grasslands and knew the habits of the Mongols very well. If the Central Plains were occupied by the Mongols, there would be great suffering and the people would suffer miserably."

"Every citizen has a share of responsibility for the fate of a country. Although I am just an ordinary citizen, I am willing to do my part."

"In other words, Hero Guo chose to fight against the Mongols for the sake of the common people?" Mu Sheng continued to ask.

"Not bad!" Guo Jing nodded.

"Since it is for the common people, resisting the Mongols will be just scratching the surface and will be futile," Mu Sheng shook his head.

"Brother Mu, why do you say that?" Guo Jing asked in surprise.

Mu Sheng picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"The current imperial court has long been corrupt, and those high officials and nobles are addicted to pleasure and have no intention of resisting foreign enemies. In order to continue their happy life of singing and dancing, they even wantonly levy heavy taxes on the common people."

"Master Guo said that the Mongols would bring disaster to the people, but the people were already suffering before the Mongols arrived."

Mu Sheng paused for a moment, looked at each of them one by one, and then said word by word:

"In that case, wouldn't it be like scratching an itch if we just resist the Mongols?"

Huang Rong and Zhu Ziliu looked at each other and roughly guessed what Mu Sheng meant. Although it was a bit outrageous, it did fit their perception of Mu Sheng.
"What does Brother Mu mean?" Guo Jing asked uncertainly.

"It's very simple. Since this one doesn't work, just change it!" Mu Sheng said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Change to another one?" Guo Jing suddenly stuttered.

What to change? An emperor or a court?
Even though he already knew that Mu Sheng acted very recklessly, Guo Jing was still frightened by his thoughts.

On the contrary, Huang Rong and Zhu Ziliu showed an expression of "as expected". One of them was Huang Laoxie's daughter and didn't care much about these worldly rules.

One was a disciple of the Southern Emperor Yideng, and was not originally from the Song Dynasty, so he didn't care much about it.

On the contrary, Lu Youjiao and Guo Jing had similar reactions and were shocked by Mu Sheng's words.

"But. But"

Guo Jing didn't know what to say for a moment. He felt that his cognition had been constantly refreshed since he met Mu Sheng.

First, it was a non-human body, then the Taoist priest Qiu, whom he had respected for many years, turned into a cunning villain, and then he was told that if he wanted to save the people, he had to rebel.

This series of events made Guo Jing's already slow mind even more clumsy.

"Brother Mu, the Mongolian invasion is imminent. If we do something to change the world again, wouldn't that be fulfilling the Mongols' wish?" Huang Rong said when she saw Guo Jing was speechless.

"So we have to do two things at once. Hero Guo, you guys continue with your plan and organize the heroes to resist the invasion of the Mongols. I will let Guoer organize an uprising and overthrow this corrupt court."

"Once we have achieved some results, we can even provide you with food, fodder and manpower to support you in resisting the Mongols. It is probably hopeless to expect the current Dasong to support you," Mu Sheng said while painting a big picture.

"Me?" Yang Guo exclaimed in surprise before Guo Jing and others could react when they heard Mu Sheng's idea.

He just came to have breakfast, why was he suddenly assigned to revolt? He hadn't even brushed his teeth yet!

"Master, I can't do it," Yang Guo refused hurriedly.

"No, you can!" Mu Sheng said affirmatively: "Guo'er, your Yang family is a military family. Starting a rebellion is your family tradition!"

Yang Guo: ???
Guo Jing and others: ???
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?

“Master, shouldn’t the Yang family be descendants of loyal and good people?” Yang Guo said with an expression that said, “I am not well-educated, so please don’t lie to me.”

"Yes! How do loyal people come from? Isn't it because they fought for the country together with the founding emperor?" Mu Sheng said as a matter of course: "Then fighting for the country means overthrowing the existing, corrupt court and establishing a brand new country, right?"

"Isn't this the same as what you are going to do now? Am I wrong to say that this is your family craft?"

Mu Sheng's righteous look stunned everyone. They felt something was wrong but it also made sense, so they couldn't refute it for a while.

After a long while, Huang Rong finally spoke up: "Brother Mu, your suggestion is really too far-fetched. How about we consider it again?"

If someone else said this, she would definitely think that this person was a Mongolian spy, saying this to disrupt their military morale.

But it was different when it came out of Mu Sheng's mouth. After all, with this man's force, he could directly destroy them physically, without any unnecessary efforts.

"Okay! Then you can take your time to think about it!" Mu Sheng waved his hand and said, "Actually, you don't have to think too much. Just continue with your previous plan. Our actions will not conflict with each other."

"Ha ha ha ha ha."

How can there be no conflict? With uprisings everywhere in the rear, how can the front be stable?

"Gah~"

"Gah~"

At this moment, a black crow suddenly flew down from the sky and landed on the stone table in the pavilion.

"We found Ouyang Feng. There is an old beggar ten miles south of the city?"

"The two of them fought?"

"The fight is still fierce? What kind of old beggar is so powerful? Could it be Hong Qigong?"

　Almost missed it
　　
　
(End of this chapter)