Chapter 157 Huge Value

"What should we do? How should we respond?"

At the family meeting, everyone's faces were filled with anxiety and fear.

Yun Ming looked at everyone and took a deep breath, "Don't panic, we will definitely find a way.

I… I learned some crisis management techniques from the simulation world, so maybe I can give them a try.”

Everyone's eyes turned to Yun Ming, with suspicion and a hint of expectation in their eyes.

"Do you really have a way?"

someone asked.

Yun Ming nodded firmly, "I have confidence.

Although the simulated world and the real world are not exactly the same, I believe some of the strategies and ideas therein can be borrowed.”

Under Yunming's leadership, family members began to deploy according to the plan he proposed.

Utilize your clan's resources, cleverly arrange your defenses, and at the same time, look for your enemy's weaknesses and prepare for a counterattack.

The battle began, and the fierce artillery fire was deafening.

Yun Ming was at the forefront of the battlefield, his eyes full of determination and courage.

He continued to command his family members, using the tactics he learned from the simulated world to resolve the enemy's attacks time and time again.

"Everyone hold on! We will definitely win!"

Yun Ming shouted loudly, his voice like a huge bell, resounding throughout the battlefield.

Encouraged by Yunming, the morale of the family members was greatly boosted.

Close cooperation has brought out powerful combat effectiveness.

After a fierce battle, Yunming's family finally succeeded in repelling the enemy and won the war.

After the war, Yunming became a hero of the family.

He stood on the family castle, overlooking the land that had been ravaged by war, feeling a surge of emotion in his heart.

“It turns out that as long as you face it bravely, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome.”

Yun Ming whispered, a relieved smile on his face.

"Why do I practice so hard, but always feel like I'm missing something?"

Yun Ming sat alone in the secret room, his brows furrowed, his heart filled with resentment.

He looked at the secret book in his hand that was glowing with light. It was the Taoist skill he had worked so hard to obtain. He thought he could use it to break through the bottleneck, but now he had no idea.

By chance, Yun Ming heard some taboo rumors about cultivation in the city. One of them was a method of using the internal force of others to improve one's own cultivation, which deeply attracted him.

"If I could use pure inner strength, why would I worry about not being able to break through?"

Once this idea was planted, it took root in his heart.

Soon after, Yunming turned his attention to the orphans in the city.

In his eyes, these helpless children became the perfect "ingredients"

.

He came to the orphanage and looked at those skinny children. There was no pity in his heart, only calculation.

“Children, I am Yun Ming, a cultivator.

I see you have great talent, so I'd like to take you in as my disciples and teach you the Taoist techniques to help you escape this difficult life. What do you think?"

Yun Ming had a gentle smile on his face, but underneath that smile was endless coldness.

A child named Xiaohu stepped forward timidly. "Really? Can we climb walls and run across rooftops like the heroes and do good deeds?"

Yun Ming sneered in his heart, but nodded and said, "Of course, as long as you practice well."

In this way, Yunming began his plan.

He took the children to a hidden valley, which became a place for cultivation.

"From today on, you must practice according to the method I teach you.

Remember, on the path of cultivation, only through hard work can you achieve success."

Yun Ming said seriously.

The children nodded one after another, their eyes full of longing for the future.

I don’t know what fate awaits me.

As the days passed, the children gradually mastered the basics of some martial arts under Yunming's guidance.

Yun Ming was also observing in secret, looking for the most suitable "harvest"

opportunity.

"Master, I feel a warm current flowing in my body. Is it almost successful?"

Xiaohu ran up to Yunming excitedly and asked.

Yun Ming looked at Xiao Hu, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes: "Yes, Xiao Hu, you are indeed talented.

If you persist for a while longer, you will become a truly strong person."

However, as the practice progressed, some children began to experience symptoms of physical discomfort.

"Master, I've been feeling dizzy and weak lately."

A girl named Xiaohua said weakly.

Yun Ming frowned: "This is a normal reaction to cultivation. Just keep going."

He knew in his heart that the children's bodies could not withstand his radical training methods.

But he had no intention of stopping, instead he sped up his progress.

"Everyone, cheer up! Training doesn't allow for even the slightest slacking!"

He roared at the children.

Finally, the first child fell.

He was a boy named Shitou. He suddenly vomited blood and died while practicing.

"Master, what happened to Shitou?"

The children gathered around in horror.

Yun Ming looked at Shi Tou's body without a trace of grief in his heart: "He is too weak and cannot bear the pressure of cultivation.

Don't be afraid, just follow my instructions and you'll be fine."

Although the children were afraid, they continued to practice under Yun Ming's intimidation.

As time went by, more and more children had problems, but Yunming became more and more crazy.

He began to forcibly extract the children's internal energy and inject it into his own body.

"what!"

A scream came from the secret room. Xiaohu was pressed to the ground by Yunming and struggled in pain.

"Master, why are you doing this?"

Xiaohu's eyes were full of despair and anger.

Yun Ming had completely lost his mind at this point: “In order to become stronger, I have no choice.

Your inner strength is pure and crucial to my breakthrough."

Under Yunming's crazy extraction, Xiaohu's body gradually became shriveled and eventually he lost his life.

After absorbing Xiaohu's internal energy, Yunming finally made a breakthrough in his cultivation.

“Haha, I finally succeeded!”

Yun Ming laughed loudly towards the sky, his laughter echoing in the valley, full of madness and greed.

However, his evil deeds did not escape the eyes of others.

An old cultivator named Qingfeng heard about this and decided to come and stop Yunming.

"Yunming, you are a cultivator, yet you have done something so injurious to Heaven and Earth. Today, I will enforce justice on Heaven's behalf!"

Qingfeng held a long sword and glared at Yunming.

Yun Ming looked at Qing Feng and said with a disdainful smile: "Just you? Do you think you can stop me? My strength has greatly increased now. You are no match for me."

"Good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished. Today is the day you die!"

After Qingfeng finished speaking, he attacked Yunming.

The two men immediately engaged in a fight, with sand and rocks flying in the valley.

Yun Ming's strength was indeed extraordinary due to the internal strength he obtained from the children, but Qing Feng was very experienced and it was difficult to determine the winner for a while.

"Yunming, if you turn back now, it's not too late."

Qingfeng advised while fighting.

"Look back? I've paid so much, how can I look back?

Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving alive!"

Yunming attacked frantically.

Just as the two were fighting fiercely, the surviving children rushed out from nowhere.

Although weak, his eyes were filled with hatred.

"Master, return our companion's life!"

The children rushed towards Yunming with their crude weapons.

Yun Ming looked at these children and felt a little panic in his heart: "You little devils, get out of here!" But the children did not retreat and rushed towards Yun Ming regardless of danger.

Under the children's attack, Yun Ming's moves began to show flaws.

Qingfeng seized the opportunity and stabbed Yunming with a sword.

Yun Ming was unable to dodge and was stabbed in the chest by the sword.

"No!"

Yun Ming let out an unwilling roar, and his body slowly fell down.

In a deep mountain range shrouded in rolling clouds and mist, there is a seemingly ordinary Taoist temple.

The wall of the Taoist temple was a bit dilapidated, and a few tenacious weeds grew in the cracks of the stones.

This is the "home" of hundreds of orphans

, and it is also a place where rigorous training is received.

Yunming, a cultivator with special abilities, stepped into this mysterious mountain one day.

He had a slender figure, his black robe fluttering in the wind, and his eyes were sharp and shrewd.

Yunming was walking through the mountains and forests when he suddenly heard a steady stream of shouts. He followed the direction of the sound and discovered this Taoist temple hidden in the mountains.

"What is this place? Why are there so many children's voices?"

Yun Ming said to himself.

He quietly approached the Taoist temple and saw a shocking scene through the gap in the wall.

Hundreds of children were undergoing arduous training in an open space. They were dressed in tattered clothes, looked pale and thin, but they were mechanically performing various movements under the command of an old man in a Taoist robe.

"one two three four……"

The Taoist priest shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice filled with unquestionable authority.

"What are you doing?"

Yun Ming was full of doubts.

At this moment, a child fell to the ground due to exhaustion.

"You're useless! You can't even handle this little bit of hardship!"

The Taoist priest immediately rushed over and kicked the child.

"Master, I... I really have no strength left."

The child cried and begged for mercy.

"No strength? Then get up and keep practicing! Otherwise, I'll take you away!"

The Taoist priest's eyes widened with anger.

The other children watched this scene in horror, not daring to make a sound, and could only speed up their movements.

Yun Ming was shocked and realized that there must be something wrong here.

He decided to find a way to enter the Taoist temple and find out what was going on.

That night, Yun Ming used his special skills to sneak into the Taoist temple quietly.

He came to where the children lived. It was a large, dilapidated house where the children slept huddled together and the air was filled with a foul smell.

Yunming gently woke up a child who looked more clever. The child opened his eyes in fear and almost cried out when he saw Yunming.

Yun Ming quickly covered his mouth and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you.

I just wanted to ask you a few questions.”

The child nodded tremblingly.

"Why are you here? Why is this Taoist priest training you so harshly?"

Yun Ming asked.

“We are all orphans, taken in here by the Taoist priest.

He said that as long as we practice well, we will have a bright future.

But the training was too hard, and if we didn’t perform well, we would be taken away, and no one ever saw those children again.”

The child whispered, fear in his eyes.

"Practice? Practicing what?"

Yunming continued to ask.

"Practice internal strength. The Taoist priest said that if your internal strength is strong, you can become a strong person."

The child replied.

Yun Ming's heart moved, and he realized that the internal strength of these children might have great value.

He decided to stay and see if he could find a way to utilize this internal energy.

In the next few days, Yunming secretly observed the children's training.

He discovered that although these children lived in poor conditions, the quality of their cultivated internal strength was far superior to that of adults.

"These kids are born with the talent to cultivate. If I can use their internal energy for my own benefit, my strength will definitely increase significantly."

Yunming was secretly calculating in his mind.

So, Yun Ming began to use his special methods to harvest the internal energy of these children.

He would only choose one or two children at a time, and absorb their internal energy silently while they were sleeping.

When the children woke up the next day, they felt weak all over and had no idea what had happened.

"Why do I feel so tired?"

A child said to his companion next to him.

"Me too. Is it because the training is too tiring?"

Another child replied.

He didn't know that his internal energy had been secretly absorbed by Yun Ming.

As time went by, Yun Ming discovered that the quality and quantity of internal strength varied among children of different ages.

He decided to separate the children by age so that he could better utilize his inner strength.

"Younger children have less internal energy, but it's purer in quality; older children have more internal energy.

I want to treat them differently.”

Yunming had a plan in mind.

He began to sort the children, putting the younger ones in one area and the older ones in another.

Then, he increased the intensity of harvesting the children's inner strength.

The children's health is getting worse and worse, and they are fainting more and more frequently during training.

The Taoist priest noticed something was wrong with the children and began to investigate the cause.

"What's going on? Why are the children getting worse and worse?"

The Taoist priest frowned, his heart full of doubts.

Yun Mingde felt a little nervous when he learned that the director had started an investigation.

He decided to strike first and confront the Taoist priest.

One night, Yunming came to the Taoist priest's room.

The Taoist priest's face changed when he saw Yunming suddenly appear.

"Who are you? Why are you in my Taoist temple?"

The Taoist priest asked cautiously.

"Master, stop pretending.

I know you have more than just a purpose in training these kids here."

Yun Ming said coldly.

"What are you talking about? I took these kids in so that they can acquire some skills and gain a foothold in the martial arts world in the future."

The Taoist priest argued cunningly.

"Hmph, a special skill? I think it's to utilize internal energy."

Yun Ming ruthlessly exposed the Taoist priest's lies.

The Taoist priest's face turned pale and red. He didn't expect that his secret was discovered by Yun Ming.

"Now that you know, I won't hide it from you.

That’s right, I just want to use my internal energy to improve my strength.

But what does it matter? What can you do to me? "

The Taoist priest said viciously.

"Do you think I'm afraid of you? I came here today to tell you that these children's internal energy will belong to me from now on."

Yun Ming said domineeringly.

"You? You think you can steal my achievements?"

The Taoist priest laughed in anger.

"Then give it a try."

After Yun Ming finished speaking, he used his special skills to attack the Taoist priest.

(End of this chapter)

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