The road is vague

Chapter 198 Ten Years Flag
The treasure ship returned all the way to Anbei County City.

The first group of people from Daqian who were brought back were about seven or eight hundred people.

But this is definitely not all. There are still many people who are not in Cangyuan Stone City and need follow-up search and rescue by military personnel.

Before leaving.

Jiang Feiyan hosted a banquet for Li Mo in a luxurious restaurant in Anbei County.

"Haha, Senior Sister, I'm sorry to have cost you money!"

Li Mo looked at the delicious food in front of him with great delight. This meal would probably cost at least dozens of taels of silver, which was considered luxurious even for a cultivator in the foundation-building stage.

He immediately started to eat with relish.

"Little Junior Brother, why are you being so polite to me?"

Amidst laughter and joy, the two ate and drank their fill before reluctantly saying goodbye.

Li Mo then took Ma Xuanji back to Bai'an County.

Compared with the prosperity and wealth of Anbei County, Bai'an County only has a few prosperous central trunk roads. There is an essential gap between the two sides, but Li Mo is already satisfied with it.

"After all, this is just a peaceful little county town."

For the next two months, Li Mo continued his comfortable life in the city.

On the one hand, he was here to digest the gains from this mission, and on the other hand, he was preparing to refine a set of six disasters and six tribulations matrix puppets.

Time flies, and it is mid-December in the blink of an eye.

The inspectors who were sent to Xiaoyue County returned to Tianmingsi in Bai'an County one after another.

Although this mission was not dangerous for the flag bearers and inspectors, they were all exhausted.

The order given above is that no human traffickers should be spared and that criminals must be deterred to the greatest extent possible.

Therefore, these inspectors conduct door-to-door investigations almost every day.

As the general flag of the Tianming Division of Bai'an County, Li Mo immediately paid for a big meal for everyone out of his own pocket to celebrate the successful completion of the mission.

Next.

After two months of preparation, Li Mo stayed at home for several days in a row. He used the fur and tails of the demon rats he harvested during his trip to Nanman Cangtian to refine two different top-grade magic weapons.

Two top-grade magical instruments, the Earth-walking Boots and the Thought-breaking Whip.

The Earth-walking Boots were made by Li Mo using the bamboo rat spirit's natural earth-walking skills. They are very effective for concealment, escape, and sneak attacks.

The Thought-Breaking Whip is an advanced version of the Binding Rope. It has a whip-like effect on the spiritual consciousness and can also bind the target, making it weak and unconscious.

Li Mo was very satisfied with these two magical weapons.

Next, he began to comprehend the "Huang Tong Neijing" and tried to create his own "Li Mo Neijing". At the same time, he classified the spiritual bamboos he harvested on this trip in order to make the most of them when refining the matrix puppet.

At the same time, he took the time to refine a set of flag formations.

After returning to the master's sect, it can be placed in the cave to protect the Arhat Bamboo.

The evening moon is coming.

Li Mo drove the white jade flying car back to Lingmu Gate. After sending a sound transmission talisman to Lu Cuicui, he immediately went to the cave of his master Lu Qi.

After confirming that his master was in seclusion, he came to the Shenshu Square where Lu Cuicui was already waiting.

"You're back."

Lu Cuicui looked at Li Mo affectionately and said with a smile, like a wife who had been waiting at home for a long time.

Li Mo smiled slightly.

"Ah."

He raised his head slightly and glanced at the Qingling sacred tree. He felt that the beauty of the lady under the tree was particularly moving.

"Some time ago, I heard that something big happened in your Anbei County Tianming Division, and even the military was alarmed?"

"It's true that a major incident has occurred. Cases like this don't happen for years. Almost all the inspectors in Anbei County have been mobilized..."

The two walked and talked until they arrived at the back mountain.

Li Mo quickly found a temporary cave that had been abandoned for a long time.

In front of the cave, there is a small garden. Although it is not suitable for growing delicate medicinal herbs, the requirements for Arhat bamboo are not that high.

So he quickly set up the flag formation here, and together with Lu Cuicui, planted eighteen thousand-year-old bamboos here, and buried some iron essence and copper essence.

Lu Cuicui looked at these exotic spiritual bamboos with admiration in her eyes.

"I still have quite a few ordinary spiritual bamboos here. If you need them, I can give you some."

"Need not."

Upon hearing this, Lu Cuicui smiled and shook her head.

"My research direction of puppetry is to apply it to civilian use. I have to do everything I can to save costs, so I don't need these precious spiritual bamboos at all."

Li Mo nodded and took her into his arms.

“While striving for your ideals is commendable, you should not neglect your spiritual practice.”

"I know... woo."

Both of them were very passionate, and after a passionate kiss, they naturally entered the cave.

After a passionate moment, Li Mo looked at the shy beauty in his arms, and recalled the exciting scene just now, and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you one thing. I have been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building."

"When did this happen?"

Lu Cuicui, who had already collapsed with exhaustion, immediately climbed up, gently covered her snow-white and plump chest, and looked at Li Mo in disbelief.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival."

Lu Cuicui looked at Li Mo in a daze.

This speed of cultivation is really unbelievable and too exaggerated.

You should know that to advance from the early stage of foundation building to the middle stage of foundation building, not only a huge accumulation of mana is required, but also facing the middle stage bottleneck. Seventy percent of the foundation building cultivators in the sect are in the early stage.

Li Mo has now been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building, which has surpassed 70% of the foundation building practitioners in the sect.

"You were at the foot of the mountain, frequently carrying out various missions. How could you have accumulated so much mana in just eight years? That's fine, but how did you overcome the bottleneck in the middle stage?"

Lu Cuicui still felt like she was in a dream, and a complicated look flashed in her eyes.

The gap between the two is getting bigger and bigger.

"It must be due to my state of mind. During these years at the foot of the mountain, I never encountered the so-called stagnation of my mana. At the same time, as my alchemy skills continued to improve, I accumulated more and more pills. So I used the accumulated contributions from my master to exchange for the spiritual herbs needed for alchemy. In one go, I cultivated my mana to the peak of the early stage of foundation building. With the help of an auxiliary pill, I successfully advanced to the middle stage of foundation building..."

Lu Cuicui listened to Li Mo's story.

From the initial stage of foundation building to the middle stage of foundation building, in Li Mo's words, it seemed as if everything happened naturally. A trace of inferiority flashed in her eyes. She was no longer the ignorant little girl when she was in the training hall. She couldn't help but slowly lowered her head.

Li Mo didn't notice this and was still immersed in the excitement after the joy.

"I'll leave this cave's auxiliary formation plate to you. Please help me take care of the Arhat bamboo here."

"OK."

……

the next day.

Li Mo first reported the cave where he planted the Arhat bamboo according to the requirements of his master.

After visiting Senior Brother Wei Cang, he then visited Chen Rong and Nie Zhen of the Alchemy Hall, and finally found Tao Ran. His wife, Zhao Huaxue, had been transferred to the Dharma Protector Hall after advancing to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

"Senior Brother Li Mo!"

"Junior Brother Tao Ran!"

Tao Ran, who was cultivating spiritual medicine in the spiritual field, quickly ran over after receiving Li Mo's sound transmission note. After the two exchanged greetings for a while, Li Mo asked about the business.

"I came here this time because I want to ask you something."

"But it doesn't matter!"

Li Mo nodded and smiled.

"While I was out on a mission this year, I collected some bamboo shoots. I'd like to grow some for long-term cultivation. Is there any way I can help?"

"Arhat Bamboo? Wait a minute!"

Tao Ran took out a book from his storage bag and began to look through it carefully.

Soon he reaped the rewards.

"Arhat bamboo originates from the Jin State. There are three ways to cultivate it. One is to place a large amount of materials containing gold and silver essences at the roots and wait for them to sprout naturally. Another is to have a Jindan-stage cultivator from the Jin State's Joyful Temple chant the Joyful Mantra for seven days. The third is to water it with shrubby jade dew."

Li Mo heard this and thought for a moment.

Of these three methods, he seems to be able to implement only the first one.

"Brother Li, don't panic. I happen to have a few unused bottles of Wood Alcohol Jade Dew. The so-called Wood Alcohol Jade Dew is the sap of high-grade spiritual trees. Its value itself is not high, but because it is only used by spiritual plant cultivators and rarely known to outsiders, the market price is very high. You must not waste your money."

Say it.

Tao Ran took out five jade bottles and handed them to Li Mo with a smile.

But how could Li Mo really believe that these wood-mellow jade dews would be worthless as the other party said, so after a brief thought, he took out a few spiritual bamboos and gave them to Tao Ran.

"In that case, I won't be polite. These spiritual bamboos are something I accidentally obtained while on a mission. They can be used to refine wood-attributed magical instruments. You may be able to use them when you cultivate spiritual plants in the future."

The two smiled at each other and chatted for a while before Li Mo said goodbye and left.

Next.

Li Mo came to the training hall and issued twenty tasks in a row, all of which required collecting metal fragments of magic weapons, with a deadline of half a month.

Once a magical weapon is broken, it has almost no value except for the refiner recovering some of the metal essence.

After he returned to the cave.

Disciples from the training hall came one after another to accept tasks.

After Li Mo explained his specific task requirements one by one, it was now the turn of these disciples to find a way to collect the fragments of the magic weapon.

As for whether to go to the market at the foot of the mountain to find a way to buy it and make a profit, or to look for it in some ancient battlefield, it was not something he could interfere with.

Then Li Mo poured five bottles of Muchun Yulu on the roots of the bamboos according to Tao Ran's request.

After the eve of the moon.

Tender green bamboo shoots emerged from the roots of the Luo Han bamboo, and there were more than a hundred of them.

Immediately afterwards, the disciples of the Training Hall delivered various magical instrument fragments to Li Mo one after another. Since the task conditions offered by Li Mo were quite affordable, the number of magical instrument fragments he obtained far exceeded his expectations, and many of them were purchased from the disciples of the Refining Hall.

Until the mission is completed.

Li Mo gave all the magic weapon fragments he had collected to Lu Cuicui, and went to Anle City with her. After two days of routine sightseeing, he returned to Bai'an City on a white jade flying car.

……

Time flies.

After eliminating the Baiyue Organization, Bai'an County has been vigorously developed, people's livelihood is thriving, the people are full of vigor, various public security cases are becoming less and less, and people are full of hope for the future.

Therefore, this has become a comfortable small town suitable for living in the eyes of many wealthy people in Anle City.

Some wealthy businessmen who were tired of the intrigues in Anle City began to build holiday villas and summer estates near Bai'an City, so that they could bring their families to relax and have fun during the holidays. This indirectly boosted the wineries, restaurants, pastry shops, and textile businesses in nearby towns and villages, and also kept the post station flights relatively full.

The next two years.

Li Mo celebrated his thirties in the comfortable environment of Bai'an City.

As people reach thirty, they lose their childishness.

Li Mo was nurtured by the customs of the people in Bai'an City, and his mind gradually became upright and simple, his character became firm and masculine, and he was determined to protect this beauty and fight against chaos and evil.

There are nearly a thousand small counties of various sizes within the territory of Daqian.

Bai'an County is very ordinary among these districts and counties, and can be said to be insignificant, but in Li Mo's heart for the past thirty years, it has been the center of the world.

Before he knew it, Li Mo had returned to his hometown and served as the general flag officer for ten years.

He could not summarize the rain, snow, wind and frost of the past ten years with just one word, "hard practice" like the inner disciples on the mountain.

He has accumulated too many unspeakable profound insights in the mundane world and the ordinary.

He was born and raised here, went to another place for his ideals, and returned to govern and build his hometown after completing his studies. Finally, he absorbed the cultural landscape here, which laid the foundation for his state of mind and personality.

Dressed in a simple silk dress, Li Mo strolled along the street.

People come and go on the street.

He looked at the people in the city, who were constantly working hard to achieve the better life they dreamed of. He seemed to be influenced by them and was unwilling to slack off even on his birthday.

So after playing for a while, he returned home and continued to practice hard.

……

On Qingming Mountain.

"Everyone."

In a secret cave somewhere, Sima Fu looked at everyone.

"Ten years have flown by in a flash. In the past ten years, the noble families have neither attempted a second breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage nor come to negotiate. These indecisive and dull people will only lead our sect into a slow death. It's time to activate our original plan of forming a blood alliance."

Kang Lie and Chu Xin from the Law Enforcement Hall, Qian Jing from the Talisman Making Hall, Wang Tienan from the Weapon Refining Hall, Zhou Yi from the Four Seas Hall, Qin Yue from the Treasure Hall, Han Mu from the Advanced Training Hall, and Xu Chen from the Supervisor Hall...

In addition, there are also several golden elixir priests.

The Earthly Branch Fairy Wang Xiyue, whom Li Mo knew, and the dead-fish-eyed monk who guarded Lingquan Pavilion were among them.

Everyone showed a solemn and resolute look.

"Wang Wenhai's lifespan is drawing to a close. It's time to use that Golden Core Stage Yang Shou Dan. He only needs to maintain the balance of the Alchemy Hall. Junior Brother Lu Qi has been in seclusion for several years and I believe he has adjusted to his best condition. It's time to wake him up and activate his original plan."

Sima Fu took a deep breath.

"Time waits for no one. Lingmu Clan's thousand-year plan, its survival, depends on me, and I will fight with all my might!"

Ten years of rain, snow, wind and frost is a long time for mortals.

But for many Jindan cultivators, it is just a matter of going out to do a few things and meditating in seclusion for a few times.

Over the long years, their closest relatives have long since died, and their former children and nephews have no idea how many generations have passed, and there is no family relationship between them.

In this vague and fleeting sense of time.

The so-called rising and setting of the sun and the moon, the waxing and waning of the moon, the blooming and falling of flowers, birth, old age, sickness and death have completely faded out of daily life.

They are no longer able to gain insights, improve their state of mind, and grow from the secular world.

Only through the long vicissitudes of life, exploring the secrets of ancient history, peeking into the national structure, and understanding the general trend of the world, can one further elevate one's state of mind, comprehend deeper truths, and practice to a higher level.

(End of this chapter)