The road is vague

Chapter 54 Zhao Huaxue

Like the curtain call of a farce, everyone left.

Tao Ran's face looked quite ugly. Ye Fuhu's attack not only defeated Lu Tianyou, but also made him wake up from his dream and realize the gap in strength between the two sides.

"Ye Fuhu is already on the sixth floor."

After sighing, Tao Ran's face became gloomy and he said goodbye to Li Mo.

Li Mo signaled Ma Ling, Niu Li and Yang Guang to go first, and he came to Lu Tianyou and sat with him.

Before I knew it, the sky gradually darkened.

Li Mo said nothing, but just stayed quietly beside Lu Tianyou. Lu Tianyou began to cry loudly, like a helpless child, and kept slapping his thighs.

"I lost."

He spoke in as calm a voice as possible.

"Why did I become that kind of person before? I really regret it now. I shouldn't have acted so cynical. When I think about all the stupid and childish things I did before, I want to strangle myself. How could I have been so stupid, ignorant, and childish before!"

Li Mo felt the same way.

Although he was not as outrageous as Lu Tianyou, he had done many things that made him regret it when he thought about them now.

"One summer when I was little, my mother took me to town to be an apprentice. When we were almost there, I pestered her to buy me a string of candied haws. She disagreed, so I ran away in anger. She chased after me, calling out to me over and over again. I hid in the woods, watching her anxiously. Finally, when it got dark, she cried helplessly, and I began to regret it, so I left the woods. I looked at my mother's sad tears, and I thought that I was probably the same as you are now."

Li Mo was not being sentimental, he was just telling his own childhood experience, the story of when he was twelve years old.

Lu Tianyou lowered his head with a look of pain on his face.

"She must be very happy to have a son like you."

"No, she wasn't happy. It's hard for country people to live past sixty years. She died of illness from long-term overwork after my father passed away. She spent her entire life saving fourteen pieces of silver for me, which is less than one and a half spirit stones, just so that I could suffer less in the future and marry the girl I love."

Lu Tianyou fell silent and said nothing more.

Li Mo's words suddenly made him feel that he was too artificial and ashamed to speak.

After a long time.

After Li Mo and Lu Tianyou left this place together, a flash of light appeared in the darkness, and a middle-aged female cultivator with single eyelids retracted her handkerchief-shaped magic weapon and appeared.

Next to this middle-aged female cultivator stood a young female cultivator with stunning beauty.

These two people are none other than Ye Qing and Ye Yimeng, the hall masters of the Jinxiu Hall.

"Are you sure you want to keep him? Why not just kick him out? Otherwise, what if he comes to bother you again in the future?"

"never mind."

Ye Yimeng shook her head.

"My father wrote to me. He said this is normal and that I should face it with a normal attitude. Everything I experience here will be a valuable asset in my future life. He encouraged me to actively integrate into this place and experience everything here. He will send someone to give me a mask as a gift for my eighteenth birthday in a while."

After hearing this, Ye Qing's expression changed slightly, and she couldn't help but reveal her admiration.

"Maybe... he's right."

Ye Yimeng looked into the darkness in the distance.

"Is what that man just said true? I remember his name was Li Mo. Is the life of ordinary people in Daqian Kingdom really as hard as he said?"

Ye Qing was unable to give an answer to this question.

She was silent for a moment before responding, "At least he had a great mother, just like your father. How could those who pursue external spiritual roots understand that childhood experiences are also a kind of opportunity for us, which will determine our future spiritual qualifications. It is judged solely by happiness. A good childhood experience can greatly reduce the risk of our inner demons, while a bad childhood experience requires a lifetime to heal."

"Ah."

Ye Yimeng smiled happily when she heard this.

……

After returning to the dormitory, Li Mo lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Just as Tao Ran was deeply shocked, the scene of Ye Fuhu holding a battle axe and chopping Lu Tianyou with force kept appearing in his mind.

After a long time.

Li Mo sat up from the bed and glanced at the time.

It was already two quarters past midnight. As the quilt slipped off his body, he stood up, lit the oil lamp, picked up his storage bag, and counted the spirit stones inside.

The temperature in January was a little cold, but Li Mo didn't care.

"There are still 248 spirit stones in total."

It is now the beginning of January, and the year-end evaluation is still two months away.

He originally thought that with his eighth-level Qi training level, getting a top three score in this assessment would be a piece of cake for him.

After all, according to past practices, for second-year disciples, the cultivation level is generally still the third or fourth level of Qi training. A few outstanding disciples can have the fifth level of Qi training, but there are only a few people who can reach the sixth level of Qi training.

He can rely on his advantage in magical power to overcome all obstacles and secure a top three result.

But Ye Fuhu's performance today gave him a heavy blow.

With Ye Fuhu's strength, even if I win against him, it will probably be a miserable victory.

The opponent's magic weapons and secret techniques were too powerful, and coupled with his excellent martial arts foundation, even though I was two levels higher than him in magic power, I still felt tremendous pressure.

What's more, Jiang Sheng, the man with the Three Yang Body from the Jiang family, seems to be even stronger than Ye Fuhu.

"Before witnessing Jiang Sheng's true strength, no matter how much preparation we make, it's not too much. After all, the humanoid puppet is an external means, with certain limitations, and it may be restrained. I should at least prepare two low-grade magic weapons, or one mid-grade magic weapon. It would be best to prepare a secret spell to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

With the two hundred and forty-eight spirit stones that Li Mo had, it would be no problem to purchase two top-quality low-grade magic weapons, or one mid-grade magic weapon.

But he was also fascinated by Tian Fen's secret thunder technique.

After all, with his current physique after taking and refining two Creation Pills, even if there are some side effects from the secret thunder technique he mentioned, it should be within his tolerable range.

"Spiritual stone!"

All problems encountered during the cultivation process ultimately cannot be avoided without spiritual stones.

Half a month later!

Li Mo went to the market at the foot of the mountain more frequently. After a long wait, he finally met a lucky herbalist who brought a century-old snow spirit grass and was selling it on the roadside.

Li Mo immediately surrounded it and used his spiritual eyes to identify the quality and age of the spiritual medicine.

After some bidding, he finally bought the Snow Spirit Grass, which was about 150 years old, for 180 spirit stones, and carefully put it into a jade box to prevent the loss of spiritual power.

Unfortunately, the spirit stones he had left were not enough to buy the auxiliary spiritual medicines for refining the Qi Gathering Pill.

"Borrow money... Let's go to Wang Feng first!" On the way.

Li Mo suddenly stopped and looked ahead in surprise. Zhao Huaxue was blocked by a silk ribbon magic weapon cast by a beautiful female cultivator.

"Foundation-building monk!"

Li Mo was shocked.

This female cultivator who exudes the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Stage is obviously not a cultivator from the Lingmu Sect. If there were not so many disciples watching here, he would have considered turning around and leaving.

Zhao Huaxue's eyes were filled with anger and hatred.

"This is the Lingmu Gate of Daqian Kingdom. What do you want to do?"

The beautiful female cultivator chuckled softly upon hearing this.

"Why? I have a pass and I'm here to see my daughter. What can the people from Lingmu Sect say?"

Zhao Huaxue gritted her teeth.

"I'm not your daughter!"

"Cluck, cluck, cluck."

The female cultivator was so enchanted with laughter that she didn't take it seriously.

"The people of the Yu Kingdom's Goddess Palace not only cultivate the power of Yuan Yin themselves, but also pass on a portion of this mysterious aura to their female descendants. Although the Yuan Yin Qi in you cannot be replenished, as long as it remains in your body, it is an elixir in the eyes of those male cultivators. They will subconsciously flock to you and constantly show their affection to you. As you grow older, this feeling should become clearer, right?"

Everyone around was shocked when they heard this.

Zhao Huaxue's face was filled with shame and anger.

"Hehe, instead of practicing here and not knowing which man will get you rich in the future, why not follow me back to the Goddess Palace to practice the Goddess Secret? Mother will definitely find you a perfect husband in the future."

Goddess Palace?
Li Mo was shocked!
In his ethereal dreams, he often heard the murmurs of the Goddess Palace. Could it be the sect behind this female monk?

"Stop dreaming!"

Zhao Huaxue held the ice sword magic weapon and let out a heart-wrenching roar, tears in her eyes.

"You are such a vicious person, you even spared your own flesh and blood. Don't think I don't know that you are from a black market organization. You used that organization to sell my brother to the territory of Qian Country. I will definitely find him!"

The beautiful female cultivator still didn't care when she heard this.

"Who made him possess the Nine Meridians Spirit Body? The Goddess Palace doesn't accept male disciples. I am also saving him. We, the people of Yu Country, pursue the great path of bliss. Otherwise, if those people from the Fallen Immortal Palace find out, how can he survive?"

She showed a sad expression, and laughed softly, which seemed real or fake, and it was hard to tell whether she was good or evil.

"Hahaha, if he's lucky enough to be noticed by some sacred mountain land in Daqian Country, he might be able to achieve great success in the future."

Li Mo listened to the conversation between the two and was speechless.

This is not the Palace of the Goddess, it is simply the Palace of the Evil Woman, it sounds so evil.

The State of Yu was one of the six major countries in the Central Plains, and its pursuit was the path to bliss.

There are countless handsome men and beautiful women in the various immortal palaces and sects in the territory, and all of them are good at dual cultivation. However, some of them are orthodox in harmonizing yin and yang, while others forcibly take the other party's cultivation to replenish yin or yang. What's worse, they can confuse the mind and make people become puppets of the monks of the Yu Kingdom without knowing it. They are extremely insidious and vicious.

Some sects in the Yu Kingdom used this as a means to control many monks from small countries as their minions, or to develop vassal organizations in other big countries.

The black market organization that Zhao Huaxue mentioned is obviously a powerful secret organization.

However, the Qian State and the Yu State did not have direct hostility. The distance between the two countries was not close, and they had always kept to themselves.

I didn't expect Zhao Huaxue to have such an identity and background.

No wonder so many monks flocked to her and behaved a little abnormally. Li Mo's doubts were resolved.

By comparison.

Ye Yimeng's attraction to male cultivators is normal. Although many people covet her beauty, they are able to restrain themselves.

Of course, except Lu Tianyou.

At this time.

A Lingmu Sect Foundation Establishment Stage uncle with an overbite, a big mouth, a burly build, and a tough demeanor, rushed down from the mountain with a dozen disciples from the Dharma Protector Hall after hearing the news.

"Who are you, sir, and why are you stopping our disciples at the foot of Lingmumen Mountain?"

"Hehe, hello, fellow Daoist. I am Gong Huarou, the goddess of Yu State, and I have come to visit my lost daughter. I miss her so much, and I hope you will forgive me. This is the pass from the Daqian State Pass Bureau."

Upon hearing this, the tough and outspoken master uncle frowned slightly and looked at Zhao Huaxue again.

After the two Foundation Establishment cultivators exchanged ideas for a while, the Dharma Protector finally waved his hand, signaling everyone to disperse.

Seeing this, the disciples of Lingmu Sect who were watching left one after another.

……

After Li Mo returned to his master's sect, he first came to the hall and received a daily rotation task.

He now wants to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, saving wherever possible.

When he saw that the rotation task was to go to the fish pond in the ancestral hall to feed the fish every three days, he couldn't help laughing.

"This mission is so relaxing!"

Immediately afterwards, Li Mo found his good friend Wang Feng.

"Wang Feng, I have something I want to ask you for help."

"You're welcome what?"

Although Wang Feng said this, he had a vague guess in his heart.

Li Mo smiled and said, "I have a hundred-year-old spiritual medicine here. I want to refine another furnace of Qi Gathering Pills, but I still lack some spiritual stones to buy auxiliary spiritual medicines. I want to borrow fifty spiritual stones from you. Do you think it would be convenient?"

Fifty spirit stones is not a small number, equivalent to five hundred taels of silver.

"Haha, it's a small matter!"

Over the past two years, Wang Feng has gotten to know Li Mo's character and abilities, and has great trust in him.

"How about this? I'll treat it as an investment partnership. If you succeed in refining the elixir, you can give me a share. If you fail, it will be considered a failure of my investment. How do you say that?"

"Row!"

Upon hearing this, Li Mo readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)