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Go! It would be best if everyone went!

In a short time, the seven major banners, which inherited the battle formations of the Five Elements Banners and knew a little about military training, dispatched tens of thousands of trained followers from all over the Ming Dynasty to cross the sea and launch a distant attack on Luzon Island.

Accompanying them were tens of thousands of wicked people from all walks of life, including heretics, evil cultists, and local bullies.

Although Luzon Island has not yet developed much land and has a relatively small indigenous population, there are still quite a few people living there.

After the demonic cult arrives on the island, they will definitely occupy these developed areas first, which will harm the interests of the natives, making resistance inevitable.

The subsequent dispatch of tens of thousands of vicious villains and heretics was to deal with these natives. After all, there were real benefits involved. As long as they dared to resist and were a little ruthless, they could easily take over tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

In the Central Plains, to acquire ten thousand acres of fertile land, one wouldn't even dream of it without a hundred thousand taels of silver. Such a good opportunity is too rare to be missed; who could resist its allure?

Furthermore, land will be distributed to a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains in the future, as long as they pay taxes.

It was said that there were tens of thousands of vicious villains. After the news spread, there were more than that. Many people were eager to join the fight. Naturally, the more from the Demonic Sect, the better. These people would deal with the troublesome natives and then bring in a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains, making them easier to control.

The local government was also happy to welcome them; with these thugs gone, the local security level instantly improved.

The scale of the Naval Battle Hall also expanded further. When there were not enough sailors, Ren Yingying wrote a letter and immediately transferred thousands of members with excellent swimming skills from the Sea Sand Gang, the Great River Gang, the Canal Gang, etc., which was more effective than the imperial court.

The entire Demonic Sect was busy, and Li Mu took advantage of the free time to return to Mount Hua.

After all, it's been almost a year since I went down the mountain, so I need to go back and talk to Yue Buqun about some things and give him an explanation.

On the Demonic Sect's side, Li Mu used the excuse of seclusion to avoid seeing anyone except Ren Yingying and Qu Feiyan. He quietly descended Blackwood Cliff, traveling at his own pace, experiencing the hustle and bustle of the world, and it took him almost half a month to return to Mount Hua.

Upon returning to the mountain, a lively scene unfolded. Looking at the eleven lost sword manuals from the Five Sacred Mountains Sword Sects that Li Mu had brought back, including three sword manuals from the Huashan Sect that had been lost, Yue Buqun was dumbfounded.

Finally, the two had a deep conversation, during which Li Mu explained the origins of these sword manuals and his general experiences over the past year.

Even with Yue Buqun's composure, his mind went blank for a moment. He supported Ren Woxing's daughter to become the leader of the Demonic Sect, allowing the sect to transfer its power overseas.

His most favored disciple had actually colluded with a demoness from the Demonic Sect, and even helped her become the leader of the Demonic Sect. She even used the alias Li Mu to hide behind the scenes and control the entire Demonic Sect's direction.

Although doing so would indeed greatly benefit the righteous path of the martial arts world in the Central Plains, as the demonic sect would devote its energy to overseas affairs, it would naturally have less energy to cause trouble in the Central Plains and would no longer compete with other sects in the martial arts world for resources.

However, he still found it hard to accept for a while. Before he knew it, his little disciple had become entangled with a demoness from the demonic sect.

But we have no choice but to accept it.

At this point, it was too late to say anything, and he couldn't possibly betray his own family for the greater good. This disciple's actions could be described as succumbing to the allure of the demoness, or as offering himself to the demon, venturing deep into the demon's lair, and through the demoness, reducing the harm the demonic sect inflicted on the Central Plains martial arts world and the people of the Ming Dynasty. In Buddhist terms, this was a great act of merit.

After a moment of confusion, I gradually calmed down and, having no choice but to accept reality, began to consider how to handle the aftermath and minimize the impact of this incident on Mount Hua.

In the end, Yue Buqun accepted Li Mu's plan. From then on, he had two identities: one was Lin Pingzhi, a disciple of Mount Hua, who had no connection with the Demonic Sect and was undoubtedly one of the righteous young heroes.

Another peerless master who returned from overseas, Li Mu, had no connection with the Huashan Sect or Lin Pingzhi.

Considering that he won't be staying at Mount Hua for much longer and will mostly appear as Li Mu, it would be best if the influence of the identity of Lin Pingzhi could be faded away, and he could become just another ordinary person, so that no one would remember him.

Fortunately, Li Mu rarely appears in the martial arts world. The last time he publicly appeared in the martial arts world as Lin Pingzhi was four years ago in Hengyang City, which was also his first public appearance in a major setting.

He did not participate in the two biggest events in the martial arts world afterward: the Five Mountains Alliance and the Battle of Shaolin Temple.

Although his fame in the martial arts world soared after he vanquished evil in the north three or four years ago, making him a renowned young hero, the martial arts world is always in flux, with new talents constantly emerging and young heroes being the most abundant.

He hasn't shown his face in the martial arts world for three or four years, and there have been no reports of him performing chivalrous deeds. His reputation has begun to fade.

All that's left is to remain silent.

Li Mu stayed at Mount Hua for a month before quietly returning to his home in Fuzhou. His younger sister, Lin Huizhi, was already over nine years old and quite mischievous. Their mother had begun to lay the foundation for her by teaching her martial arts.

After staying at home for more than two months, Lin's parents urged him to get married, so he had no choice but to leave. He wandered the martial arts world for more than a month before returning to Blackwood Cliff.

The next six months passed uneventfully. He spent his days playing the zither and flute with Ren Yingying and reading various martial arts manuals, which was quite fulfilling.

Luzon Island has been captured after nearly a year of campaigning by the Demonic Sect.

Due to the sharp decline in the indigenous population and the need for a large number of people to reclaim the land, the Demonic Cult is now organizing a large fleet of ships to migrate.

Although the world is relatively stable today, the large-scale population growth has overburdened the land, making it difficult to support such a large population. In particular, in the densely populated central plains, large numbers of refugees frequently flee famine with their families.

These refugees fleeing famine are both a burden and a destabilizing factor for local governments, so it's naturally good if someone is willing to take them in.

As a result, a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains were sent to Luzon Island by fleet to reclaim wasteland.

The Ming court was naturally aware of this, but instead of stopping it, it even fueled the flames.

After all, the downfall of dynasties throughout history was invariably due to overpopulation, which the land could not support, leading to widespread famine and large-scale uprisings.

The cult's actions also greatly benefited the Ming Dynasty. Sending refugees and starving people overseas not only reduced instability but also alleviated the population burden on the Ming Dynasty.

If the lower classes don't go hungry, they naturally won't risk rebelling, which is equivalent to extending the life of the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 581: The End and the Return

In the blink of an eye, another five years have passed. Li Mu is now twenty-eight years old and has been in this world for sixteen years.

Over the past five years, having tasted the benefits of overseas expansion, the Demonic Cult has devoted most of its resources overseas, while the Ming Dynasty has become a population base, providing the Demonic Cult with trained followers and a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains.

Having acquired vast resources overseas, they no longer coveted the petty gains in the Central Plains, especially since they had to compete with the righteous forces there. The manpower and resources they wasted could yield ten or even a hundred times the return overseas.

As a result, the Demonic Sect abandoned many petty gains, much to the delight of the righteous sects in the Central Plains. With fewer conflicts of interest, the contradictions between the two sides naturally decreased. The Demonic Sect focused its energy overseas, and any evil or unorthodox practices that emerged in the martial arts world were also deployed overseas to play a role. Over the past five years, the fighting in the martial arts world of the Ming Dynasty has decreased dramatically, and a rare period of peace has emerged.

In the past five years, although the Demonic Sect has stopped causing trouble and showing its strength in the Central Plains, it has grown larger and larger with the support of so many overseas resources, especially overseas, and has become a dominant force in Southeast Asia.

In the past five years, the evil cult has not only immigrated millions of people to Luzon Island and reclaimed tens of millions of acres of fertile land, but has also begun to launch a large-scale invasion and plunder of Southeast Asia, which is just a stone's throw away.

Borneo, the largest island in Southeast Asia and also the largest island in the world, was taken over by the evil cult without any effort three years ago.

This island, which is larger than the combined areas of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui provinces, is sparsely populated and mostly covered by virgin forests, making it difficult to develop.

However, the Demonic Sect also organized 500,000 immigrants from the Central Plains to reclaim wasteland in some suitable places.

Borneo is the center of Southeast Asia. In the past three years, the Demonic Cult has launched a vigorous campaign against surrounding forces, with Borneo as its center. After three years, most of the forces in Southeast Asia, large and small, have either submitted or been destroyed, except for a few troublesome ones.

These islands combined were even larger, and after their occupation, the Demonic Cult also brought in immigrants from the Central Plains. However, due to the short duration of the occupation, only a little over 300,000 people were transported over.

However, with a little training, under the leadership of the Demonic Sect, they were able to firmly control and dominate the various islands.

In addition, there is Australia. Under Li Mu's leadership, the Demonic Cult sent a fleet there only one year after occupying Borneo, that is, two years ago.

The entire continent was almost completely barren, with hardly any people or any powerful forces entrenched there.

In the past two years, immigrants have also been sent from the Central Plains, but because it is too far from the Ming Dynasty, only a few hundred thousand people have been immigrated in two years, and only a dozen or so strongholds have been built along the coastline.

The cult, which had almost conquered the entire Southeast Asia and Australia, was now thriving.

Not only did the righteous martial arts world benefit from this, but the entire Ming Dynasty also benefited from it.

Those refugees and starving people who fled famine were relocated overseas, greatly alleviating the burden on the Ming Dynasty. In the past, famines frequently occurred in various places, causing widespread starvation, but now this is almost non-existent.

The absence of starving people in the countryside was a rare sight of prosperity for a feudal dynasty, and many officials flattered the emperor, praising him as a sage incarnate.

Not to mention, population pressure and land pressure have always been the biggest contradictions of feudal dynasties. Now that the population pressure has been relieved, the contradictions between various classes in the Ming Dynasty have also been greatly reduced.

Furthermore, whenever notorious villains, thugs, scoundrels, or heretics appear in various places, the evil cult, which demands such talents, immediately uses various means to bring them overseas to deal with the natives who dare to resist.

As a result, public security in various places has greatly improved, which can be considered a rare and prosperous scene.

Li Mu also got married; his wife is Ren Yingying.

After all, it's hard for a man and a woman living alone together to avoid something happening. Four years ago, after Ren Yingying became pregnant, they didn't have a big celebration. They only invited a few high-ranking members of the Demonic Sect with whom they had good relationships to have a simple affair.

As the leader of the Demonic Sect and the most powerful woman in the world, Ren Yingying is always surrounded by grand occasions wherever she goes, so she doesn't care about such things.

She is now a mother of two, having given birth to a son and a daughter for Li Mu, and the two get along quite well.

However, not everything goes smoothly.

Whether by fate or some other reason, while they were at Mount Hua, although Junior Sister Yue Lingshan was close to Li Mu, their relationship had not yet reached the point of romantic love. However, ever since Li Mu left Mount Hua and rarely returned, his relationship with her has changed.

Yue Lingshan's feelings for him seemed to have changed. Every time she went back, she would cling to him, her eyes full of affection. Sometimes, after he left, she would even lose her appetite for several days in a row.

Yue Buqun had initially intended to matchmake Linghu Chong with Yue Lingshan, but after that long talk, he learned about Linghu Chong's entanglement with Ren Yingying and gave up on that idea. Seeing that his daughter was getting on in years, he decided to matchmake Linghu Chong with Yue Lingshan.

Yue Lingshan had no feelings for Linghu Chong, only treating him as an older brother, which made Linghu Chong depressed for a long time.

Yue Buqun did not force the issue, but it was clear that his daughter was getting older and was determined to marry Li Mu, otherwise she would be alone for the rest of her life. Yue Buqun was in a dilemma.

I want to tell my daughter that her senior brother Lin is married, using the alias Li Mu, and that his wife is Ren Yingying, the powerful leader of the Demonic Sect, but I don't know how to tell her.

Li Mu now has two identities, which are known only to Ren Yingying, Qu Feiyan, and Yue Buqun.

If news were to spread that Lin Pingzhi, a disciple of Mount Hua, had joined the Demonic Sect under the alias Li Mu and married its leader, it would undoubtedly cause a massive uproar.

Yue Lingshan knew nothing of this; she only knew that he liked Senior Brother Lin. Before, Li Mu was on the mountain all year round, and they saw each other every day, so she didn't realize it. But since Li Mu came down the mountain, the two of them could only see each other once a year, and she missed him more and more.

Looking at Yue Lingshan, who seemed destined to live a lonely life, Yue Buqun sighed deeply, as if he had come to terms with it.

So when Li Mu returned to Mount Hua, Yue Buqun had a deep talk with him, asking him what to do about his identity as Lin Pingzhi, a disciple of Mount Hua, since he had been using the alias Li Mu in the Demonic Sect, and what would happen to the Lin family's lineage.

This is indeed a problem. As Li Mu gets older, Lin's parents are pressuring him to get married more and more, as they also want to have a grandchild as soon as possible.

After a long talk with Yue Buqun, Li Mu also discussed the matter openly with Ren Yingying. He said he wouldn't mind marrying another woman, but he would also consider Ren Yingying's opinion.

Ren Yingying thought of how Li Mu was willing to abandon his identity and use an alias for her. She knew that Lin Pingzhi, the disciple of Mount Hua, was still alone and lonely, and that his parents were pressuring him to get married. As the leader of the Demonic Sect, she couldn't be like an ordinary woman, dutifully serving her in-laws and raising children.

They couldn't even tell them, because if they knew their son had married the infamous leader of a cult who could stop a child's tears, they might be terrified.

After all, it was normal for men to have multiple wives and concubines in ancient times.

As the first wife, Ren Yingying should appear reasonable. So what if she marries another concubine? It's no big deal!

That's how it was decided.