The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Becomes a Disciple of Yue Buqun

After seeing Yue Lingshan, Lin Pingzhi bowed respectfully.

He is older than Yue Lingshan, but he still calls Yue Lingshan "senior sister".

Yue Lingshan put away her sword, looked at Lin Pingzhi and asked curiously, "Junior Brother Lin, what's the matter?"

Lin Pingzhi said: "I want to go back to my hometown, so I came here to ask Master for advice. Is Master here?"

"Oh."

Yue Lingshan nodded, and then said: "My father is not here. He and my mother went to Zhengqi Hall to discuss matters with Uncle Feng and the others."

Upon hearing this, Lin Pingzhi bowed and said, "In that case, I will take my leave first and not disturb you from practicing sword skills."

"it is good."

Yue Lingshan nodded.

Lin Pingzhi turned and left in a hurry.

Arriving at Zhengqi Hall, Lin Pingzhi found Yue Buqun, Feng Buping and Cheng Buyou discussing something outside, while Ning Zhongze was listening quietly on the side.

Seeing this, Lin Pingzhi did not go in, but waited outside for them to finish their talk before going in to ask for instructions.

"Junior Brother Feng, isn't it a little too quick to make such a decision?"

main hall.

Yue Buqun picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then smiled.

Feng Buping frowned and said, "Brother, Zuo Lengchan's evil ambitions are obvious. He failed to merge with Huashan Sect last time. I'm afraid he will attack Huashan Sect again soon. We must strengthen our strength as soon as possible, speed up the recruitment of disciples, and develop Huashan Sect. Only in this way can we resist Zuo Lengchan's conspiracy."

"Ah."

Yue Buqun nodded, confirming Feng Buping's statement, but then he said: "I know Zuo Lengchan's ambition, and I also agree that we should develop Huashan Sect as quickly as possible, but is it a bit too hasty to set the time for recruiting disciples to once a year?"

At this time, Yue Buqun and Feng Buping were discussing the specific time for Huashan Sect to recruit disciples in the future.

Feng Buping thinks that the Huashan Sect is too weak now, with too few disciples, and that he needs to speed up the process and quantity of recruiting disciples, preferably recruiting 300 people at a time. Yue Buqun, however, thinks that haste makes waste.

"Why is Junior Brother Feng so anxious?"

Since the Huashan Sect began recruiting disciples some time ago, it now has more than a hundred disciples, which is much more than before, and it can no longer be considered a decline in population.

You have to know that the Hengshan School has only about two hundred people.

Feng Buping shook his head and said, "Brother Yue, it's not that I'm anxious, but the strength of my Huashan Sect is much weaker than that of Songshan Sect."

"Senior brother, you don't know something."

Feng Buping paused, then continued, "The Songshan Sect is very powerful now, with nearly 800 disciples."

These numbers were told to him by people from the Songshan School.

When he and Cheng Buyou were living in seclusion in the mountains, Cong Buqi brought people from the Songshan Sect to find him and persuaded him to take over the Huashan Sect and merge it into the Songshan Sect, and he mentioned the strength of the Songshan Sect.

Among the Five Mountains Sword Sects today, the Songshan Sect has the largest number of members and the most masters.

The second is the Taishan Sect. Apart from Tianmen Taoist, there are also some people with great martial arts skills among the other Yuzi generation in the Taishan Sect, and there are more than 400 disciples.

There are about three hundred disciples in the Hengshan Sect, followed by the Hengshan Sect, and finally the Huashan Sect.

When hearing the number of disciples of Songshan Sect, Yue Buqun's expression couldn't help but become solemn.

"If Zuo Lengchan really wants to annex Huashan Sect, we will be no match for him."

Feng Buping said, looking somewhat worried.

Yue Buqun frowned.

"Junior Brother Feng, don't worry too much. You and Junior Brother Cheng may not know that Hengshan Sect has decided to unite with my Huashan Sect."

Yue Buqun then told her about his conversation with Master Dingyi.

"Master Ding Xian, the head of Hengshan Sect, has already known about the Songshan Sect's plot to annex the Five Mountains Sword Sect. She sent a letter to me some time ago, saying that Hengshan Sect and Huashan Sect will watch over each other and jointly resist Songshan Sect."

Two months after Master Dingyi returned to Hengshan, the letter from Hengshan Sect was delivered. It was a handwritten letter from Master Dingxian.

In the letter, Master Ding Xian was very grateful to Yue Buqun for selflessly returning the lost sword skills of the Hengshan Sect. At the same time, she was shocked and angry about the Songshan Sect's conspiracy to annex the Five Mountains Sword Sects. Finally, she said that the Hengshan Sect would stand together with the Huashan Sect to fight against Zuo Lengchan's conspiracy.

"what?"

Feng Buping was surprised, then delighted.

Although the number of people in Hengshan School is not as large as that of Songshan School, their Hengshan Sword Formation is very famous. The seven female disciples can work together to fight against masters with high martial arts skills.

Yue Buqun smiled and said, “Although Zuo Lengchan has already attacked our Five Mountains Sword Sect, and now many people in the Hengshan Sect and Taishan Sect have secretly turned to the Songshan Sect, I don’t think Mr. Mo Da and Taoist Tianmen will agree to his merging with the sect.”

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Chapter 162: An Old Friend Visits

Chapter 162: An old friend visits

"Although the Songshan Sect is stronger than our Huashan Sect, since he wants to merge, the other three sects will not sit idly by."

After reaching an alliance with the Hengshan Sect, Yue Buqun planned to contact Mr. Mo Da and Tianmen Taoist again. As the leaders of the sects, they would definitely not agree to Zuo Lengchan's merger. They were Yue Buqun's natural allies.

Feng Buping's idea is to use the Huashan Sect alone to fight against the Songshan Sect, but Yue Buqun feels that it is unnecessary. No matter how fast the Huashan Sect develops now, it will not be able to catch up with the Songshan Sect in a short period of time. Instead of strengthening the Huashan Sect, what he should do now is to unite the other three sects.

Although Yue Buqun also wanted the Huashan Sect to grow quickly, he knew that such a thing could not be rushed. The development of a sect could not be accomplished overnight, otherwise there would not have been only dozens of disciples in the Huashan Sect over the past twenty years.

Feng Buping was persuaded by Yue Buqun.

"So, how often do you think it would be best to recruit disciples?"

Yue Buqun thought for a moment and said, "Let's set it to once every three years. The number of students to be recruited each time will be determined based on the actual situation."

This timing was decided after careful consideration. Among the disciples recruited some time ago, the oldest ones are almost ten years old. In three years, they will be thirteen. At this age, people from ordinary families can get married if they are a little older.

Three years is enough time for this group of disciples to grow up, and it will not be too late to recruit more disciples by then.

There are now more than one hundred disciples in the Huashan Sect. Excluding the new children, there were originally thirty-eight disciples. However, Lao Denuo had died heroically in the fight against bandits, and his grave is still in the back mountain. Now there are only thirty-seven people left. Together with the five disciples brought by Feng Buping and Cheng Buyu, there are a total of forty-two disciples with combat capability.

Among these forty-two disciples, Jiang Ning and Linghu Chong have already reached first-rate strength, while others like Lu Dayou, Yue Lingshan and others have made rapid progress after almost a year of training.

After the internal assessment last month, Ying Bailuo, Shu Qi, Yan Songnian and Gao Gen Mingqiaojun had made some progress in practicing Hun Yuan Gong in May of this year. Their internal strength has reached the second-rate standard. Coupled with their mastery of the Five Mountains Sword Technique, their actual combat effectiveness is also above the second-rate level.

These five people made faster progress in practicing Hunyuan Gong than other disciples, so naturally they improved faster than others.

Next on the list are Yue Lingshan, Lin Pingzhi, Du Lanyin, Tao Jun, Liang Fa, Lu Dayou and Shi Daizi, who also recently reached the second-rate standard in terms of internal strength.

Up to now, Huashan Sect has six first-rate masters and twelve second-rate masters.

Although the other twenty-eight disciples were still at the third-rate realm, they were also practicing very hard, getting up early and going to bed late every day, and their progress was not slow.

Moreover, these twenty-eight Huashan disciples do not have only third-rate combat power. They all have the sword techniques of the Five Mountains Sword Sects. With these sword techniques, their actual combat power will be raised to a higher level.

For example, the two disciples under Feng Buping, they looked down and out when they first came to Huashan, but their fighting power was not weak at all. After all, they were disciples of the Sword Sect before, and the Sword Sect took a quick-success approach, emphasizing swords rather than qi. Although their internal strength was a bit weak, their actual fighting power was already comparable to, or even able to defeat, some second-rate masters.

This is the current strength of Huashan Sect. Although it has fewer disciples than the other Five Mountains sword sects, its quality is higher than the other four sects. You should know that the second-generation disciples of the other four sects are all third-rate. As of the year before last, the other four sects could not even produce a second-rate second-generation disciple.

Moreover, Huashan Sect has now accepted dozens of children as its members. When they grow up, the strength of Huashan Sect will grow rapidly.

"Ok."

Feng Buping thought about it and felt that his previous schedule of once a year was indeed a bit hasty.

Seeing that Feng Buping and Cheng Buyu finally had no objections, Yue Buqun smiled and looked outside the door.

"Ping'er, come in."

He had seen it when Lin Pingzhi came, but he only had time now.

At this time, Lin Pingzhi had been waiting outside for a while. After hearing Yue Buqun's voice, he hurried in.

"Disciple greets Master, Master's Wife, and two uncles."

Lin Pingzhi saluted the four people.

The four nodded, and Yue Buqun asked, "Master, I see you have been standing outside the door for a while. What's the matter?"

Lin Pingzhi looked a little nervous and said, "Master and Senior Brother, thank you for helping me to avenge my disciple. Now that I have avenged my disciple, I want to go back to my hometown to comfort my parents' spirits in heaven and move my parents' graves back to their ancestral land at Hengshan. I hope Master will allow me to do so."

Yue Buqun was a little surprised when he heard this, but then he understood Lin Pingzhi's thoughts and nodded.

"You should have this intention. You should go back."

Lin Pingzhi looked delighted.

"Thank you, Master."

Yue Buqun thought about it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "The world outside is in chaos now. It may be dangerous for you to go down the mountain alone. I will go with you when the time comes so that I can take care of you."

Lin Pingzhi was shocked.

He originally wanted to go down the mountain by himself, but he didn't expect Yue Buqun to actually plan to accompany him.

Lin Pingzhi was about to thank him when Ning Zhongze, who had been silent, spoke softly.

"Brother, your injury has not healed yet. You have been drinking tonic soup for a month but there is no improvement. I am afraid that the long journey will not be conducive to your recovery. Let others accompany Ping'er on the journey."

Yue Buqun's expression froze. He turned his head and met Ning Zhongze's meaningful eyes.

Upon hearing this, Lin Pingzhi hurriedly said, "How dare I trouble you, Master? I'd better go alone."

Yue Buqun was about to speak when Cheng Buyou suddenly said, "Brother, let me accompany him down the mountain."

Cheng Buyou has had nothing to do during this period of time. He has been practicing martial arts in the mountains every day. His martial arts have reached a bottleneck, and he is planning to go down the mountain to travel and hone his mind.

"Ok."

After hearing Cheng Buyou's words, Yue Buqun had no choice but to agree.

"Ping'er, let your uncle Cheng go down the mountain with you. Be careful on the road."

Lin Pingzhi quickly said, "Yes, Master."

Then he bowed to Cheng Buyou and said, "Thank you, uncle."

"Ah."

Cheng Buyu nodded.

The next day, Lin Pingzhi brought the mutton-fat jade artifacts and Cheng Buyou down the mountain with a smile on his face.