Martial God Development Plan

No one said anything and just quietly watched the beautiful snow scene.

"Brother Ji."

At this moment, Nan Xue called Ji Zhao softly, but he did not turn around. Instead, he raised his head slightly and gazed at the boundless starry sky.

Ji Zhao asked: "What's wrong?"

Nan Xue said: "I have made up my mind...I want to stay here, I want to stay in Luohe Pavilion."

"Really..." Ji Zhao didn't say anything like 'Not going to meet your parents?', but just smiled slightly, "It's good news. At least I don't have to worry about the interpersonal relationship with my new roommate for the time being."

Boom————

At this moment, an extremely long and heavy bell sound came from the distant Wuling City, echoing between heaven and earth.

This is the bell that represents the arrival of the New Year.

"Happy New Year." said Nan Xue.

Ji Zhao was slightly startled, then came to his senses. The destroyer who came to destroy this world looked at the snowflakes dancing in the sky and responded softly:

"Um... Happy New Year."

(Volume 3, Taizong and Luohe, end)

Volume 4: The Counting of Talents: Chapter 1: I Think Brother Gu Looks Like a Woman

“Cold, cold, cold… so cold!”

It is indeed an elegant thing to brew three or two pots of good tea and enjoy the snow scenery at night, but those who get up early in the morning to sweep the snow do not have such leisure time.

Because of his apparent male gender, Gu Qu was assigned to the morning hours when he had a heavier workload of snow-sweeping. Now his hands were red from the cold and his whole body was shaking.

"I say..." Ji Zhao sighed, "Brother Gu, we have been clearing snow for half a month, and you complain about the cold every day, but when you see the snow the next day, you don't even put on more clothes. Tell me, why do you do this?"

Yes, after New Year’s Eve, it snowed every day on Mount Daizong, and Ji Zhao and others had been working as odd jobs for quite a while.

"If you wear too many clothes, you will feel bloated." Gu Qu replied in a trembling voice while shaking his body, "I don't like bloating. I feel that it is not handsome."

It's okay to prefer grace over warmth, but this is a common bad habit of adolescent boys and girls.

"It can mobilize the internal breath." Since the night of New Year's Eve, Nan Xue has been talking a little more, and her initiative in cultivation has also increased. She even took the initiative to talk about topics such as internal breath. "If it runs through some meridians with the main attribute of fire, it can dispel the cold."

"I know. I do have this level of knowledge." Gu Qu sighed, "But, I can't sweep the floor while running my inner breath."

"That won't do." Ji Zhao shook his head. "This is something that must be done. You will have less time in battle. As a warrior, even if you can't run your internal energy as naturally as breathing, you should at least be able to divide your mind and body. If you can't even sweep the floor, what are you going to do in battle?"

"Sounds so familiar..." Gu Qu said, "I feel like Master Yun and Master Mo also said similar things to me, but Master Mo's curses were harsher."

Ji Zhao squinted his eyes: "You should listen to me a little bit."

"I'm definitely learning...it just takes a little time."

The sound of the ancient music was quite loud at the beginning, but became more and more faint as it went on.

It is easy to say that one should divide one's mind into two things but it is not easy to do. However, this is the basic skill that every martial artist should have. For example, the white-haired young man who fought with Ji Zhao was frightened by Ji Zhao's dazzling dagger skills due to his insufficient basic skills, which led to his ultimate defeat. Otherwise, with his level of cultivation, these three people would not be his opponent.

While the three were chatting, they saw a woman with a long sword on her waist, blood-red hair, and who looked to be about 25 or 26 years old, climbing up the mountain gate.

The woman also saw the three people. Fortunately, they were wearing the disciple uniforms of Luohe Pavilion, so there was no misunderstanding.

"Are you the new disciples of Luohe Pavilion?" the woman asked.

"Yes." Ji Zhao responded, and then introduced the three of them to the woman, "I guess you are Master Huo. My sister often mentioned you to me."

This is by no means a compliment.

If you were to ask who has had the greatest influence on Ji Bei's life... then it is undoubtedly the Master Huo Shuizhu in front of him.

If you only listen to the name, then everyone would think that this is the name of a girl who was born in the water town of Jiangnan and has a gentle and shy personality.

......I can only say that it is true that I was born in the water town of Jiangnan.

Huo Shuizhu is the swordsmanship master in the pavilion. Like Ji Bei, she practiced the Prison-Burning Heart Sutra. However, she had an old grudge in her early years that was not resolved, which caused her to go astray when practicing and become so angry that her hair became like this. Her personality is like a raging fire and she hates evil as much as she hates enemies. However, it is not known whether it is because of the technique or her nature, but she is a little impulsive when doing things. She often causes trouble in the pavilion and often messes up various things.

......Anyway, Ji Bei had hinted to Ji Zhao very subtly that although Yun Xiao looked unreliable, he was actually reliable at critical moments, but it was hard to say about Master Huo.

“Well, you two are in pretty good spirits!” Huo Shuizhu said, and he went over to pat Gu Qu on the shoulder, scolding him, “Stand up straight! You’re shaking like crazy while using your internal energy to attack your fire points. If others see you, they’ll think that everyone in Luohe Pavilion is a wimp who can’t even stand the slightest bit of cold! You’re a man after all, why are you like this?!”

"...?"

Ji Zhao slowly typed a question mark.

Out...appeared?

The second guy whose gender can't be determined appears? !

No, sister, Nan Xue grew up in a special environment, so it's OK if you can't recognize her, but what are you doing? !

“I I I I I I I…I’ll try my best!”

————However, Guqu shook even more violently.

"You can't do this. You need to practice harder in the future." Huo Shuizhu shook his head, "Remember to come to my class more often."

After saying that, he turned and headed towards the Zhengde Hall on the top of the mountain.

After her, Nan Xue walked to Ji Zhao, with a frown on her face and a low, serious voice. For a man like him who usually had no fluctuations in his tone, this was a huge matter.

"Brother Ji, there is something I don't know whether I should say or not."

"Since you've said so." Ji Zhao was sweeping the snow carelessly, "Then go ahead."

Nan Xue moved closer and lowered her voice again: "Brother Ji, have you noticed... Brother Gu's words and actions are a bit like a woman."

Ji Zhao was startled and immediately looked up at Nan Xue, wondering if this person had come to his senses.

But from Nanxue's perspective, Ji Zhao looked surprised by his own guess: "What do you think, Brother Ji?"

Ji Zhao asked tentatively: "You said so...it seems that there are indeed hundreds of millions?"

"That's right." Nanxue said, "So I was wondering, Brother Gu, could it be that..."

Ji Zhao's heart was in his throat: "Could it be...?"

But then Nan Xue said, "Is he a sissy?!"

"..."

Ji Zhao had a blank expression on his face and lowered his head to continue sweeping the snow.

"Ji...Brother Ji?"

Ji Zhaobang read: "What's wrong."

Nan Xue was anxious: "What's wrong... At least respond to my guess."

Ji Zhao said expressionlessly: "I think you are right, Brother Gu may be a bit of a sissy."

"But, Brother Ji, your expression..."

“My face was frozen.”

"......real?"

"real."

"I see...Brother Ji, have you forgotten the fire point on your face? It's really rare. The fire point on your face is..."

"......well."

Volume 4: The Master of Thieves Chapter 2

In mid-January, the disciples and masters of Luohe Pavilion began to return to the pavilion one after another, and Ji Zhao finally met the last two masters of Luohe Pavilion.

The gun and stick master Xuan Tianlie was a middle-aged man about forty years old, with indifferent eyes, a weathered face, and two strands of long hair on his forehead that had turned white.

Ji Zhao had heard of this person.

Xuan Tianlie was born into an ordinary martial arts family with a happy family life and he himself was somewhat famous. But later, Xuan Tianlie acquired a magic skill. Legend has it that in order to perfect his magic skill, he killed all eighteen members of his family. This incident shocked the Xiangbei martial arts world, and the righteous martial artists rushed out one after another, wanting to capture this big devil... This capture took a full ten years. During the past ten years, Xuan Tianlie has been hiding everywhere, dealing with the pursuit of the righteous martial artists, and at the same time he has also honed his martial arts to shock the world and make ghosts cry.

Later, Liu Hanying faced Xuan Tianlie and defeated him, but during the battle, Liu Hanying vaguely felt that Xuan Tianlie might not be the culprit of the massacre, so he let Xuan Tianlie go and turned to investigate the truth of ten years ago... In the end, under the call of Liu Hanying's identity as the master of Luohe Pavilion, the truth of that year surfaced, and Xuan Tianlie was indeed wronged.

After killing his mortal enemy, he turned to Luohe Pavilion and became the gun and stick master here. It has been three years to this day.

The last one is the internal strength and lightness skill master and deputy leader, the legendary thief saint, 'Xiaoyao Feng'.

The man wore a white smiling mask, was of medium build, and wore a black suit. One could only barely tell from his voice that he was a young man. But rumors had it that this man had the same voice when he debuted twenty years ago, and it hadn't changed in twenty years. Even gods couldn't tell the exact age of the face under the mask.

He is also one of the only two people in Luohe Pavilion who can be called "famous throughout the world".

There are too many legends about this man. He has stolen too many things in the past twenty years, but the most representative one is still this one.

Because the Ning people went south, tens of millions of northern people were displaced, and many of them went to the Taihang Mountains to become bandits. Among them was a rare and powerful bandit named Shui Xingzhou. It was said that this man's martial arts had reached perfection and he was already one of the masters of the time.

This man commanded hundreds of mountain strongholds, large and small, in the Taihang Mountains, and was vaguely regarded as the leader of a hundred thousand bandits in the Taihang Mountains. Just when he was enjoying great glory, Xiaoyao Feng sent him a letter.

"I heard that you have a heart with seven orifices, and I long for it. Tonight, at midnight, I will come to get it on the moon. You are always elegant and generous, and you will not let me down."

The name of the thief saint Xiaoyaofeng is known to everyone in the world. That night, the Taihang Mountains were ready for battle, and hundreds of green forest heroes waited for Xiaoyaofeng all night, but he never showed up.

Just when Shui Xingzhou was about to write a letter to advertise to the world that Xiaoyaofeng was a fraud who had cheated the world and stolen his reputation, Xiaoyaofeng sent another letter and a box.

The contents of the letter are as follows:

"One heart, seven orifices, it is indeed worthy of the reputation, but you have done many unjust things, this heart is turbid"

Shui Xingzhou didn't understand what was going on, so he opened the box, only to see a heart with seven holes inside. It was still beating, and black blood was constantly flowing out of the seven holes!

After seeing the heart, Shui Xingzhou's eyes widened in anger, and he suddenly died with blood spurting out of his mouth without any warning! The heart also stopped beating.

After his death, the bandits cut open his chest, only to find that the heart was empty!

There are many legends about Xiaoyao Feng, but this is definitely the most evil one. Even in the Qingzhou martial arts world, parents will scare their children by saying, "If you don't sleep, Xiaoyao Feng will steal your heart."

As for why this person joined Luohe Pavilion and why he became the deputy pavilion master, no one knew. But suddenly one day, Liu Hanying, who had disappeared for a while, appeared in Luohe Pavilion with Xiaoyaofeng and announced that he would become the pavilion's master of body movements and internal skills. When the news spread, it was said that the whole world was shaking, and it was not an exaggeration at all.

In addition, there was a temporary master in the pavilion, Master Zhenyuan from Shaolin Temple, who was responsible for teaching boxing and palm techniques.

Half a month ago, Liu Hanying wrote a letter and sent it to Shaolin Temple. He was an old friend of Master Qingxin of Shaolin Temple. After explaining the current difficulties of Luohe Pavilion to him, Shaolin Temple sent Master Zhenyuan to take over Yunxiao's class.

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On January 23, Luohe Pavilion's class schedule returned to normal, with more than 30 classes seven days a week, which was very full.

In addition, the person in charge of the class is not necessarily the corresponding master. For example, Ji Bei was occasionally asked by Huo Shuizhu to substitute for her when she was in the pavilion. For example, some internal strength and light skills classes should nominally be taught by Xiaoyao Feng, but this person comes and goes without a trace. If you really rely on him, you're probably going to be in trouble. Therefore, other masters will occasionally come to teach these classes that are more basic rather than specialized.

Ji Zhao's stable life in Luohe Pavilion then began. He attended classes, practiced, and took medicinal baths every day, and his days were quite fulfilling.

To be honest, Ji Zhao hasn't had such a fulfilling life for a long time. When he was on Earth, although he still insisted on high-intensity training every day, he inevitably felt bored halfway through. He knew that no one in the world could be his opponent, and he also felt in his heart that he would never meet an opponent in his lifetime. That kind of loneliness was even more empty than the sage time.

Now that I have arrived in this world, I feel like a graduate student encountering a new version. I have been injected with new motivation, which is really pleasant.

But before that, Ji Zhao had to face another new and very realistic problem.

"Minghui..." Ji Bei's voice was heavy as she called out Ji Zhao's name, "There is something that is very difficult for me as the eldest sister to say, but I still have to tell you... We are running out of money."

Ji Zhao's eyes widened. He had been financially independent for eight years. He was too lazy to count the numbers in his bank card, so he had a rough idea about money. Now, when he heard Ji Bei say he had no money, he was shocked.

"How could that be? I spent two hundred coins on my last marrow cleansing, but I still have more than a hundred coins left, right? That's enough for an ordinary family to live on for a lifetime!"

"No... your second sister and I also spent money." Ji Bei counted with Ji Zhao while counting on his fingers. "First, we hired a escort team of more than a dozen people, all the way from Qingzhou to Lizhou, and all kinds of expenses and commissions along the way, which is a lot of money. Then, after you arrived at Luohe Pavilion, you had medicinal baths and marrow cleansing every day, and you had a lot of fish and meat. My expenses were a little less than yours, but not much less. Then, your second sister was learning skills at Ci Du Lu, so it was inevitable that she would need all kinds of medicinal materials... In short, all our belongings now only have fifteen coins left."

Volume 4: Pondering over the Talented People: Chapter 3: You Can’t Beat Me in Beauty!

Fifteen coins, the monthly salary for a soldier in the imperial court for more than a year, is definitely a huge sum of money for an ordinary family, but in this environment, it seems pitiful. If the three members of the Ji family continue to use the money as before, it will probably be used up soon.

"Anyway... we have to find a way to make money." Ji Bei said, "Pay attention to the bulletin board in front of the disciples' dormitory. It's relatively easy to make money in Luohe Pavilion. After all, most of our fellow disciples are from wealthy families."

"......I see."

Therefore, Ji had to modify his training plan and turned to study the commission board in front of the door.

Ever since the disciples of Luohe Pavilion returned to the pavilion, there have been more commissions from above.

"At the beginning of February, the Luohe disciples who completed their training last year will return to Luohe Pavilion. In order to hold a farewell party for them, we are looking for four fellow disciples who are proficient in the art of playing the zither... What a great idea."

"I need a Go master to teach me. If you think you have Go skills above the fourth level, please come... Never mind, I don't know how to do this either."

"I have a jar of Phoenix Flying stored in a restaurant in Wuling City. I need a fellow disciple with extremely Yin internal energy for two consecutive months... The internal energy attribute doesn't match."

"Painting, need a model, good looking ones please come, price negotiable... hm?"

Ji Zhao started rubbing his hands with flies, wanting to give it a try.

He has a very good image, and it was because of this face that he was chosen to be a star contestant. Ji Zhao in this world has also inherited the beauty of his courtesan mother. Now he naturally wants to give it a try, but when he thinks about it carefully, he feels a little worried.

Because...his height is quite tragic.