Chapter 35: Escape Plan

The three people were chatting casually under the tree. Chen An and Li Yin were obviously absent-minded. They looked at the gate of the Marshal's Mansion from time to time. When they saw Li Yan coming out, they couldn't help but be happy. They had just asked Liu Chengyong about the situation. Although they heard that it was about completing the personal information of the army, they still felt confused. Such a matter was a big deal. After all, the military chief still needed to be responsible for the officials appointed by the court. It was also a small matter. This was not a key position. To put it bluntly, it was just a matter of a word from the local officials.

Li Yan saw the three of them coming up, so he smiled and said, "It's done. Haha, I still have to go see Li Shan and the others next, and then we have a drink at noon. How about it?"

Liu Chengyong had no objection. Seeing Li Yan come out so quickly, although he still felt that something was wrong, he saw him come out with a smile, thinking that there was really nothing wrong with the Marshal, not to mention that there was another opportunity to get closer to Li Yan at noon, so he agreed.

Although Chen An and Li Yin wanted to go back earlier, they didn't dare to say it, so they just nodded.

The four of them went to the "Iron Pavilion" to find Li Shan. Li Shan was very happy to see Li Yan coming. Li Yan immediately sent Chen An and Li Yin to ask for leave from Li Shan's master Lu Kui, and he went to the inner room of the "Iron Pavilion" to talk with Li Shan.

Liu Chengyong had nothing to do, so he walked around the "Iron Pavilion" alone. From time to time, he saw good weapons and was very interested in playing with them. After Chen An and Li Yin came out, the three of them were all from the military, and they studied those weapons with great interest.

After a while, Li Yan and Li Shan came out, but when Li Shan just came out, he looked a little puzzled, but Li Yan put his arm around his shoulders and laughed and asked him to call his senior brother Liang Shi together. Everyone went to the "Natural Wine House" to find Li Yu, and opened a table there at noon, and the seven of them drank a lot.

In the afternoon, Li Yan and his two companions rode back in a state of slight intoxication. In the remaining days, Li Yan's cultivation was obviously improved and his mood was very stable. Seeing him like this, the Third Army Master was relieved and came out to give some guidance every once in a while.

Time flies, spring is endless, and the grass is growing and the warblers are flying. Li Yan has been in the military mansion for more than half a year. He is now soaking in the cold pond, his eyes slightly closed, his upper body naked, only the part above the shoulders exposed, and the heat is coming out of his body and rising into the air. His current breath has already reached the peak of the early stage of condensation, but he doesn't look very good now, and there is a faint trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

Since last winter, he has been practicing hard, and his realm has increased after a period of time, but his personality has become more and more irritable. In addition to going into the city once in a while, he has many more strange behaviors. Every time he returns from the city, he will buy more clothes, belts, boots and other items, which makes the Third Army Master's consciousness annoyed.

Apart from cultivation, he either soaked in the pond or closed the door and scribbled wildly in the house. Later, he somehow dug up all the vegetables in the vegetable garden on the south side of the pond, and planted many unknown wild flowers from the mountains outside the valley. For a time, all kinds of wild flowers and grass grew in the valley, and the fragrance was mixed. Even the clothes drying in the sun were stained with the fragrance of flowers. When Master Ji went to the city to participate in military affairs several times, he was full of the fragrance of flowers, which made Marshal Hong and a group of soldiers look at him sideways. Master Ji could only smile helplessly.

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The vegetable garden was previously planted by Master Ji with some green vegetables and a few flowers. He would occasionally water it, apply fertilizer, and stop there. In fact, this was also a way for Master Ji to calm his restlessness. Now, it has been made extremely beautiful by Li Yan. From a distance, it looks like a colorful dye vat. After seeing it, he just shook his head and gave up.

As long as Li Yan's cultivation is still improving, he basically lets him do what he wants. However, Li Yan seems to be getting more restless recently. After cultivation, he always bleeds from the corners of his mouth, as if he can't suppress it. This makes Master Ji very worried. He also checked his internal condition and found that the wood spirit in his body was a little mixed, and there seemed to be some fire spirit generated, which made him start to worry. But at present, Li Yan can still suppress it, and his cultivation is still improving. Otherwise, he would have thought of taking advantage of the pure spirit in Li Yan's body to absorb his spirit in advance. But after a period of time, the wood spirit in Li Yan's body began to become pure again, and the number of times he vomited blood was also reduced, which made him suppress this idea.

Li Yan soaked in the pool, with a few blood stains on the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he was enjoying the cold air in the pool, but in fact, Li Yan was using the spirit that slowly overflowed from the bottom of the pool to operate the "Guishui Zhenjing".

After several months of hard training, his "Guishui Sutra" has now reached the middle stage of the first level of Qi Condensation. The speed of cultivation is quite fast. Even among the immortals, this speed is good. However, it is strange that it is so fast in this place where spiritual energy is not sufficient.

However, Li Yan didn't compare his cultivation method with anyone else. He just felt that he was still too slow. Although he would spend most of the day in the pond to practice, and often come here to practice in the middle of the night, he still felt that he was pressed for time. But there was nothing he could do. He had to pretend to practice "Mu Yin Gong" and perform in the rest of the time. In the morning, he had to pretend to practice "Mu Yin Gong" in the house, and the rest of the time he had to make a proper splash.

He now had only one idea, to improve his spiritual power as a capital for his life.

After another half an hour, Li Yan's eyelashes trembled, but his eyes did not open. He ended the daytime practice today, and now he was thinking about the past few months.

"My cultivation speed is still too slow. I feel that the improvement has been very small in recent days. I don't know why."

Li Yan didn't know that he was very fast in the early stage. On the one hand, he had just entered the first level of Qi Condensation, and his meridians were several times wider than those of normal practitioners who reached the first level of Qi Condensation, so he absorbed spiritual energy to cultivate faster; second, his physique and skills were completely consistent now, and he was in the early stage of Qi Condensation, so the spiritual energy required was not too much, and he was soaking above the spiritual eye, so naturally he progressed quickly. But since entering the middle stage of Qi Condensation, the spiritual energy here has begun to fail to keep up, and cultivation is originally more difficult to improve as time goes by, especially when it comes to the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, it is normal to be stuck for hundreds of years.

"Although I haven't shown all my strength now, and have only shown a little bit of the peak of the early stage of Qi Condensation, this is also one of the conditions to ensure my survival. Otherwise, I would still be stuck in the entry stage for several months. I guess he would have thought that I was not worthy of being used and would not have the patience to wait." After practicing "Guishui Sutra" for a period of time, Li Yan found that his practice speed was very fast, which made him worried, for fear that Master Ji would notice any difference. However, after he entered the spiritual consciousness and carefully studied "Guishui Sutra", he solved this problem after repeated attempts. "Qi has a long life, gathers in the sea, and disperses and hides." He didn't quite understand it at first, but later, after some attempts, he realized that the magic power cultivated by the "Guishui Zhenjing" can be used to freely disperse the spiritual power in the Dantian into the five spiritual power tanks. In this way, the surface display is the level of the highest spiritual power tank, but this can only conceal the cultivators who are not much higher than himself, so that they cannot see the real cultivation level; in addition, these five spiritual power tanks must be full, otherwise there is nothing to disperse, and the strongest spiritual power will still be manifested, and then you can only impact a higher level.

"I was injured by mistake while practicing some time ago and vomited some blood. I had to release some of my fire spirit power to show that it was caused by fire poison. He couldn't hold back. Fortunately, I have made progress in my practice recently and hid my fire spirit power. He has suppressed this thought again. However, with the improvement of my magic power, I can feel that the fire poison in his body is getting stronger and stronger. I think time is running out."

Although Li Yan's consciousness could not leave his body, he could feel that the fire poison in Master Ji's body was getting stronger and stronger. When he could no longer suppress it, it would be the time of his death. No matter how much he practiced, Master Ji would not wait any longer.

"During these few trips, I have reached some consensus with Hong Linying through letters from Liu Chengyong. As long as he can help me get out of trouble, I will give him the "Mu Yin Gong" method. Now all that's left is to find a good time, but we can't wait too long."

Li Yan was thinking in his mind. He was not only considering how to escape, but he had a bigger plan, which was how to kill Master Ji. Otherwise, his family members might not be able to escape Master Ji's anger.

Yesterday, Master Ji came to guide his practice, but the look he gave Li Yan had changed a little, becoming gentler and more amiable, but it was only reflected on his grayer and darker face, which made Li Yan feel the urgency of time.

"Then let's set it two months later, which will be early summer, and we have to fight anyway."

Li Yan closed his eyes in the pool, and his hands under the water clenched into fists.

In the deep forest millions of miles away from Qingshan Pass, in the grand palace on the top of the mountain that reached the clouds.

"Mr. He, what's the matter with you coming here today?" The scholar in green robe smiled at the old man in green robe.

"Peak Master, I have discussed with other elders about the five-year peak competition. This time, there are about 20 elite disciples and several true disciples participating in the competition. These people were carefully selected by the inner hall some time ago."

"Oh? There are not many true disciples, but there are fewer elite disciples participating in the competition this year. I remember that there were as many as 30 five years ago."

"Oh, this is less than before. In recent years, there are not too many new disciples in each peak, and many people with spiritual roots have been taken away by those so-called upright Taoists, Buddhists, and Confucians." The old man said with some embarrassment.

"Haha, those 'famous and upright sects'? They are good at taking advantage of the hearts of people in the mortal world. They use Taoist temples, temples, and lecture halls in the mortal world to constantly brainwash people, and they have recruited many good immortal seedlings."

"Yes, Peak Master, for a sect like this, it's really rare to come into contact with mortals." He paused and continued.

"But no matter how few people there are in my peak, it's still more than Xiaozhu Peak. They almost always have only a few people participating in each session," said the old man with a smile.

"As for Junior Brother Wei's place, hehe, there are less than 20 people in their peak plus the servants, and there are seven disciples under the sect. If you remove the three who have entered the middle stage of foundation building, of course, only those few can participate." The scholar looked helpless when he heard this.

"Okay, let's not talk about Junior Brother Wei's place. For the more than 20 people here this time, I hope that two or three people will enter the top ten in the early stage of foundation building, and three people will enter the top ten in the Qi Condensation stage. Do you know?"

"Peak Master" The old man with a bitter face.

"What? No confidence? Have the people below cultivated to this level in the past five years?" The scholar frowned and said.

"Peak Master, the other peaks are not given away for free. Take Xiaozhu Peak for example. Although there are only a few people participating, they are very confident that they will enter the top ten in their corresponding realm competitions."

"Hmph, that's your business. You pass this message down. If the result of this competition is not good, you elders will deduct the offerings."

"Okay, Peak Master," said the old man Falcon helplessly, but he thought in his heart, "Go back and discuss with the elders to put pressure on these bastards, otherwise, the cultivation resources for the next five years will be severely deducted from them."

"Okay, if you have nothing to do, you can go down first." The scholar saw that the old man Falcon was no longer talking, waved his hand and said.

"Peak Master Qibing, there is one more thing, about finding the person of the 'Xunxian Lineage', a letter was sent back today." The old man Falcon said hurriedly.

"Oh? Are you talking about the person who took the cultivation method from the outer sect disciple?"

"Yes, we expanded the search area and finally found a clue in a place called 'Qingshan Ai' on the eastern edge of Daqing Mountain. A military advisor in the imperial garrison there may be the person we are looking for. He has bought medicinal materials in the pharmacy in the nearby town in recent years, and these medicinal materials are all in our secret recipe."

"Garrison? Military advisor? In this case, you should investigate carefully, otherwise if you touch the officials among mortals, especially the military officials in the border areas, it will cause other sects to talk, so leave it. We have a handle on them. Immortals and mortals are on different paths. As long as they are not mortals who provoke us, we will not attack them. Although we are not a famous and upright sect, we must keep this in mind. "

"Yes, Peak Master, I have arranged it this way. Because of the recent five-year competition within the sect, some law enforcement disciples who need to participate in the competition have returned one after another. Now only some people in the middle and late stages of Qi Condensation are left there. Once the investigation is clear, we will start to arrest them. "

"That's enough. I think they are still looking for medicinal materials in the past few years, and their realm will not be very high. Disciples in the middle and late stages of Qi Condensation are enough. "