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After browsing through the martial arts secrets on the bookshelf, Li Mu came to the weapon rack again, where there were various weapons, the most common of which were swords.

The first thing Li Mu noticed was Zhang Sanfeng's former sword Zhenwu Sword, which was quietly placed on the weapon rack. It didn't look much different from the weapons around it.

Who would have known that a sword that didn’t look that outstanding was the sword of Zhang Sanfeng, the former great master of martial arts and the founder of the Wudang Sect.

Li Mu picked it up and looked at it carefully for a while. It was indeed a good sword, but in terms of material and sharpness, it was not the best one collected here. Zhenwu Sword is more about Zhang Sanfeng’s status blessing and the inheritance significance it represents.

The best sword here is a sword that is still unknown and not very old.

The Demon Sect spent a lot of effort to collect meteorite iron, and invited many masters of sword forging in Longquan Valley. It took several years to forge it.

Li Mu picked it up and watched it for a while. After playing with it for a while, the sword was filled with light and he immediately fell in love with it.

He decided that this sword would be his sword from now on.

Put away the long sword and continue to observe these weapons. Although some of these weapons look ordinary, they are qualified to enter the inner treasury and are collected by successive leaders of the Demon Sect. When placed in the outside world, they are all magical weapons that make everyone jealous.

After looking at it for a while, he saw another beautifully shaped bow. Li Mu thought of the silver feather arrow secret book passed down by the Lin family. As a long-range weapon, bows and arrows are good to practice when nothing happens. Maybe they will be used in some world.

Therefore, this treasure bow was also included in his pocket.

After selecting a few more useful strange weapons, I left the inner treasury.

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For the next period of time, Li Mu lived quite happily, sometimes playing the piano and flute with Ren Yingying, sometimes practicing swordplay and drinking tea, sometimes taking a volume of martial arts secrets brought out from the inner treasury and studying them carefully.

After half a year, Li Mu not only improved his martial arts to a higher level, but also greatly improved his martial arts quality and gained a deeper foundation.

At this time, Hai Zhan Tang had already investigated Luzon Island, and it turned out to be a fertile land without an owner. For the demon sect in the Central Plains martial arts world, who could break the dog's head with the right way just for the sake of a little struggle for interests, Luzon Island was It's just fat meat that's right at the front and can be swallowed by just opening your mouth.

As for the indigenous forces in Luzon Island, it’s not that the Demon Sect looks down on them. They are really too weak. Compared with the Demon Sect’s opponent Zhongyuan Zhengdao, these indigenous people are really just small shrimps and can be destroyed with a wave of their hands. That kind of thing.

Profit has always been the most attractive thing to people. Seeing such a plump and weak Luzon Island, the elders who had previously opposed overseas expansion all lost their voices and even began to clamor to set out immediately to capture the entire Luzon Island as a The foundation of the Demonic Cult.

Some people even suggested that the main altar should be moved there as well.

Li Mu has really considered letting the Demon Sect move its main altar. The location of the Demon Sect's main altar, Black Wood Cliff, is really not very good. Because it is too far north, there is drought and little rain. Unlike the hinterland of the Central Plains, which has fertile land and dense population.

The most important thing is that it is too close to the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty and too close to the nine frontiers.

Due to well-known reasons, the Ming Dynasty was very wary of the Demon Sect. Jinling, the original capital of the Ming Dynasty, was far away from Heimu Cliff, so it was nothing.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Yongle directly moved the imperial capital to the north, causing the two sides to be too close to each other. It can be said that they and Heimu Ya hate each other.

One of the two parties now controls the court, and the other controls half of the world. If there is any friction, the Ming Dynasty can mobilize the elites from the Nine Sides at any time to encircle Heimuya nearby.

Although Blackwood Cliff is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with many levels, it is still not good to put it under the nose of Jiubian elites.

Moreover, Heimuya is too far to the north and far from the sea, which conflicts with his overseas expansion strategy.

Li Mu and Ren Yingying also discussed it, and Ren Yingying also agreed with Li Mu's point of view. Under the overseas expansion strategy, the geographical location of Heimu Cliff is indeed not suitable for the headquarters.

In order to prepare for the next expansion, we must choose areas with developed water transportation as far south as possible, such as along the Yangtze River.

Or be more radical, as some elders suggested, after taking over Luzon Island and fully controlling it, simply move the main altar there, away from the sight of the Central Plains Righteous Path.

Li Mu actually has a more radical plan, but it doesn't make any sense now.

For example, Borneo, the largest island in the Southeast Asia, is larger than Sulu, Henan, and Anhui combined. Today there is still a large area of ​​virgin forest with sparsely populated areas. Moving the Demon Cult Headquarters to Borneo will allow for large-scale immigration and development from the Central Plains.

What is even more radical than this is to continue to move south, occupy Australia, move the Demon Cult Headquarters here, and then carry out large-scale immigration from the Central Plains area, allowing the last piece of the New World to be developed nearly hundreds of years in advance.

Of course, these are indeed too radical and are just assumptions at the moment.

A safer way is to take it step by step, first take Luzon Island, then go to Southeast Asia, and finally land in Australia.

This is a land that is even more vast than the Ming Dynasty. It has not been eaten for thousands of years. As a result, it was expanded and declined by a few small barbarian countries supported by the Western barbarians.

It would be better to occupy the land first and move the people over. No matter what the situation will be a few hundred years from now, the people living on the land will be Chinese Miao.

The demon sect here is mobilizing its followers, deploying troops, and preparing to attack Luzon Island. Li Mu is very free. Firstly, to deal with the natives of Luzon Island, there is no need for his high-end combat power. Secondly, to mobilize troops and generals. The Demon Cult used to be professional in the work here.

Although the Five Elements Flag has become the Seven General Flags, many professional skills have not been lost.

In the past, Li Mu had always been vague about the structure of the Demon Sect and did not understand much about it. During this time, he finally understood it and gained a deep understanding of the potential of the Demon Sect.

The Demonic Cult consists of a main altar, twelve halls and seven main banners.

The main altar is now Heimu Cliff, with the left and right envoys of light, and the ten elders.

The twelve halls are Fenglei Hall, White Tiger Hall, Qinglong Hall, Zhuque Hall, Xuanwu Hall, Tianfeng Hall, Haizhan Hall, Xingtang, etc...

At the entrance of each hall, there are hall masters, deputy hall masters, five or six incense masters, more than ten deputy incense masters, and a large group of leaders.

There are at least two to three thousand people in one hall.

The seven general banners are named after the colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple. Each general banner governs the territory of two to three provinces.

Just like in the original work, Ren Woxing once said that he was the leader of the Qingqi in Jiangxi when he was young.

There is also a flag-bearing envoy under the flag master, who is in charge of the territory of a certain government. For example, the Qingqi flag-bearing envoy is in charge of the territory of a certain prefecture in Jiangxi.

There are also leaders and followers under the flag bearer, who controls the territory of a county.

Coupled with all the three religions and nine streams in the world, evil heretics, and various local small gangs, who dares not to listen to the devil's teachings, or even be directly controlled by the devil's religion.

It can be said that in the entire Ming Dynasty, demonic religions are everywhere. Except for the government, no force has such a strong control over the Ming Dynasty. Once such a huge organization is put into operation, its efficiency and results will be terrible. Various factions in the world watched the Demon Sect's big moves with worry, thinking that they were going crazy again and would attack which faction.

The Devil's Cult was making such a big move, and its purpose couldn't be hidden. After asking around, I found out that the Devil's Cult's target was overseas, and I felt relieved.

While sighing, I couldn't help but gloat about my misfortune. The Demon Sect is indeed a Demon Sect, and they will attack those savage places. There are no fishy places overseas that are worthy of war. That's fine. The Demonic Cult consumes its power overseas and has no power to cause trouble in the Central Plains.

Go for it! It’s better if they all go!

For a time, the Seven General Banners, who inherited the battle formation method of the Five Elements Flags 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 attack Luzon Island.

Along with them, there are tens of thousands of people from all religions and nine schools who do all kinds of evil, evil heretics, or ruthless villains who do evil in the local area.

Although Luzon Island currently has not many developed areas and not many indigenous people living there, there are still quite a lot of them after all.

After the Demon Cult comes to the island, they will definitely occupy these developed areas first. The interests of the indigenous people will be harmed, and resistance is inevitable.

The tens of thousands of vicious villains and evil heretics sent by the successors are to deal with these natives. After all, they have real interests. As long as they dare to resist and are a little more ruthless, they can easily create tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

In the Central Plains, if you want to build 10,000 acres of fertile farmland, you can't even think about it without 100,000 cars of silver. How can such a good thing be possible? This opportunity is so rare, who can resist the temptation?

Not only that, in the future, land will be distributed to a large number of immigrants from China, as long as everyone pays taxes.

It was said that there were tens of thousands of murderers and villains. After the incident spread, many people were gearing up. Naturally, the more demonic sects, the better. These people solved the troublesome natives and then immigrated in large numbers from the Central Plains. Easy to control.

The local government also welcomed them happily. With these vicious villains gone, the local security instantly improved to a higher level.

The scale of the Hai Zhan Hall has also been further expanded, and there are not enough sailors. Ren Yingying sent a handwritten letter and immediately transferred thousands of gang members with excellent water properties from the Haisha Gang, Dajiang Gang, Cao Gang... which was more effective than the court's words.

The entire Demon Sect was busy, and Li Mu took advantage of his free time to return to Huashan.

After all, it has been almost a year since I went down the mountain. I need to go back. I also need to talk to Yue Buqun about some things and have an explanation.

Li Mu from the Demon Sect used an excuse to retreat. Seeing no one except Ren Yingying and Qu Feiyan, he quietly descended to Heimu Cliff. He walked and stopped along the way, feeling the fireworks of the world. It took him less than half a month to return to Huashan.

After returning to the mountain, there was a lively scene. Looking at the eleven lost sword manuals of the Five Mountains Sword Sect that Li Mu brought back, three of which were lost sword manuals of Huashan Mountain, Yue Buqun became numb.

Finally, the two had a deep conversation, and Li Mu told the origin of these sword manuals and his general experiences in the past year.

With Yue Buqun's Qi-nurturing skills, his mind was instantly confused. He supported Ren Woxing's daughter to take the position of leader of the Demon Cult and let the Demon Cult transfer its power overseas.

His most promising disciple actually colluded with the demon sect's witch, and supported the witch to become the leader of the demon sect. She even used the pseudonym Li Mu to hide behind the scenes and control the direction of the entire demon sect.

Although, doing so is indeed of great benefit to the righteous way of martial arts in the Central Plains. The Demon Sect has invested its energy overseas, and naturally has less energy to cause trouble in the Central Plains, and will no longer compete with various factions for some resources.

However, it was still difficult for him to accept for a while. If he didn't check for a while, his little apprentice actually got entangled with the demon sect's witch.

But, I have to accept it.

At this time, it was too late to say anything, and it was impossible for him to kill his relatives out of justice. This apprentice's behavior can be said to be unable to withstand the temptation of the witch. It can also be said that he served the demon with his body, went deep into the demon's cave, and through the witch, reduced the harm caused by the demon sect to the martial arts in the Central Plains and the people of the Ming Dynasty. In Buddhist terms, this is a great merit. of.

My mind was confused for a while, and I gradually calmed down. After having to accept the reality, I began to think about how to deal with the aftermath and minimize the impact of this incident on Huashan.

In the end, Yue Buqun accepted Li Mu's plan. He will have two identities from now on. One is Lin Pingzhi, a disciple of Huashan Mountain. He has nothing to do with the Demon Sect and is a proper young knight.

Li Mu, another peerless master who returned from overseas, has nothing to do with the Huashan Sect or Lin Pingzhi.

Considering that he will not stay in Huashan too much in the future, and will appear more as Li Mu, it is best if the influence of Lin Pingzhi's identity can be downplayed, and it would be best if he disappears into the background and no one cares about him.

Fortunately, Li Mu rarely appeared in the arena on weekdays. The first time Lin Pingzhi appeared in public in the arena was four years ago in Hengyang City. It was also his first public appearance on a large occasion.

He did not participate in the next two biggest occasions in the world, one was the Five Mountains Alliance and the other was the Battle of Shaolin Temple.

Although Beidi's slaying of evil three or four years ago made him famous in the world and became a famous young hero, it is a pity that there is a new generation in the world and the old one is replaced by young heroes.

He hasn't appeared in the arena for three or four years, and no heroic deeds have been reported, so his reputation has begun to fade.

Next, just continue to be silent.

Li Mu stayed in Huashan for a month and returned to his home in Fuzhou in a low-key manner. His sister Lin Huizhi was over nine years old and quite naughty. Mother Lin had already begun to lay the foundation for him and learn martial arts.

After living at home for more than two months, in the face of Lin's father and Lin's mother's urging for marriage, he had no choice but to leave. He wandered around the world for more than a month and returned to Heimuya again.

For the next six months, my life was uneventful. I played the piano and flute with Ren Yingying every day and read various martial arts secret books, which was very fulfilling.

The Luzon Island side has been captured after nearly a year of conquest by the Demon Cult.

Due to the sharp decrease in the native population and the need for a large population to open up wasteland, the Demonic Cult is now organizing a large number of fleets to immigrate.

Although the world today is relatively stable, it is precisely because of the large number of stable people that the land is overwhelmed and can no longer bear such a large population. Especially in the densely populated areas of the Central Plains, there are often large numbers of refugees fleeing with their families.

These refugees fleeing famine are both a burden and a destabilizing factor for the local government. It would be good if someone is willing to accept them.

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

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

After all, the demise of previous dynasties was due to too many people and the unbearable land, which led to starvation and large-scale uprisings.

The Demon Cult's doing this was also of great benefit to the Ming Dynasty. Those refugees and hungry people fleeing famine were sent overseas, which not only reduced the instability factors, but also eased the population burden of the Ming Dynasty.

If the people at the bottom are not hungry, they will naturally not take risks to rebel, which is equivalent to extending the life of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)