"Do you want to give full play to that sword in tomorrow's martial arts?"

After hearing this, Li Mu had to stop. He turned his head and asked, "How did the seniors know that I was going to participate in tomorrow's martial arts?"

The old man said: "Now on this Xuanxiao Peak, the most talked about is tomorrow's Innate Huiwu and you, a formal disciple who is not worthy of the name, how can my old man not know?"

Li Mu was helpless, he didn't expect that the competition of a group of innate beginner disciples would attract the attention of so many people. And as the center of attention, you can imagine how uncomfortable he is.

He walked up to the old man and asked, "Dare to ask the seniors, what should I do to get the most out of this sword?"

The old man suddenly showed a smile that made Li Mu feel a little familiar, stretched out his right hand and put it in front of Li Mu, and said to him: "It's very simple, you give me a hundred spirit stones, and I'll tell you." ”

Li Mu shuddered, hurriedly took a step back, waved his hand and said, "Senior, this time there is really no spirit stone." ”

The old man's nose moved, and then he pointed to Li Mu's waist and said, "Don't you want to lie to my old man, isn't there still a piece there?"

Li Mu was stunned, this old man could actually sniff out the location of his spirit stone through his nose, no wonder he loved the spirit stone very much, it turned out that the way he found the spirit stone was so special and accurate.

Li Mu tightly covered the spirit stone on his waist, for fear that this old man would snatch it from him with Yuan Li, and then he would want to cry without tears.

It's not that he is stingy with a spirit stone, but this spirit stone is a necessary thing to use to contact Jin Chong, if he loses it, he will not be able to contact Jin Long for a month, which is undoubtedly a big disadvantage for his cultivation.

He laughed dryly and said to the old man, "Senior is really good...... The sense of smell can even be found in a piece of spirit stone that the disciple has hidden so deeply. However, this spirit stone really can't be given to the seniors, and the younger generations can't do without it!"

When the old man heard what he said, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he waved his hand to drive him away. But he rolled his eyes, and suddenly changed his smiling face again, and said to Li Mu: "If you don't give me the spirit stone, I can't tell you the trick of using that sword well." ”

Li Mu looked at him with some disbelief and asked, "What does the predecessor mean?"

"All you need to do is make a note stating that you owe my old man a hundred spirit stones, sign and draw a pledge, and I'll tell you the trick of using that sword! ”

After Li Mu heard his words, he wanted to turn around and leave, but as soon as his eyes rolled, he also put on a smiling face, and said to the old man: "Is this true from the seniors? As a senior master, he must not be able to go back and bully junior disciples like us with his identity cultivation." ”

The old man hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, naturally no, when did my old man deceive the spirit stone of the rookie disciple?" If you don't believe me, I can swear by my Dao heart, and if I regret it, I will be punished for guarding the Gongfa Pavilion here for the rest of my life." ”

Li Mu took the pen and paper on the side and asked, "I use this pen and paper to make a note, and my predecessors will not accept my spirit stone." ”

The old man's white beard curled, and he said angrily: "Is my old man so stingy? ”

Li Mu quietly rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, I have never seen anyone more stingy than you. He took the blank paper and wrote on it: "On a certain year, month and day, the official disciple Li Mu bought news from Elder Gongsun Chou with a hundred spirit stones. Since the disciple Li Mu did not have any spirit stones on him, he specially set up this to show that he owed it and would pay it back in the future. ”

The name Gongsun Chou was asked when he was writing the IOU.

After writing the IOU and signing it, Li Mu took it to the ugly old man.

Gongsun Chou was overjoyed, and after taking the IOU to make sure that it was correct, he changed his hand casually, not knowing where he hid it. Then he smiled and said to Li Mu: "For the sake of your kid who is still obedient, my old man will tell you the sixteen-character mantra of using a good sword." Listen well, these 16 words are -- to use the body to resist the sword, to cultivate the sword with the heart; what the sword refers to is what the heart desires. You go and realize it, my old man won't keep you. ”

Li Mu knew that he was put on the spot by this old man, but these sixteen words did inspire him. And the old man didn't actually take advantage of him.

The date on which the words "to be returned later" is not specified. Moreover, in the dialogue just now, Li Mu had already set a trap for Gongsun Chou: the predecessors were all right, and they couldn't use their identity cultivation to suppress people. Therefore, even if Gongsun Chou finds out that something is wrong, because of his identity and oath, there is nothing he can do about it.

Therefore, Li Mu went down the mountain quite happily, and after returning to his residence, he pondered the meaning of the sixteen-character formula.

That's why there was the scene of wiping the sword.

"Defend the sword with your body, and raise the sword with your heart", Li Mu muttered these two sentences in his mouth, and his subordinates kept rubbing the evil sword into a cold light and sharp spirit.

He pondered the meaning of these two sentences, and it seemed that he wanted him to "have a heart-to-heart" with the sword, and to achieve the realm of "heart to heart, like an arm making a finger". It is said that the divine sword has a spirit, but no matter how gently he touches and wipes it, it can't provoke a little reaction from this sword, it seems that this sword is really just a mortal iron.

It took so long to wipe this sword and feel its "spirit" existence, although he found nothing, but it made his heart gradually calm down.

In his opinion, the way of the sword, only fast and sharp, unstoppable, and indestructible, is the right way to use the sword, so he chose the stinging bee sword as a simple and unpretentious set, pursuing extreme speed and sharp swordsmanship.

As for the sixteen-character mantra of "using the body to resist the sword, cultivating the sword with the heart, and what the sword points to, what the heart wants", I can't understand it now, maybe it's just because his cultivation realm is too low, but it doesn't mean that I can't understand it in the future. Therefore, he does not pursue that he must immediately comprehend this set of true recipes, anyway, there will be opportunities in the future.

Although tomorrow's contest is his first actual battle, and he doesn't know the details of the enemy, so what? The big deal is just a defeat, and there will always be a time when he will make a comeback. Moreover, with so many spirit runes, coupled with the incomparably strong true qi and strong physique after being infused by Yuan Li, among the innate disciples, I am afraid that there is no opponent who can match him at all.

Although his initiation time was short and his realm was low, the opportunities and opportunities he gained were not at all imaginable for ordinary cultivators.

After Li Mu thought about all the possible accidents, he was sure in his heart that as long as tomorrow's competition was not personally intervened by the Huafan disciples, then he should be extremely safe if he wanted to win the first place and keep his identity.

After thinking about the joints of things, Li Mu no longer meditated overnight, but went to bed early and began to recuperate.

The next day.

Early in the morning, a disciple knocked on Li Mu's door.

Li Mu was sitting at the table, taking out some of the spirit talismans he had distributed last night and putting them on his body in case of emergency. Although he also knew that most of the opponents he encountered in the first few rounds were just sacrifices to test him. But there is nothing wrong with being careful, if the boat capsizes in the gutter, it will be more than worth the loss.

After hearing the disciple's knock on the door, Li Mu hid the remaining spirit runes, lifted the evil sword, and wanted to walk to the door.

Li Mu opened the door, and when the disciple saw him, he saluted expressionlessly: "I have seen Pastor Li, and the disciple Bai Xian is here to lead the way for Uncle Li." If Uncle Shi is ready, can you come with me?"

Li Mu nodded. This Bai Xian led the way in front without saying a word.

Nothing to say all the way.

An hour later, the sun had risen in the air, and there was a faint sound of lively people in front of him.

Turning a corner, Li Mu raised his eyes and saw many people standing bustling in front of him, afraid that there were no less than thousands. These thousands of people stood in a huge square, and they didn't look crowded at all. This square is surrounded by a fence more than one person high, and every few dozen zhang in it, a wooden platform with a height of more than one zhang and a radius of about ten zhang is built with wood. After a while, Li Mu found that there were as many as twelve of these wooden platforms, which were obviously the rings prepared for the disciples who participated in the martial arts today.

Li Mu followed behind the disciple, and after entering the crowd, the man walked to a building on the edge of the square, obviously going to recover his life.

Li Mu didn't care about him, he found a place with a lot of people at random, stood aside, and listened attentively to the conversation of these innate disciples.

Although Li Mu was famous during this time, among these innate disciples, he could be regarded as an omniscient existence, but his true appearance was indeed not seen by a few disciples at all. Moreover, he deliberately changed into a gray robe today, and did not wear the white robe that represented his official disciple status, so when these people saw him coming, they only thought that he was an ordinary innate disciple, and they didn't care about him, and they still talked about it to themselves.

"Which senior brother do you think is most likely to win the first place this time?" said one of the young men in his twenties.

The people next to him didn't speak, and looked at a middle-aged man facing the old man, obviously in this group, he was more prestigious.

The middle-aged man saw that everyone was waiting for him to answer, so he coughed lightly and said, "This meeting is different from previous years. I have been in the school for more than 20 years, and I have seen the martial arts five times, and each time there will almost always be a genius who will definitely win the first place. However, among the senior brothers who participated in this martial arts, there are quite a few differences in strength, but they all have the potential to win the first place. ”

A person next to him asked: "Boss Ren, don't sell Guanzi, there are some people, talk about it quickly!"

The people around him also clamored and urged the boss to speak.

Li Mu looked at this "Boss Ren" with some curiosity, and was also waiting for his answer.

In the expectation of everyone, Boss Ren slowly opened his mouth and gave a general introduction to these people who had the strength to win the first place.