Annihilating a Sect (I)
Lu Li carried the bandit leader, walking slowly but actually quickly. Zhao Yifan followed behind with difficulty. Before long, they arrived at a town, chose an inn, found a seat on the second floor by the window, and ordered some things.
Hu Hansan woke up shortly afterward, glanced at the gentleman sitting by the window drinking tea, and then at the child not far from him, calculating in his mind how successful he was in kidnapping the child and escaping.
However, he quickly suppressed his thoughts. He felt something was amiss in his chest area. Pulling open his shirt, he saw a black spot the size of a finger on his chest. Hu Hansan had a feeling that if he made any further moves, his death would be imminent.
"One Finger Plants Black Star!" Zhao Yifan sighed inwardly, recalling the infamous move of Lu Li, the Black Heaven Hall. In the future, countless disciples from major sects would betray their sects, steal secret manuals, and join the Black Heaven Hall because of this move.
Anyone who has been implanted with the Black Star will have their life and death entirely in Lu Li's hands unless they possess the ability to revive by scraping their heart. Some people also call this move "Black Heart" because it is said that those implanted with it will have their minds corrupted by the Black Heaven Hall's internal energy, becoming insane.
Of course, Zhao Yifan didn't know that Lu Li had only infused his Shadow Magic into that piece of flesh and blood so far. As for the internal energy version later, it was estimated that it would take a long time.
Thinking about the internal energy formula he had just extracted from Hu Hansan, Lu Li, with his familiarity with his body, roughly understood the function of this internal energy cultivation method. It was roughly about putting himself in a certain state of mind, gathering the life energy generated inside the body, and imprinting it with his own spiritual imprint to form the most basic internal energy.
If someone with even a modicum of talent were to practice this mantra, it would probably take at least ten years to achieve the corresponding state of mind, successfully gather life energy, and imprint it with a spiritual mark. Moreover, during these ten years, they would also need to eat and drink well to maintain good health and abundant life energy.
Hu Hansan was like that. South Heaven Sect at the age of eleven or twelve and began to practice the secret incantation of the South Heaven Sect. He was considered to have good aptitude. While training his body and martial arts at the South Heaven Sect, he ate carefully selected rice and grains from the tenant farmers and farmed meat. After seven years of training, he finally developed internal energy.
Then came the incident where his admired junior sister and his second junior brother secretly pledged their love to each other. He was furious and decided to go all out. He killed the man he believed to be the adulterer, and after having a fun little game with his junior sister, he ran away with a scroll of the sect's secret martial arts.
Looking back now, it's been more than ten years. During these ten years, he studied the secret martial arts manual every day, and occasionally led his men to plunder neighboring and passing merchants to supplement his martial arts training expenses, hoping that one day he could return to the South Heaven Sect and wash away the shame.
Indeed, Hu Hansan considers his experience in the South Heaven Sect a disgrace. He has always wanted to go back and avenge the South Heaven Sect for forcing him to flee. In the past ten years or so, he has made some progress in comprehending the secret martial arts, and he estimates that he will soon be able to master the internal energy recorded in the secret martial arts: South Heaven One Qi.
Now that his life and death were no longer in his own hands, Hu Hansan was somewhat discouraged. Lu Li kept asking him questions, and he answered them truthfully, which gave Lu Li a general understanding of the martial arts world.
It's true that this is a low-level martial arts world. Most martial artists in this world are just physically strong and know some fighting techniques. At most, they have learned some internal energy incantations and have longer internal energy.
A martial artist like Hu Hansan, who has cultivated internal energy and accumulated it for more than ten years, is already a master in his own right. The next step is to become a high-level martial artist who has mastered various secret martial arts and possesses secret internal energy. Such martial artists are well-known throughout the martial arts world.
Of course, it is said that there is another kind of martial artist above them, namely the Celestial Martial Artist who has formed his own artistic conception. Only the Celestial Martial Artist can release his internal energy. Before that, all martial artists could only use internal energy to enhance the power of their fists and feet.
Hu Hansan had never seen such a martial artist before, only that there was one in the South Heaven Sect. However, Hu Hansan mostly didn't believe it, thinking that this situation was probably just the South Heaven Sect sending out someone to intimidate villains.
Thus, Lu Li understood how low the martial arts level was in this world. Generally speaking, it wasn't the kind of low-level martial arts world where there was no internal energy and it was purely about hand-to-hand combat, nor was it a world with all sorts of divine skills. The best martial arts in this world were mostly secret martial arts techniques, and top masters all relied on their own comprehension of the essence of the art. There were no fixed divine skills that allowed them to reach that level.
"Master, where do we go next?" Zhao Yifan couldn't help but ask. Although he had some general guidance based on his memories from his later life, he still couldn't resist asking now.
"Where are we going?" Lu Li had just arrived in this world and was unfamiliar with place names and such. His primary goal was to find a place to acquire a large amount of martial arts knowledge about this world so that he could study it and create his own divine skills.
Lu Li then turned his gaze to Hu Hansan, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Um! What did you just say your sect was called?"
"The South Heaven Sect?" Hu Hansan looked at Lu Li with a blank expression, thinking to himself, "This hero, is he really planning to send me back to the sect for judgment? If that's the case, I'd rather be dead."
"Shall we go to the South Heaven Sect, little apprentice?" Lu Li turned to Zhao Yifan and asked, making him feel immense pressure.
Zhao Yifan knew exactly what this person was doing at the South Heaven Sect. In his previous life, this was the battle that made the Black Heaven Hall famous. He led the traitors of the South Heaven Sect directly to the South Ridge and then wiped out the South Mountain Sect, renaming it the Black Heaven Hall.
It was in this battle that this master used methods unimaginable to the world to kill the Supreme Elder of the South Heaven Sect, that Celestial Warrior, who was considered the first person to break through the path of Celestial and achieve the Mythical Martial Dao.
Of course, the other masters we saw today also began to gain fame, each of them accomplishing many great things, stimulating the entire martial arts world to begin to evolve.
Now, whether the South Heaven Sect's massacre will occur hinges on this single thought. Judging from the events of this period and the events of his previous life, this Black Heaven Hall is a very capricious person. Zhao Yifan is confident that as long as he objects and states a destination, Lu Li will most likely comply with his wishes.
Why should he object? Zhao Yifan's eyes shone brightly. Wasn't witnessing this epic battle a dream for every martial artist? In his previous life, although his master Ding Yuan had accomplished some great things, he hadn't taken him along. Now that he had the chance, how could he miss it?
Seeing his young apprentice nod in agreement, Lu Li picked up Hu Hansan and said, "Lead the way, to the South Heaven Sect."
"What are we going there for?" Hu Hansan thought to himself. If they wanted to hand me over to the sect, I would rather die than lead the way. Then he heard the young man say casually.
"Destroy the South Heaven Sect!"