Competition
With the establishment of the Ten Palaces, the area around South Ridge began to stabilize, and the landowners belonging to the South Heaven Sect were successfully handed over to them.
The righteous martial arts sects don't just practice martial arts every day. The poor study literature, the rich study martial arts. The first element of practicing martial arts is that you have a strong body that can generate a certain amount of life energy. Otherwise, practicing martial arts will only wear you down.
Therefore, most sects are local landowners who control the land deeds and farm deeds of the surrounding area. The nearby farmers are actually working for the sects, otherwise, where would the resources come from to provide for the disciples to practice martial arts?
Subsequently, the Black Heaven Hall also ushered in a peak period of accepting disciples. There were plenty of people in the world who wanted to practice martial arts but lacked the conditions and opportunities, or who had already practiced martial arts but did not have the techniques to advance further. Now that the Black Heaven Hall's techniques had been revealed, a large number of people flocked to the Black Heaven Hall.
The superiority of the Black Heaven Hall's techniques lies in the fact that as long as one touches the corresponding mark or mask, one can directly visualize the image into their mind, saving years or even decades of adjustments. Another advantage is that, since it does not belong to secret martial arts, one can obtain internal energy characteristics similar to those of secret martial arts without constructing acupoint diagrams.
Of course, there are also downsides. One is the amplification of desires, which is quite obvious. You can tell which disciple belongs to which hall just by looking at their performance. Another is that it makes them too crafty.
Ordinary martial arts practitioners need several years to adjust their visualization diagram to suit themselves. In other words, their visualization diagrams are all tailored to their own needs. This process of constant adjustment eliminates a large number of those who lack talent and temperament. However, those who succeed all have good talent, which lays the foundation for their future cultivation of secret martial arts and even the condensation of their own artistic conception.
In contrast, the Black Heaven Scroll changes the practitioner's visualization to align with their own, unlike ordinary martial arts which involves altering the visualization to make it compatible with their own. The Black Heaven Scroll, on the other hand, changes the practitioner to align with the Black Heaven, using the Black Heaven visualization to Excitation desires. Therefore, it is easy to learn.
In this situation, it's clear that these disciples lack sufficient understanding of the Black Heaven Secret Realm Visualization Diagram, and in the future, they will basically only be able to advance along the path established by Lu Li.
However, all the shortcomings cannot overshadow the advantages of the Black Heaven Scroll. Those with decent aptitude can condense Black Heaven that does not belong to the secret martial arts in just half a month. As long as they have this, they can tolerate any number of shortcomings.
This led to an increase in the population of the Black Heaven Hall, and thus the bustling renovation of the mountain gate began. Otherwise, the original small place of the South Heaven Sect simply could not accommodate so many people.
The mountain was divided into eleven areas, including the main hall Black Heaven Hall, and ten other lower halls.
As for the servant disciples who had not yet completed their training, they could only build thatched huts at the foot of the mountain and have another chance to come into contact with the stone tablet every day according to the rules. They were also assigned work every day, such as cleaning the environment or carrying water and cooking.
In short, everything began to take shape. Of course, some spies with ulterior motives disappeared after learning the techniques, presumably spies from other sects. However, Lu Li didn't care about any of this, and even did so intentionally.
Their goal is to transform the entire martial arts world, elevating it from a low-level martial arts world to a high-level one, not to establish sects and dominate the world. They feel that simply revealing their martial arts techniques is not enough.
The Black Heaven Scroll, without any markings or masks, was much faster than ordinary techniques, but it still took too long for Lu Li. Therefore, the next plan had to begin.
Thinking this, Lu Li closed his eyes again and began to communicate with the Dreamlands of this world. The Dreamlands of this Martial Arts World seemed to be in a relatively primitive state, tightly closed. Even though Lu Li was the master of another Dreamlands, he had only opened a little bit of the surface after trying for so long. He would need to work hard for a while to truly enter it.
During this transformation, three months passed, and under Lu Li's witness, the various halls held an internal competition. Faced with the challenges from their disciples, most of the hall masters were able to maintain their positions thanks to Lu Li's teachings. Of course, there were exceptions; the hall master of the Lust Hall was defeated by a female disciple.
Lu Li shook his head, compiled the techniques from each hall into a booklet, and distributed it. Any disciple who joined the Ten Halls was qualified to learn them. Then, Lu Li clapped his hands and said, "Zhao Yifan."
"Disciple is here." Zhao Yifan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, his eyes gleaming, clearly understanding what was about to happen.
"Go and spar with the various palace masters; consider it a test of your abilities," Lu Li nodded and said. "If you can defeat five palace masters in a row, I will bestow upon you a treasure. If not, then I will give that treasure to the palace master who defeated you."
"Disciple understands." Zhao Yifan accepted the order, his eyes gleaming. Based on his memories from his previous life, he roughly knew what the so-called treasure was, and because of this, he was determined to win these five consecutive victories.
"Which Palace Master dares to offer guidance?" Zhao Yifan looked at the ten people below the palace. He knew that most of these ten people would become powerful figures in the future, and they would have a great reputation in the martial arts world. However, Zhao Yifan believed that from this life onwards, he would be no weaker than anyone else.
"I've come to meet the young master." The speaker was the Lord of the Greed Hall. Zhao Yifan chuckled and stepped into the arena. In his memory, he was not the future Greed Hall, which meant that this guy would be nothing more than a loser in the future.
If I can't even beat a loser, how can I talk about reaching the pinnacle of this world? Today I'll show you what I'm capable of. After exchanging greetings with the other party, Zhao Yifan immediately made his move.
The Greed Hall circulated his inner energy, causing his muscles to swell. His original height of about 1.8 meters expanded to more than 2 meters, and black energy could be seen spreading across his skin and muscles, clearly indicating that he had mastered the technique passed down by Lu Li.
Lu Li did not name this move; Zhao Yifan named it "Aura Body" (罡气身). Zhao Yifan roared, his body swelled up slightly, and the seven or eight-year-old boy's original height of 1.2 meters increased to 1.5 meters. His muscles were connected, and a layer of black energy formed a scale-like appearance on the outside.
The two clashed head-on, and Zhao Yifan's strength was surprisingly comparable to that of the Greed Hall, with unexpectedly rich combat experience. In the end, Zhao Yifan condensed his palm into a blade, and the sharp palm blade sliced open the skin on the Greed Hall's forehead, winning the battle.
"Then which other Palace Master would like to offer guidance?" Zhao Yifan stopped releasing his moves. Although he had been cultivating the Black Heaven Scroll for longer than these people, due to his physical condition, he had not accumulated enough internal energy and had only just condensed his Qi seed. Unlike these Palace Masters, who all had internal energy in their bodies long ago, they had simply switched to cultivating the Black Heaven Scroll.
While observing everyone, he silently activated the Black Heaven Scroll, focusing on Lust to restore his physical strength and energy. In any case, he had to win these five battles.