The Divine Martial Stars

Chapter 26

Chapter 26 Someone was Looking for trouble

The "Five Elements Boxing" and "Gale-like Blade Methods" presented by the Sky Star Martial Club and Changfeng Bureau could be regarded as the top combat skills that were found among the two gangs, but they were only in the ninth rank of the martial art skills. After all, they were not so influential, so it took them a lot of effort to find those two martial art books.

In the practice rooms, Li Mu first opened the "Five Elements Boxing".

That was a set of boxing techniques containing five moves. The five elements of Five Elements boxing meant elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. So the "gold boxing" was sharp, the "wood boxing" was vigorous, the "water boxing" was soft, the "fire boxing" was hot, the "earth boxing" was heavy. The five moves had their own characteristics, but after all, they only ranked ninth in the martial art skills, so was not so superb. They just simulated the surface meaning of the five elements through the change of moves, not really contained a deep meaning.

Li Mu understood immediately the general meaning of Five Elements Boxing after the first reading.

Although Five Elements Boxing and Zhenwu Boxing were both boxing methods, there was a huge gap between those two methods.

After that, Li Mu began to read the "Gale-like Blade Methods".

There were 36 moves in "Gale-like Blade Methods", which was more than the "Five-element Boxing". The core of this book was "speed". Each move was faster than its former one. According to the book, a man had to use the whole moves within ten breaths, just like a gale swept the fallen leaves, which could be called "Gale-like".

"This blade methods showed its advantages and disadvantages clearly. If a man comes across an ordinary enemy, maybe it is hard for the enemy to handle so fast moves, however, if a man runs into a real master, then he or she may lose the accuracy and power using this fast moves because these methods only emphasize on the speed. Therefore, it is not hard to infer that as long as the rhythm of this blade methods is interrupted, it will be very hard for the users to win."

Li Mu knew that really well.

This was due to the constant cheating or teaching of the old faker when they were at Randeng Temple.

At that time, Li Mu always felt that it was crazy for the old faker to say something like that, but now it seemed that many things he said were the truth.

In fact, Li Mu always thought of something like who exactly was the old faker, because he was omniscient, and that made him not like an earth man, but why was he on the earth?

This idea flashed through Li Mu’s mind, and there was no answer, so he had to wait until returning to the earth, and then he could ask the old faker himself.

After reading those two martial art cultivation methods, he thought a little and chose the "Gale-like Blade Methods" to start his practice.

Because in terms of Li Mu’s simple martial arts philosophy, he always thought it was better for him to carry a blade when fighting than to do bare-handed boxing.

There were weapon racks in the practice room, which were left by the former county magistrate. Eighteen kinds of weapons were all available on the arms racks and take blade as an example, there were five kinks of blades on the arms rack. After thinking for a while, Li Mu picked the longest podao.

The longer, the better!

That was in line with Li Mu’s obscene style cultivated by the old faker’s constant teaching.

This podao was supposed to be the heaviest one among the five blades, which was made of fine stainless steel and weighed 25 or 30 kilograms, however, Li Mu had a strange power and felt it as light as grass after grasping it, and he had to use it because he had no better choice.

Just with a slight movement, the practice room appeared a snowflake-like radiance caused by the podao.

The radiance of the podao was just like electricity.

Days passed by quickly.

A piece of sensational news suddenly came out from the no-longer-quiet Northwest Wulin World in this empire.

The news was spreading that the cruel "Boody-moon Evil Master", who was not heard by most people in past decades, was going to finish his closed training and had challenged the county magistrate of Taibai County, and they would fight on the Jifeng Mountain, one of the main peaks of the Taibai Mountain branch three months later.

"Boody-moon Evil Master" had risen to fame decades ago, and once set off a bloody storm in the Northwest Wulin World, so he was quite famous in the

As such a ruthless role, his every move, every word or every deed would attract the attention of all parties in the northwest of the Empire.

But what was unexpected to many people was that as the grand master of Bloody-moon faction when it was going to force its way into the ninth-ranking clan, the "Boody-moon Evil Master" was not reorganizing his faction or expanding his territory, but he chose to challenge an unknown Li Mu, which was really surprising.

Yes, many people from Northwest Wulin World truly regarded Li Mu as a nobody.

The only thing that was slightly eye-catching was not the strength of Li Mu, but his identity.

The county magistrate of Taibai County.

Li Mu’s official position made him different from other ordinary people of Wulin World.

However, according to the well-accepted tradition of the empire, no matter what the official position that a man had, even if he or she was a royal family member of the empire, once he or she accepted the challenge and stepped on the fighting arena, then he or she had to depend on himself or herself to win the competition, because an official position was never an amulet.

Many people of Wulin began to wonder who exactly this county magistrate of Taibai County? And what deep hatred, which made Li Mu had to accept the challenge, there was between him and the Boody-moon Evil Master.

Even in the northwest officialdom of the empire, people were really surprised.

Soon, all kinds of information and rumors about Li Mu began to spread in the major regions of Northwest Empire.

There were even a lot of people in Wulin who had begun to travel to the mountain town of Taibai County and wanted to seek for some fun.

Li Mu, the leading role in this matter, was not very concerned.

In the past fifteen days, Li Mu had been practicing day and night without sleep or food.

Now Li Mu could use the Five Elements Boxing and Gale-like Blade Methods pretty fluently. At the same time, the time spent practicing arrows with Ma Junwu every day was shortened, but Li Mu did not fall behind. When he felt tired, he would practice Xiantian Skill for two hours, and then he would feel refreshed and energetic again, which was more effective than using doping.

Li Mu’s progress on martial arts was amazing.

Ma Junwu was the first one that had this feeling.

When he stood beside Li Mu before, he only felt a sense of pressure and fear. Now, as long as he was within three meters of Li Mu’s side, he felt as if a sharp steel knife was put on his forehead, and then he felt chill in his heart.

In terms of archery, Li Mu had mastered how to draw a bow back and forth, whose skill was nearly equal to Ma Junwu’s.

However, the power of the silver bow was too strong, Li Mu was still unable to pull it to the full with his strength. But he still drew the bow after returning to the practice room every day to improve his strength and make himself more familiar with the silver bow, but he dared not to shoot arrows because its power was so strong that no target could bear the arrows from this bow.

Li Mu then delayed the practice of archery.

He divided his own time into two parts, day and night. During the day, he devoted himself to the practice of Five Elements Boxing and Gale-like Blade Methods, while at night, he would practice Xiantian Skill and Zhenwu Boxing, because Li Mu knew it pretty well that the latter two were the foundation of his real strength.

On one day, the wind was mild, the sun was bright and the sky was blue.

Li Mu was practicing his blade methods in the garden of the back office. He was wrapped in a piece of snow-white blade light, which was really like a gust of wind. Nothing but only the knife light could be seen.

Swish!

The blade trembled.

He withdrew his blade and stood straight.

"The 36 Gale-like Blade Methods, seemingly endless changes, is actually a bit cumbersome. Once interrupted, its power will plummet. If I can simplify its complex moves and change them into practical ones, it will be much better…"

He thought in his heart.

At this time, a person, who was like a wild duck driven away by a dog, rushed to Li Mu like a gust of wind.

"Not good. not good. Young Master. Something big happened."

The only person in the county government who dared to break in without notice when Li Mugong was practicing his kung fu was the adorkable little girl Ming Yue, and she rushed to Li Mu and shouted with a fussy face.

Li Mu did not have a good temper to say, "You again? What? Did you again get caught up in the county office by someone else because you didn’t give money when you went to the restaurant?"

A few days ago, this adorkable girl was chased to the gate of the county government by someone because she did not give money after eating in a restaurant.

Ming Yue shook her head again and again, and her two sheep-horn-like braids swayed back and forth like a rattle and she said, "No… there are people fighting in the county, and some of them even used knives…"

Li Mu said angrily, "Is there a need for me to deal with this small matter? You just find Dutou Official Ma Junwu to handle it…"

"The problem is that the person who was beaten was the trash Ma Junwu." Ming Yue looked contemptuous and said, "When I came back, Ma Junwu’s three ribs were broken, and guard with him were also seriously injured… It’s a shame. They were really weak."

"What?"

Li Mu felt surprised.

Ma Junwu was injured?

There were some people who could defeat Ma Junwu in this county, but the question was that Ma Junwu was Li Mu’s loyal servant now. Even someone beat a dog, he or she should usually know who was its owner. Breaking Ma Junwu’s three ribs were like slapping Li Mu’s face. Was there any difference?

"Let’s go to see who did that."

Li Mu gnashed his teeth in anger.

"I’d like to see who has the gut to provoke me."

"Ha-ha-ha, you guys have the ability of a three-leg-cat, and want to uphold justice on your own? It’s ridiculous that a centipede wants to shake a tree."

A young man who was gently shaking the folding fan showed a frivolous look.

His one foot was stepping on Ma Junwu’s chest, and he spat on Ma Junwu’s face intentionally with disdain and ridicule on his face and sneered. "Today, if it hadn’t been for the reason that you are officials, your limbs would have been cut off and I will make you like human sticks."

Ma Junwu was humiliated and his face turned red due to anger.

Ma Junwu struggled hard, but a lot of bones were broken all over his body. He was seriously injured and unable to exert his strength. The young person’s one foot were as heavy as ten thousand jun, like a mountain on his body, which made him unable to break away at all.

This young people was a master of martial arts.

Beside the young man were some guards who were unconscious now after being shocked by the young man and spitting some blood in the fighting.

"Oh, who else wants to be a hero to save those beauties? Just stand up." The young man smugly looked around.



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Chapter 32 The Wind Rose and the Clouds Began to Gather</h3><div><p>Li Mu chewed his mouth, squinted his eyes and was really interested.</p><p>Generally speaking, a person’s appearance was fixed, which was also a basic feature that distinguished one person from others.</p><p>On the earth, Korean cosmetic surgery, known as one of Asia’s four great magic arts, essentially changed a person’s appearance through surgery via changing his or her muscles and bones, but that was really expensive, besides, it could also cause various sequelae. But The Way of Changing looks by Transforming Muscles and Bones aimed at changing a person’s look completely in a certain period of time through changing a person’s muscles and skeleton shape by the help of the strength and skills of martial arts, which could be called cosmetic surgery in the world of martial arts.</p><p>Li Mu sat cross-legged with a book in his hand and read it carefully.</p><p>Until finishing this book, he couldn’t help but utter a sigh.</p><p>"The content of this book is not a hoax."</p><p>That was Li Mu’s conclusion.</p><p>Because he found that according to the skills described in the book, it was really possible to change his appearance in a short period of time. The more proficient the martial arts practitioner was, the easier it would be. It involved the operation of internal qi and some methods of muscle training, and that was well-founded, and not an absolute mystery. It seemed not so rare in the Jianghu world of martial arts on the mainland of Shenzhou.</p><p>"It is a pity that only those masters in Joint-qi level who have mastered internal qi can practice and master this transformational method."</p><p>Li Mu felt a little disappointed.</p><p>Some of the key techniques and methods described in the book required the cooperation of internal qi.</p><p>"Just look at the rest stuff."</p><p>Li Mu began to dig the box again.</p><p>At last, he found out some secret books of martial arts, such as "Jade Breaking Sword", "Left Handed Method", "Secret Training of Qi Formula", "Lightning Steps", "Qi Cultivation and Method of Expiration and Inspiration", "King Kong Kongfu" and "Inspiration Formula". There were about a dozen copies in total, which were definitely a good harvest, besides; most of them were nine-grade secret books, which were more superior than the books collected from Shennong Faction.</p><p>Li Mu just began to learn martial arts and had a strong obsession with it. Apart from the mission he shouldered, did any hot-blooded teenager not have a heroic dream of "explore the world with a sword"?</p><p>He was not picky, and he began to open those books and read them thoroughly, carefully studying and absorbing the knowledge, really intoxicated as if he was drunk into another world.</p><p>Time passed by swiftly.</p><p>One night passed by quickly.</p><p>The next morning, the little boy Qing Feng delivered Li Mu’s breakfast to the door of the practice room, but Li Mu, who was addicted to learning, did not have time to eat it.</p><p>Until the morning of the third day, Li Mu finally read all the secret books of martial arts carefully.</p><p>Squeak!</p><p>The door opened.</p><p>When Li Mu came out of the practice room with dark circles around his eyes, Qing Feng and Ming Yue who guarded him outside the door were all shocked.</p><p>"Young master, you got dark circles around your eyes…"</p><p>"This is a sign of kidney deficiency… Young Master, what on earth did you do in the practice room?"</p><p>The two little children, especially the violent and adorkable Ming Yue, exclaimed exaggeratedly.</p><p>Li Mu covered his forehead with a serious look.</p><p>"What do you little children know about kidney deficiency? Don’t talk nonsense… Go ahead; give me a bowl of snake meat soup. I am a little hungry." Li Mu’s mind was filled with innumerable information and flickering inspiration. After reading dozens of secret books about martial arts, he had a deeper understanding of it, and at the same time, he felt a little hungry.</p><p>That kind of state was just like the state of mingling spiritual satisfaction and physical fatigue when walking in the mountains in the morning after staying up all night to watch martial arts fiction on the earth, which was pleasant and full.</p><p>The little boy Qing Feng hesitated, and he looked at the little girl Ming Yue.</p><p>Ming Yue then said hesitantly, "Well, Young Master, there’s bad news, and you may not be happy to hear it, but the fact is… we don’t have the green dragon snake meat anymore."</p><p>"How is it possible?" Li Mu was shocked. "That snake is enough for the three of us to eat for about half a year. How come </p><div> <span style="font-size:10px;">Advertisement</span> </div> it’s gone?"<p>Ming Yue showed a shy expression and did not speak.</p><p>Seeing that, Qing Feng had to summon up courage and explained, "Young Master… It is because, lately, Ming Yue has a good appetite." That meant the adorkable and violent Ming Yue had eaten all the rest snake.</p><p>Li Mu felt incredible and looked at Ming Yue.</p><p>The latter was very sincere and nodded her head, saying, "Young Master, don’t look at me in that way… In fact, I eat a little more… just a little bit more."</p><p>Li Mu was suddenly speechless.</p><p>"Am I raising a cute girl or a pig?"</p><p>"How could she eat so many?"</p><p>Everyone should remember that alien python was almost turning into a boa dragon, which meant it was not only huge in size, but also rich in blood, energy, nutrition, and medicinal properties. An average person would feel completely full with a few pieces of snake meat every day. If he or she ate too much, he or she would get sick because of excessive blood and qi, so even a warrior dare not eat more.</p><p>These days, Li Mu also relied on the alien boa meat to maintain the training of Zhenwu Boxing.</p><p>And what kind of monster was this violent and adorkable Lolita? How could she eat up the boa constrictor’s meat secretly?</p><p>If they calculated carefully, they would conclude that Li Mu and Qing Feng ate less than one-third of the green dragon python, and the remaining two-thirds were all into the stomach of Ming Yue. However, there was no much difference of her compared with the way she looked before, except that her skin was whiter and more glittering, and she did not even become taller… What kind of monster was she?</p><p>Ming Yue looked at Li Mu with her big eyes, and her eyes flickered all the time, then she said pitifully, "Young Master, will you think I am good-for-nothing? Will you abandon me because of that? But I am really hungry. The worst is that I will eat less later… I will try to control myself. Okay?"</p><p>Li Mu moaned weakly. "Come on, it’s just a snake… Now, just bring anything that I can eat now from the kitchen. I have to fill up my stomach first."</p><p>Ming Yue cheered up, "Long live the Young Master."</p><p>It was after a while.</p><p>In a small room of the front office, Li Mu felt comfortable after he devoured a whole table of food quickly.</p><p>He patted his belly satisfactorily, stood up and walked back to the practice room.</p><p>After reading those secrete martial art books, Li Mu had many ideas in his mind, which needed to be verified.</p><p>The little boy Qing Feng looked helpless after seeing that. He quickly went up and grabbed one of Li Mu’s sleeves.</p><p>"Why? Anything else happened?" Li Mu looked at him.</p><p>Qing Feng was exasperated at Li Mu’s failure to make good and tried to persuade him. "Young Master, you haven’t managed the county for a long time. There are still a lot of government affairs. You need to handle them… If you keep doing that, people in Taibai County will only know that there is a secretary Feng Yuanxing but not a county magistrate."</p><p>The little boy Qing Feng was really anxious.</p><p>Since Li Mu came to Taibai County, Qing Feng witnessed his Young Master gradually degenerated from the youngest scholar in an empire with bright future to a brute man who only knew how to practice swords or sticks. It was okay for Li Mu to practice martial arts because he could also build up his health, but the problem was, as a county magistrate, he could not always ignore the county government affairs and abandoned his duties.</p><p>Had his Young Master Li Mu already lost his mind if he continued to do that? Then, just like the former county magistrate of Taibai County, would he be out of mind and then eventually resigned from office and went directly to the deep mountains to seek for Taoist immortals.</p><p>Be sure to let Young Master realize his own mistakes.</p><p>Qing Feng was really worried and deeply felt that he had a great responsibility on his shoulders.</p><p>Li Mu heard what Qing Feng said and thought about it for a while. He nodded and said, "You’re right. That’s right. In the future, the county affairs can’t be decided by Feng Yuanxing alone." Hearing this, Qing Feng was delighted and thought that his Young Master had finally followed his sincere suggestions. Who knew Li Mu went on to say, "Well, in the future, you should also supervise the county affairs, discuss with Feng Yuanxing and make decisions together."</p><p>Qing Feng suddenly felt everything turned dark before his eyes and almost fainted.</p><p>Although he said so much, it seemed he cast pearls before swine.</p><p>"Young Master, I don’t mean that…" Qing Feng was about to explain.</p><p>Li Mu had already left quickly and disappeared at the corner in the distance, and he went to the practice room to practice martial arts.</p><p>"Alas." The little boy sighed helplessly.</p><p>"Young Master has changed." He rubbed his temples like a little adult.</p><p>"Yes." Ming Yue nodded her head as if she got the same feeling as Qing Feng and said, "Yong Master is getting more and more normal."</p><p>"You…" Qing Feng glared at Ming Yue and thought that, wasn’t Li Mu getting more and more abnormal?</p><p>While they were talking, Feng Yuanxing rushed into the small room in a hurry with sweats all over his head after informing them. He began to talking as soon as he walked in. "Your honor, there’s something wrong… Well? I was told the county magistrate stopped practicing martial arts and where is he?"</p><p>"You are late. My Young Master has begun to practice again." Ming Yue smiled.</p><p>"So fast?" Feng Yuanxing suddenly changed into a disappointed look and said, "What can I do about it?"</p><p>"Mr. Feng, what happened?" asked the little boy Qing Feng after raising his head.</p><p>"In the county, there was a riot among people from Wulin: people from Huya Faction and Sky Dragon Faction had a big fight, which caused several people died. Now people from both sides are gathering, and I heard that there will be another big fight. I am afraid it will make great troubles and bring the whole county into turmoil," Feng Yuanxing rubbed his hands and said.</p><p>The little boy Qing Feng thought about it, rubbing his temples, and said, "Well, it’s really a bit tricky. Both Huya Faction and Sky Dragon Faction are big factions that have set up for more than sixty years on the Northwest Wulin World. Although they are not as powerful as the Bloody-moon faction, they’re always eager to become imperial clans and thus raise many great masters. Besides, their relationship is complicated and difficult to deal with and they’ve already resented each other for a long time. It’s really a disaster if they begin to fight in our county… Did they affect ordinary people when they first fought?"</p><p>The little Qing Feng was really circumspect and farsighted as if he were a grownup.</p><p>Feng Yuanxing had an illusion of facing his superior officials and answered subconsciously, "There were not too many people died or injured, but several bold people got minor injuries when they watched the fight. However, nowadays, people in the county town are panicked, and the two factions are very arrogant, claiming to kill all of its opponents, besides, the place where they will fight again is in the city… Over the years, Jianghu people have become more and more reckless."</p><p>…</p></div><h3>Chapter 32 The Wind Rose and the Clouds Began to Gather

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