The Divine Martial Stars

Chapter 28

Chapter 28 Grip Steel and Turn It into Powder

Li Bing was surprised.

At this time, Ma Junwu, who was in a coma before, woke up quietly, opened his eyes and saw Li Mu on one side. He said loudly to Li Mu, "Your honor. Be careful... He... He's a great master..." He spat out blood after saying that.

"You are the county magistrate of Taibai County?" Li Bing finally understood.

Li Mu nodded very seriously, "Yes. I am. I am the ant crawler from your point of view."

"So it is you..." The expression on the face of Li Bing was slightly unnatural, but he quickly sneered, "So what?"

Li Mu looked at Li Bing and his evil associates and said, "Nothing. I just want to teach you a lesson."

After saying that, Li Mu walked towards Ma Junwu, pushed qi to his whole body, and took out some medicine for knife wounds and internal injury to help Ma Junwu take them. Then he went to see those badly injured guards in the coma.

At this time, the little boy Qing Feng came with the doctor from the Medical Center, and both of them were breathless.

"Your honor..." The chief doctor was the middle-aged man who treated Li Mu's arrow wounds in the grottoes of Shennong Faction headquarter that day. When he saw Li Mu, he immediately showed his worship and saluted Li Mu with his apprentices.

Li Mu just waved his hand and said, "Save people first."

Meanwhile, there came the sound of horseshoes and footsteps.

It was the secretary Feng Yuanxing who rode a steed with four hundred well-armed elite soldiers and guards.

The little girl Ming Yue ran in the front, and she was as fast as the wind, who seemed to have eaten some elixir when she grew. She ran faster than the warhorse with a relaxed look. She shouted loudly from a distance, "Be quick. Look at those crazy people. Just stop them. Don't let one go. My Young Master will them all. Haha..."

Li Mu suddenly covered his forehead in silence.

This adorkable Ming Yue.

At the same time, the passers-by, who were watching around, talked with each other and finally recognized that the brave young man was Li Mu, their county magistrate.

"Here is our justice panjandrum."

"You honor!"

They all knelt down one after another.

Because Li Mu had exterminated Shennong Faction headquarter all by himself, rescued many innocent victims, and then he opened a court in the county government, let Feng Yuanxing deal with unjust cases, which rectified the corrupt official governance atmosphere in Taibai County. During this period, although Li Mu felt that he did nothing, he won the great reputation and prestige among the ordinary people in this county. People worshiped him as a god.

"Encircle them!"

Feng Yuanxing jumped off the horse, waved his hand, and four hundred soldiers and guards encircled and pointed at those evil Jianghu young men with their long spears.

Li Mu smiled and said, "How do you feel now? Should you kneel down to say you are sorry?"

Li Bing glanced scornfully at the guards around him and said, "You want to depend on these completely useless and weak soldiers to let me say sorry?"

Li Mu shook his head and said, "No. I rely on this."

He shook his fist.

Li Bing was shocked, but he immediately cooled down, and said, "Haha. Although I don't know why the Boody-moon Evil Master wants to challenge you, it seems that you haven't stimulated your inner qi and got the qi power. Why should I be afraid of such trash like you?"

Li Mu was not angry, and he just nodded earnestly and said, "Yes. I am trash. So who wants to fight with me first?"

Li Bing sneered disdainfully, "Fighting with trash like you will ruin my reputation in Jianghu."

Another young man next to him stepped out, moving his arms, making a crackling sound like pop beans from his joints and spines, and spreading an invisible force. Even

"The so-called county magistrate of Taibai County turned out to be such an idiot. I will teach you how strong a real master is in Jianghu..." The young man laughed scornfully.

Before he finished the words.

Bang!

Here came a dull thud.

All the people felt they were suddenly blurred, and then the young man just disappeared.

Li Mu's palm maintained a hit-out posture.

And along the direction of his palm, there appeared a human-shaped cave on the clay wall about a dozen meters away from them with smoke and dust filling in the air.

Everyone was greatly shocked.

"You... Sneak attack... shameless..." Intermittent voices came out from the human-shaped cave of the earth wall. That young man showed his head from the cave and pointed at Li Mu unwillingly. Then he fainted and fell behind the earth wall.

Li Mu shook his hand and said, "Damn you sneak attack... I thought what a great master he was. It turned out to be so rubbish. Just waste my time." If Li Mu had used his whole power, that young man would have exploded by just one slap.

"Kill them, hammer them... Put them on the ground and rub them." Little adorkable Ming Yue was excitedly holding up her fists and shouting like a violent maniac. Who could relate this seemingly mellow and cute little girl to a violent man?

The little boy Qing Feng seemed relieved.

But at the same time, he wondered why Li Mu had changed so much compared to the past, and it seemed that he was a totally different person.

Li Bing's pupils were shrinking.

At this time, other young men who acted as the paws of a tiger could not laugh.

"You honor is invincible!"

"Justice panjandrum is ever-triumphant!"

The elite soldiers and the surrounding ordinary people, who saw this scene, suddenly cheered excitedly.

Li Mu's influence and change on Taibai County had shown results in silence, and this slap, as well as the attitude represented by this slap, made every Taibai County's people feel proud, which was a wholly different kind of pride that never occurred before.

"Wow. Big Brother is terrific." The little girl Yaya clapped her little hands hard and excitedly.

That beautiful young woman and her bearded husband with steel forks on his chest looked at each other and grasped the curiosity in each other's eyes. A teenager whose qi had never been stimulated and did not have any internal qi could own such powerful strength?

"Who else wants to fight?" Li Mu was also kind of crazy and pretentious. So in such an atmosphere, he put his hands on his waist and shouted at those group of young people.

Li Bing winked at them.

"Show our weapon!"

"It's just a brute force. See how you can handle our swords."

Two evil people came out from their group and approached Li Mu.

One pulled out his sword from his waist, and the other held a sharp machete in his hand.

The two men's body surface had slightly bizarre flicker, who were apparently great masters of Joint-qi level. Stimulated by the internal qi, their cold weapons burst out a thread of light, flashing refreshing cold light, and thus they were obviously much stronger than the four King Kongs of Shennong Faction, such as the "Sky-chopping Guillotine" Xu Zhi.

"Haha. Master Li. Tell us should we give him a chance to live?" One of the young men curved his mouth and laughed evilly.

That noble Li Bing also showed cruelty on his face and said, "After all, he is an imperial official. Just take off one of his arms... Haha. Don't be afraid. I will be responsible for everything that can happen."

After that, Li Bing looked at the beautiful young woman again and said, "Look. It's all because you don't follow me. You just see what's happening. If you are still against me. Young lady. Maybe later, the fate of this idiot county magistrate will be your husband and your daughter's example."

Phew!

Swoosh!

Shadows twinkled in the field.

Those two Jianghu hooligans were moving at the same time. Their figures were as fast as birds, and their speed was so fast that anyone could hardly see.

The sword light was like rain and the knife light was like electricity.

In an instant, the shadow of swords in the sky rose sharply, which was like a gale and torrential rain was going towards Li Mu. To outsiders, Li Mu was like a boat that would be overturned at any time in the ocean filled with the gale, torrential rain, and huge waves, and it seemed he could not escape from doom.

"You honor. Watch out..." Ma Junwu couldn't help but exclaim.

"Young Master. Hammer their heads." Little adorkable Ming Yue, who enjoyed violence very much, also cheered.

In the middle of the people around the road, seeing such a thrilling scene, they also shouted to alarm Li Mu.

Bang! Bang!

Here came two dull thuds.

Shadow of the swords in the sky disappeared instantly.

In the distance, there were two more human-shaped holes in the earth wall.

Li Mu's hand kept the position of lifting up and fanning out, but in his hand, there were a machete and a long sword.

Those weapons belonged to the two Jianghu hooligans.

But it was just that moment, in the shadow of countless swords and machete light, Li Mu completed two steps of fanning his opponents out and seizing weapons, and basically, no one could see how it all happened.

"Garbage. Still garbage. Too vulnerable to attack." Li Mu sighed with great displeasure, "Alas. Everyone just boasted and bragged. All of them wanted to scare people to death by their words. It turns out none of them can fight with me."

Li Mu held the machete and the long sword in his left and right hands, and his wrists shook slightly, then the two fine steel-made weapons broke inch by inch with brittle sounds as if they were made of clay or earth. Then he slightly squeezed those two weapons, the handle of the machete and the long sword were turned into iron and steel powder immediately, which easily slipped from Li Mu's fingertips.

Dead silence.

Li Bing took a deep breath and his scalp felt numb.

Knead the steel handles into powder by bare hands... What horrible power did Li Mu have?

Eagle-grasping Skill?

Iron-finger Skill?

Or Ghost Claw Skill?

What kind of finger skill could do something like that?

At that moment, he suddenly understood a little why the long-established Boody-moon Evil Master publicly challenged the unknown county magistrate of Taibai County.

He could not see through Li Mu.

He was too scary.

Li Bing suddenly became less confident about his strength.

On the other side, the beautiful young woman and her bearded husband were more and more surprised. They were more curious about Li Mu because as experienced martial art masters, who were way better than Li Bing, they could naturally sense Li Mu's weirdness when he grabbed steel into powder bare-handed without running his internal qi. What must be said was that there were less than five people who own such power in Northwest Wulin World.

"My order: Seize those hooligans and hang them on the tree."

Li Mu pointed to the three Jianghu hooligans who had fainted behind the earth wall.



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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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