Chapter 65: Seeking to Become a Disciple of Hao Jian

  The world is in chaos!

  Not concepts, not words from history books, but cruel facts.

  For his wife, for Liangjiazhuang's sake, he must live up to the name of Liangjiazhuang's master, and also make a name for himself in Shengjian Hall.

  The more famous Sheng Jian Tang is, the safer Liangjiazhuang will be. For the first time, Liangshan feels such an urgent need to increase his strength.

  The purpose of Liangshan's acceptance of Qinlang is to let him strengthen the military power of Liangjia Village. If they are not enemies, Qinlang can lead everyone to drill into the deep mountains. He is a professional bandit and is more ruthless than anyone in this aspect.

  When Liangshan left, he entrusted Chen Siniang with two tasks. One was to let Qinlang find a suitable location in the heart of Xiaoniu Mountain to establish a stronghold as a future retreat for Liangjiazhuang. The second was to have Wu Tu be in charge of the earthwork engineering of Liangjiazhuang, and have Xiao Jin specially dig out several tunnels leading from Liangjiazhuang to the outside world.

  Liang Shan was worried that Si Niang couldn't handle it, so he hypothetically asked a few sudden questions, and as a result, Si Niang answered them in an orderly and reasonable manner, which made Liang Shan slightly relieved.

  Liáng Shān returned to the Holy Sword Hall still uneasy.

  After Liangshan asked Ma Wencai a few questions and saw his calmness, he put all these things down.

  Liáng Shān told him that Xī Qín's attack on Nán Qí had already reached the city of Xiāng Yáng. As a result, this turtle son did not react at all and went out to practice bitterly as usual.

  Liáng Shān somewhat admired him, this kid was heartless, and estimated that even if Mǎ Jiā Bǎo were completely destroyed, it would not be his concern.

  Liáng Shān even had an impulse, which was to fire Mǎ Wén Cái and let him return to those miscellaneous chores. Why should he be held back by him? Liáng Shān didn't have the habit of repaying kindness with enmity, but thinking twice, if he really fired him, wouldn't it mean that he was afraid of Mǎ Wén Cái?

  Liáng Shān stabilized his mind, and Mǎ Wén was his whetstone.

  The next day, Liangshan heard that Hao Lao was unwell and went to his place with two bottles of Baifa wine in the evening.

  Liangshan decided, he wanted to learn swordsmanship.

  In the 21st century, Liang Shan's childhood dream was to become a legendary swordsman. After analyzing for half a day, the high-ranking disciples of Sheng Jian Tang would continue to suppress him, so Hao Zhang Lao was still his only choice, and he had to make him his master no matter what.

  Hao Zhanglao used to be the most powerful saint of Shengjian Hall, the only one who achieved fame through sword cultivation. Now he has fallen into the mortal world, but his experience remains. Liangshan didn't simply go to burn cold stoves, in his heart, he always felt that Hao Zhanglao was strange, not as weak as he appeared on the surface.

  Hao's cottage was quiet and secluded, with some weeds growing out of the stone slab cracks on the small path, apparently no one had come for a long time.

  Arriving outside the hut, Liangshan suddenly knelt down on the ground and said: "Please, Master Hao, accept me as your disciple. If not, I won't get up."

  There is no movement inside.

  Liáng Shān immediately knelt down straight.

  The moonlight gradually shifted westward; if it weren't for the occasional cough from someone in the thatched cottage, Liangshan would have thought there was no one around.

  At around 2 am, someone inside the hut suddenly started coughing violently, to be precise, it was asthma.

  Liáng Shān took this opportunity to rush into the hut, anxiously saying: "Master! Master, how are you?!"

  Hao Jian's eyes widened, and when he saw Liangshan rush in, his eyes rolled over. Liangshan quickly supported Hao Jian, then patted him hard on the back.

  Hao Zhang coughed loudly several times, and hastily stretched out his hand to wave it off. "You're already at the middle stage of foundation building, yet you use such great force to strike my Qi Refining Initial Stage, do you want to kill me?"

  "Ha ha, Master," said Liangshan with a smile, "am I not in a hurry?"

  "Who is your master?"

  Liáng Shān Dào: "I've made up my mind anyway."

  "I'm a man about to die soon, just let me spend my last moments in peace." Hao Zhang's eyebrows twisted together, rivaling Lao Niu's comical expression.

  "Master said it's just the initial stage of guiding qi, how could it cause such severe wind-cold and cough?"

  "This isn't just a cold!" Elder Hao's eyes widened in surprise.

  "What is it?"

  "Before, Wenyuan's spirit was too full of vigor, and the air in the lower house was polluted and unbearable."

  Liáng Shān's eyes widened, this place is comparable to a paradise on earth, by 21st-century standards it's absolutely a 5A-level natural tourist attraction, yet this old fellow says the air is polluted.

  Alright, Liang Shan expressed temporary understanding, his heart suddenly moved, how did this old guy know that he had already advanced to the middle stage of foundation building?

  No need to go to the Gongxun Pavilion for re-evaluation in both intermediate and advanced stages. People of the same realm are not easy to distinguish, let alone Liangshan has blackened his skills on his body, deliberately disguising himself, but he was recognized at a glance, Liangshan's heart is excited, this guy is indeed not simple.

  "Master, take a look at me, I'm considered a genius. Among the outer sect disciples, two of us have recently reached the foundation building stage, and one of them is me. Although someone has been intentionally suppressing me, I don't care. Master, you've probably also heard that my secular wife in Zhengqing Sect is a saintess. She said she wants to help me become an immortal, so it's impossible for her to ignore me like this."

  "You don't even have a decent cultivation method, what are you looking for me for?" Hao Zhang Lao immediately interrupted Liang Shan's words.

  Liang Shan rubbed his head and said, "I don't have a powerful attack method, I want to learn swordsmanship." This is the reason why Liang Shan found Hao Jianzhang. The "Baigu Jing" has attacking methods, but overall it is an internal method that focuses on increasing inner strength, adding blood and so on, and its attacking methods are not strong.

  "Do you really want to learn swordsmanship?" As soon as he said the word "sword", Hao Jian's expression turned serious.

  Yes.

  "There is a national gas transport, the five virtues are circulating, and cultivation is also like this. For nearly a thousand years, the operation has been in the East, the East belongs to wood, practicing wood-based spells can be said to be half the effort with twice the result. Fire is next, earth follows, and the west metal is the most difficult, so swordsmanship is very hard to cultivate, at most it can only reach the realm of unity with the sword. Do you want to learn this too?"

  "I want to learn!" Liang Shan said firmly.

  Hao Zhang shook his head, coughed a few times and said: "It's no use."

  "Among all the practices, I am most interested in sword practice."

  "You go ahead and say it."

  Liangshan immediately started talking about Sword Immortal from "Shu Mountain", while Liangshan in "Shu Mountain" was actually attributed to an unknown author.

  "With a slap on the back of his head, three brilliant lights burst out!" Hao Zhang repeated Liangshan's words, quickly reciting them over ten times, his expression gradually becoming numb.

  "Master, what's wrong with you?"

  Suddenly, Hao Zhang jumped three feet high and shouted loudly: "I know! I know!"

  Liang Shan was startled and took a few steps back, but was immediately grabbed by Hao Zhang Lao, who hugged his leg tightly. Hao Zhang Lao burst into tears, and Liang Shan's skirt was instantly stained with a large amount of snot and tears. Liang Shan tried to struggle free, but couldn't break away.

  Hao Changlao slapped his hands and kowtowed three times on the ground for Liangshan.

  What's going on? It's too weird.

  "You are my master! You are my master!" Hao Zhang obviously hadn't recovered from his frenzied state yet.

  After a while, Hao Zhanglao calmed down, wiped away his tears and said: "Sorry, I lost my composure."

  "Can you accept me as your apprentice now?"

  "Not good enough."

  "What?" Liang Shan jumped up and said, "It seems I said something that woke you up."

  "What's the use of that? It's not like we met early anyway." Hao Zhangye rolled his eyes.

  Liáng Shān also rolled his eyes speechlessly.

  "Alright, I'll let you be my apprentice. Go to the Merit Pavilion to receive the quest for the Hidden Cave of Foul Smell. Once you complete it, I'll agree to your request."

  "Is it difficult?" Liangshan asked.

  "It's not a matter of difficulty, but a matter of fate. Without fate, even if one enters the Golden Elixir stage, they will still die and their Dao will be extinguished. But with fate, even if it's just the initial stage of guiding Qi, there will be great gains."

  "Can't we not go?" Liang Shan said with a bitter face.

  "Go quickly! Go quickly! I'm going to sleep." Hao Zhang lay down, turned over and pretended to fall asleep.

  Liáng Shān could tolerate this, but when Hǎo Zhǎnglǎo started to pick his toes, Liáng Shān had no choice but to cover his nose and leave.

  Ran far away, surrounded by a foul smell, Liangshan sighed, at this time there was Hong Kong foot ah, it's really the "immortal" who fell to the mortal world, not as good as stinky tofu.

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