The following period of time was quite peaceful. Li Mu handed over all the recruitment matters to his subordinates. With Meng Ting's assistance, it was easy for Li Mu to recruit all the people from the Black Wind City branch of Chaos Trading Company. With Chaos Trading Company as a cover, many people were taken into Lingxiao Universe by Li Mu before they could react. Then he used the same method of coercion and inducement, which went very smoothly.

However, what surprised Li Mu was that the noise he made was getting louder and louder, but the Black Wind Emperor seemed not to notice it at all and never showed up again. Even the staff in Black Wind City rarely interfered with the behavior of Li Mu and his men.

Li Mu also asked some of his undercover agents who were working in Black Wind City, and they said they were unaware of Black Wind Emperor's behavior. They just received orders from above to try to avoid conflicts with the "guests" in Black Wind City, especially those "guests" in the Void Immortal Ancestor Realm.

From various indications, Li Mu speculated that Black Wind Emperor was most likely to have met with an accident, or was entangled in something and unable to escape. Whatever the reason, he would not be able to show up to handle the affairs of the city in a short period of time.

As a result, Li Mu was no longer polite. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he once again accelerated the pace of recruiting people.

Li Mu even directly bought a building, hung the plaque of Lingxiao Palace on it, and started recruiting people openly.

Li Mu also made a promise to his subordinates that no matter when they joined Ling Xiao Palace, as long as they brought people to Ling Xiao Palace, all the people he brought would be counted as his subordinates. If you bring 10 people, you will be the captain; if you bring 100 people, you will be the company commander; if you bring 500 people, you will be the battalion commander; if you bring 2,000 people, you will be the battalion commander...

By analogy, the more people you bring in, the higher your status in the Lingxiao Palace will be, and the people brought in by your subordinates will also be under your jurisdiction. If you bring in outstanding people, you can also receive the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, and even have the opportunity to upgrade your level of enlightenment.

In a short while, the gate of Lingxiao Palace was broken down. The old members of Lingxiao Palace used various means to bring their relatives and friends to Lingxiao Palace. They didn't care whether those people were interested in joining Lingxiao Palace or whether they walked in or lay down. As long as they could get those people into the Lingxiao Palace building, the palace master had plenty of ways to get them to join.

Their consciences would not be condemned in the slightest for some dishonorable means. No matter what the mentality of the people who were brought to Lingxiao was when they came, when they came out, whose face was not filled with confidence and excitement?

In just 10 years, almost all of the "guests" of Black Wind City have been recruited by Li Mu, and the number of members of Lingxiao Palace has reached 200,000!

Of course, on the surface, the various cultivators still had no connection with each other, just like usual, they did what they had to do, and did not announce their relationship with the High Heaven Palace. This made the behavior of the High Heaven Palace very strange in the eyes of the staff of Black Wind City. Many people went in every day, but they did not recruit many members. However, as they watched the city gradually stabilize, they finally felt relieved.

On this day, a team of Black Wind Guards passed by the street in front of Lingxiao Palace, and suddenly a loud shout was heard: "Stop!"

Hei San, the captain of the Black Wind Guard, frowned upon hearing this: "Is there something wrong with the guest?"

"Haha, our Lingxiao Palace was renovated two days ago and some waste was generated. You guys come over and clean it up." The man said lightly.

Hei San breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was not someone looking for trouble, and then instructed the people behind him: "Notify the people from the logistics department to come over."

"Did you misunderstand what I said? I asked you to come and clean up the waste!"

"Ancestor Donghao, don't go too far!" Hei San was furious. They were the Black Wind Guards, the vanguards under the Black Wind Emperor, and this Dong Hao actually asked them to clean up the garbage.

"Haha, I've gone too far, what can you do to me?" Patriarch Donghao's face was full of mockery. Not only that, he casually tore down a banner with the portrait of the Black Wind Emperor printed on it from the opposite side, threw it at his feet, and stomped on it hard.

"If you're not convinced, just tell that old man Black Wind to come and beat me up."

Hei San's eyes were red with anger when he saw this, and his chest rose and fell violently. He was obviously very angry. This Lingxiao Palace was simply too much! However, he knew that he was only at the peak of the Creation Immortal Ancestor, while Dong Hao was an old-fashioned Void Immortal Ancestor. He would not get any benefits by fighting him. The Black Wind Emperor was not here, and the only thing he could do now was to endure! Taking a deep breath, Hei San finally lowered his head and walked into the Lingxiao Palace building with a group of Black Wind Guards.

At this moment, Heisan suddenly felt a black screen in front of his eyes and then lost consciousness.

When he regained consciousness, he and his men had already appeared in the Lingxiao Universe...

There are very few newcomers in Black Wind City. In order to expand the power of their own men, the members of Lingxiao Palace finally started to take action against the men under Black Wind Emperor.

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Another five years passed.

"Kunpeng, how many people in Black Wind City have not yet joined our Lingxiao Palace?" Li Mu asked Kunpeng after sending the last batch of cultivators in front of him to Jianmu to attain enlightenment.

"Reporting to the Palace Master, the Black Wind Guards stationed in Black Wind City and other staff have all completed their enlightenment in the Lingxiao Universe. In the entire Black Wind City, there are currently only some miners in the mining area and a few Black Wind Guards who have not joined Lingxiao." Kunpeng replied.

"Yeah." Li Mu nodded slightly, and then asked, "Still no news about Black Wind?"

Kunpeng smiled bitterly: "Yes, that Black Wind kid seems to have evaporated. I have asked everyone, but no one knows his whereabouts."

"Forget it, don't worry about it. According to the Chaos Trading Company's inference, the Chaos Beast will appear in the world in two years at most. There is nothing good for us to keep in this Black Wind City. Once we catch the Chaos Beast, we will retreat immediately." Li Mu waved his hand.

Up to today, although his Jianmu has 210,000 people who have attained enlightenment, his own cultivation has improved more slowly than before. Even with so many people attaining enlightenment, he has yet to break through to the level of the Heavenly Dao Immortal Ancestor and has been trapped at the peak level of the Heavenly Dao Divine Ancestor, stagnating.

According to Li Mu's guess, it was probably because the quality of these cultivators was too poor. If they wanted to make a breakthrough, they had to attract some more outstanding cultivators to prove their faith.

At this moment, Li Mu's expression changed slightly, and he murmured, "Heifeng, Heifeng, you finally showed up. If you didn't show up again, I would be a little worried."

"Palace Master, are you saying that old man Heifeng has appeared?" Kunpeng asked in surprise.

"Well, the people below just sent me a message that Black Wind has appeared and summoned all the monks in the city to gather at the central square of Black Wind City. It seems that he is going to announce something." Li Mu said.

"Could it be the so-called 'competition'?" Kunpeng had a strange look on his face. He already knew that Heifeng was not inviting the foreign monks to come to compete, but was targeting the Chaos Beast.

"Haha, who knows? Let's go out and take a look." Li Mu said with a faint smile.