Zongwu Department, Li Mu's residence.
After deciding to take on two apprentices, he took Mingyue and her brother Mingxing directly to Minister Cao's office.
When Cao Changyun saw Li Mu enter, she smiled like an aunt.
He could tell from Li Mu's expression that the children's apprenticeship was a success.
Looking at Minister Cao's knowing expression, Li Mu felt disgusted; he was utterly repulsive.
I thought to myself, "I've been tricked by this guy again."
"Old Cao, I'll take these two kids with me, the rest..."
Don't call me unless it's important. And even if it is important, it's best not to call.
After saying that, he turned around and walked out with the two children.
That old fox always uses underhanded tactics against him, and he always ends up getting the upper hand. No wonder he's in a bad mood.
"Li Mu, hey, Li Mu, wait a minute, Mr. Li..."
Li Mu originally didn't want to listen to a single word, but when the other person addressed him as "General Manager Li," he had no choice but to stop.
Minister Cao emerged from behind his desk, put his arm around Li Mu's shoulder, and said:
"Li Mu, you can take the children with you, but they should at least see their mother."
"oh!"
Hearing that it was for the child to say goodbye to their family, Li Mu nodded to Minister Cao.
"Let's go, let's meet them and see what they have to say to their children."
The two of them, arm in arm, took the child to the conference room.
However, when the conference room door opened, Li Mu felt even more like cursing.
The conference room was filled with colleagues, all staring at him with wide eyes, as if they had planned it beforehand.
He stared at Minister Cao as if he were looking at a dead man. "Is this what you mean by a child saying goodbye to his mother?"
Minister Cao ignored Li Mu's gaze, walked directly into the conference room, clapped his hands, and said:
"Come on! Let's all give a round of applause! Congratulations to Chief Instructor Li on gaining two new protégés!"
A round of applause erupted in the conference room, and everyone watched Li Mu's reaction with amusement.
Li Mu really wanted to say to Minister Cao, "I'll curse your grandma's grandson!"
Seeing that Li Mu was standing still, Cao Changyun leaned close to his ear and said:
"Li Mu, it's a joyous day, don't worry about the details, just say a few words to everyone."
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If it weren't for the two children pulling a woman to his side, Li Mu would have loved to nitpick the details with Lao Cao.
This woman should be the child's mother. She shouldn't be very old, but she looks very weathered.
Perhaps due to prolonged grief, the woman's face was swollen, and her body looked very frail.
The woman looked at Li Mu with a bitter smile, and said somewhat embarrassedly:
"Instructor Li, I'm entrusting Yue'er and Xing'er to you."
When the woman spoke, the conference room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Her voice was very soft, yet it sounded ethereal and clear to everyone's ears.
Li Mu looked at the woman and nodded solemnly, saying:
“Sister-in-law, the two children are very outstanding. As long as they continue their cultivation, their potential is limitless.”
He couldn't guarantee that he would raise the child to adulthood, but he did state the reality of the situation.
No one can guarantee someone else's life; the master leads you through the door, but the rest is up to you.
Under Minister Cao's shoving, Li Mu finally sang a few lines of praise in the conference room.
A room full of people witnessed his process of accepting apprentices.
The apprenticeship ceremony was solemn, but the process was rather perfunctory.
After drinking a cup of tea, he took on two apprentices.
The twenty-odd people present were all core warriors of the Zongwu Division, and they held their colleagues' orphans in high regard.
There's a sense of shared experience; you never know, next time, your own child might become an orphan.
For salaried workers, the Zongwu Department's compensation is the ceiling, with pensions starting at least in the millions.
If the goal is to train two martial artists, a million in funds is just a drop in the ocean.
This is also one of the reasons why Cao Changyun tricked Li Mu into taking on an apprentice.
First, the child is exceptionally talented.
Secondly, Li Mu is the strongest.
Finally, Li Mu's family was wealthy and could afford to support martial artists.
After seeing Li Mu off, Minister Cao hummed a little tune as he returned to his office.
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Li Mu rode in a business car arranged by Zongwu Department all the way back to Gaojing.
Accompanying him were Ming and her two sons.
Along the way, Li Mu didn't talk much with Mingyue's mother, Wang Lan, but he learned that she was on leave at home due to health reasons.
When they parted, he saw so much reluctance in Wang Lan's eyes, so he suggested that she go to Gaojing with him.
On the way, he tentatively asked Wang Lan if she was interested in living with the children, and received an affirmative answer.
His reason for having this idea was that he couldn't bear to see a woman who had just lost her husband have to be separated from her child.
Judging from Wang Lan's current physical condition, she will probably collapse within a few years if she is separated from her child.
When the van drove into the ancestral home of Li Mu, four people were already waiting at Li Mu's residence.
As soon as the car door opened and someone got off, Cheng Yi immediately helped with the luggage and grinned as he said words of welcome.
Lin Hongluan and the Liang sisters led the mother and her two children home.
They found it very interesting to hear that Li Mu had taken on apprentices.
After learning about the child's background, I felt a mixture of respect and pity.
If Wang Lan doesn't come, the two children will live with Li Mu and his wife.
Now Cheng Yishi has had another house prepared for the mother and her two children.
With that, Li Mu's matter of accepting disciples came to an end; all that remained was to guide the children in their cultivation.
Wang Lan was originally a middle school teacher. In her spare time, she could devote herself to teaching her two children cultural knowledge.
More than ten days later, the mother and her two children had adapted to life in Gaojing.
The Liang sisters prescribed Wang Lan a dose of traditional Chinese medicine, and her health improved significantly.
The two little ones are indeed exceptionally talented. After each of them took a Qi-Nourishing Pill, their cultivation has advanced to the first level of Qi Refining.
When Liang Xiao found out, she stuck out her tongue and exclaimed that the little guys' cultivation talent was too heaven-defying.
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Two weeks later, Li Mu went out alone.
He counted on his fingers; it had been more than half a year since he left Shenzhou. He had promised Yueling to return as soon as possible, but now he had broken his promise.
This was his second time visiting the Seven Star Position in the Hengduan Mountains, and he used an array to reveal the hidden teleportation array.
The teleportation array that used only eight spirit stones to send him there can no longer be activated no matter what.
This teleportation array, like those in the Divine Continent, is still slowly absorbing spiritual energy; it will truly take twenty years to activate.
He arrived precisely on the fifteenth of July, wanting to see if the teleportation array would also loosen on the night of the full moon.
A night of close observation and sensing yielded the same results as the previous discoveries in China.
The formation is indeed loose; to activate it, a large amount of spiritual energy would be needed to instantly activate it.
This vast amount of spiritual energy cannot be replaced by thousands or tens of thousands of spirit stones.
He was pondering whether he could set up more spirit-gathering arrays nearby to accelerate the energy accumulation of the arrays.
A shout interrupted his train of thought.
In his consciousness, he sensed a martial artist running towards him, followed by a group of pursuers.
By the time he put away the array flags, the warrior had already arrived in front of him, and when he saw him, he was stunned.
"Fellow Daoist Li, save me."
Hearing the other person cry for help, Li Mu was also stunned.
"You know me?"
“Fellow Daoist Li, I am Xu Mingyu, the third uncle of Xu Shiheng. Shiheng often mentions you.”
Upon hearing the other person's self-introduction, Li Mu suddenly realized who it was.
These are guests from China.
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