Inside the pub.

Ye Fan and several others sat at the same table. The atmosphere was harmonious and pleasant.

Now, five days have passed since Shi Hao first stepped into the tavern, and he has already understood the rules of this place by heart.

His strength did not improve, but his control over his own strength increased a lot.

Hard training can increase one's cultivation and understanding, but all of this ultimately needs to be integrated through actual combat.

He has now walked out of the wilderness, and in just a few days he has made a name for himself in the nine heavens and ten earths.

Feeling unsatisfied, he has already set his sights on the fairyland.

During this process, Willow God gave him a lot of help.

After meeting in Zizai Stone Village, Liu Shen and the old village chief Shi Yunfeng were both invited by Shi Hao to the tavern.

These two were the people closest to him.

After entering the tavern, not to mention Shi Yunfeng, the old patriarch of Shi Village who had walked out of the wilderness when he was young, even the God of Willow was shocked.

It is precisely because of her strong strength that she can better understand how incredible the existence of the tavern is.

By selling her own Taoist skills and treasures, she bought some Taoist wine.

Although it did not restore her to her peak strength, it did allow her to recover her lost memories.

In her opinion, it is only a matter of time before she returns to her peak state or even surpasses her former self.

Shi Yunfeng felt a little nervous.

Compared with everyone else, he is really insignificant.

He felt a deep sense of pride again.

Little Stone came from Shi Village and represents the hope of the entire village.

At this time, Shi Hao was chatting with Ye Fan and others, while Henren and Liu Shen were sitting opposite each other, communicating in low voices.

The old village chief Shi Yunfeng sat alone, drinking from a wine glass in his hand with a smile on his face.

His talent and strength are average and cannot be compared with those people, but he is not ambitious either.

Being able to watch Shi Hao grow up and looking forward to the day when he would be the sole ruler of the world, this kind of life made him feel very motivated.

He didn't know that he was actually the envy of many people.

Like that thirteen-year-old girl.

Zhou Zhiruo.

She placed a heavy box in front of the bar and politely asked Ying Yinman to identify and purchase it.

Seeing hundreds of time and space coins deposited into her account, Zhou Zhiruo showed a satisfied smile.

"Finally I've saved enough money!" she was secretly excited.

In the end, she listened to the advice of Xiaolongnu and others and expanded the scope of her acquisition of gold treasures.

She visited all major martial arts sects without discrimination and borrowed all their unique skills.

In addition, she also visited the Yuan Dynasty's treasury and the private treasuries of those princes and nobles.

In order to make things easier, she followed Ying Yinman's advice a few days ago and spent five thousand time and space coins to buy a glass of God's Gene Wine.

From that glass of wine, she gained a physique ninety times stronger than that of an ordinary person and realized a special ability.

She named it "Fool".

Through language, actions and other means, she can make people in a designated range slow to react, lower their IQ, or even turn them into puppets at her mercy.

The specific effect depends on the scope of use.

If too many targets are targeted at the same time, the effect will be greatly reduced.

If it was a single target, it would be easy to turn him into his puppet like the Mongolian general.

Because of this ability, Zhou Zhiruo made some adjustments to her plan.

Originally, she planned to save enough money to buy Professor X or Magneto's gene wine, but the acquisition of this ability made her realize that she should focus more on practice.

What is enhanced through practice is not only physical strength, but also mental strength.

The stronger the mental strength, the power of superpowers will also increase in the same proportion.

It would be no problem to fool a city, a pond, or even a country! After several choices, she chose "Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao".

This skill is worth 50,000 time and space coins, which is far inferior to the top skills in the tavern, or even the second-level "Shushan Sword Art".

But it is cheap, and Taiyi Zhenren once commented that this technique is quite clever and desirable, and is quite good for basic practice.

Zhou Zhiruo had no idea how much truth there was in Taiyi Zhenren's words.

In any case, for her, this technique is a world of difference compared to the martial arts techniques she has come into contact with! Its value is hundreds of times that of the "Nine Yin Manual" that once caused countless bloody storms in the martial arts world! Not to mention its power, just the increase in lifespan after practicing it can be regarded as an immortal technique.

If this skill were to fall into the world, it would be like heavenly fire falling into a lake. The impact can be imagined.

Zhou Zhiruo bought this martial art a few days ago.

As she drank the glass of wine, all the wonderful uses of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao and the key points of practice appeared in her mind. She was so proficient in it as if she had practiced it countless times.

Comparing the Emei martial arts she had practiced in the past, she felt more and more that she was like a frog in a well before entering the tavern.

Although the technique is good, it is not easy to practice.

Even though she had good talent and believed that if she continued to practice day after day, she would be invincible in the world and achieve something sooner or later, but she still felt that it was too slow.

Therefore, she has been collecting gold and treasures everywhere these days, and now she has finally collected 50,000 time and space coins again.

This has also caused a "gold shortage" in the imperial court and even in the martial arts world.

And her name also changed from the former "Armored Demon" to "Golden Thief".

Zhou Zhiruo didn't care.

As Xiaolongnu said, mere fame means nothing.

She also heard someone mention that once when Grandma Sun was drunk, she said that Xiaolongnu was also known as a thief in her world.

She would love to be like Xiaolongnu!

After selling the gold and spending the 50,000 time and space coins she had just accumulated to buy this cup of 2,000-year-old Taoist wine, Zhou Zhiruo held the wine glass and sat down at an empty table.

It was her first time buying this kind of wine, and thinking about what several other people who had experienced it had said, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

But when she thought of her current situation, her expression became firm again.

Now that the war was approaching, her strength was not strong enough, she had to become stronger! This incident was also an opportunity, she wanted to help her master make the Emei Sect a world-renowned place and become a martial arts holy land! She raised her head and drank the wine in one breath.

The surging magic power spread in her body, and her consciousness seemed to have come to a special space.

Zhou Zhiruo began her hard training day after day, year after year.

Her strength was rising rapidly, and her understanding of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao was also increasing.

A thousand years, a lot has changed! When Zhou Zhiruo finally came out of this state, only a short moment had passed outside.

She blinked in a trance and gradually regained her composure.

Feeling the terrifying power in her body, her eyes were filled with excitement.

"It's done!"

Zhou Zhiruo clenched her fists.

She looked around.

Everyone was chatting and drinking, and no one paid attention to her.

Two thousand years of Taoism is nothing in the eyes of many guests in the tavern.

When she inadvertently glanced at Shi Yunfeng, she couldn't hide the envy on her face.

The old chief of Shi Village no longer looked as old as he did when he first entered the tavern.

After all, for Shi Hao and others, the value of fine wine that can extend life for thousands of years is really cheap.

If he hunted an ancient ferocious beast casually, the time and space coins he got in return would be enough to buy a good glass of longevity wine.

Even though Shi Yunfeng's talent was ordinary, after taking the Ten Thousand Years Dao Wine, he became stronger than many people in the tavern.

"It's a pity that there are too few valuable treasures in my world." Zhou Zhiruo felt a little regretful.

She thought again of what she had heard Xiaolongnu, Huang Rong and others say when they were chatting.

“We can also find someone to help him integrate the world, and then develop more gold mines... or even go to the starry sky!” Zhou Zhiruo’s eyes were burning.

She glanced around the tavern again.

Several familiar people were not there.

Xiao Long Nu and Huang Rong were invited to Feng Baobao's World to go shopping, and Lin Daiyu was not there either...

"Things over there should be almost done." Zhou Zhiruo thought to herself.

She carefully put away the empty wine glass and left the tavern.

…

The plane of "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber".

On top of Guangmingding.

The six major sects gathered together to confront the Ming Cult.

This time, the six major sects besieged Guangmingding many years earlier than the original history.

The reason for this is not unrelated to Zhou Zhiruo.

Although the original Ming Cult was known as the Demon Cult, because it was more opposed to the imperial court, other sects had never interfered with it.

Although there were occasional frictions, many disciples also had friendships with each other in private.

What really made the six major sects and the Ming Cult confront each other and become hostile to each other was the indiscriminate killing of innocent people by Xie Xun, one of its four Dharma protectors, as well as the blood feud with the Emei Sect caused by the death of Gu Hongzi by Yang Xiao, the Left Protector of the Ming Cult, and various other grudges.

But all this is not the key.

The fundamental reason why the two sides are fighting to the death is still because of one person.

Cheng Kun.

He is Xie Xun's master, nicknamed "Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand", with great martial arts skills and wisdom.

He and the wife of the Ming Cult leader were childhood sweethearts, but because of power and other reasons, she married the Ming Cult leader Yang Dingtian.

Cheng Kun has always been brooding over it and has never given up on it.

Later, while Yang Dingtian was practicing martial arts and was indifferent to his wife, he took advantage of the opportunity, won the favor of the leader's wife, and had an affair with her.

Unexpectedly, this was discovered by Yang Dingtian, who became furious and died. His wife was so ashamed that she committed suicide.

Seeing his beloved die, Cheng Kun was deeply indignant and placed all his hatred on the Ming Cult.

He was determined to eradicate the Ming Cult, and for this purpose he used his disciple Xie Xun's identity as one of the Ming Cult's four guardians to destroy Xie Xun's family, thus inciting the other party to kill innocent people and causing hostility towards the Ming Cult in the martial arts world.

Because of Yang Dingtian's death, the Ming Cult fell apart, and under Cheng Kun's years of planning, it formed a situation of life and death with the six major sects.

In order to destroy the Ming Cult, he not only killed people in secret and framed each other, but also colluded with the Yuan army.

Originally, he had been planning to have the six major sects come out in full force to engage in a fight to the death with the Ming Cult, but unexpectedly, he soon found an opportunity.

The guy called "Armored Demon" or "Golden Thief" appears, his actions are secretive and his strength is unpredictable.

As soon as they appeared, the other party looted the Ming Cult, stole all the sect's unique skills, and even looted all the gold in the Ming Cult's treasury.

When Cheng Kun heard the news, he realized that this was a godsend opportunity.

He had been silently following the other party's news, and soon heard that the other party had plundered some other notorious martial arts sects, and even the Yuan army and the imperial court.

He was overjoyed, thinking that this "Armored Demon" was a righteous man with a strong sense of justice, and was thinking about how to instigate the people of the Ming Cult to do evil things that would anger God and man.

He even planned to massacre the city in the name of the Ming Cult in order to anger the mysterious guy and make him wipe out the Ming Cult in one fell swoop.

But soon, he heard that the other party had set his sights on those famous and upright sects in the martial arts world.

Wudang, Shaolin, Kunlun...

Almost every sect has suffered from the other side's visit.

The good reputation of "Armored Demon" was wiped out, and another name "Golden Thief" appeared.

Cheng Kun was not surprised but happy, realizing that this was a great opportunity.

The Ming Cult is falling apart, but when faced with an issue of life and death, they are bound to come together.

After all, they are of the same blood, and they prosper together and suffer together.

However, those famous and upright martial arts sects have always had a high opinion of themselves and are easier to provoke.

For example, Nun Miejue, who had a strong character and was full of righteousness, but was pedantic and lacked sophistication.

He spread the news, claiming that the Armored Demon was a puppet created by the Ming Cult using foreign techniques. His earlier actions were to cover up his tracks, and his actual purpose was to collect martial arts from all over the world in order to unify the martial arts world by targeting the weaknesses of these martial arts.

This clumsy explanation alone was not enough, so he added more firewood and finally made the fire burn more vigorously.

The six major sects attacked Guangmingding! The Mingjiao people were forced to unite.

Even Yin Tianzheng, the White-browed Eagle King who split off from the Ming Cult and founded the Sky Eagle Cult, came over.

Because the matter was urgent, they did not have time to discuss the matter this time and hurried to Guangmingding to confront the six major sects.

This made Cheng Kun, who had sneaked in through the secret passage and was preparing to launch a surprise attack on the top leaders of the Ming Cult, quite regretful.

But he didn't care too much.

This time, while letting the six major sects besiege Guangmingding, he also secretly informed the Yuan army.

The Yuan army would be delighted to have the opportunity to wipe out all these martial arts sects in one fell swoop.

From the perspective of the Yuan Dynasty court, the Ming Cult was undoubtedly a stubborn disease that had to be eradicated.

Although other martial arts sects did not openly resist the imperial court, they all clearly had ulterior motives.

If the Mongols had not been concerned about heavy casualties, they would have wanted to wipe out all these gangsters.

Now they have a chance to wait until both of them are defeated, and they are more than happy to take advantage of this opportunity! A trap has already been laid at the foot of the mountain!

The atmosphere on the mountain was tense.

The White-browed Eagle King Yin Tianzheng, the Left Protector of Light Yang Xiao, the Green-winged Bat King Wei Yixiao and the Five Scattered People from the Ming Cult held weapons and glared at the six major sects who had come to demand an explanation.

The six major sects are even more powerful.

Master Kongzhi of Shaolin, He Taichong and Ban Shuxian of Kunlun, the five elders of Dong...

Zhang Sanfeng also came here in person.

His "Tai Chi Magic Kung Fu" was also stolen a few days ago!

"What a famous and upright sect! That Armored Demon is obviously one of yours, and now you are trying to frame me!" Yin Tianzheng said angrily.

"That's clearly a demon from your Ming Cult, and you still don't admit it!" Nun Miejue said angrily.

"You must first avenge the death of my senior brother Bai Yuan!" Xian Yutong drew his sword.

A gray-robed monk jumped out from the Shaolin crowd and attacked the Ming Cult members! (End of this chapter)