Chapter 21 Twenty-one Years in a Hurry
Two months later.
The King of Chu officially ascended the throne, and the reign was called New Chu.
The Queen Zheng Meng was canonized as the Queen.
On the same day, Zhao Mu returned to the capital with Hua Xinzi and Jiang Hongyun.
Zhao Mu continued to work in the Jiaofangsi as his subordinate.
Hua Xinzi and Jiang Hongyun continued to run their nameless tavern.
The Jin Dynasty today is no longer the same, and everything has changed dramatically.
But Zhao Mu is as carefree as ever, as if no matter who is the emperor, it has no effect on him.
When he returned to the Jiaofangsi and met Liang Xingnan.
The other party also praised Zhao Mu for his good luck, as he happened to return to his hometown to visit the graves and avoid the chaos in the capital.
It is said that people died every day in the capital a while ago, and even the Jiaofangsi, which has always been peaceful, has lost many people.
Liang Xingnan was so scared at the time that he almost didn't dare to go out every day, for fear of running into a chaotic army and being beheaded.
But then, the new Chu Emperor ascended the throne, and the government has returned to stability.
And the Jiaofangsi naturally resumed its daily life.
Time passed day by day.
It can be seen that the new Chu Emperor is an emperor who does practical things.
After ascending the throne, he began to work hard to govern the country. Various national policies that are beneficial to the development of the Jin Dynasty were introduced one after another, and the national strength naturally flourished.
And the most surprising national policy formulated by the new Chu Emperor was to vigorously promote the development of martial arts.
The so-called knights violated the ban with martial arts, and Confucians disrupted the law with literature.
The past emperors of the Jin Dynasty were afraid that the domestic martial arts would be too prosperous and threaten their own authority, so almost all of them pursued a national policy of suppressing martial arts.
This also caused the martial arts of the Jin Dynasty to decline more and more, and now even innate masters are rare.
But the new Chu Emperor tried to change this situation, claiming to restore the peak era of martial arts a thousand years ago.
Of course, the new Chu Emperor could not be so stupid as to vigorously promote the development of martial arts in the rivers and lakes.
His main targets were actually the royal family and the army, followed by the officials and nobles in the court, and finally the martial arts sects.
The new Chu Emperor vigorously explored martial arts talents. Anyone who was willing to serve the court would be given profound martial arts secrets, various elixirs, and magic weapons.
For a time, martial arts geniuses in the Jin Dynasty emerged one after another, and the prosperity of martial arts began to show signs.
Zhao Mu occasionally chatted with people and heard of many geniuses.
It is said that Zhan Xiong, the youngest son of the Zhenbei General, is a rare genius in a thousand years. His martial arts talent overwhelms his peers and is known as the first of the younger generation.
When the new Chu Emperor ascended the throne, Zhan Xiong was exactly eight years old and began to practice martial arts.
He entered the third level in one day, the second level in ten days, the first level in two months, and reached the acquired extreme in one year.
If it were not for the fact that the innate realm requires conditions such as perception, experience, etc., Zhan Xiong might be able to enter the innate realm in two or three years.
Such progress in cultivation, when it was reported, simply shocked everyone.
Even the new Chu Emperor personally summoned Zhan Xiong after hearing about it, and prepared to take him to his side to train vigorously.
Look at the young genius, then look at yourself.
Zhao Mu reluctantly admitted that even if the "Six Paths of Tianmen" had opened the second door, his cultivation aptitude was still only average.
But it didn't matter, at most he would just use time to grind.
As long as he lived long enough, he would eventually surpass everyone and become the most powerful existence in the world.
Eighteen years passed in a hurry.
Eighteen years later, Zhao Mu was fifty-five years old, and his face began to show signs of old age.
His appearance continued to grow with age, so he didn't have to worry at all that others would discover the secret of his immortality.
But in his heart, he was looking forward to his rejuvenation when his time came.
At that time, there must be a new scene.
A lot of things happened in the eighteen years.
Under the diligent governance of the new Chu Emperor, the national strength of the Jin Dynasty made rapid progress.
The court had a clean administration and a well-trained army, which made other countries around it look down upon themselves.
Under the strong promotion of the new Chu Emperor, the martial arts of the Jin Dynasty also prospered day by day.
In the Jin Dynasty, innate masters were rare.
But eighteen years later, eight great masters had appeared in the court and the country, which were beyond the innate realm and had the best martial arts in the world.
Among them, six great masters were affiliated with the court, and only two were in the martial arts world, but they also had a thousand connections with the court.
The peerless genius Zhan Xiong had successfully broken through the innate realm at the age of fourteen.
Now he is twenty-seven years old and is already the most powerful innate warrior, known as the first person under the master.
There are even rumors that Zhan Xiong has touched the threshold of the master and is the most likely person to become the ninth master.
More importantly, the other masters are all old and weak, and there is no hope of breaking through in the future.
But Zhan Xiong is still young, not only a master, but people say that he is likely to break through to the legendary martial saint realm in the future.
In addition to his extraordinary progress in martial arts, Zhan Xiong's military talent is also quite amazing.
He entered the army very early to hone his skills. Over the years, he led the army to fight in the south and the north, constantly accumulating military merits. Now he has been appointed as the General of Divine Power and is extremely favored by the new Emperor of Chu.
The turmoil outside could not arouse Zhao Mu's much interest.
For 18 years, Zhao Mu was still free and unrestrained, spending most of his energy on practicing martial arts and studying the "Medicine King Canon" and various classics.
Over the years, his research in medicine has become more and more profound, and he has refined a lot of pills to improve his cultivation.
More importantly, when he broke through the postnatal extreme, he actually only used a small part of the medicinal power of the Vajra Pill, and most of the medicinal power was still hidden in his body.
Through cultivation over the years, those medicinal powers have been re-stimulated step by step.
He felt that he was not far from breaking through the innate and opening the third body door.
So Zhao Mu ignored the changes in the outside world and continued to practice.
Another three years passed.
This year was the twenty-first year of Xinchu, and Zhao Mu was fifty-eight years old.
Jiaofang Division, warehouse.
Zhao Mu sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes and moved his true energy, constantly impacting the Ren and Du meridians.
The sun outside the window rose and fell quickly, and the moon was on the branches.
A day passed just like this.
A faint white mist began to rise from Zhao Mu's body, which was the manifestation of the extreme circulation of true energy.
I don’t know how long it has passed, probably in the second half of the night.
Suddenly there was a roar, and Zhao Mu's body seemed to have broken through some obstacles, followed by the sound of water pouring down like a mountain torrent.
That was the sound of the true qi opening up the Ren and Du meridians, connecting the bridge between heaven and earth, and being able to circulate the Great Zhoutian normally.
And this also meant that Zhao Mu's cultivation had finally entered the innate realm.
He could clearly feel that his strength had increased exponentially. The innate masters were indeed far from being comparable to the acquired extreme realm.
He felt that if he faced himself before the breakthrough, even if he was one against ten, he could easily win.
In addition to the breakthrough in cultivation, the third body gate of "The Six Paths of the Heavenly Gate" had also been successfully opened.
That was a special feeling that was completely different from the breakthrough in cultivation.
The breakthrough in cultivation was the growth of the true qi power.
But the opening of the third body gate gave people a feeling of being reborn, a fundamental leap in life.
Zhao Mu seemed to feel that the impurities in his body were constantly being removed, and his body became more and more transparent.
He could even faintly feel the existence of some special power between heaven and earth.
Then... is this the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that can only be refined by immortal cultivators?
