Chapter 23: The Loose Cultivator Guild, the Swordsman on Back (Please read on and give me a recommendation vote!)

Jingzhou City, Beggars' Gang.

Suddenly, everyone in the Beggars' Sect discovered that more than ten high-level leaders, including the leader, deputy leader, three elders, eight altar masters, etc., were missing.

In an instant, the entire Beggars' Gang fell into unprecedented panic. These ten or so senior leaders not only represented the power decision-making level of the Beggars' Gang, but were also the gang's top fighting force. The disappearance of the Beggars' Gang's top fighting force immediately attracted the covetous eyes of other forces in Jingzhou, causing panic and chaos within the Beggars' Gang.

However, the panic and chaos did not last long, and Su Feiyan stepped forward to stabilize the situation.

Even though there have been many rumors about her over the years, it is undeniable that she has a high reputation in the Beggars' Sect.

Soon, a large number of peerless masters came to join the Beggars' Sect, quickly filling the shortage of masters in the Beggars' Sect.

When other forces in Jingzhou just reacted, Su Feiyan quickly put down the rebellion caused by Wang Mingyuan's diehard followers.

Not only that, the Beggars' Sect, which had not taken any action for more than a decade, made a big move this time.

Su Feiyan led many peerless masters and quickly defeated the other three bandit-like underworld forces, and intimidated many other underworld forces including the Longming Escort Agency, the Wanli Gang, the Peach Blossom Sect, and the Chrysanthemum Gang.

They were turned into subordinate forces of the Beggars' Sect.

After dominating Jingzhou City and the surrounding areas, the Beggars' Gang did not stop its actions. It began to set up branches, disband gang members, establish medicinal materials bases, and sent a large number of personnel to help the surrounding civilians farm and protect their safety.

The captured laborers were then used to level and widen roads, and to build and repair water conservancy facilities.
This series of actions by the Beggars' Gang made the aristocratic families around Jingzhou City very angry, because what they were doing now was to rob them of their interests.

Almost all the people in the surrounding area were their tenants, and those farmlands and forests were also their properties. But now the Beggars' Gang seemed to be taking over. How could they tolerate this? They immediately sent people to the Beggars' Gang to express their dissatisfaction.

But this time the Beggars' Gang took a very tough stance. They accepted the gold, silver and money sent by the noble families without hesitation, and used them as funds to carry out various reforms.

Seeing the attitude of the Beggars' Gang of only taking money but not doing anything, the aristocratic families realized that they had been cheated and immediately began to unite to resist the Beggars' Gang.

Juxian Village.

Juxianzhuang is different from other Jianghu forces in Jingzhou. Juxianzhuang controls the chivalrous forces in the Jianghu.

Just like cultivators are divided into sect cultivators, family cultivators and individual cultivators, there are also many classifications of people in the martial arts world, such as neutral sects like the Qixuan Sect, some family martial arts organizations, which are escort agencies, and then there are rangers.

The knight-errant has no fixed place to live, and roams the world with his sword, all he needs is the word righteousness.

But when you are out there, money can make a hero fall, and there will always be a day when you will encounter difficulties.

The owner of Juxian Manor, Zulin, is a martial arts expert, generous and likes to make friends with martial arts heroes. Therefore, he has made a name for himself in the martial arts world of Jingzhou. Most of the knights-errant and swordsmen in Jingzhou respectfully call Zulin "Big Brother".

Whenever they encountered good things, difficult things or conflicts, they would ask Zu Lin to help solve them. Over time, Zu Lin became the leader of the rangers and swordsmen of Jingzhou.

This is also the last underworld force in Jingzhou that Li Mufeng needs to deal with.

Li Mufeng was too lazy to deal with such forces personally, so he directly sent someone to inform Juxianzhuang that they would need to respond to a series of reforms of the Jingzhou government in the future.

As for whether the other party agreed or not, Li Mufeng didn't care at all. He sent people to notify them, not to discuss with them.

Although Zu Lin's power seems to be very large, his cohesion is very poor and there is no need to worry about it.

Li Mufeng is dealing with another matter now.

In the more than one year since he came to Jingzhou, Li Mufeng established a force called the Loose Cultivators' Union to recruit some of the loose cultivators in Jingzhou.

Over the past year or so, the Free Cultivators' Guild has developed quite well thanks to the continuous supply of medicinal pills from Han Li.

Recruited a group of good independent cultivators.

There is one person at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, seven people at the eleventh level of Qi Refining, and twenty-two people at the tenth level of Qi Refining.
Li Mufeng learned an interesting piece of news from these casual cultivators: Behind the immortal world of Jingzhou Xiu was a gang that sold top-grade magic tools.

They would use top-grade magical weapons to exchange for elixirs and refining materials.

The origins of these guys are very mysterious, and their appearance times are not fixed, but every time they appear it means that they will exchange high-quality magic weapons.

In particular, the opponent's top-grade flying sword has always been sought after by those cultivator families. It is said that it is not inferior to those weapon-refining masters in the sect.

Of course, what the other party exchanged were not ordinary things. They were almost all rare medicinal materials, among which the three main ingredients of the Foundation Establishment Pill were the most exchanged.

The monks of Jingzhou called them sword-carrying men.

At first, Li Mufeng was skeptical about the news. The techniques of the weapon refiners in the sect were not comparable to those of any individual weapon refiner.

There are many demands and materials for refining equipment in the sect, so they have many opportunities to practice their skills. In addition, there is also the inheritance of skills for thousands of years, so it is unlikely for independent cultivators to catch up.

But soon news came that the evil demon monks led by Wen Kang encountered a tough guy while capturing the prey in Jingzhou.

The monk's name was Ke Hua.

This guy is a gangster who always robs other gangsters.

He often commits fraud, murder and theft, and this time he was lured out by Wen Kang and his friends using a 300-year-old elixir.

The opponent's strength and cultivation level is perfect Qi Refining. If it were just relying on his cultivation level, Wen Kang would not be inferior to the opponent after his transformation into a demon, and he might even be one level higher in cultivation level.

But that guy had a top-grade flying sword in his hand, which was extremely sharp and could cut through gold and iron with ease. It could easily break the iron-hard skin of the evil demon monk after he had transformed into a demon.

Ke Hua severely injured the three evil monks. Fortunately, Wen Kang and his men arrived in time to support them and captured the man.

However, even though Wen Kang had also achieved perfection in Qi training and could even reach the initial stage of foundation building after transforming into a demon, he still suffered a great loss at the hands of Ke Hua's flying sword. He suffered some minor injuries and a cut on his body.

After hearing the news, those casual cultivators all said that the flying sword in Ke Hua's hand was the same one sold by the swordsman.

Ke Hua is notorious in the circle of independent cultivators in Jingzhou. He has committed many despicable acts, but because of his high level of cultivation and strong strength, no one dares to do anything to him.

About five or six years ago, Ke Hua ambushed a swordsman and stole many of his magical weapons, including the magical flying sword.

However, no independent cultivator in Jingzhou could confirm whether this rumor was true or false.

First of all, the Swordsmen are too mysterious. No one knows who they are, so naturally no information can be found out.

Secondly, after that incident, Ke Hua disappeared for a long time, and there was no news about him until recently.

However, this time when Ke Hua appeared, he had an extremely sharp flying sword in his hand, which made people in Jingzhou speculate that it was the flying sword that he had snatched from the Swordsman.

After learning the news, Li Mufeng really didn't believe it, so he ordered people to take the top-grade flying sword to the Tianxing Sect market in Yuanwu Kingdom and find a weapon refiner who was recruited by the Black Evil Sect to identify it.

After carefully examining the top-grade flying sword, the weapon refiner was full of praise, and even said that the weapon refiner's skills in flying swords might have caught up with the master weapon refiners of the Divine Weapon Sect.

If we were to estimate the value of this top-grade flying sword, its value would be over one thousand spirit stones, making it a top-tier flying sword.

After confirming this news, Li Mufeng had been looking for information about this so-called mysterious swordsman, wanting to find out his background. He asked many independent cultivators, but no one knew any useful information.

The Swordsman is extremely mysterious. He never shows his true face every time he appears, and it seems that he is not the same person every time he appears.

But in the end, a mysterious jade token was obtained from Ke Hua. The jade token was fluorescent all over. One side was engraved with several flying swords and a word "Jing" engraved on it, and the other side was engraved with a word "Xuan".

(End of this chapter)