Yan Liqiang did not enter Pingxi City, but kept walking until he reached a place called Wuyang Village to the west of Pingxi City.
Wuyang Village is located on a hillside. There are only more than 300 households in the whole village. Below the village is an official road, which connects the two counties to the west of Pingxi Jun. The farthest point on this official road can reach Baishi Pass, which is an important military town in the entire Ganzhou. Outside Baishi Pass is Qiyun Mountain. The entire Qiyun Mountain is the boundary between the Great Khan Empire and the Black Jie Tribe. The seven Shatu tribes settled in a narrow area east of Qiyun Mountain.
There is no big city on the other side of this official road, so there are fewer caravans and pedestrians traveling on this official road. Therefore, the villages and towns to the west of Pingxi City are obviously not as prosperous as those to the southeast. According to legend, when this village was the poorest, there were only five sheep in the village, so it was named Wuyang Village.
Not only is Wuyang Village poorer than other places, but in the eyes of many people, the feng shui of this village is not very good and is too unlucky, because just behind the small hill where Wuyang Village is located is the largest mass grave in Pingxi City.
On weekdays, the unclaimed bodies of those who died for various reasons in Pingxi City and its surrounding areas were all taken to the mass grave and hastily buried, or even thrown directly into the ravine in the mass grave.
No one wanted to settle down in a place so close to a mass grave, so anyone who had some skills or made some money in Wuyang Village would move away. As a result, many houses in Wuyang Village were left empty.
Except Yan Liqiang, no one knew why Yan Liqiang chose to come here.
When we arrived at Wuyang Village, it was already dark.
There were two inns and restaurants near the official road in Wuyang Village. Yan Liqiang asked for a room in one of the inns and stayed there.
After settling down and having a quick meal in the inn, Yan Liqiang called the waiter of the inn.
"What instructions do you have, sir?"
"Is there any vacant house nearby?"
"Yes, of course. We rent it out and sell it!"
"Then find me a broker and ask him to take me around Wuyang Village tomorrow afternoon!" Yan Liqiang said as he handed the waiter seven or eight copper coins.
The waiter smiled and put a handful of copper coins in his arms. "That's no problem, no problem. I just don't know why you want to rent or buy a house in Wuyang Village. This place is not very good!"
"It's quiet here, and the accommodation and food are cheap!" Yan Liqiang said seriously, "To be honest, I'm going to report to Pingxi City's National Martial Arts Museum tomorrow. I'm afraid I'll have to stay in Pingxi City for a long time. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc. are all more expensive in the city than outside the city, so I think it's better to find a place outside the city where I can live for a long time. This way I can save a lot of money!"
"Ah, my apology, sir. You are so young, and you are a student of the county martial arts academy!" The waiter complimented Yan Liqiang. He was not too surprised. It was not easy to find a student of the martial arts academy in the countryside of Pingxi County, but it was normal to see several students of the martial arts academy in Pingxi County. "To be honest, if you want to find a cheap place to live, then you have come to the right place in Wuyang Village. In the past, there were students who studied in the martial arts academy who rented in Wuyang Village because it was cheap. From here to the martial arts academy, except that the road is a little far and it takes a little walking, everything else is fine. No one will disturb you when you practice martial arts, whether you practice in your own yard or in the mountains!"
"Yeah, I think so too!"
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After the waiter left, Yan Liqiang practiced the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing four times in the room of the inn before falling asleep.
That night, Yan Liqiang was filled with thoughts and tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. After finally falling asleep, he had troubled dreams. He also had a strange dream. In that dream, countless pieces of information that seemed both real and illusory flooded into Yan Liqiang's mind like a dream.
He dreamed that the stone in his mind was called the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone. Inside the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone, the space he entered was called the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. In the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, there were countless worlds and universes parallel to reality. But when he returned to the present, there was an entrance left for him in that Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. Behind that entrance was the world he had experienced in the Sword God Sect...
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The next day, Yan Liqiang woke up before dawn. After waking up, he lay on the bed and thought about the strange dreams he had last night for a long time. He didn't know whether the dream was real or just an imagination in his subconscious mind.
After a long time, Yan Liqiang found that it was useless to think about it, so he started to do eye exercises. After finishing the eye exercises, he thought about it, and did the ear exercises again. After doing the eye and ear exercises together, he got up, washed up in the room, and did the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing three times in one breath. After his physical and mental state reached the peak, he left the small inn next to Wuyang Village, bought two steamed buns on the roadside, and ate them while walking towards the west gate of Pingxi City.
After paying two copper coins for the entrance fee, Yan Liqiang entered Pingxi City and then came to the Wansongshan Martial Arts Museum in Pingxi City.
The students who reported today had already lined up in front of the National Martial Arts Museum, and Yan Liqiang consciously stood at the end of the line.
Yan Liqiang reported today much earlier than the "last time" Shi Changfeng brought him here, so the students queuing up were naturally different from last time, but the reporting process was still exactly the same, and even the reception staff of the National Martial Arts Museum who received him here did not change.
Report your name, verify your fingerprints, and finally receive your student ID card, and your registration is complete.
Just when Yan Liqiang turned around and was about to leave, he suddenly saw a person—Qi Donglai!
Qi Donglai had just reported in and unexpectedly met Yan Liqiang here.
After his expression stiffened slightly, Qi Donglai turned his head and avoided Yan Liqiang's gaze.
The two of them didn't say a word, as if they didn't know each other, and passed each other at the entrance of the National Martial Arts Museum...
Yan Liqiang used deep and calm breathing to calm the murderous intent in his heart, because he was afraid that he would not be able to resist the urge to kill the despicable Qi Donglai at this moment.
The first time Qi Donglai betrayed Yan Liqiang was for the Hong family. That betrayal made Yan Liqiang break off all ties with him. Yan Liqiang thought at the time that he was giving Qi Donglai a warning and that Qi Donglai could learn from it. But what he didn't expect was that after they came to Pingxi County Martial Arts Hall together, Qi Donglai became a minion of Wang Haofei, the son of the Wang family in Huanglong County, to deal with him.
If Qi Donglai hadn't tipped off Wang Haofei, his father wouldn't have fallen into Ye Xiao's hands when he came to see him. He might not have been so impulsive at the time, and many things that happened later might not have happened...
Therefore, Qi Donglai is the one who deserves to die the most.
Unfortunately, although he killed Wang Haofei and Ye Xiao last time, Qi Donglai still managed to escape. Moreover, after he got into trouble, Qi Donglai disappeared from Pingxi City. He never came to the National Martial Arts Hall again, and never returned home. Even his parents didn't know where he had gone...
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After reporting to the National Martial Arts Museum, Yan Liqiang bought some daily necessities in Pingxi City, then hired a horse-drawn carriage and took those things back to Wuyang Village - if he wanted to live in Wuyang Village, he had to prepare these things himself.
The waiter had found a renter for Yan Liqiang. Under the guidance of the renter, Yan Liqiang walked around Wuyang Village and looked at all the empty houses in the village. Finally, he chose a house and rented it.
The house, including the yard, covers an area of nearly one acre. It is located in the highest position closest to the hilltop in Wuyang Village. The people who originally lived here have moved to Pingxi City, and the old yard has been empty. No one has lived there for a long time.
After bargaining with the broker, Yan Liqiang finally rented the yard for one tael and four cents of silver a year, including the broker's commission. That afternoon, the broker helped Yan Liqiang to complete the formalities. After cleaning the yard, Yan Liqiang moved all the things he bought from the city into the yard.
(End of this chapter)