The ox cart carried Luo Xiao slowly. When the sky was about to get dark, he came to a small village called "Balitun" outside the Yishui City. Because it was exactly eight miles away from Yishui City, and this was the residence where Luo Xiao had lived for nearly two years.

Although the housing prices in Yishui City are not expensive, they are not something that grassroots like him can afford to live in - or in other words, he can barely afford it, but it is really not worth it. It is better to live in a small town or village outside the city. Although there are a little twists and turns, it is just to be a training.

There are students' dormitories in the martial arts hall, and the accommodation fee is cheap. After all, it is an official school, but he dare not live there. He never dares to live in the same room with others, for fear that one day he would talk to his sleep and reveal what he should not say, which would cut off his hard-won martial arts path.

Therefore, living in a small village outside the city was his most suitable choice.

Generally, there are a large number of towns and villages around the city walls, of varying sizes. Even in these villages, Balitun belongs to the bottom category. There are only more than twenty households and more than a hundred people in the village. At the bottom of the village, one is a dilapidated and dilapidated yard made of stones, which is Luo Xiao’s residence.

Although the yard is dilapidated, it is strong and large enough. There is also a martial arts training ground flattened by Luo Xiao in the front yard. He is still satisfied with this place where he has lived for two years.

As it gets dark in the mountain village, there is basically no one moving, so Luo Xiao has not met any villagers all the way into the village. He directly opened the yard door, returned to the hut, lit the oil lamp, and then opened all doors and windows to let the evening breeze blow away the various odors caused by uninhabited for a long time. At the same time, he raised the lamp to check the corners of the house, the bed cabinets, tables and chairs to see if there were any rats, insects and ants.

After cleaning, Luo Xiao carried the wooden barrel to the well to draw water, and rinsed it with the cold well water. When wiping his body, he touched the left arm fairy stone pattern with his right hand. With a thought, a red herb appeared in his hand, with seven leaves growing. Its leaves were crystal clear as red jade, emitting a faint light in the dark night, and it had a strange fragrance that refreshed the heart.

Luo Xiao's mouth curled up and was extremely satisfied with the ability to store items from the cave. In contrast, this precious herb called "Red Jade Seven-Leaf Crocodile" that usually makes him ecstatic is not too concerned.

Luo Xiao casually pressed the red jade seven-leaf clover to his left arm, and with a bang, the red jade seven-leaf clover disappeared like a magic trick.

Although I really wanted to go to the fairy stone cave again to experience the baptism of spiritual energy, Luo Xiao, who had not had a good sleep for two days, could not resist the fatigue. When he returned to the small nest that made him most at ease, the feeling of fatigue became stronger. He fell down at the edge of the bed and fell asleep.

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In the early morning, the south gate of Yishui City had just opened for a while, and Luo Xiao appeared outside the city on time. He returned to Xiuwu Hall to hand in the mission.

Today, Luo Xiao wore a formal student uniform, a little yellowed white outfit with thick patches on the joints of his elbows, knees, etc., and a blue belt tied with a waist represents his second-level martial arts cultivation; and a golden fish and dragon seal emblem on the green belt belt tip indicates that he was born in the Yishui Martial Arts Hall.

From the guards who came into the city greeted him with a smile, to the owners of various breakfast shops along the long street, the halls and the diners all greeted him and invited him to eat together, which shows Luo Xiao's popularity and the weight of his martial arts practitioners in the eyes of civilians.

The martial arts halls in the world are all organized by the government officials of the imperial court. The school system has been ten years, with the purpose of cultivating the "samurai" for the country, the most basic and important gentry class in society. Those who become warriors within ten years can get the title of land and sects to be granted by the kingdom, with status, status and benefits. At least they can start as a lieutenant in the army, and they can also enter the sect to practice at a higher level and gain greater wealth. If they cannot become a samurai after ten years, they will graduate from the church and find a way out.

Even so, as long as you are not too stupid, you can reach the level of Kaimai after practicing for ten years. As long as you reach the third level of martial arts and specialize in martial arts, after you drop out, you can have a bowl of thick food, whether you join the army, go to the ward, guard the house or join the gang. If you are conscious or have certain potential, you may still do well.

If Luo Xiao's fate has not changed, he will basically follow this path, and the warrior class is out of reach for him who is extremely lacking in resources.

Correspondingly, there is also an institution called "Wen Deguan", which is a basic school all over the world. It can help children to gain wisdom and enlightenment. Those who have achieved success in their studies can also go to the Baowen Pavilion of the county government to further their studies. In the future, they can obtain fame and honor and become scholars with literary and Jinshi.

Since ancient times, any dynasty with a stable structure has required two horses of civil and military power, and neither is missing. The difference is only when the Wenchang period is prosperous and the Wuchang period is declining, and when the Wuchang period is chaotic, the Wuchang period is prosperous and the Wenchang period is weak. However, in the past century, the entire domain has been turbulent and uneasy, and the countries have conquered each other. Even an ordinary citizen can see the phenomenon of the chaotic period.

In this great battle, martial arts in various countries have flourished, and martial artists have a high status and completely suppressed their civil and civil affairs. No matter the nobles and civil servants are proud to enter the martial arts hall. However, learning literature does not require talent, but practicing martial arts must be done. Even if you cannot pass the spiritual gathering gate, you cannot practice martial arts even if you are a noble family in the generals. For ordinary people, even if you have talent, it is difficult to achieve success, because practicing martial arts is different from practicing literature. Every martial arts strongman who has achieved something means a huge amount of terrifying resources consumed - poor literature and wealthy martial arts, which has been done since ancient times.

In a sense, how much achievement can be achieved in martial arts does not depend on talent or diligence, but on the amount of resources occupied - Luo Xiao is a typical example.

All disciples who are admitted to the Martial Arts Cultivation Hall only provide basic food, accommodation and exercises. The so-called "the master leads the door and practices rely on individuals". If you want to improve, you will solve the spiritual energy, elixirs, martial arts, spiritual weapons, etc. you need to solve them yourself. You can get rewards by completing the tasks in this hall, or go out to practice and get opportunities. In short, it depends on your own ability.

Of course, if you have a good background, all the above problems are not a problem. Although ability is important, background is even more important. After all, no matter how hard you can toss alone, you cannot compare to the continuous strong support of a family. This is often the decisive factor of how far a warrior can go, and few people can break out of this stubbornness.

Low-level disciples like Luo Xiao are not qualified to go out for training, and his civilian origin also determines that he only has the only way to obtain resources. Therefore, even if he only has a few merit points and is very likely to face dangerous tasks like the terrifying beast tide, he gritted his teeth and took it.

However, things in the world are unpredictable and opportunities are unpredictable. Before yesterday, Luo Xiao was just an ant in this rut; but after today, he had already crawled out, and everything was different.

When he walked from Chang Street to the end of the street, Luo Xiao swallowed the last big steamed bun, tilted his neck to drink all the soy milk from the bowl, put the bowl on the table, threw down more than a dozen big money, thanked the shop owner, and quickly walked towards the Xiuwu Hall.

Behind him, a surprise voice from the shop owner came: "Brother Luo's appetite has increased, and he actually ate eight!"

Luo Xiao touched his half-full abdomen and felt helpless. Since he entered the open meridian and refining blood, the absorption of spiritual energy has doubled, the transportation of qi and blood has accelerated, the appetite has increased greatly, and the appetite has doubled. If this continues, he is afraid that he can't even afford to live in the small broken yard and has to move back to the Xiuwu Hall. Fortunately, he has gained a lot in the harvest this time. After dealing with the herbs, he will probably not worry about his livelihood for a long time.

Xiuwu Hall is the most conspicuous building complex in Yishui City. It is located under Qianchi Peak in the south of the city. It is surrounded by lush forests and bamboos, surrounded by green water. The courtyards are lined up one after another. The scale-like tiles reflect a faint red light under the morning glow. From a distance, it looks like red carp on the back, so Yishui Xiuwu Hall is also known as the "Yishui Red Carp".

There were two disciples in white clothes and green belts standing in front of the mountain gate, both of whom were fifteen or sixteen years old, with their hands erect and chests raised, with a high momentum, and a bit of a stand. Seeing Luo Xiao climbing up the steps, one of the square-faced boys looked back and shouted: "Luo Mangzi, you are back. It's your turn to be on the mountain gate next month. I'm really afraid that your mission has not ended yet, and I have to postpone the duty again, but it's okay."

"Luo Mangzi" is Luo Xiao's nickname. The "rugged" here does not mean recklessness, but refers to the person "very reckless", that is, ferocious.

Luo Xiao smiled and said, "You may continue to do this wooden stake."

The square-faced boy glared: "What? What do you mean?"

Luo Xiao ignored him, waved his hand without looking back, and walked into the mountain gate far away.

The guards of the Mount Gate of Xiuwu Hall are usually only in the first-level disciples. They are above the third level, and they basically don’t have to take on the servitude in the hall. They just need to concentrate on their practice. Although Luo Xiao’s waist indicates a second-level blue belt, his strength has entered the fourth level. He only needs to find time to pass the assessment to replace the third-level yellow belt or even the fourth-level red belt. By then, among the eight hundred disciples of the martial arts hall, he is outstanding, so why would he still be a wooden stake to hold the door?

As Luo Xiao went deeper, there were gradually many white-clothed disciples around him, with only different belts, and they rushed to the martial arts field and gathered together to practice martial arts. This large-scale joint martial arts performance was limited to disciples under the hall, and disciples above the fourth level did not need to participate in such "morning exercises". Of course, day students like Luo Xiao did not need to participate.

There are only two types of disciples in the martial arts hall: disciples under the hall and disciples entering the room. The first, second and third levels are disciples under the hall, and the fourth and fifth levels are disciples entering the room. Each level is divided by a five-color belt, which corresponds to the fifth level of foundation building of martial arts.

Whether it is the disciples in the hall or the disciples who enter the room, they all wear white clothes and only use the belt to identify the level. From low to high, they are gray belt, blue belt, yellow belt, red belt, and black belt.

Except for the disciples who are white clothes, deacons, teachers and other instructors, they all wear black clothes and rhinoceros belts, and only use the buckles to identify the levels, namely, Iron turtle buckle, Copper buckle, Silver Tiger buckle, Golden Dragon buckle, etc., which correspond to positions of different levels.

Since this is an official school, it adopts semi-military management, so the hierarchy is very strict. Low-level disciples should maintain minimum respect for seniors, and seniors can instruct low-level disciples to a certain extent. Deacons, teachers and other major managers can even instruct disciples to act in the hall and have certain rights to reward and punish. This is just like the army. The subordinates must obey the superiors. Without rank, they cannot reflect glory, and without rank, they cannot inspire to improve. This is also one of the good mechanisms passed down by the martial arts hall for thousands of years.
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