Chapter 10

A few days later, Su Fan and the others were officially arranged to become inner sect disciples of the Huashan Sect and were also on the Huashan Sect's roster. From then on, Su Fan was truly a disciple of the Huashan Sect. Even after death, his memorial tablet could be worshipped in the Ancestor Hall of the Huashan Sect.

In these few days, Su Fan also had a detailed understanding of the Huashan Sect's strength. After all, his master, Xiong Qingyuan, was an inner sect elder and also an elder who exercised powers similar to law enforcement, so he had great power.

His status was naturally not bad among the inner sect disciples.

As such, it was very easy to understand the detailed situation of the Huashan Sect.

First of all, including the elders, there were about a hundred inner sect disciples, among whom there were twenty-eight inner sect elders, all of whom were first-class experts in the pugilistic world.

It had to be said that the Huashan Sect at this time was truly at its peak. It was estimated that even when Hao Datong founded the sect, it did not have such power.

During the late Yuan Dynasty, the Huashan Sect was one of the six major sects, but it really could not compare with Wudang and Shaolin, and it was even much worse than Emei and Kongtong.

However, the current Huashan Sect, as the leader of the Five Mountains Sword Sects, commanded the Five Mountains, and its strength was almost not inferior to Shaolin and Wudang.

The strength of the Five Mountains combined, the first-class experts in the pugilistic world, was estimated to be fifty.

"No wonder Shaolin would be so wary of the Huashan Sect, even going so far as to plot against the Huashan Sect."

The deeper his understanding of the Huashan Sect, the more Su Fan had certain thoughts about the Huashan Sect's sword-qi conflict.

According to the development of the Huashan Sect at this time, I am afraid that rushing out of the Shanxi boundary and rushing to the Central Plains would definitely not be a problem.

And according to his observation, although the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect had signs of confrontation, it did not seem to be the case among the elders.

Then why would the Huashan Sect suddenly change drastically in the next ten or twenty years? This was also a question Su Fan had been thinking about.

If this danger was not resolved, it would still have a great impact on him in the future. He had already seen Yue Buqun, who was already in his twenties and was a disciple of Ning Qingyu. Of course, among those disciples of the Sect Leader, he was a transparent one.

According to the timeline of the Xiaoao world, it was only ten years away from the sword-qi conflict.

Once it really happened, not to mention whether he could escape this disaster, even if he escaped, the Huashan Sect would become a third-rate force like the original.

This was absolutely not what Su Fan wanted.

He joined the Huashan Sect, besides because of the Huashan Sect's martial arts, secondly, he valued its powerful strength, which could serve as his backing, allowing him to practice with peace of mind.

Living a new life, Su Fan naturally hoped to see the peak of martial arts and yearned for the Innate Realm.

From some classics of the Huashan Sect, he found some records of the Innate Realm. Not to mention strength, martial artists in the Innate Realm alone seemed to be able to live a long life. During the late Yuan Dynasty, that Sanfeng Zhenren of Wudang was the last Innate martial artist in the pugilistic world. He seemed to have lived for more than 150 years, or even three sixty-year cycles.

Immortality was impossible, but who wouldn't want to live a long life?

If the Huashan Sect became like the later bird-like state after the sword-qi conflict, Su Fan would naturally not want it. With him here, he believed it would not become the Huashan Sect like Yue Buqun's.

But that would require him to spend time and effort to pull the Huashan Sect.

If one could lie flat and practice with peace of mind, who would want to spend time and effort? In the Xiaoao world, Yue Buqun practiced for decades and was only first-class. This was probably because he was distracted by the Huashan Sect.

Su Fan was not willing, so in order to practice with peace of mind, it was best to be able to avoid the Huashan Sect's sword-qi conflict.

But how did the sword-qi conflict happen? Su Fan had always been confused. According to the current Huashan Sect, although the disciples below had some signs of confrontation.

But in Su Fan's eyes, he felt that this was intentional by those high-level officials, just to motivate these disciples. Isn't it true that there is progress only with competition?

"Could it be because those elders let go too much, and the disciples below finally affected the high-level officials?"

"That's not right either. These elders are all old immortals of decades. How could they not see it?"

Su Fan soon shook his head.

"Alas! What exactly is going on? How did Shaolin trigger the Huashan Sect's sword-qi conflict?"

Su Fan had always believed that the Huashan Sect's sword-qi conflict was caused by external factors. Although there was a little power struggle internally, it was always within the bottom line.

"Forget it, don't worry about it for now. There is still time. Now let's hurry up and practice!"

"Otherwise, even if I discover something, with my current status, I can't influence it at all. Unless I can practice to the first-class level, and then have my cheap master, it might be possible to influence the entire Huashan Sect."

"So the time left for me now is not much. There are only ten years. It is not simple to practice to the first-class level in ten years."

The Huashan Sect had been founded for three or four hundred years, and the recorded disciples totaled tens of thousands. Not counting the previous dynasty, even in the current dynasty, the fastest disciple to practice to the first-class level took fifteen years.

And this person was their current Huashan Sect's Sword Saint Feng Qingyang, so Su Fan was still under pressure.

Of course, he had more motivation because he had a 'cheat'.

"However, entering the inner sect allows choosing a new internal cultivation method. Which method should I choose?"

Su Fan began to think. This determined his future. The current Huashan Sect was not the Huashan Sect of the later Xiaoao world, and many martial arts were missing. The Huashan Nine Skills of the later generations were very famous.

But now, many martial arts were not inferior to the Huashan Nine Skills.

Speaking of internal cultivation methods alone, there were quite a few. Those second and third-rate goods almost had no disciples practicing them. Most of those methods came from martial arts people outside.

The Huashan Sect itself had many profound methods. The basic "Huashan Internal Cultivation" was what Su Fan was practicing now, passed down from the Quanzhen Sect's Quanzhen Heart Method "Quanzhen Dao Song". Although it might not be comparable, it was definitely not bad. Internal cultivation had ten layers. If practiced to perfection, one could be peerless in the pugilistic world, only under the Innate level.

However, this method was very difficult to practice to perfection, and almost no one did it.

Others such as "Primordial Skill", "Baoyuan Strength", "Chaoyang Skill", and "Zixia Divine Skill" were all top-tier Huashan heart methods.

Especially the Zixia Divine Skill, which was the internal cultivation of the Sect Leader's lineage and could not be practiced without being the successor of the Sect Leader.

The other three heart methods were also famous in the pugilistic world, and most inner sect elders practiced these internal cultivation methods.

So if Su Fan chose to convert to internal cultivation, he would choose from these three. The Primordial Skill practiced by his master Xiong Qingyuan, together with the Primordial Palm, combined with his outer sect body-tempering techniques, made his palm technique known in the pugilistic world as the "Covering Sky Hand". The name was quite domineering.

Of course, this was also fought out by him. Ten years ago, his master fought three of the ten elders of the Demon Cult alone and was able to retreat unscathed.

You must know that the ten elders of the Demon Cult had strength that was in the high or even top-tier level among first-class experts, and two of them were super first-class peak existences.

Otherwise, how could they suppress the pugilistic world with one sect?

From this, it could be seen that his master was powerful, and this "Primordial Skill" was also very good. The internal energy and strength of the Primordial Skill were thick. After reaching great success, when the strength was urged, it was even more indestructible.

Many elders of the Huashan Sect chose this method. Although the practice was not fast, the combination of internal and external was often more rigid and powerful, and the Primordial was one.