Chapter 176 Pond

  Duanhai Waterfall is crowded with people, and the adjacency of Wanxiangzong adds a different meaning to the sky view of this waterfall.

  There are sons of aristocratic families who come here to play, there are also literati who come here to enjoy the scenery and write poems, and there are even poor families who want to try their luck to enter the mountain gate.

  Most of the former two are located in Goulan along the coast, while the latter are gathered on the embankments.

  But this bustling area is separated by waterfalls and natural moats, half of which are bustling and lively crowds, and half of which are the majestic and deserted palace complexes.

  Because of the proximity to the waterfall, low-level disciples have a low level of cultivation. In order to prevent moisture from entering the body, the building materials of the palace are either made of water-proof materials or engraved with water-proof patterns, so that walking is dry and comfortable .

  On the long corridor leading to the important place of the sect, the sound of two footsteps sounded like it was more than a month ago.

   “Fifth, are those guys still arguing at the Zongmen meeting yesterday?”

  The voice of the middle-aged man with whiskers was a little tired.

   Lao Wu glanced at his old friend beside him:

   “I was going to ask you, but you didn’t go?”

  “.”

  Hearing this, the two of them fell silent suddenly. After a long while, the bearded man let out a long sigh:

  ”I’ve been arguing there every day, blaming each other, pushing each other, and I can’t make any progress for a long time. It’s the same as if I didn’t go. How is the side you are in charge of?”

  Old Fifth heard this question, and slowly looked sideways at the distance.

  The scenery here is very good, and you can have a panoramic view of the entire waterfall.

   Watching for a few breaths, the fifth child slowly opened his mouth:

  ”The second elder, that idiot, has been telling me to send people over to investigate quickly. How can I investigate? How dare I investigate? Ji Wencheng and the three of them haven’t heard back for so long. It’s probably because of an accident. Now I send people over to be caught in the urn. , isn’t this the three hundred taels of silver here?”

  The bearded man folded the joints of his fingers and made a “click” sound:

   “The three great masters, they just disappeared without a sound. Is it Yuanchu?”

  The fifth child shook his head:

  ”The current problem is not about this, we must quickly find a way to solve the problem. Half a month ago, the dark seeds we planted in the surrounding counties have sent back news that there are troops mobilized to Shengshan County. As a result, the discussion has not made any progress so far.”

  The bearded man nodded:

   “It is true.”

  Paused, he suddenly remembered something, and asked in a low voice: “I remember that when the incident happened, Xiao He and that idiot surnamed Li seemed to be in Shengshan County, what happened to them? ”

  The fifth child shook his head when he heard the words:

   “Xiaohe is fine, but she was hit a bit hard. Now she should be under house arrest by the suzerain, but she should be able to figure it out. As for that idiot named Li, he should be dead now.”

   “Dead?”

  The bearded man frowned.

  Twenty-year-old fourth-rank fusion body, if Li Erzhu realizes the Tao within two years, there is a high probability that the suzerain will train him as a son-in-law.

   Otherwise, Xiao He would not be allowed to hang out with him all the time.

  The fifth child narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice:

   “On the way back to the sect, he told me that he was going back to Shengshan County to kill demons.”

  The bearded man raised his eyebrows, and said in a strange way:

   “Slaying monsters in the beast tide?”

   paused,

  The old fifth’s eyes showed a touch of complexity, and he remembered Li Erzhu’s words when he knelt in front of him:

  ”Fifth Elder, the Zongmen’s kindness to me can’t be repaid in this life, but will it allow me to go back there and kill the demon? Or the elder just killed me with a sword.

   “My conscience is really uneasy.”

  Squinting his eyes with unknown meaning, the fifth child said in a low voice:

   “You also watched him grow up and know his temperament.”

  “.”

  The bearded man was taken aback for a moment, thinking of that kid’s temperament, he snorted softly:

   “He asked you to kill him?”

   “Hmm.”

   “Insanely stupid.”

   “So I asked him to kill the demon.” The fifth child smiled.

  The bearded man frowned upon hearing this:

   “Aren’t you afraid that he will reveal the matter?”

  The fifth child smiled, very cold:

   “The Zongmen’s kindness to him is like a mountain, and his temper will never be forgotten.

  ”The suzerain died in battle in Shengshan County, which can remove some of our suspicions, which is much more valuable than killing him with a sword.”

  The bearded man rubbed the center of his eyebrows:

   “It’s a pity, such a person can be a good tool if he uses it well.”

  Old Five glanced at the bearded man, lowered his eyes, and said meaningfully:

  ”Maybe, maybe it doesn’t matter anymore”

  ”.” The bearded man looked puzzled.

  No more words, the two of them walked to the end of the corridor, and the door of the meeting hall came into view.

   Push the door and enter,

  Different from the heavy atmosphere last time, the entire hall is a bit noisy at the moment.

  The voices of more than a dozen people mixed together. Compared with an important high-level meeting, this place is more like a small vegetable market.

  One of the old men pointed at the nose of a young man in a brocade robe opposite him and cursed:

  ”He Jigu! Just think about your Fenghai Chamber of Commerce! For such a big plan for the entire sect, is there 50,000 taels of plates in Shengshan County? You have to withdraw it in advance and check it There was no target at first, well, if you do this, won’t you have a target?!”

  The young man in brocade robe held a folding fan and slammed on the table:

   “Wine lunatic, don’t yell here, isn’t it you who are most responsible for this failure?! You are responsible for the docking and acceptance of the formation. If there is no problem with the formation, how could we fail?!”

   “Bastard!! There is absolutely no way that there will be a problem with the formation!”

   “Then tell me, how did someone break this thing? The Magic Fog Formation is the work of Xu Xinyao’s formation master, but speaking of this, the formation research you are in charge of, old man Jiu, is really disappointing. The Zongmen has invested so much, not to mention the Magic Fog Formation, but in the end even the Ghost Absorbing Formation has to be bought by others!! Do you know how much money it is?!”

   “The core of the ghost formation is the old man’s own research. Some of the edge patterns I bought will become the whole in the mouth of a yellow-mouthed boy like you.”

  “.”

  “.”

  Listening to the quarrels in the hall, the fifth child and the bearded man who stepped into the door looked at each other and saw a hint of helplessness in each other’s eyes.

  Seeing the two people come in, sitting on the main seat and closing his eyes to meditate, the Vientiane Sect Master suddenly opened his eyes and said loudly:

   “The fifth and youngest are here, please stop.”

  “.”

  The voice was vigorous and powerful, and it was directly transmitted to the minds of everyone in the hall.

  Seeing this scene, all the high-level officials who were arguing stopped, but they still glared at each other.

  The suzerain’s order may not be obeyed, but face must be given.

  The Suzerain of Vientiane exhaled, and asked in a calm voice:

   “What progress have you two made?”

  The two are responsible for information and intelligence-related matters. At the current stage of the Wanxiang sect, they can almost be said to be the most important two.

  The mobilization of the troops in the local counties, the movement of the troops in other states, and even the content of the memorials to the court, all have to be obtained by the two of them.

  The current high-level quarrel is largely due to the fear of insufficient information.

  They don’t know how the three people in charge of the formation are doing now, whether the people in Shengshan County are dead, how much their plans have been exposed, or even the current attitude of the court how.

  Now, they only know that the imperial court will send troops to Shengshan County.

  Besides that, I don’t know anything.

  Ants on a hot pan.

  The old five saluted and brought a useful but bad news:

  ”Sovereign Lord, I sent Anzi to follow the reinforcements to Shengshan County. The news just came today that the tide of monsters has been stopped. The reinforcements have cleaned up more than 90% of the monsters. Two people died in the city. More than 100,000 people.”

  The suzerain of Vientiane asked the most critical question:

   “Have you found out who helped Shengshan County in the city?”

  This matter is related to their next countermeasures.

  “.”

  Hearing this question, Lao Wu went to the seat and sat down, whispering:

  ”We only know of two people who have been there. The school lieutenant named Wang Jiadian in Shengshan County personally received them. One of them is a great master, and the other doesn’t know how to cultivate, but the great master seems to be someone else follow.”

  The suzerain of Vientiane narrowed his eyes;

   “Can you continue to check?”

  The fifth child shook his head, a little helpless:

  ”The highest status of our Yinzi is just a thousand-person superintendent, and the clue is broken.”

  Shengshan County, County Government.

  A man with a cold face stood in the slightly messy county office, looking at Adjutant Li sitting in the hall with a smile.

  After Lieutenant Wang left, Adjutant Li took his place, with a hesitant expression on his face:

   “Mr. Yi, what do you mean, don’t build a shrine for Mr. Zhou? Or even erase the news that he has been here?”

  Yi Tian arched his hands:

   “I hope Lieutenant Li understands that the general situation of our intelligence business should not be too famous.”

  Adjutant Li pondered for a moment, then said:

  ”But many Shuli have seen them.”

  Yi Tian smiled, squinted his eyes and answered softly:

   “We will take responsibility for these people.

   “You just need to erase Zhou Chen in the report to the county government, is that okay?”

  There is silence in the hall of discussion,

   “The clue is broken?” The Sovereign of Vientiane frowned.

  The voice of the fifth child is very firm:

   “Someone is interfering with our investigation of this matter.”

   paused,

  Old Fifth looked around and whispered slowly: “But the range can be narrowed.”

  Speaking,

  He raised three fingers and retracted one after each sentence:

   “Breaking the formation, besieging and killing the three great masters, and being able to directly contact the important ministers above the court, I believe everyone knows who can do these three things in the state.”

  As soon as these words came out, the hall was suddenly noisy.

   “Is it Tianyin Temple? Or Fengqingmen?”

  ”Impossible, those two sects have always been friends with us, and the surrounding interests are basically the same.”

   “Who would that be?”

   “Too much.”

  “.”

  Amidst the noisy discussion, the young man in brocade robe holding a folding fan suddenly said:

  ”I think it’s the Qin family in the state capital, or the Nangong family in Anxi County. These two great families have always had conflicts with our generation in the market share. Before the disciples traveled, they lost a lot of people in the market. In their hands, if the state government did not intervene in the mediation, we would already be deadly enemies with them.”

  Hearing this, the wine lunatic on the opposite side suddenly said:

  ”Share conflict? Deadly feud? He Jigu, don’t pick a good word, people originally put their property in our name to avoid court taxation, but you want to annex them directly, if it’s them , this happened because of you.”

   Hearing the words, young master Jinpao had blue veins on his forehead, Qi surged all over his body, his fan creaked when he was pinched, and the words came out between his teeth:

   “Old man Jiu, keep your dog’s mouth clean, this is the decision of the sect.”

   “Shut up!”

  The suzerain of Vientiane suddenly made a low voice.

  He felt a little tired, and if he kept silent, the people below would start arguing again.

  Pressing everyone down, he looked at the frowning fifth child in his seat:

   “Old five, what do you think of this matter?”

  The fifth child raised his eyes, and his tone was a bit complicated:

  ”Sovereign, elders, what you say is reasonable, but if they really did it, we still have room for maneuver in this matter.”

   “.” is silent.

  The people present were thinking about the meaning of these words, and some people who reacted quickly showed a look of surprise and uncertainty in their eyes.

   And the words of the fifth child are still continuing:

   “However, two of the forces you just discussed are missing.”

  Speaking of which,

  The fifth child pointed to the dome and clicked there.

  Although he didn’t say it clearly, everyone present knew what Lao Wu was talking about.

  Xiangguo Mansion, Dayan Royal Family.

  In the dead silence,

  The fifth child sighed, stood up and looked at the Sovereign of Vientiane, and bowed solemnly:

   “Sovereign, Wen Lin implores to start implementing the worst plan immediately”

   “Boom!”

   Before he could finish his sentence, there was a muffled sound, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and a big crack opened on the special material palace floor.

  Then,

  The old man sitting first on the left stood up:

  ”Xia Wenlin, we have no point of leaking secrets, no real evidence, even the current emperor dare not touch us.”

  The sect is loose, but if you want to slaughter a sect on an unwarranted charge, it will cause collective resistance.

  Because if they don’t resist, it may be their turn next.

  This point, Zongmen knows better than anyone else.

  Speaking of which,

  The old man stared closely at Xia Wenlin who bowed and saluted:

  ”Head up, do you know what the worst is?”

  The fifth child slowly raised his eyes and his expression remained unchanged:

   “Of course I know.”

  Worst plan, set off a rebellion.

  But everyone knows that the result of the rebellion is a death sentence. After all, the example of Xuan Qingzong is still there.

  No one thinks they can do better than Xuan Qingzong.

  They can only abandon everything in Dayan territory, use the lives of the outer disciples to delay time, and try to transfer the core disciples to the Wanxing Mountain Range.

  But the preparations for this kind of thing will have a lot of movement, the preparation of materials, the transfer of personnel, and the sale of the property.

   In other words,

  Once this matter starts, there is no turning back.

  Paused, the voice of the fifth child is calm:

  ”And Great Elder, we have something to leak.”

   “What?” The Great Elder frowned.

   “The three of Ji Wencheng have not received any news so far.”

  ”Things can’t be done, they will kill themselves.”

   “What if you never succeed?”

  “.”

  The Great Elder’s surroundings were filled with qi, which made the surrounding air faintly deformed:

  ”The three of them have each other’s gate of life, and they can’t do anything. As long as one person thinks about it, he can help the other two commit suicide. Do you want to say that there happened to be a strong man who happened to appear in the vicinity of Shengshan County?”

  The fifth child was not affected by it, and continued:

  ”There are too many means in this world. The art of ecstasy, poison, illusion, and special Taoism can all achieve this goal.”

  The Great Elder sighed, his tone softened a little:

   “Xiao Wu, the possibility of the things you mentioned happening is so small that it cannot be counted. We can’t gamble just because of such things.”

  Old Fifth clenched his fists slightly, looking at the Great Elder with extremely complicated eyes:

   “Grand Elder, it’s not a gamble, it’s too quiet”

   “What?” There was some doubt in the eyes of the Great Elder.

   Speaking of this, Lao Wu’s body trembled slightly due to tension:

   “Elder, have you ever fallen into the sea?”

   “.” The Great Elder frowned.

  The fifth child smiled and sighed:

  “When I was a child, I fell into the sea from a boat. It was very dark around me, I couldn’t breathe, and only the sound of water was heard.”

  Speaking of this, the fifth child sighed helplessly:

   “The Zongwei I am in charge of now is just like I was at the beginning, falling into the sea and not hearing any useful sounds.

   “Only, the murmur of gurgling.

  ”I really hope that this sea is really a sea, not a pool built by others for us.”

   “But it’s too quiet.

  ”No one went to Shengshan County to investigate, no one came to Vientiane City to investigate, not even…not a single person came to visit our Vientiane Sect, which is the most suspected.”

  It was silent.

  In silence,

  The Sovereign of Vientiane asked in a low voice:

   “Why didn’t you report this matter earlier?”

  The fifth child raised his head slightly, looked at the pitch-black dome, and let out a long breath:

  ”Sovereign, it takes time to transmit information, it takes time for people to rush, and it takes time to confirm the summary of information.”

   Said, the fifth child raised a finger:

  ”But after realizing this, I sent a lot of eagle riders to explore around Vientiane City. Do you know what the result I received today?

   “Some came back, some didn’t.

   “The suzerain, Vientiane City East, has now become a restricted area.”

  The fifth child withdrew his fingers and gave a low laugh with a trill:

   “It’s really, really quiet.”

  The words fall,

  The floating clouds and mists covered the sunlight, and the hall was instantly as silent and dark as the bottom of the sea.

  No one agreed, but no one refuted Xia Wenlin’s proposal.

   I don’t know how long it has passed,

  The darkness remained, but the silence was broken by the cry of an eagle, and then, a mighty voice spread throughout the sect:

   “Suzerain of Vientiane, come out and tell me.”

   Ask for a monthly pass

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  (end of this chapter)