After such a long time, the competition between several princes of the Zhou Dynasty was about to decide the winner.

The eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang, the second prince Zhou Qianrui, the eighth prince Zhou Qianqing, and the tenth prince Zhou Qiankun.

If not for the sudden death of Emperor Zhou Daowu.

As long as Prince Zhou Qiankun reaches the fifth-grade Grandmaster level, the throne will belong to him.

It's a pity that although he is stronger than other princes now, he has the combat power of a fifth-grade grandmaster.

However, due to the decline of his mother clan, there are no strong men, and there are not many great masters who support him.

Although he had the title of prince, he failed to successfully inherit the throne.

Then the four princes competed for it.

The first person to be eliminated was none other than Prince Zhou Qiankun.

The eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang, the second prince Zhou Qianrui, and the eighth prince Zhou Qianqing all agreed to deal with Zhou Qiankun, the legitimate heir, to make him lose his chance.

Zhou Qiankun faced the three princes joining forces and was forced to escape from the Zhou Dynasty with injuries.

The eldest prince, the second prince, and the eighth prince all have a lot of power from their mother's family. There are great masters and powerful people in the family, so they can gain support and compete for the position of Emperor Zhou.

In order to become the final winner, the three of them also spent a huge price, promised various conditions, attracted more foreign aid, and found more powerful masters to help.

During this period, the eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang got help from a strong man at a great cost.

Zhang Xuanji.

This person is the only two top fifth-grade grand masters in the Great Zhou Dynasty, together with the Lord Zhou Emperor Zhou Daowu.

Zhou Daowu cultivated the two top masters of the royal family to the fifth level. It was as if he had taken two paths and cooperated with each other to reach the top of the fifth level.

Zhang Xuanji, on the other hand, used his extreme talent to integrate all he had learned, innovate and create a top-notch master technique of his own.

Nine cuts of mystery.

Become a fifth-level top grandmaster.

However, Zhang Xuanji did not create a strong sect and was still alone.

Zhang Xuanji is a fifth-grade top grandmaster, and his strength surpasses other powerful grandmasters.

Therefore, he is called the first great master of martial arts in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Then, during the battle between the eldest prince and the eighth prince, Zhang Xuanji suddenly took action and found an opportunity to show off the tyrannical strength of a top fifth-grade grandmaster and killed a strong fifth-grade grandmaster from the eighth prince's mother clan, a family head. .

The eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang took this opportunity to lead his powerful men to completely annihilate the eighth prince's mother clan, including the two half-step grand masters.

The Eighth Prince was defeated miserably.

Two other fifth-grade grand masters from the imperial court who supported the eighth prince withdrew, and a foreign aid, a fifth-grade grand master from the casual cultivator, was injured and fled.

The Eighth Prince was subsequently deposed, reduced to a useless person, and imprisoned. He was afraid that his future life would be worse than death.

This is also what happens after a failed bid for the throne.

Suddenly, the only two people left fighting for the throne were the eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang and the second prince Zhou Qianrui.

In order to deal with the second prince, the eldest prince once again secretly recruited the Jiuxiao Sect of the three middle-level sects.

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"Taixu Martial Alliance, an alliance formed by the Hunyuan Sect, did not expect that Lu Changqing, a peerless genius, has successfully broken through to the realm of the fifth-grade grandmaster. I don't know where to gather several fifth-grade grandmasters. Such a powerful force has been established.

This guy is really extraordinary, he actually wants to take advantage of this opportunity to unify the entire martial arts forces of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

A middle-aged man in his forties, with a calm but powerful aura, looked at the powerful men under his command and said.

This person is Zhou Qianxiang, the eldest prince of the Zhou Dynasty. He is also a half-step grand master. He just learned the news not long ago.

In fact, there are several princes who can compete for the throne, the eldest prince, the second prince, the eighth prince, and the prince.

Except for Prince Zhou Qiankun, a sixth-grade grandmaster who possesses great grandmaster combat power, several others are also half-step grandmasters.

With the precious resources of the royal family, as long as you have good qualifications, you can accumulate to this level.

As for going one step further, if they want to break through to a fifth-grade grandmaster, they need to rely on themselves to walk a path of martial arts.

However, for them, as long as they become Zhou Emperor, with the help of dragon energy, they can immediately possess the fourth-level celestial realm combat power. This is also one of the reasons why the princes compete for the throne.

At this time, a total of seven fifth-grade grand masters gathered under the eldest prince.

Four of them are from the imperial court, and two of these four are actually from the eldest prince's mother's family and his wife's family.

An important reason why the eldest prince, second prince, and eighth prince can have the power to compete for the throne is that their mother's family or their wife's family are extremely powerful.

There are also three fifth-grade great masters.

It was the eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang who spent a huge price and promised conditions to win him over.

Two of them are the head of Jiuxiao Sect and the Supreme Elder.

The eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang promised that after he became the Emperor of Zhou, he would allow the Jiuxiao Clan's sphere of influence to expand to the three major states and provide a lot of precious training resources. In this way, he got the help of the two fifth-level grandmasters of the Jiuxiao Clan.

The last one is Zhang Xuanji, the top fifth-grade grandmaster.

In order to get Zhang Xuanji's help, the eldest prince agreed to let Zhang Xuanji learn one of the most powerful martial arts in the royal family, the Zhoutian Liuji Kung Fu, which is a technique that produces a trace of Tao Yun.

If Zhang Xuanji wants to break through to the fourth level of the realm of unity between heaven and man, he can learn from this technique.

A top fifth-grade grandmaster like Zhang Xuanji can only attract him with items that can help him break through to the fourth-grade realm of unity between heaven and man.

"I heard that Lu Changqing, like Prince Zhou Qiankun, has the combat power of a fifth-grade grandmaster at the sixth-grade grandmaster level. But now that he has broken through to the fifth-grade grandmaster realm, his strength is probably very close to that of a top fifth-grade grandmaster."

Zhang Xuanji said slowly.

As the only fifth-grade top grandmaster in the Great Zhou martial arts world, there are not many martial artists who can catch his eye.

"Lu Changqing's talent is so high that he may even surpass Zhou Qiankun, and he must be extremely powerful."

The eldest prince looked at Zhang Xuanji and nodded.

"The eldest prince, Lu Changqing wants to unify the entire martial arts world of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He has great ambitions and cannot continue to let it go. The eldest prince needs to become the emperor of Zhou as soon as possible and lead the powerful men of the court to suppress him."

The head of Jiuxiao Sect said.

Fortunately, he brought a large number of strong men from the Jiuxiao Sect to Kyoto not long ago, and almost all of them were not in the sect. Otherwise, like the Tianhe Sect, they would have been subdued by the Taixu Martial Alliance led by Lu Changqing.

The head of the Jiuxiao Sect did not want to see such a powerful force appear in the martial arts world of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and its pressure was higher than that of the Jiuxiao Sect.

Therefore, they wanted to use the power of the imperial court to suppress the Taixu Martial Alliance.

"I heard that Zhou Qianrui has sent people to Qingyuan Prefecture many times to recruit Lu Changqing. The eldest prince needs to be careful about their collusion."

A great master of the imperial court said that this was a leader of the Xuanwu Guards who had also taken refuge with the eldest prince.

"Yes, Qian Xiang, without further ado, we need to deal with Zhou Qianrui as soon as possible at all costs and help you ascend to the throne."

An old man said that this man was the uncle of the eldest prince, the head of a noble family from his mother's clan, a powerful fifth-grade grandmaster, and one of the great generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of the four generals, the four Xuanwu Guard leaders, and the eight domain lords were controlled by these powerful families.

"Okay, find the opportunity, complete the victory in one battle, and kill Zhou Qianrui directly."

The eldest prince Zhou Qianxiang showed a fierce light in his eyes.

The forces under the command of the second prince Zhou Qianrui are also extremely powerful, and there are many powerful grandmasters, who are not much worse than the first prince.

It would be difficult for the eldest prince to completely deal with these powerful masters under the second prince.

If you want to decide the winner with the second prince as soon as possible without wasting time, the fastest way is to find an opportunity to kill the second prince directly.

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"Taixu Martial Alliance, Lu Changqing, it's a pity, it's such a pity. If I had agreed to his conditions and asked him to help me, I'm afraid I would have defeated Zhou Qianxiang, become the final winner, and ascended to the throne.

Alas, I had already tried my best to attach great importance to him, a peerless genius, but I didn’t expect him to be so amazing. In less than two years, he successfully broke through to the realm of the fifth-grade grandmaster. His strength may have rivaled that of the top fifth-grade grandmaster. ."

The second prince Zhou Qianrui also learned about the powerful strength of the Taixu Martial Alliance under Lu Changqing's command. It was able to destroy the Xuanzhen Sect, a middle-grade sect, and wanted to unify the entire Great Zhou Martial Arts.

Zhou Qianrui was also extremely surprised by this.

At the beginning, he repeatedly asked Qingyuan State Territory Lord Meng Zhenshan to bring a large number of precious things to recruit Lu Changqing for help.

Lu Changqing did not completely refuse.

But in the end, he put forward a condition, which required him to provide a top master technique from the royal family.

It's just that the second prince Zhou Qianrui didn't dare to spread the royal family's top skills easily, so he didn't respond.

At this time, he faintly regretted it.

If he agreed to Lu Changqing and received Lu Changqing's help, he might have become the new Emperor of Zhou.

"Then why not contact Lu Changqing now and agree to his conditions."

Meng Zhenshan said.

Meng Zhenshan actually came from the mother clan of the second prince Zhou Qianrui, the Meng family, the most powerful family in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although he was not the head of the family, he was the second fifth-grade grandmaster of the Meng family.

"Now that times have changed, if you want to get Lu Changqing's help, simply providing him with a top-level master's technique may no longer be enough for him to take action."

The second prince Zhou Qianrui shook his head and said.
To be continued...