The grain team was led by several mountain guards into the tribe at the foot of the mountain, while Ian and Qingchao were led by a second-level ascender to meet the Manya elders waiting by the river at the entrance.

When he saw this black-haired, blue-eyed, young-looking second-level sublimator, Ian was a little surprised.

He didn't remember that Nanling Dragon Worship Cult had other second-level people with dragon blood... Elder Manya hadn't introduced them to them.

Because of the secret method of the Dragon Worship Cult, the opponent's aura is exactly the same as that of ordinary people. If Ian didn't have precognitive vision, he would definitely not be able to detect this.

For the first time, Ian thought that the Dragon Worship Cult was about to ambush him. At the command of Elder Manya, five hundred axemen would come out and chop him into meat paste... But except for the paranoia of being persecuted.

, but Ian knew that the Dragon Worship Cult was one of his own in the true sense, so how could he plot against him.

There must be some secret behind this.

Ian and Qingchao stepped on the yellow branches and leaves and walked into the gathering place of the Avod tribe on the other side of the mountain.

A small river flows slowly among the brown woods. The clear river water flows through the artificial stone channel surrounding the tribe. There are light-colored water plants floating among the clean cobblestones.

Elder Manya is at the other end of the river bank.

The young man leading the way was not a mountaineer. When Ian realized that the other party was at the second level, he began to pay attention to the other party's details.

He found that this "young man's" palms had quite obvious sword calluses, and Qingchao also used gestures to signal to Ian that he needed to be careful.

They could all tell that the callus marks on the opponent's hands were not caused by practicing with a double-edged long sword for more than twenty years.

Twenty years... coupled with his status as an ascendant, he is neither a mountaineer nor an imperial citizen...

Dragon Worship Cult in other regions?

Ian remained calm on the surface, and he soon came to Elder Manya. The old mountain man with blue and black skin smiled and said hello to Ian and Qingchao, and then said calmly to the "young man" who was leading the way.

nod.

"Ian, if I say three months ago, I would never have imagined that we would meet again. You were already at the second level. The Dragon God protects you and you are safe and sound.

Elder Manya's exchange this time was quite formal, and Ian also bowed to each other: "With the protection of the Dragon God, I was able to survive the disaster in Avak Territory. It is really thanks to the power of dragon transformation that without you and others

According to the teachings of the members of the Dragon Worship Cult, I may not be able to master the power of dragon transformation, nor can I survive the aftermath of King Tianhong."

"We are all church members, so why should we be grateful?"

Touching his beard, Elder Manya said with a smile: "This time you were able to block the surprise attack of the three coalition forces, and even annihilate them all in turn. It really relieved a lot of pressure on our side. I must say thank you."

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The two people usually communicated like this, but now they were so formal. Ian could guess with his toes that it was all because of the "young man" standing next to him.

As expected, Elder Manya then introduced to Ian: "This is the Dragon Cult envoy "Micro Blade" from the Absalom Mountains in the Flying Flame Land. He is a master of swordsmanship. His best thing is to imitate other people's swords.

Skills."

"Unlike us, he inherited the blood of the "Extreme Flame Dragon", and he is the holder of the true "Sentinel Flame Guard" and a distinguished guest in the palace of a marquis."

"He came here this time to negotiate some issues with us on behalf of Absalom, the Dragon Worship Cult on the other side of the Flying Fire Land."

"Nice to meet you." Ming Ren was quite dissatisfied. Elder Manya talked too much and basically leaked all his details. Although the other party is a member of the Dragon Worship Cult, it is not difficult to know this information.

But it's still a bit rude.

However, thinking of the purpose of coming here, he still smiled and nodded to Ian: "I didn't expect that another senior executive of Nanling would be such a young man."

"What the hell." Ian also pretended not to be able to tell the other person's true age: "You don't look much older than me. I just rely on luck."

After a moment of greetings, Grenade got down to business - before coming to greet Ian, he was discussing some issues with Elder Manya.

"Manya, you said that the top leaders of the Nanling Sect are all here, so whether the next step is war or peace, can you give me an accurate picture?"

The words of the blade are like swords. He came here this time to represent the Feiyan Land Worshiping Dragon Sect and ask the Nanling Dragon Worshiping Sect to remain neutral in the upcoming situation.

This is actually a very normal requirement: the Dragon Worshiping Cult itself has no nationality. As long as they have dragon blood and dragon-transformed organs, they can be regarded as core members. In this case, members of the Dragon Worshiping Cult do not need to participate in the disputes between countries.

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Even if they cannot maintain a detached and neutral position like the four orthodox religions, they must at least maintain a superficial non-interference.

The Nanling Dragon Worship Cult assists Nauman City in confronting the Feiyan Land Special Forces, which is actually a move that seriously jeopardizes the independence of the Nanling Dragon Worship Cult. In fact, this is indeed the case. As a member of the Dragon Worship Cult with an imperial background, Ian is

This is a manifestation of "penetration".

There are a few things that Mingren said rightly.

First point, regardless of whether the mountain people's rebellion is successful or not, Elder Manya, who has dragon blood, will be an important figure for both parties to win over. Elder Manya helps the empire suppress the rebellious mountain people. It would be fine if it can succeed easily, but now the Jiamu tribe

The chief has advanced to the third level, and Elder Manya must also advance to deal with it, otherwise he will be completely suppressed.

But Elder Manya has no inheritance to help him. Once he fails to advance and dies, not only will the mountain people lose a famous elder with the inheritance of the Dragon God, but it will also be a loss for the Dragon Worship Sect.

The second point is that the reason why the Steel Winged Dragons were recruited by Feiyan Land was because of the Dragon Worship Cult in Absalom. If this kind of confrontation continues, it will only intensify the internal conflicts within the Dragon Worship Cult.

——What are you talking about? Isn’t this just trying to sidestep Feiyandi?

Ian's heart is like a mirror.

Fei Yandi single-handedly planned the food disaster in Nanling, causing the mountain people to rebel, and even sent dragons to suppress the top forces in Nanling. Even the Mountain King was confronting the Steel Winged Dragon King.

It is necessary for the Nanling Dragon Worship Cult and the Empire to join forces to maintain the stability of the situation. Otherwise, the entire Nanling will fall into corruption, and Elder Manya will never be able to unify the mountain people and reunite them as one in his own lifetime.

Therefore, Ian saw that Elder Manya smiled and nodded on the surface, but in fact he refused to give in and refused all G-Blade's requests for neutrality.

In fact, Ian himself was one of the reasons why he politely refused the G-blade before - he said that Ian was also a senior member of the Nanling Dragon Worship Cult, and since Ian was not present, he could not make the decision.

But when Ian arrived, he still refused to make a decision, which made the black-haired swordsman look quite ugly.

"Manya, if this continues, the rumors within the sect will not sound good."

Gren's temper wasn't exactly good either. At the end of his words, his words were vaguely threatening: "I came here with sincerity, but all I got was perfunctory - if you really don't want to, then in the end we will just

I’ll see you on the battlefield.”

Elder Manya frowned slightly. He obviously felt that this exchange was meaningless, but before he spoke, Ian shook his head.

He took a step forward.

This step caused a burst of white cold air to spread from under his feet, causing waves of ripples to move towards the feet of the glider - the moisture in the air quickly froze, condensing into a sharp ice blade, which opened up on the earth.

The blossoming ice flowers pierced the feet of the Dragon Worshiping Messenger from the Flying Flame Land, seeming to penetrate him completely from feet to head!

Gren's expression changed slightly. He didn't expect Ian to take action directly... But even so, he was quite contemptuous of Ian in his heart.

Even if he is a genius, he is just a young man who is forced to advance. Whether it is the control of source material or combat skills, how can he defeat him who has experienced hundreds of battles?

——It’s interesting, then I’ll teach you a lesson.

The blade was not angry but smiled instead. A layer of crimson fire lit up his body. The fire was like a living thing, condensing into three flaming blades in mid-air.

This is the sublimation ability of the second level of "Sentinel Flame Guard", derived from the power of the fey volcano monster "Lava Worm". It was originally used to condense several "Fire Worms" that can emit scorching rays as a sentinel.

But after the transformation of the G-blade, it turned into several flaming blades that could cut and pierce as he pleased.

"My face is so pretty, but I don't know if my strength is worthy of it."

He drew his sword and prepared to step forward to give Ian some blood.

But as soon as Grenade took a step forward, he felt something was wrong.

The frost blade thorns condensed by Ian on the ground were not melted by his heat as he imagined. On the contrary, it only had a little more water on it, and instead became more slippery and sharp.

With one kick, although his body was not penetrated, his shoes were directly torn, making him unable to stand stably.

——What kind of source quality is this?! Even with the blessing of dragon-shaped organs, it can’t be so solid, right?!

Is this really the second level of advancement?

I was shocked, but even so, the G-blade did not give up the attack - the three flame blades drew three beautiful red arcs of light forward, and slashed towards Ian at different angles. This was impossible no matter what.

To block a sword move with one person's strength, even a master of swordsmanship would have to take it hard.

But Ian was not afraid. He drew his sword to block one flaming blade, and condensed ice with his other hand to block another one. As for the last flaming blade that slashed at his waist from an oblique downward angle, he could not block it.

....

Qingchao drew his sword.

The sword flashed, and a stream of water-colored light swept out, knocking away the last flaming blade.

Thump thump thump - Mu Ren took three steps back in a row. He breathed rapidly and almost lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"you?!"

The swordsman looked at Ian fiercely. He turned his head and looked at Elder Manya who was also surprised: "Manya, is this your way of hospitality? Do you want to teach civil war...

Before he finished speaking, Ian took another step forward.

The steel-patterned sword broke through the atmosphere, drawing out a bright cyan sword light, and stabbed at his neck with sudden wind pressure, forcing Mi Ren to raise his sword to block, interrupting his words.

Dang! Ian's sword looked light, but in fact it was powerful and heavy. The sword couldn't help but take a step back.

"What on earth are you going to do?"

After standing firm, the swordsman roared angrily. At this moment, three flaming blades condensed around him again - this time, what he was thinking about was not "teach Ian a lesson", but "fight until death".

But the calmness of a swordsman told him that if a fight really came... facing this young man whose strength far exceeded his expectations, he might not even be able to escape.

Because, after Elder Manya looked at Ian thoughtfully, he faintly stood in the position blocking the G-blade from leaving.
To be continued...