At this moment, in the Shen family hall, Shen Jiazheng looked at her father, Shen Haobo, with an expression of disbelief, slowly shook her head and said: "Father, you...are everything you said true?"
"Is the alliance of the four major families just a cover?"
"Um!"
Shen Haobo's wrinkled face showed a hint of helplessness, and he said with a wry smile: "Jia'er, you are still young, and there are some things you don't know clearly. Don't look at how friendly the four major families usually seem to live in harmony, but in fact,
Who is not harboring bad intentions behind his back and hoping that the other party will decline?"
"Even now, the four major families have been suppressed by the Black and White Academy, but after all, the roots have not been harmed. The Black and White Academy has not killed them all, right?"
"Hehe, hehe..."
Shen Jia smiled, her pretty face full of pain, and said bitterly: "Didn't we kill them all? Dad, go out and take a look, you all go out and take a look. In the past few days, my Shen family's caravan alone has been attacked outside the city.
How many ambushes were there? How much property was lost? How many disciples died?"
"Could it be that none of this aroused even a little bit of anger in your hearts?"
"So what if it's aroused?"
Shen Haobo was a little angry at this moment. He couldn't help but raise his voice and said: "Is anger useful? The other three major families have also suffered losses to varying degrees, but they are still unwilling to fight to the death with the Black and White Academy. What the Shen family alone can do
What?"
"Jia'er, you have to know that in the Black and White Academy, there are six Tianchong realm warriors alone; even if Wei Yixiao died in Qingyun City as rumored, there are still five Tianchong realm warriors on Baiyun Mountain.
The warriors, and even the Master of Puyang Palace, not to mention our four major families, even if all the families in Jizhou County unite, they may not be their opponents!"
After the words fell, Shen Haobo seemed to be aware of his emotions, and his voice softened again, and said: "The Ye Wushuang you are talking about, since he is a martial artist in the life-cultivation realm, he naturally needs to win over him; it's easy to say what the remuneration is, as for the position.
.. Let’s let him be the guest elder of the Shen family for the time being.”
"As for the alliance, let's forget it!"
"never mind?"
Shen Jia looked depressed, staggered back two steps, and said unwillingly: "Dad, have you forgotten how your mother died? Have you forgotten that Zhao Sheng treated my mother back then..."
"Jia'er!"
As soon as these words came out, Shen Haobo was immediately irritated. He immediately stood up and shouted: "It seems that I really doted on you before!"
"Are you doting on me? Are you feeling guilty about my mother?"
Shen Jia shouted violently and retorted: "In the past, for the sake of your position as the clan leader, you allowed my mother to be humiliated and ignored her, and you allowed the evil man Zhao Sheng to live without revenge. You are in vain as a husband, and even more in vain as a father!"
"presumptuous!"
Shen Haobo was furious at this moment. He took a step forward, raised his hand and slapped her hard.
Snapped!
The crisp sound of applause resounded throughout the hall.
The huge force directly knocked Shen Jia to the ground, with blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, tears rolling down her face, and her pear blossoms dripping with rain, which was quite pitiful.
"Jia, Jia'er, I..."
Shen Haobo was stunned and couldn't help but feel regretful, and subconsciously wanted to help Shen Jia.
"Get away!"
But Shen Jia opened Shen Haobo's hand, and Lihua cried out with rain: "I don't have a father like you!"
After the words fell, Shen Jia quickly got up from the ground, turned around and ran towards the door.
At this moment, the black shadow happened to rush in quickly, and with a bang, it directly collided with Shen Jia.
Shen Jia was hit hard with severe pain in her chest, staggered back, and fell straight to the ground.
"Jia'er!"
Seeing this scene, Shen Haobo was immediately shocked. He stepped out and quickly supported Shen Jia. At the same time, he shouted angrily at the visitor: "How can you behave so recklessly? Go down and get the forty pieces yourself, and then commit suicide to apologize!"
"Clan, clan leader, clan leader, please spare your life!"
The man made a puff sound, knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Besides being cruel to your own family, what else would you do?"
Shen Jia broke away from Shen Haobo's arms at this moment, gave Shen Haobo a blank look, and immediately asked the man: "Shen Jian? Didn't I ask you to stay in the inn? Why did you come back suddenly?"
"But what happened to Ye Wushuang?"
"Back to Miss, just now, Ye Wushuang..."
Shen Jian looked horrified and replied hastily: "I left the inn alone!"
"left?"
Shen Jia asked hurriedly: "Do you know where he is going?"
"Looking in the direction, it should be Baiyun Mountain!"
"What?"
Hearing this, Shen Jia was startled and her expression changed slightly.
"It seems that this Ye Wushuang is from the Black and White Academy!"
Shen Haobo suddenly said at this moment: "That's right, now that the four major families have formed such a grand alliance in Jizhou City, it is impossible for the Black and White Academy not to notice it; this Ye Wushuang is most likely a spy from the Black and White Academy!"
"impossible!"
Shen Jia sternly retorted, "He can't be from the Black and White Academy..."
"Report!"
Before he finished speaking, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the hall.
Immediately afterwards, a servant hurried over and said respectfully: "The patriarch, the eldest young master of the Yang family, Yang Qianhuan, is here with people from the three major families!"
"What?"
...
Jizhou County is a large southern county of the Cangyun Empire. There are three major cities in it, arranged in a north-south line; the southernmost one is Qingyun City, the middle one is Jizhou City, and the northernmost one is Xianghe County.
Among the three cities, Jizhou City is not only firmly in the middle, but also has a central location, which naturally results in its resources and strength being far superior to the other two cities.
It is precisely because of this that the grandeur of the entire Jizhou City has long exceeded that of Qingyun and Xianghe City combined; it is also the only city in Jizhou County that includes a mountain peak within the city.
That peak is where the gate of Black and White Academy is located, Baiyun Mountain!
Baiyun Mountain is steep, with cliffs on three sides. There is only one winding road leading to the top of the mountain. It is definitely a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. In addition, the disciples of the Black and White Academy are closely patrolling the entire mountain.
This makes Baiyun Mountain like a small fortress, extremely safe.
This has led to the fact that even though Baiyun Mountain is located in the city of Jizhou, few people have gone up the mountain over the years, and countless tourists have been deterred.
But at this moment, a figure was climbing up the stairs along the winding mountain path in the morning light.
Although he still had to rush to the imperial capital to check on his eldest brother Ye Wenfeng, at this moment, Ye Wushuang was not walking very fast, neither hurried nor slow, and even stopped and looked at the mountain scenery on both sides from time to time.
He fixed his gaze on the end of the mountain, the snow-white mountain peak reaching into the sky, and stepped up.
Wearing a white robe, the golden light shone in the morning light; his hands were clasped behind his back, and a rough stone sword that had not yet been sharpened was inserted diagonally at his waist, adding a bit of poverty and hardship to his originally heroic body, just like a wandering man.
Like an ascetic who walks around the world.
Walking on the empty and quiet mountain road, his back projected on the ground was continuously elongated, making his whole person look rather thin, yet surprisingly calm and free.
Perhaps it was because most of the disciples from the Black and White Academy were sent down the mountain to ambush the four major families, or because it was still early in the day; the originally heavily guarded Baiyun Mountain seemed empty at the moment, even if the young man in white robe deliberately slowed down.
I walked up the mountain and never met anyone.
Until the great sun broke through the horizon and slowly climbed into the sky, Ye Wushuang finally reached the top of the mountain, stopped, stood on a slope, and looked ahead.
At the end of the vision, there is a dense palace, rolling up and down on the top of the mountain, looking majestic and spectacular.
At this moment, in front of the palace, there is a flat land, and you can clearly see hundreds of disciples from the Black and White Academy, neatly arranged and ready to go; each of them exudes the powerful aura of a warrior in the Essence Storage Realm.
"It seems that even if I don't come today, they are still preparing to go down the mountain!"
Muttering softly, Ye Wushuang lowered his head and stared at the ancient stone steps in front of him that had existed for an unknown number of years. He slowly breathed a sigh of relief, stepped out, and walked along the stone steps towards the martial arts field where a group of black and white academy disciples gathered, stepping lightly.
Go.
"who?"
At this moment, a Black and White Academy disciple who was patrolling here finally discovered the existence of Ye Wushuang and shouted in surprise.
The steps that Ye Wushuang was about to take suddenly stopped, and then he slowly took them back.
Turning back, he looked at the Black and White Academy disciple and smiled faintly.