Liu San had already made up his mind and rushed forward along the official road. So what if it was a confusing formation? Could it be that he could really reverse the direction of the strong official road under his feet and take it back? As long as he rushed out, he would turn his horse.
Go back and give that Qu Wuming a good slap on the face.
Thinking of this, Liu San waved his riding whip and sped up.
The fog around him became more and more dense, and after a while, he could no longer see even his fingers.
Liu San couldn't help but feel a little panicked, but now that the situation was over, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to urge his horse forward.
After about another three to forty feet, the fog in front finally began to thin again, and it seemed that the trees beside the road outside could be vaguely seen.
"Humph, I guessed it right. The guy named Qu is just being alarmist!" Liu San's face was filled with joy. He was about to pull the reins and turn the horse's head when he heard someone calling his name right in front of him——
"San'er, come back quickly!"
It was the voice of uncle Liu Kui.
Liu San took a closer look and saw that at the end of the fog, a group of people were waving to him. The person shouting on the horse in front was not his uncle Liu Kui or who else?
…
After using practical actions to prove that Qu Wuming's judgment was correct, Liu San lowered his head dejectedly and stopped making any sound, following the team back to Dongsheng City.
Everyone found an inn on Chenghuang Temple Street in the east of the city and stayed there again. Under Liu Kui's repeated restrictions, no one was allowed to go out. They just waited for the fog outside the city to dissipate before embarking on the journey home again.
road.
When all the escorts from the Fuwei Escort Agency were restrained in the inn and did not dare to go out, Qu Wuming could not sit still.
Without him, since there are cultivators who dare to risk the world's disapproval and block the way out of Dongsheng City, it not only touches Qu Wuming's bottom line, but also makes Qu Wuming feel a little uneasy, feeling that the situation in Dongsheng City has gone far beyond
Your expectations may develop in unexpected directions at any time.
Now that this is known, Qu Wuming's character will naturally not sit in the inn and wait for death with his eyes darkened.
After nightfall, Qu Wuming said hello to Liu Kui and Lin Wanqing early, saying that he was not feeling well and needed to rest early. After returning to the room, he closed the door, changed into a set of black night clothes, and then quietly jumped out of the window...
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The Lord's Mansion of Dongsheng City.
As Liu Kui said, the city lord's palace in Dongsheng City also has monks.
It's just that Dongsheng City is located in a remote area with very little spiritual energy. No cultivator with a real background and connections are willing to hold positions such as city lord in such a place - a typical mismatch between responsibilities and benefits - here
Being a city lord brings great responsibilities and many things to do. Not to mention delaying your cultivation, the spiritual stones provided by the superiors are few, and the oil and water that can be obtained to help your cultivation is even more limited.
But after all, it is a city with more than 300,000 residents, and it must be managed by a city lord.
Bai Qiulai is a person with no background or connections, but he has been the lord of Dongsheng City for more than 40 years.
Of course, to be able to become the city lord and sit firmly on it, one cannot be someone without any relevant background.
Although he is still several layers away from the core direct descendants of the two major families, the Wushi family and the Bai family, which control Hulan County, Xilin County, Bayan County and other large areas, Bai Qiulai, as a monk in the middle stage of Yuan Ying, is in Hulan County.
A branch of the Bai family in Lan County was considered a somewhat important figure. After some work, he became the lord of Dongsheng City.
In the eyes of others, this is a chore that delays the future of cultivation and money, but for Bai Qiulai, who has limited qualifications and a short lifespan, this is a good place to retire.
Since cultivation will come to an end in a few decades, Bai Qiulai spent the rest of his time in Dongsheng City. For more than forty years, Bai Qiulai built houses and roads in Dongsheng City.
Planting trees, expanding fields, encouraging commerce, and turning a shabby small town into one of the famous and prosperous cities in Hulan County was the achievement that Bai Qiulai was most proud of when reporting on his duties every year.
Of course, there have been things that Bai Qiulai was dissatisfied with over the years, such as the Yunzhong Mansion of the Wushi clan.
Ever since Bai Qiulai built Dongsheng City into a prosperous town, Yunzhong Mansion also came.
The person in charge of Yunzhong Mansion is Wu Shilan, the youngest son of the current head of the Wushi family. This person is ruthless and has a flexible mind. Although his cultivation level is not high, he has taken Yunzhong Mansion from the family within a few years.
From scratch, he built a "business" that spanned dozens of big cities and almost monopolized more than 80% of the brothels and gambling houses in each city.
Originally, Bai Qiulai believed that brothels and gambling houses in Dongsheng City were not beneficial to people's livelihood, so he put more restrictions on them. But when Dongsheng City came into the sight of Yunzhong Mansion, brothels and gambling houses sprung up in the city.
Bai Qiulai was completely unable to stop it and did not dare to stop it.
Ever since the people from Yunzhong Mansion started making trouble in Dongsheng City, Bai Qiulai has often felt headaches. Because although he is nominally the lord of Dongsheng City, no matter in terms of manpower, cultivation or backing,
Bai Qiulai had only one choice, and that was to turn a blind eye to Yunzhong Mansion.
However, in the past six months or so, Bai Qiulai has had another headache, and he even feels that Yunzhong Mansion is nothing compared to it.
Ever since news spread that a short-lived sword art that appeared more than 2,000 years ago would appear in Dongsheng City, more than 200 murders have been identified in Dongsheng City, killing innocent people.
There were dozens of people killed and injured in Dongsheng City.
For more than half a year, Bai Qiulai was either putting out fires and investigating cases for these troublemaking warriors, or on the way to putting out fires and investigating cases, and his furrowed brows almost never relaxed again.
Moreover, there are more and more troubles coming to your door...
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"City Lord Bai, those martial artists have been struggling for half a year, but has any definite news been released?"
In a study room of the City Lord's Mansion, a long-bearded old man put down the tea cup in his hand and asked with concern in his eyes.
Hearing this, Bai Qiulai bowed slightly and replied respectfully: "Currently, the south, west, and east of the city have been plowed through almost twice. Presumably, even if the sword technique is born, it is unlikely to be in these areas. Only
There is the north of the city - although people from the Jianghu and my city lord's palace often go there to investigate, many of them are blocked by the people from the Yunzhong mansion."
Bai Qiulai's tone was very sincere and seemed impartial, but the old man sitting next to him naturally understood the meaning of Bai Qiulai's words and couldn't help but frown.
"We, the Iron Sword Sect, have come all the way here just to find the sword technique. As long as City Master Bai can provide enough useful information, a mere Yunzhong Mansion can't block the way of our Iron Sword Sect."
The old man with a long beard is an elder of the Iron Sword Sect, named Qiao Qianmu. After the news of "The Divine Sword Art of Sympathy between Heaven and Man" spread, Qiao Qianmu was appointed by the leader of the Iron Sword Sect to go out.
Responsible for investigating the matter, it was not until three months ago that he finally tracked down Dongsheng City, a small border town that ascetics never paid much attention to.
I originally thought that with the prestige of the Iron Sword Sect and the hundreds of disciples he had brought, it would be easy to find a sword technique in a small city with more than 300,000 people. However, I did not expect that more than three people were searched in a row.
Months and months, but still found nothing.
Not only that, the low-level disciples of the Iron Sword Sect also lost several people, and the murderers were actually secular warriors.
Although they were all low-level disciples in the Qi refining stage, to Qiao Qianmu, it was like someone slapped her face hard.
In anger, Qiao Qianmu set up Thousand Illusion Tracing Arrays on several roads outside Dongsheng City in the name of looking for enemies for his disciples. Although it could not stop the cultivators from crossing the mountains and entering Dongsheng.
city, but it also trapped most of the ordinary warriors in the city.
"Yes, yes, that's what Elder Qiao said." Bai Qiulai nodded with a smile on his face, "Iron Sword Sect is a well-known sect among the nine sects, eight sects and thirteen sects. Yunzhong Mansion will definitely not dare to make mistakes. It's just that
, Yunzhong Mansion is a local snake after all. Under their deliberate management, even my orders are not so effective in the north of the city. Now there is new news coming out, saying that the sword that carries the sword secret should be a sword.
Rather than an unusual jade slip or something like that.”
"A sword?" Qiao Qianmu pondered for a moment and then continued to ask, "Do you know where this news came from?"
"I...I really don't know." Bai Qiulai shook his head and replied helplessly, "I have already arranged for people to trace the sources of various information. Unfortunately, it is difficult to find out. It is difficult to exclude that someone is doing it deliberately.
Releasing this information, it is uncertain whether the sword technique is real or not is a problem."
"You don't have to doubt the authenticity." Qiao Qianmu said, "We, the Iron Sword Sect, established our sect with swords, and we will definitely not make mistakes in this matter. As long as someone uses the sword technique or the fairy sword in the city, we, the Iron Sword Sect, will
Naturally, the Sword Sect has a way to find it. I wonder if there is anything else to say about that sword?"
"Back to Elder Qiao, the news we have received so far is that the sword has not yet been born, and I am afraid that no one will know the corresponding sword technique." Bai Qiulai replied, "Currently, the people in the City Lord's Mansion and part of the city guards have already dispersed in disguise.
Everywhere in the city, we are keeping an eye on all the people traveling with swords, but we haven’t found anyone suspicious so far.”
"In this case, I would like to ask City Lord Bai to pay more attention and keep an eye on me. If there is any news, I will inform you in time. After the completion of the matter, I will hand over the remaining reward and the elixir to City Lord. It is still not possible to extend City Lord Bai's life for more than a hundred years.
questionable."
"Elder Qiao is so polite. It's Bai's honor to help Iron Sword Sect, haha..."
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At the same time, Miaoyinfang in the north of the city.
"Lao Qi, how long will it take for the person promised by the family to arrive?" A young man with a face as white as jade sat in a study room, his eyes fell on a map of Dongsheng City. There are many in the picture
The locations have been filled with red circles, leaving only a few areas that are still blank.
"Report to the Palace Master! Tomorrow morning, two seniors, Wushi Tianlong and Wushi Dijiao, will lead people to sneak into Dongsheng City." Opposite the man, a middle-aged man in black replied.
"Oh? It's actually the third uncle. The fourth uncle is here in person?" The young man said with joy on his face, "Go ahead and tell us to keep a close eye on the areas that have not yet been investigated. We must not alert others before tomorrow morning."
"Yes! Palace Master."
"You go down first."
"My subordinates resign!"
The young man is the master of Yunzhong Mansion, Wu Shilan.
After the man in black left, Wu Shilan's eyes fell on the map of Dongsheng City again. On the map, there were several dark red circles that stood out.
"Qiao Qianmu, haha... There are only a few disciples in the Qi Refining stage, and only a few are in the Foundation Establishment stage, and they want to come to our Dongsheng City to grab things? Do you think your Iron Sword Sect is the largest sect in the world?" Wu Shilan
There was a hint of evil in his eyes, and he said to himself...
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To the east of the city, Baotong Pavilion.
One of the few pawn shops in Dongsheng City that is independent of Yunzhong Mansion.
Although it was already Haishi, there were still lights on in a courtyard at the back of Baotong Pavilion. There was a slightly stooped old man standing outside the door, as if he was waiting for someone.
In a dark ravine five miles away from Dongsheng City, a circular light door about as tall as a person suddenly lit up, emitting soft white light and illuminating half of the ravine in an instant.
After a moment, the originally quiet light door suddenly rippled like water waves, and figures jumped out of the light. Not long after, more than a dozen figures emerged from it. These dozen people were tall, short, fat, and thin.
They are all different, but they all wear the same style of black robes.
Perhaps the space teleportation distance this time was too far. After jumping out of the light door, many of them turned pale, felt dizzy, and their auras became a little confused. They hurriedly found an open space to sit down.
After more than ten breaths, the light door stopped flickering, and suddenly turned into specks of light that disappeared, and the ravine fell into darkness again.
One person in the team stood up and whispered a few words. Then the group jumped out of the ravine and headed straight for Dongsheng City in the distance...