"Huh? Alarm bells are ringing? Could it be that that force wants to attack our Tianjian Sect?"
Tianjian Sect, in the main hall of the sect leader.
Long Zhengyang opened his eyes from meditating, his expression filled with doubts and a hint of solemnity.
He pondered for a moment, then stood up directly. His figure flashed, and the next moment, his figure disappeared directly from the place.
The central martial arts arena was already crowded with people, and many disciples were whispering to each other and talking in low voices.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"I don't know. This alarm bell has rung for the fifth time. Could it be that our Tianjian Sect is going to go to war with other forces?!"
"..."
Such voices are heard all the time, whether they are outer disciples or inner disciples.
They all huddled together in small groups and kept discussing about the alarm bells ringing.
Hundreds of thousands of people were crowded together. Although everyone lowered their voices, hundreds of thousands of people were talking together. The scene was simply chaotic. The noise made people's ears hurt.
If these people weren't ordinary people, they would probably be beaten to death.
"Stop making any noise! Leave me alone!"
Just at this moment, a sharp shout suddenly came from the sky.
This sound was like a thunderclap, making these disciples tremble violently in their hearts.
Some people with low cultivation were staggered a few steps by this sharp shout, and their faces turned pale.
"It's Hall Master Xiao! Hall Master Xiao of the Punishment Hall!"
Someone recognized the person's identity and couldn't help shouting in surprise.
Then he suddenly closed his mouth and stopped talking.
After all, Xiao Tiankui's reputation is still fresh in the memory of those old disciples, except for some new disciples who have just joined the Tianjian Sect.
Moreover, 'Hall Master Xiao' has a notoriously violent temper. Within the sect, he is extremely powerful.
Once he gets caught, it will be more painful than death.
Soon, under Xiao Tiankui's strong pressure, the noisy crowd below gradually became quiet.
In the martial arts arena, hundreds of thousands of disciples all looked towards the sky. Xiao Tiankui stood motionless...
"Dong..."
As the sixth bell rang, dozens of figures flew into the sky not far behind Xiao Tiankui again.
These are all the senior officials of Tianjian Sect, and the one at the front is the leader of Tianjian Sect—Long Zhengyang.
Feeling the breath coming from behind him, Xiao Tiankui looked back with a serious expression on his face.
When a group of senior officials arrived, he quickly bowed to the figure flying in the front.
"Meet the sect master!"
As soon as the disciples below saw the visitor, they also saluted in unison and shouted respectfully, "Greetings to the sect master, hello to the elders!"
For a moment, the sky was filled with shouts. After these disciples saluted in unison, a huge wave of sound swept all around. Under this overwhelming aura, a storm of sound actually formed.
The high-level officials were forced to slow down under this violent wave of energy.
Even they had to use their cultivation to resist this huge aura.
If not, they might really be forced to stop in the air and not be able to move even an inch.
"No gift!"
Arriving in front of the disciples, Long Zhengyang waved his hands to the disciples, indicating that there was no need to be polite.
At his signal, all the elders also landed on the high platform in the center of the martial arts arena.
"Where is the Master of Shadow Hall?!"
As soon as he landed, Long Zhengyang's eyes swept across all the senior officials.
"The disciple is here."
Soon, after Long Zhengyang asked, a beautiful figure immediately walked out of the crowd behind him.
She is the Tianjian Sect
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, the leader of the Shadow Hall—Cai Feng.
"What happened? Do you have any news from Shadow Hall?!"
Looking at Caifeng, Long Zhengyang frowned and looked serious.
Caifeng bowed her hands respectfully, her voice a little nervous. "To inform the sect leader, the incident happened suddenly. I have sent people to find out the news. I believe there will be news soon."
"Gather in the meeting hall and wait for news."
Long Zhengyang waved his hand and led all the hall masters and elders to fly towards a hall on the edge of the martial arts field.
It is also the management palace of the martial arts arena, and it is also the main stage when major events are held.
"Tiankui, you stay here to stabilize order and wait for news!"
Xiao Tiankui was about to get up and follow the others, but unexpectedly Long Zhengyang's voice came from afar.
"well…"
Xiao Tiankui sighed secretly.
As the leader of the Punishment Hall, he was originally responsible for rewards and punishments of the Tianjian Sect. Now in this situation, it is precisely his disciples of the Punishment Hall who are needed to maintain order.
Even the sect leader personally gave the order, how could he dare to disobey it? Even though he felt helpless, he could only nod and agree.
"Yes, disciple, I obey!"
…
Looking at the people's retreating figures, Xiao Tiankui felt aggrieved, especially when he thought that even the master of the foreign affairs hall in the Ding Garden could go with him, but he could only stay here to bask in the sun, which made him even more annoyed.
Looking at the hundreds of thousands of disciples in the audience, he roared angrily, "Everyone, please be honest with me. Whoever dares to cause trouble! I will skin him!"
There was a commotion in the crowd below, but it soon stabilized. They all looked at Xiao Tiankui in horror, fearing that they would be targeted by him.
"snort!"
Xiao Tiankui snorted coldly, sat cross-legged, and began to close his eyes to rest.
As the leader of the Punishment Hall, he naturally does not need to do things like maintaining order himself. The people under him are enough.
As for the purpose of his stay here, it is only to scare these disciples.
…
"Boom..."
The seventh bell rang.
In the meeting hall, everyone's expressions became extremely ugly, and they all turned their attention to Long Zhengyang, who was sitting at the head of the table.
When Long Zhengyang heard the seventh bell, his heart trembled slightly and his expression became solemn.
He looked at Caifeng in the crowd below and asked, "Cai Feng, has there been no news back yet?!"
At this time, Caifeng was also anxious and sweating profusely.
As the leader of the intelligence department of the Tianjian Sect, she was unable to receive the news immediately when such a major event happened. This shows that her position as the leader of the Shadow Hall has come to an end.
At this time, she looked at Long Zhengyang with a somewhat frightened look. When she heard Long Zhengyang's question, she stood up tremblingly, "Report to the sect leader. So far, we have not received any news about the alarm bells ringing."
"but…"
After saying this, she paused briefly, took a deep breath, and calmed down her mind. Then she continued, "There was something unexpected in this new disciple assessment meeting."
"What?!"
After hearing this, Long Zhengyang, who was already frowning, stood up directly. His whole body was filled with majestic momentum, and a terrifying aura swept around him instantly.
As a result, many high-level officials unconsciously activated their cultivation bases to resist.
"What's going on? Tell me!"
Long Zhengyang looked at Caifeng with cold eyes.
"Master, please listen to my explanation."
Seeing the suddenly angry Long Zhengyang, Caifeng was also startled and hurriedly explained.
"Reporting to the sect master, we just received news that there is something wrong with the assessment in Fire Cloud Kingdom..."
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After Feng finished speaking, Ding Yuanli immediately interrupted, "Is it possible that some other force dares to disrupt the assessment of our Tianjian Sect?!"
Caifeng felt a little unhappy when she saw someone dared to interrupt her.
But when she saw that the person who interrupted her was the master of the foreign affairs hall, she couldn't help but suppress her displeasure in her heart.
He explained to Ding Yuanzhong, "Well, it's not that someone disrupted the assessment, but that there were special circumstances in the assessment."
Long Zhengyang, who had just sat back down, heard that there was a problem with the assessment, his eyes immediately condensed, and he gave Ding Yuanzhong a cold look.
After all, the Tianjian Sect's new disciple assessment meeting has always been in charge of his Foreign Affairs Hall. Now that there is a problem with the assessment, the first person to look for is naturally him, the leader of the Foreign Affairs Hall.
As if sensing the gaze of the sect master, Ding Yuanzhong quickly turned around and saluted Long Zhengyang, "Please forgive me, sect master. I will go investigate this matter right away."
After saying that, he stood up and wanted to walk out of the hall.
"There is no need to go, Hall Master Ding. I, Shadow Hall, have already sent back the news. You'd better listen to what I have to say first."
However, Caifeng stopped the action in Ding Yuan and turned to look at Long Zhengyang, who was in the first place.
"Reporting to the sect master, in the first round of climbing the ladder in this assessment, a person who participated in the assessment at the Fire Cloud Kingdom assessment point reached the top."
When all the senior officials heard Caifeng's words, they were all stunned, looking like monk Zhang Er was confused.
"Climb to the top? Climb to what summit?"
All the senior officials looked at each other and turned their attention to Caifeng, hoping she could explain.
Even Long Zhengyang was like this, looking at Caifeng with doubts in his eyes.
Caifeng saw the confused looks in everyone's eyes and immediately understood what was going on, so she quickly changed her explanation and explained it to everyone again.
"Reporting to the sect master, at the assessment point of Fire Cloud Kingdom, a young man successfully climbed to the 999th floor!"
"What?!"
Everyone stood up and looked at Caifeng with bright eyes.
"Gulu."
He couldn't stop making noises while swallowing. Even Long Zhengyang looked at Caifeng, the look of shock in his eyes was no less than that of the others.
"At the last moment of the assessment, one assessor climbed to the top. And this person is the young man who was given the special recommendation order by the Supreme Elder!"
"Boom...!"
As soon as Caifeng finished speaking, the ninth bell rang.
When Long Zhengyang heard the soul-stirring bell, a flash of light flashed in his heart. The words that the previous leader said to him before he died came to mind.
"One bell tolls to open the monastery, three tolls are no small matter, six tolls start the war, nine tolls make life or death a matter of time!"
The first three sentences of this passage were easy to understand, but it was only this "Jiu Ming life and death in a single thought," that made him a little confused.
He lowered his head, frowned and thought for a while, mumbling incessantly.
"Jiu Ming...Jiu Ming...a matter of life and death?!"
Suddenly, Long Zhengyang seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes suddenly widened with shock on his face.
"Wait! Nine bells? Is it nine bells?!"
Combined with the nine bells that had just sounded, Long Zhengyang became more and more certain that these nine bells must be related to the assessment.
"Cai Feng!"
Long Zhengyang raised his eyes and looked at Caifeng, and said with a serious expression, "Send your people to quickly investigate all the situations at the Fire Cloud Kingdom assessment point. From the beginning to the end of the assessment, nothing can be missed. The sooner the better!"
"yes!"
Caifeng quickly responded, took out her summons token, and issued the order given by Long Zhengyang just now.