Volume Two: The Wind Rises and Spiritual Clouds Chapter 144: Hongmen Banquet
Chen Dongsheng is Chen Yi!
Why did he become the new city lord of Crescent City?
The city lord was appointed by the Yin family, so why did the Yin family get involved with the Demon Palace?
Countless questions poured into Lin Dongjiu's mind, making him a little overwhelmed for a moment.
Chen Yi smiled and said: "With an alchemist like Mr. Lin, why worry about the rise of alchemy in Lingyun Country?"
"The city lord has given you a reward!"
Lin Dongjiu calmed down his emotions, stared at Chen Yi fiercely, and said with a smile:
"I heard that the two seniors said they were going to hold a banquet at the City Lord's Mansion and invited me there. I would like to have a few drinks with the City Lord when the time comes."
Chen Yi laughed loudly: "Definitely, definitely!"
Lin Dongjiu squinted his eyes, put away the jade token, turned around and left.
Those alchemists who were still waiting for Chen Yi to hand out the jade plaques on the stage saw Lin Dongjiu leaving, but they were helpless and were so anxious that sweat broke out on their foreheads.
Many alchemists who stayed behind were waiting for this opportunity, and they all showed flattering smiles and hurriedly gathered around.
Lin Dongjiu was not in the mood to pay attention to them. He raised his head sharply, glanced at them with deep eyes, and activated his consciousness to instantly cover the whole place.
The alchemists who came around all froze, their expressions became extremely frightened, and a strong sense of suffocation came over them. Seeing Lin Dongjiu as if he were seeing a god, they did not dare to take a step forward.
Lin Dongjiu waved his hand and walked through the crowd, walking towards Yin Xiaodie with a sullen face.
His original idea was to leave here as soon as the election was over and go directly to the Imperial City to save himself the trouble of finding the boss.
But now, he plans to go to the banquet.
Yin Xiaodie showed a happy smile, and jumped forward to meet everyone's surprised gazes.
But unexpectedly, a man dressed in black flashed in front of her eyes, and he arrived in front of Lin Dongjiu a step faster than she did.
Yin Xiaodie: "?"
Yin Xiaodie frowned, her delicate face as cold as ice.
"Lin...well, Brother Lin!"
The voice was full of surprise and excitement.
Lin Dongjiu was stunned for a moment, and when he saw the person clearly, the gloom on his face disappeared in an instant, and he said with the same surprise:
"Miss Weiwei! Why did you come to Crescent City?"
"Oh, you also know that I like to travel around!"
Nie Weiwei showed a small tiger tooth, and her brows and eyes were full of joy at meeting an old acquaintance. After all, she always kept to herself, and it was rare to have a friend like Lin Dongjiu. When they met again, it was inevitable that she would be pleasantly surprised.
"Brother Lin, I didn't expect you to be an alchemist."
Nie Weiwei's eyes were bright and full of curiosity, and she smiled happily:
"By the way, you left in a hurry last time. Why don't I treat you to a meal and let's talk while we eat."
Lin Dongjiu knew that Nie Weiwei had a cheerful temperament. Just as he was about to reply, he saw Yin Xiaodie biting her lip and walking over with an unhappy look on her face.
Yin Xiaodie stepped forward and hugged Lin Dongjiu's arm, asking delicately:
"Husband, who is she?"
After saying that, he glanced at Nie Weiwei secretly, his eyes full of undisguised hostility.
Lin Dongjiu: "?"
Nie Weiwei's smile suddenly froze, and her curved eyelashes trembled slightly.
Lin Dongjiu calmly tried to withdraw his arm, but found that he couldn't get away no matter what.
He was helpless and could only laugh and said:
"Xiaodie, please don't mess around. This is Miss Nie, my good friend. Miss Nie, her name is Yin Xiaodie, she is..."
Yin Xiaodie rolled her eyes at Lin Dongjiu, sighed secretly, snatched his words away, and explained softly:
"Hello, Miss Nie, I am his sister."
Nie Weiwei suddenly realized that she thought Yin Xiaodie was a naughty sister and couldn't help laughing:
"So that's it. I thought Brother Lin was married."
"But it's quick..." Yin Xiaodie muttered softly.
Lin Dongjiu glanced at the melon-eating crowd not far away who kept looking this way, and said:
"Let's go, this is not the place to chat, let's go to the restaurant to talk."
Lin Dongjiu led Nie Weiwei and Yin Xiaodie through the crowd. People on both sides consciously made a wide path for them to come out. They looked at them one by one as if they were disaster stars, fearing to avoid them.
Is my deterrence so great... Lin Dongjiu shook his head secretly, just thinking that they mistakenly thought that he was the Alchemy King, and didn't think much about it.
After finding a restaurant, Lin Dongjiu and the others walked in. Nie Weiwei said she wanted to treat them, so he didn't fight for it and let Nie Weiwei take care of it.
Entering a private room, Nie Weiwei was embarrassed to ask Lin Dongjiu too much because her sister Yin Xiaodie was there, so she just gave him a toast:
"Brother Lin, I still have to thank you for what happened last time. Recently I plan to wash my hands of myself and quit."
Lin Dongjiu nodded: "This is a good thing, so what are your plans next?"
Nie Weiwei thought about it seriously and smiled:
"I haven't thought about it yet. I might leave Lingyun Country and travel around the world to see the outside world. But it will take a while. I still have some things that I haven't dealt with yet."
Yin Xiaodie, who had been silent all this time, raised her head when she heard this, with a hint of yearning in her eyes. She held her chin and said to Nie Weiwei:
"Miss Nie is really enviable. Sometimes I think, if only I could go out and walk freely.
But I would also greedily wonder if I would be bored if I were alone. If I had someone to accompany me, I would have no regrets in my life if I went outside to see the prosperity of the world."
Nie Weiwei glanced at Lin Dongjiu without leaving any trace. She seemed to be a little drunker. There were two blushes on her delicate cheeks, and a strand of hair touched her lips, adding some unique feminine charm to her.
She sighed quietly:
"Xiaodie, you are right. Being alone is inevitable. I have been an orphan since I was a child. I was raised by my master who I could not see for several months. I am used to being alone.
Even if I can’t find the person to accompany me around the world, what does it matter?”
She changed her tone again and said with a smile: "But you are different. You can let your brother accompany you."
Yin Xiaodie pouted, her tone somewhat resentful:
"He thinks I'm a burden and always wants to send me home. Besides, I'm the only one at home. How can he be so relieved?"
Yin Xiaodie gently pushed Lin Dongjiu's shoulder and said coquettishly:
"Isn't that right, brother~"
The voice was so crisp that Lin Dongjiu felt as if he was being jolted by electricity, making him feel numb all over.
He straightened his face and said without mercy: "You'd better go home, I want to take you home now."
"Miss Nie..."
Yin Xiaodie looked at Nie Weiwei pitifully, hoping that she would say a few words for her.
Nie Weiwei was so amused that she giggled: "Your brother is very capable. He is just teasing you. Don't pay attention."
The relationship between brother and sister is so good...Nie Weiwei is secretly a little envious.
"Eat vegetables, eat vegetables..."
Lin Dongjiu kept picking up food for the two girls and intentionally skipped this topic.
Perhaps because she has been depressed for a long time, Nie Weiwei's little mouth has never been heard. She talked a lot to Lin Dongjiu and Yin Xiaodie, all about what she saw in the world of immortality and the secular world.
smell.
Needless to say, although Lin Dongjiu felt that Nie Weiwei's life was a bit difficult, it was still very exciting. He listened with great interest and was secretly fascinated by what she said about life.
Yin Xiaodie was also listening attentively, yearning for Nie Weiwei's unrestrained life.
The siege theory that people often talk about must be like this.
As the atmosphere heated up, Lin Dongjiu felt more and more that he and Nie Weiwei had an inexplicable intimacy. There was no distance between them. They were like childhood sweethearts who lived together when they were young. They were so familiar that they couldn't be more familiar, which made him want to ask.
:
Have we met before?
But after thinking about it, I let it go. I always felt that asking this kind of thing was like a cliché to pick up a conversation, and it would be bad if it made the atmosphere cold again.
The banquet was coming to an end, and after everyone had finished their meal, Nie Weiwei settled the bill. At the door of the restaurant, she said goodbye to Lin Dongjiu and Nie Weiwei, saying that she had something to do.
Lin Dong watched her go away with nine eyes. Yin Xiaodie shook her head secretly and sighed softly: "This silly girl..."
"What?" Lin Dongjiu asked confused.
Yin Xiaodie stuck out her tongue: "It's nothing, I'm just talking to myself."
She asked again: "Benefactor, where are you going to go next? Are you really going to send me home?"
Lin Dongjiu's eyes turned cold and he said in a deep voice: "I'm going to the city lord's mansion for a banquet..."
"Kill someone by the way!"
Yin Xiaodie's eyes were complicated and she grabbed his arm: "The slave family is going too."
"That's fine."
Lin Dongjiu narrowed his eyes and led her towards the city lord's mansion.
It's time for some closure...
Along the way, neither of them spoke.
The sky is getting darker, and the autumn wind is no longer a gentle little beast, dispelling the residual heat of noon for people, but howling and roaring, rolling up large amounts of sand and dust, and large chunks of dark clouds are flying rapidly overhead, foreshadowing a storm.
Heavy rain is coming.
The vendors on the street had already packed up their stalls, carrying poles, looking at the deserted streets, and couldn't help singing loudly in their accents:
“The storm is coming and the city is empty;
The small building feels threatened by the wind;
The yellow flowers wipe away the rain and become a little red;
..."
When they arrived at the city gate mansion, the two of them were escorted from the door and led into the mansion.
In a hall decorated with lights and colorful decorations, there were three large banquet tables filled with guests, and the noise and bustle could be heard endlessly.
However, they haven't moved their chopsticks yet, as if they are waiting for the arrival of an important person.
Approaching the hall, Lin Dongjiu glanced around and found many familiar faces.
It turned out that they were alchemists who participated in the election with him in the afternoon, and most of them were in the top ten.
As for the guests sitting next to these alchemists, Lin Dongjiu guessed that they were the powerful figures in their respective forces.
I heard that Baicao Cao is the dominant family in Lingyun Kingdom's alchemy world. The purpose of organizing this banquet by the two seniors was nothing more than to communicate within the industry or to win over and show goodwill.
boring...
But Lin Dongjiu didn't care. He didn't really come to the banquet anyway. He could do whatever they wanted, as long as it didn't affect him.
When Jia Wen and Lao Li saw Lin Dongjiu and Yin Xiaodie arriving, they smiled at everyone and said, "Oh, our Alchemy King is here."
Everyone turned to look at Lin Dongjiu, with smiles on their faces, and greeted him one after another.
Lin Dongjiu responded with a smile, and the scene was well done.
Chen Yi, who was sitting in the front seat, looked at Lin Dongjiu thoughtfully, with a vague sneer at the corner of his mouth.
Jia Wen pointed to the seat next to him and greeted Lin Dongjiu:
"Little friend Lin, take your Taoist companion and sit here."
After saying that, he winked at the disciple next to him, and the disciple immediately moved a stool over.
Lin Dongjiu didn't move, and hugged his fists towards Jia Wen and Lao Li:
"I came to the banquet today. First of all, I wanted to thank the two seniors for the invitation."
"Secondly..."
Lin Dongjiu's smile immediately faded, and he looked past everyone, looking directly at Chen Yi, who was in the first place, and sneered:
"Secondly, I want to resolve some personal grudges with City Lord Chen Dongsheng."
"this..."
Everyone looked at each other, a little at a loss.
Jia Wen glanced at Chen Yi, who was expressionless, and realized the seriousness of the matter, and quickly made peace:
"Little friend Lin must have some misunderstanding with City Master Chen, but we can just clear up any misunderstandings during this banquet. Why bother with a stalemate..."
Lin Dongjiu waved his hand and interrupted him: "Senior Jia, after I have settled the grievances with City Lord Chen, I will visit Baicao Cao the next day. It won't be too late for us to have a few drinks then."
Jia Wen frowned and fell silent.
The purpose of his banquet for Lin Dongjiu today was to get him to visit Baicao Cao. Now that the purpose has been achieved, how could he be stupid enough to become a peacemaker again to avoid getting into trouble?
Besides, he was not familiar with Chen Dongsheng, they were just a city lord.
If the two of them had to help one of them, then he would definitely do it out of interests, and he would not help Lin Dongjiu but Chen Dongsheng.
Jia Wen's attitude was already obvious, so how could the others meddle in other people's business? Even some alchemists with low cultivation levels had left their seats and hid far away, for fear of getting angry.
Lin Dongjiu hugged everyone again, not forgetting to say to Yin Xiaodie:
"What choice did you make?"
Yin Xiaodie's expression froze, and she sighed quietly: "I still want you to know..."
Before she finished speaking, Yin Xiaodie shook her head and silently stepped aside.
Lin Dongjiu didn't say anything more, but just looked at Yin Xiaodie for a while, with deep disappointment in his eyes.
Yin Xiaodie didn't want to look at Lin Dongjiu, but the feeling of emptiness in her heart was getting heavier and heavier, and there was an indescribable feeling lingering in her heart.
"Are you done?"
Chen Yi spoke with provocation and contempt.
He stood up slowly, left his seat, and walked towards Lin Dongjiu step by step.
Lin Dongjiu twisted his neck and made a "boom, boom, boom" sound. He pulled out his green light sword and pointed it directly at Chen Yi:
"It's not easy to see you, so why not take advantage of today to put an end to all the grudges and grudges from the past, my good senior brother."
Chen Yi raised his hand to clamp Lin Dongjiu's green light sword, and laughed softly:
"Hey, my good junior brother, we were a family before, and we will be a family in the future."
Chen Yi exerted a little force with his fingers, and the green light sword immediately vibrated and made a clear sound:
"But it's hard for you to not make me, your senior brother, angry at your own family members for wielding knives and guns!"
Lin Dongjiu looked calm on the surface, but felt dark in his heart. He found that Chen Yi seemed to have become stronger compared to the last time they fought!
Lin Dongjiu raised his eyebrows and asked: "My family? Is it because of her?"
Chen Yi naturally knew who Lin Dongjiu was talking about.
He glanced at Die Huanyi, who had a cold face, and said with a faint smile:
"Why ask me? You can just ask her."
"wishful thinking..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Dongjiu made a move in shock. The tip of his sword shook and escaped from Chen Yi's hand. He raised the sword and stabbed forward. The sword light suddenly flashed, and the sword flowers rolled up like flowers blooming in the void.
Flower buds, with mixed light and shadow, make it difficult to distinguish reality from reality.
Chen Yi and Lin Dongjiu pulled some distance away, but did not dodge. Instead, they drew out a long knife and slashed at the illusory sword flowers coming around them.
"Junior brother, the speed at which your strength has improved really surprises me. However, the person I am today is no longer the same person you almost killed me that night."
Chen Yi said as he cut, not breathing heavily, and could deal with Lin Dongjiu's endless sword moves with ease and ease.
Lin Dongjiu swung his sword faster and faster, and the hall was almost drowned by the layers of sword light. The banquet tables were shattered on the floor, and the guests had already moved out of the hall. The whole hall was in a mess.
Chen Yi slashed with his sword, and all Lin Dongjiu's offensive instantly disappeared. With a ferocious look on his face, he jumped up with the sword in both hands and slashed at Lin Dongjiu's head.
Lin Dongjiu's face became a little solemn, and all six main meridians in his body were fully opened. The majestic spiritual power made his sleeves swell, and his veins popped out. He raised his sword blade to block his head, resisting Chen Yi's blow.
when!!
The swords collided, sparking a large amount of sparks. The floor tiles Lin Dongjiu stepped on exploded, and the strong air flow stirred up the debris in the house, breaking the doors and windows and blowing them out.
Everyone covered their faces with their sleeves, and Lao Li said to Jia Wen in shock:
"I didn't expect that Xiaoyou Lin is not only a wizard of alchemy, but also so powerful!"
Jia Wen also exclaimed: "City Lord Chen is in the Infant Transformation Realm, while Xiaoyou Lin is only in Foundation Building. Given the gap between the two realms, Xiaoyou Lin can actually be on par with City Master Chen. It's really unbelievable!"
Lao Li caught the figures of Lin Dongjiu and Chen Dongsheng fighting in the hall, narrowed his eyes and said:
"Young Lin has achieved such success at such a young age. I'm afraid the master who taught him has an unusual background!"
"Old Jia, I suspect that Lin Xiaoyou's master is probably the master who destroyed the Fengyin Sect. Otherwise, with Lin Xiaoyou's talent, his reputation would have spread throughout the Lingyun Kingdom."
Jia Wen pinched his beard and said in a deep voice:
"If little friend Lin loses to City Master Chen, should we help?"
Lao Li pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No!"
"Chen Dongsheng is the city lord appointed by the Yin family. Although we, Baicao Cao, are powerful, our roots are still in Lingyun Kingdom. If we forcefully intervene in the disputes and turn against the Yin family, the sect leader will only blame us, and the gain will not be worth the loss."
Jia Wen nodded: "What you said makes sense. As outsiders, we should wait and see what happens."
The fighting in the hall continued, but the situation was by no means optimistic for Lin Dongjiu.
He was beaten back by Chen Yi, and his clothes were torn, revealing bloody wounds, and the more serious wounds were already visible to the bone.
According to Lin Dongjiu's previous idea, he would first have a quick fight with Chen Yi, then get rid of Yin Xiaodie, and then quickly capture Chen Yi and return to the clan.
As for whether Yin Xiaodie would block it, he didn't care.
Because Yin Xiaodie has no cultivation level, she can't stop him even if she wants to.
If Lin Dongjiu guessed correctly, Yin Xiaodie was probably the impersonation of a certain big shot.
The reason why he did not have a showdown with Yin Xiaodie earlier was that he was afraid that his inference would be wrong and that a direct showdown would cause a backlash from the forces behind Yin Xiaodie.
If he had not met Chen Yi in Crescent City, he would have stayed with Yin Xiaodie for a while and prepared more backup plans to deal with her.
After all, it is not difficult to guess the purpose of Yin Xiaodie coming to her side. She just wants to test out all his methods.
And judging from Yin Xiaodie's current attitude, all his previous doubts have been understood.
Yin Xiaodie and Chen Yi are in the same group, so Chen Yi knows his identity. The person behind Yin Xiaodie should be the red-dressed man from the Demon Palace.
Putting Yin Xiaodie next to him, it is probably because the ancestor took action to destroy the Fengyin Sect and aroused the fear of the Demon Palace, so the Huanzong who came to trouble that night must also be one of the forces under the Demon Palace, and his purpose was to test
Revealing the reality of our ancestors.
I have to say that their goal did succeed.
Later, Huanzong suddenly withdrew, which should have been Yin Xiaodie's instruction.
But what Lin Dongjiu didn't understand was Yin Xiaodie's psychology behind suddenly withdrawing Huanzong.
Are you afraid that you will hide your weakness, so you plan to lurk for a while longer?
Judging from Chen Yi's identity, he can take the position of the lord of Crescent City. It is certain that the Yin family was infiltrated by the Demon Palace, so Yin Tao all went to Fenglong Palace to seek help from the old sect master.
If you think about it further, the destruction of Crescent City was probably closely related to the Demon Palace!
After figuring everything out, Lin Dongjiu understood why Bei Tianyuan said that the Demon Palace had played a big game in Lingyun Kingdom.
Even the Yin family has become a chess piece of the Demon Palace. I have to say that this chess game is indeed too big!
If the Demon Palace is allowed to continue to develop, Lin Dongjiu no longer dares to think about it. It may be a huge catastrophe that will sweep through the entire Lingyun Kingdom, and no one will be spared!
In the flash of lightning, Lin Dongjiu's thoughts turned around. He came to the banquet this time after careful consideration. He could capture Chen Yi alive and have a showdown with Yin Xiaodie, killing two birds with one stone.
But he didn't expect that Chen Yixiu would improve so quickly, which was far beyond his imagination!
I thought the opportunity was rare, but I didn't expect that I was impatient... Lin Dongjiu reflected for a moment, but saw that the knife shadow in front of him split into four, blocking all his escape routes.
He didn't dare to think any more and quickly fired the Nine Fire Burning Dragon Art, supplemented by the Root Spirit Creation Art. The hall where the two of them were was filled with phantom beasts and collapsed instantly. The red flames spilled out and danced like a dragon. Jia Wen and Lao
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Lian and a group of big shots quickly gathered up the alchemists present and quickly evacuated the city lord's mansion.
Boom boom boom!!
A huge wave of flames rose into the sky, scattering the dark clouds in the sky. Continuous explosions resounded throughout the Crescent City, and Nuo Da's city lord's palace turned into a ruin in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, many people in Crescent City focused their attention on the City Lord's Mansion, and countless forces heard the news and hurried towards the City Lord's Mansion.
And not far from the City Lord's Mansion, on the roof of a building, stood a woman wearing tight-fitting black clothes and covering her head. She looked at the City Lord's Mansion, which was already a sea of fire, dumbfounded and at a loss.
At this time, something unexpected happened again, and a stream of light suddenly appeared in the sea of fire and shot straight into the sky.
Under the stream of light, another stream of light followed closely behind.
The two streams of light chased and entwined each other in the sea of clouds, making them inseparable.
Unfortunately, the dark clouds were so thick that people couldn't see what was going on inside. They could only see patches of white light shining through the dense clouds from time to time, like lightning flashing across the night sky, but there was no sound of thunder.
Within a few breaths, the situation changed again. Under everyone's gaze, a stream of light fell straight down from the sky, like a trailing meteor, and crashed heavily back into the ruins of the city lord's palace.
Bang!
A big pit was made on the ground. Lin Dongjiu was lying in the pit, his face covered in blood. He didn't even have the strength to move his fingers, but he heard Chen Yi's voice getting closer and closer:
"Ah! It's not in vain that I slaughtered dozens of villages and killed nearly ten thousand people. The power obtained from the blood sacrifice is really trembling!"
Chen Yi jumped down into the pit and stared at Lin Dongjiu with cold eyes:
"Junior brother, senior brother knows what you have been pursuing these years, isn't it strength? Then join the Demon Palace, Pluto will satisfy all your desires!"
Lin Dongjiu tried hard not to close his eyes, glared at Chen Yi fiercely, his lips trembled slightly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood with his last effort:
"Pooh!"
The corners of Chen Yi's face twitched, and the veins on his forehead jumped. He raised the knife and was about to swing it down:
"You are stubborn and unworthy of being Pluto's disciple. You must reflect on it in your next life!"
"Enough!"
A cold shout came, and Lin Dongjiu's eyes were instantly shrouded in purple light. Before he was completely unconscious, he vaguely heard a familiar yet unfamiliar voice ringing in his ears: