It is undoubtedly the best news for Jiang Gan that the Ehu Conference will be held as scheduled. He is only one step away from becoming the number one in the Eight Prefectures.
After more than a month of fighting, there were only four people left.
Jiang Yan, Li Youlang, Ye Fashan and Lu Yufu!
During the few days of training in Jiang Yan, Li Youlang shocked the whole audience with his performance of "Shenyou Chang", which was the first song in Yuling Continent, but it was a song with no ending.
But after it was completed, it showed amazing power and defeated Ye Fashan, the leader of Tianxin Mansion, and successfully advanced to the finals.
As long as Jiang Yan defeats Lu Yufu, he will be able to join forces with Li Youlang in the finals, making the Ehu Club, a grand gathering of eight provinces, become an internal struggle in Nanping Town.
Jiang Yan regarded Lu Yufu as a friend, thinking that he came from an ordinary stonemason family. From Wei Changli's mouth, he learned that Lu Yufu's grandfather, Lu Yangzi, was actually one of the four great master craftsmen of Mo Mansion.
Diao Qianshan is the boundary, making Mo Mansion the most dangerous, easiest to defend and difficult to attack among the eight mansions.
An ordinary painter will be exhausted after using the spirit-combination technique once, and it will take several months to recover. If he uses it twice, he is already risking his life.
On the other hand, Jiang Yan himself used the spirit combining technique four times in a row before the battle. Except for the first generation master of the Wen Palace, no one had ever accomplished such a feat.
But even though his body was strong, he could not completely resolve the load. On the outside, he looked fine, but his body was riddled with holes and he would not be able to fully recover in less than half a year.
But what was even more troublesome was that his opponent was Lu Yufu. Jiang Yan stood on the Ehu Arena, looking at Lu Yufu and sighing repeatedly. He was so familiar that he couldn't make a move.
"How can I fight with you?"
"There is nothing to hesitate, we are enemies now"
After Lu Yufu finished speaking, he took the lead in showing his own methods, and miniature stone sculptures appeared in his palms.
Infused with spiritual power, Shi Ling gradually grew in size under Jiang Yan's gaze, and actually turned into a nine-headed monster snake.
This strange snake Jiang Gu is not unfamiliar at all. The stonemason polishing and carving is not fabricated out of thin air, but needs to be created according to the pattern.
The picture of this strange snake was drawn by Jiang Yan, and it was called Nine-Headed Xiangliu!
The nine-headed willow was extremely powerful, and a snake head bit directly towards Jiang Gu. Fortunately, Jiang Gu was quick enough to avoid it, and cracks appeared on the ice where he had just fought.
"Lu Yufu, are you serious..."
"To tell you the truth, before I fought you, people from the Confucian Mansion came to me and paid a huge price to prevent you from winning the championship. You'd better take out your painting spirit and fight me," Lu Yufu said calmly.
"Don't be ridiculous, without your paint, where would my painting spirit be?"
"To put it nicely, you didn't even sign my name on your painting spirit."
Lu Yufu's voice was obviously a bit grumpy. Jiang Yan's brain was quick and he guessed what he was talking about.
Two scrolls appeared, and the huge bodies of the candle dragon and the nine-tailed fox appeared on the Goose Lake again.
However, Jiang Yan did not control the candle dragon and nine-tailed fox to attack, but took out a pen and wrote a line of small words on one side of the scroll.
"The candle dragon picture was drawn by the painter Jiang Yan and made by the stonemason Lu Yufu!"
The candle dragon picture and the nine tail picture were all signed, and then the painting was handed to Lu Yufu.
"I was careless and forgot such an important thing."
Making pigments from the colored stones of heaven and earth treasures is only one of the masons' methods. However, masons and painters are closely related and complementary to each other. Many top painters will write the mason's name on their paintings to make the mason famous.
I just think of his master Lu Daoxuan. Whether it is the picture of the Phoenix coming from the cold branch or the picture of the wild python in the sky, they are all signed by the mason Lu Yangzi!
“That’s pretty much it”
After Lu Yangzi saw his name, he put away the dissatisfied expression on his face, then took out his seal and stamped it on his name, and he did not forget to complain.
"You are good now. You are the number one painter of the younger generation. You are famous in Yuling Continent. I am still unknown."
"I put a lot of effort into making paint for you, but you didn't even mention my name. You are so ignorant."
"My fault, my fault, I will treat you to a drink," Jiang Yan said with a smile.
Satisfied, Lu Yufu put away Jiutou Xiangliu, and then chose to abandon the game openly.
First of all, Lu Yufu regarded Jiang Chan as a very important friend. His grandfather had an irreconcilable relationship with Jiang Chan's master, and now the two of them have continued the friendship of the older generation.
Secondly, Jiang Yan's evil spirit curse requires the title of No. 1 in the Eight Prefectures, and then he goes to Yuling Continent, the being closest to an immortal, for a solution.
As for the third one, he personally witnessed the battle between Yan Youqin and Jiang Yan. Lu Yufu recognized the strength of these two people from the bottom of his heart and felt that it would be difficult to win.
Since fighting or not fighting is the same outcome, how to make a choice is very simple.
The people in the attic of the Confucian Mansion were very dissatisfied with this outcome. Some of the Five Classics Doctors had secretly approached Li Youlang and Lu Yufu, but they did not expect them to surrender without a fight.
"It's not like you don't know the relationship between Lu Yangzi and Lu Daoxuan. Such an ending is also expected."
"Are we just going to watch Jiang Chang become the number one in the Eight Prefectures?" Tan Qianqiu felt resentful in his heart.
"Master, we were forced by the Confucian government in Xihe and allowed Wei Changli and those swordsmen and pen officials to ride on our heads. If word spread, it would really affect the reputation of our Confucian government.
Although those old gentlemen live in seclusion, they are related to the reputation of the Confucian government. I believe they will take action." Tan Qianqiu lost an arm, and naturally he was not willing to let it go.
"Qianqiu, I will find someone to reattach your arm, but let's put the battle with Wenfu on hold for now."
"Why"
"Although Wen Mansion's prestige has plummeted, and Ziwu Valley has lost several generations of strong men, Wei Changli may have recovered after seven hundred years of recuperating his energy. We have no idea how strong he has accumulated.
Secondly, a bigger enemy of the Confucian government has appeared," Ji Li explained.
"Enemies? Besides these scribes, what other enemies can we Confucian scholars have?"
"First of all, the Baiyang Sect has resurrected. I received news that the Ci people have been resurrected!"
"What? The Ci people are alive?"
Everyone looked a little horrified. They had not personally experienced how terrifying the Ci people were, but they knew that the Wen Mansion had sacrificed two generations of strong men at its peak but did not completely kill them, but rather sealed them.
"Master, I heard that during the Battle of Ziwu Valley, the Ci clan was divided into two and sealed in two places? You chose to stop because..." Huang Xinqi did not say anything, but looked at Ji Li tentatively.
.
"You guessed it right, it was sealed in the Wen Mansion."
After receiving Ji Li's approval, everyone understood why Ji Li chose to give up. It was only a matter of time before the Ci family went to the Qing capital. If they fight to the death with the Wen family now, this would be allowing the big devil to gain advantage.
Since the Confucian government does not want to be like a snipe and a clam, it is indeed a last resort to stop at this time. It is a good choice to step down with the emperor's will.
When the Ci people go to the Wen Mansion, there will inevitably be a fierce battle, and that is the best time for the Confucian Mansion to take action.