Long Aotian had recognized Qiqi a long time ago, so he had no intention of recruiting her. Instead, he set his sights on the geniuses from several other small families among the top 16 in the country.
He extended an olive branch directly to them.
After every Qianlong Festival in the past, the geniuses on the list were the objects of competition from all parties. If they could grab a good seedling, it would be a worthwhile trip. However, this time, Long Aotian had no competition. opponent.
The leader of the dragon group personally recruits, which is equivalent to the president of Zhejiang University in northern Qing Dynasty personally inviting him to his door. Who can refuse such a courtesy?
As a result, these young geniuses were rounded up by Long Aotian.
With their talents, they will be able to become the mainstay of the Dragon Group in a few years.
When the other big guys were declined by Qiqi one by one and wanted to change their goals, they discovered that the others had all been chosen by Long Aotian.
The rest are geniuses like Dongfang Yuheng, Dugu Xiao, Shen Fang, and Bing Muxue who are from the top forces and will definitely not be able to join other forces.
"Brother Long, you... you can eat meat and leave some soup for us!"
"That is to say, it is not kind of you to do this."
The heads of these sect leaders all gathered around Long Aotian to protest.
He doesn't look like a super powerful leader in the ancient martial arts world, but more like a common man vying for customers.
Long Aotian looked at everyone with a smile and said: "Everyone, let's compete fairly. Your goal is to eat meat, but I just want to drink soup. You can't eat meat and you still come to steal my soup, right? "
While Long Aotian was dealing with several people, he hid his right hand in his pocket and typed blindly to send messages.
After receiving the news from Long Aotian, the two managers of the Dragon Group quietly left with the young geniuses.
By the time everyone reacted, no one could be found.
What a trick to conceal the truth and cross the sea, making a sound in the east and attacking in the west.
Are you kidding me? Long Aotian had a hard time recruiting these young geniuses and planned to train them as the backbone. How could he give them to others so easily?
Everyone had no choice but to disperse.
"Brother Long, tell the truth, do you know Xiao Qi's true identity?" The head of the Dongfang family approached Long Aotian and asked in a low voice.
"Haha, Brother Dongfang, Xiao Qi's name has the word 'qi' in it. I can only say so much. The rest is for you to study carefully."
Long Aotian patted the head of the Dongfang family on the shoulder, winked at him and said.
"qi?qi...hiss...!"
The head of the Dongfang family pondered for a moment, then his eyes suddenly lit up. He quickly looked at Long Aotian and lowered his voice and asked: "Brother Long, could Xiao Qi be...Mr. Lin's daughter?"
Long Aotian nodded slowly.
Patriarch Dongfang slapped his thigh in annoyance, secretly resenting his slow reaction for not guessing Xiao Qi's identity earlier.
Long Aotian added: "Brother Dongfang, since Miss Qiqi doesn't show her true face to others, she doesn't want others to know her identity, so I ask you..."
"Don't worry, I understand, I understand."
The head of the Dongfang family nodded repeatedly.
At the same time, he rolled his eyes and had some other thoughts in his mind.
Of course, the head of the Dongfang family did not dare to have any bad intentions towards Qiqi. He just thought of a way to get closer to Qiqi.
Qiqi came to the Qianlong Festival under the pseudonym Xiaoqi, but she wore clothes with the logo of the "Seven Stars Martial Arts School". She must be related to the Seven Stars Martial Arts School, and even the Seven Stars Martial Arts School was opened by Qiqi herself.
In this case... why not arrange for a few well-behaved and intelligent juniors in the family to join the Seven Star Martial Arts School to build a relationship with Qiqi.
This is doable.
Patriarch Dongfang’s eyes gradually brightened.
Then, he hugged Long Aotian's fists, jumped all the way, and left happily.
Like a primary school student on summer vacation.
Dongfang Yuheng shouted "Dad, Dad" from behind several times, but the head of the Dongfang family didn't even listen.
He was immersed in ecstasy at the moment and couldn't extricate himself. He was anxious to go home and look for a suitable junior.
This thing may seem simple, but not everyone can do it. The selected juniors must pass the test in terms of character, talent, image, etc., especially character, which is the most important thing.
The Dongfang family is one of the seven top forces in the ancient martial arts world. Such a big family is destined to inevitably have some playboys in the family. If these people are sent to the Seven Stars Martial Arts Hall, they may be self-defeating and offend Qiqi.
That would be equivalent to dragging the whole family to hell.
The head of the Dongfang family knew this very well, so he had to be cautious and choose carefully.
The climax of the Qianlong Festival has passed, and the number one on the Qianlong list is determined to be "Xiao Qi"!
The second place is Iron Mask.
However, the rankings below have not yet been determined, so in the next few days, Long Xiaoxiao, Dugu Xiao, Bing Muxue, Shen Fang and others will need to compete in multiple rounds to determine the final ranking.
It's just that in the following games, the attention will be greatly reduced. After all, they can only compete for third place.
The audience began to disperse gradually.
However, everyone's faces were still full of excitement, and they were all discussing today's showdown with great interest, especially the last showdown, which was very interesting.
The name that people talk about the most is undoubtedly "Xiao Qi".
Many people are even inquiring about information about the "Seven Star Martial Arts School".
Xiao Qi is on fire.
Even the Seven Stars Martial Arts School became popular.
The Tianba quartet were so happy that they almost fainted, as if they had seen themselves sleeping among the piles of money.
This is no dream.
The Tianba quartet became more respectful towards Qiqi and escorted Qiqi out of the arena, just like the imperial guards who followed an ancient emperor when traveling.
This is their God of Wealth.
There is an isolated island with lush vegetation and a very high greening rate.
On the north side of the island, facing the sea, there is a cliff, almost at a 90-degree angle to the horizontal. Looking from the outside, there is nothing special about the cliff.
But there is a cave inside the cliff.
There is actually a large space inside, about the size of a basketball court.
You can't see the inside from the outside, but you can see the outside, the sea, and the blue sky from the inside.
In the inner space of the mountain, there was a group of people, about forty or so, arranged in four rows, and they seemed to be holding some kind of ceremony.
These people are all wearing loose robes, but the colors are different. Half of them are in black robes, and the other half are in white robes. They all have masks on their faces. The patterns on the masks actually correspond to the colors of the playing cards.
and numbers!
The four suits are arranged in four columns in the order of hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds, and there are 12 people in each column. The first one is q, then j, the third one is 10...the last one is a.
Four columns, 12 people in each column, 48 people in total.
This way of standing, to a certain extent, indicates their status.
Obviously, this is a group of people with a strict hierarchy.
They all lowered their heads and crossed their hands on their chests, showing great piety.
No one spoke.
There was silence in the space.
Directly in front of these people is a high platform, and there is a pure gold throne on the high platform, with shining golden light and domineering shape.
Sudden.
"Tap tap tap!"
There was a sound of slight footsteps.
Everyone immediately lowered their heads even lower.
From the darkness, four people walked out, two black and two red, and the masks on their faces were K's in four colors.
After the four people came out, they stood around the Golden Throne, then kneeled down on one knee in the direction they came out, with their heads lowered and their hands raised upwards, shouting in unison.
"Welcome the Ghost King!"
"Whoosh!"
The 48 people in the audience also knelt on one knee at the same time, in the same posture, and shouted the same.