Thousands of miles away from Yanguan Town, Jinchaizhou is located in the southwest of the world.
Between thousands of rivers and mountains, there is a huge lake covering an area of more than thousands of miles across the earth. Surrounding this large lake are countless strange peaks, making it look like an ingenious mountain water basin. Outsiders think It's not easy to get in, and the road ahead may not be easy to find, but if the people inside want to get out, all they need is a small boat and sailing down the river. The apes on both sides of the bank can't stop crying, and the boat can follow the wind across thousands of mountains! Duan Di is a good place to establish a sect and is easy to defend but difficult to attack!
Looking up from the shore of the lake, you can't see the entire large lake on the opposite side. The clouds are steaming and the cranes are circling. It is a majestic scene of a fairyland. And in the very center of the large lake, there is a solitary tower rising from the ground. The towering single peak pierces the lake and soars into the sky. The base of the single peak covers an area of hundreds of miles. Looking from a distance, the mountains are full of vitality, including green elms, green willows, green cypresses and green pines!
There is a magnificent white jade gate tower on the hillside of the mountain. There is a plaque hanging horizontally under the eaves of the highest corridor, with the three characters "Shuixiu Lake" written on it. The dragons and phoenixes are dancing, the attitude is public, and it is full of fairy spirit!
This lake has the same name as the fairy family who settled here, called Shuixiu Lake, and the mountain on the upper level is called Lingxiu Peak. It is the sect of Shuixiu Lake, the fairy gate on the mountain that ranks very high among the fairy families in Jinchaizhou Jianghu. The location is right!
Starting from the foot of Lingxiu Peak, you can climb up step by step, pass through the luxurious mountain gate on the mountainside of Lingxiu Peak, and follow the mountain to the top of the mountain. You can see the Shuixiu Lake that has been standing for thousands of years. The Xianjia Patriarch Hall is magnificent with carved beams and painted buildings, resplendent and magnificent, surrounded by green beads!
Most of Shuixiuhu's disciples practice diligently, and the most important and lofty goal in life is to have a place for them in the splendid Patriarch Hall on the top of the mountain. Even if they are the last ones, they will be regarded as honoring their ancestors. .
In Yanguan Town, Liguanzhou, far in the northwest, perhaps even a fifth-grade sect is not enough to serve a meal, but in other places in Jiuzhou except the Middle-earth Divine Continent, this is already what ordinary people can expect in their lifetime. And the unreachable head is God.
At this time, Liguanzhou, which is thousands of miles away to the northwest across mountains and seas, has entered the middle of the night, but it is broad daylight on Jinchaizhou in the southwest, with the sun rising three poles high!
The sun is just right today, and everyone in Shuixiu Lake is peaceful. The sect leader Ke Wanting is leading a group of elders in the sect to discuss matters in the ancestral hall at the top of the main peak. The main content is to discuss how to occupy Shuixiu Lake in the next step. The territory should be expanded to double or even more the area, so that in the future, the disciples can be the gods of the people under the mountain when they go out.
In Shuixiu Lake today, the sect master and his wife have both stepped into the Immortal Realm, and the momentum is booming. In addition, more than ten years ago, they brazenly snatched a piece of meat from the Yuanjia Sword Sect, and now they have not seen Long in the northeast. If there is any action on the Chizhou side, the evaluation of Shuixiu Lake in Jinchaizhou Jianghu will be even higher!
Although the piece of meat is not a very valuable piece of fat, it is okay to say that it is a tasteless piece of meat that is tasteless and a pity to throw away. However, no matter how worthless the piece of chicken ribs is, it was made by Yuanjia Sword Sect, one of the four great sword sects. Snatched from here! It doesn't matter whether you make money or not, just the glory earned in terms of face is enough to make everyone in this sect feel proud and proud!
Riding on this trend, Shuixiu Lake has been very high-spirited in recent years without exception. From the respected elders of the Patriarch Hall to the new outer sect disciples who have just started, they are all clamoring to let Shuixiu. If the lake reaches another level, it would be even better if it could eventually be like the Yuanjia Sword Sect that dominated the Longchi Continent! As long as they, Shui Xiuhu, can hold half of Jinchaizhou in their hands, they don't care who the sword sect is, what can you do to me?
The great Immortal Realm monk currently guarding Shuixiu Lake, who is also the head of the sect, Ke Wanting, is sitting on the first chair under the ancestral tablets in the ancestral hall, looking calm and strategizing. In an orderly manner, I made arrangements with all the elders here, how the disciples should expand outward step by step, how to encroach on the territory of other surrounding immortal families, and how to gradually annex other mountaintop immortal sects that are not qualified to be among the immortal classes!
The four elders sitting below the sect leader each leaned slightly on the back of the chair behind them, sitting upright, Yuan Tingyue Zhi, regarding what the sect leader explained, if there is anything related to the lineage they are responsible for. Those who are related to it will be listened carefully, and then assigned to other elders who are responsible for specific matters under their subordinates. Those who are not related to themselves will sit upright, their eyes slightly closed, and the old god is there, saying nothing.
Just when the words were about to reach the critical point, he saw a respectful figure coming in from the door. Regardless of the proceedings in the hall, he crept around from one side and went straight to the side of the sect master. Then he gently bent down and bowed his head in the sect master's ear. He said a few words in a loud voice.
This person is the chief disciple of the Ke family, the main branch of Shuixiu Lake. He usually handles the daily chores around the sect leader, ensuring that the sect leader Ke who cares about the general trend of the sect does not need to worry about trivial matters. He is a popular person in front of the sect leader. He has a very high status. Scenes like today are commonplace in the eyes of everyone in the Patriarch Hall. They are not surprised.
After listening to the disciple's report, Sect Master Ke frowned slightly, then turned his head and glanced at the elder of the sect who was sitting next to him, indicating that they should continue the discussion. After receiving a response, there was no such thing. If the head of the sect made any move, he would disappear from the seat without a sound or a trace.
On the shore of Shuixiu Lake, the young sect leader Ke Yuzhi was only bringing the old woman with her eyebrows lowered and her head lowered. The two of them had returned to their mountain gate from the distant Liguan Island.
As soon as the rich young man arrived at the lake, he sat down on a raised embankment stone on the shore. He was lost in thought and his face was pale. The old woman following him was not much better. Although she was not injured, her face was only worse than that. The sect master looked even paler, making her already unpleasant old face look even more terrifying.
As soon as the sect leader Ke Wanting appeared, he saw such a bleak scene, so his thick eyebrows couldn't help but frown deeper. He gently reached out and patted the shoulder of Ke Yuzhi, who had not yet recovered, and asked in an unclear tone: " Are you back? Where is your mother?"
This simple question fell on the heart of the wealthy young man at this time. It was like the sound of nature and a heavy hammer. It made his face turn even paler. With tears in his eyes, he turned around to look at the sight he had not seen for many days. When I saw my father, his throat was choked with sobs and he couldn't say a word.
Seeing his son's behavior, Ke Wanting couldn't help feeling a little depressed and his face turned cold. He glanced at the old woman standing silently on one side and said gloomily: "Mother Xin, tell me."
The old woman's body trembled slightly when she heard the words. Finally she gritted her teeth and spoke again and again before she began to describe in detail everything that had happened along the way. Her voice was low and trembling slightly.
The leader of the Shuixiu Lake Sect turned slightly sideways, with his hands behind his back, facing the big lake. The tall single peak in the center of the lake was far away, looming, and he stood on the shore and listened quietly until the old woman finished speaking in a heavy tone. As a result, he didn't even make a sound.
After Nanny Xin finished talking about the whole process, she stopped talking, and the scene became silent again. A long time passed. When Ke Yuzhi finally suppressed the sadness in his heart and raised his head to look at his father, Ke Wanting was still standing there. He didn't move at all, but one of his hands was behind his back, and the two hands were rubbing together slightly, which seemed to indicate what he was thinking about.
Ke Yuzhi slowly stood up from the embankment stone, walked a few steps forward and stood side by side with his father.
It was only at this moment that Ke Wanting finally asked the first question, with a calm tone without any emotion: "Yuzhi, who do you think the sword cultivator who intercepted you could be?"
The rich young man standing aside with red eyes was silent for a moment when he heard this question. In fact, this was a question he had been thinking about all the time, but there were always many things that seemed unreasonable and unreasonable, so he thought about it for a while again and then I heard his slightly hoarse voice say in a low voice: "Father, my son has been thinking about this issue along the way and has some doubts about the goal, but he always feels that something is not reasonable and does not make sense..."
Sect Master Ke didn't say anything when he heard this. He just continued to say in a calm voice: "Tell me who you suspect, and why it doesn't make sense?"
The wealthy young man nodded when he heard this, and said solemnly: "At the beginning, there were only three people I suspected, namely Li Yuyao from the Xihe Sword Sect, Zhu Zhen from the Zhu family, and Chu Yuanxiao, the mud-legged guy."
Having said this, the young man looked back at his father and saw that he was still staring at the lake with a calm expression without saying a word, so he continued: "Back when we were in Yanguan Town, the Yeyu Sword Immortal personally took action against my mother. , it was the Confucian saint who came forward to stop her. Later, when we arrived at the border of Dizhou and were intercepted, I deliberately mentioned the Xihe Sword Sect to test the sword cultivator who set up an ambush, but he didn't seem to have any special reaction. It's like... I didn't understand my temptation on purpose. I kept thinking later that if Xihe Sword Sect took action, there shouldn't be such a big deal of trouble, even if there was a saint in charge who blocked it, so Ye Yu Sword Immortal couldn't do it on the spot. , but it’s not like we have to wait until the border of Dizhou before taking action. This is not the behavior of any of the four major sword sects at all..."
Sect Master Ke listened to the young man's narration without any change in his movements. He just said "continue" lightly and began to wait for his next words.
Young Sect Master Ke Yuzhi paused for a moment, and then continued: "As for Zhu Zhen, although we have already fallen out with each other, since Zhu has already angered the Yuanjia Sword Sect, he should not be stupid enough to take action again. They have offended us to the point where they will not stop. Their purpose has always been single, which is to climb up the clouds and escape from Yanguan Town. The fact that we have become mortal enemies is not directly related to their goal. It’s not helpful at all, but has obvious disadvantages, so I don’t think Zhu has such a necessary motive.”
"As for that mud-legged guy, I once suspected that there was someone behind him, but when my mother took action to kill him, it was the Yeyu Sword Immortal who took action first, so now I am doubting my original suspicion again. Did you guess wrong? If there was really someone behind him, then at the foot of Hidden Dragon Bei Mountain, that person was the real master. Maybe the saint who showed up in person might not stop him, so why bother? Put it outside Liangzhou? Even if that person may not be my mother's opponent at that time, we shouldn't let that mud-legged guy be beaten to death, he should at least show his face."
After listening to his son's analysis, Ke Wanting didn't speak for a long time. The index finger and thumb of one hand behind his back had been gently twirling each other without stopping until Ke Yuzhi, who was standing aside, couldn't help but speak. When the voice was heard, the middle-aged sect leader with a solemn face said slowly: "I basically agree with your analysis of the Xihe Sword Sect and the Zhu family. Although your logic is not comprehensive, there is one sentence you said. That's right, these two families are not like this, and their motivations are not sufficient. As for the orphan..."
When talking about the poor boy, Ke Wanting paused obviously, and at the same time narrowed his eyes slightly. When he spoke again, the topic turned in an inexplicable direction, and he said slowly: "The place where the sword cultivator set up an ambush happened to be chosen by you. When you first left Liang and entered Dizhou, it made people feel that he was deliberately waiting for you to leave Liangzhou, but his intention was so obvious and clumsy, which in turn made people feel that he was doing the opposite. Just follow the truth and put the blame on some people in Liangzhou... So do you think we should doubt those people in Liangzhou, or should we not?"
Ke Yuzhi frowned when he heard this. He vaguely felt that his brain was not strong enough. He had to go around in so many circles?
"Second..." Ke Wanting looked at his son's slightly furrowed brows and did not give him much time to think. He continued: "It's the orphan you mentioned. If there is someone behind him, he doesn't necessarily need to be there. He appeared immediately, because in that place in Yanguan Town, with those few saints guarding it, it was almost impossible to kill someone openly, because that place could be invaded by someone at any time. Stopping in the middle, this matter is absolutely impossible anywhere else within Jiuzhou. Even the top few in the world cannot do it, but it can only be done within the boundaries of dozens of miles. Yes, although they still cannot swim against the current, this is already a unique ability and achievement in the world. For those companies that originally set up this experiment, to a large extent, they have been successful. .”
"So father, what you mean is..."
From a long time ago, Ke Yuzhi has always been a little afraid of his father, the sect leader, because he always makes you feel that something can be very simple or very extraordinary. This ability only requires him He can do it with a few simple sentences. He will never explain everything to you thoroughly like his mother. Most of the time, he will tell you a paradox, which requires you to think carefully many times before you can understand it. If you say it clearly, then the rest is all up to you to experience... He always seems to make people both awe and awe at the same time.
Ke Wanting didn't know what Ke Yuzhi was thinking, he just remained silent, then looked at the wealthy young man who was still in a daze, and said in a deep voice: "So starting from today, you have a task that must be ranked first at all times. You must keep an eye on the orphan you met in Liangzhou, and you must know every move he makes. If you think you need it, tell me."
When Ke Yuzhi heard his father's arrangement, his heart suddenly froze, and then he nodded respectfully.
Ke Wanting nodded slightly and said: "As for the other two families, you don't need to treat them like the orphan, but you should also pay attention to them."
"Yes!" Ke Yuzhi nodded again when he heard this.
Ke Wanting finally nodded, then raised his hand to touch the top of his son's head, looked at the tall and straight peak in the center of the lake again, and said softly: "From today on, my father will announce that your mother has obtained some benefits for her practice during this trip. It’s a great opportunity, so I have gone back to the mountain to retreat, trying to break through the ten realms. I asked, you must remember not to talk about today’s incident with anyone again, and everyone else who knows about it must also keep silent, do you understand?”
The rich young man suddenly heard these words, and his body trembled slightly involuntarily. He turned his head with some difficulty and glanced at his father, but did not see any change in his expression. He only heard a simple command. : "If you have nothing to do, just go back to your clan. Remember to take care of your mother's house more in the future to avoid others becoming suspicious."
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After a while, there was no one else on the shore of Shuixiu Lake except the wealthy young man. His father, the sect leader, had already left, and the elderly woman had also disappeared, leaving only this immortal family who was once arrogant and domineering in Yanguan Town. My son, he was squatting on the embankment stone a little lonely.
Ke Yuzhi looked at the sparkling lake in a daze, so from now on, he will be the only one in Shuixiu Lake who is sad? So that limerick that spread throughout Jin Chaizhou back then... was it actually a fake?
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