The tragedy in Songshan Mountain is just a microcosm of the current situation of the Five Mountains. A group of people traveled to Mount Hengshan and Mount Tai one after another, and encountered almost the same situation.
The opponent's strategy is an upright conspiracy. To put it bluntly, it is to use force to suppress the die-hard loyalists and support the puppets. In the process, they try to create irreversible blood feuds. In this way, even if the leaders of several factions come back to help the crisis and end the chaos, , there is no way to overturn the established facts.
Even though they knew that the other party's purpose was to split the sect and weaken their strength, when things came to pass, they couldn't just wave their hands and pretend that nothing happened. After all, the ones who died were their senior brothers. No one could laugh it off with this guy stuck in the middle.
Betrayal is betrayal. When we meet, we can forget all the grudges with a smile. This is the saying in the storybook. The first thing each faction does after bringing order to chaos is to eliminate the rebels.
After this difficulty, the power of the Five Mountains Sects shrank again. Before the Five Mountains Conference, the Five Mountains Sword Sect had great potential. Once the merger was successful, it would be the third largest force in the world of righteousness since Shaolin Wudang.
But now, even if Huashan succeeds, after the purges after the return of the leaders of these factions, the strength of these factions has been visibly weakened. Even if the merger is successful, it may not be half of the level expected.
Of course, whether the merger can be successful is another matter. The most important thing at the moment is how Huashan can overcome this difficulty.
The team of hundreds of people was excited. The head of the Five Mountains led the team and headed towards Huashan in a mighty manner.
The news caused by such a large group of Jianghu people was naturally extremely shocking. News from all over the country flew into the capital like snowflakes. All forces were surprised by the sudden news.
Jin Yiwei had no reaction to this. Commander Meng has turned his attention to the court, and all matters in the arena are now handled by Lu Zhenfu.
The two departments who had received the news in advance were naturally not surprised, but they still had to do it. Lu Hanjiang issued an order openly and transferred a Qianhu to lead a team of people to Huashan, which was called surveillance.
This method of handling is also a common method used by Jinyiwei. As long as the Jianghu forces do not openly oppose the court and there are no charges, both parties will maintain restraint and do not offend the river.
As for private grudges, as long as no one finds out, they don't exist.
At this time, Huashan was still peaceful. Jin Yiwei quietly blocked the flow of information on the Huashan boundary. Nothing that happened in recent days could reach Shang Jidao's ears.
Therefore, Shang Jidao was naturally confused when the disciples came to report that the leaders of the five mountain sects came to visit with many Jianghu comrades.
"Reporting to the leader, those people are extremely rude. They didn't give me a chance to wait for the report, and they already came to the door."
The disciple who bowed his head to report had a look of fear on his face. He was still young when he started, and he had never seen such a terrifying formation.
After Shang Jidao frowned and listened to what he said, he waved for him to leave. In the blink of an eye, an angry shout came from outside the door——
"Shang Jidao, get out of here!"
The two Huashan disciples guarding the door were knocked down by a powerful palm force, and Hao Bansheng, the leader of the Taishan Sect, strode in with angry eyes.
"Junior Brother Hao."
Shang Jidao squinted his eyes and glanced at the two Huashan disciples who had been knocked to the ground. He looked at Hao Bansheng with a cold snort and said, "Even though the Five Mountains don't distinguish between you and me, you barged in so rudely and beat me." Is it the etiquette of the Taishan Sect to hurt my disciples?"
"Shang Jidao, stop pretending to be stupid here! How did you collude with Wudang to fight against us and others at the Five Sacred Mountains Conference? Have you forgotten it?!"
Hao Bansheng's eyes were bare, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent. Although the Taishan sect had always had internal conflicts, and the position of leader came and went, it was always a joke, but he always grasped the right to seize the position. of.
Now that the Huashan sect is being stirred up, half of the disciples will die like mowing grass. The strength of the Taishan sect has been reduced sharply, adding countless hatreds. The sect is filled with sorrow and misery. How many disciples are disheartened, how can you not hate him? .
But listening to Hao Bansheng's words, Shang Jidao himself was depressed and puzzled. What did colluding with Wudang mean? He just accepted a girl from the Chi family as a disciple. Even if he wanted to collude, he hadn't had time to do it yet.
Besides, he didn't go to the Five Sacred Mountains Conference at all, so why did he come to confront each other with swords?
"Junior Brother Hao, is there any misunderstanding in this?"
Shang Jidao softened his tone. It was not that he was afraid of the Taishan Sect, but that since Hao Bansheng, other heads of the Five Mountains and figures from various sects had come in one after another, which forced him to deal with them carefully.
"Why, the facts are in front of you, do you still want to deny it?!" Hao Bansheng gasped from both nostrils, and it seemed that he didn't give him any room to make peace.
Shang Jidao had no choice but to turn to Hengshan Sect Shi Jiuning. Junior Sister Shi had a peaceful personality, so it would be easier to talk.
"Junior sister, you know who I am. You will never collude with outsiders to frame your own senior brothers and sisters." Shang Jidao said sincerely.
Unexpectedly, Shi Jiuning shook his head slightly, with complicated eyes: "Brother, we all saw what you did that day. Now the evidence is conclusive, why hide anymore."
Shang Jidao frowned, and even Shi Jiuning was convinced that something was a bit troublesome.
"Shang Jidao! You claim to be righteous and actually lead your disciples to kill innocent people indiscriminately. Do you know how many heroes have died under your Huashan sword!"
"Intimidation and bribery lure other disciples and make them kill each other. You are so cruel!"
"You still want to trap us on the ground. Now that the truth is out, what else do you have to say."
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Everyone was talking to each other. Although Shang Jidao listened in confusion, he roughly sorted out a lot of useful information. For example, "he" participated in the Five Mountains Conference. Not only did he participate, but he also interacted with "Wudang" Together, the disciples trapped these people in Fengtianya, Hengshan Mountain.
Later, together with Wudang, they attacked the Five Mountains and forced the disciples of the Five Mountains to surrender. After these leaders of the Five Mountains came back to bring order to the chaos, they had no choice but to kill those disciples and clean up the family.
After roughly understanding what happened, Shang Jidao looked serious and immediately said: "Everyone, listen to me, there are many strange things about this matter. I, Huashan, have been away from the world for many years, how could I have such ambitions? Besides, Wudang is also the right way of the world. , how could he act so viciously, this matter is strange, please allow me to find out clearly."
"Shang Jidao, you just want to clear up the relationship with just a few words? Hmph!" Hao Bansheng sneered: "Then tell me, if you Huashan hadn't done it, wouldn't we have been blind that day? Those under our sect who were forced to rebel Are all my disciples blind too?!"
Shang Jidao's eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice: "Don't forget, there are more than one or two people staring at us in the world. This matter must be someone pretending to be the Huashan Wudang and deliberately causing us to fight."
"You are so quick to quibble! Then tell me, who would act like this!" Hao Bansheng put his hand on the sword at his waist, and would draw the sword if he disagreed.
Shang Jidao shook his head and sighed: "I have many enemies in Huashan, and Wudang is naturally also quite hostile. Those people of the demonic path are looking forward to our internal fights every day. Besides, even outside the Jianghu, there are also people with ulterior motives. For example, the Imperial Guards...Senior Brother Tianfeng, what do you think?"
Shang Jidao finally turned the tables on Tianfeng, because as far as he was concerned, the Five Sacred Factions were the ones who suffered the most this time, and among the leaders of the various sects, only the Hengshan Sect, Tianfeng Taoist Master, was thoughtful and thoughtful about the leader of the Five Sacred Mountains. His position is the most important, so he must be unwilling to lose more vitality. If it were him, he would definitely be able to see that Huashan was not the mastermind.
But what Shang Jidao didn't expect was that Taoist Master Tianfeng was just silent for a long time, and suddenly he drew his sword and said sadly: "Okay! There is a traitor in our Five Mountains who colluded with the Jinyiwei. Give me death." Come!"
