Dongyue Mount Tai is the next focus of the world after Beiyue Mount Hengshan. The reason is that it is widely rumored that Shi Suxue, a disciple of the Hengshan Sect, fell into their hands "for unknown reasons".
The people were all very discerning, at least that's what they thought. In everyone's minds, it was impossible for the Jinyiwei to let him go for no reason. There must be some ulterior deal between them and the Taishan Sect.
Come and try it quickly. 】
Of course, this kind of conjecture is not an injustice to the Taishan Sect. After all, there is indeed a deal between the two parties. It is just a tacit understanding that you are plotting against me and I am plotting against you to see who has the upper hand.
Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that the Taishan sect is at a disadvantage and is troubled by public opinion. This has also hindered their plan to win over the other three sects in the Five Mountains except Hengshan.
Hao Bansheng, the head of the Taishan Sect, was worried about this. He had known that doing business with Jinyiwei was tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger, but with the current interests, he really couldn't bear the ambition of becoming the leader of the Five Mountains Alliance.
At this moment, he was looking through the replies from Songshan and Huashan, which were nothing more than prevarications for holding the Five Mountains Conference again and questions about Suxue when the Taishan sect detained him. Hao Bansheng was anxious and angry.
Hao Bansheng angrily overturned the table and cursed: "These villains are trying to rip off a piece of meat from me, Mount Tai, if they get the chance! How stupid! Can't they see it? Wuyue is now With everything in danger, only the combined faction can occupy a place in the world!"
Several disciples of the Taishan Sect below all lowered their heads and dared not speak. It was not until Hao Bansheng calmed down that one of them spoke cautiously: "Master, now all the sects in the world are doubting us. Otherwise, we will Let the person go back?"
"Idiot!" Hao Bansheng picked up a pen washer and smashed it at it, causing the disciple's head to explode and he knelt on the ground and apologized repeatedly.
Hao Bansheng hated the iron and said: "Release him? You can't imagine that now the whole world knows that he is in our hands, so if we let him go, we will only think that we are under pressure. What's more, our people have already gone to Hengshan Pai let it go, now even if we send that disciple back, they won’t accept our favor!"
"Master? Is this the only way we can go?" Another disciple asked with difficulty.
"Do you have a better way?" Hao Bansheng gave them a cold look, finally sighed, and waved his hand in frustration to make them all retreat.
The bridge between Taishan and Hengshan has been forged. If he surrenders now, although he will avoid a disaster, it will directly reduce the prestige of Taishan to the valley, and there will be no possibility of annexing the Five Mountains. So even though he knows that this is a dangerous and thorny road. He must also walk the road.
But compared to the coming storm, what makes Hao Bansheng even more sad is that the Taishan faction has no successors.
For the other five sects in the Five Mountains, when their leaders fell, it was true that the pillars of heaven tilted, causing great disaster, but they were not without talents who could turn the tide. Gu Qianhan from Huashan, Yufang and Mingyu from Hengshan were all very capable people.
Looking back at the Taishan Sect, there have been constant disputes within the sect for more than ten years, and the speed of changing leaders is the fastest in the world. Hao Bansheng went through a series of fierce battles to get to this position. Looking back, although the sect is stable, it can The masters I relied on were basically all internally exhausted.
Looking around, there is not a single person in the entire Taishan Sect who can take the lead. Except for Hao Bansheng, among the remaining people, the one with the highest martial arts skills is Guan Shanmo.
Speaking of this inner disciple who had high hopes for him, Hao Bansheng had another headache. Guan Shanmo's advantage was that he was upright and valued love and justice, but his shortcoming was also that he valued love and justice too much.
"Somebody come!"
Hao Bansheng called the disciples outside the door, and while pressing his eyebrows, asked: "Where is your senior brother now?"
The disciple hesitated to speak. Seeing that Hao Bansheng was about to get angry again, he bit the bullet and replied: "Report to the master, Senior Brother Guan, while he went to visit Senior Sister Shi..."
"It's so stupid!"
Hao Bansheng finally got angry. He trampled the table gum that he had just overturned and smashed it into pieces. He roared: "Call him over here!"
"Yes, yes..." The disciple was too busy to call someone. Not long after, Guan Shanmo came to the hall and saw the mess here, and he felt a little better.
"Disciple has met the master." Guan Shanmo bowed and saluted.
"Traitor!" Hao Bansheng glared angrily and cursed.
Guan Shanmo didn't know why, so he immediately knelt down and apologized: "This disciple is stupid. I don't know what I did wrong. Please point it out to the master."
Hao Bansheng lowered his anger and asked gloomily: "Didn't I tell you to stay away from that girl? Why did you turn a deaf ear to my words? Do you still have me as the leader in your eyes?"
"Please forgive me, Master. I did not intend to violate the order of the Master, but..."
Guan Shanmo hesitated for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said: "Master, please let me speak frankly. Our Taishan sect has always acted upright. This time, my junior sister was killed for righteousness. How can we add insult to injury? Such behavior is really not the way of a gentleman... .”
"You bastard! How dare you teach me a lesson?!"
Hao Bansheng swung his palm and slapped Guan Shanmo on the face with such force that half of his face immediately became red and swollen.
"My disciple is speechless. Please calm down, Master." Guan Shanmo lowered his head to apologize, but his tone was still somewhat reluctant.
Hao Bansheng was also dizzy with anger from the other party. It took him a while to calm down, and he said sadly: "The love between children is just a temporary happiness. As a disciple of my Taishan sect, you should take the lintel of Guangmen as your own responsibility. If Otherwise, how can you be worthy of your master’s spirit in heaven?”
Guan Shanmo was an inner disciple of the Taishan Sect, and he studied under the elder of the sect. In terms of seniority, the elder was still senior fellow apprentice Hao Bansheng, but he accidentally died in a fight a few years ago.
"Disciple, I will obey the teachings of the leader, but..." Guan Shanmo plucked up the courage and advised again: "Master, the Hengshan sect has always been content with itself and has no fight with the world. Even if the leader wants to send the Five Mountains together, they will not I don’t necessarily object, so why do we have to make things happen?”
"Stand by yourself and keep aloof from the world? What a joke! Can't you see that the Hengshan Sect has always been the biggest obstacle to the Five Mountains Sect?!"
Hao Bansheng showed disappointment in his eyes and said earnestly: "Although the Hengshan faction will not take the initiative to provoke disputes, every time someone from the Five Mountains attempts to merge the factions, they are the opposing party, and their intentions may not be good."
Seeing that Guan Shanmo didn't believe it, Hao Bansheng had no choice but to give an example: "Huashan Mountain was huge back then. Later, during the battle at Wandaomen, they just watched with cold eyes. If the old leader of Huashan Mountain hadn't been hacked to death, Shi Jiuning might not even have the sword." Will come out! Last year, when Hengshan wanted to merge, they relied on Ye Ming of Songshan to fight against it. Now it's our turn, and they actually boarded the Jinyiwei's ship!"
As an example of Hengshan's past, Hao Bansheng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Hengshan has always been the biggest enemy of the Five Sacred Sects. No matter who comes to power, they will oppose it, so in order to avoid future troubles, we must strike first! "
