"Master, if you have nothing else to do, Xue will take his leave. Sorry for disturbing you."
"Fellow Taoist, sit down for another meeting and leave after the banquet." Wei Chengxiong pretended to be polite.
"No, no, hurry to Wenzhou."
"Then Hall Master Jian will send off to Taoist Xue. Welcome to come again."
Although Xue Tongshan's stay on the mountain was short, the goals of both parties were achieved, and there was no need to waste time with pretense.
The rest of the monks were silent. Weng Songyi Feng Sect ranked third. The Eight Desolate Sword Formation was its unique skill and shocked the sect. However, Xue Tong's performance in front of Xue Tong was far different. Even Wei Chengxiong seemed unable to resist the Jiugong Sword Cloud. A thunderous strike.
…
Wenzhou is the largest state in the southwest region. It has diverse landforms, mountains, rivers, lakes and wilderness. Some areas close to Hezhou have continuous snow peaks.
The Cangyan Sect is the largest Taoist sect in Wenzhou, and the Southwest Alliance is located within its jurisdiction, in a small town in the mountains, Gaoyun Town.
The original residents of Gaoyun have been evacuated, but now all the Daxuan sects in the six southwest states have gathered together. Although there are not many people, the power they represent is very important. Tang Chen, the deputy leader of Cangyan, is permanently stationed and serves as the deputy leader.
The alliance is still in the running-in stage, and there is no alliance leader. The deputy alliance leader is also a nominal position, with little power of jurisdiction and command.
"Deputy Leader Tang, this is Xue Tong of Tianmang Sect." The Cangyan cultivator introduced Xue Tong.
Tang Chen glanced at him and said, "I've heard of fellow Daoist Xue. Tianmang is not enthusiastic about the alliance. He is the last gang to join the alliance. Is it because it is too weak? The only people he looks for are guest ministers."
"Tianmang is far away and weak. How can it be compared to a super powerful Xuanmen like Cang Yan. I will ask Deputy Alliance Leader Tang for more advice in the future." Xue Tong said.
"It's good that you're here. We don't have much to do with the alliance for the time being. You and Brother Huanglong patrol the border between the two states regularly. In addition to aerial inspections, if necessary, go to the border villages and towns to see if there are any abnormalities." Tang Chen stopped being sarcastic.
"Okay, follow the orders of the Alliance."
The tasks assigned are easy and can be easily completed in five or six days every two months during the breaks between exercises.
Tianmang's courtyard is adjacent to Linhuanglong Sect and is built against the mountain. Needless to say, the facilities and conditions are all first-rate.
…
Gao Yun is more like a place for socializing. Perhaps because of the news about the Yifeng Sect, Gao Yun was visited by guests one after another.
Xue Tong had the best impression of Kuang Jing, the elder of Dingchuan Sect.
Kuang Jing's face is like a crown jade, his eyebrows are starry and his eyes are bright, and his hair is bunned with golden hoops. He looks like a beautiful man.
"I have admired Taoist Master Xue for a long time, and today I can see that his aura is indeed as strong as a mountain," Kuang Jing said.
"Where is it? It's a great honor for Elder Kuang to come here." Xue Tong said politely.
Kuang Jing has been here for a year and chatted with Xue Tong about the current situation, "There are very few decent sects in Hezhou. Although there are not many monks who have crossed the border in the past two years, it is not an organized action. Cang Yan organizes the alliance, which feels like making a mountain out of a molehill." .”
"Whether it's Gao Yun or not, if the alliance does not need to defend the north, it may be used for other purposes." Xue Tong said.
"The Alliance of Taoist Friends may turn from a virtual reality into a real one and unify the six states in the southwest."
"Haha, it's too early to do this. There's no need to worry about it now. Fellow Taoist, you'd better tell me something new." Xue Tong didn't want to say more about the alliance.
"In Hezhou, connected to Wenzhou, a mysterious area has emerged in recent years. Has Daoyou Xue heard about it?" Kuang Jing got to the point of his visit.
"Oh, new secret realms have emerged in recent years," Xue Tong asked.
"It doesn't look like a new secret realm, but this area is quite strange. It connects Wenhe and Hezhou. From the population of Hezhou, we learned that several master-level monks have also disappeared, and only one escaped." Kuang Jing said.
"Fellow Daoist Kuang, please tell me in detail!"
Kuang Jing talked in detail about the disappearance of several masters and middle- and later-stage monks in the Northwest Lake District.
Those people may have gone to collect resources. After the disappearance, the area gradually became famous. Kuang Jing patrolled several times, met many people from Hezhou, and learned about this.
"What Fellow Daoist Kuang means is that he wants to take a look," Xue Tong speculated.
"Well, the monks will be able to escape in the later stage. Let's add a few more people. It's expected to be no big deal. Maybe we can also unravel the mystery." Kuang Jing said.
"How was it going with the man who escaped?"
"The condition is not good, his head is injured, his mind is damaged, and he only knows how to sneak attack on his adult-level monster."
"Then how did he run away?"
"Two people who went with him died, and he escaped in the clouds."
"Fellow Daoist Kuang made an appointment with several people, and Xue must not be the first one."
"We have made an appointment with three people. If Daoyou Xue is willing to go, we will all be here. Among them, Ma Deputy Valley Master of Shengsheng Valley is the top master, with the highest martial rank and position." Kuang Jing said.
Kuang Jing said it very vaguely, not saying that he had the highest level of cultivation.
Xue Tong understood the idea and said, "Well, we should take Deputy Valley Master Ma as our leader. If we don't go to the lake area to explore the secrets, what will happen to the alliance's mission?"
"It's just a patrol, just go to the Huanglong Sect. What you need to join the alliance is your attitude, and the tasks are not urgent. It's really boring to stay in Gaoyun Town, why not go shopping outside." Kuang Jing said.
"Fellow Daoist Kuang, why do you think that area has changed so that monsters grow and miasma breeds?" Xue Tong asked.
"Maybe it's because of the monsters," Kuang Jing muttered.
"Okay, the big furniture is a monk from the Southwest Alliance, so let's go together." Xue Tong agreed.
Kuang Jing gave a map to indicate the gathering place.
…
"I've only been here for a month and I was invited to go to the Lake District. How can Kuangjing be there?" Xue Tong wondered.
"Who is the other murderer of Zhuang Tianming in Tianmang City?"
"Everyone knows that Xue is the most suspected of the missing person. If you explore the lake area, will it be a carefully laid trap?"
"The five people belong to five sects respectively, and the other four are from three states. It is unlikely that they are accomplices."
"It's better to be careful anyway!"
…
Valley entrance.
"After passing this mountain, you will reach the Kanze Lake area. The snow water from the plateau gathers into a river and flows into the big lake." Kuang Jing, who was the first to arrive at the mouth of the valley, said.
"Well, the picture shows that this lake is huge, reaching a million square miles, spanning two states. The mysterious area is in the mountainous area near the lake in Hezhou." Xue Tong said.
The two waited for a short while before Deputy Valley Master Ma and two others arrived.
"Let's take a look at the ship first," said Deputy Valley Master Ma.
The five people patrolled for a day and found nothing. The lake area was full of water vapor and shrouded in clouds and fog, so low-altitude observation required a lot of energy and vision.
The biggest gain was only the innate low-level monsters, with no other abnormalities.
We set up camp in the forest in the latter half of the night and completed our aerial patrol for six consecutive days.
Xue Tong leaned against a big tree and sat quietly doing the exercises. The only sounds in his ears were the mountain breeze and the chirping of insects.
He released a ray of spiritual consciousness to guard against outsiders and the plots of the other four people.
Xue Tong suddenly felt something was wrong. Someone was approaching the woods.
A ray of gray light passed by, and the master monk who was ten feet away pierced through the protective layer of his body and fell to the ground with a groan.
Xue Tong and the four others stood up and took their magic weapons.
"Hehe, finally here comes a stronger dish!"
Accompanied by a strange smile, under the thin starlight and moonlight, a slightly rickety old man walked forward!
The old man has unkempt hair and dirty face, his green shirt is dirty and has not been washed for a long time, and his small eyes are as bright as wild beasts.
Early Heavenly Monk!
Kuang Jing and others were dumbfounded on the spot and understood everything instantly.
Xue Tong grasped the Sun-Splitting Cuckoo tightly, and the Nine Palaces Sword Cloud gathered together, ready to go.
Deputy Valley Master Ma was mumbling something, with a black dragon coiled above his head.
"The boy actually wants to resist!"
Before the old man finished speaking, the shadow of his claws suddenly stood in front of the horse's deputy valley master's chest.
The black dragon probed his head and saw that Deputy Valley Master Ma had just halfway swung his long sword.
"puff!"
Blood splattered everywhere, and Deputy Valley Master Ma's heart was dug out with one claw!
Xue Tong didn't move at all. The moment the old man took out his claws, he could have waved his bat to rescue him, but in the final analysis, the life and death of the person Kuang Jing called had little to do with him.
The remaining two people were trembling, they dared not take action, let alone escape.
"You seem to be the strongest. Where did this treasure come from?"
The old man in green stopped killing people and asked about Xue Tong.
"Refined!"
"How do you practice?" The old man's face twitched.
"Why, senior also refines weapons?" Xue Tong asked.
"I'm looking for a fight!"
The old man from Heaven waved his hand and teleported three feet away from Xue Tong.
Xue Tong's counter-attacking claw hit the center of the palm shadow.
"boom!"
The palm shadow shattered into pieces, and the old man's arm felt slightly warm.
"Oh." The old man in green looked confused and his eyes rolled around several times.
"Of course I'm upgrading the magic weapon, why bother?" The palm of Qingyi Tianren's hand lit up, and there was an additional earth-level magic weapon.
Red Ning Dao, second grade earth level!
The blood color on the blade's surface has the texture of coagulated blood, and several French characters are engraved on the handle.
Xue Tong saw others holding the highest quality magic weapon.
"The sword is good, but it's still not as good as Xue's Huntian Ju!"
"But in terms of quality alone, there is almost no difference between the two. Xue's treasure is superior because it has twenty more French characters engraved on it." Xue Tong said.
"You're quite knowledgeable. I asked you how you made the iron sword." The old man was in a good mood when he heard Xue Tong admit that the Chi Ning Dao was not defeated.
Xue Tong chatted and laughed freely with the murderous cultivator, which greatly relieved Kuang Jing, who was worried about his throat. He immediately asked tremblingly: "Senior, let's talk slowly, can we leave first, so as not to get in the way? Don't you hear me?" Listen."
"What do you think?" Qingyi Tianren asked, staring at Xue Tong.
"We are inspecting the lake area and have violated senior's territory. Two people died. Senior, please calm down and let them go back."
Xue Tongsha was being polite. It doesn't matter if Deputy Valley Master Ma dies, but he must not die all of them.
If you die without any evidence, you will be blamed for it.
In this way, there will be four more powerful enemies of Xuanmen, which is extremely difficult to bear.
At least Tianmang Sect, Fan Ruhua and others cannot bear it.
"Write down what happened on your name cards. Xue stayed to accompany the senior. Life or death has nothing to do with you two." Xue Tong said again.
Only by keeping the required credentials can you avoid trouble in the future.
The man in blue was silent.
"Yes Yes!"
Kuang Jing and the Grand Master of Tianxing Mansion hurriedly took out the name card and started writing with blood seeping from their fingers.
A flash of blood!
The Qing Yi Celestial being Chi Ning Dao suddenly takes action!
The bloody horses are flying like waves, and in the blink of an eye they are about ten feet away from Kuangjing!
Most of Xue Tong's consciousness was placed on the old man's side, and his energy pulses rolled up, converging with the pure magic power in his palm, and the clouds shot out like lightning.
"Bang!"
The Chi Ning sword exploded with a rumble, sending Kuang Jing and the two men flying.
The old man's arm was shaken violently, and Xue Tong's mouth became numb.
"Senior, are you determined to fight Xue? Although there is no chance of winning, you can't just die without saving him!"
The sword cloud above Xue Tong's head grew rapidly, and dragons roared in waves.
It is very difficult to deal with the gods holding second-grade earth-level magic weapons, but Xue Tong still has a 70% chance of winning.
"If we let the two of them go, won't Laochan's secret be known to outsiders?" Qing Yi Celestial Being said.
"Then make another blood-soul oath and say that the two Valley Masters, Ma and Deputy Valley Master, were furiously killed by the Heavenly Realm monk holding the Earth Treasure. Xue Tong lured the senior away and their whereabouts are unknown, so they saved their lives."
"Other than that, no more words will be revealed!"
"Senior, what do you think?" Xue Tong said.
