"What's the reaction?..."
Li Xiaoliu asked, he was in a daze after drinking and really didn't pay attention to Xiang Jianjue's expression.
Su Qingqing could only continue: "Junior Brother Xiang is indeed, as Li Changting said, extremely sincere and true, and he respects his earthly master very much.
When he heard someone slandering Earth God, his expression changed immediately. If Li Changting hadn't secretly stopped him, he might have fallen out with the purple-clothed monk on the spot. "
Xiang Shu listened, his expression unchanged, but his heart was full of mixed feelings.
Jian Jue's personality is quite similar to hers, he can handle problems calmly, but he is often confused when it involves her.
This is not a good thing.
"In short, the Pantheon failed to completely provoke a dispute today, so there must be a back-up plan."
Su Qingqing concluded, "If I take action too early, I will only alert the enemy, which will be detrimental to the situation."
Li Xiaoliu looked troubled when he heard this: "Then what should we do?"
"Just follow what the junior sister said and continue to observe in secret."
Su Qingqing smiled slightly: "You two don't have to worry about it, just concentrate on your cultivation."
"Okay, then I'll go practice."
Li Xiaoliu reluctantly responded. He is still young and has low cultivation, so he really can't be of much help.
After Li Xiaoliu got up and left, he bowed to Shu and returned to his room.
Su Qingqing watched the two people leave, and then realized that the junior sister seemed to be much quieter after returning from the sword tower today, and she didn't say much.
Could it be that there are obstacles in the practice?
Or did you make a big deal in the morning and say you want to resolve the situation in the city, but now you are helpless and feeling depressed?
Su Qingqing smiled, thinking that the little girl was thin-skinned and couldn't keep it off her face, so she thoughtfully didn't ask any further questions.
…
In the next few days, Li Changting and Xiang Jianjue never went to the sword tower, but they also never left the city. They just stayed in the Jianzong Courtyard and stayed behind closed doors.
Lu Yuncheng is still the leader in the sword ranking every day, but his whereabouts are uncertain and he has not been seen all day long.
The Xizhou monks were dissatisfied and challenged higher levels one after another, but no one could surpass his record.
Unable to find Lu Yuncheng and unable to capture the leader, they had nowhere to vent their anger and quickly targeted other Dongzhou monks.
The number of conflicts that broke out in various places in Sword City immediately skyrocketed. Each time the cause was a trivial conflict, but it could lead to a fight between the monks from the east and west continents.
Zhuang Teng, as the highest-ranking disciple of the Sword Sect in Sword City, had to send his junior brothers and sisters to the city to maintain order.
For this reason, the training time of everyone in Jian Zong was greatly shortened, and it was inevitable that they had resentments in their hearts, and the atmosphere in Jian Zong's other courtyard became increasingly uncomfortable.
"Gengqi, you can see outside, right?"
In the resting place of the sword tower, Xiang Shu opened and closed his eyes and suddenly asked a question.
Geng Qi was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "The external formation is extended from the sword tower. I can indeed see it, but the tower spirit has an order prohibiting us from interfering with the outside world."
Xiang Shen's eyes flashed: "Then I stare at one person. Is that considered a bad rule?"
Geng Qi said in a difficult tone: "Fellow Taoist, I cannot reveal the identity and whereabouts of the person who broke into the tower."
"The person I asked you to keep an eye on will not break into the tower."
Xiang Shu waved his sleeves, and Su Qingqing's face condensed in the void.
When Geng Qi saw Su Qingqing, he was immediately surprised and said: "Fellow Taoist, isn't she your senior sister?"
Xiang Shu nodded slightly: "If she leaves the formation area, please inform me in time."
"clear!"
Geng Qi agreed, but then heard Xiang Shu say: "And Lu Yuncheng, he also helps me pay attention when he climbs to the top every day."
Summit time? What does the noble man want from this? Are you still trying to find a needle in a haystack and find this Lu Yuncheng?
Geng Qi murmured in his heart, but these two things were not considered breaking the rules, so he agreed to both.
In the blink of an eye, another two days passed. The situation in the city, under the secret control of the Pantheon, is getting worse and worse, and it is not known when it will completely explode.
The next day, in the sword tower.
Xiang Shen had just finished fighting when he heard Geng Qi say in his ear: "Fellow Taoist, your senior sister has just left."
Xiang Shu's eyes froze for a moment, and he immediately used the secret method of transformation and transformed into a young man with an ordinary appearance, leaving the sword tower.
She came outside the formation area, ducked into a high place with a good view, gathered her breath, and waited patiently.
These days, in addition to asking Geng Qi to pay attention, she also secretly eavesdropped on the discussions among the casual cultivators and discovered that Lu Yuncheng had an erratic whereabouts and never showed up in front of others.
This person probably knew his situation in his heart. He had caused such a big disturbance in Sword City. If he showed up rashly, he would definitely be in danger.
If someone surpassed him, he might be able to escape directly from Sword City by going down the steps. However, no one has surpassed him yet, which makes him unable to get off.
If he breaks the contract on his own, he is afraid that he will become a common laughing stock in the eyes of the monks from the East and West continents.
Therefore, in order to minimize the risk, Lu Yuncheng would probably only stay in the sword tower for a while, and then continue to hide immediately after winning the leader.
There was a glimmer in Xiang Shu's eyes, and she asked Geng Qi to pay attention to the time when Lu Yuncheng ascended to the top. This guess was indeed verified.
The time Lu Yuncheng reached the summit was fixed every day, always around a quarter of the hour.
To be listed on the sword list, the monk's consent is required, so this person must be in the sword tower in the next moment.
It's still early now, only five quarters to noon.
The time it takes to break through the first level of the sword tower will not exceed half an hour.
In other words, at this time, Lu Yuncheng is very likely not here yet.
With this in mind, Xiang Shu left a vague spiritual thought on all the monks who came to the sword tower to practice.
In half an hour, there were forty-two spiritual thoughts that came out.
At the end of the day, it was still too early for the sword tower to close. Although there were monks leaving the formation area, they were very few.
From the moment Xiang Shen waited until the third moment of the last hour, there were only twenty-three people in total, among whom only four were monks marked by divine thoughts.
To be on the safe side, Xiang Shu waited for another quarter of an hour. After the number of marked monks reached six, he set off to the direction where the first marked monk left.
After a moment, she gave up and started tracking the next one.
Lu Yuncheng's appearance was widely circulated, so she had naturally seen it before. The current Lu Yuncheng is hiding and should have changed his appearance long ago, but it is difficult to tell from the appearance.
However, the people from the Pantheon have been busy with this matter, and they should have been secretly monitoring it for a long time.
As for the person she was following just now, there was no one with any spiritual sense around her, so naturally it couldn't be Lu Yuncheng.
Xiang Shu looked at the next few people one by one, and they were all excluded.
When the fifth person arrived, Xiang Shu followed his spiritual thoughts and came to the door of a small inn in the city.
Before she stepped into the door of the inn, she sensed at least four obscure divine consciousnesses sweeping over her body in the dark.
Her heart moved, but on the surface she remained calm as she stepped into the door of the inn.
"This distinguished guest, do you want to stay in the hotel?" A waiter came up and asked with a smile on his face.
Xiang Shen nodded slightly, threw a bag of spiritual stones, and said quietly: "There is no need to go to the room, as long as the room is clean."
"Your honor, please come with me."
The waiter put away the spirit stones, led Xiang Shu to the door of an ordinary room, and asked, "Honored guest, what do you think of this room?"
Xiang Shu shook his head: "Too small."
The waiter scratched his head and immediately took Xiang Shu to the next room: "What about this one?"
Xiang Shu looked disgusted: "It's a little dirty."
The waiter's face froze slightly, and he continued to lead Xiang Shen inside, "...how is this place?"
"Why is the layout so strange?"
"..."
If you're so picky, why don't you get an apartment?
Poor guy!
The waiter cursed in his heart, but seeing that there were a lot of spiritual stones that he could keep for himself, he still had the patience to continue changing rooms.
This time, six rooms were changed.
It wasn't until he was in the room next to Lu Yuncheng that Xiang Shu reluctantly nodded and said, "That's all, everything looks average from left to right, so this is the room."
The waiter had long been impatient. Hearing these words, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and left.
Xiang Shu opened the door and sat down directly in front of the bed in the room, pretending to enter meditation and practice.
This scene immediately aroused discussion in the eyes of the Pantheon monks who were secretly watching.
"This person looks familiar. He should be a casual cultivator who has recently entered the city."
"My cultivation is only in foundation building. I am dressed in ordinary clothes. I must be short of money. It makes sense to live here."
"Probably not here for Lu Yuncheng."
"Just building a foundation can't cause any trouble."
"Don't be careless. If you observe for a while longer, if something goes wrong in your plan, no one will be able to bear the responsibility."
"..."
While the man in the dark was discussing, he did not notice that a faint light flashed in Xiang Shu's palm, and a paper figure appeared.
The paper man's surface was stained with blood and turned into flesh and blood in the blink of an eye. He continued to practice sitting cross-legged in front of the bed in place of Xiang Shu.
Xiang Shu himself hid in the hidden spirit shuttle, passed through the void, and came to Lu Yun's city room.
The feeling of voyeurism is getting worse...
Xiang Shu narrowed his eyes, glanced at the middle-aged monk who was meditating in the room, stretched out his fingertips to touch the void, and the power of deceiving the sky surged out instantly, covering the entire room.
The Pantheon spies who were secretly watching were still talking about the monks next door, unaware that Lu Yuncheng's room under their surveillance had been covered by the illusion of deceiving the heavens.
Xiang Shen waited in the dark for a moment, making sure that the sense of prying eyes was completely gone before he appeared.
Lu Yuncheng spent the past two days in a state of trepidation and confusion. Although he was meditating, he was not in samadhi. When he saw someone suddenly appear in the room, he was so frightened that his hair stood up and he ran away without saying a word.
But before he could squeeze out the secret, a sharp force wrapped around his neck, making him unable to move.
A clear voice sounded in my ears.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, my cultivation is far superior to yours. If I wanted to kill you, why would I wait until now?"
After these words fell, the sharpness in his neck also dissipated at the same time.
This tightening and loosening immediately made Lu Yuncheng calm down.
He wiped the fine sweat on his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "I have been careful enough recently. I wonder how my friend recognized me?"
"This is simple."
Xiang Shu smiled leisurely: "I followed the Pantheon's spies all the way. The Pantheon has the most spies here. Apart from fellow Daoist Lu, I can't think of anyone else who could be so concerned by the Pantheon."
As soon as these words came out, Lu Yuncheng's expression changed instantly.
