What is important to Zhang Yan is not Haoxuemen or Dahongtian, but having an opening in the Pastoral Sect.
Only when you have an opening can you collect the gold foil from the Pastoral Sect and reshape the four killing swords in your hands. Otherwise, the gold foil in the Pastoral Sect will never be closed, and the complete reconstruction of the killing sword may be far away.
But now, Zhang Yan really can't just sit idly by and ignore Haoxuemen's troubles. The twists and turns inside are not just as simple as "when one hole is gone, open another one".
If Haoxuemen is left alone this time, it will be impossible to have a reliable ally in the Pastoral Sect in the future. Learning from the past, no one is a fool.
But this time Haoxuemen's trouble is actually a rare opportunity for Zhang Yan. After all, in the past, relying on the Haoxue Gate to collect the gold foil could only be done secretly, and the situation could not be opened up, which was far less than the speed of gathering in the Chaos Sect. This is determined by Haoxuemen's position in the Pastoral Sect. It would be difficult to rely solely on Haoxuemen to open up the situation. And this time, if used well, it is likely to completely change the situation.
Therefore, when faced with Haoxuemen's request for help, Zhang Yan did not consider "whether to help" but how to help in the best interest of himself.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yan returned a jade sword to Haoxuemen and gave him a strategy. It depends on how Haoxuemen will respond.
The jade sword broke through the space, and in just a few days, it reached the hands of Li Yan of Haoxuemen who was far away in the Pastoral Sect area.
After reading the content on the jade sword, Li Yan's expression first fell into thought, and then gradually frowned as if he was a little more angry. But she couldn't make the final decision, so after thinking about it for a while, she put it away and quickly presented it to the sect leader Xue E in person.
Like Li Yan, Xue E frowned after reading the contents on the jade sword, and his eyes flashed with anger. However, the anger did not last long and disappeared after a moment, leaving only a little helplessness.
"It seems that in the eyes of Duoyashan, our Haoxue Sect will be used as an opportunity to make profits for them. From now on, our position in the Pastoral Sect will be subtle and unpredictable."
Do you regret it? Xue E didn't feel like he had anything to regret. From the first day when the Dahongtian Alliance was established, Haoxuemen has never considered living in an ignoble existence as the keynote of its existence, and has always worked hard to climb up with a lot of energy. It is not a wrong decision to take advantage of the opportunity of the Great World to overthrow the "Yuhao Great World Alliance", and using the power of the cliff mountain to achieve the goal can be said to have minimized the losses.
As for subsequent changes, that is not part of the calculation. Haoxuemen couldn't predict it either.
Fortunately among the misfortunes now, Qingshan Wonderland is still obsessed with getting the inheritance of the great world, otherwise Haoxue Sect would have been crushed at this moment.
It's a pity that Duoyashan, who was quick to help last time, did not continue to do so this time. Maybe the opponent is different, so there are other considerations. But judging from the news on this jade sword, there is more of a different kind of scheming mixed into it.
Li Yan understood what Xue E meant, sighed in his heart, and followed Xue E's words and echoed: "According to Duoyashan's intention, they are willing to participate in the interview with the three forces. And they are willing to pull strings from them to bring us Hao Xuemen serves as an opening in the Pastoral Sect set up by their Duoya Mountain to negotiate deals with the three forces. This is equivalent to forcing us to take sides. By then, we will lose everything we have managed before in the Pastoral Sect. What will the situation be like? It’s really unpredictable.”
Now it's almost time to lift up the clothes and reveal the underwear, and it's come to the last minute.
Jade Sword Li's words were as gentle and euphemistic as ever, just like polite advice between friends. But in fact, there is no room for Haoxue Sect to choose from these suggestions, and they are not even qualified to bargain. As long as they don't want to be overwhelmed by the angry forces, they must accept this "suggestion" from Duoyashan.
"Gather all the elders and core disciples together. This matter needs to be reported to everyone." Xue E did not hesitate for too long. He knew very well that he had no choice anyway, so he accepted it. Then listen to everyone's ideas and see if we can find some loopholes that can be exploited and used to maneuver from the new situation we must face.
This discussion lasted a full day and night.
In the end, after Haoxuemen made a thorough analysis, even Xue E was no longer as helpless as he was at the beginning. Because although Duoyashan's suggestion directly ruined Haoxuemen's ambitions and efforts, looking at it from another perspective, becoming the only force in the pastoral sect that has contacted Duoyashan and designated it as its mouthpiece has lost something. At the same time, you will definitely gain something new.
So it’s really hard to make an immediate conclusion as to which one is better or worse.
After Haoxuemen ended their internal deliberations, they responded to Duoyashan, and at the same time, three invitations were personally delivered by the three elders of Haoxuemen to three top powers who had already contacted Haoxuemen. . The invitation detailed the time and place, inviting the three top powers to gather at Haoxuemen in two months to discuss the specific details of various secret transactions in the great world.
The invitations have been sent out, and the attitude is irreversible. Now the ball is at the feet of Qingshan Wonderland and the other three top powers. Haoxuemen is going to make a desperate move, how should they deal with it?
That is to say, at the same time that the three Haoxuemen elders left Dahongtian with invitations, invitations with the same content were passed back by the informants of Qingshan Wonderland, and immediately reached the hands of Lin Xiao, the master of Qingshan Wonderland.
After the previous mistake of letting Haoxuemen complicate things due to contempt, Qingshan Wonderland's surveillance of Haoxuemen almost no longer missed anything. Except for those words transmitted through the message that are difficult to understand, the rest will be sent back to the dispatch center and reported to Lin Xiao in detail.
"Are the invitations on the way? It seems that Xue E of Haoxue Sect must have received a guarantee from someone else. Otherwise, he had been hesitating for so long and would not have suddenly made up his mind. You said the guarantee he received was Who gave it to him?"
After reading the first-hand jade slip information, Lin Xiao handed it to the elders below for circulation, and at the same time took a sip of the tea at hand.
After a while, after being circulated, one of the elders said: "Yunlan Territory, Qingxitian and Guishi City. The one with the worst relationship with us is Guishi City, and only Guishi City has the possibility of breaking up with us at any time. So the disciple thinks it was Guishicheng who made some promise to Xue E that emboldened him."
The other elders also agreed.
However, one elder had a different opinion: "Sect leader, although Gui Shicheng has the confidence and possibility to break up with us, do they have the need to break up with us for Haoxue Sect?"
