On the cloud viewing platform at the back of Wanjuanshu Mountain, Zhou Yankong held his hand on the railing of the pavilion and looked into the distance. The vast sea of clouds was within his sight. From the gap, he could see a drop of two to three hundred feet below.
Although this is not the highest location in Wanjuanshu Mountain, it is one of the locations with the best views. It is also the favorite place of the sect leader Zhou Yankong. It is said that here you can feel the vastness of the world and cultivate your mind with empathy. Therefore, except for him, no one else dares to come here to disturb it.
"Is the news reliable?"
Zhou Yankong did not look back and continued to look at the end of his field of vision, where he could already see wisps of golden light. The sun should emerge from the sea of clouds in a short time.
Zhou Yankong was not the only one in the pavilion today, there was another person standing behind him, Zhong Hongye, the ninth elder of Wanjuan Shushan, who was also the main person in charge of external travel and communication.
Zhong Hongye stood with his hands tied up and stood a few feet away behind Zhou Yankong. When he heard the question, he immediately replied: "The news is reliable. The seventeen corpses are currently tied around the necks by people from the Golden Sword Camp and hung in the Sanyuan Sect." At the gate of the mountain, everyone wears distinctive robes. They are all sects on the border of Jingxi, and most of them are second- or third-rate.
Two of them were indeed disciples of the Tianchan Sect. They were at the beginning of Yuan Dan Realm and were good at sneaking and hiding. They had some reputation in Jingxi, but this time they lost their lives at the hands of the Golden Sword Camp.
However, Golden Sword Camp's rhetoric is not credible. Even if the Tianchan Sect secretly stirs up troubles, it is impossible for them to be bold enough to attack the Golden Sword Camp array of more than a thousand people with only a dozen people. This is no different from seeking death.
There must be something fishy in it. "
Zhong Hongye is the ninth among the elders in Wanjuan Shushan. She is younger in age, cultivation and talent. She is now at the fourth level of the Xuanhai Realm, and has basically reached the top. At most, she will finally make a push to the fifth level. Therefore, many external affairs are handled and contacted by her.
In the past year or so, Zhong Hongye has suddenly felt busier than before.
Although Zhong Hongye was relatively busy in the past, she knew everything well and didn't need to worry about trivial matters. There were still many disciples under her sect who were responsible for external affairs. After finishing those major important things, Hongye can take some time off to practice or stabilize his mind. Generally speaking, half of the year is busy and half of the year is off.
But in the past year or so, something unplanned suddenly came up, and it was still a major event. Zhong Hongye was so busy that most of his free time was lost.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that all the things that happened are related to Shen Hao, who made trouble as soon as he emerged. He's so good at organizing things! Not long ago, a separation of "investigation and punishment" was implemented, which forced Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshan Sect to take action even though they knew there might be fraud. Because of this matter, Zhong Hongye has not settled it yet, and even walked around the major sects to appease their emotions.
But not long after it stopped, things happened again.
First, an unpopular sect called Sanyuan Sect in Jingxi broke out a new vein of spiritual stone. This attracted many second- and third-rate sects from around to swarm in, trying to force the Sanyuan Sect to compromise based on the size of their fists.
Although cruel, this has always been the practice in the sect circle. How can a mediocre sect hold onto a top-notch resource like the spirit stone vein? If you want to survive, then dissolve the sect and be annexed. It's just so unfair.
But this time things went beyond everyone's expectations.
The Sanyuan Sect actually roped in Fenghong Villa as its backer, telling the outside world that it would hand over the mineral veins, and Fenghong Villa also sent more than a thousand people from the Golden Sword Battalion to garrison. This posture on both sides did not allow a third party to interfere. mean.
When Zhong Hongye heard the news, he was so angry that he stood up from his chair. How could an unconventional sect dare to ignore the sect's rules? ! How dare Fenghong Villa dare to stand up and challenge the sect's rules? !
At the first moment, Zhong Hongye could think that once this hole was opened, would it be possible for the lower-level sects to not only choose sides based on the power in the sect circle, but also take Fenghong Villa into consideration? How much impact will this have on the sect? I am afraid that Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshan Sect, who are at the top of the sect, can feel it the most.
But after getting angry, Zhong Hongye quickly forced himself to calm down.
After all, I have dealt with Fenghong Villa so many times now that the foreign affairs director has been replaced, and I have an understanding of the nature of the foreign affairs chief. He is an insidious and difficult poisonous snake who will never expose himself to low-level situations. Everywhere, he can always find reasons and ways to subvert the routine, the routine in the sect circle.
So Zhong Hongye took the news to the sect's elders' meeting and studied it. Several elders who were not in retreat thought about it for a long time before they came to a conclusion: it was against the rules, but it was barely reasonable.
Although it is difficult to accept it, Zhong Hongye has to admit that the rules in the sect circle are too broad, and they are all "tacit". There has never been a written memo, and the details are completely full of loopholes. Unsurprisingly, the guy named Shen found a loophole to exploit.
Mainly because it was not Fenghong Villa who took the initiative to get the spirit stone vein, but the Sanyuan Sect who first discovered the vein took the initiative to approach Fenghong Villa to hand it over. According to the rules in the sect circle, if the sect discovers any cultivation resources in its own mountain sect, they belong to the sect, and special needs will be divided into outputs for the Jingjiu Dynasty.
The Lingshi mineral vein is located within the mountain gate of Ren Sanyuan Sect. It is logically the property of Sanyuan Sect. If someone is willing to ask Fenghong Villa to help mine it, that is their own business. There is no rule saying that they cannot ask Fenghong Villa to share the mining pressure.
Moreover, the Lingshi vein is a "special category" resource and needs to be given to members of the old Jing Dynasty, usually 50% or 60%. Although it was against the rules and suspected of intervening in the internal affairs of the sect, it was reasonable for Fenghong Villa to send people to guard the Sanyuan Sect's mineral veins after being actively invited.
Irregular but reasonable, this is not so easy to handle. In addition, the target is Fenghong Villa, a force that is difficult to suppress by ordinary pressure, and it is even more difficult to handle.
It was also because he figured out the constraints that Wanjuan Shushan contacted the Mingshan Sect and decided not to act rashly for the time being, and let the Jingxi sects be noisy for a while first.
It just so happened that Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshan Sect could also use this incident to see how much trouble the Tianchan Sect in Jingxi, which had been making a lot of noise recently, could cause to Fenghong Villa.
As a result, Tianchan Sect had not yet performed brilliantly, but Fenghong Villa took action first. Seventeen lives were taken in one move, and the corpses were exposed after the killing. This was to destroy the face of the sect behind those seventeen lives. Step on it.
"It doesn't matter whether it's strange or not. If Tianchan Sect wants to get ahead, it has to bear the pressure from Fenghong Villa. Humph, I remember that Shen Hao is still a registered disciple of Guishan Monastery, right?" The corners of Zhou Yankong's mouth raised, as if He was very dismissive of the Tianchan Sect's fuss.
