That night, the entire Kyoto seemed extremely quiet, but who could have known that a bigger storm was about to sweep in.
Until the next day, news spread everywhere on the streets that Gu Xiaotian had killed Peng Li.
Gu Xiaotian also heard the news and immediately frowned. It seemed that the Peng family took action first.
He immediately summoned all the guards from the Guard House and ordered anyone who saw the Peng family's guards, or the Peng family's maids and servants, to kill without mercy!
For the whole morning, the people were frightened. As soon as he saw a maid or servant from the Peng family coming out to buy vegetables or oil, he was killed by a Gu family guard who suddenly jumped out.
Killing people on the streets of Kyoto is no small matter.
Only people from the three major families in Kyoto dare to be so lavish, but they still have a bottom line. They only kill a few servants, and they can still suppress them.
In just such a short time, all the servants of the Peng family were hiding in the Peng family's mansion, unwilling to go out even if they were whipped with whips.
All the servants of the Gu family stayed in their own mansion.
Some people reported themselves as officers, but after all they were just servants and their status was not noble. They didn't want to take too much care, but because the two families were so powerful, they still reported it to their superiors.
After the superiors learned the news, they also knew that the Peng family and the Gu family were at war, but they couldn't do anything. After all, these superiors had their own superiors, and that superior was a member of the Peng family, so they could only warn them. Ichiban, let it go.
Gu Xiaotian just wanted to establish a prestige for the Peng family, so he closed the team in the afternoon, and these guards stopped killing the Peng family's servants when they saw them on the street.
This was just a small conflict. Peng Yihua was very angry, but Peng Wen could still keep his composure.
Peng Wen walked to the window and summoned the messenger pigeon. A letter was quickly delivered and immediately returned to Yihua Palace. Peng Wen's group in Yihua Palace immediately began to dress up, divided into several batches, and entered the city one by one.
Duan Peng, who was far away in Taibai, also replied to Gu Xiaotian at this time. The content of the letter is as follows:
Gu Xiaotian sees words as his face.
This battle is inevitable. I have asked the master for orders and informed the leader. Taibai spies have moved into Kyoto. If Yihua Palace takes action, everyone in Taibai will definitely support the Gu family and attack the Peng family!
With Duan Peng's promise, Gu Xiaotian finally felt relieved. This was the best news in these days.
However, what is confusing is that for the next whole day, there was no response from Peng Wen or even the entire Peng family.
As if the Gu Peng fight in Kyoto did not exist at all, as time went by, not many people believed Gu Xiaotian killed Peng Li.
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Kyoto, Peng family residence.
Peng Yihua paced back and forth in the room. Things did not develop as he had imagined. Instead, Gu Xiaotian took an opportunity and gave them a show of strength.
Peng Wen was still calmly refilling tea and water for himself and his father. Compared to him as a father, he as a son was more like the head of the Peng family.
Peng Yihua would not touch matters regarding the All-Martial Arts Association easily.
After all, if he really wants the Peng family to gain a foothold in Kyoto, he must submit to the imperial court. As for rebelling against the emperor, he didn't even dare to think about it. Any branch of the Heaven and Earth Alliance was enough for Peng Yihua to drink a pot.
He hesitated for a long time, then sat on his seat and sighed, "Wen'er, have you really thought of a countermeasure? Don't involve the entire Peng family."
Peng Wen took a sip of tea and said: "The time has not yet come, and there are still Taibai spies hidden in Kyoto. If I take any action at this time, when the Gu family and Taibai unite, we will no longer be able to Cope with it.”
The ideas of father and son are generally the same. After all, the All-Martial Arts Association is just an organization. Although there are many experts in it, it can indeed help them in the current situation. But for them, between the current Quanwuhui and the imperial court, they will prefer the imperial court.
The reason is also very simple. About one-third of the factions in the current court belong to the Peng family. If he agrees to the All Martial Arts Association's request at this time, then all the forces he has managed to put in the imperial court will be in vain.
trump card only
That's why it's called a trump card. It's something you'll only use when you reach the end of the cliff.
For the Peng family, there is no need for it now.
The candlelight was shining by the window. Although Peng Yihua was anxious, seeing his son's confident look, he didn't say much.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
Peng Wen stood up and opened the door in person, greeted him with a smile, patted the visitor on the shoulder and said, "Brother Fei Yu, please come and be well."
The visitor was Fei Yu, who defected to Peng Wen during the Ouju Haishan assessment!
Peng Yihua, as the current head of the Peng family and in charge of various court officials of the Peng family, naturally has some connections in the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and he understands things in the world more or less.
This Fei Yu is the fourth disciple of the leader of Donghaiyuan. Although his talent is not as good as those peerless geniuses, he is definitely one of the top figures in the world.
Fei Yu had absolutely no airs as a disciple of the head of the sect. In front of Peng Wen, he was like Peng Wen's lackey. He said flatteringly: "Master Peng, in this decisive battle in Kyoto, I will bring all the forces that belong to me in the sect." Although there are not many, they are all elite soldiers and generals, and they will definitely be able to help you."
As the fourth disciple of Donghaiyuan, Fei Yu is indeed not considered the largest force in Donghaiyuan, and he only brought a team of twenty people on this trip.
After all, this team of twenty people are all from Donghaiyuan, and they are all serious warriors practicing in the sect.
In terms of combat power, he is definitely more than ten times stronger than all the guards in the Guard Academy.
Peng Wen praised Fei Yu a few words and calculated: "In two days, all the people from Yihua Palace will enter the city. In two days, I will change the surname of this largest family in Kyoto to Peng!"
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During the past two days, the Peng family mostly stayed at home unless they went out to buy some necessary items.
The people in Kyoto didn't know the inside story, so they all speculated: "The Peng family must be scared. Now they are probably packing up their property and preparing to run away!"
Only the Gu and Yang families don't think so.
If the Peng family had come forward to fight back when Gu Xiaotian had just sent out his guards to attack the Peng family's servants, things would have been much easier to handle.
It is nothing more than a head-on competition for family heritage and family strength. The loser will naturally withdraw from Kyoto.
But the more silent and motionless the Peng family became, the less at ease Gu Xiaotian felt.
He always feels that this time, it is not a confrontation between families, but it will rise to the sect, or even the entire world.
The silence of the Peng family undoubtedly gave Gu Xiaotian a blow to the head.
Silence can sometimes be deafening.
In the past two days, Gu Xiaotian still practiced martial arts at a fixed time every day. After practicing martial arts, he would ask Hua Nianliang to go to the street.
He said he was going out for shopping, but in fact he was still doing the same thing as before, observing who came from Yihua Palace.
These disciples of Yihua Palace who sneaked into Kyoto were not all elites, there were also many who came to join in the fun. Just by meeting each other, Gu Xiaotian caught them out of panic.
While shopping in the morning, Gu Xiaotian wrote down the faces of these people one by one. At night, he would send someone to find out where they lived now.
For the Gu family, it was easy to find out where two people lived in Kyoto.
That night, Gu Xiaotian kicked open the door, holding a heavy sword without an edge, and beat people to the ground with just one sword move.
These Yihua Palace disciples did not want to risk their lives. They all lost the arrogance of the disciples of the sect and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
Hua Nianliang was determined to let these disciples go. After all, they were teachers from the same sect, and there was still this friendship.
Gu Xiaotian hesitated at this moment.
Today is different from the past. He is no longer the innocent young man. He didn't dare to kill people in the Eighteen Demon Tower at the beginning, but now he has many insights.
If these people are not eliminated, then Peng Wen will definitely help brainwash these people again, and in the end they will still stand against Gu Xiaotian.
Closing his eyes, Gu Xiaotian held up the heavy sword without edge and said silently: "Cut the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze will bring new growth..."
Immediately afterwards, the heavy sword passed by, and there was already a long blood mark on the neck of the disciple of Yihua Palace. He didn't even have time to whimper, and he lay down on the ground, covering his neck.
on the ground.
As blood flowed from his fingers, his life slowly passed away.
Tonight, Gu Xiaotian was undoubtedly like a demon from hell. Every time he kicked open a door, he raised and lowered his edgeless sword, which separated the world between yin and yang.
Originally, Gu Xiaotian's face was still trembling after killing someone, but later, the expression on his face gradually became ruthless.
Hua Nianliang couldn't bear to watch this scene. She used to be a disciple of Yihua Palace and practiced under the same roof as these people, but now she was in a different camp.
Until the end, the last door that Gu Xiaotian kicked open that night turned out to be Hua Nianliang's friend in Yihua Palace.
Gu Xiaotian's current state is beyond what these people can deal with. They all fell behind without even making a single move.
In addition, Gu Xiaotian has now practiced the Sansheng Sword to the next level, making it even more difficult for these disciples to deal with it.
However, Hua Nianliang begged for mercy in every possible way, but Gu Xiaotian remained unmoved.
Under the moonlight, a tear fell quietly from the corner of Gu Xiaotian's eyes.
But the edgeless heavy sword in his hand still didn't stop moving, and he slashed down with one strike.
"puff."
There was a slight sound, and Hua Nianliang's friend looked at her with wide eyes. Soon his eyes lost their luster and became extremely cloudy.
Gu Xiaotian allowed the blood to flow on the Wufeng heavy sword, put the sword back into its scabbard, carried it behind his back, ordered the guards at the side to clean it up, and said softly: "Go back home."
Today and night, Gu Xiaotian killed six Yihua Palace disciples.
On the second night after this, many disciples of Yihua Palace who were not high in cultivation and just came to join in the fun quietly left the city in order to survive.
These things were well hidden by the Gu family, and Kyoto was still the same as before.
All the people are still living and working in peace and contentment, but they don't know that during the past two nights, when they were still playing chess with Duke Zhou in their dreams, the good-for-nothing young master from the Gu family kicked open the door, and with a heavy sword without an edge, he brought him with him. Take other people's lives.
