In the Gou Chen family's main house, several housekeepers were standing in front of Gou Chen Qianying, reporting some matters about Xiao Shui's Sword Song Competition tomorrow.

Gou Chen Qianying waved her hand: "Is there anyone in Longyi Guard who is secretly involved?"

"Yes." A confidant took out a roll of paper with several names written on it: "These are the four people we found. There should be others."

Gou Chen Qianying nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, secretly be careful not to embarrass the people of Long Yiwei too much."

"Yes, I'll understand later."

He sent the stewards away, and a master who had been sitting next to him smiled slightly: "Master, tomorrow is the beginning of the Gouchen family's rise. I wish you success and everything goes well!"

Gou Chen Qianying couldn't help but smile: "This is just the first step."

He summed it up himself: "Tomorrow's sword show, the first purpose is to win people's hearts. If these martial arts practitioners gather together, they will be a big force. With the help of Dao Duo, I will try my best to provoke the Chen family.

Pull in all the forces.

The second purpose is to find those Long Yiwei people and disgrace them tomorrow. They sneaked in secretly, so we just pretend we don't know about it, and Song Zheng can't blame us for this.

Waiting until after the fact to expose it at this time will make people feel that Long Yiwei is nothing more than this, weakening the prestige of Long Yiwei, which will be very convenient for our uprising."

This is the real plan. The manager just now is not qualified to participate in the real core secrets, so Gou Chen Qianying will naturally not tell the truth to him.

Gou Chen Qianying has a series of plans later. He is more ambitious than others think and has been gathering momentum. If the Ancient Huaxu Kingdom is indeed powerful, then he will cooperate with the Ancient Huaxu Kingdom with peace of mind. But if there is still a chance, he will

Put aside the ancient country of Huaxu and establish himself as king.

Hongwu's dynasty was almost exhausted, and even a man from the countryside like Lin Yizheng had some ideas, not to mention the Gou Chen family, a medieval family.

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That night, Gouchen's "Xiao Shui Manor" outside the city was fully prepared. At dawn the next day, the main door opened wide to welcome martial arts cultivators from all over the world.

Zhao Xiao entered the manor among these martial cultivators. Gou Chen's arrangement was very orderly, with dozens of retainers maintaining order, and more than a hundred domestic servants responsible for receiving the monks, registering their names, and selecting projects for them.

In addition to the ability to fight, most of the martial arts cultivators also have one or two cultivation skills, and each person often applies for two or three projects.

It was Zhao Xiao's turn, but she only chose the "Flying Sword Trial". A huge connected water pavilion was built near the Xiaoshui River in the manor, which was the main venue of this Xiaoshui Sword and Song Festival.

Of course, it is impossible for all monks to squeeze in. Before that, three rounds of selection must be conducted first, and only those with sufficient strength can go up.

Zhao Xiao has a calm temperament and waits patiently in the queue for his time to play.

There has been a somewhat depressed atmosphere in the Baotao Guard Yamen since the morning. Zeng Baihu arranged for five school lieutenants to pretend to be casual cultivators to participate in this martial arts meeting.

Two people participated in the Flying Sword Trial, and one person each took part in the Pill Trial, the Refining Trial, and the Beast Summoning Trial. These five people all have some abilities. Zeng Baihu estimated that even if they cannot win the ranking, it should not be a problem to enter the main venue.

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Unexpectedly, as soon as the preliminaries started in the morning, Zong Qi, the first person to participate in the elixir test, was kicked out in a panic. When he came back, he was confused: "The question I won was very simple, the most basic fire elixir.

Furnace, I don’t know why it failed three times in a row.”

To ignite the alchemy furnace by igniting the alchemy fire, to put it bluntly, it means to release the divine fire in the body and ignite the entire alchemy furnace.

The alchemy furnace is huge, and there is indeed a possibility of failure in the ignition process. But as a Long Yiwei who can refine fifth-level magic medicine, he has failed this kind of problem three times in a row. No wonder he is very depressed.

Moreover, this kind of pre-selection, which was watched by many people, naturally attracted a lot of ridicule and made him very embarrassed.

Half an hour later, Xiao Qi, who had participated in the beast summoning test, also came back in despair. His cultivation level was average, but six years ago, he went to the Extinct Territory to try his luck with others, and he really encountered it.

In that team, there were great cultivators of the Ming Jing Realm and young masters from aristocratic families who were full of treasures. However, they all died in the Absolute Realm. Only he, a young monk with five connections and five paths, who usually served tea and poured water to rub the fruits of battle, survived.

, and in the process of escaping, he picked up a cub.

This cub is a fifth-level desolate beast, the white-eyed eagle. After he brought it back, he raised it from an early age. This white-eyed eagle was very docile to him. It is now almost adult and has the strength of a fourth-level desolate beast.

The topic he drew was to use the war beast to retrieve an item, but in that messy environment, the white-eyed eagle looked confused and turned a deaf ear to its master's orders.

The silly look of the war beast, coupled with the anxious look of its owner, caused the other martial arts cultivators around to burst into laughter, and Xiaoqi had no choice but to run away.

After coming out of Xiaoshui Manor, he tried again. The white-eyed eagle was very clever, quick to react, obedient and agile.

"It's evil!" he shouted outside the manor, feeling depressed.

Coincidentally, another hour later, Xiaoqi, who was participating in the flying sword test, knelt in front of Zeng Baihu: "Sir, this subordinate is incompetent!"

The topic he chose was not difficult either: One Sword and Seven Shadows.

For any monk above the Maihe realm, this is a question that comes easily, because the first round of selection is not difficult, and there are two more rounds.

However, he controlled the flying sword, thrust out with one sword, and produced a series of sword shadows. According to his current level of the Sixteenth Path of the Maihe Realm, it was almost guaranteed that the sword shadows would be continuous.

Unexpectedly, only three sword shadows were born this time. When the fourth sword shadow appeared, the first sword shadow shattered and went out with a pop!

The key is that this popping sound is very indecent, just like farting.

There was laughter all around.

He was stunned, quickly adjusted, and thrust out the flying sword for the second time. Unexpectedly, it was the same as before, when the fourth sword shadow appeared, the first sword shadow was shattered with a fart sound. But this time,

What he originally wanted to do was to use all his energy to evolve the infinite sword shadow, so his sword power moved forward inexorably.

The fourth path, the fifth path, the sixth path... the sword shadows appear one after another, and the sword shadows in front of them are destroyed one after another: puff puff puff...

The sound of farts continued continuously.

"Hahaha..." The crowd burst into laughter, and someone even shouted: "If you can't do it with one sword and seven shadows, why don't you come here to embarrass yourself? Isn't it good to keep your dignity while practicing at home?"

Xiaoqi was so angry that he roared and launched with all his strength. The rivers of blood stirred in the sky, and one sword was about to thrust out endless sword shadows. But the tragedy was that the more sword shadows there were, the more fart noises they made...

His face turned red and he fled back in embarrassment.

Zeng Baihu felt vaguely that something was not good, so he waited for another half an hour, and sure enough, another person came back, the general bannerman who participated in the forging trial.

Everyone in the Long Yi Guards knew that this general's ability was capable of capturing magical weapons below the fourth level, and the success rate of the fifth level was not low. Even with some effort, one could occasionally refine a sixth level treasure.

On weekdays, when everyone's standard magical instruments are damaged, they always ask him to repair them. After repairing them, they are often better than the new ones. He is also very loyal. He never charges money to repair the magical instruments for his brothers, and he even drinks three meals of flower wine.

become.

The topic he drew was "One fire melts three metals". It means using a kind of divine fire to completely melt three metal materials at the same time, and make sure that they do not mix with each other.

This is not difficult for a refiner. Making weapons is a very complicated and cumbersome process. Refiners often have to process multiple materials at the same time. A real master needs to process seventeen or eighteen kinds of materials with different properties at the same time.

This question was easy for Zong Qi, so he randomly selected three metals, raised the flame, and threw the three materials into it. Unexpectedly, the three materials were mixed together somehow, and they exploded with a bang.

Zong Qi accidentally had half of his hair burned off, and his appearance was almost disfigured.

There was a burst of booing around, and the contempt was palpable.

"If it doesn't work, don't come. You are trying to be strong and harm others and yourself." He almost hit the people next to him. He apologized to the surroundings and started the second attempt. This time he was more careful, and the three metal materials were not mixed.

Together, but strangely, they can't all melt. When one melts, the other condenses...

He felt strange in his heart and was slightly distracted. The three metals were mixed together again: bang!

He didn't have a third chance, he was kicked out by others.

Your Excellency, the General Banner, has been completely disgraced.

Zeng Baihu felt that things were not that simple anymore, so he immediately got up and went to see the adults.

Gou Chen Qianying actually made an oversight that he was not even aware of: from his point of view, the four Long Yiwei people were in great disgrace and were inconspicuous among thousands of martial arts cultivators. But from Long Yiwei's point of view,

Five people were sent out, and four of them retreated strangely. This was obvious.

We cannot say that Gou Chen Qianying is stupid, this is caused by the different perspective.

Under normal circumstances, even if Long Yiwei senses something is wrong, they can only stand still and wait and see what happens. After all, it seems that Long Yiwei is just unlucky.

Zeng Baihu told Song Zheng his doubts, but Song Zheng started to worry about his own soldiers in a strange way.

"Isn't that what happened to this kid?" He said silently in his mind, and then he remembered that when he was in Xizhou, Wu Hengtian came to the Yamen to try on him, Xiao Zhen turned around and killed Lin Zhuqiu with a sword, giving him

Take it out.

"You are Long Yiwei, you are Xiao Zhen's confidant, you have a big backer.

Not to mention that what you did was not wrong at all. Even if you are really wrong, you don’t need to care. We Long Yiwei are so extravagant and overbearing! You don’t have to be scrupulous when handling cases."

This is what Xiao Zhen said to him at that time. Now looking at the four subordinates who were obviously tricked, he also wanted to say this to them.
Chapter completed!