Although the process and results of this battle were deliberately downplayed by the officials of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, we can get a glimpse of the various actions of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance after this battle.
Various offensive orders that had just been promulgated were urgently cancelled; states were instructed to strictly guard against the infiltration of Wu Laohui monks; no state was allowed to start the war lightly, and the current task was to focus on defense.
Recruitment orders sent from the front to various states became more frequent.
"Changing orders in the morning and evening, Caotai team!"
Almost overnight, the combat strategy changed 180 degrees, causing all the Immortal Alliance monks to complain from the bottom of their hearts.
But in the photo of Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance Tianwei, no one dared to say it directly to his face. He just sighed heartbrokenly during a private gathering.
The progress of the war is not affected by the will of the monks.
It just suddenly changed from seemingly having the upper hand to a stalemate between the two sides.
The external war has suffered setbacks, but the internal war has not stopped either.
At the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, it is said that many monks in high positions have been dismissed from their posts for investigation, and even some veteran Hedao monks with deep backgrounds and long-term employment have not been able to avoid this.
However, no one knows the reason why they were interrogated.
Even after these monks were released, even though they had been tortured, they looked extremely weak at first glance. They kept the matter secret and refused to discuss it in detail no matter how much they were asked.
This has led to widespread suspicion and panic.
After all, no one wants to be the next person to be taken away for interrogation for no apparent reason.
But Li Fan knew that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was trying to catch a non-existent mole.
No matter how hard they tried, how could they have imagined that the person who leaked the Tianxuan Spirit Sealing Formation diagram was actually a little Golden Core cultivator who had never been exposed to this matter and was far away on the border of the Immortal Alliance: Cong Yunhai?
So this is an investigation destined to be fruitless.
Perhaps, the outcome of the case will be that a few unlucky guys will be beaten into submission and the case will be hastily closed.
And Li Fan's list of injured will include the names of several more innocent people.
After roughly understanding the course of the war over the past year, Li Fan looked through the many messages He Zhenghao sent to "Zhou Qingang".
They basically asked and urged him when to leave the country.
At the beginning of the retreat, it was very frequent. However, later on, I don’t know whether it was because I gave up or for some other reason, but the calls became less and less frequent.
"Master Secret Envoy is in deep retreat, and so are you, fellow Taoist Zhou."
"I can't even get in touch with anyone."
"Now that's good, everyone has learned the lesson well. Each one of them destroyed the communication talisman and claimed to be in seclusion."
"If this continues, our Congyun City Administration Hall may not even be able to recruit ten officers! How should I explain to the secret envoy when he comes back!"
…
He Zhenghao vomited bitterness, but Li Fan snorted coldly.
"You still have me as the secret envoy in your eyes?"
Not caring about the dying man, Li Fan blinked away the messages in the communication talisman, then left the retreat room and quietly appeared in the hall of the Bu Zheng Hall.
"Brother Gao, the position of [Elixir Quality Inspector] in the Alchemy Hall has recently become vacant. Someone has offered me 50,000 contribution points to buy this position. What do you think?"
"I think it's a little less, at least 80,000."
"After all, I recently held the position of [Leader of the Martial Arts Troupe] in the Martial Arts Hall, earning a total of 130,000 yuan. This time..."
As He Zhenghao was talking, he suddenly discovered that there was one more person in the scene.
The words stopped suddenly, and He Zhenghao looked at "Zhou Qingang" with an embarrassed face, feeling a little embarrassed for a moment.
Gao Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, not at all flustered by being caught using power for personal gain.
Instead, he greeted "Zhou Qing'ang" with a smile on his face and said naturally: "We haven't seen you for a long time, Mr. Zhou, and he just happened to come to help us with our advice!"
With that said, he cordially grabbed Zhou Qingang and once again truthfully explained the matter of the two selling vacant positions in Congyun City.
And he looked at Li Fan expectantly, waiting for his answer.
This move instantly resolved the awkward situation between him and He Zhenghao, and at the same time eliminated the quarrel with Zhou Qingang, whom he had not seen for a long time, and instead recruited him to join the gang.
Even Li Fan, who has been in officialdom for hundreds of years, couldn't help but praise her as "beautiful."
Looking at the two of them with a half-smile but not a smile, he did not choose to be an upright person who hated evil as much as he hated evil and vowed to report and expose the two of them.
After pretending to think for a while, he slammed the table: "Eighty thousand contribution points?"
"It's still missing! One price, 160,000 contribution points!"
"Do you want love!"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Qingang's appetite was bigger than his own, so he opened his mouth and doubled the price.
He Zhenghao was stunned.
But after a while, he came back to his senses and persuaded with a wry smile: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you may have just woken up from seclusion and don't understand the current market situation."
"The position of [Elixir Quality Inspector] can only be sold for 80,000 yuan at most. After all, we, Cong Yunhai, are not selling it alone. Others choose us just because the price here is low and can be used as a springboard."
"You doubled in one fell swoop..."
He Zhenghao shook his head: "With this money, why don't others go to Luoyanzhou or other more prosperous places?"
Gao Yuan also nodded in agreement.
Li Fan looked at the two of them with a sneer, with a sarcastic look in his eyes: "I don't understand the situation? Do you two think that since I am in seclusion during this period, I know nothing about what is happening in the outside world? I think now, it is
You two don’t understand the situation!”
"Zhou Qingang's" behavior is completely different from his previous behavior.
Zhou Qingang, on the other hand, is a more stable person, and he is not a random person.
Could it be that……
Gao Yuan and He Zhenghao looked at each other with surprise and suspicion in their eyes.
As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Just such a simple sentence frightened the two of them.
He Zhenghao leaned forward and asked cautiously: "Fellow Taoist Zhou, where do you start talking about this?"
"Zhou Qing'ang" didn't answer, he just looked at Gao Yuan aside.
A flash of anger flashed in Gao Yuan's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it, showed a smile, and assumed a posture of asking for advice.
At this time, Li Fan slowly spoke out: "The battle in Tianling Province is coming to an end, and the war is about to subside. Those of you who took advantage of the chaos of the war and the special period of no one to govern, your behavior of buying and selling official positions is almost over!"
As soon as these words came out, both Gao Yuan and He Zhenghao were shocked.
This time it's not just pretending.
After the brief shock, both of them had a trace of disbelief in their eyes.
He Zhenghao asked quickly: "There was no news about this matter at all, how did Fellow Daoist Zhou know about it?"
"It's not just us who don't believe in Taoist friends, but it actually involves a major matter of the Immortal Alliance. Taoist friends must not make such nonsense." Gao Yuan also helped.
"How do you know?" Zhou Qingang looked at the two of them with a cold light in his eyes.
"Of course it was the secret envoy who sent a message to me!"