Su Anran, Song Nana and others soon separated into two groups.
The others went directly to the Holy Island to find Fourth Senior Sister Ye Jinxuan, while Su Anran drove the sword light directly to the meeting point mentioned by Dongfang Yu.
Judging from Dongfang Yu's voice, the other party was obviously a little anxious, and seemed to be vaguely hurt. However, although Su Anran had been quite happy to cooperate with Dongfang Yu before, he did not relax his vigilance just because the other party was Dongfang Yu, because he knew
, Dongfang Yu is a typical profit supremacist. If the Peeping Immortal Alliance can provide him with benefits that far exceed his own, then there is also the possibility of backstabbing him.
Therefore, Su Anran was naturally wary.
The meeting place is a mountain in Zhongzhou.
This place is close to the northern outlet, so Su Anran doesn't need to spend too much time to get here. This is why he didn't let the spirit boat bring him here. After all, the size of the spirit boat in Wanshi Building is not small. Once it gets close to the north
When you leave the sea, you will be discovered immediately, and things may become quite troublesome by then.
But if Su Anran came alone, there wouldn't be so many problems.
Especially the closer to Zhongzhou, the more Su Anran noticed that the atmosphere in the Xuanjie seemed a bit stiff.
After several days of galloping, Su Anran soon arrived at the agreed upon location.
If other monks are allowed to fly at high speed for such a long time, unless they have crossed the pinnacle of the sea of suffering, there will be few monks who can endure such a long period of consumption of spiritual consciousness and true energy. This is why there are spiritual beings.
Boats, spirit shuttles, and even various flying beast mounts.
But Su Anran is different.
It seems that he is flying with the sword by himself, but in fact he is relying on the Little Butcher, so Su Anran will not suffer any loss at all - of course, if he is willing to stay up all night for several days in a row, then there may be some
Mental wear and tear.
As soon as he landed on the ground, Su Anran let go of the little butcher, but he did not let the little butcher change into a human form.
In this world today, although there are not many people who know the true identity of the Little Butcher, they are not known to everyone. At least Dongfang Yu doesn't know about it. So Su Anran just let the Little Butcher still transform into the form of a flying sword.
Suspended next to oneself, this is also a characteristic of most swordsmen when they enter the battle state.
Following the signal left by Dongfang Yu, Su Anran quickly found the meeting point where Dongfang Yu had left a message for herself.
But here, Su Anran did not find Dongfang Yu.
The only conclusion he could draw was that Dongfang Yu had indeed stayed here before, but then seemed to have to leave for some reason.
And just as he had expected, Dongfang Yu was injured, and the injury was not serious.
Because Su Anran smelled a smell of blood at the hiding place before Dongfang Jade.
Although the smell of blood is very weak, you must know that it took Su Anran five or six days from receiving the message from Dongfang Yu to rushing over. The fact that the smell of blood is still left behind is enough to prove that he left the smell in the first place.
How strong is the smell of blood here?
From this point of view, it can also be inferred that Dongfang Yu's injuries were probably not serious.
"Daddy."
The little butcher's voice suddenly entered Su Anran's mind, but to outsiders, it was just the flying sword itself suddenly emitting a soft, weak light.
"What's wrong?"
"Someone."
At the same time as the little butcher's voice sounded, a picture similar to a three-dimensional plan appeared in Su Anran's mind, which clearly showed Su Anran's position at this time, as well as the positions of other people marked by the little butcher.
In terms of spiritual perception, the little butcher and Su Anran can achieve an effect similar to coexistence.
That is to say, within the sensing range of Su Anran's spiritual sense, the little butcher can also clearly feel it. And because he is a flying sword, the little butcher's sensing ability is more sensitive than Su Anran. There are many details and flaws that Su Anran cannot discover.
Even the little butcher can detect it. Even some special methods of concealing the aura may be able to hide it from Su Anran, but they absolutely cannot hide it from the little butcher.
Just like right now.
Within the scope of Su Anran's consciousness, he clearly did not perceive the existence of any living creature at the location marked by the little butcher, but the little butcher was able to clearly mark that there were four people at this position, and they were not weak.
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Four Taoist realms.
If in the past, Su Anran would have felt a little bit troublesome when faced with the ambush of four Daoji Realm monks, but with his current level of cultivation, let alone four Daoji Realm monks, even if there were four more
It is completely unable to threaten Su Anran.
At this moment, Su Anran was a little confused.
Did Dongfang Yu really betray himself?
Su Anran thought for a moment and couldn't figure it out.
"Oh, with my current strength, why am I still timid? If I just catch him and ask, we will find out." Su Anran shook his head and laughed.
The next moment, Su Anran raised his hand and shot out a sword energy.
I saw a white rainbow passing through the sky.
The next moment, four figures scattered around and fled.
"Sword prison."
Su Anran stretched out his finger, and a sword energy shot through the air. However, it exploded in mid-air like brilliant fireworks, turning into countless sword energy that scattered in all directions, with a structure that was almost like a prison.
Four figures shrouded each one.
Being hooded by the sword energy prison, three of them immediately stopped, with a look of horror on their faces.
Only one person, as if he did not believe in evil, tried to forcefully break the sword energy cage, but in the next second, the sword energy that stood up like a prison exploded, and this person was crushed to pieces by the sword energy on the spot and turned into a human being.
Bloody mist.
As a result, the other three people did not dare to move at all.
Su Anran walked slowly.
He did not cover his figure, but walked openly to the central open space, so that the three people could see him.
"Who are you?"
Su Anran asked.
"We...we are just passing by." One of the three people said cautiously, with a trembling voice and a flattering look on his face, as if he was afraid of Su Anran's powerful strength, "Senior, we...
…We really don’t mean to offend.”
"Do you know who I am?" Su Anran asked again.
"No, I don't know..."
Someone spoke hurriedly, but before the other person could speak, Su Anran waved his hand, and the sword energy cage imprisoning him exploded immediately. The man didn't even have time to scream, and was crushed into a bloody mist.
No stumps were left.
"I don't have that much patience, so I hope you won't lie." Su Anran shook his head slightly, "Perhaps at the beginning, you might not know who I am, but when you come out of the hiding place, you will see
The moment I saw you, you had already recognized my identity, otherwise the first unlucky guy wouldn't have thought of escaping... We are all smart people, so there is no need to waste each other's time, right?"
The only two people left looked at each other.
"Of course, if you insist on seeking death, then I don't care. I'll just kill you." Su Anran shrugged.
"Wait a minute!" The person who spoke before suddenly shouted, "We do know you! You are a disciple of Taiyi Valley, Su Anran!... If we answer your question, can you let us go?
After all, you have nothing to lose, right? Of course, we are willing to pay ourselves a ransom as the price for accidentally offending you."
After saying that, the monk took off several storage bags on his body, then opened the bags and threw them at Su Anran's feet.
There was a dull sound when it landed, and it was obvious that there were a lot of things hidden inside.
Su Anran slowly picked up the storage bag with a little butcher's hand and took a look, then whistled softly: "Are you from the Dongfang family?"
"Yes." The man nodded as if accepting his fate, "We are the royal children of the Eastern Dynasty. Although we are not the direct lineage of the princes, we are also blood relatives and branches, not a branch of the family."
Since the Dongfang Family re-established the Dongfang Dynasty in Dongzhou, the head of the Dongfang Family has been promoted to emperor, and his group of elders have been crowned kings, completely bringing the entire Dongzhou under their control. And these enfeoffed people,
Naturally, the family is separated. They are only connected by blood to the Dongfang family, but in the future, don't think about getting involved in the position of clan leader or emperor. Only the fourth brother, the direct prince, can truly inherit the throne.
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As for the blood relatives, they are other relatives with the blood of the fourth family. If these people are strong enough, they can naturally be entrusted with important responsibilities. If they are really useless and useless, they can only receive a little money.
Qian will continue to be a waste or a breeding pig. However, these blood relatives will never be qualified to inherit the throne. No matter how hard they work, they will only be ministers in the future. And because of their own positions, even the factions will not be qualified from the beginning.
After making a decision, unlike those princes who own vassal lands, they can still be won over by the four houses.
You know, the position of crown prince of the Eastern Dynasty is still vacant.
Therefore, the fight behind the scenes in the four houses is now more bloody and cruel than outsiders imagined.
Su Anran looked at these people and roughly understood what trouble Dongfang Yu had encountered.
"Which room are you from?" Su Anran said, "Tell me what you are doing here."
"We are the Third Prince's people." The two disciples of the Dongfang Family said helplessly, "We came here to capture a ferocious beast according to the Third Prince's order to give His Highness Tao a birthday gift, but we have been
We haven't gained anything since then. We just saw the light of your sword, Mr. Su. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, we decided to hide it."
"I just said, don't lie to me, right?"
Hearing Su Anran's words, the person who spoke felt his heart skip a beat.
But before he could ask for mercy, Su Anran activated his sword energy and strangled the man directly.
"Don't... don't kill me..." Seeing Su Anran's ruthlessness, the last remaining person was frightened on the spot and knelt down directly to Su Anran, "I, I will never lie, Mr. Su, you
Excuse me, no matter what you ask, I will definitely tell you everything!"
"Where is Dongfang Jade?" Su Anran asked without hesitation.
"I...I don't know either." Hearing that Su Anran asked a question that he couldn't answer at all, the man was immediately confused and could only say with a grimace, "We are indeed the third prince's people.
But this time, we are here to arrest His Highness Jade according to His Majesty’s decree. Otherwise, no matter how bold we are, we would not dare to attack these His Highnesses who have the right to inherit.”
"After all, His Majesty has made it clear that his successor will not be selected among the four princes, but will be selected among the thirteen His Royal Highnesses who have the right to inherit."
The prince naturally refers to the head of the fourth house.
The thirteen highnesses are obviously direct blood relatives of the heads of the four houses.
But having said that, it is conceivable that the only ones who can really get their hands on the imperial chair are Dongfang Che, the eldest brother, Dongfang Xi, the third room Dongfang Tao and the fourth room Dongfang Yu.
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Dongfang Jasmine in the second room and Dongfang Lan in the third room are both controlled by their brothers. Obviously they will not compete with their elder brothers for the throne.
At that time, Dongfang Shuang, who was also one of the seven heroes of the new generation, had no inheritance rights because of his status as a side branch.
After all, the rules of the Eastern Dynasty are not as good as those of the Eastern Family. This can be seen from the fact that after the founding of the Eastern Dynasty, all the elders of the original Dongfang Family were enfeoffed. It can be seen that the throne of the Eastern Dynasty cannot fall into anything wrong.
Someone outside of my direct bloodline has it in his hands.
"What did Dongfang Yu do to deserve the order to kill him?"
"He... he colluded with outsiders from the Peeping Immortal Alliance to try to overthrow the Eastern Dynasty, and killed His Highness Che, and seriously injured His Highness Ji and His Highness Lan."
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My mother had a gout attack, and then the plot got stuck again recently. I was very irritable writing it, so I didn’t update it for two days. I’m sorry.