The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 143 Winners and Losers

Heitan Flood King was severely wounded by the Mountain Eagle Sword, and he was at the end of his strength.

It hurriedly turned its head and spit out a piece of pitch-black venom, trying to interfere with Chen Ming's attack rhythm, then it dragged its stump and continued to run wildly without any thought of revenge without looking back.

Facing the venom of the Black Pond Flood King, Chen Ming didn't even dodge, only to see a bright halo suddenly lit up around him, which should have activated some defensive magic weapon, and then saw the black venom poured on it, only The half inch of aura that corroded the outermost layer of the halo was completely annihilated by the majestic aura.

This kind of venom that can turn the magic weapon of the refining period into ashes was blocked by Chen Ming lightly!

At the same time, Chen Ming raised his hand and made a second sword.

With this sword, Chen Ming showed no mercy, and the Black Lake Flood King didn't have a second tail to resist. The sharp sword light cut directly from the center of the black shadow. , Lost the momentum to move forward in an instant.

"Boom--boom--"

After two muffled falls to the ground, the body of the Flood King of the Black Pool, which was like a hill, was directly divided into two by the sharp sword light, turning into two parts and falling to the ground, obviously completely dead.

Feeling the disappearance of the Black Lake Flood King's aura, all the monsters driven by the Black Pool Flood King panicked and began to recede towards the nature reserve like a tide, while the morale of the monks hiding behind the energy barrier was greatly boosted. They all jumped out from behind the barrier, and started chasing the monsters and beating the dogs in the water.

Under the ebb and flow, there will soon be no traces of monster activities in the outer city area of ​​​​Tianshu City.

Under the command of the acting head Fei Fan, the extinguished energy barrier outside Tianshu City was quickly re-established. Even if the tide of monsters came again, it would never be able to cause the damage just now.

It seems that everything is going in a good direction.

However, Chen Ming, who had just shown his might, stared at the dilapidated Tianshu City with a gloomy face, without the joy that a winner should have.

Although Tianshu City's direct property loss can be made up for by monster corpses, and even a slight surplus can be achieved, but after the Tianshu Mountain Nature Reserve's vitality is severely damaged, it will take at least decades of recuperation to fully recover. In the future, the financial revenue that the Mountain Eagle Faction will obtain from the nature reserve, and even the entire monster hunting industry chain, will inevitably suffer a heavy blow.

What's more terrible is that due to the serious damage to the infrastructure of Tianshu City, the pilot project of the new generation of self-cultivation social security system has been completely ruined. Chen Ming never imagined that the pilot reform plan he had prepared for a long time would end in such a dismal way.

"Fei Fan, Huan An, you two come back to Yingxiangding with me, I need an explanation!" Chen Ming casually called the names of the two elders of the Mountain Eagle School, and then turned into Changhong again and shot at Yingxiang The mountain eagle faction meeting hall at the highest point.

Obviously, since the beast tide in Tianshu City has subsided, it's time to settle accounts after autumn.

According to preliminary statistics, this Tianshu beast tide caused a total of six foundation building stage monks and more than [-] Qi refining stage monks to die on the spot. Most of them were non-local monks who did not obey orders. Serious vicious incidents that are rare in years.

Don't say that Fei Fan and Huan'an, the elders of the Mountain Eagle Sect, will be in bad luck, because those few monks in the foundation-building period who unfortunately fell from other places, including Chen Ming himself, will inevitably be held accountable by the senior leaders of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

Chen Ming didn't even have time to organize the aftermath, so he rushed to discuss matters with several elders in order to unify his voice as soon as possible to deal with the next series of troubles.

And as the situation subsided as scheduled, Yang Lu finally didn't have to be a turtle anymore. He pretended to be nonchalant, quietly mixed in with the monks who went out of the city to beat up the dogs in the water, and then took advantage of the chaos to return to Songjian Pavilion.

Yang Lu couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief by carefully keeping the demon pills obtained in this adventure. Although this operation took some risks, the result is still satisfactory.

Of course it was no coincidence that Chen Ming rushed back to Tianshu City ahead of time.

Yang Lu had already informed Li Qingning who was in Haiya City of the news of the Heitan Jiaowang's attack on the city through a communication spell, and ordered Li Qingning to pass the information to the senior level of the Wuliang Sword Sect through Fang Jiancai's channel. Chenming.

As a new partner of Gongdetang, Li Qingning must have a way to directly contact Fang Jiancai, and Fang Jiancai is Chen Ming's partner. Informing Fang Jiancai of the city's information is equivalent to informing Chen Ming himself.

However, according to Yang Lu's suggestion, Li Qingning did not pass the information to Fang Jiancai immediately.

After all, Yang Lu's ultimate goal is to make Fang Jiancai and Chen Ming owe him favors, not to help Tianshu City solve the problem. His information does not need to arrive too early, as long as it is a little faster than the Shanying faction's own information channel, this Even if the human relationship is in place.

In fact, speaking seriously, on the issue of destroying Tianshu City, the interests of Qingning Chamber of Commerce and Liu Hanxing are highly consistent.

Now that Li Qingning has been tricked by Fang Jiancai into boarding the thief ship of the Merit Hall, if he wanted to backstab the other party immediately, the two sides would undoubtedly break apart completely, and the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, which was about to lose Li Qingyang's protection, could not afford the consequences of the Merit Hall's settlement.

However, if Li Qingning was labeled as a merit hall, Li Qingyang's plans would inevitably fall into a very passive position. Therefore, the current situation of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce can be described as a dilemma.

However, Liu Hanxing's plan to shake the mountain and shake the tiger gave the Qingning Chamber of Commerce an excellent opportunity to get out of the predicament.

If Liu Hanxing can deal a heavy blow to Gongdetang and get Fang Jiancai and Gongdetang out of the game early, it will make the Qingning Chamber of Commerce stay away from the vortex of high-level political struggles of the Wuliang Sword Sect as soon as possible, and it will not offend Gongdetang.

Therefore, the time when Li Qingning delivered the information to Fang Jiancai was only two hours earlier than the time when Liu Qi initiated the action. Even if Chen Ming got the news, he rushed to attack with all his strength without saying a word, and it would be useless to rush back to Tianshu City in time. up.

No matter how unreliable the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce is, making good use of this time difference is enough to deal a fatal blow to Tianshu City.

However, due to the lack of necessary information, Yang Lu still missed the special situation of the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

In order to hold Chen Ming back, Lin Jianxing, the head of the Wuliang Sword Sect, deliberately arranged the routine debriefing meeting of the vassal sect today, and asked Chen Ming to report his work face to face, so Fang Jiancai's information was not passed on to Chen Ming immediately. Ming here.

Fortunately, Lin Jianxing was able to hold back Chen Ming, but he couldn't hold back the Supreme Elder Cheng Shuying, who was also a monk in the Nascent Soul Stage.

Although the information about the monster attacking the city is incredible, but because it was personally transmitted by Li Qingning, and Li Qingyang's secretary, Wang Ziwei, also confirmed the authenticity of the information, Fang Jiancai chose Report the information directly to his immediate superior, Cheng Shuying, the leader of the Gongde Hall.

In fact, Fei Fan, the acting head of the Mountain Eagle Sect, had already sent a message spell to report the news of the monster attacking the city to Chen Ming, and asked him if he could use the Nine-Revolution Tianshu Formation to kill the Black Pool King.

It's a pity that in the routine closed-door meeting held by Lin Jianxing, the communication spells of monks in the foundation building period could not be sent in at all, so Chen Ming didn't know what happened in Tianshu City until Cheng Shuying, relying on his identity as the Supreme Elder, forcibly interrupted the meeting. After a meeting, Chen Ming just woke up like a dream, and immediately set off for Tianshu City to save the situation.

It was precisely because Yang Lu and Liu Qi had their own arrangements that Chen Ming's final arrival in Tianshu City was nearly an hour later than Yang Lu expected, but two hours earlier than Liu Qi expected.

Although the timeline of the animal disaster in Tianshu City did not go according to the established plan of either party, Yang Lu and Liu Qi both achieved their main goals in the end, and the Shanying faction and Gongdetang were the biggest losers in this man-made animal disaster .

The Tianshu City under the rule of the Shanying faction was severely damaged, and more than ten thousand mortals were displaced. Not only the pilot work of the social security system for cultivation was basically declared bankrupt, but the future finances of the sect would also be greatly affected, and it might even affect the Shanying faction. Martial arts.

Not only that, the Shanying faction had just announced the pilot cultivation of the social security system, and it was suddenly hit hard. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Shanying faction was deliberately retaliated by hostile forces.

Since the Gongdetang can't even protect the sect it owns well, if any local forces want to cooperate with Cheng Shuying in the future, they need to weigh it up, whether they can afford the price of the Shanying faction.

After this battle, the prestige of Cheng Shuying and Gongdetang will undoubtedly plummet, and it is basically possible to declare that they have officially withdrawn from the competition for the reform of the social security system.

(End of this chapter)