The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 292
Fire Cloud State, Divine Fire City.

Tian Daxiao, who was wearing the costume of the head of the Shenhuo Sect, was playing chess with his proud disciple Tian Beixi. By the way, he was listening to Tian Beixi's report on the recent progress of Huoyun Prefecture's economic reform.

However, after hearing the ringing of the bell, the hands of this dignified Nascent Soul stage monk trembled violently, and he couldn't even grasp the chess piece, so the exquisite ceramic chess piece was smashed hard on the chessboard, with a "pop" It fell to pieces with a bang.

Tian Beixi looked up at his master in astonishment, only to find that Tian Daxiao had lowered his head at some point, silently picked up the broken chess pieces, and then turned to look in the direction of Zhongzhou.

From the beginning to the end, Tian Daxiao didn't let Tian Beixi see his expression.

"Master..."

Hearing the voice of his apprentice, Tian Daxiao just raised his hand slightly, and said in a voice without any tone: "The old people are withering one after another, like leaves falling in the wind... The young people who were vigorous and vigorous in the early days of Lingshi Reserve Bank did not know what was left. A few people, there will be a chance to see you in the future!"

Tian Beixi was a little puzzled and said: "Master, you and Li Xingchang have been fighting for hundreds of years, I thought..."

Tian Daxiao raised his hand and said weakly: "Why do I want to fight with Li Qingyang? We are all butlers guarding President Lu's legacy, but as long as the Lingshi Reserve Bank is attached to the existence of the Wuliang Sword Sect, sooner or later it will become the Wuliang Sword Sect Li Qingyang presides over the overall situation at the Lingshi Reserve Bank, so doing more can only delay a little time, this approach is absolutely unworkable!"

Seeing that his master was obviously in a bad mood, Tian Beixi wanted to step forward to say something to comfort him, but before he could speak, Tian Daxiao ordered with a serious expression: "Beixi, if there is a chance for this trip to the battlefield outside the territory, If so, please help Li Qingning. My junior brother is most worried about his great-granddaughter. As the head of the Shenhuo Sect, I have no position to let my disciples take risks for the monks of Zhongzhou, so I can only ask you in my personal capacity."

Hearing Tian Daxiao's order, Tian Beixi was stunned on the spot.

Although she had known for a long time that her master often cared about Li Qingning's situation, she did not expect Tian Daxiao to be so concerned about Li Qingning's affairs, which surprised her, and she couldn't help being a little jealous.

She wanted to say that she had just been bullied by Li Qingning and Yang Lu in turn, why should she go to the battlefield outside the territory to help Li Qingning with a shy face, but seeing her master's serious eyes, she finally replied honestly: " I will do my best!"

Tian Daxiao didn't know his apprentice's competitive character, so he said helplessly: "Are you sure you're not trying to play me off?"

Tian Beixi snorted softly, and reluctantly said: "Since it is Master's request, I will naturally try my best to help her, but if I really saved her on the battlefield outside the territory, I must humiliate her and let out a bad breath !"

"It's all a matter of minutiae, so let's do what you want!" Tian Daxiao waved his hands helplessly, and then changed the topic, "Since you have said so, it seems that there is a way to find Li Qingning in the foreign battlefield? "

Tian Beixi smiled and said: "Master, don't worry, although I haven't found a way to find Li Qingning, some guys must have a way to find Li Qingning! I just want the other party to take me to find Li Qingning, and I guess I have to use some extraordinary methods. If things get serious by accident, you may need to give me the right to act cheaply!"

After a little thought, Tian Daxiao understood what his apprentice meant, so he had no choice but to nod his head and said: "As the head of the Shenhuo Sect, I can still suppress the personal conflicts among the disciples during the Qi refining period. Come on, I can take all the responsibility on my own!"

Tian Beixi smiled and said: "Then I would like to thank Master for fulfilling it!"

Tian Daxiao didn't answer, but stood with his hands behind his hands again and looked in the direction of Zhongzhou, wondering what was going on in his mind.

Seeing that his master was in a bad mood and didn't seem to want to continue chatting, Tian Beixi took the initiative to leave and said: "Then I will go to arrange the affairs of the battlefield outside the territory!"

Tian Daxiao waved his hands without turning his head and said: "Go! Try to make the noise as small as possible, Elder Lu and his gang have long been unhappy with me. If you make things too big, then both of us will lose face Not very pretty!"

Tian Beixi hastily promised: "I will definitely keep things secret, and promise not to leak out my actions!"

Tian Daxiao nodded and said nothing more.

Neither Tian Daxiao nor Tian Beixi realized at this time how large-scale a storm would be created around Li Qingning, the core of the contradiction, in this extraterritorial battlefield trial.

Yufeng faction headquarters, Jinfeng Building.

As one of the seven major sects in Kyushu, the overlord Yufeng Sect of Borneo is headquartered at the peak of Borneo, which is known as the "No. [-] peak in Kyushu's cultivation world". The altitude is tens of thousands of meters high. According to common sense, The climate and environment at this altitude should be extremely harsh, but under the protection of the Yufengpai's large array of mountain guards, the environment of the entire Yufengpai headquarters has maintained a state of spring all year round.

The Golden Wind Tower is the highest building in the headquarters of the Yufeng Sect. It is not only the main meeting hall of the Yufeng Sect, but also a very powerful magic weapon for refining Dao itself. The essence and the dross are removed, and the ordinary wind-attribute aura is slowly refined into the priceless wind-attribute top-quality refining material [Congenital Wind].

It's just that the whole refining process is very long, and it takes almost 30 years for Jinfenglou to extract a ray of congenital wind that can be used, and Li Qingning's natal magic weapon Xunfeng is refined with this extremely rare wind attribute material made.

As the highest building in Kyushu's comprehension world, several Nascent Soul monks from the Yufeng Sect like to come to the top of the Golden Wind Tower when they talk about things. The area has a panoramic view.

Just when the death knell rang, the two elders of the Yufeng Sect, Zhang Huaqing, a fourth-floor Yuanying monk dressed as a middle-aged scribe, and Xiao Nan, a handsome youth-like second-floor Yuanying monk, were listening to Lin Musen's talk in the Golden Wind Tower. A report on the situation of the Zhongzhou Sword Discourse Conference.

Lin Musen was ordered to participate in the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference in order to seek the prize of the Nine Heavens Gangfeng Essence.

Hearing that Lin Musen failed to complete the task, Zhang Huaqing frowned suddenly into the word "Chuan", and severely reprimanded him: "In order to get a place in the competition from the Arctic Cold Palace, I paid nearly a hundred dollars out of my own pocket through my personal relationship. The price of ten thousand spirit stone coins, but in the end, you only brought me back a qi-refining magic weapon worth less than 50 yuan of spirit stone coins?!"

Faced with the reprimand from his ancestor, Lin Musen could only knelt down on the ground, and apologized: "To my ancestor, the Wuliang Sword Sect did not hold the final of the eight finals as usual, but directly divided up the eight winning prizes privately through insider connections. Even if this disciple has the confidence and strength to defeat the masters of other Zhongzhou vassal sects, but the other party didn't give me this chance, I really have nothing to do!"

Although the reasons given by Lin Musen were reasonable, Zhang Huaqing was still a little angry.

The Essence of the Wind of the Nine Heavens is very suitable for low-level wind attribute spiritual root monks. Originally, Zhang Huaqing planned to use it as a gift to Yi Fangda, the head of the Yufeng School, to match Zhang Qian, the head disciple of Yi Fangda, and his family. The great-great-granddaughter Zhang Yayun became a Taoist couple.

It is precisely because the pursuit of the essence of the Nine Heavens Gangfeng is a private matter, this time Zhang Huaqing went to the Arctic Cold Palace to discuss the competition quota for the Sword Discussion Conference, and he paid for it entirely out of his own pocket, using his personal relationship, and did not embezzle a single stitch of the sect.

Although a million Lingshi coins are only a small amount for monks in the Nascent Soul stage, they are not something that can be floated casually, not to mention that Zhang Huaqing also owed a huge debt of favor for this, which has exceeded the cost of The value of the Nine Heavens Gangfeng Essence itself.

The reason why Zhang Huaqing chose the super sect of the Arctic Cold Palace to ask for a place in the competition, and did not go to the small sect of the Penglai Pavilion to ask for a place like Tian Beixi did. Seeing that there is a problem with Mu Sen's identity, he will not turn against him on the spot because of such a trivial matter.

Since disciples from the Seven Great Sects were not allowed to participate in the Sword Discussion Conference, Zhang Huaqing originally thought that Lin Musen's victory would not be a big problem, but unexpectedly, he still didn't get anything in the end!
Therefore, after Lin Musen gave a reasonable explanation, Zhang Huaqing still persisted and said, "Didn't I give you a lot of funds for activities? Since the cultivators in Zhongzhou can blend in private and conduct secret operations, why can't you go to them to blend in private?"

This kind of accusation is really outrageous, even Xiao Nan, another Supreme Elder who just happened to visit Zhang Huaqing, couldn't stand it any longer, and quickly persuaded him: "Senior brother Zhang, this Lin Musen under your command is originally an impostor monk from the Arctic Cold Palace. , it’s not even easy to reveal his true identity, and it’s really not easy to participate in the behind-the-scenes transactions among the cultivators of Zhongzhou! Besides, he has at least defeated countless masters in the realm of cultivation in Zhongzhou to enter the top eight, which has already been done to his own ability separated."

In fact, it is not a coincidence that Lin Musen chose this time to report.

He knew that his patriarch was narrow-minded, so he specially picked the opportunity when another Nascent Soul boss came to visit to report on his work.

It now appears that this choice really worked wonders.

Hearing that the Supreme Elder Xiao Nan, who was in charge of the work of the sect, took the initiative to speak for Lin Musen, Zhang Huaqing couldn't continue to blame his disciples, so he could only sneer and say: "Is it something to be proud of when the disciples of the seven major sects defeated the disciples of the Zhongzhou vassal sect?" Brother Xiao, when the two of us were on the battlefield outside the territory, who hasn't killed a few ordinary sect disciples?"

As the saying goes, it is difficult for an upright official to break up housework.

Hearing that Zhang Huaqing had no intention of reasoning with his disciples at all, Xiao Nan could only smile wryly: "Lin Musen is not a direct disciple of our Yufeng Sect, it's pretty good to be in the top eight..."

Zhang Huaqing originally wanted to continue scolding Lin Musen to vent his anger.

However, at this moment, melodious bells rang out from the headquarters of the Yufeng faction, one after another.As the death knell sounded, the two Nascent Soul cultivators fell silent.

Especially Xiao Nan who came to be a guest, his originally smiling face instantly became extremely ugly.

Everyone present knew that Elder Xiao and President Li Qingyang were colleagues of the Lingshi Reserve Bank in the early years, and they were inseparable. The innate wind was also obtained by Xiao Nan from Yi Fangda, the head of Yufeng Sect.

Hearing the news of Li Qingyang's death now, it's strange that Elder Xiao has a good face. Even Zhang Huaqing looked at Xiao Nan with some concern, for fear that the other party would do something irrational.

He even forgot to continue reprimanding Lin Musen!
After a long silence, it was Zhang Huaqing who took the initiative to say: "Junior Brother Xiao, please give me your condolences!"

Xiao Nan took a deep breath, finally calmed down, and then slowly said: "It's okay, I have been mentally prepared for this matter. It's just that the days when Li Qingyang and I listened to President Lu together seemed to be like I can vividly remember yesterday, but it’s a pity that my youth was white, but in a blink of an eye, I never thought that it was already 500 years ago..."

Xiao Nan spoke very slowly, as if speaking too fast, he couldn't restrain his emotions.

Zhang Huaqing didn't feel deeply about Xiao Nan's feelings, so he could only comfort him in a non-painful way: "Junior Brother Xiao, none of my cultivators have ever seen life and death. As long as they fail to achieve the Dao of the Immortal Family, then only the Dao of Heaven will last forever, back and forth." The reincarnation has never been changed, so don't mistake your heart for the Tao because of this kind of thing."

Hearing Zhang Huaqing's very perfunctory tone, Xiao Nan knew that his exclamation about the impermanence of life was a chicken-and-duck talk.

So he could only smile wryly, turned to look at Lin Musen and said, "You just mentioned that Li Qingning also participated in the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, what do you think of her strength?"

"Very strong!" Lin Musen didn't expect Elder Xiao to ask him a question suddenly, but his answer was decisive without any hesitation, "In my opinion, Li Qingning's strength is probably no less than that of Senior Brother Zhang Gan, far better than that of Zhongzhou The other contestants in the Sword Discussion Conference, even the disciple of the Mountain Eagle School who has practiced the forbidden technique Gengjin Transformation Body Jue, are definitely not her opponents!"

Xiao Nan immediately raised his brows and said, "Is Li Qingning already this strong? I remember that girl has good talent, but after practicing, she always fishes for three days and spends two days drying the net..."

Lin Musen hastily lowered his head and replied: "This disciple is definitely not exaggerating at all. Even in terms of fighting skills alone, Li Qingning is absolutely top-notch in the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference."

Although Lin Musen's evaluation of Li Qingning was quite high, the two Yuanying patriarchs of the Yufeng Sect didn't know that Lin Musen had only told half the truth.

Lin Musen has personally watched Li Qingning's six consecutive shots at the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, and has also watched Zhang Qian's shots many times. He has already collected enough battle data to input the Monte Carlo Flying Sword's [Derivation Heaven's Secret] Array.

According to the calculation results of the Monte Carlo Flying Sword in his hand, if Zhang Qian heads-up with Li Qingning, the winning rate is only 38.32%. He said that the two of them would probably have a [-]-[-] split, but in fact, he was already trying to save face for Zhang Gan.

However, Zhang Huaqing didn't know the existence of the Monte Carlo flying sword. Hearing Lin Musen's astonishing conclusion, he sneered on the spot: "Lin Musen, you don't do things very well, but you speak in a big tone! How dare you comment now? Your brother Zhang Gan is here!"

Seeing Zhang Huaqing's expression, Lin Musen also knew that his actions just now were a bit hasty, so he quickly bowed his head and apologized: "What the ancestor taught me is that the disciple has gone mad!"

However, Xiao Nan didn't show any sarcasm, but said seriously: "Lin Musen, I have a heartless request this time."

"Patriarch Xiao just give orders!"

Xiao Nan nodded and said: "If you happen to encounter Li Qingning in danger on the battlefield outside the territory, try to help her as much as you can, it can be regarded as doing your best for me."

Lin Musen was startled and said, "Old Ancestor, you want me to help Li Qingning? I, Lin Musen, are only a mere inner disciple, so how can I intervene in this kind of thing!"

Xiao Nan frowned slightly and said, "Why, you don't want to?"

Lin Musen is Zhang Huaqing's disciple, Xiao Nan assigning tasks to Lin Musen is obviously a bit presumptuous.

However, Zhang Huaqing devoted almost all his energy to cultivating his younger generation, Zhang Yayun. All his impressions of Lin Musen and Lin Muhu brothers were that they were just two useful tools in the Qi refining period, and he never took Lin Musen's thoughts into his heart.

So after hearing Xiao Nan's request, he just waved his hand indifferently and said: "Lin Musen, since Elder Xiao Nan has already given orders. Then you can do as he wants!"

Xiao Nan asked Lin Sen to help take care of Li Qingning, of course he didn't do it randomly.

On the one hand, Xiao Nan's sect did not have any strong direct disciples from the Qi refining period to participate in this extraterritorial battlefield trial. If a guy who is not strong enough is sent to take care of Li Qingning, it will only add to the chaos;
On the other hand, Xiao Nan's vision of seeing people is much better than Zhang Huaqing's. In fact, he has already seen that the Lin Musen brothers are all hidden masters who hide their secrets and pretend to be pigs and tigers.

You must know that the Lin Musen brothers have been sent by Zhang Huaqing to perform various dangerous tasks in recent years, including outlying islands, deep spirals, and Zhongzhou Sword Discourse Conference. However, these two brothers can miraculously succeed every time. Completing the task, it is difficult to explain it simply by luck.

As one of the earliest founders of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, Xiao Nan was in charge of the newcomer training of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, and in the Yufeng School, he has also presided over several sessions for Yi Fangda, the head of the Lingshi Reserve Bank who has not been able to retreat for many years. With a hundred years of sect management work, what kind of young junior he has never seen pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?
Although Lin Musen has tried his best to conceal his hole cards, it will inevitably attract suspicion. If he does more, he can only fool a monk like Zhang Huaqing.

Of course, it's not that Zhang Huaqing's brain is bad, it's just that ordinary Qi-training disciples are nothing more than mere consumables in the eyes of Nascent Soul cultivators. How can human beings care about the thoughts of ants?
Not to mention Zhang Huaqing, even if Xiao Nan saw that Lin Musen was hiding something, he was not interested in knowing what Lin Musen's cards were. After all, no matter how strong the cards of a monk in the Qi training period were, it was just a joke in front of a monk in the Yuanying period. It is enough to know that Lin Musen's strength is not as simple as that of an ordinary Yufeng Sect inner disciple.

Seeing Xiao Nan's meaningful gaze, even though the city is as deep as a forest, one can't help but feel the fear of being seen through.

He quickly lowered his head, and honestly agreed: "I will obey the decrees of the two ancestors, and the disciples will go all out!"

(End of this chapter)