Xuanxia

Chapter 1038 Yuan Clan Sword Appreciation Competition
Normally, a name like "Sword Appreciation Conference" would at least stir up a stir in the martial arts world and lead to a lot of grudges and hatreds.

But this time, the meeting was held within the Yuan family, and it was held in a hurry, so naturally there were not so many messy things.

Fu Qingzhou rested quietly for a few days, and his face began to grow flesh. Then the Yuan family's sword appreciating conference was finally held.

In fact, in his opinion, this speed is considered slow... We are surrounded by enemies and are besieged on all sides. You are so slow in choosing someone who uses the German sword. Do you want to live?

Of course, he wasn't completely idle these days.

Master Baihe had said before that one of the main purposes of sending people to lurk in the Yuan family was to find the Yuan family’s account books, rosters, and other things, so as to take over everything in the Yuan family.

In the past few days, Fu Qingzhou, with the merits and identity of "Yuan Lieyang", also made some friends in the Yuan family. It's a pity that his identity is a warrior and guard after all, and things like account books and rosters are too far from his duties, so it is really difficult to inquire about them. After a few days, he didn't get much.

In this case, he can only focus on Dejian first.

"Brother Lieyang!"

Early in the morning, shouts were heard outside Fu Qingzhou's house.

Now that his surname is no longer Tian, ​​people naturally cannot call him Brother Tian, ​​Big Brother Tian, ​​or Guard Tian anymore, and start calling him by his name instead.

The door opened and Le Xu ran in excitedly: "Brother Lieyang, let's go, the sword competition is about to begin!"

Fu Qingzhou stretched lazily: "Why are you in such a hurry? This isn't a competition. It's just that everyone takes turns to touch the sword. It doesn't matter who goes first or last."

"How can you say that!"

Le Xu said anxiously, "Who knows, there might be more than one person who can be the sword master! If you happen to be able to do it, and someone else gets it before you, wouldn't that be a big loss?"

Fu Qingzhou laughed secretly in his heart.

If being a sword master is so easy, why would so many people fight for it at the Xuanmeng ceremony?

It is true that for some people now, "persuading" the sword of God is no longer a big secret, but this kind of thing is only circulated among a very small number of people after all. For the people of the world, no one would think of persuading a sword.

Moreover, Fu Qingzhou had a vague feeling that this method of persuasion was gradually becoming less effective... The magic sword was not that stupid.

The Yuan family couldn't use the Sword of Virtue, and when Zhao Yuan lent him the Sword of Punishment, he had to rebuke it. Ning Wuwang and the others couldn't take the Sword of Righteousness from Qiu Chan...

Who knows, after a while, no matter how eloquent you are, you may not be able to convince the Sword of the Gods.

It doesn't recognize you, and even if you talk your mouth off, you still can't pick up the sword.

Of course Le Xu didn’t know all this. He was so anxious that he dragged Fu Qingzhou away.

The sword appreciating competition was held in the large square in the center of the Yuan family manor. When Fu Qingzhou arrived, the place was already crowded with people. A high platform was built in the center of the square. On the platform was a huge and luxurious sword rack. The familiar German sword was quietly placed on the rack.

At this time, the meeting had already begun, and people kept walking forward and reaching out to grasp the sword... Then they were stabbed, their palms were covered in blood and flesh, and they pulled their hands away in pain.

Fu Qingzhou clicked his tongue.

How come this scene is so similar to the Xuanmeng Conference...

"brother."

He pushed through the crowd and stepped forward, showing a token to the guards who were standing in a circle below the platform: "I am here to take part in the sword test as well."

The guards stood in awe and quickly made way - those who could come to participate in the sword test were all elites in the family, or confidants of the bigwigs, and they were people that ordinary family members could not afford to offend.

"please!"

The guards immediately made way.

Fu Qingzhou strode in, with Le Xu's shouts and cheers coming from behind him.

There were still many people waiting to go on stage. There were tens of thousands of people in the Yuan family. Although most of them were servants and maids, there were still many people who could come to participate in the sword tasting competition. Hundreds of them could still be found. At this time, there were already twenty or thirty people with blood on their hands under the stage. They were all eliminated.

There is no order of priority when it comes to going on stage, as long as you feel you are capable, you can go on stage. We are all family members, so there is no need to fight over an unimportant position, so everyone is being humble.

Fu Qingzhou didn't rush to go up, but watched for a while. But at this moment, he clearly felt a gaze cast at him.

He tilted his head.

Yuan Zizheng happened to be looking at him in the audience seats not far from the platform. Seeing him looking at him, Yuan Zizheng smiled slightly.

Fu Qingzhou lowered his head slightly in response.

Yuan Zizheng quickly looked away, and Fu Qingzhou didn't take it seriously anymore.

……

"Could it be him?"

After Yuan Zizheng looked away, his brows slightly lowered and he looked at Yuan Ye beside him.

Yuan Keng did not come today, so the host of the sword tasting conference was naturally Yuan Ye.

Yuan Ye kept a straight face and said nothing.

"Your Excellency the Governor..."

At this time, Gu Jinchen, who was sitting on the other side, smiled flatteringly and asked, "Did something happen?"

Yuan Zizheng tilted his head and glanced at the man.

In fact, he really disliked Gu Jinchen. He felt that he was too greasy and materialistic, and that he exuded the air of a small-minded person who had achieved success.

But it must be admitted that in the past three years, Gu Jinchen did quite a lot in the capital, and he did it very well, otherwise Yuan Ye would not have personally brought him with him when he fled the capital, and even let him sit by his side at the sword tasting conference.

This person is the one recognized by my second uncle and is qualified to sit at the table.

So Yuan Zizhen suppressed the disdain in his eyes and said softly, "This morning, the Xishuo Palace replied... Regarding our inquiry into the ghost cultivation."

"Oh?" Gu Jinchen was startled: "What's going on?"

"The person who sent the letter is Ning Wuwang."

Yuan Zizhen said in a deep voice: "He said that he was dealing with Fu Qingzhou."

Ning Wuwang's reply stated everything clearly.

After he and Fu Qingzhou had completely fallen out and was sure that he could not use Qiu Chan to do anything at the moment, he could only choose to place his hopes on the Yuan family.

The letter clearly stated that Fu Qingzhou was currently at the Yuan family.

"From the time and location that Ning Wuwang provided about Fu Qingzhou's previous location, he came all the way from the capital with the group that returned to the family a few days ago."

Yuan Zizhen said slowly: "There are two possibilities. Either Fu Qingzhou has been quietly following the team the entire time, or... he is among them."

A strange light flashed in Gu Jinchen's eyes!
"Sir Governor, which person in the team do you suspect? The one you just noticed?" he asked.

Yuan Zizhen stroked his goatee and nodded slightly: "Yes, I doubt him."

"Now that I think about it, all the events were related to him. He was also present when Fu Qingzhou showed up in the inn. The so-called ghost cultivator slaughtered the entire team for the first time. Even Yuan Chen died. Only he survived... At that time, we all thought that his cultivation was high enough. Now it seems that this is not the case."

Hearing this, Yuan Ye finally spoke.

"enough."

He said in a deep voice: "Since you have doubts, don't waste time. Will you be satisfied only if he gets the Sword of De? If it's time to take action, just do it! It's better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go! Don't let him touch the Sword of De. Find a chance to deal with him!"

Yuan Zizhen took a deep breath and replied, "Yes."

(End of this chapter)