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Chapter 141: Multiple parties join forces to create a new story

"In the Jintang below."

Hearing this, Geng Xuan's masked face revealed a look of realization, and he said:

"Is he the Grand Master of Santongji who divorced his wife and remarried some time ago?"

"..."

Fang Jintang was silent for a moment again, and then he replied honestly, "Yes."

Geng Xuan suddenly started gossiping and said:

"Are you and your ex-wife really divorced or is it just a fake divorce?"

"..."

After hearing this, Fang Jintang was silent for a long time, and then he said softly: "The divorce letter is real."

Geng Xuan heard this and nodded:

"That's a fake divorce... You're really willing to do anything to form an alliance with the Qingyuan Group."

The divorce letter is real, so naturally everything else is fake.

What is a divorce letter?
It was just a piece of paper with a few lines of words written on it.

In this world, who can we expect to endorse the validity of this piece of paper?
"..."

This time, Fang Jintang was really silent. He didn't say anything else. He really didn't know how else he could respond.

His curiosity satisfied, Geng Xuan asked again, "What are you doing here?"

"I want to see the strength of the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry." Fang Jintang said.

"Now that you've seen it, what do you think?" Geng Xuan asked.

"..."

Fang Jintang's chest rose and fell violently several times. He really wanted to ask, how did you make every word of yours make people hate you so much that they would stand up and fight with you to the death? !
In the end, reason prevailed, and he spoke honestly:

"I want to see the strength of the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry led by Wu Youxin."

Geng Xuan nodded. This sounded quite reasonable.

Fang Jintang resorted to all means to force Qi Mingcheng of Qingyuanji to form an alliance through marriage, making it clear that he wanted to compete with the Wu family of Anleji.

Now, Wu Youxin led the Xuanyou cavalry to leave the base camp, passing through "Dongwuji" and going to Kangleji in "Nansiji" to search for the enemy.

For Fang Jintang, such an opportunity is indeed not to be missed.

but--

"Even if Wu Youxin's Xuanyou Iron Cavalry really came to face us, you can't be his match with your 200-man light cavalry team, right?" Geng Xuan asked.

In other words, aren't you just asking for death?
"..."

Fang Jintang gritted his teeth, feeling so angry and grief-stricken that he wanted to vomit blood, but the situation was stronger than him, so he had to respond.

Just listen to him whisper:

"I had no intention of engaging in a head-on battle with Wu Youxin's Xuanyou Iron Cavalry. I just wanted to observe from afar how his Xuanyou Iron Cavalry performed in actual combat.

No matter how powerful Wu Youxin is, he is now alone in the deep. Passing through the 'Eastern Fifth Zone', he enters the 'Southern Fourth Zone'.

As long as he still has any sense, he wouldn't create trouble at this time and provoke me."

I just came to watch and watch the battle from a distance.

In order to avoid provoking Wu Youxin's stress response, he deliberately showed his harmless side. Isn't it telling the other party, "I am not a threat"!

As for?
But no matter how well he planned, he met someone unreasonable.

He didn't ask who the person was or what he came for, he just killed him as soon as he saw him.

But his strength is so terrifying.

I just wanted to watch the fun, but ended up with such a miserable ending. Is there any justice in the world?

While listening to Fang Jintang's story, which was filled with grief and anger, and looked aggrieved, Geng Xuan nodded from time to time.

Finally, he said to Fang Jintang, who was still kneeling on the ground, "Okay, get up."

As he spoke, Geng Xuan's gaze had already turned behind Fang Jintang.

The cavalry, which had originally fallen into complete and almost insane chaos, finally calmed down gradually with Fang Jintang's decisive surrender and a certain period of buffer time.

The team reorganized itself, but no one looked over here.

Even if someone occasionally couldn't help but cast a curious glance, they would immediately shrink back like a frightened rabbit.

Geng Xuan said to Fang Jintang who had stood up, "You've arrived just in time. Count your men and let's go back to Yixianxia together."

"...Yes." Fang Jintang replied with his head down, then immediately turned around to make arrangements.

While Fang Jintang went to clean up the mess, Geng Xuan sorted out the benefits of this cavalry charge.

He alone chopped off twenty-one heads.

Hong Quan and others who followed him and took advantage of the chaos he created to quickly expand their victory killed a total of 26 people.

Although the average results per person were not outstanding, when added together, they were greater than those created by Geng Xuan.

The forty-seven people who died were all guards of Santongji.

A total of 743 points of good fortune were contributed to Geng Xuan, with an average contribution of more than 15 points and less than 16 points per person.

From an absolute standard, this kind of killing is considered extremely serious.

But compared with the elite Anleji troops under Wu Youxin, Geng Xuan actually felt that the guards of Santongji were not bad.

If it were a different time or a different place, he would most likely not have killed them.

"This should be the normal standard for market guards," Geng Xuan thought.

He still remembered that Geng Xuan had carried out a large-scale massacre of the black-robed guards in the previous battle at the Peng family martial arts gym in Kangleji.

But apart from Duan Tianpeng, the average luck points contributed by the other black-robed guards who died at Geng Xuan's hands were also around sixteen points.

From this point of view, although these market guards have committed a lot of murders, they are far from as exaggerated as Anleji, the "source of evil".

Not to mention compared with the elite guards of Anleji, he was still far inferior to the 143 rangers he killed, all of whom were from "Dongwuji".

The average luck points contributed by those rangers reached a high of nearly twenty-four points.

Even compared to the elite guards of Anleji, there is not much difference.

The 743 points of new good fortune gained this time, plus the 192 points of good fortune remaining after the deep refining of the "Flint Pearl", now there are 935 points of good fortune.

These forty-seven deaths brought a total of twenty-four points of bad luck to Geng Xuan.

This did not change because of Fang Jintang's immediate surrender.

Compared with Hongyun's gains, Geng Xuan cared more about two other changes.

First, the efficiency of refining the "Flint Bead" has been greatly improved, and the negative impact it brings to him has been reduced to an undetectable or even completely negligible level compared to before.

In a very short period of time, Geng Xuan refined the residual energy of forty-seven people, but he only felt a slight heat in the area between his eyebrows, which did not last long.

This should also be a beneficial change brought about by the deep refining of the "Flint Bead".

Another change is directly related to this.

In the past, Geng Xuan could not sense the changes within the "Flint Pearl".

And now, because of the completion of the deep sacrifice, Geng Xuan's perception has penetrated deep into the "Flint Pearl".

Not only could he clearly sense the process of the "flint bead" refining the residual energy, he also sensed that after the residual energy was refined, two strange streams, which seemed inappropriate to be called "energy" or "airflow", but which did "exist", settled inside the "flint bead".

However, these two kinds of precipitation have already existed inside the "flint beads".

However, Geng Xuan didn't know what they were at the time and thought they were part of the structure of the "flint beads" themselves.

Now, Geng Xuan finally understood that this was the form in which good luck and bad luck existed within the "Flint Pearl".

For the first time, Geng Xuan had a real grasp of good luck and bad luck, rather than just a set of simple data.

……

【Lucky: 935
Black Luck: 618】

……

Fang Jintang organized the team and had his men collect the bodies of his forty-seven companions.

He brought the seriously injured "Old Three" and 151 other guards to the First Line Gorge.

Originally, from Fang Jintang to many of his guards, they were emotionally more or less unable to accept this sudden change and had not yet come to terms with it.

All kinds of negative thoughts and emotions are brewing inside.

But when they saw more than two hundred bodies neatly stacked in a row.

Among them, there are five corpses in the Marrow Refining Realm.

One of them is the young master of Anleji, Wu Youxin, who is recognized by everyone as having a bright future.

Everyone's heart suddenly calmed down.

Fang Jintang completely put aside the burden of being the owner of the market hall. Under the command of Hong Quan and others, he led his 151 guards and 62 prisoners including Gu Laosi to work together.

Clean up the bodies, count the spoils, remove the overly obvious and suspicious traces in the gorge, and clear the road in the gorge again...

There is strength in numbers, and the efficiency of advancing all matters has been visibly improved.

……

At this moment, it was the morning of November 13th, around eight o'clock but less than nine o'clock.

It had been about two hours, or about an hour, since the sun rose.

Just when Fang Jintang and his guards were honestly participating in the cleanup of the Yixianxia battlefield.

On the west side of Yixianxia, in the wilderness in the direction of Kangleji, a group of people were riding horses and driving cars, approaching Yixianxia quickly.

The first person was a member of the Giant Bear Gang who was arranged by Hong Quan to go back and deliver the message. He was riding on the back of a Xuanyou horse.

Behind him, there were more than twenty carriages following.

There was at least one person and at most two people in each carriage.

These people were none other than the members of the Lifang silver transport team.

Among them were Chen Zheng and the members of the hunting team led by him.

When the group approached Yixian Gorge, Hong Quan and others discovered their presence early on and met up with the returning members of the Giant Bear Gang in the wilderness outside the gorge.

After the two sides exchanged a few words, Hong Quan asked Chen Zheng and others to wait outside the gorge first, and he led this person into the First Line Gorge first.

This person followed behind Hong Quan, and was also shocked when he saw the scene of more than two hundred prisoners working together in the gorge.

It took him less than an hour to leave Yixianxia and go to the rear to deliver the message.

He still clearly remembered that there were only fifty or sixty prisoners when he left. How come when he came back, the number of prisoners had soared to more than two hundred?

What happened during the short time I was away?
While this man was having these thoughts in his mind, Hong Quan had already brought him to Geng Xuan.

The man immediately recounted everything that had happened during the trip.

“…When I rode my horse to the spot where the caravan was attacked, they had just dug a pit to bury the bodies of the rangers and had not yet set off.

I explained the situation here and your intentions to them, and they immediately arranged for a few people to rush back to the neighborhood on horseback to deliver the message.

They gathered the silver-carrying carriages together, freeing up twenty-three empty carriages and thirty surplus men, who came back to Yixianxia with me, awaiting your orders.

The others are driving the silver-carrying carriages back. If the Lifang moves quickly, it won't be long before the people sent by the Lifang will meet them on the road."

Geng Xuan nodded and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Geng Xuan then turned to look at Hong Quan and said, "How to use these people and the carriage? You will be the one to arrange it."

"Yes."

Hong Quan responded and turned around to make arrangements.

After seeing that everything was on track, Geng Xuan called Fang Jintang aside to discuss the next arrangements with him.

Looking at Fang Jintang standing at the bottom of the slope in front of him with his hands folded in a polite and respectful manner, Geng Xuan said:
"Next, I want you to cooperate with me to do a few things."

"You go ahead." Fang Jintang said respectfully.

Geng Xuan said: "You should have heard Hong Quan say that I want to clean up Yixianxia again.

This gravel dam over here and that large area of fallen rocks from the high cliff over there all need to be cleared away.

In addition, craftsmen should be arranged to conduct a careful inspection of the slope for hidden dangers and carry out some necessary treatments.

To accomplish all this in a short period of time requires a large number of manpower.

Although it could be done by combining the strength of the eight families, it would certainly delay many other things.

The first thing I want you to do is to take on a certain amount of tasks in your three-way set.

As for the specific amount of responsibility, you can discuss it with the leaders of the Eight Family Quarters when they arrive."

Logically speaking, this means that Santong should gather some manpower. For Fang Jintang, this is a trivial matter that can be done with just a word.

But after hearing Geng Xuan's arrangement, Fang Jintang did not agree immediately. Instead, his face turned pale.

Geng Xuan did not wait for Fang Jintang's response and continued:
"Will there be compensation for the guards who died in the line of duty at your market?"

Geng Xuan didn't speak directly, but asked a question.

Fang Jintang, who was feeling troubled, heard this question and didn't know why Geng Xuan asked this question, but he nodded and said:
"Those who have wives and children in Santongji will receive some compensation."

In other words, if their family, wife, and children are not in Santongji, or if they don’t even know where they came from, then they won’t care.

Geng Xuan asked curiously, "How do I give it?"

“There are two choices, either give a monthly allowance for a year at a time.

If their family finds someone suitable, they will be recruited as a guard, just like any other guard."

Geng Xuan nodded and said:

"Didn't I just kill forty-seven of your guards? You should handle this matter according to normal compensation standards."

Hearing this, Fang Jintang's face turned pale.

Under Geng Xuan's gaze, he lowered his head and whispered:

"Can I deal with this later?"

Geng Xuan shook his head and said:
"No, do it now. Also, I don't ask you to be high-profile, but you can't deliberately keep a low profile and keep silent either. Just follow the normal process."

Fang Jintang was extremely confused and expressed his worries directly.

"This...if this happens, Wu Yi will definitely think that Wu Youxin's death and the destruction of the entire Xuanyou Iron Cavalry are all related to me!"

Geng Xuan nodded, expressing his satisfaction with Fang Jintang's understanding. It is said that there is no master of the market who is not smart.

I only mentioned two specific arrangements, and he immediately understood the sharp edge hidden behind these two arrangements.

Geng Xuan naturally did not deny this, as this was his original intention. He nodded and said:
"It's good that you understand... I want you to do one more thing, which is to gather all the craftsmen who are proficient in construction in Qingyuanji and Santongji here.

Moreover, you should try to make the specific time of their transfer as vague as possible.

If someone investigates, you have to make them believe that at least some of them were carrying out a covert operation arranged by you long before. "

If Fang Jintang was just pale and confused before.

After hearing Geng Xuan's order, he was so shocked that his hair stood on end and his face turned from pale to ghastly.

"You...you want to put the blame for the destruction of this Xuanyou Iron Cavalry on me?!"

As he spoke, he shook his head and said:
"The Xuanyou Iron Cavalry is massive. Even with the geographical advantage of Yixianxia, it's impossible for me, with the power of the Three Links, to completely annihilate them without leaving a single fish behind... Wu Yi won't believe it!"

Geng Xuan smiled and said:

“That’s because you didn’t tell the story well.

"What if Wu Yi knew that the entire convoy outside Baiyuanji was killed and disappeared, and that the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry led by Wu Youxin was completely annihilated in Yixianxia, was all a carefully orchestrated scheme by you, the Grand Master of Santongji?"

“The layout you made in Yixianxia was not an emergency arrangement that was started only when Anleji discovered clues about Bajiafang selling drugs.

It was a trap that had been set long before, waiting for Wu Youxin and his Xuanyou cavalry to pass through and then kill them all inside."

“In this case, it makes sense that you choose to cooperate with the neighborhood near Kangleji.

Because if Anleji wanted to punish these eight families, the most appropriate thing to do was to dispatch the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry led by Wu Youxin.

To go from Anleji to Kangleji, you must pass through Yixianxia.

This is a pocket made just for them!"

Geng Xuan looked at Fang Jintang, whose face was pale and lips were trembling, and said with a smile:

"With such a meticulous layout and such a deliberate plan, it is entirely possible to completely trap and kill Wu Youxin and his group who were completely unprepared in Yixianxia!"

"How do you think this story is credible?"

"No...no...nothing like that, I...I have no reason to do this!"

"You have!
Your father-in-law, Qi Mingcheng, the master of Qingyuanji, was once publicly humiliated by Wu Youxin and the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry.

You have a personal motivation to do this.

More importantly, everyone knows that you want to compete with the Wu family of Anleji.

But as long as Wu Youxin's Xuanyou Iron Cavalry is still there, everything you do is just a bluff. Without saying anything else, I just want to ask you a question: do you have the means to deal with this Xuanyou Iron Cavalry?"

"……me……"

Fang Jintang's lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

Of course he didn't. If he had, he wouldn't have been so eager to lead the light cavalry to watch the battle.

Isn’t it just to gain some understanding so that you can come up with a solution?
Geng Xuan spread his hands and said:
"Look, isn't this motive obvious enough? ... If you don't get rid of this Xuanyou Iron Cavalry, you'll have to sleep with one eye open!"

Fang Jintang stopped talking, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then he gritted his teeth and said:

"Okay, I'll go back and arrange it!"

Geng Xuan shook his head and said:
"There's no need for you to go back in person. Just stay in this gorge until everything becomes a foregone conclusion.

I am telling you this now because I don’t want you to misunderstand me, so I’ll just be clear with you.

As for the specific operation, we will wait for the person in charge of Bajiafang to come over and then we can discuss it slowly.

I think, with their experience, they will be able to help you complete this story.

Hmm...they've been selling drugs frequently at 'Dongwuji' lately, so this could be seen as circumstantial evidence that you've been secretly colluding for a long time."

This time, Fang Jintang lost even the last bit of hope.

But he shook his head and said:
“No matter how well a story is written, it can never be perfect.

If it’s fake, it’s fake. Many of the clues you mentioned need to be traced back from now on.

As long as you are determined to dig deep, you will find holes everywhere!"

Geng Xuan smiled without saying anything. He did not refute, but he also did not continue the topic with Fang Jintang.

What he needed was Fang Jintang's cooperation, not really trying to convince the other party.

As for the problem that Fang Jintang mentioned, he certainly understood that this improvised story had too many loopholes.

As long as Anleji digs deeper, it is not difficult to find the existence of loopholes.

But his purpose has never been to make up a perfect story.

After shooting Wu Youxin and his group to death in Yixianxia, Geng Xuan was thinking about a question in his mind.

After losing Wu Youxin, four other powerful Marrow Refining Realm warriors, and another 145 elite members of the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry.

The force of Anleji and Baiyuanji, with the Wu family as the core, has become less to be feared.

If he follows the same approach as he did in Baiyuanji, chopping off the heads of Wu Youxin and his men and sending them to Anleji, he might very well achieve multiple achievements such as "people are in a panic", "crumbling", "precarious", and "the building is about to collapse".

Therefore, what Geng Xuan was considering was not whether to swallow up the Wu family, but how to swallow up the Wu family.

So, how should you eat it?

How can he eat as much as possible while causing the least damage?

Try to eradicate as many of the "Wu family bloodlines" in the Wu family, as well as Anleji and Baiyuanji, as possible at one time?
Just come and kill me like this?
Or, why not just use the unique skill of "returning the favor in their own way" and lead a group of mysterious cavalry to attack them?
Otherwise, how about making a bigger show and using all the power of the Eight Family Fangs?
Or, should we also bring in the Master Fan of Kangleji?
Geng Xuan thought of many possibilities in his mind, but the final results he simulated in his mind could not satisfy him.

The Wu family will certainly be destroyed.

However, he was unable to achieve his goal of "purifying" the entire Anle Collection and Baiyuan Collection.

It's a very simple truth. As long as the news of the annihilation of Wu Youxin and the other five people in the Marrow Refining Realm, as well as the entire Xuanyou Iron Cavalry, is passed back to Anleji and Baiyuanji.

When they realized that the positions of hunter and prey had changed, and that there was a stronger existence secretly targeting the Wu family of Anleji.

When the Wu family was in panic and on the verge of collapse.

How many people in Anleji and Baiyuanji are willing to continue to follow the Wu family and die for them?

How many people will slip away before the storm comes?

Everyone has feet, and it is everyone's instinct to seek good fortune and avoid danger.

Once there was a large-scale escape from Anleji and Baiyuanji, not to mention Geng Xuan being alone, even if he had three heads and six arms and could create a hundred clones, he would not be able to catch or kill them all.

If these people escape to other places, will they behave themselves and be good people?
The greater possibility is that in those places where they start over, they will behave more unscrupulously and without any taboos than when they were in Anleji and Baiyuanji!
This is definitely not what Geng Xuan wants to see.

In Geng Xuan's mind, the most ideal scenario is to gather all the bugs and rats as much as possible and eliminate them.

To do this, he had to solve a problem.

That is, in this major disaster in which Wu Youxin and his group were annihilated, there must not be a powerful "mysterious existence" that is completely beyond their ability to deal with.

He had to find a logical and reasonable reason for the death of Wu Youxin and his group within a framework that they were all familiar with.

For Geng Xuan, Fang Jintang's appearance was like a pillow when he was sleepy.

In a short period of time, he could not think of a story that was more logical than the one he had just told Fang Jintang, which would be easier for the people of Anleji and Baiyuanji to accept, but would not cause them to be overly frightened.

When this story spreads, people from Anleji and Baiyuanji might be shocked at how deep Fang Jintang's calculations are, and how sinister and vicious he is.

But they will not run away immediately, abandon the family business they have worked so hard to build, and start from scratch somewhere else.

At this time, if the furious Wu Yi wanted to gather the forces of Anleji and Baiyuanji, they would not resist, and would even actively cooperate.

——Because they are all very familiar with Fang Jintang, they are confident that as long as they are careful not to step into the trap he has carefully set, they will never repeat the mistakes of Wu Youxin and others.

And this happens to be exactly the situation that Geng Xuan most wants to see.

……

The sun gradually rises and time passes by.

Around noon, smoke and dust rose again from the distance in the wilderness in the direction of Kangleji.

With the increasingly clear sound of horse hooves, a group of dozens of riders quickly approached the direction of Yixianxia.

The first few people were Wei Wanzong from Wanfufang, Fan Hongsheng from Yong'anfang, and the heads of other neighborhoods.

Mr. Chai was also among them.

Geng Xuan, who was sitting on the ridge of a barren hill, noticed their arrival early with his sharp eyesight.

Looking at the elderly Mr. Chai riding his horse at full speed like Wei Wanzong and others, he felt a rare sense of regret in his heart.

Because of Li Xun’s “disappearance”, Changpingfang did not want to just find a replacement.

While actively training the new abbot, we can only let Mr. Chai take up the heavy responsibility again and make use of his remaining energy.

However, he really overdid the remaining heat.

Over the past one or two months, there have been major events one after another, and the neighborhood has been almost non-stop.

——And behind almost all of these “big things”, there is the shadow of Geng Xuan.

This made Mr. Chai, who originally thought that he would only be carrying the burden in name for a period of time, actually enter a state of working around the clock.

"This won't work."

Thinking that there will be more and more "big things" happening in the future, it is really not a good idea to let Mr. Chai keep holding on like this.

While Geng Xuan was thinking these things, Hong Quan had already led Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng, Chai Ye and others to Geng Xuan.

Before leading them to Geng Xuan, Hong Quan had already taken them to have a rough look at the spectacular scale of corpses, as well as the large number of Xuanyou horses, iron armor and other captured items.

Therefore, when Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others stood in front of Geng Xuan, they were all very excited.

After being frightened for most of the night and the entire morning, everyone almost had a nervous breakdown.

Now all these emotions turned into deep respect and gratitude towards Geng Xuan.

Geng Xuan did not exchange pleasantries with them, but directly told them all his arrangements, including the arrangements for the subsequent cleanup of Yixianxia and the story he had just told Fang Jintang.

When this story was being told, in addition to Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others, Fang Jintang, as the "protagonist of the story", was naturally also there.

Compared to Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others who were excited and happy, Fang Jintang had a wooden face throughout the whole process.

It seems to be saying to everyone, "Look, look, I am just a puppet that can be manipulated by anyone."

Geng Xuan didn't care about this.

Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others naturally didn't care.

After fully understanding Geng Xuan's intention, Wei Wanzong promised:
"Boss Su, please rest assured that you have already solved the most difficult problems for us.

You can leave the rest of the things to us."

Geng Xuan nodded and said, "Just go ahead and do it. If there's anything you don't understand clearly, feel free to ask me."

Wei Wanzong and others nodded quickly.

Fan Hongsheng added: "If we want to do this well, we need Master Fang's cooperation."

Fang Jintang did not answer, but just snorted heavily through his nose.

Geng Xuan replied on his behalf, "Don't worry, Master Fang is very sensible and will definitely cooperate."

Fan Hongsheng nodded and said, "Then the first thing we need to do is to find a way to lure Qi Mingcheng out of Santongji."

Geng Xuan nodded. He was very satisfied with Fan Hongsheng's sharpness.

Qi Mingcheng, the headmaster of Qingyuan Collection, who now presides over Santong Collection as Fang Jintang's father-in-law, is indeed the biggest obstacle they have to solve.

If it were left to others to lure the mature and steady Qi Mingcheng out of Santongji, it might be difficult to do so.

But Geng Xuan believed that Fang Jintang must have a way.

Geng Xuan, like Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others, also set his sights on Fang Jintang.

Being stared at by pairs of "expectant" eyes, Fang Jintang's eyes flickered.

……

Half a day later.

Just as the day was about to end, the sun was setting in the west, and the dim light shone into Yixian Gorge.

A thin man who looked to be about fifty years old stood at the entrance of Yixianxia in the direction of "Dongwuji".

He covered his chest with one hand and kept coughing up blood.

However, he did not look at Geng Xuan, who had caused him such great harm with just a light blow, but turned to look at his son-in-law, Fang Jintang, who lowered his head and remained silent.

His wide-open eyes were illuminated by the fiery clouds in the sky, and it seemed as if they were really about to burn.

If possible, he might really not mind burning his son-in-law to ashes and letting his daughter become a widow again.

"Fang Jintang, I know you are despicable and shameless, and you do things by any means necessary, but I didn't expect you to be so despicable!" The thin man said gritting his teeth.

This thin man was naturally none other than Qi Mingcheng, the master of Qingyuanji, who was now staying in Santongji.

With the help of Fang Jintang, Fan Hongsheng and others easily tricked Qi Mingcheng over.

Including the time spent traveling back and forth, it only took half a day in total.

Of course, Xuanyou Horse also played a significant role here.

In order to facilitate Fan Hongsheng and others to communicate with the local community and to facilitate the execution of the tasks he arranged, Geng Xuan allowed them to use the Xuanyou horses at will for the next period of time.

At this moment, seeing that the atmosphere between the father-in-law and son-in-law was becoming increasingly tense, Geng Xuan clapped his hands and said:

"Okay, you can talk about your family matters later, let's get on with business.

Master Qi, do you understand what we mean?

Can you cooperate with us like your son-in-law?"

Qi Mingcheng stared at Geng Xuan. Given his bad mood, he really wanted to argue.

But the tearing pain coming from his internal organs woke him up again. The situation was stronger than him and there was nothing he could do!
Qi Mingcheng's eyes flickered for a while, and finally he gritted his teeth and asked a question.

"What on earth do you want by manipulating us like this?"

Geng Xuan smiled faintly and said, "I want Wu Yi to gather all the forces he can muster and wage war against you for revenge."

Hearing such straightforward words, Qi Mingcheng's eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

"What good will this do you?"

Geng Xuan asked, "Master Qi, do you know what's the most difficult part about cleaning out the cockroaches and rats in this house?"

Qi Mingcheng frowned and said nothing.

Geng Xuan answered without thinking: "The most difficult thing is to find them all."

"What's even more difficult is to expose them all and actively gather them together.

Don’t you think that leading this to happen is a wonderful and meritorious thing?”

Having said that, Geng Xuan smiled and stretched out his hand, as if he had caught a room full of cockroaches and rats.

This answer made Qi Mingcheng's pupils shrink, but it did not let him give up.

"What good will this do you?!"

He asked the same question again.

Geng Xuan looked at Qi Mingcheng and said with a puzzled look:
"Eliminating this evil force headed by the Wu family and restoring peace to Anleji and Baiyuanji, isn't this the greatest benefit?!"

Qi Mingcheng seemed to have thought of something, with a look of fear in his eyes, and whispered:
"You want to win over people's hearts? You want to participate in the struggle for hegemony in this chaotic world? You want to regard Anle Market, Baiyuan Market... No, you want to regard our seventeen markets as the foundation of your fortune!!"

Fang Jintang, who had been keeping his head down and keeping silent because he had done something "wrong", suddenly looked up and looked at Geng Xuan after hearing these words.

Thanks to my father-in-law’s guidance, all the questions that I hadn’t had time to think about now have answers.

Geng Xuan realized that he and the other party were not on the same channel at all, so he was too lazy to say anything more and said lightly:

"Master Qi, we've strayed off topic. Just give me a promise. If you agree, then cooperate and do your best. If you don't agree... then let's not waste time and get on with what needs to be done."

As Geng Xuan said this, he clasped his hands together seemingly casually, as if he was about to hit him on the head at any moment.

"Okay, I'll cooperate!"

This time, Qi Mingcheng's response was unusually straightforward and decisive.

He even made a small suggestion right away.

"As far as I know, Wu Youxin hasn't arranged for anyone to send messages back since the 'Eastern Fifth Episode'.

In other words, Wu Yi and his friends didn't know exactly when he passed through the First Line Gorge.

We can do something about this, and combined with other arrangements, it will make our story seem more reasonable."

Geng Xuan nodded and said, "You can discuss the specifics with Master Fang, Master Fan, and Master Wei."

After deciding on the general plan, Geng Xuan was too lazy to ask about the specific operations.

With the arrival of more people from the neighborhood, Wei Wanzong, Fan Hongsheng and others have taken over many front-line affairs.

Hong Quan and others, who had some free time, acted as Geng Xuan's eyes and ears, paying attention to the developments in all aspects in a timely manner.

Let Geng Xuan know the progress of various affairs at any time and play a supervisory role.

Geng Xuan had put all of this aside and continued with his cultivation.

On the night of the 13th, Yixianxia became increasingly lively and busy.

Waves of people arrived from the direction of Kangleji and Santongji.

Some of them were clearing the channel;
Some are clearing away the original traces;

Some are laying out some new traces;
Some were checking for hidden dangers on the slopes and consciously left many traces of human manipulation...

This kind of bustling and lively atmosphere continued until late at night on the 14th and around the early morning of the 15th.

At this moment, Yixian Gorge has been cleared again, and all obstacles blocking the gorge exits at both ends have been cleared.

Regardless of whether they were from Bajiafang or Santongji, all front-line workers who participated in the "decoration operation" in Yixianxia were evacuated from Yixianxia.

However, they did not return to their homes, but all took carriages and headed towards Kangle Market.

——In order to keep it secret, until this matter is completely implemented, the craftsmen from Santongji cannot return and can only be settled in the Lifang.

After the early morning of the 15th, everyone evacuated from Yixianxia.

Throughout the entire fifteenth day, Yixianxia was unusually quiet, with not a single person in sight.

On the 16th, Yixianxia was still quiet.

It seemed that the bustling event of the previous few days had seriously overdrawn it. It was not until the evening of the 18th that there was movement again in the direction of "Dongwuji" in Yixianxia.

With a series of horse hoof sounds, several people riding the Yuanzhou horses that are common in the local area quickly galloped into the Yixian Gorge.

When passing through Yixian Gorge, they were in such a hurry to get on with their journey that they didn't even notice the changes in Yixian Gorge.

Only one person said in surprise:
"Ah, why does this gorge look a little different from what I remembered?"

Someone beside him urged nonchalantly:
"Don't worry about it, let's go and see what's going on with the young master.

So many days have passed, and there's been no reply. I don't know how worried the Grand Master must be."

Another person said with a smile:

"No matter what, the young master is still a young man.

This time, it was a rare opportunity for me to lead such a large operation, so it was inevitable that I got a little carried away.

We should not bring bad luck to others when the time comes. We should just deliver the message from the Grand Master honestly and not say anything to cause trouble!"

The man next to him curled his lips and said:
"Am I as stupid as you say? Do I need your reminder for something like this?"

These people chatted casually while riding at full speed.

Soon, they came out of the Gorge and disappeared into the increasingly dark night wilderness.

(End of this chapter)