Zongwu: Aspiring to be the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 126: Dongfang Bubai, Sun and Moon Send Out Troops

Blackwood Cliff.

As everyone knows, this is the headquarters of the Sun and Moon Sect, with countless troops stationed there, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Although the Sun and Moon Sect is located within the Ming Dynasty, it has a complicated relationship with the court and dominates the world, having turned Blackwood Cliff into a country within a country.

But since the disappearance of the former leader and the succession of the new leader, the Sun Moon Sect has no longer expanded as wildly as before and invaded everywhere. Instead, it has gradually become more solid and its power has greatly decreased.

At night, lights are twinkling on the cliff.

Jinjiu stepped into the attic and strolled around leisurely without any concealment.

The owner of the attic noticed it instantly and shot out three silver needles with a flick of his fingers.

Gin didn't dodge or evade, allowing it to pass through his body and nail him to the wall.

"Huh?" The owner of the attic was startled and revealed his figure under the light. He was wearing a red robe, his hair tied up and a crown. His eyes were burning, his face was beautiful, yet full of heroic spirit.

Under the light, the other party also saw Gin's face.

"Gin?"

"what?"

Jin Jiu feigned surprise and said, "It's said that Dongfang Bubai, the leader of the Sun Moon Sect, had long since handed over all sect affairs to others and hadn't been involved in sect affairs for many years. And now, you recognized me at a glance. It seems you've been keeping an eye on the situation in the martial arts world!"

Dongfang Bubai snorted coldly and asked, "Why did you come to my place?"

Gin said, "Of course I'm here to recruit you."

"Oh? They say your organization only looks at the leaders of one faction. Now it seems that what they say is true."

"The Eastern Sect Leader has indeed been concerned about the situation in the martial arts world."

Jinjiu looked around, his eyes fixed on a bookshelf. "'General Guide to the Sea Charts', 'Six Strategies', 'The Art of War'... Has the Eastern Sect Leader been studying these kinds of books all these years?"

"What does it have to do with you?"

"Haha, if Dongfang Sect Leader has such ambitions, why has he handed over the power to others for so many years?"

Jin Jiu laughed and said, "Could it be that the Sun Moon Sect is full of insects, unable to help the leader achieve this ambition?"

"Who told you to look around?"

Dongfang Bubai said angrily, his hand flashed with light, and several silver needles were shot out.

Jin Jiu grabbed a book and put it in front of him, then used a steel plate to overlap the projection of the book.

The silver needle flew past, and the book, which was as hard as a steel plate, was directly pierced by the silver needle.

Jinjiu canceled the projection, and countless books were scattered. He grabbed one of the pages and slashed it with his hand, but a sword energy came out.

Dongfang Bubai blasted out with a palm, shattering the sword energy.

Gin also slapped out his palm, knocking away the pieces of paper in front of him.

Dongfang Bubai hurriedly met the attack, but the seemingly soft pieces of paper at this moment seemed like fine steel, and with the added power of Jinjiu's palm, their power became terrifying.

Dongfang Bubai felt something was wrong and dodged quickly, but was still knocked away by the shredded paper and fell to the ground.

"The so-called Sun and Moon Cult is not worth mentioning to the organization, but your talent and ambition are greatly admired by the organization."

Jin Jiu took out a Tianji card and placed it in front of Dongfang Bubai: "That's why I came to recruit you. I hope you can understand the current situation."

Dongfang Bubai sneered.

Jinjiu said, “The Sun Moon Cult is nothing but a bunch of insects and can’t possibly fulfill your ambitions, but the organization will support you.

The power of the organization is beyond your imagination, especially its intelligence capabilities. In this world, there is no one that the organization cannot find! "

Dongfang Bubai's eyes fixed: "What do you know?"

Gin smiled, "All of them."

In this world, Dongfang Bubai was originally a peasant girl named Dongfang Bai. Her parents favored boys over girls, so after giving birth to Dongfang Bai, they gave birth to another daughter, and then another daughter, and finally a son.

During a bandit attack, Dongfang Bai's parents abandoned him and his sister and fled with only their son.

For the safety of his sister, Dongfang Bai led the robbers away alone, and in the crisis, he received help from a master.

This master is none other than the Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai!
Seeing that Dongfang Bai had a unique physique, he rescued her, accepted her as his disciple, and taught her martial arts.

Dongfang Bai was abandoned by her parents because of her gender issue. Since then, she disguised herself as a man and entered the Black Wood Cliff. Because of her superb martial arts and outstanding wisdom, she was promoted to deputy leader. Later, she plotted against Ren Woxing, imprisoned him, and became the leader.

At that time, she was only in her twenties.

Life can be said to be extremely successful.

However, people will eventually be trapped for life because of things that they could not obtain in their youth.

Dongfang Bubai has two long-cherished wishes. One of them is to accomplish a great feat as a woman that is rarely accomplished by men in the world, or even almost impossible to accomplish.

The second is to find the only relative she recognizes in her heart, her sister.

Therefore, when Jinjiu mentioned the organization's intelligence and said nothing else but that he could find someone, Dongfang Bubai immediately understood that he was being targeted.

But even the subordinates she ordered to find someone actually didn't know what the relationship was between her and the person she was looking for, but Gin knew... Is this the so-called powerful intelligence of the organization?
"Take the token, join the organization, and all your wishes will come true."

"What if I don't want to?"

Jinjiu smiled and didn't answer. He just grabbed a piece of paper and shot out a sword energy.

“So, there’s really no choice.”

Dongfang Bubai smiled bitterly and had to grab the token to indicate that he had joined.

"I heard that after joining your organization, everyone must use a wine as a code name. Can I choose my own?"

"Where did you hear that?" Jin Jiu asked, "Only official members can have code names."

"Um?!"

Dongfang Bubai frowned: "I joined your organization, but I'm not even considered a formal member?"

"Those who just joined naturally don't count. Wait until you complete a few missions before we tell you."

"That Taoist Mu..."

"Mu Dao Ren is a Grandmaster!"

"Humph!"

Dongfang Bubai snorted coldly and stopped talking.

Jin Jiu said, "It just so happens that there's something that needs to be done by the Sun Moon Sect right now. Consider it your first mission."

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The Quanzhen people strictly abide by the rules of being a monk and forbid marriage. The Chongyang Palace is also populated by men only.

In order to avoid suspicion, Guo Fu could only live in an inn at the foot of the mountain.

Yang Guo didn't want to stay in Chongyang Palace, so he simply went down the mountain to live.

Seeing this, Wu Dunru and Wu Xiuwen naturally couldn't stay in the mountains.

At this time, Guo Fu met Yue Lingshan.

The two families have a connection. Although Yue Buqun's lineage belongs to Huashan, it is a Quanzhen inheritance.

Moreover, Huashan is located in the north. In this area, it can be said that it is politically correct to go to the border to provide support whenever foreign tribes move south.

Anyone who wants to become famous as a hero must go to the border.

In order to revitalize his own faction, Yue Buqun has been out doing good deeds for many years, earning the name of a gentleman swordsman. Naturally, he has been to the border and even to Xiangyang. Because of his Quanzhen faction background, he is also acquainted with Guo Jing.

When the rumor first came out, Yue Buqun was not in Huashan, but his wife had already seen that there was a conspiracy, so she brought her eldest disciple Linghu Chong with her.

Later, Yue Buqun returned and after listening to Yue Lingshan's story, he immediately came to Zhongnan Mountain to provide support.

Friendships between women always develop very quickly.

The father and senior brother above were still somewhat distant, but the two below had already gotten together.

"The Four Great Constables are truly amazing!"

Yue Lingshan sighed, "Such a rumor spread in the north, and they heard it in the capital and actually thought there was a conspiracy."

Guo Fu said, "Miss Ning is truly amazing! She arrived at Mount Zhongnan even faster than the Four Great Constables."

"That's right!" Yue Lingshan said proudly, "Mother is truly wise. She actually guessed right then that the Sun Moon Cult was behind this conspiracy!"

"Yeah, it's... what?"

Guo Fu was stunned at first, then revealed an expression of great surprise: "Sun Moon Divine Cult?"

"Right," Yue Lingshan said, unaware of the problem. "Isn't the Sun Moon Cult behind this incident?"

"How is this possible! Where did this Sun Moon Divine Cult come from?"

In Chongyang Palace, the four great detectives were all a little confused.

A few days ago, they jointly issued a statement to refute the rumors, with Qiu Chuji representing Chongyang Palace, Wu Feng representing the Dali Temple of the imperial court, and Yang Guo representing the hero Guo of Xiangyang.

Afterwards, some martial artists who had good relations with Quanzhen were invited to come down the mountain to explain their power in detail.

This two-pronged approach made people realize that there was actually a conspiracy behind this.

Of course, they did not explicitly say that it was the Yuan Dynasty that was behind the conspiracy.

Just as Pei Ju said, the weight of people's words is different. It doesn't matter what ordinary martial artists say, but as the four great detectives are people of the imperial court, they cannot speak or act casually.

I originally wanted to see what tricks the Yuan Kingdom would come up with after dispelling this rumor.

Unexpectedly, the Sun and Moon Sect suddenly appeared and claimed responsibility for the incident.

Zhao Zhijing said, "How could they suddenly appear? In my opinion, the Sun and Moon Divine Cult is the mastermind behind the conspiracy. You just guessed wrong."

Yang Guo snorted coldly and said, "Do you think everyone is as stupid as you? What kind of conflict is there between the Sun Moon Sect and Quanzhen that requires them to plot against Quanzhen Sect like this?"

Wu Feng said: "The origins of the Sun Moon Sect are complicated. The person who created it was a survivor of the 'Lan Yu Case'. He fled to Black Wood Cliff and formed the sect, causing trouble in the area.

He has absolutely no grudges against Quanzhen Sect, and can be said to be a separate entity. There is really no need for him to plot against Quanzhen Sect!"

Zhao Zhijing said, "What excuse do these evil cults need to take when they want to commit evil? In the past, the Sun Moon Divine Cult caused chaos everywhere, harassing countless forces. Those forces had no conflicts with the Sun Moon Divine Cult before!"

Wu Feng said: "When Ren Woxing was the leader, the Sun Moon Sect did behave like this, but since Dongfang Bubai came to power, the Sun Moon Sect has changed its stance and has been shrinking.

Furthermore, the forces that the Sun Moon Divine Cult had previously harassed were all much weaker than them, while they had never provoked other powerful forces.”

There are many wars in the north, so the Sun and Moon Sect has recruited soldiers and horses. Now the number of its followers has reached 30,000, and even the imperial court cannot underestimate them.

But there are simply many people, but few experts.

Because the Sun Moon Sect does not have any advanced martial arts inheritance, the previous leader, Ren Woxing, was not even a grandmaster. The current leader is known as the Invincible East. In the propaganda of the Sun Moon Sect, he is said to be a grandmaster, but he has not taken action in several years.

It is hard to say whether it is the Grandmaster level or not.

Although Chongyang Palace has few people and few masters, the Quanzhen faction spread all over the world is not to be trifled with.

Even if the Yuan Dynasty wanted to plot something, it could only hide it behind conspiracy.

How could a mere Sun and Moon Sect dare to provoke Quanzhen?
"Unless... unless they are now colluding with the Yuan Kingdom!"

Iron Fist suddenly spoke.

"This……"

Everyone looked at each other...it's not impossible!
Two more days passed.

Wufeng took the note off the pigeon's leg, released the pigeon, then unfolded the note and took a look at it. His face suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Yin Zhiping stepped forward and asked.

Wu Feng looked at everyone and said, "The Sun Moon Divine Cult has already dispatched the Right Envoy of Light, Xiang Wentian, and the White Tiger Hall Master, Shangguan Yun, to lead the cult members towards Mount Zhongnan."

"How many of them came?"

Wufeng stretched out two fingers.

"Just the two of them?"

"Two thousand people!"

boom!
These three words were like a huge thunderclap in everyone's ears. Everyone in the hall, whether it was the Seven Quanzhen Masters of the previous generation, Zhao Zhijing, Yin Zhiping, or even Yang Guo, all had pale expressions.

The number of two thousand people can already be considered a real army!

These people are all innate, not even a master. When facing a real army, they will either die or escape!
There is no other choice.

Tie Quan gritted his teeth and said, "This Sun Moon Divine Cult is truly a disaster. The imperial court should have long ago..."

Having said this, he realized that he had said something wrong and immediately shut up.

As an official appointed by the imperial court, he actually knew better than anyone that it was not that the imperial court did not want to destroy the Sun Moon Sect, but that it was impossible to destroy it.

At the end of the Hongwu period, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang intended to pass the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunwen, but he was worried that Zhu Yunwen would not be able to suppress arrogant and powerful generals such as Lan Yu, so he launched the "Lan Yu Case" and executed countless generals.

The survivors fled to Blackwood Cliff and founded the Sun and Moon Cult.

When Zhu Yunwen came to power, he severely reduced the power of the princes and killed several of his uncles within a year, which led to Zhu Di's rebellion. This rebellion lasted for several more years.

The Yuan Dynasty took advantage of this opportunity to cause chaos. After Zhu Di became emperor, he naturally took the lead in retaliating against the Yuan Dynasty.

In this way, the Sun and Moon Sect gradually grew stronger and stronger. Today, it has 30,000 followers, and even the imperial court cannot underestimate it.

Perhaps the imperial court also wants to eradicate this scourge, but looking at the current political situation, does it have the energy to deal with the Sun and Moon Sect?
Wu Feng said, "Everyone, fortune and disaster are interdependent. The Sun Moon Cult is so brazen, leading two thousand followers to attack Chongyang Palace. We can seek help from all sides and invite heroes from all directions to come and resist the Sun Moon Cult!"

Qiu Chuji said, "That's exactly what should happen!"

As the ancestral home of Quanzhen, the most terrifying thing about Chongyang Palace is its prestige and appeal.

But the previous rumors were directed at the Ancient Tomb Sect, not Chongyang Palace. Even if he had a thousand reasons, he would not seek help from all sides because of such rumors.

What should I say in the letter asking for help?
Oops, my neighbor next to me is holding a martial arts competition to find a husband, and there are too many people. Please come and save me!

Does this sound like a word?

When people see that your neighbor is holding a martial arts competition to find a bride and there are so many people coming, they wonder what it has to do with you.
Now that the Sun Moon Sect is acting in such a blatant manner, it is clear that they are going to attack Quanzhen. It is only natural for them to ask for help.

Just as Qiu Chuji was about to do so, Zhuifeng and Lengyu ran in from outside and said, "Oh no! There are rumors outside again!"

Wu Feng hurriedly asked, "What's the rumor?"

Leng Yu said, "Rumor has it that in the past, Master Chongyang built an armory in Mount Zhongnan to resist foreign invaders. It contained countless weapons, armor, gold, silver, and food. To conceal his presence, he disguised the armory as an ancient tomb."

"What? Is there such a thing?"

Wu Feng was shocked and quickly turned around to ask, "Master Changchun, is this rumor true or false?"

"This..." Qiu Chuji's eyes flashed, and he hesitated to speak.

Wu Feng's heart skipped a beat, and he clasped his fists and said, "We need to verify the truth of the rumor... Goodbye!"

ps: There are always readers who say that one update a day is too little, but each chapter of mine is 4,000 words.

Some people say that the update time is too stable, so there must be some manuscripts in reserve... There are indeed a few chapters, but... It's almost the New Year, and adults celebrate the New Year, and those who understand will understand. In order to keep updating during the New Year, the young author must reserve some, and I hope everyone will forgive me.
(End of this chapter)