I, a minor character, fell into the Shura field of the heroine and the villain

But his cultivation in the Spirit Transformation Stage and the women who always supported him gave him unparalleled courage.

He first used his spiritual power to amplify his voice, ensuring that his voice could cover every corner of the square.

"Didn't Master Uncle say he would come? Why can't I see him?" Zhao Mengyao looked around in the corner of the square.

Luo Xueqing was much calmer and said, "Don't worry. I think she should be watching here from a distance."

"Besides, if she comes too early, she might not be able to catch the big fish."

The news that Mu Wanyi would come was not made public, so only a few of them knew about it.

Even the city lord's newly appointed staff didn't say anything.

A certain part of the city lord's succession ceremony is that the elders sent by the holy land act as witnesses and deliver the formal appointment document and the city lord's seal to the city lord.

When it comes to Zhao Kangping, no elder will come.

Because this witness is the Holy Lord himself.

The two women turned their attention to the man on the stage.

No matter what the relationship between the two of them is, they have one thing in common, that is, they both love that man.

"Dear guests, welcome to my city lord succession ceremony. Let me first introduce myself."

"I, Zhao Kangping, am the son of a struggling cultivator wandering the streets. My background isn't any more noble than those present here, but I'm fortunate and hardworking. Later, I became the Master of Yaohua Hall in the Ziyang Holy Land, and now I'm about to become the new Lord of Chuanliu City."

"...I have a dream. I dream of seeing every immortal seedling under my rule get a fair opportunity to cultivate, and that no matter their background, whether noble or poor, they can all grow up healthily..."

The man on the stage gave his speech passionately.

But most of the audience here don’t care what the people on the stage are saying. Many of them are communicating using Transsion, talking about topics that they really care about.

Previous city lords would inevitably give long speeches when they took over, and I believe this year's may also have a similar process.

So they are not unusual.

Which of those city lords doesn’t know how to make promises? How many of their initial promises did they fulfill in the end?

Then why do they still come to listen to the people above saying things they don’t care about at all?

In fact, anyone who comes to listen to the succession speech can get a spirit stone.

However, there were a few people in the crowd who neither listened to the speech on the stage nor discussed it secretly.

Several seemingly unrelated people squeezed through the crowd. They seemed to have no intersection, but they exchanged glances when passing by.

Then these people dispersed and walked to different parts of the crowd.

"Blood sacrifice to the Blood God, skull to the Skull Throne!~"

Following a discordant shout, the spiritual power in the bodies of several discordant figures in the crowd ran wild, and they were about to self-destruct without saying a word.

Chapter 347: Jealousy Separates People

The new incumbent mentioned in his succession speech that he plans to lower housing prices in the southern part of the city after reconstruction and allow installment payments.

This is definitely good news for many independent cultivators and ordinary people who cannot afford housing.

Then there was a thunderous roar from the crowd.

So much so that the shouts of the few uninvited guests mixed in the crowd were drowned out by the waves of noise.

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A thug who was about to self-destruct discovered something was wrong. He was unable to use the spiritual power in his body.

If he cannot use his own cultivation, then he cannot self-destruct and cannot launch a terrorist attack.

Not only him, but his accomplices also encountered the same dilemma.

Cold sweat immediately slid down these people's faces, and they all felt an unprecedented panic.

Are they going to continue, or are they going to escape in disgrace while the people around them haven't reacted yet?

At this time, they also noticed that a soul-banning formation was set up in the central square of the city.

When they first arrived, there was no such formation.

This was actually the work of Zhao Kangping. He guessed that someone might cause trouble here, so he made preparations in advance.

When this formation is not activated, it will not emit any aura, making it difficult to detect.

He activated the formation only after everyone entered the venue.

These thugs communicated with each other using telepathy, all hesitating and not knowing what to do next.

I guess no one heard clearly what they shouted the slogans just now.

Otherwise, let’s retreat.

After they talked for a while, they both wanted to back out.

Without their cultivation, they are not much better than ordinary people.

So they lowered their heads, tried to reduce their presence as much as possible, and slipped away quietly.

However, it is not so easy to leave now, as many city guards have already mixed into the crowd.

Their unusual behavior had long been noticed.

So they didn't go far before they were knocked down by the city guards who rushed over.

Once one person was captured, the rest began to scatter. However, their flight was suspicious and would inevitably attract the attention of the city guards in the crowd.

Soon, these suspicious elements were put in soul-binding shackles and taken under control.

Perhaps all this also attracted the attention of others in the crowd, but the noisy sounds soon drowned out the noise.

The attempts by some people to sabotage the succession speech were thus thwarted without causing any disturbance.

Although Zhao Kangping was preaching on the stage, he also allocated some of his spiritual awareness, so he noticed these little episodes.

Zhao Kangping's speech lasted about the time it took to burn an incense stick.

After the city lord's speech, it was time for the guests to enter.

The central square of Chuanliu City is very large, and sometimes an arena is built here to host competitions among young monks.

In the past, when the city lord succeeded to the throne, there would be some entertainment programs.

The most common one is to invite some young talents in the city to compete on stage.

This can not only show the talents of Chuanliu City, but also satisfy the vanity of some young monks.

But this kind of competition eventually became distorted.

The final winners are almost all children of aristocratic families, and common monks have no chance at all.

Whenever there is a civilian cultivator with outstanding talent who is expected to win the competition, some aristocratic families will secretly contact him in advance.

These big families would give out a sum of spirit stones, or treasures such as elixirs, magic tools, and talismans to make the civilian cultivator lose to their younger generations.

It would be fine if this civilian monk was more sensible, but if he dared to refuse, he would have no hope of a good life in the future.

Most people would give up, accept the money, and then deliberately lose it.

But there are also some young people who are not willing to give in easily and will be severely beaten by society.

Zhao Kangping felt that there was no point in holding such a competition, so he simply canceled it.

However, every successive city lord in the early years would have a competition on this stage, so a circular spectator stand was specially built on one side of the square.

Now they will serve as seats for the guests who come to witness his succession to the city lord.

Someone here will certainly ask, why didn’t the guests enter before he delivered his speech on succession to the city lord?

This was mainly because the speech was primarily intended for the city's residents, and contained a lot of empty promises, which the guests probably wouldn't want to hear. Therefore, the guests' entrance was simply arranged after the city lord's speech.

"Pah! Crash!~"

With the blast of fireworks, the host began to announce the arrival of the guests.

Not all the guests were invited in the name of the City Lord's Mansion. Some were invited by Mu Wanyi in the name of the Holy Lord.

If Zhao Kangping's senior sister hadn't been the Purple Sun Saint, he wouldn't have had the chance to become the city lord. Even if he had become the city lord by chance, without a noble family background, there probably wouldn't have been many guests willing to come and support him.

There are also rules for the order in which guests enter. Usually, the more distinguished the guest, the later he or she appears.

The last person to appear is often the elder of the holy land who comes with the official appointment documents. This elder will announce in front of everyone that someone has been granted the position of the mayor of Chuanliu City.

Because Chuanliu City is a subsidiary city of Ziyang Holy Land, the position of the city lord here needs to be certified by the Holy Land to be legitimate.

The first to appear were representatives of some small families in the city.

It's worth mentioning that so-called small families are typically small, relatively recent families founded by monks. Their ancestors are typically disciples who left the Holy Land. However, these disciples typically didn't have any backgrounds. They left the Holy Land after reaching a certain age, married, had children, and established their own families in River City.

These families couldn't compare to the aristocratic families with long histories, so they weren't part of the same circle and couldn't hang out together. Small families had their own small circles.

Zhao Kangping had never had any contact with these small families. Except for some small families coming to give him gifts before, he didn't even know who these people were before.

He took a closer look and found a few familiar faces, but he couldn't remember most of their names because he had only met them once and didn't get to know them in depth.

But one family left a particularly deep impression: Mrs. Huo from the Chen family. She brought her two daughters, one son, and her sister-in-law to attend the succession ceremony.

He remembered it very clearly. At that time, the beautiful woman wanted to curry favor with him by using her daughter's beauty.

Unfortunately, he had no interest in the little girl whose hair had not yet grown fully.

Mrs. Huo is also quite pitiful. Her husband died not long ago, and the burden of the family fell on her, a weak woman.

To make matters worse, there was a young scoundrel from the Qiu family who coveted the mother, daughter, and sister-in-law.

Later, Zhao Kangping sent a maid from the mansion to settle the matter.

The young master of the Qiu family became obedient after being taught a lesson. He had no choice but to be obedient. The big families were in a bad situation right now, and if he stirred up trouble again, he would suffer no good consequences.

Following the small family came the representatives of the Qianshang Alliance, led by Qin Lingxuan.

The Qianshang Alliance is a business alliance composed of merchants from the world of immortal cultivation, and it has a significant influence in the business world.

Qin Lingxuan came to attend the ceremony not only to repay Zhao Kangping for his help in her seizing power in the Chamber of Commerce, but also to discuss some business cooperation with the new city lord.

In fact, their cooperation has already begun. Liu Fucai from the Qianshang Alliance contributed a lot to this succession ceremony.

The host of this ceremony was from Liu Fucai's team. There were some singing and dancing performances afterwards, and the fireworks in the event were also arranged by them.

This businessman, who was responsible for organizing wedding ceremonies, was also organizing a large-scale event like the city lord's succession ceremony for the first time. As long as this event was successful, his business scope would not be limited to the wedding industry in the future.

Following the Qianshang Alliance came some affiliated sects of Ziyang Holy Land, such as Chaoxia Mountain, Baicao Valley, Wanghe Sect and so on.

Almost every time a force that comes to participate in the ceremony appears, the host will introduce these forces in a vivid and emotional way.

When some friendly sects from the Eastern Region appeared later, the introductions began to become longer and longer.

"Brother Zhao, how are you?"

Zhao Kangping was looking at the guests entering the venue when a voice transmission penetrated his mind.

The voice seemed familiar, so he looked towards the entrance, and the host just happened to read out the name of the visitor.

That person was Sun Hezhou, the current leader of Penglai Sword Pavilion. He had been a little famous in his youth and had once competed with Zhao Kangping. Unfortunately, he, who had achieved fame at a young age, lost to the unknown Zhao Kangping.

Sun Hezhou does have a role in the original novel, but he's not a villain, nor is he a significant character. He's just a somewhat unlucky passerby.

Soon, Zhao Kangping saw a beautiful woman following him. She was Sun Hezhou's wife.

However, Zhao Kangping had read the original novel and knew that this woman was a fickle person. She had unspeakable secrets with many elders in the sect.

She even seduced one of Sun Hezhou's disciples and put several hats on Pavilion Master Sun.

Following behind Sun Hezhou and his wife were their two disciples and a daughter.

Sun Hezhou's daughter is quite miserable. She doesn't even have a name in the original novel, and her only appearance is when she is mentioned in the narration that she died while exploring the ruins.

Zhao Kangping looked at Sun Hezhou's two disciples. One of them was named Han Che, whom he had met before in Fuxian City. The other disciple was named Liu Qinian, the one who had an affair with Sun Hezhou's wife.

Compared to his senior brother Han Che, Liu Qinian's cultivation aptitude is not particularly outstanding, but his appearance is very cute, which is the type that many rich women like. Logically speaking, his aptitude is not up to Sun Hezhou's standard for accepting him as a disciple, but Liu Qinian's father was indebted to Sun Hezhou and entrusted his son to Sun Hezhou before his death.

Little did they know that Liu Qinian was an ungrateful person. Not only did he sleep with his master's wife, he also teamed up with her to kill Han Che, seized Penglai Jiange, and made Penglai Jiange a mess.

But now, Sun Hezhou's daughter is not dead yet, and he has not set out to the Western Regions alone to avenge his daughter.

In fact, Zhao Kangping had a question. Sun Hezhou's wife was such a woman. Was their daughter Sun Hezhou's? This was not written in the original novel, but Sun Hezhou traveled thousands of miles to avenge his daughter's death. Regardless of whether she was his biological daughter or not, Sun Hezhou should have considered her his own daughter.

Zhao Kangping paid special attention to Sun Hezhou's daughter, and then looked at the couple.