Chapter one hundred and sixty-eight
Chapter 168: Meeting an old friend in a foreign land
"Sir, how did you know that the Taoist priest would not make things difficult for us?" Lei Huang asked in confusion when he returned to the inn room.
"I don't know. This is also a judgment. The Taoist priest's status in the Daomingzong would not be low. At this time, he could bring us into the Zhujun Palace, and no one even came to investigate and search us. This guy had a lot of energy. However, at the beginning, he talked to us and his attitude was always quite good. After knowing that I was a craftsman, he did not further preach us on any doctrine? What does this mean? It means that this guy is not a missionary clergy at all, but a person in the Daomingzong is responsible for some practical things.
People with interpersonal affairs... Such people do not have a single stubborn loyalty to the doctrine itself, so when he finally said those words to me, it was also about whether it was beneficial to my personal development. If he was such a charlatan, he should say that he was serving the Holy Church, not just said that it was a merit. In that case, I would have to bet on what kind of person he was. Maybe I was lucky, and this trick was really the right one." Ye Tao said frankly.
As long as Ye Tao is safe and sound, Bi Xiaoqing and the others don’t care about other things. Bi Xiaoqing did not notice that Emperor Mingzong sent someone to hang behind them, and Zhou Rui went out to touch it and had the same conclusion.
However, in Lei Huang's ears, these words were deeply penetrated. He could understand how profound the thorn that Ye Tao's last words were in the hearts of those believers. Perhaps in a short period of time, such psychological marks had no effect on these people's belief in the Dao Ming Sect, but when another choice appeared, when the more executable Lei Yin Demon Sect could become a choice that matched the Dao Ming Sect, the thorn might play a role vaguely.
Lei Huang has always admired Ye Tao very much, but after such occasional events today, he became even more afraid. He knew that what Ye Tao said today was in line with the role of Guo Fen he is playing now. But from the beginning to the end, he had never recorded any flaws, not only in terms of language, but in terms of emotions. Lei Huang knew that the background of Guo Fen and Ye Tao was very similar, but they could control the lyricism accurately, which would perfectly integrate them with the display of themselves. This ability is really extraordinary. If this is a performance ability, it would be really terrible. Lei Huang also thought of why Ye Tao was not worried about the problem of the Leiyin Demon Sect being too big in the future. He could support the Leiyin Demon Sect with one hand, and naturally he would be able to step on the Leiyin Demon Sect with one hand, but he didn't need to consider such a long time issue.
Amid Lei Huang's random thoughts, a figure suddenly landed in the courtyard of the small courtyard they were besieged.
"Who?" Along with the question, Bi Xiaoqing had already drawn out his sword and stabbed it out.
Only a series of tingling sounds were heard, and Bi Xiaoqing's moves were all blocked. It seemed that the person's perfect appearance was effortless. I'm afraid that his kung fu was more than better than Bi Xiaoqing.
"Hey, I'm my own, okay?" The visitor bounced Bi Xiaoqing's sword with the back of the knife, pushed Bi Xiaoqing outward, blocking Bi Xiaoqing three feet away. He took the back of the knife behind him, turned his head and said to Ye Tao, "Why are you here?"
The person who came was Guan Huan.
Guan Huan is an old friend of Ye Tao and a relative of Ye Tao's senior brother Guan Haishan. Now Qi Zhentao's son of Guan Haitian, the director of the shipyard on Crescent Island. Back then, Guan Huan sold Ye Tao's woodcut works for money when he was bored. Before Ye Tao arrived in Danyang, he had already left a very good impression in Situ Huang Xuping's mind. Although Guan Huan has often returned to Danyang or Yicheng in recent years, relying on his good relationship with the Ye family workshop, he customized some fun things in the workshop, making it easier for him to walk around the world, but he never had the chance to meet Ye Tao. The two of them suddenly met in Shunyi City, which was thousands of miles away from Yicheng. It was indeed too unexpected.
"Guan Huan, I should ask you. What are you doing here?"
Since he was an acquaintance, Bi Xiaoqing put his knife away and pushed it down, and turned to check the subordinates who were guarding around the garden. This time he lost face. Although he was not as good as others, there was no way to do so, but so many people around him could not even find it, which was too unreasonable.
Guan Huan didn't care about Bi Xiaoqing's strange gazes with others around him. He talked to Ye Tao very familiarly. Guan Huan was completely his own person, and Ye Tao was not prepared to hide things like the establishment and goals of the Leiyin Demon Sect from him. When he learned that they came here to see the Dao Mingzong's meeting and observe the organizational form of Dao Mingzong and the management of the people. Guan Huan frowned. He was already used to Ye Tao's endless strange ideas, but was even more surprised that Ye Tao dared to go deep into the tiger's den. Fortunately, Dao Mingzong's assassination target list only has his name on the list of Dao Mingzong's assassination targets, otherwise he would never have the chance to escape today. He sighed and said, "You are so brave. There are two of the experts in the Yingtang who are in Zhujun Hall now. Fortunately, they don't come out to patrol, otherwise they will be in trouble."
"Why is this?" Ye Tao was a little confused. Since there was a master here, it was a bit strange.
"Oh," Guan Huan sighed and said, "Eagle Hall is directly responsible to the people at the highest level of the Daoming Sect. There are indeed many crazy people in the Eagle Hall, but in general, Eagle Hall is an organization with a strong sense of ecstasy. Many of them are not believers at all but bribed martial arts people. Some of them are not famous figures, what will the believers think when they know about it?"
Ye Tao nodded and continued to ask, "It's indeed a bit strange for me to come here, but what about you? The eldest brother also mentioned you in his letter, saying that Mr. Qi wanted you to help you do things in the south."
Guan Huan smiled and said, "Mr. Qi's work is not easy to do. And if he is in charge of the Yuhang Qihai Chamber of Commerce, although there will definitely be a fight to fight, after all, he is not free. I have recommended two people to the old man. As for me, my goal is similar to yours, the same is Zhujun Palace."
Guan Huan's expression was a little hideous in an instant: "There is one of the two masters in the Zhujun Palace. I don't want him to live until next year."
Guan Huan is here to seek revenge. The guy hiding in the Zhujun Palace was named Pan Jue. A few months ago, when the Daomingzong wanted to subdue a small sect in Xiling South that had been remnants of the world, he led a large number of people from the Daomingzong Yingtang to completely wipe out the small sect. Although the small sect has weak power, there are many interesting people in the sect. Those people want to farm and support themselves, and their martial arts practice time is limited. It is more like a farm built in the name of the sect. However, they also take good care of the surrounding villagers. When people like Guan Huan come to visit and communicate, they always treat them very well. Among the people in the sect, this small sect has a good reputation.
. Perhaps it is precisely because of their good reputation that Yingtang wants to take them for themselves to win over more people in the martial arts world. Since there is no force in the Xiling martial arts world that can compete with Yingtang, the public opinion in the martial arts world is silent. However, many martial arts people who are righteous, especially those of the younger generation, have begun to act, and even some neutral organizations that have always collected money and have nothing to do with the government have begun to attack Yingtang. Although Guan Huan is from Dongping, he has always wandered around countries, has friends everywhere, and has always been the kind of guy with a very sense of justice. Some people have asked him to participate in the plan for Emperor Daoming.
Originally, Guan Huan didn't want to participate in this matter. After all, this is a matter in the martial arts world in Xiling. If he was a Dongping man, it would be difficult to explain clearly no matter where he was. However, his good friend "Qingxin Sword" Gu Xi robbed and killed a small team of Eagle Hall on the official road last month, killing a group of nine people, and he was seriously injured. He had to hide in and recuperate temporarily. Guan Huan went to Gu Xi's house to report the news and told them not to worry too much, but he ran into Eagle Hall.
A group of people who went to trouble Gu Xi's family. If Guan Huan hadn't arrived early, Gu Xi's sister would have been raped by those people, and Pan Jue was the one who led the team. This happened to be Pan Jue. This incident made Guan Huan lose the last bit of hope for an organization like Yingtang, a religious armed force under the Daoming Emperor. He killed all the people without any mercy. Only Pan Jue was stabbed by him, but he still used his companion's name to escape.
Guan Huan, who was angry, was terrible. He no longer cared about what others said. In the past month, he picked up four liaison offices of the Yingtang of Emperor Mingzong, and killed Yingtang in fear. The Xiling Wulin Realm was still silent, and there was no one who jumped out to accuse Guan Huan, a Dongping person, of taking the opportunity to cause trouble. But at this time, the masters of Yingtang could not pull out many people to surround Guan Huan.
On the one hand, taking advantage of the unpopular moment of Ying Tang's rebellion and revenge with everyone, some people in Xiling had the idea of the year-end Dharma Assembly, and were eager to get the grand event of Emperor Daoming, especially those sects and organizations that have been constantly suppressed for many years due to the rise of Emperor Daoming and Emperor Daoming, have devoted themselves to this big work with great enthusiasm. Ying Tang had to distribute a large number of masters everywhere just in case. On the other hand, it was that in the past few years, they did nothing in intelligence work and appeared one after another.
The Dongping Internal Affairs Guards, who had a colander, began to take the opportunity to cause trouble. Not only did they provide cover and convenience for the martial arts people in Xiling in various ways, but they also released news to cause trouble when the Lord of Xiling visited the Hunyuan Hall of the Daomingzong General Hall... Because the incident suddenly happened, the information might not have been transmitted back to Danyang, and it would take longer for the news to reach Ye Tao. If we knew that Xiling was actually in such a turbulent under the surface stability of Xiling, we might have been thinking about his Xiling's thoughts this time.
Chapter completed!