Zhenfang City's defense formation has been fully activated. A layer of clear blue light has been cast over the city, which is three feet thick. The people in the city are trembling with fear. The family is leaning against each other with the door closed, listening to what's going on outside.

, for fear that the loud noise of a giant beast rushing into the city would be heard, which would almost mean disaster.

On the top of the city, the city guard of Zhenfang City and Zeng Baihu stood together, surrounded by hundreds of cultivators. Lu Wanmin and the cultivators above the Mingjian realm in the city had already rushed out of the city.

Halfway up the mountainside of a huge mountain, there was a layer of gray clouds, like a huge cloud mushroom. Several powerful wild beasts were rushing out of the gray cloud, roaring and fighting with the overhauls.

One place.

Lu Wanmin alone blocked two powerful ninth-level beasts, but the other desolate beasts were also seventh-level and eighth-level ones. The monks in Zhenfang City were far inferior to the outstanding disciples of the big sects. Their strength was average in the same realm, and they were beaten by the giant beasts.

Chong, it’s already in pieces.

A seventh-level desolate beast rushed to the city in an instant, and slammed into the light of the city defense formation, making a loud bang. The entire Zhenfang City remained motionless, but people's hearts were already panicking.

Lu Wanmin was really strong. He spent two hours killing two ninth-level beasts by himself, and then led other major cultivators to kill the remaining wild beasts. When he returned to Zhenfang City, he was panting and his beard and hair were soaked with sweat.

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As soon as he landed on the ground, he shouted in a deep voice: "There is a strange formation in Yunzhong Ruins. Someone is secretly causing trouble! Don't let me catch it, otherwise we will kill everyone!"

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Du Baihu was cautious in Rao County. In the past few months with Song Zheng, he also learned some habits of adults, such as thinking more about everything.

Things in Raojun and Zhenfang City seemed a bit abnormal from the beginning. But now he was more and more sure that someone was secretly plotting against Long Yiwei.

But this time, the adults seemed to have won a great victory, but they were not able to turn the tide.

Qi Bingchen tracked down the ancestor of the Xiong family and was led into the extremely dangerous Onoze. He has not come out yet. He only has dozens of Longyi guards with him.

Long Yiwei didn't have the Blazing Dragon in Rao County, so he was seriously lacking in strength, but the Lord needed him to stay in Rao County to monitor the situation. This task was very dangerous, so he took it anyway.

It was pitch black outside the window, and everything seemed to be quiet, but Du Baihu was worried that there was a huge danger hidden under this tranquility. He was worried in the cold night: "Jiangnan, there is going to be chaos..."

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Song Zheng was sitting in his study, with two piles of confessions in front of him. One pile was very tall and contained the confessions of everyone in the Chen family, and the other pile had only one sheet, which was written by Xiong Zhi.

The confessions of important figures in the Gou Chen family are varied, but a closer analysis will reveal that under the cover of various excuses, they put all the blame on Gou Chen Qianying and Gou Chen Dongfeng. Tianzun and the ancestors all said that they were just

He obeyed orders and knew nothing about the conspiracy of the Chen family to rebel against the ancient country of Huaxu.

Xiong Zhi only knew about the situation in the ancient Huaxu Kingdom. He told Song Zheng clearly: he was just a pawn. His first task was to monitor the Gouchen family, and the second was to report the development of the situation in the south of the Yangtze River to the country.

For analysis of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom.

If the situation is favorable, the Ancient Huaxu Kingdom may provide further support to the Gouchen family.

But what this support is has not yet been determined, and Xiong Zhi has no idea.

He came to the Hongwu Dynasty just to accumulate merit and could not make the decision. The people who made the decision were all in the country of Huaxu, so he had no value to Song Zheng, so he might as well exchange it for Yuan Yu.

Song Zheng carefully analyzed these two confessions.

Although Xiong Zhi was eager to survive, what he said should be the truth.

As for Gou Chen, he had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Previously, Gou Chen Qianying did not choose to resist arrest under the pressure of Zhong Yundai, but happily surrendered with his entire clan. He had doubts in his heart at that time.

Some of the evidence later found during the Gou Chen Clan search, including Xiong Zhi’s testimony, proved that the Gou Chen Clan had been plotting a rebellion for at least several decades. With such deliberate and long-term preparation, would Gou Chen Qianying give up so easily?

The testimonies of everyone in the Gou Chen family seemed to indicate that they had been prepared for it. If they were caught, everyone would shirk the responsibility and put the responsibility on Gou Chen Qianying and his son.

Why is this happening? What is Gou Chen’s conspiracy?

There was an impulse in Song Zheng's heart, an impulse he had always had during this period, an impulse caused by the sense of urgency and crisis brought about by Zhao Xiao's death: to remove the fuel from the cauldron and eradicate the root cause!

Just like when he arrested Gou Chen Dongfeng before, no matter what Gou Chen Qianying's conspiracy was, if all members of the Gou Chen family were executed in accordance with the law, no matter what conspiracy he had, it would come to an abrupt end.

He has already picked up the ink pen and is about to issue a secret order to implement this plan. In the underworld, the death of some people is nothing.

But at the last moment, he took a deep breath, and his powerful Yin Shen cultivation allowed him to restrain himself. He raised the Void God Town, and Sister Zhao gave him a stone ring before she died, which was her

A divine item obtained from the Qingshui River!

He can use this treasure to continue practicing the "Wild God Method", and it also lets him know that some of his previous special "perceptions" in advance are actually the secret sensing of the Yin God.

He knew he could rely on this sense.

At this time, under the Void God Town, his whole body seemed to be connected to the starry sky. He sensed a boundless "vastness", which was the far-reaching sky, the vast sea of ​​​​stars, and the vast divine domain!

That is... good fortune, that is... destiny!

The night was already dark, and tomorrow was the day when the third subject of the Martial Arts Provincial Examination would start. Song Zheng had already made a decision. He stayed up all night, pondering over the case.

At dawn, he wrote a letter, sent it with spiritual light, and flew to Xizhou through the air.

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When the third subject exam started, Song Zheng was present in person, accompanied by Lei Minzhi. In addition, Zhong Boke, who is now in charge of Pinghu Tower, also came to accompany him. This place is close to Taiji Lake, and Pinghu Tower also sent disciples to assist Longyi Guards in maintaining order.

The battle in the arena was very fast, with thousands of martial arts cultivators fighting against each other. After the first round, the number of people was reduced by half, and after the second round, the number of people was reduced by half again.

Except that one round took two full days, the rest was getting faster and faster.

Five days later, the leader of the third branch was born, Bao Sheng, a disciple of the Shenmai Sect from Yanzhou.

The Shenmai Sect is one of the nine major sects in Yanzhou, but its reputation was not well known before the victory. It is said that the sect secretly cultivated outstanding disciples in order to make a splash at the critical moment.

He was in the middle stage of the Mingjian Realm, and was not the highest among the thousands of martial arts practitioners in the rural examination. However, he performed well in the final arena battle and bravely defeated four opponents in a row who were above him.

Because everyone was equally bad at the first two subjects, the leader of the third subject was probably Jieyuan from the Jiangnan Provincial Examination. The whole Shenmai Sect was full of joy. This time, Jieyuan was different from the past. He was highly valued and had a bright future.

The disciples of the Shenmai Sect celebrated grandly in the Hongzhuang Pavilion that night and clashed with another group of casual cultivators. Both sides fought, but they all cunningly escaped before Long Yiwei arrived.

The next day, rumors began to spread in Huzhou City: the leader of the third division to ensure victory came from wrong ways.

Long Yiwei was in charge of the rural examination. Song Zheng ordered to trace the source of the rumors. At the same time, he secretly ordered Long Yiwei to investigate on his own to see if there was really any fraud in the rural examination.

But the situation developed faster than Long Yiwei expected. At night, "evidence" appeared!

A phantom record stored in the jade talisman appeared: the two people in the phantom were conducting a transaction. Someone handed a stack of large jade tickets to Li Sanyan and asked him to "take care of" Baosheng, and

It is clearly stated that if he can win the provincial exam and get Jieyuan, the Shenmai Sect will be rewarded generously.

All the martial arts examinations in the rural examinations failed. No. 1 in Wen Wu and No. 2 in Wu. Even if they lost on the stage, many people were still unconvinced. Especially to win is to continuously defeat opponents whose level is higher than one's own.

There are countless people who secretly doubt it.

After the rumors were brewed during the day, this so-called "evidence" was released at night and immediately began to spread wildly among martial arts practitioners.

Especially for those casual cultivators, some people are secretly fanning the flames to antagonize the casual cultivators and the sects and aristocratic families: martial arts is one of the few ways for the casual cultivators to ascend, and now this channel will also be taken away and used by the aristocratic sects.

Taken away by such despicable means!

When it got dark, dozens of casual cultivators gathered in front of Baotaowei Yamen, demanding Master Song to take Li Sanyan into custody and give an explanation to the Jiangnan martial cultivators.

The Long Yi Guards were ready, and Song Zheng sent someone to explain to the casual cultivators: Don't believe the rumors, this is the world of cultivation, and the phantom record does not explain anything, it can be easily forged. They will definitely investigate thoroughly and give

Let’s all explain it together.

But the casual cultivators refused to believe it and insisted on taking Li Sanyan into custody. Song Zheng could not agree.

As he said, this is the world of cultivation. It is easy to find someone to pretend to be Li Sanyan and use a jade talisman to record the phantom record.

But the entire martial arts cultivators in Huzhou City, except for the Shenmai Sect, are willing to believe that this evidence is true.

Subsequently, various rumors intensified. For example, someone found out that Li Sanyan's family was extremely wealthy and owned many houses in Huzhou City. This seemed to confirm from the side that Li Sanyan had indeed taken the jade ticket from the Shenmai Sect.

Otherwise, how could you have so much money to buy a house?

For example, Li Sanyan encouraged Song Zheng to "visit the brothels" many times before, and even the incident at Yanmen Inn was revealed.

Therefore, Li Sanyan must be a "sycophant" in front of Song Zheng. Song Zheng's refusal to face the evidence and detain Li Sanyan must be protecting his subordinates!

For example, Song Zheng made things difficult for the Jiuzhen Society many times in Duanyang City, and even almost destroyed the Jiuzhen Society. It must be because he came from a big family, so he looked down on casual cultivators. Of course he would protect Baosheng who was from a sect.

No one is willing to verify the authenticity of various news.
Chapter completed!