The back house of the city lord's mansion.

Because Gu Xiu and Li Pingping didn't have enough room to live in, in order to facilitate monitoring of the housekeeper's family, Guan Pingping was allowed to continue to live in the back house.

After a while, the three housekeeper brothers gathered in Zhao Hongyan's room with tacit understanding.

"Mom, brother, are we really going to hand over the position of city lord to that woman named Li?" Guan Chao asked impatiently as soon as he entered the house.

Of course, he knew not to shout loudly and kept his voice very low.

Zhao Hongyan frowned slightly, looked at Guan Ping, and asked, "Boss, what do you think?"

Guan Ping said: "Then Li Pingping asked me whether I should choose to work for her or take her family away. I said it would take a few days to think about it. During this time, we can inform the Lingchi Sect about this."

Hearing this, Guan Hai said: "Brother, just now I saw a woman in blue standing on the top of the highest attic of our back house. She was obviously monitoring us. In such a situation, I'm afraid they won't sit back and watch us send someone to report

Do you believe it?"

"Of course it's not possible to do it openly, but it shouldn't be difficult to do it secretly." After saying this, Guan Ping looked at Zhao Hongyan.

Zhao Hongyan nodded slightly and said, "Let me handle this matter."

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A few days later.

The seat of Lingchi Sect.

In the Lingguang Hall, where the sect's senior leaders hold daily discussions, the head of the Lingchi Sect, two elders and nine true disciples of the magical power realm gathered together.

In addition, there were several people in the palace who were described as being embarrassed or who looked cautious.

One of them, a man with a beard and dirty clothes, was kneeling on the ground and cried: "Master Dou, the villain's father and four brothers all died tragically in the hands of those evil thieves in blue. If it weren't for the villain,

I was not in the city lord's palace at that time, so I'm afraid I couldn't escape the disaster. For five generations, my Chunyu family has been the shepherd of the Lingchi sect guarding Danling City, and I have been loyal. Please be sure to seek justice for our Chunyu family."

Dou Xianwu, the head of the Lingchi Sect, frowned and said, "Okay, I already know about the matters in Danling City and I will definitely deal with them. Please stop crying and retreat outside the palace first. Come from other cities."

Everyone, please retreat outside the palace first and wait for the summons."

The last sentence was said to the other four people.

Although these people were anxious, they did not dare to disobey Dou Xianwu's words at all. They immediately agreed and exited the Lingguang Hall.

After these people had left, a lean old man with a gray beard sitting on the Grand Master's chair on the left said: "The leader, Danling, Pingquan, Xicheng, Baizhang, Huojing, and the five cities were all captured in the past few days.

He has taken the position of city lord, and almost all of those people are wearing blue clothes and carrying swords. It is obvious that some force is eyeing our Lingchi Sect."

Dou Xianwu sighed: "Why don't I know it? I just don't know what kind of force the other party is and what its strength is, so it's not easy to deal with it rashly."

Another fat old man with the least white hair sitting on the right said: "From the descriptions of people from these five cities, those people in blue are all good at swordsmanship. Could it be that they came from Lingjian Pavilion?"

There are three major sects in Lingchi. On the surface, Lingjian Pavilion only has 2 Jindan realm and 9 magical powers. They only occupy three cities. Their strength seems to be much lower than that of Lingchi sect.

But Dou Xianwu and others have already regarded Lingjian Pavilion as a serious problem.

This is because compared to the Lingchi Sect, which has a history of thousands of years, Lingjian Pavilion was established less than three hundred years ago. Fu Qingguang, the old pavilion master who founded the sect, still has a life span of hundreds of years, and the current pavilion master Jing Wentian has also condensed his life span.

A middle-grade golden elixir, quite powerful and ambitious.

On the other hand, their Lingchi sect clearly has three people in the Golden Core Realm, but like the Lingjian Pavilion, there are only nine in the Divine Power Realm. Moreover, the most outstanding one among the true masters of the Divine Power Realm can only compete with the opponent's magical power ranked second or third.

The situation is a draw.

If this situation is allowed to continue, when the time comes for the three old guys at the Golden Core Realm, it may be difficult for the Lingchi Sect to occupy six cities.

However, they were worried, and none of the three expected that Lingjian Pavilion would be so impatient to take action.

After thinking for a while, Dou Xianwu said: "Actually, it may not be Lingjian Pavilion - according to people from the five cities, those men in blue not only have exquisite swordsmanship, but also extremely good body skills. But Lingjian Pavilion only dominates with their swordsmanship.

, his body skills and martial arts are very average."

Hearing this, one of the leading disciples in the palace couldn't help but said: "Master, could it be that the people from these five cities have too little knowledge and think very ordinary movements are very clever? Or, could it be that they are too ignorant?

Could it be that Lingjian Pavilion has acquired some advanced martial arts skills over the years?"

Dou Xianwu nodded slightly after hearing this, "It's not impossible."

After saying that, he frowned and said nothing, obviously hesitant.

A younger-looking true disciple of the Divine Power Realm saw that the leader and the two elders were silent for a while. He couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He took a step forward and cupped his fists and said: "Master, I think that no matter what the origins of those people in blue are, we can do it."

Concentrate your manpower and deal with them city by city.

What's more, judging from what people from the five cities have said, the strongest among those people is the one with magical power, how can he be my opponent in the Lingchi Party?"

In fact, this disciple wanted to ask the master and the two elders what they were afraid of, but saying so would be disrespectful to the teacher, so he could only put forward his opinions tactfully.

As a result, Dou Xianwu and the two elders shook their heads after hearing this.

Then the master of the supernatural power realm, the slightly fat third elder Mai Chongqing, said: "Zhang He, do you think we can't think of this? But have you ever thought about it, if those people don't have the golden elixir realm behind them, how can they dare to seize it in such a big way?

Is there a city under the jurisdiction of my Lingchi sect?

As for defeating one city after another, do you think the other side will leave such a loophole? Maybe, they are waiting for us to do this so that they can raid our lair!"

Hearing Mai Chongqing's words, Zhang He couldn't help but blush with embarrassment - he was really impulsive just now and couldn't think so much.

Dou Xianwu and the second elder Li Zhangze shook their heads secretly and sighed: This generation of disciples in our sect is really not good.

Then, another true disciple came forward and said: "Master, the two elders, and the disciples are willing to go to Danling City to deal with the men in blue who massacred Chunyu City Lord. Even if they are not able, they can still test out the power behind them!"

As soon as this person finished speaking, the two true masters of the supernatural realm next to him also stood up and said: "Disciple is willing to go with Senior Brother Wang!"

Hearing this, Dou Xianwu and the two elders looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Then he said: "In this case, Qi Cheng, you take Zhang He, Wang Zhao and the four of them to Danling City together. In addition, please ask the three elders to follow them secretly, just in case."

"Disciple, I obey!" The leading disciple, Zhang He and four others responded together.

After hearing this, Mai Chongqing hesitated and said: "Master, if we spread our manpower so thinly, will we be defeated by each other?"

Dou Xianwu frowned and said, "That's why I asked you to follow them secretly. As long as you are careful, how will the other party know that you have left the sect?"

"All right."

Mai Chongqing actually thought this was quite dangerous and didn't want to go, but Dou Xianwu said everything he said in front of all the disciples, so he had no choice but to agree.
Chapter completed!