The Fourth Financial Crisis

After being splashed with cold water and knocked unconscious by Ye Chen's iron fist, Wu Neng's eyes finally regained focus.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw a young monk staring at him with a smile and said: "Fellow Daoist Wu, are you awake?"

Wu Neng looked at the young monk, and then at the three people following the young monk. The expression on his face became even more confused: "Do you know me? Who are you?"

Yang Lu smiled and replied: "I am Yang Lu, the consultant of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. As for these fellow Taoists next to me... they are all my friends. Of course, you may not know us, but at the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, I I have seen your wonderful performance!"

When Yang Lu mentioned the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Wu Neng's face, but it was quickly replaced by fear: "Everyone, what on earth do you want to do to me?"

Yang Lu quickly made a calm gesture, smiled and comforted: "As you can see, you are already defeated by our men. I also have two options for you to choose from. The first is to become our team One of them, as for the second one, he was killed by us in exchange for merit..."

"You...what are you talking about?"

Just like Rong Sheng and Xi Ziang, Wu Neng, who heard the news for the first time, was also stunned on the spot:

When engaging in team building on foreign battlefields, brother, you are really not afraid of death!

Since this was not the first time he had tried to persuade someone to surrender, Yang Lu already had plenty of experience in talking nonsense. Regardless of whether Wu Neng believed it or not, there was a general principle of "the right person will get more help, the wrong person will get less help", and Xi Ziang and Rong Sheng, two senior henchmen, also kept urging him to surrender quickly with various purposes.

After some persuasion, Wu Neng had no choice but to express with confusion that he was willing to follow Advisor Yang's command.

And when Wu Neng officially joined the team, Yang Lu also adjusted the magic weapon configuration of the three losers again.

Wu Neng's Judge's Pen was given to Rong Sheng to control, Rong Sheng's peach wood flying sword was given to Xi Zi'ang to control, and Xi Zi'ang's natal flying sword was given to Wu Neng for safekeeping, forming a situation where the three of them held each other's hands. The situation of natal magic weapon.

According to Yang Lu, only by giving each other's back can we fully reflect our team spirit!

In addition, as Wu Neng was captured obediently, Yang Lu also captured the special reconnaissance magic weapon he carried with him——

Pleiades Risinan.

According to Wu Neng's introduction, Pleiades Sinan is the ancestral magic weapon of Yueyun Villa. It is said that this treasure is also an ancient magic weapon unearthed by a senior of Yueyun Villa in a forbidden area on an extraterritorial battlefield hundreds of years ago.

With the help of Subaru Sinan's power, Wu Neng can detect abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations in the vicinity over a wide range, and can also detect cultivators holding their breath when the distance is less than 300 meters. Therefore, its actual effect is equivalent to strengthening the user's spiritual detection ability by an entire order of magnitude!

If the spiritual energy fluctuations caused by activating Subaru Sinan were not too large, targets that were too close would discover Subaru Sinan's user. This special reconnaissance magic weapon had almost no flaws. Just now, Wu Neng used Pleiades Sinan to activate him at close range and discovered Ye Chen and the others who were secretly ambushing them in advance.

However, Subarisinan, as an ancient magic weapon, cannot be used directly by pouring spiritual energy into it. It must be refined for a long time, and outsiders cannot use it casually.

So Yang Lu made an exception and allowed Wu Neng to continue to hold this magic weapon to help his small team observe the enemy's situation.

Yang Lu was not worried about Wu Neng deliberately deceiving him. After all, when the opponent was in danger, he did not use Subaru Sinan's power to fight back. This fully demonstrated that Subaru Sinan was a reconnaissance weapon without any combat effectiveness.

With Wu Neng, a master of reconnaissance, joining the team, the fishing efficiency of the entire team has been greatly improved.

Yang Lu finally no longer had to put himself in danger and acted as a decoy in person. He only needs to directly release his own aura, and then let Wu Neng activate Pleiades Sinan, and he can check whether any unlucky cultivators are attracted by his aura within a radius of 20 miles.

As long as there are no special treasures such as the Hidden Spirit Pill to suppress the fluctuations of spiritual energy, any method of stimulating the spiritual energy to move forward, whether it is divine movement or light escape, cannot be hidden from Pleiades Sinan's reconnaissance.

After all the members of the small team were ready, Yang Lu released his aura again, but before he had time to set up the escape light and spin twice, Wu Neng immediately gave a reminder and told them the location was more than ten miles away from everyone. , from the due north, due south, and northeast, there is a cultivator approaching this place quickly.

Facts have proved that the monks in the middle stage of Qi refining are indeed the meat and potatoes of the battlefield outside the territory. As long as they reveal a little aura, without deliberately seducing them, they can make countless monks in the late stage of Qi refining flock to them. It can be said that "an arrow that pierces the clouds can bring thousands of troops to the battlefield." See you”!

Yang Lu has also realized at this moment that he may have seriously underestimated the investigation methods of the outside battlefield testers. Every time he jumped out to fish before, he should have successfully attracted the attention of many cultivators. However, the cultivators who came after hearing the news Most people's reactions were probably similar to Wu Neng's. They ran over to take a look at the situation and found that Yang Lu's behavior was a bit suspicious, so they left on their own.

Only a few reckless men like Rong Sheng and Xi Ziang would choose to commit suicide themselves.

In the past, when facing these cautious guys, Yang Lu had no ability to keep them and could only watch them slip away from his eyes. But now with the help of Subaru Sinan, he no longer has to worry about these guys taking the bait. And lost again.

Now they can choose to take the initiative!

Since the Night Light Flower is located in the center of the valley, if cultivators want to sneak into the valley quietly on foot without activating the escape light, there are only three paths to the northeast, northwest, and south. And if someone comes from the south, without walking more than half a circle around the valley, he can only enter the canyon through the passage due south to check the situation.

After learning that the three cultivators were approaching from three directions, Yang Lu immediately decided to lead his team to set up an ambush at the mouth of the valley due south to intercept and kill the unlucky cultivator coming from the south in advance.

Just as Yang Lu expected, in order not to arouse the alertness of the "target", these cultivators who came to check the situation all chose to walk on foot after approaching the valley, thus minimizing the fluctuations of spiritual energy they generated.

However, the cultivator who came from the south to kill people and seize the treasure did not know that he had just reached the entrance of the valley when he was already targeted by five cultivators with malicious intentions.

When Yang Lu and others saw the cultivator's clothes from a distance, they were also shocked by his identity.

The cultivators Yang Lu had met before were all small shrimps from the major vassal sects in Zhongzhou, and this cultivator who had just stepped into the ambush circle turned out to be an official disciple of the Wuliang Sword Sect!

Unlike ordinary disciples from vassal sects, no matter how strong they are, they are still at the level of Wu Neng. There is a huge gap in strength between the outer disciples, inner disciples, and direct disciples of the Wuliang Sword Sect.

The outer disciples of the Wuliang Sword Sect may not be as strong as Wu Neng, but the inner disciples are definitely stronger than Wu Neng. As for those direct disciples, they are even stronger than Ye Chen, and the difference in clothing between the three is not close. You can’t tell by looking at it!

Yang Lu just wanted to use the Eagle Eye Technique to observe the opponent carefully, but unexpectedly Rong Sheng suddenly exclaimed: "Holy shit! This person turns out to be Yang Chenglong, an outer disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall of the Wuliang Sword Sect!"

Hearing that Rong Sheng actually called out the other party's name, Yang Lu was very surprised and said: "What? Does Fellow Daoist Rong know this person?"

"This guy is a shameless liar. He deceived us so miserably!"

Noticing the surprised looks cast by everyone, Rong Sheng gritted his teeth and added: "My master Fei Fan suffered an unjust injustice in the Shanying Sect. He asked people everywhere to appeal to the Wuliang Sword Sect, but the high-level cultivators of the Wuliang Sword Sect Those who were worried about offending Chen Ming's great supporter Cheng Shuying would only pretend to be deaf and dumb. Just when we had no way to complain, we happened to meet Yang Chenglong, a shameless liar!"

Yang Chenglong was not moving very fast, and he was still some distance away from the ambush circle set up by everyone, so Yang Lu started gossiping casually: "Tell me more, how did he lie to you?"

"Actually, I've known this person for a long time, but I'm just not very familiar with it. I don't know when he learned about the difficulties my master Fei Fan encountered, and then he took the initiative to find me and lied to me that he was the "Xu Zhen Financial Weekly" 》The illegitimate son of editor-in-chief Xi Jinhu, he also defrauded me of the five thousand spirit stone coins my master gave me for the activity! The last time I saw him, his natal flying sword was not the one in his hand. I think he must He used the stolen money obtained through fraud to replace his new flying sword!" Rong Sheng became angrier as he spoke, and his expression became ferocious at the end. If Ye Chen hadn't been watching him with eager eyes, he wouldn't have been able to help but jump out and talk to Yang. Jackie Chan fights to the death.

Hearing this, the other people showed very speechless expressions. Yang Lu even complained mercilessly: "How can you actually fall for such a low-level scam?"

Even though Xi Ziang had been planning to win over Rong Sheng to rebel, he couldn't help but ridiculed: "How could the dignified editor-in-chief of Xiuzhen Financial Weekly provoke the ancestor of the Yuan Ying of the Wuliang Sword Sect for the sake of a certain local sect elder? This logic does not make sense at all. ah!"

Rong Sheng immediately defended himself: "It's not that I'm easy to deceive, but this Yang Chenglong is too cunning! He doesn't know where he got the private spell mark of the editor-in-chief of "Cultivation Financial Weekly"! How can ordinary disciples of the Infinite Sword Sect's Qi Refining Period do it? Did you see this kind of thing? I saw that this person was talking decently and had ironclad evidence, so I paid the deposit in a daze!"

Before Yang Lu could ask questions, Xi Ziang was surprised: "How did he get such a thing? Did you admit your mistake?"

Rong Sheng said angrily: "If I knew the reason, I wouldn't have been deceived! But I can guarantee that Xi Jinhu's magic mark is definitely genuine, and it is the kind with contract effect. After all, it involves good things. For a big business involving several thousand spirit stone coins, I will definitely not be vague about these most basic verification tasks!"

Xi Ziang didn't understand at this time: "Does the Wuliang Sword Sect just ignore this kind of swindling and cheating?"

Hearing this question, Rong Sheng's face turned slightly red and said: "So I say that Yang Chenglong is too cunning. He never made it clear about his relationship from the beginning to the end. He just kept hinting that he had a relationship with Xi Jinhu. Even if I made a complaint to the Infinite Sword Sect. If Yang Chenglong insists that he didn’t say anything, it’s completely my own misunderstanding. I...I can’t produce any evidence to refute him!”

Yang Lu chuckled and said: "I think reporting is useless only for one thing! Even if reporting is useful, I guess you don't dare to report it. "Zhongzhou Sect Management Regulations" clearly stipulates that the crime of bribery is as serious as the crime of accepting bribes. If you can sue Yang Chenglong, all your five thousand spirit stone coins will be confiscated by the Wuliang Sword Sect, and you will even be fined additionally!"

The "Zhongzhou Sect Management Regulations" are the most important rules and regulations in Zhongzhou, and Yang Lu has already studied them in depth.

Although he is not an expert in law, he can also see that this set of regulations has done an excellent job in terms of mechanism design. Despite this, it still has several very obvious loopholes, especially the provisions involving bribery and bribery, which are full of loopholes.

For example, the crime of accepting bribes and giving bribes are equal, and there is no leniency clause for voluntary surrender. It is clear that bribers and bribe takers are not encouraged to report each other.

Another example is that in the "Zhongzhou Sect Management Regulations", the crime of accepting bribes for cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage is reduced by one level, the crime of accepting bribes for practitioners in the Foundation Establishment Stage is reduced by two levels, and the crime of cultivators at the Golden Core Stage is reduced by three levels. However, low-level cultivators who offer bribes are reduced by three levels. Regulations that require severe punishment when dealing with ordinary people.

It would be fine if there was only one clause of a similar nature, but all the clauses related to bribery and bribery had similar problems, which made Yang Lu have to suspect that the Wuliang Sword Sect was deliberately condoning the corruption and bribery of its disciples.

He also specifically consulted Han Fulai, the master of bureaucracy, on this issue, and Han Fulai's view was completely consistent with his, that is, the Wuliang Sword Sect's legislation is encouraging corruption and crime. Ordinary Wuliang Sword Sect monks without family support or other sources of income Money means, then corruption is the only way for them to cultivate to the golden elixir stage.

Han Fulai further pointed out that this is precisely the power of the Wuliang Sword Sect's imperial skills. Only when all cultivators have criminal records can the Wuliang Sword Law Enforcement Hall have unlimited power, and the leader Lin Jianxing can send out the law enforcement hall's young men at will. Eliminate dissidents within the faction. On the contrary, dissidents like Li Feiyu who stand and make money are the most difficult thorns to deal with.

Lin Jianxing really couldn't do anything to him, so he was forced to use the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference to accuse him of an unfounded crime, even if the crime was so outrageous that everyone could see that it was an intentional crime.

After Yang Lu revealed the secret, Rong Sheng was speechless.

Facing the sympathetic looks from everyone, he gritted his teeth and said: "Counsellor Yang, if you want to capture this person, I am willing to be the vanguard!"

Yang Lu raised his eyebrows and said, "This man is a disciple of the Wuliang Sword Sect after all. Are you sure you can take him down?"

Rong Sheng immediately patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Consultant Yang, Yang Chenglong is not very strong. He is at the bottom of the Wuliang Sword Sect. Otherwise, he would not be able to engage in this low-level business of deception and abduction. Even if I am not his opponent, there are With Daoyou Ye and Daoyou Wu here, it will be easy to capture this person."

Yang Lu nodded and said: "In that case, there will definitely be a chance for you to take action later!"