The Fourth Financial Crisis

Among all the Yuanying-stage monks in the Jiuzhou cultivation world, those who suffered the most heavy losses were Song Qingshan, the supreme elder of Wanhua Valley, and Lu Youde, the supreme elder of Shenhuo Sect.

Not only were their two direct disciples Liu Xiahui and Ai Wen killed in battle, but among the dozen or so inner disciples in the Qi Refining Period they sent to hunt down Li Qingning, only Guan Sanji managed to survive.

This is almost equivalent to an entire generation of core disciples from the two lineages being collectively wiped out on the battlefield outside the territory!

As news continued to spread from various places, the two Nascent Soul Stage monks suddenly discovered that among the more than sixty elite trialists who had been given the Musk Fairy Rat by them, only a handful of them had escaped alive.

After learning about this incredible result, the two monks couldn't believe their ears.

Compared to Lu Youde, who still had one surviving disciple, Song Qingshan’s Qi Refining Stage disciples were literally wiped out this time. If there is anyone who wants to know what happened on the battlefield outside the territory the most, it is Song Qingshan. , so he decided to invite Lu Youde to Wanhua Flower Sea again to learn more about the process of this extraterritorial battlefield.

After all, all of his own disciples who participated in the trial were dead, and even if he wanted to launch an investigation, he would have no clue.

And Lu Youde did not keep Song Qingshan waiting. With the speed of the Nascent Soul monk, he crossed the eastern ocean, which is about 80,000 miles wide from north to south, and arrived at the gate of Wanhua Valley in just over half a day.

Before Lu Youde's escape light could land, Song Qingshan couldn't wait to ask: "Fellow Daoist Lu, do you have any new clues?"

Having suffered heavy losses on the battlefield outside the territory, Lu Youde's face was also gloomy and almost dripping with water.

He replied coldly: "On the way here, I have confirmed with all the fellow Taoists who participated in this operation. Of the disciples we sent to hunt down Li Qingning on the battlefield outside the territory, only eight of them came back alive, and six of them came back alive." I personally have never met Li Qingning at all, and I have been fishing for fish from beginning to end. There are only two people who have actually met Li Qingning and come back alive!"

Song Qingshan noticed that Lu Youde was accompanied by a shrinking inner disciple of Shenhuo Sect, so he asked: "Fellow Daoist Lu, this Qi Refining Stage disciple next to you is one of the two survivors you mentioned. ?”

Lu Youde nodded solemnly: "Yes! He is our inner disciple Guan Sanji, and the other survivor is the disciple of Master Yin of Arctic Cold Palace. Due to the heavy losses in this operation, Palace Master Yin I have strong opinions and even refused to respond to my communication spell, so what happened on the battlefield outside the territory can only be explained to you personally by my useless disciple."

Song Qingshan looked at this Shenhuo Sect disciple and asked in a deep voice: "Tell me, what happened on the battlefield outside the territory?"

Guan Sanke was never a tough guy.

Being interrogated by the ancestors of the Nascent Soul stage, his knees suddenly softened and he knelt down on the spot.

"Two ancestors Mingjian, I really tried my best!" After waiting for a long time, he reluctantly said in a trembling tone, "Because the teleportation point is relatively close, I found Li Qingning very early. At that time we There were almost twenty people besieging this woman. Although everyone did not cooperate well and caused a lot of unnecessary friction, after all, we had the strength in numbers and slowly forced Li Qingning into a desperate situation. But, but …”

Seeing that the other party became hesitant, Song Qingshan asked impatiently: "But what?"

Guan Sanqi swallowed, as if he had made up his mind, and then continued: "But at the last moment, a team of dozens of masked cultivators came out and killed us. We were outnumbered and were quickly defeated. They were defeated one by one, but those who did not leave immediately would probably... be eliminated by the other party!"

An army of masked cultivators appearing on battlefields outside the territory?

Hearing this extremely ridiculous explanation, Song Qingshan suddenly felt like he had been tricked.

He jumped up on the spot and yelled angrily: "What a bullshit army of masked cultivators. Do you really think we have never participated in foreign battlefields? How dare you fool us with such a statement!"

The spiritual consciousness of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage is extremely powerful. Even when his emotions fluctuate, his spiritual consciousness will cause huge disturbances to the surrounding aura environment. Guan Sanji, who was scolded, felt as if he was being pressed by a huge boulder on his chest. There was such a suffocating feeling that I couldn't breathe, and I almost fainted on the spot with my eyes rolled.

Seeing his disciple being taught a lesson by Song Qingshan, Lu Youde did not step in to stop him, but just watched it all with cold eyes.

After Song Qingshan's anger was almost vented, Lu Youde came forward and explained: "I have personally questioned this unscrupulous disciple many times. He has always used the same rhetoric over and over again. I was just afraid that you wouldn't believe it, Fellow Daoist Song, so I put him I’ll bring you here to explain the situation.”

Song Qingshan nodded, suppressed his anger, and said word by word: "Who are these masked cultivators?"

Guan Sanqi replied tremblingly: "I don't know who they are! I only know that these people follow orders and prohibitions, and act in a very orderly manner. They are like disciples from the same sect, and they may even be the same disciples." Brothers from the same sect brought out by the ancestors, otherwise the masters on our side are not weak, and there is absolutely no way they can be defeated by each one. If the two ancestors really don’t believe it, I can swear to the Heavenly Dao of Kyushu that I will never lie!"

It's a pity that the oath of Jiuzhou Tiandao has no control over what happens on the battlefield outside the territory. Guan Sanqi's serious oath is no different from farts in Song Qingshan's eyes.

Song Qingshan continued to question him several times, even scaring the poor Shenhuo Sect disciple to death, but in the end he only got this outrageous answer.

So Song Qingshan was so angry that he even used the powerful magic power of the Nascent Soul Stage monk to crush the natal magic weapon of this inner disciple of the Shenhuo Sect into powder!

After venting his anger, Song Qingshan finally calmed down.

Seeing Guan Sanke who was vomiting blood and fell to the ground and Lu Youde who looked helpless, he apologized with a wry smile: "Fellow Daoist Lu, I just got a little excited. What do you think about this?"

Lu Youde waved his hands, indicating that he didn't care about the other party's rough behavior, and then said: "My unscrupulous disciple has a useless character. If he lied, our two Nascent Soul stage monks should also be able to benefit from the aura caused by him. There are clues in the fluctuations, so I tend to think that he may be telling the truth.”

If Guan Sanji was still awake now, he would definitely be overjoyed after hearing Lu Youde's judgment.

Although Guan Sanji has a useless character, he was so nervous when he was being interrogated by two Nascent Soul monks just now because he did not tell the truth completely, or to be precise, he himself was not sure. Are you telling the truth?

Although Guan Sanke's narrative just now was not mixed with any falsehood, the scene was not something he saw with his own eyes, but was relayed to him by Tian Beixi, who forced him to relay it to Lu Youde.

As for Guan Sanke himself, even his own Musk Fairy Rat had been confiscated by Tian Beixi long ago. How could he personally participate in the siege of Li Qingning?

Even if he wanted to find Li Qingning, there was nothing he could do!

In fact, after Guan Sanji arrived at the extraterritorial battlefield, he immediately found a place to hide, preparing to hang up on something that had nothing to do with him. He would first get over this extraterritorial battlefield trial.

With the strength of the inner disciples of the Shenhuo Sect, if Guan Sanji concentrates on fishing, the battlefield outside the territory is really not particularly dangerous.

However, after coming out of the battlefield outside the territory, he immediately noticed that almost all of his brothers who had conspired with him to hunt down Li Qingning had been wiped out, which frightened him out of his wits on the spot.

After all, everyone got the Musk Fairy Rat, but he came back alive alone. Doesn't that mean there is something wrong with him?

What's more, Guan Sanji is not a fool. He has already guessed that the annihilation of this group of people is likely to have something to do with him. After all, Tian Beixi has been following him for so long just to get his musk fairy rat. , she couldn't possibly be planning to go to the battlefield outside the territory to chat with Li Qingning!

Therefore, Guan Sanke was only worried that his ancestor would hold him accountable as a fisherman. If the reason why all these brothers were wiped out was actually because he leaked the secret to Tian Beixi in advance, then he would definitely die. No more resignation.

If this was really the case, he didn't think he would have any chance of "confession and leniency". He would definitely be slapped to death by the angry Yuanying Ancestor. Even Tian Daxiao and Tian Beixi would definitely be beaten to death after they found out that he had informed Lu Youde. Will not let myself go.

But he couldn't choose to lie.

Not to mention that the Yuanying Stage monks can realize the lie detection function to a certain extent through the subtle disturbances caused by the emotional fluctuations of low-level monks to the aura environment. Even if the Yuanying Stage monks are willing to believe the lies they have made up, he does not know that he should Where to start from?

Since the Musk Fairy Rat was taken away, he has never participated in this matter again. If the lies he concocted by himself conflict with the accounts of other witnesses, he will definitely be the liar in the end. .

Therefore, the situation that Guan Sanji faced was that "if you tell me now, you will die, if you are a dead duck, you will die if you have a tough mouth, and you will die if you wait." He has even considered whether to take advantage of others who have not noticed him, a person with a thin sense of existence. Guys, quickly find a secret corner to commit suicide on the spot and make it look like you died on a battlefield outside the territory.

Although this is all death, at least it can leave a good reputation as a "heroic death". The bosses will more or less take care of the family members of their "martyrs", at least they will not be harmed by the family members.

However, Guan Sanji was threatened by Tian Beixi in the first place just because he was a man of both ends. Before he could make up his mind, Tian Beixi came to him.

But Tian Beixi didn't come to harm him this time. This enchantress under Master Tian seemed to have guessed the dilemma Guan Sanke was facing, and gave him a reasonable explanation immediately, that is, Guan Sanke had just A story told to two Nascent Soul monks.

As the only two people who were captured and released by Yang Lu's team, Tian Beixi knew the details of Yang Lu's team better than anyone else. Therefore, although most of the content of the story she fabricated was true, The narrative is extremely misleading.

For example, "these masked monks all enforced orders and prohibitions" and "the masters who went to murder Li Qingning were defeated by each other" are all facts, but the judgment "they should be from the same sect" is purely Tian Beixi's deliberate misleading. People.

Just as Yang Lu guessed, Tian Beixi is a woman with strong self-esteem. This time she was ordered by her master to rescue Li Qingning, but in the end she was not able to help. Instead, she owed a favor not to kill her, which made her heart high. The arrogant Tian Beixi couldn't accept it at all, and was even embarrassed to go back and resume his life with Tian Daxiao.

Therefore, by using Guan Sanji to mislead the two Nascent Soul stage monks and help Yang Lu cover up, it was actually Tian Beixi's initiative to repay Yang Lu's kindness of not killing him. However, Tian Beixi did not even tell Yang Lu about this. Just to balance my mentality.

Facing Tian Beixi's coercion and inducement, Guan Sanji, who had already been desperate, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. In addition, Tian Beixi repeatedly claimed that she had witnessed these things on the battlefield outside the territory. Only by telling the truth could he survive. At three moments, he could only accept Tian Beixi's statement completely, and then start talking nonsense in front of the ancestor of the Nascent Soul Stage.

And because Guan Sanji didn't know whether what he said was the truth or not, he was just relaying Tian Beixi's explanation, so even the Yuan Ying Ancestor's lie detection method didn't reveal any clues.

After hearing Lu Youde's judgment, Song Qingshan calmed down again: "Yes, I have asked many people for information before, and indeed I heard some rumors that a strange force appeared in this extraterritorial battlefield trial. The team can be corroborated with Guan Sanji’s explanation. If these two explanations are true, then the team is probably targeting us!”

Lu Youde also nodded and said: "No matter what the truth is, this matter must be related to Li Qingning. I think there is someone behind the scenes protecting her."

Although Song Qingshan was not very satisfied with this result, he really had no good solution. After all, there was too little information about this army of masked cultivators. He did not expect that these so-called "armies" would fight each other before the start of the extraterritorial battlefield. do not know.

After pondering for a moment, Song Qingshan continued: "Senior Brother Lu is right, this must be a premeditated action! It is definitely not the work of an ordinary sect to gather so many disciples to act together on the battlefield outside the territory. To be able to mobilize like this The range of capable people is actually very small!”

"you mean……"

"It must be Lin Jianxing!" Song Qingshan stated his conclusion categorically, "Li Qingyang is dead, who else has such a big hand and can send so many disciples on the battlefield outside the territory to target our two Yuan Ying period ancestors? ?I originally suspected that it was Li Qingyang’s old friends from the Wind Yu Faction and Shen Xiao Sect who were responsible for the murder. However, both the Wind Yu Faction and Shen Xiao Sect had direct disciples who died in the battle, and even the signature Zhang Qian of the Wind Yu Faction died. , no matter how crazy they are, they won’t attack the direct disciples of their own sect!”

Lu Youde took a breath and said: "This is really possible! And I heard from friends in Zhongzhou that before the start of this overseas battlefield, Lin Jianxing personally appeared on the scene to command. I think he was deploying a conspiracy against us!"

The more the two Nascent Soul ancestors talked about it, the more it sounded like this.

In the end, Lu Youde concluded with a gloomy face: "Well, you Lin Jianxing! Although we can't directly go to the Wuliang Sword Sect's territory to cause trouble, I heard that after Li Qingyang's death, the territory of Zhongzhou has been very unstable recently. We can always find opportunities. of!"