The room was also spacious and bright, and very clean, except that there were dozens of all kinds of strange wood carvings on the walls of the table and at the end of the bedside table. Chai Lin couldn't help but be startled when he saw it when he entered the door.

Hua Bushi naturally saw the surprise in Chai Lin's eyes, and said with a smile: "A few days ago, the younger brother was addicted to woodcarving, and carved a total of more than 1,000 finished products. ”

Listening to Hua Bushi's explanation, Chai Lin couldn't help but laugh dumbly. In my heart, these wood carvings can be regarded as "meticulous", but the word "beautiful" is not at all. Not only is it not beautiful, but Chalin has never even seen anything uglier than these wood carvings.

And these things were carefully selected by Hua Bushi from the more than a thousand finished products he carved, and Chai Lin couldn't help but be sincerely amazed by the craftsmanship and vision of this young master.

The two sat down at the table, Hua Bushi lifted the purple clay pot on the table, poured a cup of tea, and put his hands on Chai Lin, and said: "Before, in Nanao Town, the younger brother was able to save his life by relying on Brother Chai's rescue, and later Brother Tai sent Peng San to go to Wanyi Island with me, and he also helped me a lot, and it is difficult to repay the great kindness, this time I can only give a cup of tea first, and talk about Hua Bushi's gratitude in my heart!"

Chai Lin said: "Why should Young Master Hua be so polite, my brother is a friend of Sima Daxia, Chai has helped him several times, in fact, it is just to fulfill the promise made to Sima Daxia back then, but it is a pity that the strength of Nanao Chai Yuan is not good, and Zuihou is still difficult to protect thoroughly, so that Brother Hua has experienced risks and almost had an accident, Chai Lin is really ashamed to say it." ”

Hua Bushi said: "But I don't know when Chu Yiyi and the apprentice Bai Yiling returned to the mainland, and what was the specific situation when they arrived at Brother Chai's mansion?"

Chai Lin said: "This matter is a long story, wait for Chai to talk to Brother Hua one by one." ”

In recent months, Hua Bushi and his party have been displaced to Okura Island, and the storm at sea has not subsided, and Okura Castle has been completely cut off from the Middle-earth Continent, and no news from the mainland can be transmitted. In fact, in the past few months, the Jianghu sects in various realms of the Ming Dynasty have set off shocking waves, and their intensity is almost no less than this big storm above the vast ocean in the South China Sea.

On the south stone cliff of Wanyi Island that day, Hua Bushi was taken away by the black-clothed man, and the entrance of the dark passage was blown up by gunpowder, blocking the pursuit of Tang Zilan and other masters. The hurricane and thunderstorm have arrived, and the tide has rushed to the hillside outside the Wanyi Manor, and the opportunity is fleeting, and it is urgent to blast the rocks and let the treasure ship set sail.

Peng San, Chu Yiyi, and Bai Yiling had no choice but to return to the treasure ship with Tang Zilan and other masters. However, Jihua, who then escaped by treasure boat, was very smooth, and Lei Zhentian, the deputy hall master of the "Thunderbolt Hall", detonated the gunpowder, which immediately blew up the boulder and caused the treasure ship to slide into the sea.

It's just that the huge sound of the explosion made Hai Hongzhu frightened and almost fell, and it also made Lu Qiuhong take the opportunity to make a surprise attack, and injured Zhu Hong with his palm to grab the "Panlong Jue", but this is what happened on the "Green Cockroach".

Lu Qiuhong originally arranged for the "Spirit Tortoise Three Immortals" to return home to the three elders and hundreds of disciples of Wanyimen, and drove a sailboat to block the ocean surface of the island and block Tang Zilan's treasure ship. However, people are not as good as heaven, under the sudden change of wind and clouds, the sudden appearance of the "Black Dragon Palace" giant Jiao battleship opened fire to bombard the "Green Turtle", shooting Lu Qiuhong into the sea, and forcing the "Green Dragon" to raise its sails and escape, and was forcibly swept into the mouth of the hurricane dragon.

Seeing the destruction of the Green Cockroach and the death of the head of the family, where can the other people under Wanyi still care about intercepting the treasure ship, everyone only thinks about running away to save their lives, and the birds and beasts are scattered, and even the three elders who returned home have no fighting spirit, and ordered to turn the bow of the ship and flee in all directions. This gave Tang Zilan and other factions a chance to escape, Peng San controlled the treasure ship to sail at full speed, and took advantage of the chaos to rush out of the encirclement in one fell swoop.

It was very dangerous to sail in the storm, but with a master of navigation like Peng San at the helm, everyone on the treasure ship worked together, experienced many risks, and finally crossed the storm for hundreds of miles. Six days later, the treasure ship had sailed to the coast of Guangdong, where it docked at a beach.

The hundreds of masters of the seven major factions of the Central Plains and the sects of various realms who participated in the Wanyi Conference were able to unite and cooperate in order to escape for their lives when they were trapped on Wanyi Island, but once they escaped the danger and returned to the mainland, the alliance temporarily concluded on the island collapsed.

In this Wanyi Conference, the sixty Jianghu sects in various realms not only returned empty, but also lost a lot of manpower, and the Huashan and Kongtong factions even lost an elder and suffered a big loss, and the culprits were the "Wanyi Gate" and Lu Qiuhong.

The so-called unjust debtors have owners, these Jianghu sects are not good, where will they be willing to give up.

Within a few days, all the Baidao sects issued a notice of hanging red and chasing the album, and Wanyimen became the number one public enemy of the Ming martial arts overnight, and everyone shouted to kill. In the north and south of the river, in the big cities and towns of various realms, if a disciple of Wanyimen is discovered, he will definitely be cut off and rewarded within a moment or three.

The heads of ordinary disciples under Wanyi's sect are marked with a reward of 3,000 taels of silver, and the hanging red of Lu Qiuhong's head is as high as 100,000 taels. It's a pity that although the reward is high, after dozens of days, the main owner has not found one, but some Jianghu Xiaoxiao who stole chickens and dogs have been killed by mistake.

These Jianghu sects didn't know that Lu Qiuhong had already died at sea, and the corpse was nowhere to be found, so of course there was no possibility of being found. And Wanyi Sect is the most secret sect on the rivers and lakes, even if there are still sect members on the mainland, they have long been hidden, and they will not leave clues to follow.

The various sects have been busy for a while, and they can't find any trace of the enemy, and they have nowhere to vent their anger. A month later, there was a gap between several famous sects, which led to internal strife. The source of the internal commotion is two of the seven major sects, the Kongtong faction and the Tang sect, and the cause is about the public case of the elder Weng Yibai being killed.

Weng Yibai acted as a guest on Wanyi Island that day, trying to detonate the gunpowder, and shot at Qin Sang of the Emei faction, almost killing her, thanks to the timely arrival of Tang Zilan and Master Yuanjue of Shaolin, Qin Sang was saved, and Weng Yibai was intercepted by the real person of the treasure realm of the Wudang faction when he fled, and died with a sword piercing his heart.

After the treasure ship docked and the people from each faction landed, several disciples from the Kongtong faction who came with Weng Yibai returned to the mountain to report to the sect.

Since he is a traitor, it is natural that he should be killed on the spot, and the Kongtong party has no objection to Weng Yibai's death. It's just that Weng Yibai, as one of the eight elders of Kongtong, has a very high reputation among the sects, and is accused of being a murderer who fornicated with Lu Qiuhong and murdered the masters of various factions, and the Kongtong faction does not believe it.

And for the Kongtong faction, which is a chivalrous and righteous sect, this matter is not only related to the life and death of an elder in the sect, but also related to the reputation of the sect.

Fei Yunzi, the head of the Kongtong faction, is over forty years old, and has always been known for his eagerness and righteousness in the rivers and lakes, with extremely high martial arts, his sex is like fire, and he never has room for sand in his eyes.

As soon as he heard the advice of the disciples who returned to the mountain, Feiyunzi personally went down the mountain and led several elders under his command to the Ejing realm, where he found the Taiheguan of Wudang Mountain, and wanted to confront the real person of the Wudang Qingyan Palace Lord Treasure Realm who stabbed Weng Yibai to death. Kongtong and Wudang have been allies for many years, both of them are supported by the Ming court, the head of Kongtong personally came to the door, and the Wudang faction also treated each other with courtesy, and the real person of Baojing did not hide it, and directly admitted that Weng Yibai was indeed killed by him.

It's just that as for whether Weng Yibai is really a guest in Wanyimen, Baojing Zhenren is not sure.

According to the words of this Wudang Qingyan Palace Lord, on Wanyi Island that day, everyone had elected Tang Zilan, the deputy master of the Tang Sect, as the head of the alliance of various factions, and he was the head of the horse, while the real person of Baojing was just ordered by Tang Zilan to intercept Weng Yibai outside the courtyard wall and kill him. As for what happened in the courtyard, whether Weng Yibai was really an inner ghost, the real people of Baojing didn't know.

In this way, the responsibility for killing Weng Yibai fell on Tang Zilan's head again.

Feiyunzi, the head of Kongtong, immediately repaired a book and sent it to the Tangmen in Shuzhong to question the matter. Fei Yunzi and Weng Yibai were originally brothers in the same sect and had a very close relationship, and the words he used in this letter were quite fierce, implicitly accusing Tang Zilan of indiscriminately slandering Elder Kongtong as a traitor and killing people indiscriminately.

To say what Weng Yibai did in the warehouse where the gunpowder was stored in Wanyi Villa that day, and he thought he was a guest, there was no shortage of witnesses, in addition to Tang Zilan, there were also Shaolin Yuanjue Master and Qin Sang, the heroine of the Emei faction, who were present.

It's just that the Emei faction and the Tang Sect have always been allies, and it is based on Qin Sang's testimony that Feiyunzi thinks it is not enough, and after Master Yuanjue returned to the mountain from Wanyi Island, he actually immediately closed the life and death meditation pass, and never went out to meet people within a year, so he could not testify.

Regardless of whether Master Yuanjue was in retreat at this time or not, killing Weng Yibai, Tang Zilan couldn't find any other witnesses for a while. However, the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is the leader of the martial arts sects in the southwest realm, and Feiyunzi of the Kongtong faction is arrogant and domineering, but the Tang Sect is also not easy to match, and the reply to Feiyunzi is not very polite.

Several correspondence negotiations between the two sects could not reach a compromise, but instead aroused hostility, and each mobilized the masters of the sect, which made sense that they could not be able to say it, so they had to use force to compare.

Kongtong and Tangmen are both shili on the one side, and each has strong allies, the Wudang faction is of course on the side of Kongtong, and the Emei faction will definitely support the Tangmen in Shuzhong.

In addition to these four factions in the "Seven Great Sects", there are hundreds of large and small Jianghu sects in the southwest and northwest realms, all of which have an alliance with the Tang Sect and Kongtong.

In the following month, the masters of the Tang Sect and Kongtong did not attack, but there were several fights and conflicts on the border of the Sichuan and Hubei borders, and the shots were all small sects belonging to the alliance of the two sides. These sects are quite conflicted in their daily activities for turf, and they are taking the opportunity to launch them at this time in an attempt to seek their own interests.

Although these clashes were not large, they also killed and injured dozens of people, and both sides were mobilizing their masters, gathering Liliang, and preparing for a larger-scale fight. All of a sudden, the situation was like a mountain rain, and the drama of the two alliances was about to break out.

Compared with the four factions of Tangmen, Emei, Wudang, and Kongtong, which are ready to do a big job, Shaolin, Putuo and Huashan in the "Seven Major Sects" have no movement at all, and they have put on a frame of not helping each other and sitting idly by.

The major Baidao sects of the Central Plains martial arts are divided into a three-party alliance, and now the two parties are competing, as a third party, Shaolin and other factions are happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and collect the benefits of the fisherman, perhaps this is also the real intention of Master Yuanjue's retreat.

In addition to the many rivers and lakes that are attached to the seven major sects, most of the small and medium-sized sects in the various realms that have not formed an alliance with them are also panicked, and they have restrained their disciples from making trouble, and try to keep a low profile, for fear that they will behave carelessly at such times and suffer from the pond fish.

Only the "Evil Dog Sect" is different from other sects, and it doesn't care about acting in a low-key manner at all, just because the eldest young master Hua Bushi is lost.

As soon as Chu Yiyi landed in Guangdong, he used the communication channel of "Qianhuafang" to send a message to the main altar of the "Evil Dog Gate" in Wuyang City, Xiangxi and the rudder in Changsha, informing Hua Bushi of the separation on Wanyi Island. Hua Tianxiong received the letter and heard that his beloved son was missing, and he was so anxious that he immediately took his master Mo Wentian, his second uncle Hua Dihu and several disciples, and rushed to Guangdong day and night.

When Hua Tianxiong and others arrived in Nanao Town, Yang Jiangyi also arrived almost at the same time. According to Hua Bushi's original arrangement, she was responsible for commanding and training forty-nine "Qingyunwei", and Yu Qianli, Ximen Tong, and Li Hu together, guarded the rudder of the evil dog gate in Changsha City, when he learned the news of the disappearance of the eldest young master, Yang Jiangyi was anxious, but he couldn't stay for a moment, and instructed "Qingyunwei" and Yu Qianli and others to stay at the rudder, and he went straight to Guangdong alone.

At this time, Chu Yiyi and Bai Yiling had already found Chai Lin, the owner of Nanao Chai Garden, and sent a lot of people to the coastal areas and islands of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang to search for Hua Bushi's whereabouts.

Hua Bushi and his party were swept into a hurricane and drifted to Okura Island, thousands of miles away, of course, these search efforts were just in vain, and nothing was found, which made Hua Tianxiong and Yang Jiangyi and others anxious. Especially Hua Tianxiong, whenever he heard the disciples of the returning disciples say that they couldn't find Hua Bushi, they would be furious and scolded the people who came, if it weren't for Mo Wentian and the others trying their best to stop them, with the fiery temper of this evil dog master, I was afraid that he would have killed people a long time ago.

Two months later, the storm in the South China Sea finally subsided, and Hua Tianxiong was anxious to find a big ship to go to sea, and went to the sea where Wanyi Island was located to search for Hua Bushi's whereabouts.

When Chai Lin left Nanao Town and came to Okura Island, Hua Tianxiong and the people of the Vicious Dog Gate had found a galleon, organized sailors, and Peng San drove the boat, and was about to go to sea to find people.

In the east wing bedroom of the Bark Tower, Chai Lin told everything that had happened in the past few months, and Hua Bushi listened to it, although the look on his face was as usual, his heart was not calm.

This time he went to the sea to participate in the Wanyi Conference, Hua Bushi did not expect so many changes to happen, so that he was scattered and wandered on this isolated island for several months, and also alarmed his father Hua Tianxiong to rush from Hunan to Guangdong, making his old man anxious, which made Hua Bushi feel very guilty.

He said at the moment: "Brother Duomeng Chai told the younger brother of this news, Hua Bushi has something to ask for, I don't know if Brother Chai can agree." ”

Chai Lin said: "Brother Hua, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Hua Bushi said: "I want to ask Brother Chai to send his subordinates to sail out to sea immediately, to find my father in the waters of Wanyi Island, and report the news of my younger brother's safety to his old man's family, so as to avoid my father's worries about my younger brother's safety." ”

Chai Lin said: "Brother Hua's mood, Chai understands it. Don't worry, I will follow my brother's words and immediately send a ship to the area around Wanyi Island to inform Master Hua of the news. ”

Hua Bushi got up and said, "So Hua Bushi thanks the Chai family master!"

Chai Lin also hurriedly got up, stretched out his hand to support him, and said, "You and I are friends, why should such a trivial matter be so polite." ”

The two sat down at the table again, Hua Bushi served tea and saluted each other, and said: "Brother Chai came to the Bar Sky Tower today, presumably not only to inform the younger brother of these things, if there are any orders, you can tell Hua Bushi." ”

When he was in the front hall before, Chai Lin had said that he wanted to find a secluded and safe place to talk, if he was just to tell Hua Bushi these things, naturally there was no need for this, there must be other secret things to say. This eldest young master is scheming, how can he not see it?

Chai Lin said: "Chai Mou's trip, sure enough, there is something I want to tell Young Master Hua, this matter is very important, but it is related to the safety of this Okura City." ”

Hua Bushi said: "Although the younger brother has only been in Okura City for a few months, he has also seen that this city is very stable, the 'Wanjintang' helps the people to defend steadily, and the residents in the city can also live and work in peace and contentment