At twelve o'clock in the afternoon of this day, Lu Juzi quietly returned to the Valley of Five Hearts, and except for a few henchmen, no one even knew that he had left. Some time ago, Lu Juzi handed over his daily affairs to his subordinates and the newly established Palm Flower Envoy Council, and he almost never showed up again, and his whereabouts were a secret.

Lu Juzi did this to ensure a kind of deterrence that was almost everywhere and all the time, he couldn't stay in the Valley of Five Hearts all the time, and if someone took advantage of his absence, it would cause a lot of damage, so he didn't want to expose his whereabouts, so everyone couldn't figure it out.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the gate of the Five Heart Valley opened again, and the expatriate palm flower envoys all returned, bringing back all the materials they had raised.

After the establishment of the Palm Flower Envoy Council some time ago, Lu Juzi successively sent out more than 40 palm flower envoys, and only a small number of palm flower envoys such as Ye Zongqing remained in the Five Heart Valley. Daring to send those palm flower envoys out, it means that Lu Juzi is confident that he is in control of the situation, and everyone has sworn in front of him that he will not divulge the secrets in the Valley of the Five Hearts, and this is indeed the case.

Not all of the more than 40 palm flower envoys have taken refuge in Lu Juzi, but they all have one thing in common, they agree with Lu Juzi's plan, and they also believe that the time has come when the Five Heart Valley must be changed, not to mention that Lu Juzi's reform plan is beneficial to them.

The materials transported in this time are no longer distributed to the people of the valley for free, but need to be exchanged for contribution points, and after the palm flower envoys get the contribution points, they can exchange them for cash from Lu Juzi, and the profits are very rich. It is beneficial for both public and private affairs, and these palm envoys have no reason to oppose it.

Even if they want to oppose it, there is actually no way to take Lu Juzi. Ye Zongqing is right, the more than 30,000 people in the Five Heart Valley are all hostages of Lu Juzi. As long as Lu Juzi controls the secret realm of heaven and earth, what can the people who go out? Without Lu Juzi's permission, outsiders will not be able to enter the Five Heart Valley, and if someone breaks his promise and divulges the secret, it will only affect the relatives and friends in the valley.

Lu Juzi is the master of this world, not a watchman, and it is impossible to open the door for people at any time. Therefore, he will set a time in advance for each portal to open, and the palm flower envoy and those who go out to perform tasks will have to wait for the entry and exit at that time, and the relevant materials will also be transported centrally.

At three o'clock in the afternoon that day, it happened to be the time stipulated by Lu Juzi. I didn't see Lu Juzi himself appearing, the door seemed to be opened automatically, and the palm flower envoys brought in a large number of materials, and the ancestral hall outside the door was next to the warehouse, and everything was unloaded in advance, and they only needed to transport a short distance.

After entering the Five Heart Valley, the elders of their own clan will organize young people to take over, and move everything into the warehouse in the portal for registration and storage, and there are also contribution points to do these things. Some of the goods were not bought by the palm flower envoys privately, but were purchased by the public property operated outside for profit, but the palm flower envoys who performed these tasks also had corresponding contribution points to obtain, and they got gold and silver coins representing the contribution points on the spot.

The storage area inside the portal has been lively for a long time, and many people are talking and laughing, as if they have forgotten that Wuxin Valley has just undergone a great change a month ago.

At dusk, the scene finally subsided, and everyone returned to their quarters in the valley. There are still three palm flower envoys guarding the door, and inside the portal there are six mercenaries with guns, these people's task is not to guard the door, because as long as Lu Juzi does not open the door, no one can enter or leave, mainly to see the warehouse.

In the second half of the night, Ding Qi, Zong Feixia, Zhu Shanxian, Chen Rong and other four people quietly entered Canggu Village and came to the ancestral hall behind the village. This ancestral hall is not open to the public, and a warehouse is built next to it, and there is a secret door directly in the backyard to communicate with the warehouse, and the portal of Wuxin Valley is here.

Including Chen Rong, these four people all have great cultivation. Ding Qi entered the Five Heart Valley last time, and then brought Chen Rong out again, and Chen Rong was the Dacheng cultivator who broke through in the past two days. It seems that time is very short, but this kind of thing can't be measured by time, who knows how many years she has spent in the fixed realm, in short, it looks a little different from before.

Ding Qi instructed with a divine thought: "If we go in, if we are discovered by Lu Juzi, we should be ready to do it immediately...... Lu Juzi handed it over to me to deal with, you are responsible for other things, and the Lord of Ye Gu will also respond when he hears the movement. ”

Zhu Shanxian also said with a divine thought: "There are so many of us who go in together, it's easy to deceive the three at the door, but I don't know the situation at the door." If there are a lot of people over there, it's hard not to alarm them. ”

Ding Qi: "It's okay, I've been prepared. As he spoke, he took out a candle, translucent lilac, and through the body of the candle could still see the white wick.

Chen Rong was surprised: "What kind of candle is this?"

Ding Qi: "Dreams give birth to candles." ”

In ancient China, there were candles, and the materials used were of course not modern mineral waxes, but there were two main types, white wax and beeswax. Ash is the secretion of ash worms, and beeswax is the secretion of bees and the main ingredient in the construction of beehives. The candle in Ding Qi's hand is made from the beeswax of the thumb bee.

There are dreaming flowers in Xiaojing Lake and Xiangshui Peak, but only in Xiangshui Peak live in Thumbbee Bees. Thumb bees feed on the nectar of dreaming flowers, and also secrete beeswax to build nests, and their beeswax is light purple in color. Ding Qi took his beeswax to make a candle, it is difficult to say what kind of magic weapon this candle is, or it does not meet the definition of the usual magic weapon at all, and Ding Qi's means cannot be measured by common sense.

Ding Qi is casting a spell when he lights the candlelight, and smells a strange fragrance, which can make people fall into a dream and see what they are thinking. This is very similar to the effect of bamboo wine, but there is also a difference, after all, the wine is actively drunk by people, but the dream candle is unguardable, and it will be passively fascinated without noticing.

The processing of the dream candle is very particular, not just like processing the candle, you can refine the mana, and the process is a bit dangerous, and when you don't get it when you melt the wax, you will be fascinated. If the dream candle is processed in this way, if it falls into the hands of others, it may be used as a magic incense, or let the monk experience the simulated dream life realm.

But in the hands of Ding Qi, the magic is different, Ding Qi can cast spells to control the range of his influence, and at the same time, he can also guide others into pre-set situations, a bit like hypnotic suggestion. Ding Qi himself has been in and out of the Five Heart Valley Portal several times, and he didn't use the Dream Candle, but there are many people who go in this time, and the situation over there is unknown, so he holds this thing just to be prepared.

The candlelight was dim in the night, and the scope of illumination was not large, which had no impact on Zhu Shanxian, Zong Feixia, Chen Rong and the others. But when they came to the backyard of the ancestral hall, the palm flower envoy sitting in front of the door turned his head to see the candlelight, and then his eyes became confused and dull, and the other two palm flower envoys who were resting in the room also instantly sank into a sweet dream.

Tintze lit a candle and entered the portal, where there were two chairs and two mercenaries with guns keeping vigil. Lu Juzi sent six guards here, divided into three shifts, and four others rested in the next room. The two night watchmen also saw the candlelight appear, but they didn't seem to react at all, and kept their original positions, ignoring the people who came in.

Strictly speaking, Ding Qi did not open the portal, he neither used the treasure of the control realm, nor did he use the "fake" five-heart lotus that he sacrificed, and the four of them all entered the five-heart valley with the secret method outside the square, only in this way could they not alarm Lu Juzi as much as possible.

After quietly entering the Valley of Five Hearts, the figures of the four people quickly disappeared into the night, and no one found them. When the palm flower envoy and the mercenaries inside the door wake up from their sweet dreams, they will not know what happened, only remember that they are still keeping vigil as usual.

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After Lu Juzi returned to Wuxin Valley, he asked his subordinates what was going on in the past few days when he was away, and the result was fine. Nothing is a good thing, it means that everything is under control. Before leaving, he assigned a new task to pioneer and designated a new area to be explored and developed, and the clan elders' side had already organized its manpower and was ready to set off at any time.

Saying that there is nothing to do, there is actually a small matter, the palm flower that has sworn allegiance to Lu Juzi has made Lu Xiuting sick, and its symptoms are very similar to the cultivation of the secret method. This matter also attracted Lu Juzi's attention, and he specially called Lu Xiuting to inquire about it, and learned that Lu Xiuting ran to spy on Ye Zongqing's movements on his own initiative, but suddenly felt very weak in front of the door......

Lu Juzi reprimanded Lu Xiuting, Ye Zongqing was the chairman of the Zhanghua Envoy Council, who gave him the courage to go to someone's courtyard in the middle of the night? He also immediately proposed that Lu Xiuting be expelled from the Palm Flower Envoy Council! He only suggested that whether or not to expel Lu Xiuting should be left to the Palm Flower Envoy Council for discussion and decision, but it is estimated that this is the result.

Why did Lu Juzi punish Lu Xiuting so much, because he was very disappointed in this person. Lu Xiuting was not one of the six palm flower envoys he had originally bought, he took the initiative to take refuge after controlling the secret realm of heaven and earth, and he obviously had no discipline. Whether there is discipline or not is not a big problem, more importantly, this person has no brains.

Lu Juzi did confess to his subordinates to pay attention to all kinds of movements in the valley, but he didn't let Lu Xiuting do that, and Lu Xiuting didn't have any points in his heart? If Lu Juzi was in the Five Hearts Valley, would he need others to monitor Ye Zongqing's movements? If Lu Juzi was not in the Five Hearts Valley, Ye Zongqing would be the number one master here!

Don't look at Ye Zongqing's way to take Lu Juzi, but Lu Xiuting is far worse than her, he touched into someone's yard in the middle of the night, and he was not slaughtered by Ye Zongqing, which means that the other party's subordinates are merciful, it is estimated that it is because he is afraid of Lu Juzi, but the punishment is certain, as for what means are used, there is no need to delve into it.

Lu Juzi needs his subordinates to serve, but he doesn't need his subordinates who are both stupid and useless, not to mention that Lu Xiuting's appearance has been abolished, so let's kick out the palm flower to make the council, so that he can still sell a favor.

This favor was not only sold to Ye Zongqing, but also to the original forces of Wuxin Valley, and Ye Zongqing was the representative of this force. Lu Juzi also does not want civil strife in the Valley of the Five Hearts, he is already the master of this world, and it is up to everyone to act in unison to carry out his new plan.

For Ye Zongqing, Lu Juzi didn't plan to do anything to her, and there was no need to do anything to her. As long as she controls this world, Ye Zongqing can't fight against it, as long as she doesn't lead the crowd to riot, she has great use value. Moreover, Ye Zongqing is a person who knows the current affairs very well, she can see the situation clearly, and took the initiative to take the initiative to accept Lu Juzi's conditions.

More than 30,000 people from Wuxin Valley are Lu Juzi's hostages, and Ye Zongqing has to cooperate, and on the other hand, as long as Ye Zongqing is controlled in the secret territory of heaven and earth, she herself has become Lu Juzi's hostage, and the forces belonging to her side have to obey orders. Therefore, what Lu Xiuting did was completely unnecessary, and he was gallant to add chaos and deliberately intensify the contradictions.

In the evening of that day, everyone in the Valley of the Five Hearts felt the will of heaven and earth, and Lu Juzi announced what Lu Xiuting had done, and announced his own punishment proposal, and convened the Zhanghua Council to discuss and make a punishment decision at noon the next day. Punishing Lu Xiuting is only a topic for the Palm Flower Envoy Council, and the more important task is to negotiate the next development plan of Wuxin Valley.

After dealing with these things, Lu Juzi rested on the sacred peak, and he occupied a stone house alone. The top of the sacred peak was guarded, and no one was allowed to approach his residence, but in fact he did not live in the stone house at all, but built a hidden cave in the middle of the mountain, which was unknown to his henchmen.

If someone wants to carry out a sneak attack while Lu Juzi is resting, and rushes into that stone house, he happens to fall into a trap. Lu Juzi is also from the Jianghu Juemen, and he is good at both virtual and real means.

At dawn that day, Lu Juzi was sitting upright in the cave to cultivate his spiritual energy, and the bowl-sized five-hearted lotus was placed beside him. There is no light in the quiet room of the cave, and if someone is nearby and can see in the dark, you will find that for a moment, the five-hearted lotus suddenly turns into a phantom, and the phantom disappears again, and then the five-hearted lotus reappears.

Lu Juzi, who was sitting still, suddenly felt something, suddenly opened his eyes and looked around, there was nothing unusual, and the five heart lotus was still placed there unharmed. Lu Juzi frowned slightly, he didn't know what was wrong, he reached out and took the five heart lotus and held it in his palm and urged it with mana...... There is no problem, the Five Heart Lotus is still the Five Heart Lotus, which is the treasure of the Five Heart Valley.

Of course, there can't be a problem, he is in the secret cave retreat room that no one knows about, no one else has come in at all, and the five heart lotus is by his side. He urged the Five Heart Lotus, and his divine sense enveloped the entire Holy Peak, and everything was as usual. Lu Juzi did not observe the situation outside the Holy Peak, because there was no need for that, and the consumption of the entire Five Heart Valley was still extremely great when he expanded his divine sense.

In the courtyard where Ye Zongqing lived, everyone was stunned. I saw Ding Qi sitting in the center, a lotus pattern ring on the index finger of his right hand turned into a five-hearted lotus the size of a bowl, Ding Qi held it with his right hand with his palm, and at the same time stretched out his left hand and closed his eyes.

In front of everyone's eyes, the five-hearted lotus on his right hand turned into a phantom and disappeared, and when he opened his eyes again, the phantom of the five-hearted lotus appeared in his left hand and instantly condensed, looking like a trick, changing the five-hearted lotus from his right hand to his left hand.

It wasn't this that surprised Ye Zongqing, her eyes widened and she said, "Master Ding, when did you get the Five Heart Lotus?"

Ding Qi smiled slightly: "Just now, you all saw it." ”

Ye Zongqing: "But just now, it was clear that the ring on your hand turned into a lotus ......."

Ding Qi explained: "That ring is the magic weapon I practiced when I came in last time, it can be turned into tangible or intangible, it can be called a magic weapon, if the Five Heart Lotus is lost, it can also replace the treasure of the Five Heart Valley's realm control." I just used a little trick to exchange it for the real five-hearted lotus, and now this five-hearted lotus is real. ”

Ye Zongqing opened his mouth and stammered for a long time before saying, "How did you do it?"

Chen Rong explained with a smile: "This is the realm that Master has reached by cultivating the secret method outside the Fang, even if he doesn't have a treasure of controlling the realm, he can still make a treasure of controlling the world. ”

Ding Qi added: "After all, it is not as good as the real treasure of controlling the realm, and it is a substitute for power, but with Lu Juzi's cultivation as the realm, it should be indistinguishable." After thinking about it, he said, "Even if he can tell, it's too late at this moment." ”

Ye Zongqing: "But I still don't understand, what kind of means is this?"

Ding Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly, because this matter seemed to be inexplicable, and when the realm reached the level of self-ability, it was not clear if the cultivation was insufficient. Although Ye Zongqing is good at the Floating Gate Concealment Technique, and has cultivated the Five Heart Valley Secret Method to the equivalent of the Five Realms, he has not yet learned about the Outer Secret Method.

He thought about it, and sent another divine thought, Ye Zongqing could understand how much it was, and at the same time said: "Lord Ye Gu, there is one thing you haven't done, because the secret method outside the square has not been cultivated to that level, and Lu Juzi has not done it, because he thinks it is not necessary, but Mr. Zhuang and I have done it." ”

What did Ding Qi and Mr. Zhuang do when they first came? That is, they traveled all over the Five Heart Valley, they did not hold the Five Heart Lotus in their hands at that time, they just used their own divine sense to sense that they had traveled all over the place, and in a sense, this world was condensed into a heart plate. And the same thing, Ding Qi once did it in the high platform of the qin, and that was the opportunity for him to break through the state of mind.

At that time, the situation was that Ding Qi and the others were trapped in the Qin Gao Tai, and if the secret method cultivation outside the square could not be broken, they would not be able to leave, and they did not have the treasure of the Qin Gao Tai, so they could only use this method.

When he first came to the Five Heart Valley, Ding Qi not only sacrificed the Five Heart Lotus, but also traveled all over the world to condense the Heart Plate. With his current cultivation, as long as he came to this heaven and earth, and the Five Heart Lotus happened to be not controlled and urged by Lu Juzi, he would be able to take the Five Heart Lotus into his hand in an instant, because he had another substitute in his hand.

After getting the real Five Heart Lotus, he urged the Five Heart Lotus to send the "fake" he created to Lu Juzi, which was even easier.

Lu Juzi didn't go all over the Five Heart Valley, not that he couldn't do it, but it was unnecessary, because he had already cultivated the secret method of the Five Heart Valley and controlled the Five Heart Lotus, and the treasure of the Realm Control itself condensed the information of the entire world, through which he could also sense all the movements of the world outside the Fang, sitting on the top of the holy peak was like viewing the pattern in the palm of his hand, there was no need to go on his own trip.

Ding Qi had no way at the beginning, the Fangwai Secret Method was being explored, and when he founded the Fangwai Secret Method, he had never used the Treasure of the Realm Control, and he hadn't even heard of it, even if he had obtained Jin Ruyi, he didn't know what it was.

Ye Zongqing asked again: "Cultivating the secret method outside the square, is this a necessary step?"

Ding Qi nodded and said, "If you want to break through to the fifth realm, that is, the heart disk realm, this is a necessary step. But it doesn't have to be cultivated in the Valley of the Five Hearts, it can also be done in other worlds, theoretically speaking, the smaller the world, the easier it is, and the bigger the world, the deeper the foundation for cultivation.

However, if you want to refine a magic weapon that can replace the treasure of the Realm Control, you must cultivate the secret method outside the square to the eighth realm, which is the Spirit Rhino Realm. When you arrive at the Lingxi Realm, you will know the importance of the previous foundation, because there is another prerequisite for refining such a magic weapon, that is, you have condensed this world into a heart plate in the Yuan Shen without the help of the treasure of the Realm Control. ”

Chen Rong: "Don't be in a hurry with these words, it's not too late to discuss them in detail after taking Ye Gu to master the secret method outside the square, for now, let's think about how to deal with Lu Juzi first." She used the word "disposal" instead of "dealing with", because the Five Heart Lotus had already arrived in Ding Qi's hands, as long as the person was in the Five Heart Valley, it could be said that he could clean up Lu Juzi as much as he wanted.

Ye Zongqing let out a sigh of relief and said: "I was still worried about tomorrow's affairs, but at this moment, I knew that before the Lord of the Ding League made a move, Lu Juzi had been completely defeated, and he himself was still in the dark. ”

Zhu Shan said with a smile: "Although Lord Ye Gu is proficient in the Hidden Technique, he is not a real person from the Eight Sects of the Jianghu. If it comes to the point when you have to roll up your sleeves and make an earth-shattering attack no matter whether you are sure or not, it means that all the plans to set up the game have failed, or at least they are out of control, so they have to do so, which is the most secondary choice.

And the real master's means, when it is time for a showdown, in fact, the victory and defeat have been divided, the result has been decided, and it seems that it has not yet been started, but in fact, it has already been shot. There is an old saying that "a good fighter has no great feat!"