Tang Lang still didn't intend to let him go: "Unless Captain Lang doesn't care about the emperor's dictation at all, after all, he will not be subject to the emperor's order!"

What Tang Lang said could be described as a word of heart, which made Chang Junliang's face extremely ugly, and he hurriedly defended: "Don't spew blood! When did Captain Lang resist and disobey the order? Canglei City has been trapped for a long time, and the emperor's decree has long been unable to be transmitted to the city. If there is a holy decree, Captain Lang should act according to the decree!"

"What kind of holy decree does the emperor want? The hundreds of people who came into the city have heard what the emperor said with their own ears, you can send someone to ask, if there is half a lie, you are willing to be punished for the crime of bullying the king!" Tang Lang forcibly said that the person who commanded the major academies that the emperor said did not originally include Canglei Academy, but this explanation is not an exaggeration.

Chang Junliang didn't want to be entangled anymore, so he arched his hand and said: "It's a big matter, you can't be the master in the future, you go to Captain Lang and say goodbye!" After speaking, he left with his subordinates.

Tang Lang squinted and saw Ji Fengyu hiding in the crowd, and said angrily: "Teacher, if you don't come out to speak, just let me sing a one-man show alone!"

"Hehe, hey, dealing with this kind of petty goods, where do you need me to come out, don't you handle it very well!" Ji Fengyu was still as lazy as ever.

Tang Lang turned around and said to Jiang Dali and Daddy Jiang: "Dali, Daddy Jiang, let's go back to the academy and settle down first, no other neighbors have been arrested, let's take people back together!"

Father Jiang pointed out a few more places to rescue a few tailors and cooks, and the group hurried back to the academy. Tang Lang asked Jiang to send Father Jiang back to his original dormitory, while he and Ji Fengyu returned to Zongbo's residence.

"Dean!" Tang Lang told Zong Bo about the trip, and the other party was so angry that he also scolded Lang Xiangrong for his behavior.

Ji Fengyu was all worried: "Based on Daddy Jiang's treatment, I'm afraid our students are not much better!" Dean, you go with us to confront Lang Xiangrong, and no matter what, we must bring all the students back." ”

Tang Lang took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire: "Just now we saw the appearance of the defenders, it is absolutely difficult to take on a big responsibility! If you want to ensure that Canglei City is unhindered, it is best to take over the city defense." By the way, Dean, what happened to the Alchemy, Formation, and Spirit Plant Association? Why don't we unite them all together!"

Zong Bo sighed and said, "I hate these things of playing with power the most, but for the sake of Canglei City and the Academy, I just want to be a person who plays with power!"

The discussion stopped, the three of them acted separately, Zong Bo went to visit the city lord Shang Yuanqing, hoping that he could take the safety of Canglei City as the top priority and restrain Lang Xiangrong, Ji Fengyu went to find Gu Yuxia, and used the identity of the curse sect to suppress it, so that he did not dare to act rashly, while Tang Lang visited the directors of the three major associations and gathered more forces to confront Lang Xiangrong.

Tang Lang and the three directors are all old acquaintances, in addition to the Spirit Plant Association, they also have the apprenticeship status of the Formation and Alchemy Association, and have received strong help from the three directors.

Lin Xiuran, director of the Formation Association, and Pu Gaofei, director of the Alchemy Association, were all overjoyed to see Tang Lang's visit, and they did not hesitate to agree to Tang Lang's request, not to mention that Lang Xiangrong forcibly demanded a large amount of pills and formation jade plates from the two associations on the grounds of armament.

And the Spirit Plants Association

Director Du Jisong was slightly embarrassed to meet Tang Lang, after all, he was forced to cancel Tang Lang's apprenticeship status due to the rules. Tang Lang couldn't explain his intention directly, so he could only say a few words of greetings first: "Thank you Director Du for the Blood Baozhi provided before, otherwise there is no way for Zilan's injury to recover so quickly!"

Du Jisong waved his hand and said, "There is no such thing! Blood Baozhi was exchanged for Silver Moon Grass, and in the final analysis, our Spirit Plant Association took a slight advantage. ”

"If you don't want to have a good chat, I'm going to sprinkle salt on your sore spots. Tang Lang was slandered in his heart, but his face was still full of smiles: "Director Du doesn't have to be so clear. I wonder if all those spirit plants that were outside the city were properly disposed of?"

Du Jisong's face was immediately full of pain: "The incident happened too suddenly, and I only had time to rescue some rare spirit plants, and a large number of spirit plants didn't have time to move into the city." In order not to invest in the enemy, Captain Lang finally ordered the entire manor to be burned, a sin, a sin!"

"It's a bit of a pity indeed!That's a whole manor, it must have cost Director Du a lot of effort!If the Canglei Defenders could have received the alarm earlier, or if they had resisted the Dark Flame for a while longer, they would have been able to save more Spirit Grass back!" Tang Lang shook his head and sighed.

Although he understood Tang Lang's intentions, it was undeniable that Du Jisong was very resentful of destroying the spirit grass that he had worked hard for more than ten years, and both the dark flame and the Canglei defenders were very resentful.

Tang Lang said to himself: "Although Canglei City is safe and sound at present, the military strength of the defenders has been corrupted to the extreme, and it is really bad luck to deal with the Dark Flame army outside the city. I'm afraid...... Hey!"

"What are you afraid of?" Du Jisong couldn't help but ask.

"I'm afraid that once the city is broken, with the brutality of the Dark Flame Army, both the academy and the major associations will be unable to escape the fate of the dead!" Tang Lang had a compassionate expression.

Du Jisong debunked it in front of him: "Don't think I don't know what you're up to! The Spirit Plant Association has never been involved in political battles, and you don't need my consent if you have any ideas, please go back!"

Tang Lang was angry: "Director Du, why are you so unkind? I am not fighting for power and profit for myself, but for the sake of my relatives and friends in the academy, as well as for the thousands of civilians in Canglei City!"

Tang Lang briefly described the matter of villagers raising corpse Gu that he saw in the Dark Flame camp, and continued: "I, Tang Lang, am not a saint, I will only protect the people and things that should be guarded, but I can't sit idly by and ignore human life like Dark Flame like this, even if I fight for my life, I have to fight them to the end!

"Wait!Tang Lang, since the establishment of the Spirit Plant Association, the first rule is not to participate in political affairs, so that it can always maintain a transcendent status, for the association, whether it is clear or dark, there is not much difference. But I personally promise you that as long as you need it, all the spirit grass I have here can be given to you to use unconditionally, which is the maximum I can do!"

Du Jisong handed out a thin animal skin, on which were densely written the names of some spirit grasses, and then waved his hand to make a gesture to send off the guest, Tang Lang took the animal skin and bowed deeply to the other party: "In this case, Tang Lang is not easy to force, thank you, farewell!"

Back to the Academy

Zong Bo's residence, everyone has gathered, just waiting for Tang Lang to come back.

As soon as they met, Lin Xiuran, the director of the Formation Association, shouted at the top of his voice: "How about it? I just said that the old stubborn will definitely not participate, and the people in their Spirit Plant Association are all the same dead brains!"

Tang Lang asked curiously: "Director Lin, Director Pu, why does the Spirit Plant Association have such a rule that they can't join the battle between the two countries, but the Formation and Alchemy Association don't matter?"

Pu Gaofei, director of the Alchemy Association, spread his hands and said: "No way, alchemy, formations, weapons, and beasts are all closely related to national strength, and no country will be allowed to have forces above the country, but Lingzhi, firmness, and prophets are transcendent and are not responsible for a single country." ”

Tang Lang also made sense when he thought about it, no emperor wanted to see pills, formations, or weapons sold from his own country to the empire, and they had to be controlled, so that these four types of associations could only bind and cooperate with the state.

Ji Fengyu saw that except for the city lord Shang Yuanqing, all the other invited people had arrived, so he directly proposed: "Everyone knows the current situation of Canglei City, Dark Flame may attack the city at any time, and the army led by the emperor himself cannot help Canglei because of the other Hengye Legion, we can only rely on ourselves to defend the city, and the defenders are not vulnerable at all, Lang Xiangrong is conservative, we must not sit still!"

Gu Yuxia resealed the cultivation seal back into the depths of his body, looking even older than before, leaning over his body, and asked in a long voice, "What is the attitude of the city lord?"

Zong Bo said noncommittally: "This old fox has always been a grass on the wall, and he will take refuge in whichever side has the upper hand, and now that you have your identity suppression, he is naturally optimistic about our side, but he doesn't want to tear his face with Lang Xiangrong, and he will only pretend to be deaf and dumb at the critical moment." ”

"It's okay, as long as he doesn't pull us back!" When Gu Yuxia was the head of the guards in the Celestial Empire in the past, he had a very deep understanding of power techniques, and knew that many politicians were going with the flow, as long as they didn't make trouble, they didn't need to pay attention to it.

Pu Gaofei slapped his thigh: "Then what are you waiting for, let's go to Lang Xiangrong to confront and take over Canglei City." ”

Gu Yuxia shook his head and said, "Don't worry! we just want to gather all the forces of Canglei together, so that we can play a better role, instead of causing civil strife, we must prepare for the worst." In case Lang Xiangrong disagrees, and even uses the strength of the defenders to make us enemies, how to deal with it!"

Immediately afterwards, Gu Yuxia arranged the task properly: first of all, Zong Bo, Gu Yuxia and the two directors together to find Lang Xiangrong to speak bluntly, hoping that the other party would cooperate and rectify military affairs, if there is a different opinion or even draw a knife against each other, there are two masters of Zong Bo and Gu Yuxia, and Lang Xiangrong and his henchmen can be subdued immediately, and Ji Fengyu and Tang Lang will go to gather people, divided into four teams corresponding to the four temporary military camps in the city, if they see the signal, they must take over the military camp as soon as possible to avoid causing greater turmoil.

Everyone scrutinized the details again, and only after finding that there were not too many omissions did they prepare to take their own actions. Before leaving, Gu Yuxia instructed Tang Lang: "Little Tang Lang, you have to be more careful! Although there is no master in the military camp who can threaten you, you must not be careless, a cold arrow or a glass of poisoned wine can kill you!"