"Bell, bell, bell"

The low and thick bell echoed between the pavilions and attics of Xiaoxiang Sword Gate, and the bell was quite peculiar.

In addition to the penetrating power of other bells, the sound is as crisp as the collision of sword blades.

In a courtyard on the outskirts of the sect, the purchasing steward who commanded the men to remove the herbs from the carriage looked in the direction of the center of the sect with a stunned face when he heard the bell ringing.

Several outer disciples around him also stopped their work one after another, looking dazed.

"It's... Ring the sword bell? ”

The steward was stunned, and he twisted a few whiskers in his hand, but he didn't hear it, and after a few breaths, he came back to his senses and shouted to several disciples around him:

"When the sword bell rings, there will be a big event! Tell the others and meet in the direction of the bell! ”

Several disciples immediately turned around and ran away, and the steward came back to his senses and said to Li Yijian apologetically:

"Young Master of the Li family, there is suddenly something important in this door, I must rush over, you and rest in the guest room first, the door is not very peaceful recently, so don't move around at will!"

"Uncle Wang, go ahead."

Li Yijian said to the familiar steward:

"I'll wait here to remove the medicinal herbs, and then I'll go back to the room, we know the rules of your faction, you don't have to worry about us."

"Hmm."

The steward didn't say anything more, turned around and went back to the house to get a sword, and hurried in the direction of the sect's main hall.

After he left, Shen Qiu, who was wearing his man's clothes and lowered his head, looked left and right, and with the force under his feet, his body fell lightly on the wall.

Like Assasin's assassins, he took a few quick steps against the wall, crouched under the eaves, and looked into the distance.

The Xiaoxiang sect in front of him covers a huge area, but the main building is as big as the three moon-falling platforms.

Of course, the interior construction is not as elaborate and luxurious as the piano platform, and in addition to the continuous main building, there are some settlements like villages and towns on the back mountain.

It was where a large number of outer disciples lived.

According to Lin Huiyin, in the Xiaoxiang Sword Sect, counting the outer disciples who account for two-thirds, there are nearly 2,000 people, and they are really already a martial arts sect.

But it's not the most powerful in the rivers and lakes.

In the mansion that stretched in front of Shen Qiu's eyes, after the sword bell rang, there were disciples everywhere walking briskly, like mercury pouring into the ground, a noisy.

"Huh"

Shen Qiu jumped into the ground, glanced at Li Yijian and the young man who broke the iron, and the two of them took their weapons, and then followed Shen Qiu and left the outer courtyard according to the route told by Lin Huiyin.

Before leaving, Li Yijian also reminded Zhang Xiaohu:

"Xiaohu, you are here to watch, if anyone comes, tell them that we will rest in the guest room."

"Hmm."

Zhang Xiaohu's martial arts were a little lowest, he was not with the three of them, and after they left, the silent young man continued to take down the boxes of medicinal materials from the carriage, as if it was a normal handover.

"Avoid people and enter the bamboo forest."

Shen Qiuyun lifted up, his movements were light and swift, he rushed into a bamboo forest that was quite large, occupying almost the entire hillside, and said to the two people who followed behind him:

"After the bamboo forest, and then over the two courtyards, it is the place where Lin Yundong rests, where there may be Lin Lang's henchmen guarding.

Yijian, you will lead away a few people when you arrive, and Xiao Tie will follow me to cover up and kill the past. ”

"It's not a trivial matter!"

Shen Qiu reminded again:

"Don't be soft-hearted, you know?"

"Hmm."

The two nodded, Xiao Tie was silent, and Li Yijian, a bald boy, was a little excited.

That's right, doing chivalrous righteousness and saving people in danger is the dream he wants!

At the same time that Shen Qiu and the others infiltrated the Xiaoxiang Sect and went to the place where Lin Yundong was under house arrest, in the main hall square of the Xiaoxiang Sword Gate, more and more disciples rushed to hear the news.

They are divided into several groups according to their different positions.

This Xiaoxiang Sword Gate is so big, there are so many people, and there is a free internal rule system.

Just like modern large corporations, each with its own duties, these disciples are mainly divided into two categories.

One is the talented inner disciples, who are few in number, most of them live in the three main buildings, and their daily work is to practice martial arts with their hearts, occasionally accept the task of the master, go down the mountain to eradicate some thieves who are in trouble, or travel the rivers and lakes.

The inner disciples are not engaged in production, and they are the core of the Sword Gate, so they maintain the Sword Gate everywhere on weekdays, run outside, and do some industries to support the inner disciples to practice martial arts with their hearts, so it is naturally done by others.

These are not only those who have to practice martial arts, but also do other miscellaneous things, that is, the outer disciples.

This is also the general rule of the sects in this river and lake with a little climate, and gangs like the Heluo Gang that are mainly engaged in business are a minority after all.

Most of the sects are involved in business, and it is also for the purpose of the prosperity of the sect.

For example, Xiaoxiang Jianmen, there are some industries in the land of the two lakes, there are a few dart bureaus, or do some ordinary trading, and even a large number of farmers and farmers attached to Jianmen under the mountain.

They don't pay taxes to the official, but provide rice and grain for Jianmen, and the Southern Dynasty government is weak, so naturally they don't dare to take care of it, and I heard that the fierce style of the Northern Dynasty is not the case.

In short, the outer disciples say that they are disciples, but in fact, the essence is similar to the guys hired by the Sword Sect, and there is no salary, and it is completely unpaid labor.

But there will be people in the sword gate, who will teach them martial arts on time every month, and if they have talent, they will be admitted to the inner door.

In Shen Qiu's view, this system is a bit deformed, and it is completely the style of black-hearted capitalists who squeeze labor in the name of "dreams".

But in this era, no one reprimanded Xiaoxiang Jianmen's practices.

Because, everybody does it.

Even for those outer disciples who have no future and come from humble backgrounds, it is also quite a good life plan to be able to seek the identity of an outer door manager in a behemoth system like Xiaoxiang Sword Gate.

These problems could not be seen in the past, but today, when Lin Huiyin rang the sword bell, and when the inner and outer disciples came to the main hall square to gather, some differences were reflected.

The outer disciples gathered together, and the inner disciples gathered on the other side.

The two sides are distinct, like an invisible wall.

"Senior Sister Huiyin!"

At the same time that the sword bell was constantly being struck, Lin Huiyin, who was carrying a hat and an echo sword, also strode into the square, and her appearance immediately caused a wave of wind among the inner disciples.

Several disciples with quite high seniority walked quickly to Lin Huiyin's side, and one of the disciples with a long beard whispered to Lin Huiyin:

"Where have you been these days? Do you know that Senior Brother Lin Lang said you..."

"He said that I plotted to kill the master and deceive the master to destroy the ancestor, right?"

Lin Huiyin coldly interrupted the words of the "junior brother" who was older than her, but younger than her, and she looked at the inner disciples gathered around her, most of whom were friends in the past.

She said aloud:

"Do you believe Lin Lang's nonsense?"

"Naturally, I don't believe it!"

"We believe in you, senior sister!"

"Senior brother often walks outside, he must be deceived by traitors outside."

A group of inner disciples hugged Lin Huiyin and walked towards the center of the square, Shen Qiu guessed well, as the next person who is optimistic about Lin Yundong, Lin Huiyin has a high reputation among the masters.

At least the inner disciples are biased towards her for various reasons.

As for those outer disciples, they don't have much say in this kind of matter,

However, compared with the high-ranking Senior Sister Lin Huiyin, these outer disciples are more familiar with Senior Brother Lin Lang who is running outside.

And in the past few days, there has been gossip that it is said that Senior Brother Lin Lang is going to take over the position of the head, and he has already sent out a message that after he becomes the head, he will abolish the distinction between the inner door and the outer door.

It is also necessary to take out the advanced martial arts of the sect and share them.

As long as you are a person in the sword gate, as long as you can learn it, anyone can learn it!

So, on the side of the outer door, although the hearts are not aligned.

But they were always ignored in the past, and they were more biased towards Lin Lang.

In front of the main hall of the sect, in the wide, stone-bricked square, Lin Huiyin held the echo sword in her hand and strode forward, and there were more and more inner disciples behind her.

At the end of her eyes, on the stone steps of the great hall, a man in a black robe was waiting for him.

It's Lin Lang over there.

He was dressed very plainly, that is, a black long shirt, a wide robe, and a sword in his hand, which was the style of the sect's standard long sword, with a samurai bun tied on his head and his hair worn with a bamboo hairpin.

His face was not handsome, but his eyes were big and bright, with a mustache at the corner of his mouth, and he was looking at Lin Huiyin who was walking towards him with a smile.

But the hand holding the sword had already clasped the scabbard, and even a trace of whiteness appeared between the fingers.

Behind him, there stood a few uncles and uncles who could still serve as directors.

But they were all excluded from the decision-making circle of the sect in the past, they didn't have much right to speak, and their martial arts were mediocre, just elders with high seniority.

"Senior brother, I'm back."

Lin Huiyin stood twenty steps away from Lin Lang, and she said aloud:

"Your plan has failed!"

The voice was diffused with true qi, and the sound swept through the square clearly, so that most people could hear it, and when Lin Huiyin spoke, the square that was still noisy just now immediately fell silent.

People with a little brain, seeing the tense scene in front of them, know that something big will happen today.

"Senior Sister Huiyin, what are you talking about?"

Lin Lang was not flustered, he said a little calmly:

"Master is seriously ill, and the sect is in a panic, and it is the time to rely on the junior sister... Come with me first, and let us go and speak in the main hall. ”

Lin Huiyin looked at the familiar and unfamiliar man in front of her.

She had a complicated look in her eyes.

She has not forgotten how she was attached to this gentle brother when she was a child, running left and right behind her brother all day long like a fart.

But she didn't forget that a few days ago, on the cliff of the back mountain, when the senior brother attacked her with a sword, his hideous face.

The resentment in his eyes is like a demon crawling out of hell.

What did he go through to make such a change?

"Whew..."

Lin Huiyin let out a sigh, her right hand was on the hilt of the sword, and she said:

"Master and uncles, it's not that they're seriously ill! They were poisoned! ”

"The toxin is in the tea that Master drinks every day, and that tea was offered to Master on her last birthday.

Brother! It was you who poisoned and murdered the master, wanting to seize the position of the head of the sect, and also united with the Seven Peerless Sects of the Demon Sect to try to subvert my Xiaoxiang Sword Sect! Don't pretend anymore!

I dare to come back today, I'm afraid it's beyond your calculations, right? ”

Lin Huiyin was angry.

Each of these sentences is urged by internal force, and these consecutive words are like a cold wind, blowing all over the square.

Whether it is the inner door or the outer door disciples, they are all stunned when they hear this.

The poisoning of Lin Yundong's head was tightly sealed, and even the inner disciples and sisters didn't know about it.

Now it was provoked by Lin Huiyin, and the whole square was quiet for a while, and then it was like a noisy vegetable market, and it was noisy again.

The inner disciples behind Lin Huiyin were a little impulsive, and they drew their swords one after another, sharing the same hatred with the senior sister.

But there are also some inner disciples who look at Lin Lang suspiciously, thinking that Lin Lang is also a disciple of the head of the family, although there are rumors on weekdays, the senior brother is not taken seriously.

But it's not like to do such a conscientious thing, right?

Lin Lang still didn't panic.

He looked at Lin Huiyin with a smile, and after a few breaths, he shook his head, and he was really lucky, and said loudly:

"Senior sister, I wanted to hide that rebellion for you, but today you spat out evil words and framed me."

Lin Lang waved his hand, looking pained.

He said:

"Fellow Sword Sect disciples, you are waiting here today to be a witness for me!

My junior sister, who has been loved by the head of the sect since she was a child, has been awarded a unique sect, but she is especially not satisfied, she is greedy and blindfolded, and she steals martial arts from other sects!

also snatched the Xiaoxiang Echo Sword and tried to become the leader! ”

"My master has repeatedly persuaded her, but she was born out of her heart, not only did she not repent, but poisoned her master, and after being discovered by the master, this rebel came out with the echo sword."

Lin Lang shouted in a sad voice:

"Even so, Master does not want to blame her, so that I conceal this news and secretly seek her back."

"You talk nonsense!"

Lin Huiyin was so angry by her senior brother's shamelessness that she carried her sword and shouted:

"It's you..."

"Senior sister!"

Before Lin Huiyin finished speaking, he was interrupted loudly by Lin Lang, who said:

"If I talk nonsense, I will die in front of your fellow disciples today, and you, you secretly learn the martial arts of other sects, but the evidence is conclusive!

Today, all of you uncles are here, and your fellow Sword Gate companions are also here, if you really have a clear conscience, you can take advantage of the exercises and let everyone see it! The true qi in your body, is it my Xiaoxiangyun Sword Heart Method? ”

"Huh"

Lin Huiyin's face turned pale at this moment.

She looked at the senior brother in front of her in disbelief, and Lin Lang also looked at her, and in the depths of those eyes, there was a light like a poisonous snake spitting letters.

He is full of confidence.

Lin Lang looked distressed and said to Lin Huiyin:

"Senior sister, the true qi in your body is clearly not like my Xiaoxiang Sword Sect's mental method! Where did you steal it?

Am I the act of a decent knight? ”

"You talk nonsense!"

Lin Huiyin's body trembled, and she felt countless eyes coming from all directions, making her uneasy.

She said:

"That's Master..."

"Shut up!"

Lin Lang drew his sword and shouted loudly:

"My master is a decent hero, she has acted brightly and uprightly all her life, and everyone on the rivers and lakes praises her, as the head of Xiaoxiang, how can she pass on your martial arts?

You rebel who deceived his teachers and destroyed his ancestors! Do you still want to blame the master for stealing martial arts?

The truth has come out, and the Echo Sword is in your hands...

How else can you deny it? ”

"Where is the law enforcement of the Sword Gate!"

Lin Lang shouted, and several black-clothed swordsmen with indifferent breaths flew from the edge of the square, surrounding Lin Huiyin and a group of inner disciples who trusted her.

"Take her down for me!"

Lin Lang unsheathed the long sword in his hand, pointing obliquely at his junior sister, his expression was hideous, his eyes were full of cold light, and he shouted sharply:

"If there is disobedience..."

"Kill!"