Chapter 458: The Matter of Hongmen
After the news of Ji Hengwu's killing was passed back to Lei Tianlie, the overseas Hongmen rudder, it didn't take long for Lei Tianlie to report Ji Hengwu's death in Huaxia to the Hongmen headquarters.
For a while, Hongmen was shocked.
Ji Hengwu is one of the top five masters on the Hongmen power list, but he didn't expect to die in Huaxia after returning to China this time.
This is absolutely unbearable for Hongmen.
Ji Hengwu was killed, which alarmed Huo Xiangtian, the master of the Hongmen.
Huo Xiangtian immediately summoned the high-level leaders of Hongmen to hold a meeting in the conference room of the Hongmen chief helm.
At this time, in the conference hall of the Hongmen Helm, the venue was unusually quiet, and the anger was extremely depressed, and the faces of everyone could not hide their sadness and anger.
After Duan Tianya, the Great Elder sitting below the door master, looked around the venue, sighed heavily, and said in a sad tone: "Gate master, the death of the third elder has nothing to do with me, and I am responsible for this. ”
"How do I pay?" Sect Master Huo Xiangtian looked at the Great Elder and asked.
Great Elder Duan Tianya squinted his eyes and said, "Go back to Huaxia, kill that kid, and avenge the Third Elder!" ”
"Forget it!" Huo Xiangtian waved his hand and said.
Great Elder Duan Tianya was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "Sect Master, what do you mean by this?" ”
Huo Xiangtian looked at Duan Tianya and asked rhetorically, "What kind of cultivation realm is Ji Hengwu?" ”
"Cultivation in the early stage of refining the Void Harmony Dao."
Huo Xiangtian nodded, and asked again: "What kind of cultivation are you?" ”
Duan Tianya's face sank, and he said in a stiff tone: "Peak cultivation in the early stage of refining the Void Combination Dao." ”
Huo Xiangtian said: "You are just a little higher than the cultivation of the third elder, even the third elder died in the hands of that kid named Lin Tao, do you think you can kill him if you go back to Huaxia?!" ”
"But ......"
Duan Tianya was not convinced, and was about to refute, but was stopped by Huo Xiangtian raising his hand, and then said: "This matter has to be considered in the long run, our Hongmen has lost the three elders, I don't want to lose you as the great elder again, now that the strength of this foreign alien race has increased greatly, our Hongmen is already in a weak position, and the loss of the three elders this time is already a big blow to our Hongmen, if you return to Huaxia again, in case there are three longs and two shorts, then how can our Hongmen gain a foothold overseas!" ”
"Door master, is my master's enmity just settled?" The helmsman Lei Tianlie said with an angry face.
Huo Xiangtian's eyes were like a sharp knife, and he glared at Lei Tianlie with substance, and said unhappily: "Lei Tianlie, don't forget your identity, here is your qualification to interject?!" ”
Lei Tianlie was stunned by Huo Xiangtian's glare, and immediately didn't dare to speak, even his master Ji Hengwu was a little afraid of Huo Xiangtian, now that his master was dead, he had to be a man with his tail between his legs.
"Besides, did I say I wouldn't avenge the Third Elder?" Huo Xiangtian's tone softened slightly, and said, "That kid named Lin Tao is really too weird, he was so young that he was able to kill the master in the early stage of the 'Refining Void Combination Dao', so what kind of cultivation does he have to do?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the conference hall became quieter.
"At most, he is a mid-stage cultivator of 'refining gods and transforming voids'!" Lei Tianlie opened his mouth and said.
Huo Xiangtian said: "Are you kidding? The cultivation of refining the gods and transforming the void can kill the master of the cultivation of the Void Refining and Combining the Dao? ”
Lei Tianlie hurriedly said: "But according to the information from my subordinates in Yangcheng, Lin Tao really only has the cultivation in the middle stage of 'refining gods and transforming voids'. ”
"Say no more!" Huo Xiangtian glanced at Lei Tianlie with some impatience, "Since you want to avenge your master so much, then I will send you back to Huaxia to avenge your master!" ”
Lei Tianlie's face turned red, his senior brother and master all died in the hands of Lin Tao, let him deal with Lin Tao, isn't that to die in vain?
Although Ji Hengwu's death made Lei Tianlie very angry, he was not stupid enough to kill himself.
"Sect master, you know, my cultivation to deal with Lin Tao will definitely die!"
"Since I can't avenge your master, don't talk nonsense, Ji Hengwu is the third elder of my Hongmen, he is dead, I, as the master of Hongmen, will naturally seek justice for Ji Hengwu, I don't need you to teach me to do things next to me!"
Lei Tianlie lowered his head with an ugly face, not daring to interject again.
"The top priority is to get the corpse of the third elder back, and as for dealing with Lin Tao, let's think about it in the long run."
Lei Tianlie said: "Door Master, can I make a request?" ”
Huo Xiangtian nodded and said, "What's the matter?" ”
Lei Tianlie said: "My master said before his death that he hoped that he would be able to be buried back in China after he died, so since Master is in China, why should we go to get his old man's body back, or let him be buried in Huaxia?" ”
"What do you think, Great Elder?" Huo Xiangtian looked at Duan Tianya.
Duan Tianya sighed with a lot of emotion and said, "Since the third child has such a long-cherished wish, then come according to his wishes before his death, and be buried in Huaxia." ”
Huo Xiangtian nodded, looked at Lei Tianlie again, and said, "Lord Thunder Helm, this matter will be handed over to you to deal with." ”
After the meeting ended, Huo Xiangtian stopped the Great Elder Duan Tianya, who was about to leave.
There were only the two of them left in the conference room, Duan Tianya glanced at Huo Xiangtian, and said with a strange expression: "Door master, if my guess is correct, you want to talk to me about Lin Tao, right?" ”
"I really can't hide anything from the Great Elder!"
Huo Xiangtian smiled and continued, "Then guess what I want to say?" ”
"I saw it when I had the meeting just now, you don't want to deal with Lin Tao anymore!"
Huo Xiangtian nodded, "Go on." ”
The Great Elder said tentatively, "You shouldn't be trying to win over Lin Tao, right?" ”
"Do you think this can be done?"
The Great Elder frowned and asked, "Why are you doing this?" ”
Huo Xiangtian said: "Now that our Hongmen is worried about internal and external troubles, we really can't continue to weaken our strength, otherwise those alien monsters overseas will definitely destroy our Hongmen." ”
"Could it be that one Lin Tao can save our Hongmen?"
Huo Xiangtian said with a strange expression: "Although Lin Tao's current cultivation is not too eye-catching, you don't forget his age!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the Great Elder's pupils contracted violently, and he immediately thought of something, and said in surprise: "I have always regarded him as a person of our age, after all, his cultivation is too high, it is difficult to imagine him as a young man, according to the door master's plan, give Lin Tao another twenty years, I am afraid that he can become the second Hongmen ancestor!" ”
"What the Great Elder said is right!"
Huo Xiangtian said: "Lin Tao is the existence with the most potential to surpass the Hongmen Ancestor in the past hundred years, once he becomes an earth immortal in a few decades, there will be few opponents in this world, so the foreign evil clan is still arrogant to our Hongmen?" ”
The Great Elder looked at Huo Xiangtian with cloudy eyes, and reminded: "Don't forget one thing, Lin Tao killed the three elders, which caused the anger of the Hongmen people, not to mention whether he is willing to join our Hongmen, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to accept Lin Tao within the Hongmen." ”
"This matter is beyond them, for the sake of my Hongmen's two-hundred-year cause, a small sacrifice is nothing!"
After a pause, Huo Xiangtian looked at Duan Tianya with fiery eyes and said, "Great Elder, I just need you to give me an attitude, and I won't pay attention to the others!" ”
Duan Tianya smiled bitterly: "The third brother has been a brother with me for decades, and now he has just been killed by Lin Tao's kid, you let me agree with you to win over Lin Tao, the door master, you are trying to fall me into injustice!" ”
"I won't trap you in injustice, you just have to say anything to me! Since the disappearance of the ancestor, our Hongmen has been in decline for many years, and if we want to continue our previous glory, we must win over a young and promising super talent like Lin Tao! ”
"Since the ancestor passed on the position of the master of the door to you, it means that you have something extraordinary, you are the master of the door, and I will support and obey you in whatever you do."
Huo Xiangtian could naturally hear the meaning of this sentence, and said with joy on his face: "Great Elder, thank you for your profound understanding of righteousness!" ”
"Hey, I'm not very righteous." Duan Tianya sighed, and said with a somewhat gloomy gaze: "No matter what, Ji Hengwu is my brother for life, and if I do this, I won't have the face to see him when I get over there in the future." ”
Huo Xiangtian gently patted Duan Tianya's shoulder and comforted: "Great Elder, I don't blame you for this, if you really get over there in the future, if the Third Elder wants to blame, let him blame me!" ”
"Oh, yes!" Huo Xiangtian suddenly raised his tone and said: "Those brutes of the werewolf clan have recently robbed us of a lot of territory, and killed more than a dozen of our brothers, the people below can't handle this matter, so they can only trouble you to go out in person, our Hongmen has been dormant for too long, and if you don't give these brutes a little color, they should ride on our heads to and pee." ”
"In the past, when the ancestor was still there, we should have completely eliminated those beasts, but now that their power is growing, it will be even more difficult to completely eliminate them."
"You don't need to destroy them, you just need to kill them and they don't dare to show their faces, brutes will always be brutes, hit them hard, they won't be so arrogant."
The Great Elder sighed, but immediately hesitated, and said with a serious expression, "Is the Wolf King in the Wolf's Den?" ”
"In the wolf's den, but the people of the temple have already stared him to death, and he will not leave his lair unless it is absolutely necessary, so you can rest assured and boldly kill!"
"That's it!"
After a pause, the Great Elder looked at Huo Xiangtian curiously and said, "I'm curious, how are you going to win over Lin Tao?" ”
Huo Xiangtian smiled and said mysteriously: "Keep it secret for the time being!" ”
Grand Elder: "......"
Huo Xiangtian smiled: "But I can tell you, I plan to go back to Huaxia in person!" ”
"What?"
The Great Elder's eyes widened in surprise and said, "When we were expelled from Huaxia back then, although you were not yet the master of the sect, you were also on the blacklist of Huaxia Guoan, aren't you afraid that you will not return?" ”
"Great Elder, how worried are you, how old was when I followed the ancestor from Huaxia to overseas, and how old are you now?"
After hearing this, the Great Elder smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, I just hope that Huaxia Guoan doesn't have a recent photo of you!" ”
"Don't worry, with my cultivation, except for those one or two perverted old guys in Huaxia, I'm afraid that no one can help me, besides, I didn't go back this time to cause trouble, so you don't have to worry too much, Great Elder."
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