Footsteps sounded in the long corridor, the sound came from far and near, and the wall lamps on both sides of the corridor lit up one after another as the sound approached.

The orange lights are like the warm lights of the ancient castle of the last century, and the ancient ones make you want to explore the secrets inside.

When all the lights were on, the owner of the footsteps finally appeared at the end of the hallway.

Chen Shu, dressed in a blue-gray gown, stood at the end of the corridor, the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose reflected the warm light, he pushed the frame of the glasses, and said with a smile: "Do you still feel familiar?" ”

"Of course." The voice came from behind him, and Chen Shu tilted his head sideways, looking at the figure standing behind him. The orange light was unobstructed, and it hit Zheng Feng's face without shying away.

Zheng Feng squinted his eyes and swept the wall lamps on both sides of the corridor, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, "Isn't this the atmosphere you want to create?" To walk this path is to walk into the heart of rights. ”

"Yes, the center of power."

Chen Shu also looked at the lamps, which still emitted a soft light, and on the other side of the corridor, a quaint door vaguely appeared in his eyes.

He took two steps back and made way for Zheng Feng behind him, and his words were extremely respectful: "Congratulations, once again stepping into this great power." ”

Zheng Feng shrugged his shoulders indifferently, he walked towards the door with his head held high, no longer paying attention to Chen Shu behind him. The door slowly opened from the inside as he approached. Zheng Feng walked in, and the door closed again.

Chen Shu, who was left in the corridor, squinted his eyes and smiled shallowly, he had just seen his brother. Turning his head to leave in the direction he came, Chen Shu crossed his hands behind his back, and the blue-gray coat swayed from side to side. In this rhythmic swaying, the lights began to dim from the side of the gate, and finally Chen Shu's figure completely disappeared into the darkness.

The moment he stepped out of the hallway, light rushed towards him. The scorching incandescent lamp emitted a bright light, and each beam of light hit him, making all the darkness disappear.

"Chen is in charge."

"Chen is in charge."

The Exorcist who passed by him greeted him, and he nodded politely in return, but his pace did not slow down for a moment.

Steward Chen, what a familiar title.

He had taken over the Yuanmen's Punishment Hall five years earlier, and from that day on, all the Yuan Exorcists had called him Steward Chen. A person who administers the penal hall is called a steward.

And what about the hall master?

In the past five years, he has asked himself countless times why he is not the head of the hall, but only the steward.

It was not until today, or until the moment he received the assignment, that he finally understood that everything was done for a reason.

Not because he couldn't, but because this hall master existed in the first place.

He had never set foot in the center of the so-called power, and of course he knew who the people were in it. The five masters of the family, as well as the masters of the Punishment Hall who are independent of the five families.

Why is the head of the Yuanmen Punishment Hall one of the Nanshan monks? Why is a betrayer able to step into this place anew? Why...... Yuanmen wants to reserve a place for a traitor?

Chen Shu stopped, the Yuan Destroyers who passed by were still greeting him, every Yuan Exorcist knew him as the manager of the Punishment Hall, and they were all the same as him, forgetting that the owner of the Punishment Hall was not him, so they were so careful to please him.

But what about the facts?

Chen Shu slowly closed his eyes, the sounds around him were still ringing, his mind was confused, he was in the Yuanmen headquarters, but he had a feeling of being isolated and helpless.

The Exorcists still want to accept tasks from here, report tasks, and submit clues as before. Everything was running as usual, and he could even clearly hear Fairy's slightly cold, extraordinarily rational voice.

If the calm is just an illusion, then what is the truth that is hidden underneath?

What are the plans of careerists who hold absolute power?

"Why be so nervous? Old folks? Zheng Feng walked around the round table, he first stopped behind the Ye family master, put one hand on the Ye family master's shoulder, and pressed the elbow of the other hand on the back of the chair. His gaze swept in front of the other four family heads in front of him, and he smiled and said, "It's only five years, isn't it?" You greet me with such a strange attitude? ”

"Master Ye, are you still worried about your son's character? Worried that the gloom of his childhood would ruin your entire family? ”

Zheng Feng patted the Ye family master on the shoulder, straightened up and walked to the side of the Chen family master on the side, "What about you?" Is the head of the Chen family still worried that your cute and ambitious brother will take away this chair sitting under your ass? ”

The Chen family master's face became gloomy because of Zheng Feng's words, and he wanted to turn his head to give Zheng Feng a warning look, but found that Zheng Feng had already walked to the side of the Liang family master.

"The eldest Liang family master, your unpromising son seems to have exceeded your expectations in the past five years?"

Zheng Feng sat on the empty chair next to the head of the Liang family, with his hands behind his head, "Driving the geniuses out of the family with your own hands, the head of the Shangguan family is no longer uncomfortable." As for the Jiang family, in the past five years, it seems that your family has not had a single case of successful evolution of Yuan Li, why, after so many years, the bloodline in your body finally can't bear it? ”

The faces of all the heads of the family were extremely ugly, but the combined age of the five of them might not be as good as Zheng Feng, who was very irritable with his mouth opposite.

Or, this may not be called Zheng Feng's punishment hall master.

"Master Chen, you have borrowed my punishment hall for five years, and your Chen family's power is not so strong!"

"The Chen family will not borrow the Punishment Hall to develop their own power, this should be clear to the Jade Hall Master." The head of the Chen family spread his hands on the handle of the chair, and he glanced sideways at the man sitting diagonally opposite him, and the smile on his face did not show half kindness. "If the Jade Hall Master feels that this kind of low-level means can provoke a few of us, then it seems that in the past five years, the Jade Hall Master has not made much progress."

Zheng Feng, or the Jade Hall Master, he sneered, "You still use me to provoke? is already fighting openly and secretly, and you still use me to provoke? He patted the handle with one hand, and pointed at each other with the other, "One by one, don't you just want to sit in the highest position?" What, now think I'm an eyesore? It's a pity that it's late, you haven't grasped the opportunity in the past five years, and you won't have any opportunities in five years. ”

The eldest Liang family master listened to the words of the jade hall master on the side, and his brows furrowed and he never let go, "We are looking for you to come back, there is something wrong." ”

"What's the matter?" The Jade Hall Master turned his head, his eyes fell on the slightly gray hair on the head of the Liang family master, and he said with a slight sigh: "Liang family master, you have to find the heir quickly, otherwise, I estimate that you won't last long." ”

After being cursed for a short time, the face of the Liang family master did not become the same as the previous Chen family master, maybe he was older, or maybe because what the Yutang master said was the truth.

"You don't have to worry about this, the information we have gathered, the recent incidents of Yuan Demon exploding and dying due to Yuan Li's irritability have been decreasing. According to the speculation of several of us, they should have possessed the ability to Yuan Jing. ”

"Yuanjing?" The Jade Hall Master raised his eyebrows, he was still facing Zheng Feng's face, and he was also wearing Zheng Feng's clothes. In Xia Ke's previous words, Zheng Feng in a suit is still very human-like. Similarly, Zheng Feng, a very human-like impostor, looked at the expressions on the faces of each head of the family curiously, and he finally realized that maybe something terrible had happened. "You have to explain first, what this Yuanjing is."

The head of the Shangguan family, who had not spoken for a long time, stood up from his chair, walked to the wall opposite the door with his crutches, and laboriously held the crutches and tapped a button on the strong.

The head of the Shangguan family is much younger than the head of the Liang family, but compared to the head of the Liang family, who is still sharp in his legs, the head of the Shangguan family is more like a dying old man.

The black hair on his head had long since turned white, and even his eyebrows were gray, and the folds on his face constantly reminded him of the fact that he was aging early.

A person who has just been middle-aged, because he has been immersed in the test of Yuan Force for many years, is now aging at two to three times the speed of ordinary Yuan Exorcists.

If someone lives for a day, he has probably passed three days.

The Jade Hall Master looked at the Shangguan Family Master who was unable to move, and even more serious worry appeared on his face. If in his eyes, the head of the Liang family is just a Yuan Exorcist who is about to die of old age, then the Shangguan Family Master is a Yuan Exorcist who will not live long.

To be honest, he didn't worry about who would die or who would live, but if the head of the Shangguan family died, then who would be in charge of all the experimental projects in Yuanmen?

"This is Yuanjing."

The old man's voice came from the mouth of the head of the Shangguan family, and he coughed twice before he trembled and pointed his crutches on the picture that appeared on the wall.

It was an enlarged version of a sapphire, and this one was even more dazzling than a normal sapphire.

"Enlarged sapphire?" The Jade Hall Master's eyes lit up, "So I'll just say that a few of you are really eccentric, why can the Shangguan family always find this kind of superb gem?" Why is it that my punishment hall has no benefit? ”

The head of the Shangguan family coughed violently twice, and the master of the jade hall was so frightened that he immediately took back his words. If the head of the Shangguan family is angry to death now, then it is estimated that his free days will be gone.

"What, you go on."

"Ahem...... The body of the Yuan Crystal is indeed a rare sapphire. There is a branch of the Shangguan family that is engaged in the ore mining industry, so this is not very precious to the Shangguan family. The voice of the head of the Shangguan family paused, and the cane struck the wall again, and this time the picture on the wall changed again.

"The gemstone is just a carrier for the Yuan Force, and the important thing is the Yuan Force carried inside."