"You slaughtered the Changli Clan, breaking the pattern that the Outer Heaven has always been controlled by the Nine Great Clans, making the Nine Great Clans become the Eight Great Clans today, is there anyone in the middle of this? In the end, who will benefit? ”

The family that has been inherited for thousands of years, the resources and materials occupied by it are difficult to estimate, once the pattern is broken, then the interests naturally need to be redistributed, and someone will inevitably eat what the Changli clan occupied back then.

Song Qingxiao threw out two questions in a row:

"The Xiangjiang Yi clan mentioned that the people of the Martial Arts Research Institute had been restarting the Chaos Bead plan hundreds of years ago, and the Taikang clan knew nothing about it."

Is this regrettable past between Su Wu and Yun Su Su at that time related to this matter?

Su Wu lost his love back then, and watched Yun Su Su marry someone else, and finally died soon.

Her death was a major blow to him, and the young and angry man at the time was bloodied with a lot of resentment.

Afterwards, this Taikang clan's most promising core descendant made a big mistake, and was expelled from the clan, and was finally surrounded and suppressed to death by the Martial Arts Research Institute.

It can be seen from here that in this matter, Taikang and Changli Er did not get a good ending.

One was wiped out, and the other was a loser, which can be said to be a lose-lose situation.

Before entering the Outer Heavens, Song Qingxiao had already heard many legends about the Martial Arts Research Institute.

After the change in the sea of stars that day, the Martial Arts Research Institute quickly sent people, and finally transferred Shi Qiuwu, who originally wanted to kill her, away.

It can be seen that in addition to the heavens and the heavens, the Martial Arts Research Institute also has the ambition to meddle in the affairs of the empire.

In other words, in the heart of a strong man like Shi Qiuwu, compared to the Chaos Bead that devoured the Sea of Stars, and the Xuantian-level Spirit Treasure in Song Qingxiao's hand, he couldn't compare to the oppressive power brought to him by the Martial Arts Research Institute.

And although Song Qingxiao had only entered the Outer Heaven from the hidden realm for a short day, she had already discovered that the Martial Arts Research Institute was extremely strong.

In the Outer Heavens, they gathered the power of the nine great clans to form a group.

The original intention of the establishment was to serve the family and better manage the heavens, but in fact, in the long river of thousands of years, the martial arts research institute has already become a huge force that is nominally affiliated to the family, but has faintly been independent of the family and not controlled by it.

They made the Soul Hunting Jade, which broke down the barrier between the Divine Prison Trialists and ordinary cultivators, so that ordinary people could also use it to share points and have the qualification to redeem them in the Divine Prison.

This should be a very important and convenient way to trade for many people outside the world.

They set up temporary rented houses, recruited Divine Hell Trialists, and even created a new type of circulating spirit jade that belonged to the Outer Heavens—

In any respect, this is already the prototype of a power institution that controls the empire.

It's just that an institution like Outer Heaven is more special, because nominally, the existence of the world clan has a certain degree of suppression on them.

When a force has grown vigorously after thousands of years of development, it may not still be willing to be controlled by others.

"You mean, there's a secret in this?"

Su Wu realized the hint implied in her unfinished words, and after being silent for a long time, the yin owl spoke.

"I don't know." She shook her head, but a hint of darkness flashed in her eyes:

"But before I break through the Void Realm, I will go to the Taikang Clan and inform them about the Chaos Bead."

She had already promised Su Wu to go to Taikang's for him to report the news, but only at this moment did she determine the time to go to Taikang's Clan.

Although she has only broken through the realm of merger now, it seems that she is far from breaking through the realm of the void.

However, this situation outside the sky is too chaotic, Song Qingxiao is alone, with neither shelter nor service behind him, so he can only act carefully.

Su Wu, who had already half-entered the sainthood back then, died under the encirclement and suppression of the Martial Arts Research Institute, and if Song Qingxiao was not careful, he might also follow in the footsteps of this 'senior' who now only had a wisp of remnant soul left.

As for whether the entanglement between Su Wu and the Changli clan back then was as she guessed, it could only be found out by the people of the Taikang clan themselves.

"Okay." He answered, and at the end it seemed a little awkward:

"You have to be careful."

Song Qing nodded slightly, this sentence didn't need Su Wu's orders, she would naturally think twice.

Maybe it was too awkward to care about people like this, and Su Wu also felt a little uncomfortable after saying it, and after saying this, he asked:

"Where's a door that day?"

In fact, he has gradually changed his attitude and is paying attention to some things about her.

In the trial of pure heart, the Taoist priest of Tianyi Gate asked her for help when he was leaving, and Su Wu naturally listened to it in his heart.

"I'm going to borrow that sword for the time being."

Although he had a good impression of the Taoist priest, Song Qingxiao didn't know much about Tianyimen, so he was ready to take a look.

"Tianyimen has always had a good reputation." Su Wu reminded her, but after the entanglement of the old things, he always felt that he was in love back then, but he didn't pay attention to some things around him at all.

The overlapping of powers, the undercurrent of the clan, and the ambition of the Martial Arts Research Institute, he even ignored them all.

Thinking about this now, remembering the faces of the elders in the family, he couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness coming over him, making him want to avoid again.

The two didn't speak again, Su Wu talked too much, recalled the past, and got some new information from Song Qingxiao's feedback, and needed to recall the past again, and needed some quiet time to re-digest these emotions.

And Song Qingxiao also needs to sort out what has happened during this period of time and precipitate his state of mind.

She scanned the dantian with her divine sense, and the phantom of the silver wolf was still surrounded in a cloud of red mist, and her consciousness did not respond.

What made her a little big was that she found that in her soul, the Qing Ying Ling also seemed to fall into a deep sleep.

When Song Qingxiao's divine sense swept over the Qing Shen Order, the demon soul in the order did not respond as before.

She frowned, she was usually not used to hearing it laugh like this, but once it didn't laugh like this again, Song Qingxiao felt that something was not quite right.

After summoning the Qing Ying Order, Song Qingxiao saw that the token was wrapped in a cloud of black gas, lying quietly in the palm of her hand, without the slightest reaction.

The demonic aura in the Abyss Territory was too strong, so that although the Qing Ying Order had absorbed it, it couldn't completely digest them for a while, so the 'sleep' at this moment should be a sign that its strength was about to increase.

It seems that the Qing Ying Order can no longer be used during this time, which undoubtedly proves that her overall strength will be affected to a certain extent, which makes Song Qingxiao a little vigilant.

She reached out and tapped the token, making a crisp sound.

I don't know if it was the demon soul who was instinctively afraid of her, but when she clicked on the token, the black mist that lingered on the token squirmed twice, and the word 'green' on it also flowed with a trace of brilliance.

Seeing this scene, Song Qingxiao's eyes lit up, and it seemed that Qing Mingling's sleep was not as deep as that of the silver wolf, and the time to wake up should be faster than that of the silver wolf.

She withdrew the token into her body, and only then began to adjust her spiritual breath, and soon sank her consciousness into her cultivation.

……

At this time, within the Imperial Family, the core clansmen of the major clans of the empire had gathered in the Imperial City.

"The people from the Martial Arts Research Institute have asked us to hand in a survey statement of the Sea of Stars, and have set a time limit."

The person who spoke was a well-mannered young man, dressed in a fluffy silver robe, sitting on one side of the council with a cold expression.

Judging from his appearance, he was no more than thirty years old, but the aura he exuded had already reached the cultivation of the realm of conformity, with a powerful spiritual suppression.

As he spoke, he took out a piece of pine green soul jade and put it on the table—

Under the control of his divine sense, the soul jade slowly moved towards Shi Qiuwu, who was sitting at the top.

After the Battle of the Sea of Stars, Akigo Shi, who had disappeared from the empire for many years, reappeared in the world and suppressed the clan with ulterior motives.

Representatives of the Wei family, the Fan family, the Pei family, and many other clans were all sitting in the council, gathered here because of the 'news' passed by the Outer Heaven Martial Arts Research Institute.

Shi Qiuwu didn't stretch out his hand to pick it up, but swept it with his divine thoughts, and he already knew the approximate news transmitted in the soul jade.

In fact, he had anticipated such a situation earlier than everyone present, because he had already known the mind of the Martial Arts Research Institute, and this 'instruction' passed on was just a temptation.

"They demand that within ten years, an explanation must be given for the disappearance of the Sea of Stars and the Beastmaster."

The man saw that Akigo didn't reach out to pick it up, thinking that he wasn't interested in it, so he couldn't help but explain.

"Hmph. The people of the Martial Arts Research Institute are too domineering, and we are not their subordinates, the Sea of Stars belongs to the territory of the empire in any way, so what does it have to do with them? ”

Gu Chunxing, the only one present who was really young and the weakest in strength, couldn't help but snort coldly.

Although the Gu family has declined, as long as she is alive, she is the only heir of the Gu family.

Seeing that her ancestors all died in the sea of stars back then, she had made great contributions to the World Clan Alliance, and the World Clan did not eliminate the Gu family, once there was a gathering of the World Clan Alliance, naturally she would have a seat here.

Her words actually said the hidden meaning in the hearts of some of the people present, but some of the elders couldn't get used to her publicity, and because of their own identity, they didn't want to lower their status to accept her words.

"In the past few years, the Martial Arts Research Institute has become more and more public." In the Shi family, the eleventh uncle also participated in the council, and he said:

"As far as I know, among the clans outside the heavens, after Su Wuyi's death, the Taikang clan has announced that they will not manage these affairs and focus on cultivating the children of the clan."

The people of Tianyi Gate have a cold and arrogant temperament, and they are mainly pursuing to break through the way of heaven, in addition to the reputation of being particularly protective of their shortcomings, compared to the Fanyin family, they are more like a group of outsiders who ignore the 'mundane things'.

In addition, Bingzang and Shennong are based on alchemy and weapons, and their overall strength is weak among the nine major clans, and they rarely interfere in the affairs of the Martial Arts Research Institute.

In the case that some people did not know their attitudes and others were silent, the martial arts research institute that lacked suppression developed rapidly, and now it should not be underestimated.

Without the combined efforts of the Outer Heaven Clan, the strength of the Martial Arts Research Institute today makes the Empire's Clans have to be afraid.

The only one who can compete with the Outer Heaven Martial Arts Research Institute should be Shi Qiuwu, the only one in the Shi family who has already half-entered the sainthood.

According to the strength of the Martial Arts Research Institute, the reason why the 'order' issued this time gave the imperial clan a time limit of ten years must be because he wanted to test Shi Qiugo.

Although he still looks young on the outside, compared to his cultivation, Shi Qiuwu is not young.

If he can't break through within the number of years, with the passage of time, there will be an end to the life span of a person.

At that time, without the Shi family and clan where Shi Qiuwu is in charge, what should they do to counter the undisguised annexation ambitions of the Martial Arts Research Institute?

When Uncle Eleventh said this, he subconsciously turned his head to look at the ancestor of the clan.

But I saw him leaning back in his chair, not knowing what he was thinking, as if he was already out of his body, and I didn't know if he was still listening to the crowd.

"Third Uncle ......"

Uncle Eleven called out stubbornly:

"What do you think should be done about this?"

Shi Qiuwu frowned.

He showed his unhappiness after being disturbed, and in front of everyone, even if it was a descendant of the Shi family who spoke, he didn't give any face.

"How's Shi Yue's situation?" He didn't answer Uncle Eleven's question, but asked about a junior of the Shi family.

"It's really a fool!"

Among the clans sitting here, after seeing Shi Qiuwu's performance, several people couldn't help but have such thoughts in their hearts.

"With your shot, it's much more stable." Uncle Eleven was also stunned, but he still endured the anxiety in his heart and said respectfully:

"At least for now, lives have been saved."

However, at that time, he took the initiative to induce a spiritual storm in his body, which had already broken the balance, and Song Qingxiao's sword pierced him.

If it weren't for the particularity of his physique, which made him have a certain 'immunity' from the huge destructiveness brought by spiritual power over the years, the fierce sword qi of that day would have been enough to send him away-

At least Shi Qi, who also suffered from Song Qingxiao's sword, is still in a much worse situation than him.

When Shi Qiuwu heard this, a hint of thoughtfulness flashed in his eyes.

"Third Uncle, the people of the Three Outer Heavenly Martial Arts Research Institute want to know what happened in the Sea of Stars......"

"I am no longer responsible for the internal affairs of the empire, and among their 'orders', I am also looking for the person in charge of the empire." Shi Qiuwu was interrupted by him again, and he was a little unhappy:

"Now the person in charge of the dark department of the Shi family is you, so they are also looking for you, what are you asking me for this kind of question?"

He has long since stepped down as the head of the dark department of the Shi family, and now he is just a member of the Shi family.

"If you have any orders, just let me do it, but Eleven, you should learn how to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the world, and you can't ask the elderly for everything."

“……”

Uncle Eleven was taught a lesson by him, and he couldn't help but be speechless, and he couldn't even speak.