In the past, the city of the slanting moon is now on the shore of the slanting moon lake, and even after a few days, there are still a large number of adventurers who do not give up. Although you can imagine that under a meteorite whose power is comparable to or even surpasses that of a forbidden spell, it is impossible for any valuable treasure to be preserved, but there are still adventurers who dive to the bottom of the lake to find it if they are lucky. Of course, the result has always been nothing.

However, the dead-eyed adventurer clearly has no intention of giving up. Leaning Moon City is too big. Naturally, the Leaning Moon Lake, which is larger than the Slanting Moon City, can not be completely searched in a few days, not to mention the possibility of being in the mud and sand at the bottom of the water. So the adventurers didn't leave, even though they didn't find anything. To be exact, a group of old ones came and a new batch of them came. Before trying it, everyone thought they would be the lucky one to find the treasure.

In this case, there is an extra team of a dozen people by the lake, which will not attract attention at all. Of course, if the adventurers around him knew the identities of these dozen people, it would be a different matter.

This is a party that has just arrived in Leaning Moon City. There were eleven people in total, all of whom were covered in black robes. It's late August, and it's horribly hot. is still like this, on the one hand, it shows that they really don't want people to know their identity, and on the other hand, it also shows that these people are amazingly strong and can already be fearless in the cold and heat!

The adventurer is one of the professions with the largest number of Aegeanists. There are many of them, both unsightly and powerful. So although the group was quite eye-catching, no one cared too much. They didn't know that the current St. Chio magician, one of the five holy orders of the Aegean, Niel O'Sullivan, the emperor of the Francisco Empire, was in this team.

Neil and Ji Lingxia belong to two major empires. They are all important figures in their respective countries. Neil Gui was the chairman of the Imperial Court Council of Francisco. The emperor's teacher, the godfather of the crown prince. Although he has spent a lot of time on the study of magic, he has no real power. But as long as he speaks, there is almost nothing that cannot be done in the Francisco Empire!

And Ji Lingxia is the imperial teacher of the former emperor of the Jiangnan Empire in the Western Regions and the third division of the former prince, the Taifu, the Taishi, and the Taibao. However, after the Lingxiao Rebellion, the new emperor Ye Chenhan ascended the throne. Ye Chenhan was not a prince before, and he was naturally not so close to Ji Lingxia, who was nominally sitting on the prince's team. Ye Chenhan, as the prince, also has his own teaching mentor, that is, Xie Chunyu, who succeeded the late scholar Ling Chenyue as a scholar.

Although Ji Lingxia broke away from the inner circle of the empire because of Ye Chenhan's rank, as the only saint rank in the Ming Face of Jiangnan in the Western Regions, his status in Jiangnan in the Western Regions still did not decline much.

They are both Aegean Five Saints, and they are not very friendly big country camps, and the feud between Neil and Ji Lingxia is almost a well-known thing in the Aegean leadership. As long as the two appear at the same time, it is definitely full of gunpowder.

Ji Lingxia was very jealous of Neil, so as a Holy Order Mage, Neil's Holy Order magic could cause unimaginable destructive power. And Neil is also jealous of Ji Lingxia. The mage is afraid of being approached by the samurai. However, at Neil's level, the average samurai can't get close, and even if they do, they can't withstand Neil's instantaneous magic at all. Saint-rank mages can instantaneously perform magician-level magic. This level of magic can't be resisted even by super-level magical beasts. A high-level samurai may have stronger combat power than a super-level demonic beast, but his ability to resist blows is definitely beyond his reach!

Ordinary high-level warriors, Neil doesn't pay attention to them, but if it's Ji Lingxia, then it must not only be in the eyesight, but also in the heart! As a saint-level martial artist, although it is impossible for Ji Lingxia to use his body to resist the magic of the magician level, he can do it whether he dodges and starts to resist with his fighting spirit. Once he was close to him, Neil was not sure that he would get out of the way. Even with a strong following around him, the concern has not diminished in the slightest. Francisco has countless martial arts masters, but since Charlemagne, who flashed like a comet three hundred years ago, there has never been a saint-rank martial artist!

Based on his jealousy of Ji Lingxia, when he heard that the entire Xinjia, including Ji Lingxia, had all died in the meteorite, Neil's first reaction was joy, and his second reaction was suspicion. There's no way, the Jiangnan people in the Western Regions are too yin!

In the more than 1,000 years since the founding of the Francisco Empire, there have been several opportunities to greatly expand its territory and power, but all of them have been destroyed by the stumbling blocks of the Western Regions going south to the south! This country is obviously capable of fighting with you in an upright manner, but it likes to hide in the shadows and use all kinds of intrigues and tricks to deal with the enemy. Unless there is a 100% chance of victory, they rarely use force head-on!

In Neil's opinion, although this kind of trick is not good to listen to and not good-looking, the effect is really amazing. Originally, Jiangnan in the Western Regions, which was only one of the many small countries in the Eastern Continent, gradually became one of the three most powerful countries in the entire Aegean by virtue of this means.

Nothing in this country with the blood of the god of conspiracy in its bones can be completely trusted! This is Neil's idea, so Neil has serious doubts about the collapse of the Xin family overnight, and even the top powerhouse in the family has not been able to escape. He felt that this was a conspiracy of Jiangnan and the Xin family in the Western Regions.

So, without greeting the emperor, and only bringing a few guards, Neil came to Jiangnan in the Western Regions.

As Neil, going to Jiangnan in the Western Regions is a very sensitive matter. And Neil didn't want this operation to be noticed, so he didn't enter the Western Regions Jiangnan through normal official channels. Instead, he crossed the border directly like some mercenaries and adventurers. Along the way, it was basically all on the road, and there was no use of the magic array or the transportation of several major passenger transport groups.

Francisco and Jiangnan belong to two continents, separated by the Aegean Sea, thousands of miles away. It is not surprising that the average person does not use transportation to walk for half a year. However, Neil and the people he was traveling with were not ordinary people, so they had already arrived at the shore of the Leaning Moon Lake in less than two days.

Neil was accompanied by three Guard Magicians, six Guard Samurai, and one Follower. The six guards have nothing to say, they are all masters of the official Francisco Empire sent to Nir to protect Nier's safety. Four of the six were at the peak level of Earth Fighters, and two of them had already stepped into the threshold of the Heavenly Fighters. No matter where you put it, it's a good hand.

All three magicians are Neil's apprentice grandchildren. Neil is about the same age as Old Joe, and all of them are old coffins of more than a hundred years old. Although it is not as good as Lao Qiao, as the principal of a top university in the mainland, there are many protégés and disciples all over the world, but there are also many outstanding apprentices. Unfortunately, many of these apprentices did not survive their teachers. Even if there are some people who are still physically strong, they don't have the energy to saddle Neil up and behind now.

However, even if they are apprentices and grandchildren, Neil's three guard magicians are still extremely powerful! Two of them have already obtained the title of Magister, and the other is slightly inferior by half a point, but if they are lucky, they can also obtain the title, and their strength has reached the standard of Magister. As the disciples and grandsons of the Holy Order Mage Neil, they naturally would not be like before Night Frost, and they would not be able to advance because they were limited by the fact that they could not learn the magic of the Magister level.

Although all nine people are strong, they are much inferior to the tenth person.

The tenth person who accompanied him was named Joseph Ranmaroke. Ranmaroke is one of the top powerful families in the Francisco Empire, and it is only half a point inferior to the Reinhardt and Margaret families. The status is equivalent to the poet or Xia family in the south of the Yangtze River in the Western Regions. Joseph is a descendant of the family, with the title of duke in the empire and a high status. What matches his status is his strength. In his seventies, Joseph, a double cultivator of fire and thunder, was only a thin line away from the Sword Saint. He is recognized as one of the most promising samurai in the Aegean Continent to advance to the Holy Rank.

Joseph's father was Neil's follower and companion, and when he came to him, he followed Neil since he was a child. And Neil is like father and son. In fact, Neil was Joseph's stepfather! If he hadn't had any magical talent, there was a good chance that Neil would have taken him as a disciple.

Although he missed the opportunity to become a disciple of a saint-level mage, but by practicing martial arts, Joseph had more opportunities to stay by Neil's side as Neil's most trusted personal bodyguard.

"Father-in-law, I think this matter is probably true!" Joseph, who is over seventy years old, looks like a prime man in his thirties from the outside. Only his eyes were deeper. However, when facing Neil, his eyes are always full of love.

"It does look like it, but the Jiangnan people in the Western Regions are all cunning, don't be careless!" Neil shook his head. At this time, they were propping up a boat and probing in the middle of the Sloping Moon Lake. There are countless boats of all sizes on the lake, and no one cares about them. It's all diving and salvage. Neil's party also had two people already in the water, two of the six Guards samurai.

After about a quarter of an hour, the two samurai turned back one after another, and after breathing, one of the samurai replied: "My lord, we have already investigated, and there is indeed a large meteorite at the bottom of the lake!"

Generally speaking, the title of the Holy Rank powerhouse should be crowned, and the other titles are a bit rude. However, at this time, the group deliberately disguised their identities, although there was no one around, and there were also guard mages who opened their anti-perception magic, but they were still quite careful in their words.

"Are you sure it's a meteorite?" Neil asked, frowning.

"Sure!" the other samurai nodded affirmatively: "The diameter is hundreds of meters! The materials are very miscellaneous, about one-fifth of them are the raw ore of Xingchen Gold Steel, and the others are very rare, and some of the subordinates don't recognize them, not like the meta-products of the Aegean." ”

Neil nodded, silent. In addition to his prowess, this samurai was also an outstanding master blacksmith. Unlike ordinary forging masters who are all flame types, this warrior is proficient in the cold refining techniques that prevail in the Jiangnan of the Western Regions. As an expert in weapon forging, he is naturally familiar with various mineral materials. If he doesn't say it's a product of Aegean, then nine times out of ten it's really not.

Could it be true? The heart family is just gone? Ji Lingxia is so old and immortal, just died?

Neil muttered to himself, oblivious to his whispering. The faces of several people around him were a little strange. Ji Lingxia is forty years younger than Neil, if Ji Lingxia is old and immortal, then what is Neil? But even Joseph can only think about this idea, and no one dares to say it in front of Neil.

"Let's find a place to rest first," Neil shook his head, still skeptical, after thinking about it, "I'm going to find a place to sense and calculate." When I was in the imperial capital, the distance was too far, and the perception was vague, so there should be a discovery here. ”

Joseph and the others all nodded when they heard this. As a Holy Order, Neil's perception is extremely powerful, especially the seventh sense that ordinary people are still unpredictable, and he can already control it to a certain extent. Whether it is what happened in the past or what may happen in the future, he has a strong sense of what may happen. This is an ability that several people are extremely envious!

Especially Joseph, whenever Neil showed his ability in this area, Joseph gritted his teeth and secretly vowed to hurry up and work hard to advance to the Holy Rank!