Ma Zhuo also got up and left the stone table, and soon disappeared into the deep darkness of the courtyard, as if he was used to staying in the dark.

Xiao Ling and the others were grateful to Ma Zhuo, and after leaving the courtyard, they turned around and bowed in the direction where Ma Zhuo had disappeared, before turning around and preparing to return to their own family.

But just as Xiao Ling and the others were about to leave, the two Liuli Sect disciples who had just come out with them blocked everyone's way.

"The next two days are a critical period for Senior Brother Ma Zhuo's cultivation, each of your four major families will send two martial monarch powerhouses to protect Senior Brother Ma Zhuo's Dharma, lest some people who don't open their eyes disturb Senior Brother Ma Zhuo's cultivation!"

One of the disciples, named Pan Shou, immediately ordered Xiao Ling and the others with an arrogant face after stopping Xiao Ling and the others, and his tone was full of unquestionable resoluteness and domineering.

When Xiao Ling, Wang Yun and the others heard this, their faces immediately became embarrassed.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ling still replied hesitantly to Pan Shou: "Lord Hui, there are not many martial monarchs and powerhouses in our four major families! After sending a part to carry out Ye Ye's order, the rest of the people must also form a group to go to the terracotta forest to awaken Lord Ma Zhuo's mount, the Dragon Horned Rhinoceros, there are really no more manpower available!"

Regarding the invitation of Ye Ye to Xiao's house two days later, Xiao Ling already had a plan in his heart. He planned to directly invite Ye Ye to the Xiao family as a guest in the name of the four major families, and at the same time report to Ye Ye on the progress of preparing for the martial arts conference, and at the same time wash the dust for Ye Ye to arrive in the ancient city of Longjiang.

Therefore, two days later, the heads of the four major families must be present, and Xiao Ling could only appoint their trusted Martial Monarch powerhouse to form a group to go to the terracotta forest to awaken the demon beast Dragon Horned Rhinoceros. But now Pan Shou asked the four major families to provide Ma Zhuo with a master protector of the martial monarch realm, which suddenly made Xiao Ling in a dilemma.

Once he obeyed Pan Shou's order and sent a strong martial monarch to protect the Dharma here, the strength of the team that organized a group to go to the terracotta forest would inevitably drop greatly. Although Xiao Ling didn't think that there would be any danger in the terracotta forest, if something happened, their plan to ambush Ye Ye would definitely come to naught, so Xiao Ling didn't want to take the risk at all.

Pan Shou saw the expression on Xiao Ling's face, and roughly guessed what he was thinking. So he snorted coldly, looked at Xiao Ling with even more fierce eyes, and said: "The most critical person in this plan is Lord Ma Zhuo, if there is any accident in the process of his cultivation, can you afford it? Not to mention that there are very few demon beasts in the terracotta forest, can't you just send a martial monarch powerhouse over? Where is so much nonsense?"

Pan Shou and another Liuli Sect disciple had an arrogant attitude, and it didn't look like they really wanted to help Ma Zhuo realize his plan.

Although Xiao Ling and the others didn't know what was going on inside the Liuli Sect, they could only grit their teeth and agree to the other party's request at this time, promising to send two martial monarchs and powerhouses to protect Ma Zhuo as soon as they returned to the family.

After Zhang Tianyu on the side saw this scene, he seemed to have guessed something in his heart, and glanced at Pan Shou and the two with deep eyes. However, he didn't say anything, and still returned to the Xiao family with Xiao Ling and the others in silence.

After discussing a specific plan of action, the heads of the four major families decided to appoint Xiao Cheng, a martial monarch powerhouse of the Xiao family, to go to the terracotta forest to awaken Ma Zhuo's mount, the Dragon Horned Rhino. However, Zhang Tianyu immediately objected, and said to Xiao Ling and the others on his own initiative: "Four family masters, in terms of cultivation, I, Zhang Tianyu, am only one step away from the realm of the Martial King! In terms of ability, I believe that I will not be much worse than the four family masters! Therefore, in the case that the four family masters cannot get out, I, Zhang Tianyu, am of course the best person to go to the terracotta forest, how can you entrust such an important task to a subordinate to do?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Ling frowned and explained to Zhang Tianyu: "Xiao Cheng is not a descendant of the Xiao family, he is one of the few martial arts powerhouses in our Xiao family!

Xiao Ling had already guessed in his heart that Zhang Tianyu would be dissatisfied, but the other party insulted the members of their Xiao family like this, which still made Xiao Ling feel extremely unhappy.

Not only Xiao Ling, but Wang Yun and the others, who also agreed to let Xiao Cheng go to the terracotta forest, couldn't help frowning after hearing Zhang Tianyu's words.

"Zhang Gongzi, this matter is a joint decision of our four families, I hope you can respect us. ”

"Although we have agreed to cooperate with Zhang Gongzi, this is the ancient city of Longjiang after all, and I hope Zhang Gongzi can be self-aware. ”

"You don't have to be nervous, it is estimated that Zhang Gongzi just wants to help, and there is nothing else. However, this kind of thing still doesn't bother Zhang Gongzi, our four major families can solve it on their own!"

They expressed their attitude in a gossipy, neither wanting to fall out directly with Zhang Tianyu, nor wanting to trust Zhang Tianyu too much, and hand over the beast order to Zhang Tianyu's hands.

Although Xiao Ling and others had accepted Zhang Tianyu as a partner before, they had to guard against people, whether it was Xiao Ling or Wang Yun and others, they didn't want to let Zhang Tianyu easily grasp their core secrets. This time to select the candidate to go to the terracotta forest, Xiao Ling and the others excluded Zhang Tianyu from the beginning, and they did not intend to give in to Zhang Tianyu's backlash at this time.

Seeing this, a trace of coldness flashed in Zhang Tianyu's eyes, but he immediately regained his composure, and said lightly to Xiao Ling and the others: "Okay! Now that you have made up your mind, I won't say more! But if the person you provoke is unreliable and causes this mission to fail, don't blame me for telling the truth about this matter in front of Lord Ma Zhuo later!"

Obviously, Zhang Tianyu had already seen Xiao Ling and the others guarding against him. However, this matter was also expected by him, so Zhang Tianyu soon stopped being entangled, and just expressed his attitude towards Xiao Ling and the others in a solemn tone.

"Zhang Gongzi rest assured, Xiao Cheng is the person jointly selected by our four major families, and his ability to do things will definitely not disappoint Zhang Gongzi! Before Ye Ye officially arrives, I also ask Zhang Gongzi to continue to let your people monitor the movements of the City Lord's Mansion. Once there is any change, I hope that Zhang Gongzi can report to our four major families in time!"

Xiao Ling resolutely expressed their trust in Xiao Yu to Zhang Tianyu, and at the same time revealed that their four major families still needed Zhang Tianyu, which finally made Zhang Tianyu's face show a trace of satisfaction.

When they finally came to an agreement, they dispersed to make final preparations for the big battle two days later.

According to Pan Shou's order, the four major families of Xiao Wang Chen and Li respectively sent two martial monarch powerhouses to the courtyard where Ma Zhuo was located to protect the Dharma for him. At the same time, Xiao Ling also directly handed over the Imperial Beast Order to Xiao Cheng, the martial monarch powerhouse of the Xiao family, and asked him to go to the terracotta forest immediately after refining to awaken the demon beast Dragon Horned Rhinoceros.

Although the dragon horned rhinoceros is a demon beast in the realm of the Martial King, it is not only the strong above the realm of the Martial King who can refine the Imperial Beast Order. It's just that after refining the Beast Order of the Martial King, the monks below the Martial King can't completely control the Dragon Horn Rhino like the Martial King powerhouse, and at most they can only let it carry out some basic instructions.

However, this was enough for Xiao Cheng's task, so he immediately began to refine with all his strength after receiving the Beast Order, and immediately rushed towards the direction of the Red Earth Forest after success.

After receiving the news from Pan Shou, Hualuocheng couldn't help but have a sneer on his face, and he no longer had a trace of worry about Ma Zhuo's actions in the ancient city of Longjiang.

As a disciple of the Liuli Sect, Hualuocheng almost grew up listening to Ma Zhuo's legends, even if he has now replaced Ma Zhuo as the chief disciple of the Liuli Sect, but the jealousy of Ma Zhuo in Hualuocheng's heart has never really disappeared.

In fact, before the head Su Tianyu officially sent Ma Zhuo to the ancient city of Longjiang, Hualuocheng had already learned through his own eyeliner that Su Tianyu had this plan. Therefore, Hualuocheng used some means to let Pan Shou and the others, who had secretly taken refuge in him, become Ma Zhuo's followers, and left the sect together to go to Longjiang Ancient City.

Hualuocheng asked Pan Shou and the others to leave with Ma Zhuo, naturally not to let them become Ma Zhuo's right-hand men. Therefore, Pan Shoucai deliberately caused trouble for the four major families after Ma Zhuo made a plan, reducing the likelihood of their plan succeeding.

Although after learning of Ma Zhuo's plan, Hua Luocheng did not think that his plan would be successful. But just in case, he still let Pan Shou and the two get in the way, so that Ma Zhuo could never turn over again, thus threatening his position in the Liuli faction.

Ma Zhuo was not a stupid person, even if he didn't know that Pan Shou and the others had secretly taken refuge in Hualuo City, he never really trusted the two of them from beginning to end. Otherwise, he wouldn't have handed over the Order of the Imperial Beast to Xiao Ling, instead of letting Pan Shou and them go directly to the Terracotta Forest to awaken the Dragon Horned Rhinoceros.

But Ma Zhuo obviously didn't expect that Pan Shou and the others would dare to disobey the orders of the head Su Tianyu and cause trouble for themselves. Originally, his plan to deal with Ye Ye had a high chance of success, but now that the variables were accumulating little by little, the final outcome of this mission began to become confusing.

On the other hand, after Ye Ye received Zhang Tianyu's summons the next day, he immediately received an invitation letter from the Xiao family.

As told in Zhang Tianyu's interrogation, the Xiao family, in the name of the four major families, invited Ye Ye to go to the Xiao family a day later, on the grounds that he would report to him on the progress of preparing for the martial arts conference and to wash the dust for him. After Ye Ye pondered for a while, he immediately replied to Xiao Ling that he was willing to go to the banquet on time, and politely expressed his gratitude to Xiao Ling and the others.

Other than that, Ye Ye didn't show anything abnormal, as if he was unsuspecting of the four major families.

He still continued to vigorously promote the upcoming Longjiang Ancient City Martial Arts Conference, so that almost all the monks who traveled to and from the Longjiang Ancient City knew the time and place of the martial arts conference.

Although Ye Ye had not yet officially announced the reward for winning the martial arts conference, judging from the importance that the City Lord's Mansion attached to this martial arts conference, the monks who intended to participate in the martial arts conference couldn't help but start looking forward to it.

That night, after Ye Ye finished his day's official duties, he did not directly return to his residence to start cultivating, but quietly came to the corner of a ruin in the ancient city of Longjiang.

appeared with him, as well as Zhu Heizi, who failed to commit suicide in front of Ye Ye twice and was already controlled by Ye Ye's obedience talisman. Zhu Heizi followed behind Ye Ye like a servant at this time, but whenever Ye Ye had any orders, he would resolutely carry them out without hesitation, as if he had lost his self-consciousness.