Yi Qiu led the remaining more than 300 bandits and began to hide everywhere on the periphery of the Demon Beast Domain, in fact, it was not hiding, the secret method handed down from the ancestors of the Yi family had a remarkable effect, unless they took the initiative to provoke the demon beasts, there would generally be no demon beasts to take the initiative to attack them.

In fact, Yi Qiu and the bandits very much wanted to leave the Demon Beast Domain, and the scene of the Demon Beast slaughter just now scared them and hurt their fragile hearts.

If they could, they would rather face the Six Doors than face ordinary demon beasts.

However, the Six Doors may be easy to deal with, but the Divine Capture is not so easy to deal with, because two of the Divine Catchers died indirectly at their hands, and three more Divine Catchers are distributed outside, ready to capture them at any time.

The fate of the bandits was so unbearable that Heaven gave them no other choice.

Shang Youren and Zhu Tong sneaked out of the Demon Beast Domain. The martial arts of the two are acceptable, and they can be regarded as unimpeded in the periphery, even if they encounter the patrol of the six doors to catch fast, as long as they are not personally attacked, they can advance or retreat, without scruples.

And their direction is Jinning City, and they are going to meet the head of the Xiao family, who was named the king of Shunping. If he really rebelled, then Shang Youren had the confidence to let him take him and his brothers in.

......

A month after Chu Jing left the First Martial Alliance, after the news of Xinguo's defeat reached Xiao Yuning's ears through special channels, Xiao Yuning immediately gave up her identity as a disciple of the First Martial Alliance, and returned to Jinning City in Xinguo with a few depressed disciples in the First Martial League.

It is relatively rare for prefecture-level qualifications to resolutely give up the status of disciples of the First Martial Alliance, and only some return to the family to take over the position of patriarch or inherit the title, otherwise even if they want to go back and take over as the head of the sect, they are not allowed in the rule book of the First Martial Alliance.

After all, the First Martial Alliance is a force in the rivers and lakes, and it is not willing to conflict with national forces, so if it has something to do with the country, they basically won't care.

But the sect is absolutely impossible.

In short, Xiao Yuning's matter is a small turmoil in the First Martial Alliance, and in the end, it is still over, as long as she does not pass on the martial arts in the First Martial Alliance, the First Martial Alliance will not ask about her affairs.

After leaving the Nameless Mountain Range, Xiao Yuning was not like Chu Jing, who had no experience in going out, Xiao Yuning was in a big city, rented a suspended stone spaceship, and arrived in Xinguo as quickly as possible.

Suspended stone spaceships are generally used as a symbol of status, but the number of powerful national spaceships is relatively large, and it is a waste to idle them, and there will also be rental business, but the price is relatively high, which is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Fortunately, Xiao Yuning is not an ordinary person, and money is nothing to her.

When Xiao Yuning returned to Jinning City, she immediately went to see the head of the Xiao family, Xiao Jing, the king of Shunping.

Xiao Jing is not very old, he is just middle-aged, because he rarely appears in the eyes of the outside world on weekdays, and many people still think that he is an old man.

In fact, Xiao Jing took over as the king of Shunping for a few years, his father passed the position of head of the family to Xiao Jing a few years ago because of his old age, and after discussions within the family, the first emperor also passed the throne of the king of Shunping to him.

This kind of thing seems to the outside world to be a beautiful talk, but in fact, it is not like that at all.

No one wants to give up power to other people, especially the stubborn and paranoid old people, in their minds, when they have nothing, they will be forgotten in the corner like a moth, and they would rather take power into the coffin than hand it over. 、

However, Xiao Jing is a person who wants to do great things, especially when he learned that someone in the imperial court was planning to unite with neighboring countries to deal with the kingdom of the world, he knew that his time to step onto the stage of history had come.

At such a critical moment, even his father could not stop him.

After Xiao Jing controlled the forces outside the Xiao family by various means, he directly used the most tough means to bloody clean up the clansmen who did not obey his management.

The power of the previous head of the family was completely sidelined, and only death or power was left to call out, which was not a choice question, but a single choice.

Since Xiao Jing got all the power, he began to control everything, especially in terms of intelligence, so Xiao Yuning could know about Shen Xiaoye and Chu Jing for the first time, and even knew everything that happened on the road.

The living room of the Xiao family.

Only three people stood in the center.

Xiao Jing stood with his hands in his hands and asked lightly: "Yu Ning's trip to the First Martial Alliance, can you gain anything from this trip?"

Xiao Yuning lowered his head and replied: "My Wind Sword Technique has been completed, and I have also brought back several disciples of the First Martial Alliance, their strength is not much different from Yu Ning, and they are all usable masters." ”

"Good. Xiao Jing's face showed joy, and he said to the other person with a smile: "Qianfan, you have to study more with your sister, you have to be idle all day long, and it will be difficult to inherit my position in the future." ”

Qianfan, Xiao Qianfan, looks seven points similar to Xiao Yuning in men's clothing, but with two more points of masculinity and one point of bookish anger.

In the past, the people of Jinning City knew that the Xiao family had two sons, and the most common one was Xiao Yuning, who dressed as a man, but Xiao Qianfan had been studying by Xiao Jing's side.

The future of the Xiao family can only be inherited by Xiao Qianfan, not so much that Xiao Yuning is lively, but that the Xiao family manages Xiao Qianfan too strictly.

Xiao Qianfan bowed his head and replied: "My father's teachings are extremely true. ”

Xiao Jing nodded and continued: "Now several princes are accumulating strength, the only ones who have had a head-to-head battle are the eldest prince and the seventh prince, but it is the third prince who has a loss, alas, the situation is becoming more and more impenetrable, we must be prepared with both hands." ”

"On the one hand, we had better be able to bring in a prince, and on the other hand, we must have our own troops. ”

Xiao Qianfan said: "The prince's affairs should be easy, they all want to get the help of my Xiao family now, as for enough troops, we have raised a lot of private troops outside in the name of others in the past few years, and even some bandits are willing to submit to us, Jinning City also has 150,000 soldiers, generally speaking, it is still enough, as long as we continue to win, there will only be more and more soldiers."

"Qianfan, you are only half right," Xiao Jing said: "The matter of military strength is only one aspect, the real key is the matter of the prince, will they recognize the loyalty of the remnants of our previous dynasty? If the prince's power is too strong, it will only put us in the air, and if the power is too weak, it can only drag us back, and we must choose carefully." ”

Xiao Yuning thought for a moment and said, "I heard something on the road, Pingxi Gong Chu Jing is helping the Seventh Prince, but after his subordinate Ren Jincheng, it seems that the relationship with the Seventh Princes is not very good?"

Xiao Jing glanced at Xiao Yuning with a meaningful gaze, and said, "Your information is really well-informed, and it is correct to hand over the intelligence department to you, but such detailed information should not have been given to you by those people." ”

Xiao Yuning nodded.

"Is it a forgetfulness machine?"

Xiao Yuning nodded again.

"Six doors, if we can pull six doors over to help us, why should we find a prince as a shield. Xiao Jing sighed.

"Impossible, although I have a friendship with Wen Wangji, but I don't have the other gods, it is impossible for them to betray the gods and betray the country. ”

"Betrayal?" Xiao Jing sighed again, "The God Catcher of the Six Doors, that was a long time ago. ”

Six doors were established at the beginning of the establishment of the letter country, the first generation of the god of catching gods and the emperor are brothers, to now, the emperor and the god of catching are obviously separated, but the strength of the six doors has long been beyond the control of the imperial court, even if the emperor has no way to take the six doors, he had to create Dali Temple to contend with it.

However, the existence of the six gates is also dependent on the country of faith, and if there is no country of faith, then the six doors will naturally not maintain their current transcendent status.

This is really complicated, in the final analysis, strength is the guarantee of the right to speak.

The powerful god hunter, the twelve god catchers, this is the key to the longevity of the six doors.

Xiao Jing asked, "What else did the prophet say?" ”

Xiao Yuning thought for a moment and replied: "She didn't say anything, she can't really foresee the future, she can't help us much." ”

"Huh...... Just those intelligences, and the means of transmitting sound from thousands of miles, can they not be much?"

Xiao Yuning's face changed, and when she saw that her father was not interested, she calmed down.

This time, they didn't talk much, and when their father was present, normal communication became a difficulty.

After that, Xiao Jing went to meet several disciples of the First Martial Alliance brought by Xiao Yuning. Among them, there was Liu Sanzhao, as soon as Chu Jing and Xiao Yuning left, only a Pegasus knight Li Yu was left in the batch at that time, and Zhu Rong had already stayed in the Lonely Valley.

It seemed that there was no hope in the First Martial Alliance, and Liu Sanzhao followed Xiao Yuning to Jinning City.

Among these disciples who left the First Martial Alliance, his martial arts were the worst, even if he was a member of other outstanding qualifications, after all, he had cultivated in the First Martial League for a long time, and his strength was much stronger than him.

However, Liu Sanzhao has some understanding of divination formations, and with some other means, it cannot be regarded as useless.

It's just that Liu Sanzhao's sect suffered, and Liu Sanzhao can be regarded as living up to the grace of Tianyuan Sect's teachings.

Fortunately, Tianyuan Sect does not attach great importance to fame and fortune, and Master Liu Sanzhao is also proficient in divination, so how could he not have predicted the current scene.

There are also two human-level qualifications following Xiao Yuning, which are relatively good, they are Xiao Yuning used martial arts to get the Zhuji Dan in exchange.

For the Great Family, there are far more places in the First Martial Alliance than in the Small Sect, and they are very willing to sacrifice two disciples in exchange for the Tsukidan who improves their talents.

Xiao Jing exchanged a few words with these people, and after making a lot of promises, he did not arrange tasks for them, they were Xiao Yuning to stay at the Xiao family, so naturally they had to leave it to Xiao Yuning to command, otherwise it would be too chilling for the hearts of his subordinates.

On the one hand, she has just changed back into women's clothes, so it is not suitable to show her face at this time, and on the other hand, she is afraid that someone will know that Xiao Yuning specially rushed back to Jinning City from the First Martial Alliance, causing unnecessary rumors.

Xiao Qianfan has more actions, during Xiao Yuning's absence, he is the spokesperson of the Xiao family, and now at this time, he needs to constantly appear in front of people to improve his popularity.

Just when Xiao Qianfan and his entourage had just entered the largest restaurant in Jinning City, Shang Youren and Zhu Tong had already arrived in Renjin City.

If it's just two people, they didn't even let the six doors catch their traces, and the master just came and went without a trace.

But when they arrived at Ren Jincheng, the two had an argument.

"We can't go in directly, let alone reveal our whereabouts, what if the Xiao family is unwilling to accept us and wants to take us to curry favor with the six doors?" Zhu Tong hid in the corner of the alley, arguing in a low voice.

Shang Youren felt that it was impossible for the Xiao family to be indifferent at this time, they would not really believe that the imperial court would trust the remnants of the country, and when the new emperor ascended the throne, the next emperor's policy might change, and the Xiao family might have to be suppressed.

"We have to go to see King Shunping, the others are even more unbelievable, do you want us brothers to stay in the Demon Beast Domain, and we are always threatened by the Demon Beast. ”

"Brother?" Zhu Tong sneered, "You really take those miscellaneous pieces as brothers, without those burdens, we can go there wherever we want, it's so big from the Divine Continent, it's a big deal, we can still go to sea." ”

Shang Youren closed his eyes and sighed for a long time: "I understand what you say, but you and I are not young, with our strength, will we definitely be able to stand in other places? ”

"Now is the worst time, but it is also the best time, the country of faith is in turmoil, and we still have more than three hundred men, and with the reputation of my way, we will soon be able to gather another thousand, or even more. ”

"Of course, we don't have any advantage over the prince, but we can fish in troubled waters, and we can also make them sleepless. ”

"The Xiao family is our best choice, I have to give it a try no matter what. ”

Zhu Tong saw Shang Youren's paranoia, he was already crazy. He said that he couldn't let Shang Youren go to see King Shunping alone, and that was not convincing.

"In addition to King Shunping, there are other people in the Xiao family, we can go and try their attitude. Zhu Tong made a concession.

After the two of them changed their appearances, they inquired a little in Jinning City, and they knew about Xiao Qianfan's affairs in the restaurant.

"Xiao Qianfan......" Zhu Tong said the name, "Shen Xiaoye's trading partner was Xiao Ruining back then, right?"

"The two of them are brothers, and the Xiao family doesn't have any communication except for trading with Shen Xiaoye, we have already checked it at the time. ”

The two of them didn't know about Xiao Yuning's disguise as a man, let alone Xiao Yuning and Chu Jing passing the test of the Dragon Gate Conference at the same time and entering the First Martial Alliance.

At that time, in order to snatch Shen Xiaoye's possible treasures, Xiao Ruining was also investigated, but nothing was found.

They fell to the point where they are now, and it was caused by that incident, but it was because they were greedy, they were caught, and they recognized it, but under the persecution of the six doors step by step, it was impossible for them to be arrested.

"Let's go to him first and find out what he has to say. Zhu Tong said.

Shang Youren immediately agreed, although Xiao Qianfan is still very young and may not know so many secrets, but if Xiao Qianfan is too incompetent, there is no successor to the Xiao family, even if they dare to fight for the country of faith, no one can defend it.

The two hit it off, immediately walked to a corner, and changed their outfits again.

The two of them were dressed in plain white, without any decorations, with their hair uncovered and barefoot, looking quite fairy-like.

After a while, the two came to the restaurant, but they were stopped by Xiao Er as soon as they walked to the door.

"This is not the place for you, you two, let's go somewhere else. Xiao Er's tone was not good, and when he saw someone with uncombed hair and no shoes, it was obviously impossible for him to be willing to spend money to eat and live in a hotel.

"Dogs look down on people!"

Shang Youren secretly scolded and wanted to make a move, but Zhu Tong hurriedly stopped him, and after staying in the bandits' den for a long time, his personality has changed subtly.

Zhu Tong threw out an ingot of gold, and Xiao Er's face immediately changed.

"Two guest officers, please!" Xiao Er laughed and flattered, and shouted loudly: "Two distinguished guests." ”

"You don't need to entertain you, just stay away from me. Shang Youren was still dissatisfied.

"Yes, yes, you are whatever you want, guest officer. ”

drove away Xiao Er, and the two went upstairs directly and walked to the top floor where Xiao Qianfan was.

Xiao Qianfan's guards didn't stop him, Xiao Qianfan was originally letting others know about him, how could he hide and not see anyone.

Xiao Qianfan was a little unhappy when he saw that it was two strangely dressed people, not the dignitaries of the nearby city, but he still asked with a smile, "Why did the two of you come?"

Shang Youren stepped forward and said: "The two of us came from overseas, and when we found out that there was a change in the country of faith during daily divination, we hurried here. ”

"Overseas hermits?" Xiao Qianfan was stunned, it was the first time he had seen someone from overseas, of course, he didn't count as a trader.

"Not bad. ”

"Then what are you doing when you come to see me?" Xiao Qianfan asked.

"The two of us followed Zi Weixing and met Xiao Gongzi. ”

"......" Xiao Qianfan was expressionless, remained silent, looked around, and said, "You two don't want to talk nonsense, this is a big rebellion." ”

Shang Youren said indifferently: "It's just telling the truth, Xiao Gongzi don't be surprised." ”

Seeing that Shang Youren seemed to have something to say, Xiao Qianfan thought to himself that although his strength was not as good as Xiao Yuning, it was still okay to protect himself in Xinguo, and the momentum of these two people was not like a peerless powerhouse, so he waved back left and right.

"There's no one else now, so you might as well just say it if you have something to say. ”

Shang Youren immediately understood that Xiao Qianfan also had ideas, and simply picked out and said: "There are three thousand people below who want to join the Xiao family, and the Xiao family dares to take them in." ”

"What? Three thousand?"

This number surprised Xiao Qianfan, you must know that three thousand people will cost a lot of silver taels even if they just eat, and ordinary people will raise a lot of one hundred and eighty guards, this person has three thousand people, what is his identity.

Zhu Tong was also stunned by the side, he didn't expect Shang Youren to be so able to blow, and directly increased his subordinates tenfold.

"Who the hell are you?" Xiao Qianfan asked in a deep voice.

Shang Youren asked rhetorically, "Xiao Gongzi, have you ever heard of the Mighty Bull Demon and the Howling Sky Tiger?"

When Xiao Qianfan heard the name, his face suddenly became gloomy.

The Mighty Bull Demon and the Howling Sky Tiger were deceived into the Demon Beast Domain because they were chasing Shang Youren and Zhu Tong, and the two Six Doors Divine Capture under the mouth of the Demon Beast were killed.

Xiao Qianfan said word by word: "What is the relationship between your monk Youren and Zhu Tong, or is it that the two of you are them?"

Feeling the momentum accumulated by Xiao Qianfan, Shang Youren hurriedly said: "The Xiao family is the lackey of the imperial court, but they have to serve the Xinguo that exists in name only, if the Xiao family is willing to take us in, we are willing to make a poisonous oath and serve the Xiao family forever, and we will not give up!"

Zhu Tong watched coldly, one was a madman, the other was not dry, the words of these people were somewhat credible, and he really didn't count them in his heart.

Xiao Qianfan pondered for a moment, his momentum dissipated, and he asked in a deep voice, "What you said about three thousand subordinates is true?"

"Heaven and earth are proof, and the sun and moon can be seen!" Shang Youren replied firmly.

"Okay, I'll believe you, but now that the situation is undecided, the Xiao family will not move lightly, nor will they give you any promises, you just need to wait, and when I need you, I will naturally convey orders to you. ”

"Okay, since it's Xiao Gongzi's promise, I'll wait. ”

Xiao Qianfan waved his hand and said coldly, "You can go." ”

“...... How can Xiao Gongzi contact me?"

"I have my own way. ”

Xiao Qianfan believed in the Xiao family's intelligence system, and he didn't want to leave evidence that he was connected to the Six Doors felons.

When Shang Youren and Zhu Tong left the restaurant, they went to a corner of the alley to change into completely different costumes, this time they were dressed as two businessmen—businessmen who had been robbed by bandits and had nothing to offer.

Zhu Tong, who had never spoken, asked: "Do you really have to believe Xiao Qianfan, he is just a child who has just come of age." ”

"I see ambition in his eyes, he may be young, but he can influence the king of Shunping, and that's enough. "There is still benevolence and confidence.

"Let's hope so, where do we go now?"

"Go back, let's wait, the situation will not change very slowly, maybe on our way back, the Xiao family will start looking for the two of us all over the world. ”

"Huh. Zhu Tong sneered: "Are you worried that the Xiao family will find out that you don't have the so-called three thousand people at all? ”

"Of course not!" Shang Youren said angrily, "We can go and recruit other bandits at any time, they will definitely join us, not to mention that we also have demon beasts, and we even killed two god hunters!"

"Do you think your men will still trust Yi Qiu?

This time Shang Youren did not answer, when trust turned into a gambling game, no one wanted to joke with their own lives, the matter of the cottage had broken the hearts of the bandits, and the owner of the three villages had lost all his prestige.

After a long time, Shang Youren said: "I just want to say that we still need him now." ”

Yes, is that all, and where is the brother's righteousness?

Zhu Tong lowered his head and slowly walked out of Jinning City, they were going back to the Demon Beast Domain.