Chapter 5: The World of Contention

The Qianlong Villa in the early morning was filled with harmony, the villa was beautiful, but everyone was tense and did not dare to be careless.

Commander Yan Yan led the guards to patrol over and over again, and Ling Wang's Qi Refining Realm masters also set up a cordon on the roof.

"Damn! Those people in the Foreign Affairs Hall of the main family are so stingy, there were originally forty subordinates of the Qi Refining Realm to protect Young Master Fan, but they actually transferred twenty of them at once, and there were only two of the people left who were in the middle level of Qi Cultivation (Qi Refining Realm four to sixth), and the others were all in the lower level of Qi cultivation," Ling Wang complained angrily, "Young Master Fan is also a descendant of the Ling family, and he is actually treated like this, a group of snobs!"

"Teacher, the wall has ears, and we can't manage the family affairs, so we have to do our best to do our job. But it's strange, there has been no monster riot in the hundreds of miles near Qianlong Villa for nearly ten years, and this time the monsters seem to be organized, and the destructive power is so great. Yan Yan said bitterly.

Recalling the demon beast riot three days ago, Ling Wang's heart palpitated, as the existence of the top master of the Qi Refining Realm, he was enough to protect himself in the face of the beast tide, but those soldiers and ordinary people who only had the Body Refining Realm could only be reduced to the meal of the demon beasts.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the source of everything comes from the attack on the cold pool of Young Master Ling Fan, just two days after that night, the beast tide has descended without warning, if it weren't for Yan Yan setting up a sentinel in front of the villa and discovering the figure of the demon beast in advance, Ling Wang might have thought that the Qianlong Villa had been captured. Despite this, Qianlong Villa still suffered heavy casualties, nearly half of the two hundred private troops were killed or wounded, and even two of his own Qi Refining Realm subordinates were injured. If it weren't for the large number of long-range mass damage weapons in the Hidden Dragon Villa and its own formation protection, the demon beasts would definitely not retreat easily.

"Yan Yan, you continue to patrol, set up more sentinels, and I'll go see Young Master Fan. ”

"Yes!"

In the inner courtyard, Ling Fan is further consolidating and strengthening his muscles and bones, the value of cold qi is far from being fully explored, under Ling Wang's guidance, Ling Fan is channeling cold qi to travel all over his body again and again, refining his muscles and bones, and breaking through the bottleneck of the triple refining body is just around the corner.

"I'm so shocked, Young Master Fan, your willpower is beyond my imagination, I thought you would use cold qi to refine your body at most twice a day. I didn't expect you to be able to persevere four times, and this perseverance alone is beyond the reach of people. ”

Maybe for Ling Fan in the past, once a day is already good, but if you don't experience the threat of death, how can you know the fragility and powerlessness of life, the cold qi refining body is painful, but its effect is indeed huge, and the daily effort and persistence are just a sentence, the next time I encounter this situation, I want to survive!

"Uncle Wang, how is the situation outside the village now. ”

"Alas, Qianlong Villa is not big, but it is not small, even if we put everyone in the position of guard, it will not be enough. The top priority is to find the root cause of the monster riot, so that we can prescribe the right medicine. ”

"There must be a reason for the monster rebellion, don't we have outside help? ”

Ling Fan witnessed the battle of the day, in order to gain time for the defenders in the village to deploy broken arrows and mountain crackers and activate the formation, a hundred soldiers faced the demon beasts with flesh and blood, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the casualties were heavy.

Looking at the young man in front of him, Ling Wang suddenly returned to the past, in the past, he was so eager that Young Master Fan could cultivate and do a career like other Ling family disciples, and now, this feeling that had been sealed for many years emerged again.

"Young Master Fan, please come with me. ”

Ling Fan followed Ling Wang to a more secluded room, only to see Ling Wang's vitality running, and a burst of energy hit the center of the door, and the two doors slowly opened.

"What is placed here is the core information of Qianlong Villa, including the house deed, the title deed, the shops under the jurisdiction of Qianlong Villa, farmland, the information of the guards, and some treasures such as Yuanshi Lingcao weapons. It can be said that if you master them, you will truly master Qianlong Villa. Now, I'll give them all to you. Ling Fan, do you know your burden?"

"Uncle Wang, this, this is not appropriate, how can I understand this, it is better for you to manage it. ”

Ling Wang shook his head, "No, you are the master of Qianlong Villa, it must be yours, you can appoint it to others, but ......"

"I understand, from now on, I am no longer the seventh young man of the Ling family who can only eat, drink and have fun, but the owner of Qianlong Mountain Villa with fiefdom, rights and responsibilities!"

Ling Wang nodded with satisfaction, Ling Fan had indeed changed, this was a good start.

"Yes, there is another purpose, which has to do with the beast tide. Ling Wang paused and continued, "If you want to solve the beast tide from the root, there are only two ways. The first is that the family sends a large number of Qi Refining Realm masters or Mind Refining Realm powerhouses to defeat the beast herd and capture the beast master in one fell swoop, and the second is to rely on the army to expel the beast herd head-on. For now, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and it is not wise to rely on the family to send masters, only to rely on the army, the real army. ”

"Army, although my Qianlong Villa is privately owned by the Ling family, the Qianlong Jungle and many villages and towns under the mountain near here belong to the King of Nanlin County of the Dongtai Empire. Uncle Wang meant to ask the king of Nanlin County to send troops to support? This is a good idea. ”

As far as Ling Fan knows, the eight major families led by the royal family in the Dongtai Empire are the supreme ruling power, and below them are the twelve county kings, each of whom has a fief, is in charge of the military and political power in the fief, commands millions of troops, and is the actual controller of the place. Take this king of Nanlin County as an example, young and promising, only forty years old to tear the earth and become the king, relying on the vast southern forest, constantly obtaining resources from it, and taking the demon beasts in the forest as the enemy, training soldiers in actual combat, in just a few years ranked among the four strongest county kings, it is rumored that he also reached an agreement with a certain beast king in the depths of the forest.

If you can really get the help of the King of Nanlin County, this beast tide will definitely be easily solved. But why would the king of Nanlin help himself, he is just a small owner who has been expelled from the lord's house.

"In fact, when we broke out in the beast tide, the king of Nanlin County released a rumor, if they want to send troops to help, they will have to pay a price. Ling Wang saw Ling Fan's doubts and said helplessly.

"What does he want? Does he want Qianlong Villa?"

"No, although Wang Mengwu of Nanlin County does not have a deep relationship with the Ling family, he does not dare to take advantage of the fire to rob like this, he only needs one thing, all the pharmacies and practitioners under the jurisdiction of Qianlong Villa. ”

"What? This is not a robbery while the fire is burning, what is it? Why does he not know how to rob?"

"Mengwu has developed rapidly in recent years, especially his elite soldier Zhennanwei is known as the sword of the south, but he also has a shortcoming, that is, his medical level is far behind other county kings, and his troops only have medicinal materials, but lack of elite alchemists, so many medicines necessary for combat rely on merchants. ”

"It's really unpleasant that the fate gate is contained, especially for an aspiring prince like him, I heard that he is going to make a move on Nanban in the coming year, presumably everything is in place now, and he only owes the pill. ”

"Yes, in this world of competition, blindly clinging to it is tantamount to chronic suicide, if you want to live and live better, you must continue to make yourself strong and discourage your opponents. ”

Listening to Ling Wang's words, Ling Fan fell into deep thought, "In the world of competition, you don't fight with others, but others hate to eat your flesh and drink your blood, and you will not give up if you don't squeeze it dry." Uncle Wang, Ling Fan has been taught. ”

After some discussion, Ling Fan decided to agree to the request of the king of Nanlin County, at least to save the villa first.

In the evening, a group of soldiers, led by Deputy Commander Wang Yi, escorted the three-headed toothed blood wolf to the central square of Qianlong Villa, while Ling Fan and the others were already waiting here.

"Deputy Commander Wang, what's the situation outside? Yan Yan took the lead in asking.

"The situation is okay, the demon beasts seem to have reined in, these toothed blood wolves should be the ones who injured Young Master Fan that night, please deal with Young Master Fan." ”

Ling Fan stepped forward to take a closer look, the leader was indeed the toothed blood wolf that was fighting with him in Hantan, and the other two toothed blood wolves that attacked each other were made up by him to test Wang Yi, and he didn't expect that he really got three of them. But that was enough to prove his inference.

In fact, since the appearance of the second toothed blood wolf, Ling Fan has already realized that there is a problem in this, the toothed blood wolf is a solitary race, and generally does not cooperate with the same kind, but this cannot be denied that the two toothed blood wolves are related, such as father and son, but in the next attack, the cooperation between the two toothed blood wolves is almost none, and he fights with one by himself, and the other is just watching from the wall.

Wolves are cunning and cruel, and when a wolf watches his companions fight with their prey, it is not trust, it is the snipe and the clam competing for the benefit of the fisherman. So Ling Fan suspected that they were under control and had to attack him, otherwise the wolf would not have returned the same way.

Another point, the speed of the toothed blood wolf in the forest is dozens of times that of humans, and the beast herd has been assembled, it can completely enter the beast herd to dodge, and under the majesty of the beast master, the beast herd will become extremely united. Therefore, Wang Yi has to be suspicious if he can catch it.

The most important thing is that Wang Yi came back from outside the village, not from Hantan. The place where the beasts gathered was in the dense forest outside the village, and there was no beast group near Hantan, Wang Yi was not afraid of danger and came back from the Hantan dense forest with only one explanation, he went to the periphery of the beast herd to catch the other two toothed blood wolves!

Thinking of this, Ling Fan suddenly admired himself a little. But then he thought about it, since he woke up, he always felt that something was secretly spying on him, no matter what he did, he had a pair of eyes to keep a distance from him, could he be Wang Yi, or someone else, at least inside Qianlong Villa, he was as dangerous.

At this time, Ling Fan was more eager to be stronger than ever, whether it was facing this secret person or those fierce beasts outside the village, he had no power to resist.

"It's hard work, let's lock up these toothed blood wolves first. Yan Yan, send someone to strictly handle it, and wait for my disposal. ”

Back in the pavilion, Ling Fan informed Ling Wang of his thoughts, and in the entire villa, he could only completely trust Ling Wang for now.

In order to further confirm whether Wang Yi had a problem, Ling Wang specially sent a master of the Qi Refining Realm to monitor him day and night.

The beasts outside the village roared continuously, and the night shrouded again, and tonight was another sleepless night.