The acting head of the Qinglian Sect is named Sha Min, who was originally an elder of the same age as Qin Lu, usually not conspicuous, and he is also very low-key, he seems very ordinary among the elders, and naturally he is not very valued, this time Qin Lu led people to attack the four sects, and he was left to guard the Qinglian Sect.

After Qin Lu's death, the Qinglian Sect had no leader, and those who were qualified to take over the position of the head of the sect all wanted to ascend to the position of head of the sect, so they fought openly and secretly with each other, and did not give in to each other, but the result was that Sha Min was cheaper.

Of course, Sha Min was able to ascend to the throne not because of how capable and prestigious he was, on the contrary, the elders pushed him to the position of acting head of the sect precisely because he was not outstanding, so that he would not pose any threat to everyone, and it would be easy for him to abdicate and make way for Xian after he was temporarily in charge of the sect for a period of time. In addition, there was no intention of pushing him out as a scapegoat.

After all, this battle is over, the three sects are considered to have lost, and the four sects will definitely not stop there, and they have already threatened to compensate.

The current Qinglian Sect is no longer the time when the Lotus Peng Ancestor is alive, and it has long lost the domineering spirit of subduing the three sects, in order to calm the matter, the elders already have the idea of compensation, but everyone understands in their hearts that no matter how much they lose, it is a rather humiliating thing, and this pot will easily be left in the sect for 10,000 years on their backs, and it is very likely that they will even lose their position as the head of the sect.

So Sha Min was pushed out, and he did the matter of compensation, if the people in the sect were indignant because of this incident, it would be right for him to bear this infamy, and then give way.

The elders' wishful thinking was excellent, but no one had ever taken Sha Min's thoughts into account.

In fact, Sha Min is not a person who has no ambition at all, he was low-key before just because he knew that no one could shake Qin Lu's position as the head of the sect, and he couldn't show his edge, so as not to cause trouble, as for now sitting in the position of acting head of the sect, how could he be willing to go down.

To be able to become an elder, no matter how low-key Sha Min is, no matter how mediocre his performance is, he is definitely not a scheming person, it is not difficult for him to understand the calculations of other elders, and while secretly hating these people, he is also thinking about how to break the situation.

In his mind, compensation was of course indispensable, but the premise was that he wanted to keep the position of acting head of the sect, so he decided to borrow the power of the four sects.

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Xia Fan didn't pay too much attention to Jian Ruthless and Mu Sheng's request for compensation, because he believed in the ability of the two of them, and he also knew that in the current situation, the three sects had already lost their courage, as long as they were not forced to a dead end, then they would definitely compensate obediently, at most, whether they would pay more or less.

Now Xia Fan began to pay more attention to the Han Dynasty, or more precisely, the crown prince who was about to ascend the throne as emperor.

For a long time, Xia Fan has never relaxed his vigilance against the Han Dynasty, and has always kept a close eye on the political situation of the Han Dynasty since he left the capital to go to the Blue Jade Kingdom, because he knows very well that the territory of the Han Dynasty is vast and powerful, and although the territory he has now won is not small, it is still too far behind the Han Dynasty.

When the Han Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and did not have the leisure to take care of itself, then he still had the opportunity to expand his territory and develop rapidly, but if he attracted the attention of the Han Dynasty, and even directly sent troops to attack, then with his current territory and his soldiers and horses, I am afraid it will be difficult to win.

Because he has always had such a sober understanding, when Xia Fan first formulated the entire expansion strategy, he specially told Zhao Weiwei and Liu Yulinglong not to make too big moves in Yong'an County, in order to avoid alarming the Han Dynasty as much as possible. On the contrary, Xia Fan didn't care much about the local forces.

Yong'an County and even the entire Baocang Province are the targets that Xia Fan must take in, and it is also a territory that the Han Dynasty cannot give up. This led to the inevitable battle between the two sides because of this, but Xia Fan never wanted this battle to come too early, at least after he defeated the Holy Dragon Kingdom and the Divine Eye Country, annexed their lands, and had a certain war potential.

Although Xia Fan has always been very careful, he has always had a string in his heart. Before the prince retreated, when the Han Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, Xia Fan did not dare to relax, and now the prince is out of the customs and wants to ascend the throne as the emperor, and at the same time, as soon as he takes over the court, he will drastically rectify the rule of officials, and at the same time send troops to quell the internal rebellion with a thunderous momentum, which really makes Xia Fan feel a sense of crisis.

If Xia Fan was a person loyal to the Han Dynasty, he would definitely cheer and praise the prince for his wisdom and martial arts when he saw the prince behaving like this, but now that he has his own territory, of course his thoughts are different. Looking at the prince's every move, he always feels that he has the posture of sharpening his knife and preparing to conquer the Quartet.

Xia Fan didn't know what happened to the prince during the retreat, which caused him to change so much, but as a potential enemy, Xia Fan couldn't help but be on guard.

So Xia Fan took advantage of this relatively idle time, in addition to taking care of the trivial matters of the Qiankun Sect, he was looking through the information he had obtained from all sides.

The sources of information in Xia Fan's hands are now very miscellaneous, and some of them are eyeliner from Danwang Valley. Although when Xia Fan left the capital before, Danwang Valley also withdrew, but he still left a considerable part of his eyeliner, in order not to lose his attention to the capital and even the Han Dynasty. It's just that the information these people got was not very satisfactory to Xia Fan.

There is also a part of the information from the eyes of the One Sword Sect, the Soldier God Sect and the Dan Sect.

As a sect with a long heritage, although these three sects did not think of rebellion, their vigilance against the Han Dynasty was consistent, so they planted a lot of eyeliner inside and outside the court. Although their focus was different from what Xia Fan wanted to know, he was still able to analyze the information he hoped to get from the intelligence.

The last part of the information came from Zhao Weiwei. At the beginning, Zhao was only snatched away by the people sent by his father, Zhao Yin, the king of Pingnan, Xia Fan deliberately chased him over and saved him, and then after knowing the truth, he accompanied him to see Zhao Yin and said something to remind him. Later, Zhao Yin handed over part of his strength to Zhao Weiwei.

For a long time, although Zhao Yin, the king of Pingnan, devoted his main energy to guarding his wife's mausoleum, his vigilance against the Han Dynasty has not weakened, especially the mobilization of troops and horses in the Han Dynasty. There is a special group of people responsible for intelligence gathering in this area.

On the same day, Zhao Yin handed over these people to Zhao Weiwei, and Zhao Weiwei also handed over the information that was constantly sent to Xia Fan.

Before, Liu Yu Linglong came over to make a front stop, and then he didn't have to come in person, and people with his own cronies would pass the information to Xia Fan through the teleportation array.

The information that Xia Fan saw now was sent by Zhao Weiwei just now. Although the process of transmitting information was very tortuous, even spanning hundreds of thousands of miles, with the existence of the teleportation array, the timeliness was still very high.

Through the analysis and judgment of all the intelligence, Xia Fan was keenly aware that in addition to the large armies that were sent out to quell the rebellions in various places on the surface, there were also some small groups of troops secretly moving frequently. Although such an army is not large in number, its strength is even stronger, and at the same time, its whereabouts are becoming more and more secretive, and when its whereabouts are detected, no less than a dozen elite spies are lost.

How these spies died, the intelligence did not write in detail, and the reason why this matter was also handed over to Xia Fan as a piece of information was actually not that those spies were asking for credit, but using it as evidence to prove the strength of those armies.

Because almost all the spies who probed these armies were the elite of all forces, and their strength was generally in the six or seven levels of the Transformation God Realm. If it were just to find out the whereabouts of ordinary troops, they would be difficult to detect, otherwise these spies who were active in the front line of intelligence gathering would have died long ago. However, these veterans, who are the best at concealing themselves and spying on the enemy, have been planted under these forces, which shows that they are stronger, more intelligent in counter-reconnaissance, and more vigilant at the same time.

What kind of army would be like this? Xia Fan couldn't figure it out for a while, because no secret agent could find out the details of these troops, which made them more and more mysterious. However, Xia Fan thought of the hidden dragon guard that had always been in the hands of the prince. This kind of secretive, powerful, ruthless and other styles is really very similar to Qianlongwei's consistent style of doing things.

It's just that Xia Fan couldn't help but be very curious, what are these scattered troops doing?

Especially when he synthesized a number of pieces of information, estimated the direction of their march from the places where these troops appeared and disappeared, and found that they were actually heading towards the Blue Jade Country, Xia Fan's brows couldn't help but wrinkle suddenly.

At this moment, he suddenly had a bad omen in his heart: "Are these people coming for me, or are they coming for the people around me?"

As soon as he thought of this, Xia Fan couldn't help but be shocked, and then realized that he participated in the battle of the three sects and four sects this time, and he had made a lot of limelight, which was naturally quite eye-catching. If he was still working as a proton in the capital before, it would be nothing, and it might be safer to make a bigger fuss, after all, his cheap father was still alive at that time. The stronger he is, the more he will be scrupulous, but the more he will not dare to act rashly for some people who are afraid of the king of the town.

But the current situation is very different from that time, because the king of Zhen is dead, at least the vast majority of people think so, so naturally there is no fear of it, and at the same time, Xia Fan also escaped from the capital, and also laid a large territory in the Blue Jade Kingdom, and this will inevitably attract the attention and vigilance of some people in the Han Dynasty.

(End of chapter)