Seeing off Luo Jue, Sun Lang sat on the big chair and thought carefully about the conversation just now.

According to his original plan, he took good control of the law enforcement hall, cultivated his own henchmen, slowly expanded his influence, prepared to reserve his own manpower, and then spent forty or fifty years of work to become an elder, and used his influence and position in the eyes of the castle lord to obtain financial power in the castle.

In time, when the old castle lord returns to heaven and the new castle lord's foundation is unstable, it will be a matter of course to win the dominance of the castle in one fell swoop.

This is one of the most common means to see the power struggle within various gangs in the secular world, and it is actually the same in the immortal cultivation world.

Today, Luo Jue brought himself another path, with the help of powerful external forces to defeat the power contenders individually, this road is simpler and more brutal than his own imagination, in this process, he was pushed to the peak of the power in the castle by others, and there can be too much to borrow.

His original plan, he was completely active, although it was more secure to rely on his own strength, but the efficiency was too low, and the chance of success was much smaller, so it was the best strategy to follow the path given by Luo Jue first.

Then start cultivating well, so as to improve your realm to the middle stage of foundation building as soon as possible, and then the matter of making magic weapons can be put aside for the time being. Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the outer disciple who made refining materials for himself.

Familiarity is the first feeling, it must have been seen somewhere, but it has been forgotten for too long.

And Sun Lang had an extremely uneasy feeling, as if he felt that the person had an extremely restless heart under the calm appearance, and there was also an extremely dangerous aura in it, and he thought of the inexplicable thunder and lightning blow that entered the mountain gate, and the panic in his heart inadvertently increased.

So he called the disciple who had been sent to investigate the man that day for questioning.

"What are the results of the investigation?" Sun Lang asked as he looked at the respectful disciple in front of him.

"Hall Master, there is nothing special about it. The subordinates first went to the reception office of the outer disciples, and the one who was on duty on the day of Zhao An's entry was Uncle Qian Mao, and the subordinates asked about the situation of the day, that person was originally a person from Zhaojiazhuang in the east of Zijun Mountain, seventy-four years old, and cultivated in the early stage of foundation building, with a single water spiritual root, a low-level mental method, and no other background information recorded. ”

"Have you ever been to the field?"

"The hall master told us a long time ago that his subordinates must treat what you tell them to do as their own, so without waiting for your orders, they have already investigated as clearly as possible. ”

"Okay," Sun Lang nodded with satisfaction, seeing that his subordinates were trained very well, he was a little complacent, "Then you can tell me more specifically." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, his subordinates first went to that Zhaojiazhuang, which was seven hundred miles east of Zijun, with a population of 644 households and 2,317 people, of which the vast majority were mortals, and there were only sixty-five monks, and there were three during the foundation building period, one of which was Zhao An. ”

According to the people who know him, he is about 70 years old, and the spiritual root qualifications are not clear, and he has entered the foundation building period for more than 20 years, which should be the initial cultivation. After building the foundation, this person nourished his body with aura, and he was indeed in his thirties, which was the same as the information given by the reception at the outer door. ”

"There is only one suspicion that the man left the village not a year ago but eight years ago. Later, his subordinates went to inquire with others, and some people mentioned that not long after Zhao An left the village, he had occasionally seen him in Kaiyuan City. In the next two days, his subordinates stayed in Kaiyuan City and investigated all the refining shops, but no one remembered that there was a monk named Zhao An who worked in this industry seven or eight years ago. The disciple said all this in one breath.

"Okay, you did a good job, go find Huang Huai, and say that I will ask him to give you a C-class meritorious service. ”

The disciple was overjoyed, doing such a small thing to get such a great credit, it was indeed far from expected, and he left after thanking the hall master.

Sun Lang was puzzled, he rarely went out, and he had only been to Kaiyuan City twice over the years, the first time was to an auction house three years ago, and the second time was to arrest a female cultivator two years ago. If I had seen that man, I had only seen him twice.

Even if that person only left three years ago, he had been in the city for four or five years, how could no one know? It seems that there are still a lot of doubts in the middle, if it is really an impostor, that person must also be an extremely thoughtful guy, he is very familiar with the situation of the monk in Zhaojiazhuang in advance, and he is afraid that there will be no result if he goes directly to inquire about it, so it is better to send a subordinate disciple to monitor his every move.

In fact, there is another person who is also investigating Shi An's origin, and that person is the castle lord Wu Yu.

At this moment, he was sitting in his mansion talking to his son Wu Wei.

"Xiao Wei, what's the problem with your cultivation recently?" Although Wu Wei is Wu Yu's son, he is not Wu Yu's personal disciple, and Liu Changfeng has always guided his cultivation.

This is also the rule of Wu Luobao, that one's own children should let other monks be teaching masters, so as to prevent parents from delaying their cultivation by spoiling their children.

"There is no problem, the second floor of the foundation has been repaired, and I am ready to advance to the third floor. Father, I came today to tell you something, three days ago, Elder Liu and I went to the Outer Gate Market to find a refiner to smelt that bone for me, do you guess what is so special about that refiner?" Wu asked the castle master with a mysterious face.

"What's so special about an outer disciple? Could it be that she's a woman? You're not too young, and it's time to find a fellow practitioner. ”

"Father, where are you going again? That outer disciple is very much like a person, guess who it is?" Wu Wei asked mysteriously.

"It's a problem with your mother, you always talk around the corner, I can't guess, you say it quickly!" Wu Yu looked at his youngest son with some doting and asked.

"He looks very much like the grandfather in the portrait, not only in appearance, but also in that expression. ”

"Really?" Wu Yu's heart, which had always been as calm as water, suddenly rippled, "Do you know his situation?"

"Know some. Wu Wei told Wu Yu what he knew about Zhao An's situation, and then said: "I was still thinking that you would make an exception to accept him into the inner gate, maybe he also has the blood of the ancestor master, and it is also unknown that he is also a side branch of our Wu family." ”

"Xiao Wei, there are countless people in this world who look alike, and it may be inappropriate to judge that he is the descendant of Master Zu based on his appearance alone. Besides, Master Zu was a cultivator in the late Yuan Infant back then, and there were no descendants of the double cultivators? Even if he married a wife and had children after leaving my castle, it was not so easy, you must know that the more advanced the cultivation, the more difficult it is to give birth to offspring, which is why I have been urging you and Xiao Jian to marry as soon as possible. Besides, he is just a casual cultivator, and the spiritual root is not prominent, although the craftsmanship is not bad, but it is really inappropriate to enter the inner door with this. ”

"Isn't Master Zu the early stage of Yuanying's cultivation, how can it be the late stage? Aren't we also the bloodline inheritance of Master Zu, why doesn't he have any descendants in the castle? Father, you can confuse me. ”

"Xiao Wei, there are many things in my castle that outsiders don't know, and now is not the time to tell you, when I am about to die, I will tell you and Xiao Jian all the secrets of my castle, and then you will know the reason. I'm now over three hundred and forty years old, and I've only reached the eighth layer of the Jiedan, I'm afraid that if I can't wait for the day when I advance to the Yuan Infant Stage, one of you two will become the master of the Shao Castle, and the other will need to leave my Castle. In terms of status, Xiao Jian is the eldest son, although you are also a son-in-law, but your mother is my successor, so your family status is not as good as him, this is his advantage as a young castle master, but from the perspective of character and personality, I hope you will be the next castle master. ”

"Father, you don't have to worry about this matter, as soon as the eldest brother marries, I will leave, and I will not have the idea of competing with him for the position of the young castle master, and it will also save the contradictions between the elders in the castle, which is more conducive to the stability of my castle. I've long wanted to go out there and create a new world. ”

"Alas, you, you, like your mother, are people with good temperaments, since you have made such a decision, I don't have to say anything, so I can do it myself. As for the one named Zhao An, since you suspect that he is a descendant of the first ancestor, I will check it carefully. ”