At this moment, the voice of a guard suddenly came from outside the door of the council hall:

"The head of the Qiqi family and the elders, there is a junior Xu Jingting who is asking to see you outside the hall!"

Xu Taiheng, the head of the family sitting at the head, showed a warm color in his deep eyes, and asked, "Did you tell him that we are discussing important matters?"

The subordinates had already said it, but Xu Jingting replied that the purpose of his request was related to the matter discussed by the head of the family and the elders. 【】”

"In that case, let him in. ”

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for a tall and firm-eyed young man to walk into the conference hall, it was Xu Jingting that Shi Zhiyi had seen before at the birthday banquet of the old man Fu in Puzhou.

"Junior Xu Jingting, I have seen the head of the family and the elders!"

Looking at the restrained and steady young man in front of him, even a few elders who criticized his background were difficult to find fault in other aspects. Especially after the defeat to Da Xi Mengze in Puzhou, he practiced diligently, and finally succeeded in breaking the dawn a year ago, crossing the most important threshold for young martial artists, and adding a bit of confidence between his gestures.

"Jingting, you asked to see me when I was discussing with the elders, but what is the important matter?" Xu Taiheng looked at the young man in front of him with admiration, although Xu Jingting and his sister Xu Jingchun were both from a side lineage, but whether it was cultivation talent or dealing with people, they were among the best among the younger generations of the Xu family, and the reason why the two of them could be reused was absolutely inseparable from the promotion and cultivation of the head of the family, Xu Taiheng.

"I don't know what the head of the family and the elders are discussing, but it has something to do with Tianzhen Pavilion?"

"Not bad. Although your sister Jing Chun is currently in charge of Tianzhen Pavilion, this matter has nothing to do with you, I think Jing Chun should know the rules and will not disclose this matter to you at will, so how do you know?" Xu Taiheng seemed to be asking, but in fact, he gave Xu Jingting a chance to explain before the other elders made trouble.

"The head of the Qiqi family and the elders, in the matter of Tianzhen Pavilion, a friend of Jing Ting was involved, and Jing Chun passed the news to me on his behalf, so I learned about it. The head of this family should know that it was Shi Zhiyi, the young master of Yunqi City who had defeated Daxi Mengze at the Fu Laoshou Banquet in Puzhou, and the owner of the Waterfall Sword that day was his friend. ”

In Jing Chun's letter, this person was mentioned. However, this person is still too young after all, and there are thousands of miles between Kyoto and Yunqi City, so it is difficult for him to play a role in this matter. But for the sake of him who once made the Daxi family lose face, we will give him an explanation. "Xu Taiheng and the Council of Elders have just reached a consensus on this matter, so they don't mind revealing their tone to Xu Jingting a little.

"Thank you to the head of the family and the elders! However, the head of the family said that Shi Zhiyi was still young and difficult to take on the big responsibility, and Jing Ting had a different opinion. ”

"Oh? was refuted by a junior, Xu Taiheng was not annoyed, but looked at Xu Jingting with interest, waiting to listen to his explanation.

In some other families, this practice may be considered to be a loss of the dignity of the head of the family, but most of the elders secretly approve of it in their hearts, believing that this is the demeanor of the true head of the family.

Xu Taiheng has two daughters and a son under his knees, both of whom are grandchildren. However, Xu Taiheng has a way to govern everyone, but there is no way to govern a small family. His three children were all raised by the Li family in his main room since they were young, and they had a perverse temperament, and none of them were successful. However, Xu Taiheng did not concentrate on maintaining the so-called dignity of the direct line, but cast a wide net among the Xu family, selecting juniors with excellent strength and temperament as the core children to cultivate, which shows his broad-mindedness.

Xu Jingting, who was standing in the council hall at this time, was one of the core disciples who was excavated and cultivated by Xu Taiheng.

"The younger generation and Shi Zhiyi have only met once at the birthday feast in Puzhou, not to mention his strength, he defeated Da Xi Mengze, who had just entered the dawn, with a punch in the late stage of the marrow cleansing, his cultivation talent is so high that he does not think of being a second person among the younger generation. Jing Ting was four years older than him, and it was already dawn, but in retrospect, there was still no certainty that he would be able to take the punch he had in the first place. ”

"Jing Ting, what you said is a bit exaggerated. A hairy boy who is only sixteen years old just won a battle by luck, and he asserted that he is the first in the world in cultivation talent, the younger generation of the eight great families, how many have you seen?" Elder Xu Bingying heard that Xu Jingting praised Shi Zhiyi so highly, and for some reason he felt a little unhappy in his heart.

Xu Jingting was not in a hurry, and bowed down and said: "Elder Hui Bingying, among the eight great families, in terms of strength and origin, naturally the Yu family, the Daxi family, the Beigong family and our Xu family are the strongest. On the same day, after Da Xi Mengze defeated the junior, he first challenged the third prince Yu Zhongqian, judging from the latter's reaction at the time, he was not at all sure about winning, and Shi Zhiyi helped Yu Zhongqian take the challenge very simply, and won with one punch. ”

"Jingting is not talented, cultivated by the head of the Meng family and the elders, and is among the core children of the Xu family. And Da Xi Mengze and Yu Zhongqian are the direct children of the two families, and several of us are of the same age, both around twenty. And Shi Zhiyi was able to defeat Da Xi Mengze at the age of sixteen, and his strength was naturally above me and Yu Zhongqian. ”

Moreover, according to Jing Ting's observation, Yu Zhongqian's expression when Shi Zhiyi took the challenge for him, there was no nervousness, which showed that either Yu Zhongqian was indifferent to his victory or defeat, or he had strong confidence in his strength. But from today, Yu Zhongqian came forward for him and asked us to inform the Tianpu Sword seller of the information, saying that his indifference to Shi Zhiyi is obviously not valid, but he knows that with Shi Zhiyi's strength, Da Xi Mengze cannot pose any threat to him. ”

"In addition, the Beigong family's assassination of Yu Zhongqian in Ning Yuchuan should have been known to all the elders. According to rumors, after Shi Zhiyi was separated from Ning Yuchuan and Yu Zhongqian, the Beigong family sent the prince Beigong Zhao to lead the army to chase and kill, but even Beigong Zhao took two hundred gale rides, and no one was born, no one died, and no corpse was seen. ”

Later, it is said that in the palace, Shi Zhiyi personally admitted that Beigong Zhao was killed by him - the younger generation did not know the strength of Beigong Zhao, but with his twenty-four-year-old age and his status in the Beigong family, it was conservatively estimated that it should be in the middle of the dawn. No matter what means Shi Zhiyi used, he was able to kill Beigong Zhao, who was eight years older than him and several realms higher, under the support of two hundred gale riders, which was enough to prove his strength and talent. ”

"It can be seen that among our four major families, the children who are three or four years older than Shi Zhiyi are not his opponents, and Shi Zhiyi's talent is beyond doubt. ”

Xu Taiheng, the head of the family who was sitting in the chief, listened to Xu Jingting's explanation, but couldn't help but be a little distracted: "This Shi Zhiyi, it's another Shi Huaichuan back then! Hey, the back waves of the river push the front waves, why does God treat them so differently to the Shi family?"