readx;? When Lu Yifan brought people back from the Western Imperial City, it was already close to day, and the weather here was like a child's face, often changing three times a day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the evening, the sky was still full of stars, the bright moon was in the sky, but after the dead of night, there was a sudden wind, and the dark clouds gathered in the night sky, and after a while, the soft moonlight was obscured, and the earth gradually fell into a cold and dark darkness.

In an open space outside the thatched hut, a pair of roaring bonfires were swaying their bodies to their heart's content, and there were bursts of 'beep' sounds from the fire. At this moment, there was silence in the dozens of grass huts behind him, presumably the Lu family had already fallen asleep, and Lu Yifan, who had no intention of sleeping, was sitting around the fire at the moment, and everyone was discussing the matter of tonight's tidal banquet with a word, and Lu Yifan was alone by a big tree far away from the fire, and under the shadow of the big tree with the firelight on his back, people could only see Lu Yifan's figure leaning on the trunk, but they couldn't see his face clearly. At this moment, he is like a sculpture hidden in the shadows, except for the ups and downs of his chest that can prove that he is alive, Lu Yifan has never made the slightest movement.

"This Pang He seems to be unreliable!" Lu Wencai kept muttering as soon as he came back, "We have to find another way! These thatched huts are quite interesting to live in in summer, but it won't be fun to wait for the weather to get cooler again!"

"Do you want to consider the big mansion that Pang He said?" Ji Yuan said softly, although he was sitting by the fire, his words were obviously said to Lu Yifan in the distance, "After all, there are so many people in the Lu family who need to settle down, and it is not a way to always live at the foot of the mountain!"

"Even if you go into the city, don't ask that Pang He for help!" Lu Wencai snorted dissatisfiedly, "Cowardly and afraid, you have always said that there was a General Pang in the city before how heroic he was, and when I saw it today, I was simply disappointed!"

"Don't look for him, could it be that we pay for the house ourselves?" Lu Jun frowned slightly, and said ruthlessly, "Wencai, do you know how big a house so many of us want to live in? Do you know how many silver shells are needed for such a big house?"

"Anyway, it's almost the same as the Lu Mansion in Jinling City!" Lu Wencai muttered in a low voice, "It's just a house, how expensive can it be?"

Hearing Lu Wencai's words, Han Ling'er smiled slightly, and then he raised his jade hand at Lu Wencai, and slowly stretched out three fingers.

"Three thousand silver shells?" Lu Wencai tried to guess, "It's still 30,000? Even if it's 30,000, it's not too expensive, right? In the past, we had to spend more than 100,000 silver shells to hold a banquet in our house! We should be able to make up 30,000 silver shells now, right?"

"Don't say 30,000! Even if it's 300,000, we can make it up!" Ji Yuan smiled bitterly, "But the most important thing is that if you want to buy a decent house in the Western Imperial City, you need three million silver to say the least!"

"Three million?" Lu Wencai couldn't help but crack his mouth when he heard this, and then muttered to himself, "Three million is actually not much, right......?"

"If it was put in the past, of course it wasn't much!" Ji Yuan said with a smile, "I think that back then, Yifan and Lan Chen competed for the price of my Zhuo Wolf Jade Belt in the Moon Tower, and at that time, Yifan was added to one million silver shells!

"It's really ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, when did my son ever worry about money back then?" Lu Yifan said and snorted at Han Ling'er, as if he wanted to resonate with Han Linger, "Miss Han, are you right? I want to go to the Moon Tower to eat and drink back then, every time we spend money, I should have saved some flowers when I knew that there would be today......

"As long as we can recapture Xihuang Mountain, we don't have to worry about this kind of thing anymore!" Liu Sandao was lying directly on the grass on the side with his legs crossed at the moment, with a straw in his mouth, and a pair of tiger eyes staring straight at the incomparably deep sky, "Yifan, what do you think?"

Hearing Liu Sandao's words, everyone's eyes by the fire turned to Lu Yifan under the shadow of the tree, none of them could see Lu Yifan's face clearly, but they could clearly hear Lu Yifan's voice as plain as water.

"There are things that are very important to me on the West Emperor Mountain, whether it is because we want to continue to live, or because of the importance of the West Emperor Mountain itself to me, this Emperor Sect seems that we are condemned!" Lu Yifan said softly, "But what Pang He said tonight is not unreasonable, the Emperor Sect is powerful and has the big backer of the Sacred Domain Sect Master behind him, it is definitely not something that one or two people can easily contend with!"

"I want to offend again, but I can't easily resist it......" Chu Ding grinned and scratched his head with his hand, "This sounds a bit contradictory!"

"Since we can't think of any good way, it's better to start a battle with the Emperor Sect!" Qin Qingyu said coldly, "It's better than us being here all the time!"

"It can't be said that there is no way at all!" Lu Yifan's voice sounded again, "Since the Emperor can rob my Xihuang Mountain, then I can also find a way to cut off his wealth!"

"How do you say this?" Hearing Lu Yifan's words, Liu Sandao sat up from the grass at once, and looked at Lu Yifan with a curious expression, "How do you break the law?"

"If we want to compete with a sect, we must first set up a signboard! Only by setting up a signboard can we do the next thing!" Lu Yifan said unhurriedly, "What do you think of the Chamber of Commerce from Jinling City that we are playing tonight, how about this way?"

"That's right, I saw that when Pang He followed us to the Tide Inn, when he saw our big pomp, the expression on his face became very exciting!" Qin Qingyu said with a light smile, "It shows that he was frightened by our big chamber of commerce from Jinling City at the beginning!haha......"

"Instead of holding the signboard of the Chamber of Commerce, why don't we just do it and just set up a sect by ourselves!" Liu Sandao's eyes couldn't help but flash a flash of excitement, "Look at the current situation in the Holy Domain? There are newly established sects everywhere, as long as they can win over dozens of people and find hundreds of blades, they will dare to plant a flag on their own land." Isn't it true that even this Emperor has only been established for less than a year? If they can, then why can't we? You absolutely ......."

Liu Sandao's words hadn't finished yet, but his voice gradually stopped involuntarily, because he found that as he talked more and more, the eyes of Chu Ding, Qin Qingyu and the others around him, and even Lu Jun and Lu Wencai, became more and more strange, Liu Sandao was very sensitive to this kind of look, he was sure that the meaning expressed by this kind of look was definitely not approval, nor questioning, but more precisely, it should be incredible. That feeling is like asking Liu Sandao: Are you joking?

"How...... What's wrong?" Liu Sandao looked at these people with puzzled expressions, and his face became a little embarrassed, "Why are you looking at me like this?

"Brother Liu, what you said may not be wrong for other people, but for those of us disciples who came out of the Holy Soul Academy, there are some problems in it!" Seeing this, Ji Yuan hurriedly opened his mouth and explained, "Don't get me wrong, this question is not about what you said, but about the identity and status of the Holy Soul Academy!"

"What do you mean?" Xie Yun didn't quite understand Ji Yuan's words, because he wasn't from the academy himself.

"To put it simply, we all know that the Holy Domain has been a battle between two factions since ancient times, the Emperor and the Sect Leader, representing the Sacred Domain's cultural governance and martial arts respectively!" Han Ling'er took Ji Yuan's words and explained unhurriedly, "Although on the surface, it seems that the relationship between the Emperor and the Sect Master should be harmonious, at least they are respectful. But in fact, the authority of the Emperor is higher than that of the Sect Master, and the Sacred Domain Emperor is hereditary and replaceable, while the Sect Master of the Sacred Domain is a talent from the generation of the country, and the replacement is extremely frequent. This determines that the background and foundation of the Sacred Domain Sect Master are far less powerful than the power of the Emperor. But the most interesting thing is that although the foundation of the sect leader is not as good as that of the emperor, he has a means that the emperors of all generations can never have, that is, to control all the sects within the scope of the holy domain! The sect master of the holy domain represents the strongest person in the holy domain, and the origin of the sect leader of the holy domain is often an extremely ancient and powerful sect itself. For example, this generation of the Sacred Domain Sect Master, Dongfang Su, was already the Sect Master of Xuanzong before he defeated the previous Sacred Domain Sect Master! It's just that at that time, Xuanzong's status could only be regarded as upstream, but it definitely couldn't reach the current pinnacle, and Xuanzong's real rise was after Dongfang Su ascended to the position of the Sacred Domain Sect Master. Just imagine, if you are the one who is truly in charge of the Holy Domain, can you rest assured that a sect leader with such a powerful threat is here?"

"How can you allow others to snore next to the couch!" Liu Sandao nodded and responded, "The so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and the emperor must find a way to balance the sect ......leader."

"Actually, it's nothing to join a sect to practice in the name of an individual!, but if a group of people from the academy go to establish a sect, it will be a bit ......" Han Ling'er didn't continue to speak, but the meaning of his words Liu Sandao had already fully understood.

"Hmph! It's ridiculous!" Although he understood, Liu Sandao still disdained this so-called restraint in his heart.

"Actually, even if there is no restriction from the academy, we can't establish a sect now!" Lu Yifan said lightly, "If we rashly establish a sect, then the Emperor Sect will inevitably treat us as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh at the first time! Isn't that tantamount to confronting the Emperor Sect with the Emperor Sect? I'm afraid that before our sect can gain a firm foothold, the Emperor Sect will already kill us on a large scale! Aren't we asking for trouble?"

"That's good!" Qin Qingyu nodded and said, "The sect is too conspicuous, and the chamber of commerce is not so noticeable! At least the Emperor Sect will not regard a chamber of commerce as his opponent, in their opinion, the chamber of commerce is only for profit, and the sect is the opponent who wants to fight for territory! Since we don't want to be their opponent from the beginning, it is not a bad idea to temporarily erect a signboard through the chamber of commerce!"

"That makes sense! What about after you have a signboard?" Yifan, what are you going to do in the future?" Ji Yuan changed his words and led the question to Lu Yifan again.

"Then we can justifiably do business in the fourteen cities in the southwest!" Lu Yifan's voice sounded a little joking at the moment, "It's just that this time in order to deal with the Imperial Sect, we may have to use some extraordinary means, and the business we do may not sound so glorious anymore!"

"I can accept any means, as long as I don't have nothing to do here!" Mo Bai smiled, "I can do even if it is a murderous business!"

"That's not it! We can't directly target the Emperor Sect when we come up, that would be too unfavorable for us now!" Lu Yifan continued, "So we have to focus on the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest, the reason why the Emperor Sect can develop so rapidly today is all dependent on the tribute silver that the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest pay him every month, and one city pays one million silver shells a month, which is 14 million a month, with such a background, what else does the Emperor dare not do?"

"That's good!" Lu Jun nodded and said, "I heard that the Imperial Sect is now opening its sect widely, and it is a large number of disciples, as long as there are some people with martial arts qualifications, the Imperial Sect will come and accept one by one, so that he can continue to expand his power on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can also lay a deeper foundation in the southwest, you must know that these disciples are all from all over the southwest!"

"The cost of raising so many disciples for the Emperor Sect must be huge every month, and at the beginning, maybe Xuanzong could support him behind the scenes, but now the Emperor Sect is completely self-sufficient!" Xie Yun analyzed, "Not only that, the Emperor Sect should also have to offer to Xuanzong from time to time!"

"Therefore, the best way for us to deal with the Imperial Sect is not to rush in front of them and confront them!, but to go around behind them and cut off their financial routes!" Lu Yifan said with a smile, "Not only to cut off their financial routes, but also to enrich our own strength!"

"I understand!" Lu Wencai looked suddenly enlightened, and said excitedly, "You mean that we are going to rob the money of the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest? Compared to the Emperor, the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest are much easier to deal with!"

"To be more precise, it should be to do some business with the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest to avoid disasters, and rob them of the tribute silver that they are going to hand over to the Emperor!" Ji Yuan's thinking suddenly became clear, and he couldn't help laughing loudly, "And the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest are allies we can win over! We ourselves may be a little thin, but if we add the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest, we should have the capital to compete with the Emperor!"

"Not bad at all!" Lu Yifan praised, "Pang He is actually the best example, the fourteen cities in the southwest are all like this, they hate the oppression of the Emperor Sect to the core, and they hate to cut the people of the Emperor Sect with a thousand knives, but none of them have the courage to do so!"

"Hmph, a group of rats with no heart!" Xie Yun said in a cold voice with a disdainful face, "Being in the company of these people is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger, as long as things change, these rats will definitely turn against us! Maybe in the end, not only will they not help us deal with the Emperor, but they may also help the Emperor Sect bite us back!"

"Yes, we have to guard against this matter!" Lu Jun echoed.

"Then it depends on who can bring them greater benefits or Huangzong!" Lu Yifan said in a deep tone, "The city lords of the fourteen cities in the southwest are now brave and courageless, Pang He said that some of them are about to be unable to hold on, which is enough to show that the Huangzong has almost pushed them to the extreme, and now these city lords only lack an excuse to blatantly rebel against the emperor, and this excuse, we will give it to them!"

"You can give it a try!" Liu Sandao was the first to agree, and with Liu Sandao's words, Ji Yuan, Xie Yun, Lu Jun and others also nodded in agreement after weighing the pros and cons of each.

"Okay!" Lu Yifan didn't know when he had already stood up and was slowly walking out from under the shadow of the tree, he said as he walked, "From today onwards, we will consider ourselves the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, and we intend to unite the fourteen cities in the southwest to fight against the emperor, just in the name of the Southwest Chamber of Commerce, I also want to make the fourteen city lords in the southwest want to get rid of it!"

"Haha...... Okay!" everyone happily agreed.

"Yifan, do you still need to involve the Lu family in this matter?" Ji Yuan asked.

"No need!" Lu Yifan shook his head slowly after thinking about it for a while, "Tomorrow, I will send someone to the West Imperial City to buy a few small courtyards and settle the clansmen incognito, so I can only be so wronged for the time being!"

"No problem!" Kihara happily agreed.

"Okay! Let me arrange it now! There is no doubt that Yifan must be the president of our Southwest Chamber of Commerce!" Lu Wencai stood in the middle of everyone with high interest, and arranged it with great difficulty, "Then ......"

"Wait a minute!" Before Lu Wencai's words could be finished, Chu Ding raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Lu Yifan with a pair of copper bell eyes, and said with a smile, "Since the Southwest Chamber of Commerce wants to elect a president, why does it have to be Lu Yifan?"

"Chu Ding, what do you mean by this?" Lu Jun's eyes sank, and he asked in a cold voice.

And with the confrontation between Chu Ding and Lu Jun in an unkind tone, the atmosphere that was quite lively just now suddenly became a little strange, and everyone looked at each other, and no one knew what others were thinking.

"Chu Ding's words are reasonable!" Mo Bai nodded in agreement, "The same door belongs to the same door, friendship belongs to friendship!" But at the beginning, everyone in the academy also belonged to different factions, Luo Xiu and the mortal disciples he brought I won't talk about, they are happy and convinced of Lu Yifan, so naturally there is no need to say much, but Chu Ding and Li Duan are from Chumen, Qin Qingyu and Wu Xiaochuan, Zhou Wu, and Zhou Wen are Yumen, And I belong to the black-clothed guard, Bailifeng belongs to Hanmen, Jiang Yi, a madman, is not counted for the time being, so many of us factions are now obeying Lu Yifan's dispatch, should there be a reasonable reason?"

"Then what reason do you think is reasonable?" Lu Wencai asked curiously.

"Actually, it's nothing!" Chu Ding smiled nonchalantly, "It's just that last time in the academy competition, although Lu Yifan's strong shot won the applause of the audience, but for various reasons, Chu has never had the opportunity to fight with you......!

"Not bad, not bad! Anyway, when we were in the academy, we were all ranked in the top ten masters of the Holy Soul List, and it was rare for us to get together today, why don't the Lu Sect Master show some sincerity so that we can be convinced?" Mo Bai echoed with a smile, "Han Cheng was defeated under you, Baili Feng and Jiang Yi will forget it for the time being! Why don't you choose an opponent between me and Chu Ding and Qin Qingyu today, let's take the opportunity to have a discussion, so that we can know if we have the wrong person today!"

Of course, Lu Yifan understood that Chu Ding and the others were not making trouble unreasonably, they actually had no objection to the position of the president, but they were more interested in how strong they were now, and how big the gap between them was.

Lu Yifan nodded with a clear expression, and then he walked among the crowd with a smile, his gaze slowly swept over everyone, and a confident smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's too hard to choose one, so it's better to ...... Let's go together!"

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