readx;? I don't know if it was out of fear of Yan Shuang, or the trustworthiness of the gambling contract, or whether it had other plans, in short, after Huang Xuan lost the bet, he really led a large number of Huangzong disciples to leave Xihuang Mountain in the afternoon of the same day, which made Lu Yifan and others feel very surprised, even Pang He, these city lords, were as confused as the second monk, in their consciousness, Huang Xuan did not seem to be such an easy person to admit defeat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, Lu Yifan thought that even if Huang Xuan lost the bet, he would definitely try to cheat, and in the end he still couldn't avoid a death battle, but he never expected that Xihuang Mountain would really be taken back so easily.

Although the Emperor Sect left Xihuang Mountain, Lu Yifan did not mean to enter Xihuang Mountain, after all, they are still nominally just a chamber of commerce, and if they want to monopolize a mountain, there are generally only two situations, one is the bandit gang, and the other is the sect faction of the Eight Classics. Whether it is a gang or a sect, for today's Southwest Chamber of Commerce, it does not match in identity and name. Therefore, after coming out of the Xihuanghou Mansion, Lu Yifan did not rush to prepare for entering Xihuang Mountain, but chose to go back to the Southwest Chamber of Commerce to discuss with everyone before making a decision.

And Lu Yifan said that the key to discussion is actually on Yan Shuang's body. Because a few months ago, these students of the Holy Soul Academy originally went to Jinling City to try to rescue Lu Yifan, and then outside the city, they had a needle-to-needle confrontation with the Golden Silver Guard and the city army, although it did not cause a large-scale fight in the end, but their behavior was to disobey the emperor's order after all, and to oppose the people sent by the emperor, no matter how it was counted, they committed a heinous crime, so they did not dare to return to the Holy Soul Academy directly because they were afraid, but were forced to reluctantly choose to temporarily flee to Xihuang Mountain with Lu Yifan for refuge, and all the things that happened after that were actually just a duck on the shelves for them。 In fact, in the hearts of these people who came out of the Holy Soul Academy, taking refuge was only a temporary choice after all, and they were only waiting for Yan Shuang, who went to the academy to intercede with the old man Qiu Ming, to come back, so that they could all be spared the sins they had carried.

Another interesting thing is that it was not only Tang Ruoxi who came back with Yan Shuang this time, but also an old friend that Ji Yuan had been thinking about, Wu Mei.

Tang Ruoxi and Chu Ding, Qin Qingyu and others are all old acquaintances, and they are no strangers, plus today they defeated Huangzong in the gambling game, everyone's mood can be said to be extremely good, so except for Xie Yun, who was seriously injured, who was healing in the room, the other main figures of the Southwest Chamber of Commerce all gathered together, and everyone talked and laughed in groups. And Lu Wencai stood in the lobby, telling Tang Ruoxi and Wu Mei what happened in the Western Imperial City during this time, looking at that high-spirited look, as if all these thrilling things were done by him personally, Tang Ruoxi and Wu Mei couldn't help but laugh again and again, while Lu Jun, Yin Xi and others on the side followed from time to time, deliberately exposing Lu Wencai's boasting, looking at Lu Wencai's appearance of being about to become angry, it made everyone in the hall laugh. For a moment, the scene in the main hall looked quite lively.

About half an hour later, Lu Yifan, Han Ling'er, Yan Shuang, and Liu Sandao slowly walked in from outside, just now they had been treating Xie Yun's injuries in Xie Yun's room, and now Xie Yun's injuries were stable and he had fallen asleep, plus Ah Chang was taking care of them carefully, Lu Yifan and the others returned to the main hall with peace of mind.

"Haha...... Wencai, Wencai, I have heard your voice outside the hall, are you bragging again?"

With Lu Yifan's hearty laughter, several of them also appeared at the door of the lobby, and when they saw Lu Yifan coming in, everyone in the hall stood up and greeted him.

"Mr. Yan is so capable, we have opened our eyes today!" Chu Ding and the others couldn't wait to praise Yan Shuang as soon as they came up, "Three moves and two styles will knock that invincible Huang Xuan off the table, we really admire it!"

"That's it, Mr. Yan is the real hidden, I never knew that Mr. Yan's cultivation would be so unfathomable when I was in the academy before!" Mo Bai also nodded in agreement.

"You have less flattery, it's better to cultivate well when you have that time!" Yan Shuang said lightly, as if he didn't care about the admiration of these students at all, "As long as you concentrate on cultivation, you can also achieve this in the future!"

Hearing Yan Shuang's words, Chu Ding and the others couldn't help but smile at each other, they all knew what kind of character Yan Shuang was, so they didn't dare to say anything more, they could only stick out their tongues in a sneer, and then under Lu Yifan's instructions, they all walked back to their places and sat down again.

"Lu Yifan, you really deserve to be the master of our mortal sect, you can set off a monstrous wave wherever you go! Admire and admire!" Wu Mei didn't know when she had already stood in front of Lu Yifan, and her porcelain doll-like and impeccable face was showing a deep smile.

"Sister Wu?" Lu Yifan has been busy with Xie Yun's injuries since he came back, so he didn't know that Sister Wu was also here, and he was a little surprised to see Sister Wu suddenly appear, "Why are you here too?"

"Why? can't I come?" Wu Mei pretended to be angry and asked, "Why can't I come if Luo Xiu and they can come?" I knew that you, the master of the sect, were so eccentric, I might as well have stayed in Chumen in the first place!"

As soon as he mentioned the past events, Chu Ding's face became a little embarrassed, and he smiled helplessly: "Sister Wu, it's too late to regret it now!"

"Since you're all here, I'm here to join you!" Wu Mei smiled and explained, "Anyway, you can't go back to the Holy Soul Academy, and it's not fun for me to stay alone in the academy, so it's more interesting to be with everyone!"

"Can't go back?" As soon as Wu Mei's words came out, Chu Ding and the others were stunned, Chu Ding hurriedly put away his playful look, frowned and asked, "What do you mean by this?" Chu Ding's words also expressed the incomprehension of the other people in the Holy Soul Academy, and they all focused their curious eyes on Wu Mei, and the hall gradually became quiet from the noise just now.

Feeling the sudden quiet atmosphere in the hall, Wu Mei couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly, and asked rhetorically: "Is it difficult for you to openly confront the emperor, but still think that you can go back to the academy?"

"This ......" After hearing Wu Mei's words, Chu Ding and the others were stunned for a while, and then they all turned their eyes to Yan Shuang, as if they wanted to confirm the truth of what Wu Mei said from Yan Shuang.

"Mr. Yan, didn't you go to intercede with Dean Qiu Ming?" Why did you ......" Lu Yifan also looked at Yan Shuang with doubts, and he didn't know anything about this matter.

Yan Shuang's gaze was always as plain as water, even if he was stared at by so many people at the moment, his expression did not show a trace of panic at all, I saw him slowly walk to the side and sit down, and then said lightly and unhurriedly: "The emperor did not promise to forgive you, and he will punish you to death, even as a teacher, if it weren't for me and Dean Qiu Ming being old friends, I'm afraid it would be difficult to leave here and tell you all this!"

"What?" As soon as Yan Shuang's words came out, the whole audience was in an uproar, especially those students of the Holy Soul Academy, at this moment, the ground color was already difficult to see, and almost everyone's eyes were filled with a thick color of unwillingness.

Lu Yifan couldn't sit still any longer, he stood up suddenly, walked quickly to Yan Shuang's side, and couldn't wait to ask: "Why? Although they came forward to save me, they didn't really fight Zhao Wuyang and them head-on, it stands to reason that even if they are guilty, they will not be guilty to death?" Mr. Yan, didn't you say the same before......

"Yifan!" Without waiting for Lu Yifan, who looked excited, to finish speaking, Tang Ruoxi, who was sitting next to Yan Shuang, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Yan has also tried his best in this matter, but some things are still beyond our expectations!"

"What's the matter?"

"Zhao Wuyang is dead!" Without waiting for Lu Yifan's words to fall, Yan Shuang opened his mouth coldly and said, "Bai Qi is dead, and Cheng Lao, the master sent by the imperial family, is also dead, the gold and silver guards and city troops who chased and killed you that night, except for Yin Mo, the commander of the Cheng army, and the more than 100 people led by him escaped by luck, the rest of the more than 1,000 people all died in the dense forest outside Jinling City!"

"What?" This time it was Lu Yifan's turn to be speechless, at this moment, I saw his eyes staring in horror, his eyes trembling slightly due to the excitement in his heart, and a touch of indescribable shock appeared on his face, "How is this possible? That night, we obviously talked to Zhao Wuyang, and everyone took a step back......

"I don't know what is going on with this matter!" Yan Shuang's expression was also very solemn, "But Zhao Wuyang and the others are dead! Not only are they dead, but the corpses are all hanging from trees, as if they are provoking and demonstrating to the emperor!"

"Impossible!" Ji Yuan said urgently, "Brother Liu did kill Bai Qi and Cheng Lao that night, and we also killed some people, but these were just out of deterrence, and they were definitely not driven out......"

"I didn't say that Zhao Wuyang was killed by you!" Before Ji Yuan finished speaking, Yan Shuang suddenly interjected, "I was also present that night, so I naturally know that you didn't fight Zhao Wuyang head-on, at least when we left, Zhao Wuyang and his men were still alive!" Yan Shuang's words finally became a little meaningful.

"What does Mr. Yan mean......" Lu Yifan frowned, his mind quickly calculated the whole thing, and muttered, "There was another group of people who rushed into the dense forest and killed Zhao Wuyang and them after we left that night?"

"Otherwise?" Yan Shuang raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile, "Could it be that more than a thousand people committed suicide?"

"Hiss!" Many people in the hall had involuntarily gasped after hearing all this, the joy of the victory over the emperor had completely dissipated at this moment, replaced by a thick shock and horror, and almost everyone in the hall was shrouded in a sudden haze, which made people have an indescribable depression and panic.

"This is obviously trying to blame Yifan!" Chu Ding gritted his teeth and said indignantly, "Everyone in the world knows that Zhao Wuyang and they chased and killed Lu Yifan that night, and so many of us made such a big disturbance that night, and it was even more difficult to contain the fire, when Yin Mo returned to the imperial city with more than a thousand corpses to restore his life, it was strange that the emperor was not furious!" And we can't wash it now by jumping into the Yellow River, after all, we people have also done it with Zhao Wuyang, and we have also killed some of them, and now Zhao Wuyang's army has been wiped out, will anyone believe us if we didn't do it? If this didn't happen to us, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe it!"

The key to this matter is to blame Lu Yifan for the crime, which everyone already knows, but now Lu Yifan can't figure out what kind of person would do this?

Looking at Lu Yifan's frowning appearance, Tang Ruoxi couldn't help but ask, "Yifan, who else have you offended in Jinling City?"

"The one I have offended...... Shengdong King Yan ......" Lu Yifan muttered to himself, "But he has already been demoted by the emperor after sending someone to wash my Lu family in blood...... At that time, his own affairs were already in full swing, so how could he have the spare time to blame us? And even if Yan Yi wanted revenge, where would he go to gather such a group of masters? You must know that Zhao Wuyang could lead more than a thousand people at that time, and Zhao Wuyang himself was also a master of the Eight Turns Soul King, if he wanted to kill all his men and horses, he was afraid that it would be difficult to do it without some preparation...... What's more, Yan Yi had already annoyed the Emperor at that time, so how could he do something stupid to further anger the Emperor?"

"I don't think it's Yan Yi either!, but I suspect that another person ......," Kihara said abruptly. Lu Yifan could see that Ji Yuan was hesitating about something, so he hurriedly spoke: "Ji Yuan, if you have anything to say, it doesn't matter, no matter what you say here, you don't have to mind!"

Hearing Lu Yifan's words, Ji Yuan nodded slightly, then pondered for a moment again, and then said slowly with a solemn expression: "I suspect that this matter was done by the Holy West King Yanzheng! I don't know if you remember Yifan, except that night when we were about to leave the dense forest, we met the Holy West King Yanzheng on the way, and he also brought a group of subordinates at that time, although the number was not large, but I felt that those people were definitely first-class masters!"

Ji Yuan's words can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and it immediately caused speculation among everyone in the hall, and the more everyone thought about it, the more suspicious they became.

"Probably not!" Lu Yifan frowned slightly and shook his head and said, "The King of the Saint West has a great favor to my Lu family, he has helped my Lu family through the crisis again and again, if the King of the Saint West wants to harm me, why should he blame me for such trouble? As long as he didn't help before, why take such a big risk?"

"That's why I hesitated because I wondered about that. Ji Yuan nodded and said, "To be honest, I don't think King Saint West would do such a despicable thing from the bottom of my heart!"

"In this way, we have decided on this black cauldron!" Qin Qingyu said in a cold voice with a sullen face, "Even if the King of Shengxi did it, I'm afraid that the emperor won't believe us! We did openly resist the emperor's order, and we did kill a few gold and silver guards, it's just a matter of numbers! Now that we have stirred into this troubled water, I am afraid that it is impossible to get out again!"

"You all said it well!" Jiang Yi played with the short sword in his hand, a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said faintly, "Between the Emperor and us, Dean Qiu Ming will definitely choose to be loyal to the Emperor, first of all, the academy will definitely not be able to go back." Besides, now the emperor's list is full of arrests, and we can't go back even if we have a family. But now there is one of the most important questions for us, and that is what are we going to do in the future? Guys, what are your plans? Are you going to go home and try your luck, or are you going to die just like that?"

As soon as Jiang Yi's words came out, it pierced everyone's hearts like a sharp sword, and the hall once again changed from shock and panic just now, and gradually turned into a contemplation and silence.

Yes, these people were originally hopeful, and they just wanted to make a fuss in the southwest, but now they have been suddenly cut off from the retreat that they thought they would win, where should they go?

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