Liu San had already paid attention in his heart, so he rushed forward along the official road, what if he was really confused? Could it be that you can really turn the direction of the sturdy official road under your feet back? As soon as he rushed out, he turned his horse's head and went back, and slapped the nameless face.

Thinking of this, Liu San even waved his whip to speed up.

The shadows of the mist around him became more and more dense, and after a while, he could no longer see his fingers.

Liu San couldn't help but be a little flustered in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, so he had to continue to urge the horse to run forward.

After about thirty or forty feet away, the fog in front of him finally began to thin again, and faintly, it seemed that the trees by the road outside could be seen.

"Hmph, sure enough, I guessed correctly, the surname Qu is alarmist!" Liu San's face was happy, and he was about to pull the reins and turn the horse's head, but he heard someone in front of him calling his name-

"San'er, come back quickly!"

It was the voice of Uncle Liu Kui.

Liu San fixed his eyes and saw that at the end of the fog, a group of people were waving to him, and the one who shouted on the horse at the front was not his uncle Liu Kui or who was?

……

After proving Qu Wuming's judgment with practical actions, Liu San lowered his head and stopped making a sound, and followed the team back to Dongsheng City.

Everyone found an inn in the east of the city and lived in the city god temple street again, under Liu Kui's repeated constraints, no one was allowed to go out, just wait for when the fog outside the city dissipated, and then embark on the road home again.

When the dart masters of the Fuwei Dart Bureau were honestly restrained in the inn and did not dare to go out, Qu Wuming couldn't sit still.

Without him, since there are cultivators who dare to risk the disapproval of the world and block the way out of Dongsheng City, it not only touches Qu Wuming's bottom line, but also makes Qu Wuming faintly feel a little uneasy, feeling that the situation in Dongsheng City has far exceeded his expectations, and it may develop in an unexpected direction at any time.

Since this is known, Yiqu's nameless character naturally will not sit in the inn with his eyes black.

After nightfall, Qu Wuming greeted Liu Kui and Lin Wanqing early and said that he was unwell and needed to rest early......

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Dongsheng City Lord's Mansion.

As Liu Kui said, the City Lord's Mansion in Dongsheng City also has cultivators.

It's just that Dongsheng City is located in a wasteland on the border, and the spiritual energy is thin, and cultivators with real backgrounds and connections are unwilling to take up positions such as city lords in such a place - typical responsibilities and benefits do not match - being a city lord here has a lot of responsibilities and many things, not to mention delaying cultivation, there are few spirit stones given above, and the oil and water that can be fished to help cultivation are even more limited.

But it is a city with more than 300,000 inhabitants, and there must always be a city lord to manage it.

Bai Qiulai is a person who has no background and no relationship, but has been sitting in the position of the city lord of Dongsheng City for more than forty years.

Of course, to be able to be the lord of the city and sit firmly on it, naturally it can't be a person with no relationship background.

Although there are still several layers away from the core of the Wushi clan and the Bai family, which control Hulan County, Xilin County, Bayan County and other large territories, Bai Qiulai, as a monk in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, can be regarded as a somewhat important figure in a branch of the Bai family in Hulan County, and after some operation, he became the city lord of Dongsheng City.

In the eyes of others, this is a drudgery that delays the future of cultivation and money, but for Bai Qiulai, who has limited qualifications and has little longevity, this is a good place to retire.

Since the cultivation journey would come to an end in a few more decades, Bai Qiulai spent the rest of his time in Dongsheng City. For more than 40 years, Bai Qiulai built houses, built roads, planted trees, expanded fields, and encouraged commerce and trade in Dongsheng City, and turned a dilapidated town into one of the famous prosperous cities in Hulan County, which is one of Bai Qiulai's proudest achievements every year when he reported on his work.

Of course, there have been some things that Bai Qiulai has been dissatisfied with over the years, such as the Yunzhong Mansion of the Wushi Clan.

Since Bai Qiulai built Dongsheng City into a prosperous small city, Yunzhong Mansion has also come.

The person in charge of Yunzhong Mansion is the youngest son of the current head of the Wushi family, Wushilan. This person has ruthless methods, flexible minds, and although his cultivation is not high, he has built Yunzhong Mansion from scratch into a behemoth with a "business" spanning dozens of big cities and almost monopolizing more than eighty percent of the green buildings and gambling houses in each city.

Originally, Bai Qiulai thought that Qinglou and gambling houses were not beneficial to people's livelihood in Dongsheng City, so he imposed more restrictions on them. But when Dongsheng City entered the sight of Yunzhong Mansion, the green buildings and gambling houses in the city sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Bai Qiulai was powerless to stop it, and he didn't dare to stop it.

Ever since the people of Yunzhong Mansion began to make waves in Dongsheng City, Bai Qiulai often felt a headache. Because although he is nominally the lord of a city in Dongsheng City, no matter from the perspective of manpower, cultivation, or backering behind him, Bai Qiulai has only one choice, and that is to turn a blind eye to Yunzhong Mansion.

However, in the past half a year or so, Bai Qiulai has had one more headache, and even feels that Yunzhong Mansion is nothing compared to it.

Since the news came out that a sword trick that had been short-lived more than 2,000 years ago would appear in Dongsheng City, there have been more than 200 battles in Dongsheng City, and dozens of innocent people have been killed and injured in Dongsheng City.

In the past half a year, Bai Qiulai has either been putting out fires and investigating cases for these troublesome warriors, or on the way to extinguishing fires and investigating cases, his wrung brows have almost never been stretched again.

Moreover, the troubles that come to the door are getting more and more......

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"White City Lord, now those Jianghu warriors have been tossing for half a year, but what definite news has come out?"

In a study room in the City Lord's Mansion, a long-bearded old man put down the tea cup in his hand and asked with concern.

When Bai Qiulai heard this, he bowed slightly, and replied respectfully: "At present, the south of the city, the west of the city, and the east of the city have almost been inspected twice like ploughing, and it is unlikely that the sword technique will be in these areas even if it is born." Only in the north of the city, although there are often people from the rivers and lakes and people from my city lord's mansion to investigate, many of them have been blocked by the people of Yunzhong Mansion. ”

Bai Qiulai's tone was very sincere, and he seemed to be impartial, but the old man sitting on the main seat next to him naturally heard the meaning of Bai Qiulai's words, and couldn't help frowning.

"We in the Iron Sword Sect have come from afar just to find that sword technique. As long as the White City Lord can provide enough useful information, a mere Yunzhong Mansion will not be able to stand in the way of my Iron Sword Sect. ”

The long-bearded elder was none other than a Supreme Elder of the Iron Sword Sect, named Qiao Qiandu. Since the news of the "Heaven and Man Sympathetic Sword Technique" spread, Qiao Qianwei was appointed by the Sect Master of the Iron Sword Sect to go out of the mountain to investigate the matter, and it was not until three months ago that he finally tracked down Dongsheng City, a small border city that cultivators had never paid much attention to.

Originally, I thought that with the prestige of the Iron Sword Sect and the hundreds of disciples I brought, it was a matter of hand-to-hand capture to search for a sword technique in a small city of more than 300,000 people, but I didn't expect to search for more than three months in a row, but I never found anything.

Not only that, but the low-level disciples of the Iron Sword Sect also lost as many as a few people, and the people who killed people were actually some secular martial artists.

Although they were all low-level disciples in the Qi refining period, for Qiao Qiandu, it was tantamount to someone slapping a few times on one of his old faces.

In a fit of rage, Qiao Qiandui set up a Thousand Illusions Trace Array on several major roads outside Dongsheng City in the name of finding enemies for his disciples, although it could not prevent the cultivators from crossing the mountains and mountains to enter and exit Dongsheng City, but also trapped the vast majority of ordinary martial artists in the city in the city.

"Yes, yes, that's what Elder Qiao said." Bai Qiulai nodded with a smile on his face and said, "The Iron Sword Sect is a well-known great sect among the nine sects, eight sects, and thirteen sects, and the Yunzhong Mansion will definitely not dare to make a mistake. It's just that Yunzhong Mansion is a snake in the land after all, and under their intentional management, even my orders are not so easy to use in the north of the city. Now there is new news that it should be a sword that carries the sword technique, not an ordinary jade slip or the like. ”

"A sword?" After pondering for a moment, Qiao Qiandu continued to ask, "Do you know where this news came from?" ”

"This ...... I really don't know. Bai Qiulai shook his head and replied helplessly, "I have already arranged for someone to track down the source of various news, but unfortunately it is difficult to find out." It's hard to rule out that someone is deliberately releasing these messages, and maybe it's a question of whether this sword trick is true or not. ”

"You don't have to doubt the authenticity." Qiao Qianwei said, "I, the Iron Sword Sect, established the Sect with a sword, and I will definitely not make a mistake in this matter. As long as someone urges the sword technique or the immortal sword in the city, my Iron Sword Sect will naturally have a way to find it. I wonder what else is said about that sword? ”

"Back to Elder Qiao, the current news is that the sword has not yet been born, and I am afraid that no one will know the corresponding sword technique." Bai Qiulai replied, "At present, the people of the City Lord's Mansion and some of the city guards have already scattered around the city in disguise, keeping an eye on all the people in the rivers and lakes who are traveling with swords, but no suspicious people have been found yet. ”

"In this way, then the city lord of Laobai will bother to keep an eye on it more, and if there is any news, he will notify the old man in time. After the matter was completed, the old man handed over the remaining remuneration and the pill to the city lord, so that it would not be a problem for the white city lord to prolong his life for more than a hundred years. ”

"Elder Qiao is really polite, it is Bai's honor to be able to help the Iron Sword Sect, haha......"

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At the same time, the north of the city Miaoyin Fang.

"Old Seven, how long will it take for the person who promised to arrive at home?" A young man with a face as white as jade sat in a study, his eyes falling on a map of Dongsheng City, many of which were already painted with red circles and forks, and only a few areas were still blank.

"Return to the Mansion Master! Early tomorrow morning, the two seniors of Wushi Tianlong and Wushi Dijiao will lead people to infiltrate Dongsheng City. Opposite the man, a middle-aged man dressed in black replied.

"Oh? It was actually the third uncle and the fourth uncle who came over in person? The young man's face was happy, "You tell you to go down, you have to keep an eye on the places that have not been investigated, and you must not startle the snake before tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes! Mansion Lord. ”

"You go down first."

"Subordinates retire!"

The young man was none other than the lord of Yunzhong Mansion, Wu Shilan.

After the man in black left, Wu Shilan's gaze fell on the map of Dongsheng City again. On the picture, there are several crimson circles that stand out.

"Qiao Qiandu, hehe...... There are only hundreds of Qi refining stage disciples, and there are not even a few in the foundation building period, and they also want to come to my Dongsheng City to grab things? Do you think that your Iron Sword Sect is the number one sect in the world? Wu Shilan's eyes showed a hint of gloom, and she said to herself......

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To the east of the city, Baotong Pavilion.

One of the few pawnshops in Dongsheng City that is independent of Yunzhong Mansion.

At this time, although it was already the middle of the year, there were still lights on in a courtyard in the back house of Baotong Pavilion, and there was an old man with a slightly rickety figure standing outside the door of the house, as if he was waiting for someone.

In a pitch-black ravine five miles away from Dongsheng City, a circular light gate about one person high suddenly lit up, emitting a soft white light, illuminating the small half of the ravine in an instant.

A moment later, the originally quiet light gate suddenly rippled like water waves, and one after another figures jumped out of the light, and in a short time, more than a dozen figures came out of it. These dozen people are tall, short, fat and thin, and they are all wearing the same style of black robes.

Xu is the distance of spatial teleportation this time is too far, and after many of them jumped out of the light gate, their faces were pale, dizzy, and the aura on their bodies became a little chaotic, so they hurriedly found an open space and sat down.

After more than ten breaths, the light gate stopped flickering, and suddenly turned into a speck of light and disappeared, and the ravine fell into darkness again.

One of the people in the team stood up and whispered a few words, and then the group jumped out of the ravine and went straight to Dongsheng City in the distance......