Zixuan City is the Yanjing of the Zixuan Dynasty.

This is the cultural and economic birthplace of the entire Zixuan Dynasty, and it is also the administrative center of the entire Zixuan Dynasty. The decrees of the entire Zixuan Dynasty were issued from here, including various personnel appointments, adjustments, economic development, and other issues.

All the clans of the first-class families of the entire dynasty have settled here, and even some second-rate families and third-rate families have also chosen to settle here. And basically, the second- and third-rate families that can settle here also belong to the strong family in comparison with other families of the same size, of course, everything is not so absolute, in fact, there are still some families with strength and scale like the Gu family, and they have not settled here.

However, just because you don't settle here doesn't mean you don't have a house here.

The Gu family is a family that started by doing business, no matter where it is, as long as it is a place that their caravan can reach, they will naturally have a place to live.

Lu Li, who had already learned from Gu Xichao on the road before, naturally knew very well what the Gu family was entering the city for.

At the end of the month, it is the 80th birthday of Xiao Shaofeng, the iron rider of the Zixuan Dynasty.

This Xiao Houye of the Zixuan Dynasty once used the strength of 5,000 cavalry to block the 50,000 troops of the neighboring countries who were preparing to outflank and annihilate the main force of the Zixuan Dynasty from behind.

Yes, Xiao Shaofeng's 5,000 cavalry was less than 100 left, but these 50,000 troops were forcibly blocked, unable to complete the strategic goal of encirclement, and finally left nearly 20,000 corpses and retreated in ashes.

After that, Xiao Shaofeng began to show his military talent, and he was promoted all the way to the throne.

He alone supported the entire Xiao family.

It is said that this year, although Xiao Houye has set up this 700-year-old birthday banquet, he does not plan to be extravagant, and only those who have received an invitation can participate. As soon as this news came out, all the families of the entire Zixuan Dynasty were a little distracted, in previous years, there was no such rule, almost every time Xiao Houye had a birthday banquet, people from the major families would come to congratulate and give gifts, and even the Xiao family would hold a banquet for several days.

But today's abnormal behavior has made many families a little stunned.

Those first-rate families don't have to worry, they must all be on the list of invitations, and individual second-rate families will also have such qualifications, only those third-rate families will be busy dredged up relationships everywhere at the moment in order to get this invitation.

After entering the city, many family members found out that they were going to attend the birthday banquet of the Xiao family this year, and they still needed an invitation letter, and all the gifts they gave were returned intact. Originally, many people were going to take care of the jokes of the family, and they brought so many things over, and if they were to be shipped back in the end, it would be a joke among all the families.

However, when the Gu family entered the city, a servant from the Xiao family handed a letter to Gu Xichao - it was undoubtedly an invitation to Xiao Houye's 80th birthday.

This scene, almost instantly, reached the ears of all the families in Yanjing of the Zixuan Dynasty at this moment.

Of course, the expressions of these people who received the news were also different. Those people from first-class families look at this matter with the attitude of watching the show, because the Gu family may be considered powerful and prestigious among those third-rate families, but for them, the behemoths of first-class families, it is not enough to see at all, at most, it is just an impact and threat to some second-rate families.

However, compared to the indifference of the first-rate families and the disdain and sneer of the second-rate families, those third-rate families are a little restless.

Especially those who have conflicts with the Gu family.

"Xiao Chao, it seems that your Gu family really has a lot of enemies. Lu Li sat in the car, his voice cold.

His vocal cords had been damaged a little before, so his speech was a little hoarse, but through the cultivation and recovery of these words, his voice had completely returned to normal.

With Lu Li's sensitivity to aura, he could naturally easily judge that at the moment when the caravan entered the city, there were at least more than ten hostile gazes. Although these hostilities are not strong, they also fully illustrate a problem, if the Gu family is really in trouble, then these people will definitely jump out and fight a stick, and the reason for any move now is simply that the Gu family is still relatively strong.

The senior laughed. Gu Xichao looked modest and said softly, "When a family does business, it is inevitable that there will be competition from peers, which is really not an enemy." ”

Lu Li smiled, if someone saw his current smile, I am afraid that they would faint directly.

But since Gu Xichao said so, Lu Li didn't plan to say anything more, he still closed his eyes and recuperated, but at the same time he was also on guard. He didn't believe that the hostility was really just the jealousy of peer competition, and although he didn't feel the killing intent, a clever killer would never reveal the killing intent before killing.

Originally, Lu Li just wanted to leave after following this caravan into the city, because with his strength, it was not difficult to get a transmission note. It's just that these days, Gu Xichao has fulfilled his identity as a junior, giving Lu Li a lot of respect, and even giving himself all the food in the entire team - this was only discovered when Lu Li went out of the carriage at night.

At that time, everyone was munching on dry food, even the young lady of their Gu family was eating dry food, but what was a little better than the others was that she could get a fresh fruit every night. This made Lu Li feel really embarrassed, and immediately asked Gu Xichao not to do this from the next day, and everyone else would give him whatever they ate, of course, in this way, Yuzao, a foodie, would not be happy, but because of Lu Li's iron-green face, Yuzao had no choice but to stop pretending to be a scoundrel.

Of course, if it was just such a thing, Lu Li would definitely not stay.

But he was very touched by Gu Xichao's sentence "If others treat me as a national soldier, I will repay me as a national soldier", so Lu Li decided to stay temporarily. Anyway, he really didn't have much to do in the recent period, and it wasn't difficult to ask the people of the Gu family to help him find a transmission note, after all, the Zixuan Dynasty was not as good as the White Jade Dynasty, and the Immortal Realm cultivators were a lot of them.

In the Zixuan Dynasty, with a cultivator in the Immortal Realm, this family can be regarded as a second-rate family, although it is the weakest kind, but it also has enough deterrent power compared to the third-rate family. As for those first-class families, they all have at least one Jindan Realm cultivator, and some powerful first-class families may have several Jindan Realm cultivators or even Yin Yang Realm cultivators.

It is said that in the royal family of the Zixuan Dynasty, there are no less than five cultivators who have survived the wind and fire tribulation.

And beside this Xiao Shaofeng and Marquis Xiao, there are two cultivators of the Immortal Golden Pill Realm, and there are more than a dozen cultivators from the Immortal Dividing God Realm to the Immortal Refining Gang Realm. Moreover, Xiao Shaofeng, the Hou Ye himself, is also a cultivator of the Immortal Yin and Yang Realm.

This is also the reason why those first-class families will give Xiao Shaofeng face like this, and those second-rate and third-rate families also want to tie up with Xiao Shaofeng.

These third-rate families who were able to settle in Zixuan City basically had more than two innate Great Perfection martial artists in their families. And the strongest strength of the Gu family is only Gu Xichao, even he has not stepped into the fairyland, but the Gu family has received an invitation, which makes other people who are also third-rate families definitely unhappy.

"Senior, this is something you ordered to purchase. When Gu Xichao passed by a tailor shop, he deliberately purchased some things that Lu Li had confessed.

This includes gloves, masks, and a few changes of clothes.

With Lu Li's current face, he naturally didn't dare to come out and wander around at will. In his words, it wasn't his fault that he was disfigured, but it was his sin to be disfigured and run around, so he needed to buy these gloves and masks.

This caravan soon came to the Gu Mansion in Zixuan City.

Here, it is the house that the Gu family bought in Zixuan City, which can easily accommodate two or three hundred people, and it can be regarded as a compound.

After arriving at the Gu Mansion, Gu Xichao immediately began to get busy, he not only needed to arrange the accommodation of all the guards, but also needed to immediately arrange for others to purchase food, clean the yard, and even arrange the unloading manpower and let people put these goods in different categories, and at the same time, he also had to distinguish the guards in shifts to ensure that the Gu Mansion was guarded in the next time.

After all, the gift to Xiao Houye is very valuable, and it is also very rare, so it is not good not to protect it.

But fortunately, it didn't take long for the young lady of the Gu family to get out of the carriage and start to help. As the heir of the Gu family in the future, this Gu family has never spent time in pampered care, she has already started to help the Gu family's business at a very early age, so when it comes to command and arrangement, she is not unfamiliar, but has a sense of fluency that is handy, and in this regard, it is much better than Gu Xichao.

"Hello, senior. After Gu Xiang saw Lu Li also appear, he immediately came over to say goodbye.

This is not the first time Lu Li has seen Gu Xiang, the young lady of the Gu family.

In fact, when Lu Li got out of the carriage that night, he had already met Gu Xiang. At that time, although Gu Xiang was surprised by the injury on Lu Li's face, she did not faint because of this, but cried, and the first words she said to Lu Li at that time, Lu Li still remembers.

"There must be a lot of pain in so many wounds......, right?

After hearing this, Lu Li's heart cried at that time.

"yes, why did the damn master be so ruthless as to throw him in and be tortured!"

Now seeing Gu Xiang say hello to him, Lu Li also nodded in the style of a senior.

"Then senior, you can walk around at will, I will go to help Gu Lao first, and if I have time, I will take you to visit this courtyard later. ”

Lu Li pretended to nod deeply and said, "Okay." ”

(To be continued)