The temple attacked the Star Sword Gate without any symptoms, and Ou Zhen was stabbed to death, and then the Dongying Ronin came to challenge the Star Sword Gate. Li Tianhao has reason to believe that this series of actions was carefully planned by someone in secret.

The person behind this curtain is none other than the legendary leader of the Japanese Bandits, the Fire Evil Sect.

The Fire Evil Sect is an extremely mysterious Dongying master.

This person's martial arts are extremely high, and the legend is invincible, even if he is a Dongying martial artist, few people have seen his real person.

Legend has it that this man always wore a grimace mask when he met outsiders, and no one knew what he looked like. Those who have seen his true face have been killed by him. Not only is his martial arts unfathomable, but he also acts perversely and ferociously, kills people like hemp, is lustful and drunk, and does almost all the bad things in the world.

Originally, he was not a Japanese Kou, but a ninja of the Toei Iga faction. However, he didn't want to follow the rules of ninjas, and liked to be alone and reckless, so he joined a group of ronins to become pirates. Because of his strong martial arts and proficient in the art of power and strategy, it didn't take him a few years to gather all the Dongying pirates who were originally full of factions under his own door. Since then, the Dongying Wokou have become increasingly powerful, like a huge maritime army, and any martial arts sect, or even the local government army, is really powerless to fight alone.

The coastline of Middle-earth is too long, and the officers and soldiers are not skilled in naval warfare, so they have to defend passively, and they have never been beaten, but they are not able to conquer and suppress at all. Because of this, they have not been able to eradicate them for many years since they became a problem.

Ren Xiaoyao is a smart person, he actually understood this truth for a long time, but the Central Plains martial arts have never been united, and with the strength of the Xiaoyaomen family, it is also powerless to go to sea to conquer and suppress. When Ren Xiaoyao was young, he first competed with Ou Zhen many times, and then competed with Zhang Yu for the first place in the world, and then he was lost in the open and secret battles of the four major families. In fact, he didn't really bother to deal with the Japanese at all. The only thing he could do was to order all the martial arts factions along the south coast of the Yangtze River to unite and fight back together when the Japanese invaders came ashore. It's just that this is simply a last resort and can't solve the problem fundamentally.

Ren Xiaoyao was hit hard by the ghost in the capital, and the heart of victory immediately sank. He already knew that in his lifetime, it would be impossible to dominate the rivers and lakes and become the overlord of martial arts. However, he should be able to use the rest of his life to do a good thing for Wulin, that is, to eradicate the Japanese Bandits.

To eradicate the Japanese bandits, there is only one choice, to go to sea to conquer the nest of the Japanese bandits. Even if they can't annihilate all the pirates, they must be dealt a heavy blow, so that he will not be able to invade Middle-earth again in the future.

Fortunately, Ren Xiaoyao's decision was first supported by the Tangmen of Chuanzhong, another major family in martial arts. If you can contact the Star Sword Gate again, it will be almost half of the martial arts, and you will naturally have the strength to compete with the Japanese Kou.

Even though the martial arts of the Fire Evil Sect are world-famous, Ren Xiaoyao doesn't believe that with the many masters of the Central Plains Martial Arts, he can't take a single Dongying man.

It's just that the Fire Evil Sect has been able to plague the coast for many years, and can come and go freely, first of all, his sources must be very extensive. Most of the people who helped him find out the news were some Dongying ronin who had no sect or sect, as long as you promised them some benefits, they would be of your use.

The recent actions of the Xiaoyao Sect have already attracted the attention of the Fire Evil Sect. Because of the incompetence of the official army, the biggest enemy of the Japanese is actually the warriors of various factions along the coast, and the head of the Jiangnan martial arts is naturally Xiaoyaomen. Just defeated Xiaoyaomen, and no one dared to be an enemy of him after that.

The Fire Evil Sect then hired a large number of Dongying Ronin to find out news for them in various parts of the Central Plains. Of course, in fact, many of the so-called Dongying Ronin are simply pretended to be the Fire Evil Sect's own subordinates. The pirates came and went without a trace, and no one knew which one was the real one.

At the beginning, the Fire Evil Sect first contacted the Star Sword Sect, and after being refused, he asked Mu Tengzuo to plot against the two heads of the Star Sword Sect one after another. Subsequently, the Fire Evil Sect reached an agreement with Sheng Zhiqiang, the new lord of the Temple, to let the Temple first help him severely damage the Star Sword Gate, and then let the Dongying Ronin go up the mountain to stir up trouble, which was all planned and arranged in advance.

The legend of the Fire Evil Sect has four subordinates, which are very powerful, and in the Central Plains martial arts, ordinary people are not their opponents at all.

Li Tianhao led his disciples to the southern checkpoint of Xingjian Mountain, but saw a group of Dongying Ronin blocking the pass, threatening to learn martial arts with the masters of Xingjian Sect.

At the head were four young samurai, all dressed in similar clothes, all carrying swords

"It seems that these Dongying ronins are quite polite, and they did not launch a sneak attack directly without warning like the temple, but openly threatened to challenge.

As the saying goes, open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to defend.

If the temple hadn't been raided without warning, how could it have inflicted heavy damage on the Star Sword Gate? In a head-to-head confrontation, with the current strength of the Temple, it can only suffer a loss, and it will not be able to take any advantage at all.

"Old man Li Tianhao, he is the head of the Star Sword Gate, since you want to challenge the Star Sword Gate, can you report your names first?" Li Tianhao also said very politely.

"You're the head of the Star Sword Sect? Didn't you say that the head of the Star Sword Sect was called Ou Zhen? One of the leaders asked, seemingly unaware that Ou Zhen was dead.

"I won't hide it from you, the previous head Ou Zhen has passed away, and the old man just took over the position of head a few days ago." Li Tianhao replied.

"Oh! I see. Since you are the master, then we will look for you. My name is Suzuki, I am a small character who has no door and no faction in Dongying, I have heard for a long time that the martial arts of Xingjian Sect are broad and profound, and the swordsmanship is even more unique in martial arts, so I specially came to ask for advice with some friends in Dongying, I believe that Master Li should not hesitate to give advice! "Suzuki is also very polite, not at all like he is looking for trouble.

"Well said. Since you have come from afar, the Star Sword Sect will naturally treat each other with courtesy. It's just that the sword has no eyes, and if you're not careful, Ji is afraid that it will hurt the harmony. Li Tianhao said tentatively.

"Master Li can rest assured that the Dongying warriors only pursue the truth of martial arts, and life and death have long been put aside. Since Master Li accepted the challenge, he should choose a day to sacrifice to the sky, compete solemnly, and win or lose, which is the way of hospitality. Suzuki was serious, not at all joking.

"To compete in martial arts, do you have to choose a day to worship heaven and earth?" Nangong Feiying even asked suspiciously.

Li Tianhao didn't know what the other party wanted to do, and saw that there were a lot of people coming from the other party, and he didn't know how many people were hiding in the shadows, so in order to avoid passivity, he had to agree first: "Okay, since Mr. Suzuki said so, I will do what Mr. wants."