Late at night.

The moonlight is like a match, and the cold wind is like clear water.

Li Muye walked slowly on the sheep intestine path paved with bluestone slabs behind his back with his hands behind his back, looking at the ancient trees that had grown for hundreds of years on both sides, and his expression was a little emotional.

Every plant and tree here is a symbol of ancient history.

Although the current level of science and technology of the Great Qin Empire has been extremely developed, the core area of the Qingyang Li Clan still retains the Gu style of thousands of years ago.

To be precise, not only the Li family, but also the five major families.

This is not to remind the people of their ancestral roots, nor is there a deep-seated reason for the mystery of genes.

It's just that most of the times in which the Heavenly Kings of the Zhen Clan lived were hundreds of years ago, and they were used to living in such an environment.

The mood of the king of heaven is naturally more important than anything else.

This is also the reason why Li Muye values Qin Mo so much, he will become a heavenly king, and he is extremely fast!

Li Muye walked for about ten minutes, and a three-story small building appeared in front of him, and he walked straight inside, and went up the stairs to a room by the window on the left hand side of the second floor.

There is nothing in the room, the furnishings are very simple, except for the beds, tables and chairs, there is a chessboard by the window, and the chessboard is alternately staggered in black and white.

This is the endgame of a game of Go.

Li Mou, who was sitting on the chessboard and thinking hard, didn't notice Li Muye's arrival, he frowned, twisting a sunspot in his right hand, not knowing where to drop it.

"This one should fall here."

Li Muye, who was standing quietly behind him, suddenly pointed to a certain position on the chessboard and said.

Li Mou was taken aback by him, turned his head in astonishment, and quickly got up after realizing who was coming, wanting to salute.

But as soon as he made a move, Li Muye raised his hand and pressed it on his shoulder, and said with an extremely kind smile:

"Your injuries haven't healed yet, so let's forgive these false gifts for the time being."

Seeing this, Li Mou didn't continue to insist, and asked respectfully, "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm here to visit your injuries, how have you felt these days?" Li Muye stood with his hands in his hands and said with a smile.

Hearing this, Li Mou couldn't help but feel a sense of flattery in his heart.

He knew Li Muye's status in the Li clan in Qingyang, and he also knew that he had not stepped out of the small courtyard for three years, and the things on weekdays were basically conveyed through Li Ming.

And now, Li Muye not only stepped out of the small courtyard, but also came to visit him, how could Li Mou stay calm?

"My injuries are no longer serious, and it is estimated that in another ten days and half a month, I will be able to fully recover as before." He replied honestly.

"Don't worry, you have been working hard in the imperial capital for many years, and you are afraid that your mental strength will be exhausted, so you just take this opportunity to stay here in Qingyang and recuperate."

As soon as these words came out, the depths of Li Mou's eyes suddenly flickered.

While analyzing the deep meaning of Li Muye's words in his heart, he opened his mouth tentatively:

"Now the situation in the imperial capital is complicated, if I am not there, I am afraid that I will ......"

"Hahaha."

As soon as Li Muye heard him speak, he knew what he was worried about, and he couldn't help laughing.

Then, he shook his head slowly, and then said: "Don't worry about the affairs of the imperial capital, there will be no major problems, as for the position of the head of the family......

You can rest assured that there will be no replacement of the rest of the candidates in the next ten years. ”

Hiss!

Hearing this, Li Mou suddenly gasped in his heart.

You must know that although he is the contemporary head of the Qingyang Li family, compared to the Council of Elders, his power and status are far inferior.

All it takes is a word from the Council of Elders, and he can easily replace him as the head of the family.

And vice versa.

A word from the Council of Elders can make him sit firmly in the position of the head of the family for more than ten years!

Li Muye almost made a promise to him on the surface, and the weight was very heavy.

Li Mou is not a fool, he already has a guess in his heart, something big must have happened in the outside world, otherwise how could Li Muye say this?

And to make an S-level awakened person of the ninth order and hold a lot of power react like this, this is a big thing, it seems to be ......

In Li Mou's mind, a name slowly emerged.

Qin Mo.

He couldn't think of anything else.

Li Mou's breathing unconsciously shortened by three points.

Li Muye keenly noticed this change in him, and then patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and continued:

"Li Mou, you have excavated a peerless good seedling for our Qingyang Li family, which can be said to be indispensable.

Alright, you can take care of your injuries, and I won't disturb your rest too much. ”

When the words landed, Li Muye's figure gradually changed, and suddenly disappeared in place.

Looking at the empty body, Li Mou's throat rolled, and he slowly swallowed dry saliva.

Shicai's words undoubtedly proved his conjecture, and Li Muye really came to see him because of his relationship with Qin Mo.

So, what kind of terrifying talent did Qin Mo show now?

Li Mou didn't know, and he couldn't even imagine it.

After all, it had only been a week since he left the imperial capital, and God knew how far Qin Mo's monster had grown.

"Do you mean...... This guy has been promoted to the seventh rank? ”

Li Mou frowned and muttered in a low voice.

……

……

At the same time, Li Muye, who had just visited Li Mou, had already appeared in the depths of the Li family's ancestral mansion at this time.

In front of him was a small, dilapidated courtyard.

The walls of the courtyard are covered with moss, and the roots of the walls are overgrown with weeds, which is very desolate, and it seems that no one has come to clean it for a long time.

There is such a place in the depths of the ancestral house, which seems very unreasonable no matter how you look at it.

And if you look closely at this small courtyard, you will find that the sky above the small courtyard is filled with wisps of faint yin qi, looming.

Li Muye didn't know when he put down his hand and no longer turned his back behind him.

With a respectful expression, he stepped forward and pushed open the courtyard door, raised his legs and stepped into it, only to see that in the middle of this small courtyard, there was a black jade coffin with gold trim.

The material of this coffin is very special, which can forcibly lock the vitality of the human body and delay the burning speed of the life candle flame to the greatest extent.

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"Li Muye, the seventeenth generation disciple of the Qingyang Li family, respectfully invites the third uncle to come out of the coffin."

Li Muye bent down deeply in front of the black jade coffin, and his tone was extremely serious.

His solemn voice echoed in the courtyard, and no one answered.

But Li Muye still maintained his previous posture and did not move, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of respect.

After a long time, a shrill grinding sound sounded in the silent courtyard.

Under the surging moonlight, the pitch-black coffin lid slowly moved, and a thin palm stretched out from inside.

The palm of the hand rested on the edge of the coffin, and the gap exposed quickly expanded, and a tall figure sat up from the coffin.

"Makino, you kid are so old??"

Li Muye: "......"

His lowered head twitched the corners of his mouth a few times involuntarily, and his eyes showed a look of helplessness.

"I haven't seen him for many years, but the third uncle is still in style, and he hasn't seen it back then."

"That must be, you should be a weak chicken like you?"

Li Tiangang stretched out his arms and stretched hard, and a crackling sound suddenly sounded all over his body, and the terrifying genetic power seemed to be revitalized.

He looked only in his thirties, younger than Li Muye, and he was wearing the same magnificent suit that he wore when he was lying in the coffin fifty years ago, with an extraordinary temperament and a very elegant temperament.

However, don't look at his appearance as harmless to humans and animals, but in fact he is an awakened person at the peak of the S-rank.

The pinnacle here is the pinnacle in the truest sense of the word.

Li Tiangang's own genetic power has been developed to the limit of the S-rank, and he has already touched the huge threshold that lies in front of the Heavenly King, and he is only a little short of breaking through.

But just such a trace, Li Tiangang has been gone for a full fifty years, and the genes in his body seem to have solidified, and there is no derivation.

As a last resort, he lay down in the black jade coffin and fell into a deep sleep, waiting for the day in the future, when the Li family needs him, he will wake up again.

A sleeper like Li Tiangang is actually one of the connotations of the Qingyang Li clan that has lasted for thousands of years.

This is not at all comparable to the century-old nouveau riche of the Gaoling Xia clan, they are far behind.

After Li Tiangang woke up, he moved his body back and forth a few times, and then walked out of the coffin, and asked Li Muye lazily:

"Say, what are you going to do when you wake up Lao Tzu?"

Hearing this, the corners of Li Muye's mouth couldn't help twitching a few more times, and he hurriedly said:

"I rushed to wake up the third uncle this time, I wanted to ask the third uncle to escort an unborn genius and ensure that he would not fall before he was promoted to the Heavenly King."

"Oh? The Li family has produced the Heavenly King Seed?! ”

Li Tiangang's eyes were surprised, but then the look of surprise turned into a thick envy and jealousy.

"Made, why wasn't Lao Tzu the Heavenly King Seed back then!"

Li Muye: "......"

He was suddenly speechless.

For his cynical character of the third uncle, he was not taught much in the early years.

But who would have thought that after lying in this coffin for fifty years, he still has this virtue, and it is really a dog that can't change his ......

Ahem, after all, it's an elder, you can't say that.

Li Muye had no choice but to restrain his thoughts.

And Li Tiangang, who was standing opposite him, complained casually, and seemed to recognize the reality, and said with a smile:

"Let's talk about it, which junior in which room, who is the surname, and what level is it now?"

"Uh, Third Uncle, this person is not a disciple of my Li family, but a person with a foreign surname......"

"Someone with a foreign surname? Very talented? Li Tiangang asked.

Li Muye nodded solemnly and replied: "Very strong, only seen in a thousand years, although he is only an eighth order now, he will become a heavenly king within a year!" ”

"One year...... Li Muye, you kid won't be making fun of me, right? ”

Li Tiangang's eyes widened, staring at him viciously, and a terrifying momentum erupted around him.

Seeing this, Li Muye subconsciously took a few steps back.

He hurriedly said, "Third uncle, this is really not there. ”

Subsequently, Li Muye used the fastest speed to roughly say everything about Qin Mo.

That's half an hour.

Li Tiangang was already sitting on the black jade coffin, and after hearing this, he fell into a deep silence like Li Muye, and ......

Strong self-doubt.

Qin Mo has been on top of him for more than fifty years in a year.

If it is really more popular than people, Li Tiangang suddenly felt that his heart hurt so much, it was simply painful.

He turned his head to look at Li Muye, who was standing on the side, revealing a very melancholy look, and asked, "Muye, do you think I'm a waste?" ”

Hearing this, Li Muye's expression froze on his face.

How did he take this from him?

He had to show an embarrassed smile, and then forcibly changed the subject:

"Third uncle, although Qin Mo is a person with a foreign surname, his potential is too rebellious, and he is good friends with my Li family and has a close relationship, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is half of the Li family.

Besides, the situation is complicated now, the Gaoling Xia clan is about to move, the Qi country is ambitious, the royal family of my generation of Daqin is the weakest generation, and the other four are not good things, they are all staring at that chair.

The centuries-old peace is about to cease to exist, and a new era of chaos may come at an uncertain moment.

There are quite a few talented disciples of the Li family's generation, but there is no Heavenly King Seed, so we have to prepare for the troubled times. ”

Li Muye can be described as bitter, he attaches great importance to Qin Mo's future potential, and he is ready to invest a lot of money and gamble big!

Li Tiangang heard his intentions, and saw that he put away his cynical posture, and his eyes flickered.

After a short period of thought, he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Okay, okay, a bunch of nonsense, this work Lao Tzu will take it, and he will leave tomorrow."

Taking Lao Tzu, a ninth-order S-level awakener, for a young heavenly king, this transaction is not a loss. ”

When the words landed, Li Tiangang stood tall and smiled.

"Lao Tzu just went outside to let off steam, this broken coffin has been lying for fifty years, and I don't want to fucking lie down anymore."

Listening to his heroic words, Li Muye did not reply or did not reply.

His eyes were lonely, and a sadness of Shi Shiran quietly rose in his heart.

Li Tiangang is his third uncle, he is already very old, he should have died a long time ago, but he was forcibly locked in by the black jade coffin.

Now that the coffin has been broken, the source of life has returned to its normal passing speed.

I'm afraid I'm going to the imperial capital here......

It's hard to come back.

……

……

At the same time, the other side.

Imperial capital, Shangyun District, Xia Manor.

The second floor of the castle is brightly lit, and the atmosphere in the small rooms is extremely solemn.

Xia Xuan and Xia Dongfang sat opposite each other, and their faces were very unsightly at this time.

The action against Vice Minister of Finance Fang Wen actually failed.

And it was a complete failure, and he fell into the plan set by the other party!

This news is really a big blow to Xia.

And what that means, both of them know by heart.

Xia Xuan took a deep breath, frowned, and said slowly: "I didn't expect that our Xia clan would also have internal ghosts." ”

Hearing this, Xia Dongfang took over the conversation and said: "In order to expand its strength in the past few years, the family has accepted a lot of outsiders, although it has been careful enough, it is inevitable that a few people will be mixed in.

But the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to say anything else, and the top priority is to determine what the surname of this inner ghost is, and how much secret information he knows. ”

Xia Xuan nodded slowly in agreement.

He squinted his eyes, various thoughts kept flashing through his mind, and he muttered: "It seems that the Xia clan needs to conduct a thorough investigation, as for how much this inner ghost knows, I estimate that it should be very limited."

Otherwise, long ago, he should have passed on the news to the outside world, and it would be impossible for my Xia clan to develop to this point. ”

"Makes sense."

Xia Dongfang also frowned, he thought about it carefully, and then continued: "Now that he has been so entrenched by the inner ghost, the previous plan has completely come to a standstill.

Putting aside the matter of thoroughly investigating the inner ghosts, you and I must first discuss what to do next.

The war on the border should be fought for more than half a month, and the general has no time to take care of the imperial capital, so we must not affect the major events. ”

Hearing this, Xia Xuan's brows couldn't help but furrow even tighter.

The death of Xia Jiuchuan and Xia Mei is indeed a considerable loss for the Gaoling Xia clan.

They don't have a long history like the five families, and they have never accumulated a solid family business, and it is really distressing that they are inexplicably missing an eighth order.

Xia Xuan was in an extremely bad mood now, he got up and paced back and forth in the room, and at the same time muttered to himself:

"Jiuchuan's strength is not weak, if he wants to kill him in just a quarter of an hour, the other party needs to mobilize at least two eighth-order S-level awakeners, and Li Ming must be one of these two.

Qingyang Li Clan's side has not transferred another person, which means that there are other secret back-hands, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to do this.

Who will this secret backhand be? ”

Xia Xuan fell into deep doubts, and Xia Dongfang on the side was also puzzled.

In terms of the laying of the intelligence network, Xia Xuan boasted that he had done a good job, but whether it was the mysterious force that had been targeting the Xia family, or the unknown backhand who suddenly appeared today, he did not receive any news.

Well?

Wait a minute......

Xia Xuan suddenly stopped, raised his head reluctantly, and his eyes were shining.

He keenly caught the key point from the thoughts that arose in Shicai, only to see him gasp, and then said with a solemn expression:

"Second uncle, tonight's secret backhand is probably the mysterious force that has been hiding in the shadows!"

"What do you mean......"

Xia Dongfangtong shrank abruptly, and the complicated thoughts in his mind seemed to be a mess of threads, and suddenly he suddenly became enlightened.

"The mysterious force is the person secretly cultivated by the Qingyang Li clan?"

"Not necessarily."

Xia Xuan shook his head and said, "It is also possible that the two sides reached a consensus and cooperated in some kind of exchange of interests, but no matter which one is possible......

This secret force must not be left any longer! ”

As soon as these words came out, Xia Dongfang nodded thoughtfully.

Before, they thought that the seventh order was already the limit, but in the blink of an eye, it slapped them in the face, this force even had the awakened people of the eighth order!

The eighth order of the S level, this is not a cabbage on the side of the road, where can it be said that one will pop out of one?

The sheer size of this force is far beyond their imagination, and it is really outrageous.

Xia Xuan and the others were shocked fiercely, but in addition to the shock, the killing intent was almost solid.

The mysterious forces have repeatedly hindered the Xia clan's great plans, causing huge losses to the Xia clan.

Xia Xuan deeply realized that if he didn't solve this mysterious force completely first, the trouble would only get bigger and bigger in the future.

His eyes narrowed slightly, his five fingers opened and slowly clenched, and he whispered:

"It seems that the bait is going to be a little more tricky, and I don't believe you can bear it without biting."

"Then mobilize your forces first and carry out your fishing net plan, preferably to catch them all and cut the grass and root it out."

Xia Dongfang's voice was low, his cloudy eyes gradually regained their clarity, his body straightened inch by inch, and a powerful aura erupted around his body.

"This time, I'll do it myself."