The conditions offered by the Wei State are not much different from what they opened before, they are still a large amount of resources and spirit stones as gifts, and they cede a county in Hezhou, and there are no additional benefits.

However, the ghost-faced god Chen Man, breaking through to the law phase, is above the scales, throwing a heavy weight.

After learning this information, it was easy to think of why Wei dared to make such a big move against Qi now.

Changes in the external environment are, of course, an important factor. In the west of the world, Great Qin began their expansion strategy, which turned the world upside down. This will make many countries have to pay attention to the Qin State, and they have no time to deal with what Great Wei is doing.

The most direct ones are the Liang State and the Chu State, which were originally bordered by the Wei State.

For Wei, this was indeed an opportunity to expand while Qin was expanding.

But just that, their actions are still too bold and radical. In any case, there is Dayan in the north and Dawu in the south, and if these two countries intervene, it will obviously be difficult for Wei's expansion plan to succeed.

But if the 'Ghost-Faced God' Chen Man had recently advanced to become a Dharma Phase Stage cultivator, then the whole thing could be connected.

One more law phase, which means that in the national war, Wei will have a very heavy weight, so much so that it can affect the outcome of the entire overall situation.

The most concentrated performance is here in Yan Guo, after learning the news, he was immediately unmoved.

Isn't it obvious that people have revealed this news?

That's a warning.

What's more, the monks of the Dharma Phase Period possessed by the Wei State were actually not the only ones in Xia Cang. Generally speaking, from the perspective of various countries, most people tend to believe that Wei originally had two phases.

Of course, Xia Cang is the one who is put on the surface, and he is very strong. But Wei should also have a law minister, because all forces - not only the state - have some information, and some of the actions that should be done by Wei are suspected to be the law minister's actions, but they are not Xia Cang's doing.

When such information accumulates a lot, then in the Wei State, in addition to Xia Cang, there is also a law minister, which is quite credible. Even, among various intelligence sources, some candidates can even be finalized: there are five Yuanying monks in the Wei State whose reputation is not usually revealed, and it is believed that they may be hiding their strength, which is actually the level of the law phase.

But among these people, there is no such thing as the ghost-faced god Chen Man.

Although Chen Man was already considered to be a monk in the late Yuanying period and even the peak of Yuanying many years ago, he was not listed as a candidate in the Fa phase period in the intelligence of all parties. Although he is very mysterious, he is actually not very old, and according to the other law of the earliest Wei State, when the signs were revealed, the ghost-faced god was only in the Jindan period.

No matter how disguised it is, it will not be able to disguise itself as Jindan.

And the ghost-faced god has become the law phase, which means that Wei may not have come forward in the law phase period now, and there are still two.

Yan Guo goes south?

What should I do if I bump into two people head-on?

If this matter can be confirmed, then Yan Guo's southward action really needs to be considered more carefully.

But...... Speaking of which, there is another thing that cannot be ignored: Is Wei Guo deceiving people?

The intelligence officers of Jinyiwei who were lurking in Wei did not come with corresponding news. After Lu Chaoxi reported this matter to the Yunxiao Sect, they also said that they had not received any information in this regard.

This situation is very interesting.

It cannot be decisively judged whether the envoys of Wei are lying, but at least this possibility exists.

If you are frightened by such a simple lie, then the matter will seem very humiliating, but if you don't believe it, the result is true, and you hit your head and break the blood, it is not a good thing.

This matter has to be clarified.

The Yunxiao Sect will mobilize its own intelligence capabilities and find a way to figure this matter out. Here in the Lu Imperial Court, of course, Lu Wenen also received an order to make every effort to find out the truth.

In addition to the intelligence system of the two major forces of Yan State, there are also some sources of information that can be testified.

Within two days, Lu Wenen met with the envoys of many countries in Yanguo.

The information that these envoys have is actually quite important. Even if some people don't have a serious identity, such as the Chu State, they just sent a foundation building monk over, but it doesn't matter, what they don't know, they can contact the corresponding country behind them to inquire.

There was a lot of information that came back one after another.

For example, the Qi State insisted that they had not received this kind of information, and believed that it was impossible for Chen Man to enter the Faxiang period so quickly.

For example, the envoys of Chu and Liang finally gave ambiguous meanings, thinking that this matter was possible, but they were not particularly certain.

Wu Guo said with more certainty that the ghost-faced god was very likely to have broken through to the law phase.

There are contradictions between these claims, and they are not entirely credible. For example, Qi State, they were worried that Yan State would not send troops, so they naturally tried their best to deny this matter in order to dispel Yan Guo's concerns. In this way, their words are not so credible.

The news given by Chu and Liang was vague, and they wanted to muddy the water.

Wu Guo's affirmative statement is a bit confusing what their attitude is.

In the final analysis, the statements of various countries can only be referred to. There are too many things mixed in with the position, and in essence, like the warnings of the Wei envoys, they can only be passively listened to, but they cannot really be used as a basis for decision-making.

On the one hand, the Lu Clan and the Yunxiao Sect still have to continue to study, thinking about what they should do if they are faced with multiple situations.

In addition, Wen En's side also made a desperate effort to explore this matter clearly.

The Jinyi guards lurking in the two countries of Qi and Wei began to turn their energies and deal with this matter. It's okay for Qi to go and see if Qi State's intelligence system has gotten any information about the ghost-faced god.

In this matter, the most important thing to make efforts must be the Jinyi Wei arranged in the Wei State.

Lu Wenen looked at the south from afar, and silently thought in his heart:

"Uncle Mingheng...... It's up to you. ”

......

Lu Mingheng has joined Jinyiwei for nearly 20 years. At the beginning, when he first entered the Jinyi Guard, it was only in the foundation building period, and now, he is already a monk on the fourth layer of Qiming.

Speaking of which, his cultivation progress is also extremely fast in the Lu family, which is full of geniuses. He is only seventy-three years old this year, and he has already reached the realm of the fourth layer of enlightenment, which is of course very fast.

Of course, there are many people in the Lu family who are faster and stronger than him. But in this regard, there is nothing unbalanced about his mentality. Those real geniuses in the family, single spirit roots, and even heavenly spirit roots, they are only double spirit roots, and their natural talents are a little different, and there is no way to do it.

The path of cultivation, with good talent, is indeed of great help, whether it is in the initial stage or in the upper limit of the later stage.

But the world doesn't really say that talent is everything.

At the end of the day, the level of personal understanding, the opportunity, the degree of effort in the cultivation, and the direction of the effort...... These are perhaps more important. You don't see, Zou Ziwu, the former prime minister of Dayan, is only a second spirit root, but he stands firmly at the Yuanying level.

What's more, Lu Mingheng knew that he seemed to be a very special person.

Ever since he was very young, in his early teens, when he officially started his practice, some spiritual realizations always popped up in his mind. Even he didn't know where this realization came from at first.

Later, as he grew older, his parents and others said that he looked more and more like his own grandfather, Lu Chaoheng, one of the nine ancestors of the family.

The day when Chaoheng Shouyuan was exhausted was also the time when he was born.

In his opinion, this is a great fate.

And when he himself was older, he faintly felt that he was the reincarnation of his grandfather, and there would always be some memories in his mind that did not belong to him, but actually belonged to his grandfather.

At first, he was afraid that one day he would not be himself, but later, as he got older, he realized that this was only good for himself, not bad.

These memories will not affect his own thoughts, let alone make him change his temperament. On the contrary, those spiritual realizations made him take a lot fewer detours on the path of cultivation, at least at the level of Qi cultivation, so that he walked very steadily at the beginning of the path of cultivation. Not only did his cultivation progress advance faster than that of the family cultivators in the same period who were even more talented than him, but his foundation was also unexpectedly stable.

In addition to the benefits of cultivation, there is also a point, that is, after awakening the memories of many grandfathers Lu Chaoheng, Lu Mingheng knows a lot of family past, and has a deeper understanding of the family's past hardships and how difficult it is to get to the present. At the same time, the memories of these predecessors have also increased his knowledge and wisdom, so that when he thinks about things, his thoughts will be more comprehensive, and his personality will become more stable.

These are all positive benefits.

The rapid progress of cultivation allowed him to avoid many detours, and soon entered the foundation building period and even the enlightenment period. Although, those realizations are actually gone after the foundation building period, but the path of cultivation is like this, one step at a time, step by step. Starting quickly and steadily, that's obviously beneficial.

At the same time, his more stable and meticulous personality has also allowed him to perform a lot well in various family affairs and make a lot of contributions.

In addition, Lu Weiwen, who is nominally his son and nephew, but is actually more than ten years older than him, often gives him a lot of care and intends to help. He himself is also competitive, so after he advanced to the enlightenment period, he became a backbone member of the family that he relied on, and he was also placed on high hopes by the family, and he was the star of hope for the future.

After entering the Jinyi Guard, he also made many meritorious contributions.

And such an excellent performance also gave him more important responsibilities: seven years ago, when he was only on the second floor of Qiming, he was specially sent to Wei State, responsible for taking over and establishing Dayan's intelligence system in Wei State, and was given the position of Jinyi Wei Zhen Fu Envoy.

Originally, this system existed. But after the great changes in the Yan Kingdom, the connection with the new imperial court in China became very problematic. When the Lu Dynasty was just newly established, domestic affairs were also in a mess, and there was really not much energy to manage the intelligence system located abroad, and this matter was put on hold.

Fortunately, they themselves do not have much information about the new dynasty, and their loss of control will not cause too many problems.

However, in the absence of an intelligence system, this problem must be solved. Not long after the establishment of Jinyiwei, he had already started to deal with this matter, and seven years ago, Lu Mingheng, one of the important members of the Lu family, was sent over.

According to the original plan, Ming Heng would stay in Wei for about ten years. A lot of the cultivation resources used during this period have been prepared, so there is no need to worry too much about personal problems. And his task is to rebuild the intelligence system here and bring it under the control of Jinyiwei.

You don't need to start from scratch, but it's no less difficult than starting from scratch.

After all, the intelligence system of the former Yan State is still left over from the Wei State. These inheritances, of course, can be inherited.

However, the new intelligence system cannot rely too much on the old ones. After all, these former intelligence personnel all belonged to the old Great Yan Imperial Court, and when Li Shiwen was preparing to make a breakthrough in the law phase, he colluded with the Wei State, and it is difficult to guarantee how many of the Yan State's former intelligence systems have been exposed to the Wei State's sight; even those who were not exposed still have the possibility of betraying the Yan State and collaborating with the enemy.

The screening process is even more difficult than reconstruction.

But in the past seven years, Lu Mingheng has done a good job. The betrayers who should be disposed of have been disposed of, those who should have been received have been successfully received, and the parts that have been rebuilt by themselves can also function normally.

And now, the task coming from the Great Yan country is the first and most important test faced by the Jinyi Wei State Branch led by Lu Mingheng.

After taking on the task very carefully, he quickly jumped into action himself.

Jinyiwei is in the territory of Wei State, where did you come from, after all, there is some accumulation of information. A well-known Yuanying monk like the Ghost Face God, and someone who had been involved with the Faceless Society in the Yan Kingdom back then, of course, needs to be paid attention to.

In this way, the relevant intelligence collection is not starting from scratch.

Under careful investigation, Lu Mingheng probably figured out the location of the ghost-faced god Chen Man at the moment.

After Lu Mingheng confirmed that there was no problem with the information, he left the capital of Great Wei, Xudu, and headed southeast to Huhan County.

Huhan County is located a little south of the border between Xuzhou and Zhaizhou.

According to the intelligence, Chen Man should have lived in a valley southwest of Huhan County.

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