Chapter 52: The Undercurrent Under Blackstone City
For example, the selection and absorption of talents by the Xuan Gang, as well as several special institutions set up by the Xuan Gang. It has a reference role for the dark web and Liu Qing.
On this day, the Supervision Department arrested several people of unknown origin, and after severe torture, it was finally found out that they were secret agents of the royal family. The news reported to Liu Qing made her very angry and a little uneasy at the same time.
Although the royal family spies are all over the world, there is almost no place in the entire Qingxuan Empire that is not there. All the city lords knew this, but everyone just turned a blind eye and pretended not to know, and no one was bored. This has become a tacit understanding.
However, since Liu Qing took charge of Blackstone City, using the ranking and resources obtained in the city youth meeting, Blackstone City has developed rapidly, and Liu Qing has set up a supervision office according to Xiao Che's suggestion to completely control Blackstone City. All the gangs in the area where Black Rock City is located are in Liu Qing's hands, without any exceptions, and even the secret agents and eyeliners of the royal family can't get in.
The way to deal with these royal agents is very simple, the Supervision Department will either find some charges and openly arrest them, or secretly act to kill them through the forces in the rivers and lakes of Black Rock City controlled by Liu Qing. Therefore, the entire Black Rock City is like an iron plate, and the needle cannot be inserted into the water and splashed in.
This situation has aroused the alarm of Nanshan County and the royal family. They all sent a large number of spies to Blackstone City, and this is the situation right now.
Listening to Liu Qing's explanation of the situation in Black Rock City, Xiao Che was not surprised, and soon he came up with a way to deal with it. The spies of the royal family and Nanshan County are generally local residents of Black Rock City. Or once a resident of Blackstone. These people already know something about Black Rock City, and no matter what, they also have a lot of relatives and friends in Black Rock City, which can be regarded as having some foundations.
Liu Qing's punishment of these people was extremely severe, and once he found out, he would exterminate his family. In the past, it was because some people didn't believe it, and for this reason, Liu Qing set off a bloody storm in Black Rock City. Now the lives of the residents of Blackstone City are getting better and better. Naturally, not many people are willing to defy the wind. Still, there are people who do it secretly. Now with the help of the dark web, Blackstone City is equivalent to three layers of the most rigorous investigation.
No matter where you come from, you have to pass through the range where the dark web is located, and most of the spies are detected in this layer. Even if a few fish slip through the net, it will be difficult for them to escape the detection of the Supervision Department in Blackstone City again. What's more, the law enforcement team on the surface is no worse than the Inspectorate.
Under such close supervision, Black Rock City is basically a forbidden place for spying.
The royal family and the Nanshan County Royal Mansion are not fools either. They sent Venerable Realm warriors to openly go. However, in this way, it cannot be regarded as a secret agent, it can be said to be a clear agent. This is the choice of the royal family and the Nanshan County Royal Mansion in desperation.
Although they all knew that these Venerable Realm martial artists couldn't find anything at all, at least it was not bad to be able to enter Black Rock City.
However, their calculations were all miscalculated because of the arrival of Xiao Che and Qing Xuan Ling'er.
These Venerable Realm martial artists came to Black Rock City, and Liu Qing, as the city lord, naturally got the news as soon as possible, and then she informed Xiao Che of the matter. Soon, Xiao Che made a decision.
According to Xiao Che's suggestion, Liu Qing selected a large number of people outside Black Rock City, as well as a large number of people in the city, and asked them to pretend to be sent or rebelled by the royal family and the Nanshan County Government. Of course, the number of people cannot be large, but they are all loyal.
On the other hand, for these Venerable Realm martial artists who are not good, it is naturally Xiao Che who solves them.
That night, a Venerable Realm martial artist had just come out of the restaurant in Black Rock City. He took the initiative to take the task assigned by the royal family this time. Not for anything else, just for the reward of this mission. Generous enough for him.
He was a civilian-born warrior, and the reason why he accepted this task was because he needed a large amount of spirit coins. He had an unsuccessful son and a wife with an outrageous personality. His wife was married to him very early. At that time, his wife was the eldest lady of a local family.
For him at that time, it was an extremely honorable thing to marry a young lady from a large local family, and his parents were also very proud of him. However, his wife was not kind to his parents. It can be said that I look down on them in my heart.
Life after marriage made him even more resentful. His wife was often vexatious. He didn't let his parents come to see him for a long time. Even before his old father died, he never saw his last face. This made him hate his wife very much in his heart.
Because his father died, his mother was getting thinner and thinner, and it didn't take long for him to die. His wife didn't have any emotions about it. To his wife, the second elder is a passerby who is not important at all.
Many times, he even had the idea of killing his wife, but her gave birth to a son for him. His parents also wanted them to have a good life. It was very painful for him. Fortunately, his efforts were rewarded, and he finally cultivated into a Venerable Realm martial artist.
That's why his wife's family is looking at each other. For this kind of local family. The Venerable Realm is the strongest person in the family. His wife's family had a total of three Venerable Realm martial artists, namely his wife's father, his father-in-law, grandfather, and one of his wife's uncles.
He was the fourth Venerable Realm Martial Artist of this family.
Ever since he had ascended to the Venerable Realm, his wife's attitude towards him had been very different from before. His wife's martial arts talent is not strong, and her cultivation has only barely reached the level of Tongtian Realm by relying on her family resources.
However, because her father, grandfather and uncle loved her very much, this made her character become rude and willful. When they got married, he was just an ordinary Heaven Melting Realm martial artist. This is very common in his wife's family, not to mention grabbing a handful. With his hard work. His cultivation is increasing day by day. But even if he had cultivated to the Hetian Realm, his wife's attitude towards him was still the same as before.
Until he entered the Venerable Realm by chance. And his wife was no longer in front of him, and she was calling to him as she had been before. It made him feel better. The attitude of his wife's family towards him was even more respectful, which made his long-suppressed heart have a strong sense of pleasure.
The reason why he was able to advance to the Venerable Realm was entirely because he became an agent of the royal family by chance. These were the things he had earned in exchange for selling his own family.
His wife's family had been given a treasure. And choose to hide it. But the royal family got the news nowhere. It just so happened that this treasure was exactly what an important member of the royal family needed. So the royal family first sent people to pretend to be merchants to buy. However, his wife's father refused to give in.
So after many unsuccessful negotiations, the royal family rebelled against him, who was already in the late stage of the Hetian Realm at that time. The condition of the royal family is to obtain this treasure, and in exchange, the royal family recruits him as a secret agent and gives him a chance to enter the Venerable realm.
Knowing that the other party was actually a member of the royal family, he was able to break through the Supreme Realm with great confidence, and he agreed to this matter without hesitation in the midst of desire, ambition, and resentment towards his wife's family for so many years.
So he and the royal family made a plan, and he found a way to let the old man transfer the treasure, while the royal family on the other side ambushed on the way, killing people and taking the treasure. The plan went very well. Naturally, his father-in-law would not suspect him.
According to his suggestion, in order to avoid arousing suspicion, this escort team deliberately selected a martial artist who was not too high. Because of him, the team was wiped out by the royal team disguised as bandits.
This result hit his father-in-law hard, and it was also a heavy blow to his wife's family. But even so, he was not suspected. After all, his son is very much loved by his father-in-law. And as the son-in-law of the family, he naturally will not be suspicious.
In this way, he became one of the royal agents. His son's cultivation talent is not very good. can only rely on the accumulation of resources, and now his son sees that he is married at an age, but he is too scumbag because of his cultivation. It's hard to marry a good daughter-in-law. In order to make his son's cultivation even better, he had to take on this task this time.
It had been five days since he came to Black Rock City, and he had been feeling that someone was watching him for the past five days, but he didn't take it to heart, he clearly sensed that the cultivation of those people was not as good as the Heavenly Realm. There was no threat to him at all.
Even this mission was very simple for him. All he had to do was record what he saw and heard in Blackstone City and pass it on.
At this time, he would not have thought that a fatal crisis would await him.
At this hour, there were no people in sight on the streets of Black Rock City, only people who came home late after drinking. He walked as always, like a traveler on vacation. At this time, I saw a tall man in black appear in front of me.
He immediately used his spiritual power to sense the strength of the other party, but when his spiritual energy swept in front of him, he didn't sense anything. In this case, either this person has no cultivation at all, or his cultivation is far beyond his own, or there is some treasure on his body that is isolated from detection.
It was impossible to do without cultivation, and he was extremely sure that this person was definitely not here before, but suddenly appeared at some point. It can be seen that this person's cultivation is definitely not weak, which makes him feel that there is a danger of nothingness.
He immediately used the spiritual power of his whole body, since the other party was not good, it was better for him to strike first. At that moment, he took the initiative to attack. It was too late, it was too fast, but I saw that his spiritual weapon had arrived in his hand at some point, and his body rushed to deal with it with all his might. He wanted to deal a fatal blow to the mysterious man in black.
I saw that the mysterious man in black didn't see his attack, and he just turned to one side slightly, and he dodged this violent blow. Then the man in black had an extra sword in his hand at some point. The next moment His Holiness knew that he was finished, and at the last moment of his life, the only thing he regretted was that he really shouldn't have taken on this seemingly easy task. Before that, he would never have imagined that he would leave his life in this small Black Rock City.
No wonder the rewards of this mission are so rich, this mission is indeed extremely dangerous, and the water in Black Rock City is really deep enough. In the last moments of his life, he could never have imagined that what came to his mind was the face of his wife whom he loved and hated.
A Venerable One died quietly. The mysterious man in black who shot was none other than Xiao Che.
At this time, he naturally used the Spirit Devouring Sword, and when the Spirit Devouring Sword pierced the body of this Venerable, all the spiritual power on his body was devoured by the Spirit Devouring Sword, and in the end, even his life force was devoured.
This was the first Venerable Realm martial artist that Xiao Che had killed to enter Black Rock City. In the next few days, under Xiao Che's repeated actions, the Venerable Realm sent by the royal family and Nanshan County was all wiped out.
These Venerable Realm martial artists disappeared silently. Even the royal family and the Nanshan County Royal Mansion did not get the news in the first place.
And the people living in Blackstone City didn't know anything about it at all, they didn't know when these Venerables entered Blackstone City, let alone when they disappeared. Even if anyone has seen them, they only think of them as passing travelers.
In this way, in the past few days, several Venerable Beings have died at Xiao Che's hands. On the other side, according to Xiao Che's plan, the people of Black Rock City who infiltrated the royal family and the Nanshan County Palace's secret agents have also taken action.
According to Liu Qing's instructions, most of them will be "captured", and only one or two people will successfully "infiltrate" Black Rock City. This is done in a virtual and real way. So that the royal family and the people of the Nanshan County Royal Mansion can't tell the truth from the fake at all.
And Xiao Che's purpose was achieved. This can not only reassure the royal family and the king of Nanshan County, but also make them think that they can grasp the dynamics of Black Rock City, so that they will not send a stronger force to destroy the Liu family. And let them not get the information of the core of Black Rock City.
On the other hand, the Liu family would also send people to the palace of Nanshan County to pay tribute to him. This allows for a multi-pronged approach that can make the Liu family and Black Rock City impregnable. In addition, Xiao Che will also use the power of the Qingxuan family to secretly give the greatest support to Black Rock City.
This made Liu Qing very relieved. However, Liu Qing had already sent the people of the Liu family incognito to all parts of the empire a long time ago, so that even if the Liu family suffered a catastrophe, it would leave the seeds of continuation. These are all things that Liu Qing and Xiao Che learned when they were in Qingxuan City. Even Xiao Che didn't expect Liu Qing to live and apply like this.
In the following days, the royal family and Nanshan County naturally paid much less attention to Black Rock City, and the dark tide in Black Rock City also calmed down a lot. For the royal family, what they are most afraid of is rebellion in various places, and since Black Rock City has no such intention, no matter how much they toss, they don't need to pay attention to it.
However, the royal family would never have thought that all this was because of Xiao Che.
And Black Rock City is just the beginning.
In this way, the Black Rock City with Xiao Che finally stopped, which made Liu Qing also breathe a sigh of relief. She has been the most stressed in recent years. Now she can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
This made Xiao Che feel even more guilty about Liu Qing in his heart. Xiao Che is like this, whoever is good to him, he will be doubly good to whom.
These days, Chen Dong comes frequently. This made him and Liu Qing more and more familiar. Xiao Che saw that the relationship between Liu Qing and Chen Dong was getting better and better, and he was also happy for them.
After solving these things in Black Rock City, Xiao Che was finally able to do his own thing. He was going to the place where Grandpa Xiao was buried, and then he would have a look.
The reason why he had settled the matter of Black Rock City first was because he wanted to be able to share some of the responsibilities that belonged to him for Liu Qing.
Now that the matter is settled, Xiao Che went to Grandpa Xiao's crystal coffin.
He was in a conflicted mood right now, on the one hand he couldn't wait to get there right away, and on the other hand he was very nervous. This feeling can only be understood by those who have experienced it.
On this day, Xiao Che, Liu Qing, Ling'er, and Chen Dong came to Grandpa Xiao's crystal coffin together. At the beginning, Xiao Che buried Grandpa Xiao in a mountain. It used to be a natural cave entrance, but Xiao Che had to make a lot of effort to block the cave entrance.
However, Xiao Che's cultivation is naturally not the same as it was at the beginning. I saw Xiao Che condense the spiritual power in his palm, and the next moment Xiao Che stuck one palm on the hole in his memory, only to hear a bang, a hole appeared in front of him, and the original stone blocking the hole was turned into powder under Xiao Che's perfect control.
This hand shocked Liu Qing and Chen Dong. It is not difficult to open this cave with their strength, but it is difficult to be able to control it perfectly and reduce it to dust. Only Ling'er rubbed her nose and was not so surprised.
Ling'er's expression, Liu Qing and Chen Dong both saw it in their eyes. Through getting along these days, they also know that Ling'er's strength is very strong, not as weak as she seems on the surface. Liu Qing and Chen Dong also asked Xiao Che Ling'er about her cultivation.
It's just that Xiao Che told them quite mysteriously that Ling'er is a big master. Although there is a joke in these words, both of them know that if these words can come out of Xiao Che's mouth, they will naturally not be fake, Ling'er is definitely a master. This made Liu Qing and Chen Dong couldn't help but be shocked.
Seeing Ling'er's light and breezy appearance now, they feel Ling'er's mystery even more.
Xiao Che did not tell them Ling'er's true identity. This is not that Xiao Che deliberately concealed it, the Qingxuan family is too mythical and incredible for them. It's not a good thing for them, and it can cause a lot of trouble.
And Xiao Che believes that once the two of them learn Ling'er's true identity, they are afraid that they will no longer be as comfortable as they are now in front of Ling'er.
After all, to the people of the Qingxuan Empire, the Qingxuan family is a god-like existence.
Xiao Che walked in front and took out a lamp burning stone. I saw that the cave was illuminated all at once.
The Burning Lamp Stone is extremely rare, and it is a spirit stone that contains light attributes. It's just that people with light-attribute talents are even rarer than light-attribute spirit stones. This allows these light attribute spirit stones to be used for other purposes. Making a lampstone is one of its functions.
For other martial artists, although this thing is useless, but because it is scarce, the price of each light attribute spirit stone is very high. This lamp burning stone was given to him by Qing Xuance before he came to Black Rock City to set off.
At this time, the lampstone trembled slightly in Xiao Che's hand, which let the three of them know how complicated the emotions in Xiao Che's heart were at this time.
After all, for a Venerable Realm martial artist who was on full alert and vigilant at all times, even the slightest emotion of this kind could be killed by a sneak attack.
They also involuntarily felt a little distressed about Xiao Che.