Yanzhou City has four major families, Gu, Shi, Sun, and Ge, who are in charge of the four major businesses of transportation, money, grain, and medicine in Yanzhou City, and it can be said that the commercial lifeline of Yanzhou is controlled by the four major families. The four major families did not develop overnight. Youlong County is in the westernmost part of the Qinglong Continent, and near Yanzhou is the vast and boundless Green Cloud Swamp, which was originally a barren place. At the time of the Great War of Immortals and Demons, a group of people were the first to flee here, and after the war subsided, they settled down on the spot and gradually developed into a village. Due to its remote location, it is very inconvenient to travel. At that time, it was the ancestors of the four major families of Gu, Shi, Sun and Ge who reclaimed the wasteland and built the roads with their own hands, and after decades of hard work, they had a decent small city. At that time, the people discussed and named the city Yanzhou because they wanted the fruits of this hard work to continue for a long time. In the peaceful and prosperous era, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and Yanzhou gradually developed into a pearl in the western part of the Qinglong Continent.

In this way, the status of the four major families was also established in Yanzhou City. Hundreds of years have passed, and the descendants of the four major families have deceived each other for their own interests, and they have long forgotten how their ancestors worked together to open up the wasteland.

The head of the Gu family is named Gu Xinnan, who is over eighty years old, although his beard and hair are white, but because of his long-term physical fitness, he looks radiant and has a more open-minded personality, but if someone endangers the interests of the Gu family, it is not a joke for him to start a fire.

The head of the Shi family is a middle-aged man, named Shi Mohuai, with eyes as big as copper bells, a pair of sword eyebrows upside down, and a full beard, even covering his mouth. Tall, sturdy, without a single hair on the top of his head, shiny and shiny, he didn't look like the patriarch of a big family, but like a bandit leader in the mountains.

Ge Wenlong, the head of the Ge family, is the youngest among the three, with white skin, very rich, small eyes, and often squinted, with his fleshy face, a bit like a big bun. Those who know him well know that he is an iron rooster, and it is even more difficult to pluck a hair on him than to climb to the sky.

This time, the head of the Sun family suddenly fell ill and died, and there was infighting in the family because of the competition for the position of the head of the family, and the three of them were originally very happy. They wished that the Sun family would collapse, so that they could divide the Sun family's property in Yanzhou City, but the city lord Zhou Hexing forcibly intervened in the internal dispute of the Sun family, which made them feel cold. Zhou Hexing has relied on the power of the city lord to forcibly obtain a lot of benefits from the hands of the four major families, and they have always dared not speak out. This beauty pageant seems fair, but in fact, Zhou Hexing's daughter has the advantage. Who would have thought that Sun Songxing was lucky and found Zhu Xiaomin to help, which disrupted the wishful thinking of Zhou Hexing and the fourth aunt of the Sun family in one fell swoop.

The patriarch of the three major families was happy when he saw Zhou Hexing leaving angrily, and he was suddenly startled by that loud shout, and his heart suddenly became angry, who in Yanzhou City saw them not respectfully? Even Zhou Hexing had to be polite and polite on the surface, and no one dared to shout at them loudly in such a tone.

Shi Mohuai is a somewhat domineering person, hearing that the person who shouted just now was a female voice, he turned around and yelled: "Which guy has eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and he dares to ......" As soon as he said this, he couldn't continue, and his eyes couldn't stare.

The woman standing behind the three of them, dressed in white, with green silk hanging down her shoulders, fair skin, and a beautiful face, was the No. 2 girl on the stage. She is Zhou Hexing's daughter, Zhou Manyun. At this time, she frowned, stared, and looked angry.

Seeing Shi Mohuai standing awkwardly, Ge Wenlong hurriedly came to play a round: "Old Shi, I told you a long time ago not to be impulsive when you encounter something, but you just don't listen, and you can't see who it is?" After that, he said to Zhou Manyun: "Miss Zhou, Old Shi is such a stinky temper, don't take it to heart." ”

Zhou Manyun snorted coldly from her nose and didn't answer. Gu Xinnan walked over and asked, "I don't know why Miss Zhou stopped us?"

Zhou Manyun was aggressive: "What's the matter? Do you still have to pretend to be stupid? Let me ask you, why did you give me such a low score just now? Dou Yi only gave me seven points, and the last Dou Mei only gave me seven points, how can I not compare to the number three?"

Zhou Manyun has lived the life of an eldest lady since she was a child, she eats well, dresses well, dresses well, and her own conditions are also good, coupled with the praise of the flattering people around her, she has always been complacent about her outstanding appearance. Later, after entering the Yulan Sect to practice, he was also regarded as the pearl of the palm by the senior brothers because of his lovely appearance. Therefore, Zhou Manyun is used to being arrogant, and now she is losing to others in her most proud appearance, how can she accept it?

"Miss Zhou, this score is the result of our careful consideration, and we think it is very fair. Besides, City Lord Zhou didn't say anything just now. Ge Wenlong smiled cautiously.

"Hmph, fair? Where is it fair, why don't I think it? I tell you, don't think that my father is about to become the lord of the city, you can rest easy. As long as my father is the city lord for one day, you will not have good fruit to eat!" Zhou Manyun was really angry, in fact, even if Zhou Hexing had always been in the position of the city lord, it was impossible to follow her instigation and be detrimental to the patriarchs of the three major families.

"What a rude lady. As the saying goes, 'There are people outside of people, and there is heaven outside of heaven', don't you know?" a voice came from behind.

Zhou Manyun, who was already angry, heard that someone dared to teach her a lesson, her lungs were about to explode, and when she looked back, it was the third girl who won her in appearance, Zhu Xiaomin.

As soon as she saw that it was her, Zhou Manyun immediately vented her anger on her, and her mouth popped out like a series of words: "I, Zhou Manyun, can also be taught a lesson? You are also worthy? What are you? What if you win? In the future, at most, I will be the daughter-in-law of the Sun family, I am an excellent disciple of the Yulan Sect, and when you become an ugly old woman in your seventies and eighties, I will be as beautiful as now." A mortal like you doesn't even have the qualifications to talk to me, get out of here!"

This was so ugly that Zhu Xiaomin suddenly became angry, and sneered at each other sharply: "If you lose, you lose, you are uglier than me." What about the eldest lady and excellent disciple, you don't have any energy at all? You also listen well, when I am seventy or eighty, I will still look better than you!"

"Haha......" The people around laughed when they heard it, only Sun Songxing was very anxious, he didn't dare to offend Zhou Manyun, but it was not easy to come forward to stop Zhu Xiaomin, who helped him.

"You!" Zhou Manyun raised her hand angrily, and was about to give Zhu Xiaomin a slap.

Zhu Xiaomin grabbed Zhou Manyun's wrist and said sharply: "Who do you think you are, you can beat people casually? Others are afraid of you, but I am not afraid!" With that, she shook her hand casually and pushed Zhou Manyun back several steps.

"Okay, little sister, don't be so impulsive. Anyway, the result is decided, ignore her, let's go. Xiao Liying was worried that things would be big and it would not be good to fight. Zhu Xiaomin answered, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Stop!" Zhou Manyun shouted behind him.

Zhu Xiaomin didn't even look back. Zhou Manyun originally wanted to catch up, but the patriarchs of the three major families on the side hurriedly persuaded him to stop him.

"Alas, Miss Zhu, why do you bother? That Zhou Manyun's brutality is famous, her family is not small, and her Yulan Sect, which cultivates immortals, is also a well-known big sect in Youlong County, offending her is not good for you or our Sun family. Sun Songxing had a bitter face, quite helpless.

Zhu Xiaomin pouted: "What if the family is big, I'm not afraid." What Yulan Sect, that kind of small sect, I have never heard of. "At best, the Yulan Sect is relatively famous near Yanzhou City in Youlong County, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a powerful sect, compared to the Taiqing Sect, it is a small thing.

Frightened, Sun Songxing hurriedly persuaded: "Girl, don't say that again." The people of the Yulan Sect are all masters of cultivating immortals, if it reaches their ears, it will be easy to take your life with their means!"

Zhu Xiaomin was still disdainful, but he didn't bother to explain, so he simply shrugged his shoulders and said no more. After Sun Songxing sent everyone back to the courtyard, he hurried back to Sun's house.

"Xiaomin, now that we are playing, try not to have conflicts with people from other sects, otherwise we will cause a lot of trouble. Lu Baifeng taught her a lesson.

"Okay, I got it. I just couldn't get used to her arrogant virtue, so I couldn't help but say a few words. ”

Lu Baifeng chuckled and shook his head.

After everyone had returned to their rooms to rest, a figure came out of the darkness outside the courtyard and hurried away. This person was wearing a white robe and carrying a sword on his back, as if he was an immortal cultivator. He walked all the way to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, made a report, and entered.

"Senior sister, they live in the plum garden in the north of the city. In a certain room, this person is reporting to Zhou Manyun.

Zhou Manyun sneered: "Okay, I know." Hmph, you dare to humiliate me in public......" A hint of cruelty flashed in her eyes.

"Senior sister, I think it's better to forget about this, with our identity as immortal cultivators, why bother with that mortal?" the man persuaded.

"What do you know? The girl's face is the most important! Look at me if I don't draw a few more lines on her face today!" Zhou Manyun had already changed into night clothes. She picked up a sword holster on the table, and when she went out of the room, she jumped onto the roof, and jumped north in a row, and the man followed quickly, and the two of them disappeared into the dark night, one after the other.

In the north of the city, in the plum garden of the Sun family, everyone meditates in their respective rooms.

Lu Baifeng suddenly opened his eyes, frowned, and quickly rushed out of the door, jumped into the dense branches and leaves of a big tree in the courtyard, and hid.

A figure was on the roof, uncovering the tiles from room to room and peeking into the room.

"It turned out to be her...... I'd like to see what she wants to do. Lu Baifeng thought to himself. Although the night was dark, Lu Baifeng had such eyesight that he could see Zhou Manyun's face clearly from afar. He immediately forced the sound into a line, and the voice told Tang Junhe and Xiao Liying, who were about to rush out of the room, not to move, so as not to scare Zhou Manyun away. Knowing that Lu Baifeng was watching outside, Tang Junhe and Xiao Liying also relaxed and continued to meditate.

"Oh, there's another man in the distance. Well, in the early stage of the Yuan Infant, it seems that it should be a person from the Yulan Sect. Although Zhou Manyun's senior brother was quietly hiding in another tree, he still couldn't escape Lu Baifeng's spiritual sense. Moreover, that senior brother didn't know that he and Zhou Manyun had already been discovered.

After uncovering a few pieces of roof tiles, Zhou Manyun finally found Zhu Xiaomin's room. Seeing Zhu Xiaomin meditating quietly in the room, Zhou Manyun sneered in her heart. She jumped lightly off the eaves and slammed into the room. Zhu Xiaomin had just opened her eyes, and a fairy sword emitting a pale yellow light was already on her neck, and Zhou Manyun's vicious voice came from her ears: "If you dare to make a noise, I will kill you with a sword!"

Zhu Xiaomin was not panicked at all, and looked coldly at Zhou Manyun in black.

Seeing Zhu Xiaomin so calm, Zhou Manyun was a little surprised, she thought that Zhu Xiaomin would immediately kneel on the ground in fright and beg for mercy. But she didn't think too much about it, and her fingers dotted several big points around Zhu Xiaomin's body. Seeing that the other party couldn't move, Zhou Manyun put down the fairy sword.

"Do you know the consequences of offending me? Let me tell you, we immortal cultivators killing ordinary people like you is like chopping melons and vegetables. However, I will not kill you, I will make your life more painful than death. Hmph!" Zhou Manyun said with a cruel smile and stared at Zhu Xiaomin.

Zhou Manyun's words were listened to by Lu Baifeng on the tree word for word. Lu Baifeng was not worried at all, he had already found out that Zhou Manyun was only in the middle stage of Qingling, and with Zhu Xiaomin's realm in the early stage of harmony, Zhou Manyun was not her opponent at all. As for small skills such as acupoints, they are quite useful against ordinary people, but against people who cultivate immortals, it is like scratching a few tickles.

In fact, as long as Zhou Manyun let go of her spiritual sense to investigate, she could find that she couldn't see through Zhu Xiaomin's realm at all. It's just that she already has a preconceived idea in her mind that Zhu Xiaomin is an ordinary person, otherwise Zhu Xiaomin would not participate in the beauty pageant as the future daughter-in-law of the Sun family. As for the fact that Zhu Xiaomin had shown human strength in the martial arts competition, Zhou Manyun had long forgotten about it.

After releasing the cruel words, Zhou Manyun found that Zhu Xiaomin did not show any panic at all, and kept looking at herself coldly, so she became even more angry and threatened: "At this time, you are still not convinced? You have backbone, right, I will use my sword to draw a few more lines horizontally, vertically, and diagonally on your face in a while, I want to see how you can see people in the future with your face that is claimed to be more beautiful than me, haha!"

Lu Baifeng on the tree shook his head secretly, and said in his heart: "It is said that the most terrible thing in the world is women's jealousy, and this time I have seen it." For such a small thing, he actually wanted to ruin other people's faces, and this week Manyun's heart was also a little more vicious. ”

Zhou Manyun slowly raised the fairy sword in her hand and slowly approached Zhu Xiaomin's face. Zhu Xiaomin was still calm, staring at the fairy sword that was getting closer and closer. She especially wanted to see Zhu Xiaomin's panicked appearance, but she miscalculated again.

Zhou Manyun was puzzled, which girl in the world doesn't love beauty? Even if she doesn't look beautiful, she doesn't want to be disfigured, right? Zhu Xiaomin has been calm from beginning to end, which makes her feel even more breathless.

"You've never seen a glowing fairy sword, have you? Let me tell you, this is the fairy sword given to me by the Yulan Sect, the Golden Light Sword. Zhou Manyun said again. Zhu Xiaomin suddenly laughed when he heard this.

"What are you laughing at, do you want to die?" Zhou Manyun was very annoyed.

"I'm laughing at you, frog at the bottom of the well, I don't know how thick the sky is. Zhu Xiaomin was contemptuous.

"You...... Okay, see if I don't cut your tongue out for a while!" Zhou Manyun was furious, and slashed a sword at Zhu Xiaomin's face.

Zhu Xiaomin's figure flashed and appeared behind Zhou Manyun.

Zhou Manyun turned around, with a look of disbelief on her face: "Why are you still able to move after being clicked by me?"

Zhu Xiaomin shook his head: "I said that you are a frog at the bottom of the well, but you still don't believe it." You're only in the middle stage of the Qing Ling realm, and you still dare to show off your might in front of me?"

Hearing Zhu Xiaomin's words, Zhou Manyun's heart trembled suddenly, and she immediately dispersed her spiritual sense, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, she couldn't see Zhu Xiaomin's realm at all. There are only two possibilities in this way: first, Zhu Xiaomin is indeed an ordinary person, so there is no realm. But this can be ruled out from the tone that the point is useless to her and talks to her. Then, there is only the second possibility, Zhu Xiaomin is also an immortal cultivator, and his realm is even higher than Zhou Manyun.

Zhou Manyun was so shocked that she couldn't speak, she never thought that this girl, who was better than herself in beauty, would even be higher in cultivation than herself.

Zhu Xiaomin continued to sarcastically: "The tattered fairy sword of the inferior grade is too embarrassed to take it out and show off?" After that, Zhu Xiaomin opened the cabinet door next to him, took out a sword sleeve, and pulled out a fairy sword with a "poof", and the sword body emitted a rich red light, which was the shadow of the good fairy sword. Just looking at this momentum, you can know that it must be much better than Zhou Manyun's golden light sword.

"This is my fairy sword, the shadow. Look at how it compares to your golden lightsaber?" Zhu Xiaomin's voice was playful.

"I ......" Zhou Manyun squeezed out the word "I", and she couldn't think of what to say anymore. Although I don't know what the grade of the Shadow Sword is, the light is much dimmer than the light of the sword body, and my golden light sword is much dimmer. There is no doubt that the immortal sword of others is stronger.

"You still want to draw a few more lines horizontally, vertically, and diagonally on my face? I have never seen such a vicious woman as you, if I didn't cultivate immortals, wouldn't my face be ruined by you? You are only in the middle stage of the Qing Spirit, and you always feel that you are one level higher than ordinary people, so with my cultivation, I also feel that I am one level higher than you. You say, how about I make a few more strokes horizontally, vertically, and diagonally on your face?" Zhu Xiaomin sneered. She didn't really want to slash Zhou Manyun's face, she just wanted to scare her and teach her a lesson.

"With me here, you don't want to touch her cold hair!" suddenly a voice came from the door.

"Senior Brother Ma!" Zhou Manyun's trembling voice was full of surprise, as if a drowning man had grasped a life-saving straw.

This person's surname is Ma Zhankun, and he is a very important disciple of Yulan Sect, and this time he was ordered to accompany Zhou Manyun back to Yanzhou to participate in the beauty pageant. He had been hiding in a big tree outside the house just now, although he couldn't hear the conversation between Zhou Manyun and Zhu Xiaomin clearly, but he saw Zhu Xiaomin's smart body, and secretly said something bad in his heart, so he hurriedly jumped to the roof of the house, and peeked into the room from the hole that Zhou Manyun had opened before, and he could hear what the two were talking about. Seeing Zhu Xiaomin take out the Shadow Sword, he hurriedly jumped off the eaves and appeared in front of his junior sister in time.

Zhou Manyun hurriedly ran to Ma Zhankun's back and urged him: "Senior brother, hurry up and kill her! she was going to ruin my face just now!"

Ma Zhankun frowned, his junior sister was rude and willful, but it was not easy to reprimand her, who let her win the favor of the master and the sect master? Ma Zhankun asked Zhu Xiaomin: "I don't know what sect the girl is? ”

Zhu Xiaomin sneered: "What Yulan Sect, I haven't heard of it at all." Besides, I didn't want to be your enemy at all, it was you, the junior sister, who asked for her own hardships and couldn't complain about others. ”

Ma Zhankun was also a little unhappy, and said coldly: "The girl is inevitably too contemptuous of people." My Yulan Sect is a well-known sect in Youlong County, second only to Fengling Sect. And the Fengling Sect is far away from the boundary of Guizhou, so the territory of Yanzhou belongs to my Yulan Sect is the strongest. Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of a question, "By the way, girl, dare to ask you what grade this Shadow Sword is?"

"It's not high, it's just a good fairy sword. Zhu Xiaomin replied lightly.

Ma Zhankun was almost choked by saliva, the good grade fairy sword? is it still "that"? The sect master of their Yulan Sect also used the good grade fairy sword, and he still spent a lot of money in exchange for it from the Feng Ling Sect. But the girl in front of her, who is only in the realm of harmony, actually uses a good fairy sword?