On a certain street in Shuangjiaocheng City, Li Xuangang walked alone, and because he deliberately hid part of his cultivation, he was not noticeable on the street.

At the corner of the street, go up to the second floor of a tea shop and find a table by the window and sit down.

There were a lot of monks around, and groups of three or five were communicating around different tables, so this tea shop sounded and looked a little noisy.

Li Xuangang tilted his head and found that the cultivators in his sight were basically in the Qi refining period, and it was not for nothing that they were in the foundation realm, but there were only a few of them, and their cultivation was all in the early stage.

But there was a middle-aged monk sitting across from him, with a tall body, big shoulders and a round waist, and he looked a little silly.

This person, like him, has hidden cultivation, and what is revealed to people is the ninth layer of qi refining, but he is actually a monk in the late stage of foundation building.

Probably noticing Li Xuangang's gaze, the middle-aged monk put down the tea bowl he was holding in both hands, and then smiled at him.

Li Xuangang was not surprised to see this, smiled and nodded, and then shifted his gaze and began to listen intently to the center of the tea shop, where more than ten Qi refining stage monks were talking.

As for why the middle-aged monk on the other side wanted to hide his cultivation and come to this small tea shop, he had no intention of inquiring, he didn't know this person, so there was no need to provoke cause and effect.

After sitting and listening for a while, a servant from the tea shop came, bent down and whispered what he wanted to drink.

Li Xuangang ordered a pot of ordinary tea, and also asked the other party to serve some nuts at will.

When the little servant retreated, he returned to his normal state, paying attention to the monks in the teahouse, and occasionally turning his head to look out the window at the pedestrians on the street.

At this time, half an hour had passed since he left Li Yuqian's place, and in the latter's place, he not only got a Ziyuan begonia and learned about the current situation of Taiqiu Mountain, but also asked some things about Li Yuheng by the way.

But in fact, Li Yuqian doesn't know much about this last point, Li Yuheng's time to go to Li's Business Bureau every time is not fixed, so she still knows what the latter told her half a year ago.

However, one thing is certain, Li Yuheng seems to be participating in the selection of the retinue of the Cave Mansion of a Jindan Stage Elder within the Imperial Spirit Sect.

His eyes were still lazily staring out of the window, and the little guy who had just retreated came again.

He put down the teapot in the wooden tray in his hand, and took out a jade teacup with a crystal clear and bright green body from above.

"Senior, this is a pot of tea you ordered, and two plates of nuts were served as you ordered. ”

Li Xuangang smiled and nodded at the little guy, then took out four lower-grade spirit stones from the storage bag and handed them over.

"What else does the senior command?"

"No more. ”

took the spirit stone and made sure that the guest in front of him had no other needs, so the little guy left sensibly.

The teapot was poured, and a wisp of fragrance appeared along the curved silver thread, and the warm teacup was lifted, and it was taken a sip and swallowed it in its mouth for a short time.

He took another sip and set aside the teacup in his hand.

"According to Yuqian, Yuheng may come here in the near future, but it's just ......"

With his mind flowing, Li Xuangang was thinking about whether he should wait in Shuangjiao City for a few days, maybe he could meet Yuheng.

But after a while, he gave up on this plan.

Li Yuheng is extremely intelligent, Li Xuangang is actually not worried about his cultivation in the Imperial Spirit Sect, and even if he encounters something, I believe he can handle it himself.

Therefore, it is not very meaningful for me to see or not to see this time, and I have already broken through to the peak realm of foundation building.

For a long time to come, it should not fall into a long state of retreat again, and after that, through the summons, there will always be a chance to meet in Shuangjiao City.

Since he was not going to meet Li Yuheng this time, Li Xuangang did not think about it anymore, and instead drank tea seriously.

He sat in the small teahouse for about an hour before he got up to leave.

After walking through a few streets, I turned around and went to another tea shop.

Over the next few hours, Li Xuangang moved around four different tea shops, some of which were mainly gathered by monks during the Qi refining period, while others were mainly gathered by monks from the foundation building period.

In the evening, after Li Xuangang came out of the fourth tea shop, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

By summarizing and comparing the news he heard from the four tea shops, he finally figured out what he wanted to know.

After killing Ye Zhen, the Dragon Sword Technique that he obtained from him could be cultivated.

Prior to this, due to the mystery and strength of the Eastern Xuanzong, and Li Xuangang's ignorance of the situation of the entire central part of the Chaoyang Continent, especially those cultivation forces further west, he had never dared to practice this high-level swordsmanship with complete confidence.

That's why I spent a lot of time trying to get the information I wanted from the conversations of the rest of the local monks in the tea shop.

Dongxuanzong is a great sword cultivation sect, although the strength of the disciples in it is generally stronger among the monks of the same level, but it is not all dead and injured when they go out to perform tasks.

And once there is a situation where there are casualties among disciples, it is also normal for the swordsmanship skills in the sect to be lost outside. Even in the major cities, there are not a lot of swordsmanship techniques from Dongxuanzong.

However, it seems that Dongxuanzong doesn't care much about this situation, and I haven't heard that they have held any cultivators outside the sect accountable. Of course, there is no exception for those who clearly know that they have killed their own disciples.

Li Xuangang thought about it carefully and quickly guessed the reason.

The Eastern Xuanzong was arrogant, and they didn't think that those cultivators outside the sect could achieve great things in the way of the sword just by relying on these swordsmanship techniques.

They believed that in the entire Chaoyang Continent, only and only their Eastern Xuanzong could appear as the top-level sword cultivator in the cultivation world.

Dongxuanzong has more and more exquisite swordsmanship, a more complete kendo inheritance, a more superb talent for swordsmanship, more kendo resources, and ......

A trace of inexplicable meaning appeared on Li Xuangang's face, and he walked among the many monks on the street, meditating in his heart:

"From ancient times to the present, the cultivation has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, but I really haven't heard of a top-level sword cultivator in the Central Cultivation Realm who is not from the Eastern Xuanzong ......."

Suddenly, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

"It seems that the cultivation of the sword in the Eastern Xuan Sect is more important than the sword technique. ”

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From the many news he heard from the tea shop, after getting rid of some useless information, Li Xuangang inadvertently learned another thing in addition to the news about Dongxuanzong that he wanted.

That is, he figured out why, when he entered the gate of Shuangjiao City today, there were many more monks in and out of the Hengduan Mountain Range than when he was in retreat five years ago.

And on the major streets in Shuangjiao City, there are also many monks gathered from all over the world, and in order to maintain order, the Imperial Spirit Sect has sent more disciples from the sect to enter Fangcheng to be on duty.

"Strangulation?"

Along the street, while walking towards a shop in his memory, Li Xuangang thought about this matter in his mind.

A few years ago, a new demon king appeared in the Hengduan Mountain Range, and this newly entered the fifth-order demon beast was strong and brutal, and the most important thing was that it still had an extremely strong hatred for human monks.

During this year, it entangled a lot of demon beasts, and then launched a small beast tide in a monk stronghold in the Hengduan Mountain Range, in this beast tide, not only many monks from scattered cultivators and other cultivation forces fell among them, but also at that time, there were just two elders of the Jindan stage of the Imperial Spirit Sect who also led the sect disciples to carry out sect tasks near that stronghold.

In the end, none of the disciples of the Imperial Spirit Sect who carried out the mission in the foundation building period and qi refining period survived, and the two elders of the Jindan stage also died and were seriously injured.

As a result, the Imperial Spirit Sect was furious, and an ancestor in the middle of the Yuan Infant Sect, who had been in retreat for a long time, also went out to go deep into the Hengduan Mountains to find this demon king.

However, this demon king was extremely cunning, using various terrain and traps to avoid fighting, and he couldn't find more than a month of time, and the ancestor of the Imperial Spirit Sect had to choose to return in vain in the end.

It's just that on the way back, he easily killed more than a thousand low-level demon beasts to vent his anger.

In order to avoid arousing the anger of the other demon kings in the Hengduan Mountain Range, the Imperial Spirit Sect was not ready to make any more moves, but planned to slowly plot it and use other methods to kill the new demon king.

But I didn't expect that the Imperial Spirit Sect had just let down its guard, and on the other side, the demon king gathered tens of thousands of demon beasts and launched the beast tide again.

So this time, the Imperial Spirit Sect no longer held back, as a large sect that had been inherited for tens of thousands of years, they decided to take this opportunity to launch a strangulation order against the Hengduan Mountain Range that had not appeared in the sect for hundreds of years.

The purpose of this strangulation order was to the newly promoted fifth-order demon king, and of course, if the time was sufficient, the Imperial Spirit Sect would not mind expanding its sphere of influence to the deeper depths of the Hengduan Mountain Range.

Since it has been decided to carry out such a large-scale demon beast cleanup operation, the early elimination of demon beasts on the periphery of the Hengduan Mountain Range has been put on the agenda.

Since the Imperial Spirit Sect launched the strangulation order, many scattered cultivators and cultivators near Shuangjiao City have heard the wind.

On the one hand, they share the glory and disgrace with the Imperial Spirit Sect in the face of the beast tide, and on the other hand, it is also an aspect that really drives them.

That is, the front-end battle of the demon beast is carried out by the disciples of the Imperial Spirit Sect, and the battle line is also advanced by them. Therefore, the danger of these loose cultivation and cultivation forces following behind to hunt down demon beasts was minimized.

For the latter, this is an excellent opportunity to collect monster resources.

Although some of the larger sects or families will also move to the forefront, under the pressure of the powerful Spirit Sect, the cost of obtaining high-level demon beast resources is much lower than usual.

If you are cautious, and with a little luck, you may not even have to incur that small price.

However, after Li Xuangang's careful consideration, he knew that the Imperial Spirit Sect was not completely making a wedding dress for the rest of the scattered cultivation or cultivation forces to launch this heartbeat, but also had its own plans.

The scale of this operation is not small, so they also need the rest of these cultivation forces and scattered cultivators to help them check and fill in the gaps and reduce the number of disciples that their sect needs to invest.

And thinking about the worst of things, the Imperial Spirit Sect can also drive these non-sect monks to use for their own use when necessary.

Whether it is attacking or retreating, with these monks as sacrifices, then their disciples can be protected to the greatest extent.

And since Li Xuangang can think of this, I believe that most of the scattered cultivators and forces involved in the strangulation order are also clear in their hearts.

But even though they were aware of the possible risks of following the Imperial Spirit Sect to participate in this strangulation order, they still flocked to it.

After all, in the final analysis, this is the intention of the Imperial Spirit Sect to be clearly demonstrated, and it has not forcibly requisitioned any monks.

For both sides, this is more like a mutually beneficial cooperation, and many monks will rarely encounter this kind of action full of great opportunity once in their lifetime, and they will definitely not choose to give up this kind of spiritual opportunity.

After all, as long as he can come back alive, he may be able to accumulate enough cultivation resources to enter the next realm.

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Knowing the general situation, Li Xuangang suddenly thought that decades ago, when he was still in the Qi refining period, his family had also entered the eastern mountains of the Hengduan Mountain Range with the Ghoul Sect to conquer the demon beasts.

The situation was similar to today, but certainly for a different purpose and scale.

A fifth-order demon beast is not enough for the Imperial Spirit Sect to make such a big move, Li Xuangang guessed that in fact, what the Imperial Spirit Sect really wants is to form a deterrent to the demon beasts in the western mountains of the entire Hengduan Mountain Range, and expand the sect's more demon beast resource acquisition area in one fell swoop.

Otherwise, why has the strangulation order been issued for several months, and the battle line of the Imperial Spirit Sect in the Hengduan Mountain Range is still only a few hundred miles.

And according to the powerful power of the Imperial Spirit Sect, if it was to kill the fifth-order demon king, I am afraid that many monks would have already driven straight into the Yellow Dragon under the leadership of several Yuan Infant Ancestors of the Imperial Spirit Sect.

Therefore, the current situation can only be that the Imperial Spirit Sect is deliberately suppressing the advance speed of the battle line, and is planning something else.

Perhaps it was exactly as Li Xuangang had guessed, that he wanted to expand the sect's sphere of influence in the Hengduan Mountain Range, so that it would be convenient to obtain more demon beast resources in the depths of the mountain range in the future.

Of course, this was only a matter that he deduced based on rumors, and the truth of the truth would definitely only be known to the upper echelons of the Imperial Spirit Sect.

As for whether there is a secret in it, it should be impossible for most monks to know.

Thinking about it, a large Lingzhi shop appeared in front of him, so he stopped, looked up, his mind turned around, patted his clothes on both sides of his body with both hands, and stepped into the lobby of this shop.

The cultivation after the peak of foundation building cannot be relaxed, and the Zhuangda in the Cave Mansion had already collected the last batch of ripe Golden Source Fruits three years ago.

Therefore, another task of coming to Shuangjiao City this time was that Li Xuangang wanted to buy a batch of auxiliary medicines for refining Wanqi Pills, and return to the space to refine a new batch of Wanqi Pills for his next cultivation.

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In the twelfth year of Li Xuangang's departure from Taiqiu Mountain and his arrival in the cultivation realm in the middle of the Chaoyang Continent, he finally began to prepare for the cultivation of the last small realm in the foundation building period.

An hour later, he came out of this spirit plant shop, and was about to leave Shuangjiao City to return to the Boundary Source Space, but after taking a few steps, he happened to turn his head and saw a familiar figure standing on the corner of the street not far away.

So he put away the storage bag containing the refining of the Ten Thousand Qi Pill auxiliaries, collected the trace of surprise that flashed in his eyes, and then walked in the direction of the figure.