Qiao Tianqi showed a little uneasiness on his face, got up and apologized to Li Hui: "This matter is indeed Xiao Ke's mistake, because the stakes were very important at the time, lest it be leaked out and known by the opponent, so it has been concealed. ”

Li Hui didn't move and nodded slightly.

Qiao Tianqi glanced at Shi Potian, and slowly said with a somewhat complicated face: "This matter is a long story, and it starts with our Qiao family." ”

"At that time, the ancestor of the Qiao family was just a mortal, the population of the family withered, and the hometown suffered a disaster, so he was forced to leave his hometown to find a way to survive outside. At first, he did camel work for other caravans, and then slowly mixed into the position of the shopkeeper, and finally the ancestor started his own business, starting from a small business, and finally became bigger, and founded this Dade Tong business, which became a huge wealth. ”

Qiao Tianqi spoke seriously, obviously revering his ancestor very much, although Li Hui was a master, he also admired such a person who constantly strives for self-improvement, no one in the audience interjected, and let Qiao Tianqi continue.

"Dadetong's business is getting bigger and bigger, and the Qiao family is slowly prospering, and after a few generations, it will become a big family, but in order to ensure the integrity of Dadetong business and family, the ancestors have a legacy, to unite the descendants, and it is not allowed to split the family, and each generation of the clan must choose outstanding talents to take charge of the entire family and Dadetong business. ”

"The ancestor's move is naturally to hope that the Qiao family will prosper from generation to generation, and the descendants can be united forever, after all, these are his bloodline. But as time went by, the family population became more and more, and gradually there were more and more branches, although they were of the same clan, they gradually became close to each other, and even because of the control of the family and the business, there were a lot of open and secret battles. In the long years of struggle, many of the side lines gradually declined and withered, and some side lines developed and prospered, until now the Qiao family is still unified, but in fact the internal is divided into four factions, these four major factions are in charge of the Qiao family, as for some other small side branch bloodlines, after a long time, even separated from the Qiao family. ”

"But more clansmen still live under the blessing of the Qiao family, the ancestor was just a mortal, but later, the Qiao family became a huge wealth, and the family grew day by day? Gradually, perhaps it was the blessing of the ancestors, there were also some children with spiritual roots in the clan, the Qiao family at that time already had a lot of power, naturally vigorously cultivated these children, and sent them to those famous sects to practice Taoism at a huge cost, and became a person who cultivated the truth, and then later, gradually more and more children with spiritual roots were born in the Qiao family, and the Qiao family also established its own cultivator power, relying on the support of secular business, the development was extremely rapid, and then in turn became the backing and backing of the Qiao family, and now, it can barely be regarded as a small force。 ”

Listening to this section, Li Hui felt infinite emotion in his heart. The development history of the Qiao family, like the entire history of human development, is from scratch, passed down from generation to generation, and after the accumulation of countless generations, it has the current scale.

The reason why human beings can become strong is because of the inheritance of civilization, although for those cultivators, the lives of mortals are like floating insects and ants, dying in the twilight of life, but it is precisely because of this behavior and instinct that human beings can accumulate from generation to generation and become stronger.

From this point, we can also see the importance of Taoist inheritance. Back then, sword immortals were rampant, but now, without the inheritance of the Dao system, it is completely extinct.

Qiao Tianqi continued: "Because there was no support from the Qiao family, which was a secular mortal back then, there would be no Qiao family, the Xiuzhen family behind it, so even if they become cultivators, those Qiao family children are still part of the Qiao family, and they try their best to assist the Qiao family's business in the world, which is the foundation of the Qiao family, and once there is a spiritual root among the secular children of the Qiao family, they will immediately focus on cultivating, so that the Qiao family's talents can be like flowing water and will prosper forever." ”

"However, the emergence of the cultivator has also greatly changed the internal pattern of the Qiao family, and gradually the power of the Qiao family has fallen into the branch of the disciples of the cultivator behind it, and now the four veins are also the strongest four veins of the Qiao family of the Xiuzhen family to support the development. ”

I don't know how many people are in such a big family, and the relationship between the forces is even more complicated and difficult to sort out. And such a behemoth is also extremely terrifying. Because such a family is almost impossible to exterminate. The Qiao family has long been scattered all over the world, even if there are ups and downs, as long as there are still clansmen, there will be a comeback.

"Although these four factions within the Qiao family are fighting each other openly and secretly, they are still unified on the surface, and they must obey the orders of the jointly elected patriarch. In fact, the current patriarch of the Qiao family can be said to have two, one is in charge of the Qiao family of the Xiuzhen family, and the other is in charge of the secular family Qiao family, but these two people are equal, the Qiao family of the Xiuzhen family protects the whole family, and the secular Qiao family is the foundation and bloodline of the entire family. This power is basically in the hands of the four major factions, and I am the son of one of the four major factions. ”

Qiao Tianqi slowly told some family secrets, so that everyone in the tent was secretly amazed.

"The Qiao family cultivates the successors of the next generation, it is from a young age, the Qiao family of the Xiuzhen family needless to say, the children of our secular Qiao family, the male must start from a young age, he must start to learn power strategy, business, martial arts, and become a well-rounded talent, and then the elders in the clan observe, pick out the outstanding key training, and after adulthood, the next head of the family will be selected, of course, there are many such candidates, and finally after some assessment, in order to decide the final candidate. ”

Speaking of this, Qiao Tianqi paused, looked around at everyone, and then said slowly: "And I came out this time to participate in the assessment in the family." ”

Everyone had a sense of sudden realization, and it turned out to be like this.

"In this way, the instigator behind this attack in the desert is the son of your Qiao family who is fighting with you for the inheritance of the next patriarch?" Li Hui turned his mind slightly, and then connected with the joints, and asked.

Qiao Tianqi sighed lightly, nodded and said, " Although I don't have evidence, I'm afraid that's exactly the case, otherwise with the power of my Qiao family, even in this chaotic Black Wind Desert, no one dares to attack the caravan of Dadetong casually, this is not entirely because of the great power of the Qiao family, which can deter the Black Wind Desert, it is because the caravan of the Qiao family came out to walk, and there were immortal masters and a large number of warriors in the caravan, and it was almost impossible for idle people to move the Dadetong caravan, and the high-level monks couldn't look down on the things used by these mortals in the world. ”

Li Hui nodded, Qiao Tianqi's analysis was consistent with his thoughts.

Just like today's Dadetong caravan, there are ten foundation building monks in charge, in addition to a large number of innate warriors and some low-level warriors, without a large number of monks, it is absolutely impossible to loot such a caravan.

"I have already thought of this section when I set off, the family has come to the time of the next patriarch candidate assessment, the competition will be extremely cruel, all kinds of dark hands in the dark are endless, the clan also turns a blind eye to these, close one eye, if even this crisis can not be resolved, then naturally it is not worthy to be in charge of the entire Qiao family. ”

Speaking of this, Qiao Tianqi said with a hint of mockery on his lips: "Our Qiao family children are almost born to learn these intrigues, and adults are also happy that their children are scheming, and even vicious, only in this way can they occupy a place in this big family." ”

Li Hui nodded, a big family like the Qiao family was just like the secular imperial families he had seen in Liangzhou, and even the struggle was cruel, far surpassing the imperial families.

"But I never thought that they would be so unscrupulous in doing things, involving the level of Jindan Monk!" Qiao Tianqi said with some anger.

In fact, a person like the person in charge of a big family like the Qiao family, even if he is just a secular mortal, his status is not comparable to that of an ordinary monk, since Qiao Tianqi can become a candidate for the next Qiao family patriarch, his knowledge and bearing are naturally extraordinary, even if it is a Jindan monk, it is not necessarily unattainable in his eyes.

Of course, Qiao Tianqi's respect for Li Hui is from the heart. If it weren't for Li Hui, he would have been buried in the desert at this moment.

After Qiao Tianqi said that, Li Hui finally understood what was going on, and he wasn't worried about getting involved in the internal struggle of the Qiao family. Because such a fight between the two sides must be limited to a certain range of rules, like today, when the other side instructs the Jindan monk to make a move, this is already out of bounds!

"Young Master Qiao, in that case, you might find out who was behind the scenes and instructed those two to make a move?" Li Hui asked.

Qiao Tianqi shook his head: "I can't find out this point, I can only know that it was the people of the other three veins who made it, but they will never leave any tongue and evidence, if I am buried in the desert today, then there is nothing to say, I can only say that my skills are not as good as others." ”

"What is the son going to do next?" asked Li Hui.

"Next, we marched lightly, threw away our baggage, and quickly left the black desert and hurried to the east of the city. A mysterious smile appeared on the corner of Qiao Tianqi's mouth.

"Throw away the baggage and move forward lightly?" Li Hui was a little confused: "Childe, what do you mean?"

"The immortal master doesn't know, this trip to this road, these goods I escorted are actually fake, in order to hide people's eyes, the real goods I have already ordered someone to secretly transport to Donglin City through another route a month ago, that road is a lot of detours, at this time we are speeding forward, just to be able to arrive at Donglin City at the same time with that batch of goods. Qiao Tianqi said himself