Chapter 110: The Three Great Families
Although there was no reason for such a coincidence, Yun Feng believed that there must be a connection between the fate of Qian Ze and Shangguan Diewu.
He arranged for Li Shufeng to protect Qian Ze and assist him to return home to deal with affairs first. After that, take her to the Phantom Sword Sect to meet Shangguan Diewu, maybe you can solve the mystery of the identities of the two.
Yun Feng looked at the corpses all over the ground, and couldn't bear to let these people die in a foreign land, and the corpses were in the wilderness. He and Li Shufeng burned each body separately and cremated it separately. Master Feng Ma personally carved a tablet for each of them, which was loaded into the carriage along with the ashes.
They carefully cleaned the inn again and cleaned up everyone's belongings. By the time everything was done, it was already dawn. Yun Feng took out half of the spirit stone from the storage ring given by Hongluo and handed it to Li Shufeng. Let him keep some of it for Qian Ze and his own cultivation, and transfer the rest to Linglong for the development of the peak.
Master Feng Ma saw that Yun Feng's casual move was millions of spirit stones, and he couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart. For the sake of a few spirit stones, he was reluctant to even take the detoxification pill.
The Wind Horse Division was twice dissipated, and his injuries were even more serious. If he didn't help today, I'm afraid Li Shufeng wouldn't be able to hold on until Yunfeng returned. Therefore, Yun Feng took out a few excellent healing pills and gave them to him, and Feng immediately thanked him for a thousand thanks.
He decided to accompany Li Shufeng to escort Qian Ze home, after all, this was his task. With the company of Fengma, Yunfeng is more assured of the safety of Li Shufeng and his party.
After telling each other to say goodbye, they set off separately. Li Shufeng and Feng Ma each drove a carriage, and traveled in the direction when they came and went. Yunfeng rode on the blue-maned horse of the leader of the guards and continued to move beyond Amaterasu. He also had several important sect tasks to complete on this trip.
The first is to go to Scorching Sun City, the capital of Amaterasu Kingdom, there is a family of cultivators in the city, which is the dark line of the Phantom Sword Sect in Amaterasu. A few days ago, the family was jointly ostracized by the other two immortal cultivation families, and the status of the clan was not guaranteed, so they sent an envoy to the Phantom Sword Sect for help.
The leader of the Immortal Cultivation Family was a peak cultivator in the Qi Refining Period, and when he encountered unsolvable troubles, he could only send disciples from the Inner Gate Foundation Building Period to go. Yun Feng is strong and rarely walks outside, which is conducive to hiding his identity, so he received this sect task.
The mission was not urgent, and he had planned to travel all the way. Now that something has changed, Li Shufeng needs to return to the sect. Yunfeng had to speed up, thinking about completing the task ahead of schedule and then joining it.
He rode all the way, and the blue-maned horse ran with all his might, and it only took more than ten days to come to the Scorching Sun City.
Lieri City is one of the top ten cities in Tiannan, with a radius of thousands of miles and a population of more than 100 million. Outside the city is a moat ten long and wide, three zhang deep. The river is a city wall dozens of feet high and made of rammed earth and blue bricks. The city is full of tall buildings and dense streets.
As the capital of a country, the secular royal family is located. The scorching sun city is full of armor soldiers and is heavily garrisoned. There are several Taoist masters in the city, and the monks are forbidden to fight and fly in the air at will.
Yun Feng used the breath of Qi to stay on the first floor of Qi refining, and then transformed into a new appearance, dressed as a chivalrous warrior in the rivers and lakes, and then rode his horse into the Scorching Sun City.
Although Amaterasu Province is close to Qifeng Province, the customs of the mortal world are very different. One of the most typical differences is that Amaterasu women can freely go out on the streets and communicate with strange men, unlike Qi Fengguo's restraints. They gathered together in twos and threes, or chatting, or hanging out, and the unique scenery of the scorching sun city was formed among the warblers and swallows.
Yunfeng came to a large inn in the city, intending to investigate first and then make a decision. He chose a remote corner to sit down, ordered a few special side dishes, and listened with his ears pricked up while eating.
People come and go in the inn, and the river is endless. Everyone talked about all kinds of anecdotes and gossip.
The most discussed by everyone is the fact that the Nan family, one of the three major families in the city, is about to compete in martial arts to recruit relatives. The Nan family has always been a big family in Lieyang City, from the prime minister of the current dynasty to the generals on the border, all of them have their own children, and the political status of the family is second only to the royal family.
The patriarch of this term is named Nantian, he has superb qualifications, strong wrists, only 20 years in office, the Nan family has faintly surpassed the two major families of Bai and Chen, and has become the head of the three major families.
The Nan family is ostensibly attached to the Tianyan Gate of Amaterasu Kingdom, but in fact it is a subordinate dark line clan of the Phantom Sword Sect.
The so-called dark line is a common form of family survival in the immortal cultivation world. Normally, a family will only belong to one clan, but if the affiliated sect cannot effectively help, or if the sect is also in a bad situation, it will find another backer and secretly act as an eyeliner for other families.
Although the Tianyanmen attached to the Nan family was powerful, there were many masters. However, the people in the sect were dedicated to cultivating the Tao and rarely managed mundane affairs, so the Nan family mainly relied on their own efforts for many years.
In recent years, the Nan family has been oppressed by the other two major families, and the clan is in crisis, so it has to find other sects as backers. As one of the five major sects of Qifeng Country, and the closest to Amaterasu, the Phantom Sword Sect is the most suitable choice for attachment.
After the Nantian Patriarch took office, at the cost of a spirit stone vein, he provided a lot of valuable information for the Phantom Sword Sect, and finally obtained the identity of the Dark Line Family and was permanently protected by it.
In fact, not only the Nan family, but also the Bai and Chen families have also secretly attached themselves to other general families. It's just that because of the strict lockdown of news, the outside world doesn't know which sect it is attached to.
The Hundred Families are the oldest families in Burning Sun City, which have been passed down for thousands of years. The current patriarch Bai Xiaosheng is good at business. Almost all the post houses and restaurants in Amaterasu Province are monopolized by him, and they have wealth that rivals that of the country. His own cultivation is not high, but he has hired a large number of monks as guest secretaries, and his overall strength should not be underestimated.
As an alien family, the Chen family started by collecting intelligence. A large number of assassination, intelligence agencies were formed. As long as they give money, they can solve a lot of tricky things, so many people are both dependent on and afraid of the Chen family.
The current patriarch of the Chen family, Chen Xingxing, is a female streamer, but he is ruthless and vicious, and his means are superb. has gathered a large number of masters in the rivers and lakes, controlling most of the sects in the rivers and lakes.
Among the three major families, Nantian's cultivation is the highest, so whenever there is an armed conflict, the Nan family always has the upper hand.
However, just a few months ago, the Nan Patriarch failed to attempt to attack the foundation, and his strength was greatly damaged. The Bai Chen family took the opportunity to join forces to deal with the Nan family, causing him to lose a lot of important industries.
Nan Tian originally wanted to pay a high price to hire a foundation building monk to sit in the town, but he was rejected by many casual cultivators. He has a daughter Nanluo, who is twenty-eight years old and has outstanding appearance, and is known as the most beautiful woman in the scorching sun city. Not only high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but even the children of the Immortal Cultivation Sect often come to the door to ask for relatives.
In desperation, he thought of the method of recruiting relatives through martial arts, and wanted to recruit a powerful monk. The competition lasted for a total of 100 days, and most of the time has passed today.
During this period, the most victorious monk was a monk named Thousand Mountains. His cultivation was at the eighth layer of qi refining, and he was a newly recruited guest cultivator of the hundred schools. If he succeeds in winning the championship in the end, then the Nan family will really steal chickens and rice.
Seeing that the end of the martial arts competition was approaching, and there were fewer and fewer people participating in the ring, the Southern Patriarch could only take the risk to seek help from the Phantom Sword Sect.
Yun Feng sat in the inn for a whole day, and finally straightened out the cause and effect of the matter through the mouths of the other guests.
He decided not to meet with the Nan family for the time being, and participated in the competition as a casual cultivator, and first found out the true strength of the other two monks.
While pondering, a Taoist priest with a cloak suddenly walked in at the door of the inn, staggering towards Yunfeng. He took a closer look and was shocked. This person was actually the sloppy Taoist he met in Firefox Mountain, but he didn't expect him to come to Scorching Sun City.