Li Qingyan was slightly stunned and looked at him suspiciously.

But the hand didn't stop - while staring at Yu Peiyan's face, he skillfully clamped his index finger again, and the sharp and thin knife was about to fall down to his finger.

Yu Peiyan's eyes widened, and his body flicked. Before long, liquid was dripping down the console.

Li Qingyan snorted softly in a low voice: "Look, that's it." When he tortures others, he talks and laughs, but when he falls on himself, he can't hold back a finger. It is not appropriate to take other people's lives, but now that I am dying, my desire to survive is stronger than anyone else's. ”

Yu Peiyan actually had a hint of crying when he spoke: "No...... No more...... I'm going to go crazy if you torture me again!I can't even tell you what you want to know!!"

Li Qingyan raised his eyebrows and smiled, and the knife stopped at the tip of his index finger: "Then say it well." Or else this time I want your bones. But the bones are slowly slicing out. ”

Yu Peiyan glared: "I said everything, but you have to give me time...... You don't know what you need to know in a sentence or two, but I'll try to be as concise as possible!"

"These are nonsense. Li Qingyan said calmly, "If there is another word of nonsense, this finger will be gone." ”

Yu Peiyan immediately spoke: "The Americans want the Lotus Flower Sect's retrospective light reversal method! This thing is one of the secrets of the Lotus Flower Sect, and only the sect masters of the past dynasties can cultivate it!"

"We gave them this method, and they will put pressure on them to influence the situation in the country and cooperate with our actions as much as possible...... So what we're going to do is-"

"I'm not interested in your disgusting stuff. Li Qingyan interrupted him harshly, "Tell the point!"

"—The point is...... The point is...... That's all...... You know I can't get the secret of the Lotus Flower Sect. Even the Grand Commander didn't have this energy—although the country had been trying to weaken the power and influence of the cultivation family, it was a big family that had lasted for thousands of years after all...... Their power is not only in the court, but also in the people. We can send students to the sect, we can send some of them to the system, but—"

Although these words are rather verbose, Li Qingyan knows that they are indeed not "nonsense".

In the minds of many Asiatic citizens, the Asiatic government has firmly controlled the six sects and five factions, as if they were their masters.

- Officials require sectarian successors to participate in secular activities, or to hold official positions, or, like Zhou Yunting, to be "idle positions" such as the principal of a civil and military school. It also requires the sect to select some outstanding disciples every year to enrich the powerful departments such as the Special Intelligence Bureau, the Sect Dao Bureau, and the Homeland Security Bureau, and even requires sect disciples who have reached a certain age and realm standard to serve in the army.

And for these demands, all the six sects and five factions obediently complied with them—something that would have been unimaginable in the Old Dynasty or even in any earlier dynasty. In the old days, the status of the sect was so transcendent that even if the emperor saw the head of the sect, he could not ask them to bow down.

But in fact, even grassroots civil servants in the system like Li Qingyan know that the Asian government does not have complete control over the six sects and five factions. Or rather, the current situation is the result of a compromise between the two sides.

Sectarian successors, such as Peberu, who hold public office, are both secular and denominationally more influential for the sect. In this regard, both sides are in their own favor.

And the current leaders of the six sects and five factions will never accept such a demand. Although their status today cannot be compared with that of the old dynasty, it is still relatively transcendent. There are two first-level ones in the capital, but those two first-level ones are the two elders of Dongxuan and Chongxu, not the sect master. According to the agreement between the Asian government and the six sects and five sects, there should be two first-class monks in the capital every ten years. But even these two people will not accept pure "orders".

Beishan has been making trouble since last night and has not come to the two levels, on the one hand, perhaps because the officials have not given them "advice" or "request" for various reasons, and on the other hand, it may also be because they don't want to come at all.

As long as there is such a subjective willingness to "do not want", no one can tell them to "leave immediately".

In fact, the deployment of manpower is not the point, the focus is on the cultivation methods of the six sects and five schools.

They did hand over some things, and there was no shortage of second-level or even first-level cultivations. However, the core ones are still hidden in the sects. It would be impossible for anyone, including the Grand Commander, to ask them to offer those things as well—that would mean that the Six Sects and Five Sects would lose their foundation, and it would be tantamount to the Asian government declaring war on the entire spiritual world.

And the destructive power of such a war will not be less than that of the Second World War.

The "retrospective light reversal method" in Yu Peiyan's mouth, Li Qingyan has heard of it. Together with the "Lingtai Concept", it is known as the two secrets of the Lianhua Sect, which have always been practiced only by the sect master.

Because of this, when he heard Yu Peiyan say this, he was suddenly surprised.

It was thought that Peberus' death was a mere cover-up to cover up the true purpose of the Americans. But now Li Qingyan knows that he really has to die.

Because he had a close relationship with Pei Yuanxiu in the past, he learned some of the inheritance methods of the Lotus Flower Sect.

This sect has a unique secret – empowerment.

Methods such as the Retrospective Light Turning Method and the Spiritual Meditation Meditation are extremely difficult to practice. If a person has no foundation and only relies on his own hard work, it may take hundreds of years to enter the house. In history, before the method of empowerment appeared, the Lotus Blossom Sect once almost suffered a catastrophe of annihilation - a sect master was killed by a great demon, and he could not instruct the successor sect master how to practice these two secret methods, so that one could only slowly comprehend it for nearly 150 years.

During this period, the big demon harassed the mountain gate several times, killing and injuring countless people. But the Lianhua Sect did not have the ability to kill him in one fell swoop, and he was miserable.

It wasn't until 300 years later that the successor suzerain came out of the mountain and completely got rid of the disaster. After that, he spent more than 100 years creating this empowerment method – and when the suzerain succeeded to the throne, he infused his knowledge of these two methods into the consciousness of the next successor.

In this way, even if this person is not able to practice the secret method, once the sect master dies unexpectedly, he can still integrate it in a short period of time, and will not repeat the mistakes of hundreds of years ago.

And the Pei family is the family of the sect leader of the Lianhua Sect. Pei Bolu is the next successor - if he dies, it is Pei Yuanxiu.

In the historical period before the old dynasty, the selection of such a successor is highly probable. It is very likely that a young man like Pei Yuanxiu will not be able to take over such an important position. However, the attitude of the new society towards the monastic sects gave the Asian government some influence on this issue - they gave the sects a great deal of freedom to a certain extent, but the choice of successors was determined by the sects and the authorities.