The young man dressed in Hanfu is named Xia Fusheng.

A long time ago, the Xia family had become the six surnames of Zhenguo with Zhou, Tang, Liu, Qin and Shang.

In the past thousands of years, the six surnames have risen and fallen, and when it is strong, one surname is a country, and when it is declining, it is not comparable to ordinary families. After the outbreak of the aura tide, the six surnames also began to lay out their own names.

Among the six surnames, the Zhou and Tang families sat in Yuquan Mountain, and the merchants and the Qin family left a line of people to protect the ancestral land, and the rest all crossed the gate between the two heavens and the earth to enter another world. The Liu clan was entrenched in the ancestral land, and only sent a few people to follow the merchants and the Qin family into that unknown land. The Xia family, which has the longest inheritance and the most mysterious whereabouts, is even more mysterious than before, and almost no one knows what they are planning.

Xia Fusheng likes to wear Hanfu not only because his mother was born in the Liu family, but also because he grew up in the ancestral land of the Liu family since he was a child.

Before he turned sixteen, Xia Fusheng had no idea what his surname represented.

On the day of his sixteenth birthday, a middle-aged man appeared at Xia Fusheng's house.

That night, Xia Fusheng was taken out of the Liu family's ancestral land by that person. From that day on, he changed from an ordinary person with a foreign surname who grew up in the ancestral land of the Liu family to one of the heirs of the Xia family with a distinguished status.

The man gave Xia Fusheng the identity, and then handed him over to Yuwen Yong and disappeared again.

From beginning to end, Xia Fusheng didn't see the true face of that person at all.

But judging from his mother's reaction when the man appeared, Xia Fusheng guessed that the person was likely to be his biological father.

Xia Fusheng has been by Yuwenyong's side for nearly five years, but from the first time he saw Yuwenyong, he never believed this strange elder who seemed to be good to him, and his relationship with Yuwenyong has always been to use each other.

For example, Yu Wenyong used his identity to protect the four major families.

For example, he used Yu Wenyong's strength to subdue the dark lines left to him by the Xia family.

Xia Fusheng and Yuwen Yong didn't expect that when they wanted to join forces to make a bigger plan on Zhou Ran, they were slapped by Zhou Ran before they started, Yuwen Yong's dead body was next to him, and the aura of Heavenly Palace suppression was about to collapse out, and Xia Fusheng at this time was also on the edge of the river of death, and he could fall at any time in the next moment.

"Zhou Ran!"

Xia Fusheng looked up at Zhou Ran, who was alone in the sky with the moonlight above his head, and bit the name fiercely.

In the past five years, Xia Fusheng has been hiding behind the scenes to manipulate the fate of many families, and many descendants of wealthy families have been casually held to high positions by him and then beaten into the dust by him. As for today, there are very few people who can really be seen by him.

Zhou Ran, who has the blood of the Zhou and Tang families, is one of them.

From the time Zhou Ran stepped into Dingjun Mountain to the life-and-death battle between Zhou Ran and Guan Shanhai some time ago, Xia Fusheng knew almost everything. In order to ensure that there would be no accidents in today's meeting, he even did not hesitate to hand over the bronze key that affected all the aura of this Zhongtian Court to Yu Wenyong, who was suspicious, just so that Zhou Ran could stay here forever if he couldn't talk.

Xia Fusheng knew that another world existed but had never been to that world, even if he could use almost all the big families, big families and big forces outside of a very small number of top families as chess pieces in his hands, but in fact, his pattern was still too small, and his vision could not be compared with Zhou Ran, and the perfect strategy he made was wrong from the beginning.

If you haven't gone to that world, how can you know the size of the world?

I have never understood the real Zhou Ran, where did I have the confidence and courage to dare to regard Zhou Ran as a chess piece?

The bamboo flute appeared, and the aura suppressed by the Heavenly Palace appeared to collapse.

A power that seemed to destroy the world was about to burst out.

Xia Fusheng almost resigned himself to death.

But at this time, Xia Fusheng accidentally made a small haircut, and a bamboo shoot broke through the ground at his feet.

After the bamboo shoots are unearthed, they grow rapidly and reach a height of several zhang in the blink of an eye.

One bamboo grows, ten bamboos grow, and a thousand bamboos grow.

In just a moment, the entire Zhongtian Court was already a sea of bamboo.

Xia Fusheng was shocked by the sudden vision in front of him, he stretched out his hand to touch the small bamboo closest to him, but found that his fingers had passed directly through this bamboo.

"Fake?"

Xia Fusheng was shocked, the scene that happened in front of him was too much beyond his cognition.

With the appearance of these bamboos one after another, the sense of crisis that haunted his heart was passing rapidly.

Xia Fusheng immediately raised his head and looked at the figure standing above the void again, and said in a low voice, "How did you do it?"

High in the sky, there are thousands of clouds, but it is always difficult to hide the full moon.

On the river and sea, there were strong winds and waves, but the Middle Heaven Court was not affected at all.

Zhou Ran glanced at the Zhongtian Court, which had been occupied by the bamboo sea, and he could clearly feel that the massive spiritual energy that had been suppressed underground was being absorbed by these bamboo shadows, and finally all of them merged into the bamboo flute in his hand.

The more aura it absorbs, the more green the bamboo flute becomes, and it gets closer and closer to the flawless jade.

When the aura under the palace was absorbed for most of the time, the bamboo flute almost turned into a psychic jade, not only the whole body was filled with a soft glow, but the nine flute holes on the bamboo flute began to gradually turn from virtual to real.

When the flute hole was completely realized, the aura that had been suppressed for a hundred years under the Heavenly Palace was almost exhausted.

At this time, the bamboo sea that covered the entire Middle Heavenly Court withered and fell.

As early as the flute hole began to transform from virtual to real, the bamboo flute took the initiative to establish a connection with Zhou Ran's divine thoughts, and a series of strange notes appeared one after another. These strange notes turned out to be like those sword shadows, causing Zhou Ran's body of consciousness to collapse and reunite continuously, until it was finally able to fully carry these notes.

"Tianyin Bamboo!"

Zhou Ran finally knew what this little bamboo was.

The glow of the flute body is slowly restrained, except for the nine flute holes that have been transformed from virtual to solid, it seems to be the same as before.

Holding the Tianyin Bamboo in his hand, Zhou Ran tried to comprehend those strange notes.

There was silence between heaven and earth, and the needle drop could be heard before the heavenly palace.

The terrifying aura that was enough to collapse half of the demon capital was so easily dissolved!

Xiaobai flew back with Star-Lord and Kunyu, landed in front of the Heavenly Palace and began to arrange the feathers.

Snowball lay in front of Star-Lord, and Kunyu looked up at Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran, who suddenly opened his eyes, held the Tianyin Bamboo and slowly fell from a hundred feet in the sky.

When the bronze key fell into his hand, and the aura suppressed by the Heavenly Palace was all pressed on his shoulder, Zhou Ran knew why the previous masters of the Heavenly Palace died.

In fact, the Heavenly Palace was originally built to suppress the aura poured out from the two oceans, and this Middle Heavenly Court was simply a cloak used to hide people's ears and eyes. Although the successive masters of the Heavenly Palace have mastered the title deed or various certificates, they are only the nominal masters, and the Xia family, who is in charge of the copper key, is the real master of the Heavenly Palace.

As long as he is in charge of the copper key, he can use this to mobilize the luck formed by the suppression of the aura of the Heavenly Palace in the summer to weaken the luck of the major families who nominally control the Heavenly Palace. As more and more aura poured out from the two oceans, the power of luck possessed by the Heavenly Palace would also increase. And when the aura of suppression reaches a certain level, the Xia family may even be able to use this to cut off the national fortune of the imperial capital.

The reason why Zhou Ran destroyed the copper key so decisively was not because he had insight into the Xia family's plan, but because the copper key was a huge threat to him.

Why did Yu Wenyong throw the important copper key to Zhou Ran so easily?

First, Yu Wenyong is not the owner of the copper key, he only knows the simplest way to control it from Xia Fusheng, and he can't exert the true power of the copper key at all. Surrounded by two terrifying beast emperors, he could only throw the bronze key to Zhou Ran in order to protect himself. Because he knew that the ancestor of the Xia family had set a rule in casting the copper key, once the copper key fell into the hands of a person with a foreign surname, the aura of Heavenly Palace suppression would be pressed on that person.

Second, the bronze key was made of extraterrestrial meteorites mixed with several kinds of bronze, and it was almost impossible to destroy it unless the person who ascended to the upper realm personally intervened. And as long as the copper key is not destroyed, the Xia family can forcibly take it back with a secret method.

If it wasn't Zhou Ran who was decisive enough to destroy the copper key at that time, if Xia Fusheng hadn't been too confident in his own copper key, maybe the copper key would have been recaptured by him. And Xia Fusheng, who was in charge of the bronze key again, even if he was no match for Zhou Ran and the two beast emperors, it was not impossible to protect himself by desperately depleting the aura suppressed by the Heavenly Palace.

However, from an ordinary person with a foreign surname in the ancestral land of the Liu family to one of the heirs of the Xia family, it has been smooth sailing in the past five years, and almost everything is as he wishes, Xia Fusheng has lost himself unconsciously.

How can someone who is overconfident or even conceited believe that he will die?!

He was really on the verge of death, and he suddenly realized.

If he didn't want to use Yuwen Yong's strength to urge the copper key to suppress Zhou Ran as much as possible at the beginning, but personally mastered the copper key with the idea of losing both, would the ending be different? If he realized earlier that Zhou Ran was a madman who would not accept any threat, where would Xia Fusheng come here today, he wouldn't even let Yuwen Yong lure Star-Lord into the trap and pull Zhou Ran in.

Xia Fusheng looked at Zhou Ran, whose feet slowly fell back to the ground, his eyes were extremely complicated.

Zhou Ran glanced at Star-Lord, who had already woken up, and said with a calm face, "Will you still pick up things in the future?"

Star-Lord made a grievance: "Don't pick it up." ”

Zhou Ran sat down on the stone steps behind him, and then asked Xia Fusheng: "Tell me who you are." ”

When he decided to destroy the bronze key, Zhou Ran actually didn't know that the aura suppressed under the Heavenly Palace could be absorbed by Tianyin Bamboo, and his idea at that time was to scrape away those aura with the Void Spirit Clothes. Even if the Void Spirit Cloak failed to scrape away all the aura in time and cause it to collapse, it would not be a big deal, he could still surround the Middle Heaven Court with the Void Spirit Clothes, and at most destroy this Middle Heaven Court.

Anyway, there are only a few of them in the Middle Heavenly Court tonight, Star-Lord and Kunyu will not be hurt, as for the life and death of Xia Fusheng, does Zhou Ran need to care?

"Xia Fusheng!"

Xia Fusheng replied, as he spoke, his eyes with a faint look of greed kept carefully glancing at Zhou Ran holding the bamboo flute in his hand, and he was also speculating in his heart whether the bamboo sea phantom just now had something to do with it.

"Xia Fusheng. ”

Zhou Ran turned the Tianyin Bamboo, which had completely turned into a bamboo flute, around his fingers a few times, and then directly put it into the Void Spirit Clothes in front of Xia Fusheng, he looked at Xia Fusheng with a smile and asked, "Xia family?"

As the heir of the Zhou and Tang families, how could Zhou Ran not know the existence of the six surnames of Zhenguo.

"Yes!"

Xia Fusheng's attention was finally completely on Zhou Ran, he put his worries about his life and death into his heart, looked directly into Zhou Ran's eyes and said, "This time, I admit it, Minister Zhou can mention whatever he wants." ”

"Minister Zhou?"

Zhou Ran smiled at Xia Fusheng, who called himself like this, he lay down, looked at the full moon above the high sky that had been half covered by flowing clouds, and said, "The Xia Fusheng at the head of the twelve earthly branches is also you?"

Xia Fusheng nodded and admitted, "It's me." ”

Zhou Ran smiled silently: "Ten days of dry has almost become the territory of the Guan family, and the twelve local branches are probably in your hands, and you can't master the two most mysterious and powerful departments of the Ministry of Supervision, won't I, the minister, lose half of my rights?"

On the surface, there are only 22 people in the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches, but the resources that these 22 people receive every year are almost 40% of the entire Ministry of Supervision, which is an astronomical amount when converted into cash. From this point of view, Zhou Ran, who could not command the Heavenly Stems Branch, had lost at least forty percent of the full strength of the Minister of Supervision.

When he began to take over the Ministry of Supervision, Zhou Ran also thought so. But after learning about the current situation of the Ministry of Supervision and the true strength of the 22 people of the Heavenly Stems Branch, he immediately realized that the Heavenly Stems and the Heavenly Branches that divided forty percent of the resources were the foundation of the Ministry of Supervision.

First of all, the four super-units are only in name of the Ministry of Supervision, and the commanders of the four units are only responsible to the Central Military Commission.

If Zhou Ran, as the Minister of Supervision, did not have enough strength to suppress the four chief officials, then the four chief officials could completely ignore his orders. Once this kind of thing happens, it is useless to report to the top level, because not only will the Ninth Generalissimo not take care of it, but it may also make those people in the Military Commission think that the Minister of Supervision is incompetent.

The Ministry of Supervision is one of the most important departments of the military, and there is no such thing as the length of office, and several members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission may even jointly convene a CMC at any time to directly replace the head of the Ministry of Supervision.

It has only been three years since the establishment of the new Ministry of Supervision, and there are three chief officials before and after.

The first chief official Feng Wanli, his strength is still a mystery, but his qualifications are so old that even the nine generalissimos are juniors in front of him. During the two years he was in charge of the Ministry of Supervision, he did almost nothing, and no one in the military questioned him. The reason why the newly established Ministry of Supervision was able to smoothly stabilize in just two years was due to Feng Wanli, who had never been in charge of affairs.

The second person in charge, Guan Shanhai, is not as senior as Feng Wanli in the army, but he is a real star at the pinnacle of the realm, and when no one knows that Feng Wanli has stepped into the upper realm, Guan Shanhai is considered by almost everyone to be the number one master in the army.

At least on the surface!

The reason why those at the top level were able to acquiesce to Guan Shanhai becoming the speaker of the Ministry of Supervision was not only because of the many entanglements of interests behind it, but also because when Guan Shanhai returned, he took the children of the Guan family to many big forces outside in person, and exchanged many heads for real military achievements.

These things were only known after Zhou Ran sat in that position.

As the third and current chief official of the Ministry of Supervision, Zhou Ran relied not only on the battle of Yanshan, but also on the involvement between the Zhou and Tang families and major forces, as well as his performance in Dingjunshan in those years.

The Ministry of Supervision has produced three chief officers, each of whom is a strongman who can suppress the four super forces!

But no matter whether Zhou Ran or Feng Wanli and Guan Shanhai, in the name of the Minister of Supervision, they can indeed requisition the masters of the four major troops, but they will not insert their hands into it.

Because of bad rules, it is even more taboo.

In addition to the four super forces, today's four major military academies are only famous in the Ministry of Supervision.

The four major military academies are to a large extent related to the success of the plan for all the people to be soldiers, and Zhou Ran, as the chief officer of the Ministry of Supervision, not only cannot interfere, but also has to find ways to meet the requirements put forward by the four military academies as much as possible.

Aside from the four super forces and the four major military academies, the Ministry of Supervision is left with only two departments of the Heavenly Stems and the Supervision Department.

In this case, if Zhou Ran can't take charge of the two branches of the Heavenly Stem and Earth, what is left in his hands?

There are six Star Column powerhouses in the Ten Heavenly Stems, and the remaining four are all innate peaks. And the twelve earthly branches, except for Xia Fusheng, who is the leader, are all innate third realms.

No matter how much Zhou Ran was not keen on power, it was impossible to let these people fall into the hands of the Guan family and the Xia family.

Zhou Ran will not take all the power into his own hands like Guan Shanhai, and he immediately chose to go to Hanhai University as a borrower when he sat in that position, which should be something that the top bosses are happy to see. But if they really thought that Zhou Ran would be a hands-off shopkeeper like Feng Wanli, they would be greatly disappointed.

The people who grew up in the top families seem to be born with the ability to play power plots, and Zhou Ran also knows this. But now, when personal force is so powerful, how effective can the conspiracy methods be?

Zhou Ran was not in a hurry to hold the Heavenly Stem Earth in his hands, but he wanted to wait for Fan Kui to come back from Dingjun Mountain.

He didn't believe that if he threw Fankui, who was only a thin line away from the upper realm, he couldn't submit to the obedience of the heavenly and earthly branches. If it's really not enough, it's a big deal to throw Tsing Yi in.

It's just a small pond, even if it is disturbed, it is a big deal to drown a few people.

Zhou Ran is not in a hurry, but someone is in a hurry.

is like Yu Wenyong, who was lying not far away, still staring, and Xia Fusheng who was standing in front of him.

Xia Fusheng couldn't have been unclear about what Zhou Ran wanted to say, but he still didn't understand and asked, "What does Minister Zhou mean?"

Zhou Ran smiled, sat up suddenly, looked at Xia Fusheng and asked, "How many moves do you think I need to kill?"

"You ......"

Xia Fusheng wanted to say something cruel, but when he saw Zhou Ran's eyes, his momentum suddenly weakened, and he said, "I'll quit the earth branch!"

"Exit?"

Zhou Ran smiled coldly and said, "I don't agree!"

His own life was still in Zhou Ran's hands, Xia Fusheng couldn't be hard in front of Zhou Ran, he pursed his lips and said, "Minister Zhou should say what he wants!"

Zhou Ran picked up a fallen leaf blown by the night wind, turned his fingers around the petiole a few times, and said to Xia Fusheng: "Since you are the head of the earth branch, then do what you should do with peace of mind, and don't worry about other aspects." ”

"Zhou Ran!"

Xia Fusheng finally worked hard, Zhou Ran clearly wanted him to give up all the Xia family resources in his hands, how could he not be angry?!

"Disagree?"

Zhou Ran slowly stood up, standing on the stone steps, he looked down at Xia Fusheng who was full of anger, and sneered: "Tell me what qualifications you have to negotiate with me now?"

Xia Fusheng's face changed and changed, but he couldn't say a word.

"Just because his surname is Xia!"

But at this moment, an angry shout that seemed to come from the Nine Heavens suddenly exploded.

Xia Fusheng immediately heard who this voice was, and looked up in ecstasy.