Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Li Family Courtyard
At the end of the hour, two fast horses set off from Zhang's house. Kuaima's goal is to find a wealthy merchant's mansion outside Maebashi Castle.
Lin Quan, who was sitting on horseback, was extremely uncomfortable and depressed at this time. It's uncomfortable because Lin Quan has never ridden a horse, and if he hadn't relied on his superb martial arts, I'm afraid he would have fallen off his horse and made a fool of himself. As for the depression, it was because there was a female knight on his side. This woman is none other than Miss Zhang Xin, the eldest lady of the Zhang family.
Originally, Lin Quan only wanted to inquire about the address they had agreed on at that time, so he was going to set off alone. It's a pity that Miss Zhang must come with her, and Lin Quan shook his head like a drum at that time.
What are you kidding! How can a mortal martial artist be able to help in the fighting methods between monks, even if her martial arts can be called a first-class master in the world, but even if a cultivator with a low cultivation level can be injured by a mistake with a low-level spell, she can immediately take her life. What's more, what they were about to face was a Yin Yang Sanren who had cultivated at the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Condensation, even if Lin Quan was not sure of victory after obtaining the Fu Bao, how could he take care of Zhang Xin at that time?
It's a pity that in a few rhetorical questions from Miss Zhang, Immortal Master Lin was quickly defeated.
For example, even if you know the address, do you know how to get there? Do you know my little brother, but I don't know how you can save people? What if they give you a fake hostage? Even if you save my little brother, do you want to hold him and fight with people? And so on and so forth............
In desperation, Lin Quan had no choice but to accept Miss Zhang's suggestion in its entirety, and act according to the plan that Zhang Zhonglin had set earlier. At this time, Lin Quan wanted to be aggrieved, and pretended to be the martial artist of the nursing home under Miss Zhang. At that time, Lin Quan, who had gathered the spiritual power of his whole body, wanted to see the opportunity and launch a surprise attack while Zhang Xin was pretending to trade treasures with the other party's immortal cultivators. It's best to kill that immortal cultivator before the big battle starts, and weaken the opponent's strength as much as possible. No matter how bad it is, you have to get the hostages back safely, and the rest will be fairly simple.
During the two days of Lin Quan's retreat, the Zhang family was not idle.
With Lin Quan's hidden solid backing, Zhang Zhonglin fully exerted his scheming and calculation. Although he was caught off guard by the immortal cultivators at first, the relieved Zhang family was not vegetarian. It would not have been possible to survive for hundreds of years in this Maebashi Castle without a wide range of connections and strong methods.
After many investigations and a large amount of money, the Zhang family quickly found out the truth of the whole matter.
It turned out that it was the other big family in the city, the Li family, who was deliberately trying to deal with the Zhang family. After having an immortal as a backer, the Li family didn't intend to deliberately hide anything, although it hadn't been hyped yet, but as long as it was a caring person, he could inquire about some content. Therefore, the entire Qianqiao City is also secretly surging, after all, the result of the battle in three days will likely completely reshuffle the forces of the entire Qianqiao City, and all forces will face the problem of taking sides.
The fact that the Zhang family has treasures was actually leaked out by one of the Zhang family's own high-ranking officials after drinking. And this news reached the ears of the head of the Li family directly after turning around.
The Li family, the second largest family in Qianqiao City, who had been suppressed by the Zhang family, relied on this news to invite Yin and Yang people hundreds of miles away to deal with the Zhang family. Knowing that there are no immortal cultivators in this city, the Yin and Yang Sanren learned that the Zhang family might have treasures left by high-level immortal cultivators, and their greed quickly defeated their reason, and under the temptation of the treasures, the unwritten rules of the immortal cultivation world could not restrain such lawless cultivators as Yin and Yang Sanren. He immediately sent his only two disciples to the city to do business, and he himself happened to be in retreat to practice a spell, so it would be at least three days before he could arrive in person. Now the disciple of the Yin and Yang Sanren and Zhang Xin's little brother are in the courtyard of the Li family outside the city. That immortal cultivator's surname is Mao, and he only has a three-layer cultivation of condensing qi.
It was precisely because of these news that Zhang Zhonglin decided on this plan. Taking advantage of the end of the Yin and Yang Sanren, he suddenly killed the monk surnamed Mao and took back the hostages. At that time, Lin Quan will be able to deal with the Yin and Yang Sanren with peace of mind, and the Zhang family, who has recaptured the hostages, will no longer be afraid of the Li family.
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The truth is just as Zhang Zhonglin expected. When Lin Quan and Zhang Xin came to the Li family's courtyard more than 30 miles outside Qianqiao City, the other party didn't take the two of them seriously at all. Even the guards looked at the two with pride and disdain, feeling that they had already treated Lin Quan and Miss Zhang as a dish, and they could cut them as they wanted.
After the transmission, it took a long time for the monk surnamed Mao, who seemed to be still hungover, to come out.
The past few days after going down the mountain have been the most comfortable days for the monk surnamed Mao. The monk surnamed Mao, who had very poor spiritual root attributes and qualifications, knew that he would not be able to go far on the road of cultivation, and he was not comparable to his junior brother with the ice spirit root attribute at all. For more than 20 years, under the careful care of the Yin and Yang Sanren, he finally survived to the third layer of condensation. Later, after several successive impacts on the bottleneck of the fourth layer of condensation, he quickly gave up. This time, when he learned about the Li family and the Zhang family, the monk surnamed Mao, who was bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, couldn't wait to volunteer to come to deal with the Zhang family. In order to snatch the credit, the monk surnamed Mao deliberately sent his junior brother to arrest Miss Zhang, and he himself tried to kill some Zhang family martial artists and captured the Zhang family's little son by the way. After returning to the Li family's courtyard in victory, he quietly waited for the Zhang family to send him to the door, while staying in the house comfortably and enjoying the flowers in the mundane world.
"Since you're here, let's bring the treasure to you...... Hey, what a handsome little lady. ”
Under the deliberate flattery and filial piety of the Li family, the monk surnamed Mao is surrounded by a group of beauties every day, giving and demanding, brocade clothes and jade food, and wine and delicacies. After being served like an emperor for two days, he almost forgot his last name. When he learned that the Zhang family had sent someone to exchange the treasures for hostages, the monk surnamed Mao, who had no vigilance, took the little son of the Zhang family to the middle of the courtyard with such a big grin.
"Yes! I've already brought something. But before that, I have one more question. After seeing that her younger brother was safe and sound, Miss Zhang breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
"Bold! What kind of identity are you, you dare to be rude to the Immortal Master......" The head of the Li family on the side suddenly changed his face when he saw that the Zhang family was actually the beautiful and incomparable Zhang Xin, and he wanted to drink first.
"Eh, the head of the Li family doesn't have to worry!" The monk surnamed Mao, who was originally a demon in the color, unceremoniously waved away the head of the Li family, and then kept looking at Zhang Xin with those peach blossom eyes, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with the little lady, but it's okay to say it, this immortal master has always been a person who pities fragrance and cherishes jade." ”
"Okay, as long as the Immortal Master can tell the truth about Yan Lie's whereabouts of that dog thief. The little woman immediately presented the ancestral treasures of the Zhang family with both hands. After all, Zhang Xin is a martial arts child who has seen the market, although she is very disgusted with the frivolity of the monk surnamed Mao, she still asked Lin Quan the most wanted to know the question.
"Huh, what does the little lady want to do with Yan Lie'......s bandit? Oh, Mao understands. It's really unfortunate that yesterday the immortal master had already sent him back to invite my master. I think he should have reached the Yin and Yang view by now. After being stunned for a moment, Immortal Master Mao guessed the answer smartly.
For a newly recruited mortal subordinate, the monk surnamed Mao didn't care about his life or death at all. At this time, he regretted that he had sent Yan Lie back too early to stay in the Yin and Yang Temple, otherwise he really wanted to abolish Yan Lie and hand it over to Zhang Xin Faluo now, so as to win the joy of the beauty.
"Thank you, Master Immortal, for your frank words. Since the immortal master is so trustworthy, the little woman will never break her word. Zhang Quan, present the treasure to the immortal master. A hint of disappointment flashed in Zhang Xin's eyes, and at the same time, she took a step back without a trace.
"Yes, Miss. Lin Quan, who deliberately suppressed his spiritual power, walked forward quickly after hearing this, and after a dexterous intersperse, he directly blocked the middle between Zhang Xin and Mao Immortal, and at the same time, his right hand naturally took out the antique storage bag from his arms and handed it to the monk surnamed Mao.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say......" When he saw the storage bag that emitted faint spiritual power fluctuations, the monk surnamed Mao's eyes suddenly lit up. He didn't use the spiritual eye technique to check it, nor did he open the spiritual power shield, so he lifted the little son of the Zhang family and stepped forward.
Lin Quan was also very speechless about the brainless behavior of the monk surnamed Mao, and just stabbed the monk surnamed Mao with a slight stab with a golden sword. And the sword light emitted by the monk surnamed Mao before he died was effortlessly blocked by the jade yellow shield.