In addition to Qianyuan City, where the essence of the Northern Alliance is located, there are still eighteen large forces, thirty-six medium-sized forces and seventy-two small forces among the forces under the jurisdiction of the Northern Alliance, which are branches bred by the towering tree of the Northern Alliance, and they are mutually in-front with the Qianyuan City where the headquarters of the Northern Alliance is located, and together they control the northern waters of the East China Sea.

Generally speaking, if you want to become a large force of eighteen large forces, there must be at least one Dharma Ancestor in this force, and the real person in the middle of the forging pill is the lowest sign of the medium-sized force; even if it is a small force, there must be a forging pill real person to erect its own banner.

Although the Li family has had Li Xiuzhu's advanced forging pill period in the past two years, and then Chu Ting has nominally joined the Li family after the advanced forging pill period, the Li family's strength has increased a lot, and its position on Sanjia Island has also been consolidated, but the strength of the Li family is still at the bottom of the thirty-six medium-sized families, and many small forces have surpassed the Li family in terms of the number of forging pill real people and the overall strength。

Every hundred years, the Northern Alliance will take advantage of the founding celebration of the Northern Alliance to hold a competitive conference of the major forces, when the three forces of large, medium and small will choose each other's alchemy, or refining, or arranging formations, Or make four types of talismans for skill competition, and then evaluate the status of each force through the comprehensive strength of the development of the major forces in the past hundred years, after each competition, the last three large forces will automatically fall into the medium forces, and the top three forces with the best performance of the medium forces will make up; in the same way, the last six of the medium forces will also be replaced by the six small forces with the strongest strength; to the last twelve of the small forces, they will be selected by the major forces of the Northern Alliance from the forces that do not enter the North Sea.

The Li family was ranked 29th among the 36 medium-sized forces last time, and was only next to the six medium-sized forces that were eliminated, and was one of the "hot" candidates for this relegation to a small force.

When Lu Ping rushed to the bottom of Qianyuan Mountain in the middle of Qianyuan City, Li Maolin and Li Xiuzhu, the heads of the Li family, were already waiting here. ”

Lu Ping nodded expressionlessly, Lu Ping knew in his heart that it was naturally because of yesterday's incident, the two of them had a disagreement, naturally they were out of sight and out of mind, and Li Maolin obviously already knew about it, Li Xiuzhu glanced at Lu Ping, and saw that he followed Li Maolin expressionlessly towards the towering Qianyuan Mountain, thought about it, after all, he didn't say anything, and silently followed with Chi Lianying behind Lu Ping.

"Isn't this Brother Li from Sanjia Island? This Dan meeting came too early!" a middle-aged scribe with three long beards slowly came from the side with a few people.

"Oh, it's Brother Shangguan, Brother Shangguan is here on behalf of the family this time, I'm afraid it's inevitable for your family to advance to a medium-sized force, right? My Li family can't compare to the Shangguan family, maybe this Danhui will be replaced by Brother Shangguan's family, and if you come early, it's just to fly to the stupid bird first." ”

Li Maolin saw the visitor, and his face changed slightly, but he still greeted the person who came and talked and laughed.

"Brother Li's family is not bad, I heard that two years ago, the virtuous niece and one of the family worshippers both advanced to the forging pill period, and the strength of Brother Li's family has greatly improved, but I don't know which alchemy master Brother Li invited to participate in this Dan meeting?"

Li Maolin only brought a few people behind him, and the eyes of the head of the Shangguan family only lingered on Lu Ping and Chi Lianying.

"It's just a little help, after all, both of them have just advanced, and they are both women, not as good as Shangguan Haoxian's nephew, I heard that the cultivation has reached the second layer of the forging pill, and now they have taken care of the family affairs in place of Brother Shangguan. ”

"Uncle Li praised it falsely, how can the little nephew He De be able to, but he is just doing chores under his father. Behind the head of the Shangguan family, a handsome young man who had never left Li Xiuzhu from the beginning hurriedly said respectfully when he heard this.

When Li Xiuzhu saw this person, he couldn't help frowning.

"Brother Li, what did you think about the matter that the junior brother mentioned to you last time?" The head of the Shangguan family hid a knife with a smile on his face, and asked: "The daughter of the dog and Brother Li can also be regarded as a talented woman, and the door is right, this time my Shangguan family is bound to advance to the thirty-six medium-sized forces, and when the time comes, you and I will join forces, even if Brother Li's family will be reduced to a small force this time, the Zhang Wang family of Sanjiadao will not dare to do anything." ”

Li Maolin muttered, "Brother Shangguan is so sure that he will advance to a medium-sized force this time?"

"Of course!" the head of the Shangguan family said quite confidently: "My Shangguan family only has five monks in the forging pill stage, and there are two monks who have reached the middle stage of forging pills, it can be said that the standard of medium-sized forces has already been reached, only the title of the Dan Society is missing, and this time my Shangguan family is fortunate to invite Master Yue to make a move, and it will definitely be able to rank among the seventy-two small forces." ”

The head of the Shangguan family pointed to an arrogant old man behind him and introduced it to Li Maolin.

Li Maolin's face changed, and he said in surprise: "But Mr. Yue Jiang Ruiyue?"

The arrogant old man saw that Li Maolin called himself "sir", so he nodded with great satisfaction, but did not speak.

Li Xiuzhu, who was beside Lu Ping, looked a little gloomy when he heard the head of the Shangguan family talk about the marriage between the two families, and seemed to be extremely reluctant, and when he heard the name of "Yue Jiangrui", his face was also full of surprise.

Lu Ping didn't know the details of this Yue Jiangrui, and Chi Lianying on the side explained in a low voice: "This Yue Jiangrui has been immersed in the art of alchemy for hundreds of years, but he has always been one step away from becoming an alchemy master because he can't break through the forging pill period because of his cultivation, but this person is quite famous in the Northern Alliance, all because there are dozens of half-step forging pills that have been refined by him, and the success rate is even higher than that of some alchemy masters, so he has always been considered the first person under the alchemy master." ”

When Lu Ping heard this, he was also quite surprised in his heart, the total number of half-step forging pills that Lu Ping was refining now was no more than ten, and it was simply not the same as this person.

Li Maolin thought for a while, and then said: "Marriage, although there is the order of the parents, but whether the two are happy with each other is more important, if Shangguan Xian's nephew can get the favor of the little girl, the little brother has nothing to say." However, this time, my Li family may not be able to keep the position of these thirty-six families. ”

The face of the head of the Shangguan family changed when he heard this, and Li Xiuzhu's expression just now, no one present saw it, Li Maolin's statement was already a clear rejection of the marriage between the two families.

At this moment, Yue Jiangrui, who had been holding his hands behind his back by the side of the Shangguan family master, pointed at Lu Ping and suddenly said, "Is it this stinky kid that the Li family master relied on this Dan meeting this time?"

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Twenty-eight to catch up with the New Year's goods, what can be done! Eleven o'clock Chapter 2! Tomorrow's small year crazy code word, outbreak! New Year's greetings to everyone!