The Immortal Way is Fierce

Chapter 139 Golden Sword and Jade Slip
Just when Zhang Jingyuan and the other three were deep into the Ten Thousand Demons Cave.

Suddenly, a green flame came rushing outside Yanyang City. The sound was terrifying, like thunder, shocking people's hearts.

This flame, as a unique symbol of foundation-building cultivation, alarmed the Yanyang City guards. The city defense formation was activated instantly, and a light red light shield immediately enveloped the huge Yanyang City tightly.

It was already late at night, and suddenly a foundation-building cultivator came directly towards Yanyang City, which was really alarming.

Especially three hours ago, there was news from the Yamen of Yanyang City that the son of the Star Lord had sent messages to Lord Xingwei many times. This was not going to be good, there was going to be big trouble in Yunhua Star.

But even when Yanyang City opened its city defense formation, the green flames still continued unabated, heading towards Yanyang City like arrows.

However, just when it was a few hundred meters away from Yanyang City, a token was thrown towards the city defense formation. The city defense formation instantly opened a hole to allow one person to pass through. The green flames penetrated straight through. Its trajectory should be heading towards Yanyang City Yamen.

"Who is this? Is it Lord An Xing, or Wu Xingwei? Or is it Zheng Xingcheng..."

Seeing this scene in front of them, some guards below whispered.

As for why we guessed that it was these people, isn't it because when the city defense formation was opened, in addition to the city lords of each city, only An Qing and the four giants of Yunhua Star were qualified to order the city defense formation to open such a Kouzi.

It can be said that except for these five people, even the tokens of the Six Cao Cao of Yunhua Star Yamen will not be usable when they arrive at the city defense formation. After all, if a Foundation-Building Demonic Cultivator sneaks in, wouldn't everyone in the city have to follow? Death.

"Don't make blind guesses if you don't know. After guessing for a long time, I came up with three of the four names, but I missed the correct one. As soon as I saw the green flame, I knew that the person who came was practicing wood-based skills. Fa, among the four giants of Yunhua Star, the only ones majoring in wood are Master Duan and Master Duan Zhongmu."

A man with a helmet full of pits and a weathered face, who looked like a veteran of hundreds of battles, slapped the man who just spoke on the head hard.

It seemed that he had received a message from the city gate. When Duan Zhongmu landed at the Yamen of Yanyang City, the Lord of Yanyang City, Jin Yuancheng, was already outside to greet him.

After a few simple greetings, Duan Zhongmu said directly and sternly: "What happened to An Pengju to summon Wu Xingwei at this time? The officer on duty couldn't find Wu Xingwei, so he reported the matter to me. He rushed over immediately without stopping."

Hearing this, Jin Yuancheng rolled his eyes to the sky. What a shameless old fox, he actually had the nerve to say that he would come here non-stop.

As for the distance from Yunhua City to Yanyang City, if a mortal takes a carriage, it will naturally take four or five days to travel, but if it is a flying boat, it will only take more than two hours.

But if a monk in the middle stage of foundation building, such as Duan Zhongmuzhen, really hurried on, one hour would be enough to fly over, and it wouldn't take three hours.

Of course, this may also be because the yamen on duty reported to Duan Zhongmu too late, and it seemed to be excusable for him to take so long to come.

But this was precisely the reason why he felt that Duan Zhongmu was playing tricks and saying nice things.

If Duan Zhongmu really wanted to get involved in this matter, he could just ask the officer on duty to send a message and keep An Pengju for a while longer.

Apparently the on-duty officer could not find Wu Xingwei, so he reported the matter to Duan Zhongmu. Then Duan Zhongmu felt that the matter was difficult, so he deliberately waited until An Pengju and the others left before appearing.

As the chief registrar of Yunhua Star, Duan Zhongmu controls all the officials of Yunhua Star. In addition, due to his seniority, Duan Zhongmu not only comes from a family of monks who were born and raised in Yunhua Star, but also returned to Yunhua Star after building the foundation. He has been in charge of Yongjia City since then. It took nearly a hundred years for the city lord to become the current chief register.

It is probably not an exaggeration to say that he has eyes all over Yunhuaxing. Anyway, as far as he knows, there are several officials in his yamen who came in through Duan Zhongmu's path.

Therefore, someone must tip off Duan Zhongmu so that he can reappear not long after An Pengju and others left.

"Master Duan, you are really hardworking and meritorious. You have worked so hard to come here this late at night. Let me just say that our Yunhua Star can't be where we are today without your great achievements and immeasurable merits..."

Complaints are complaints, but flattery should still be flattered. After all, Duan Zhongmu has no ability to promote them, but it is too easy to ruin their affairs.

Although Duan Zhongmu said he didn't want it, and Jin Yuancheng praised it too much and would not allow it next time, judging from his expression of enjoyment, it was obvious that his body was still very honest.

Just when Jin Yuancheng was flattering him and his mouth was dry, anyone who wasn't a fool could see that Duan Zhongmu was deliberately stalling for time.

Duan Zhongmu then patted Jin Yuancheng on the shoulder and said, "I understand your hard work. I will come to Yanyang City often in the future, and Lord An will never forget everyone's hard work."

"What is the purpose of An Pengju sending several messages to Wu Xingwei in such a hurry and with a pale face?"

Duan Zhongmu swayed and spoke as if he didn't care, but the flash of light in his eyes clearly exposed his true thoughts.

Besides, if he really felt that it wasn't important, why would Duan Zhongmu have to come here to beg for nothing? Why couldn't he just stay in Yunhua City?
Not to mention playing so many tricks.

Indeed, deep down in his heart, Duan Zhongmu felt that this matter was indeed very important, and if it went wrong, it would be an earth-shaking event!

After all, you must know that An Pengju is the son of An Qingxian. When something happens, he does not notify An Qingxian immediately, but instead informs Wu Yulie. Isn't this weird?

It cannot be said that the relationship between An Pengju and Wu Yulie is closer than the relationship between An Qingxian and his biological father and son?
Furthermore, it lies in An Pengju himself. An Pengju is not only the son of An Qingxian, but also the top-grade three spiritual roots of Yunhua Star that come out every hundred years. If nothing else happens, the golden elixir is just the basic one. With better luck, he can become Yuan Pengju. Yingzhen cultivation is not impossible.

Otherwise, he would not have allowed his only eldest grandson to hang out with An Pengju since childhood.

In addition, it was at this time and place, late at night, and in Yanyang City. No matter how you thought about it, it was weird.

As for what is even more strange, the officer on duty said that he could not find An Qingxian and Wu Yulie, which meant that he was the only one among the four giants of Yunhua Star except Xingcheng Lu Xichun who was going to Yunhai Star.

Strange!
How strange!
That's why he had no choice but to come to Yanyang City, otherwise with the current dire situation of the Duan family, he would be too lazy to wade into this muddy water.

Who knows, An Qingxian and Wu Yulie were having some kind of affair. He absolutely didn't want to get involved in the affairs of these two people.

The current Duan family still seems to be extremely powerful. He was the previous lord of Yongjia City, and now he is his son. It can be said that the surname of Yongjia City is Duan. Plus, he is the chief administrator of Yunhua Star, and the four major lords of Yunhua Star One of the giants, his disciples and old officials are all over Yunhua Star. Don't give him any respect if you meet him.

But in fact, the golden catkins on the outside have become the catkins on the inside.

The reason is simple, because there is no more below...

This does not just refer to his only direct grandson, Duan Bai is gone. If it is just Duan Bai who is gone, it doesn't matter. As long as the family can continue to cultivate foundation-building monks, it can always remain strong.

But more than three months ago, Liu Yingxian, the chief steward of the Duan family and the most promising to break through to the foundation building stage, and the five sons of late-stage Qi refining families that he had previously been optimistic about, disappeared together with Duan Bai, the evil son, and no one was seen. Dead without a corpse.

This is troublesome. Judging from the current situation of the Duan family, if you want to train another foundation-building monk, if you are lucky, fifty years later, if you are not lucky, the Duan family will not be able to train it. If other families in Yunhua Star knew about this, they would definitely cannibalize the Duan family's business in various cities secretly, which would be really troublesome. After all, you can't ask him to personally come forward for anything, right?
If a family is reduced to a situation where everything needs to be handled by the head of the family himself, the family will not survive for a few days. Many histories from ancient times have proven this.

While thinking about his own affairs, he listened to Jin Yuancheng's report.

"What do you mean, they didn't say anything, they just left without waiting for Lieutenant Wu Xing, and their whereabouts are unknown?"

Duan Zhongmu said with a frown.

He is a little confused now. What is An Pengju doing? Is there really something so big that he must tell Wu Yulie alone?
Could it be that An Qing went crazy first and died?
After receiving a positive answer from Jin Yuancheng, Duan Zhongmu shook off the messy thoughts in his head and said directly: "In that case, I will personally stay in Yanyang City for three days, and wait for An Pengju and the others to return, and then we will discuss it in detail. .”

"In addition, let the officer on duty once again send a message to Lord An Xing and Lieutenant Wu Xing. By the way, don't forget to inform Lu Xingcheng of this matter."

Although Jin Yuancheng was unwilling to let Duan Zhongmu stay in his Yanyang City, he couldn't say anything since the matter had come to this.

Of course, he may not have thought that if something big happened, he would let Duan Zhongmu handle it first.

After all, if the sky falls, someone tall will hold it up. In the absence of the other three giants, Duan Zhongmu will naturally be the tallest one.

In the name of not disturbing Jin Yuancheng's normal work, Duan Zhongmu randomly found a public house in the side hall and stayed there. Jin Yuancheng pretended to persuade him a few words, but seeing that Duan Zhongmu really insisted, he went directly back to the back office.

First, An Pengju had gone through a lot of trouble, and then he had to deal with Duan Zhongmu, an old man, for a long time. He had long been tired and impatient.

Not long after Jin Yuancheng left, Yanyang City Household Cao quietly slipped into the public house where Duan Zhongmu was staying.

"I have met the head of the family. The eldest young master has learned about this and has given you another letter."

After making a big salute, Hu Cao handed the golden sword and jade slip to Duan Zhongmu.

If this scene falls into the eyes of Jin Yuancheng, I am afraid that an unprecedented purge in Yanyang City will begin.

After all, according to the regulations of the Dao Alliance, there is only one city lord in the city below the residence star. There are no other star ministers, star lieutenants, or anchors like Yunhuaxing Yamen. The ones below are directly Liucao.

In other words, in Yanyang City, Liu Cao was already one person below ten thousand people.

But Hu Cao, one of the six Cao Cao, is actually from the Duan family. He, Jin Yuancheng, doesn't know it yet. Wouldn't that be troublesome?

"My son Renhui actually used the golden sword and jade slip. Is this something important that happened?"

Duan Zhongmu frowned, probed his mind into the jade slip, and read it in detail.

The Golden Sword and Jade Slip can be said to be the most advanced sound transmission method in the residential star. It can fly within ten thousand miles in less than a quarter of an hour, which is nearly ten times faster than the flying speed of the monks in the foundation building stage.

But the price is too high. Not to mention the price of buying the Golden Sword and Jade Slip, the cost of using the Golden Sword and Jade Slip once and then asking a Talisman Master to recharge it is at least fifteen spiritual stones, which is equivalent to half a yellow-level mid-grade magic weapon. .

His spiritual consciousness confirmed in the Golden Sword and Jade Slips that it was indeed written by his son, and all the secret notes were consistent. Duan Zhongmu then began to read the contents of the Golden Sword and Jade Slips carefully.

After a few breaths, Duan Zhongmu slowly raised his head and fell into deep thought.

In the Golden Sword and Jade Slips, there is a mention of a person who is also in Yanyang City. He is a sixteen-year-old boy who has just tested his spiritual roots. His name is Zhang Jingyuan.

He naturally knew about Zhang Jingyuan and knew that he had a grudge with Duan Bai. Liu Yingxian, Duan Ming and others mysteriously disappeared while chasing Zhang Jingyuan.

Although on the surface, Duan Bai said that this person is the future enemy of the Duan family and will take his place next to An Pengju, but he himself knows that his grandson is stingy, incompetent, arrogant and domineering, and has both talent and talent. Emotional intelligence is just a matter of choice.

His deliberate intention to let Zhang Jingyuan die is simply because Zhang Jingyuan offended him, and everything else is false.

But Zhang Jingyuan may indeed replace Duan Bai's position next to An Pengju, which he absolutely cannot allow. After all, half of the entire Duan family's future depends on his friendship with An Pengju.

If there was An Pengju's protection, even if the Duan family could not produce a single foundation-building monk in the past hundred years, the Duan family's status would still be as stable as Mount Tai.

It was precisely because of this that he agreed to Liu Ying going there first and taking Duan Ming and the other five people with him.

But who would have known that these seven people, six in the late stages of Qi refining, one who had reached the Great Perfection of Qi refining and was about to build a foundation, would mysteriously disappear, although they most likely died in the monster siege.

But when he went to Liujia Village, he couldn't find any trace, as if he disappeared out of thin air.

Although it seems that Zhang Jingyuan is highly suspicious, how is this possible?

A guy who has only practiced for less than a year and has cultivated up to the fourth level of Qi Refining can actually kill six late-stage Qi Refining and a Qi Refining Dzogchen. Isn't this a joke? What is it?
As a result, he suspected many people. It can be said that the Duan family has had feuds for nearly a hundred years, and he suspected and investigated them one by one.

But unfortunately, almost the objects he suspected had almost complete alibi, and they definitely did not appear in Canglang Demon Mountain during that time period.

So since almost all choices have been eliminated and only one is left, no matter how ridiculous this choice is, it is very likely to be the truth.

In the Golden Sword and Jade Slips, some information about Zhang Jingyuan was passed down by his own son. I hope he can investigate it carefully when he has free time and avenge Duan Bai and Uncle Liu as soon as possible.

"I hope not, otherwise it would be a joke. The fourth level of Qi Refining killed seven monks from my Duan family who were above the late stage of Qi Refining. This would be the biggest joke in the world."

After saying this, Duan Zhongmu ordered Hu Cao to get to the bottom of Zhang Jingyuan's investigation.

"No matter who you are, I will personally take your life."

Looking out the window, Duan Zhongmu murmured.

Zhang Jingyuan, who didn't know Duan Zhongmu was here and was already investigating him, suddenly noticed something was wrong in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave.

(End of this chapter)