The Heavenly Saber Novel - Chapter 265

Chapter 265 Knock On The Door

“An envoy from Wanqing City? What are they doing here?” City Lord Su was puzzled. He immediately said, “Bring them in.”

Very quickly, the servants brought a group of people in. There were actually seven messengers. This made one somewhat surprised. Why did Wanqing City send so many messengers here?

“Sit!” City Lord Su extended his hand slightly. Although Wanqing City had previously been enemies of Jiangyuan City, they were guests from afar, so they couldn’t afford to lose their courtesy.

After they sat down, City Lord Su casually asked, “What are you doing here today?”

“It’s like this …” The Wanqing City messenger began to narrate.

After a long conversation, everyone realized that the seven messengers weren’t only from Wanqing City, they also represented the other six cities.

These cities weren’t far from Jiangyuan City. Due to the recent persecution of foreign martial artists, the situation was not good. It was really difficult to sustain them, so they came to seek asylum.

“Seeking asylum? Then what do you mean?” City Lord Su asked.

“Since Jiangyuan City can repel the strong enemies, it should be able to protect our safety. After discussing with each other, our City Lord wants to form an alliance with Jiangyuan City and advance and retreat together. As a condition, we are willing to respect Jiangyuan City as the Alliance Leader and obey your orders.”

“That’s why.” City Lord Su understood.

City Lord Wanqing was indeed an extremely intelligent person. He was able to advance and retreat, and he could stretch and bend. It seemed as if the hostility between him and Jiang Yuan City had never happened before. Now, he had actually directly begged City Lord Su for help.

If he could form an alliance with Jiang Yuan City, not only would he be able to borrow the influence of Jiang Yuan City to protect him, but it would also be enough to eliminate the grudges between the two sides. There was no need to worry about settling accounts in the future.

City Lord Su was thinking about the gains and losses in his heart, and the atmosphere fell silent.

Everyone’s gaze fell on him, and the seven messengers watched nervously, worried that they would get a bad answer.

After a while, City Lord Su smiled and said, “This is a good suggestion. How can I not agree to it? However, the specific details still require your City Lord to come personally. At that time, we will discuss it again. If the conditions are suitable, we will be able to settle it.”

Since City Lord Wanqing was capable of yielding and extending, City Lord Su might as well let go of his past grudges. In any case, there was no real grudge between the two sides. It was not as unforgivable as Baifu City.

With so many cities forming an alliance, it was naturally impossible for such a big thing to be agreed easily. Now, it was only a preliminary agreement, and there were many things that needed to be discussed.

If these cities wanted to form an alliance with Jiang Yuan City, what they valued was Li Qing’s formidable strength and immeasurable potential in the future. It was a matter of great importance for them to seek refuge. However, apart from obtaining the title of Alliance Master, Jiang Yuan City did not seem to have much benefit, and was not in a hurry.

Therefore, City Lord Su was bound to squeeze out some benefits from these cities.

The messengers were overjoyed when they heard this, “Alright, we will definitely tell you the original words after we return. Let the City Lord personally come to discuss it.”

“It’s getting late now. Why don’t we sit down and have a drink together and leave tomorrow?” City Lord Su’s attitude was kind.

These messengers happily agreed.

“May I ask if this is the legendary Protector Li Qing?” Someone asked Li Qing curiously.

“That’s right, I am Li Qing.” He nodded. His appearance should have been seen by many people long ago, so it wasn’t strange for people to recognize him accurately.

The messenger of Wanqing City sighed, “Back then, at the gates of Jiangyuan City, my City Lord saw Protector Li Qing’s elegant demeanor and was shocked to the heavens. He was truly a young hero. His reputation is well deserved.”

Li Qing secretly laughed. At that time, City Lord Wanqing was clearly frightened by him and had escaped. He had not even fought before, but in the end, he said it as if they were very familiar with each other. These fellows are really thick-skinned. No wonder they are able to become the lord of a city. They have their own advantages.

…

At the end of the banquet, many guests had already dispersed. Although there weren’t many people invited, most of them were important people. It could be foreseen that the news of Protector Li Qing’s appearance would soon spread throughout Jiangyuan City, and what happened at this banquet would become the topic of conversation after dinner.

A day later, the masters of the seven cities arrived at Jiangyuan City together to discuss the alliance with the masters of Jiangyuan City.

Although there were many of them, they didn’t dare to show any arrogant expressions. Instead, their attitudes were low. There was nothing they could do about it. The situation was stronger than humans. Right now, they were begging Jiang Yuan City to form an alliance, so they had to make a big concession.

All of these matters were handled by the City Lord of Jiangyuan. Li Qing basically ignored them and was not too concerned about the outcome. He was only in charge of fighting, and the others had never interfered in the management of the city.

It took them three whole days to discuss many details and argue fiercely before they finished discussing all the alliance matters.

During this process, Jiang Yuan City naturally received tremendous benefits. Not only did he obtain the position of Alliance Master, his prestige greatly increased, but he also cooperated with these cities in many aspects and obtained a large number of benefits.

A total of eight factions had formed an alliance and would become a small kingdom in this nearby region.

The news caused an uproar when it spread out. This was simply too shocking. After these cities formed an alliance, their strength would surpass Xin’an City and become the second largest force in the region. Their status was almost unshakable.

Although Xin’an City had Xiantian sixth layer experts and their overall strength was much stronger, Jiang Yuan City also had a genius like Li Qing who had defeated experts one after another. Ever since his debut, he had never lost to Xin’an City and had not lost much to him.

Not long after the eight cities formed an alliance, Jiangyuan City sent troops to ambush Baifu City and easily knocked it down. Nothing unexpected happened.

Bai Fu Cheng’s heart was already in a state of chaos and disintegration, and he had no intention of resisting. Jiang Yuan Cheng was almost unharmed. Young Master Bai Fu burned down the City Lord’s Mansion and burned himself in it. He burned a large amount of wealth and eventually died.

Ever since then, Jiang Yuan City’s forces had occupied four cities, and their prestige had disappeared for a time. The potential for development was shocking.

Back then, this city was only a small force, struggling to survive in the cracks. I didn’t expect that such a huge change would take place since Li Qing’s arrival, becoming the overlord of this region.

Not long after, another piece of good news came. Commander Zhang had actually broken through to become a Xiantian expert! This was the second Xiantian of Jiangyuan City’s forces!

To this end, Jiangyuan City specially hosted a banquet to announce this good news to the world, adding some prestige, burning fire to cook oil, and everything went well.

…

Just as Jiangyuan City’s strength was booming, the Flying Frost Sect and other sects were worrying about many things.

The exploration of the ruins in the Misty Forest was not very good. This was not because they were blocked outside. The Yin Yang Seven Killing Array had been harvested by Li Qing and the terrifying materials inside were already useless. They could easily enter.

After they entered, they discovered that the entire ruins had been emptied by someone. They didn’t even leave a single chicken feather behind for them. It was truly too hateful.

There was even a pile of weeds left in the herb garden, and not a single herb could be found. The light shield in the center of the herb garden had been broken through countless secret treasures, and the herbs inside had been taken away.

“It must have been taken away by someone from the Blood Sea Demon Sect!” Some speculated that this seemed to be the only possibility.

In the end, they discovered the Yin Yang Hall in the center of the ruins. The keen-sighted experts quickly determined that this place was extraordinary and should be the core of the ruins.

“The name of this hall is … Yin Yang Hall? Could it be an ancient Yin Yang Hall?” Someone cried out in alarm.

“Impossible! The Yin Yang Palace was destroyed along with the Dao Sect in the ancient times. Perhaps this is just a palace with the same name built by another power.”

“That’s right, many places here are new. After our calculations, they should be traces from thousands of years ago. It can’t be something as old as the ancient times.”

In fact, no one dared to believe that this was the Yin Yang Palace of the ancient era, because it was simply too unbelievable, and its origins were frighteningly large.

This should be the only place in the ruins where treasures could still be found. However, after a few attempts, they discovered that they were unable to break through and could only rely on the Ascending Road to undergo the test.

They sent a few disciples with good aptitude to the Heaven Ascension Road, but in the end, there was no return. A few days had passed, and there was no response. It seemed that they had already died in the Heaven Ascension Road.

“According to our investigation, I think this path should be the famous path to the heavens from the ancient times. I didn’t expect that there would be another path left here.”

“How is that possible? The Road to Heaven? Doesn’t that mean that this is the Yin Yang Palace from the ancient times?”

“From the looks of it, it’s highly possible! I guess there must be a terrifying existence who discovered the Ancient Yin Yang Palace thousands of years ago and renovated it.”

It had to be said that their ability to calculate was extremely powerful, and they were actually able to guess everything perfectly.

“Then what should we do now? If we don’t go on the way to Heaven, we won’t be able to enter the Yin Yang Palace.”

Thinking about the origins of the Yin Yang Palace, their hearts were burning. There might be heaven defying inheritances inside. If they could obtain them, they would soon become a super sect in the world.

“Let’s try relying on brute force.” Someone suggested.

Someone really attempted to use brute force to attack, and took out a secret treasure to attack the Yin Yang Palace. The result was extremely tragic. He received a strong backlash, and his entire body was beaten to ashes.

“The Road to Heaven is a place where geniuses were tested in ancient times. Therefore, if an ordinary person were to enter, they would be sent to their deaths. They must allow geniuses from the sect to enter.”

However, this matter was truly embarrassing. They did not dare to send the most outstanding geniuses in. If they were to be damaged, then it would really be a huge loss.

…

The exploration of the ruins was stuck in a daze, and everything else had also come to a standstill.

One of the two murderers was a bloody-robed man who had burned hundreds of experts to death. The other was the old man who had killed Cao Longfei and Jiang Lingbai. It was as if they had completely disappeared from the world. There was no trace of them at all.

These two incidents had almost become headless cases, and the clues were cut off.

Cao Longfei’s master, Fei Yiyuan, had been searching in Qing Zhou for a few days. He had even searched in An Zhou using all sorts of methods. However, there was no trace of that old man at all. He had truly disappeared from the world.

Helplessly, he could only return to the sect and discuss with the upper echelons of the sect if there were any other tracking methods.

“Do you think that someone pretended to be that old man?” Someone guessed.

“How is this possible? There is such a brilliant disguise technique in this world?”

Fei Yiyuan’s eyes lit up. He seemed to have thought of something and blurted out, “I suddenly have a feeling that the blood-robed man and the old man might be the same person.”

“What? The same person?” Everyone was shocked. Thinking carefully, it seemed that this was really possible!

Moreover, the possibility was extremely high!

Because there was a common characteristic between the two of them, and that was that they suddenly disappeared, as if they had disappeared from the world. One of these mysterious existences could already be considered incredible. It was almost impossible for two of them to appear at the same time.

“Based on this train of thought, I suspect that this person possesses an extremely powerful disguise technique, and he also cultivates a very smart concealment technique, or a movement technique that can be used to escape and conceal himself, so that we can’t find him at all!”

“Very likely! We were all toyed with by him.” Everyone agreed.

“How dare you! You’re so cunning! I thought it was strange at that time. Why would an elite Blood Guard of the Blood Sea Demon Sect have such strength to burn so many important figures to death? Now, it seems that most likely someone else is pretending to be someone else! We’ve all been tricked!”

In just a few words, they had actually guessed the truth. It had to be said that to be able to become the upper echelons of a large sect and reach such a high cultivation level, they were indeed extremely intelligent people.

Unfortunately, even if they guessed this, they had already lost track of the murderer and were helpless.

Fei Yiyuan did not give up just like that. He came to the Misty Forest to investigate some clues and help explore the ruins.

After passing through Jiangyuan City, he stopped and narrowed his eyes. He muttered to himself, “It is the people in this city who are unruly and refuse to submit. Instead, they have injured my disciple!”

Unable to find the murderer, he could not swallow that breath and could only vent his anger on others.

He had never suspected that Jiang Yuan City was the murderer of his disciple. He just wanted to teach the people here a lesson. This was because Jiang Yuan City did not have the strength to do so many big cases. Moreover, Li Qing had been in Jiang Yuan City for the past few days, and he had even appeared once. He had already investigated it clearly, and there was no suspicion at all.

However, this did not stop him from looking for trouble with Li Qing and the others. People with high strength could do whatever they wished, and ordinary people could not care what they wanted to do.

Li Qingqian could not be considered to have such a shameless person. So what if you’re not suspected? I just felt unhappy and came to you to vent my anger!

No matter how meticulous and elaborate a plan was, meeting an unreasonable opponent might be completely useless.

Thinking of this, Fei Yiyuan immediately entered Jiangyuan City. Soon, he arrived in front of Su Mansion and struck out with his palm.

“Boom!”

The gate of the Su Mansion was directly destroyed, and the entire mansion was completely shaken. The commotion was too big and immediately attracted a crowd of onlookers.

There were actually people who dared to come and cause trouble for the Su Clan. Now, it was lively to watch.

“Who dares to cause trouble in the Su Clan!” With a loud shout, City Lord Su transformed into a streak of light and rushed out. Seeing Fei Yiyuan, his pupils couldn’t help but shrink.

What a powerful strength!

He sucked in a breath of cold air and immediately said respectfully, “May I know why Senior has come to my Su Clan?”

“What do you need? Hmph, I’m Cao Longfei’s master!” Fei Yiyuan didn’t give him a good look.

“Damn it, the old man knocked on the door. Could it be that he was discovered?” City Lord Su’s heart skipped a beat, but his expression did not change as he asked, “How dare we offend you?”

“When my disciple came here, was he injured by a person named Li Qing?”

“So that’s what happened. It seems like he hasn’t been discovered!” City Lord Su heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Back then, Cao Longfei came to our Jiangyuan City to seize it by force. If he wanted us to submit to him, of course we would have to resist. It is inevitable that we would injure him in battle.”

“Cut the crap, I’m not here to reason with you guys! Hurry up and call out that guy named Li Qing!” Fei Yiyuan put his hands behind his back and didn’t even look at them.

“Bullying is too much! Can people from your sect bully people like this? What’s the difference between them and Diabolism characters?” A member of the Su Clan said angrily.

“You’re courting death!” Fei Yiyuan was furious. He pointed out and sent the Su Clan member flying. He spat out blood and was seriously injured.

“Let me repeat, I’m not here to reason with you guys. I’ll give you ten breaths of time to let Li Qing come out. Otherwise, I’ll start a massacre here today!”

“No need, I’m coming!” Li Qing’s voice rang out and he walked out in a few steps.

Fei Yiyuan narrowed his eyes and smiled coldly, “How dare you take the initiative to stand out. Do you know your crime?”

“Oh? What does it matter if I know I’m guilty? In any case, you’re not here to reason with us. I wonder what Senior wants to do with me?” Li Qing’s expression was indifferent.

Although the opponent was extremely powerful and could easily kill him, he still had many trump cards. There were still many terrifying substances in the Yin Yang Cylinders, and they could only be used as a last resort. It was most important to preserve his life, and he might even be able to kill them back then.

He didn’t want to go this far, because if he did so, he would be completely exposed. Not only would he want to flee to the horizon, Jiang Yuan City would also be annihilated.

“You’re quite calm!” Fei Yiyuan narrowed his eyes, killing intent flashing past. The other party’s indifferent attitude made him very unhappy. He coldly said, “As for how to deal with you, of course, it’s to cripple your dantian and break your limbs!”