The short and fat woman was brought into the big tent. Seeing that all the core members of the Shentu tribe were there, she couldn't help but shrink her neck.
"Don't be afraid, we will be one of our own soon!" Shentu Lie was in a good mood and even waved to the short and fat woman kindly, asking her to come closer.
The short and fat woman didn't dare to disobey, and came closer and knelt at Shentu Lie's feet.
"Are you here to tell Jiang Jingsheng the news?"
"Yes... yes."
"Raise your head."
"Yes..."
"Then let me ask you, what news do you want to tell? But what happened in your tribe's earthen city?"
"Yes, someone assassinated the tribe leader."
"Your current tribe leader is Jiang Xuan?"
"Yes..."
"Then, is Jiang Xuan dead?"
"No, no."
"No?!" Shen Tulie's voice suddenly became louder, and the kind look on his face disappeared. He stared, and the others in the big tent also paused, all turning their heads to look at the short and fat woman kneeling at Shen Tulie's feet and talking.
There was a moment of silence.
"Then... Jiang Xuan was seriously injured?" Shen Tulie asked optimistically again.
"No, no, the tribe leader was not injured."
"Then what happened?" Shen Tulie shouted.
"The clan leader killed Jiang Bao."
"He killed Jiang Bao?!" Shen Tu Lie stood up suddenly as if his tail was stepped on, and his voice was extremely high, as if he had heard something ghostly. He had considered that Jiang Bao might fail, after all, there were innate female warriors such as Jiang Cuiyun in the Jiang clan. It was normal for Jiang Bao to be surrounded and killed if he was exposed, but... did Jiang Xuan kill Jiang Bao? !
"Did they kill him together, or did he kill him alone?" Shen Tu Yan stood up suddenly and asked.
"One, one person." The frightened short and fat woman stumbled.
"He killed the innate?"
"Half-step innate killed the innate?!"
Everyone in the room couldn't sit still, and stood up "whoosh!", looked at each other, and glared at the short and fat woman. Shen Tu Yan shouted: "Tell me in detail!"
The short and fat woman then told him in detail what she saw.
The more Shen Tu Lie listened, the gloomier his face became. Finally, he couldn't help it and slammed the short and fat woman on the top of her head, killing her on the spot.
"He is really a genius!" Shen Tulie said angrily.
"I am afraid his talent has completely surpassed Jiang Hanfeng!"
"Fortunately, our clan launched a life-and-death battle. If he is given another ten years to grow, the title of the first warrior of Black Pool Mountain will probably be his!"
"This boy must not be kept!"
"Next month, I will kill him with my own hands!"
******
The next afternoon, in the lobby of the old house of the Wei family in Feixue City.
"Fourth Master, this is a small gift, not a respect." The old man in brocade robe leaned forward and put the box on the corner of the table, his face full of flattering smiles.
"Eh? Shopkeeper Xu, what are you doing? You are one of the few shopkeepers from other families in our Wei family. You have worked hard for our Wei family's business all your life. What's the courtesy? We are all family. Isn't it too polite?" Wei Hongkuo pretended to evade responsibility.
"Fourth Master, what are you talking about? You are the boss, and I am just a servant working below. You are flattering me by saying this." Shopkeeper Xu smiled.
"You, hahaha!" Wei Hongkuo shook his finger and pointed at Shopkeeper Xu, then laughed. Shopkeeper Xu followed with a humble laugh. As the most capable shopkeeper of the Wei family, Shopkeeper Xu didn't have to look at Wei Hongkuo's face. At his peak, 20% of the total profit of the Wei family's business came from the business managed by him. Although he is not as good as then, he is still the number one shopkeeper of the Wei family. Even the old man of the Wei family treats him with courtesy. Wei Hongkuo is not good enough. But now it's different. Wei Hongkuo did a great job in the alliance between the Wei family and the Jinhe Dong family, which was praised by the head of the family. He began to be fully responsible for the cooperation with the Jinhe Dong family in the future. His status rose and he became one of the most important and powerful people at the top of the Wei family. The old shopkeeper retired due to illness. Now is the critical period for Shopkeeper Xu to compete for the position of shopkeeper. He had to lower his face and ask Wei Hongkuo for help. How much he looked down on Wei Hongkuo before, how humble he is now.
"Fourth Master, let's do this first." Shopkeeper Xu said, "By the way, Fourth Master, don't forget that Jinbao Restaurant's Tianzi No. 1 Room has invited the most popular courtesan in Feixue City tonight. You must come to honor us."
"Sure, I will." Wei Hongkuo agreed.
Shopkeeper Xu bowed and left.
Wei Hongkuo, who used to stand up to see off others, sat there as steady as a rock today. Watching Shopkeeper Xu hurried out, he shook his head and hummed a few songs, muttering happily: "Shopkeeper Xu, there will be a day when you will ask me for help!"
He looked at the box on the corner of the table. He didn't know what treasure Shopkeeper Xu had given him. When he opened it, Wei Hongkuo's eyelids jumped and he exclaimed, "Wow!"
In the box was a bead as big as a baby's fist, light green, with something flowing inside, very beautiful.
This is not an ornament, but a "Spirit Gathering Bead" of high grade! Its effect of gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is not as good as the formation, but it is portable and convenient, so the price is very high!
"That's quite generous." Wei Hongkuo took out the bead with a smile on his face and played with it in his hands. He smiled, not because he really wanted this treasure, but because he had several better Spirit Gathering Beads than this one. No matter how good the gift from a shopkeeper was, it could not be better than what he, the fourth master of the Wei family, could have.
Wei Hongkuo was in a good mood now, mainly because of the feeling of being valued and held.
The taste of power!
"Fourth Master." Wei Yuanzhong, the trusted steward, walked in hurriedly, as if there was something urgent.
"Yuanzhong, be steady. You are all going to be promoted to the first-class steward. Why are you still so impatient?" Wei Hongkuo said, and after that he shook his head and continued to hum a few songs.
Wei Yuanzhong waited for him to finish humming.
"Tell me, what's wrong?" Wei Hongkuo asked slowly.
"According to the news from Black Pool Mountain, Jiang Xuan was assassinated by his fellow tribesman Jiang Bao last night. Jiang Bao fled the Jiang clan a year and a half ago and suddenly returned yesterday afternoon. He is at the initial stage of Xiantian realm, while Jiang Xuan is half a step into Xiantian realm." Wei Yuanzhong said, "Jiang Bao attacked Jiang Xuan after the dinner when he was alone, but he was tricked by Jiang Xuan and was blocked on the cliff by the Xiantian of the Jiang clan. Later, the two of them fought openly for thousands of moves. Jiang Xuan beheaded Jiang Bao without any injuries."
"Crack!" The bead cracked.
Bang! The bead exploded into powder! It was crushed alive by Wei Hongkuo!
Wei Yuanzhong lowered his eyebrows and looked pleased.
He knew the character of the Fourth Master very well, and he would never admit his mistake... The Wei family was in a period of transition, and it was the time when they needed geniuses. Outsiders would be fine, and marriage would be fine, not to mention the genius teenagers from the tribe who already had the blood of the Wei family. But the matter of Wei Baiyun and Jiang Yao was handled by Wei Hongkuo...
In fact, Wei Yuanzhong also understood that a mere genius teenager from the tribe was not enough to affect the cooperation between the Wei family and the Jinhe Dong family. He was far from being a monster. However, when the news spread, the Fourth Master would definitely lose face. He didn't even try to fight for it at the beginning.
"What a genius!" Wei Hongkuo narrowed his eyes and sneered: "There are countless people like this who have appeared briefly in the history of our Wei family! The innates of the tribe are all barbaric and stupid. Compared with the innates of the big city, their strength at the same level is a few points lower. That Jiang Bao is probably a fool and was careless." "Heitan Mountain is the most backward area around Feixue City." Wei Yuanzhong continued, "The innates there are indeed weaker." "How is the auction of the Shentu tribe going?" Wei Hongkuo suddenly asked. "I plan to go there in person." Wei Yuanzhong said, "I will leave before dark today." "Well, good! I will feel relieved if you go there in person." Wei Hongkuo nodded, and specially instructed: "In addition to redeeming Wei Baiyun and Wei Yao, you tell the Shentu tribe that our Wei family only cares about these two people, so that the Shentu tribe will not be cautious about the bastard and kill him if he should!" "I understand." Wei Yuanzhong said. "Go." "Yes." Wei Yuanzhong left. Wei Hongkuo sat there, his face dark and silent, thinking about something. After a while, he suddenly stood up and said, "What if he's a genius? Won't he still die next month?"
...
Wei Yuanzhong was a middle-level member of the Wei family. When the news reached him, it had already been passed on to many people. There was no need to keep the news of the Jiang clan secret. It would spread sooner or later. Therefore, not long after Wei Hongkuo knew the news, many people in the Wei family also knew the news, and it also reached the ears of the head of the family, Wei Chengshan.
Except for some people who laughed at Wei Hongkuo for not knowing how to judge people and missing the opportunity to win over a genius for the family, more people were indifferent to the matter, and even had no desire to talk about it with others.
He was a genius, but not that genius.
Although the Wei family detained his mother and arrested his sister, and forced his sister to marry an old man as a tool for marriage, what could they do?
Can he come to seek revenge in the future?
He has no future and will not survive next month.
...
Heitan Mountain, the back mountain of the earthen city of the Jiang clan.
Dinner time.
"Xiao Xuan, since you were pretending to be drunk last night, you kissed my hand in front of so many people, did you do it on purpose?" Jiang Qinghong looked at Jiang Xuan with anger.
"That was to confuse Jiang Bao." Jiang Xuan smiled, "If you pretend to be drunk, you have to do something unruly."
"Just like that? To confuse him?" Jiang Qinghong asked closer.
"What else?" Jiang Xuan asked back, "It can't be that I deliberately want to take advantage of you?"
"Humph, I don't think you dare." Jiang Qinghong raised her chin slightly, but a strange sense of loss flashed in her eyes. Women can be very strange sometimes. They want to be respected, but they also want the other party to take the initiative.
Jiang Xuan pulled Jiang Qinghong's hand, and under Jiang Qinghong's doubtful gaze, he kissed the back of her hand as he did last night, and smiled: "This time it was intentional."
"You want to be beaten." Jiang Qinghong raised her hand, and pretended to be disgusted and rubbed the back of her hand on Jiang Xuan's clothes, "It's so dirty."
In matters of love, when one party likes and the other party is also trying to take the initiative, the temperature will rise quickly.
…
One day later, in a valley at the border of the Jiang clan and the Shentu clan.
An auction to divide the Jiang clan was held as scheduled. Although the Shentu clan had not yet annexed the Jiang clan, the tribes of Heitan Mountain believed that the Shentu clan would end it all on the seventh day of the next month. There was a precedent in Heitan Mountain for selling the spoils in advance, so all the other eight tribes of Heitan Mountain were present at the auction.
Of the 47 tribes that were loyal to the Jiang clan, the Shentu clan sold 20 of them, and they could move away after the results were announced.
There were three large tribes bordering the territory of the Jiang clan, and they all bought part of the bordering territory.
These were the most valuable, and the rest, such as mining rights and caravans, were also valuable.
The auction went smoothly.
What no one expected was that the Wei family, one of the four major families in Feixue City, received the news from somewhere and sent people to participate in the auction, and bought the redemption contracts of Wei Baiyun and Jiang Yao at a very high price.
The contract cannot take effect immediately.
But as long as the Shentu tribe wins the life-and-death battle, Wei Baiyun and Jiang Yao will become the spoils of the Shentu tribe in legal terms, and because of the redemption contract, they will belong to the Wei family.
It is like buying them in advance.
"Don't worry about the Wei family, just kill the bastard!" This was what the Wei family steward said in public before leaving, which triggered a lot of discussion.
And the Wei family was not the most eye-catching at this auction.
The most eye-catching person was Hu Yanqi, the young patriarch of the Hu Yan tribe. He was willing to use five hills and five tribes to buy gold to buy a woman from the Jiang clan who was in the post-natal perfection realm - Jiang Qinghong!
This shocked everyone who participated in the auction!
Although the young master Hu Yan had proposed marriage to the Jiang clan four years ago, and the betrothal gift was also five hills plus five tribes, but that was a tribal marriage. At that time, the Jiang clan was stronger than the Shentu clan because of the existence of Jiang Hanfeng, so the betrothal gift was not just a betrothal gift. The main reason for giving so much was that the Jiang clan was strong.
But now the Jiang clan is going to be destroyed!
Even if Jiang Qinghong is really the most beautiful woman in Heitan Mountain, she is just a woman! Are you crazy? !
Huyan Qi's offer shocked not only the others, but also his own people who came with him. The old man named "Huyan Dagang" who came with him tried to dissuade Huyan Qi, but it didn't work.
Everyone could only agree that Huyan Qi's obsession with Jiang Qinghong had reached a pathological level.
...
Four days later.
At the gate of the Huyan tribe's earthen city.
"The young master went out alone again, and no one was allowed to follow." Huyan Dagang stared at Huyan Qi's back as he rode away, thinking to himself.
Many years ago, suddenly one day, Huyan Qi had the habit of going out alone, going out every ten days or half a month, and ordered no one to follow him.
This was very strange, but no one dared to disobey Huyan Qi's order.
Unlike other tribes, the position of the patriarch of the Huyan tribe has always been inherited by a core bloodline in the tribe, and Huyan Qi is the only male of this bloodline in this generation. This made him have high hopes since he was a child, and the Huyan patriarch would often meet some of his outrageous requests.
The sun was setting.
Still in the territory of the Huyan tribe, deep in the mountains and old forests.
Huyan Qi got off his horse and continued to walk deeper, crossing mountains and ridges, crossing mountain streams and canyons, walking through valleys, and came to the deepest part of this mountain area, pushing away the huge rocks blocking the entrance of the cave.
Light a torch.
Huyan Qi came to the depths of the cave, passed through a mechanical stone door, walked through a very long corridor, and finally entered an underground palace.
The palace was huge.
The reliefs and murals on the surrounding stone walls, and the patterns carved on the pillars, from the style point of view, all proved that this underground palace has a history of at least a thousand years.
In the middle of the palace, there stood a jade statue several feet high, carved with a woman of amazing momentum and extremely beautiful appearance. Although it was a dead object, her eyes contained inexplicable majesty. Looking into these eyes would even affect thinking.
Huyan Qi came to the statue with a torch, looked up at the statue's face, and gradually showed a crazy smile.
"Reincarnation of a god or devil! I will definitely get you! Hahahahahaha!" Hu Yanqi screamed, making a creepy laugh.
If Jiang Xuan was here, he would be surprised to find that the face of this statue is exactly the same as his sister Qinghong!