A carrier pigeon slowly flew across the valley from the No. 1 Little Lotus Peak, spreading its wings in the wind, and its white feathers seemed to be rendered golden at this moment against the background of the sunset. It flew very lightly into a familiar place, and was then taken by a young disciple who guarded the correspondence before returning to the distant sky.

The young disciple still sent the letter to the delicate pavilion, but unlike this afternoon, in the pavilion at this moment, two middle-aged men were sitting, and they seemed to be talking happily.

One is a sect master with an ordinary face that makes it impossible to remember his appearance, and the other is very faceless, but he is wearing luxurious silk and satin, and he doesn't look like a mountain man.

"He should be from a wealthy family in the big city down the mountain. After hand-delivering the letter to the sect master, the young disciple who had already withdrawn from the attic thought so.

In the pavilion, the middle-aged man who had already received the letter did not open the letter immediately, but smiled and handed it directly to the richly dressed man, and said, "Brother Man Yuan, this is what you want, I won't read it." ”

The man whose real name is Zhou Manyuan stretched out his hand to take the letter, but a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, he looked at the ordinary-looking man, there was no joy or sadness on his face, he just nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Jiawen." ”

Hearing this, Yunlan Sect Master Ye Jiawen waved his hand and replied: "All along, the letter has been sent by your younger brother himself, and Brother Manyuan doesn't need to thank me. Ye Jiawen raised the teacup and took a sip of tea, and seeing that the other party was indifferent, he continued to ask, "What, Brother Manyuan is not going to open it and take a look?"

Zhou Manyuan frowned, and suddenly sighed and said, "Although I have roughly heard about the basic situation of the dog in the past three years from Brother Jiawen, I don't know why, I always feel a little uneasy in my heart. ”

Ye Jiawen couldn't help but laugh at this and said: "No matter what the result is, since it has already come out, you have to face it, don't you?"

Zhou Manyuan nodded in approval, and then opened the note in his hand, but when he saw the words on it, his face immediately turned cold. Just as he had felt unease and intuition in his heart before, what was written on the note was indeed different from what he expected.

Zhou Manyuan saw a few words written on it: "Third Young Master, unfortunately defeated!"

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In the west of Qingxuan Mountain, where the Yunlan Sect is located, there is a mountain peak called Feiyan Ridge, and on Feiyan Ridge, another sect is established, called Baihe Sword Village.

Just like the Yunlan Sect at this time, the White Crane Sword Village also received a message from the Lotus Sect.

The very graceful woman glanced at the letter in her hand, then turned to the other woman next to her and said, "Bing'er wrote a letter saying that my father ...... That person's personal disciple finally defeated the Zhou family boy and successfully won the first place in this selection competition. ”

In the eyes of this woman, who seemed to be about the same age as her, but was her mother, she seemed to be born with a heroic spirit, and she said calmly: "Even if this young man named Xu Yan wins the first place, it is probably just the credit of his master, I just hope that he will not drag Bing'er back." ”

Feeling that her mother's words were a little tough, the woman with a graceful face couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and she hesitated for a moment before she spoke: "Then Xu Yan hasn't agreed to Bing'er's request to form a team, my mother has made up her mind now, is it too early." ”

Her real name is Bai Haijing, and she is also the woman of the owner of this sword village, when she heard this, her eyes were cold and she said: "Bing'er took the initiative to find him to form a team, that is to take a fancy to him, is it possible that he still dares to refuse?"

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Among the ancestors of the hundred mountains, whether in terms of beautiful scenery or in the richness of the aura of heaven and earth, it is second only to the top of the Lotus Peak, and there is no doubt that there is only the Fengyang Mountain whose height is second only to the Lotus Peak.

Fengyang Mountain is the place where the Chenyang Sect, the first major martial arts sect in Lingzhou, was established.

I don't know why, as soon as the results of the Lotus Sect selection competition came out, they also reached the ears of Wu Shixing, the sect leader of Chenyang, in the first time.

Wu Shixing looked at the left and right arms under his command, and asked with interest, "What do you think of the Lotus Sect's move this time?"

One of them pondered for a moment before replying: "I think this is Zhao Bailian's positive response to the aggressiveness of the two factions in the past thirty years, after all, the Baishan Spring Hunt is to promote the cultivation and communication between the major sects, but who doesn't know that the real source is the insidious deeds made by the two families in order to be able to join forces to scrape the interests of the Lotus Sect." ”

Wu Shixing nodded, and then asked the other person, "What do you think, Zuo Luo?"

"I think it's about the same, after all, if I were Zhao Bailian, I would have had enough of those nests, and sect master, do you think that in the previous spring hunts, the Lotus Sect lost miserably, right? Not only did they lose most of the kendo classics in their scripture pavilion, but it is said that even several famous swords in the sword pool were also lost, if they lost again this time, they couldn't be sure what grotesque demands the two factions would make, and the Lotus Sect itself was already an empty shell that was not worthy of the name, if it really wanted to lose like this again, I was grinding those two factions and estimated that they would show their real fox tails and force the other party to cede the mountain gate. ”

After the man named Zuo Zhen finished speaking, he couldn't help but grin and said: "But when it comes to the advantages and disadvantages of the mountain gate, the Lotus Sect does have a geographical advantage, you must know that on the Lotus Peak, the aura of heaven and earth is so rich that even my Chenyang Sect can't catch up, in my opinion, every time the sect master participates, it is just to collect a little fee from the hands of those two factions, it is really not worth it, it is better to do it yourself." ”

When Wu Shixing heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you mean by this?"

Zuo Luo said seriously: "The subordinate means that instead of letting Lotus Peak fall into the hands of those two factions in the end, it is better to let it become the territory of my Chenyang Sect." ”

When Wu Shixing heard this, he slowly shook his head and said, "After all, my Chenyang Sect is the same as the Lotus Sect, both of which are sects exclusively supplied by the dynasty, how can they eat each other so blatantly?" This kind of eating is too ugly, and His Majesty still has some feelings for the Lotus Sect today, he can coldly watch the three major sword sects in Lingzhou eat dogs, and turn a blind eye to this, but it doesn't mean that he can tolerate my martial arts sect stretching his hand too long in this matter, and don't forget, in February next year, it will be organized by the dynasty, and the six sects will only be reported once in twenty years, can he tolerate the entire Lingzhou territory, there is not even a decent sword sect?"

Wu Shixing continued: "You also know that the twenty places that can participate in the six sects of the dynasty must all be produced from one state and two sects exclusively provided by the dynasty, and other than that, no other sect has this qualification, unless ......"

Zuo Luo took his words and said, "Unless it is the Lotus Sect, or my Chenyang Sect takes the initiative to give up the quota and guarantee their disciples in the name of the exclusive sect, they can participate in the competition. ”

Wu Shixing nodded and said: "Yes, it is this reason, so I think that the reason why Zhao Bailian is so aggressive this time to select the disciples of the spring hunting list is of course due to the reasons you said earlier, but the other part of the reason is to avoid those two factions in this spring hunting, on the grounds of victory or defeat, to fight their Lotus Sect to participate in the six sects of the ten places, you know, my Chenyang Sect is a quota, but I will not give it to them." ”