Chapter 345: Countermeasures, Dilemma

Xiangshui County.

Changqing Mountain.

After the four sect trials ended, Li Xunting, who was halfway on the spirit ship, said goodbye to Yan Xuewei and returned to Changqing Mountain, the ancestral home.

"Thirteenth Grandpa, how did Tianhe Sect perform in the four sect trials this time..."

After seeing Li Qianqing, Li Xunting couldn't wait to tell Li Qianqing all the information about Tianhe Sect observed in the four sect trials.

The key points to explain are the performance of Tianhe Sect cultivators and some performances of Tianhe Sect's Grand Elders, but the latter is more difficult to observe, so there is not much to say.

Jindan cultivators like Tianhe Sect's Grand Elders are the decision-makers of Tianhe Sect, and their every move is very important information.

Tianhe Sect invited a lot of external aid from affiliated forces in this four sect trial, and it was almost reaching the upper limit of inviting external aid, but it still won the last place. This shows that there are really not many outstanding foundation-building elders in Tianhe Sect today.

There were originally two very good ones, but unfortunately they died while going out for training.

"Tianhe Sect performed like this in the Four Sects Trial. In addition to its own strength, it may also be influenced by the Zhao Kingdom Royal Family..." After listening to the information provided by Li Xunting, combined with all the information collected by Li Qianqing before, he had some ideas.

Li Xunting quickly thought of something after hearing this, "Grandpa Thirteen, do you mean that the elders of Tianhe Sect who participated in the Four Sects Trial were bribed by the Zhao Kingdom Royal Family? That's why they ranked last in this Four Sects Trial."

"It's possible, but the possibility is not high. It's possible." This is just some of his speculation.

The Zhao Kingdom Royal Family should really hope that Tianhe Sect will get the last place in this Four Sects Trial, so that Tianhe Sect will have a greater chance of cooperating with them.

The overall strength of Tianhe Sect participating in this trial is like this. Even if there is no intervention, they are likely to be the last. If this thing is discovered, it will be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, Li Qianqing believes that the Zhao Kingdom Royal Family may have taken action in this, but the possibility is so small.

"Is that so... Hey, Thirteenth Grandpa, do you think it's possible that the two elders of Tianhe Sect died while out training, and that the Zhao royal family may be behind it." After listening to Li Qianqing's words, Li Xunting thought of these.

Li Xunting's words made Li Qianqing fall into deep thought.

Seeing Thirteenth Grandpa like this, she sat aside obediently, not saying a word, waiting for Thirteenth Grandpa to think about it and speak.

"If this is true, Tianhe Sect is deeply understood by the Zhao royal family..." As the saying goes, those who are involved are confused, and those who are on the sidelines are clear. Assuming that such a possibility exists, the Zhao royal family will eat Tianhe Sect thoroughly, and in the end Tianhe Sect will have to agree to cooperate with the Zhao royal family.

"... In this four-sect trial, Qingfeng Valley also achieved the first place, which will make the decision-makers of Tianhe Sect feel more unbalanced, and at the same time increase the possibility of Tianhe Sect's action." Li Qianqing asked questions and returned to the situation of the four-sect trial and Tianhe Sect.

Among the four major sects of Zhao, the contradiction between Tianhe Sect and Qingfeng Valley is the deepest.

Seeing that the opponent will get the best resources in the next hundred years, while they will get the worst resources, such an imbalance will aggravate the Tianhe Sect's leaning towards the Zhao royal family.

Half an hour later, the two analyzed various possibilities about the Tianhe Sect. After chatting for a while, Li Xunting also talked about an incident that happened to her during the four sects' trial.

This incident was naturally Zuoqiu Lipeng expressing his feelings for her.

Li Xunting told Li Qianqing the whole process.

"You little girl, you let him challenge Grandpa Thirteen." After listening to Li Xunting's narration, Li Qianqing knew that she had no intention in this regard, otherwise he would not have mentioned him later. He and this eldest granddaughter did not have a similar agreement.

Now, even if he does not use any spiritual secrets, the strength he can show is stronger than many cultivators in the middle stage of Jindan, and Zuoqiu Lipeng basically has no possibility of defeating him.

You know, as time goes by, he will continue to get stronger.

However, this senior elder of Qingfeng Valley was able to say this later. Like Li Xunting, he also looked up to him.

"I just wanted to stop his thoughts, but who knew he would be more concerned."

"Hahaha, if you can successfully form a pill later, even if he doesn't enter the pill forming stage, I will give him a chance to challenge me."

"Grandpa Thirteen, you are bullying the weak."

"There are also late foundation building cultivators in this world who can defeat early stage of pill forming. He can get the first place in the fourth round, which shows that he is really capable. When he cultivates to the peak of foundation building, he will definitely have a place in Zhao's cultivation world."

Li Qianqing argued, but his words also made sense.

"And when you improve your cultivation, if you can get a suitable first-grade lower-grade magic weapon, you will also have the strength to compete with the cultivators in the early stage of pill forming."

A first-grade lower-grade magic weapon suitable for ice spirit body, after the cultivators with ice spirit body cultivate to the peak of foundation building, they can basically exert 80% to 90% of their power. The power of this kind of magic weapon is relatively large, and 80% to 90% of its power is enough to rival ordinary magic weapons.

And it is very good for a normal peak foundation building cultivator to exert 30% of the power of a first-grade lower-grade magic weapon.

"Grandpa Thirteen is right." Li Xunting thought about it, nodded, and then shook her head.

It was indeed as Grandpa Thirteen said. Some late foundation building cultivators had the strength to compete with early Jindan cultivators, but the latter must be ordinary early Jindan cultivators.

Her Grandpa Thirteen was not ordinary.

So there was still no comparison.

Li Qianqing looked at Li Xunting and didn't dwell on this issue.

Zuoqiu Lipeng in Qingfeng Valley should cultivate to the Jindan stage first. If he succeeds in Jindan later, he may have cultivated to the middle Jindan stage.

There is a gap between the middle Jindan stage and the early Jindan stage.

At present, Zuoqiu Lipeng has a good impression in Li Qianqing's mind, which is due to Li Xunting and Yan Xuewei.

Yan Xuewei did not prevent this from happening, which shows that Zuoqiu Lipeng's performance in Qingfeng Valley must be good.

But as he thought, let's wait until Zuoqiu Lipeng has Jindan.

After talking about the experience and observation of the four sects' trial, Li Qianqing and Li Xunting, the grandfather and grandson, talked about daily topics.

At dusk, Li Xunting saw that the time was almost up, and said goodbye to Li Qianqing. After that, she had to return to Changlin Mountain in Wutong County to continue guarding, which was one of the current affairs.

After Li Xunting left, Li Qianqing began to think about the next countermeasures of the Li family.

The four sects failed in the trial and let the opponent take first place. Such Tianhe Sect must be on guard.

Li Qianqing didn't know whether Tianhe Sect existed when he destroyed Qingfeng Valley in his previous life, but he could guarantee that the royal family of Zhao State still existed. If the royal family of Zhao State did not exist, the name of the country should have changed at that time, or it would have been divided by Lu State and Yue State.

The overall stability of Zhao State's cultivation world was created by the four major sects and the royal family of Zhao State. If this greatest balance was broken, the Tian Family and the An Family of Weishui County, the two foundation-building cultivation families, would have the possibility of attacking their Li family.

Of course, the biggest possibility is the Shen Family of Xinyue County.

Xinyue County is adjacent to Weishui County and is a core county within the influence of Tianhe Sect. When he was still a foundation-building cultivator, Li Qianqing went to Xinyue County to participate in a trade fair held by the Su Family, a foundation-building cultivation family. At that time, the Su Family was still the strongest foundation-building cultivation family in this county.

As a Jindan cultivation family in Xinyue County, the Shen family has a very good relationship with the Tianhe Sect. The Li family, who got more information, knew that the Shen family was the best among the Jindan cultivation families affiliated with the Tianhe Sect.

If the Tianhe Sect really makes a big move, the Li family will most likely face the Shen family.

According to Li Qianqing's estimation, this possibility is at least 60%.

"The foundation-building cultivators guarding Wutong County should remain unchanged, and should not be reduced or even increased..."

The Li family, which is already a Jindan cultivation family, does not need to guard too many foundation-building cultivators in Wutong County. Li Qianqing originally had the idea of ​​transferring back the foundation-building cultivators, but now this idea is completely gone.

With Wutong County as a buffer zone, Xiangshui County is still the base camp of their Li family. Normally, Xiangshui County will not fall into chaos at the beginning of the situation change.

In the next few years, the family will also collect more information so that they can see the situation more clearly.

...

It's more than half a month away from the end of the four sects' trial.

The three great elders and the leader of Tianhe Sect all appeared in an attic. Now there are all the Jindan-level cultivators of Tianhe Sect here.

Originally, this meeting was to be held after the four sect trials were over, but because one of the great elders was in retreat, the time was postponed.

"I didn't expect that I would receive bad news just after I came out of retreat. We are the last one in the four sect trials."

"We are not only the last one, but Qingfeng Valley also won the first place."

As soon as these words came out, the four Jindan cultivators on the field were silent for a while.

When the leader of Tianhe Sect was about to say something to break the silence, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in."

"Master, and all the great elders, Zhao Wuming of the Zhao royal family wants to see you."

"They will choose a time, let him come up." The leader of Tianhe Sect replied.

"Yes, Sect Master."

The foundation-building elders of Tianhe Sect withdrew, and not long after, Zhao Wuming appeared in front of them. The last Zhao royal cultivator who came to Tianhe Sect was Zhao Wenjin. If the four sects had held the trial a few years earlier, he might have been the next Zhao royal cultivator to come to Tianhe Sect.

"Hello, seniors." Zhao Wuming came in with a smile on his face. He was a little surprised that all the Jindan cultivators of Tianhe Sect were normal. When their royal family came, they could only see the Sect Master of Tianhe Sect and a Supreme Elder at most.

Zhao Wuming knew in his heart that they were definitely not waiting for him on purpose.

"It seems that the timing of my arrival is just right." While being surprised, it did not affect the smile on Zhao Wuming's face at all.

"Now is not a good time." The leader of Tianhe Sect snorted coldly, his eyes lingering on Zhao Wuming's smiling face, "The royal family is so anxious to send you here, just to see our Tianhe Sect's joke?"

"The leader misunderstood, our royal family has no such intention, and I, a junior, have no such idea." Zhao Wuming was not frightened by the attitude of the leader of Tianhe Sect. If he was frightened like this, the Zhao royal family would not have sent him here. At this moment, he explained neither servilely nor arrogantly, "Come earlier, maybe we can reach cooperation earlier, so that your sect's interests can be maximized."

The four sects' trials are over, and the benefits have been fully distributed.

Tianhe Sect can get the least. If the time is delayed for a long time, it will also be a loss for Tianhe Sect. According to Zhao Wuming's meaning, it can be explained.

"Your royal family must think that our Tianhe Sect will cooperate with you?" Faced with Zhao Wuming's explanation, the leader of Tianhe Sect did not continue to put pressure on him, but asked such a question.

"I believe that the sect master and all the seniors will make the right decision after thinking about it." Zhao Wuming did not answer this question directly, but his meaning was clear.

In the current situation of Tianhe Sect, there are two ways of cooperation and non-cooperation. The former has high risks but also high returns, while the latter has basically no risks and no returns.

If Tianhe Sect is still the last in the next four sects trial, then it may be the beginning of the real decline of Tianhe Sect.

The situation in front of them is that there are already signs of decline. If Tianhe Sect wants to turn the tide, it must achieve better results in the next four sects trial.

The Zhao royal family does not want to see this situation. Some sneaky and unnoticed means can continue to push Tianhe Sect to their side. For the Zhao royal family, this matter can be done slowly and without rushing. They do not need to redistribute some resources every hundred years like the four major sects.

"We can cooperate. Now the Qingfeng Valley territory will all belong to my Tianhe Sect in the future."

The Qingfeng Valley territory mentioned by the Tianhe Sect Master is not the location of the Qingfeng Valley Sect, which is thousands of miles in radius, but the sphere of influence of the Qingfeng Valley.

Compared with the distribution of interests more than 20 years ago, the Tianhe Sect Master has already made some concessions. He wanted more things before.

He had to make some concessions due to the failure of the Four Sects Trial. If the Four Sects Trial achieves good results this time, the Zhao Royal Family will want to seek cooperation, and he will only want more things.

And the Zhao Royal Family basically cannot agree to what he wants. If they agree, there will be problems.

If too much concession is made, the cooperation sought will itself be problematic.

"Our royal family cannot agree to this condition. At most, half of the Qingfeng Valley territory is the most we can give." Zhao Wuming said it very clearly.

Let him come over. The requirements given by the family royal family must not be compromised. Anyway, this matter is not urgent for them.

It is not an easy task to change the power structure and profit from it. Things like this need to be done slowly and not in a hurry.

"It seems that your royal family has no sincerity at all."

"No." Zhao Wuming shook his head, "We are already sincere."

In the entire Zhao Kingdom, their royal family is the most powerful Jindan force. If Tianhe Sect wants to compete with them, at least three Tianhe Sects will be needed.

In terms of strength comparison, Tianhe Sect is a weakling in front of the Zhao Kingdom Royal Family.

When the leader of Tianhe Sect wanted to say something, the Supreme Elder Yan Yunxian said to Zhao Wuming.

"You go out first, we need time to discuss." (End of this chapter)