Chapter 386: Making concessions and seeking peace

Crescent County.

The ancestral land of the Shen family.

After receiving the news, Shen Xingyuan, the head of the Shen family, turned ugly.

The Li family in Xiangshui has given birth to the third alchemy monk. Calculating the time, it has not been twenty years since Li Xunming of the Li family succeeded in alchemy. Now it is not just as simple as having more alchemy monks, because this alchemy monk is Li Xunting.

Regarding Li Xunting's information, the Shen family had collected relatively complete information with the help of the An family.

At the late stage of foundation building, Li Xunting's strength surpassed that of most fake elixir monks. Now that she has successfully formed an elixir, her strength must be extraordinary. It is said that the leader of the Li family, Li Qianqing, is also very powerful, and there may be someone else. It's fake, but it must be true that Li Xunting's strength is extraordinary.

Although the Li family has not taken the initiative to attack them in these years, the situation is likely to change after Li Xunting forms the pill. The Li family, which has become more powerful, will have more power to deal with the Shen family.

"Alas, I haven't received any good news in the past few years." Shen Xingyuan couldn't help but sigh.

As a core formation force, the Shen family has learned that Tianhe Sect must be cooperating with the Zhao royal family, but so far the Zhao royal family has no intention of ending. Facing the siege of the three sects, Tianhe Sect is now in a chronic state. Death situation.

The only way to save Tianhe Sect is to bring about the fate of the Zhao royal family.

Shen Xingyuan personally feels that the possibility of the Zhao royal family ending is very small, so he has been preparing a way out for the family.

For the Shen family, after all, they are an affiliated alchemy force of the Tianhe Sect. The best situation is naturally for the Zhao royal family to end up and reverse the current situation. When the Zhao royal family does not come to an end and the Tianhe Sect is destroyed, the Shen family will have to prepare more things if they want to continue to exist, and the Li family, which has now become the Sanjie Dan Immortal Cultivation Family, is a good candidate to start with. .

Thinking about the family's future, Shen Xingyuan felt much better. They, the alchemy cultivating family, were still able to prepare a future for their family, but it was difficult for the foundation-building forces affiliated with the Tianhe Sect. They were not strong enough, and they did not even have the capital to prepare a future. None. Once Tianhe Sect is destroyed, they will be divided among the affiliated forces of the other three major sects.

"It's time to meet the ancestor."

After thinking about it, Shen Xingyuan left his residence and went to the cave where the ancestor of the Shen family lived.

He had just received the news. Normally, he would inform the ancestors. As the patriarch of the family, he is responsible for all matters of the family, big and small. Everything he tells the ancestor is big. There is no need for the ancestor to listen to some small things, as the senior family members can handle them well.

As he knocked on the door, the stone door of the cave also opened.

Soon, Shen Xingyuan met the ancestor of the Shen family.

"Ancestor, the third alchemy monk from the Li family in Xiangshui is Li Xunting." Shen Xingyuan briefly talked about the situation. Although he said few words, the news was important enough.

Hearing this, the ancestor of the Shen family slowly opened his somewhat cloudy eyes.

"With three pill-forming powers within a hundred years, the Li family will probably not be on the same level as us in the future." The ancestor of the Shen family was referring to the eleven families in Zhao State. Currently, their Zhao State's pill-forming power can be divided into three levels, corresponding to There are one emperor, four sects and eleven families.

Shen Xingyuan couldn't help but say, "The Li family is about to rise."

When the Li family was still a foundation-building and immortal-cultivating family, it developed rapidly for a period of time, but that was not considered a rise for the core-building forces like them. The rise that can be recognized by the Danjie forces only occurs when the family produces many Danjie monks in a short period of time.

The current Li family is obviously more in line with this. You must know that the Li family is still a newly promoted family of alchemy cultivators.

"Well, the Li family is about to rise, but the Zhao royal family will not let this happen." The situation of the Li family is the same as that of any of the other ten families.

The power of the Alchemy Jie sect can be powerful, but the Zhao royal family absolutely does not want to see the rise of an Alchemy cultivating family, because in essence, the Zhao royal family is also an Alchemy cultivating family, and the rise of another Alchemy cultivating family, It is very likely to threaten their status, or even replace them.

"Ancestor, based on the current situation, I think we should talk to the Li family to prepare a way out for the family." After a brief chat, Shen Xingyuan expressed his thoughts.

The ancestor of the Shen family did not immediately nod in agreement, but began to think.

When Shen Xingyuan saw this, he explained what he was thinking.

"The family's territory is adjacent to Weishui County. Originally, the Li family was our biggest threat. Now that the Li family has another Danjie monk, our situation is even more dangerous. Instead of doing this, we should have a good talk with the Li family and make appropriate concessions. If we have some advantages, we can let them intervene in our Crescent County."

"According to the investigations over the years, the Li family is a family that attaches great importance to credibility. As long as we can negotiate, the Li family will definitely not regret it later, and our Shen family will be safer by then... The possibility of the fate of the Zhao royal family is really small now. , To be honest, Ancestor, in my heart Tianhe Sect is already a Jiedan Sect that no longer exists..."

Shen Xingyuan talked a lot, but the focus was still on the Li family.

The Li family's reputation in Xiangshui County plays a big factor in why he has his current thoughts.

If the Li family's reputation is average, they won't feel at ease even if they can negotiate. In this case, they will have no idea of ​​​​talk, and they might as well fight until the last minute.

After a long time, the ancestor of the Shen family nodded slowly.

"Well, we can talk to the Li family, and the possibility of a successful negotiation is not small. If the Li family is not stupid, they should know who is their biggest enemy now. They will have to spend more time dealing with the Zhao royal family in the future, and it is also beneficial for them to negotiate with us."

"The ancestor is wise!" Shen Xingyuan said involuntarily. In major matters, as long as the ancestor agrees with his ideas, he can let go and do it.

"Now is not the time to talk to the Li family. It will take four or five years. If the Zhao royal family still does not end during this period, there is really no possibility of ending." In the heart of the Shen family ancestor, there is still a slight possibility that the Zhao royal family will end.

There is less risk to talk to the Li family later.

If they just finished talking to the Li family and the Zhao royal family ended, then their Shen family would be in a more embarrassing position.

At that time, the things they agreed with the Li family must be that the Shen family wants to go back on their word. According to their understanding of the general situation, the Li family has never been soft-hearted to such a family of immortal cultivators.

If this kind of thing really happened, before the Tianhe Sect had any problems, their Shen family would have problems first.

"That's right, ancestor." Shen Xingyuan thought about it and nodded quickly.

It would be more stable to do what the ancestor said.

The situation in Zhao State is very chaotic now, and the decision-making must be as stable as possible.

Judging from the current situation, their Shen family is no longer seeking anything, but only hopes that the family can survive in this chaos. For this reason, they can give up some of the family's interests in Xinyue County.

After talking with the ancestor, Shen Xingyuan's mood at this moment was much better than when he came.

When he left, he couldn't help but think.

'Fortunately, our Shen family has not established enemies of the Jindan Xiuxian family for hundreds of years, otherwise this crisis would be really difficult to overcome...'

There are many people in the foundation-building forces who are dissatisfied with them, but it doesn't matter. The forces that can destroy the Jindan forces are basically only those above the Jindan level. As long as they reach an agreement with the Li family, other Jindan Xiuxian families will not have any ideas about their Shen family. Even if the foundation-building forces ask them to deal with the Shen family, they will not take action.

After stabilizing the most recent and most powerful Li family, other Jindan Xiuxian families will not attack them. Attacking them will do more harm than good. Only the Jindan Xiuxian families that have a grudge against them will ignore these and come directly to seek revenge.

In the case of more harm than good, the Jindan Xiuxian families with a little bit of rationality will not attack.

Thinking of this, Shen Xingyuan felt that their Shen family was lucky. When the Tian family and the An family were destroyed, they did not attack and had a direct conflict with the Li family, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with it now.

Without fighting with the Li family, the situation will be much better during the negotiation.

‘The only problem now is that the Li family can be as quiet as before in the next few years and not make any moves. ’

It is best for them that the Li family does not make any moves in the next few years. If there are any moves, their strategy is to start negotiations in advance and try to avoid conflicts with the Li family.

After such a thing happens, it must be best if the negotiations can be delayed for a few years.

…

Huangmin County.

The news that Li Xunting of the Li family successfully formed a Dan soon spread here.

Before the Li family issued a warning to them, they could get the news earlier. After the people were withdrawn, they got the specific news much slower.

If it weren't for this critical moment, the Zhao royal family didn't want to cause any problems, and they would definitely ignore the warnings from the Li family.

Because the Li family had another Jindan cultivator, half of the Zhao royal family's high-level officials attended the meeting. This meeting was the second only to the meeting held every thirty years.

The content of this meeting was all related to the Xiangshui Li family.

"The old guy in Feng Yongyu's family has less than thirty years of life left. There is no foundation-building cultivator who can form a Dan. I thought that the three-Jiedan cultivation family would disappear for dozens or even hundreds of years. I didn't expect that the Xiangshui Li family would become a three-Jiedan cultivation family."

"Who would have thought? If they didn't attack the Li family, their three-Jiedan could even last for three hundred years."

The more important reason for holding this meeting for the Li family is that the Li family has been a Jindan cultivation family for less than a hundred years. Such a Jindan cultivation family must have luck to develop to this day.

The Zhao royal family believed in luck. They overthrew the previous royal family, founded Zhao and became the current royal family, which was inseparable from the family's luck. According to the legend of their ancestors, the Zhao royal family gave birth to three Jindan in a hundred years, and then gave birth to three more Jindan in the next hundred years. There were seven Jindan cultivators in the family at the same time, surpassing any force at that time.

Thousands of years have passed, and now the number of Jindan cultivators in the Zhao royal family is basically stable between ten and twelve.

"This plan is perfect. The only flaw is the Li family, and now this flaw has been magnified." The one who spoke was Zhao Wuming.

In the family's plan, he played a key role. After he obtained the Jindan spiritual object at the peak of the foundation building, he became a Jindan cultivator. At the same time, he became a real high-level member of the royal family and was able to attend this level of meeting.

In Zhao Wuming's view, the plan of the Zhao royal family can be said to be very smooth, and then in their smooth plan, a Li family suddenly appeared more than ten years ago.

At that time, Li Xunming of the Li family completed the Jindan process, and then he got a small spiritual vein in Weishui County, which attracted their attention. They must be uncomfortable seeing that the Xiangshui Li family profited from their plan.

But when the three sects besieged Tianhe Sect, their best course of action was to remain silent. This was also the main reason why the Li family was willing to back down after warning them a few years ago.

"Li Qianqing really dared to gamble that we would not dare to take action."

"I think it might be that Qingfeng Valley informed the head of the Li family about our cooperation, otherwise the Li family would not be so radical."

"Impossible! Not to mention that there is no benefit to Qingfeng Valley, there is also the risk of information being leaked. The Li family's territory borders the influence of Tianhe Sect. If I were the head of Qingfeng Valley, I would definitely be wary of the Li family, not to mention telling them this key plan. I have the same idea as Wu Ming. The Li family gambled, and they gambled right."

At that time, the Li family issued a warning to their royal family. Their backing down was already telling the Li family that we would not take action on the issue of the three sects besieging Tianhe Sect.

As for how to deal with the Li family in the future.

The senior officials of the Zhao royal family had a more intense discussion. Anyway, at this juncture, they could only let the Li family develop.

What they discussed was how to suppress the Li family after the Tianhe Sect was destroyed, at least to prevent the Li family from producing any more Jindan cultivators.

You know, in the past two thousand years, apart from the Zhao royal family, there has been no family of four-Jiedan cultivators in Zhao State.

"After the Tianhe Sect disappears, just attack them directly. I don't think there is any reason. The reason must be that the Li family killed the Qi-refining cultivators we sent from Xiangshui County."

"It's not good to attack directly. After the Tianhe Sect was destroyed, our Zhao State cultivation world needs a certain amount of time to stabilize. To deal with the Li family, we can only suppress them first. When we really take action, we need to postpone it."

"Don't take action? Are we waiting for the Li family to produce four-Jiedan cultivators?"

"..."

After half an hour, the result of the discussion was relatively conservative.

The conservatives were satisfied, but the radicals were a little unhappy.

"Wuming, after the Tianhe Sect is destroyed, you will need to go to Qingfeng Valley. They are needed to deal with the Li family. Qingfeng Valley certainly does not want to be affiliated with the Jindan forces and have strength beyond them." Zhao Longyin, who was at the peak of the Jindan stage, looked at Zhao Wuming.

He had a deep impression of this later. He completed many tasks very well. This time, the task of persuading Qingfeng Valley to deal with the Li family was also given to him.

"Yes, ancestor." Zhao Wuming nodded.

He was able to take on this task at the Jindan stage, which was the ancestor's trust in him.

He felt that he would definitely be able to complete this task beautifully.