Chapter 425 Dominance

In a cabin in the woods.

After Li Qianqing waited here for less than half an hour, Yan Xuewei appeared in front of him.

It's still a long time before the time the two agreed, and both of them arrived early.

"Qianqing, what you said before was still modest." Yan Xuewei sat down opposite Li Qianqing and spoke directly. It has been more than half a month since the seven monks of the Zhao royal family were killed. "That old guy from the Zhao royal family, But the entire Zhao Kingdom’s immortal world is recognized as the strongest pill-forming monk, but he still fell into your hands with four pill-forming cultivators.”

Li Qianqing had told her before that he was only in the middle stage of pill formation. In fact, he already had the strength level of a late-stage pill formation monk. Looking back now, where is the strength level of the late-stage pill formation monk?

Even many monks who are at the peak of elixir formation are not as good as Li Qianqing.

"Our side has an advantage because of the geographical location, and also because they underestimated the enemy." Li Qianqing explained simply. He was telling the truth. The alchemy monks headed by Zhao Longyin, the ancestor of the Zhao royal family, did underestimate the enemy.

If they had made a lot of preparations, he would have to put in more effort to deal with them.

"What if they don't underestimate the enemy?"

"The result is the same."

Yan Xuewei couldn't help but roll her eyes at Li Qianqing when she heard this.

"It's best if it can be solved easily. Sister Xuewei also knows that I have always been able to be simple and simple."

"It's their misfortune. It's not their fault to attack anyone, but they attack you." Yan Xuewei nodded. Although she said that, she had no sympathy for the Zhao royal family. They deserved their current fate.

According to Li Qianqing's rules for doing things, if the Zhao royal family is willing to let the Li family continue to develop and then have good relations with the Li family, the Zhao royal family should be able to control the Zhao country all the time, and the Li family will not go out of their way to destroy the order they have established.

Yan Xuewei thought carefully about what Li Qianqing had said. If she had a deeper understanding, maybe she wouldn't be surprised at what happened more than half a month ago.

Li Qianqing is a monk who has great opportunities. Such monks are usually very strong. After following Li Qianqing, she might actually get the opportunity to break through the Nascent Soul. However, she has not yet obtained the 'Cang Yun Order', but she is not in a hurry. There is still plenty of time now.

"Next, when do you plan to go to Huangmin County?" Yan Xuewei asked. Li Qianqing's visit to Huangmin County was his final move against the Zhao royal family. By then, there would be no Zhao royal family.

"Don't worry about it now. What we are still doing is to pull out all the influence of the Zhao royal family in other counties, and finally it is Huangmin County's turn."

"That's right." Yan Xuewei nodded. Although this approach is a little slower, it can smoothly transform the Li family into the new royal family.

"Furthermore, among the seven foundation-building forces affiliated with the Zhao royal family in Huangmin County, four of the foundation-building and immortal cultivating families have become affiliated with our Li family, and the remaining three will not give the Zhao royal family the slightest help."

"Qianqing, it's okay! You've already done this."

"Sister Xuewei, you may have misunderstood. I haven't incited them to rebel yet. They came to me on their own initiative."

"Oh." Yan Xuewei was a little surprised, and then she felt that it was normal for such a thing to happen. With the Li family's current style, it can indeed attract many affiliated forces. "They came to the door so early. It seems they want to get you." of attention.”

"There will be rewards for doing well." Li Qianqing has always been generous in this area.

After the two chatted for half an hour, Li Qianqing revealed the main point of coming to Yan Xuewei this time.

"Sister Xuewei, Qingfeng Valley should also take action at this time to expand your influence." The Zhao royal family has the largest influence. In the current situation, Qingfeng Valley has not taken action yet, probably because of his face. If nothing unexpected happens in Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyun Sect, they should both start to move secretly.

Now that the three sects are encroaching on the power of the Zhao royal family, they are basically unable to resist and can only watch their territory shrink little by little.

A decline in strength will naturally lead to a decline in influence.

It wouldn't matter if the strength dropped a little, but if seven pill-forming monks were lost all at once, including one who was at the peak of pill-forming, this didn't mean that the strength had dropped slightly, but that the strength had been cut by more than half.

"Qianqing, do you really not care about this at all?"

"It's not that I don't care." Li Qianqing shook his head, "Now our Li family's monks are limited and we can't control too much. It's not good to eat too much and stuff yourself to death."

"Hahaha, you're using this metaphor. I don't think my sister can survive the Li family with you here." Li Qianqing's personal strength has already raised the upper limit of the Li family.

The current overall strength of the Li family is undoubtedly stronger than the previous Zhao royal family.

It can be said that even if the Li family now occupies more territory, no monk would dare to say anything publicly. Those whose interests will be harmed will inevitably speak ill of the Li family behind their backs.

"I still hope that the country can be more peaceful." Li Qianqing's vision is different from that of the Zhao royal family. Previously, as the strongest force in Zhao, they still only had Zhao in their eyes, and they only wanted to continue to expand their influence here.

Li Qianqing knew in his heart that under his leadership, the Li family could not be limited to one country. Even taking the five countries as an example, it was still very small.

"Sister Xuewei, you can use the name of your Qingfeng Valley to tell Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen that if you want to continue to expand your territory and increase your influence, you don't have to do it secretly. You can do it openly. Our Li family will not do anything." Li Qianqing said it very clearly.

This sentence sounded different to Yan Xuewei.

Letting Qingfeng Valley inform the other two sects of this situation is to take Qingfeng Valley's dominant position among the three sects one step further, especially now that everyone knows how powerful the Li family is and dare not easily provoke the Li family.

This is also telling the two sects that our Qingfeng Valley has a good relationship with the Li family. It is precisely because of our persuasion that you two sects can do these things openly and don't have to worry about being targeted by the Li family.

"With Qianqing's words, we Qingfeng Valley have an opportunity."

"No, Sister Xuewei, you should give Qingfeng Valley a chance. You must know that you are the current leader of Qingfeng Valley." Li Qianqing smiled. He was able to do this partly because of Yan Xuewei.

If Yan Xuewei was not the current head of Qingfeng Valley, his strategy might have changed slightly, and Qingfeng Valley would not have such an opportunity.

"Okay." After hearing this, Yan Xuewei felt very comfortable. She knew Li Qianqing's character and would indeed do such a thing. "Regarding Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen, I will handle it well and will not let them go too far."

It depends on her operation afterwards.

After doing this well, the three sects will really focus on their Qingfeng Valley in the future.

After the important content was finished, the topics that the two people talked about next rarely involved the forces of the two parties. After about two hours, the two separated.

Li Qianqing watched Yan Xuewei leave before he returned to Changqing Mountain.

Yan Xuewei, who returned to Qingfeng Valley, soon became busy.

Three days later.

The Jindan elders of Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen came to Qingfeng Valley.

They were all invited by Yan Xuewei, the current head of Qingfeng Valley, to discuss the changes in the situation in Zhao State and what kind of status their three sects would have in the future.

"Please take a seat, both of you." Yan Xuewei gestured to the two major sects to sit down. In addition to the three of them, there was also the current Grand Elder of Qingfeng Valley, Feng Xicheng.

Feng Xicheng came here just to listen, and he would not speak in most cases.

After the Li family eliminated the seven Jindan cultivators of the Zhao royal family, Feng Xicheng felt that it was a very correct choice to hand over the position of the head of Qingfeng Valley to Yan Xuewei. Because of Yan Xuewei, the relationship between the Li family and their Qingfeng Valley would hardly deteriorate.

Three days ago, Yan Xuewei, who had met with Li Qianqing, told him some information, and he knew that the Li family had given them a gift for Qingfeng Valley.

After the meeting, the topic quickly unfolded.

"...After the Zhao royal family lost seven Jindan cultivators, they are already at the end of their strength. As long as the Li family wants to make a move, they may perish at any time."

"The end of their strength is also for the Li family. There is one emperor, three sects and ten families. Now the Li family is no longer among the ten families, but the Zhao royal family is not there either. At present, the strength of the Zhao royal family can still compete with any of our sects."

"What do you two think of the Li family?" When talking about this, Yan Xuewei looked at the two and asked.

"Master Yan, the Li family is ultimately a subsidiary force of your Qingfeng Valley. If you want to ask our two opinions, I would like to know what Master Yan thinks of the Li family now?"

"Fellow Daoist Cao is joking. Now the Li family is stronger than our Qingfeng Valley anyway. How can it still be our subsidiary force? Since ancient times, the weak have always relied on the strong. How can the strong rely on the weak?"

"I heard that Master Yan has a good personal relationship with the head of the Li family."

"Indeed." Yan Xuewei nodded.

Seeing Yan Xuewei nodded in acknowledgement, both the Jindan elders of Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen fell into a brief silence.

According to the information they investigated before, Yan Xuewei and the Li family were more about interests. There were many such cultivators in Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen. The Jindan stage had exchanges with the affiliated Jindan Xiuxian family, and the foundation stage had exchanges with the affiliated foundation Xiuxian family.

As time went by, after getting more and more information, they had different views on the relationship between Yan Xuewei and Li Qianqing of the Li family.

Now Yan Xuewei's admission has verified the accuracy of their information.

Originally, the rise of the Li family was not only a headache for the Zhao royal family, but also for Qingfeng Valley, the upper sect. Unexpectedly, Yan Xuewei's relationship cleverly solved this problem for Qingfeng Valley.

If the Xiangshui Li family and Qingfeng Valley were a normal affiliated relationship, the current Qingfeng Valley should not be able to do it, and even have to immediately announce to the public that the Li family is no longer an affiliated force of their Qingfeng Valley.

"The previous question, what does Valley Master Yan think of the Li family now?"

"Nothing has changed from before, the powerful Li family is still the same as before." Yan Xuewei answered this question with a smile, then put away her smile and asked, "How much power have the two Taoists' sects eroded from the Zhao royal family these days?"

"Valley Master Yan, what do you mean by this?"

"Don't worry, we Qingfeng Valley will always stand on the side of the three sects."

The Jindan elders of the two major sects looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. If Qingfeng Valley completely stood on the side of the Li family, they would have to cooperate with Tianchuan Mountain and Shuiyunmen no matter how big the conflict was.

"Not much, this is just the beginning."

"We Shuiyun Sect has just extended our hand to Zelin County." The elder of the Shuiyun Sect who has a good relationship with Qingfeng Valley will say more details, and then he immediately asked, "Valley Master Yan, tell me directly, what do you want to do?"

"To expand influence, just do it openly, no need to be sneaky." Yan Xuewei did not continue to dangle them.

"What!"

"You Qingfeng Valley want to drag us to confront the Li family directly?"

The two felt incredible when they heard the words. Now the Zhao royal family is declining and may perish at any time, but their territories cannot be taken away openly, the Li family is watching.

If we act secretly, the Li family may turn a blind eye, but if we do it directly, it means that our three sects want to compete with your Li family for territory.

"Don't get excited, I won't say anything more. Our Qingfeng Valley has a good relationship with the Li family. If you come openly, as long as you don't go too far, the Li family will not make any moves. I promise you this." When she said this, Yan Xuewei emphasized, "But if you go too far, I can't guarantee it. I hope your sects will be sensible."

Compared to sneaking, coming openly consumes much less energy than the former, and the efficiency is very high, and there is no need to worry about being discovered by the Li family.

Especially when they are still unclear about the attitude of the Li family towards their three sects, coming secretly is also an uncertain risk.

If what Yan Xuewei said to them is true, it is to help them remove the risk.

"Master Yan, it took a lot of effort to convince the head of the Li family."

"Master Yan, it's hard work."

"Fortunately, I also have this opportunity. If I don't have the opportunity, that would be difficult." Yan Xuewei smiled slightly. The answer to their question should be ambiguous, letting them think about the difficulty themselves.

At present, not many people know the specific relationship between her and Li Qianqing.

If many people knew about it, they could change the way they met.

At this time, Feng Xicheng, the Grand Elder of Qingfeng Valley, spoke.

"My two Taoist friends, the next emperor will become the Li family. If the situation becomes like this, what kind of changes will the relationship between our Qingfeng Valley and the Li family usher in? It is still uncertain at present, but our three sects are still three sects. At this time, we must be of one mind."

Feng Xicheng said this to confirm Qingfeng Valley's leadership position among the three sects, indicating that they value the relationship with the Li family, but they value the relationship with Shuiyunmen and Tianchuanshan more.

As the leading sect, they are negotiating with the Li family while also seeking benefits for everyone. (End of this chapter)