In the days that followed, people from the rest of the great sects followed, and this battle for the inheritance of the Heaven Reckoning Elder was still some ten days away before people had basically arrived.
Of course, the local landlord of Hongzhou, the Lian family, was not missing in such a big event.
The Lian family is also the head of Hongzhou’s lineage, once one of the Nine Great Lineage Families and now one of the Eight Great Lineage Families.
Speaking of the Lian family, this family is a bit special. The male members of the Lian family are all surnamed Lian and the female members are all surnamed Lian. The leader of each generation, both male and female, is the only one who has the right to compete for the head of the family.
After competing for the family head, the family head’s surname is whatever the family’s external signature is. This generation is the Lian family, and the head of the family is the woman in charge.
After all, you can’t expect everyone to be Mr. Nice Guy, no grudges in the past, no enemies in the recent past.
Every now and then, a martial arts fight starts outside, and if it weren’t for the fact that most people have backgrounds and it’s not good to fight to the death before the legacy opens, people would have been killed by now.
But these disputes had nothing to do with Qing Yu. In the past few days, Qing Yu stayed in his room all day, having his meals taken care of by the people of the Sword Dao Palace, and concentrating on practising the divine skill he had just acquired.
The time had come in June, and there was a new chance to draw a character card at random. This time, Qing Yu drew a surprising character card.
Name: Win Wancheng
Realm: Seventh level of Innate Heaven
Item: None
Martial Art: The Turtle Mirror
Evaluation: Now my nickname is “Golden Tortoise”, but when I was young, everyone called me “Golden Tortoise”!
Win Wancheng is a money-hungry old man who has one foot in the coffin and still wants money. The most humiliating of the four East Islanders, he was shot dead by a bird cannon.
His realm was the 7th level of Xiantian, but his actual strength was such that Qing Yu could have killed him with one hand. However, the “Turtle Mirror” of Win Wancheng is not even half-baked, and he cannot even understand the thoughts of a baby, let alone an old coin like Qingyu.
The “Turtle Mirror”, a divine technique, had been pa*sed on to Win Wancheng, so it was really a pearl in the rough.
That day, Qing Yu once again woke up from his all-night cultivation and spoke, “Brother Bie, what do you want?”
Bu Peng Yue dropped his hand outside the door that had been raised to knock and pushed it in, asking curiously, “How did you know I had something to ask you, Sir Zhao?”
Although the house where Qing Yu and the Sword Path Palace lived was considered good in the whole town, it was not one of the big mansions in the big city, and people often walked past Qing Yu’s door during the week. Even if one’s spiritual sense can detect someone outside the door, it’s not necessarily that they’re looking for you.
Qing Yu shook his head and reminded, “You must be in a hurry.”
Qing Yu’s Spiritual Awareness was already superior, comparable to the Divine Origin realm, plus he also cultivated the “Black Heavenly Book” and practiced the power of Divine Origin only at the Divine Origin realm in advance, so within a few days, he entered the “Turtle Mirror” into the door.
When the “Tortoise Mirror” is fully formed, the mind is like a clear mirror, and it can check all the thoughts in other people’s minds, which is extraordinary. But using his heart as a mirror, he could detect the strongest emotions of others, and that was fine.
It was only when he sensed the anxiousness of Peng Yue outside the door that he thought he had something urgent to do with himself.
“Yes, yes, it’s urgent, Sir Zhao, do you know that yesterday morning, someone found that the young master of the Imperial Sword Villa, Xiao Chengming, had died!” Bu Peng Yue was as anxious as fire, and said in a frenzied manner.
“The young master of the Imperial Sword Villa is dead, as enemies, you should be happy, why do you make it sound as if Yuan Jian Yi is dead.” Qing Yu got up and poured himself a cup of tea and said slowly and methodically.
“But the problem is, Xiao Chengming died last night after coming to challenge our Senior Brother Yuan ah. After Senior Brother Yuan sent him away, he didn’t go back to their residence where the disciples of the Imperial Sword Villa are. He was only found this morning, dead next to the Cui Ge River.”
“It seems like last night was when I felt Brother Yuan’s sword Qi.” Qing Yu muttered.
It was said that people were red and right, and the ten celebrities on the Dragon and Phoenix Ranking were the biggest celebrities in the martial world. Never mind their strength, just the fact that there were only ten young men on the list in the whole of Jianghu could already make them popular all over the world.
The people who came to Cui Ge Town this time, apart from Qing Xu, were all below the Xiantian realm, and there were many young people under the age of thirty among them.
In other words, many of them were qualified to be on the Dragon and Phoenix Ranking.
Therefore, in Cui Ge Town, every day, there were people who challenged the potential dragons and phoenixes on the Dragon and Phoenix Ranking in an attempt to steal their places. This kind of thing happened even more frequently after the crowd made a pact not to harm anyone’s life before the opening of the inheritance.
However, Yuan Jian Yi’s sword qi was so sharp that it could easily maim someone despite the retreat. After the trio had paid the price of missing arms and legs, no one had come to challenge them for two days.
Last night, Qing Yu thought it was some iron-headed boy who had come to give away body parts, but he didn’t expect it to be the “eleventh-place finisher”.
“So, Yuan Jian Yi is the first suspect?”
“Exactly, they accuse our senior brother Yuan of always hitting hard, this time he probably didn’t stop in time and let Xiao Chengming die of his injuries on the way.” Bu Peng Yue said with indignation.
“A recurrence of injury and death by the Cui Ge River,” Qing Yu almost burst out laughing, “Xiao Cheng Ming wouldn’t have known he was bound to die and wanted to go for a swim before he died, that’s why he ran out of town and over to the Cui Ge River, would he?”
Well, he actually laughed out loud, only to stop it in time when he saw Bu Peng Yue’s anxious look on his face.
“Well, there’s no need to be anxious, we’re all rivals, who cares how Xiao Chengming died, except for Xiao Chengming’s friends. Xiao Cheng Ming’s death is just an excuse.”
Xiao Chengming’s death by the Cui Ge River outside the town was fishy in any way. No one who came to compete for the Heaven Reckoning Inheritance was stupid. Everyone could see that this was fishy, but everyone was pretending to be confused.
This time, “Little Buddha” Shi Jue was not present in the battle for the Heaven Reckoning Inheritance. Apart from Qing Xu, who could not participate, the strongest participant was Yuan Jianyi, the second on the Dragon and Phoenix Rankings.
If they could make use of Xiao Chengming’s death to do something, and use the opportunity to gather the strength of the crowd to force out Yuan Jianyi, the strongest contender, they wouldn’t mind being a fool.
Of course, Peng Yue knew why they were pretending to be confused. He had advised Yuan Jian Yi to back off a little, and after the legacy was opened, who cared where he was?
But is Yuan Jian Yi the kind of person who would back down? This man’s heart is like a sword, he only speaks with his sword. If you want him to back down, you can, just beat him.
That’s why Don’t Peng Yue is in a hurry. If Yuan Jian Yi can beat one, he can’t beat the whole town.
What’s more, if it really comes to a fight, who dares to say that that guy Qingxu won’t take the opportunity to get down.
“All said and done, no need to rush, I’ll go stand for your senior brother ——“
