With the help of Yun Wuyue’s intelligence, the Green Dragon Society’s subjugation of the middle and lower tier clans in Northern Zhou had progressed extremely swiftly.
Families with experts at the Divine Origin realm and below were all easily subjugated by the Green Dragon Society. In order to prevent a repeat of what happened at the Thousand Kungfu Fort, all Ascendant Realm martial artists took the “Three Corpse Brain God Pill”.
For those at the Divine Origin realm, the power of the “Ten Thousand Paths of the Morrow” was personally applied by Qingyu, who combined it with the “Mountain Sutra” to create a ban similar to the Steel Seal of Thought. These martial artists, after being banned, will never advance in their lives, but their loyalty to the Green Dragon Society is extremely strong.
Qing Yu did not need their force either, those a*sa*sins of the Green Dragon Society, especially the Demon Blade Guards who could combine to kill Divine Origin realm martial artists, were already enough to safeguard the strength of the Green Dragon Society.
However, this, among other things, also inevitably exposed these clans that had been secretly subjugated to the knowledge of Yun Wuyue, after all, the information was all provided by Yun Wuyue.
However, Qing Yu didn’t care much about such trivial matters.
The purpose of subjugating these middle and lower tier clans was certainly for the Green Dragon Society to establish deeper roots in this part of Northern Zhou, but the main purpose was not to do so.
In a world where greatness is in one’s own hands, even the most powerful need strength to safeguard it. The main purpose of subjugating these clans is to serve Qing Yu’s own strength and refinement.
With hundreds of families, large and small, secretly serving him, Qing Yu did not need to worry about the lack of food for his practice. Moreover, the threat of subjugating each clan by force and means also brought Qing Yu a large number of villain points.
In just these days, Qing Yu had already harvested as many as six thousand villain points, and he was able to draw the intermediate lottery alone six times. It was only because the intermediate draws were no longer of much help to Qing Yu that he saved them for later use.
In the process of subjugating the clans, Qing Yu also discovered another force that was doing the same, some of the clans that the Green Dragon Society had approached had long been subjugated by this force.
This force was the Cang Sheng Sect. After finding out that Han Wenxin was a member of the Cang Sheng Sect, Qing Yu had secretly kept an eye on this sect. Han Wenxin was able to get close to the Sixth Prince, so it seemed that this Cang Sheng Sect had a big plan.
According to the information Qing Yu had received from the Shadow House, the Cang Sheng Sect had been preaching in the Western Region and competing with the Nalanda Temple for followers. The leader of the sect, Mak Cang Sheng, ranked tenth in the Heavenly List, has always shown his youthful appearance, his real age is unknown, and he calls himself the son of Heaven, shepherding the people on behalf of Heaven, which can be considered a blatant blasphemer of imperial power.
The title of Son of Heaven has always been a title reserved for the emperor, and shepherding the living on behalf of the emperor is also robbing him of his job. If not for the strength of the 10th in the Heavenly Rankings, which was very threatening, and the fact that the Cang Sheng Sect had been competing with the Nalanda Temple in the Western Region, the Great Qian Dynasty might have sent people to besiege it.
But I never thought that this Cang Sheng Sect would extend its tentacles to Northern Zhou without a word. It seems that Northern Zhou is really popular, as Tantric Buddhism and the Cang Sheng Sect have all come here at once.
The Tantric Sect has only recently emerged and has had little time to make any secret moves. Han Wenxin enrolled at the Shanhe Academy three years ago, which means that the Cang Sheng Sect has been in Northern Zhou for at least three years.
In addition to the Green Dragon Society, which is also working in the shadows, Emperor Feng Tianming, who is in the divine capital, and a number of officials in the Northern Zhou court would never have imagined that the seemingly calm Northern Zhou would be in a state of turmoil.
Regardless of what the future holds, at least for the time being, the Northern Zhou still appears to be stable. This is where Feng Tianming’s courage lies.
Qing Yu was also taking time out to deal with a matter that had been idle for a long time, with the general foundations of the Green Dragon Society laid. Yuan Jian Yi had waited long enough, and if he didn’t go to him again, it would be difficult to ask for his help if there was anything he needed in the future.
So, Qing Yu had a post sent to Yuan Jian Yi, who still visited the shops belonging to the Green Dragon Society in Shadow City from time to time, asking him to meet him at Mingjing Lake in Yanzhou.
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Yanzhou, Mingjing Lake.
As a famous scenic spot in the region, Mingjing Lake has always been popular with the literati who thrive in Northern Zhou. The young and affectionate young talents also like to meet with the girl of their choice at Mingjing Lake.
On this day, there was a figure at Mingjing Lake who was out of place among the many people who visited the lake.
Yuan Jian Yi was dressed in a white dress, extremely clean and sharp, holding an ordinary iron sword, with a harsh aura, although it had been restrained after advancing to the divine origin, but it still did not fit in with the other people who were leisurely swimming here, and seemed a bit abrupt.
“Brother Yuan, this kind of dress is not suitable for the scenery here.”
A leisurely voice came from the back of the room, and when Yuan Jian Yi turned his head to look, he saw a dashing gentleman dressed in black fancy clothes and wearing a jade crown, holding a jade bone folding fan and smiling as he slowly walked towards him.
Just by looking at his face, one could feel a spring breeze, very different from the cold and stern Yuan Jian Yi.
However, when faced with such an easy-going person, Yuan Jian Yi’s face was deeply frowned, “If it is inconvenient, just wear a mask.”
Qing Yu, who had spent some time with Yuan Jian Yi and sort of understood his style of speaking, heard the meaning of Yuan Jian Yi’s words. If it was inconvenient, it would be fine to wear that other mask, so why disguise yourself with a false face.
“Brother Yuan, how did you tell that my face was fake?” Qing Yu asked in surprise.
He asked himself that although this face was casually fabricated and not intended to be used often, it was not broken in any way. To be seen by Qiao Baixuan with his face art like before was something that could not happen again.
“Intuition.”
Two simple words, but they caused Qing Yu to feel powerless for a while. Sometimes, intuition was something that was really unreasonable. And a person like Yuan Jian Yi, who was a survivalist, trusted his intuition the most.
Qing Yu looked deeply at Yuan Jian Yi and saw his movements and mental state with his “Heavenly Son’s Lookout Technique”, but he felt that his opponent was like a sharp sword, with a pure and flawless sword heart, piercing through everything that was not there. With this sword heart, even the use of the “Heavenly Son’s Lookout Technique” gave Yuan Jian Yi some insight.
“Sword heart is clear, Brother Yuan, your state of mind, has grown greatly.” Qing Yu suddenly praised.
Last time at the relics of the Heaven Reckoning Inheritance, Yuan Jian Yi had not yet been able to detect his disguise technique, but this time it was a case of sensing that something was wrong right from the start.
To say that it was a sudden intuition was actually a bit unjustifiable. The only explanation is that Yuan Jian Yi’s mind had reached a whole new level, a clear sword heart that did not fear any falsehoods.
