The Fourth Financial Crisis

Under the command of thousands of Mountain Eagle Cultivators, the mortals living in the outer city of Tianshu City are evacuating towards the inner city in an orderly manner.

At the same time, the cultivators from outside who were stranded in the inner city of Tianshu City began to rush towards the outer city wall.

Slaying demons is a shortcut for cultivators with low academic level to accumulate heavenly merits. All cultivators from other places want to take this opportunity to beat up stray dogs and kill ordinary monsters to accumulate merits.

Although the news of the attack of the Black Pool Dragon King has gradually spread with the return of the monks who were attacked by the Mountain Eagle Sect, similar to the judgment of the Mountain Eagle Sect elders, no cultivator thinks that the Black Pool Dragon King can cause any harm to the Mountain Eagle Sect. substantial threat.

Just the two magic barriers in the inner and outer cities and the Nine-Turn Tianshu Formation are not existences that the Black Pond Jiao King can fight against. What's more, the Mountain Eagle Sect has been working hard in the Tianshu Mountains for more than 7,000 years. Only these things on the surface.

Not to mention the Black Pool Dragon King in the early stage of the Golden Elixir.

Even the great demonic beasts in the late Golden Core stage are absolutely impossible to shake the true overlord of the Tianshu Mountains!

What's more, the big brother of Zhongzhou, the Wuliang Sword Sect, will never sit idly by for such outrageous things as monsters attacking the city. Even if the headquarters of the Wuliang Sword Sect is thousands of miles away, the Nascent Soul stage boss wants to give full support, and two or three of them will The time is almost here.

No matter from which angle you look at it, Tianshu City is as stable as Mount Tai.

Under normal circumstances, if cultivators want to enter the nature reserve to hunt monsters, they need to spend huge sums of money to purchase hunting licenses from the Wuliang Sword Sect and the Mountain Eagle Sect. But now that the monsters have voluntarily escaped from the nature reserve, everyone has to go their separate ways. You can slay demons with your own abilities.

Although the corpses of the monster beasts definitely belong to the Mountain Eagle Faction responsible for cleaning the battlefield, the merit of killing the monsters and slaying the demons belongs to them. In the eyes of many monks from other places, this monster siege is simply a free "merit" buffet"!

This monster attack is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Of course, the senior officials of the Mountain Eagle Sect were very unhappy with the out-of-town monks' blatant behavior of "stealing the demon's head."

From the perspective of the senior officials of the Mountain Eagle Sect, all the monsters and beasts that inhabit the Tianshu Mountains are the private property of their sect. This group of outside cultivators jumping out to harvest merit is equivalent to eating meat from their own pot.

But after all, these guys are all under the banner of "doing justice for heaven" and "killing demons and demons". The Mountain Eagle Sect monks can't restrict the personal freedom of these foreign monks. In addition, these foreign monks help clean up the miscellaneous soldiers. It can indeed significantly reduce the pressure on the magic barrier, so the top executives of the Mountain Eagle Sect pinched their noses and acquiesced to this behavior.

As long as you kill the Black Pool Dragon King, you can make up for any loss!

Liu Qi and Yang Lu also took this opportunity to follow these foreign monks to the outer city.

However, neither of them chose to follow the other monks to the outermost city wall. Instead, they unanimously found a commanding height where they could easily observe the situation in the city and hid.

Seeing that the Mountain Eagle Sect began to clear the outer city and organize mortals to take refuge in the inner city, Liu Qi's lips twitched with a sneer: "As expected. Not only did the Mountain Eagle Sect not intend to rely on the magic barrier to wait for help, but they relied on the Nine Turns Heaven With the power of the pivot formation, trying to kill the Black Pool Dragon King in turn is simply asking for death!"

Seeing that the time was ripe, he casually created a communication spell and sent it to other monks from the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce who had already lurked. This message did not have any extra content, only the simplest six words -

Implement a backup plan!

After sending the communication spell, Liu Qi changed his handprint again and pointed lightly towards the top of his head.

A thousand meters above Liu Qi's head, an earth-yellow spell mark suddenly appeared. This spell mark had no actual function, it was just a special symbol that could be used by monks who brought Qi into the physical realm.

Since it was noon, the magic mark looked very dim under the dazzling sunlight. If you didn't observe it carefully, others wouldn't notice it at all.

In addition, Tianshu City has entered a state of general mobilization, and all kinds of magical escaping lights are constantly shuttling in the low altitude like raindrops. Not only are the colorful spiritual energy lights blinding, the nearby spiritual energy environment is even more chaotic, and no one will pay attention to it. To the subtle spiritual energy fluctuations caused by mere spell marks.

However, no one noticed it in Tianshu City, which does not mean that no one noticed it outside Tianshu City.

Since Tianshu City has promulgated martial law, and with the super spell barrier erected in the outer city of Tianshu City, unless one holds the identity token of a senior member of the Mountain Eagle Sect, any communication spells will be actively intercepted by the energy barrier in the outer city.

Although the spell barrier can block communication spells, it does not have the ability to block visual signals.

In order to cooperate with Liu Qi's special operation, various members of the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce have agreed on a full set of visual signals in advance, so that when communication with communication spells is not smooth, the coordinated actions of all parties can still be maintained.

At this moment, Zhu Ziming was leading his close servant He Jie to ambush on the mountainside of a solitary peak outside Tianshu City. He was staring at the situation inside Tianshu City for fear of missing any detail.

After seeing the magic mark issued by Liu Qi, Zhu Ziming's slightly tired expression suddenly cheered up, and he quickly turned to Hejie and said: "Guanshi Liu has sent us a signal, and this time we are implementing a backup plan, spiritual energy mines. Have you arranged everything? This operation is related to the life and death of our Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce, so we must not make any mistakes!"

With Zhu Ziming's suspicious character, he had no intention of letting anyone else intervene in this secret operation carried out by the Liu Family Chamber of Commerce. Even if Hejie was a die-hard domestic slave who had been with him for more than ten years, he could not completely trust him.

But he alone is really unable to do all the things he wants.

On the one hand, he had to stay in Tianshu City and maintain close communication with Liu Qi. On the other hand, the aura mines outside Tianshu City also needed someone to lay them. He could not carry dozens of aura mines back and forth in and out of the city gates in person.

Because of this, he bravely called Hejie over to help him lay the spiritual energy mines.

Naturally, Hejie also knew that this operation was of great importance, so he quickly bowed down and reported: "Young Master, I have checked it many times against the "Aura Mine Product Manual" provided by Zijin Pavilion, and there will definitely be no problems! "

The main reason why President Lu Yang is full of praise for the spiritual energy mine is that its operation is very simple and can even be laid by mortals.

President Lu once said that if it weren't for the spiritual energy mines, they still need the spiritual guidance of the cultivator to detonate smoothly. In addition, each time the spiritual energy mines are used, they need to consume priceless spiritual stones. This powerful magic weapon can allow the weak to cross levels and instantly kill the strong. I'm afraid it can completely rewrite the social order of "realm is king" in the world of cultivation.

These spiritual energy landmines imported from Beimo Prefecture have been bound to Zhu Ziming's consciousness. As long as Hejie completes laying them according to the process of the product manual, Zhu Ziming can detonate them all with just a thought.

Zhu Ziming took a deep breath and did not give any further instructions.

Seeing this, Hejie took the initiative to ask for instructions: "Young Master, what else should we do next?"

Zhu Ziming glanced at Hejie with his peripheral vision and said expressionlessly: "Leave the rest to me, you can evacuate first!"

"Okay, Master!"

Hejie nodded, pretending to turn around and leave.

However, he had just turned halfway, and his chest felt like a heavy hammer. The huge impact made his strong body tremble slightly. He slowly looked down, and he found that a ferocious streak suddenly appeared on his chest. A large amount of blood gushes out from the horrific wound, dyeing his coarse cloth clothes made of poor material into deep red.

A normal person would have no chance of surviving such a serious injury...

After this thought flashed through Hejie's mind, his body seemed to have lost all strength, and he slowly fell to his knees on the ground. However, due to the large amount of adrenaline secreted, he did not feel the severe pain that he should have.

He used all his strength to look up, only to find that Zhu Ziming was also looking at him coldly.

Noticing the gaze of his personal servant, Zhu Ziming said word by word in a voice without any emotion: "Ajie, don't blame me for being ruthless. It's just that you know too many things, and I can't possibly keep you." This hidden danger!”

Hejie was a sold slave of the Zhu family. He had signed a life-and-death contract and was not protected by the heavenly laws of the Nine Provinces. Therefore, even if he was killed by Zhu Ziming himself, Zhu Ziming would not lose any merit. Only then did he suddenly realize that Zhu Ziming had chosen to take him, a prostituted slave, on his mission alone, and he probably had no intention of letting him go back alive from the beginning!

However, Hejie didn't even have the strength to speak at this time, and could only stare at Zhu Ziming with eyes full of resentment.

When Zhu Ziming saw Hejie's expression, a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Ajie, this world is so cruel, you are just a lowly selling slave, but I am a noble cultivator, the anger of the weak Nothing can be changed. Only the strong can make the rules of the game. If you want to blame, just blame this unfair world! As your master, what I can do is help you slightly alleviate the pain before death..."

After saying that, Zhu Ziming made a palm with his right hand and struck out a light blade again.

Due to the close distance between the two parties, the light blade directly passed through Hejie's neck, ending his life before he could feel the pain.

After killing his servant with his own hands, Zhu Ziming turned his attention to Tianshu City again, as if nothing happened.

He didn't even need to deal with Hejie's body, because Tianshu City was surrounded by such uninhabited and barren mountains. If a mortal died in such barren mountains and ridges, no one would notice it for decades.

Zhu Ziming was more concerned about whether Liu Qi had sent new instructions than his servant who died tragically.

As he himself said just now, the weak in the Jiuzhou cultivation world have no human rights at all. Compared to Zhu Ziming, Hejie is undoubtedly an out-and-out weak, but compared to Liu Hanxing, how can the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce not be a weak?

Just as Zhu Ziming was killing him in pain, at the top of a high tower with a wide view outside Tianshu City, several foundation-building monks wearing blue-grey Mountain Eagle Elder attire were also paying close attention to the situation inside and outside Tianshu City. His expression was very solemn.

Although Liu Qi's spell mark flickered faintly above the heads of the Mountain Eagle Sect elders, they failed to notice it because all their attention had been firmly attracted by the faint movements in the distant forest.

More than ten miles away from the Tianshu City wall, the entire forest seemed to be alive. From time to time, monsters of different shapes and sizes could be seen walking through the dense forest like lightning.

Hidden in the shadows of the woods, there are countless numbers of these monsters. The elders of the Mountain Eagle Sect can only roughly judge from the chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations that there are at least thousands of low-level monsters with different cultivation levels gathered here. This The number is already more than the number of cultivators in Tianshu City!

"The Black Pool Dragon King is worthy of being the king of the Tianshu Mountains Nature Reserve, and he can actually control so many monsters. Looking at the momentum, I am afraid that one-third of the monsters in the nature reserve have gathered outside Tianshu City. Our Mountain Eagle Sect has worked hard for hundreds of years to allow so many monsters to thrive here. After the black pool dragon king made such a fuss, the nature reserve may not be able to recover without more than a hundred years of rest and recuperation." A figure said The tall elder of the Mountain Eagle Sect sighed, with a hint of sadness on his brows.

"Elder Huan, this is not what I am most worried about." Fei Fan looked at the vast forest sea in the distance and felt a little uneasy. "The Tianshu Mountains Nature Reserve has a history of nearly 5,000 years since its establishment. The monster beast has long developed the survival instinct of being easily reluctant to leave the nature reserve. This Black Pool Dragon King is not easy to move by nature, so why would he suddenly leave the habitat where he has lived for hundreds of years and come to Tianshu on his own initiative? Is the city going to die?"

Elder Huan touched his nose and said: "It is said that this Black Pond Jiao King was the master of beast control of the Wuliang Sword Sect 800 years ago. It was born through artificial breeding. Could it be that the artificial breeding technology was not up to standard and destroyed its brain?" Is it broken? I have long heard that the genetic characteristics of monsters bred by cultivators through artificial breeding do not seem to be very stable."

Fei Fan knew that Elder Huan was joking, so he shook his head and said: "Unless they advance to the Nascent Soul stage, the intelligence of monsters is not much higher than that of ordinary beasts. I'm just worried... whether there will be something else behind this matter." Have a secret?"

Elder Huan suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Senior Brother Fei, have you changed your mind?"

Fei Fan said solemnly: "That's not true, but I always feel a little uneasy. Although taking the initiative to kill this beast can not only recover the collateral losses caused by this beast disaster, but also support the sect's finances, it is better to wait and see. Reinforcement is more reliable. Master Chen should be on his way back, and we can survive this crisis safely as long as we pass through the magic barrier for three hours."

Regarding Fei Fan's worries, Elder Huan was obviously very disdainful: "I think senior brother is still worrying too much! A beast is a beast after all, and it can't make any trouble at all. Even if the leader Chen is not here, it will be easy for us to capture it!"

Hearing this, other Shanying Sect elders also echoed: "Elder Huan is right. There are so many monsters outside Tianshu City surrounding the city now. If we rely solely on the magic barrier to support it and delay it for three hours, I'm afraid it will not be consumed." Thousands of spirit stones!”

"That's true! Our Mountain Eagle Sect's annual sect surplus is less than 20 million spirit stone coins. We really shouldn't waste it like this."

"I also agree with Elder Huan's suggestion. As the saying goes, it takes time to raise an army for a thousand days and use it for a while. It's time for the Nine Turns Tianshu Formation to be put to use!"

The financial income of the Mountain Eagle Sect is directly related to the vital interests of each sect's senior leaders. All the elders patted their chests and expressed that what Elder Huan said was absolutely true, and thunderous means must be used to kill the Black Pool Dragon King!

Seeing how confident the elders were, Fei Fan didn't know what these guys were planning.

These guys were shouting righteous slogans, and all they were thinking about was their own business. Everyone clearly wanted to kill the Black Pool Dragon King and divide the spoils, but no one was willing to admit it publicly.

Compared with these elders who just watch the excitement and don't take it too seriously, Fei Fan, the acting head, is obviously under greater pressure.

If the plan goes smoothly, then of course it's "Hello, I'm good, everyone." But if there are no glitches in the plan, these guys will definitely find a way to put the blame on themselves.

It's just that things have come to this point. Even if Fei Fan wants to retreat, he has no way out, so he sighs quietly and says: "In that case, I hope everything goes well!"