Chapter 69: Various Forces Gather at Qingping Lake

  These Han people who followed Xu Hua, Luo Cheng and Hei Pao to the Taihang Mountains have permanently lost over a hundred men. This is the cruel Taihang Mountains. However, all those who survived had made significant progress compared to a month ago, although their strength has not yet reached 1,000 jin. They have practiced the martial skill "Shui Shi Quan" taught by Xu Hua to the level of small success, and it was precisely because of this martial skill that they were able to survive in the battle with the first-level demon beasts!

  For those who have passed away, Xu Hua let out a faint sigh, but there was no other movement! This is the cruel reality!

  At this moment, the sky was not yet dark, and many teams that went out to hunt and kill monsters had not returned. There were about eighty people in the entire camp. Xu Hua looked at those determined faces and asked: "Do you regret it? Do you regret following me here?"

  "No regrets!"

  "We are extremely grateful to you, sir. If it weren't for you, we would still be living at the very bottom of society, unable to even eat our fill or wear warm clothes, and being bullied by others! Although we may die at any moment now, you have given us dignity, given us hope! So we will never regret this!"

  Almost everyone said in unison.

  Xu Hua was stunned for a moment, and then his gaze towards everyone became softer, while looking at Luo Cheng beside him.

  Luo Cheng quickly understood Xu Hua's meaning and said, "As your leader, I haven't been of much help to you all along. This time, I'll teach you a set of combination techniques. I hope you won't disappoint me!"

  Afterwards, Xu Hua, Luo Cheng and Hei Pao returned to Jiuzhaigou once more. The people in the forbidden land needed resources! In these days, Xu Hua had already stored a considerable number of demon beast corpses, his spatial ring was almost full. This time might be his last time preparing cultivation resources for those people, from now on this task would have to be 'handed over' to those men who were fighting in the Taihang Mountains!

  Jiuzhaigou is developing smoothly under the management of He Tao and Lu Zhen, and the Twelve Unions have no intention of coming to offend, which makes Black Robe feel much more at ease!

  After all the arrangements were made, Xu Hua and Luo Cheng set off towards the Black Soil Plains.

  "Alas, the young master and Luo Cheng are becoming more and more terrifying." Behind them, looking at Xu Hua and Luo Cheng as they departed, Hei Pao sighed with some helplessness. Immediately turning around to return to the camp, he began to cultivate, this time Xu Hua had given him many resources, especially those twenty Life Crystals, which would absolutely allow his strength to rise another level. On the way back, Hei Pao looked up at the sky, a thick killing intent flashing in his eyes, muttering to himself: "Those who killed my family all those years ago, you're all waiting for me! I'll be back! I hope you're all still there!"

  ……

  Black Earth Plain!

  News of the ruins at Qingping Lake spread out for over ten days, and countless warriors rushed here! This is a great pressure on the forces of Heitu Pingyuan! In these more than ten days ago, they finally killed the four-stage demon beast outside the palace, but they were still trapped in the palace and could not go deeper!

  The Black Earth Plain has countless large and small forces, among which the three strongest forces are: Inverse Flow Sect, Bloodthirsty Sect, and Wugudian!

  These three major forces also have the existence of martial arts masters, and in the past ten or so days, various forces that have arrived have not launched conflicts with the three major forces because their martial arts masters have not yet arrived! This is also one of the reasons why these three major forces are under pressure! If they cannot enter the core of the palace before the arrival of the martial arts masters of those forces and obtain the treasures in the palace, they will have to share the treasures in this ruin with all forces equally!

  Near Qingping Lake, there is a small town called Qingping Town. At this time, many external forces have gathered in Qingping Town!

  A tavern in town gathered many people!

  "Qingcheng, Dima City, Dongyue City, Shuihua City, Fentian City, Gaomai City, and Lincang City have all arrived. The only ones from the Single Kingdom who haven't come yet are the forces of Jialuo City and Luocheng. It's just that those powerful martial arts masters didn't come together!"

  "The strong ones of the Wu Zun will not be with us, they will only appear when we can enter the ruins! As for the Galo City where the royal family is located, it's a bit far from here, so it's not strange that they're late. But I don't know why the forces in Luo City haven't come yet!"

  "What about Luocheng? It's just the weakest city in a single country, maybe they thought they didn't have the ability to snatch treasures among so many forces, so they didn't come!"

  Many people are very dismissive of Luocheng, after all, in recent years, Luocheng has been too low-key and has almost faded out of many people's sight in the country.

  At this time, someone said: "I remember that Luocheng is the site of Wuding's clan!" Immediately narrowed his eyes and said: "Wuding's clan is not simple, don't underestimate them!"

  Everyone followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man in purple robes walking quickly under the escort of a group of people, and immediately everyone came forward to greet him.

  "Have met the master of the Zhou family!"

  "The head of the Zhou family has arrived, so the other three major families and the royal family should have also arrived!"

  The newcomer was the master of the Zhou family, one of the four major families in Wangdu City! In the imperial capital, apart from the royal family, the four major families were the strongest. These four families had followed the founding monarch to conquer the world since ancient times, and their status was no different from that of the city masters!

  The master of the Chia family, clad in a purple robe, also exchanged greetings with them one by one, then said: "I just went ahead first, they will arrive at their homes in another day."

  "I'd like to ask, what's so special about Zhou Jiazhong of the Luo City Wuding clan?" The speaker was the current lord of Dongyue City, Pang Tong.

  The host of the Zhou family looked at the similarly puzzled expressions of several city masters around him and said, "It seems that the old guys in your clan didn't tell you that back in the day when we followed Taizu to open up new territories, the Wuding clan was the one who contributed the most and had the strongest power! It can be said that now a third of the territory of the single country is conquered by the Wuding clan. Can you say that the Wuding clan is simple?"

  "Hiss..."

  The whole field was left with only the sound of inhaling cold air, they really didn't know that the original Udong was so strong!

  "Zhou family master, it's been five hundred years since then, perhaps the Wu Ding clan has declined! I heard that in Luo City, there are four major forces standing alongside the Wu Ding clan. Since the Wu Ding clan can't even fully govern its own territory, it seems to have indeed declined." As the lord of Qingcheng City, which borders Luo City, Jiang Yuan was still familiar with some information about Luo City.

  Zhou Jia's master frowned and said, "Maybe, but it's best not to underestimate the Wu Ding clan. I always feel that they're not simple!" He then asked, "You all arrived earlier than me, do you have any new information?"

  They looked at each other, and finally Lin Guancheng said, "This relic is probably not simple. It might be left by the Martial Emperor. After all, strong warriors from the Inverse Flow Sect, Bloodlust Sect, and Wugudian have entered, but so far, there's been no gain. This treasure won't be easy to obtain!"

  "For the three forces, I am not worried, even if they get it, they will not threaten my country. What I fear is that this relic will be obtained by the people of Zhao Guo, which would be very unfavorable to my country!" The master of the Zhou family said with a hint of worry in his eyes.

  The other city masters had different expressions in their eyes, and over the years, they each controlled a side, with not a strong sense of belonging to the country, perhaps if there was an opportunity, they would even replace it!

  "How many men has Zhao brought this time?" asked the master of the Zhou family.

  "It seems similar to our country, but I'm not quite sure about the specifics." said Qing Cheng City Lord Jiang Yuan Dao.

  "Master Zhou, how much longer must we wait before going in?"

  They came here for the relics in Qingping Lake, and they naturally wanted to enter as soon as possible, but they didn't dare to enter alone.

  "When the royal family arrives, we can enter, but we are only considered vanguard troops. The truly important ones still need to be seen by those powerful martial arts experts." Zhou Jia Zhuo said calmly.

  In another place in Qingping Town, many powerful people are also gathered here!

  "Chen Wuhou, everyone's here, when can we go in? Can't let the warriors of Shanguo get ahead of us!" A rough and hoarse voice rang out, spoken by a middle-aged man with a unibrow and a dark complexion.

  Everyone looked at the middle-aged man with a long face sitting in the middle, whose eyes were very calm and not a bit anxious. He glanced around and said faintly, "Wait until someone from the royal family arrives before we can go in."

  "When will the royal family arrive? It's not good to be slow." someone else in the crowd said.

  "Judging from the information I've obtained, this ruin is likely to be Emperor Wu's remains. Even if the spiritual elixir has lost its efficacy, the spiritual instruments and techniques collected by Emperor Wu are still extremely valuable to us."

  "However, the treasure is not that easy to get. This isn't Zhao Guo, and the people of Shan Guo aren't pushovers either. Moreover, the Hei Tu Ping Yuan also has three major forces that shouldn't be underestimated."

  Chen Wuhou said: "Before the royal family arrives, send someone to closely monitor all movements here, whether it is the power of a single country or the power of the black land, and keep me informed without missing a single detail!"

  In a very ordinary small wine shop on the Black Earth Plain, although the arrival of a large number of foreign warriors made the business of this usually not-so-good wine shop boom, there was no smile on the face of the wine shop owner, but instead his eyebrows were tightly furrowed!

  "Xiao Chengzi, you watch here." The boss called a fellow to keep an eye on things and then returned to the backyard, where he found an old man chopping firewood. "Jiu Shu," he said, "the city master still hasn't shown up, I think it's likely that Xiao Liu has gotten into trouble. You'd better go to Luocheng personally!"

  The old man put down his axe and revealed a pair of bright, spirited eyes. After some thought, he said, "Alright!"

  The old man left, but the owner of the wine shop was worried, fearing the lord's blame!