"What kind of benefits could it be? As far as I know, it's precisely because Divine Wind Palace didn't keep its promise that Azure Heaven, one of the 33 Heavens of antiquity times, disappeared. And last time in Taiyuan Heaven, Divine Wind Palace also took action once. The benefits involved in these two things are too great. I can't think of anything in the world that can compare with the value of Taiyuan Heaven and Azure Heaven combined!" Sitting at the head of the table was a middle-aged man dressed in black. He was the current head of the Qin Family in South Mountains, Qin Zheng.
"Humph, there are many things in this world that you don't know. Although the 33 Heavens are precious, they are not unique!"
"You're saying that they've discovered another of the 33 Heavens?!"
"I'm not sure!" The elder who spoke said, "After all, we're just an aristocratic family in the Great Jin. Since the establishment of our family, we've only had a history of three thousand years. Although our history is longer than that of other aristocratic families, it's still much shorter than that of those powerful families. There are many secrets in this world that we don't know!"
"Then we can't just let it go like this. This time, we've really fallen out with the Yan Family!" An Elder said unwillingly.
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White clouds drifted leisurely in the mountains.
The Mountain City of the Qin Family was located in South Mountains, the center of Leizhou. The entire mountain city was built along the mountain ridge, extending from the foot of the mountain to the top.
Three thousand years ago, this mountain was called Toutuo Ridge. It was five hundred and seventy-eight zhang tall. Now, it had been densely occupied by countless buildings. For such a civilization to have such a mountain city was indeed surprising.
"3,000 years, hehe, an aristocratic family with a history of 3,000 years. With the power of mortals, I'm afraid that only after such a long time could they have such a heritage and build such a huge mountain city!"
On this day, outside the 100-foot high city gate of the Qin Family's mountain city, a man dressed in cyan appeared. He was about 18 or 19 years old, handsome and quiet. If he held a folding fan or a scroll in his hand, others would definitely think that he was a Xiucai who was going to Western Capital to take the examination. However, it was unknown whether such a weak Xiucai could make it to Western Capital.
He strolled toward the tall city gate. Beside the gate stood a group of soldiers. Two of them stood on both sides of the gate, holding long spears in their hands, looking very formidable. There was another group of about 10 people patrolling the city gate. The leader was an officer. Although he was not very old, his cultivation was at Level Three, and it seemed that he would soon break through Level Three and become a Level Four Junior Master.
Originally, they did not pay attention to the scholar in cyan. But when the leader glanced at the scholar, he was stunned at first, and then a puzzled look appeared on his face.
"Stop right there!" The green-robed Elementary Scholar stopped in his tracks and stood there quietly, looking at the soldier.
"Who are you? Why are you entering the city?"
The scholar in cyan smiled slightly. "I'm just a passer-by. I heard that the mountain city of the Qin Family is incomparably magnificent, so I came to have a look out of curiosity. What's wrong?"
Hearing this, the officer frowned.
This was the mountain city of the Qin Family, the governing center of the whole South Mountains. No one had ever dared to make trouble here. This officer was a small leader. He had been here for seven or eight years and had met many people, but he had never met anyone who answered like the man in cyan. He immediately felt that something was wrong. Just as he was about to scold the scholar, he suddenly met the eyes of both parties, and his mind was in a mess.
The azure-clothed man smiled and nodded politely to him before walking past him. The surrounding soldiers felt that the situation was a little strange. They all looked at the soldier, but the soldier just stared at the azure-clothed man in a daze. Only when the azure-clothed man's figure disappeared from the sight of the soldiers did he come back to his senses.
"Leader Lin, what's wrong with you? That man in cyan just now …!"
"What green-clothed man? What are you all doing here? Stand properly!" Chief Lin came back to his senses. When he saw that his subordinates had gathered around him, his expression immediately changed. He scolded them, giving them a fright. Each and every one of them returned to their original positions like frightened mice.
"The mountain city of the Qin Family is really well-guarded!" Walking on a spacious street in the mountain city of the Qin Family, the scholar in cyan had a strange smile on his face. In his spiritual mind, he had already sensed several tyrannical messages hidden in various secret corners of the city.
"Six experts, this is much more than an ordinary millennium-old family. It seems that the Qin family of the Southern Mountains really has something up their sleeves. I wonder what kind of trump cards they have hidden, to actually dare to extend their claws into the Northwest!"
The scholar in cyan clothes was Zhou Bao. This time, he left his nest in the northwest to take revenge on the Qin Family. However, he was not a reckless person. Since the Qin Family dared to attack the northwest, they obviously had something up their sleeves. Therefore, he did not directly attack them like before. Instead, he wanted to slowly understand them.
As the largest city in the Min and Lei Prefectures of the South Mountains, the area of the Qin Family's mountain city was not smaller than that of the big cities in his previous life. Countless streets crisscrossed, and the roadside shops were overcrowded with people.
Zhou Bao walked on the road with a smile on his face, as if he was wandering aimlessly. After walking for four to six hours, he found a good-looking inn to stay.
"Sir, judging from your accent, you seem to be from another place?"
After giving the waiter an ingot of five taels of fine silver, the waiter's attitude towards him immediately changed to that of his own grandfather.
"Yes, I'm indeed from another place. Why, is there a problem?" Looking at the waiter, Zhou Bao's eyes flashed with a trace of a sneer. "No, no, sir, don't misunderstand me. I'm just curious!"
"Curious? What's there to be curious about?"
"Hehe, no, no!" The waiter saw the sharp look in Zhou Bao's eyes and immediately became hesitant.
"No?" Zhou Bao's eyes flashed. As soon as the waiter came into contact with the electric light, he felt a shock in his head, and then his mind went blank. It was not until the time it took for an incense stick to burn that he came to his senses. With a confused look on his face, he bowed to Zhou Bao and left.
But Zhou Bao's face showed a strange expression. "I was careless, really careless. I even let a waiter see through my flaws. I think the secret agents of the Qin Family all over the Mountain City of the Qin Family have already noticed something wrong with me, haven't they?"
Just now, he used his powerful spirit to frighten the waiter. After being frightened by Zhou Bao, the waiter naturally told him everything he knew. It turned out that he had revealed his flaws. It made sense. A weak scholar with a foreign accent came directly to the inn without even a bag and gave away such a large ingot of silver. Anyone would find it strange. This waiter had been working here for so many years and had seen countless people. Naturally, he could see through Zhou Bao's flaws at a glance.
Since he could see the problem, others could also see the problem.
"No wonder so many weird guys focused their attention on me along the way. It turns out that I'm a fledgling!" Zhou Bao laughed. He became famous too early. Strictly speaking, he had never been in Jianghu, so he was not familiar with disguising his identity. But then again, he did not want to deliberately disguise his identity. He did not think it was a big deal.
"I remember hearing a long time ago that all the Nine Great Clans in the world have portraits of me, the troublemaker. I think the Qin Clan is no exception. I wonder if the people of the Qin Clan can recognize me. If they do, what kind of reaction will they have? Hehe, interesting! "
Zhou Bao thought to himself with a strange smile on his face.
At this time, in the old house of the Qin Family in the First Courtyard Ridge, Qin Zheng, the Family Head of the Tai Family, and several Elders of the Qin Family, who had just left, sat together again with a pale face. On the table in front of them was Zhou Bao's portrait.
"Family Head, are you sure that the man in cyan is Zhou Bao?" The atmosphere in the room was very quiet and oppressive, making people very uncomfortable.
After an unknown amount of time, an old man with a face full of wrinkles sitting beside Qin Zheng sighed and asked.
"I have shown this portrait to the News Department. They have confirmed that the man in the portrait is exactly the same." Qin Zheng's face was very ugly, as if his parents had died.
"Didn't Zhi IX promise us last time that he had already found Zhou Bao's weakness and that Zhou Bao would never leave the Wuyang Region? Why would he come all the way from the northwest to the East Sea? "
"Humph, do you still need to ask? He came to the East Sea, of course, to make trouble for us!" An Elder snorted coldly, his tone full of dissatisfaction and resentment. "I told you at that time not to provoke this guy for no reason, but you didn't listen. You even said that Divine Wind Palace had guaranteed that nothing would happen. Now that he has come to our door, let's see what you can do!"
"So what if he comes to our door? Zhou Bao indeed has a great reputation, but our Qin Family is not to be trifled with. Will he really destroy our Qin Family because of such a small matter?" Another Elder said.
"Why not? Think about what happened to Master of Golden Lights Cave and Mingyi School. If he had not been afraid of the Individual Immortals in the school, Mingyi School would not have been destroyed by Bai Xu. Now that he has the strength to kill a Venerable, why can't he deal with our Qin Family?"
"So what if he can kill a Venerable? Our Qin Family is not to be trifled with! " The Elder with a tough attitude snorted coldly again, as if he was very dissatisfied with the attitude of the family members who boosted the morale of others and belittled their own.
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