Chapter 246: The Eastern Wanggu Chess Game

"Xu Qing, this is my Great Expansion Dao guild hall, like my Great Expansion Dao Sect territory. What is your business coming here!" The youth wearing the cloud-haze blue-sky robe heard this, his breathing accelerated even more, and his complexion became gloomy, shouting in a low voice.

In reality, ever since the Night Owls were destroyed last night and Xu Qing beheaded the Night Owl three-fire black-robed man with his Heavenly Blade and suppressed the Ancestor Lingyun Sword Sect disciple, he had already realized that things were not good.

Because among those who had traded with the Night Owls, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that only he was left.

So, in his nervousness, he immediately invited friends from the Spirit Haze Valley and the Heavenly Mirror Treasure Sect to come here, just in case.

At this moment, seeing Xu Qing arrive and calling out his name as soon as he opened his mouth, this Zhou Zhou Qifan's heart sank.

Xu Qing looked at the person speaking in front of him. When he came, he looked at the other party's file, so because this person was low-key on weekdays and rarely went out except for challenging the Fourth Peak, there were not many images left.

After comparing at this moment, Xu Qing nodded.

"Acting according to the sect's order, capturing Zhou Zhou Qifan, who traded with the Night Owls." Saying this, Xu Qing took a step forward. His speed was so fast that he approached in an instant, raised his right hand, and grabbed directly toward Zhou Zhou Qifan.

Cold light flashed in Zhou Zhou Qifan's eyes. Outside his body, with a bang, the red clouds on his robe erupted instantly, directly forming red lines in front of him, flying rapidly to form a magic array, suppressing fiercely toward the arriving Xu Qing. At the same time, he retreated fiercely, and a low roar came from his mouth.

"Protector Zhang, two fellow Daoists, please help me!"

Almost the moment he spoke, Xu Qing's right hand had already touched the red cloud magic array. A loud noise echoed earth-shakingly. Behind Xu Qing, the Jin Wu manifested and rushed fiercely. Instantly, the magic array collapsed directly, and all the red clouds were sucked into its mouth by the Jin Wu.

And the protector behind Zhou Zhou Qifan showed hesitation at this moment, sighed, and walked out. But following Xu Qing's wave, the sect's magic array arrived. His figure retreated rapidly with the help of the magic array power without any resistance. He did not want to be driven away as unpleasantly as the protector of the Hunters of the Strange. And today's matter, he naturally saw that this was the Seven Blood Children capturing people. It was useless to want to stop it.

Moreover, being driven away, what was lost was his own face, and Zhou Zhou Qifan being captured could not have any life-threatening danger, just being suppressed for a while. Why should he fight to the death ineffectively?

So at this moment, with the help of the sect's array, he retreated rapidly.

And the two heaven-gifted talents of the Spirit Haze Valley and the Heavenly Mirror Treasure Sect both glanced at Xu Qing after this and retreated, not helping.

They did not have the obligation to help. The Seven Sect Alliance was just an alliance, not a sect.

And they also saw Xu Qing's arrival, his determination was set. Even if they made a move to help, it would be of no avail. Since that was the case, why should they make enemies with this Xu Qing?

After all, their personal arrival was already giving Zhou Zhou Qifan face. Everyone did not have a life-and-death friendship, so it was enough to be almost there.

So in this retreat, the two of them cupped their fists toward Xu Qing slightly, indicating their intention to draw a line with Zhou Zhou Qifan.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhou Qifan's expression changed, but he did not say much.

This was also within his expectations. In reality, he called these two over. If they could make a move, it would be best. If they did not make a move, it would also be considered achieving his goal. He hoped that there would be more people witnessing his being captured.

In this way, after he was locked up, there would really be no life-threatening danger.

And with so many people watching, the sect's face would inevitably be damaged.

In this way, the sect with damaged face would be one level higher in anger, and could react faster, thereby accelerating his regaining of freedom.

Everyone had different thoughts, all considering for themselves. At this moment, Xu Qing took the second step. Following the manifestation of the Jin Wu, he arrived in front of Zhou Zhou Qifan. Amidst the anger filling Zhou Zhou Qifan's eyes, Xu Qing raised his right hand, just about to suppress.

"I will go with you!" Zhou Zhou Qifan spoke loudly.

He felt that the paving was enough, there was no need to be slapped on the ground directly, and then grabbed away like a dead dog. That was too shameful, but he could not just follow directly as soon as the other party came.

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Zhou Qifan saw this, his heart shook, but his expression still maintained a stubborn and angry posture, and his words carried an explanation.

"Xu Qing, I bought the Treasure Keeper, but I didn't use it. I don't have that habit. I bought it on behalf of some people in the sect."

"And I have already arranged to settle those Treasure Keepers safely early this morning, and sent a list of these Treasure Keepers to your Criminal Division for your convenience to receive. Calculating the time, it should have arrived by now."

Zhou Zhou Qifan took a deep breath, his expression was stubborn, and he spoke rapidly.

Xu Qing's expression was strange. At this moment, the transmission jade slip on his body vibrated. He scanned it, and the information of the Criminal Division appeared in his mind.

"Division Head, someone sent a list of Treasure Keepers in the name of Zhou Zhou Qifan of the Great Expansion Dao Palace. At the same time, there is also a commendation for the Criminal Division's sweeping of the Night Owls. Additionally, in this commendation, there are two million spirit stones and an unknown elixir. The other party said this is an Aperture-Opening Elixir."

Watching Xu Qing check the jade slip, Zhou Zhou Qifan felt relieved in his heart, but his expression still showed stubbornness and anger.

Xu Qing raised his head, looked deeply at Zhou Zhou Qifan, and slowly put down the right hand he was about to slap down.

"Let's go." Saying this, Xu Qing turned around and walked toward the outside.

Zhou Zhou Qifan snorted coldly, raised his chin, and followed Xu Qing rapidly amidst the silence of the disciples around him, walking out of the Great Expansion Dao Palace's guild hall gate.

He was stubborn all the way to the Criminal Division's prison.

Zhou Zhou Qifan snorted coldly, raised his chin, and amidst the silence of the surrounding disciples, he quickly followed Xu Qing and walked out of the main gate of the Dayandao Palace's guesthouse.

"Fortunately, I reacted quickly, otherwise this time, I would have really suffered a big loss."

Afterwards, he saw Huang Huang Yikun and the junior brother of Sheng Qing Yunzi, who were even more miserable. This scene made his heart tremble. Although he guessed that Huang Huang Yikun's disappearance was related to Xu Qing, seeing the other party's misery with his own eyes at this moment made him deeply feel that his preparation this time was incomparably correct.

At the same time, he also noticed that the shackles on his body were eighteen, while Prince Sima Ling and Huang Huang Yikun were twenty.

"It seems that Xu Qing is also a person who reasons."

Zhou Zhou Qifan sighed in his heart, increasingly satisfied with his approach. This time, in order to resolve this matter, he could be said to have used all methods, both bright and dark, and only then did he successfully save his face.

He was different from Prince Sima Ling. He went voluntarily and cooperated with the investigation. His face did not lose much. What was lost was the sect's, which had nothing to do with him personally.

And the environment here was passable, especially noticing Prince Sima Ling and Huang Huang Yikun looking at the cell he was in, which had tables, chairs, and even a meditation mat, with complicated eyes. That kind of indescribable gaze made Zhou Zhou Qifan feel a bit of pride in his heart.

As for the outside world, following Zhou Zhou Qifan's capture, the challenge had completely disappeared, and no one went to conduct it. And the celebration banquet of the Seven Blood Children was still continuing.

As for Xu Qing here, after thoroughly handling the Night Owl matter, he prepared to leave the sect for a trip.

The place he was going to was the Phoenix Prohibition.

Any poisonous herbs and poisons he could buy in the sect, he had bought almost all of them, but the refining of the small black insects encountered a bottleneck after proceeding to the sixteenth batch.

In this way, his plan to re-refine the Poison Prohibition Elixir was affected.

He could not continue.

Xu Qing researched and felt that it should be that the level of the poisonous herbs was not enough. He needed more yin and fierce poison to make the small black insects absorb it, so as to break through this bottleneck.

For poisonous herbs and poisons, Xu Qing felt that the most suitable one around was the Phoenix Prohibition.

And the ruins possessing the Taicang One Blade inheritance that the Captain mentioned were also in the Phoenix Prohibition. Xu Qing planned to take a look this time as well.

After having this plan, Xu Qing began to purchase information about the Phoenix Prohibition in the next few days.

This forbidden area was located near the sect and was also the refining and fighting ground of the First Peak, so the force that knew the Phoenix Prohibition best in the entire Southern Phoenix Continent was the First Peak of the Seven Blood Children.

There was naturally no lack of data and information.

But Xu Qing did not believe in the people of the First Peak, so he would rather spend more money to buy multiple copies to compare himself, and at the same time, he also retrieved files to check, and went to the Intelligence Division to investigate.

Finally, among hundreds of pieces of data, he summarized a relatively comprehensive piece of information.

Inside, it contained several places he had chosen that contained fierce poison, as well as some places where strange things that could provide him with poisonous items existed.

Some details inside, Xu Qing also mastered them more thoroughly after comparing them many times.

Thus, he began to prepare some specific items for going to the Phoenix Prohibition and these areas, and secretly purchased items. At the same time, he also gave orders to take a drop of heart blood from each of the captured Night Owls.

The Night Owls had been locked up for several thousand people. The heart blood of these people was placed in eleven vials. After checking, Xu Qing put them into his storage bag.

These heart bloods, in a strange place in the Phoenix Prohibition he checked, could become currency to trade items.

And in Xu Qing's preparations, the visits of outer sects continued.

Every day, different sect forces arrived. While the Seven Blood Children became increasingly lively, a big force that made the Seven Blood Children disciples discuss again also came.

Eastern Wanggu Continent, one of the six major forces in the Yinghuang Prefecture... the Litu Path Altar!

Every day, different sect forces arrived. While the Seventh Blood Child became increasingly lively, a major force that caused the Seventh Blood Child disciples to discuss heatedly once again also arrived.

One of the six major forces in the Yinghuang Prefecture of the Eastern Wanggu Continent... the Litu Path Altar!

The Litu Sect of Nanhuang is actually a branch of the Litu Path Altar of Yinghuang Prefecture, so the arrival of the people from the Path Altar also made the Litu Sect of Nanhuang attach great importance to it.

This time, five people came from the Litu Dao Altar.

Xu Qing did not see it with his own eyes, but he knew through the dossiers that these five people were the disciples of the Litu Dao Altar, equivalent to the Sequence Princes.

And when checking the images and records of these five Litu Dao Altar disciples in the dossiers, Xu Qing's hand holding the dossier suddenly paused.

A strange look slowly appeared on his face, gradually turning into a memory.

"Her brother?"

Among the five disciples of the Litu Dao Altar, there was one person Xu Qing had once seen in the scavenger camp.

It was exactly the brother of that little girl with a scar on her face.

"I don't know how she is now."

A little girl with a dirty face appeared in Xu Qing's mind, standing in the wind and snow, smiling at him. Amidst the falling snowflakes, she gave him a piece of candy.

"Little Brother, every time I'm unhappy, my mother gives me candy to eat. As I eat it, I become happy."

"This is my last piece of candy, I'll give it to you."

"Little Brother, be happy!"

Xu Qing was silent and did not ask. He thought of that sentence from Master Bai.

"As long as you don't die, you will eventually meet again."

Until several days passed, when all preparations for heading to the Huang Forbidden were completed, late that night, Xu Qing left the 176th Port, galloped through the night via the path of the First Peak, and headed straight for the Huang Forbidden!

At the same time Xu Qing left, in the pavilion of the Seventh Peak of the Seventh Blood Child, amidst the scattered moonlight, an old man with a wrinkled face wearing a black Daoist robe, with wisps of flowing light appearing and disappearing in his eyes, was sitting on the opposite side of the chessboard from Seventh Uncle, playing chess.

This old man was exactly the ancestor of the Seventh Blood Child, Xue Xue Lianzi. The flowing light in his eyes was a manifestation of the great realm he was in; this was the first stage of the Gui Xu Great Realm, named Shattering the Void Thousand Paths.

Every wisp of flowing light in his eyes was a Great Dao.

Apart from the two of them in the pavilion, there was also a middle-aged woman on the side. This woman was wearing palace attire and looked exceptionally luxurious. At this moment, she was expressionless, pouring tea for the two of them.

If Xu Qing were here, he could recognize at a glance that this middle-aged woman was Ding Xue's aunt.

At this moment, Ancestor Xue Xue Lianzi picked up the teacup and took a sip. Looking at Seventh Uncle, who was staring at the chessboard and thinking about how to make the next move, he smiled.

"Old Seven, you say, how will they play this game of chess of the Seven Sect Alliance? After all, these seven sects have set up such a big battle, making it known to all four directions, with an aggressive appearance of coming to sanction the Seventh Blood Child. With such behavior, where will their true target be?" Xue Xue Lianzi spoke lightly with a smile that was not a smile.

"I know the Ancestor is testing me, but this son-in-law is stupid and doesn't know." Seventh Uncle pretended to be confused.

"You, you still like to hide." Xue Xue Lianzi shook his head and smiled.

Seventh Uncle also had a smile on his face, seemingly having thought about how to make the next move in the chess game, so he picked up a chess piece and placed it on the chessboard.

"If this chess game places a piece below, even if seven pieces are eaten, it is of little significance. But if one looks above and only eats this one piece, wouldn't my entire area be alive? Just like this Seven Sect Alliance marching south in a mighty force, with a rainbow-like momentum, but in reality, its goal must be to march north."

"The Ancient River of Immortal Accumulation in the north is something the Seven Sect Alliance has been coveting for a long time. If it weren't for the Taisi Immortal Sect obstructing it in every possible way to curb the development of the seven sects, the seven sects would definitely not be in their current state, so there will soon be a result in this matter."

"And annoying Taisi also makes it convenient for us to act." Seventh Uncle said softly.