Chapter 571: 524 Change

Yes, we must win.

Regardless of whatever conspiracy the other side has, the purpose of everyone coming here was never to tangle with them over a single manor or territory; the goal is to raze Wangliang Mountain, liberate all the slaves on the mountain, and excise this scab from the Human World.

Incidentally, look for the Destruction Sword Intent, look for the Ruyi Sword, and so on.

For this goal, they have prepared sufficient manpower and a firm backing; with Sword Heroes leading and the Jinwu Sword holding the line, they should have been invincible from the start, just like driving a tank and charging forward—any small pits or bumps on the road shouldn't even be felt.

At most, the Turtle Bandits are a low wall, and Wangliang Mountain is a high wall; these two walls must be rammed through with full force, and as for the rest...

Crush them!

Tang Zhao skipped the perfunctory mobilization and said directly, "For the Sword Hero Bureau, barring any accidents, I will go."

Although he is a newly promoted Sword Hero, his strength has always been formidable. The Jingxing Sword is a powerful sword, and he possesses dual Sword Intents, one of which directly inherits from the Jinwu Sword. Furthermore, he walks the upright and proper path, not taking shortcuts, which means he has the fewest constraints and can handle many situations, so his odds of winning are the highest.

Of course, "barring any accidents" means that if news arrives that the opponent has sent out a Sword Hero who perfectly counters him, he wouldn't be so stubborn as to insist on hitting a brick wall. He is not that kind of obstinate person.

The Manor Owner's bureau need not be mentioned; the real uncertainty lies in the Sword Guest Bureau. Eight Sword Guests is still too many, and the variables are significant.

The only Sword Guest present on the surface opened their mouth.

Tang Zhao raised a hand to stop Fang Weiran from volunteering, saying, "There is no need to decide now. I will ask the Marquis to mobilize personnel, and we will choose the people after obtaining intelligence."

Yes, there will be intelligence by then.

Otherwise, why would Ling Baoyu, a great Sword Hero, be left at Sunset Manor?

To find the mastermind, to find special key passages, and then incidentally to find the opponent's intelligence. After all, one sheep is driven, and two sheep are herded.

Once we get the first-hand information and select the corresponding people, it will naturally be a sure thing.

The deck was already stacked, there are many rare cards, and the opponent is playing with their cards face up; I really can't imagine how we could lose.

"However, this arena bureau might still change."

Everyone was quite puzzled upon hearing this. Jiang Shenyi said, "Still changing? Wasn't it proposed by him? Is he going to slap his own face again?"

Tang Zhao said, "An ordinary person wouldn't be so shameless. But what if he is indeed being directed by someone? The previous bloody battle plan was favorable to him, but don't forget, I just used momentum to force that old fellow Xing Cang to go first. If he leads the charge, he is almost certainly going to die."

Everyone suddenly realized: a variable has occurred here. If the person behind Sunset Manor has nothing to do with Xing Cang, then the competition format shouldn't change; if it really is Xing Cang, he would demand that Wu Shayu go back on his word again to save his own life. This is also an effective test.

Fang Weiran asked, "Does the old guy really have that much ability? Whatever he says, Wu Shayu does? Even a First Rank Manor can't command a Second-tier Manor like that, right? What does he rely on? Is his strength very high?"

Tang Zhao pondered, "Indeed, what does he rely on? He should have strength, but there must be something even more unusual. I went to Changfa Manor to look, and the manor itself shouldn't be his Sword Image. Our previous guesses had some problems."

Wei Zhangle nodded; he wasn't a Sword Guest when he was scouting for intelligence, so it's normal that he couldn't see through it.

"I originally thought it was the pine trees that climbed all over the manor and were omnipresent. But Xing Wu's words really made me waver. The old guy is full of tricks; perhaps the pine trees were also a smokescreen he created? However, he did gain great confidence in Changfa Manor, and it looks like he is absolutely certain he can kill everyone. His Sword Image should be in the manor, just hidden very deeply. I... have always felt that those pine trees are indeed strange, and I won't be wrong about that. If his Sword Image isn't the pine trees, it might be something more abstract attached to them."

He himself was not confident in this judgment.

A Sword Image is materialized; it shouldn't be something abstract. Without a physical form, let alone whether it can take shape, even if it did, it wouldn't be able to descend; how could one step into the threshold of a Sword Hero?

Of course, nothing in the world is absolute; there have been very rare exceptions in history.

A Sword Guest who can create an abstract Sword Image not only encountered a once-in-a-century coincidence, but they must also be a wild practitioner. Without systematic learning, they don't know how to avoid risks. If these Sword Guests refuse to give up and want to climb upward, they can only pay an unimaginable price.

Effort, huh...

Tang Zhao thought for a moment and said, "His Sword Image must have something to do with the manor; loving the manor is loving oneself; everyone says that putting the manor first is exactly for this reason. So, destroying the manor is destroying him."

He has already entered the manor, and the information that needed to be obtained has been obtained; the rest can be said to be irrelevant. The next time he enters the manor, it will be aimed at the Recording Circle, the hub; it will take some time to study the terminal. As for the manor outside, those pine trees and more pine trees, it wouldn't hurt to just flatten them.

Incidentally, also deal with the YoungMaster's "honored father." Considering he provided the opportunity to enter the mountain, let's lay him to rest.

Tang Zhao roughly summarized the matters here, and then it was Jiang Shenyi's turn to speak. He triumphantly detailed the preliminary success he had achieved in his research on the compatibility between Souls and Sword Seeds. Although the others besides Tang Zhao couldn't understand it at all, it didn't matter; they only needed to understand the conclusion:

"It's a preliminary success! I have already extracted the Sword Seed from within a Sword Slave!"

Tang Zhao took the lead, and applause erupted. Jiang Shenyi bowed with a face full of smiles, as if he had given an extremely successful speech. He completely ignored the fact that the audience didn't understand what he was talking about at all.

Tang Zhao said, "Good, the technical aspects are all solved; the key is how to spread this result."

If the Sword Guests and Sword Slaves knew that they had hope for complete freedom, they would inevitably accumulate gunpowder waiting to explode everywhere on Wangliang Mountain; a single spark would be enough to blow the world apart.

But the key is how to let those people know?

It's as if Tang Zhao has a cheap and high-quality product; as long as he tells the target customers, it would definitely sell like crazy. But now it's hidden in a deep alley and cannot be taken to the street to be sold; how can he let the buyers know which alley the goods they want are in?

Advertising definitely won't work; even showing the goods on the street would attract the siege of local bullies and street gangs. By then, the buyers would have long been scared away and wouldn't dare to come and ask.

And there is no internet, so he can't do precise push notifications...

Tang Zhao pondered, "We still have to take advantage of the Deep Shadow Society; when there are many people, there is still a chance..." As he said this, he suddenly flipped his hand and took out a Jade Belt.

That is an Art Tool for instant communication; Wei Zhangle had used it before, but now that he is back, he naturally doesn't need it. Now, the only one left using this Art Tool to contact Tang Zhao is one person.

Tang Zhao glanced at the Jade Belt and was actually stunned for a moment.

The white fox curled up under the chair, holding back the urge to yawn.

She had never done undercover work before; trying it for the first time, she couldn't help but feel both curious and cautious. However, after several days without hearing any news, the curiosity was gone, leaving only caution.

She couldn't afford not to be cautious; her doubt was huge, and although she used Sword Art to hide it, she had always been suspicious: is that Vanishing Sword Technique any good?

No, caution is the parent of safety; one layer of insurance is not enough.

Just like now, although she is protected by the Vanishing Sword Technique, she still keeps herself in a blind spot of doubt, hidden by double-layered Sword Art. And whenever someone comes from outside, she shrinks even further under the chair, not revealing her figure.

Yes, someone has entered Sunset Manor now.

She had searched here for two days, even searching the sculpture that contained a trace of Destruction Sword Intent several times, but she could never see any mystery, and following that Wu Shayu didn't yield any clues, so she had to enter the study to search for documents to see if she could find any traces. Just after flipping through a few pages, someone came from outside. She swooshed and dived under the chair.

This is instinct.

Then she saw Wu Shayu's feet enter and stop in front of the chair, but no other pair of feet followed. It was as if only he had entered this study.

But Ling Baoyu knew that this was not the case; there was at least one other person in the room, or even two.

Then she heard Wu Shayu say angrily, "Heart Shadow Abyss Envoy, we have always minded our own business; why are you suddenly interfering in our private affairs?"

Then she heard a voice like a child's say, "Because I want to interfere; there is a show to watch."

Wu Shayu was speechless for a moment. Ling Baoyu thought: Who is this? Their way of speaking is even more infuriating.

Then she heard a voice that sounded like music and also like a woman's voice say, "Wu Luori, you must know that Heart Shadow has already protected Changfa Manor, and your private affairs are also his private affairs. Since that is the case, it can interfere and manage them."

Wu Shayu laughed and said, "I know, I know! That Changfa Manor is afraid; the coward is afraid! Is he afraid to challenge? He rushed to seek refuge with the Abyss Envoy, asking the Envoy to come forward and mediate, wanting to cancel this challenge? It's not that easy! This Sunset Manor of mine is not a place he can come and go as he pleases! Even if he doesn't challenge, I will counter-attack. I will kill everyone in his manor until not even a chicken or dog is left!"

That childish voice let out an "eh," and said, "You want to kill your way to the Third Tier? That's not bad at all."

The female voice rang out again, abruptly cutting off the childish voice's desire to stir up trouble, and said, "Did you hear that? We don't care if your manor flows with blood. But we have already notified our fellow Abyss Envoys that there is such a good show, and many are interested. The audience has already taken their seats; you must put on this play, whether you want to or not. So we have come to confirm the time and location with you; if it's not confirmed, it's a waste of time."

Wu Shayu said angrily, "I've become a monkey performing for you? If that's the case..."

He seemed about to say something intense, but paused and said, "If that's the case, then how about I change to a more exciting Sword Law?"

Bai Hu felt strange in her heart: he had proposed the competition format several times, so he should have already thought it through; why was he going back on his word again? Was slapping his own face fun?

The female voice said unhappily, "We are here to watch you perform, not for you to play us! It's one thing for you to be fickle toward the Third-tier Manor, but how dare you pull these tricks in front of us?"

The childish voice said, "What kind of more exciting way?"

Bai Hu almost laughed out loud, thinking that the woman was still a normal person, but the one called Xin Ying beside her was truly a freak; it was truly exhausting.

At this moment, she had a mind to see exactly what kind of idiots had come, so she carefully poked her head out from under the chair and took a look at the opposite side.

Taking this look caused her pupils to shake violently!