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In the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, on one side is the You family, a princely family in Qianshan Town, and on the other side is the emerging Xu family. People from both sides stand neatly on both sides of the hall, paying attention to each other's actions, and the atmosphere is extremely tense.

, as if the city lord's palace would be filled with blood in the next second.

In the middle of the lobby, the head of the Xu family sat in the guest seat, and the city lord sat in the main seat. Behind both of them stood the elders of the two families. Both of them were sipping tea carefully, not paying attention to the solid atmosphere.

, as if there was no one around.

"Clan Leader Xu, I, You, have never made things difficult for local forces. With regard to the development of the Xu family over such a long period of time, our City Lord's Mansion has given us the greatest support, not to mention our full assistance." You Hui said, "But now.

The actions taken by the Xu family after their rise are puzzling, especially when they brought so many people to my city lord's mansion today, I wonder what the Xu family means?"

"Lord City Lord, why do you have to say that these things are available or not?" Xu Gang said, "I have already expressed my intention when I came here. I also hope that the City Lord can take the overall situation into consideration and think more about the people of Qianshan Town."

"At a time when Yu'an is experiencing internal and external troubles, there are even more princes outside Qianshan Town who are eyeing them." You Hui said, "It would be fine if the Xu family didn't help my city lord's palace to gain a foothold among the princes. Instead, it caused civil strife in Qianshan Town.

, do you, the Xu family, feel a little bit guilty?"

"Lord City Lord, I advise you to give up the title of fiefdom." Xu Gang said, "Lest Qianshan Town fall into the flames of war, and Qianshan Town will lose all its heroes."

"Clan Chief Xu mobilized his troops today and has already forced us into the city lord's palace. Why don't you take the city lord's title yourself?" You Hui said mockingly, "With the strength of the You family, even if we fight with the Xu family, both sides will lose, I'm afraid we will still be defeated in the end.

Let the Xu family win, why does Patriarch Xu have to say these things here and not that?"

"You." Xu Gang was a little anxious for a moment, but then quickly returned to normal, "Why should the city lord be anxious? Let's wait for the next city lord to come and see what she has to say."

"I didn't expect that the Xu family has reached such a low level, but don't forget, Youli is the next city lord appointed by the royal family. If anything happens to her, your Xu family cannot bear this responsibility." You Hui said,

There was obvious concern in his tone.

"Since the city lord has such concerns, why bother to persist?" Xu Gang said, "It will be good for everyone to let go of the city lord's mansion, and I, the Xu family, absolutely guarantee that the status of the You family will not be damaged."

"Whether you give in or not is all up to me. Without my statement, your Xu family will be just a family after all." You Hui said.

"Why are you so persistent, city lord? When you see your daughter later, you will naturally make a decision." Xu Gang sneered.

"You." You Hui suddenly stood up, glared angrily, and the energy of anger rushed towards Xu Gang, pressing hard towards Xu Gang.

Xu Gang did not show any weakness. He placed the tea cup in his hand heavily on the table. He showed no signs of weakness and entered into a stalemate with You Hui. Both sides immediately stepped forward and forced them to the middle position. The hilts of their swords were already touching each other.

Together, the battle of life and death is only a matter of words.

"Humph." The city lord rolled up his sleeves and sat down in a muffled voice. The people on both sides also slowly withdrew.

"Da da da." A member of the Xu family ran in from outside and said a few words in Patriarch Xu's ear.

"A bunch of trash." Xu Gang slapped the person in front of him and slapped him away.

"Hmph, it seems that Patriarch Xu's wishful thinking was wrong." The city lord sneered, secretly breathing a sigh of relief.

"Forget it, there will be a family dispute in two months. If you, the You family, don't have the ability to take action, don't blame me, the Xu family, for being disrespectful." Xu Gang snorted coldly, stood up and left, and the Xu family behind him followed suit.

After a pause, he walked back.

"No." You Hui stood up and walked outside the hall. He watched the Xu family's troops surrounding the City Lord's Mansion slowly disperse. The inside and outside of the City Lord's Mansion became much darker. Seeing this scene, You Hui said no in his heart.

Out of desolation and helplessness.

"I am afraid that the Xu family will break up with me with this action." You Hui said, "In the future, there will only be one family left in Qianshan Town."

"I didn't expect that the Xu family would develop so quickly while my You family was competing with the princes. There must be something fishy behind this," said an elder.

"There is no place inside or outside Yu'an where you are not staring at me, and I am staring at you." Another elder said, "When the feudal princes are tired of dealing with these things, these forces are the fastest moving, chaos.

The truth is often hidden, and we regret it when we discover it.”

‘Is it chaotic? It seems that this family dispute is a good opportunity for me.’ Zhou Wutian was lying on the roof, already making a small calculation in his mind.

Although the Yu'an Kingdom is a centralized state unified by the He family, it does not mean that the power is completely in the hands of the royal family. For the entire Hongxing, maintaining royal power not only depends on the army, but more importantly, it can support the country.

The strong ones. This is the foundation for maintaining the long-term prosperity of the country. And when a certain family successfully controls the country, it can legitimately support the development of the royal family with the wealth of the entire country, and the strength of the royal family will

As a result, he was promoted to a long-lasting position. This is why the Xu family spent so much effort to seek the position of the lord of Qianshan Town.

Judging from the information obtained by Zhou Yutian, in the thoughts of Sanctuary, the concept of family is far higher than the concept of country. Therefore, ministers with other surnames in the country's royal family will not occupy high positions or hold great power. This aspect is different from Xuming Continent.

Very large. On the Xuming Continent, the country is also controlled by families, but it is not as conservative as the sanctuary. In the court, except for necessary positions, all other positions are held by the best in the country, which also makes

The national consciousness in the hearts of the people is gradually increasing. Especially in an ancient country like Zhuan State, the people have very strong feelings for the country. Even if it is divided into five parts, they will still not forget that they are Zhuan people.

In the sanctuary, the concept of family is so strong that even a small family will not hand over important positions within the family to foreigners, let alone important positions in the court. With this thought, since the strong man who accidentally appears in the place cannot go

If you work in a higher place, you will naturally stay in your own family, which will inevitably lead to the rapid rise of local forces. Once family forces rise, they will inevitably be dissatisfied with their status and threaten the imperial power. For this reason, each country

The system of local vassals in the name of central imperial power was implemented, allowing local vassals to have privileges, designate laws, and even own soldiers and horses in their own fiefdoms. Although this reduced the pressure on the royal family from the big families, it also laid the foundation for huge problems.

Hidden danger. Once the strength of the royal family declines, the princes can easily support their own troops and no longer provide tribute to the central royal family, hindering the development of the royal family.

At the same time, another problem arises, because families basically rely on strong people to support them. Therefore, if there are talented people in some small families or encounter some adventures and become extremely strong, then they

The family they belong to will rise rapidly until it develops to the point where the royal family has to take care of it, and it cannot come up with new fiefdoms for canonization. The emerging families are allowed to engage in "family disputes" with the current feudal families in the fiefdoms, that is, between families

A competition is used to determine who will be the next feudal lord, and challenges will be held every three years.

And those families are very much in favor of this approach. After all, in the process of the development of family power, there will inevitably be bumps and bumps. Due to the policies of the central royal family, large-scale conflicts will inevitably lead to grievances. When there is a family dispute like this

The method of solving the problem is naturally favored by both parties. Moreover, the royal family is very happy to see the two families compete and lose their strength.

"Humph, it seems they can't sit still, otherwise they wouldn't be so anxious to force our You family to give up their fiefdom." You Hui said, "They are also worried that after competing with my You family for the fiefdom, other princes will take advantage of it.

.”

"I'm still worried about Youli's safety. In any case, she is the successor city lord appointed by the royal family. If anything goes wrong, our You family's status among the princes will plummet." An elder said, "If the royal family

If you blame me, the surrounding princes will take the opportunity to stir up trouble."

"I have sent someone to deal with Youli's matter. You all should go back and rest first, and stay vigilant." You Hui said, "For the rest, I will send someone to tell the third elder to ask him to find out about the Xu family." You Hui stood up.

, walked to the window with hands behind his back, signaling to the elders to leave first.

"Your Excellency, please come out. I don't know who the strong man is who has been able to hide under the eyes of the elders for so long." You Hui said after the elders left.

"An unknown person who is not well known by the city lord." Zhou Yutian climbed in from the window, sat where Xu Gang was sitting just now, and drank tea by himself.

"It is admirable to be able to achieve Yuheng's achievements at this age." You Hui glanced at Zhou Yutian and said with some surprise, "I wonder why my little friend came to my place today?" His words were full of politeness, and You Hui said with some surprise.

Hui's guess is that people who can achieve such achievements at this age must have such an elusive background. Even if they can't afford it, it would be better to cause less trouble.

"I think the city lord is so talented and resourceful, so I would like to ask the city lord for a favor." Zhou Yutian said, "I wonder if the city lord would be willing to reward me?"

"My little friend and I have never known each other, why should I help you with this?" You Hui said calmly, but all the energy in his body had already leaked out of his body. He squeezed towards Zhou Wutian, wanting to test Zhou Wutian's level.

.

Zhou Yutian took a sip of tea and said, "When I came here tonight, I encountered a girl who was being chased. Out of sympathy, I rescued the girl." Zhou Yutian said, "The girl claimed to be the daughter of the city lord, so I

I came here specifically to ask."

"Youli is in your hands?!" You Hui's tone suddenly became serious after hearing this, and the flow of vitality that was originally squeezed gently surged directly towards Zhou Yutian like a flood that broke a bank.

"Not bad." Zhou Yutian responded and put the tea cup on the table. In a moment of turning around, he wrapped the Five Thunder Golden Body around his body and forcibly withstood You Hui's vitality impact.

When You Hui saw this, he would not let go of Zhou Kutian easily. Although he did not know the background behind Zhou Kutian, his daughter was involved, so naturally he could not care so much. He immediately punched out, causing the wind of the punch to hit the air.

It was compressed several times in an instant and mixed with vitality, and shot towards Zhou Yutian quickly.

"What a domineering boxing and magic." Zhou Wutian luckily dodged the punch, but most of the corners of his clothes were scratched by the wind of the fist. Before Zhou Wutian could gain a firm foothold, several more winds of fists roared towards him.

It flew past Zhou Yutian.

"Good boy, you are trying my set of boxing techniques." When You Hui saw Zhou Yutian dodge, he immediately became angry and immediately danced a whole set of Gangfeng Fist. For a while, the wind of fists filled the sky and flew towards Zhou Yutian, and

Basically, they flew past Zhou Wutian and dissipated immediately afterward.

This fist wind could not be seen at all, and it had already hit him by the time he felt the wind. Therefore, Zhou Wutian could only rely on his consciousness to cover the entire space, and just barely avoided the fist wind. However, Zhou Wutian's soul

In this state, he was still hit by the wind of fists several times, and his whole body was in tatters.

"Wait a minute." Zhou Yutian stretched out his hand to make a stop gesture, leaned against the wall and said to You Hui, "What kind of punch are you doing?"

"The You family's secret skill, Gangfeng Fist." You Hui said, his momentum rising.

It was only then that Zhou Yu realized that You Hui's physique was definitely not put here in vain. Relying on the metal and wood attributes, not only the speed was greatly improved, but the energy mixed with it was also very sharp. If it was hit head-on, the mixed energy would be very sharp.

The vitality will penetrate into the body and disrupt the movement of the vitality.

"Although I haven't seen it before, it's still so strong." Zhou Yutian praised, taking a few more breaths. Even with the support of the Fire Sitting Technique and the rich vitality here, it would be difficult for Zhou Yutian to fight against such a strong person from the seventh level of Yuheng.

It is still very strenuous, but this general attack does not consume much on You Hui.

"Since you haven't seen it before, let me show you another set of boxing techniques." You Hui said, and he took up his posture again, and the wind of boxing roared.

'Since the fist wind is mixed with vitality, it must be controlled by the wood attribute.' Zhou Wutian thought while dodging the fist wind, 'In this case, I will catch you off guard.' The thought flashed through and he set off immediately.

Facing the wind of the fist, he pushed forward in the direction of You Hui.

"The boy is quite brave. He knew that if he fought with me, he would definitely be dead, so he thought of fighting me at close quarters." You Hui said with a smile, "But do you think you can beat me at close quarters? You haven't waited yet.

If you come closer, you will be beaten into a sieve by my fist wind."

As Zhou Wutian got closer and closer to You Hui, the distance between the fists and fists became smaller and smaller, but You Hui used the Gangfeng Fist harder.

Until Zhou Yutian was so close that he couldn't avoid it, his vitality surged instantly, "Chasing the wind finger, three fingers breaking the wind." The three fingers were drawn together in front of him, and the vitality blade extending from the fingertips smashed the fist in front of him.
To be continued...