In the Cold Wind Fort, Zhao Zhengke and the Zhao family's team had just come down from the front line.

If monks had not faced too extreme situations, they rarely embarrass their appearance, and they would have the same.

But from their expressions, it can be easily seen that they are all very tired now and are a little embarrassed.

Four months ago, Zhao Zhengke was at home and heard about his cousin Zhao Pinggu in Hanfeng Castle.

The cultivators in the Zhao family colluded with the families outside the sect to embezzle and sell war materials, which was a serious crime. Zhao Pinggu was immediately photographed and killed, and Zhao Zhengke had nothing to say.

Logically speaking, this matter should be done very secretly, but why was it suddenly revealed? Moreover, there was no sign of outsider investigation in advance, which made him puzzled.

What made him even more angry was that the person who exposed the matter was the old rival Lu family.

If it weren't for the sect's ban during the war, the families in Feiyunzhou were strictly prohibited from fighting each other before the White Ghost Disaster was quelled, then he would have wished he would take people to Yuyan Mountain and pacify the Lu family!

Of course, that's just thinking about it.

He knew that their Zhao family was in trouble. What he feared most was that after Zhao Pinggu's death, the scandal would spread everywhere, especially the Lu family, who had a great motivation to make it public.

This is really going to happen, so it is very likely that the Zhao family's original family will be destroyed. I am afraid that only the cultivators in the Zhao family will be able to be protected by Zhao Zidan, the Jindan ancestor.

But thankfully, this didn't happen.

He also understood that it was not that the Lu family did not want to do it, but that the sect did not allow it. After all, this scandal also involved the sect and spread it, which also greatly affected the Qingfeng Sect's own reputation.

But this does not mean that the Zhao family is fine, and punishment will inevitably come.

Before the determined punishment measures were brought down, Zhao Zhengke hurriedly sent a letter to contact Zhao Zidan's ancestor, wanting to ask for help, but was scolded by the ancestor's letter.

The letter was brought by a monk named Zhao sect who was the same generation as Zhao Zhengke, and he also blamed him in his words:

"Brother Eleven, the family is really doing something wrong. At the critical moment, how can they do such things for some benefit? Even if they do it, how can they act so inconsistently and let the Lu family know? The ancestor was so angry that he vomited blood!"

"Old ancestor...isn't it okay?" Zhao Zhengke asked carefully at that time.

"It's not good. The ancestor is a Jindan monk. He will vomit blood when he gets angry. Brother Eleven, think about it yourself?" The man sighed and said, "The ancestor's deadline is approaching, and his health is getting worse day by day. This time, he came out of seclusion and talked for a long time, and sold a lot of face before he suppressed most of this matter."

"What should I do next?"

"Next, let's do whatever the sect says."

And in the end, the punishment came to an end.

The fine of 40,000 spirit stones is not a particularly serious punishment in Zhao Zhengke's opinion. Although the amount is very large, it would be good to solve this problem if you can use money to solve it.

The second punishment made him feel uncomfortable. He needed to bring forty more family monks and two foundation-building monks to report to the Cold Wind Fort in Selangor.

In this way, the Zhao family has most of its strength and goes to the front line.

All the Zhao clergymen were organized into a group, which was much stronger than the average Class A group.

For stronger teams, of course, there is a greater chance of survival, but it also depends on the difficulty of the war you face. If you are sent to fight tough battles all day, the losses will not be small.

This worry became a reality.

In four months, the Zhao family was asked to fight three attack tasks and undertake a very difficult defensive task. In the middle, they encountered two third-level white ghosts. Zhao Zhengke fought for his life and used the family secret treasure before he killed him.

After all, their Zhao Family Group will probably earn more than 35,000 meritorious contributions.

However, according to the penalty order, all the merits they earned were discounted by half. The 25,000 merits were reduced to less than 20,000.

The key is that they can't get this merit, and they have to count it into the owed 20,000 spirit stones that they have not paid enough...

During these four months, more than 30 monks died in the Zhao family, including two foundation-building monks...

Blood is terrible.

The price the Zhao family paid for this was heavy enough. They greeded for 20,000 yuan, spit out at least 60,000 yuan, and also lost two foundation-building monks.

The lives of these two foundation-building monks are worth more than one or two thousand spirit stones.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhengke hated the Lu family more and more.

Fortunately, when they returned to Hanfeng Castle this time, their Zhao family's team finally got a relatively long rest.

After the Zhao family made a mistake, they worked hard on the battlefield, and the sect was also relieved. Of course, it was mainly the result of many Zhao family cultivators operating within the sect.

So far, the affairs of the Zhao family have basically been settled, except that there are still thousands of spiritual stones that have not been paid off clearly.

When I returned to Hanfeng Castle, I just rested and heard a message that came into Zhao Zhengke's ears.

"Lu Chaoxi is clear?" Zhao Zhengke was a little disobedient, "This is serious?"

"It's true!" The family monk who sent the message also looked quite ugly. "The Hanfeng Castle has spread all over the world, this is the biggest news recently."

"I haven't heard that the Lu family has obtained the Tianthunder God Tree? Could it be... a direct breakthrough?"

“It’s very likely.”

Zhao Zhengke rubbed his eyebrows.

He also knew that the Lu family had reappeared in recent years, but he didn't care much about it.

When the Lu family almost destroyed the entire Lu family, it made a spree of a friend of Lu Qing's former friend in the sect. The man was named Hai Sande, one of the three Jindan ancestors of the Qingfeng Sect. He could be considered a friend of Lu Qing. It is said that he had a big fight with Zhao Zidan that year, asking the Zhao family not to go too far and stay on the front line, which ended the war between the two families.

Since then, the Zhao family has never targeted the Lu family. One is that the sect has to give face. On the other hand, it is mainly because in the years that the Lu family has no longer had the strength to compete with the Zhao family.

The Lu family emerged, but that's the case. The influence has not even been released in Pingyao County. How can we compare with the Zhao family, the number one wealthy family in Anling?

As a result, this made people put up a wave of blood loss in Hanfeng Castle.

He also figured out how to settle accounts with the Lu family when the war ended. But then he heard that Lu Chaoxi had achieved enlightenment again?

In the entire Anling County, in addition to the monks stationed at Qingfeng Gate, there is only Zhao Zhengke, the only one who is Qiming. This is also an important reason why the Zhao family was able to dominate Anling for decades.

But Lu Chaoxi is clear that there will be too many variables in many future things.

Before, I wanted to take revenge on Lu, but now, I have to think twice about suppressing him again... I have to think twice about it.

Especially this time, Zhao's bleed heavily during the war, and it was a time of weakness.

One goes up and the other goes down, and Anling... will change the world in the future.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhengke couldn't calm down for a moment.

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