SWNOVELXO Chapter 1420 Reducing Pressure
"What? Don't tell me you plan to meet up with Luo Ziyan and the others right away."
While everyone was silent, Luo Qingwu's cold voice suddenly resounded in the room, causing their faces to change slightly.
"No matter what, we still have to find the Third Princess and the Sixteenth Princess first. After all..."
A young man spoke up bravely, but was grabbed by the sleeve by a hot and beautiful woman next to him, who glared at him suggestively.
"Huh, Luo Qingwu, what do you mean?"
Luo Qingwu responded sharply, took a step forward, looked directly at the beautiful woman, and spoke.
"Although our father said that we should join forces, that doesn't mean we have to obey their orders completely."
"No matter what your attitude is, I, Luo Qingwu, will not go to the appointment for the time being."
After hearing Luo Qingwu's answer, a young man in a green robe stood up with obvious displeasure on his face.
"Oh? Then what are you going to do, Luo Qingwu? Are you going to disobey the orders of the Third Princess and the Sixteenth Princess?"
Luo Qingwu glanced at him coldly, with a sarcastic smile on her lips.
"Hou Jichun, who among you doesn't know how hard you pursue the Third Princess? You are usually timid, but now that you hear that it is the Third Princess' order, how dare you stand up and refute me?"
The young man in green robe suddenly lost some momentum when she asked him this, and he stammered.
"I...I just want to suggest that you go to the camp to check out the situation first, and then make a decision on whether to go or stay after confirming the situation there."
"To check out the situation? Since you have decided to go to the camp, you should know that with the tempers of the Third Princess and the Sixteenth Princess, once we arrive at the camp, there is no possibility of us leaving!"
Luo Qingwu mercilessly exposed the last bit of dignity of the young man.
"So what do you mean? Are you going to disobey the orders of the Third and Sixteenth Princesses?"
Seeing Luo Qingwu's aggressiveness, Hou Jichun couldn't hold back and shouted in retort.
Upon hearing this, Luo Qingwu glanced inconspicuously towards the place where Zhou Yiqiao and Luo Lishang were hiding, then responded with a stern face.
"The union of the eight major families was our father's decision, and we, the younger generations, cannot go against their wishes."
"I'm not saying that you shouldn't go and meet up with the Third Princess and the Sixteenth Princess. Instead, I'm suggesting that you complete your majesty's winter hunting mission this year before heading there when the time is right."
"Of course, my Luo family is not as powerful as the Sheng family and the Rong family. We don't have that much power to decide whether you stay or go. You decide for yourself."
After she finished speaking, Luo Qingwu disappeared from the spot in a flash amidst everyone's surprised gazes.
"Luo Qingwu has already expressed her opinion, what do you think?"
Hou Jichun looked around, scanning everyone's faces one by one, trying to find supporters.
However, Luo Qingwu's words had obviously shaken the determination of many people. Hou Jichun looked around and saw that everyone was either bowing their heads in thought or whispering to each other. Few people responded to Hou Jichun's gaze directly.
"She, Luo Qingwu, although she said that the Luo family is not as good as the Sheng family and the Rong family, but you should know that her family is surnamed Luo after all, and there may be a red book and iron certificate given by the late emperor in the mansion."
"But our families are different."
Seeing the silent group of people finally looking up at him, Hou Jichun was delighted and quickly stepped up his efforts to continue persuading them.
"We all know that the remaining five of us are not as strong as them."
"She, Luo Qingwu, can be willful, but do you have the conditions to be willful?"
"Hou Jichun, what do you mean by this?"
A burly young man stood up, with obvious dissatisfaction on his face.
"Are you questioning the strength of our family?"
"Yuwen Li, that's not what I meant."
Hou Jichun quickly explained.
"I just want to say that we can't let Luo Qingwu's decision affect our judgment."
“We have to take into account our own reality.”
Yuwen Li snorted coldly and said nothing more, but his eyes clearly showed signs of wavering.
The group started discussing again, but this time the direction of the discussion was along the lines of Hou Jichun's suggestion, and they began to consider whether to go to the camp and reunite with the two princesses.
While these people were still arguing about the result, Luo Qingwu had already made a big circle and came to the place where Zhou Yiqiao and Luo Lishang were hiding.
"Luo Qingwu has met Master Zhou and the Second Princess."
She is now under the control of Zhou Yiqiao, and her attitude towards Luo Lishang has also improved a lot.
"Yes, you did a good job."
Zhou Yiqiao smiled and nodded, expressing his approval of Luo Qingwu's performance.
Obviously, Luo Qingwu's words that disturbed the morale of the army were an order given by Zhou Yiqiao through voice transmission.
"No, it's my honor to work for Master Zhou."
Although Luo Qingwu wanted to tear the man in front of her into pieces, at this moment, in order to ensure her own life, she had to endure it.
Zhou Yiqiao naturally knew Luo Qingwu's true attitude towards him, so he waved his hand, signaling her to leave.
Of course, before Luo Qingwu left, he still gave her a kind reminder in the spirit of protecting his subordinates.
"I don't care who is behind you, but I still want to remind you that this time is different from the past. You and your Luo family are better off just standing by and watching. Don't get involved in this mess."
Luo Qingwu was startled when she heard this. After a while, she suddenly bowed to Zhou Yiqiao, showing her first sincere greeting since she met Zhou Yiqiao.
"Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Zhou. Don't worry, our Luo family will definitely not get involved in this mess."
"Ah."
After she left, Zhou Yiqiao realized that it was Luo Lishang who had been staring at him.
"What? Is there something wrong with Zhou?"
Luo Lishang smiled gently, and the iceberg that was so cold when facing strangers instantly melted in front of Zhou Yiqiao.
"It's okay, I just think Mr. Zhou is very nice to Luo Qingwu."
Hearing this, Zhou Yiqiao's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and then he explained with a smile.
"Your Highness, what are you talking about? If you have seen my attitude towards the Seven Swords, you will not be surprised by my attitude towards my subordinates."
Luo Lishang nodded, turned around and looked at where Hou Jichun and the others were. He seemed to have accepted Zhou Yiqiao's explanation, but also seemed dissatisfied with it.
At this moment, Hou Jichun and others had already discussed and reached a conclusion.
Due to Hou Jichun's reminder, most of the descendants of the Eight Pillar States chose to follow him to the camp to meet up with the two princesses. Only five people with higher cultivation levels planned to follow Luo Qingwu's example and go to the camp after hunting enough monsters to meet the requirements of this winter hunting.
"Well, let them be."
Seeing that he could not convince everyone, Hou Jichun had no choice but to accept the result.
He knew that those who chose to stay all had their own plans in mind and would not be easily persuaded.
"let's go!"
Hou Jichun waved his hand and led those who were willing to follow him towards the camp in a mighty manner.
As they left, most of the black-clad Dragon Elephant Guards who had been guarding them disappeared in an instant, leaving only ten guards who were just enough to form a battle formation to continue protecting the safety of the five young men and women.
"How about it, do you want to do it?"
Luo Lishang looked at Hou Jichun and others who were getting farther away, and asked in a low voice.
"hold on."
Zhou Yiqiao spoke lightly, his consciousness was staring at Hou Jichun and the others just like Luo Lishang, and his eyes were indeed multitasking, as he kept looking at the group of cultivators who stayed behind.
"Among the five descendants of the Eight Pillars, except for the leader who is in the late stage of Refining Void, the rest are in the middle stage of Refining Void."
"The ten Dragon Elephant Guards are all in the early stage of Void Refinement. Counting the battle formation they can form, they barely have the strength of the middle stage of Void Refinement."
He quickly calculated the combat power of this group of people in his mind, and was ready to call on Luo Lishang to attack as soon as Hou Jichun and others left the range of his spiritual consciousness.
"Okay, let's wait until they're far away before we take action."
Luo Lishang nodded. She understood Zhou Yiqiao's intention. They needed to ensure that they killed them with one strike and not leave any chance for the descendants of the Eight Pillars to ask for help.
Time passed quietly as they waited, and after a moment, Hou Jichun and his group left the range of their spiritual awareness, and the five Eight Pillars who remained behind also began to move, intending to look for prey.
"It's now."
Zhou Yiqiao's voice suddenly sounded in Luo Lishang's ears, and his figure rushed out like a flash of lightning.
Luo Lishang followed closely behind, and the two of them appeared in front of the five disciples of the Eight Pillars like ghosts.
"Who are you?!"
The leading late-stage refining void cultivator shouted loudly and immediately took out his magic weapon, ready to fight.
However, he was still a step slow.
Zhou Yiqiao's sword light swept out like a streak of silk, instantly killing a cultivator in the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm beside him.
Luo Lishang was not willing to be outdone. The Nine Heavens Mysterious Spirit Silk broke through the air like thunder, and with sword energy it stabbed at the cultivator on the other side of the man, cutting him in half.
In just two breaths of time, two people died.
It was not until this time that the remaining three people and the ten Dragon Elephant Guards finally reacted and each used their magic to attack Zhou Yiqiao and the other two.
"retreat!"
Luo Lishang knew the strength of the Dragon Elephant Guard formation and was the first to warn them.
However, Zhou Yiqiao seemed not to have heard it. Instead of retreating, he sped up again and approached directly the cultivator with the highest cultivation level in the late stage of the Refinement Realm.
"Fusion of sword intent!"
The Hundred Changes Sword Intent and the Flowing Light Sword Intent condensed from his left and right hands respectively, gathered on the sword body of the Dusk Sword, and transformed into a golden whip composed entirely of spiritual power, which lashed towards the cultivator fiercely.
"Snapped!"
The attack of the Dragon Elephant Guard formation roared out, but was suppressed by the sound of the golden whip hitting the monk's body.
Then, in the midst of everyone's horrified gazes, the cultivator in the late stage of the Refinement Void Realm actually exploded completely under this whip, turning into pieces of flesh all over the ground!