SWNOVELXO Chapter 1423 Another Trouble
Hearing Zhou Yiqiao's cold answer, Luo Lishang felt as if he had met Zhou Yiqiao for the first time. A complex light flashed in his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Mr. Zhou is decisive. Li Shang admires him."
Zhou Yiqiao didn't say much, his gaze turned to the other people in the valley.
Hou Wei is dead, and the Hou family has lost their backbone. What remains is a clear-cut crackdown without any suspense.
Luo Lishang followed closely behind. The two of them were like ghosts in the night, shuttling through the Hou family’s camp. Every time they attacked, they took a life without the slightest hesitation or mercy.
The methods used by the two were too brutal. By the time Luo Qingwu returned with the many guards behind her, there was no one left alive in the camp.
Even though these guards had anticipated this, they still found it difficult to withstand such a powerful attack from Zhou Yiqiao and his two companions.
It only took a little more effort, and all the people who stayed with Hou Wei followed his footsteps and entered Zhou Yiqiao's Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
"Next, let's go to Yu's house."
Zhou Yiqiao's voice lacked much emotion, as if he was not the one who caused such murder.
"Mr. Zhou, Second Princess, please follow me."
Luo Qingwu immediately stepped forward, walked in front and led the way.
Soon, Luo Qingwu and the other two arrived near the camp where the Yu family was stationed.
Yu Poyun, who was supposed to be the leader of the Yu family, was not in the camp for some reason. The entire Yu family of cultivators was commanded by a man who looked quite mature. His name was Yu Cheng, and he was Yu Poyun's distant cousin. Although his cultivation was not as good as Yu Poyun's, he was more experienced and sophisticated.
Yu Cheng was standing on the sentry tower of the camp, vigilantly observing the movements around him.
He always felt a little uneasy, as if he had a premonition that something was about to happen.
However, when he looked into the distance, he did not notice that three dark shadows had quietly approached the edge of the camp.
Zhou Yiqiao, Luo Lishang and Luo Qingwu came to the outskirts of the camp silently like ghosts in the night.
Their eyes passed through the fence and fell on the largest tent in the center of the camp - that was where Yu Cheng was.
"Yu Poyun is not here, Yu Cheng will be in charge for the time being."
Luo Qingwu said in a low voice, with a hint of relief in her voice.
"Although Yu Cheng is cautious, he lacks strength. Our chances are greater."
"strangeness."
While the two women looked delighted, Zhou Yiqiao was puzzled by Poyun's absence. His intuition told him that there might be some conspiracy behind this.
He turned to look at Luo Lishang and confirmed.
"Your Highness, has Yu Poyun and others been causing you any trouble recently?"
Luo Lishang didn't understand why Zhou Yiqiao suddenly asked this question.
However, she answered him truthfully.
"After Master Zhou helped to find him, Yu Poyun did reduce his harassment of me, but in fact, when we just returned to Daxuantian, he tried to contact me many times."
"Until about a month ago, he suddenly stopped contacting me. As for what he did specifically, I was not interested and did not try to find out."
"Sure enough."
Zhou Yiqiao nodded, and a glimmer of understanding flashed in his eyes.
"Although Zhou didn't have much contact with this person, he was still able to judge that this person was ambitious and definitely not an ordinary person."
"I hope Your Highness will forgive me. Actually, when I first met Yu Poyun, I didn't sense much love for the princess from him. I just felt a desire for power and control."
After hearing this, Luo Lishang nodded slightly, with a hint of recognition in his eyes.
"It's okay. When Yu Poyun approached me for the first time, I saw desire in his eyes, so I have kept my distance from him all these years."
"In that case, Zhou's guess does hold water."
After getting his own approval, Zhou Yiqiao became more confident in the guess in his mind.
"Mr. Zhou, what exactly did you guess? Why don't you just tell me."
Luo Lishang couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked anxiously.
Zhou Yiqiao comforted him in a deep voice.
"Zhou speculates that Yu Poyun must have been invited by one of the two girls, Luo Ziyan and Luo Shanhu, to secretly join someone's team in advance a month ago."
"Their purpose is most likely to become a sudden force to attack us after we are wiped out."
He spoke slowly, pouring out all the guesses in his mind.
"If Zhou's conjecture is true, then two things can be proved."
"First, Luo Ziyan and Luo Shanhu must have a backup plan that can help them win despite a certain degree of headwind."
"Otherwise, given Yu Poyun's personality, it would be impossible for him to turn to an uncertain force so suddenly."
Upon hearing this, Luo Lishang agreed with Zhou Yiqiao's analysis.
Now that I think about it, the reason why Yu Poyun insisted on pursuing her, the down-and-out Second Princess, must be because her qualifications were at the top of all the princesses.
According to the rules of Daxuantian, even if the Immortal Emperor is not happy, Luo Lishang will be able to gain a good position in Daxuantian in the future through this identity.
As long as Yu Poyun can find another way to gain his favor, after the Immortal Emperor abdicates, that will be his time to enter the core of power in Daxuantian.
"Second."
Zhou Yiqiao continued, with a hint of coldness in his voice.
"Since Yu Poyun was the first to express his position, we cannot confirm how many of the remaining descendants of the Eight Pillars have already secretly chosen sides and joined Luo Ziyan or Luo Shanhu."
"The worst possibility is that the commotion we caused at the Hou family's residence just now has already reached the ears of Luo Ziyan and Luo Shanhu. They have already begun to make plans and are preparing to encircle and suppress us."
As the two of them were talking, they simultaneously turned their gazes towards Luo Qingwu who was standing beside them.
Luo Qingwu knew very well what Zhou Yiqiao and Luo Lishang meant.
She immediately raised her four fingers to the sky to express her loyalty to Zhou Yiqiao.
"Master Zhou, don't worry. Qingwu still has the imprint of Master Zhou's consciousness in her sea of consciousness. She won't dare to have the slightest intention of disobeying you."
Zhou Yiqiao sneered and said nothing.
Luo Qingwu then realized the ambiguity in her words and quickly changed her words.
"No, no, no, Qingwu has long been prostrating herself before Master Zhou and has never harbored any disloyal thoughts!"
"Okay, Master Zhou, trust people when you employ them, and don't trust people when you don't trust them. Since you have come this far with Luo Qingwu, just trust her for now."
When the two sides were in a stalemate, unexpectedly, it was Luo Lishang, who had always been at odds with Luo Qingwu, who spoke up to ease the embarrassment.
After hearing this, Zhou Yiqiao withdrew his suspicious look from Luo Qingwu.
Seeing that the atmosphere was still cold, Luo Lishang had to speak again to change the subject.
"Mr. Zhou, after some analysis, Yu Poyun has indeed left this place. Should we still attack this place and get rid of these shrimp soldiers and crab generals?"
This time it finally worked. After hearing Luo Lishang's question, Zhou Yiqiao finally put away the last bit of emotion and responded.
"Of course we still have to attack."
“No matter whether Yu Poyun has joined forces with Luo Ziyan and Luo Shanhu in advance, our ultimate goal is still to wipe out all these traitors. Although these people are just rotten fish and shrimps, they are also part of the chaos and must not be left alive.”
"Besides, these people are members of the Yu family after all. Even if there is only a tiny possibility, we should ask them whether they know where Yu Poyun is."
Luo Lishang nodded.
"So when do we start?"
Zhou Yiqiao pondered for a moment, then spoke slowly.
"There's no rush. Let's observe for a while and see what Yu Cheng does before making any plans."
Luo Lishang nodded.
Therefore, the original plan became that Zhou Yiqiao and the other two would hide near the camp and observe the enemy situation.
In a blink of an eye, the night passed.
The next morning, the sun shone on the earth, the whole mountain forest was shrouded in warm morning light, and there was a faint moisture in the air.
Yu Cheng led a few soldiers out for a patrol, but when he came back he looked extremely panicked, and called on all the Yu family monks in the camp to move.
"Hurry, hurry, the plan has changed. Quickly dismantle the camp and follow me to meet the Third Princess and the Sixteenth Princess!"
"What happened? Did something happen to the Yu family?"
A guard couldn't help but ask in a low voice. Although they followed Yu Cheng in training on weekdays, they had always acted as guards in Yu's mansion and had no ability to deal with emergencies.
Hearing Yu Cheng's order at this moment, everyone couldn't help feeling a little panic.
"Shut up and leave!"
Yu Cheng obviously heard the man's question, and turned around with a livid face and scolded him.
Afterwards, he no longer paid attention to the whispers of these low-level monks, but walked quickly to the center of the camp and leaned down to enter the tent.
"Did they discover that the Hou family's base had been destroyed?"
Luo Lishang was a little surprised.
"Impossible. The Luo family's secret guards handled it very cleanly. There is absolutely no risk of being exposed."
Zhou Yiqiao's suspicions from the evening were still lingering in Luo Qingwu's ears. When she heard Luo Lishang's doubts, she immediately refuted them excitedly.
"Don't you, the disciples of the Eight Pillars, have secret messages that need to be confirmed every once in a while?"
Zhou Yiqiao also felt that Yu Cheng's condition was a little strange, so he asked.
"No, because the Immortal Emperor suddenly wanted to stay and observe this winter hunt. Before the winter hunt began, the Sheng family and the Rong family specifically warned us younger generations not to communicate frequently during this operation, so as not to attract the attention of the Immortal Emperor."
Hearing Luo Qingwu's answer, Zhou Yiqiao's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he understood something in an instant, and shouted.
"Oh no, Yu Cheng might run away first!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yiqiao shattered the restrictions outside the camp with a palm and broke directly into the Yu family camp without waiting for Luo Lishang and Luo Qingwu to react.
"You guys deal with the people outside, I'll go find Yu Cheng!"
After saying that, Zhou Yiqiao turned into a black shadow, passed through the layers of obstructions of the Yu family monks, and directly broke into the tent in the center of the camp.