Chapter 572: Insects Roam in Prosperous Times

Although the process and results of this battle were deliberately downplayed by the official Wanxian League, we can get a glimpse of the various actions of the Wanxian League after this battle.

Various offensive orders that had just been issued were urgently cancelled; the states were instructed to defend themselves to prevent the infiltration of the Five Elders; no state should lightly start a war, and the task at the current stage was mainly defense.

The conscription orders sent to various states by the front line became more and more frequent.

"Change orders every day, a makeshift team!"

Almost overnight, the combat strategy changed 180 degrees, causing all the monks of the Immortal League to complain from the bottom of their hearts.

However, due to the majesty of the Wanxian League, no one dared to say it directly. It was only at private gatherings that they sighed with grief.

The progress of the war was not affected by the will of the monks.

It was just that it suddenly changed from seemingly having the upper hand to a stalemate between the two sides.

The external war was frustrated, and the internal war was not calm either.

At the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, it is said that many high-ranking monks were dismissed and investigated, and even some old-fashioned Hedao monks with deep backgrounds and long tenure could not avoid it.

However, no one knows the reason why they were interrogated.

Even after these monks were released, even if they had been tortured and looked extremely weak at first glance, they were very secretive about the matter and refused to talk about it in detail no matter how much they were asked.

This led to suspicions and panic.

After all, no one wanted to be the next person to be taken away for interrogation for no reason.

But Li Fan knew that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was catching a non-existent internal ghost.

No matter how hard they tried, how could they have thought that the leaker of the Tianxuan Fengling Array Map was actually a small Jindan monk who had never been involved in this matter and was far away in the border of the Immortal Alliance: Cong Yunhai?

So this is an investigation that is destined to have no results.

Perhaps, the result of the case will eventually be a hasty closure with a few unlucky people being tortured into confessing.

And Li Fan's list of injured will have several more names of innocent people.

After roughly understanding the course of the war over the past year, Li Fan flipped through the many messages He Zhenghao sent to "Zhou Qingang".

They were basically asking and urging him when to come out of seclusion.

At the beginning of the seclusion, it was very frequent. But later, I don't know whether he gave up or for some other reason, the messages became less and less.

"The secret envoy is in deep seclusion, and so are you, Brother Zhou."

"I can't even contact anyone."

"Now it's good, everyone has learned it in a very good way, and they have directly destroyed the communication talismans and claimed to be in seclusion."

"If this continues, I'm afraid that our Congyun City Government Hall will not even be able to gather ten staff! When the secret envoy comes back, how should I explain to him!"

...

He Zhenghao complained bitterly, but Li Fan snorted coldly.

"Do you still have eyes for me, the secret envoy?"

Not caring about the dying man, Li Fan cleared the information in the communication talisman in a blink of an eye, then left the closed-door secret room and quietly appeared in the lobby of the Buzheng Hall.

"Brother Gao, the position of [Drug Quality Inspector] in the Dan Hall has been vacated recently. Someone offered me 50,000 contribution points to buy this position. What do you think?"

"I think it's a little too little, at least 80,000."

"After all, the position of [Martial Arts Team Leader] in the Martial Arts Hall not long ago earned a full 130,000 contribution points. This time..."

He Zhenghao was talking, but suddenly found that there was one more person in the scene.

The voice stopped abruptly, and He Zhenghao looked at "Zhou Qingang" with an embarrassed face, a little embarrassed for a while.

Gao Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, without the panic of being caught abusing his power for personal gain.

Instead, he smiled and greeted "Zhou Qingang" very naturally: "Friend Zhou Daoyou, long time no see, just come to help us with some advice!"

As he said that, he kindly pulled Zhou Qingang and told him again the truth about the two people selling vacant positions in Congyun City.

And he looked at Li Fan expectantly, waiting for his answer.

This move instantly resolved the awkward situation between him and He Zhenghao, and at the same time eliminated the estrangement between him and Zhou Qingang, who had not seen him for a long time, and turned to pull him into the group.

Even Li Fan, who had been in the officialdom for hundreds of years, couldn't help but praise "beautiful".

Looking at the two with a smile, he did not choose to be an upright person who hated evil and vowed to report and expose the two.

Just after pretending to think for a while, he slammed the table: "80,000 contribution points?"

"It's still too little! One price, 160,000 contribution points!"

"Do you want it or not!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qingang's appetite was bigger than his own, and he doubled the price as soon as he opened his mouth.

He Zhenghao was stunned.

But after a moment, he came back to his senses and persuaded with a wry smile: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you may have just woken up from seclusion and don't understand the current market."

"The position of [Medicine Quality Inspector] can only be sold for 80,000 at most. After all, it is not only us in Cong Yunhai who are selling it. Others choose us only because the price here is low and they can buy it as a springboard."

"You doubled it in an instant..."

He Zhenghao shook his head: "With this money, why don't others go to Luoyanzhou or other more prosperous places?"

Gao Yuan also nodded in agreement.

Li Fan sneered and looked at the two people, his eyes showing sarcasm: "I don't understand the situation? Do you think that I have been in seclusion for this period of time and I don't know anything about what happened in the outside world? I think now, you two don't understand the situation!"

"Zhou Qingang"'s behavior is very different from his previous style of behavior.

Zhou Qingang is a relatively stable person, and he is not the kind of person who shoots without purpose.

Could it be that...

Gao Yuan and He Zhenghao looked at each other, both with doubt in their eyes.

As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things, you don't have to be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. Just this simple sentence scared the two of them.

He Zhenghao leaned forward and asked cautiously: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, what is this about?"

"Zhou Qingang" did not answer, but just looked at Gao Yuan on the side.

Gao Yuan's eyes flashed a trace of anger, but he quickly suppressed it, showing a smile, and also posing a posture of asking for advice.

At this time, Li Fan slowly said: "The battle of Tianlingzhou is coming to an end, and the war is about to subside. You guys took advantage of the chaos of the war and the special period of no one's jurisdiction to buy and sell official positions, and the end is coming soon!"

When these words came out, Gao Yuan and He Zhenghao were both shocked.

This time it was not pretended.

After a brief shock, both of them showed a trace of disbelief in their eyes.

He Zhenghao hurriedly asked: "There was no news about this matter, how did Brother Zhou know about it?"

"It's not that we don't believe Brother Zhou, it's really about the Immortal Alliance, Brother Zhou, please don't talk nonsense." Gao Yuan also helped.

"How did you know?" Zhou Qingang looked at the two of them with a cold look in his eyes.

"Of course, the secret envoy told me!"