nycdaug Chapter 125 Conflicts Among the Parties
Chapter 125 Conflicts Among the Parties
Even after walking away, Shen Xu was still immersed in the relief of escaping death, and then he began to frantically recall every detail of his time with the witch in his previous life.
He remembered that he first met the witch seven years later. She never told him that she had stayed in Tianjian City. However, given the relationship between the witch and Li Xiaoyi, it was not surprising that she had stayed in Tianjian City for a period of time.
But why didn't the witch kill him? In his past life, he had seen too many people tragically murdered because they accidentally saw the witch's true face. Even in his past life, the witch only revealed her true appearance to him after they had become very close.
If he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. Now that he knew the witch was in the Divine Pavilion, he just needed to stay away from there in the future, so he wouldn't have any further contact with the witch.
But the thought of spending two hundred Nourishing Essence Pills on a human skin mask made his heart bleed, and it was all for nothing.
All of this stemmed from Su Jing. If he hadn't met Su Jing, his life would have been wonderful. He could have joined the Four Directions Sword Alliance through the Sword Selection, improved his strength, and then taken Uncle Wang and the others to other great domains.
But it was precisely because of Su Jing's existence that all his plans were shrouded in an indelible shadow.
After asking around at several hotels, Shen Xu rented a small room with a Nourishing Essence Pill until the start of the Sword Selection. Although it was still expensive, it wasn't unacceptable. Sure enough, after the peak season, the prices of many hotels became much more normal.
Having successfully found a place to stay, Shen Xu breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, something good had happened since he arrived in Tianjian City.
Since Su Jing is targeting him, he must prepare a countermeasure before the sword selection. Su Jing probably doesn't know much about his strength, so even if he wants to target him, it's probably just something he casually mentions to his subordinates. After all, dealing with a sword selector who isn't even a seed doesn't seem to require much emphasis.
So initially, he faced the least pressure, but as long as those people couldn't handle him, they would inevitably send out even more powerful people to deal with him, and might even organize a large number of people to deal with him, which was the last thing he wanted to see.
If he wants to extricate himself completely from this crisis, he must have a thorough understanding of his potential enemies.
The young man in purple was right. Only if the sword selection goes completely chaotic this time will the ordinary sword selection have a chance to pass, and it will also help him escape Su Jing's targeting in the sword selection.
As for how to throw the Sword Selection into chaos, the long-standing feud between the five major alliances is the best breakthrough point.
Through the book Elder Huang gave him, he learned that the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect's Golden Rainbow Association was almost the largest alliance in every Four Directions Sword Competition. Therefore, they were always targeted by the other alliances. So, although they were the strongest, they were never the alliance that reaped the most benefits.
However, the situation in recent fencing tournaments seems to be showing signs of reversal.
Because of its weak strength, the Five Mountains Society of the Qingshan Sect gradually tended to cooperate with the Golden Rainbow Society. This forced the Heavenly River Society of the Heavenly River Sword Sect, the Red Jade Society of the Crimson Origin Sect, and the Fire Flame Society of the Vermilion Flame Sword Sect to unite against the alliance between the Golden Rainbow Society and the Five Mountains Society.
Although the Golden Rainbow Society and the Five Mountains Society seem to be at a disadvantage, their alliance is the closest. The Five Mountains Society is led by the Golden Rainbow Society, and the Golden Rainbow Society will also share enough benefits with the Five Mountains Society. There is basically no possibility of them betraying each other.
However, the other three parties are somewhat at odds, because their strengths are roughly equal, and they have to fight each other to decide who will become the leader. In recent sword selections, there have been many instances of betrayal between them.
Therefore, although the other three parties may seem to be stronger, the largest alliance in the Sword Selection is actually the alliance between the Golden Rainbow Society and the Five Mountains Society.
Besides these five alliances, the independent alliances chosen by the sword are also a significant force, making them a priority target for various factions. Although these independent alliances are not particularly strong individually, their sheer numbers are a major advantage. Even ants can overwhelm an elephant with sheer numbers, forcing the five major alliances to take this force seriously.
They knew that no matter how hard they tried, they were no match for the five major alliances, and passing the Sword Selection was an even more unattainable goal. But since they had come all this way to participate in the Sword Selection, they couldn't leave empty-handed, so they started working as mercenaries during the selection process.
The five major alliances promised them plenty of benefits after the Sword Selection, first winning their support and bringing them into their camp, and then sending them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Of course, it's not like no one has ever used those casual player alliances to pull off high-level plays. The person behind the purple-clad youth that Shen Xu just met was planning to use those casual player alliances to make a name for himself.
Among the several Sword Selections that left the deepest impression on Shen Xu, there was one Sword Selection member who, with his almost invincible personal charisma, organized almost all the independent Sword Selection members in that Sword Selection and established an unprecedented independent alliance.
This put enormous pressure on the five major alliances, forcing them to form a true five-faction alliance to jointly deal with this powerful independent player alliance.
The Casual Players Alliance was ultimately formed by the charismatic Sword Chosen, so the five leaders of that time, together with their many experts, formed an incredibly powerful decapitation team.
Despite this decapitation operation, the chosen swordsman managed to persuade the decapitation team with his personal charisma, leading the five major alliances to accept the plan for the Loose Alliance to share the swordsman slots equally with them.
It was that person's existence that made the five major alliances pay more attention to the unaffiliated players in the subsequent Sword Selection. During the Sword Selection, it became an unspoken agreement among the major alliances to first weaken their unaffiliated players. In order to obtain sufficient benefits, the unaffiliated player alliances also accepted this arrangement. From then on, the unaffiliated player alliances completely lost the strength to fight against the five major alliances.
The title given to that person in the book is—the King of Benevolence!
Shen Xu noticed that whenever such an unparalleled expert appeared in the Sword Selection, his name would not appear; instead, his title would be used instead, as if using his name would be a taboo.
In the following days, Shen Xu continued to visit places where people gathered, such as restaurants and teahouses, to gather all sorts of information. Only by anticipating the enemy's moves could he remain invincible.
His primary target was the five leaders of the five major alliances. Each leader was responsible for the entire alliance. They might not be the strongest in the alliance, but they were certainly the most capable and the most threatening to him.
Shen Xu sat in the restaurant for a long time, but he only managed to glean a little information about Xiao Qianjue, the leader of the Golden Rainbow Society. It was said that he was an extraordinary young man with a cultivation level of tenth level of Qi Nourishment. Some time ago, he appeared at a guild hall of the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect in Tianjian City to preside over the celebration banquet for the establishment of this Golden Rainbow Society.
As for key information such as his martial arts skills and cultivation techniques, there was none at all.
Although Shen Xu wasn't expecting to hear anything particularly important, the result still left him somewhat disappointed. It seemed that if he wanted to know any crucial intelligence, he would have to join the core faction of an alliance.
But he definitely can't join under the identity of Shen Xu, otherwise he would be walking into a trap.
After thinking it over, Shen Xu was still somewhat unwilling. He couldn't let the two hundred Nourishing Yuan Pills go to waste like this. He still needed to go to the Min Pavilion to get the human skin mask.