Lu Ping's retreat didn't last long. Half a year later, Li Ziming once again summoned the monks stationed on Huangli Island, who were sent by the True Spirit to the island, saying that there was an important mission announced by the sect, requiring all the monks in the hemolytic period on the island to participate.
When Lu Ping came to the meeting room, he found that not only the three hemolytic mid-stage monks on the island had arrived, but also Zhang Zifeng, who had been in seclusion and ignoring the council, also came to the meeting room and sat on the main seat in the hall.
After everyone arrived, Zhang Zifeng said solemnly: "Recently, there have been a series of robbery and murder incidents of monks in the buffer sea area that our True Spirit Sect is in charge of. I think everyone has heard about it."
Lu Ping has been honing his mana in seclusion, and paid less attention to the recent events on the island. Hearing this, he could only look at Hu Lili inquiringly.
It turns out that after the opening of the sea ban, due to the entry of a large number of human monks, the buffer sea area has basically become a battlefield for human monks to hunt and kill monsters. Some monks even went deep into the monster sea area to expand their results. A series of organized incidents of robbing and killing monks who went to sea took place in the buffer sea area that the True Spirit faction was in charge of.
In the original sea area, it is not surprising that monks plundered and killed each other because of the competition for resources. However, this group of monks specially attacked the monks who returned from the sea. The monks who go out to sea to hunt monsters often form gangs, just in case, but there are still groups of monks who go out to sea to be robbed and killed, which shows that this group of monks is powerful.
"Furthermore, there should be more than one group of monks who robbed, because there are several robberies that happened at close times but far apart. Of course, it is not ruled out that the people who hunted and killed the monks who went to sea belonged to a huge gang. Moreover, this gang has become so powerful that it is possible to plan robbery and murder in several places at the same time."
After listening to Hu Lili's narration, Lu Ping had a general understanding of what happened recently. At this time, Lu Ping heard Zhang Zifeng, the leader above him, continue to say: "This series of hunting and killing monks has caused panic among the monks who went to sea. Many monks have asked my True Spirit Sect to regulate the order of the buffer sea area, otherwise, these monks can’t go out to sea to hunt monsters with peace of mind, so they have to leave the buffer sea area of my True Spirit Sect.”
Lu Ping frowned after listening to Zhang Zifeng's words, and asked: "Zhang Xianchang, how did the news about the robbery and killing of monks who went to sea come out? Why can we be sure that these missing monks were killed instead of leaving the sea area? Or is it not the monster's revenge?"
Li Ziming chuckled and said, "Junior Brother Lu, couldn't others have thought of this? The reason why those monks were confirmed to have been killed was because their bodies were placed at the scene where they were killed. If it was done by monsters, these monks His body has long been torn to pieces, or eaten."
Li Ziming finished speaking slowly, pretending to sigh: "Junior brother Lu is young after all, his cultivation level is good, but his experience is too poor, and his knowledge is less, so he can't understand such an obvious thing." , and shook his head emotionally, looking rather disappointed.
Zhang Zifeng didn't know what was going on between the two of them, so he was about to say something, but Lu Ping asked Li Ziming with a smile: "Senior brother Li, if you were the gang of bandits who robbed and killed monks, you would leave the corpses of monks on the spot after killing and stealing money." Isn't this a clear reminder to the monks who go to sea to be more vigilant, and at the same time tell me the existence of the True Spirit Sect? Is this group of monks so stupid that they don't know how to hide their whereabouts so that they can get more rewards? Or maybe Li Brother thinks that this group of robbers deliberately exposed their existence to challenge the authority of my True Spirit Sect?"
Lu Ping's series of questions made Li Ziming's face blush. After listening to Lu Ping's analysis, everyone was thoughtful, but Hu Lili agreed with her face. She had already thought of these things before.
After listening to Lu Ping's analysis, Zhang Zifeng agreed, "Junior Brother Lu is quite reasonable, but what does Junior Brother Lu think the purpose of these bandits is?"
Everyone looked at Lu Ping, Li Ziming was no exception, but judging by his expression, if Lu Ping couldn't express his opinion, he would probably retort.
Lu Ping thought for a while, and said: "Perhaps the purpose of these bandits is to cause panic among the monks who went to sea. Zhang Xianzhang also said just now that those monks who went to sea claimed that if my True Spirit Sect could not wipe out the bandits who hunted and killed monks, they would The only way is to leave the buffer zone of my True Spirit faction."
As soon as Lu Ping finished speaking, Li Ziming sneered and said, "It's a joke, if all the monks who went to sea have left, those bandits will have no one to plunder. Isn't this just fishing out of water? You can't explain it!"
At this time, Zhang Xianchang also saw that there was something wrong between the two of them. Lu Ping ignored Li Ziming directly, and then said: "Since the last time the Yaozu suddenly invaded when I was confronting the True Spirit Sect and the Xuanling Sect, all the factions of the Beihai Alliance have It can be said that the loss was heavy. Only my True Spirit Sect not only suffered the smallest loss, but also killed two house masters of the demon clan, including a mid-stage forging alchemy mansion master, at the cost of the fall of two early forging alchemy real people. It also seriously injured two palace masters, and it is the only faction that has gained the upper hand in the confrontation between the various factions in the North Sea and the demon clan, and its prestige in the North Sea Alliance has greatly increased for a while."
When Lu Ping said this, he organized his language. Seeing that everyone was listening carefully, even Li Ziming became quiet, so he went on to say: "After the monster race invaded, the North Sea Alliance jointly counterattacked, and the sea ban was opened to allow the monks of the North Sea to go out to hunt monsters and beasts." Therefore, the sea area that my True Spirit Sect is in charge of is considered the safest sea area by the monks of the North Sea, attracting a large number of monks to take risks. As far as I know, the buffer sea area that the Xuanling Sect is responsible for attracts less monks. Therefore, I The buffer sea area of the True Spirit faction is the only area that has the upper hand in the confrontation between the buffer sea area and the monster race, and there are already many monk groups that have gone deep into the monster race sea area to explore, and have achieved rich harvests, which makes me really The islands of the Lingpai in the buffer sea area are extremely prosperous, as evidenced by the auction of Dikun Island half a year ago, and my True Spirit faction naturally benefited greatly from it.”
At this time, everyone in the hall had more or less guessed what Lu Ping was thinking. Zhang Xianchang nodded, and then Lu Ping said: "Junior brother Lu's analysis is reasonable. It seems that my harvest from the True Spirit Sect made other forces envious, so they resorted to it." This kind of indecent method intends to divert some of the monks who enter and leave the buffer zone of my True Spirit Sect, and it is really a good plan."
Zhang Xianchang thought for a while, as if he had suddenly realized something, and said: "I want to come to the sect, just like Junior Brother Lu. No wonder the islands that are close to the buffer sea area are ordered to send monks to patrol the buffer sea area to appease the monks who go out to sea."
A monk in the mid-hemolytic stage next to him hesitated: "Senior Brother Zhang, there are only eleven hemolytic stage monks on Huangli Island. If this happened, I'm afraid it's due to lack of manpower, not to mention we have to guard Huangli Island."
Zhang Zifeng said: "It's okay, the reinforcement monks from the sect will arrive in three days, the 20 hemolytic stage monks are led by two late-stage brothers, including six middle-stage brothers, plus everyone from Huangli Island, they are enough to deal with the buffer sea area matter."
After Zhang Zifeng finished speaking, he continued: "It's just that I'm going to go to the sea to patrol first. I plan to divide the people on the island into three teams, each team has three people, led by three middle-term cultivation juniors, and two teams go to the sea every day to patrol. The first team stays on the island, and I sit on Huangli Island to deal with emergencies at all times."
Everyone had no objection to Zhang Zifeng's arrangement, but just when Zhang Zifeng was about to ask everyone to go back to prepare, Li Ziming said in a nonchalant manner: "Senior brother Zhang, you seem to have forgotten Junior Brother Lu, because Junior Brother Lu was the former resident of Huang Lidao. Island cultivator, the Dongfu is also on the island, but he concentrates on cultivating on weekdays, and doesn’t pay much attention to the affairs on the island, now is the time for everyone to contribute to the sect, should Junior Brother Lu still stay out of it?”
Zhang Zifeng was reasonable when he heard what Li Ziming said, but because he is a core disciple of the sect, he also knew something about Lu Ping's previous actions. If the junior brother has nothing important to do, then he can also help."
Everyone in the hall was a little surprised to hear Zhang Zifeng's polite, completely discussing tone, but Lu Ping said indifferently: "But according to Zhang Xianzhang's orders."
Zhang Zifeng was thinking about what kind of errand to send to Lu Ping, Li Ziming said again: "If you don't mind, let Junior Brother Lu pretend to be an ordinary monk, mix among the monks who go out to sea, and secretly investigate the whereabouts of the bandits. This way, maybe we can find out as soon as possible." Find the whereabouts of these bandits."
Hearing Li Ziming's opinion, Zhang Zifeng obviously agreed with it, and said with a smile: "It's a good idea, but it's not enough to have Junior Brother Lu alone. Fortunately, other monks from the sect will come to support in three days, and then it's okay. Send a few monks to go to sea secretly to investigate, and everyone should also pay attention to the secrecy of the identity of the monks who went to sea secretly."
After everyone agreed, they started to prepare for entering the buffer sea area.
Lu Ping returned to his cave, packed some things he might need to go to sea, and recalled what Li Ziming said in the hall. Frankly speaking, Li Ziming's opinion was indeed good, but the relationship between the two, Lu Ping really didn't believe Li Ziming Won't play tricks in it.
Sure enough, Hu Lili came to visit after a while and expressed her doubts to Lu Ping. Lu Ping said indifferently: "It's nothing more than revealing my whereabouts secretly. As long as I go to sea and do my own thing, I will only report to the sect for investigation." As a result, I simply refused to mention my whereabouts."
Hu Lili added: "You also need to change your appearance, be careful that he spreads your image."
Lu Ping nodded and said: "It's not impossible, but if this is the case, he will also take risks. Once the sect traces him, he will not be able to get rid of it. After all, my whereabouts can be revealed unintentionally. The image is deliberately framed. .”
Hu Lili said with concern: "Anyway, it's better to be careful."
Lu Ping nodded and smiled: "Of course I care about my own life, but your cultivation base is only the second level of hemolysis. Although you have the signature of our school when you go out to patrol the sea, it is dangerous to meet crazy people, so I will give you a small gift." Bar."
Hu Lili looked at the small and exquisite mid-level inner armor in her hand, and couldn't put it down and asked: "You are a treasured Taoist, and you have many good things. Where did this inner armor come from?"
Lu Pingdao: "I don't dare to be a Daoist of Duobao. I don't want people to remember it. This is a hemolytic monster that was hunted down and entrusted to Chen Lian's father to refine it. There are two pieces in total, and one is on my body." , one is this.”