Xia Yan used two days to prepare twelve bottles of spiritual liquid. Together with the gold ticket of five million gold coins, it was sent to Xia's family. At the second church meeting, Xia Yan promoted seven new church deacons.
Of course, most of these deacons are people who are close to the Xia family. Among them, five people were promoted by the Xia family from towns controlled by the family.
These people who have just served as deacons of the church naturally support the Xia family the most. It can be said that the Holy Church of Yushui City has almost become the Xia family's world now.
As for the personnel in the Ultimate Challenge Hall, the Auction House, and the Mercenary Hall, they will not offend Xia Yan either. In the church meeting, they supported almost whatever the Xia family said. Wang Yue of the Wang family also did not express any opinions, and was very polite to Xia Feilong. He knew that the Xi family was completely ruined, and he was always grateful that he had cut off the cooperative relationship with the Xi family earlier.
After doing these things, Xia Yan felt relieved for the time being. Afterwards, Xia Yan found time to chat with Baihua and Bairui brothers and sisters again. Xia Yan asked Baihua how long it would take to control 70% of Yushui City's business. The current Baihua is already the Xia family's outer courtyard, controlling all the Xia family's business.
Bai Hua said that as long as there is sufficient funds and the support of the Zhouyun Trading Company, it can control 70% of the business in Yushui City within two months at most. The remaining 30% was divided among a group of families represented by the Wang family.
Don't be too extreme in doing things. Eat meat yourself. You can't let others not even drink the soup. If Xia Yan does this, the families below will not cause trouble, but will support the Xia family very much.
On the third day after Xi Potian's death, Xia Yan met Yafen, the deacon of the extreme challenge hall who made Xia Yan's heart beat back then. Compared with a year ago, Yafen has hardly changed, and it is still bright and moving.
Wearing a black luxurious dress, people dare not look up.
Of course, now in front of Xia Yan, she no longer has the calmness she had back then.
Seeing Xia Yan, Yafen also weighed a lot in her heart, and finally decided to meet up. She knew that it was impossible for Xia Yan to come to her on her own initiative. Yafen is nearly thirty years old, more than ten years older than Xia Yan.
She knew very well that she was unlikely to become Xia Yan's wife. However, if she can get closer to Xia Yan, it will be of great benefit to her in the future, so she came to see Xia Yan. Of course, Yafen was very impressed with Xia Yan, and she also hoped to see Xia Yan again in her heart.
When Xia Yan saw Yafen, he also seemed very enthusiastic. At that time, Yafen had helped Xia Yan. Moreover, Yafen and Li Tianlun never revealed their identity as Lingluo.
Although Xia Yan no longer cares about this identity, the two people in the extreme challenge hall have indeed kept their promises, which makes Xia Yan have a good impression of them.
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"Fire Phoenix. Let me meet her at the mainland fortress!"
Alone in the inner hall of the church, Xia Yan looked at a letter in his hand.
This letter was brought to the church by Huo Fenghuang and handed over to him. The letter didn't say the reason, it just said to let Xia Yan finish the matter and meet her at the mainland fortress.
For several days, Xia Yan did not see Huo Fenghuang in Yushui City.
"The matter of Yushui City has been dealt with almost, and it is time to go to the Sin Forest to find that illusory realm!" Xia Yan thought for a while, "Now Yushui City, there is no force that can threaten the Xia family. If it continues like this, nothing will happen. In a few years, the Xia family will have the strength to enter Purple Leaf City."
As long as the family's children improve their military strength, it will not be difficult for the Xia family to gain a foothold in Ziye City.
"Clean up and say goodbye to Xiaoqing!" Xia Yan's eyes flashed, "This time I will go to the Sin Forest for about two months at most. After that, I must return to the Holy Mountain Tiangong."
Xia Yan packed the package and brought some of the most important items.
At noon that day, Xia Yan returned to Xia's house to bid farewell to Xiaoqing, and let the local dog continue to follow Xiaoqing. In the afternoon, we arrived at Niu Snake Town. but. This time Xia Yan didn't delay in Niu Snake Town, and went directly to the mainland fortress.
"Whoosh..."
A black shadow approached the fortress as quickly as lightning.
"Fire Phoenix wants me to meet her in the fortress. Could it be that she has been waiting for me in the fortress?!" At this time, Xia Yan had already seen the huge black fortress in the distance.
It was getting late at this time, and the sun was only a cool red afterglow. But on the way, you can still see many adventurers who are about to enter the sinful forest!
In order to survive, they have been walking on the edge of death. Even in the middle of the night, they can also enter the sinful forest.
"not here!"
At the intersection passing the fortress, Xia Yan stopped, looked around, and found no trace of the fire phoenix.
"Go to the other side and have a look!" Xia Yan fixed his eyes, and his figure moved again.
On the other side is the interface between the fortress and the sinful forest.
Cultivators who can't fly must go through the fortress to get out of the sinful forest, or enter the sinful forest from the mainland.
After a while!
"Xia Yan!"
A graceful figure suddenly appeared. Xia Yan took a closer look and saw that it was Huo Fenghuang. The current Huofenghuang is not wearing a fiery red dress, but a black outfit. Exquisite face, a pair of mesmerizing eyes turned slightly, making people's blood speed up.
"You're finally here, I've been waiting for you all day!" Huo Fenghuang rolled his eyes, looked Xia Yan over, and said in a reproachful tone.
"I just received your letter today!" Xia Yan said.
"Oh, let's stop talking, let's go, let's enter the Sin Forest!" Huo Fenghuang stretched out his jade hand, grabbed Xia Yan, and quickly walked towards the Sin Forest.
At the speed of two people. In just over half an hour, he went deep into the sinful forest for hundreds of miles.
Although this place also belongs to the edge of the evil forest, there are far fewer adventurers here, and no one can be seen for a long time. After going deep into a hundred miles, some ferocious beasts may appear.
Along the way, Fire Phoenix didn't stop at all.
She was in front, Xia Yan followed behind, the two of them were like two rays of light, heading straight towards the depths of the forest.
Along the way, Xia Yan and Huo Fenghuang also encountered many beasts, but they didn't even stop. Those ferocious beasts could only feel a gust of wind blowing by.
"You know the way?!"
The two kept rushing for three hours, and finally stopped to rest for a while, Xia Yan couldn't help asking.
In the past three hours, the two of them drove more than five hundred miles.
According to the standards of the mainland, this is already a dangerous area of the sin forest, and even dangerous spirit beasts can be encountered here, and people from the Dark Night Continent may also encounter it.
Of course, it is not so easy to meet spirit beasts and people from Dark Night Continent.
"Of course, you forgot that I said, have I ever searched for the Illusory Realm alone?!" Huo Fenghuang glanced at Xia Yan, "However, the entrance of the Illusory Realm cannot be entered by myself, so I have to find Just come with me alone."
"How long will it take to arrive?!" Xia Yan asked.
Now they have penetrated a full five hundred miles, and the entire evil forest is about five thousand miles long and two thousand miles wide.
"Don't worry, let's take a rest. In three hours, we will arrive at the entrance of the Illusory Realm." Fire Phoenix stretched out his hand to brush his somewhat messy hair, "We won't encounter spirit beasts on this road, even ordinary beasts It's a herd of beasts. As long as we're not surrounded, there's no danger, so don't worry."
When Huo Fenghuang spoke, his eyes flickered.
Xia Yan always felt that Huo Fenghuang seemed to be hiding something from him. It's just that he can't be sure.
The two took a break, and Huo Fenghuang gave Xia Yan the dry food he had brought. After eating a little bit, the two walked through the sinful forest again.
"Roar… "
There was a slight vibration under his feet, and an earth-shattering roar came from the side.
In the dense forest, it suddenly fell into chaos.
"Spirit beast?!"
Just the power of this roar makes people tremble, and it is likely to be a spirit beast.
And judging from the cry, the spirit beast seemed to be extremely angry, as if it was fighting the enemy.
"Go, don't stop!" Seeing Xia Yan slowing down, Huo Fenghuang hurriedly called out.
"En!" Xia Yan nodded, speeding up.
Three hours later, the sky had turned pale and dawn had arrived. Huo Fenghuang stopped again, and Xia Yan gradually slowed down behind Huo Fenghuang.
"Are you at the entrance of the Illusory Realm?!" Xia Yan looked around, and the trees here seemed to be a little sparser, not as dense as most of the places they passed through just now.
Many exposed rocks, emerging from the ground.
"It's almost there, let's take a break and recover our spiritual power!" Huo Fenghuang looked solemn, looking ahead, his body tensed up, Xia Yan could feel the fluctuation of her spiritual power.
Frowning slightly, Xia Yan didn't ask any more questions, but just operated the Juling acupoint to absorb the spiritual power from the outside world, replenishing the spiritual power that was consumed during the rapid running just now.
Huo Fenghuang took out the map and compared the nearby terrain.
Xia Yan felt that it was definitely not the first time for Huo Fenghuang to come here, she was very familiar with the surrounding terrain. And this journey of thousands of miles. Huo Fenghuang didn't even spend too much time identifying the direction, and was always running at a high speed along the way.
After an incense stick of time, Huo Fenghuang straightened up while squatting on the ground, looked ahead, his eyes flickered.
"Xia Yan, I'll go and see first, you wait for me here. If someone approaches, you'd better not show your face." Huo Fenghuang turned around and said to Xia Yan.
"What do you mean?!" Xia Yan asked with a frown.
"It's just that there may be other practitioners around here. Be careful here alone, so as not to be discovered. Those people are very vicious and powerful. If you are discovered, you will probably be killed by them." Fire Phoenix Turning his head, twisting his waist and limbs, he disappeared from Xia Yan's sight in twos and threes.
Watching the fire phoenix disappear, Xia Yan stopped at the spot for a moment, then quietly followed towards the place where the fire phoenix disappeared.
"Here, there are traces of fighting, and some traces are new, not more than three months old!" Xia Yan has long since discovered that these traces of fighting, some rocks, have turned into powder and debris, obviously they are very powerful Practitioners destroy it with spiritual power.