The few of them searched from noon until dark, but did not see Qu Zhengyan.

Helplessly, the group had to go back to the city and order the soldiers to search the mountain overnight. Only then did they return to the inn exhausted.

The search took more than ten days.

Qu Zhengyan seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. The officers and soldiers turned the mountain upside down but could not find Qu Zhengyan.

While they were searching, Qu Xiaoyou began to do the cleanup work.

The first thing he did was to find an auspicious day to move his mother and brother's graves from that barren land to a Feng Shui treasured site.

The second thing is to deal with the treasures that Qu Zhengyan hid in the cave.

She had originally planned to distribute the money to the people to make up for Qu Zhengyan's deception of them.

However, the people did not want them, saying that those were the donations they made using Qu Zhengyan's name, so how could they be taken back?

After discussion among the few people, Qu Xiaoyou really turned the huge sum of money into charity, and handed it over to the government for temporary safekeeping, to be used for various charity and construction projects in Liuyue City in the future.

Qu Xiaoyou also sold all the shops under Qu Zhengyan's name. As for the money from the sales, she kept part of it for her future life, and the rest was used as charity, just like the money in the cave.

Without Lu Xiuyuan saying anything, the prefect who had accepted bribes resigned from his post and went home, waiting for the new prefect to take office.

In the court where the fight took place, a jailer picked up Qu Zhengyan's alliance leader order and returned it to Qu Xiaoyou.

Qu Xiaoyou was in a dilemma when holding the leader's order, which was only possessed by the leader of the martial arts world and represented the supreme power and status in the martial arts world.

Now that Qu Zhengyan’s life or death is unknown, his position as alliance leader is certainly gone. So what should happen to this alliance leader order?

Xia Younan took the alliance leader's order and played with it curiously in his hand.

The token was all black, in a rectangular hexagonal shape, with a circular pattern on the outer circle on the front and three large characters "League Leader's Token" engraved in the middle. On the back was a picture of two tigers roaring to the sky, which was lifelike and majestic.

Lu Xiuyuan also took the token and looked at it, and sighed: "Just this small token, I don't know how many martial arts masters have fought for it. Whoever gets the token, gets the martial arts world!"

Qu Xiaoyou was not interested in the token. She looked out the window with melancholy and murmured, "I just want to get rid of Qu Zhengyan as soon as possible and avenge my mother and my brother."

Xia Younan patted her hands, comforting her silently.

She didn't know how to comfort this poor girl. Her once beloved father, her only relative in the world, had become the person she couldn't wait to kill.

Xia Younan knew that even if Xiaoyou avenged herself by killing Qu Zhengyan, she would not feel happy.

That was her father! He deserved to die, but when he died, she became an orphan.

She has no relatives in this world anymore.

Xia Younan sometimes even wondered, if they had not come here and had not exposed Qu Zhengyan’s true face, would Xiaoyou have always been immersed in what she thought was “father’s love”?

With a father who holds her in his hands and loves her dearly, can she live happily forever?

But then I thought, the truth will come out sooner or later. Even if they didn't come, Li Qiu would come back and she would tell Xiaoyou the truth sooner or later.

Speaking of Li Qiu, Qu Xiaoyou later knelt in front of Li Qiu to apologize to her, expressed her gratitude to her, and hoped that she could stay with her. She would treat her as her own mother and take care of her until the end of her life.

But Li Qiu didn't want to go anywhere. She appreciated Qu Xiaoyou's kindness and returned alone to the thatched cottage at the foot of Fuyang Mountain. She only wanted to stay with Liu Zhenzhen and her son for the rest of her life.

Qu Xiaoyou couldn't persuade her, so she paid someone to renovate her house, gave her a large sum of money, and said that she would come back to visit her often.

Li Qiu also said that if Qu Xiaoyou killed Qu Zhengyan one day, she must be the first to report the good news to her. She was waiting for this day.

Ever since the case was over, the already aloof Qu Xiaoyou has never smiled again.

No laughing, no crying, not even a single tear was shed.

She seemed to be deprived of all joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. She was expressionless every day, like a walking corpse who only knew how to seek revenge.

As the biggest victim in this incident, no one could understand the pain in her heart.

After dealing with Qu Zhengyan's mess, several people sat in the inn, racking their brains to think of a way to find Qu Zhengyan.

"Qu Zhengyan is insidious and cunning. He deliberately hides, so it is really difficult for us to find him." Lu Xiuyuan tapped the table with his fingers and sighed dejectedly.

Xia Younan rolled his eyes and said, "Since we can't find him, can we think of a way to lure him out?"

Zen glanced at her, "What can be done?"

Xia Younan frowned and thought for a while. Suddenly, he slapped his forehead and asked excitedly, "What do you think Qu Zhengyan wants most now?"

Zenmu said first: "To avenge Xiaoyou, and to regain the position of leader of the martial arts world."

Qu Zhengyan was willing to kill his father-in-law for the position of leader of the martial arts world, so how could he be willing to give up his supreme position?

Being used to the wealth and glory of being able to command the support of everyone, how can you be content with mediocrity?

"It's understandable to seek revenge on Xiaoyou, but his scandal has become known all over the world. How can the heroes of the martial arts world still recognize him as the leader of the martial arts world?" Chen Yi questioned.

Xia Younan sneered: "Tsk, you underestimate him too much. As long as he can regain the position of leader, it's not a big deal to cover his face and change his identity."

He could even ruin his face by finding an excuse.

"Well, that makes sense, so what do you mean?" Lu Xiuyuan asked with interest.

Xia Younan took Qu Xiaoyou's hand, picked up the leader's order on the corner of the table, and said with a smile: "Isn't it? Everything he desires is in our hands, so why are you worried about not being able to lure him out?"

Afterwards, Xia Younan expressed his idea.

What she meant was: spread the news, hold a martial arts conference in Liuyue City, re-select the leader of the martial arts world, and let Qu Xiaoyou participate and reach the finals.

In this way, Qu Zhengyan will definitely come to participate when he hears the news.

Firstly, he can fight with Qu Xiaoyou, which will make it easier for him to take revenge; secondly, he will definitely not be willing to let his position as the leader of the alliance be snatched away by others, and will definitely take the opportunity to regain power.

This can be said to kill two birds with one stone. How could Qu Zhengyan be willing to miss it?

After hearing Xia Younan's idea, everyone became interested and immediately sat together to discuss countermeasures carefully.

Lu Xiuyuan said: "It's a good idea, but he knows that we are more numerous and powerful, will he dare to take the risk and come here?"

Xia Younan slammed the table and said, "It's simple. We can just tell others that we have an urgent matter and need to return to Beijing quickly, and then make a big show of leaving the city. Once he sees that we have all left, he won't have any scruples."

"We will come back quietly afterwards, and when Qu Zhengyan shows up at the martial arts conference, we will rush over and beat him to death!"

Lu Xiuyuan nodded, thinking that her idea was perfect, and couldn't help but give her a thumbs up proudly, "My wife is getting smarter!"

Xia Younan chuckled and looked at Qu Xiaoyou to ask for her opinion, "Xiaoyou, what do you think?"

Qu Xiaoyou nodded expressionlessly, "Okay, as long as I can lure Qu Zhengyan out, I'll listen to you."

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