Pawn Crossing the River

Sun Zhongnu was a small person. Under normal circumstances, even if he betrayed, he would not have made such a big fuss. But he happened to be at a critical point. Qi Xuansu came to the Northern Continent, Audrey disappeared, and there was tension between Steam Gospel and Xidaomen. By chance, it affected the interests of all parties, and he actually stirred up the Northern Continent. The situation made everyone know the name Sun Zhongnu.

But for Sun Zhongnu, this may not be a good thing.

Li Mingzhen wanted to kill him, Huangfuji also wanted to kill him, and Qi Xuansu also wanted to kill him.

The more damage he causes and the worse the impact, the more deadly he will be.

Even someone as strong as Chen Shuhua still died in the end.

Of course, it can be said that Chen Shuhua is not strong enough, but the manpower is sometimes poor, and the immortal is already the limit under normal circumstances.

Qi Xuansu actually divided his troops into three groups. One group went to the sea with Wuniang to attract Sophia's attention. The other group took Audrey overland, while he stayed in St. York.

Whether it was the Gospel Ministry or Xidaomen, everyone thought that Qi Xuansu was fleeing St. York, but no one expected that Qi Xuansu himself was still in St. York.

This is the advantage of Sanren.

Since the inheritance of the Six Immortals, there have been a lot of unorganized people. After all, there are many people who are not qualified enough. However, precisely because of the lack of qualifications, there are very few unorganized people with good fortune and above. Therefore, you can directly find the Corpse Jie Xian alone. Human beings, it is true that high-level Sanren are very rare. If it were earthly immortals or divine beings, one could not be identified based on inheritance alone.

The same is true for Creation Loose People, who are even rarer than Banished Immortals. Because there are too few, many people don't know much about the tactics of disbanding soldiers. Although the banished immortals also have the method of killing three corpses, they do not rely on external objects, do not seek from the outside, but seek within, relying on the three corpse gods. Unless they have cultivated to the state of transcendence and chopped the three corpses into independent individuals, otherwise the incarnation will be It cannot last long.

It would be fun if the incarnation of the three corpses could not last for such a long time and dissipated halfway, leaving only Audrey.

On the other hand, although the higher-ups of the Taoist sect know the details of Qi Xuansu, and Wu Niang also knows it, others don’t know. At most, they have heard of the saying of “banishing the immortal the day after tomorrow,” but they don’t know what the so-called “banishing the immortal the day after tomorrow” means. After all, in such a large Taoist sect, there are only two acquired immortals. How can outsiders know such secrets of the Taoist sect.

Even not just outsiders, most people in the Taoist sect don't know the truth, including Zhenzhi masters like Wang Jiaohe and Sun Heyu.

Since most people don't know what the inheritance of "the banished immortal the day after tomorrow" is, they take it for granted that it is a banished immortal, and at most it has something special. When it reached Xidaomen and the Holy Court, it was one level further away. Even the saying of "banishing the immortals the day after tomorrow" was gone, and only the saying of banishing the immortals was left.

It is said that seventy is rare in ancient times, and sixty is considered an advanced age, so one can get married and have children at fourteen, and one can call himself an old man at forty.

But if you live to be a hundred years old, you are really a teenager at the age of 20 and 30, you are a young man at the age of 40, and you are just middle-aged and in your prime at the age of 50 and 60. Nowadays, those who call themselves old people within the Taoist sect must be over eighty years old at least. People who are sixty or seventy years old are still in their prime. For example, a group of seventh-generation disciples have the mentality of middle-aged people without any trace of old age. ….

Therefore, Qi Xuansu became famous at a young age, and his cultivation at such a young age made others believe that Qi Xuansu was a banished immortal. It was reasonable and reasonable, and there was no doubt that he was there.

Since he regarded Qi Xuansu as a banished immortal, he took it for granted that it was Qi Xuansu himself who was fleeing with Audrey, but he did not realize that Qi Xuansu himself was still staying in St. York.

Now that the Evangelical Ministry has focused its attention on the incarnation of the military disbandment, and the Beichen Hall secrets in the North District have been almost cleared, and all survivors have been evacuated, the Evangelical Ministry will inevitably let down its vigilance, and St. York will become a lamplight. black.

Since Sun Zhongnu's rebellion, Qi Xuansu has also considered eradicating this traitor. In terms of his level of cultivation, this is not a difficult task. The key is to consider two issues. One is that he is repeating the same old tune, protecting Stern. Laoni's identity should not be exposed. Another problem is to find Sun Zhongnu's hiding place or know Sun Zhongnu's route of action.

Strawny had no contact with the Gospel Ministry and had no way of knowing the whereabouts of the Gospel Ministry. Qi Xuansu had a high level of cultivation and it was not difficult to find someone. However, he had not even seen Sun Zhongnu, but he could not find him.

But Strawney did introduce him to a way - the Morgan Brotherhood of St. York.

The City Council of St. York is divided into two camps, the Tories and the Whigs. Now the Whigs are the majority party, and Speaker Sophia is the leader of the Whig party. The Tories are the minority party, and Leopold is the leader of the Tory party, so Leopold is a strong candidate for speaker, just a few votes short.

The minority party and the majority party are generally evenly matched. The difference is only a few votes, which is by no means the difference between heaven and earth. Any bill that requires a two-thirds majority vote still depends on the minority party's face. In essence, it takes turns to take charge.

Sophia is the boss behind the Renekton Detective Agency and has access to undercover detectives. Her counterpart Leopold naturally has similar power, which is the Morgan Brotherhood.

This is an organization between thieves and assassins, walking in the gray area and doing some shady things. The Morgan Brotherhood is a local gangster in St. York. They would definitely not dare to assassinate people in the Gospel Ministry, but they are not afraid of just selling information and revealing their whereabouts behind the scenes, provided they have enough money.

Qi Xuansu thought that instead of searching all over the world, wasting time and effort, and not necessarily being able to find it, it would be better to go directly to the Morgan Brotherhood and just spend a little money. Although Qi Xuansu himself has no money, this kind of thing must be the embezzlement of public funds, and Qi Xuansu himself can approve it and has this power.

After all, Master Qingwei is not only the leader of Beichen Hall, but also the second chief counselor of Jinque, a person who can command thousands of troops. Asking him to approve such a small amount of money is a bit of a fuss because it consumes energy for such a trivial matter.

After Qi Xuansu made up his mind, of course he could not go to the Morgan Brotherhood with his current identity. He decided to leave St. York as "Daqi" and return to the Old World.

Of course, there are some things that make people suspicious. For example, Dutch traveled thousands of miles from the Old World to the New World, and then hurried back after not staying long, which is a bit unreasonable. But as long as you don't think too hard about it, there's no problem. Moreover, today is no different than in the past. If you take an airship, it's very convenient to travel between the New World and the Old World. ….

Even if the Gospel Ministry really wanted to get to the bottom of it, the Old Continent is the territory of the Holy Court Tribunal. With the relationship between the two families, the Gospel Ministry would not be able to know any information from the Tribunal, let alone get the cooperation of the Holy Court Tribunal. After all, if it weren’t for the conflict between the Holy Court and Steam Gospel due to the uneven distribution of spoils, it would not have been possible for Xidaomen to take advantage and establish Tawanting.

After Qi Xuansu boarded the ship, it was impossible to really go to the Western Continent. Naturally, the golden cicada escaped from its shell and returned to St. York. Moreover, he has the ever-changing realm of martial arts inheritance, and can change his appearance and change his name to John Marston.

As for Jin Kelang, there is no need to worry about this. Qi Xuansu brought enough Jin Kelang and Ying Yang before coming here in case of emergency. For Tangtang Beichen Tang, it is not difficult to prepare some gold crowns whose origins are legal and invisible to others. After all, the trade between the East and the West is close, and the Dao Sect itself also stores a large amount of gold crowns.

According to the information provided by Strawney, Qi Xuansu went to the meeting point of the Morgan Brotherhood. Although the members of the Morgan Brotherhood are spread throughout St. York and the surrounding areas, it is still difficult to find traces of these members, and they do not I like to do ordinary business too much.

However, those who can come to your door through various channels are usually big business. After all, small business is much easier than finding the Morgan Brotherhood. If you have time to find the Brotherhood, just settle the small business.

Precisely because the Morgan Brotherhood only deals in high-end business, or most of the business is high-end business, most of their strongholds are in the upper city rather than the gloomy lower city - this is obviously to take care of the guests, the dignitaries who issued the entrustment I definitely don’t want to go to the downtown area, and there are some secret tasks that cannot be done by others, and must be done in person.

Qi Xuansu crossed Central Street in Queens and turned into an alley. After seven or eight turns, there was a grocery store. It looked ordinary, but in fact it was one of the meeting points of the Morgan Brotherhood.

Through the glass, you can see that the business in the store is very deserted. Only the boss is behind the counter, resting his chin on his hand and dozing off.

This scene reminded Qi Xuansu of the time when he went to the "inn", for which he had a grudge with Qingluan Guard. In the blink of an eye, time has passed, and Qi Xuansu has become a colleague of Qingluan Guard, and he is among the top leaders. The idle Qingluan Guard is no longer in his eyes, and he can be on an equal footing with the commander of Qingluan Guard.

Qi Xuansu pushed the door open and entered. The wind chime connected to the door rang, waking up the boss who was dozing off.

The Holy Emblem of Steam Gospel is somewhat special. It consists of three gears pieced together into an inverted triangle pattern instead of the traditional inverted triangle.

Qi Xuansu came to the counter and took out three gold crowns. Each gold crown represented a gear, which was also pieced together into an inverted triangle pattern, which was very similar to the Holy Emblem of the Steam Gospel.

The grocery store owner glanced at Qi Xuansu in surprise, stretched out his hand and wiped it on the table, and the three gold crowns disappeared: "Please follow me."

Through a secret door and a downward secret passage, Qi Xuansu came to an underground hall.

In other words, Qi Xuansu is located in the area between Zhongcheng District and Xiacheng District at this time.

It was beautifully manicured, almost like a mansion except that it had no windows.

After Qi Xuansu waited in the reception room for a while, a slim figure came out. He was wearing a white shirt, breeches, and boots. A blunderbuss was hanging on his waist. The tail ring of a dagger was put on his index finger. He was turning the dagger quickly, with a cold light. Twinkle.

These thieves have also kept pace with the times. They must have used hand crossbows in the past, but now they have replaced them with hand guns.

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