Chapter 204: The Plot of the Hundred Tempering Mountain (1/2)

Hundred Tempering Mountain?

As soon as the fellow on the ground said this, the expressions of Jiang Li and the others immediately changed.

Originally, they were just a few arrogant fools who wanted to stir up trouble. When they returned, they would be locked up for a few days. If someone came to apologize, they could still let them off.

However, if this guy called out the Hundred Tempering Mountain, there was really no other way to resolve this.

”Drag him in first.”

He dragged these guys from the Golden Tooth Sect into Prosperous Jiang Hong, found a few utility rooms, and separated them before starting the interrogation.

”Speak! What's your name? Why did you come to my Scripture Storage Valley to cause trouble? Who instructed you? What's your relationship with the Hundred Tempering Mountain?”

Jiang Li, Yan Hong, and Qing Lie interrogated the fellow who was obviously the leader.

A series of words easily broke through this person's psychological defense.

”I-I'm Zhang Zhaoxiong, the son of the Golden Tooth Sect Master.”

As he spoke, he carefully raised his head and observed the expressions of the three people. He really hoped that the name of the Golden Tooth Sect Master could suppress them.

However, to his disappointment, the expressions of the three people did not change at all. What could a sect master of a second-rate sect do?

He helplessly prepared to explain, but Yan Hong, who he had not taken seriously before, interrupted him at this moment.

”Wait, your surname is Zhang?”

”I remember that the Golden Tooth Sect's sect master's surname is Jin. You're the son of the sect master, why would your surname be Zhang?”

This was just the first sentence. Yan Hong, a businessman who had been in Nightless City all year round, immediately discovered that something was wrong.

The Golden Tooth Sect was only an existence at the bottom of the second-rate sects. Jiang Li and Qing Lie were not interested in them, so they naturally did not know much.

However, Yan Hong was a professional businessman. After running the Nightless City for a period of time, he knew very much about the famous experts of the various sects in the Scripture Storage Valley.

Therefore, he acutely sensed that something was wrong with just a name.

Hearing Yan Hong's doubt, the other party's gaze clearly avoided it. This was a typical display of guilt.

”Sect… Sect… Sect Master Jin is unwell. My father just took over the sect master position a few days ago.”

This fellow's words were extremely strange, and Jiang Li and the others immediately realized that there was definitely something fishy going on.

”Now that you mention it, I remember it as well. There was an outstanding disciple in the Golden Tooth Sect who obtained a rather good ranking in the competition two days ago.”

”When Sect Master Jin signed the resource allocation contract, he was clearly fine. How could a Golden Core cultivator suddenly be sick!”

”Tell me who you really are!”

Seeing that this guy still dared to play tricks, Qing Lie stepped on the other party's broken calf and even forcefully ground it. The broken bones pierced through the flesh, and the ground creaked from the friction with the limestone.

How could an ignorant and incompetent young master endure such abuse? The other party cried in pain for a long time.

If he still did not say it, the Law Enforcement Hall's methods would be even more ruthless!

”I'm really Zhang Zhaoxiong! I'm really Zhang Zhaoxiong! My father, Zhang Sanhong, is already the sect master! I'm not lying to you! I'm telling the truth!!”

”Please let go! Let go! I'm dying!”

This guy was a Foundation Establishment cultivator after all. He did not faint so easily. He cried out with snot and tears. His feelings were extremely sincere!

”Tell me clearly, what happened?”

Under the interrogation of Jiang Li and the other two, Zhang Zhaoxiong did not know what was called being unyielding.

Soon, he told them everything that had happened to the Golden Tooth Sect during this period of time.

”It's… it's the people from the Hundred Tempering Mountain. They helped us.”

Jiang Li and Qing Lie looked at each other, their eyes filled with surprise and bewilderment.

It turned out that a few days after the competition ended, the people from the Hundred Tempering Mountain came to find them.

The people from the Hundred Tempering Mountain promised to help his father ascend to the position of sect master. They soon fulfilled their promise.

With the experts of the Hundred Tempering Mountain acting as demonic cultivators, they would ambush and kill the Golden Tooth Sect's sect master. Then, they would secretly support the second-in-command, Zhang Sanhong, to rise up.

Under the suppression of a top sect of the Great Mountain Region, the original Golden Tooth Sect Master did not even have the chance to resist before he vanished into thin air.

In a short period of time, they had made a cultivator sect's master go missing.

This method was really impressive!

”The people from the Hundred Tempering Mountain would not be so kind-hearted as to help you for no reason.”

”What are their conditions!”

Jiang Li and Qing Lie had actually already guessed something, but they still wanted to ask the other party the answer.

He even sent the ghost into the other party's consciousness to monitor if he was lying.

”My… my father… my father said that the Hundred Tempering Mountain wants… the share of the Medicine Garden Mystic Realm.”

It was precisely because he had betrayed the interests of the sect, betrayed his own sect master, and relied on the Hundred Tempering Mountain that Zhang Sanhong could successfully become the sect master.

However, they were not ashamed, but rather proud of it. Zhang Zhaoxiong even felt that he was part of the Hundred Tempering Mountain and began to act arrogantly and domineeringly in Nightless City.

”As expected! The Hundred Tempering Mountain is really impressive!”

Jiang Li and the others could not help but be furious when they heard the truth. The Hundred Tempering Mountain was really desperate this time.

In the late stages of the Great Mountain Cultivator Competition, the ambitions of the Hundred Tempering Mountain were completely revealed. Because their mannerism was too ugly and they had offended too many people, they were jointly resisted by the other three sects.

In the end, not only did they not obtain the expected share, they were the most pathetic among the four major sects.

The final amount they got was less than 8%.

This was obviously far from their plan to rise up.

How could the Hundred Tempering Mountain, which originally had a huge advantage in alchemy, let go of this opportunity to rise up?

Therefore, after the competition, they did not develop obediently. Instead, they placed their attention on the other small sects who had obtained a share.

If it was a direct transaction, no sect would agree to give up their share.

Therefore, they directly launched a secret operation to overthrow the original sect master and win over the deputy leaders. They used this to control those small sects and obtain their share of the production of the Medicine Garden Mystic Realm.

In the case of the Golden Tooth Sect, the operation of the Hundred Tempering Mountain was very successful. If not for this interrogation, no one would have known that the Golden Tooth Sect had already changed owners.

Jiang Li recalled some of the information he had heard earlier. Now, many sects that had obtained the share of the mystic realm had suffered huge internal unrest. There were even a few sects that had already vanished into the dust of history.

Now that he thought about it, the issue in these sects might also be related to the Hundred Tempering Mountain.

This method was equivalent to directly violating the sect alliance agreement.

If they were allowed to continue like this, the righteous path alliance that had lasted for hundreds of years might collapse due to trust.