The Fourth Financial Crisis

Qishan Prison is heavily guarded.

Even if Wang Ziwei wanted to visit the prison under the banner of Li Qingyang, he would still need the authorization from the Lord of the Arctic Cold Palace.

However, every time Wang Ziwei applied to the Arctic Cold Palace, the Arctic Cold Palace would evade and say that because Yin Huaiyuan was in seclusion, they could not get the magic mark of Palace Master Yin.

This statement certainly aroused strong dissatisfaction with Wang Ziwei.

Didn’t you, Palace Master Yin, delegate your authority to others before you went into seclusion? Could it be that if your Palace Master Yin goes into seclusion, will the entire Arctic Cold Palace also come to a standstill?

However, Arctic Cold Palace always gave this explanation. Even though Wang Ziwei was under the banner of Li Qingyang, he was not qualified to ask Yin Huaiyuan of the sixth floor of Nascent Soul for an explanation in person. Therefore, until the death of Mr. Li, Wang Ziwei could not wait until Palace Master Yin broke the news. Close out.

Now that Li Qingyang has passed away, even if Wang Ziwei wants to move out of Li Qingyang and suppress him, he can't do it. Therefore, if he can't even get through the gate of Qishan Prison, there will naturally be no talk of rescuing Wang Sandao.

Yang Lu had never dealt with Arctic Han Palace before.

Seeing that Wang Ziwei's tone was very solemn, Yang Lu immediately asked: "So how long has Palace Master Yin been in seclusion?"

Wang Ziwei spread his hands and said: "The Arctic Cold Palace is very secretive about Yin Huaiyuan's situation. According to the information I have obtained, Yin Huaiyuan's last well-documented public appearance was probably when I just stepped into the Immortal Sect. At other times, he They only occasionally come out to deal with urgent matters, and things like visiting Qishan Prison are obviously not worthy of Yin Huaiyuan's special attention."

"Hiss...has he been in seclusion for so long?"

You can't blame Yang Lu for making a fuss.

You must know that although Wang Ziwei looks quite young, as a master of the Dzogchen realm of foundation building, his real age is nearly a hundred years old. Even if he has been working as a secretary for Li Qingyang, he has been working for more than fifty years.

It was almost seventy years ago when Wang Ziwei just entered the Immortal Sect.

It is not unusual for monks of the Transcendental Sect to stay in seclusion for seventy or eighty years continuously. According to the classic records of the cultivation world, the record holder for the longest retreat in the past seven thousand years is the Yuan Yuan of the Shenhuo Sect. He Jie, the supreme elder of the Infancy Rebirth Sect, spent a full 267 years in seclusion before breaking out.

Although Elder He has been dead for five hundred years, he is still famous in the world of cultivation.

However, the reason why he is famous is not because he can retreat better than the old turtle, but because he is the unlucky guy who tried to assassinate Lu Yang, the president of the Lingshi Reserve Bank, but was killed by the ascended immortal Ma Tianyi with a sword. .

After working hard in seclusion for hundreds of years, he was defeated by Ma Tianyi's sword.

This Yuanying-stage monk of the transcendental sect who overestimates his abilities is like a clown. He has forever become a tragic supporting character in the legend of the Ascension Immortal in the Kyushu cultivation world, and has been complained and ridiculed by countless cultivators of the younger generation.

In addition to Elder He from the Shenhuo Sect, Ren Tianyuan, the number one seclusion maniac of the Wuliang Sword Sect, also set a terrifying record of being in seclusion for fifty consecutive years.

There is nothing surprising about the monks of the Transcendental Sect being in seclusion for a hundred and eighty years, but this does not mean that it is normal for Yin Huaiyuan to be in seclusion for seventy years.

In the geographically remote Arctic state, there is actually no strict division between the worldly sect and the worldly sect. Most cultivators in the Arctic state are in the middle state between the worldly sect and the worldly sect. Yin Huaiyuan, the leader of ZTE in the Arctic Cold Palace, although he has not accepted He has received a systematic education in economics and management, but he is a very open-minded leader.

If he had to be divided, he was obviously more similar to the secular monks among the seven major sects.

When the Ascended Immortal launched the development plan for the Wilderness Realm, except for the monks of the Wuliang Sword Sect who actively signed up, cultivators from other sects were skeptical. Even the Shenxiao Sect, a staunch ally of the Wuliang Sword Sect, did not sign up. Immediately, Nascent Soul stage monks were sent to support him.

At that time, Yin Huaiyuan, who was only at the first level of Nascent Soul, was the first Nascent Soul master from outside the state to sign up for the Wild Wasteland Development Plan, and successfully brought back a group of precious spiritual slaves from the Wild Wasteland.

When other sects discovered the benefits of spiritual slaves and wanted to follow suit in plundering people from the wilderness, the Ascension Immortals banned the slave hunting behavior of Jiuzhou cultivators on the grounds that human trafficking affected the balance of heaven. If the population of spirit slaves is expanded through captivity, a large amount of merit will be deducted because it offends the heavenly laws of the Nine Provinces.

Since then, spirit slaves have become a precious and non-renewable resource.

As one of the only eight cultivation sects in Kyushu that has spirit slaves, Arctic Han Palace relies on the "Lingnu Power Plant" to successfully establish itself as the "No. 1 Sect in the Far North".

Relying on the huge benefits and prestige brought by the first batch of participation in the Wilderness Territory Development Plan, Yin Huaiyuan quickly built the Arctic Han Palace into a hall of his own. Not only that, he also actively absorbed the theoretical achievements of the Zhongzhou sect management experts, Drastic reforms were made to the sect governance structure of Arctic Cold Palace.

All reforms need to touch vested interests, and the reforms led by Yin Huaiyuan are no exception.

In order to quickly implement reforms, he not only used his lofty reputation to forcibly suppress all opposition voices within the sect, but he even used force to eradicate die-hard opponents within the sect at the expense of his own merit.

After years of purges and reforms, today's Arctic Cold Palace is filled with members of Yin Huaiyuan's faction.

But with great power comes great responsibility.

Even for an ordinary vassal leader, being in seclusion for decades would delay a lot of things. As the overlord of the Arctic State, Yin Huaiyuan usually has to personally decide on countless matters. Even if the seclusion lasts for a little longer, there will be a huge backlog of sect affairs. Seriously affecting the normal operation of the sect. And Yin Huaiyuan has been in seclusion for nearly eighty years. During such a long time, he has delayed many things.

Therefore, this "little thing" that Wang Ziwei asked for was really not on the agenda of the Palace Master of the Arctic Cold Palace.

During the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, Qu Jing, the golden elixir elder of the Hanguang Sword Sect, once mentioned inadvertently that the current position of the Arctic State hegemon in the Arctic Cold Palace seems a bit unstable. I don’t know if it is because Yin Huaiyuan has been in seclusion all year round. , this made Arctic State and various overseas forces have other ideas!

Thinking of the Zhongzhou Sword Discussion Conference, Yang Lu naturally thought of Tian Beixi and Lin Musen, both of whom happened to have an unclear relationship with Yin Huaiyuan...

"Why do I feel something is wrong? Since Yin Huaiyuan has been in seclusion for decades, why can he accept Tian Beixi as his registered disciple?" Yang Lu deliberately did not mention Lin Musen, mainly because Musen is Outsiders like Wang Ziwei may not know about Lin Musen of the Wind Yu Faction.

Wang Ziwei was quite familiar with the situation in the Arctic Cold Palace and quickly replied: "I'm also very surprised about this. Accepting Tian Beixi as a registered disciple was definitely not done by anyone else on Yin Huaiyuan's behalf. This shows that Yin Huaiyuan is not closed. It’s a real life-and-death situation, but he hasn’t come forward to deal with the sect’s affairs for many years, which is very strange. You have to know that because Yin Huaiyuan has not shown up all year round, the other five sects of the Sixth Sect in the Far North are a little bit ready to make a move.”

Yang Lu touched his chin and thought for a moment, then said: "Others may not know the secret behind this matter, but Tian Beixi definitely knows it. We might as well ask her!"

Wang Ziwei looked at Yang Lu, then at Li Qingning, and said with some confusion: "Consultant Yang, you and Tian Beixi..."

"It's just an ordinary friendship!"

In front of Li Qingning, Yang Lu gave a decisive answer.