In the Heavens

If Feng Qingyang hadn't reminded him, Li Mu would have almost forgotten that there is still a neutral camp in Jianghu.

It is not an easy task to remain neutral in a world where good and evil are incompatible. Not only must you have strong strength and a smart mind, but you must also have good enough luck to be able to achieve both sides.

According to Li Mu's knowledge, all the big forces in Jianghu are black and white, and no one chooses a neutral camp.

It's not that everyone is keen on fighting, the main thing is that people can't help themselves in the arena. In many cases, you just don't want to participate in the dispute between good and evil, and you will be involved.

Judging from the current situation, the Pingyang martial arts family may not be neutral for long. Without the Hengshan faction leading the way, they would have to face the Devil's Cult soldiers head on.

With the Demon Cult's style of "those who obey will prosper, and those who oppose will perish", they either join the Demon Cult's camp, or they come to embrace the thighs of the Five Sacred Sword Sect.

Now these people haven't moved closer to the Huashan sect, they are either waiting to see the direction of the wind, or they have already turned to the demon sect.

No action has been taken in the door. Perhaps in the eyes of many high-level officials, it is in the best interest of the Huashan faction for the martial arts family in Pingyang to turn to the Demon Sect.

After the failure of plotting Bashu and Luoyang, only Shanxi has a little value in the surrounding area, so we can only make do with it first.

However, these sites are also owned. As a well-known decent sect, the Huashan faction obviously has to lose face, and can't steal other people's territory for no reason.

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As the night gradually deepened, the crescent moon slowly climbed up to the starry sky, swaying bright light to the earth. As soon as the evening wind blows, it becomes colder.

Facing the cold wind, the Hengshan faction fled in a hurry, and they were still on their way. From time to time, children's cries sounded, and the atmosphere was particularly bleak.

The official road is not dared to go, if the whereabouts are exposed as soon as they come out, the arrangements on the mountain will be in vain.

Once the demon sect finds out that they have run away, a large group of people with their families and children will not be able to escape the demon sect's pursuers.

Fortunately, there are many mountains in Jin, which can provide natural cover, and the Hengshan faction has a good foundation in the local people, so they escaped the demon sect's eyeliner.

However, no matter how good the cover is, it cannot resist the traitor's betrayal. On the fifth day after the Hengshan sect left, the devil's sect discovered the reality of the mountain.

But at this time, the Hengshan faction and the group had already reached the depths of the Taihang Mountains, temporarily out of sight of the demon sect's pursuers. For safety reasons, they still had to travel day and night.

Looking at the exhausted team, Master Lingyuan sighed helplessly, and pretended to be calm and said: "Everyone, speed up, and we will be able to join the Huashan faction in two days. Tonight we will rest on the mountain in front. "

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In order to confuse the Demon Sect's sight, the Hengshan faction used all their strength.

Not only was Master Lingqing, the head of the sect, personally leading people to cut off the empress, nearly 80% of the outer sect disciples, a quarter of the inner sect disciples, half of the elders in the sect, and all the old elders stayed on the mountain to attract attention.

If it is purely based on strength, those on the mountain are the main force. The escaping team can only be regarded as a partial division, but this partial division team is the future of the Hengshan faction.

Bearing the heavy responsibility of defending the inheritance of the Hengshan School, Master Lingyuan dared not relax even for a moment. Right now, he just wants to rush to Pingyang as soon as possible to join the Huashan faction.

Both belong to the Five Sacred Sword Sect, but the strength of each sect is actually quite different. In name, it is a joint fight against the Demon Cult, but the real main force is still the Huashan faction.

Different from the previous wars between good and evil, each outbreak had to be brewed for a year and a half, the Demon Cult moved much faster this time, and did not leave enough time for the righteous way to prepare.

If they hadn't realized the danger, the Hengshan faction wouldn't have run so decisively. According to past practice, they are all guarding against danger. As long as the young disciples are arranged in advance, they will be able to survive.

Anyway, Hengshan is big enough, and there are many dangerous checkpoints, which can be used to delay time. I really can't stand it anymore, and I can drill the ravine.

Collective actions are easy to be discovered, but if they disperse and flee for their lives, it is really not that difficult to find someone in the Taihang Mountains of Nuoda.

"Senior Sister, there is no news from the sect master and the others, and the situation on the mountain is unknown, what should we do?"

Looking at the junior sister who was about to cry, Master Lingyuan restrained his emotions too strongly, and comforted him: "Don't worry, the power on the mountain is not weak, and the Devil's Cult will be invincible for a while.

As long as they survived this wave of offensive and the reinforcements from various factions of the Righteous Path arrived, the situation would improve. "

As the host of this retreat, Master Lingyuan knows part of the inside story of this battle between good and evil. Right now, it is not only a battle with the Demon Cult, but also a game between the Five Sacred Sword Sect and Shaolin.

It is impossible to have reinforcements. Now that the Huashan faction can't move, who will rescue Hengshan?

Counting on the various factions of the righteous way is dreaming. Except for a few sects that were close to the front line and were forced to join the war, the rest were thinking about how to gain benefits from this war.

Even the Hengshan faction has its own calculations, including this sudden retreat, which is also part of the calculations.

As long as they run to Guanzhong smoothly, no matter whether Hengshan can hold it or not, they will abandon the mountain gate and escape into the mountain to temporarily avoid the edge of the Demon Cult.

Without them, Shanxi's largest anti-thunder sect, the demon cultists who attacked Hengshan could spread their attacks. There is one martial arts sect in Shanxi, and no one can be alone.

Either join the Demon Cult, or carry it to death. No matter how you choose, you can't escape the fate of heavy losses. When this battle between good and evil is over, the situation of Shanxi Wulin will be completely different.

On this issue, Master Lingqing had already discussed it with Ning Qingyu. After this battle, the Hengshan faction and the Huashan faction will carve up Shanxi together, and even the territory is clearly divided.

This decision was also made by force, and the pressure put on them by the Devil's Cult was really too great.

No matter how hard the Hengshan faction worked, and no matter how much wealth they accumulated, after the war between good and evil, they were destined to be wiped out.

Not only do they have to suffer from the battle between good and evil, but they also worry about it in normal times, for fear that the demon sect will suddenly kill them that day.

In order to sleep peacefully, the Hengshan faction urgently needs strong foreign aid. Just at this time, Huashan failed to send out the pass, so they could only target the Sanjin area, and the two sides hit it off.

The Demon Cult is not easy to mess with. If you want to expel them from the Three Jins, you can only take advantage of the decline of the Demon Cult after the Great War between Good and Evil.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Zhengdao can win, and the Five Sacred Sword Sect can gain the upper hand in the next game, and have enough say in the division of interests after the war.

In order to realize this strategy, the two factions now have only one goal - to preserve their strength as much as possible. All subsequent deployments revolve around preserving strength.

As for fighting the Demon Cult, whoever wants to do it can do it himself, anyway, the two factions will not fight the Demon Cult desperately now.