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Thinking to this point, Leng Jun stopped walking down the main road, and instead, entered the nearby forest in a flash. He then shuttled back and forth between the trees, and finally stopped on a relatively lush tilted tree branch.

Leng Jun opened up a tree branch in front of him to block the sound of the battle. He saw a dozen or so people surrounding and attacking a person.

In fact, the encirclement wasn't accurate, the ten or so people were all dressed in similar attire. They all wore the Swordsman robes with the same sect emblem embroidered on them. However, most of these people were just surrounding them. The one who actually attacked was only one person.

There were two people in the circle. One of them was a young swordsman who was dressed exactly like them. The other one was a man in his fifties. He was short and thin. When he wore a black robe, he looked even thinner. "He had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, making him look like a cunning and cunning man. In his hand was a foot-long blade. He was flying up and down as he fought with the young swordsman.

From time to time, the man would let out a "heh", "ha" or "ha" sound. However, his Tiger Man technique was useless against the young man he was fighting with. The two of them clashed with swords, clearly showing that the man was at a disadvantage.

Leng Jun sat on the tree and looked at the situation, suddenly feeling that the man was a little friendly with him. Thinking back carefully, when he was drinking in the tavern in the town, he caught a glimpse of this man passing by the entrance. As this man's appearance was a bit strange, he paid special attention to him. Now that he thought about it, could this man be the one that had been following him all this time?

Just as Leng Jun was deep in his thoughts, the battle situation in the circle had already changed. The original one-on-one battle had now turned into a one-on-one battle.

So even though that group of Swordsman were all wearing the same set of clothes, there was a difference if one looked carefully. Amongst them, there were three who stood outside the encirclement. Their clothes were clearly more gorgeous than the other Swordsman s, especially the one in the middle. Whether it was the texture of their clothes or the work of their hands, they were all much more exquisite than the rest.

The ages of these three people were clearly older than the other Swordsman s by a little over forty years. The person in the middle looked to be around fifty years old. Moreover, from his expression and appearance, it could be seen that he was the leader of this group.

He stood with his hands behind his back, staring at the situation in the encirclement. Just when Leng Jun thought about where he had seen the skinny middle-aged man before, he suddenly became impatient, and waved towards the Swordsman s that surrounded the middle-aged man.

The Swordsman s understood and three more people walked out. Without a word, the three of them drew their swords and joined the battle between the middle aged man and the Swordsman.

The middle aged man was not a match for the Swordsman, how could he handle three people suddenly. Before the two even met, his butt had already been pierced by a Swordsman. With great effort, he lost his balance and fell to the ground. Seeing that, the other three Swordsman s rushed forward to suppress the middle-aged man. One of the Swordsman's long sword was already at his neck, he looked like he was about to attack.

Seeing this, Leng Jun knew that he could no longer stay on this tree. Although he did not know the background of the middle-aged man, he was still the one who left the contract and came here to meet him. If he was captured or killed by them, then wouldn't his trip here have been in vain?

Moreover, Leng Jun did not have a good impression of the Swordsman s in the group, if they were going to capture him, then there was nothing much to say. However, using so many methods to bully the young was a bit too vulgar.

Thinking about that, Leng Jun anxiously jumped down the tree, and at the same time shouted: "Sword, keep them!"

As soon as his feet touched the ground, before he could even go forward to stop him, he heard the lead Swordsman say in a loud voice, "I had thought that you would be one of those cowards who only dare to hide in a tree and watch their comrades die without doing anything. I didn't expect that you, a little thief, would still have some guts."

Hearing the Swordsman say that, Leng Jun thought to himself: "These are all members of the sect. For him to say something like that, it seems like this weird-looking person is not a good person."

Thinking about that, Leng Jun anxiously said: "No, you misunderstand, we are not on the same road."

The middle-aged Swordsman glanced at Leng Jun, and seeing that he was only a young man in his early twenties, he said with a look of disdain: "Just now, I thought you were brave, but didn't think you would immediately reveal your true colors. Since you are not a bandit's accomplice, then why did you speak and act like we are going to punish the bandit? "

Behind the middle-aged Swordsman, a Swordsman also spoke up: "Kid, look at how young you are and how promising your future is. Even if you really are a partner of this scoundrel, I think you still have the possibility of becoming a teacher. If you can get away with it, you can give up your evil ways. This old man can represent the East Heavenly King Palace and let you live.

Leng Jun was secretly shocked, and thought: "I never thought that this group of people would actually come from the East Heavenly King's Palace. Sigh, why would the people from the East Heavenly King Palace come to the Southern Continent?

This group of people were indeed from the East Heavenly King's Palace, and the three people leading were three influential people in the East Heavenly King's Palace. The East Heavenly King Palace and the South Heavenly King Palace were different, they were filled with people, and the entire hall had over a thousand people. Furthermore, the East Heavenly King Palace was not like the South Heavenly King Palace, where they inherited knowledge from their families, but accepted many disciples. That was the reason why there were so many people in the palace.

Currently, the East Heavenly King Palace had three main generations of people. The first generation was the current East Heavenly King, Ye Xiangtong, and his four senior and junior brothers. Ye Xiangtong had long since passed through his infancy and already had plans to pass on the throne. One of the inheritors that he had in mind was the middle-aged Swordsman that Leng Jun had seen before, named Qin Yun. Following behind him was Qin Yu, who was of the same generation as him, Qin Feng.

The word Qin was not their original surname, but rather the name they gave after entering the South Heavenly King Palace. Thus, the three of them were not brothers by blood. Instead, they were merely fellow disciples of the same generation.

Because there were a lot of people in the East Heavenly King Palace, in order to differentiate, every master would teach their disciples the same surname. This way, they would know which faction the East Heavenly King Palace belonged to. And the surname Qin was the surname of the disciple of the current East Heavenly King, Ye Xiangtong. Qin Yun was his first disciple and was also the person who was most likely to succeed him as Celestial King.