Hei Wulong laughed and said, "The three major gangs are the strongest? That's just on the surface. The true power of Shaolin, Wudang, and the Lu family far surpasses these three gangs. While there are many monks in Shaolin Temple and Taoists in Wudang Zhenwu Temple, besides these people, they also have many disciples who have completed their apprenticeships. These disciples have either become wandering swordsmen, formed their own forces, or entered the imperial court as high-ranking officials. On the surface, they seem to have nothing to do with Shaolin and Wudang, but they are still disciples of Shaolin and Wudang. The Song Dynasty is so hostile to martial artists, yet Wudang has not only escaped suppression in the Song Dynasty for many years, but its leader, Yuanlong, even became the Song Dynasty's national advisor. That speaks volumes."
At this point, Dad interjected, "There's something I must mention: about 80% of the sects within the Song Dynasty are already under the control of the Demon Palace."
Then Dad revealed the information he had received from Minglang.
After hearing their father's words, Hei Wulong and the others looked shocked. Then, he exclaimed with admiration, "Although I hate Pang Xing, I have to admit his methods are truly brilliant! He can be said to control half of the Jianghu in Song!"
"It seems that besides the Water Alliance and the World Society, Wudang will also oppose the Long family. After all, Wudang represents the Jianghu of Song. Now that eighty percent of the gangs in Song are against it, as the leader of Song, they've probably been swayed!"
Li Jun'ao said seriously. Hearing this, I secretly sent a telepathic message to my father. He immediately smiled and said, "There's no need to worry about Wudang. My master, the Carefree Heavenly Emperor, and the True Martial Emperor are close friends. The True Martial Emperor would never allow his successor to do anything foolish."
Li Jun'ao and Hei Wulong, who had just looked worried, immediately smiled upon hearing this and said, "That's right! The True Martial Emperor would also never allow the Blood River Demon Lord to corrupt the world."
Then, no one mentioned the Song Kingdom's problem again. As long as Wudang didn't take the lead, there was nothing to worry about regarding the other smaller sects in Song Kingdom.
"The situation at Shaolin is similar to that at Wudang. Although they haven't organized their own forces, their disciples have formed numerous factions. Almost every high-ranking official in the Tang Dynasty has a member who is a lay disciple of Shaolin. Moreover, some of Shaolin's lay disciples have established their own forces; two of the seven largest escort agencies in the world were founded by Shaolin disciples. Many others have joined gangs and hold high positions within them. Even two of the leaders of our Haoqi Alliance are lay disciples of Shaolin."
Li Jun'ao continued.
"Although the Lu family doesn't have many disciples, they're not few either. While their scale is slightly smaller than Shaolin and Wudang, it's not far behind. Especially in the last ten years, under the leadership of Lu Shaoqing, the young master of the Lu family, the Lu family has participated in many industries, significantly increasing their power."
Hei Wulong said with some emotion.
Suddenly hearing the name Lu Shaoqing, my heart suddenly stirred.
Because after entering the martial world, I had heard many rumors about him.
Although I already knew from Yin Yin that he was my best friend from my past life, we still hadn't met.
This lecherous man, who knows my desires so well, will definitely try to take advantage of my wives once he knows I've come to this world and married several beautiful women.
Now that I'm so beautiful, he definitely won't let me go either.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a longing to meet him.
Sensing that I was a little distracted, Hei Wulong thought I was too tired and hugged me tightly. I gathered my thoughts and continued listening.
"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's talk about the Demon Palace's plan!" my father said.
"The Demon Palace's actions against the Long family don't expect to be completely successful. Their goal is to succeed, ideally, to have the Long family ostracized by the righteous path; if not, they'll eliminate the Long family in their next operation," Hei Wulong continued.
"Eliminate the Long family?" Dad asked with a serious expression.
As the head of the Long family, Dad cared more than anything about the family's survival.
This concern surpassed everything in Dad's heart.
If someone else had said this, Dad would have thought it was a joke.
But since Hei Wulong, who understood the Long family and the strength of the righteous path, said this, Dad had to take it seriously.
"That's right, it should be said that we should eliminate the righteous path. Pang Xing plans to eliminate nearly half of the righteous path's strength in this martial arts tournament. Because the demonic path now has the strength to rival the righteous path." Hei Wulong uttered words that shocked us, then added, "If our Heavenly Demon Sect is truly of one mind with the Demon Palace."
Hearing Hei Wulong's words, we breathed a long sigh of relief, and then I playfully punched his chest.
Hei Wulong rubbed my bottom and continued, "Now the demonic path also has three cultivators at the Innate Perfection stage." After saying this, he looked at our shocked expressions with satisfaction, awaiting our questions. "Three? How is that possible?" Li Jun'ao asked incredulously.
"That's right, there are three. One is my grandmother, Hei Yufeng, whom almost everyone in the older generation knows. She single-handedly fought against Wu Huan and Jing Chen simultaneously. Although she lost in the end, she still survived. Although her injuries were severe and she hasn't fully recovered, she has now obtained the necessary healing items and will soon emerge from seclusion. Another is Pang Tianlong. After returning from the ruins, Pang Xing arranged for Pang Tianlong to receive guidance from Xue He, enabling him to break through to the peak of the Innate Realm and master the application of power. The last one is Zong Zan, the National Preceptor of Bei Yuan and leader of the Blood Demon Sect. He also secretly came to Tang Kingdom. In this martial arts tournament, he participated in the encirclement and suppression of the righteous path."
Hei Wulong revealed a shocking secret.
The strength Hei Wulong described indeed indicated a capability to fight the righteous path in a full-scale battle.
However, it wasn't enough to achieve complete victory; they at most possessed seventy percent of the righteous path's strength.
However, after some thought, we immediately understood the reason.
The demonic path had come prepared, deploying its entire force to this conference.
While the righteous path knew the demonic path would cause trouble, they could never have guessed its scale and strength.
Although the righteous path members were prepared, their goal was to participate in the conference, not to wage war against the demonic path. At best, they would send half of their strongest fighters.
Following past practice, of the three at the peak of the Innate Realm, only Father would attend.
Under these circumstances, the entire righteous path would lose at least 30% of its strength in this conference, and at least half of the top figures from each faction would be eliminated.
In this situation, the righteous path would completely lose its ability to contend with the demonic path and could only await its slow annihilation.
"Pang Xing has two objectives in this conference: one is to eliminate the righteous path, and the other is the item that the Martial Alliance recently obtained—the one that can detect the Demon Realm Stone. The latter is especially crucial. Without it, Pang Xing will definitely be severely punished by the enraged Demon Lord. Therefore, our strategy is simple: contact the righteous path members, gather all our forces to sabotage Pang Xing's plan to eliminate the righteous path, and prevent him from obtaining the item that can detect the Demon Realm Stone. As long as we handle it properly, Pang Xing's plan will have absolutely no chance of success."
Hei Wulong said firmly.
After hearing Hei Wulong's words, we all nodded, but Dad lowered his head and pondered for a while before saying something surprising: "No, we do need to sabotage his plan to eliminate the righteous path, but we cannot prevent him from obtaining the Demon Realm Stone. On the contrary, we must deliver the item that can detect the Demon Realm Stone to him without him noticing."