Disciple, please come down the mountain soon. Your senior sister can’t wait any longer.

When the thought that Zhao Wuming might have read through the Pei family's martial arts secrets appeared in his mind, this thought immediately took root in Pei Qingsong's mind like a vine and could no longer be uprooted. Instead, it became more and more deeply rooted as Pei Qingsong's thoughts spread, making him more and more certain.

If Zhao Wuming had not seen the Pei family's martial arts secrets in advance, how could he not be interested in the Pei family's martial arts secrets!

Yes, that must be it!

And this is exactly the reason why Pei Qingsong just asked Zhao Wuming whether he knew Pei Qinghai!

Because from what Zhao Wuming had just revealed, Pei Qingsong had keenly realized that it was very likely that Pei Qinghai had leaked the Pei family's martial arts secrets to Zhao Wuming, so that Zhao Wuming had already seen most of the Pei family's martial arts secrets in advance, so he was indifferent to his attempts to win him over!

Although Pei Runnian imposed some restrictions on the people in the three rooms viewing the martial arts secrets because the third, fourth and fifth rooms were against him, he only restricted the most core secrets and did not allow them to borrow them.

However, for those ordinary martial arts secrets, the leaders of the third, fourth, and fifth rooms can still borrow them at will by virtue of their status as elders, and this is something that Pei Runnian cannot restrict.

If Pei Runnian really restricted even these ordinary secret treasures and did not allow people from the third, fourth and fifth rooms to view them, then it would not only be a simple restriction on the power of the third room, but would be forcing people from the third, fourth and fifth rooms to rebel and leave the Pei family!

Even though Pei Runnian was already wary of the people from the third house, he absolutely could not do such a thing as forcing the people from the third, fourth and fifth houses to leave until he was completely sure that he could defeat all the forces of the three houses and take over everything!

Otherwise, it would be pure suicide, aiming to tear the entire Pei family apart.

Therefore, as the leader of the fourth branch and one of the elders of the Pei family, if Pei Qinghai really intends to collude with outsiders and leak out the Pei family's martial arts secrets, the other people in the Pei family will really be helpless!

The more Pei Qingsong thought about it, the more he felt that this might be the truth. Immediately, a strong bitter taste as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis rose in his mouth, and a trace of fear flashed through his heart.

If this is true, then they are in real trouble today!

The Pei family's martial arts secrets and various elixirs are already the best conditions he can offer, and are also one of the most tempting things in his hands. If even these two cannot seduce Zhao Wuming, then he has really run out of tricks!

Unless the entire Pei family is given to Zhao Wuming, there is still a possibility that Zhao Wuming will be moved.

But how is it possible to give the entire Pei family to Pei Qingsong?

Not to mention that Pei Qingsong himself does not have that authority. Even if he really has it, and gives the entire Pei family to Zhao Wuming for his own survival, if he really survives, he will just be a bachelor. What is his purpose then?

Isn't the reason he went through so much trouble just to help Pei Runnian completely unify the entire Pei family so that he can enjoy wealth and glory?

Now that all the wealth and glory have been given away and only one person is left alive, what's the point? Isn't it just a direct proof of that saying?

What is the most painful thing in the world?

That means the person is alive but the money is gone!

What's more, even if Pei Qingsong really sent the entire Pei family away, what would most likely be waiting for him was not being let go, but a more brutal reckoning by Zhao Wuming. There was no way he would let her leave alive!

A great man once said that if you seek peace through compromise, peace will die. If you seek peace through struggle, peace will survive.

Without a gun at hand, he still expected others to be kind enough to spare him. This was something that could only happen in a fairy tale!

In reality, the most likely thing to happen is that after Pei Qingsong sends the Pei family away, he will no longer have any power or backing to rely on, and will be played around with by Zhao Wuming like a cat playing with a mouse, and then slowly strangled to death. There is no way he will let him go!

As the old saying goes, cut the grass at its roots. If Pei Qingsong is let go alive, then Pei Qingsong, who is full of resentment, will never let it go. From then on, he will devote himself to mountains and rivers and forget about the world. Instead, he will bear a grudge against Zhao Wuming and wish to eat him alive. From then on, he will accumulate strength by endurance and wait until the right time. When the time is right, he will kill Zhao Wuming in one fell swoop like a poisonous snake and take back the entire Pei family!

If such a thing really happened, when Zhao Wuming recalled what happened today before he died, would he sigh and regret not having killed Pei Qingsong with a knife?

This matter has gone a bit off topic, so let’s get back to the point.

All kinds of thoughts were churning in Pei Qingsong's mind, but there was no expression of abnormality on his face, and he still had a cold and steady expression.

After all, he is the elder of the Pei family and has seen countless storms and waves. He has done a lot of work to cultivate his energy. Although he is a little frightened in his heart, his face remains calm as if facing a crisis.

Although the current situation is critical, Pei Qingsong has experienced similarly critical situations before.

Ten years ago, when Pei Runnian gathered the elders of the four families to besiege Wanbian Yixian, in the end all the elders of the other four families were killed in the battle, and only Pei Runnian returned alone. At that time, the situation of the entire Pei family was many times more critical than it is now.

At that time, because of the death of the elder, many angry members of the other four families were in an uproar and clamored for Pei Runnian to give an explanation. Some even wanted to take their family members and leave the Pei family.

There were even people who wanted to kill Pei Runnian outright to avenge their own elders. Various assassination attempts against Pei Runnian occurred one after another. In addition, other family forces in Hedong were secretly fanning the flames. The entire Pei family suddenly showed a trend of falling apart, like monkeys scattering when the tree falls.

Even in such a critical situation, Pei Qingsong gritted his teeth and helped Pei Runnian to get through it, and slowly turned the situation around.

And today, Pei Qingsong does not think that this is where he will be buried. Just like ten years ago, he will also turn around the current unfavorable situation and escape successfully!

This is the confidence that Pei Qingsong has accumulated over the past ten years as a veteran of the Pei family!

If he doesn't even have this confidence, then Pei Qingsong's ten years of career as a veteran will have been wasted!

It’s just that Pei Qingsong can be so calm and composed and remain calm, but Pei Xingchen is far from it.

No matter how talented Pei Xingchen is or how high his cultivation is, in terms of age he is just a young man in his early twenties.

Even though he had practiced hard for more than ten years and had become a master of the pinnacle of dark energy, reality was not a game. He could not just kill everyone with a high level of cultivation. His martial arts cultivation could also be transformed into life experience and knowledge, allowing Pei Xingchen to suddenly possess a state of mind and a mind that matched his cultivation.

On the contrary, the hard training over the past decade has isolated Pei Xingchen from the world. He is almost a blank slate when it comes to all kinds of training and has no experience at all. As a result, his Qi-cultivation skills and state of mind are not even close to those of an old fox like Pei Qingsong. The difference is almost like a chasm!

Even though Pei Xingchen was appointed by Pei Runnian to manage the underground base and had gone through some experience, it was still almost nothing.

One reason is that the underground base and even the Tianbo Building on the ground all belong to the Pei family's territories and are surrounded by Pei family forces. Before Tian San and others invaded, it was impossible for outsiders to invade, allowing Pei Xingchen to practice.

Even because of the existence of the hi grass in Area 0, the entire underground base is almost isolated from the world, and there is not even any normal communication with the outside world. Living here is no different from Pei Xingchen's hard practice alone for more than ten years before. What kind of experience can Pei Xingchen get here?

Secondly, even in the base, no one dared to go against Pei Xingchen, which would add some twists and turns to Pei Xingchen and allow him to gain some experience through setbacks. But none of these happened!

Pei Xingchen is Pei Runnian's son and holds the power over the entire underground training base. In addition, he has reached the peak of dark energy. With these three identities combined, Pei Xingchen is almost like someone with an invincible aura. No one dares to go against him.

Not to mention those apprentices, each of them is a bunch of rotten people recruited by the Pei family from various prisons or the underworld. They can't even beat a random warrior in the body strengthening realm, so how dare they go against Pei Xingchen.

If there were really a few troublemakers who dared to jump out, Pei Xingchen would not even have to do it himself, as their lives were completely worthless. He could just give an order and someone would kill them. There would be no training at all.

Not to mention Pei Xingchen's subordinates. Those marginalized people who were exiled from the Pei family to the underground base still hoped to follow Pei Xingchen all the way to the top and fight their way back to the core of the Pei family. How could they possibly go against Pei Xingchen?

The only one who had ever had a dispute with Pei Xingchen was Pei Qingniao, who was in charge of logistics and was against Pei Xingchen because of the competition between his son and Pei Xingchen.

However, even if Pei Qingniao was against Pei Xingchen, at most he would cause him some minor trouble in some aspects, but he did not dare to oppose Pei Xingchen openly and blatantly.

If there really are so many, the first one who will not let Pei Qingniao go will be Pei Runnian!

What Pei Runnian can't tolerate the most is such behavior of putting personal interests above public interest!

Pei Runnian could tolerate Pei Qingniao's selfishness, could tolerate her doing certain things to please Pei Runnian, and could also tolerate Pei Qingniao going against Pei Xingchen for her son and causing him some trouble, because doing so would benefit Pei Xingchen and would also be equivalent to giving Pei Xingchen more experience.

However, Pei Runnian absolutely could not tolerate Pei Qingniao openly opposing Pei Xingchen because of his own selfish motives, thus delaying the important matters of the underground base and Area 0!

If something like this really happened, Pei Runnian would be the first to jump out and step on Pei Qingniao, making it impossible for her to stand up again. He would make an example of her to warn others and show them what would be the fate of those who dare to use personal interests rather than official ones!

Therefore, since Pei Xingchen made his debut, he has only gained some experience because Pei Qingniao was against him. His experience in handling certain emergency matters is not very rich, and it can even be said to be pitifully scarce.

Just relying on this limited experience, Pei Xingchen was able to hold on until now despite various emergencies such as Tian San and others invading the underground base, Qin Tianshuang burning Area 0, and waiting for Pei Qingsong's reinforcements. This can be said to be a wise move.

But what happened now was still beyond Pei Xingchen's tolerance, and his face became extremely ugly after Pei Qingsong asked, "Do you know Pei Qinghai?"

Pei Xingchen was not a fool. He had not thought of this before only because he was in the middle of a situation and he was too lazy to care about the internal situation of the Pei family. That was why he did not realize the doubts in Zhao Wuming's words at the first time.

After being named by Pei Qingsong, Pei Xingchen immediately understood the concern behind this. He also thought of the reason why Zhao Wuming had just disdained the Pei family's martial arts secrets. He also thought of the possibility of collusion between Zhao Wuming and Pei Qinghai, and even more so, the serious consequences if they failed to win Zhao Wuming over to their side!

That means they will face a joint attack from Zhao Wuming and Tian San, which will be the end of the road for them!

The power of either side is not weaker than theirs. If the two sides join forces to attack, they will have no chance of survival and will most likely all die here!

There is great terror between life and death. Even those old people who have experienced the ups and downs of life cannot take life and death lightly, let alone a young man like Pei Xingchen who has profound cultivation, great power, and a bright future?

Pei Xingchen and his companions’ fear of death may be a thousand or ten thousand times stronger than that of the old people who have experienced the ups and downs of life!

Because those old people have eaten, played, slept, experienced good times and bad times, and have gone through all kinds of life. Even if they are facing death and have fear in their hearts, they will not have many regrets.

But Pei Xingchen and the others are different!

They are still so young, and they still have a bright future. They have yet to freely roam the world. They have yet to eat delicacies from all over the world, drink the strongest wine, sleep with the wildest women, and kill the most powerful enemies...

They had not done so many things and were suddenly facing death. How could Pei Xingchen and the others be willing to accept this and not be afraid of death!

So even though Pei Xingchen kept telling himself to stay calm and not show any fear, after he figured out the situation at the scene, the expression on his face still became extremely ugly, and his aura became extremely suppressed!