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"Hey, our Young Master Lan is a genius!"

"When he came back from that place, he directly reached the soul master realm, how amazing!"

"Tch, I heard that he didn't get anything in that place, it's not that great."

"Where is it? Didn't Lan Shao bring back a kid who can make funny expressions?"

"You mean white?"

"Huh? Dabai?"

"Well, it's the little white spot on Shao Lan's shoulder. I sometimes hear Shao Lan calling it that."

"Speaking of which, what the hell is that thing? When I was cleaning the flower hall last time, that thing was still smiling at me, with big white teeth, and it almost scared me to death."

"Hahaha...Old Li, you were actually scared by Dabai hahaha..."

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Dabai is now the mascot of the entire Zuo family.

Zuo Lan stood in the window of the flower hall, turned to look at Dabai on his shoulder, "You are more popular than me."

He looked at it with a faint smile, but there was a deep peace in his eyes.

Dabai didn't understand, it just showed its white teeth and continued to look at him, bouncing on his shoulders, but Zuo Lan couldn't feel any weight on his shoulders.

He stood by the window on the corridor for a while, then walked towards the main hall.

It has been a month since he came out of the secret realm, and he did not return to the Soul Academy. He just notified Duan Kunlun and asked him to reserve a place for him to study, and it would be nice if he could take the final exam at that time.The current Zuo Lan's realm has indeed soared, but he knows that his strength is still very early. High realm does not mean high strength. Now his attack power is not half of what it was before. See bad people, think of bad things.

He still needs to heal his injuries, he still needs to be calm, and he still needs to arm himself well before he can go out to face the ups and downs of the world.

He spent half a month consolidating his realm and almost consumed all his soul crystals, and then he knew that he was short of money.

Zuo Lan is a poor ghost now, but he is not worried at all. After all, he is in the family. Now that he has lost those heaven-defying soul pictures, he has turned from a waste wood to a genius. They all reported it, but no one knew about Huntu, except himself and Lincang.

But he won't say it, and Lincang himself won't say it.

After all, that man is the aloof soul emperor, one of the hall lords in the soul emperor hall in the first soul courtyard area of ​​the Central Plains, and one of the power centers of the soul continent.

How could such a person speak out about his despicableness and insidiousness?

Lincang said, never trust him again.

He never thought about trusting him again.

Zuo Lan desperately needs to become stronger. He needs soul crystals, power, and everything.

So he came to the flower hall today, where he was discussing matters, and according to the rules, his direct descendant who is about to grow up also has a seat here.

Zuo Qiuyan showed him the account books last time. One old man and one novelized about the financial resources of the Zuo family. At that time, Zuo Lan had already focused on the cross-regional trade of the whole continent. The source of income, but recently there have been some problems.

Because the border defenses of various soul institutes are blocked, the transportation of trade goods has become a big problem. Many needed things cannot be brought in, and things that want to be sold cannot be exported. Only the official trade group of the soul institute can carry out activities. The Throne family can also get involved, but other forces don't want to get involved. The rest of the families and chambers of commerce dare not speak out about this. After all, the Soul Institute and the Ten Thrones control the most terrifying force in the entire continent and possess the most extensive resources. The five soul emperors are actually supporting them. After all, most of the five emperors are from the throne family and graduated from the soul academy, so they naturally favor the soul academy and the throne family.

They are a community of interests, but the small families like the Zuo family have suffered.

When Zuo Lan came, the family's internal meeting had already started. Holding a piece of jade slip in his hand, he ignored the blushing people arguing, and sat directly next to Zuo Qiuyan under the eyes of everyone.This position fully demonstrates Zuo Lan's status in the family. Geniuses have always been born in the direct line. Zuo Lan, a proud waste wood, has become a genius, which naturally makes everyone more awed and curious.

Although the collateral branches of the Zuo family are powerful, they only dare to act behind their backs. Anyone who dares to offend the dignity of the direct line has only one word: die.

Zuo Qiuyan is the patriarch, sitting at the top, with the elders seat behind him, Zuo Lan on the left, and the white bearded branch Zuo Peng on the right.

His branch is the strongest in the entire Zuo family. Speaking of which, Zuo Xi and Zuo Yi who went to the Soul Academy with Zuo Lan all came from here. It is normal for Zuo Peng to be a little arrogant recently.

But Zuo Peng was very uncomfortable today, almost staring at Zuo Lan opposite him with a livid face, but Zuo Lan just concentrated on checking the jade slip in his hand, completely ignoring Zuo Peng.

Now Zuo Lan is almost a diamond heart, invulnerable to swords and guns, even if you jump into the abyss in front of him, he won't even bat an eyelid.Zuo Peng, just staring at him, can make him react?

The entire family meeting is discussing the recent regional trade issues.

"Now all the routes have been cut off, and we have no source of goods. Where can we find them? In my opinion, we should give up cross-regional trade and concentrate on doing a good job in our Ninth Soul Academy area in the Northwest."

"Are you kidding? Can you stop the cross-regional trade if you say so? This is the biggest way for our Zuo family to make money. Do you think it's just playing tricks?!"

"Elder Qian, why do you need to be angry? Everyone is just discussing it. If you act like this, it seems that we are going to cut off the Zuo family's wealth."

"Hmph, what's your idea, you have to ask yourself!"

"Elder Qian, what does this mean?"

"What do I mean? You white-eyed wolves, don't you want to cut off the cross-regional trade, and the trade within the Ninth Soul Academy in the Northwest happens to be all in charge of your collateral branch, where do you want to put the direct line?!"

"Elder Qian, are you afraid that you have said the wrong thing? Now it's not that we are squeezing the direct lineage, it's that this road is really dead, what's the matter with us?"

The jade slips that Zuo Lan checked were still the murals that he had recorded in the secret realm. Recently, he checked the information, and he already had a clue.

In Soul Continent, there are many formations, but there are few space formations, which are almost invisible. However, in the secret realm, the space formations appear densely. In the secret realm, the space formations are so common that Zuo Lan Thought they were all very simple things.

However, after careful study of the data, it is found that the description of space formations is extremely difficult. The existing space formations in the entire Soul Continent are almost all left by the soul saints a long time ago, and they are all in very ancient areas. There are formations that can be teleported between each other, but there is a competitive relationship among the nine soul institutes, which is very complicated, so such formations are not commonly used, and they are often opened only when there are some major events.

In addition, the space formations that can be found are all on some ruins, and most of them have been damaged, and many of them are unusable.There are also strongholds of the Soul Masters Guild, some of which are owned by the Throne Family, but other organizations are beyond reach.

Some scrolls of the early space formations have been lost, and now there are few jade slips and courses that systematically teach space formations in the whole mainland, so things like space formations are becoming less and less heard in the mainland, but in the hands of Zuo Lan The thing he is holding is almost a complete set of space formation tutorials.

At that time, those people in the secret realm were all busy looking for the heavenly grade Horcruxes. Only Zuo Lan couldn't understand those murals, so he recorded them casually. He never thought it would be such a precious thing.If the secret realm is really the self-space left by a certain soul sage, then the space formation inside must have been left by him, so this soul sage must have unique research on the space formation, and the mural is probably also his. left.

It's just that the mural is a perfect space formation tutorial. It's true that where this secret realm comes from is still open to discussion.

Zuo Lan didn't think too much, and he would know what he should know when the time comes.

He concentrated on studying, as if staying out of the matter, but someone didn't want him to go on like this, and then brought the disaster to him.

Zuo Peng sneered, and said: "The collateral branch is also a part of the Zuo family. Do you want the Zuo family to devote all their energy to impossible things? We are all for the good of the Zuo family. I don't know what Lan Shao thinks ?”

Others called "Young Master Lan" with a sense of respect anyway. After all, Zuo Lan is indeed a direct descendant of the Zuo family, and he is still a genius in the eyes of others, but in Zuo Peng's mouth, the "Lan Less" sounded like a thorn in the side, and Zuo Lan felt that he was not well after hearing it.

His mind finally recovered from the jade slip, and he raised his eyes lightly: "Elder Zuo Peng, are you talking to me?"

Zuo Lan's words were too understated, and even used a question sentence, but no matter how it sounds, it sounds like a question. A collateral branch, even an elder, should not be so rude to the direct line.

Feeling very relieved, Zuoqiuyan simply sat in the middle, closed his eyes and meditated. From now on, the Zuo family will be the world of this kid. This kid Zuo Lan knows how to play tricks.Managing the affairs of the family is a very technical job, and it must be done by means.He knew that Zuo Lan was short of money recently, anyway, he would definitely solve his wallet problem at this family meeting, so Zuo Lan would definitely perform extraordinary.

Zuo Lan didn't like Zuo Peng very much in the first place, and made troubles in the clan time and time again. Last time when he came back to watch the retreat ceremony, he made things difficult for him in every possible way. Now that this fool is trying to come up with him, it's no wonder him.

Zuo Lan picked up a cup of tea next to him, looked at it carefully, and took some time to look at Zuo Peng's gloomy face, and said, "What's wrong with Elder Zuo Peng? It's Zuo Yi and Zuo Yi who have such a bad face. Did Xi cause trouble in the Soul Academy?"

"Hmph, Young Master Lan, we're talking about business here. If you don't understand, you can go back to your yard and stay here. An underage child, sitting here is a bit of an eyesore." Zuo Peng continued to sneer.

Zuo Lan suspected that this person seemed to have no other expressions other than a sneer, so he found it amusing.He asked back: "I don't talk about business, what are you doing sitting here? Besides, what is your identity, Zuo Peng, and you dare to come and ask me where I sit?"

This is to use the identity of the direct line to suppress Zuo Peng, but Zuo Peng can't say anything to refute. At this time, he can't come out with a serious identity and blood to suppress Zuo Lan, so Zuo Peng has no choice but to show his seniority: "How to say, I am also you Elder! You kid doesn't know how to speak properly!"

The bearded Zuo Peng actually hid his foot on the floor and stood up. At that moment, Zuo Qiuyan's eyes suddenly opened, and a cold light flashed, but before he had time to move, he followed the people present Everyone was stunned.

I don't know when, a gleaming short knife has been placed across Zuo Peng's neck, as long as he dares to make a slight movement, he can cut off his head in the blink of an eye!

Zuo Lan's soul array had already quietly covered the entire floor of the main hall of the Flower Hall at some point. When it appeared, it was not abrupt, just so quiet, without even a trace of murderous intent.

However, it was such silence that made everyone's hair stand on end!

Because no one knows when that knife appeared!

Zuo Lan smiled, and asked very politely: "Then, Elder Zuo Peng, who is older than me, do you have anything to say now?"

Dabai standing on his shoulder suddenly blinked his big black eyes, flew up from Zuo Lan's shoulder, floated up to Chongfeng's blade, as if he just sat down on his buttocks, The entire blade sank.

This time, Dabai and Zuo Peng were face to face.

It still blinked its big eyes and smiled innocently at Zuo Peng.

However, Zuo Peng looked at the extremely anthropomorphic expression of this ghost, and felt that the hairs on his back were standing on end, and said sternly, "Zuo Lan, you are too presumptuous! Take your knife away!"

Zuo Lan was unmoved, this time it was his turn to smile, but the smile floated up a little bit, he put down his teacup, stood up slowly, the white chess pieces all over the floor rotated faster with his movements, Everyone present felt the danger. Zuo Lan's soul array was too big, and it covered the entire flower hall as soon as it was unfolded, making people feel like they were stepping on someone else's territory.

People are animals that like to feel safe, and the members of the Zuo family present are no exception, but they can't retreat, and if they retreat, they will go outside the flower hall, which is too embarrassing.

Zuo Lan was in the Zuo family, although he was also very good before, but after all, he acted relatively low-key and didn't like to care about others, but after he came out of the secret realm, his whole person was a little different.He seems to have become sharp and sharp, and his handling of things has become tougher. Although he still likes to reason with people, he will never say his words again. He will directly use force to solve it.

In the past half month, his heavy front has been stained with the blood of many Zuo family members.

Some people in the clan have said that he is the next Lincang, but most people dare not speak out. After all, those who were injured by Zuo Lan are also the scum of the Zuo family. It is kind of Zuo Lan not to kill them.

He doesn't want to listen to Zuo Peng's words now, nor do he want to listen to the words of the Zuo family. Their words have no influence or deterrent effect on him. He has gradually begun to adapt to this way of life in the Soul Continent and speaks with his strength.

The experience in the secret realm made him understand the importance of strength, and those ruthless deaths subtly made him cold and ruthless, and more importantly - Lincang.

Even Zuo Lan, who was originally indifferent, doesn't have any feelings now.

The only thing he thinks about is getting stronger.

All those who prevented him from becoming stronger should be buried.

He slowly walked to the center of the flower hall, looked at Zuo Peng, but stretched out his hand to make Dabai come back, Dabai opened his mouth, unexpectedly bit Chong Feng, floated back and put Chong Feng back into Zuo Lan's hand.

Zuo Lan laughed and said, "My horcrux is disobedient, and Elder Zuo Peng was startled. I blame Dabai for not feeding it enough recently. Dabai, hurry up and apologize to Elder Zuo Peng."

Dabai pursed his mouth in grievance, his big black eyes were dizzy with water, looking extremely pitiful, he floated back in front of Zuo Peng again, opened his mouth and burst into tears.

The onlookers knew that Zuo Lan had raised such a magical thing, but they didn't know what it was. Just when they saw it opened up, they bit the Horcrux. It didn't look that simple, it was fierce, but Now he was pitifully forced by Zuo Lan to apologize to Zuo Peng, and burst into tears as soon as he opened his mouth...

I don't know why, but everyone really wants to have a black thread.

Even Zuo Peng was stunned for a long time. He looked at the big mouth of the little guy who was very close to him, and suddenly felt a little frightened. Just now, it bit the Horcrux with one bite...

Zuo Peng was stunned for a long time before he remembered that he was confronting Zuo Lan. This time he was completely at a disadvantage, and his face turned livid.

"You don't have to be hypocritical, you Zuo Lan is capable, I can't afford to provoke you!"

"Elder Zuo Peng knows that he can't offend me, so that's good."

Everyone didn't expect Zuo Lan to say such a sentence, and they were all stunned in shock. These words are too crazy.

But what Zuo Lan wanted was such an effect, even if he was the only one who knew his downcast state at the moment, it didn't affect his glamorous appearance.

In the eyes of others, he is a genius who has become a soul master in two months and can graduate from the soul academy. Except for the graduates of the first soul academy in the whole soul continent, Chongyan, the emperor of dawn, belongs to Zuo Lan's cultivation speed The fastest, Chong Yan from the beginning has become the Emperor of Daybreak now, so what about Zuo Lan?

Although Zuo Lan's speed of becoming a soul master was not as fast as that of Chong Yan, but before, he was a good-for-nothing. When everyone thought he was a good-for-nothing, Zuo Lan gave everyone a blow in the head - he was still a genius in essence.

As for the truth, only Zuo Lan knew.

His genius, the price is too heavy.

Zuo Lan stood in front of everyone and put away the jade slip, "Since everyone thinks that the current cross-regional trade is impossible, it is better to hand it over to the direct line. Anyway, the hands of cross-regional trade are all Direct descendants, I know you don’t know how to use them either. In the trade in the northwest, your own hands are naturally the most trustworthy. You take care of yours, and we take care of ours. They have nothing to do with each other. In the future, collateral clans will need to hand over The soul crystals in the house are reduced by ten percent, and the accounts of the direct descendants do not need to be announced to you, if there is no objection, let it be like this."

Zuo Lan, when he becomes an adult, will immediately be established as the young patriarch of the Zuo family. Now that he is standing here and saying these words, Zuo Qiuyan has not stopped him in any way, obviously with his consent.

Such a plan is extremely beneficial to collateral clans. Ten percent of soul crystals is a huge amount, and the cross-regional trade that the direct descendants are in charge of has already fallen into a deadlock. It is impossible to have room for change, and none of the Nine Great Soul Academy and Ten Thrones is easy to mess with.Even if the direct descendants participate in the negotiations with the Nine Great Soul Institutes and other forces, they can only be the same as those previous families, and there will be no good results.

The people in the collateral line know these things, and the people in the direct line naturally know it too. Several elders in the elders' seat immediately stood up to oppose Zuo Lan, saying that he was fooling around. Zuo Lan didn't care about these people at all, but asked Zuo Lan Peng said: "Elder Zuo Peng thinks, how about this way of dealing with it?"

"Young Master Lan is so courageous!" Zuo Peng laughed, but in his heart he thought that Zuo Lan and Zuo Qiuyan were trying to save face and suffer. The direct line is so noble, and it would be embarrassing to come down to grab the jobs of their collateral line. He pretended to praise, " We have always handed in a lot of soul crystals from our sidelines, and now all kinds of things are increasing in price, if we turn in less soul crystals, the people below will be able to live better, Lan Shao understands the situation, it is rare."

This matter, so it was finalized.

Although the people in the collateral line felt that Zuo Lan was mentally ill, the good news was that it finally fell on the head of the collateral branch. While laughing, Zuo Lan was caught in the door, and went out giggling.

In the flower hall, Zuo Peng said goodbye to Zuo Lan with a smile, but he didn't mind Zuo Lan's rudeness at all. "The Zuo family, there are really successors, there are successors..."

As soon as he left, there were only some elders of the direct line, Zuo Qiuyan, and Zuo Lan left here.

Zuo Lan sat down again, with a very calm expression, Dabai yawned on his shoulder, looking bored.

In fact, Zuo Qiuyan also gradually realized that Dabai was acting according to Zuo Lan's wishes, and now Dabai yawned, probably implying that Zuo Lan was very lethargic, or that he lacked interest in what he wanted to say next.

"Alan, what on earth are you thinking?" The elder Qian, who had been arguing fiercely with the collateral before, rubbed his rosacea and asked with a frown.

The rest of the elders also looked at him.

Zuo Lan just glanced around, calmed down, and said something even more shocking: "I know that the elders are already helpless with cross-regional trade, but I still have a way. I can't tell you this way, but I hope that everyone All of the cross-regional trade is in my hands."

The lion opened his mouth wide, and this time even Zuo Qiuyan frowned.

"You are also aware of the current situation of cross-regional trade. This is a mess. It is naturally the best if you can save your life. I just want to leave it all in your hands—"

Even Zuo Qiuyan was a little uncertain and unsure.

Even if cross-regional trade is completely blocked and there is no profit income, there are so many people in charge below, and they still have to take care of the life and death of these people.

"Don't worry about this, old man, as long as you hand over the cross-regional trade to me, within three months, I will restore the profit to the previous level, and the soul crystals handed in every month will not be bad. My only The requirement is—the accounts are kept secret." Zuo Lan looked calmly, looked at Zuo Qiuyan, and bent his lips into a smile, "Anyway, I have paid enough for the family, and the rest is mine. If there is not enough, I will post it."

For the direct descendants of the Zuo family, this is a deal that will not lose money.

To promise or not to promise?

The answer seems to be no need to think about it.

Zuo Qiuyan looked at Zuo Lan for a long time, but from Zuo Lan's face, he couldn't see the solution of this kid. He could only say that this kid was hiding deeper and deeper. Originally, a little fox was about to attack the cunning old man. The direction is gone.

"Since you said that, let's go ahead and do it. In the history of the Zuo family's direct lineage, you are a wonderful flower. I only hope that you are also right in this matter and can create a miracle. But it needs to be agreed in advance. What’s more, even if you want to take some special measures, don’t provoke the Nine Great Soul Institutes and the Throne Family too much, we can’t afford to provoke them for the time being.”

Zuo Lan replied with a "hmm" and what he was thinking was that as long as the trade continued, their interests would be damaged, and a fight would be inevitable, but the premise was that the Nine Great Soul Institutes and the Imperial Family could find him .

Cross-regional trade is nothing more than the complete closure of transportation routes and channels. For Zuo Lan, who has a space array, the boundaries between regions do not exist at all.

During this period of embargo, the price of goods soared, and it was unimaginable how much profit smuggling could bring Zuo Lan.

When he left the flower hall, he turned his head and looked at Dabai on his shoulder, and said with a smile, "You are also very happy, right? Soon we will have a lot of soul crystals to eat."

Dabai rolled his eyes with a smile, and jumped up on Zuo Lan's shoulder, extremely cheerful.