Myths Begin From Boys' Gong

The first meeting between the two parties was quite pleasant. Meng Zhao and Zhao Ruling stayed temporarily in a small courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion. After Zhou Jiankang identified the traitor forces in Sifang City and found 500 trustworthy people, they would return together.

During this period, they were just passers-by in Sifang City, and at most provided assistance when Sifang City encountered any difficult opponents.

The two of them took this opportunity to take a stroll around Sifang City.

Zhou Jiankang quickly summoned the heads of the Zhou, Fu and Zhang families in the name of the city lord to come to the city lord's mansion to discuss matters.

The head of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuanming, the head of the Fu family, Fu Yanqing, and the head of the Zhang family, Zhang Baiyu, are all powerful masters at the level of grandmasters. They are also the characters in their own families who have the final say and never go back on their words.

The three of them even seldom took charge of clan affairs. Most of the time they were in seclusion practicing and looking for the opportunity to advance to the supreme level of heavenly beings. After all, compared to worldly rights, they were more eager for transcendence and progress in their own martial arts.

Only when something major happens that concerns the life and death of Sifang City will they be called out to discuss a feasible solution.

After receiving Zhou Jiankang's message, the three were also very surprised. They called the people who assisted in managing the family and asked about it. Nothing special had happened recently. But they were a little puzzled. Since there was nothing wrong in Sifang City, how dare Zhou Jiankang disturb their practice?
Therefore, when the three of them arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, their expressions were not very good and their faces were stiff.

The head of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuanming, is about 40 years old, with thick eyebrows and curved eyes, and a unique appearance. He is not very handsome, but he gives a good feeling. His facial features combined give people a sense of trust and security. He is considered the most outstanding one among the three.

The Fu family's patriarch wasn't ugly in appearance, but he was stout and had a belly as big as an eight-month pregnant woman. At first glance, he looked like a cheerful local tycoon. Not only did he not have the slightest dignity of a patriarch, but even his arrogance as a grandmaster was somewhat dampened by his body shape.

Zhang Baiyu, the patriarch of the Zhang family, has a normal appearance, but he is short and his muscles and bones appear a little weak. At first glance, he is a warrior who is not good at physical combat. Moreover, outside his body, there is a condensed aura that gathers all the time and does not dissipate. He has a profound cultivation and is the best among the three.

Zhou Jiankang saw the three family heads coming together with unhappy expressions, and he knew the reason, so he started to apologize, plead guilty, and so on, showing great sincerity.

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Even though the three men's cultivation was higher than Zhou Jiankang's, and in terms of status, the patriarchs of the three major families and the invisible forces were also higher than the city lord, they still had to give the city lord a certain respect, so they took the opportunity to back off.

Zhou Yuanming and Zhou Jiankang are closely related, they are cousins.

Therefore, without paying attention to anything else, I asked directly,
"Stop talking nonsense. Our three families have already reached a conclusion. If there is no major event that will affect the life and death of Sifang City, there is no need to disturb our retreat. Today, you not only called me, but also the heads of the three families. Just say whatever you want. There is no need to be taboo."

Zhou Jiankang did not dare to hide anything and told everyone about Meng Zhao, Zhao Ruling and Bei Jun in detail.

The three of them frowned when they heard this. Bei Jun was okay, but he was a big shot in Sifang City. His celestial cultivation was the realm they were tirelessly pursuing. Moreover, this man was also the patron saint of their Sifang City and had a high status.

As for Meng Zhao and Zhao Ruling, they had many complicated thoughts in their minds, especially when Zhou Jiankang said that Meng Zhao was willing to cooperate and pointed out that Sifang City might have been infiltrated by Beitang Sheng a long time ago, which surprised the three of them.

The focus of the three people at this time is the traitor. The external influence, that is, whether Meng Zhao cooperates or not, can be seen later, but whether there are traitors in the city, how many traitors there are, how many of the traitors are sent by Beitang Sheng, and how many have defected to the Hundred Clan, are all unknown.

But no matter which one it is, for Sifang City, traitors are cancer and must be eradicated. Otherwise, if they are allowed to grow, it will only lead to greater hidden dangers in Sifang City until it is destroyed.

The three family heads are all men of vision, strategy and foresight, otherwise, they would simply hold on to the authority of the city lord and the power of the family themselves, without establishing a rotation system for the city lord's mansion, or handing over the power of the family to their assistants.

That was why they understood why Zhou Jiankang was so anxious to call them out.

"Jiankang, what do you want to do? I remember the last time we checked the household registration in the city, there were roughly 270,000 people, not including the floating population. If we check them one by one, it will be a huge project and it cannot be done in a short time.

Once they act too radically and are discovered, the traitors may take other actions.”

How should I put it? The key problem of Sifang City now is that the population is too large and too diverse, while there are actually very few people who can be trusted and used.

Even if it is credible in theory, it may actually be a form of disguise to gain favor, and may not necessarily be accurate.

For example, Zhou Jiankang trusted someone and firmly believed that he would never betray his family for the so-called glory and wealth and return to the better life in China, lament Sifang City, and join Beitang Sheng. Therefore, he sent the other party to participate in the screening operation.

However, he placed his trust in the wrong person, and the other party might use this opportunity to plant a nail in Sifang City, which would be bad.

And as Zhou Yuanming said, even if they really have the determination and perseverance to identify and verify them one by one, this process is bound to cause disputes in the outside world and then expose them to the traitors.

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At that time, no one could predict what would happen and what the outcome would be.

Zhang Baiyu said in a sharp voice, with a hoarse feeling like a steel knife scraping bones,
"Even if that Meng Longwang has put forward a series of characteristics, we cannot use them as a basis to conclude that there is something wrong with the other party. Otherwise, the huge Sifang City and the bloodlines of many families will inevitably collapse."

Why did he say that?
It's very simple, because as the head of the Zhang family, although he has been studying martial arts and practicing hard, he is not really ignorant of the family situation.

Not to mention the other two families, and just talking about the Zhang family, in fact, many people fit the characteristics of the traitor that Meng Zhao mentioned.

Zhang Baiyu also had a hunch that many of them did have problems, but the problems might not be very serious.

If they were all beaten to death and punished in the most severe way, how would they, the heads of the families, face their relatives and friends?
Legal principles are nothing more than human feelings, and Sifang City is not a real country, but just a small city, where human feelings and connections are more important than anything else. (End of this chapter)