I'm the one running the game

The Shangguan family is from the Tiejian Sect. Some disciples will go down the mountain to marry and have children when they are about the same age, and then send their children to the Tiejian Sect in the future, so as to form a win-win situation.

The Tiejian Sect gives them shelter, and they will hand in a dividend every year.

In this way, the Tiejian Sect can have a steady stream of money and resources. The families protected by the Tiejian Sect are not just the Shangguan family, but there are still quite a few.

This time I came to support the scene, so I just passed by.

So Meng Hu and Shangguan Ru are actually senior and junior brothers and sisters, but Shangguan Ru has not officially joined the Tiejian Sect.

But this time I will leave with him and formally teach him the corresponding martial arts.

Lu Xingshi finally agreed to follow him to the northern frontier. He did not think it was a coincidence. It was likely that the court had once again recruited the major sects.

It was just that Meng Hu and others did not know.

It's not nice to say it out loud. They are one of the five major sects in the world, but they are actually dispatched by the court. This is simply absurd. You know, they have always called the people who surrendered to the court as the court's lackeys and minions.

They claimed to the outside world that they were naturally chivalrous.

In fact, this is right. They are not dealing with the rebels, but the group of unorthodox people.

It is justified.

Lu Xingshi followed into the Shangguan Mansion. The Shangguan family runs a highly profitable business such as medicinal materials, furs, and cosmetics. With the Iron Sword Gate as a backing, they have a firm foothold and are very rich. From this mansion, Lu Xingshi can see how rich the Shangguan family is.

After entering the door, Meng Hu took Lu Xingshi to find the uncle of the Iron Sword Gate. Lu Xingshi also inquired on the way. The other party was called Qingfeng Kuaijian in the martial arts world, and his name was Cui Xuan.

After meeting, he listened to Meng Hu's story and expressed his gratitude to Lu Xingshi, and patted his chest to promise that he could follow them all the way to Saibei without any obstacles.

There was no contempt or doubt, but a pleasant and harmonious look. Meng Hu, on the other hand, was scolded.

He was his nephew after all. Fortunately, nothing happened. If something happened, he would be poked in the spine for life.

There were indeed intrigues within the sect, but this was only when it was internal. When it came to external affairs, they were still very united. Vicious internal struggles were rare. Once they appeared, it was a sect strife.

Most of them were benign competition.

Lu Xingshi swaggered into the seat of the Iron Sword Sect.

After the birthday boy Shangguan Zhe came out wearing festive clothes, the birthday banquet officially began, which made Lu Xingshi wait for about half an hour.

Shangguan Ru was in the last row among Shangguan Zhe's children, obviously the youngest.

Come to think of it, no matter how energetic Shangguan Zhe was, he couldn't be so strong.

Then there were his wives and concubines, but they just showed up and entered the inner hall.

After that, they started toasting. Lu Xingshi naturally followed suit. It would be a shame not to eat since he was here.

But as soon as he ate the food, he found that his health dropped by 1%, and then recovered.

"This thing... seems to be poisonous?" Lu Xingshi said softly.

The people at the Iron Sword Sect at their table froze at the same time.

Lu Xingshi was powerful, so the poison was exempted by his internal strength and bones as soon as it entered his body, but others might not be able to do so.

"Do you have any evidence?" Cui Xuan spoke immediately. He actually saw that Lu Xingshi was born extraordinary and it was possible for him to detect it.

"Colorless and tasteless, there are too many poisons of this type, and it is impossible to tell what kind of poison it is at once." Lu Xingshi said.

This poison is obviously some kind of high-level poison. Lu Xingshi has the relevant full-level ability value, but it is not so easy to distinguish colorless and tasteless.

Otherwise, the word colorless and tasteless would be in vain.

In fact, the main reason why Lu Xingshi failed to distinguish the poison was that he metabolized it too quickly, and he was gone before he could check it.

"How sure are you?" Cui Xuan asked.

"Wait a minute." Lu Xingshi said, stuffing another mouthful of food into his mouth, and then after feeling it for a while, he said: "Try to circulate your internal force to the position of one inch from your navel."

He did not answer how sure he was, and asked Cui Xuan to try it himself to find out.

Cui Xuan was not vague at all, and tried it directly according to Lu Xingshi's instructions, and felt pain in his abdomen, and vomited a mouthful of black blood.

"It is indeed poisonous, and you should all detoxify it according to Lu Xiaoyou's method!" Cui Xuan spit out this mouthful of black blood, which was equivalent to expelling the poison, so he immediately told other disciples to do so.

However, the fact that he vomited black blood naturally attracted attention, and then the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect vomited one after another, and the faces of those who attended the banquet changed.

"Someone poisoned the banquet, everyone..." Cui Xuan stood up and told everyone how to detoxify.

"But...but we don't have internal strength, how can we detoxify?" Someone asked with a sad face.

"Please help us, heroes, I am willing to reward you with a hundred gold coins!" Someone offered to bribe.

Most of the people who came to Shangguan Mansion to attend Shangguan Zhe's birthday banquet were local nobles, business partners, etc., and few of them practiced martial arts.

Their family traditions were either poetry and books or business, and they were not the kind who could endure hardships. It would be better to hire people as guards than to practice by themselves.

But I didn't expect to be poisoned here.

"Go, help them." Cui Xuan said to the disciples of Tiejianmen.

Then he looked at Shangguan Zhe. As an eighty-year-old man, he stood up tremblingly, as if he wanted to explain something.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he spit out black blood. It was obvious that he was also poisoned. It was not like they were only slightly poisoned. The poison was very deep and had already entered his internal organs.

"Does Mr. Lu have any way to save him?" Cui Xuan certainly did not want Shangguan Zhe to die. Shangguan Zhe was the pillar of the Shangguan family. Without him, how the Shangguan family would develop in the future became an unknown.

"It can't be saved. He is old and weak, and he has been poisoned for a long time. There is no way to save him." Lu Xingshi shook his head.

There is indeed a way to save him. He has seen it in a medical book in Linlang Tower, but the success rate is less than 10%.

It's okay if it succeeds. If it fails, who knows if the other party will blackmail him.

Moreover, he didn't think that the success rate of less than 10% could be encountered by the other party, so directly saying that there is no way is the best solution.

"But this matter may not be simple. It is a premeditated action." Lu Xingshi said.

Cui Xuan looked at the guests with a solemn expression. He was not sure whether they were coming for him or the Shangguan family. If it was the latter, it would be fine.

If it was the former, it was probably done by the evil people in Saibei, in order to prevent them from reaching Saibei.

This proved that the situation in Saibei was probably in danger.