In addition to Qianyuan City, where the essence of the Northern Alliance is located, there are eighteen large forces, thirty-six medium-sized forces and seventy-two small forces among the forces under the Northern Alliance.
Generally speaking, if you want to become a large force of the eighteen, there must be at least one Dharma Ancestor in this faction; The real person in the middle stage of forging is the lowest sign of medium-sized forces; Even if it is a small force, it must have a real person who forges alchemy to erect its own banner.
Although the Li family had Li Xiuzhu's advanced pill forging period in the past two years, and then Chu Ting nominally joined the Li family after the advanced pill forging period, the strength of the Li family has increased a lot, and its position on the three islands has also been consolidated, but the strength of the Li family is still at the bottom among the thirty-six medium-sized families, and many small forces have surpassed the Li family in terms of the number of forging pill real people and the overall strength, just wait for this Dan meeting, the Li family cannot pass the strength certification of the Northern Alliance, Give up the position of the medium faction for them to compete for.
Every hundred years, the Northern Alliance will take advantage of the founding celebration of the Northern Alliance to hold a competition meeting of the major forces, when the three large, medium, and small forces will either choose alchemy, or refining tools, or arranging formations, or making talismans to compete with each other, and then evaluate the status of each force through the comprehensive strength developed by the major forces in the past hundred years. In the same way, the last six medium-sized forces will also be replaced by the six strongest small forces; When it comes to the last twelve small forces, the major forces of the Northern Alliance will choose from the forces that do not enter the North Sea.
The Li family ranked 29th out of 36 medium-sized forces last time, and only lived next to the six medium-sized forces that were eliminated, making it one of the "favorite" candidates to be downgraded to a small force this time.
When Lu Ping rushed to the foot of Qianyuan Mountain in the middle of Qianyuan City, Li Maolin and Li Xiuzhu, the heads of the Li family, were already waiting here.
Lu Ping nodded expressionlessly, Lu Ping knew in his heart that it was naturally because of what happened yesterday, the two had a conflict, naturally out of sight and out of mind, and Li Maolin obviously already knew about this, Li Xiuzhu glanced at Lu Ping, and saw him following Li Maolin expressionlessly towards the towering Qianyuan Mountain, thinking about it, after all, he didn't say anything, and silently followed Chi Lianying behind Lu Ping.
"Isn't this Brother Li from Sanjia Island? This time Dan will come early!" A middle-aged scribe with three long beards slowly came from the side with several people.
"Oh, it's Brother Shangguan, Brother Shangguan is here on behalf of the family this time, I'm afraid it's inevitable for your family to advance to a medium-sized force, right? My Li family is not as good as the Shangguan family, and it is impossible to say that this Danhui will be replaced by Brother Shangguan's family.
Li Maolin saw the person coming, and his face changed slightly, but he still greeted the visitor and chatted and laughed.
"Brother Li's family is not bad, I heard that two years ago, my niece and one of the devotees in the family both advanced to the pill forging period, and Brother Li's family's strength has improved greatly, but I don't know which alchemy master Brother Li invited to participate in this pill meeting?"
Li Maolin only brought a few people behind him, and the eyes of the head of the Shangguan family only lingered on Lu Ping and Chi Lianying.
"It's just a little help, after all, both of them have just advanced, and they are both women, not as good as Shangguan Haoxian's nephew, I heard that the cultivation has reached the second level of forging pills, and now they have taken care of family affairs in place of Shangguan brother."
"Uncle Li praised him, what can my nephew do, but he is just doing odd jobs under his father." Behind the head of the Shangguan family, a handsome young man who had never left his eyes from the beginning of the day hurriedly said respectfully when he heard this.
When Li Xiuzhu saw this person, he couldn't help but frown.
"Brother Li, what did you think about what my brother mentioned to you last time?" The head of the Shangguan family hid a knife in his smile and asked: "The daughter of the dog and Brother Li can also be regarded as a talented woman, and the family is right, this time my Shangguan family is bound to advance to the thirty-six medium-sized forces, when the time comes, even if Brother Li's family will be reduced to a small force this time, the Zhang and Wang families of Sanjia Island will not dare to do anything."
Li Maolin pondered: "Brother Shangguan is so sure of the advanced medium-sized forces this time?"
"Of course!" The head of the Shangguan family said quite confidently: "My Shangguan family has five monks in the pill forging period alone, and there are two monks who have reached the middle stage of pill forging.
The head of the Shangguan family pointed to an arrogant old man behind him and introduced to Li Maolin.
Li Maolin's face changed, and he said in surprise: "But Mr. Yue Jiang Ruiyue?"
The arrogant old man saw that a real person like Li Maolin called himself "Sir", so he nodded with great satisfaction, but did not speak.
Li Xiuzhu, who was next to Lu Ping, looked a little gloomy when he heard the head of the Shangguan family talk about the marriage between the two families, as if he was extremely reluctant, and when he heard the name "Yue Jiangrui", his face was also full of surprise.
Lu Ping didn't know the details of this Yue Jiangrui, and Chi Lianying on the side explained in a low voice: "This Yue Jiangrui has been immersed in the art of alchemy for hundreds of years, but because his cultivation cannot break through the alchemy period, he is always one step away from becoming an alchemy master, but this person is not small in the Northern Alliance, all because there are dozens of kinds of half-step forging period pills refined by his hands, and the pill success rate is even higher than that of some alchemy masters, so he has always been considered the first person under the alchemy master."
When Lu Ping heard this, he was also quite surprised, Lu Ping was refining no more than ten kinds of half-step forging elixirs in total, which was simply not the same as this person.
Li Maolin thought for a while, and then said: "In the matter of marriage, although there is the order of the parents, it is more important whether the two are in love with each other. But this time, my Li family may not be able to keep the position of these thirty-six families."
The head of the Shangguan family changed his face when he heard this, Li Xiuzhu's expression just now, who didn't see it in the eyes of everyone present, Li Maolin's statement was already a clear rejection of the marriage between the two families.
At this moment, Yue Jiangrui, who had been holding his hands behind his side of the Shangguan family, pointed at Lu Ping and suddenly said: "Is it this milky boy who is not dry for the Li family to rely on this Dan Society?"
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