120: Chapter 120, Volume One, End!

"Aren't you afraid I'll silence you?"

Facing Meng Li's threat, Xiao Hongye's expression remained unchanged: "Since I dared to come to your door, I have naturally made full preparations. I have an agreement with my uncle; if he doesn't see me by this time tomorrow, the young hero's secrets will be spread abroad."

Meng Li smiled: "To break a crisis, you don't hesitate to put yourself at risk. You have quite the courage."

This was heartfelt, not mockery.

Because in the original drama, Xiao Hongye not only joined forces with Jiang Biehe to resist Liu Xi, but even dared to threaten the Late Stage Jiang Yuyan. He really was bold!

However, his final end was also quite miserable.

Now, the object of his threat had changed from Jiang Yuyan to him.

To some extent, Meng Li could be considered to have inherited Jiang Yuyan's Karma.

After a moment, he spoke up and asked: "I heard that the Yihua Palace has a peculiar secret technique called the 'Mi Xin Great Technique.' Do you know anything about it?"

This topic jumped a bit fast. Xiao Hongye didn't understand his meaning for a moment, thought about it carefully following the words, and frowned: "It's the first time I've heard of it."

"That's good."

Xiao Hongye: "?"

In the next second, he met Meng Li's eyes.

...

A moment later, Xiao Hongye left.

Meng Li looked at the information on the table, thought for a bit, wrote a letter, and then sealed the letter and the information together.

Afterward, he disguised himself, found an East Depot lookout, and sent the letter to Yihua Palace.

A few days later, a piece of news shook the Martial Forest: Old Red Leaf and Xiao Hongye of the Red Leaf Pavilion were found by Yao Yue and Lian Xing of Yihua Palace and killed on the spot!

After that, branches of the Red Leaf Pavilion everywhere were suppressed and killed by mysterious forces.

In less than a month, the Red Leaf Pavilion was uprooted.

This matter caused countless Jianghu people to sigh incessantly, while many others secretly clapped and cheered.

The upper and middle levels of various Schools secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The Red Leaf Pavilion's intelligence capabilities were powerful and could indeed provide information to those with intentions, but they charged high prices. Moreover, to seek profit, Old Red Leaf and Xiao Hongye mostly caught people's weaknesses, extorted them, and even reversed black and white.

To these people with unclean backgrounds, the Red Leaf Pavilion was a thorn.

Whenever they faced Xiao Hongye and Old Red Leaf, although they had smiles on their faces, they hid knives in their hearts.

Now that these two intelligence chiefs were dead and the Red Leaf Pavilion was gone, it was a great thing.

For a time, their perception of Yihua Palace improved a bit.

As for the bloodbath of various Schools' experts not long ago...

Although the killing of School experts leading to a plunge in strength was not a good thing and was worth resentment, that was for the whole.

Looking at the individual, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Because the remaining people were basically mediocre ones who were originally in the middle and lower positions and couldn't make any waves. For them, with those experts and upper-level people around, they might never have a chance to rise to the top for their whole lives and would always be subordinate to others.

Now that the people above were gone, they had the opportunity to rise.

Even if the School's strength shrank because of this, it didn't have much impact. After all, as the old saying goes: Better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a Phoenix!

What's more, there wasn't just one School whose strength had shrunk, but a large number of them.

In this way, everyone was still on the same level; the big brother wouldn't laugh at the second brother, nor could he bully the second brother.

Therefore, while the new generation of leaders of various Schools harbored hatred toward Yihua Palace, it didn't stop them from secretly rejoicing over their own gains. At the same time, to prevent themselves from following in the footsteps of those Seniors and losing the remaining family assets, they coincidentally chose to rest, recuperate, and develop steadily.

With the elimination of the Red Leaf Pavilion, a large hand behind the scenes that stirred up trouble in the Jianghu was also gone.

When the two were combined, the constantly conflicting Martial Forest became calm and tranquil.

Occasional frictions were just minor squabbles.

Meng Li was also somewhat surprised by this situation, but felt it was a good thing and was happy to see it happen.

However, he didn't care too much.

Because after some preparation, he officially married Su Ying.

The ceremony was the same as when he married Jiang Yuyan and Xiao Xiao, but the scene was even more lively.

This was because there were many people on Su Ying's side: Chang Bai Cao and Su Rushi need not be mentioned, but the Five Great Villains, Xiao Yuer, Mu Rong Xian, E Tongtian, and Great Master Miao Fa also arrived one after another.

That night, the cherry blossom's stamen was broken.

Su Ying deeply understood what Tie Xinlan and the others meant by being unable to withstand him.

After a period of joy, life began to return to peace.

Meng Li's daily activities had one more item added to the original basis: exchanging the Dao of medicine and poison with Su Ying.

Not long after, a major event occurred in the Imperial Court: Princess Taka, the envoy from the Kunlun Tribe of the Western Regions who came to pay tribute, and the Iron-masked Consort—who was the disguised Hua Wuchuan—proposed a gambling match to the Imperial Court using the tribute horses and wool.

Princess Taka proposed three difficult problems. If the Imperial Court's side could solve them all, the Kunlun Tribe would lose, and they would provide more materials in subsequent tributes.

Conversely, if the Imperial Court lost, they would need to waive the Kunlun Tribe's tribute for three years.

The result was that the Imperial Court lost.

Meng Li knew about the gambling match beforehand.

Because the original drama had this plot, and also because Hua Wuchuan and Princess Taka had mentioned it briefly when they were at the Poison King Valley before.

Their purpose for coming to the Central Plains this time was for this matter.

Attending Xiao Yuer and Mu Rong Xian's wedding was instead an accident and a secondary matter.

What Meng Li didn't expect was that the Imperial Court would lose.

In the original drama, Xiao Yuer stepped forward for the Imperial Court in this gambling match and won smoothly.

Now, without Xiao Yuer's involvement, the Imperial Court lost. Aside from sighing about the Protagonist Halo, he didn't know how to evaluate it.

About half a year later, Meng Li married Jiang Yu Feng.

That night, the jade of Kunshan shattered and the Phoenix cried.

Not long after, Jiang Yuyan quietly brought Jiang Yu Feng to perform the swallow and Phoenix flying together.

Besides feeling ashamed and resentful, Jiang Yu Feng felt it was very stimulating, and then she followed suit and found an opportunity to bring Su Ying along.

Later, Tie Xinlan and Xiao Xiao were also pulled in by Jiang Yuyan, unlocking the five-player mode, with five fighting against Meng Li alone.

Lan, Ying, Yan, Feng—the Fragrance of Birds and Flowers bond was successfully unlocked, with Xiao Xiao acting as support.

After that, no more newcomers entered the Meng Manor.

Because Tie Xinlan, Jiang Yuyan, Xiao Xiao, Su Ying, and Jiang Yu Feng were united as one and kept a very close eye on Meng Li, and also because they had children, Meng Li had settled down.

The first to become pregnant was Tie Xinlan, who gave birth to a boy. Meng Li named him Meng Boxin.

Next was Jiang Yuyan, who also gave birth to a boy, named Meng Zhongyan.

The third child was still Tie Xinlan's.

Fortunately, it was another boy. Following his original promise, Meng Li had him take the surname Tie and named him Shulan, to continue the Tie family's lineage.

Tie Ruyun was happy for a long time, and his resentment toward Meng Li taking four concubines completely vanished.

Afterward, Tie Xinlan did not give birth again because she felt it was enough, and Meng Li also felt sorry for her.

But the Meng family's descendants did not stop there, because Xiao Xiao, Su Ying, and Jiang Yu Feng also gave birth.

Xiao Xiao and Jiang Yu Feng both gave birth to daughters, the fourth daughter Meng Jixiao and the fifth daughter Meng Wufeng.

Su Ying gave birth to a son, the sixth son Meng Luyin.

One person, six kids—this was something Meng Li wouldn't have dared to think about in his previous life.

Fortunately, he had quite a lot of assets and could afford to raise them.

When the children grew up, Meng Li became a hands-off boss, taking Tie Xinlan and the other five to travel the world and spend the rest of their lives in leisure.

Volume One, End!