"It seems something big happened today; the City Lord of Beifeng City and the heads of various major families all rushed to the northwest." Fu Mingcheng saw Lu Yu return and said to him.

Lu Yu nodded and said, "I saw, but is there any intelligence regarding this in the Jianghu Network?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Mingcheng paused for a moment and said, "We're still investigating."

In usual circumstances, such a major event would have been immediately reported by the Jianghu Network. However, now, the leadership of the Jianghu Network in the Tianfeng Province has just changed, and a group of people below are openly and secretly vying for influence, thinking they also have a chance to rise to power.

Fu Mingcheng used the treasure he obtained from Lu Yu to persuade the leaders of other regions, barely stabilizing his position.

But those below haven't stopped; each one of them wants to rise to power. Before Fu Mingcheng can fully control the Jianghu Network in Tianfeng Province, he cannot operate as effectively as Zeng Wentao did.

He can't always obtain important intelligence first-hand.

Although the Jianghu Network might receive important intelligence, it remains uncertain whether those below would report it to Fu Mingcheng. Just in the Beifeng City area, there are three or four people who aren't on good terms with Fu Mingcheng, both openly and covertly.

They were on the same level as Fu Mingcheng before, and now that Fu Mingcheng has risen to power, they feel they could also rise up, replacing Fu Mingcheng.

As for why Zeng Wentao voluntarily stepped down to give up his position, others have heard a bit; it's because Fu Mingcheng has a powerful backer.

Judging by Fu Mingcheng's recent actions, it seems his powerful backer is targeting the Iron Grave organization, and others are also doing their utmost to gather intelligence on Iron Grave.

They hope to gather enough leverage to oust Fu Mingcheng and attach themselves to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu roughly guessed what might have happened; gathering so many Core Formation Realm experts means there might be only one Demon General in that direction worth such a big fuss.

Perhaps there are other forces unknown to Lu Yu, but he has a hunch that the commotion made by the Demon General attracted the experts of Beifeng City.

Not mentioning what just happened, Lu Yu asked, "What is the Eight Fiends organization? They seem to be targeting me. The poison master who attacked here last time was one of the Eight Fiends, and today I encountered two other Fiends, the Butcher and Ghost Hand."

Fu Mingcheng, hearing this, showed a look of surprise, "You encountered the Butcher and Ghost Hand? Did you kill them?"

"Yes, the Butcher's strength was decent, and Ghost Hand, although troublesome, wasn't too formidable." Lu Yu said calmly.

Fu Mingcheng was shocked. Ghost Hand aside, the Butcher was a notorious villain; it was rumored he had once injured a Core Formation Realm expert.

To injure a Core Formation expert with just Sea of Qi realm cultivation, such power could only be described as terrifying.

The fact that such a terrifying Butcher actually died at Lu Yu's hands, and from his tone, it was as if the Butcher and Ghost Hand had teamed up against Lu Yu, only to be counter-killed by him.

Fu Mingcheng was shaken and hurriedly said, "The Eight Fiends is a loose force formed by NPC Martial Cultivators wanted by the imperial court. From the intelligence in Jianghu Network, the Eight Fiends are closely related to Iron Grave."

"The members of the Eight Fiends have been seen many times in major cases manufactured by Iron Grave. The more reliable theory is that the Eight Fiends is a subsidiary organization of Iron Grave, specializing in helping them deal with troublesome opponents."

"You have already been consecutively attacked by the poison master, the Butcher, and Ghost Hand from the Eight Fiends, indicating that Iron Grave attaches great importance to you. It is estimated that subsequent attacks will not cease. I suggest you stay at the Divine Weapon Pavilion for now and avoid going out until you get through this rough patch."

"After all, the Eight Fiends are wanted by the imperial court, and there are wanted posters for them everywhere. They can't operate under the nose of the authorities for long; after this period, they might leave Beifeng City."

"Hmm." Lu Yu nodded thoughtfully, indicating he understood.

It seems Iron Grave hasn't given up on targeting him. If he'd known, he might have spared one or two lives to backtrack and find their backers.

"Do you have news of any other members of the Eight Fiends?" Lu Yu asked.

Fu Mingcheng pondered for a moment and said, "Wait a moment."

He rummaged through various intelligence records stored in his backpack from the Jianghu Network. He remembered someone specifically looking up the intelligence on the Eight Fiends in the past. When he inherited Zeng Wentao's authority, Fu Mingcheng also obtained the intelligence archives from his hands over the years.

After searching for a while, he finally found documents related to the Eight Fiends in the corner. These pieces of intelligence were all contained in a dossier.

Without caring about the Jianghu Network's rules on intelligence, Fu Mingcheng directly gave all the core dossiers to Lu Yu to review.

Originally, this intelligence was meant to be converted into corresponding monetary transactions, but given Lu Yu's current status, he doesn't need to pay money to use the Jianghu Network's intelligence web for his purposes.

Or rather, he has already paid, exchanging for goods consigned to sell through the Jianghu Network.

Even if other Jianghu Network executives learned of Fu Mingcheng's actions, they wouldn't block it, and might even become more proactive.

The thing they now want to do most is to oust Fu Mingcheng and get Lu Yu under their control; this channel that can continuously generate wealth is something everyone desires to have exclusively.

However, Fu Mingcheng has kept Lu Yu's existence very hidden, with very few people knowing that what he had was obtained from Lu Yu.

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