Chapter 513: Counterattack (3)

"They are the worshippers, the peak masters, the elders, and the most outstanding disciples of Bamboo Peak."

Tao Zi transmitted a message to the other two, and then silently counted the number of people. There was not a single cultivator above the Jindan stage missing.

Zhufeng is keen on attracting independent cultivators and giving them the position of guest elders. Compared with the sparse disciples of the main peak, they are numerous, and the direct disciples have always been excellent. For this reason, they have coveted the position of the main peak countless times. However, the master of Zhufeng is not as good as the master of the main peak, the worshipper of Zhufeng is not as good as the worshipper of the main peak, and the senior brother of Zhufeng is not as good as the senior sister of the main peak, so they have to retreat again and again.

Tao Zi recalled the past and felt that life is impermanent.

She bowed silently and solemnly, and Wuyan and the others did the same.

At this moment, a photo stone suddenly flew in the air and stopped in front of them, leaving a series of photos.

Fifteen days ago, Qinglan ordered all Mahayana elders from each peak to go to the main peak. Zhufeng used the excuse that the elder was seriously injured to delay, but Zhufeng could no longer leave Minglan Sect.

Several disciples of Zhufeng suddenly showed abnormal behavior, and the peak master resolutely killed the abnormal disciples and completely destroyed their bodies;

The worshiper took measures to force the black fog to appear, but he suffered a great disaster because of it. Before his death, he transformed his own cultivation into a formation.

To keep the formation running, the leader of Bamboo Peak and others sacrificed themselves one after another, from the Out-of-Body Stage, to the Nascent Soul Stage, and then to the Golden Core Stage...

"Rather than becoming an alien, I would rather die and keep my fellow apprentices alive."

This is what each disciple must have said when choosing to offer sacrifice.

Therefore, it is not that Zhufeng is dirtier than other places in Minglan Sect, but that these "dirty airs" have not found a host and are lingering outside.

Yue Qingya lowered his voice and said, "Do you want to take them out? I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on for much longer."

Wu Yan and Tao Zi shook their heads at the same time.

Tao Zi said, "Let someone else come in and take care of not only these disciples, but also Black Mist."

Yue Qingya knew that the black fog might be hiding the truth about the disciples' abnormality, but why didn't he move these disciples out?

Wu Yan silently looked at the formation, while Tao Zi explained, "It might be safer for these disciples to stay in the formation than to leave."

Until everything is confirmed, it is best to keep things as they are.

She sent a message to her brothers outside Zhufeng, asking them to bring people who were proficient in formations. Maintaining the formation's operation was the best way to save the lives of these disciples.

Suddenly, she looked at Wuyan, and then at Yue Qingya at the same time. The three of them realized something was wrong at this moment.

Tao Zi sent the message again without hesitation.

They hurried back to the main peak.

Wang Xu took a step forward: "Master, is there any news from the ancestor?"

"We were tripped up by the Tiandao Sect, but we should be arriving soon." The Sword Sect's leader looked at them and said, "You just said something was wrong with the main peak, and asked us to come immediately. Now, tell us in detail what happened."

Tao Zi recounted the story.

The Sword Sect's leader and the Buddha Sect's head immediately realized that something was wrong.

Sect Master Wang sighed, "Qing Lan actually started preparing fifteen days ago... When we decided to take action, our ancestor said there was no need to keep it secret. With the ability of the Heavenly Venerable, he must have sensed his fate long ago. I still held out a faint hope."

As he said this, he shook his head.

Buddha asked, "During those few days, no one was able to break through the isolation formation of Bamboo Peak?"

She replied, "Judging from the contents of the photo stone, no."

This strangeness, combined with the current situation, makes anyone guess that there is something wrong with the main peak.

Cheng Wuchou added a few words, "Ever since Ah Zi escaped, Zhufeng has been closed to the outside world. It's even so strict that disciples who leave the peak are not allowed to return. I've always suspected that Zhufeng might know something, but I can't get in touch with them."

Wang Xu also added: "The Sword Sect can't be contacted either."

Tao Zi looked towards the main peak and suddenly said, "The master worshipped at Bamboo Peak seems to have fought against alien races before, and he often traveled along the border during his lifetime."

The so-called border does not refer to the junction of humans, monsters and demons, but the place where alien races are entrenched - the vicinity of Guishan Mountain. It is sparsely populated, with only a few Xuanyue creatures and alien races stationed there, and is called a wasteland.

After the war that year, it was said that the alien race was sealed in Guishan. In fact, the alien race was only intercepted outside Guishan. Outside Guishan is more than half of Xuanyue's area.

Over the long years, the two sides formed a tacit understanding: once a large number of alien races or Xuan Yue creatures went to the wasteland, it would be regarded as the beginning of war.

After three thousand years, not to mention the short-lived mortals, even many cultivators have forgotten the existence of the other half of Xuan Yue.

Buddha sighed softly and said, "When I was young and energetic, I and Sect Master Wang once went to Guishan together. The environment there is really... It is truly admirable that someone can be active there so often."

This is probably the difference between the disciples of Fo Le's generation and Tao Zi's generation. In Fo Le's generation, basically all the famous cultivators had gone to the desolate land for training, but in Tao Zi's generation, basically few cultivators went there, and few even remembered the desolate land.

Tao Zi suddenly said, "Come to think of it, when the Minglan Sect became one of the Three Sects, I tried to send people to the Desolate Land to guard it, but they stopped me. They said that the Desolate Land had its own creatures guarding it, and told me not to cause trouble. Later, I heard that people from the Three Sects and Four Gates had to conceal their identities when going to the Desolate Land to avoid being besieged by foreign races or giving them an excuse to attack."

Wang Xu nodded and said, "Indeed."

"So, who's guarding it?"

For a moment, no one spoke, and finally it was Master Wang who said, "I don't know."

This time, Tao Zi was really stunned.

Buddha smiled helplessly and said, "It's not that I'm hiding it from you, it's just that we don't know either. We only heard from the previous leader that the one guarding there is a being from three thousand years ago. That being seems to be afraid of something and won't allow us to send people there easily, otherwise he will be expelled. We can only take turns to secretly test it every once in a while to see if it is still alive. We should have told the Minglan Sect, but the Minglan Sect is really..."

Cheng Wuchou then added: "Not only the Minglan Sect, but also the Xujia Sect seems to be unaware of it."

Wang Xu looked at him silently, then hesitated for a moment before saying, "Fellow Daoist Cheng should know what's going on with Xujia Sect."

Cheng Wuchou was silent for a while, and after a while, he became cheerful. From a certain perspective, he and A Zi were indeed brother and sister.

At this moment, a powerful pressure covered the entire Minglan Sect.

The Sword Sect’s Patriarch is here!

Feeling the familiar pressure, Sect Master Wang and others immediately relaxed a little.

Tao Zi suddenly felt a surge of uneasiness in her heart, a feeling that was hard to describe or explain.

The Heavenly Lord of Stopping Killing stood in mid-air, his eyes first sweeping across the main peak, then looking at Tao Zi.

Tao Zi raised her head and clearly saw the unconcealed helplessness in the eyes of Zhisha Tianzun.

At that moment, she realized one thing very clearly: the Lord of Stopping Killing would not kill him, nor would he kill the alien soul that occupied her master's body.

She had clearly prepared herself mentally a long time ago, but when the moment came, she still couldn't help but feel cold all over.