"This, of course, I already had an idea."
Xue Yunzi smiled and pointed at the map on the table. "The Xuanwang City formation has been in disrepair for a long time. I've tried it before, and it takes a full twenty breaths from the time someone kills someone to the time the formation activates."
Shu Gaoming's heart trembled, but he remained calm on the surface. He said calmly, "Senior, what you mean is... to use the Xuanwang City formation to drive away the wandering cultivators in the city, so that the sacrifices will come to you automatically?"
Li Jude's face was filled with amazement, "Brother Xueyun, this method is truly amazing!"
Wan Lingmo was momentarily distracted, but then quickly reacted and nodded, saying, "It's indeed a good idea! However, the formations are mutually exclusive. If we want to activate them, wouldn't we also lose an equal number of people? Could it be that Senior has found other loopholes?"
"There are loopholes, but... the cost is high."
As Xue Yunzi spoke, he waved his sleeves and summoned dozens of patched iron-colored corpses that stood with their heads bowed. The strong stench of corpses spread out, and everyone around him changed color.
Corpse puppet!
"Although these corpse puppets of mine are not of high quality, they are well-fed and have reached the ninth level of Qi training."
Xue Yunzi glanced at Shu Gaoming and the other two, "If we let it out to muddy the waters, the scattered cultivators in the city will sense danger and gather here. However, my corpse puppet will inevitably be destroyed by the formation. I can't let this old man bear the cost alone, right?"
As soon as Xue Yunzi finished speaking, Li Jude readily threw out a storage ring.
Shu Gaoming and Wan Lingmo were not slow either, throwing out a ring one after another. Xue Yunzi looked at the resources in the rings one by one and nodded with satisfaction.
Xiang Hongyu stood respectfully aside, his face turning pale as he watched the deal being done.
This Xue Yunzi not only attempted to use the blood sacrifice of all the wandering cultivators in the city to break the formation, he even took out the corpse puppets that were against the will of heaven. He was clearly a complete demon cultivator!
What made him even more unbelievable was that Shu Gaoming and the other two actually completely agreed with his proposal. Were they all crazy?
There were more than ten thousand independent cultivators in Xuanwang City? Tens of thousands of lives were wiped out by just a few words from these four people?
"Hahaha...boy, now you see clearly?"
The old man's demonic voice echoed in his sea of consciousness at the right moment, filled with thick sarcasm. "Back then, you were extremely displeased with my suggestion of the furnace and cauldron method, but look, aren't your fellow disciples the same? In the world of cultivation, is there any distinction between good and evil? As long as we have common interests, we can come together at any time."
As Xiang Hongyu listened, his lost eyes gradually came back to focus.
Something seemed to break in his heart, and at this moment, he finally understood.
This Xueyunzi is full of evil and has lost all conscience. How many lives have he taken? But isn't he still respected by all the sects and schools?
The goodness that he had always insisted on and the good and evil that he had always been entangled with were simply a joke in the eyes of the monks!
Only cultivation is everything!
The dark light in Xiang Hongyu's eyes gradually intensified. "Senior, I now fully understand. When we return to the Blazing Flame Sect, please help me capture Xiang Sheng. I want to switch to practicing the magic way!"
The old man laughed heartily, "This child is teachable!"
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When Xiang Sheng returned to the earth building, Lu Zhu immediately stopped practicing and came up to ask him all sorts of questions.
"There's not much information. I only know that the entrance to your Lu family's ancestral land is in the ruins of the North City. It's blocked by elite forces from various sects and cultivation families, making it impossible to get close."
Xiang Sheng said this briefly without mentioning anything else.
Lu Zhu nodded and said, "A location is enough. At worst, I can wait until they all enter the ancestral land, and then sneak in."
Having said that, he was silent for a moment, and then continued, "After the ancestral land is opened, the cultivators who are raiding and killing outside the city will definitely be tempted to follow in. The mountain path is the safest, so you should take this opportunity to leave."
Xiang Sheng glanced at him and shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid it's not that simple."
Lu Zhu was slightly startled, "Sister, you're not leaving?"
Xiang Sheng pondered for a moment, then asked instead, "Do you have any magic weapon to strengthen your cave?"
Lu Zhu didn't understand what Xiang Sheng was going to do, but nodded and said, "Yes! Before I escaped from the palace that day, my father gave me a storage ring. Inside it were three array plates that could strengthen my cave abode and also provide concealment."
"Take it all out and use it."
Xiang Sheng pointed at the door of the room and said, "It's best to seal this door completely."
"all?!"
Lu Zhu was stunned, and said with a pained look on her face, "Sister, these three array plates are all treasures left by the royal family. It would be a waste to use them all. Can we just use one?"
Xiang Sheng seemed not to hear Lu Zhu's words and continued to speak to himself, "This earthen building may look fragile, but it is actually integrated with the Xuanwang City formation and is indestructible. Simply place all three formation plates over the door immediately."
Lu Zhu said in a sad voice: "If one piece doesn't work, then... two pieces?"
Xiang Sheng's expression was calm. He pointed at the door and said word by word, "Three dollars."
Lu Zhu could only sigh and resigned himself to throwing out three array plates. Three beams of mysterious light were activated one after another, completely covering the door.
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