Chapter 269: The "Standpoint" Dispute (Part 2)
Six or seven ferocious-looking men rushed into the door, and their eyes lit up the moment they saw Qiu Yun.
The warriors of the Liu family knew that it was impossible to wipe out the Wei family in one fell swoop, so the purpose of rushing into the Wei Mansion tonight was very clear, which was to capture as many "hostages" of sufficient weight as possible alive to use as bargaining chips in the negotiations between Liu Zhongchun and Wei Xianzhi.
Qin Caizhen is a master in the late third rank, so it would be difficult to capture her alive.
So their main targets are Wei Qiaoling and Lu Jingyao.
As long as these two people can be caught, even if Wei Zhaohai shows up or reinforcements from Xuan Jingsi arrive, they will not dare to do anything to them easily.
Unless the Wei family doesn't care about the lives of these two people.
"This is the maid!"
"Hurry up! Catch him alive!"
The leading warrior shouted loudly, and immediately someone rushed over and sealed Qiuyun's acupoints with a few moves.
This was not because they were afraid that she would resist, but because they were afraid that she would commit suicide.
After all, the hostages only have meaning if they are alive.
“.”
“Plop!”
His body trembled violently, and then he collapsed to the ground powerlessly.
Qiu Yun bit her lips tightly and never looked at where Lu Jingyao was hiding, thinking that she could hide it from the group of bandits.
But she was not a cultivator after all, and she didn't know that it was extremely difficult for an ordinary person to hide himself from a warrior.
What's more, the leader on the opposite side is a master of the third level.
"snort!"
With a cold snort, the man with a scar across his face narrowed his eyes slightly and swung his sword down without hesitation.
“Crack!”
The huge embroidered bed instantly shattered into countless pieces of wood, and Lu Jingyao, who was hiding underneath it, was exposed to everyone without any surprise.
Without waiting for Scarface to say anything, one of his men immediately stepped forward and sealed Lu Jingyao's acupuncture points, not even giving the latter a chance to say a word.
"Brother! Let's retreat quickly!"
Someone had already lifted Qiu Yun and Lu Jingyao onto their shoulders, and shouted anxiously, "Once the Wei family ancestor comes out of seclusion, it will be too late!"
The Liu family knew that Wei Zhaohai had been in seclusion on the third floor of the Wei family's martial arts pavilion for a long time.
Since it is a "seclusion", it means that he is basically isolated from the outside world. Even if something big happens and he needs to come out to solve it, there will definitely be a period of time in between.
It was for this reason that the Liu family warriors dared to suddenly launch an attack and break into the Wei Mansion, just to take advantage of the gap before Wei Zhaohai came out of seclusion to quickly end the battle.
Now that Lu Jingyao has been caught, although they don't know what the situation is like on Wei Qiaoling's side, they should evacuate as planned.
But "Wait!"
The scarred man suddenly took a half step to the side without making any noise, and ordered in a low voice:
"Put the person down first."
Jiuding Mountain.
When Wei Changtian ran to the gate of Tianluo Sect in the heavy rain that had not been seen in a thousand years, the scene he saw was shocking to the extreme.
The huge Jiuding Mountain was filled with black shadows running around. Heavy rain was washing away the ruins. Purple lightning shone through the night and dark clouds, illuminating the rocks and broken trees. Thick smoke was billowing from the charred beams and rubble.
Including the Black Tower, only one in ten of the Tianluo Sect's buildings remain, almost all of them were destroyed in this endless waterfall of thunder.
The famous and upright sects in Daning would probably never have imagined that the Tianluo Sect, which they had besieged dozens of times in vain, would be annihilated by a thunderbolt.
If this news gets out, the entire green forest will probably applaud and celebrate.
For the "victim" Tianluo Sect, encountering such a natural disaster was undoubtedly extremely unfortunate. However, the silver lining was that these lightning bolts had short eyes, so the casualties were not heavy.
“Grandpa!”
After finding Qin Zhengqiu on a huge rock, Wei Changtian leaped over to the latter and shouted, "What's going on?!"
"Changtian?"
Qin Zhengqiu suddenly turned around and was about to speak, but at this moment, a purple dragon with the power of thunder came down from a distance and hit the ancient mountain gate with the words "Tianluo" engraved on it.
“BOOM!!”
With a loud bang, the mountain gate that was more than ten feet high exploded, and the two words "Tianluo" were shattered into pieces with the flying rubble.
“.”
Seeing this scene, Qin Zhengqiu's body shook violently, and Wei Changtian was silent for a long time.
"Grandpa, you."
"I'm fine."
Qin Zhengqiu shook his head with a complicated expression, trying his best to make his voice calmer.
"Changtian, why are you here?"
"This rain is so unusual. I saw lightning and thunder over at Jiuding Mountain. I was worried so I came to take a look!"
Wei Changtian answered loudly: "Grandpa, take everyone to Shuzhou City to take shelter first!"
"avoid"
The waterfall falls from the sky, half competing with the Milky Way.
Qin Zhengqiu looked up at the night sky filled with lightning and thunder, as if a god was hiding in it, and murmured, "The long sky."
"Since the founding of the Tianluo Sect, those so-called famous and upright sects have besieged Jiuding Mountain 22 times, big and small, and the Tianluo Sect has never avoided it."
"But I never thought that I would be forced to this point by a thunderbolt."
"Tell me, does this count as fate playing tricks on us?"
Is it fate?
Wei Changtian was stunned for a moment.
He had never been a cult leader, and he had never held a position like "squad leader" or "manager" before traveling through time, so he could not fully understand Qin Zhengqiu's feelings at this moment.
However, he had watched a documentary about the "Burning of the Old Summer Palace" in his previous life, and he thought that the feeling of powerlessness and sadness should be similar.
"Grandpa, I don't know if it's fate."
After a pause, Wei Changtian's expression turned serious.
"I only know that as long as there is green mountain, there is no need to worry about running out of firewood. As long as people are still alive, there is still a chance to make a comeback!"
"The Tianluo Cult is not just these few houses and stones!"
“But these living people!”
Wei Changtian turned his head suddenly, stood in the rain, pointed at the people of the Tianluo Sect who were running behind him to put out the fire and rescue people, and shouted at Qin Zhengqiu: "Grandpa!"
"They are the Tianluo Cult!!"
“.”
"boom!"
It seemed as if there was another thunder exploding in his ears. Qin Zhengqiu's eyes suddenly widened, and his mind suddenly became clear.
yes.
People are the foundation of a religion.
Such a simple truth, why didn't I figure it out before? "All disciples listen to my orders!!"
Suddenly, a voice mixed with the power of the second grade reached the ears of every member of the Tianluo Sect.
This sentence was short, yet extremely powerful, even drowning out the roaring thunder.
“Follow me down the mountain!!”
Wei Mansion.
"Big brother."
"You, you are actually a spy of the Wei family"
"How is this possible? How can this be possible?"
“Puff!”
The shadow of a knife flashed, and the last head fell to the ground amidst the splattering blood, rolling "gurgling" to Lu Jingyao's feet.
The latter widened his eyes in disbelief, and was so shocked by this sudden change that he almost forgot to breathe.
A few moments ago, she thought she had no way to escape this time.
However, in the next moment, she watched helplessly as the leader of the gang suddenly attacked and chopped off the heads of all his accomplices in a flash.
"Mrs. Lu! Are you okay?"
After untying the acupuncture points for Lu Jingyao and Qiuyun, Scarface turned his head to observe the situation outside the house, and then hurriedly whispered: "I am the young master's man!"
"Young Master."
Lu Jingyao stared at the man in a daze, and then cried out in joy.
"Changtian! Is it Changtian?!"
"It is Master Wei."
Scarface nodded, bowed his head and said, "Mrs. Lu, Miss Qiuyun."
"Just now, I didn't take action immediately to ensure that everything would go well. I hope you can forgive me!"
"Please move to the inner room, ladies. I need to take care of the body here, and I'm afraid you might feel uncomfortable seeing it."
“.”
From despair to astonishment, and then to sudden enlightenment.
Lu Jingyao and Qiuyun looked at each other and obediently went to the inner room to hide.
Scarface also began to deal with the "scene" in case anyone from the Liu family came and discovered something unusual.
Scarface did not lie, he was indeed Wei Changtian's man.
To be more precise, he is a "senior" of the Liu family who was instigated by Tongzhouhui to rebel.
As a third-rank warrior and one of the Liu family's top fighters, he naturally received the order to launch a surprise attack on the Wei Mansion at the first opportunity.
It’s a pity that there are hundreds of people involved in this operation, and they are all gathered in one place, so it is undoubtedly difficult to run ahead and report the news.
And even if the news was reported in advance, the Wei family might not have enough time to react.
So he could only hold it in until just now when he took advantage of the opportunity when his "accomplices" relaxed their vigilance after their success and suddenly launched an attack, saving Lu Jingyao and Qiu Yun in one fell swoop.
“.”
He quickly dealt with the body and hid in a corner of the house.
Scarface was afraid that Lu Jingyao and Qiuyun would encounter another accident once he left, so he decided to stay here until what happened tonight came to a conclusion.
In his opinion, although the people sent by the Liu family were not weak, if they really waited for the reinforcements from the Wei family to arrive, they would end up being wiped out.
Unless Wei Qiaoling and Lu Jingyao can be captured alive before that.
But Lu Jingyao is fine now, and judging from the sounds of fighting coming from not far away, the Liu family should not have succeeded in taking over Wei Qiaoling's place yet.
That makes sense.
After all, Wei Qiaoling is the daughter of the Wei family, and Lu Jingyao is just Wei Changtian's concubine. The guard force around the former must be stronger.
"call"
He breathed a sigh of relief, but his eyes were still fixed on the courtyard where the corpse was lying, guarding against any possible accidents.
One of the three big hens in the yard had died, and the remaining two were so scared that they ran away somewhere unknown, leaving only chicken feathers soaked in a pool of blood. The scene was somewhat funny.
“Why are you still raising chickens?”
Scarface muttered quietly, obviously unable to understand why a wealthy family like the Wei family would raise chickens in their home.
However, before he could think about it, a sudden surge of momentum made him instantly turn his gaze to a three-story stone tower in the distance.
As a fellow top third grade official, Scarface knew the source of this aura very well.
Second level realm! It's Wei Zhaohai!
As the Wei family ancestor came out of retreat again, he understood in his heart—
The Liu family's last desperate struggle failed.
"Grandpa, this way!"
Jiuding Mountain, the road to heaven.
Although Qin Zhengqiu's last words were "Follow me down the mountain", he did not lead the Tianluo Sect members down the mountain at this moment. Instead, he and Wei Changtian plunged into the dense forest beside the mountain road.
Raindrops poured down, smashing the dense leaves above his head and landing on the compass in his hand.
As the white light emitted by the compass became stronger and stronger, Wei Changtian's footsteps became more and more rapid.
The demon-detecting compass suddenly lit up when he and Qin Zhengqiu were going down the mountain together a quarter of an hour ago.
If the compass lights up, it means there is a monster nearby.
Although there is no evidence to prove that this monster is Yunlian, Wei Changtian feels that it is almost certain.
Even if it turns out not to be the case, we must make it clear now.
However, because they didn't know Yun Lian's specific cultivation level, in order to be safe, they called Qin Zhengqiu again.
Now the two have been searching in the direction indicated by the demon-detecting compass for a quarter of an hour. Judging from the brightness of the light, they should be very close to the target. "Changtian!"
Suddenly, Qin Zhengqiu stopped abruptly, narrowed his eyes, and stared at a huge rock not far away.
Huh? Wei Changtian, who was running in front, also stopped and followed the former's gaze. Only then did he notice the strangeness of the boulder.
"This is."
The strange blood-red lines were baring their fangs and claws, and despite being repeatedly washed by heavy rain, they still did not fade, and even became brighter red.
"Grandpa, what is this?"
Wei Changtian turned his head and asked, "Have you seen it before?"
"No."
Qin Zhengqiu frowned and shook his head, then stretched out his hand and pointed deeper into the dense forest.
“.”
“Boom!”
A flash of lightning illuminated the forest, and also illuminated Wei Changtian's astonished expression.
"This is fucking great"
He blurted out a curse word subconsciously. The shocking level of the scene before him was no less than the ruins of the Tianluo Sect just now.
A piece of open space with a radius of 100 meters was full of strange rocks, and it was densely covered with countless blood-red patterns that were exactly the same as the ones on the huge rock! This scene was just like the scene of a sacrificial ceremony of a cult.
No, it should be several times more infiltrating than that.
“.”
After looking at each other, Wei Changtian and Qin Zhengqiu slowed down and walked towards the open space step by step very cautiously.
As they got closer, they felt colder and colder all around them, as if they were falling into an icy cave.
"Changtian, you walk behind me."
Qin Zhengqiu suddenly took two quick steps, and his clothes fluttered without wind. He must have been ready to take action at any time.
Wei Changtian didn't bother to be polite at this time. He walked diagonally behind Qin Zhengqiu, constantly looking at the compass in his hand.
He had tested it with Yang Liushi before. If the light reached this level, it should be less than ten feet away from the monster. So what would he see next? A fish?
A young lady? Or was it just a misunderstanding, and it was just an ordinary monster?
"clatter!"
"clatter!"
The mud and water under his feet exploded like flying ink.
Wei Changtian and Qin Zhengqiu both stopped suddenly, holding their breath and staring at a woman who was slowly walking out from behind a huge rock in front of them.
Or maybe female ghost would be more appropriate.
The cheap linen skirt was full of holes, and the exposed arms and legs were covered with sunken, bloody wounds, each several inches long, as if they had been bitten by something.
"W-Who are you?"
Amid the sound of rain, a whisper of doubt reached the ears of the two.
“.”
Wei Changtian did not answer, but called up the system interface in his mind and asked back with narrowed eyes.
"Miss, is your name Yunlian?"
"Hmm?"
The woman looked up blankly, her little face covered in blood and mud, full of confusion.
"How do you know my name?"
"Bang!!!"
"Bang!!!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Wei Changtian and Qin Zhengqiu suddenly raised their hands at the same time and each slapped a shocking palm towards Yun Lian, who still had a confused look on her face.
Like thunder falling in a dense forest, two strong lights, one gold and one white, exploded instantly.
A full-strength attack from a late-stage second-grade expert.
A divine strike worth five hundred system points.
Neither of them held back, nor did they have anything to say to this fish monster they had never met before, and they each launched their strongest attacks right from the start.
All this happened so quickly that even with the effort used in the palm strike, Yunlian only had less than a breath of time.
Wei Changtian didn’t think Yunlian could do anything in this short period of time.
The fact seems to be true. (ps: two chapters in one)
(End of this chapter)
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