Chapter 3 Bloodline Boundary
Ji Linhai got up and rushed towards the red pearl tree immediately.
But when the smoke cleared, there was no trace of the tree. The ground was covered with tree fragments. There was no longer any trace of the sacred tree that their Ji family had guarded for a thousand years.
Ji Linhai began to frantically look for Ji Qingling among the branches and trunks, his heart full of regret.
He originally thought that Hongtai's ultimate goal was the Red Pearl Tree, and Ling'er should be safe staying under the tree.
If he had known this, even if he couldn't defeat Hong Tai, he would have risked his life to rescue his child first.
"Ling'er, Ling'er." Mo Sanniang fell to the ground and screamed helplessly.
"Ahem, Mom, I'm here."
Ji Linhai and Ji Qingyuan stopped searching, and Mo Sanniang also immediately fell silent.
"Here."
A sound coming from the roots of the tree.
A few people moved the thick tree trunk away, revealing a large cocoon wrapped in branches.
He swung his sword to cut the branches, and found Ji Qingling lying inside, tightly wrapped in the branches.
At the moment of the explosion, the spiritual tree opened its branches and wrapped her tightly.
After the explosion, the rich spiritual energy around the body dissipated instantly, and it turned into fragments on the ground like an ordinary tree.
Over there, Hong Tai was looking at the pile of ruins with a face as dark as ink. He thought it would be easy to break the barrier with the treasure of the City Lord's Mansion, the Divine Wood Tripod.
I didn't expect that the Ji family's blood barrier would self-destruct.
Now the spirit tree and the treasure tripod were shattered into pieces by the explosion. I don’t know how to explain it to the head of the family when I go back.
He has no interest in other people.
He then summoned a magic flying weapon and left. This time, the Hong family really had no way of explaining to the City Lord's Mansion.
Just as Hong Tai left, a cultivator riding a flying sword came flying from a distance.
"Third elder, third elder." The village chief hurried over to greet him when he saw him.
"What on earth happened?" The Third Elder was shocked when he saw the mess on the ground.
“It was Hong Tai from the Hong family. He brought a magic weapon to break the barrier and seize the spirit tree, but he didn’t expect the barrier to explode.
The spirit tree was destroyed and the fifth elder was seriously injured."
At this time, the third elder also noticed the fifth elder lying in the distance.
The injury is indeed too serious. If he doesn't receive treatment, his life may be in danger.
Ji Qingling watched as the Third Elder raised his hand and summoned a winged lion from his spirit beast bag, then carried the Fifth Elder on the beast's back and prepared to leave.
"Third Elder!"
The third elder turned around.
"us……"
The village chief chased them out. They were originally from the Ji family and had been guarding the spiritual tree, but now the spiritual tree was destroyed...
The third elder pondered for a moment and said, "You guys stay in the village for now, the clan leader will make arrangements when the time comes."
A group of people looked up at the Third Elder and the Fifth Elder leaving Xiaowang Mountain. They felt abandoned. Several generations had been guarding the trees for the Ji family, but this was the outcome.
The crowd gathered around a pile of broken branches and dead leaves, groaning and sighing, with the sound of a few women crying softly heard among them.
Some of them, like Ji Qingling's family, have only come to the village in recent decades.
There are also people like the village chief who have made it their responsibility to guard the sacred tree for generations.
The village chief knelt on the ground, holding a broken branch in his hand, with mixed feelings.
“Alas, when the Ji family’s ancestor discovered the red pearl tree in Xiaowang Mountain, our Ji family was just a low-ranking family.
The old ancestor had made great achievements in alchemy. He refined the red pearl fruit into a soul-tempering pill that could refine spiritual energy.
It is thanks to this Soul-Quenching Pill that the Ji family in Tongcheng is what it is today.
It was also thanks to the resources brought by the Soul Tempering Pill that the ancestor became the only Divine Transformation Stage cultivator in the Ji family."
Speaking of these village chiefs, they were filled with emotion, as they were their ancestors.
“I heard that the Ji family was so prosperous at that time that even the City Lord’s Mansion had to give in.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The old ancestor who had achieved the state of transformation was seriously injured while he was out.
When he fled back to the Ji family, he only had time to arrange his funeral arrangements, and then he died after setting up a barrier around the spiritual tree.
Since then, the Ji family has not produced any more Divine Transformation cultivators, and the number of Nascent Soul cultivators has also been decreasing.
The Ji family was no longer as strong as it once was and gradually declined."
The decline of the entire Ji family seemed to have taken less than a hundred years.
From a big family, it fell into second-rate status.
“Decades ago, the last Yuanying elder in the family died.
The one with the highest cultivation level now is the Great Elder who has been seeking a breakthrough and has remained at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core."
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Qing Ling had already heard the history of the Ji family's rise and fall from his father.
She really had no good feelings towards the so-called Tongcheng Ji family.
Over the years, she had also heard complaints from villagers that the share the Ji family received was vastly different from that of the villagers in Tongcheng.
What they got was only slightly better than that of the independent practitioners with no foundation at all.
Every year, a portion of those Soul-Tempering Pills are sold to the outside world.
The rest would be distributed to the tribesmen for their practice, but they didn't see a single grain in Xiaowang Mountain.
"Lin Hai, is your Qing Ling okay?"
Finally someone remembered that Ji Qingling had just been kidnapped.
"Yeah, in that explosion, Ling girl wasn't injured?"
"Oh, it must be protected by the spirit tree."
"Indeed, I saw that person's magic weapon was blown to pieces."
"Girl Ling, did you see any miracles in that barrier?"
Seeing the villagers starting to talk about her, Ji Qingling didn't know how to respond.
Want to tell the truth?
It seems there is nothing that cannot be said.
“After the tripod came up, the barrier soon began to crack, and then the branches of the spirit tree rolled me up.
Before the explosion, I seemed to hear someone saying, 'Don't be afraid, I will protect you.'
Then the barrier exploded, and nothing happened."
For a moment, everyone fell silent.
The village chief's eyes were red.
"It's worth it that we have taken care of the tree for generations. I'm afraid a spirit has appeared in the tree and is protecting our child."
He turned around and kowtowed devoutly to the spiritual tree. Ji Linhai also pulled Qing Ling to kneel down together.
The other tribesmen also kowtowed silently.
This kneeling carries with it reluctance to let go of the past and confusion about the future.
Now no one knew what to say, so the village chief had to tell everyone to clean up the surroundings and then go home.
More than half a month had passed and no one from the clan had come to inform them what to do.
The village chief thought that they would not be notified to return to Tongcheng for a while, and everyone couldn't keep being so anxious all day long.
Then he called all the families together to discuss the matter and continued as before, hunting animals, collecting herbs, and practicing in peace and quiet.
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