"Hmm~! Changqing, you'd better remember this: just as I can lift you up, I can also crush you. You'd better remain loyal to me and don't try to flirt with the masters of other peaks, otherwise..." Ling Xiaotian said this, and slapped the table next to him with his palm. The solid ebony table was visibly reduced to powder under Ling Xiaotian's palm.
Li Changqing was startled by Ling Xiaotian's sudden action. Looking at the table that had turned into powder, Li Changqing felt a chill on his neck.
Li Changqing was still in shock, and he only heard Ling Xiaotian's voice floating in the sky: "Changqing, did Yue Zhenshan really say that he wants to draw a clear line between himself and our Xiaoyao Peak?"
Li Changqing tried his best to calm his mind and replied, "Master, Peak Master Yue said that the Maoshan Sect is very powerful, and he wants to preserve the last of the Yushan Sect's heritage. Therefore... in future battles with the Maoshan Sect, the disciples of Piaomiao Peak will not participate."
"Yue Zhenshan, that old bastard, is going too far!" Ling Xiaotian cursed with gritted teeth. Even though he had expected this, after hearing Li Changqing's answer, Ling Xiaotian was still angered by Yue Zhenshan's shameless behavior.
After Ling Xiaotian became the head of the sect, Yue Zhenshan was the first peak master to come and join him. Ling Xiaotian still remembered that Yue Zhenshan was afraid that Ling Xiaotian would not believe him, so he pointed to the heavens and drew the earth to swear an oath, saying that he would be loyal to the head of the sect for life.
In order to "repay" Yue Zhenshan's "loyalty", Ling Xiaotian also passed on the "Furnace Ding Gong Fa" he practiced to Yue Zhenshan.
Three years ago, Yue Zhenshan was only an early Jindan cultivator. Now, Yue Zhenshan has reached the middle Jindan stage. One can imagine how much Ling Xiaotian's "Furnace Cauldron Method" has helped him.
No! That old bastard Yue Zhenshan slipped up when he swore. He said "finally, the leader," not "finally, Liu Jingyu." Damn it! He'd been fooled by this old sly fellow!
Thinking of this, Ling Xiaotian's face turned very dark, as if he could squeeze out a cup of ink at any time.
"Master, do we need to bribe a few disciples from Piaomiao Peak to act as insiders and keep an eye on Peak Master Yue's movements?" Seeing Ling Xiaotian's face darken again, Li Changqing felt a little panicked, but he had to bite the bullet and ask.
The Yushan Sect was now beginning to fall apart. With the exception of Wu Caixia of Caixia Peak, who had no choice but to follow Ling Xiaotian, the other three leaders refused to obey the Sect Leader's orders.
"No need. Yue Zhenshan won't be able to stay alive for long." Ling Xiaotian waved his hand and rejected Li Changqing's proposal.
Li Changqing didn't know this, but Ling Xiaotian himself knew it all too well. When he first taught Yue Zhenshan the "Furnace Cauldron Technique," Ling Xiaotian had kept a secret, not telling him that the furnace cauldron he used for his training required a female cultivator whose spiritual roots matched his own.
Yue Zhenshan had been practicing in furnaces and cauldrons for the past few years, and his body was filled with spiritual energy of all kinds. Given time, he would surely go astray due to the excessively mixed spiritual energy. Humph! This was the fate of Ling Xiaotian, who had betrayed him!
"Then...should we summon back the disciples from Xiaoyao Peak and Caixia Peak on the front line?" Li Changqing dared to ask this question only after seeing that Ling Xiaotian's expression looked better.
After the Yushan and Maoshan sects declared war, every ten days, the two sects would engage in a decisive battle in the "Devil Valley." Each battle would involve one hundred disciples from each side, and the battle would last for a day and a night.
In the decisive battle, the lives of the disciples on both sides were left to fate. After a day and a night, if any of the disciples who participated in the melee were still breathing, the opposing side would not pursue them and would allow them to return to their own sects to recuperate.
In the first two duels, the Yushan Sect had the upper hand. The Yushan Sect disciples constantly beat up the Maoshan and Xianxia Sect disciples.
The disciples of the Yushan Sect who participated in the battle were drawn from the four peaks. As for Jinping Peak, Yuzhu refused to accept the order from Li Changqing to become the leader, and even refused to activate the peak protection formation.
Yuzhu replied to Li Changqing that Master Wenfeng was not there and as a menial disciple he could not make the decision.
Li Changqing was nearly pissed off by Yuzhu. A menial disciple? He, Li Changqing, wanted to be one too. He also had the difficult-to-serve Ling Xiaotian under his wing. And what about Yuzhu? Yuzhu had the final say on everything at Jinping Peak.
However, Jinping Peak refused to send anyone, and Li Changqing had no choice.
The protective formation of Jinping Peak could withstand the combined attack of several Nascent Soul cultivators. After Jinping Peak activated the formation, as long as Yuzhu and the others stayed in hiding, even the Sect Leader Ling Xiaotian would be unable to break into Jinping Peak.
At the beginning, Ling Xiaotian and Li Changqing didn't care that Jinping Peak did not send anyone to participate in the war.
After all, the Yushan Sect had many disciples. Without the Jinping Peak disciples, the disciples from the four peaks could share more of the spoils. After all, cultivators generally carry their belongings with them. The loser not only loses their life, but also all their wealth.
Three days ago, things took a dramatic turn after the Maoshan Patriarch of the Maoshan Sect came out of seclusion.
Three days ago, it happened to be the day of the decisive battle.
When the Maoshan Patriarch learned that his only beloved disciple, Mao Daling, had been harmed by Ling Xiaotian, he was so enraged that he smacked more than a hundred Yushan disciples into pieces. Among them was the head of Qingyun Peak, the Jindan cultivator Li Yuanpei.
As soon as Li Yuanpei died, the disciples of Qingyun Peak dispersed.
Li Yuanpei died so quickly that he didn't even have time to leave a final word. Li Yuanpei's disciples all wanted to become the master of Qingyun Peak, and they had little interest in Ling Xiaotian's "punitive action" against the Maoshan Sect.
Qingyun Peak also followed Jinping Peak's example and opened the peak protection formation, saying that they would not contact the outside world until the new peak master took office.
Upon seeing this, Yue Zhenshan, the master of Piaomiao Peak, quickly summoned all the Yushan Sect disciples from his own peak back from the front lines. Yue Zhenshan was no fool. If Qingyun Peak didn't join the battle, his own Piaomiao Peak would suffer heavy casualties. Who would he find to take his place?
Yue Zhenshan also opened the peak protection formation.
Li Changqing had just followed Ling Xiaotian's orders to blame Yue Zhenshan for withdrawing his men without reason.
But who would have thought that Yue Zhenshan would actually say this: He withdrew the disciples from Piaomiao Peak in order to preserve the strength of Yushan Sect!
Ling Xiaotian was so angry that his nose was almost crooked. Ling Xiaotian wanted to punish Yue Zhenshan, but unfortunately, after more than half a year of diligent "cultivation", he, the head of the sect, was only at the middle stage of foundation building. Compared with Yue Zhenshan, who was at the middle stage of golden elixir, he was really not good enough.
If Wu Caixia of Caixia Peak had not had nowhere to retreat, she would have probably followed the example of Piaomiao Peak and Qingyun Peak and withdrawn her disciples.
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