Chapter 219 Preparations for the War
Leng Youran stayed in the space for a whole year. During this year, she spent all her time refining pills and meditating to restore her spiritual power. During this period, Tao Yao took great pains to make her favorite food. As a result, the monsters raised in the space for food suffered a lot. They would be captured by Tao Yao from time to time and made into various delicacies. Of course, these delicacies would be eaten up by Leng Youran and the contracted beasts in the space.
Leng Youran looked at the storage bag on the shelf and stretched. He looked up and saw Tao Yao walking towards him, so he walked over, grabbed her sleeve, and said in a long voice, "Tao Yao~" The voice gave Tao Yao goose bumps, so she said helplessly, "Master, I know what you want to do. Yun Shang and I will prepare it now. This time I will cook for you braised prawns, honey chicken, steamed fish, sweet and sour spare ribs, a plate of green leafy vegetables and prickly melon, and finally a pot of spiritual chicken soup. How about it?" Leng Youran nodded repeatedly after listening, and kept praising Tao Yao and Yun Shang for becoming more and more capable.
Leng Youran was enjoying a delicious meal in the space, but the situation outside was getting tense. Yan Long, the deputy leader of the Blazing Flame Mercenaries, urgently summoned all the mercenaries back. He didn't explain anything, but told them that there would be a move in three days, and asked them to prepare for a big battle. The cultivators of the Tang Family were also very nervous at this time. The Patriarch of the Tang Family looked at the disciple standing on the ground with a gloomy face, and asked with gritted teeth, "What did you just say? Say it again to me." The disciple kneeling on the ground trembled with fear when he heard this, but he still repeated what he had just said, "Patriarch, the soul tablet of the Ninth Elder suddenly shattered. Because the Soul Hall needs to be cleaned every three days, we don't know when the soul tablet of the Ninth Elder shattered. Also, many disciples who went out for training in the past few days have had their soul tablets shattered. Just when I came to report, hundreds of people had already disappeared." The face of the Patriarch of the Tang Family darkened a little, and he sat down. The faces of the elders nearby all looked very ugly. An elder walked in from outside with a gloomy face. He waved his hand with a dark face when he saw everyone, and motioned the disciples kneeling on the ground to go down first. After the people left, he slammed the table and said angrily, "What has been going on recently? Who did our Tang family offend? Ninth brother suddenly lost contact three days ago. I have been looking for him for several days but couldn't find him. So I came back to see what happened to him." This person was Tang Chou, the eighth elder of the Tang family. She was in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, so this time when the disciples went out for training, he and the ninth elder Tang E were to send each other off. Now that he suddenly couldn't find his ninth brother, he became a little restless.
But as soon as he finished speaking, everyone sitting in the hall fell silent. Finally, the Tang family patriarch broke the silence, "Ninth brother has disappeared. We just received the news. Just when you came in, the family disciples came to inform us that the ninth brother has disappeared. Not only that, but many other family disciples have also disappeared inexplicably.
"Eighth brother, tell me what happened in the Juyuan Mountains." The eighth elder Tang Chou frowned and began to carefully understand what happened in the mountains. In fact, he also had a vague idea of what had happened during this period. After about a quarter of an hour, he slowly spoke, "In fact, this is inevitable. What our Tang family did this time is bound to offend others. Those disciples disappeared inexplicably. It may be that they provoked cultivators who should not be provoked. And the disappearance of the ninth brother is a little unusual. To kill the ninth brother, his cultivation must be higher than the Nascent Soul stage, but there are no cultivators higher than the Nascent Soul stage in Huocheng. That is to say, the ninth brother may have encountered a cultivator in the Out-of-Body Stage from other places, or even higher. "High-level cultivators," he suddenly paused and looked at everyone in disbelief. At this time, the others also realized that the disciples of other families might have offended other high-level cultivators. After all, the Juyuan Mountains are very large and there will be many high-level cultivators. Even Jindan stage disciples will be attacked if they go out. However, most of the disciples they sent out this time are foundation-building stage disciples. Although there are also Jindan stage disciples, they are only a small part. So they know that being killed is inevitable. However, the disappearance of the ninth brother is not that simple. In Huocheng, apart from the Leng family, that family is the only one that has a grudge against them.
The Tang family's head's face was so dark it looked like ink could drip out of it. Could it really be someone from the Wen family? Even if the Wen family had dispatched a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, with some more powerful treasures, they could have killed the ninth brother without anyone noticing. But was it really done by the Wen family? Could it be someone from the Leng family who was trying to frame the Wen family? So he looked up and asked the third elder who was sitting on the side with some uncertainty, "Third elder, you have been keeping an eye on the Leng family these days, so is it possible that the Leng family did it and wanted to put the blame on the Wen family!" The third elder was still thinking about the possibility that the Wen family did this, and suddenly heard the patriarch's question and thought for a while before speaking with certainty, "This matter was not done by the cultivators of the Leng family. The high-level cultivators of the Leng family have been in seclusion during this period. Only some peripheral disciples have been frequenting the Leng family during this period. Those core disciples have been recalled by the Leng family leaders for seclusion since we took action against the Leng family, and those leaders can only retreat in the family in order to improve their cultivation, hoping to deal with our next moves. These are the news from the nails we planted in the Leng family. These news should not be false, so I can be sure that this matter was not done by the Leng family." The reason why the third elder of the Tang family said that the Tang family cultivators were in seclusion, and did not say that the Tang family disciples had obtained a lot of high-level elixirs, was because the Leng family leaders kept the news secret, and the disciples who knew had already gone into seclusion to practice, so even if they wanted to spread the news, it would be impossible.
The head of the Tang family frowned, not knowing what to do for a moment, and the elders sitting in the hall also frowned. Finally, the chief elder spoke and broke the silence in the hall.
"I don't think the Leng family did this. Among the Leng family's senior members, only their ancestor has reached the late Nascent Soul stage. The highest level of cultivation among the others is only the late Nascent Soul stage. If they wanted to kill my ninth brother without anyone noticing, it would be impossible without any special abilities.
I think the Wen family might have done this, because we suspected that the Wen family had stolen our treasure pavilion and library, so they are giving us a warning!" The first elder said what he was thinking, wanting to listen to other people's thoughts. At this time, the fifth elder sitting on the side could not help but speak up, "Patriarch, I think this matter should be done by the Wen family. They sent people to our Tang family to plunder it before. The fifth elder who came back last time said that our Tang family, which is so big, only gave him so little. I think she thought that we didn't give enough, so she sent people to steal our treasure and library. She wanted to teach us a lesson with this incident, but they didn't expect us to come to their door, which made them lose face, so they killed the ninth brother to let us know how powerful they are." The words of the fifth elder resonated with everyone, because according to the current speculation, the Wen family was the most likely culprit.
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