Chapter 323 Disaster
Southeast of Qingzhou, on the Yuepo Plateau.
As the yellow sand continued to surge, countless figures were colliding violently in the sky.
In that instant, spells, immortal lights, and magic weapons all exploded into sparks all over the sky, falling to the ground with a whistling sound.
Then, a ray of fairy light shot up into the sky and fell. A flying treasure ship carrying the children of the Shang family was instantly pierced through and finally crashed to the ground with a loud bang.
The merchant's son who fell with the boat was not seriously injured. He immediately rose into the air from the loess-covered ground and headed towards the towering ruins.
There are very few fruits in the ruins of Broken Soul Mountain, and some of them are even shriveled and do not contain much power of heaven.
Therefore, Yuepo Plateau is extremely important to the Wendao Sect.
They were very eager to capture the ruins, and they sent teams several times to go through the back mountain in an attempt to bypass the ruins. Once they were discovered, the original confrontation would naturally turn into a fierce war in an instant.
Because the Chen family of immortals suddenly realized that the merchants from the Wendao Sect had never thought about sharing the fate of becoming immortals.
At this time, an old figure appeared on the loess plateau.
He was dressed in yellow brocade clothes and holding a wide-bladed iron knife in his hand. He was not conspicuous in the environment filled with yellow sand.
However, as his footsteps continued to create deep pits on the ground, he began to be surrounded by infinite fairy light.
Then the blade suddenly turned, and the buzzing sound in the sky instantly made everyone tremble.
"boom!!!!"
The iron knife came down from the air fiercely, instantly cutting a gully hundreds of miles long on the plateau. The Shang family disciples who were rushing in the front were turned into countless broken limbs and corpses under the fierce knife energy, and blood mist rose up in the sky.
This sword that was like a splitting of the sky instantly disrupted the rhythm of the Wending Sect's attempt to force open the ruins. The remaining disciples burst out with spiritual energy and then fiercely resisted the scattered sword energy.
But without a moment's respite, the old man in yellow turned the blade again.
After another buzzing sound, the fierce sword energy came down again.
But at this moment, dozens of figures appeared from the distant sky. The leader lightly raised the long sword in his hand, and with his powerful magic, he broke through the oncoming earth wave of hundreds of feet and directly pressed down the iron knife.
"Suichang old dog!"
Under the sword energy, Shang Xingkong, the deputy head of the Daodao Sect, shouted angrily, "Half of the Yuepo Plateau is within my Yuzhou territory. Do you really think that the ruins here are exclusive to your Chen family?"
Chen Suichang, the ancestor of the Chen Immortal Clan who had been in seclusion for many years, chuckled coldly, "A foot of a mountain is considered part of your Yuzhou territory? Stop your nonsense. You say that the Dao Sect is just an empty shell and you're just feeling resentful, but have you ever considered that this might be the will of heaven?"
"What do you mean, old dog?"
"What I mean is that Heavenly Dao wants you to tell the Dao Sect that your luck has run out and you can't compete for this immortal fate."
As soon as Chen Suichang finished speaking, dozens of people dressed like him appeared behind him, also with white hair and holding iron knives to greet him.
Right between the two sides, under the southwest sky.
A ray of light suddenly descended from the sky, blasting all the immortal cultivators approaching the ruins into a bloody mist.
The two men looked at each other, and their eyes instantly fell fiercely on the old man in the black embroidered mountain robe not far away.
"Old dog Huo Rong, it's been all these years, and you're still alive?"
"Thanks to you, I am still alive."
Chen Suichang gritted his teeth and said, "If you're talking about the Daoist Sect, that's fine, but what's the reason for you, the Shanhai Pavilion, to come here?"
Huo Rong raised his lips and said, "Back then, the demon from the Zheng family came from your Chen family's immortal clan, causing countless deaths and injuries to our disciples in the Qiling disaster. How can we allow you to approach the ruins again? Since our two sects are neighbors, Shanhai Pavilion naturally has the responsibility to watch over your Chen family on behalf of the world."
“High-sounding…”
"boom!!!!"
Amidst the loud bang, the explosion shook all around.
In the sky full of dust, the sword energy suddenly rose into the air and collided violently with the magic that was descending suddenly, causing a huge wave to rise.
Shang Xijie, the third son of the Wending Sect, stood on a hill not far away, his eyes slightly cold as he watched the scene unfold. "The Chen Immortal Clan claimed they wanted to sit down and negotiate with the Wending Sect, yet they secretly sent so many Wandering Divine Realm cultivators here. Fortunately, we were well prepared and didn't fall into their trap."
Upon seeing this, the guardian elder said in a deep voice, "I didn't expect the Shanhai Pavilion to take action..."
At this moment, a disciple of the Wending Sect flew up from the sky, stirring up a cloud of dust as he landed. "Third brother, we've spotted the second son of the Huo family in the southwest. He seems to be trying to take advantage of the chaos to enter the ruins."
Shang Xijie frowned, immediately soared into the sky, and flew towards the southwest.
His protectors and his disciple named Shang immediately followed, crossed half of the Loess Plateau, and rushed into a dense forest inlaid with a huge lake.
While flying in the air, Shang Xijie's clothes fluttered wildly, and then he gathered his hands together, and rays of blazing white light burst out from the air, like the rising sun tearing through the dense forest, and descended fiercely with a roar.
This is the secret technique passed down from generation to generation by the Wending Sect, the Nine Heavens Killing.
However, at the moment when the trees were breaking and the forest was shattered, an arc-shaped fairy light suddenly spread out in all directions, shattering Jiu Tian's murderous intent.
In the smoke and dust, Huo Xingyun was panting, and there was still a great deal of spiritual energy between his raised palms.
"Shang Xijie."
"Brother Xingyun, how are you?"
Huo Xingyun gasped twice, then suddenly jumped up, gathered thunderclouds in his hands, and instantly pressed down hard towards Shang Xijie.
Shang Xiyao seemed to be prepared as well. He immediately waved his hand to grasp the murderous intent condensed in the skylight and collided with it.
"Shang Xijie, your elder brother has taken control of the weapon, right?"
"What's the point of saying this!"
Huo Xingyun waved his hand, shattering the immortal light that was condensed with murderous intent. He suppressed the thunder in his hand with horror and shouted softly, "That year at the Immortal Sect's banquet, you and I first met. Although we were still young, I could tell at a glance that you and I were of the same kind."
Shang Xijie flew backward, then crushed the ground with his feet and attacked again with the light of heaven.
When the strong thunder force and murderous intent collided, the powerful combat power from Yingtian Realm directly sent the two of them flying hundreds of feet.
"Brother Xijie, do you think what Huo said is wrong?"
Shang Xijie looked up at him: "I really want to know what kind of person I am in your eyes?"
Huo Xingyun opened his mouth softly: "You are incredibly talented, but I am unwilling to give up."
"I'm really sorry for causing Brother Xingyun to misunderstand."
Shang Xijie turned his palm in horror, and Jiu Tian Sha roared again.
Upon seeing this, Huo Xingyun immediately formed seals and rose up. The roaring immortal light all over his body shot up into the sky with a hum, forming a square of condensed virtual light.
Mountain and sea seal.
"boom!!!"
The two figures collided again. Huo Xingyun used the Great Seal Technique to ward off the roaring murderous intent and shouted angrily, "You should know that in Qingyun's past thousand years, the one who inherited the sacred weapon was not necessarily the eldest son. It was just that they were born earlier that they had an advantage over us. But now it's different!"
Shang Xijie looked at him coldly as his blood boiled: "How is it different?"
"One person's strength cannot counter the will of the Immortal Sect, but now you have the Dao Fruit, which is authority. When you and your fellow Daoists have the ability to shake the Immortal Sect, I believe the Taoist Master will definitely change his mind."
"You want to cooperate with me?"
Huo Xingyun turned his head and looked at the ruins: "Everything is right before our eyes."
Shang Xijie narrowed his eyes slightly. "Let's not talk about cooperation for now. I heard that the headmaster of Shanhai Pavilion handed the matter of the ruins to you, but you brought people to fight for the Yuepo Ruins. Have you ever thought about what will happen in your backyard?"
Huo Xingyun's expression instantly turned cold: "Brother Xijie, what do you mean?"
"The Chen Immortal Clan has released news of peace talks, seemingly intending to share the Moon Soul Ruins with my Daoist Sect, but they have arranged for their own Divine Wandering Realm members to ambush here. I don't think they are delaying my Daoist Sect's time. If my guess is correct, someone from the Chen Immortal Clan has already entered Broken Soul Mountain."
"You can't shake my mind. I'm determined to take the Yuepo Ruins. Either you join forces with me, or we'll see who will win!"
The great seal of mountains and seas fell from the sky with a loud bang.
However, unexpectedly, Shang Xijie did not rush forward to fight as he did before, but turned around and dodged the powerful blow, looking at Huo Xingyun with fiery eyes.
Perhaps because they had the same background, the same situation, and were facing the same circumstances, although Shang Xijie did not admit it, he had to say that what Huo Xingyun said before was extremely accurate.
He was indeed unwilling to give up and was just as ambitious as he was.
But it doesn't mean that as long as you have the same mentality, you can become allies. After all, this is a matter of life and death. If you want to cooperate, the other party must have a firm will.
And just now, Huo Xingyun seemed to have shown a firm will.
In the distant sky, Qi Zhengyang looked down in the wind and saw that as the melee continued, Shanhai Pavilion and Wendao Sect suddenly joined forces and pressed towards the Chen family.
Seeing this scene, he stroked his long beard lightly, and then suddenly returned to the mountain amidst the whistling sword energy.
"Shanhai Pavilion and Wendao Sect have formed an alliance?"
"good."
Hearing Elder Qi's guess, Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu were very surprised and couldn't help but look back at their own appraiser.
Yan Shuyi was not that surprised, because Ji You had written to her earlier, talking about Shang Xijie and Huo Xingyun, so she was not surprised to learn about their alliance.
Since ancient times, the changes of power in the immortal sects have always been accompanied by this kind of open and secret struggles.
It seems that the ruins of the Yuepo Plateau will be opened by Shanhai Pavilion and Wendao Sect together. Perhaps a struggle for the throne will evolve within the sect later.
When he thought of this, Master Jian couldn't help but think of Chu Xian, the direct disciple of Xuanyuan.
The head of Xuanyuan also revealed his intention to pass the sacred weapon to his son at the Immortal Tour Conference. I wonder if Mr. Chu is willing to do so and whether he will take any action based on the Dao Fruit incident.
But after thinking about it carefully, the young master couldn't help but shook his head.
Chu Xian is different from Shang Xishun and Huo Xingyun. He is not of the immortal sect's bloodline, but a person of an outsider surname.
For the leader of the immortal sect, whether the sacred weapon is passed on to the eldest son or the second son, the power will eventually be passed down through the bloodline, and they will not interfere too much.
But if an outsider wants to get his hands on the holy weapon, he will probably be killed at the slightest thought.
As both were direct descendants of the Immortal Sect, Yan Shuyi had had several contacts with Chu Xian. He knew that this man was extremely intelligent and cunning, and would definitely be able to see through this fact.
Moreover, their Chu family was nearly slaughtered because they disobeyed the Immortal Sect. They should be more clear-headed than anyone else about such matters.
"Young Master Chu Cheng has arrived."
"Thank you very much."
Ji You jumped off the carriage, and after five days of flying and riding, he finally arrived in Chu City.
This is the Chu family's Taoist temple and also the largest city in Youzhou. Even the old royal family, the Li family, cannot match its scale.
The entire city is arranged in a circular shape, looks similar to the demon tribe, and is also divided into the inner city and the outer city.
The inner city is inhabited by the eight bloodline branches of the Chu family, with the main branch of the Chu family being the core.
As for the outer city, it is basically populated by relatives of the Chu family, as well as people who have dispersed from the eight major branches over the past thousand years.
Ji You chose the Chu family among the remaining three families of Du, Bai and Chu because the Chu family had a close relationship with the Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion, and many of the disappeared immortal villages in Fengzhou basically relied on the Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion.
He paid the driver a tip and walked along the road to the inner city, where he found that the inner city was heavily guarded. Like other noble families, it was still guarded by a large formation and no one could enter.
Moreover, because the entire city is related to the Chu family, the sudden appearance of an outsider would be very conspicuous, so Ji You was targeted not long after he walked in the city.
A man dressed like a guard stepped forward and said, "Sir, I'm unfamiliar with you. May I ask what brings you here?"
"travel."
"?"
"I've heard about the Chu family's fame for a long time, so I came here to visit while passing by."
"This place belongs to the Chu family. If you don't have an invitation, please don't stay too long."
“…”
The inner city of the Chu family is guarded by a large formation, and the outer city is monitored by spies. The level of martial law is comparable to that of the Immortal Sect. He stayed in the city for many days but failed to find a chance to get close. He could only pay close attention to the news around him and the discussions in the city.
At noon three days later, the weather was a little gloomy. Ji You continued to wander around. As he walked, his eyes suddenly opened and he saw a familiar figure in the circular inner street.
He was a man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes. He was wearing a long green gown and had his hair combed neatly. He looked very heroic.
In fact, it was not Ji You who saw him first, but he saw Ji You first, and then Ji You noticed him because of his gaze.
"Brother Fang?"
"Hey, Wuyou, why are you here?"
On the inner street, the man walked over with some surprise.
This person was none other than Fang Ruoyao's brother, Fang Ruoming, who now served in the Zhenbei Army.
Ji You bowed after hearing the question and said, "I have some things to take care of. I just happened to be passing through Youzhou and wanted to find a place to stay. Why are you here, Brother Fang?"
Fang Ruoming pointed in the direction of a high mountain in the distance. "The barbarians have been making frequent movements these past few days, and they seem to be raising an army. There's a crack in the city wall northwest of Youzhou. I'm escorting repairmen here, and I came here to take a look."
"Brother Fang is also interested in the Chu family?"
"After all, it's a family known as the eighth great immortal sect. Since I'm passing by, I naturally want to take a look."
After Fang Ruoming finished speaking, he looked at Ji You and said, "How about you go for a walk with me?"
Two years ago at the Tiandao Conference, Ji You met Fang Ruoming for the first time and told him that he had broken off his engagement with Fang Ruoyao.
But he didn't know why Fang Ruoming was still very affectionate to him and always called him brother.
But after all, they were from the same hometown of Yuyang County, and Fang Ruoming was indeed a few years older, so it was not excessive to call him brother.
It just so happened that Ji You was wandering around aimlessly and couldn't find any valuable information, so he readily agreed.
It was just noon, and Fang Ruoming took him to a small restaurant in the city. He ordered a few dishes with familiarity: "This is the specialty of this restaurant. You should try it later."
Ji You glanced at him and asked, "Brother Fang, isn't this your first time here?"
"To be honest, when I first joined the Zhenbei Army, I was responsible for guarding this section of the Youzhou city wall. I've been here for quite a few years."
"I see."
Fang Ruoming handed the chopsticks to Ji You: "Have you been home recently?"
Ji You nodded: "I just went back, but I didn't stay long before leaving."
"I am the same. I just arrived in Yuyang and received the military order after only a few days. I had no choice but to lead the team here in a hurry. My sister hasn't been home for a long time, and I, as her brother, haven't been able to see her."
"Brother Fang, have you left home to join the army long ago?"
Fang Ruoming nodded: "It should have been ten years now."
Ji You suddenly remembered something at this moment: "Back in the Holy Land of the Sages, Brother Fang left early?"
"Yes, I was probably one of the first to leave."
"No wonder we didn't see each other when we left."
Fang Ruoming smiled and said, "I wanted to wait for you at that time, but you were in the center of the Holy Land and I couldn't get in. I was afraid of missing you again, so I felt that there was still a long time to come and there was no need to rush."
After a simple lunch, the two left the restaurant.
Later, under Fang Ruoming's guidance, Ji You followed him to see many sights of the outer city as if he was on a tour.
For example, Jingbo Lake in the north of the city and Litchi Hill in the west of the city.
"The Chu family's city was built a long time ago, a thousand years ago."
Fang Ruoming took Ji You on a tour, and finally returned to a ancestral hall with raised eaves and raised feet on the main city road. Pointing at the row of buildings in front, he said, "There wasn't an outer city before. Later, as the family grew, it gradually expanded outward."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Ji You and found that the other party did not react.
"What's wrong?"
Ji You pointed at the building behind them: "What is this place? The ancestral hall?"
Fang Ruoming looked at it and chuckled: "Let's go in and take a look."
"Is there no one guarding it? I encountered many guards on the way here. You are not allowed to wander around."
"Things built in the outer city are basically not important places. It's fine if you just want to visit them."
After Fang Ruoming finished speaking, he walked in first, so Ji You followed and walked in together.
This is indeed an ancestral hall, and a very magnificent one at that. There is a huge incense burner in the courtyard, and further inside you can see the tablet of the Heavenly Dao.
But the most attractive thing is the murals inside the ancestral hall.
In fact, the reason why Ji You specifically asked where this place was was because he saw a mural on the wall when he was outside just now, which seemed to have some meaning.
Looking at it from a closer distance, he found that the content of the painting was indeed rich.
The first painting you see when you enter the door is an image of an old man sitting on a cushion and practicing Taoism. The painting is very lifelike.
However, in the second picture, the old man for some reason looked like he had his stomach ripped open.
By the third picture, the old man was already lying in the coffin, surrounded by little figures with sad expressions, crawling on the ground and crying.
Then there was a scene of a house on fire, and then many little people were taken up a high mountain.
The last one is the complete map of Chu City.
Ji You scanned the murals one by one, frowning slightly: "What are the paintings on them?"
Fang Ruoming withdrew his gaze from the wall: "The history of the Chu family."
"?"
"Back then, the Chu family's Seven-Aperture Exquisite Body shocked the world, and countless geniuses emerged from the family. The Immortal Sect was very curious about this, so after the Chu family ancestor died, they dissected him and studied him for many years."
Ji You turned to look at Fang Ruoming: "What's next?"
Fang Ruoming pinched his chin: "Then it probably said that they attached themselves to the Immortal Sect, rose higher and higher, and built this city."
"After years of research after the autopsy, have you found any results?"
"I don't think so. If the research really yielded results, wouldn't everyone in the world have seven-orifice exquisite bodies?"
Ji You pointed to the painting of a house on fire and said, "I heard that the Chu family once opposed the Immortal Sect and was severely suppressed in the end. Is this the painting?"
Fang Ruoming turned to look at the painting, then shook his head. "It's blurry and unclear, but the Immortal Sect always likes to whitewash things. Even if this really happened, I guess they can't paint it in its entirety."
"From Brother Fang's tone, it seems he also harbors deep resentment towards the Immortal Sect?"
"How can someone from Fengzhou like us get used to seeing such a deformed monster?"
Fang Ruoming chuckled, "Do you know that when Fengxian Villa was first established in my Yuyang County, countless people were killed. My father was captured and taken to the villa, and he learned to bark like a dog for half a month before he was able to survive. And your Ji family was exterminated for saying one wrong thing. This is all the so-called power of immortals."
Ji You traveled through time and space and replaced the identity of the original Young Master Ji. He didn't feel much about the demise of the Ji family.
But put it in the current context, it is indeed sigh-worthy.
The two of them talked as they walked and gradually walked out of the ancestral hall.
Ji You asked Fang Ruoming indirectly about the situation in the inner city, but the other party said that he had been away for a long time and did not know much about the inner city.
Fang Ruoming's next words completely dispelled Ji You's idea of taking the opportunity to enter.
"The formation in the Chu family's inner city was also created by a famous formation family back then, especially the main branch of the Chu family. It is surrounded by two formations, and it is said that once you enter, you will never return."
"How did Brother Fang know about this?"
"The Formation Family has been wiped out. There's no formation master to guide the repair of the northern city wall. Sometimes we can only refer to these protective formations."
Fang Ruoming couldn't help but sigh softly after saying this: "Speaking of which, this formation family seems to be even more miserable than us rural farmers or the Chu family. In the end, they were unable to leave behind any bloodline."
As they were talking, Ji You followed Fang Ruoming out of the main city avenue. At this time, a small team of Zhenbei Army was waiting outside the city on tall horses.
Fang Ruoming climbed onto his horse and looked at Ji You: "I have received orders from my brother and dare not delay. I will say goodbye now."
"I wish Brother Fang a safe journey."
"If there is ever peace in the world, please give me a piece of land and teach me how to grow crops."
After hearing this, Ji You bowed and watched them go away, then turned and looked at Chu Cheng.
He went in a big circle, but failed to enter any target family and found no results.
The only thing we know is that compared to other families, there must be something fishy about the tight defenses of these families.
Now the only families that can be checked are the Du family and the Bai family.
But if you think about it, you will know that these two families should not allow outsiders to enter, just like the Liu, Li, and Chu families.
However, the Bai family is an exception.
The eldest son of the Bai family is named Bai Rulong. He is likely to have access to the Bai family...
Ji You thought for a while and felt that there was no time to lose, so he hired a carriage in the city and headed towards the Bai family.
Bai Rulong was not firm in his practice and focused all his attention on dual cultivation. Now that the five-year period was up, he would leave the hospital like Lu Qingqiu and the others.
According to Cao Jinsong, the boy actually returned home just as spring began.
According to his own words, there would be no improvement for him if he stayed in the Immortal Sect, so he might as well stay at home.
On the bumpy carriage, Ji You breathed in and wrote a letter to Bai Rulong with a pen and paper.
If the Bai family also had tight defenses, he certainly wouldn't be able to get in immediately, so he could only write a letter to notify them to come out and meet him.
However, as he was writing, the carriage he was riding in suddenly stopped, and the horses pulling the carriage immediately let out a frightened neighing.
"Why did you stop suddenly?"
"Sir, something happened..."
"?"
Ji You lifted the curtain and stuck his head out. As soon as he appeared, he felt a strong smell of blood in the wind, and his brows frowned instantly.
The groom stretched out his hand tremblingly and pointed towards the sky.
In the distant sky, I saw a dark wave surging all over the sky, howling and spreading in all directions.
Because the distance was too far, I couldn't see clearly what it was. It just looked like a cloud.
But the problem is that clouds are shaped and only move with the wind, but their interior does not move, which is very different from this wave.
Seeing this scene, a golden color instantly appeared in Ji You's eyes, and he saw countless evil species roaring towards him.
At the same time, the ruins of Yuepo Plateau, Broken Soul Mountain, and Great Wilderness Forest... the ruins that were opened one after another by the Immortal Sect suddenly had countless broken limbs and corpses, and a huge number of evil species were rushing out from the deepest part, covering the sky and the sun.
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(End of this chapter)
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