Chapter 234: Cutting off Feathers
Qingxuan Sect is located in the southern wilderness and the conditions are difficult. Their foundation-building monks are in a much more dangerous situation than Hongshan Sect. However, after being tempered by hardships, although their number of foundation-building monks is small, the probability of advancing to Zifu is greater than that of Hongshan Sect.
Thousands of years ago, their power was not as prosperous as the Hongshan Sect. A few hundred years ago, the monks of Zifu were able to keep pace with the Hongshan Sect. Now, relying on the cooperation of Patriarch Jin, they have left the monks of the Hongshan Sect far behind. .
Counting Liang Taixu’s master and disciple, Qingxuan Sect now has fifteen Zifu monks and two Jindan monks. Although there is one Jindan less than Huanshui Sect, they are already on par with Huanshui Sect in terms of Zifu monks.
As for the Hongshan Sect, two people from the Eleven Purple Mansion were killed in the previous battle, and Mu Huaishan was seriously injured and could not contribute at all. Wang Boxiong was tantamount to defecting and disappeared without a trace. Wan Qingyuan was surrounded by monks from Qingxuan Sect in Zhemei Mountain. He knew without looking that there was no way to survive.
Not long after Zhang Zhixuan and others arrived at Yuntai Mountain, they were sent out by Sun Changgeng to attack the mountain gate near Zhemei Mountain.
Of the three counties under the control of the Hongshan Sect, Luyang County was the weakest. There was no fourth-level spiritual vein in the county, and there were only six immortal cultivating families. Four of them had already defected to the Qingxuan Sect. The remaining two families had no time to surrender and were overthrown by the locals. The leading party led the Qingxuan Sect monks to wipe out the whole family.
Except for some of the cultivating families in Jiangnan County who escaped with Wang Boxiong, the rest surrendered to the Qingxuan Sect. The Qingxuan Sect almost took over the two counties without a single blow.
Among the monks in these two counties, except for the families that surrendered quickly when they saw the opportunity and saved their own spiritual mountains, the rest were destroyed by the Qingxuan Sect and destroyed the Taoism.
These destroyed families still had seven third-level spiritual veins left vacant. These seven spiritual veins will be rewarded by the Qingxuan Sect after the war and given to casual cultivators who have made military exploits.
Among the three counties of the Hongshan Sect, the hardest bone is in Hongshan County. This county is closest to Taihong Mountain, and the monks in the county have the deepest relationship with the Hongshan Sect.
Because Wan Qingyuan of Zhemei Mountain chose to guard the mountain gate, the foundation-building monks in this county still had support.
Only two families not far from Jiangkou County chose to surrender. Almost most of the remaining families gathered their main forces in Zhemei Mountain, preparing to rely on formations to resist the invasion of Qingxuan Sect monks.
On Yuntai Mountain, the Qingxuanzong monks already accounted for the vast majority. The four Zifus were watching Wan Qingyuan. The remaining foundation-building monks were divided into three teams. Each team had twenty people and began to clear out the foundation-building families in Hongshan County. Attack their mountain gate.
The monks from Taicheng County formed a team and cooperated with the eight foundation-building disciples of Qingxuan Sect. In order to facilitate the leadership, Han Yan was also assigned to this team and served as the leader of this team of foundation-building monks.
Their team of monks can be said to be very strong. There are not only Zhang Zhixuan and Su Heng, two late-stage monks who have not taken the foundation-building pill to build the foundation, but also Han Yan, the patriarch, and Wu Xiangwen who have built the foundation on the eighth floor. In addition, there is a Qingxuan sect who has built the foundation on the seventh floor. The monks also acted with them. Among the twenty people, there are more than six monks in the later stage, seven in the middle stage, and only seven in the early stage of foundation building.
This lineup can compete with a monk like Mu Huaishan who has not been in the Zifu for a long time. If the early cultivators in the Zi Mansion were inexperienced and fell into the formation they formed carelessly, they might even be killed on the spot.
Twenty years ago, monks from the Hongshan Sect invaded Chaoyin Mountain. The monks from Taicheng County trembled in fear. The Zhang Liu and other families seemed to be frightened and abandoned their family spiritual mountain in fear.
This time the war turned around, and it was Qingxuan Sect who had the upper hand.
In the last war, the foundation-building monks of the Hongshan Sect suffered heavy losses, while the Qingxuan Sect obtained the Chaoyin Mountain Lingshi Mine, and its strength increased instead. In addition, it merged with the disciples and grandsons of Heishan Liang Patriarch and Shuangjiaoshan You Nianwei.
Under the circumstances, before the war started, the number of Qingxuan Sect’s foundation-building monks was no less than that of Hongshan Sect.
The Hongshan Sect vassed dozens of families and hundreds of foundation-building monks. When Chaoyin Mountain was defeated and Jiangkou County was lost, more than ten people were lost. Now, twenty-eight more people have surrendered, and sixteen foundation-building monks have abandoned the mountain gate and fled. The eleven foundation-building monks who followed Wang Boxiong disappeared, and the twenty-six family foundation-building monks who escaped into Zhemei Mountain. Today, there are less than twenty foundation-building monks who are still guarding the mountain gate.
After Han Yan led the team to leave Yuntai Mountain, they first came to Feng Castle, where a Foundation-building family settled. There were two Foundation-building monks in the family.
The terrain of Feng Castle is dangerous, and it is built on a cliff. One man can guard the gate and no one can open it. Once the passage is blocked, except for the foundation-building monks who can fly in the air, low-level monks cannot climb up at all.
There is a third-level spiritual vein in the castle, and forty acres of spiritual fields have been opened on the mountain, enough to support the practice of seventy or eighty monks of the Feng family.
There is also a mountain protection formation built on the mountain. If the Feng family sticks to it wholeheartedly, even if ten monks in the foundation building stage work together to besiege it, they can still hold on for a long time.
We were in a hurry when we came out of Yuntai Mountain, and it was already dark when we arrived at Feng Castle.
In this unfamiliar environment, Han Yan acted very cautiously and did not attack rashly, but patiently waited for the sky to light up.
Zhang Zhixuan sat cross-legged on the top of a big tree with several people hugging each other. He looked around and saw the trees on the cliff were green, and a faint light could be seen.
In the entire Feng Castle, except for the chirping of insects and frogs, there was no sound at all, and it was as quiet as a ghost.
Everyone took out spirit stones to replenish their mana, and when the sky became bright, Han Yan led a third-level array mage over. She was also surrounded by several late-stage foundation-building monks.
Han Yan looked at the formation master and asked, “Senior Brother Huang, what do you think?”
This person’s name is Huang Peng, and he has been building foundations for more than a hundred years. Although his cultivation is only at the sixth level of foundation building, his formation level has exceeded the third-level mid-level.
He was wearing a black and gray monk’s robe, which was covered with dust, and his appearance was a bit slovenly. His beard, which was more than a foot long, was messy, like a sloppy country old man.
Huang Peng frowned and said: “It was dark yesterday and the Feng family did not escape. There must be a formation on the mountain. Based on the current information, we don’t know what kind of formation was deployed. Now that the sky is bright, let’s go up and attack first. Try it out to see what kind of formation it is.”
“Okay, let’s divide into four teams and besiege the formation from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. Since the Feng family dares to fight against the sect’s soldiers, we will let them destroy the family.”
Han Yan gave the order and led Zhang Zhixuan, the clan leader, Qing Chan and a Qingxuan Sect monk in the early stage of foundation building to directly attack the front.
The five of them were all foundation-building monks and were already able to fly. They flew up the cliff and immediately used their flying swords to attack the gate of Feng Castle.
A light curtain rose up from the castle, easily blocking several sword lights. At the same time, a white light was emitted from the castle gate, and a giant sword more than three feet long slashed directly at the weakest Qingxuan Zongzhu. Early stage monk.
(End of chapter)