Chapter 54: The Sun family’s defeat
Sun Zhengxuan and Sun Zhengbing are the two remaining ancestors of the Sun family. They have been stuck in the Qi Condensation Realm for many years but have never been able to break through to the Yuan Dan Realm.
For most monks, the most important and difficult thing is to break through from the Qi Condensation Realm to the Yuan Dan Realm. Only when the Qi in Dantian is transformed into elixir can one truly meet the conditions for cultivating immortality.
Once you break through to the Yuan Dan realm, your lifespan will first be doubled, and you will have the conditions to advance to a higher level of cultivation. Otherwise, your lifespan will basically not exceed three hundred years.
Breaking through the Yuan Dan realm mainly relies on talent and understanding rather than hard work. The youngest Yuan Dan realm can be less than twenty, while most of the Qi Condensation realm cannot break through even if they live to be three hundred years old or die.
Sun Zhengxuan and Sun Zhengbing were both close to three hundred years old. Although there was basically no hope of a breakthrough, they still practiced diligently every day in the hope of a miracle happening. They retreated into a large cave on the top of Xigu Mountain, which was made from solid rock. After digging it out, there were two paths from the entrance of the cave, one leading to the central control room that controls the Xigu Mountain veins and defensive formations, and the other leading to the retreat stone chamber of Sun Zhengxuan and Sun Zhengbing.
Around the entrance and exit of the cave, the Sun family successively built some houses and pavilions over hundreds of years, forming the current Xigu Mountain Village.
Although the two old masters have long since stopped asking about family affairs, this time the matter is too big, so they still know about it. Although they hate the younger generation for causing trouble, they have also enjoyed the cultivation resources that the Sun family has developed in recent years. , now that a disaster is approaching, they will naturally defend their family to the death.
On the top of Xigu Mountain, Zheng Fangyi and others had already entered the stronghold.
Sun Zhongyu was kicked by Yin Yuhuang and fell two feet away. He vomited blood and was seriously injured. He gritted his teeth and climbed up and ran towards the cave. Before he could reach the entrance of the cave, he was hit by Lin Ling with a flying cone from behind.
Sun Zhongyu staggered into the cave door and shouted with his last strength: "Ancestor, come quickly!" Then he fell to the ground and died.
At this time, the two ancestors each picked up a machete and rushed out of the cave. When they saw Sun Zhongyu fell, they had no time to care about him.
The two of them stepped out of the cave door together, and saw at least twenty or thirty of the Sun family's descendants lying on the ground, while the rest were being chased and fled in all directions, screaming.
Before Sun Zhengbing could decide which one to save first, he saw a young man in white leap towards the two of them. He swung a broad long sword in his hand, and the sharp sword energy struck immediately. The two ancestors did not dare to neglect and swung their swords at the same time. Resist with all your strength.
The sword energy hit the big knife, and there were two muffled sounds. The two ancestors felt like being hit by a hammer, and at the same time, blood flew backwards. Sun Zhengbing's body hit the stone wall at the entrance of the cave and then fell down. The left side of his face was pressed against the cold ground. Feeling unable to move, he opened his eyes in horror and looked at his brother Sun Zhengxuan who had been split into two pieces a few feet away. He suddenly realized that he should be like his old brother. Of course, his guess was right.
Zheng Fanyi ignored the two ancestors who had been transformed into four parts. He put away the sword in his hand, raised his eyes to look at the situation on the battlefield, then took out the communicator and sent an agreed message to Qingshi with his fingertips.
Qingshi and Teng Shouqian saw a group of people running from Sunjiaping from a distance. Yes, there were people and horses.
There were about twenty people in this group, all riding tall horses. These horses were all first-class spiritual beasts and were faster than ordinary horses. In a blink of an eye, this group of people had arrived a few feet away in front of Qingshi and Teng Shouqian. But they couldn't see the presence of Qingshi and Qingshi at all. They all galloped past them and headed towards Xigu Mountain.
A thick fog has already risen in this area, and the fog becomes thicker as you go west. The fourteenth grandson Gaizhi reined in his horse and looked around. Just now they couldn't see Qingshi and the two men, and now they couldn't even see Xigu Mountain.
"What's going on?" Sun Gaizhi shouted, "Where's the road?"
"The fog is too thick to see clearly," one of the men shouted.
"Dismount, everyone dismount and look carefully," Sun Gaizhi ordered as he dismounted and walked to the right. Then he found what seemed to be a piece of water not far to the right, and immediately shouted, "We are on the south bank of the holy lake!" Then he said to himself He said, "That's wrong! It shouldn't be! How did we end up here?"
Sure enough, one of his subordinates said loudly: "No, the south bank of the Holy Lake is a grassland without these big trees."
"I remember this forest," another voice said, "This is the north shore of the Holy Lake, and Xigu Mountain should be here." He stretched out his hand to point out the direction.
Everyone headed in that direction together, but before taking a few steps, they began to enter a piece of mud. The mud got deeper and deeper and soon covered the insteps.
"Youngest Tu, you are pointing in the wrong direction!" the person at the front scolded, "This is definitely not the direction to Xigu Mountain."
Tu Lao Mao's sense of direction is undoubtedly the best among this group of people. He himself has already realized that he was wrong, and said quickly: "Yes, let's go back to the woods just now, and I will think about it again. Why does this place look like a holy place?" The bottom of the lake?”
"Yeah, I think so too," another person said.
"Look what that is?" A horrified voice sounded.
Everyone came over looking for the sound, only to see a huge crocodile-like monster lying belly up in the mud in front of them. It was the fifth-level spiritual beast River Dragon that was beheaded by Zheng Fanyi.
"Oh my god!" The frightened voice became even more horrified and trembled, "River dragon! This is...a river dragon! Is it dead? The river dragon is dead!..."
Qingshi and Teng Shouqian didn't pay too much attention to Sun Gaizhi's group. Within the scope of the magic circle, the landmarks that could tell the direction were specious and chaotic, and they would change from time to time. Now that they entered the maze covered by Qingshi, It's simply impossible for them to get out on their own.
Qingshi saw that after this group of people, there was a large group of people on foot coming here. It seemed that they were also going to Xigu Mountain for rescue. However, after the group of people in front fell into the fog, the group of people on foot stopped. Not long after, they actually turned around and went back.
The team behind is the elite team led by Sun He and Sun Hu. According to the agreement, if Sun Gaizhi and the others in the front go well, they will send a horse back every thousand steps to report the news. Now they can see the people in front walking in from a distance. Out of the fog, and no one came back after such a long time, the two immediately returned to Sunjiaping according to the instructions of the family leader.
While he was regretting that these guys were not fooled, Qingshi received a message from Zheng Fangyi, saying that the copycat had been captured. Qingshi immediately rushed back to the bottom of the lake and used the formation stick to repair the connection hub between Xigu Mountain and Sunjiaping's formation. This time the bluestone repair was well prepared, so it was completed quickly.
Back on the shore, Qingshi said to Teng Shouqian: "The copycat has been captured. I want to go up to their magic circle control center and take a look. You can handle the people in this maze."
After Qingshi finished speaking, he ran towards the mountain and arrived at the stronghold in less than a stick of incense. Zheng Fangyi and others had finished cleaning up the battlefield long ago. All seventy or eighty monks from the Sun family on the mountain were beheaded, and their bodies were thrown into a pile in a corner of the stronghold.
Seeing Qingshi coming up, Zheng Fangyi chatted with Qingshi for a few words and then took him and Hu Yulai into the control room of the magic circle in the cave.
Hu Yulai introduced the array control devices in the control room to Qingshi one by one. Although Qingshi's array cultivation level is higher than Hu Yulai's, he only has theory but no practice in using and controlling natural earth veins to set up arrays. Now he is experiencing it.
Under Hu Yulai's explanation, Qingshi completely mastered the control method of underground spiritual veins in a short time.
"Senior Brother Zheng," Qingshi said confidently, "Now that I have fully grasped the connection between the underground spiritual veins of Xigu Mountain and the Holy Lake, I can drain the energy of Sunjiaping's magic circle at any time. You go and prepare to attack. , I suggest you attack from the east, and send me a message when you are ready."
"Okay." Zheng Fangyi took Hu Yulai and turned around to walk out, but stopped and said, "It seems to be more than ten miles away from the east gate of Sunjiaping, right? I wonder if our communication magic weapon can make contact?"
Qingshi ignored the distance problem of the communication magic weapon, thought for a while and said: "Let's make an appointment in half an hour. You should be able to make it in time, right?" With the distance of Zheng Fangyi and others, half an hour is naturally enough for a journey of more than ten miles. More than enough.
"This is the best, of course we can make it in time." Zheng Fangyi said, "I will leave Xiao Ji here to protect you." After saying that, he turned around and took Hu Yulai out.
Qingshi walked out of the cave and saw Zheng Fanyi convening everyone to talk. Everyone was gearing up and excited, but Xiao Ji was a little disappointed. Qingshi said to Zheng Fanyi: "Senior Brother Zheng, please take Senior Brother Xiao Ji with you. I'll be fine by myself."
Zheng Fanyi, however, did not allow any argument and said, "You two must abide by my arrangement." After speaking, he looked at Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji quickly said loudly: "Brother Fang Yi, don't worry, as long as Xiao Ji is alive, he will definitely protect Junior Brother Qingshi."
"Let's go!" Zheng Fangyi waved his hand and led Xiang An and other ten people to run down the mountain, but Hu Yulai was left behind on the mountain. After coming down the mountain, I saw Teng Shouqian waiting by the roadside, and they immediately headed towards Sunjiaping.
Sun Gaizhi and others who were trapped in the maze of formations had already been easily eliminated by Teng Shouqian.
In Sunjiaping, Sun Ba saw Sun He and Sun Hu leading people back, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask. He learned that Sun Gaizhi and others entered a white mist and no one came back to deliver the news. Sun Ba looked at Sun Feng and said, "Look. Unfortunately, I was right!"
At this moment, Sun Hua ran over and said: "Master, good news, our connection with the Xigu Mountain's ground has been connected again."
Sun Ba was stunned for a long time before he smiled bitterly and said: "This is damn good news! The other party is playing with the magic circle that we rely on in the palm of their hands. They can break it if they want, break it if they want, and connect it if they want. Even! I think Xigu Mountain is finished. I don’t know how to deal with me, Sunjiaping, next!"
"Second uncle, are things really that bad?" Sun Feng asked anxiously.
"You come with me." Sun Ba said and walked towards the Sun family's head mansion in Pingzhai. Sun Feng hurriedly followed.
In a secret room of the main residence of Sunjiaping, Sun Ba took a ring from his hand and handed it to Sun Feng. Sun Feng took the ring hesitantly, and when his mental power swept away, he was shocked and subconsciously handed the ring back to Sun Ba, with a panic in his mouth. Said: "Second uncle, what does this mean? How can this be done!"
"Feng'er, please hold the ring and listen to me first," Sun Ba said. "Our Sun family has really been too ostentatious over the years, which finally led to today's disaster. I'm afraid our Sun family won't be able to get through this." .”
"How is that possible? Second uncle?" Sun Feng asked in surprise, "Yesterday you said the situation was very good and told everyone not to panic."
"If I hadn't said that, would the Sun family still be broken up?" Sun Ba said with a bitter smile, "Actually, I was still very optimistic. Huang Yan originally promised to help us conceal the facts, but he was dismissed as soon as he arrived in the capital. . I was afraid that the truth of the matter would be exposed, so I went to see Mr. Huang. He promised to go to the capital to inquire about the news and mediate with the crown prince. However, after I went there, not only did no good news come, but a large number of officers and soldiers came, seized my property in the city, and surrounded me. I'm Sun Jiaping, I'm worried about whether the Huang family..."
Seeing Sun Feng's surprised look, Sun Ba shook his head and continued, "Maybe the Huang family can't hide it, I hope I'm overthinking it. The spaceship that came this morning seems to me to be from the Tianlong court. From the looks of it, Maybe the incident was not taken care of, and it went to Chao Ge. Think about it again, Wu Zheng has been pretending to surround us for several days, and today he suddenly attacked. You see, he is still pretending, but no matter whether he is really Work hard, in short, people are really coming from above, I am afraid that the people coming are not people from the Jiu Shan Kingdom, but people from the Tianlong Imperial Court and Tianlong Academy!"
"Second uncle, are you saying that the Huang family betrayed us? And is Tianlong Academy really that powerful?" Sun Feng asked.
"I dare not say whether the Huang family has betrayed us. I hope not, but we have to guard against it." Sun Ba said, "Then Jiang Suhe is just an ordinary student of Tianlong Academy. He is younger than you and his cultivation level is not much. She is a high-level Qi Condensation Realm, but your uncle died in her hands. Do you think she is powerful? I was able to kill her, my second uncle, with the help of the power of magical weapons. Your uncle and I have traveled to the West Sea these years, and you Dad passed away early again. We have not fulfilled our responsibility for the growth of your children. Your uncle's child is useless, and I have never been married. You are the only direct descendant of my Sun family who seems to be promising. I should have found a way to let you go to Tianlong. If you were also a student of Tianlong Academy, maybe Jiang Suhe wouldn't be like this."
"Jiang Suhe is so arrogant and unreasonable. I don't care about attending this college, let alone having such a companion." Sun Feng said angrily.
"Yes, she is too arrogant and insulting. She also said that my Sun family was too insulting to her." Sun Ba frowned and shook his head, "But I still don't understand. In the first few days at the Huangyan Palace Master, her attitude was tough. , But you don’t look like such an arrogant and bloodthirsty person! Otherwise, your uncle and I wouldn’t have thought of marrying each other.”
The two were silent for a moment, and Sun Ba said: "Now that things have happened, we have to be prepared. You put the ring away. It contains most of the wealth and resources of our Sun family. I want you to sneak out from the secret passage immediately and fly away to hide." . If my Sun family escapes today, you will come back again. If the Sun family is destroyed, you are the only blood of my Sun family. You must preserve yourself, do you understand!"
"Second uncle!" Sun Feng shouted in grief and anger, and fell to his knees with a pop, tears streaming down his face.
