Chapter 127: The Tragic Long Chao

While the change happened here, Long Xuan's Xiaoqiong Peak actually welcomed a group of uninvited guests again. A spirit boat stopped in front of the Magic Cube Grand Array, and on it actually sat six Gu cultivators with the aura of the Spirit Sea stage.

"Such a large trapping array. This is the first time I've seen an array covering such a vast area. We probably need to take a detour," an old man at the very front of the spirit boat said.

"Taking a detour is truly too much of a waste of time. We don't have much time to waste. Can't we just jump over from the sky?" Another old man on the boat walked to the bow and said.

The old man who spoke earlier shook his head and said, "If it were really that easy, I wouldn't have stopped. Powerful arrays likely all have Forbidden Air Arrays."

"And I can feel that this trapping array is square. It should be several worlds stacked together. The time consumed going up and going left and right is the same."

Another old man said urgently, "Taking a detour is truly too much of a waste of time. An array covering such a large area must be made of cement as the array base, completely vulnerable. I think it's better to just break it to save trouble. You wait for me here. Give me a few breaths of time, and watch how I break this small array in a destructive manner!"

Saying this, this old man broke into the array alone, his figure quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.

A group of old men on the boat waited quietly. However, until a long time had passed, they didn't see him come out of the array. The group of old men gradually changed their expressions and could no longer sit still.

"Didn't he say he would come out in a few breaths? How many breaths have passed? This waste! Actually being trapped by a small array, I will go in and fish him out. You wait for me on the boat."

Another impatient old man couldn't bear it anymore, left a sentence, and also flew into the array.

However, it was unknown how many breaths had passed, but there was no movement in the array. At this time, everyone on the boat couldn't sit still again.

"Why is it so slow! How much time has passed! We don't have much time to waste!" An old man couldn't help but complain.

"Eight out of ten, something happened. It seems this array has some tricks. We underestimated it. I'd better go in and bring the two of them out! I'll be back soon."

Saying this, this old man prepared to jump off the boat.

However, the old man standing at the bow hurriedly pressed him down and said urgently, "Don't! Don't send them!"

"This array is not simple." The old man's face changed drastically.

"Detour! Hurry up and detour!"

Saying this, the old man didn't give the people on the boat a chance to react, and hurriedly drove the spirit boat to fly toward the distance...

This old man was rational, but they had already wasted a large amount of time in this place. Now, no matter what they did, it was too late.

Unsurprisingly, when they drove the spirit boat to fly to the Long Clan, preparing to attack the Treasure Pavilion, the battle on the Holy Land side had long ended, and all the invaders were dead.

At this time, the Long Clan's experts were not held back by anything. The trick of luring the tiger from the mountain had lost its effect. This group of people rushed in again, wouldn't they be throwing themselves into the net?

Thus, a group of Long Clan Gu cultivators had just solved this group of invaders, but found a small boat flying over from the distance, arriving late, and heading straight for the Treasure Pavilion.

Everyone was confused, not understanding why they had to send them batch after batch. What kind of trick was this?

Everyone couldn't understand, but since they dared to attack the Long Clan with just these few people, then how could they not swallow them up?

Everyone revealed ferocious smiles and surrounded those few people.

The final result was naturally imaginable. When the few people on the boat found something wrong, it was already too late. Just as they turned the boat around preparing to fly back, they were directly shot down by a thunder light.

Immediately afterward, a group of Long Clan Gu cultivators swarmed up. Not long after, the battle was resolved, and those few Spirit Sea stage Soul Clan Gu cultivators died extremely miserably.

"Shouldn't there be anyone else coming to send them? This is already the third batch!" Long Lie looked into the distance, his face strange.

"Hard to say. This group of people likes to fight the many with the few. If it's not good, there might really be a fourth batch, or even a fifth batch. Better be careful! Pay attention to the sky at all times," Long Buhui looked at the sky, somewhat uncertain.

"Long Lie, this time it's thanks to you. Although this group of petty people don't have good brains, if it weren't for your intelligence, so many Spirit Sea stage experts suddenly flooding into the Holy Land, it would truly be a big trouble. You have made a great contribution this time," Long Wanli looked at Long Lie and said solemnly.

However, Long Lie was somewhat absent-minded when facing this question, frowning and saying: "I don't know what the origin of this group of people is? They don't look like local forces. That batch of people just now was clearly very weak, but this batch was unexpectedly strong."

The rest also revealed thoughtful expressions. This group of people who suddenly appeared was truly too weird, their moves were unfamiliar, and they had never been in contact before, let alone having grudges. They also didn't know how they had provoked this force.

Just at this time, a Long Clan Gu cultivator holding a fat and large bug ran to the Clan Head and said respectfully: "Clan Head, we found this thing in the brains of that group of corpses."

"The brains of that group of people seem to have been eaten up by this thing. The ones controlling those human bodies to fight are these things."

Long Wanli immediately walked closer. After looking at this large fat bug, his face changed drastically, revealing a grave expression.

"It's the Brain Gu. It shouldn't be wrong. This group of people should be from the Soul Clan of the Western Earth."

Long Wanli frowned deeply. Obviously, he knew very clearly how tricky this clan was.

The Great Elder walked over, smiled bitterly, and said: "If it is this clan, it will be troublesome. The Soul Clan is one of the strongest clans in the Western Earth. They can control the corpses of many powerful living beings by refining Brain Gu, including humans, spirit beasts, and outside races. They even often sweep through major tombs, using Brain Gu to control the corpses of many experts."

"Therefore, this Gu cultivator clan has a lot of high-end power above the Spirit Sea stage. It's just that the combat power of the corpses controlled by the Brain Gu is far inferior to the corpses during their lifetime."

"This is the reason why you think the previous batch was easy to fight and this batch was difficult to deal with, and it is also the reason why the previous batch of people could run out of the insect breeding bag, because the essence of that group of people is bugs, not humans."

"And the wisdom of this thing called Brain Gu is not inferior to humans. After it devours a person's brain, it can obtain all the memories and abilities of this person. Once planted into other clans to act as a spy, it is basically very difficult to be discovered."

"Long Chen was able to do this kind of thing because his brain was eaten by this thing. It was truly a fluke that we could detect that he was wrong."

The Second Elder said at this time: "It's true that the Soul Clan has many high-grade Gu cultivators, but we don't need to fear them. A strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. The Western Earth is truly too far from this place. They have no way to invade on a large scale."

"Moreover, it is said that they are currently at war with the Ghost Clan and have no energy to care about us. We have enough time to form an alliance with the Western Earth Long Clan during this period, and then we won't need to fear them at all."

Long Wanli's worried expression didn't decrease, saying: "Although that is the case, without absolute power, there is no absolute safety. We cannot entrust the safety of the clan to speculative safety."

"The clan should still have a second Gu King. With two Gu Kings sitting here, unless the Soul Clan doesn't leave any Gu King to watch the house, we can be 100% safe."

Long Wanli's proposal made all the high-level members of the clan reveal thoughtful expressions.

Speaking of which, the clan has developed rapidly in recent years, with total income hitting new highs every year. The wealth earned is already enough to cultivate a Gu King.

Thinking of this, all the clan elders were very tempted. The benefits of the clan having a second Gu King were obvious.

For every clan, the most important thing is always the power of the Gu King level. Having one more Gu King has infinite temptation for any clan.

Besides, the Long Clan now has more and more wealth and things that make people covet, and it truly needs more Gu Kings to guard it.

The Great Elder said with emotion: "Our clan should indeed start the plan to cultivate a second Gu King. Even without the threat of outside enemies, this plan must be carried out."

"It's just that should we spend a high price to trade for realm-breaking pills, or let Long Ao refine them? Although he is already a third-grade alchemist, after all, he just became a third-grade alchemist not long ago, and his experience is insufficient. I don't know if he can refine the most difficult realm-breaking pills."

The Second Elder stroked his beard and said: "Then this matter can only be asked first about how much confidence Long Ao has. However, among our group of people, the one who has touched the Gu King bottleneck is only Long Buhui, right?"

The Second Elder looked at Long Buhui, and everyone else also placed their gazes on him.

Everyone understood that if there were no accidents, the second Gu King in the clan would be this person. He would be another pillar of the Long Clan.

Long Buhui was somewhat flattered, hurriedly waved his hand, and smiled modestly: "Don't! Don't! I haven't made many contributions to the clan. It's not appropriate. This is absolutely not appropriate. Consider someone else."

In fact, he already knew in his heart that the opportunity to break through to Gu King was none other than himself. He was already excited to the point of going crazy, but on the surface, he still had to make a modest appearance, push it away, and then helplessly accept it.

"Brother Buhui! Don't be self-deprecating. You have guarded the Holy Tree for the clan for so many years, which is already considered a great contribution. The contribution is enough. The Gu King is none other than you. Don't decline."

The Great Elder patted his shoulder and laughed loudly.

Long Buhui shook his head. Just as he was about to modestly decline again, someone shouted: "Bad! Something happened to the Holy Tree!"

At this moment, all the high-level members of the clan changed their expressions together and ran toward the Holy Land like crazy.

The rest of the ordinary Gu cultivators of the clan also changed their expressions greatly and hurriedly followed.

Not long after, the quiet Holy Land became noisy again. A large group of people rushed in like crazy. After seeing the appearance of the Holy Tree at this time, everyone's eyes were about to split, and they were so angry they were about to go crazy.

No one knew the status of the Holy Tree in the hearts of the Long Clan members.

"Who on earth is it? Who on earth did this?" The Great Elder hurriedly ran to the Holy Tree, touched the broken branches of the Holy Tree with agitated emotions, and actually burst into tears.

"Good Soul Clan, actually daring to do such a vicious thing to our clan's Holy Tree. I will not stand with them!" Long Lie roared loudly with excitement.

Long Buhui had a gloomy face, trying to suppress his anger. He guarded the Holy Tree for fifty years without anything happening, but it happened on this last day. He was about to explode with anger.

The Second Elder took a deep breath, patted Long Lie's shoulder, and said with sharp eyes: "Don't be impulsive. It might not be the Soul Clan who did it. If it were the Soul Clan, why not destroy the whole tree, or take it all away, but only destroy such a small part? I think the person who did this is someone else."

A sharp killing intent flashed in the Second Elder's eyes.

"You mean..." Long Buhui asked, revealing a thoughtful expression.

"Hmph! If it wasn't the Soul Clan who did it, then it could only be one of our own people."

"The barrier protecting the Holy Tree was broken into a hole. Not only was the array here destroyed, but even the Clan-Protecting Great Array guarding the clan was destroyed."

"Who else could it be besides a traitor who could destroy our clan's Clan-Protecting Great Array without anyone knowing? Truly, it's easy to guard against outside enemies but hard to guard against traitors. A wolf with white eyes can never be tamed."

The Second Elder had a ferocious face. At this time, he was about to faint from anger, and the anger had completely ignited his eyes.

Long Wanli looked around with a livid face and roared loudly with uncontrollable anger: "Who? Who on earth did it! Who was the last one to leave just now! Stand out for me!"

Hearing this, the group of Long Clan Gu cultivators who had just entered here looked at each other.

Long Xuan also had an angry expression, looking left and right.

He wasn't panicked at all. To avoid being suspected, he wasn't the last one to leave at all. Moreover, the one who stole the Holy Tree branch was Long Xuan, what did it have to do with his Flame Clone? Investigate however they wanted.

Just at this time, that Long Chao who was lying on the ground was finally rescued and woke up, opened his eyes in a daze, and said confusedly: "Hmm? What on earth happened?"

The next moment, everyone looked at him, their expressions strange.

If one said who was the last to leave, it must be this person. He had never left at all, and had been here alone for an unknown amount of time.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 128 =====