Chapter 676: Plotting Something Big

The Su Family's reputation in the Zheng State was getting higher and higher, especially after this beast tide, their reputation was catching up to the Yunyang Sect.

Added to the Su Family's flourishing momentum and their generous actions, more and more people were turning their hearts to the Su Family.

The Yunyang Sect must also be under increasing pressure; this time, the Su Family had also captured a prefecture and four commanderies.

One must know that the Yunyang Sect only had three prefectures and fourteen commanderies in total.

Now that there was one more prefecture, the area of the Zheng State had increased again, and the Su Family had snatched it from the demon race's territory.

Naturally, no one could say anything, and even if they did, it was words of praise.

The original rise of the Su Family had attracted the attention of the Yunyang Sect, and they even secretly suppressed them, causing the relationship between the two sides to suddenly become much colder.

But during the beast tide, the Yunyang Sect sent Purple Mansion cultivators to support them; although they did not let them take action in the end, the five hundred thousand spirit stones they brought still gave the Su Family no small amount of help.

In this way, the relationship between the two sides suddenly eased a lot.

Both sides also knew that once internal strife really occurred, it would only give others an opportunity.

Immortal cultivators had enemies not only in the demon race but also in demon cultivators, and even the competition between each other was even greater.

And families had competition with families, sects had competition with sects, and even the competition between countries was even greater.

If internal strife occurred between the Yunyang Sect and the Su Family, it would not just be the demon race that benefited; once both sides were defeated, I am afraid that several countries bordering the Zheng State would also be unable to resist taking action to harvest the benefits of the Zheng State.

This kind of thing was very normal.

Wasn't that Yu Commandery snatched by the Zheng State from the Yu Guo back then?

Therefore, the Yunyang Sect did not want to have a major war with the Su Family.

After experiencing the beast tide, both sides also tacitly understood each other; the Su Family expanded outward, while the Yunyang Sect also secretly put away its previous suppression actions.

However, the sudden visit of this Old Lu Lao Zu of the Yunyang Sect once again caused waves in Liuyun Mountain.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, I wonder what business brings you to Liuyun Mountain?"

Su Fan accompanied Su Wanjun to entertain Old Lu Lao Zu, which was already giving the other party a lot of face; Lin Taihe and Jinguang were still sitting in command of the Huoyun Mountain Range.

After all, the Huoyun Mountain Range had been captured by the Su Family for less than ten years, and they still needed the two of them to deter the demon race.

Otherwise, it was hard to guarantee whether some Tier 3 or 4 demon beasts would harass them, after all, the location of the Huoyun Mountain Range was even more important than the Liuyun Mountain Range.

For this reason, the Su Family did not hesitate to spend tens of thousands of spirit stones every year for the two Golden Core cultivators to cultivate.

However, in another ten years, the spirit veins of the Huoyun Mountain Range would be able to catalyze a Tier 3 high-grade spirit vein to the level of Tier 4 low-grade.

At that time, Jinguang and the others could fully station themselves in the Huoyun Mountain Range; however, in reality, in another ten years, once the Huoyun Mountain Range was developed by the Su Family and a Tier 4 array was set up, only one Golden Core cultivator would be needed to sit in command.

Jinguang would still be sent to the Wu Guo to slowly expand the hunting team and absorb some children with good spirit roots.

Over these years, the hunting team had indeed gathered quite a few spirit roots in the Wu Guo, including three children with two spirit roots.

Cultivating from childhood was naturally much better than recruiting adult cultivators directly.

And the hunting team could collect many material resources that the Su Family needed.

This hunting team still needed to be preserved.

Su Fan had also discussed this point with Jinguang and the others long ago.

But now that someone from the Yunyang Sect had come, he also wanted to know what the Yunyang Sect meant.

If the Yunyang Sect really wanted to be an enemy of the Su Family, Su Fan did not mind destroying these three Golden Cores to make the Su Family even more peaceful.

"Fellow Daoist Li! Coming here this time is for the matter of the Yu Guo!"

"Yu Guo!"

Su Fan looked at him curiously upon hearing this.

Su Wanjun was also puzzled; what did the Yu Guo have to do with them? The two countries were adjacent, and the power of the Yu Guo was even weaker than that of the Zheng State.

Of course, the Yu Guo had also been prosperous once and had even had a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, but that was already a matter of ten thousand years ago.

That Nascent Soul stage cultivator died at the hands of demon cultivators during the demon race invasion.

Afterwards, the strength of the Yu Guo slowly degenerated, and it was jointly dismembered by several surrounding countries, becoming the weakest existence among the ten countries of the Southern Wilderness.

"We received news that the Golden Core cultivator of the Li Family in the Yu Guo was severely injured by two Tier 4 demon beasts during the beast tide, and died a few years ago due to his injuries."

Old Lu Lao Zu said with a serious face.

"The Li Family's Golden Core cultivator has fallen."

Su Fan and Su Wanjun looked at each other upon hearing this, and both felt a stir in their hearts.

After these ten thousand years, the Yu Guo had degenerated from the ten countries to the weakest, and even the sects of the past had disappeared.

Now only two Golden Core families remained in the Yu Guo.

The Yu Guo had no sect forces; the most powerful were two Golden Core-level immortal cultivation families, each family having one Golden Core cultivator.

One was the Shangguan Family, whose Old Ancestor Shangguan had cultivation at the fifth level of the Golden Core, and the other was naturally the Li Family that Old Lu Lao Zu spoke of; Li Zhengyang had cultivation at the third level of the Golden Core.

Because these two families guarded the Yu Guo, other countries did not attack; however, a thousand years ago, the Yu Guo only had one Golden Core, and at that time, the Yunyang Sect snatched two commanderies from the Yu Guo.

Now, if the Li Family's Golden Core cultivator in the Yu Guo really died, then relying solely on that fifth-level Golden Core cultivator of the Shangguan Family would be like a single tree unable to support itself.

After all, a thousand years ago, the Yu Guo only had one Golden Core cultivator, and even though he was at the seventh level of the Golden Core, it was still partitioned by the Zheng State and the Yin State.

Now that the Li Family's Golden Core was really dead, only the Shangguan Family remained.

Other forces would definitely not be able to sit still.

Other than that, the current Zheng State had six Golden Core cultivators; among the ten countries of the Southern Wilderness, excluding countries with Nascent Soul stages, the strength of the Zheng State could be ranked in the forefront.

Old Lu Lao Zu came here this time, and Su Fan also knew the other party's intention.

If the Yu Guo had a fifth-level Golden Core and a third-level Golden Core cultivator sitting in command before, plus the two major families uniting with the major immortal cultivation families, in terms of strength, it would not be worse than the Yunyang Sect.

The Yunyang Sect naturally could not have ideas about the other party, but now it was different; only the fifth-level Golden Core Shangguan remained, and relying on Old Lu Lao Zu alone, not to mention taking him down, he could definitely drag him down.

The Yunyang Sect's other two Golden Core old ancestors could also kill in all directions.

It stood to reason that the Yunyang Sect alone could actually plunder the Yu Guo; not to mention destroying the Yu Guo, but snatching a few commanderies was still possible.

The Yu Guo possessed three prefectures and ten commanderies; compared to the Zheng State, it was not much smaller. In fact, the original Yu Guo possessed six prefectures.

It was just a pity that over these years, besides being invaded by the beast tide of the demon race, it was also plundered by neighboring countries.

This time, I am afraid it was even more dangerous.

However, the Yunyang Sect did not go to plunder the Yu Guo alone, but instead ran to him; it seemed that the Yunyang Sect was plotting something big. ===== CHAPTER 677 =====