Chapter 129

Nearly two hundred people gathered on Yuhua Peak.

Huo Jingyan, the head of the External Affairs Institute, flipped his hand, and a point of white light flew out from his palm, growing in the wind, and finally transformed into a huge cloud ship.

"Everyone, get on."

Cheng Xinzhan had never seen such a large flying magic treasure, so after getting on, he looked left and right, trying to see the refining restrictions inside.

After everyone was on the cloud ship, Huo Jingyan, the head of the External Affairs Institute, counted the number of people, and after confirming it was correct, he launched the treasure and set off.

The cloud ship transformed into a stream of light and quickly disappeared into the horizon.

【Size Transformation】, 【Transforming Void into Reality】, 【Summoning Clouds and Riding the Wind】...

He looked around at the restrictions on the ship, sensing them carefully.

"What are you looking at!"

Someone patted him on the shoulder from behind.

Cheng Xinzhan turned his head and looked, then said with pleasant surprise,

"Daoist Brother!"

It turned out to be Feng Jihu.

Looking left and right again, several people from the Huangshan group were actually all there. There were so many people on Yuhua Peak just now that he hadn't noticed.

However, he did not see He Jiyuan's figure.

Cheng Xinzhan sighed in his heart, but understood that compared to them, Daoist Brother Jiyuan walked a bit slower.

Cheng Xinzhan himself, under the condition of true evil rushing into the acupoints, had opened the Heart and Lung in the Five Mansions, opened three additional thunder acupoints, and was proficient in thunder arts, sword arts, refining arts, talisman arts, and curse arts.

Sun Miaoshu had already cultivated to the second realm at the end of the year before last, and was now ranked as a direct disciple of Ziyan Mountain, cultivating the extremely difficult Grand Void Art.

Xu Jishen entered the second realm at the end of last year, also ranked as a direct disciple of Yaoguang Mountain, cultivating the mysterious divination algorithm.

When Wang Miaoyuan first opened his acupoints, he opened the Metal and Water mansions simultaneously, and last year he opened the Earth and Wood mansions again. In addition, he opened the Throat and Ear acupoints in the three residences, which could be called accumulating thin and sending thick, with rapid progress.

Zhu Jianmo opened four mansions, but spent too much time distracted by puppets, though he was currently also a junior in the Puppet Institute who attracted much attention.

Feng Jihu looked like he had already determined to specialize in the Wood line, supplemented by the Water and Fire Dao. Currently, he had opened the Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth four mansions, opened the three residences simultaneously, and was exquisite in the transformation of grass and trees, having his own unique insights into the preparation of medicines.

The names of these people had all reached the ears of the masters of each mountain and the Vice Sect Masters in charge. As long as they reached the second realm, they could compete for the position of direct disciple.

In fact, there was another most intuitive way to judge entering the direct disciples, which was entering the second realm before the age of thirty.

Among these few, Wang Miaoyuan and Feng Jihu were still struggling a bit; one was twenty-nine and the other twenty-eight, meaning they had to open another mansion and successfully rush the palace within these one or two years.

And He Jiyuan, the same age as Feng Jihu, had currently only opened the Water and Metal two mansions, with slim hope of entering the direct disciples.

When Cheng Xinzhan first entered the mountain, those he played well with in Lantern Street, Water Color Street, and Ancient Vine Street were either still seeking to open mansions in the Small Wan Mountain or were performing mediocrely in their respective legal lineage mountains after becoming true disciples, with no hope of becoming direct disciples.

The gap slowly widened like this.

This time going out to suppress demons, because their realm was low and their potential was low, they were not called up. While it was safer in the sect, compared to those who went, the gap would only get wider and wider in the future.

"I heard this matter is not small?"

Wang Miaoyuan said.

Everyone looked at Cheng Xinzhan. Because the time was too rushed, they were only notified to go to the northwest to suppress demons, but they were not clear about the specifics.

And everyone had heard the sentence on the jade talisman on Yuhua Peak: 'Specially promote Cheng Xinzhan to a direct disciple; come to Qianjun Hall for a meeting.'

"Last night, which was New Year's Eve, a Northern Sect Demonic Cult called the Blood God Cult besieged West Kunlun and annihilated the West Kunlun Sect."

Cheng Xinzhan just wanted to say it, but Huo Jingyan's voice sounded on the cloud ship, beginning to explain to everyone, so he naturally did not need to say it.

There was an uproar on the cloud ship.

"But this Blood God Cult has never been heard of before, and the Hong Jiaozhu Blood God Child has never been heard of either. But there is one point you need to know: the West Kunlun Sect had produced immortals in its ancestry, the current West Kunlun Hong Jiaozhu was at the fourth realm completion, and there was also a mountain-protecting formation on West Kunlun Mountain. Such a great sect was annihilated overnight, and no wind had ever been heard before."

Huo Jingyan's voice was very serious.

"After you arrive, do not run around, and follow orders in all actions. They are named after the Blood God, so they must be skilled in essence and blood. I just don't know if they are like the Asura lineage that burns their own blood to increase magic power, or like the Youquan lineage that is good at controlling others' essence and blood from a distance."

"We have no way to deal with the first type, so we can only be careful when the time comes. If it is the second type, everyone should pay extra attention and control their breathing to slow down the speed of Qi and blood circulation. The sect has prepared Turtle Breath Slow Blood Pills for everyone, two pills per person. If you truly encounter the second situation, take them as soon as possible after being hit. Compatibility, you distribute the pills to everyone."

A young man walked out, with crimson Li trigram stripes on his Daoist robe sleeves. This was the robe of Danxia Mountain of the eight lineages of the Lotus.

The young man took out one pill bottle after another and distributed them to everyone. Taking this opportunity, those who were strangers to each other also began to chat.

And at this time, Zhu Jianmo said to several people nearby,

"With such a great background for that demonic head, what is the use of the sect sending us people over? In my opinion, it would be enough for Mountain Master Zhao, Mountain Master Gong, and Mountain Master Ying to go. Isn't bringing us just a burden?"

Sun Miaoshu smiled upon hearing this, "If we had to let the mountain masters and sect masters go to the front whenever something happened, then when the mountain masters and sect masters are old or ascend, would we rely on us who have been cultivating in the mountains for years to be mountain masters and sect masters?"

"The reason why a mountain master is a mountain master and a sect master is a sect master is because they went through life-and-death training when they were young and their realm was low."

"So rest assured, every time the righteous and demonic paths clash, it is definitely us juniors who act as the vanguard. We treat the demonic heads as stepping stones, and the demonic heads also treat us as whetstones. When the losses on one side are so great that the adults cannot bear to watch and have to enter the field themselves, the adults on the other side will also enter the field. When they fight to the point of tragedy, the ancestors of each family will enter the field. From small to large, it has always been like this."

Zhu Jianmo nodded and smiled, "So that's how it is."

"I actually know an example of this."

Wang Miaoyuan chimed in, "There was a sect in the late Song Dynasty that practiced Earth arts. The founding ancestor was called the Mountain-Relying Ancestor, and the sect was called the Mountain-Relying Sect. The Mountain-Relying Ancestor rose from humble beginnings and was also a famous hero. After opening the sect, he cherished his disciples and grandchildren like treasures. If there was any danger, he would rather wade through it himself than let his disciples and grandchildren get involved. Those disciples and grandchildren of his did not feel ashamed but felt proud, saying that they had the Mountain-Relying Ancestor behind them, and obediently hid behind him."

"One day, the Mountain-Relying Ancestor was injured, and someone coveted this foundation, using all kinds of tricks to seize it. At this moment, the mountain collapsed, and none of those disciples and grandchildren could stand up and speak. In just a few years, a sect was gone just like that."

Everyone listened, lost in thought.

The cloud ship traveled for about two hours before its speed gradually slowed down, which was enough to show how far West Kunlun was from the southeast hinterland.

The young people on the cloud ship were all coming to the Western Sea for the first time. Looking down from the cloud ship, they saw northwestern scenery they had never seen before.

Towering peaks were continuous, the peaks were covered in white snow, and many cyan-blue lakes dotted them like jewels.

The sunlight here was exceptionally bright, and both the snow and the lakes reflected the sunlight, shining brilliantly. Looking down from the sky, it was like a piece of light silk embroidery.

"Look there!"

Someone pointed.

Everyone looked over and saw that in this vast snowy mountain, there was actually a cyan sea!

"That is the Western Sea, and this vast land around the Western Sea is also named after it."

Huo Jingyan also saw it and told everyone the name of that sea.

"That is West Kunlun!"

He pointed to the northwest and said.

Everyone looked over and saw a silver-backed giant dragon lying on the land in the distance, magnificent and unparalleled.

But at this moment, at the highest point of the dragon's spine, there was a blood cloud, and that blood cloud emitted a thousand feet of blood light, reflecting the surrounding snowy mountains for more than ten miles into a ghostly blood color.

Ying Jingsong and Huo Jingyan's expressions were solemn.

"Jingsong, this momentum, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like something that could be created overnight!"

Ying Jingsong nodded and said bluntly: "The blood cloud and the mountain range have already become one. I'm afraid it has been gestating for a long time. Now this blood-light mountain-protecting formation looks even more powerful than the original West Kunlun Sect's Hundred Dragons Returning to the Nest formation!"

Huo Jingyan agreed and continued Ying Jingsong's words: "Exactly. In my opinion, the West Kunlun Sect was probably eroded by the demonic cult decades or even a hundred years ago, and it was just a sudden attack last night. The demonic sect is so good at hiding things this time, painstakingly managing it, and giving us a warning as soon as they show their heads!" There was one thing they understood the first moment they saw the blood cloud, but they did not say it out loud:

The demonic cult succeeds by secrecy. This majestic mountain range on the northwestern land was already theirs. If the righteous path wanted to take it back, they did not know how much of a price they would have to pay.

But the fact was that West Kunlun Mountain was too far away. For the sake of the already annihilated West Kunlun Sect, whether it was the Eastern Daoist sects or the Shu Daoist sects, no one was willing to put in this effort.

This time, it was destined to be all thunder and little rain.

However, these words were not easy to say in front of the juniors.

The cloud ship slowly descended toward the southern foot of the great mountain. A group of young disciples looked at the blood cloud, their gazes firm and their spirits high, as if they had already resolved to slash away the blood cloud.

And although Ying Jingsong and Huo Jingyan had already put away their worries and sorrowful expressions, they could not show the high spirits of the young people no matter what.

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Kunlun Peak, Mowun Palace.

No, now it should be called Blood Cloud Palace.

In the tall and empty Blood Cloud Palace, there was a strange existence.

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Standing here was a blood shadow, a tall human-shaped blood shadow, with no visible clothing or facial features, as if it were a mass of blood light condensed together.

This blood shadow walked in the hall. It was the center of that huge blood cloud on the mountain, the source. As it walked, the red light filling the sky swayed.

"Hong Jiaozhu, another wave from Sanqing Mountain has come."

Outside the hall door, someone bowed and reported to the blood shadow.

"Sanqing Mountain, hmm, they actually value me, Deng, quite a bit. How many families have come in total?"

The blood shadow's voice was also very strange, sounding sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes loud and sometimes small, and also hoarse and noisy, disturbing people's minds.

"Seven famous families in the Daoist path have come, three families in the Buddhist path have come, and one family in the Sword Sect has come. Hong Jiaozhu, shouldn't we let the children come back first? The place where the righteous path is gathering now is less than two miles away from the children's stronghold. This is already rubbing against the tip of the nose."

That person said anxiously.

"Hehe."

The blood shadow smiled, "Is it that every family has a few leaders now, bringing a crowd of juniors?"

"Hong Jiaozhu, exactly!"

That person was very surprised, "However, quite a few people have come, especially Sanqing Mountain and Emei have already stationed themselves. Do not underestimate the enemy, Hong Jiaozhu!"

"Heh."

The blood shadow's laughter carried a mocking tone, "This sect tells you, figures of the fourth realm and even the fifth realm of each family have already come and gone. Two of them have already exchanged moves with me."

"What?!"

The person at the hall door was obviously very surprised.

"They probed the truth and knew that the wood was already a boat, so they naturally left. Those who come now are just for the sake of face and training troops."

"Face? Training troops?"

That person did not quite understand.

"You don't understand. The children don't need to be withdrawn yet. Now the various characters of the righteous path haven't all arrived yet. Longhu and Wudang haven't come yet, have they? We have to wait until all the characters have arrived. Some characters still have to talk about the finale when they appear."

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Below Kunlun Mountain, at the southern foot, a place called Zhengqi Slope. This was a name just taken.

Cheng Xinzhan and the others exited the cloud ship and landed, only to find that it was already overcrowded here. Daoists, monks, and swordsmen could all be seen. What was even stranger was that each sect was building huts on the flat ground, and a market seemed to be about to take shape.

He saw the people from Shuji Mountain and Bai Hu Mountain who had arrived a step earlier, occupying a central area of the market, but he did not see Zhao Wuji and Gong Weijian.

After everyone exited the cloud ship, Huo Jingyan pinched a formula, and the cloud ship transformed into a Daoist temple, landing on the open space in the middle.

Seeing the curious gazes cast by the disciples, Huo Jingyan said with a smile,

"The demonic cult guards the mountain, so this battle will definitely be long. We also need a place to rest and rotate."

Everyone nodded, thinking it made sense.

Just in this short while, others heard that the person in charge of Sanqing Mountain had arrived, so they gathered around, and Huo Jingyan greeted them one by one.

Ying Jingsong took two or three hundred disciples into the temple to sit and regulate their breath.

After another while, they heard people say,

"Wudang Mountain has arrived!"

After that, they waited for quite a long time before hearing people say,

"Longhu Mountain has also arrived!"

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Blood Cloud Palace.

"Hong Jiaozhu, they have almost all arrived. Can we let the children come back?"

The blood shadow shook his head and said again, "Not yet. They will inevitably hold a Heroic Demon-Slaying Assembly. This is to tell the people of the world that the righteous and demonic paths are irreconcilable. Now that a demonic head has appeared, they will not ignore it, and they want to show that the righteous paths are of one mind and help each other."

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Zhengqi Slope.

"Fellow Daoists! A new demon has appeared, creating such a sect-annihilating killing robbery, which is shocking. Relying on all fellow Daoists gathering here to crusade against the Blood Demon, this poor Daoist counted carefully and found there are nineteen families! This poor Daoist proposes that we should discuss the matter of demon-slaying together and select someone to coordinate from the center!"

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Blood Cloud Palace.

"Hong Jiaozhu, their meeting is over. Finally, under the strong contention of Emei, they pushed out someone named Jian Bingru to preside over the overall situation."

"Jian Bingru?"

The blood shadow smiled, "Even he can preside over the overall situation? It seems the righteous path still hasn't taken us seriously!"

"Then can we let the children come back now?"

The blood shadow still shook his head, "If you call everyone back now, those people down the mountain alone cannot break into Kunlun Peak. Then how will this play continue? The righteous path cares most about face. If you really call everyone back and shrink away, I'm afraid those big figures will have to come out and do it for real."

That person did not understand, "Then what should we do?"

The blood shadow said: "Just let the children exchange moves with those juniors, and fight while retreating. From time to time, counterattack down the mountain. In any case, it's good to have a situation where you come and I go. The children haven't practiced the "Blood God Avatar Sutra" for long, so let them practice their hands."

"Then how long will this battle have to be fought?"

The blood shadow laughed, "Don't be anxious, it won't be too long. After some time, when the people of the world know that this demonic land is guarded by the righteous path and will not continue to expand and harm people, they will naturally not cast their eyes here again. After all, in the world, there are fresh things every day."

"And then what?"

"And then, since the eyes of the people of the world are not here, the righteous path naturally does not need to guard here anymore. At that time, we can do whatever we want."

The person outside the hall suddenly realized,

"So that's how it is."

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