Chapter 268: Sealing the Mountain (Seeking subscriptions)

"The Ten Thousand Flowers and Thousand Illusions Great Array, how could it?"

A Jin Dan True Person wrapped in white light looked at the sky full of petals covering Mount Baihua again, his eyes full of surprise.

Clearly, this array had been slowly stagnating before, how did it suddenly recover its power?

"Not good... Crane Venerable?!"

This Jin Dan True Person was very anxious.

He was the second Supreme Elder of the Bai He Sect, with mid Jin Dan cultivation, and his Daoist name was True Person Flying Crane.

Naturally, he knew what kind of status that Rank 3 high-grade Crane Venerable had in the heart of the Supreme Elder.

If it weren't for the fact that Mu Wanlv's side was too strong and required the Supreme Elder to take action personally, he would never have sent Crane Venerable to sneak into Mount Baihua.

But now...

Crane Venerable seems to have failed?

Just as True Person Flying Crane was hesitating in his heart, he saw the sky full of petals disperse, and a road paved with five-colored flowers appeared.

An old man with a youthful face and white hair, holding a crane head in his hand, stood proudly on the five-colored flower path.

"Mu Wanlong?!"

True Person Flying Crane was taken aback: "Late Jin Dan? How is that possible?"

"Bai He Sect, you actually dared to secretly send a spirit crane to sneak into my Mu family and kill my Mu family's Jin Dan elder... My Mu family must publicize this matter!"

Fang Xing snorted coldly.

Cultivators mingling in the righteous path must always pay attention to reputation.

Therefore, the Jin Dan cultivators who came must hide their heads and show their tails; even if their identities were guessed, they certainly couldn't admit it.

After the Mu family was destroyed, those who destroyed the Mu family could only be demonic cultivators or robbery cultivators.

The Bai He Sect just reluctantly took over the Mu family's property.

Of course, now things had gone wrong...

This Rank 3 high-grade exotic spirit crane was the biggest evidence, and the Bai He Sect couldn't bypass it no matter what.

Even if the Qiankun Dao secretly supported the Bai He Sect, encountering such a thing, they must give the Mu family an explanation.

True Person Flying Crane didn't say much; the Bai He Sect was already in a life-and-death struggle with the Mu family.

Unless he took people to kill into the array now, smash Mu Wanlong to ashes, and destroy all evidence along the way.

Other than that, anything said was superfluous!

But... he was just a mid Jin Dan cultivator, and already the one with the highest cultivation among the Jin Dan True Persons in the vicinity.

Opposite was the lair of a former Nascent Soul family, guarded by a quasi-Rank 4 array, and presided over by a late Jin Dan cultivator!

Regardless of how this late Jin Dan cultivation came about, now even a Golden Core expert of Zhengqizi's level wouldn't dare to charge into the Mu family's array!

'In this situation... only if the Supreme Elder brings those family ancestors, and cooperates with the Rank 4 Pulse-Breaking Bead, would it be possible to take it down...'

'The key is that those late Jin Dan great cultivators have long since gone to ambush Mu Wanlv...'

'Originally thought there was an insider here, with Crane Venerable, and us... dealing with Mu Wan Qing, a mere Jin Dan True Person, was a sure thing, never expected this injured Mu Wanlong to have been playing the pig to eat the tiger all along...'

True Person Flying Crane was extremely unwilling, and finally waved his hand: "Go!"

He retreated first, needing to return to the sect to prepare many things.

For example... the Mu family's report!

Must let the Qiankun Dao's Five Elements Child think of a way.

The Qiankun Dao's Five Elements Child is a newly selected Nascent Soul seed, a half-step Golden Core cultivator, who was seen as the hope of the next generation after Hunyuanzi fell.

Nascent Soul sects like the Ten Great Righteous and Demonic Sects naturally wouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.

Besides the Nascent Soul seeds, there were backups.

Although Five Elements Child is a bit worse than Hunyuanzi, he is also a choice of the time.

On the demonic path side, a new Nascent Soul seed was also selected.

It's just that they inevitably suffered heavy losses, and lacked Infant-Condensing spiritual items, so relying only on that bit of sect foundation is not very safe.

That's why there is this Great Wasteland Reclamation war!

True Person Flying Crane turned into a stream of light and left, and the other several Jin Dan True Persons looked at each other and retreated one after another.

"Elder..."

Seeing this scene, the False Jin Dan True Person who attacked Mu Wanlan first flew into mid-air, quite helpless: "Just let them go like this?"

"Cough, cough..."

Fang Xing suddenly coughed, wiped with a handkerchief, and it was a patch of crimson.

"I forcibly used a forbidden technique to suppress my injuries and raise my realm... now I'm already at the end of my rope. It would be fine if I didn't take action, but once I do, I'm afraid I'm going to sit and die..."

Actually, he was too lazy to be the Mu family's thug; just driving away the Mu family's enemies was enough.

"Elder, you are now the Dinghai Divine Needle of the family, what should we do?"

This False Jin Dan True Person looked terrified.

"Cough, cough... Wan Zhang..."

Fang Xing coughed again, his aura weakening rapidly: "Now Wan Qing is dead, the family has suffered heavy losses... everything is left to you. Now the Mu family needs to do three things!"

"Please, Elder, give your orders." Mu Wan Zhang's eyes were firm.

He was a cultivator who had proven his loyalty to the Mu family through disaster.

"The first thing, immediately notify the Family Head... perhaps it's already too late, but we must try to meet them and return to the family."

Fang Xing counted the second finger: "The second thing, report to the Upper Sect... this crane corpse is the best evidence."

"The third thing, the Mu family seals the mountain!"

"Seal the mountain?" Mu Wan Zhang was startled, muttering: "Has it reached such a point?"

Although the previous Mu family had declined, it still maintained the airs of the number one Jin Dan family.

It still had many shops, spiritual medicine gardens, and mining shares in the outside world... even when other Jin Dan families plotted for benefits, they had to call the Mu family, which was considered the boss in the circle; even if it declined later, it was still second or third...

But sealing the mountain is completely different; it means completely abandoning all benefits in the outside world and only guarding the ancestral land of Mount Baihua!

This is undoubtedly a very painful thing; the spiritual energy of Mount Baihua cannot support so many family cultivators at all.

Either dismiss most of them, or use the family's foundation.

If this continues for a hundred years, the Mu family will definitely decline.

Unless, during the mountain sealing, heaven bestows an opportunity, and they can cultivate a new Jin Dan True Person.

But this is basically an impossible thing.

Cultivation forces choosing to seal the mountain are mostly drinking poison to quench thirst, slowly dying...

Those that can be reborn from the ashes are all cases seen once in a thousand years, which is why they are spread so widely.

Of course, for Fang Xing...

It's definitely best for the Mu family to die slowly!

Because he only needs to occupy the Rank 4 cave dwelling, the rest are the Mu family's benefits, not his.

Naturally, he can abandon them without hesitation.

This is no longer cutting off the arm to save the body, but cutting off the body along with it, leaving only the head.

"This kind of decision still needs to wait for the Family Head to return... However, temporarily sealing the mountain and opening the protective array to full power is feasible..."

Mu Wan Zhang said: "I will follow the Elder's lead..."

Now in the Mu family's main mountain, there is only one Jin Dan True Person left, Mu Wanlong.

And, he is the previous family head!

Although there was a stain of being cowardly in his later years of governance, today he stood up, which is enough to prove everything!

"Wan Zhang... this old man used a forbidden technique today, causing the injuries that hadn't healed to worsen, and I can't maintain it for even a moment. Now I have to go back to close-door death seclusion... the family is left to you."

Fang Xing waved his hand, turned into a stream of light, and flew back to his cave dwelling.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to throw the formation token to Mu Wan Zhang, and took the crane's inner pill along the way.

This is a Rank 3 high-grade demon beast inner pill, worth quite a few spiritual stones.

Inside the cave dwelling.

The escape light flickered, and Fang Xing's figure appeared.

He played with the white inner pill in his hand, suddenly thoughtful: "Hmm... after today's battle, Mu Wanlong must go into death seclusion... the kind that will sit and die at any time, so no one should come to bother me, right?"

"Besides, today's outbreak... injury upon injury, the soul lamp must be even dimmer..."

He didn't have any ideas about the Mu family ancestral hall; after all, there were heavy restrictions there, and many troubles.

"The simplest way is to torture Mu Wanlong again to make his injuries worse..."

Fang Xing pinched a magic formula, performed the earth escape technique, and came to a secret underground room opened up under the cave dwelling.

Figures in strange black robes and masks were standing in every corner of the secret room, watching an old man in a coma.

It was the 'Five Mixed Demons' and the real 'Mu Wanlong'!

"Torture him again, but he can't die, it's really a test of my craftsmanship..."

Fang Xing muttered.

A few days later.

Mu Wan Zhang stood in the ancestral hall, beside the family head's seat, with an expression of 'numbness'.

Before, when the Mu family participated in the reclamation war, many cultivators had already been transferred away.

Of course, many elites remained, and even several False Jin Dan True Persons.

But after that night of Mu Wanlan's betrayal, not only did Mu Wan Qing die, but several False Jin Dan True Persons were eaten one by one by that Rank 3 high-grade spirit crane, dying miserably.

By now, there was only one False Jin Dan True Person left in the family, and having no other choice, he could only promote Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators to enter the ancestral hall for council.

"The Family Head's side..."

Mu Wan Zhang's voice was dry, like a dead man, chasing the last glimmer of hope.

"The Long family replied that they found the wreckage of the White Jade Palace near 'Tianyun Mountain'... there is no news of the Family Head and the others..."

A Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator's eyes were red.

After all, they were a family, and his own grandfather was in this expedition team!

"How ruthless the Bai He Sect is!"

Mu Wan Zhang cursed, and saw a Foundation Establishment cultivator walk in, holding a letter talisman.

"Did the Qiankun Dao reply?"

Mu Wan Zhang hurriedly took it, scanned it with divine sense, and immediately cursed: "Shameless! Shameless to the extreme! What, the Crane Control Token was stolen? This flat-haired beast... isn't it the life-bound spirit pet of the Bai He Sect's Supreme Elder? Since when? Are life-bound spirit pets controlled by life tokens?"

The Qiankun Dao's response was simply blatantly biased.

The Bai He Sect gave an excuse, and the Qiankun Dao immediately believed it!

This kind of cooperation made Mu Wan Zhang's heart turn cold: "The Mu family is finished... This time, I'm afraid we have to seal the mountain!"

He now didn't even dare to leave the scope of Mount Baihua, for fear of suddenly dying.

"Forget it, forget it... pass the order down, my Mu family, seals the mountain for a hundred years!"

Mu Wan Zhang gritted his teeth and made the decision.

Although this means completely abandoning the outside world and never returning to the prestige of a Jin Dan family.

But ultimately, it can preserve the family, even if it's only for a hundred years...

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