Chapter 48

Hou Zhao was recruited into the Piaoxue Tower and is now cultivating somewhere, but there should be no danger for the time being.

The depth of the Piaoxue Tower could not be probed at all; there was too little information that could be learned about this organization, and Lu Chengtong did not dare to rashly break into their location.

It would be better to catch someone first, search their soul, and see if he could find relevant information.

The Piaoxue Tower is cultivating Hou Zhao; Hou Zhao will sooner or later break through to the Golden Core Realm and then take action against Sun Xiao; he himself can help him at that time and get rid of Sun Xiao together.

Afterward, he would find a way to rescue Hou Zhao and kill those who took action against the Lu Family disciples.

With Golden Core Realm divine soul cultivation and the 【Light-Circle Manifestation】 divine ability, he was confident that he could eradicate the assassins who took action against the Lu Family back then one by one.

Don't talk about how assassins are just taking money to do things; no matter what, they are the direct culprits and must all die!

Lu Chengtong settled down for the time being and stopped investigating news about the Piaoxue Tower.

He shifted his attention to dealing with Zhao Yongcheng.

Now that he possessed the divine soul power of the sixth-layer Golden Core Realm Huo Jiu Yao Wang, and the Treasure Mirror also had the divine soul power of the first-layer Golden Core Realm, the two of them launching the 【Soul-Bewildering Soul-Seizing】 divine ability together could definitely beat Zhao Yongcheng, who had just broken through to the fourth layer of the Golden Core Realm, until his divine soul left his body.

But this time would likely be very short.

A Golden Core entering the abdomen to suppress the divine soul and consciousness is not so easy to shake.

It is only because the divine ability is overbearing that Lu Chengtong has the confidence to force his divine soul out of his body, but the time cannot be guaranteed, so he cannot guarantee that he can kill him within that time period.

A Golden Core Realm cultivator must have many means of protecting the Dao; even if the opponent loses the ability to resist, he himself might not be able to break the defense and might even be counter-injured.

With his current ability, the best way to get rid of Zhao Yongcheng is still to borrow power, to borrow the means of others.

With his divine soul raised to the Golden Core Realm, he could tamper with the memories of some Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Perhaps he could find a suitable target to provoke a conflict between a Golden Core Realm cultivator and Zhao Yongcheng, just like the struggle between the Huo Jiu Yao Wang and the Cloud Snake Demon King.

As long as both sides are injured, or even just as long as Zhao Yongcheng is seriously injured, he can take the opportunity to take action.

If conditions permit, intervening at the beginning and joining forces with that Golden Core Realm cultivator to deal with Zhao Yongcheng is also not impossible.

Over these decades, he has had a relatively good understanding of Zhao Yongcheng as a person.

The sect management styles of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect and the Ziyao Immortal Sect are different.

Except for some honorary elders of the sect within families, all elders directly under the Ziyao Immortal Sect are within the sect.

But in the Jinfeng Immortal Sect, of the eighteen Golden Core elders directly under the sect, only four remain to guard the mountain gate, while the other twelve are distributed in various places of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect, known as Garrison Elders.

Zhao Yongcheng is the Garrison Elder of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect in the area near the Yunwu Mountain Range to the east, managing a range of more than a dozen prefectures.

He has no family and no direct disciples; his disciples are only nominal Inner Disciples directly under the sect; he only has management responsibilities and command authority.

This person can be considered a "pure cultivator" who starts from himself in everything, and precisely because of this, he has no such weaknesses.

Such cultivation is precisely what those cultivators who have family and disciple inheritances fear.

Having no ties means being unscrupulous!

He was originally a loose cultivator who was recruited into the Jinfeng Immortal Sect during the Foundation Establishment Realm; afterward, he broke through to the Golden Core Realm with the help of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect's resources, so his foundation is shallow compared to cultivators who grew up in sects or families.

He has dabbled in talisman techniques, artifact refining, sword arts, and so on, but is not outstandingly proficient in any; the only thing worth praising is his "Golden Light Sword Control Art," a method that combines spells to control flying swords.

This person is very complex, has no prominent features, and thus has no significant weaknesses; not knowing what trump cards he has, one must absolutely not rashly take action against him.

He is also usually very cautious; although he must have no shortage of enemies, he has no powerful enemies on the surface and has no major conflicts of interest with anyone.

It is not easy to create disputes.

Lu Chengtong thought of Chen Sanqing, who had formed his core long ago.

For this seed of hatred that had been buried long ago, it was now time for it to sprout.

Chen Sanqing is a calm and proud person; without absolute certainty in dealing with Zhao Yongcheng, he would not take action.

Moreover, they belong to two different sects; if the two sects have no direct conflict, or if there is no open rupture in their peaceful relationship, even if he has a certain degree of certainty, he would not dare to kill.

After all, the opponent is a Golden Core elder directly under the Jinfeng Immortal Sect.

If it were of a family nature or an honorary elder of the sect, it could be explained as a private feud, just like the battle between Lu Mingzhang and Han Zizai before; in fact, because Han Zizai was only an honorary elder and was not directly managed by the Jinfeng Immortal Sect, private feud struggles would not provoke disputes between the two sects.

But if one were to deal with Zhao Yongcheng, the nature would be different.

Lu Chengtong thought it over repeatedly and felt that he still had to muddy the waters, letting the two sects conflict with each other, so that he would have an opportunity to take advantage of.

If nothing else, he also had to find an opportunity to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots of those few people from the Han Family of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect.

He is the only one left in the Lu Family to take revenge; he cannot let anyone from the Han Family remain.

——

In the blink of an eye, two years later.

The Sect Master of the Ziyao Immortal Sect is named Dugu Wenda, with early-stage Nascent Soul Realm cultivation; the previous Sect Master, who was also the founding ancestor of the Ziyao Immortal Sect, was his father.

He has two sons, named Dugu Jing and Dugu Xiu respectively; both sons now also have several children each.

Both are three-spirit-root cultivators; Dugu Jing is eighty-four years old this year, at the eighth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm; Dugu Xiu is seventy-two years old this year, at the seventh layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

The Immortal Sect does not have any primogeniture system; Dugu Wenda once stated that whoever forms the Golden Core first among the two can succeed as Sect Master, while he himself would abdicate to become a Supreme Elder.

Between the two brothers, there is constant open and secret fighting; however, after all, it is within an Immortal Sect and is different from the secular world; winning over forces is a minor detail, and one's own strength is the foundation.

They all try every possible way to obtain things that can enhance their strength.

On this day, Dugu Xiu and Dugu Jing successively received news that a spirit root had been discovered in the Red Mist Mountain Range, on which a fruit emitting divine strangeness was about to ripen, and there was also a late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic beast guarding it.

A spirit fruit guarded by a peak Foundation Establishment demonic beast must be a treasure that can help Golden Core Realm cultivators increase their cultivation or help late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators break into the Golden Core Realm; such good things must be obtained.

Even if one cannot get it oneself, one must absolutely not let others get it.

They both set off at the first opportunity, each bringing two Foundation Establishment helpers, and went to the Red Mist Mountain Range together.

When they arrived at the location of the spirit fruit, they discovered that there were already people here, and it was a group of people from the Jinfeng Immortal Sect.

Among them, there were two they both knew; one was the famous Divine Wind Master Chai Liyuan, who mastered the Golden Palace Divine Wind, and the other was Cong Yi, the grandson of the elder of the Talisman Hall of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect.

Both had extremely strong talent and had reached the late stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm; at this time, they were bringing two other people from the Jinfeng Immortal Sect and were entangled in a fight with that demonic beast.