Chapter 52: 【Seemingly Peaceful, Finally Triggering War】 (First update, please follow)

Seeing that the matter could no longer be changed, Fang Tuo said in a deep voice:

"Brother Dugu, since the culprit behind all this has already had their soul scattered by you, can this matter end here? Chai Liyuan and the others were just being used. I am willing to cede the land of three prefectures in exchange for a chance for these three to live."

"I ask Brother Dugu to forgive them."

Dugu Wenda did not say anything; he sensed the aura of another Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Golden Wind Immortal Sect approaching.

"I will have people take over the land of the Nine Provinces tomorrow."

After speaking, he looked coldly at Chai Liyuan, then stepped directly onto his flying sword and disappeared into a purple stream of light.

Being looked at by Dugu Wenda, Chai Liyuan's whole body went tense, almost collapsing to the ground. After he left, he only felt his whole body relax and let out a long sigh of relief.

Immediately, he looked at Fang Tuo with guilt and said:

"Master, it was my lack of wisdom to be deceived so easily, causing the sect to lose so many resources."

Fang Tuo frowned habitually.

"This matter is absolutely not that simple. You said you went over after receiving news of the spirit fruit, so where is the spirit fruit?"

Chai Liyuan remembered this point clearly and replied:

"It was taken by the person who escaped from the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect. That person obtained the spirit fruit not long after Dugu Xiu was killed, and then fled directly."

"At that time, in order to avenge Cong Yi, we were already trapped in a bitter battle, so we did not go to pursue him."

"Send people to investigate this person; perhaps he knows something. Also, who were the two people who notified you and Cong Yi?"

Fang Tuo asked again.

Chai Liyuan replied: "The person who notified me and Cong Yi is dead, leaving no corpse behind. The person who notified me is him."

Before his words had faded, he pointed to a Foundation Establishment cultivator standing to the side. Upon hearing this, the man's body trembled and he blurted out:

"Sect Master, I, I don't know anything! I just went to find materials with Chen Feng, accidentally discovered the spirit fruit, and saw the guardian demonic beast. We couldn't deal with it, so we came back to report to Senior Brother Chai!"

Fang Tuo was very decisive; he didn't care what he said, directly raised his hand to grab him, brought him to his front, and then activated the 'Soul Searching Technique'.

Compared to the content told by someone prevaricating, the evidence obtained from soul searching was undoubtedly more convincing.

After soul searching, Fang Tuo's expression became even uglier.

Casually releasing a Golden Palace Divine Wind, the golden wind scraped past, and one could see that the man's clothes were shattered, his flesh and blood dissipated, actually turning that fellow directly into a skeleton.

The soul was naturally also shattered.

This person was the third brother that Lu Chengtong had befriended in the identity of Guan Yu. The fifth brother, who was also arranged in the Golden Wind Immortal Sect, had already been dealt with in the Red Mist Mountain Range.

However, before they escaped from the Red Mist Mountain Range, while they were fighting, Lu Chengtong had already tampered with his memory.

The memory of the brothers working together to incite the two factions to fight was changed to being incited by Cong Yi, assisting him in luring Chai Liyuan, and helping himself get rid of Dugu Xiu's son.

In this way, it formed a corroboration for the memory of Cong Yi they had obtained.

Lu Chengtong was very confident in his supernatural powers; even a Nascent Soul Ancestor could not detect the traces of the changes.

Fang Tuo finished looking at this person's memory and basically determined the cause and effect of this matter. Although he still felt that something was not quite right, he couldn't think of where it was wrong.

He looked at Cong Chi and reminded him:

"Dugu Wenda is not a person with a very broad mind; he might retaliate against the Cong family. Elder Cong, be prepared."

After speaking, he turned and left, taking Chai Liyuan with him.

Next, the entire Golden Wind Immortal Sect had to be prepared to face the retaliation of the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect. This grudge could absolutely not be settled by the land of the Nine Provinces.

The land of the Nine Provinces could only be considered a superficial condition for peace.

As a Sect Master, Dugu Wenda still needed to consider the impact of the two sects going to war on the surface.

I am afraid that by then, both sides would suffer, and they would be taken advantage of by other sects in the surrounding area.

On the surface, the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect and the Golden Wind Immortal Sect both belonged to the rule of the Feathering Immortal Sect, one of the three major immortal sects in the Northern Wasteland Region.

The Feathering Immortal Sect was a truly top-tier immortal sect with Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, ruling over dozens of affiliated sects. The Purple Radiance Immortal Sect and the Golden Wind Immortal Sect were just sects in the marginal areas, with low strength, and were not valued.

But even a small fly is meat; just because the Feathering Immortal Sect didn't look down on them didn't mean the surrounding sects didn't.

If a real war broke out, there was no guarantee that the surrounding sects wouldn't intervene and take the opportunity to seize the resources belonging to the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect.

Therefore, Dugu Wenda did not directly turn hostile, but first resolved this conflict.

In reality, the fighting had already begun.

Since the spirit fruit dispute in the Red Mist Mountain Range, the friction between the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect and the Golden Wind Immortal Sect had intensified.

Within a year, both factions had lost dozens of Foundation Establishment True Persons and hundreds of Qi Refining disciples.

Lu Chengtong added fuel to the fire, using the 【Soul-Bewildering Soul-Seizing】 supernatural power to constantly stir up trouble and kill people.

In this process, he relied on the 【Submerged Abyss Earth Escaping】 supernatural power to come and go freely, obtaining a large amount of spirit stones and other cultivation resources.

He needed spirit stones.

Not just for cultivation, but more so to create supernatural power Dao seeds.

He found that the way he took advantage of the conflict between the two major demon forces last time to obtain powerful Dao fruits was very useful.

As long as he sowed enough Dao seeds, he could use a large number of Dao fruits to raise the divine soul level of the Treasure Mirror.

The higher the level of the Treasure Mirror, the greater the power of the supernatural powers released; this was a way to directly increase combat strength.

In the blink of an eye, two more years passed.

This month, the personal disciple of the Golden Wind Immortal Sect Sect Master, Chai Liyuan, was killed, and the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect Sect Master Dugu Wenda had two grandsons die.

As of now, because of this disaster, both sides had each lost more than two hundred Foundation Establishment True Persons and more than two thousand Qi Refining realm disciples.

This was almost equivalent to consuming half of the sect's foundation.

The patience of both sides had reached a certain limit.

But this still hadn't reached the time for the final explosion, or rather, they still didn't have full confidence to make a move.

So, under this undercurrent, another year passed.

Last month, of Dugu Wenda's only three grandsons, only one remained.

After becoming a Nascent Soul Ancestor, it was very difficult for him to conceive a child. He had been working hard for these two years, but no offspring had been born.

The Dugu family had only this one lone seedling left.

The grudge with the Golden Wind Immortal Sect needed a real conclusion!

On this day, the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect came out in full force. At night, more than a dozen Golden Core Masters and two Nascent Soul Ancestors killed their way to the sky above the Golden Wind Immortal Sect together.

Without extra words, after arriving, they directly released spells, and once they made a move, it was a large-scale attack.

The two Nascent Soul Ancestors attacked together, and after each released two attacks, the Golden Wind Immortal Sect's sect-protecting array shattered, and the subsequent attacks fell upon those disciples.

However, the time the sect array blocked was enough for most of the disciples to react, and Fang Tuo led a group of elders to meet them.

Fang Tuo also didn't say much, directly using the Golden Palace Divine Wind, blowing toward the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect Golden Core Masters who were attacking the Golden Wind Immortal Sect.