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Chapter 224: Four-way division, Lin Hongyu's self-salvation [Subscription required]

The small White Fang stronghold was quickly captured by a wave of more than 200 Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators.

Most of the monks inside were killed, and only a few were left behind to be questioned for intelligence.

Through the mouths of these people, everyone soon learned that after the news of the Dragon Transformation Sect feeding dragons with dragons spread, the three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators in the Baiya stronghold went to the Bailong branch to question the hall master and others, leaving only a dozen Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators to lead a group of Qi Refining Stage cultivators to maintain the operation of the stronghold.

But just before Zhou Chun and his army arrived, three foundation-building cultivators in the stronghold escaped.

That's why such a stronghold can be easily captured in one wave.

After asking these questions, Taoist Mingjing frowned immediately.

He frowned and pondered for a while, then said to the Purple Mansion cultivators standing or sitting around him: "The situation at the White Fang stronghold is definitely not an isolated case. I'm afraid that the other strongholds behind are also probably no longer equipped as they were in their heyday. Therefore, I decided to split up the troops. Do you have any opinions, fellow Taoists?"

Hearing his words, a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator immediately responded, "If we divide our forces, how do you plan to divide them, Fellow Daoist Mingjing? How many routes do you plan to divide them into?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another Purple Mansion cultivator followed suit and said, "Yes, although we have a lot of people, if we are too scattered, once we encounter a tough guy, it will be difficult to quickly break through the stronghold!"

"Don't worry, fellow Taoists. Even if we split up our forces, they won't be dispersed too much."

Taoist Mingjing said at this point, and then he said in a deep voice: "I plan to divide the troops into four groups, each with eight Purple Mansion cultivators and forty Foundation Establishment cultivators. This way, no matter which stronghold we encounter, we will have an absolute advantage in force!"

"Then apart from your group, Fellow Daoist Mingjing, who should lead the other three groups?"

A Purple Mansion cultivator had a gleam in his eyes and asked a new question.

Hearing this question, Taoist Mingjing looked around at all the Purple Mansion cultivators, and then slowly said: "The other three groups, one group will be led by Junior Brother Minghe, one group will be led by Fellow Daoist Zhao, and one group will be led by Fellow Daoist Lu. Is this acceptable to you all?"

The three people he mentioned, except for the Taoist Minghe from Qinglian Temple who was only in the middle stage of Purple Mansion cultivation, the other two were in the late stage of Purple Mansion cultivation, and their families were also among the top 30 families in the previous "Hundred Clans Conference".

After hearing his arrangement, a Purple Mansion cultivator like Zhou Mingde, who knew that it would not be his turn to lead the command, of course did not care.

But the other several late Purple Mansion cultivators frowned slightly, as if they were unwilling to be inferior to others.

But they were hesitant, and no one spoke up to object for a while.

Upon seeing this, Taoist Mingjing immediately winked at Zhou Mingde and several other Purple Mansion early and middle stage cultivators.

"Zhou will obey the orders of Taoist Mingjing in everything!"

"I will also listen to Taoist Mingjing in everything."

"Chen only obeys the orders of Fellow Daoist Mingjing!"

Zhou Mingde and several others responded, saying that they would obey Taoist Mingjing's command and arrangements.

At this point, the other Purple Mansion cultivators who knew that it was not their turn to lead the command could only follow suit.

And when most people agreed with Taoist Mingjing's arrangement, those late Purple Mansion cultivators, although feeling uncomfortable in their hearts, had no choice but to agree with it with grim looks.

So Taoist Mingjing divided all the people into groups on the spot.

Perhaps as a reward for Zhou Mingde's earlier leading response, the Zhou family was assigned to Taoist Mingjing's group and was not led or commanded by anyone else.

After the groups were formed, Taoist Mingjing took out the map of the wilderness that had been secretly drawn by Qinglian Temple and copied a copy of the map for the other three commanders, indicating the location of the strongholds to be attacked and the tasks to be performed after the strongholds were captured.

Then, a dozen or so early Foundation Establishment cultivators with insufficient magical powers were left at the Baiya stronghold to wait for the subsequent Qi Refining cultivator teams to arrive. The four teams then split up and headed towards the other four Dragon Transformation Sect strongholds.

Just as Zhou Chun and others were rushing from the Baiya stronghold to the next one, the battle at the Red Dragon branch had already begun.

Among the major branches of the Hualong Sect, the Red Dragon Branch is second only to the Black Dragon Branch in strength, so the Moon Wheel Sect is the main force attacking the Red Dragon Branch.

At this moment, more than four hundred Moon Wheel Sect's foundation-building monks, led by thirty-six Moon Wheel Sect's Purple Mansion monks, formed the Moon Wheel Sect's secret battle formation, the "Crescent Moon Shooting Star Formation."

Through the secret art of battle formation, they connected each other's magic power together, and with the power of the moonlight of the yin and yang as a guide, they transformed it into powerful arrows of spiritual energy and shot them towards the protective formation of the Red Dragon branch altar.

I saw silver-white arrows dozens of feet long streaking through the sky and plunging into the Red Dragon Branch Altar's protective formation like meteors from the sky, making bursts of rumbling and exploding sounds.

The power of those silver-white arrows was so great that even ordinary Jindan stage cultivators would not dare to take them head-on.

At the same time, fifteen Jindan-stage monks were also distributed in all four directions of the Red Dragon Branch Altar, each using their magic weapons and supernatural powers to launch a fierce attack on the Red Dragon Branch Altar's protective formation.

Faced with such a fierce attack, the Dragon Transformation Sect monks in the Red Dragon branch were all worried and terrified.

The strength of the Red Dragon Branch is definitely not weak. There are three Jindan-stage elders alone, plus the hall master and two deputy hall masters, a total of six Jindan-stage cultivators. In addition, there is a fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon in charge.

With such strength and the protection of the formation, they would be able to fight even if facing Jindan stage cultivators who outnumber them by many times.

However, at this moment, the leader of the Red Dragon Hall, because of the influence of that "rumor", had already brought a fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon to the main hall!

In name, he did this in response to the requests of the Dharma protectors and elders, and to ask the leader and deputy leader for an explanation.

But in reality, he was afraid that the two deputy hall masters and three elders would "rebel" and surround and kill the fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon.

After all, just over a hundred years ago, the great elder of the Red Dragon Hall did exactly this kind of thing.

Without the hall master with the cultivation level of the late Jindan period and the fourth-order intermediate-grade Red Fire Dragon in charge, how could the cultivators of the Hualong Sect in the Red Dragon branch not be panic-stricken and terrified in the face of the powerful offensive of the Moon Wheel Sect outside?

They all knew very well that with the current strength of the branch temple, it was impossible to withstand the attack of the Moon Wheel Sect outside.

I'm afraid that within two days, the protective formation will be forcibly breached.

By then, without the protection of the protective formation, facing the siege of Moon Wheel Sect monks who outnumbered their number by many times, whether they could break through and escape would depend on luck.

As the guardian of the Red Dragon Hall, Lin Hongyu is no exception.

At this moment, she was trying hard to provide strength for the protective formation, while also anxiously thinking about her own retreat.

After taking the Chiyang Liuzhu Pill that she had taken from the Jiang family, she had successfully broken through to the late Purple Mansion stage.

Considering her age of less than 400 years, she might have a chance to try to form a pill in the future. But not long after she came out of seclusion, the news that the Hualong Sect used humans to feed dragons spread.

After learning about this, she was extremely shocked and angry. She felt that she had been deceived and betrayed, and was extremely heartbroken.

Come to think of it, anyone who knew that he had practiced hard for hundreds of years, only to be raised as food for a worm, would be mentally devastated and find it hard to accept.

If it weren't for the restriction of the "Dragon Soul Heart Seed", I'm afraid that all the dragons of the Dragon Transformation Sect would be slaughtered in an instant by the extremely angry guardians and elders.

After being angry, Lin Hongyu was naturally unwilling to be food for a beast.

She will work hard to break the shackles and escape from the confinement!
So before the three major sects took action, she sent her confidant with treasures and her secret letter to the Zhou family, asking the Zhou family to help her break free from the confinement and shackles.

"According to the time, the Zhou family should have received my secret letter. I hope that guy is not so heartless and can help me this time!"

She murmured to herself in her heart, but she was not very sure.

It was not only because she had no confidence that Zhou Daoyi would help her, but also because she did not have much confidence that her plan would succeed.

But now this is all she can count on!

On the other side, just one day before the battle of the Red Dragon Branch Altar started, a woman in red with the cultivation level of the initial foundation building stage suddenly found the Zhou family and asked to see the head of the Zhou family, Zhou Daoyi.

Although Zhou Daoyi had secretly come out at this time, he remained extremely low-key and did not show up in front of his clan members. The news of his coming out was only known to Zhou Jiahe, the fifth elder who was nominally in charge of the family.

When she heard that a woman who had never been to the Zhou family came to see the patriarch Zhou Daoyi, she felt very strange.

However, he still refused the red-clothed woman's visit request on the pretext that Zhou Daoyi was in seclusion to break through to the Purple Palace.

Unexpectedly, the woman in red had a very bad temper. She ignored her refusal and directly attacked the Zhou family's mountain protection formation after she refused, using a third-level magic talisman!

It would be hard not to alarm Zhou Daoyi with such an attack.

In the end, Zhou Daoyi naturally captured the woman in red personally and interrogated her about her origins.

However, after Zhou Daoyi learned about her origins and purpose from the woman in red, he quickly lifted the confinement on her and his expression began to change.

It turned out that the woman in red was the one sent by Lin Hongyu to deliver the letter.

He himself is not a follower of the Dragon Transformation Sect and has never practiced the "Secret of Dragon Transformation".

She was adopted by Lin Hongyu since she was a child and was secretly taught to practice. She had already recognized Lin Hongyu as her godmother and her name was also Lin Hongyu's, named Lin Wan'er.

After helping her to successfully build her foundation, Lin Hongyu let her travel around Jingguo as a casual cultivator, collecting information and doing certain things for her. Before that, Lin Hongyu also communicated with the Zhou family through her through correspondence.

This time, Lin Hongyu wanted to break free from the constraints of the Hualong Sect, so she took advantage of the panic among the senior leaders of the Red Dragon Branch and met with her secretly. She handed her some treasures and a letter, and asked her to hand them over to Zhou Daoyi as quickly as possible.

It was precisely because Lin Hongyu had told her about the seriousness of the matter that she did not hesitate to use the third-level magic talisman to attack the Zhou family's mountain protection formation to attract Zhou Daoyi's attention.

In the letter, Lin Hongyu earnestly requested Zhou Daoyi to help her contact the Jindan-stage cultivators of the three major sects, considering that they were once husband and wife. She was willing to be an insider to provide information to the three major sects, and help the three major sects kill the fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon at the Red Dragon branch.

The activation of the "Dragon Soul Heart Seed" requires the cooperation of a living dragon.

Once the fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon of the Red Dragon Hall is killed, the restrictions on Lin Hongyu and the elders and protectors of the Red Dragon branch hall will be lifted, and they will no longer have to practice with the tight hoop on their head.

Of course, Lin Hongyu also knew that it would be difficult to convince Zhou Daoyi and the Zhou family to take the risk to help her just based on their fleeting romance.

So she promised in the letter that as long as she successfully escaped from danger, she would donate all the wealth she had accumulated throughout her life to the Zhou family, and she was also willing to do some things for the Zhou family in secret in the future.

In order to impress Zhou Daoyi and the Zhou family as much as possible, she also listed some of her treasured treasures in the letter, including two foundation-building pills and a spiritual object to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, as well as a variety of dragon-born monster eggs and rare dragon blood spiritual objects.

There is no doubt that her approach was very successful and successfully hit Zhou Daoyi's soft spot.

Zhou Daoyi might not really care about her so-called one-day love as husband and wife, but he definitely cared about the huge wealth she had accumulated.

Two foundation-building pills, as long as the luck is not extremely bad, almost ensure that the Zhou family can produce another foundation-building cultivator, which can just fill the vacancy left by the second elder Zhou Chongshan who was lost soon.

The spiritual objects that assist in opening up the Purple Mansion are even more precious, giving Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family, the opportunity to impact the Purple Mansion.

Because he had occupied all the family resources, Zhou Daoyi had always felt a little guilty towards the third elder Zhou Daoquan. After all, Zhou Daoquan had broken through to the late foundation building stage earlier than him.

And he was able to cultivate to the late stage of foundation building because the supreme elder Zhou Mingde invested a large amount of elixirs in him.

So when Zhou Daoyi saw the opportunity to make up for his guilt, he really didn't want to give up.

But he also knew that once he acted as a matchmaker for Lin Hongyu, the fact that the Zhou family was secretly communicating with the monks of the Hualong Sect would no longer be concealed.

All previous collaborations with Lin Hongyu may be exposed to the eyes of the three major sects.

By that time, even if the Zhou family had made considerable contributions in this war, they might not be able to escape being held accountable!

After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Daoyi seemed to have made some kind of decision. He suddenly said to Lin Wan'er in front of him, "I know everything. Miss Lin, you can stay in the Zhou family to practice. I will immediately send someone to inform the Supreme Elder on the front line about this matter."

Hearing his words, Lin Wan'er responded in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "If you want to send someone to deliver the message, Senior Zhou might as well let me go with you. I am familiar with the wilderness, so I can help fellow Taoists who deliver the message avoid many detours, and I can also convey a message to my godmother in time to reassure her!"

"This……"

Zhou Daoyi hesitated a little and did not agree immediately.

He kept Lin Wan'er because he wanted to use her as a hostage and also wanted to prevent Lin Hongyu from using her to do anything detrimental to the Zhou family.

But from what Lin Wan'er said, it seemed that Lin Hongyu had another agreement with him and would not feel at ease until she heard back from him.

This made him worry that if he detained Lin Wan'er, it would backfire and harm the Zhou family.

After weighing the pros and cons, he finally nodded and said, "Okay, then Miss Lao Lin, you will lead the way!"

I have been bleeding after defecation these past few days. I don’t know if it is caused by internal hemorrhoids or rectal polyps. I made an appointment with the doctor in the morning. I hope it is just internal hemorrhoids, otherwise it will be very painful to have surgery!

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