Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 225 Zhou Mingde's Abacus [Subscribe]

When Lin Wan'er and Zhou Jiasheng, who came to convey the message, found Zhou Chun and his group, they had just followed Taoist Mingjing to capture the second stronghold less than half a day ago.

After the troops were divided into four groups that day, they quickly captured the first stronghold which was guarded by only one guardian of the Hualong Sect, and then only took a short rest before attacking the second stronghold.

However, this second stronghold was manned by three Purple Mansion cultivators and sixteen Foundation Establishment cultivators. It took them a day and a half of siege before they broke the protective formation.

But in the end, one of the three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators still managed to escape, and the enemy was not completely wiped out.

After such a hard battle, the team had reached the point where they had to rest, so Taoist Mingjing ordered them to rest in this stronghold, and asked Zhou Chongshan and several monks who understood formations to work together to repair the spirit purification formation in the stronghold.

During this rest period, Zhou Jiasheng and an unfamiliar female foundation-building cultivator suddenly came over, and Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun and others were also surprised.

So after reporting to Taoist Mingjing, Zhou Mingde took the people to the courtyard where the Zhou family monks lived and rested, and together with Zhou Chun, he asked the two about their purpose.

In response to Zhou Mingde's question, Zhou Jiasheng replied softly, "The clan leader did not explain the specific situation to me, but only asked me to hand this jade slip to the Grand Elder."

After saying this, he took out the jade slip that Zhou Daoyi had given him.

Zhou Mingde reached out to take the jade slip and found that Zhou Daoyi had placed a restriction on it using a special method. Without the Zhou family's secret method to unlock it, he could not read the information inside normally.

This made his face solemn. He immediately cast a spell to remove the restriction and carefully read the information in the jade slip.

Then Zhou Chun saw Zhou Mingde's expression changing again and again. It was obvious that the information recorded in the jade slip was very important, which made him lose his composure like this.

Zhou Mingde held the jade slip and read it for about a quarter of an hour before his expression calmed down. He nodded to Lin Wan'er and Zhou Jiasheng beside him and said, "Fellow Daoist Lin, you must have been exhausted on the journey. You and Jiasheng should go down and rest first. I will discuss with Zhengchun and then you can take the report back to Daoyi!"

"Yes, junior, I obey."

Zhou Jiasheng responded and immediately left the room with Lin Wan'er.

After the two of them left, Zhou Mingde immediately handed the jade slip to Zhou Chun and said, "Zhengchun, take a look at it too. Tell me what you think after you finish reading it!"

Zhou Chun was already extremely curious about the information in the jade slip, and after hearing his words, he took it and started to check it out without hesitation.

After reading what Zhou Daoyi said in the jade slip, Zhou Chun's face changed again and again, and he was very shocked.

He took half the time as much as Zhou Mingde to finish reading all the information in the jade slip, then he held the jade slip in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Zhou Mingde did not say anything to disturb his thoughts, but just silently thought about the information Zhou Daoyi had said in the jade slip like him.

After pondering for an hour or two, Zhou Chun finally spoke.

He said in a serious tone: "I think that we should never help to connect the three major sects. If we do that, no matter what our Zhou family does in the future, it will be difficult for us to gain the trust of the three major sects. They can even use this as an excuse to confiscate our Zhou family!"

"Zhengchun, your concern is very reasonable. Things like colluding with foreign enemies can easily be used as a typical example. Our Zhou family can't be so foolish as to offer ourselves to others to establish their authority!"

Zhou Mingde nodded and agreed with Zhou Chun's statement.

But then he frowned again and whispered, "But Lin Hongyu has been forced into a corner now. If I wait and do nothing and don't help her, there's no guarantee that she won't bite us before she dies and expose the fact that she cooperated with us!"

"By then, even if she dies, our Zhou family will be in trouble and it will be difficult to clear ourselves!"

Even a desperate dog will jump over the wall.

Lin Hongyu and the Zhou family had leverage over each other before, so naturally she didn't dare to easily reveal the fact that they were cooperating with each other.

But if the Zhou family refused to help her and watched her die, even if she died, I'm afraid they would not want to let the Zhou family have an easy time!
Zhou Mingde had to worry about this.

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun immediately said, "Then just pretend to agree to her first to calm her down. After the result from the Red Dragon Altar comes out, we will think carefully about what to do. It would be best if she died there!"

"That's fine."

Zhou Mingde nodded, and then said: "But in order to avoid being too late to consider it by then, we still have to consider the worst case scenario first. It's best to think about how to end this matter with her if she survives the battle at the Red Dragon Altar!"

"Worst case scenario?"

Zhou Chun hesitated for a moment, then looked at Zhou Mingde and said, "So, what do you think, Grand Elder?"

"My idea is that the cooperation between the Zhou family and Lin Hongyu must not be leaked out. This is the bottom line!"

"Then, what Lin Hongyu asked us to do, can we use other methods to induce the Jindan-stage cultivators of the three major sects to complete it?"

"If there is a chance to kill the fourth-order intermediate-grade red fire dragon of the Red Dragon Hall, I think the Jindan-stage cultivators of the three major sects will definitely not let go of this opportunity!"

After Zhou Mingde finished speaking, he whispered again: "If we can really accomplish what Lin Hongyu asked, then our Zhou family will not only be able to obtain the wealth she has accumulated throughout her life, but we may also be able to recruit her for our own use and add a powerful fighting force to the family!"

"Take Lin Hongyu as your own?"

Zhou Chun was stunned. He didn't expect Zhou Mingde to say this. He looked at him in disbelief and said, "You mean to let her practice the Blood-Transforming Dragon Technique to transform her Jiaolong blood into Green Jiao blood? I'm afraid she won't agree to this!"

Lin Hongyu wanted to rebel against the Hualong Sect in order to escape the sect's constraints and avoid the tragic fate of being used as food for dragons in the future.

In this situation, how could she just escape from the wolf's den and fall into the tiger's mouth again, and let herself be controlled by others again?

But Zhou Mingde smiled faintly and said, "You are wrong. We are not asking her to transform her Jiaolong bloodline into Qing Jiao bloodline. We are asking her to join the Zhou family as the Supreme Elder!"

"I'm afraid this won't work. Let's not talk about whether she thinks highly of our Zhou family or not. Even if she is willing, if someone finds out that she was once the guardian of the Hualong Sect, wouldn't it cause trouble for our Zhou family?"

Zhou Chun frowned. He still disagreed with Zhou Mingde's statement, thinking it was a bit too fantastic.

"So just don't let her be discovered!"

"We can let her go to the base in Longxing Valley to practice, and not disclose her identity as the Grand Elder to the public. However, she will be given all the necessary benefits, and we can also help her conceal her identity and walk around the Jingguo cultivation world."

"With all these benefits and the fact that we saved her, she can go anywhere. Why doesn't she join our Zhou family?"

When Zhou Mingde said this, the smile on his face became even more pronounced.

He suddenly realized that his idea was really promising. Zhou Chun didn't know what the relationship between Lin Hongyu and the Zhou family was, but he knew it very well.

As long as the Hualong Sect is destroyed and Lin Hongyu's identity as the guardian of the Hualong Sect is no longer a problem, he can completely match Zhou Daoyi and Lin Hongyu to become true Taoist couples.

Now Zhou Daoyi is also a Purple Mansion stage cultivator, and he also has a third-level dragon spirit pet. He is completely worthy of Lin Hongyu in every aspect.

Once the two of them become Taoist partners, will Lin Hongyu still be able to help the Zhou family?
And if Lin Hongyu joins the Zhou family, it will not just be a simple matter of gaining a very powerful late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator.

Lin Hongyu's understanding of the wilderness and the power she secretly possesses will all be used by the Zhou family.

By that time, it would be really difficult for the Zhou family not to take off!
Zhou Chun didn’t know where Zhou Mingde’s confidence came from, and why he believed that Lin Hongyu would join the Zhou family.

However, he was very clear about the benefits that Lin Hongyu would bring to the Zhou family.

Therefore, when he saw Zhou Mingde say this, he could only assume that all this could really be achieved, and then consider what Zhou Mingde had said before.

He lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "If we really want to help Lin Hongyu, we must first find out the situation at the Red Dragon Altar. If that fourth-level middle-grade Red Fire Dragon dies in this battle, then we don't have to do anything."

“If that fourth-order mid-grade red fire dragon didn’t die in this battle, and Lin Hongyu survived, then we would have to find a way to contact her, get the red fire dragon’s location information from her, and then find a way to pass this information to the Jindan-stage cultivators of the three major sects!”

Hearing his words, Zhou Mingde immediately said, "The matter of contacting Lin Hongyu can be handed over to Lin Wan'er. We just need to find a way to pass the message to the Jindan stage cultivators of the three major sects and induce them to kill the dragon!"

"In that case, let's do as I said before. We should pretend to agree to Lin Hongyu's request, and then use the excuse that we are temporarily unable to get away to wait for the results from the Red Dragon Altar!"

Zhou Chun nodded and finally finalized the matter.

So Zhou Mingde immediately called Lin Wan'er, the goddaughter adopted by Lin Hongyu, and said that he agreed to Lin Hongyu's request. He asked him to tell Lin Hongyu about this matter, and at the same time told her that the Zhou family was unable to extricate themselves from the situation.

Although Lin Wan'er knew Lin Hongyu's plan, she did not know all the specific details, and Lin Hongyu did not reveal her relationship with Zhou Daoyi to her.

Therefore, after hearing Zhou Mingde's reply, she did not ask any more questions. After leaving a way to contact her, she left the base alone.

After sending Lin Wan'er away, Zhou Mingde took the opportunity to report the situation to Taoist Mingjing, and interpreted the information that Zhou Jiasheng had sent over from afar as Zhou Daoyi was about opening up the Purple Mansion and coming out of seclusion.

When Taoist Mingjing learned about this, he congratulated him on the spot and did not ask any further questions.

The war was important, and he had no time to pay attention to Zhou Daoyi's breakthrough.

Just as Zhou Chun and his men rested in the stronghold for two days and started to move towards the next stronghold, the war at the Red Dragon branch had reached its final stage.

Suddenly, red flames rose from the protective formation of the Red Dragon Branch Altar. In the blink of an eye, eighteen red divine lights shot out and shot directly at the fifteen Jindan stage monks and three "Crescent Moon Shooting Star Formations" outside.

After these eighteen red divine lights were emitted, the protective formation that was already in danger under the attack of the Moon Wheel Sect instantly ran out of power and shattered on the spot.

At the same time, the Red Dragon branch monks who had been prepared long ago also rushed out from all directions, each using their own methods, and tried their best to break out and escape.

"Stop them, don't let any of them escape!"

In the sky, a late Jindan cultivator from the Yuelun Sect opened his mouth and shouted loudly. With the power of his magic, a silver-white round wheel magic weapon glowed like a silver full moon and attacked head-on the red divine light that was shooting towards him.

The power of that red divine light was no less than the full-strength attack of an ordinary mid-stage Jindan cultivator.

However, under the bombardment of the magic weapon of this late Jindan cultivator, it was easily crushed and shattered.

After the silver wheel dispersed the red divine light, it continued to bombard a cultivator from the Hualong Sect who was in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm without stopping.

But after all, not every Jindan stage cultivator is as powerful as this one.

Among the fifteen Jindan-stage cultivators present, only two were in the late Jindan stage, only four were in the middle Jindan stage, and the remaining nine were in the early Jindan stage.

Facing the attack of the red divine light, the four mid-stage Jindan cultivators were able to rely on the power of their magic weapons to blast it apart, and they took action in time to intercept the Jindan-stage cultivator of the Hualong Sect who was breaking through.

However, the nine early Jindan cultivators did not dare to face its edge directly. They either used their magical powers to dodge or defended with all their might. They had no energy left to care about anything else.

But the worst off were the monks formed by the three "Crescent Moon Shooting Star Formations".

They rely on the power of battle formations to launch attacks equivalent to those of the Jindan stage.

However, the "Crescent Moon Shooting Stars Formation" is a purely offensive formation and has no defensive capabilities.

Facing the attack of three red divine lights at this time, except for one of the large formations that barely shot out silver-white arrows to block the red divine lights falling towards it, the cultivators in the other two large formations could only panic and scatter.

But the attack speed of that red divine light was so fast!

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Moon Wheel Sect monks were unable to escape and were hit by the red divine light.

For any cultivator who was hit by the red divine light, no matter whether he was in the Purple Mansion Stage or the Foundation Establishment Stage, the result would be the same.

They were instantly dissolved into a puff of green smoke, even the magic weapons on their bodies were no exception!

This horrifying scene also frightened those Moon Wheel Sect monks who had managed to survive.

They looked at the place where the two red divine lights swept.

The ground there had melted into two magma pools of unknown depth, filled with yellow smoke, just like a volcano that had just erupted.

"What are you all still standing there for? Hurry up and wipe out these Dragon Transformation Cult traitors!"

As a clear and cold shout sounded from the sky, those Moon Wheel Sect monks who had just escaped death suddenly shuddered all over and woke up instantly.

Then they looked at the Hualong Sect monks who had broken through and escaped, and thought of their fellow disciples who had just died. Immediately, their faces were filled with shock and anger, and they roared with their magic weapons to meet the enemy.

Blood debt must be repaid with blood!

Soon, all the Hualong Sect monks who broke out, except those in the Qi Refining Stage, were intercepted and hunted down by Moon Wheel Sect monks who were several times their number. Even powerful enemies who were one major realm higher than themselves got involved.

The results are out. Fortunately, it’s just internal hemorrhoids. But it’s not optimistic because the bleeding is quite severe. I plan to take a break and exercise for a few days to slow down. I may not be able to update twice a day in the next few days, so I want to explain this to everyone in advance!
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