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Chapter 394 Three years of changes, shocking news [Subscribe]

The Guo family of Tuyunling is gone.

The Guo family's supreme elder Guo Tong, as well as the Guo family's head of the family and three other Guo family foundation-building cultivators were all killed on the spot, without any escape.

Ninety percent of the Qi Refining cultivators of the Guo family were killed, and only more than ten people escaped.

However, the Zhou family and other families that attacked the Guo family did not escape unscathed.

During the battle, when they were hunting down the three Guo family foundation-building cultivators, the three Guo family foundation-building cultivators all used the third-level magic talismans that Guo Tong had given them.

As a result, a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building was killed on the spot due to being caught off guard. At the same time, Zhou Zhengyong and a cultivator from the He family were also injured.

Even Zhou Chun's spiritual pet, the golden-winged tiger, was seriously injured.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde had nothing to say about this situation.

This is what a genocide war is like. Even if the strength is far behind the enemy, each family will try every means to drag the enemy to be buried with them.

They also gave some life-saving items to several Zhou family foundation-building cultivators before the war began.

After comforting the injured Zhou Zhengyong and the other man, Zhou Mingde ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and prepared to return to report.

Unlike the Jiang family that was destroyed at the beginning, the Guo family was determined to perish together with their enemies after learning that no reinforcements were coming.

Therefore, before the mountain protection formation was broken, they had destroyed everything they could not take away, and there was no complete spiritual medicine to be found on Tuyun Ridge.

So apart from the storage bags of the Guo family monks who died in the breakout, there were actually not many spoils for Zhou Chun and his team to pick up.

The Zhou family had already taken the bulk of the spoils because they had obtained the storage bags of Guo Tong and two foundation-building cultivators of the Guo family (one of them destroyed his storage bag before his death). As for the storage bags of the Qi-refining cultivators, it was tacitly agreed that whoever killed them would own them.

Instead, it allowed other cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage to make a small fortune.

After looting everything that could be looted, everyone simply burned some corpses of the Guo family monks on Tuyun Ridge and then left.

About half a day after the Zhou family left, two Qi-refining cultivators from the Guo family suddenly returned to Tuyun Ridge, and took away seven or eight children from the surviving mortals on Tuyun Ridge.

These young children were all members of the Guo family who possessed spiritual roots. They were spared from slaughter because they had not yet cultivated their magical powers.

According to the rules of the immortal cultivation world, disasters will not affect mortals. Generally, even in a war to destroy an entire family, those people in the other family who do not have magical powers will not be slaughtered.

Of course, not everyone will follow this rule. Sometimes, in order to prevent the other family from taking revenge in the future, after destroying the other family, they will turn around and use various methods to quietly eliminate those people with spiritual roots in the other family.

But whether it was when they were exterminating the Jiang family or now when they were exterminating the Guo family, Zhou Chun and his men did not do this.

This is not because they are merciful, but because these two wars of genocide were rather special, and they could not directly occupy the other family's mountain gate and use it for their own purposes.

On the other side, after Zhou Chun and his party returned to the Xiaoxiong Mountain stronghold, Zhou Mingde found the Qinglian Temple envoy and said, "Your Excellency, the Guo family of Tuyunling has been destroyed. The heads of their family's supreme elder Guo Tong and three foundation-building monks are all here. Please inspect them!"

After saying that, he slapped the storage bag on his waist and took out four heads that were placed in wooden boxes.

"Yes, it is indeed the Guo family's Grand Elder Guo Tong and three foundation-building cultivators."

After the Qinglian Temple envoy carefully examined the heads, he nodded slightly, and immediately sent out a ball of real fire to burn the heads to ashes.

Then he said to Zhou Mingde who was still looking at him: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, you have worked hard. I will report your contributions to the abbot truthfully. Now you should have a good rest and wait for the abbot's further orders!"

"I understand. I will not bother you any more."

Zhou Mingde nodded, clasped his fists and bowed, then turned and left.

When they returned to the resting place, he conveyed the Qinglian Temple envoy's intention to Zhou Chun and others, and then let everyone disperse and rest.

Then several people from the Zhou family gathered at Zhou Mingde's residence and counted the harvest together.

After all, the Guo family of Tuyunling is a large family of immortal cultivators, and they still have some family heritage.

From Guo Tong's relics, the Zhou family not only obtained two third-level magical instruments, but also two thousand-year-old spiritual medicines, many high-year spiritual medicines, and more than 20,000 spiritual coins.

Among the relics of the other two Guo family foundation-building cultivators, there were also many magical instruments, elixirs, spiritual medicines, and nearly 20,000 spiritual coins.

These were all spoils of war, and according to the rules they were to be distributed entirely among those who had participated in the war.

So Zhou Mingde took the initiative and divided the two third-level magic weapons and two thousand-year-old spiritual medicines equally between himself and Zhou Chun, and then each of them took 15,000 spiritual coins and some high-year-old spiritual medicines.

The rest of the things were divided among the three foundation-building monks.

After dividing the treasures they had harvested, the five members of the Zhou family went back to their rooms to rest.

However, for the next five days, no further orders were issued from Qinglian Temple.

No orders were issued, which meant that Zhou Chun and his men would have to continue staying in the Xiaoxiong Mountain stronghold.

But the Xiaoxiong Mountain stronghold itself is not a large stronghold. It was a place abandoned by a family of immortal cultivators who defected to Lingzhou and was later taken over by Qinglian Temple.

The concentration of spiritual energy in this kind of place is simply not enough to meet the cultivation needs of Zhou Chun and other Purple Mansion Stage cultivators.

Therefore, if they stay here for a long time, it will delay their practice.

"Fellow Daoist Zeng, how long will Zhou and the others have to wait here? My Zhou family is only a thousand miles away from here. If there is nothing else, can you let us go back to the family to practice first?"

On this day, Zhou Mingde once again found the envoy of Qinglian Temple, asked about Qinglian Temple's arrangements for him and others, and put forward his own demands.

Hearing his words, the Qinglian Temple envoy could not help but frowned, and then comforted him, "Daoyou Zhou, please be patient. Since the temple master has not issued any new orders, it means that you may still be of use. You should be patient."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Mingde did not give up this time, but said with a serious face: "It's not that I don't have patience, but I am different from you, Brother Xu. I still have a family to take care of, and my family's pure practice cannot be delayed!"

Such a tough tone immediately made the Qinglian Temple envoy's expression change, and he couldn't help but look at him with anger.

But Zhou Mingde looked at him calmly, with no intention of backing down.

After the two of them confronted each other for a while, seeing that Zhou Mingde was determined, the Qinglian Temple envoy could only suppress his anger and said in a deep voice: "Okay, since Brother Zhou is so anxious, Zeng will send another message to ask the temple master for instructions!"

"Thank you, Brother Zeng."

Zhou Mingde nodded slightly and left with satisfaction.

It was unknown what the Qinglian Temple envoy had said, but this time the order from the Qingweizi Temple Master came very quickly. According to the latest order, the two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators of the Zhou family could return to the family and wait for orders, but the three Foundation Establishment cultivators had to stay at the Xiaoxiong Mountain stronghold and wait for orders.

Judging from the situation, Qinglian Temple seems to still have the idea of ​​using military force against Tianjing Sect.

But no matter what, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde should at least not stay in the Xiaoxiongshan stronghold doing nothing.

After receiving the latest orders, the two of them set off directly back to their family.

After Zhou Chun returned to the family, he checked the news from the family intelligence hall and gained a more detailed understanding of the current situation.

After the Zhou family conquered Tuyun Ridge, several large immortal cultivation clans in Lingzhou were also attacked and defeated one after another. They were basically wiped out, with only one seriously injured Zifu and several foundation-building cultivators escaping.

Because the Tianjing Sect had been sitting on the sidelines during this process, those immortal cultivation families that had not been besieged were completely disheartened. Many families had already abandoned their mountain gates and migrated north with their entire clans.

Nowadays in Lingzhou, except for some independent cultivators' strongholds, there are few immortal cultivator families' mountain gates with people still staying.

At the same time, Qinglian Temple was storing heavy troops on the border between Yunzhou, Lanzhou and Lingzhou, as if it was ready to invade Lingzhou at any time to recover lost territory.

"What on earth is this Tianjing Master thinking? Does he really intend to hold on until Qingxiao Master dies?"

“But if things go on like this, even if he has the patience to wait until True Man Qing Xiao dies, I’m afraid many of the disciples of the Tianjing Sect won’t live long enough to see that day!”

In the Zhongping Hall, Zhou Chun looked at the map of Jingguo spread out in front of him. Many places in the Lingzhou area were crossed out by him with a red pen.

Although, it is very taboo for a mere Purple Mansion stage cultivator to make irresponsible comments about a Yuanying stage immortal.

But now Zhou Chun really wants to know what Master Tianjing wants to do.

The current situation is extremely unfavorable for Tianjing Sect.

Zhou Chun didn't need to go to the mountain gate of Tianjing Sect to know that at this moment, the disciples of Tianjing Sect were probably unable to eat or sleep, and each one was more anxious than the other.

If the situation continues in this way, Qinglian Temple will not even need to launch an attack as it will be enough to make it difficult for the disciples of Tianjing Sect to concentrate on their cultivation and cause the morale of the sect to be demoralized.

And once the Tianjing Sect begins to collapse from below, how can Master Tianjing continue to fight with Master Qingxiao?
"Then let's wait. We should know the result in three to five years at most!"

Shaking his head in confusion, Zhou Chun dropped the red pen in his hand, put away the map and stopped studying it.

It is now basically certain that unless a general attack is launched on the Tianjing Sect, there should be no need for these Purple Mansion Stage cultivators to go to the battlefield.

Next, he would just practice with peace of mind and wait for new changes in the situation.

Things seemed to be developing as Zhou Chun had expected.

Over the next two years, Qinglian Temple used a variety of overt and covert means to almost completely clear out the Lingzhou cultivation world.

Not to mention that all the immortal cultivation families that originally belonged to the Tianjing Sect were either dead or gone, even most of the independent cultivators' strongholds were empty.

After all, the independent cultivators originally had a co-existing and mutually beneficial relationship with the immortal cultivation families. Now that the immortal cultivation families are gone to purchase the spiritual objects from the independent cultivators and refine elixirs and talismans for them, it would be difficult for them to stay in Lingzhou.

Therefore, the Lingzhou immortal cultivation world, which was originally very bustling, was now unusually quiet, so quiet that it was scary.

Zhou Chun even heard some rumors that some low-level cultivators from Tianjing Sect had begun to flee.

If this is true, then what he expected and anticipated would probably happen soon.

During these two years, the three members of the Zhou family who were sent to Qinglian Temple all achieved the foundation-building stage.

The result was similar to what he had expected, two people succeeded and one failed.

The successful ones are Zhou Xinjian and Zhou Xinhe, and the failed one is Zhou Xinlan.

After Zhou Chun learned the news, he sent a thousand spirit coins as gifts to the two successful people.

As for the failed Zhou Xinlan, what will happen to her in the future depends entirely on herself.

In addition, the Zhou family also had some good news. First, after the "Wind Shadow Dragon Snake", the second dragon-born monster that was mutated by the aura of the Green Dragon also appeared.

This monster was a horned lizard that Zhou Chun brought back from the Great Zhou Kingdom and hatched. After being transformed, it became a "unicorn lizard" that mastered popular magic. It changed from a mount for transportation to a main combat pet.

Compared to the "Dragon Claw Lizard" monster originally owned by the Zhou family, this "One-horned Dragon Lizard" is much stronger in combat power and much faster, making it very suitable for training as the main combat pet for cultivators in the Qi Refining period.

The second good news also came from the Zhou family’s zoo.

It was the horse king in the Zhou family's dragon-scale horse herd that evolved and successfully advanced to become a second-order low-grade monster beast. It evolved from the original low-level monster dragon-scale horse to a mid-level monster cloud-stepping dragon colt.

The Zhou family's dragon-scale horse was originally obtained from the White Dragon Branch Mountain Gate of the Hualong Sect, and has the blood of the White Water Dragon flowing in its body.

The intermediate monster Cloud-Stepping Dragon Horse is not very different from the Dragon Scale Horse in appearance, except that the dragon scales on its body are harder and it has dragon whiskers growing under its jaw.

However, this beast has mastered the art of "walking on clouds". When it flies, white clouds will accompany its feet. Not only does it look very good, its speed is also no slower than that of a second-level flying bird.

The key is that it can also carry people diving into the water, even to the bottom of the water thousands of feet deep!
If it weren't for the fact that it was the king of the dragon-scale horses, and the Zhou family still needed to keep it for breeding and reproduction, just based on its impressive appearance, several Purple Mansion Stage cultivators in the Zhou family would be tempted to take it in as a mount.

The third good news came from Zhou Mingde.

It turned out that the two black jade toads that had evolved successfully before were finally starting to produce toad venom.

Although according to Zhou Mingde, the toad venom produced by these two black jade toads is of much lower quality than that of the original two black jade toads, it is still a good start, and it can also be made into a secret spiritual incense that helps the Purple Mansion stage monks to practice.

Apart from these three relatively important good news, some other smaller good news are not worth elaborating on.

Half a year later, shocking news suddenly spread throughout Yasukuni Shrine.

Zhenren Tianjing, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly announced that he wanted to challenge Zhenren Qingxiao of Qinglian Temple to a duel, and there was an important stake involved.

The content of the bet was not hidden, but was announced along with the news.

According to the bet offered by Tianjing Zhenren, if Tianjing Zhenren could fight with Qingxiao Zhenren for half a day and escape from Qingxiao Zhenren's pursuit, Qinglian Temple would close its gate for three hundred years and cede Lanzhou and Yunzhou to the jurisdiction of Tianjing Sect.

If Master Tianjing is unable to achieve these two points, he will disband the Tianjing Sect and from then on he will only stay in the south of Jingguo as a casual cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage to guard the southern territory of Jingguo!
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