The Wheel-Turning Master.

Chapter 294 Origin
The candlelight flickered, illuminating the two of them.

After not seeing each other for a long time, Sister Huanhuan became even gentler, and Lin Bai felt that Qiaoshan was his home.

At midnight, Lin Bai finally remembered Aunt Gu's words against indulging in women. He was frightened, but he calmed down when he saw that there was no one around.

Used to being bullied by foxes, Lin Bai was afraid that Aunt Gu would pick up the fox's bad habits.

After putting on his clothes, Yang Huan's face was still flushed and he was still dazed, as if he had drunk too much.

She came forward limply, humming for a while before asking about going out.

Lin Bai did not hide anything and told her everything. When he talked about the knife attack, Yang Huan felt so distressed that her body kept sliding down.

"Sister Huanhuan, you are so kind." Lin Bai had no choice but to accept the beauty's kindness.

After the commotion, Lin Bai finally got down to business.

"Is there anything going on between the three sects now? Are there any unusual movements from Jiuyin Mountain and Yunxia Sect?" Both Master and Disciple Lin Bai have grudges against Jiuyin Mountain, and they are also on neutral ground with Yunxia Sect.

Having lived in Qiaoshan for a long time, he naturally pays special attention to the developments of Jiuyin Mountain and Yunxia Sect.

Now that a Yuanying has just died in Qiaoshan, there are only three Yuanying left to guard it. Yunxia Sect also has three Yuanying, but Jiuyin Mountain is weak.

However, Qiaoshan still sits firmly at the head of the three sects, only because of Ancestor Xiang.

“Since Lu Haike’s death, the three sects have been extremely peaceful. But the north has become more chaotic…” After all, Yang Huan was a Yuanying stage descendant and was well-informed.

Lin Bai only knew about the chaos in the north before, but he didn't know the details and had never been there. He had no interest in it at first, but since Sister Zhen wanted to go there, Lin Bai became interested.

After asking carefully, Lin Bai found that Sister Huanhuan didn't know much and only knew a general idea.

Due to the chaos in the north, the prices of elixirs and talismans there have soared, and fewer and fewer people are traveling alone, but more and more people are traveling in groups.

Jiuyin Mountain is a little closer, and has made a lot of money over the years. The various sects in Qiaoshan also transport supplies there from time to time. Although Yunxia Sect is the farthest, it also took advantage of the opportunity to drink soup.

Moreover, because Qiaoshan is prosperous and stable, with thriving trade and a wide variety of supplies, people from the north who come south to make purchases will choose Qiaoshan as their first choice.

The situation in the north has been getting more and more violent in recent years, and the three factions all felt that something was not right, so they kept an eye out for news among the merchants and travelers, and also sent people to inquire about the news.

Although it is difficult to find out the details, the general outline of the beginning of the war has been roughly understood.

In fact, the seeds of war had been sown long ago, but it has only become more and more serious in recent years.

Tens of thousands of miles to the north, there is a place adjacent to the Northern Wilderness, in which there is a sect called Zhouhuishan.

Zhouhui Mountain is guarded by a Divine Transformation cultivator, and is extremely prosperous. Within a radius of ten thousand miles, there are all forces under his tutelage. The number of Yuanying alone exceeds the sum of the three sects in Qiaoshan, not to mention that his tutelage is everywhere, and there are countless spiritual places.

However, the Divine Transformation cultivator died later for unknown reasons, and Zhou Huishan was leaderless for a while. Moreover, the business was too big, with countless vassal states, not to mention the numerous family forces within the sect.

Without the supervision of the high-level Spiritualization Cultivator, the various Nascent Souls within the sect would be difficult to reconcile, and all of them would covet the high-level Spiritualization Cultivator's place of meditation.

The blessed land was called the Wanshou Mountain Blessed Land, and it was rumored that the spiritual land grade was as high as the seventh grade. The spiritual energy was as abundant as water, and being in it was like wandering in a sea of ​​spiritual energy. It was one of the few high-grade blessed lands in the East China Sea.

If a Nascent Soul cultivator wants to climb to the Divine Transformation stage and break through the obstacles on the road, he needs a high-level spiritual land as a support when he wants to survive the thunder tribulation. At least a sixth-level high-quality spiritual land is needed.

Now that the seventh-level spiritual land is ahead, cultivation will undoubtedly be faster, and there is more hope for advancing to the path of spiritual transformation.

With the precious land in front of them, the demons in Zhou Huishan's sect were in chaos, all wanting to take it for themselves.

This kind of high-level blessed land is like a delicacy, and no outsiders dare to fight for it. However, a group of gluttons emerged in the sect.

Sometimes they formed alliances, sometimes they made alliances with other nations. Nearly twenty Yuanyings fought for more than two hundred years, and later they abandoned the literary fight and started fighting with weapons.

First, various Jindans died on behalf of Yuanyings, and later many Yuanyings died directly, their brains were beaten to pieces, and even after four Yuanyings died, they began to mourn for the loss of the rabbit.

In the end, everyone realized that fighting to the death was meaningless, after all, they were all family. Then someone came forward and gathered everyone together to sit down and discuss who would own the blessed land.

Because of two hundred years of war, not only the Yuanying stage is tired, but also the clans and sects below the Yuanying stage are tired, so no one wants to monopolize the blessed land anymore.

However, after years of war, even if they were from the same sect, after two hundred years, the Jindan and Jizhu people below had already become blood-thirsty and the hatred was difficult to resolve for a while.

After talking for more than a hundred years, all the Yuanying cultivators tried their best to eliminate their hatred. When they were about to be unified again, a Yuanying cultivator suddenly came from the north.

The monk said his surname was Xia and he came from the Northern Wilderness. He was inspecting the area on behalf of the ancestor and said he had taken a fancy to this precious land.

Although Zhouhui Mountain is adjacent to the Northern Wilderness, it rarely interacts with the cultivators of the Northern Wilderness. This is because the area is extremely desolate and requires passing through thousands of miles of snow-capped mountains. There are countless dangers and many monsters, and most of the cultivators there are brutal. Ordinary Nascent Souls are unwilling to make the trek.

However, the Yuanyings of Zhou Huishan did give face to the visitors from the Northern Wilderness. They just beat them up and drove them away without killing them.

Then, within two years, another visitor came from the Northern Wilderness, who was a cultivator who had attained the state of Divine Transformation.

The Divine Transformation cultivator also brought with him the Nascent Soul of Xia who had come before. Now all the Nascent Soul cultivators in Zhou Huishan were at a loss.

However, the Divine Transformation cultivator was, after all, a high-level cultivator with great self-cultivation. Although he directly occupied the blessed land of Wanshou Mountain, he did not call for fighting and only allowed many Nascent Soul cultivators of Zhou Huishan to go and pay homage.

Cultivators are respected by their realm. Zhou Huishan had fought for hundreds of years, and it was difficult to determine the winner because everyone was at the Nascent Soul stage and their strength was not much different. Now that a high-level cultivator of the Spiritualization stage had arrived, they all left with their tails between their legs.

The high-level cultivator who had reached the state of spiritual enlightenment was quite friendly. He said that he wanted to meditate in seclusion in Wanshou Mountain. He did not like bloodshed or violence, nor did he like noise. He asked Zhou Huishan's Nascent Soul to stop fighting.

Moreover, the high-level cultivator of the Incarnation Realm said that he would establish a sect here and found the Guardian Heaven Pavilion. If the Yuanyings of Zhou Huishan were willing, they could serve as vassals and thus ensure peace. If they were unwilling, they would not be forced.

Seeing that the high-level cultivator of the Spiritualization Stage was so friendly, the group of Nascent Souls did not dare to argue any more.

Moreover, it is not shameful to be a vassal of Huashen. Anyway, Zhou Huishan is originally a Huashen sect, so they all surrendered.

Only three Yuanying were not convinced, so they brought their clansmen and sects south to find another place to settle down.

It’s a pity that many Yuanyings in Zhou Huishan have been fighting for hundreds of years, and the fruits were picked by others for nothing.

However, things changed later. Many Yuanyings who surrendered to Shoutian Pavilion stayed and still occupied their original places.

But the incarnation cultivator actually has descendants in the Northern Wilderness.

It was said that they had established the Guardian Heaven Pavilion, but in fact, they had relocated the entire sect. Therefore, cultivators from the Northern Wasteland had migrated here one after another, most of them were minor Qi cultivators, and there were also tens of thousands of ordinary cultivators.

Zhou Hui Mountain already had three Nascent Souls leaving, so naturally the three places were occupied by the Shou Tian Pavilion. Moreover, there weren't many people coming from the Northern Wasteland, so everyone could squeeze in, after all, Zhou Hui Mountain was vast.

In fact, the old people in Zhou Huishan originally intended to make friends with the people from the Northern Wasteland, after all, they were all vassals of the high-level cultivators of the Spiritualization Stage. However, the cultivators in the Northern Wasteland had always been bad-tempered and kept giving birth. After a few hundred years, they were greedy and wanted to rob the spiritual lands of the many Yuanying cultivators in Zhou Huishan.

In fact, there are not many Nascent Souls in Shoutian Pavilion. Apart from the cultivator named Xia who came first, there are two young Nascent Souls. In terms of number, they cannot compare with the Nascent Soul forces in the old Zhouhui Mountain.

However, Shoutian Pavilion was guarded by a Divine Transformation Master, so the Yuanying masters of Zhou Huishan did not dare to turn hostile. They could only say a few harsh words and let the younger generations fight.

Later, as more and more people came to the Shoutian Pavilion, the conflicts naturally grew. Zhu Zhou Huishan's old friends wanted to seek justice from the Huashen Patriarch, but the Huashen Patriarch was either in seclusion or in meditation, and they could not find him.

After enduring this for more than three hundred years, the old people of Zhou Huishan were not integrated into Shoutian Pavilion. The contradictions became more and more intense, and many disputes occurred.

Seeing that the Ancestor Huashen did not intervene, the Yuanyings of Zhou Huishan were extremely disappointed. However, they had no way to resist, so they simply slapped their heads and decided not to take any more blame. They took their clansmen and went south.

There were also three other Nascent Soul families who led their clansmen and sects to wait for more than a hundred years, and finally when the Ancestor Huashen came out of seclusion, they cried and begged for justice.

The high-level cultivator who had reached the state of spiritual transformation did not even bother to look at this bullshit. He waved his hand and asked the remaining three families to discuss the matter with the cultivator named Xia.

Naturally, this could not be negotiated. The cultivator surnamed Xia was appointed as the head of Shoutian Pavilion. Because there was an Ancestor of the Divine Transformation Realm guarding the Pavilion, he always acted in a tough manner and did not take the Nascent Soul cultivators of the same level seriously at all.

The remaining three Zhou Huishan old people were stunned. They didn't expect that a dignified cultivator could be so unreliable. But there was nothing they could do. They led their clansmen and sects south with tears in their eyes.

However, the land in the south is owned by someone else, and many of them were originally seized by Zhou Huishan’s old friends.

The place for Yuanying cultivation requires a fifth-level spiritual land, which is often occupied by Yuanying sects, so it is naturally difficult to seize the land. If you take a step back and seize the fourth-level spiritual land of Jindan, most of the people there are below Yuanying, so you still have to fight.

However, those who left Zhou Huishan first had the first-mover advantage, and with a joint effort they were still able to seize a place to live. Now they have lived in peace, and with their Nascent Soul stage they were able to subdue many vassals.

However, the three Nascent Souls who still had hope of reaching the Divine Transformation stage found themselves in an even more difficult situation.

A thousand years have passed since Zhou Huishan's death, and the once-famous sect has long been lost in the long river of time. The blessed land of Wanshou Mountain has been occupied by someone else and has changed its name.

The old people of Zhou Huishan who are scattered all over the place are like wanderers who have left their hometown, drifting without place to go.

Of the seventeen Yuanyings who fought for the precious land of Divine Transformation in the past, four died in internal strife. The first three Yuanyings who went out joined forces with their clansmen and disciples, and one died while fighting for a place to establish himself.

Of the five Yuanying who left in the second batch, two fled alone, leaving their families and sects behind, and their whereabouts are unknown. The other three took their clansmen to seize a piece of land, but have not yet gained a firm foothold.

The place of chaos in the north now is the third batch of Zhou Huishan’s old people who have moved south.

There were originally three Yuanyings, but one of them somehow got a call from the Shoutian Pavilion halfway through the journey and turned back. Of the other two Yuanyings, one left, leaving only one who forcibly occupied a place and competed with a local sect.

Of the seventeen people in the past, four died of old age in the old place of Zhouhui Mountain, and the other two had just reached the Nascent Soul stage, and they were the second group of people to leave.

The remaining Yuanying of the third batch was about six or seven thousand miles away from Qiaoshan. There was an endless battle there that had lasted for many years.

Although the Yuanying is now alone, at least the old friends of Zhou Huishan are still there and can help from time to time, so they are evenly matched with the local forces.

"The complexity of the situation and the number of forces involved are simply dizzying."

After Yang Huan finished speaking roughly, he gave an evaluation, "If they have one or two Nascent Souls, even if they bring a few Golden Cores, some sects can still accept them. But they often bring thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and no family dares to accept them, so they can only open up a place on their own. Or they forcibly occupy a place first, and then it will take hundreds or thousands of years before they can gain a foothold."

"One side is the sect that lost its homeland, and the other side is the natives who have lived here for generations. The hatred is hard to resolve. Both sides have gone crazy, and the situation will never be resolved unless the other side is annihilated."

Lin Bai shook his head helplessly and continued, "In fact, the instigator was the Shoutian Pavilion from the Northern Wasteland."

“But no one dares to argue with a high-level cultivator who has reached the state of spiritual enlightenment.” Yang Huan spread out his hands.

"The Shoutian Pavilion is originally located in the Northern Wilderness, so how did it go south to seize other people's territory?" Lin Bai asked again.

“No one knows.” Yang Huan shook his head. “There are even fewer people going to the Northern Wilderness Region than those going to the Southern Sky Region. Most Yuanying people are reluctant to go out to discuss matters outside the region, so naturally they are not well-informed.”

Lin Bai nodded, thinking that Sister Zhen was probably going there to find out the reason.

"What the old people in Zhou Huishan are doing now is no different from what the people from Shoutian Pavilion who came from the Northern Wilderness do." Lin Bai said.

"Who said it wasn't true?" Yang Huan also smiled helplessly, "I heard that people from Shoutian Pavilion went south to sell elixirs and talismans. They have all kinds of things needed for war. They sell them to all the warring parties, but the prices are a little higher, not as good as ours at a good quality and low price."

"What a rude person..." Lin Bai was shocked. He couldn't help but think of Miaomiao and said, "You know the good things Miaomiao did, right?"

After hearing this, Yang Huan smiled and said, "Even my uncle has praised Miaomiao's ability to make money."

"..." The apprentice was shameless, and the master was also ashamed. Lin Bai asked in a low voice: "What did she do with the spirit stones she got?"

"I heard from Xiao Yuer that Miaomiao followed Gu Yao's path to buy spiritual materials, followed Sister Jiang Yu's path to buy magic tools, followed Yunxia Sect's Meng Yuan's path to buy elixirs, and followed Yang Shu's path to get to know people from the north who came to buy. She really made a fortune." Yang Huan said.

So Gu Yao got some benefits here? Then she blackmailed Miao Miao again, so she got eaten twice? She really bullied my apprentice! Lin Bai held his forehead, not knowing what to say.

"She is still young, her mind is not yet settled, and at that time she was sent to Fengming Pavilion to serve as a manager for training, so naturally she wanted to do more." Yang Huan spoke for Miaomiao.

"Did you also benefit from her?" Lin Bai asked.

Yang smiled but said nothing.

"..."Lin Bai was completely convinced and felt that this disciple was truly better than his master.

"Although she has taken advantage of you, she hasn't done anything wrong. Don't blame her." Yang Huan's eyes were like water as he pleaded softly for Miaomiao.

Lin Bai wanted to say a few more words and discuss the way of believers, but Sister Huanhuan had already come up to him.

It was not until dawn that the two began to talk about cultivation.

Yang Huan established his foundation very early, and he and his cousin Yang Shu had always been the golden elixir seeds that the family favored.

When Lin Bai was forming the elixir, she had already established the ninth level of foundation. Now it has almost been completed. Within two or three years at most, she will have to overcome the tribulation and seek the elixir.

Thunder tribulation is full of dangers and difficulties, which is why she becomes more gentle and more seeking.

"The gourd I gave you has an extraordinary origin. You should study its magical effects carefully, or it may be useful when you encounter the alchemy tribulation." Lin Bai's mysterious gourd is strange, and the other gourds also have different magical effects.

"My natal jade gourd is originally compatible with this gourd." Yang Huan took out the gourd placed next to him and looked at Lin Bai softly, with more eagerness in his eyes.

"I have to go and teach Miaomiao a lesson." Lin Bai thought of Aunt Gu's words and didn't dare to stay any longer.

"Maybe they have already come here." Yang Huan got to know Miaomiao better and better.

(End of this chapter)