Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 254 Not convinced?

After a moment of hesitation, the middle-aged man in gray robes replied, "Indeed, under normal circumstances, a Nascent Soul Stage being like Gu Mo would not look for a Jindan family like us. After all, we are of no value to him, and he would not waste his time on us. But for some reason, there is an exception. To date, four Jindan families in Tiannan have been destroyed by him."

After telling all the information he knew, the gray-haired middle-aged man shook his head helplessly.

"This..." After hearing this, the young man in green robe felt a slight chill on his back when facing the ancient demon who did not act according to common sense.

The two brothers sitting opposite each other looked at each other, and then turned their gazes to their eldest brother at the same time, with questioning expressions clearly revealed in their eyes.

Their eldest brother, as the oldest among them and the one who has always been in charge of the family, should be able to give them some comfort.

As if he had noticed the gazes of his two brothers, the white-haired old man slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were full of vicissitudes and he was very calm.

"Alas." The white-haired old man glanced at the two helpless people and sighed. He was really worried about handing the family over to these two people, but he had no choice.

"This..." Hearing this bad sigh, the two of them felt their hearts pounding.

"Don't worry, the ancient demon will not come to our Zhou family." The white-haired old man did not let the two wait any longer and spoke slowly.

Hearing the old man's very sure tone, the gray-haired middle-aged man, even though he already believed it a little, couldn't help but ask: "Brother, why are you so sure?"

"Didn't you realize that among the four destroyed Jindan families, three were affiliated immortal cultivation families of the Demon Sect, majoring in magic techniques? It is expected that their families have hidden magic treasures, or have things that the ancient demon needs, so the ancient demon came to our door. Our Zhou family has nothing to do with the demon path. There are very few magic instruments in the family, not to mention magic treasures." The white-haired old man glanced at his second brother indifferently and said in a very useless way.

"So that's how it is. Big brother is right." The gray-haired middle-aged man smiled playfully, his eyes dodging.

"In that case, let's shut down the clan protection formation, otherwise the consumption of spirit stones will be too great." The young man in green robe breathed a sigh of relief, but suggested with some heartache.

Just to maintain the operation of the formation, one mid-level spirit stone is consumed every seven days. This is when the formation is not attacked, otherwise the consumption will be even greater.

Even though the Zhou family is a major immortal cultivation family in the Yu Kingdom, the family's spiritual stone reserves cannot support such long-term consumption.

"Idiot!" the white-haired old man cursed.

"Closing the formation, isn't this obviously opening the door and inviting the ancient demon in? Without the obstruction of the formation, it would be a piece of cake for the ancient demon to destroy our Zhou family. Do you think he will take action?" The white-haired old man asked angrily with flaming eyes as he stared at the young man in green robe.

The young man in green robe knew that he had said something wrong, so he lowered his head silently without saying a word.

As for the answer to the question, it emerged in his mind without thinking.

“Brother, don’t be angry. Being angry is bad for your health. My third brother is still young. He has been practicing in seclusion in the clan. His knowledge is still shallow, but he will get better in the future.” The middle-aged man in gray robe hurriedly pulled the white-haired old man and persuaded him.

"Young? Two hundred years old is still young? At this age, ordinary people would have been buried in the ground long ago, and those with bad luck would have few bones left." The white-haired old man still scolded angrily.

However, the hand that was about to hit was retracted and did not fall.

"Humph, not only can we not retreat, we need to add another layer of defense." The white-haired old man snorted coldly, turned his head and said:
"Second brother, take out the Inverted Five Elements Formation that I bought at the Treasure Pavilion auction from the treasure house. Although the Inverted Five Elements Formation can be easily broken by the ancient demon, it can still cause some trouble to it. With this formation protecting us, we can be a little safer."

"I understand. I'll do it right away." He understood the logic of adding an extra lock, and the gray-haired middle-aged man nodded.

After he finished speaking, the gray-haired middle-aged man was about to stand up, but a dry hand held down his shoulder.

"No hurry, I have something important to say." The white-haired old man raised his head, looked forward, looked outside the hall, looked at the boundless sky through the light curtain of the formation.

The sky today is exceptionally clear. There is nothing there, completely empty, without even a white cloud.

"I don't have much time left, just these few days." The old man's voice was low, without sadness, but with a hint of worry.

"You two brothers must keep that thing a secret and not let anyone else know about it!"

"If the news still leaks out and is known to outsiders, let it go. It made us three brothers successful, but we can't keep it. Giving it away in exchange for protection from others is also a good outcome for my Zhou family."

The old man still looked at the sky, his tone calm, his life was coming to an end, and he had no resentment.

In his life, he rose from obscurity, practiced steadily all the way, encountered rare treasures occasionally, and achieved Jindan step by step, and then reached the later stage. He lived for 600 years, which was much longer than the average Jindan cultivator, and he was content.

The young man in green robe and the middle-aged man with gray hair looked at the old man with complicated expressions. The middle-aged man with gray hair opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything and could only swallow it helplessly.

Not only the Zhou family, but the entire Tiannan was frightened by the cruelty of the ancient demon. Wherever there were cultivators gathering, whether it was a trading market or the famous mountains and rivers where various forces were entrenched, they were all shrouded in forbidden light curtains of varying sizes, looking extremely cautious.

Huangfeng Valley was no exception, but compared to the other five sects in Yue State, the situation in Huangfeng Valley was much more relaxed, and the mood of the cultivators within the sect was obviously much more stable.

After all, Elder Nie of the Huangfeng Valley is someone who can easily kill a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and this has happened more than once. Although Nie Zhaonan has never announced his true strength to the outside world, judging by these battle records alone, it is enough to give the cultivators of the Huangfeng Valley peace of mind.

On a secluded hill in Huangfeng Valley, the spiritual energy here cannot be said to be abundant, but surprisingly, there is a woman in white here.

At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged on a huge rock on the top of the mountain, her eyes slightly closed, as if she was meditating, but her slightly frowned brows showed that she was worried about something else.

A handsome male cultivator who had already established his foundation was controlling a magical instrument from a distance. He looked around searching the hilltops and woods. Suddenly, he saw a woman in white in the distance. His face lit up with joy and he sped up his flight.

"It's Junior Sister Wen! Junior Sister, you've been so hard for me to find." The handsome male cultivator retracted the flying fork under his feet in mid-air and landed in front of the woman in white. He looked at her beautiful face and greeted her with a smile.

The handsome male cultivator had not stopped his movements. While speaking, he moved closer to the female cultivator. In a blink of an eye, the two were only half a foot apart.

"Senior Brother Nie Yuan, please stop." The woman in white stood up suddenly, took a step back, and jumped off the boulder, facing the male cultivator across the rock.

"Junior sister, what do you mean?" Nie Yuan ignored the disgust in the woman's eyes and asked back. "I still want to ask you why you came here?" Seeing the male cultivator pressing so hard, the woman in white no longer had any camaraderie in her words.

He didn't even call him 'senior brother' anymore, just 'you' instead.

Nie Yuan looked at the woman's cold and beautiful face, and his heart was moved. The slight unhappiness was thrown away. "Junior sister, aren't you asking even though you already know the answer? I came here for you. We are already engaged, so why can't I come here to find my future wife?"

"Bah! Shameless!" The female cultivator in white changed her dignified demeanor and spat.

Seeing the female cultivator's face becoming increasingly cold, Nie Yuan pretended not to notice it. He took out a folding fan and fanned her while looking her up and down. At the same time, he said jokingly:

"Junior sister, you have come to this remote place, don't say you are here to practice meditation. The spiritual energy here is so thin that it cannot support the practice of foundation-building cultivators like us. I also know your purpose, it is nothing more than to avoid me, but what's the use?"

"The engagement between us is not valid at all. I never agreed to it." The woman in white looked at the handsome man coldly with her fists clenched.

At the beginning, Nie Yuan came to their Wen family alone and proposed marriage to the head of the Wen family. In order to get in touch with the Nie family, the head of the Wen family sold her out without hesitation.

Feeling helpless, she could only hide in the Huangfeng Valley, and didn't even dare to return to her own cave, for fear that he would find her.

"It's the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. How can I go back on my word when the head of the Wen family has agreed to it?" Nie Yuan put away the folding fan in his hand and patted it in his hands, not caring about the words of the woman in white.

"Will the Jindan Zhenren and Yuanying Patriarch of the Nie family allow you to rely on the family's power and be so aggressive?" The woman in white asked back without giving up.

"The time of the elders is so precious that they are busy practicing in seclusion. How can they waste it on trivial matters among us juniors?" Nie Yuan replied with a faint smile.

"Aren't you really tired of pretending like this?" The woman in white looked at the gentle smile on Nie Yuan's face and felt very nauseous.

On the surface, Nie Yuan did look like a gentleman, and he was usually humble and polite to his fellow brothers and sisters in the valley. But behind this false mask, she had seen his true face outside the Huangfeng Valley. To call him a beast in human clothing was to overestimate the man in front of her.

"Oh, I almost forgot that junior sister knows. In that case, I won't pretend anymore. It's really tiring to pretend like this." Nie Yuan's handsome face gradually became gloomy. At the same time, he exerted force with his palm and turned the folding fan in his hand into wood chips, which he then scattered down the mountain.

"Come back with me quickly!" the male cultivator said coldly with a gloomy face.

"Brother Nie Yuan, how did you become like this?" The woman in white sighed and said with a complicated expression.

Once upon a time, she had a good impression of this Senior Brother Nie Yuan.

"Change?" A flash of reminiscence flashed across Nie Yuan's eyes. "I have never changed. This is my original appearance!"

The woman in white shook her head and then asked loudly, "You are a member of the Nie family. The resources you have obtained are incomparable to those of my small family. The future is bright, what else are you dissatisfied with!"

“Yes, I have indeed obtained much more resources than you. Otherwise, if we were the same age and had the same dual spiritual roots, I should be a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building like you, and how could I have reached the late stage now? But this is only compared to you.” Nie Yuan laughed sinisterly.

After a long silence, Nie Yuan's expression suddenly changed, and he was extremely unwilling: "You have never been to the Nie family, you have no idea how many spirit stones and elixirs those direct descendants can get! How am I worse than them? I am the person with the best cultivation aptitude in this generation of the Nie family, but it's because I come from a mortal family? Just because I have no one to rely on in the clan?"

"Why do I only receive less than half of their resources? They don't even have to complete family missions!"

"If I had the same resources as them, I might have already become a powerful person in the Fake Dan Realm. No, no, no, I should be a True Jin Dan Realm. After all, for that person, a few Jin Dan spiritual objects are nothing at all."

"And yet they enjoy so many resources, yet they are still struggling in the late stage."

"unfair!"

"I don't agree!"

Nie Yuan's face was distorted, and his voice was like the roar of a wild beast, shaking the surrounding leaves to fall.

"Not convinced?" A voice came from the sky. "If you don't agree, you should leave the Nie family and venture into the world of immortal cultivation on your own, instead of enjoying the resources and then showing your dissatisfaction here."

"Who?" Nie Yuan raised his head suddenly, his eyes fierce: "Who's there!"

After he arrived here, he used his spiritual sense to carefully explore the surroundings. There was no one hiding here, otherwise he would not have revealed his true self.

At this moment, he raised his head and saw only an empty sky without a single person in sight.

But the voice still came from the sky: "Me?" There was a hint of self-mockery in the voice, "Maybe I am the person you are talking about."

The owner of this voice was naturally Nie Zhaonan. He had just come out of retreat and was still in the cave on Yuxiu Peak. He subconsciously swept his consciousness around and saw the scene on the top of the peak.

Hearing the answer, Nie Yuan's face showed extreme fear and terror, and his body even trembled violently, but suddenly it became as calm as a pool of stagnant water.

Nie Yuan no longer had any strength in his body. He knelt heavily on the ground, with his head against the ground, and used his hands to support himself to prevent himself from falling to the ground.

"It's Nie Zhaonan." Nie Yuan's mind had no doubt at all and was filled with despair.

His heart had already turned cold at this point, as if it had been dead for a long time.

As for escaping? This thought only flashed through his mind.

Not to mention that he had no chance of survival when facing an ordinary Jindan cultivator, let alone the strongest Yuanying cultivator, even if his real body was not here at this moment.

Suddenly, Nie Yuan suddenly remembered something and quickly raised his head to look at his Junior Sister Wen, only to see that she had knelt on the ground with her eyes lowered at some point.

(End of this chapter)