Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 46: Cai Shiwei Appears, the Invasion Begins (Please Read on Tuesday!)
"How could this happen?!"

Li Ye looked at Zhang Liangfu with a sad face and said in a lost voice.

Only then did he refine the Fiery Sun Fire Snake Talisman and come out of seclusion. The news he heard disrupted Li Ye's cheerful mood.

Zhang Liangfu only brought two pieces of news when he visited him this time.

One is that Cai Shiwei's whereabouts were discovered.

The other one was Hu Zhiquan, one of the disciples who discovered Cai Shiwei's whereabouts. He happened to be returning home with other disciples to visit his wife and children, and was killed by Cai Shiwei.

Zhang Liangfu's face was grim.
"It seems that when they saw that the thief surnamed Cai was weak and seemed to be seriously injured, someone in the team couldn't hold back and directly urged everyone to charge forward. I heard from the disciples who escaped that Senior Brother Hu was one of them..."

"The result was that the team was almost completely wiped out, with only one or two hesitant disciples escaping by chance after seeing the dire situation!"

"According to what they said, that thief seemed to have a way of sucking out the essence and blood. Not even a complete corpse was left behind..."

"Brother Hu has a wife and children waiting for him back home... That evil villain truly deserves death!"

Listening to every word, Li Ye fell silent.

The secret method of dual cultivation given by Hu Zhiquan was still lying quietly in his storage bag.

The middle-aged man's rather boastful expression when he mentioned his beautiful wife and young son to him seemed to still be before his eyes.

In fact, the other party has always been quite calm and steady, and does not advocate taking risks easily. He has praised Li Ye's previous steady behavior many times.

But this person, after discovering Cai Shiwei's whereabouts, became excited and chose to rush forward with everyone.

As for himself, he is not young, and his spiritual roots are only of low grade, so his future is blocked.

Even if he really killed Cai Shiwei, how much improvement would the reward he received help him with?

Unless he wanted to use this opportunity to build a future for his son!
"Junior Brother Li, we are planning to go to Senior Brother Hu's home to pay our respects and help the orphans and widows. You..."

Zhang Liangfu said this suddenly, looking at Li Ye with some hesitation.

Others may not know Li Ye's steadiness, but he has experienced it deeply.

In such an unstable time, getting him to leave the mountain gate would be harder than climbing to heaven!

As expected, Li Ye shook his head. "It's really not appropriate to leave the sect right now given the turbulent situation. The elders have already warned me, so I won't go. Senior Brother Zhang, you'd better not leave the mountain gate either!"

"Even if Senior Brother Hu passes away, as long as his wife knows how to adapt and has the support of her clansmen, she won't fall into a bad situation in the short term... It's not too late to visit her when the time is right!"

He would not become arrogant just because he had an extra powerful second-level talisman as a trump card.

He would not be so foolish as to think of finding Cai Shiwei to avenge Hu Zhiquan.

That was all Hu Zhiquan's own choice and had nothing to do with him, Li Ye.

Moreover, Cai Shiwei's reappearance will undoubtedly lead the situation in a more intense direction.

At this time, it would be too risky to rashly go to the area where he had appeared before!

The expression on Zhang Liangfu's face changed again and again.

"But right now, the orphans and widows are the ones who need help the most..."

Even though he had guessed Li Ye's choice, he still felt a little chilled when he actually said the words of refusal.

But after listening to Li Ye's sincere advice, Zhang Liangfu knew that what he said was absolutely true.

Is his friendship with Hu Zhiquan more important, or his own life? The answer actually came to him while he was hesitating.

At this moment, he immediately understood Li Ye, and couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous for his previous chilling feeling.

"Alright! Since I've known you, Junior Brother, at least you've never made a mistake in your prudent choices..."

Zhang Liangfu gritted his teeth and said, "Then I won't go either!"

"So good..."

Li Ye nodded and took out a wooden box from his storage bag.
"We don't have to go, but if other fellow Taoists go, please ask them to take this thing with them... It's a small token of my consolation to Senior Brother Hu's wife and children." There were no valuable things in it, just a few talismans he drew.

There is no point in giving anything valuable as a gift at this time; it will only bring disaster and covetousness to the mother and son.

However, the talisman can improve their immediate combat power. If they are really coveted and want to fall out with others, they will have more power to resist!

"I see!"

Zhang Liangfu took the wooden box and nodded seriously, then said goodbye and left.

After watching him leave, Li Ye did not rush back to the house.

He stood there, staring blankly at the changing clouds in the sky, without moving for a long time.

The images and words of his predecessor, his predecessor's father, and Hu Zhiquan flashed before his eyes one by one.

He suddenly felt that there didn't seem to be that much difference between practitioners and mortals.

When one's own life path becomes unsustainable, one will pass on the desire for a higher realm to the next generation, and thus pass it on.

I hope that future generations will be able to achieve their ambitions one day.

"But compared to relying on my descendants, I still want to personally see the scenery after the Taoist immortality..."

After a while, Li Ye sighed softly, with only determination in his eyes.

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Since Cai Shiwei's whereabouts were discovered, the Zixuan Sect has intensified its search efforts again.

The nearby forces also responded as if they were facing a formidable enemy and launched a carpet search.

It took almost no effort to find Cai Shiwei who was recuperating from his injuries.

However, the opponent's combat power was extraordinary. Not only did they successfully break through the encirclement, they also took the opportunity to seize the essence and blood of several monks and escaped again.

The Zixuan Sect and the forces that suffered losses in the siege were furious and chased them all the way.

At this moment, something strange happened. A team of strange monks who had been lying in ambush suddenly appeared and caught the Zixuan Sect's pursuit team off guard!
In this ambush, two foundation-building elders of the Zixuan Sect were killed, and the elite Qi-cultivating disciples also suffered considerable casualties.

Other forces, some trying to please the Zixuan Sect, some just to vent their anger, also suffered casualties among their foundation-building cultivators, and countless Qi-cultivating disciples in the miscellaneous teams were killed or injured.

Almost all the nearby forces involved in the pursuit were severely injured!

And on this day.

At the border between Huan and Yue, a large army of cultivators led by the Feiyu Sect, a Jindan sect of Yue, suddenly appeared and pierced into the territory of Huan like sharp arrows.

Almost overnight, half of Huan State's territory was occupied by Yue State.

Under this joint attack, the unprepared forces, both large and small, were almost scattered in an instant.

Except for the headquarters of the forces and the market towns that were guarded by formations and could still hold out, the other cultivators were directly beaten like dogs that had lost their homes, and fled into the country and towards the mountain gate of Zixuan Sect.

One after another, they were swept up in the exodus, almost forming a tide of escape!
Fortunately, this chaos did not last long.

As the Zixuan Sect had been entrenched in Huanguo for many years, even though its attention was distracted and it was caught off guard, it still responded as quickly as possible.

Reinforcements were immediately dispatched from all sides, and a defensive strategy was built with each market town as a node, which stopped the enemy's advance in time, and even counterattacked back to some areas and recaptured a lot of territory.

But once the war starts, it is not so easy to end.

The Feiyu Sect of Yue State was obviously well prepared and had a well-founded response to the counterattack of the Zixuan Sect. They withstood the first round of counterattacks and then used the areas they had already captured as outposts and began to advance steadily.

More intense conflicts continued to unfold, and the two sides began to confront each other over various resource points.

The situation suddenly became chaotic!
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