From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 267 Each Fights Their Own Battle, the Fisherman Benefits

The five members of the Xu family, along with Jiang Hao, broke through the encirclement.

They did not linger in battle, avoiding fight whenever possible, and only engaging in combat when unavoidable, aiming to force the monsters to retreat rather than kill them.

With the six of them working together, their fighting strength was considerable, which made the monsters unwilling to provoke them.

They flew over a hundred miles away and finally escaped the sudden attack and pursuit of the monster horde.

"What should we do now?"

The group landed on the top of a wild mountain and discussed their next plan.

They were so focused on breaking out that they separated themselves from the main force.

In fact, amidst the chaos, the Yuanli County Immortal Army completely scattered, and even the Golden Core Commander Xiang Zhiye disappeared without a trace.

"If we don't know where we are, how can we find the people of Yuanli County?"

"Based on what we just saw, our Yuanli County is estimated to have suffered heavy casualties. It's hard to say how many of the more than a thousand men will survive."

"Why don't we go back? Let's fly towards Zhennan Prefecture. Once we're out of the Wilderness Mountain Range, things will be much easier."

To be on the safe side, Xu Xiaoniu suggested that everyone leave.

Although they didn't know their exact location, they could discern the general direction. Flying out of the Wilderness Mountains would take them into the territory of Zhennan Prefecture; they just needed to be careful along the way and avoid dangerous areas.

Given their strength, it would be very dangerous for them to remain in the Wilderness Mountains.

“Go back? If we just go back like this, the prefect will probably treat us as deserters.”

Xu Yiqing thought of Prefect Xiang Liuyun.

"The Immortal Army of Yuanli County has been defeated. If we go back like this, we won't be considered deserters, will we?"

Xu Xiaoniu shook his head helplessly at this point, saying, "Forget it, there's no point in arguing with them. Let's try to find Commander Xiang."

"The most important thing right now is to stay alive. Third-tier demonic beasts or teams from the Baiyue Immortal Dynasty could appear at any time. It's very dangerous for just a few of us to move around."

Xu Xiaohou was deeply worried.

"Yes, let's find a safe place first."

"..."

After discussing for a moment, the group carefully flew away.

They flew slowly, trying to avoid emitting any spiritual energy fluctuations.

After a while, they found an ordinary first-tier spiritual land.

A thin mist enveloped an area of ​​several miles in radius.

They found a spacious cave and pasted a concealing talisman on the rock wall.

"This is a second-tier concealment talisman, capable of blocking the divine sense detection of Foundation Establishment cultivators. Even Golden Core cultivators can only detect it at close range; they cannot detect it beyond a three-mile radius."

As long as we stay in the cave, we're safe for now.

Are we just going to stay here forever?

"Consider it a period of seclusion for cultivation. We can hide here for ten or twenty years, and the situation outside may have already calmed down. Then we can go back to Yuanli County without any trouble."

For a Foundation Establishment cultivator, ten or twenty years is nothing.

Besides, they were practicing martial arts and cultivating themselves, so it wasn't a waste of time.

"That's a good idea, haha. But if we're going to go into seclusion to cultivate, we'll need to find a second-tier spiritual land, since the spiritual energy concentration here isn't high enough."

Xu Zhongxu said with a smile.

He didn't mind secluded cultivation here; with his spiritual root aptitude, he should be able to reach the late Foundation Establishment stage in ten years.

"Let's recover first, and then we can investigate the situation nearby. It would be great if we could run into a team from our Yuanli County. If not, perhaps we can join the immortal army of another county."

"With a Golden Core commander leading us, we'll be much safer."

"it is good."

After a fierce battle to break through the encirclement, the group found their way back to this place, but their spiritual energy was almost completely depleted and had not yet recovered.

They each found a corner, sat cross-legged, and practiced their skills to recover their spiritual energy.

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the other side.

Tuoba Hongyang broke through the encirclement without any serious danger, and along the way he obtained about ten storage bags.

He picked up most of the storage bags from the corpses, and he deliberately ignored or even stole two or three of them.

Although he was separated from the main force and left alone, he felt little fear. As a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the peak of his cultivation, he was safe as long as he didn't encounter any third-tier demonic beasts or Golden Core cultivators from the Baiyue Immortal Dynasty.

"Let's find a secluded place first and refine these storage pouches."

He randomly found a desolate mountain and a cave where he refined the storage pouch.

a few days later.

"They're all poor bastards, mostly with ordinary spiritual plants and pills, nothing precious."

After refining the storage bag, Tuoba Hongyang took stock of the treasures and resources inside.

These storage pouches contain resources valued in spirit stones, ranging from one or two thousand to seven or eight thousand spirit stones. Only two of the storage pouches contain resources worth over ten thousand spirit stones.

Most cultivators will use precious elixirs or similar resources immediately and will not store them for too long.

"After all, these are resources earned for free, so we can't ask for too much."

Tuoba Hongyang thought to himself.

He then considered his next course of action.

Although he had reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, it was dangerous for him to travel alone in the Desolate Marsh Mountains.

He didn't want to leave like this.

Given his status, he could leave the desolate mountains and return to the Tuoba family's Jiurong City.

However, he took the initiative to join the Yuanli County Immortal Army and came to the Wilderness Mountain Range for the opportunity to obtain the Golden Core!

There must be an opportunity to obtain the Golden Elixir in the resource-rich Wilderness Mountains.

"A place where the opportunity to attain the Golden Core stage can arise must be protected by at least a third-tier demon beast. I must follow a Golden Core cultivator to have a chance."

He thought to himself that he needed to find a Golden Core cultivator to rely on.

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More than ten days later.

The first-tier spiritual land where the Xu family members reside.

During this time, they split up and explored the surrounding area, even drawing up a simple map.

"Within a radius of two hundred miles, this second-tier spiritual land is very suitable for secluded cultivation. If we want to cultivate in this second-tier spiritual land, we must first get rid of the second-tier demon tiger here."

After some investigation, they discovered a second-tier spiritual land suitable for them to hide and cultivate in seclusion.

The area of ​​this second-tier spiritual land is not large, and it is adjacent to a region of poisonous miasma.

The pervasive gray-black poisonous fog naturally hinders the detection of divine sense. In the outside world, if the range of divine sense is ten miles, it is reduced to only two miles in the poisonous fog area, weakened by eighty percent.

They secluded themselves to cultivate near the toxic fog area, making them difficult to detect.

"Let's go!"

The group of six set off for the second-tier spiritual land.

The second-tier spiritual land was the territory of a second-tier demon tiger. The demon tiger was black and white, five zhang long, with a majestic white "king" character on its forehead and brownish-red eyes.

Its aura was powerful, equivalent to the strength of a fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator.

It was precisely because of its formidable strength that it was able to monopolize this second-tier spiritual land and drive away all the other second-tier demonic beasts.

"Roar~~"

The second-tier demon tiger roared threateningly at the group of people who suddenly broke in, its voice echoing across the surrounding area.

The Xu family members wouldn't be intimidated by it; they outnumbered and outmatched it.

With Xu Zhongxu, a fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator, as the main fighting force, they besieged and attacked the demon tiger.

Even a second-tier demonic tiger would struggle to defeat Xu Zhongxu alone, let alone with several Foundation Establishment level four cultivators assisting it. In just a moment, the second-tier demonic tiger met its end.

The Xu family members occupied this second-tier spiritual land and secluded themselves for cultivation for a long time.

The resources of this second-tier spiritual land were naturally taken into their possession.

Jiang Hao put a second-tier spiritual plant into his storage bag and sighed, "This is the advantage of acting alone. All the resources we harvest are ours, and we don't have to hand over half of them."

"That's true."

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Two months later.

Tuoba Hongyang flew through the air, his destination a third-tier spiritual land a hundred miles away.

During this time, he wandered around aimlessly in search of an opportunity to obtain the Golden Elixir.

He encountered many cultivators from Zhennan Prefecture who had separated from the main force. There were not only cultivators from Yuanli County, but also cultivators from other counties.

They were separated from the main force for various reasons.

Tuoba Hongyang also encountered a group of two or three hundred people, who were the scattered cultivators of Yuanli County who had regrouped.

However, those people were just Foundation Establishment cultivators and Qi Refining cultivators banding together for mutual support, without a Golden Core cultivator as their leader.

Tuoba Hongyang did not join them and continued to act alone.

"Coming!"

During this time, he learned a lot of information, including that he knew people in the third-tier spiritual land he was about to visit.

After a while, he arrived near the third-tier spiritual land.

As he drew closer, someone spotted him.

"Who is here?"

As the sound appeared, a figure materialized before his eyes.

"Tuoba Hongyang, a member of our clan, pays his respects to the True Man Yaowu."

Tuoba Hongyang bowed.

"It really is you." Tuoba Yaowu found the aura of the person who came to him to be very familiar, very similar to that of Tuoba Hongyang.

"I heard that members of our Tuoba family were here, so I came here."

When Tuoba Hongyang heard this news, he was very excited. With the arrival of his Tuoba family, he now had a powerful backer.

"I happen to have something to ask you. Come with me."

Tuoba Yaowu turned around and led him into the depths of the third-tier spiritual land.

This third-tier spiritual land was originally the territory of a third-tier demon beast. Tuoba Yaowu led his clansmen to kill the third-tier demon beast and occupy this spiritual land.

Tuoba Hongyang ventured deep into the third-tier spiritual land and discovered that many members of his Tuoba clan had come.

Leading the group was Tuoba Yaowu, who possessed the third Golden Core stage, and there were nearly a hundred others, all of whom were in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Such a force should not be underestimated in this desolate mountain range.

The Tuoba family has been facing a shortage of resources in recent years.

Upon learning of the situation in the Wilderness Mountains, the Tuoba family immediately assembled a team to take advantage of the chaos.

The resources in the desolate mountains can be fought over by others, and so can they.

In Tuoba Yaowu's view, the army of the Tuoba family that he led was no different from the immortal army of Yuanli County led by Xiang Zhiye.

Tuoba Yaowu did this to earn resources for the Tuoba family.

Xiang Zhiye led the immortal army of Yuanli County, and most of their spoils went into the Xiang family's pockets, with very little reaching the imperial treasury.

“Hongyang, I’m asking you, was my nephew Luo Pu captured by the governor of Yuanli County, given the Heart-Eating Pill, and exiled to the Wilderness Mountains as cannon fodder?”

Tuoba Yaowu inquired about this matter.

He was unaware of this at first because Tuoba Hongyang had not sent a message to his family explaining the situation.

Tuoba Yaowu learned of this matter because Tuoba Luopu had someone deliver a letter to him before he set off for the Wilderness Mountains.

In Tuoba Yaowu's opinion, what Tuoba Luopu did was nothing.

Killing a few hundred people is nothing.
Tuoba Yaowu rose from the bottom of the Tuoba family, and he was also a vicious and ruthless person.

He was born into the Tuoba family, a clan that had not produced a Foundation Establishment member for a long time, making him a true member of the lower class in Jiurong City.

When he was seven years old, his spiritual root was tested, and he was found to have a mixed spiritual root of four elements.

Such a spiritual root was quite good in his family, because many of his family members were ordinary people without spiritual roots. However, there were too many such spiritual roots in the Tuoba family; they were inconspicuous and would not attract any attention.

In his quest for power, Tuoba Yaowu fought relentlessly, defeating one clansman after another and seizing every single resource.

His "fratricide and massacre of his father" occurred during this period.

However, it is almost impossible for someone with four mixed spiritual roots to advance to the Golden Core realm.

Therefore, Tuoba Yaowu practiced some kind of demonic cultivation technique, using the essence and blood of rogue cultivators to refine and enhance his own spiritual root.

During that period, Tuoba Yaowu, like Tuoba Luopu, was a demonic cultivator who harmed people in the outside world.

Tuoba Luopu harmed teenagers and children, while Tuoba Yaowu harmed rogue cultivators.

During this period, Tuoba Yaowu didn't actually harm that many people, because after he reached the Golden Core Realm and gained strength, he became even more ruthless and would often wipe out an entire family.

The Chu family, a foundation-building family from Ru'an Mountain, was killed by Tuoba Yaowu.

Tuoba Luopu was his nephew, and the "Reverse Regeneration Demon Art" technique that restored youth was obtained from Tuoba Yaowu.

Therefore, when Tuoba Yaowu learned of the crimes committed by Tuoba Luopu, he didn't think much of it; he was only anxious because Tuoba Luopu had been arrested.

That was his nephew, his older brother's son.

He had a very good relationship with his brother, so he treated his nephew very well as well.

This is also a kind of "compensation" for his youth.

If he had had a Golden Core cultivator in his family to help him back then, his path to rise to power wouldn't have been so difficult.

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When Tuoba Hongyang heard Tuoba Yaowu ask about this matter, he couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

He learned that there were members of the Tuoba family here, but he did not know that the leader was Tuoba Yaowu.

He was most afraid to mention this matter when facing Tuoba Yaowu.

In that year, caught in a dilemma, he did not help Tuoba Luopu for his own benefit, and even lied to Tuoba Luopu, saying that he would send a message to the family.

“Master Yaowu, when Luo Pu was captured by my Demon-Subduing Guards, I intended to hand him over to the family for punishment according to clan rules.”

But the prefect Xiang Liuyun refused and used his power to force me to take people from me.

I knew he had given Rop the Heart-Corroding Pill, but there was nothing I could do.

Tuoba Hongyang absolved himself of all responsibility.

"Hmph, then why don't you ask your family for help?"

Tuoba Yaowu was not so easily fooled.

Tuoba Hongyang argued, "Given the Xiang family's power and influence, I fear I might bring trouble to our family."

“Luo Pu is just a minor figure in the Foundation Establishment Realm. His life or death is not enough to affect the relationship between the Tuoba family and the Xiang family.”

Tuoba Yaowu felt that with his status as a Golden Core cultivator, he could definitely persuade Xiang Liuyun to release Tuoba Luopu.

"I know I was wrong~~"

Tuoba Hongyang admitted his mistake and bowed his head.

Tuoba Yaowu rolled his eyes. What good would admitting fault do now? "Where is he? Who is the Golden Core commander leading your Yuanli County team, and where is he now?"

"Luo Pu has been staying by the side of the deputy commander Xiang Chunying. The leader of the team is the Golden Core commander Xiang Zhiye, nicknamed Peach Blossom Master. We were separated by the monster horde a few months ago, and I don't know where he is."

Tuoba Hongyang told the truth.

(End of this chapter)