Building a long-lasting family lineage starting with genealogy

Chapter 239 The Cautious Ancestor, Using His Body as Bait, Today He Slaughters the Pill Refiner (Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

“Ancestor, the Sima family sent people to inquire about this matter before, and it seems that all of them who went there have perished.”

Xue Wulei spoke again.

"That's normal. The two families sent people of equal strength. All of our Xue family members died, so naturally the Sima family did too."

Xue Lingshang spoke indifferently, then added, "From now on, you will be in full charge of the clan's affairs. You don't need to report to me about minor matters such as the death of a disciple."

"Understood, Ancestor."

Xue Wulei cupped his hands in greeting, then turned and left.

A few moments.

The cave door opened, and a blood-red figure darted out.

With a wave of his hand, the entire cave was enveloped in a pale red array of protective light.

"It seems that Old Ghost Sima will not make a move. A few Foundation Establishment mid-stage and Qi Refining disciples are nothing to the Sima family, which has controlled the Great Jin for so many years."

As for the blood family.”

Xue Lingshang curled his lips into a wicked smile, "What does it matter if they all die?"

"Five hundred years have passed; at worst, we can just establish another clan!"

"It's been a long time since I've been to the Great Wei."

Blood Lingshang suddenly transformed into a scarlet streak of light, piercing the sky like an arrow released from a bow, and instantly vanished into the clouds.

Dawei.

Guangling County.

Outside the Guangling branch of the Xu clan.

"A second-tier high-grade formation, based on the earth's veins here, is difficult for anyone but a top-tier formation master to set up."

After examining the cyan light screen for a moment, Xue Lingshang muttered to himself, "If the Xu family sets up a second-tier high-grade sealing formation, then my Xue family's little brats will indeed have a hard time escaping."

"Forget it, it's an advanced second-tier formation. It's impossible to infiltrate silently. Let's go check out the Moon Mausoleum Alliance again."

Even a Golden Core cultivator would need two or three attempts to break through a second-tier superior defensive array.

With a powerful array blocking their way, Xue Lingshang was unable to probe the entire Xu clan branch.

Therefore, I went to the "Moon Mausoleum Alliance".

But it was still the same here.

The entire Moon Mausoleum Alliance was shrouded in an array, with only one entrance guarded by four late-stage Qi Refining disciples who needed to manipulate array tokens to open the entrance.

A sizable market town has formed around the "Moon Ridge Alliance" headquarters.

Previously, all the markets and wards of Guangling County were moved here.

Xue Lingshang found a restaurant in the market, gave the waiter a spirit stone, and the waiter explained the establishment, structure, and development of the "Moon Ridge Alliance".

"The Alliance Leader's faction operates the Alliance, the Enforcement Hall has independent criminal law, and the Elders' Council holds a high position but only has the power to appoint and dismiss important positions in the Alliance."

What a perfect tripartite balance of power, with each side checking and balancing the others.

Xu Chuan is indeed a very quick-witted person.

There was also the academy plan, which started with the less talented disciples from various aristocratic families, greatly reducing the families' sense of rejection.

If an academy's training is effective, then aristocratic families may send their disciples to its core schools.

Once many core disciples from the various powerful families of the Great Wei are students of the academy, and they come to power, they will naturally be allies with the Xu family.

Xue Lingshang clicked his tongue a few times, "The Xu family is undermining the foundation of the Great Wei, and the Cao family can actually tolerate it?"

"Yes, in a few decades, the 'Demon Tribulation' will arrive. The Cao family intends to eliminate the Xu family during this tribulation, doesn't they?"

"Given the Xu family's current resources, they should be able to weather the last 'Demon Calamity' without much difficulty. I wonder if the Xu family has foreseen this."

He pondered for a moment and felt that the Xu family had only risen to prominence in the last few decades, so they wouldn't know such secrets.

Those who know about the Great Wei, Great Liang, and Great Jin are at least rulers of second-rank aristocratic families, and these families must have existed for more than five hundred years.

"A 'demonic calamity' that occurs once every five hundred years."

Xue Lingshang's expression suddenly turned solemn, and he muttered to himself, "This place is like a huge cage. Now that I have broken through to the Golden Core stage, I must find a way to leave this place."

The world outside is vast and boundless; then we can rebuild our clan.

In a short time, Xue Lingshang had already devised a perfect life plan for himself.

The first step is to destroy the Xu family and plunder their resources, which can serve as the foundation for establishing a new clan in the future.

The second step is to refine blood-path magic treasures to enhance strength and cultivate the Blood Shadow Clone Technique to improve survival abilities.

The third step is to break free from this cage.

As for where to break out, Xue Lingshang still needs to think about it some more.

As far as he knows, there are only three places he can leave: "Qinghai Forest", "Ten Thousand Mountains" and "Black Prison Swamp".

"Qinghai Forest" and "Black Prison Swamp" are relatively easy.

However, there are at least a few Tier 3 monsters, and there must be powerful monsters at or above the mid-Tier 3 level.

"Take it slow, I have decades to plan!"

I spent two days in Guangling County and learned a lot about the Xu family's ways of doing things from many people.

"We never provoke others, even if they are from a Qi Refining family. They pave the way for the advancement of the lowest ants, are strict in recruiting, and offer excellent treatment within their clan."

Xue Lingshang shook his head and chuckled a few times, "Strict with himself, yet kind to others, building a wide network of connections, gaining prestige and popular support, the Xu family wants to become a family that lasts for a thousand years!"

"If it weren't for this cage, it might indeed be feasible. Unless the Cao family crushes him with a single finger when he's weak, they wouldn't be a match for the Xu family."

The Xu family is no longer someone the Cao family can easily mess with. Even if a Golden Core clan wants to destroy the Xu family, they will have to pay a price.

He smiled slightly, "The more I learn about the Xu family, the more interesting I find them. If I hadn't chosen the Xu family, I would really like to see how far the Xu family will go in a few decades."

Can they truly rival the Cao family?

Of course, Xue Lingshang also understood the dangers of such aristocratic families.

Since the goal is to deal with the Xu family, the best course of action is to take advantage of their weakness and crush them outright.

Unlike Cao Shi, who was always concerned about this and that, he ended up raising a tiger cub!
"However, Xue Wulei is right. Of all the rumors about the Xu family, there is very little that can confirm the true strength and foundation of the Xu family."

It seems that even a peak second-tier flood dragon is just a rumor; only one member of the Cao family has likely seen one.

After thinking it over, Xue Lingshang decided to make a trip to the Cao family.

It's impossible for the Xu family to have a Golden Core cultivator, but since they have a second-tier peak flood dragon, and given the Xu family's skill in concealing their abilities, Xue Lingshang has doubts about the flood dragon's rank.

If the Xu family's dragon were not second-tier but third-tier, it would be difficult to deal with.

His strength is far greater than his!
He could even contend with the patriarchs of the Cao, Sima, and Liu families, who were at the peak of the third level of the Golden Core stage and possessed magical treasures.

As for him, at most he has a strong ability to protect himself, making him difficult for them to deal with.

Blood Lingshang will not act rashly before he is certain of his opponent's trump card, which is the fundamental reason why he has survived to this day.

In other words, they only fight those they can defeat!
The Great Wei Imperial City.

The Cao family's palace.

"Halt! This place is not for members of the Cao clan. No one is allowed to enter!"

A guard at the ninth level of Qi Refining stopped the bleeding.

Xue Lingshang glanced at him, and immediately a powerful pressure descended upon him, causing him to tremble and kneel down.

"Golden Elixir"

The other guards were all horrified, their faces turning deathly pale.

"I'm in a good mood, so I won't bother with you juniors. Go and announce that I've come to visit your ancestor."

"Yes, yes, I will go in and inform them right away."

But just as he finished speaking.

Sensing the pressure of the Golden Core cultivator, the Cao family patriarch, who had suddenly awakened from seclusion, transmitted his voice: "Xue Lingshang, why are you here in my Cao family instead of consolidating your cultivation in your own clan?"

"Fellow Daoist Cao, I have come from afar, won't you even invite me in for a seat and a cup of tea?"

"Take him to the reception hall!"

The voice of the Cao family patriarch immediately rang out from the surrounding area.

"Yes, old man."

Immediately, a guard led him over.

When a Golden Elixir cultivator arrives, the Cao family patriarch naturally has to appear, partly out of respect and partly out of caution.

After all, the other party was a lawless demonic cultivator.

"Speak, what brings you here?" asked Cao Jiyi, the patriarch of the Cao family.

Xue Lingshang picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and said with a faint smile, "Fellow Daoist Cao, why are you so wary? Even if I, Xue, am lawless, I wouldn't dare to cause trouble in your Cao family's stronghold."

"I doubt you would dare!" Cao Jiyi added, "Just say what you have to say. I'm too lazy to waste time chatting with you about trivial matters."

"Since Fellow Daoist Cao is busy cultivating in seclusion to break through the bottleneck, I, Xue, will not delay you any longer. Let me call your former Grand Elder of the Cao Clan over. I have something to ask you."

"Cao Defeng? What do you want with him?"

"Just one question, and I'll leave after that."

Cao Jiyi glanced at Xue Lingshang, then transmitted his voice to Cao Defeng.

After a while.

Cao Defeng entered the reception hall and bowed to Cao Jiyi and Xue Lingshang, saying, "Greetings, Ancestor, greetings, Senior Xue."

"De Feng, Xue Lingshang has something to ask you. Just answer honestly."

"Yes, Ancestor." Cao Defeng clasped his hands in response, then looked at Xue Lingshang, "What does Senior Xue wish to ask this junior?"

"Regarding the Xu family, you once led a group to besiege the Xu family, didn't you?"

Cao Defeng's expression seemed strange, but he still nodded and said, "That's true."

"So you fought against that peak second-tier dragon from the Xu family?"

"That's right, but after only two or three simple exchanges, he realized he was no match and immediately chose to flee."

"Did the Xu family intentionally let you go?"

Cao Defeng shook his head, "It shouldn't be. I used the Hundred-Mile Talisman to escape, otherwise I might have been seriously injured by that dragon."

"Are you sure that's a second-tier dragon? Is it possible it's a third-tier dragon?"

Cao Defeng was taken aback. "Third rank? If it's a junior at the third rank, he probably wouldn't even be able to withstand a single blow, let alone have the strength to escape."

“A third-tier flood dragon—even if you took a single blow from it, you might get injured, let alone someone at the Foundation Establishment stage,” Cao Jiyi frowned. “You’re going to deal with the Xu family?”

"Is there a grudge between you?"

Xue Lingshang smiled and looked at Cao Jiyi, "What does it matter if there are no grudges? We cultivators seek the Dao and immortality, and we should not be bound by any constraints."

"My Great Wei is not the Great Jin!" Cao Jiyi said coldly, "If you want to cause trouble, go back to your Great Jin!"

"Hahaha."

"Just kidding, Fellow Daoist Cao, please don't be angry!"

Xue Lingshang said, "There are indeed grudges, and they are quite significant."

"Fellow Daoist Cao is currently in seclusion and probably doesn't know the details of the Xu family's affairs. I've heard that your Cao family has suffered losses at their hands many times."

"Even if one day your Cao family is suddenly replaced by the Xu family, I, Xue, wouldn't be surprised."

"what happened?!"

Upon hearing this, Cao Jiyi turned to look at Cao Defeng and asked sternly.

Cao Defeng dared not hide anything and told the whole story of his relationship with the Xu family, including his plan to deal with them after the "Demon Calamity".

"The Xu family has grown so fast, and there are even life-and-death feuds between them. They really cannot be allowed to live."

After considering the matter, Cao Ji looked at Xue Lingshang and said, "Since Fellow Daoist Xue wants to take action, then it is inconvenient for my Cao family to do so. After all, the Xu family is still nominally a subordinate family of my Cao family."

And keep to your place and don't cause trouble.

The annual spirit tax was paid on time, including by the "Moon Mausoleum Alliance" founded by the Xu family.

"As long as it is confirmed that the Xu family does not have any third-tier demonic beasts, I will naturally take action in a few days."

Cao Jiyi nodded slightly, "However, I, Cao, have stated beforehand that my Cao family will take 40% of the resources from the Xu family!"

"Brother Cao is quite the businessman. Your Cao family has simply let things slide, yet you want to take 40% of the profits."

"The Xu family's resources were all accumulated on the territory of my Great Wei. I, Cao, am already giving you face by allowing you to take 60%. Otherwise, you could have simply replaced them with some aristocratic family from your Great Jin."

Alternatively, you could go to Daliang and see if Liu Qiankun would agree to let you slaughter the strongest aristocratic family within Daliang's borders.

"Hehe." Xue Lingshang said, "Then Fellow Daoist Liu will probably chase me to the ends of the earth."

After a moment of silence, Xue Lingshang finally agreed.

Having obtained the answer he wanted and the promise from the Cao family, he then left the Great Wei Imperial Palace.

Cao Defeng said, "Ancestor, the Xu family's foundation is definitely superior to any first-rank family. It's really too good for them to get away with this."

Cao Jiyi glanced at him indifferently, which made his hair stand on end, and he quickly lowered his head.

“A tiger cub has already grown up. Given the current development of the Xu family, do you know what level the Xu family will reach in a few decades?”
"If we act then, can you accurately calculate the price my Cao family will have to pay?"

"Since that Blood Demon is tempted, then let him have his way. If he can really get rid of the Xu family, then my Cao family can rest easy."

Otherwise, it's hard to predict who will become the ruler of the Great Wei in the next five hundred years!

"Disciple understands." Cao Defeng bowed his head and clasped his hands.

Cao Jiyi's figure flickered and disappeared from his sight.

For him, breaking through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm was the most important thing.

If he has to worry about everything and make all the decisions, what use is the Cao family?

Xue Lingshang left the imperial city and headed to Yuehu County.

At this point, he was 90% certain that he could destroy the Xu family, but he still did not act rashly.

Xu Chuan knew about Xue Lingshang's spying on Dongxi on the very day he was discovered.

However, the other party did not seem to have any intention of making a move immediately, so he remained still.

a few days later.

Xu Chuan received the divination results, which said that Xue Lingshang wanted to refine a blood corpse, causing chaos in Yuehu County.

He understood Xue Lingshang's idea almost immediately: to send the Xu family out to suppress the rebellion and resolve the issue separately.

"A Golden Core demon cultivator with such a personality!"

Xu Chuan felt helpless and muttered to himself after thinking for a while: "Oh well, we are facing a Golden Core cultivator after all, and the help from others is limited."

But if I use myself as bait, the Bloodstained Wounds will surely come for me.

As the founder of the Xu family, capturing Xu Chuan would naturally reveal all of the Xu family's secrets.

After thinking for a moment, he crushed the jade tablet of divine consciousness that the Zhao family had given him.

He was betting that the Zhao family would send the Black Cloud Leopard to help.

Almost instantly.

The Zhao family patriarch, thousands of miles away, sensed the shattering of the divine consciousness jade tablet.

"The Xu family has asked for help?!"

He immediately summoned the Zhao family patriarch and several Foundation Establishment elders, and then informed them of the matter.

"Ancestor, Xu Chuan has requested reinforcements. Who should our Zhao family send?"

After a moment's thought, the Zhao family patriarch said, "I'll take the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard with me." "Patriarch, you're going in person? And you're bringing Lord Black Leopard with you?" The fifth elder of the Zhao family was astonished.

"The Xu family has a second-tier peak flood dragon, which is enough to handle most things, and its foundation is no weaker than that of a first-grade family."

For them to seek help, it must involve the Golden Core stage.

"Our Zhao family always keeps its word. The Xu family has done a great favor for our clan, so we must provide them with our full support."

"It might involve the Golden Core stage, so it would be useless for you to go."

"Yes, old man."

The Zhao family patriarch immediately summoned the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard to accompany him to the Great Wei.

Seven hours later.

Xu Chuan left the Xu family.

Tonight, the Bloodstained Wound Society will abandon its surveillance of the Xu family and begin refining blood corpses.

Therefore, Xu Chuan cannot delay until the evening.

Moreover, when he sensed the arrival of the Zhao family that evening, given his cautious nature, he wouldn't act easily even if Xu Chuan offered himself as bait.

"Hmm, Foundation Establishment stage, so young?"

Xue Lingshang saw a young man emerge from the great formation.

"Elder!" A disciple saw this and immediately bowed in greeting.

"Hmm, I'm going out for a while. You all keep a good patrol and don't slack off."

"We disciples will certainly live up to the Grand Elder's expectations and will never allow a single fly to enter our cave."

Xu Chuan nodded slightly, put his hands behind his back, and flew away into the distance.

"So he is Xu Chuan!" A blood-red glint flashed in Xue Lingshang's eyes. "He is nearly a hundred years old, yet he looks so young. How did he do that?"

I cultivated the Blood Demon Path technique and broke through to the Golden Core stage, which allowed me to regain my youthful appearance.

Xu Chuan was the founder of the Xu family. If the Xu family has any secrets, they must lie with him!

Xue Lingshang immediately chose to follow silently.

Xu Chuan arrived deep within the Broken Tooth Mountain Range. Finding no one around, he patted his storage bag, and a ghostly soul banner flew out.

In an instant, it seemed as if countless ghostly voices echoed all around the forest.

The spirit banner swelled to a height of about ten feet in the wind.

Its shaft was made from the bones of a Foundation Establishment demon beast, and its entire body shimmered with a ghostly green phosphorescence. Hundreds of engraved ghost patterns were coiled around the shaft, as if countless ghostly shadows as fine as hair were wriggling within the patterns. It felt like ice to the touch and chilled one to the eye.

The banner is made of black satin soaked in the blood of countless wronged souls, billowing without wind, and embroidered with nine mysterious talismans.

Tiny ghostly shadows floated and sank around the edges of each rune.

A bronze skull hangs atop the banner, with two clusters of eerie blue flames burning in its eye sockets, and the skull's jaw slightly opens and closes.

The banner was surrounded by ghostly energy, which turned into wisps of black smoke that clung to its surface. Each flutter of the banner amplified the wailing of ghosts around it, making it truly eerie and terrifying.

Xue Lingshang was astonished to see Xu Chuan secretly refining a ghost-path artifact.

"Where did Xu Chuan get such a top-tier Ghost Dao magic weapon? Even in the Great Jin Dynasty, you can't find many more powerful ones."

"However, it is indeed a good treasure."

He raised the corners of his mouth slightly, then suddenly appeared from the shadows and said, "I've heard that the Xu family has always considered itself righteous, but I never expected that the Xu family's eldest elder would covet a ghostly artifact and secretly refine it."

"who is it!"

Xu Chuan brushed his hand across the storage bag, and seven array flags shot out, landing around the area.

"Array flag? Judging from its aura, it should be at least a second-tier high-grade array flag, but it's useless to me."

A bloody stench wafted over, and then a blood-red figure appeared not far in front of Xu Chuan, staring at him with a pair of eerie blood-red eyes.

Xu Chuan made a hand seal with both hands.

The next moment, the array of light curtains quickly closed.

Xue Lingshang simply watched with a faint smile; in his eyes, Xu Chuan was already a dead man.

However, because there was still value in extracting the Xu family's secrets, they did not act immediately.

"Everyone says that you, Xu Chuan, are only at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment. This is supposed to be the ninth level of Foundation Establishment. The rumors are far too far off."

However, even I, the old ancestor, would find it hard to believe if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes that a cultivator who had only been at the Foundation Establishment stage for over twenty years could actually cultivate to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

Even those with celestial spiritual root aptitude would find it difficult to achieve.

"Are you the patriarch of the Xue family?"

"You ever met me?"

"I have met the patriarch of the Sima family. Not long ago, the Sima family and the Xue family attacked my Xu family. I knew long ago that a Golden Core cultivator would descend."

I just don't know which Golden Elixir it belongs to.

Xu Chuan said calmly.

"Your true strength is at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment. The other Foundation Establishment cultivators in the clan must have hidden two or three more levels, right?"

Before Xu Chuan could answer, Xue Lingshang continued, "In that case, relying on the formation to surround them, we do have the strength to annihilate them all."

"So you've come here to use this demonic artifact to enhance your strength and fight back? Or are you trying to bribe someone with it?"

"Senior Xue, you are indeed very cautious, but even cautious people can be arrogant."

Now that we've entered the fray, the plan is halfway to success.

Xu Chuan did not expect the other party to show up so easily.

"Senior has said a lot, why not listen to my analysis as well?" Xu Chuan said to himself, "You did not come here to avenge the Xue family disciples, but to plunder my Xu family."

You should have been able to come to my Xu family a long time ago, but you must have done a lot of investigation. You must have been to the Cao family and verified my Xu family's strongest trump card.

"They followed me here and then revealed themselves; they must have felt they had victory firmly in their grasp, right?"

Xue Lingshang frowned slightly, as if he sensed something was wrong.

"Then, senior, can you guess whether I went out by chance or on purpose?"

"You're just playing hard to get. Once I capture you, I'll have plenty of ways to make you reveal the Xu family's secrets!"

Before the words were finished, a strong, fishy stench suddenly arrived.

Then a giant blood-red hand materialized, its five fingers outstretched, and with a bone-chilling coldness, it slashed down toward Xu Chuan's face. Its speed was as fast as a ghost, and it was already in front of him in an instant.

roar~
Suddenly.

A dragon's roar resounded, causing the giant crimson palm to shatter into a cloud of blood mist.

Mo Yue finally burst out of Xu Chuan's spirit beast pouch, his body swelled up, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a dragon several dozen feet long.

It hovered above Xu Chuan's head, its dark golden vertical pupils fixed on Xue Lingshang, emitting a terrifying sonic roar that rippled outwards in waves.

Xue Lingshang was thrown back more than a hundred meters away. He couldn't believe it and gritted his teeth, saying, "Third-tier. Flood Dragon!"

"You had already made preparations and lured me here?"
But how could that be? How did you know I was keeping watch near the Xu family's house? How did you know I would definitely follow you here?

"Could it be that you can predict the future or something?!"

Then, he continued cursing, "That bastard Cao Jiyi actually had his clansmen trick me!"

Xu Chuan quickly withdrew from the great formation and said with a faint smile, "Senior, you are wrong about this. When the Cao family's Grand Elder came to attack my Xu family, my Xu family's trump card was indeed a second-tier peak flood dragon."

"A breakthrough? What a coincidence?!"

Xu Chuan continued, "Originally, this trump card was reserved for the Cao family, but things change too quickly. Since you are willing to be a pawn to wade through the waters, senior."

"Then this junior has no choice but to use the life of my senior as a stepping stone for the Xu family."

"Want to kill me?"

Bloodstained wounds caused his breathing to suddenly become heavy, and his powdered face turned ashen.

Her cheeks clenched uncontrollably, and her jawline stretched into a cold, hard ridge.

His eyebrows suddenly stood up, like two cold blades drawn from their sheaths.

His eyes flashed with a cold light, flickering with an eerie blood-red glow that seemed to move like a living thing.

"Third-tier dragons are strong, but they are only at the initial stage!"

Before Xue Lingshang's angry roar had even subsided, his left hand formed a hand seal that bloomed like a blood lotus, while his right hand drew a sword finger, causing blood mist to rise around him and his blood-fiend spiritual power to surge and transform into streaks of crimson rainbows that wrapped around his fingertips, with faint wailing of resentful souls.

In an instant.

A dozen or so blood-red spears materialized from the void.

The gun barrel was entwined with countless tiny, illusory images of wronged souls, and the spiderweb-like, malevolent patterns gleamed with a bone-chilling red light.

Its appearance immediately caused the surrounding air to become scorching and foul-smelling, accompanied by sharp howls and ghostly wails that seemed to tear the wind apart, raining down on the dragon Moyue like a storm.

With a wide-open maw, Mo Yue also conjured dozens of icy spears, which collided with the blood-red spears with unparalleled precision.

boom! boom! boom!
The sky was filled with blood mist and ice shards.

Xue Lingshang never expected that he, who spent his days hunting geese, would have his eyes pecked out by a goose.

But he was very suspicious. Did Xu Chuan really have the foresight to predict my arrival and prepare accordingly?

Taking advantage of the blood mist and ice shards covering the surrounding area, Xue Lingshang immediately tried to break through the array's blockade and escape from this place.

He had no intention of competing with a third-tier dragon. He had just broken through to the Golden Core stage and still had five hundred years to live before he was to leave this prison.

He still harbored ambitions and wanted to become a Nascent Soul stage cultivator!

Xu Chuan naturally saw through his thoughts, because Xue Lingshang's personality was somewhat similar to his own, prioritizing stability and running away if he couldn't win.

He then made a hand seal and chanted:

The Heavenly Pivot opens, and the Greedy Wolf roars!

The Heavenly Pivot turns, the Giant Gate imprisons!
The Heavenly Pivot is broken, but the Prosperity Star shines!
Tianquan Town, Wenxing Edict!
The Jade Balance moves, the Lianfeng sword is raised!
Kaiyang flashes, martial brilliance shines!

"The light of the Yao Guang falls, the Po Jun is summoned!"

As he recited the incantation, his hand gestures and mudras changed continuously until the very end.

"Seven Stars Seal Demon! Seal! Seal! Seal!"

The pale golden light that enveloped the surrounding area suddenly rippled, with the four stars corresponding to the Big Dipper—Dubhe, Merak, Phecda, and Megrez—showing ripples first, their blue radiance spreading like water.

In an instant, the three stars of Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang followed closely behind.

Seven beams of azure light intertwined on the light screen to form the shape of a dipper handle, then "whoosh"ed down into the air, condensing into seven azure chains as thick as a child's arm.

The chains were engraved with dense, mysterious runes, gleaming with a bluish light, coiling around his body like serpents.

And at this time.

Several of Xue Lingshang's attacks landed on the light screen of the great formation, but they only caused violent fluctuations and showed no sign of cracking.

"It's not just a high-grade second-tier formation, it's a top-tier second-tier formation!"

Xue Ling was shocked. He really didn't expect that the top array master of the Xu family that he had deduced was actually a figure comparable to an array grandmaster!
Being able to set up a top-tier second-order formation means there is a high chance of being able to set up a third-order formation.

A second-tier high-grade formation can be broken by a few attacks from a Golden Core cultivator, but a second-tier top-grade formation would likely require dozens of consecutive attacks.

With a third-tier dragon by his side, it was impossible for him to escape easily.

"Hmm, chains?"

As Xue Ling's heart trembled, a chain wrapped around his left arm.

The faint blue light immediately brought a burning sensation to his arm.

"Demon-Suppressing Chains?!"

"This is a demon-sealing formation?!"

Without saying a word, Xue Lingshang gathered a blood-red blade of light in his right hand and severed the chains.

When he looked up, six chains were already moving toward him, with the one that had just broken following closely behind.

If the top-tier second-order demon-sealing formation were entangled by the seven chains, even if it wasn't sealed, he wouldn't be able to unleash half the power of his demonic cultivation techniques.

"You actually foresaw this."

“Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit, let alone you, who is the lion, while my Xu family is just a soft little rabbit.”

Then, Xu Chuan transmitted his voice and said, "Mo Yue, don't push too hard. I'll find another helper and play it safe."

"A mere cultivator who has just entered the Golden Core stage is trapped in a demon-sealing formation. Why would I need any more help?" Mo Yue replied.

"If you push this kind of person too far, they can be extremely ruthless. If a Golden Core cultivator explodes inside a formation, you'll likely be severely injured even if you don't die, and you might even fall back to a lower cultivation level."

Mo Yue thought for a moment, "Alright, I'll do as you say."

Xu Chuan left immediately.

After Xue Lingshang discovered this, he kept repelling the attacking Demon-Suppressing Chains while tempting Mo Yue, saying, "A dignified third-tier dragon, a powerful demon race expert, is actually being driven by a Foundation Establishment human."

Don't you feel ashamed?

Mo Yue remained silent.

Xue Lingshang added, "Lord Mo Yue, whatever the Xu family promises you, I will give it tenfold. How about it?"

A cultivator at the Golden Core stage can accomplish far more than one at the Foundation Establishment stage.

"ten times?"

Mo Yue didn't mind teasing Xue Lingshang, "Do you know what the Xu family promised me?"

"Please speak frankly, Your Excellency Mo Yue."

Not long after Xu Chuan left, the Zhao family patriarch arrived at the Dongxi clan's territory with the Black Cloud Leopard.

"Is this Dongxi, the main ancestral home of the Xu family?" The Zhao family patriarch said, "It is indeed a remote place."

The Black Cloud Leopard said, "Little cultivator, there's no sign of a major battle taking place here. Have you been tricked?"

He knew that the Xu family had a third-tier dragon. If even he was in danger, then he probably wouldn't be able to help much.

“Fellow Daoist Xu is not so inconsiderate,” said the Zhao family patriarch. “Lord Black Panther, spread your divine sense and see if you can find anything.”

"alright."

The Black Cloud Leopard spread its divine sense and soon discovered the Foundation Establishment aura emanating from the forest above the mountain range behind the Xu family's territory.

"He's over there."

Black Cloud Leopard led the Zhao family patriarch to find Xu Chuan.

“Fellow Daoist Xu,” said the Zhao family patriarch.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, you've arrived."

Upon seeing the Black Cloud Leopard, Xu Chuan thought to himself that the Zhao family had indeed not disappointed him.

The Zhao family patriarch said, "Fellow Daoist Xu, we haven't found any signs of fighting in your Xu family."

Xu Chuan didn't hide anything and said with a faint smile, "The one who came is a newly promoted Golden Core cultivator from the Great Jin Dynasty, the patriarch of the Xue family. How could I dare to let someone at the Golden Core stage fight in my Xu family's territory?"

Wouldn't that lead to widespread suffering and death?

"The Blood Clan Ancestor, Blood Lingshang?!" The Zhao Clan Ancestor's face was filled with shock. "Where is he now?"

"I trapped it with my demon-sealing formation."

"Can a second-tier demon-sealing formation trap a Golden Core cultivator?"

"Of course not, but with helpers interfering, it won't be so easy for him to escape."

The Zhao family patriarch's expression shifted between light and dark. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "Fellow Daoist Xu, you summoned my Zhao family here because you wish to drive away Xue Lingshang?"

"No, today I, Xu, will slaughter a Golden Core cultivator!"

(End of this chapter)