Bringing the farm to another world

Chapter 15769 Mission
"Have you noticed anything unusual? Was this really orchestrated by Kong Ming? Is that old man still thinking straight?" In a cave, a man who looked to be around seventy years old asked a person standing in front of him.

This man is a Supreme Elder of the Nine Yang Immortal Palace named Mu Ming. He is also the ancestor of the Mu family. He is much younger than Kong Ming and is currently the strongest person in the Nine Yang Immortal Palace.

In the Nine Suns Immortal Palace, Kongming was originally the strongest. He was the oldest and the strongest. However, because Kongming's lifespan is coming to an end, his strength is also declining. Therefore, Muming, who is slightly weaker than him, has become the strongest person in the Nine Suns Immortal Palace.

The man standing before Mu Ming was the current head of the Mu family, named Mu Cheng. The Mu family was an ambitious and powerful clan. They had a disciple named Mu Ju, who was a core disciple of the Nine Suns Immortal Palace and a strong one at that, making him a top contender for the position of sect leader.

Mu Ming had long felt that something was wrong with this matter. Kong Ming was a man who was about to die, so why would he suddenly make such an arrangement? Moreover, Fang Zhongyi actually agreed to it, and more importantly, Fu Cha also agreed. This caused Mu Ming's original plan to fall through.

For years, Mu Ming had been urging the Mu family to unite with other families to put pressure on Kong Ming. This was partly for the Kong family's interests, and partly to test Kong Ming's condition. If Kong Ming was doing well, he would surely retaliate. However, despite their prolonged pressure, Kong Ming hadn't retaliated at all. This made Mu Ming realize that Kong Ming's situation was dire. Therefore, he was prepared: once Kong Ming passed away, they would immediately divide up the Kong family. Even if they couldn't completely wipe them out, they would reduce them to a medium-sized or small family.

However, the Kong family's sudden move completely disrupted his plans, which greatly annoyed Mu Ming, hence his call for Mu Cheng.

Upon hearing Mu Ming's words, Mu Cheng immediately replied, "Yes, Ancestor. According to our investigation, it's like this: Kong Ming first went to Fang Zhongyi, and we don't know what they said, but then Fang Zhongyi summoned Kong Ming to him. A few days after Kong Ming returned to the Kong family, there was the matter of Kong You's marriage alliance with Fucha, followed by Fang Zhongyi taking Fucha as his disciple. This time, it can be said that all three parties have won. The Kong family has found a new backer and gained a capable young expert. Fucha has the support of the Kong family and Fang Zhongyi as her backer. Fang Zhongyi has gained a good disciple and the support of the Kong family. It can be said that the three parties have now formed an unbreakable alliance, and it is impossible to touch them."

Upon hearing Mu Cheng's words, Mu Ming couldn't help but snort coldly, then asked, "Where's Kong Ming? How is he?"

Mu Cheng said, "I heard he's in seclusion for life-or-death cultivation. I wonder how it's going."

Mu Ming snorted coldly, "It seems he's just waiting to die, while keeping us guessing whether he's really dead or not. This old guy is indeed not simple. At this time, he still has such a scheme. He's really impressive. Well, let's leave it at that for now and see what the Kong family wants to do next, especially those Fucha. That guy is no pushover either. If he wants to compete for the position of sect leader, he will be a big threat to Ju'er."

Mu Cheng nodded and then said, "That's right. Back then, he placed his own people under Duan Jingshu and they became Duan Jingshu's confidants. If Duan Jingshu hadn't gotten into trouble, we wouldn't have known about this at all. That guy is really powerful."

Mu Ming said, "Be careful of them. These guys working together pose a huge threat to us. We must be careful."

Mu Cheng responded, and Mu Ming waved his hand, saying, "You go back first. If anything happens outside, just tell me directly." Mu Cheng responded, then turned and left Mu Ming's cave.

Meanwhile, all the Blood Slaughter Sect members at the Nine Suns Immortal Palace ceased their activities. Even Tian Jie and his group stopped. Of course, the activities within the smaller families didn't stop; their members continued to transform into the undead race, but outsiders had no way of knowing. Fang Zhongyi also began pushing forward with the formation of a delegation. He didn't directly intervene but instead had the Kong family propose forming a delegation to visit various sects. This was a common practice at the Nine Suns Immortal Palace, but recently, due to the sect leader's situation, no one had pushed for it. Now, the Kong family's proposal surprised everyone in the Nine Suns Immortal Palace. They truly hadn't expected the Kong family to bring it up at this time, which was quite unexpected.

At first, they thought the Kong family was plotting against someone by pushing this matter forward. However, they quickly dismissed this idea. The first thing the Kong family proposed was to appoint Fucha as the head of the delegation. This news stunned everyone. They knew all too well what this meant. Currently, all the major families of the Nine Yang Immortal Palace were vying for the position of sect leader. At this time, Fucha's sudden appointment as an envoy to the various sects meant what? It almost meant that he had given up on vying for the position of sect leader. The actions of the Kong family and Fucha surprised everyone. They thought that the Kong family and Fucha had made such a big fuss before in order to compete for the position of sect leader. Now it seemed that this was not the case. They were doing this more for self-preservation. If that was the case, then it was good news for the other families.

Upon realizing this, the other major families immediately sprang into action. They also began to push forward with this matter, and they all started to stuff people into the delegation. However, what they wanted to stuff into the delegation were people from other families, or those who might compete for the position of sect leader.

However, none of the families were pushovers, and in the end, none of them could squeeze anyone into the delegation. They could only proceed with the normal procedures. Fucha did indeed become the head of the delegation, while the position of deputy head of the vassal hall was directly given to an elder from the Kong family. No one from the other families objected to this, since that was how their families operated as well. They wanted to control the positions that belonged to them and would never easily hand them over to others. The reason the Shen family was willing to give up this position last time was because Shen Xing had found a better place to go, and in addition, the people from the various families wanted Fucha to withdraw from the competition for the sect leader position. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Fucha to compete for this position.

This is precisely the biggest problem facing the Nine Yang Immortal Palace. The Nine Yang Immortal Palace is vast, but after countless years of development, all positions with some power within it are controlled by various powerful families. Outsiders simply cannot get involved, which effectively cuts off the path to advancement for ordinary disciples. Take Fang Zhongyi, for example. He was an ordinary disciple who never held any important position in the Nine Yang Immortal Palace. As a result, he eventually became a Supreme Elder, but he had no trusted subordinates. Since he had never held any official position, he naturally couldn't have any trusted subordinates.

The powerful families are different. Through generations of accumulation, they have long since turned all the powerful departments into their own. This is why the position of sect leader can only be produced from these families and not from ordinary disciples. If a sect leader were to be produced from among the ordinary disciples, they would have to share a portion of the benefits, which is unacceptable to the powerful families.

That is precisely why it was absolutely impossible for the Blood Slaughter Sect to use rhetoric to make Fucha the sect leader in the first place; those powerful families would never allow Fucha to become the sect leader.

The reason why those powerful families now consider Fucha a threat is because Fucha is now the son-in-law of the Kong family, and he is considered a member of these powerful families. Therefore, he has the qualifications to compete for the position of sect leader, and thus he is a great threat.

Now that Fucha has essentially announced that he will no longer compete for the position of sect leader, the hostility of the various families towards him has decreased significantly. Just as Wen Wenhai and the others had predicted, after the Kong family formed a marriage alliance with Fucha and Fucha became Fang Zhongyi's disciple, those families were already preparing to target the Kong family. Moreover, they were joining forces to target the Kong family. Their goal was to kick Fucha out of the competition for the position of sect leader and deprive them of this opportunity.

Now that Fucha has withdrawn, those powerful families will naturally stop targeting the Kong family. In their view, the reason why the Kong family formed a marriage alliance with Fucha this time is because the Kong family needs to protect itself, and Fucha also needs to protect itself, since they had previously pressured the Kong family too much.

As for Fucha, he was probably worried that he wouldn't even be able to keep his position as the deputy head of the vassal hall. If he couldn't even keep this position, then he might become an ordinary core disciple and an ordinary elder. Not to mention becoming a kingdom-level expert, it would probably be impossible for him to develop his family further. Fucha clearly wanted to develop his family and didn't want to give up, so he arranged a marriage alliance with the Kong family.

It was precisely because of this idea that the formation of the delegation went smoothly. Although the various families did not allow disciples from other families who could become sect leaders to join the delegation, each family still sent some elders to join as well. After all, such a delegation would not work without the participation of their family members. One of the purposes of these delegations' missions to various sects was to establish cooperation with them. Although they had already begun cooperating with various sects, they still needed to use this mission to reaffirm their cooperation with each sect to prevent other families from poaching their cooperation.

The mission was quickly assembled. This mission was not large, consisting of only one hundred people. Among these one hundred people, Fucha was the head of the mission, and there were two deputy heads: one was an elder from the Mu family, and the other was an elder from the Shen family. The three of them led the other ninety-seven people to form this mission.