Journey to the head

A ray of light broke through the sky and flew rapidly towards Cangzhou.

It was the Cloud-Stepping Chariot. Inside the Cloud Chariot, Lu Qian was contemplating with his eyes closed, while Zhao Yunchang, who went by the alias "Hu Zi", could not help but secretly look at him, even his hands were trembling slightly.

No one would have thought that the true identity of this "Qi Bailian", a well-known figure in the Wanling Xiancao Society, was so shocking!
His legendary deeds have been circulated in more than a dozen states. He is known by the public as the number one golden elixir master in Cangzhou, the powerful and influential Northwest Pacification Commissioner of Cangzhou, and the head of Yunshan, Tianyuanzi Lu Qian!
The Yunshan Sect he led had long since become a powerful tyrant in the region, and had successfully been promoted to a Nascent Soul Sect several years ago, rewriting the power structure in Cangzhou and changing the "Cangzhou Four Sects" into the "Cangzhou Five Sects".

Even the former Great Red Tower is far inferior to the Yunshan Sect!
And the most important thing for Zhao Yunchang is that Lu Qian clearly stated that his family also has a great hatred with the corpse clan, and will do his best to wipe out the evil spirits of the corpse clan!
Therefore, the Yunshan School needs Zhao Yunchang's power.

He needs his "corpse-chasing" Taoist pattern.

He had been feeling sorry for himself for this for a long time. Building the Four Spiritual Roots was extremely difficult, and he only succeeded by luck after exhausting the resources left by his father.

As a result, the Dao pattern that he had placed high hopes on turned out to be a weird and useless "corpse chasing" pattern, which naturally made him extremely frustrated.

Being able to sense the location of the zombies within thousands of miles, what use is this to a lone man like him in building his foundation?

Even if you want to sell this information to a wealthy sect, the first question is, why would they trust you? A casual cultivator at the foundation building stage might not even be able to get through the door.

Moreover, ever since the corpse chaos in Dengzhou, the corpse clan has been constantly on the move, rarely stopping. In this way, before I can find a way to contact the main clan, the corpse clan has already left the area, and there is no point in suing them.

Only once.
Zhao Yunchang clenched his fists.

He finally passed the information to a sect, but he did not expect to overestimate the strength of this sect and underestimate the power of the corpse monster.

In just one night, the sect was slaughtered, and he was seriously injured. He was unconscious for several days among the pile of corpses and was abducted by the monsters of the corpse clan.

Finally, God blessed him and his father appeared. The zombies guarding the pile of corpses were very lax, so he found an opportunity to escape. The horror of hiding and not daring to breathe all the way still makes my hair stand on end when I recall it now.

After this time, he became very cautious about using this Dao pattern to act as an "informant" to provide information.

For his need to change his situation, this pattern is not as useful as his own methods of cultivating herbs and refining pills.

But today, I met Lu Qian!
Everything is predestined by fate. Such a useless Dao pattern turned out to be something urgently needed by the Yunshan Sect and was personally recruited by Tian Yuanzi.

After a moment's consideration, Zhao Yunchang decided to accept the olive branch extended by Lu Qian.

Not to mention that True Man Yuhu was buried in the Yunshan Sect, the most important thing is that the Yunshan Sect is powerful and well-known, and with the help of other major sects in Cangzhou, it is very likely to wipe out the Corpse Clan.

If he becomes a guest official of Yunshan Sect and hands over his Dao pattern, he can use the power of Yunshan Sect to fulfill his long-cherished wish of avenging his father!

In comparison, from now on, one can take shelter in a Yuanying sect, be safe and worry-free, have the possibility of making further progress on the path, etc., these are all secondary benefits.

Everything in front of him was like a dream. In just half a day, Zhao Yunchang had become a hired guest official of the Alchemy Hall of the Internal Affairs Department of Yunshan Sect. Of course, his first task was to assist Yunshan Sect in finding all the evil spirits of the corpse clan hiding in Cangzhou and exterminate them all!
What Lu Qian is currently calculating is how to conduct a perfect encirclement and suppression without alerting the enemy and making sure to eradicate the roots of the enemy.

To achieve this goal, it is impossible to rely solely on the Yunshan School.

At this time, the cloud chariot had already entered the border of Cangzhou. Lu Qian tapped his finger lightly, and a map of Cangzhou unfolded in the chariot.

"Guest Zhao, we are now patrolling Cangzhou. Please use your Dao pattern to search for the hidden corpses. We will mark the corpses we sense on the map."

Zhao Yunchang pulled himself together, agreed, closed his eyes, and as his spiritual power surged, a ray of light bloomed from between his eyebrows.

After a moment, he said with some surprise: "The evildoers of the Corpse Clan were divided into two groups in Cangzhou."

"One of them is quite large in number and gathered in the southeast of Cangzhou."

He pointed on the map, and Lu Qian's heart sank immediately and he narrowed his eyes.

The southeastern land, the land of the Sikong clan!
The Sikong family, who inexplicably suddenly abandoned their huge profits and began to close the mountains and lock the borders; the Sikong family, who had no contact with the outside world for nearly 30 years.

The main star is dim, the guest star is competing for brilliance. The stars predict that Cangzhou will be divided and blood will flow. There is also the fourth-level high-level innate spiritual energy that was recently taken away by the corpse clan in Luzhou!

Everything was connected together, and Lu Qian's heart was filled with alarm.

The Sikong family might have already sided with the Corpse Clan. They blocked the mountain gate openly, but actually relied on the spiritual objects and treasures provided by the Corpse Clan that were everywhere in the Corpse Prison Ridge to develop rapidly and grow rapidly in secret, waiting for the opportunity to dominate Cangzhou!
That opportunity was when the triumphant spiritual lord Sikong Sheng obtained the innate spiritual energy, went through life and death to refine his body, and achieved the status of Yuanshen Xuanjun.

The life and death body refining is indeed extremely difficult. Countless Nascent Soul Spirit Lords have failed here, and only a few dozen succeed.

But what if Sikong Sheng had the assistance of the mysterious innate spiritual objects in Prison Corpse Ridge? !
It can be speculated that the previous attacks on Xuanwei Sect, on the one hand, caused factional struggles within the sect, seriously slowing down the sect's development, and on the other hand, made Miaomiao Xuanjun and Xuanwei Sect focus on the sect, leaving them with little energy to pay attention to Cangzhou and the Sikong family who were hiding in a small area.

This was most likely done by the Corpse Clan and the Sikong Family!
But how did they manage to quietly kill the two Nascent Soul seeds of "Yehu Zen", abduct Yuanji Lingjun, the "house-born son" right under the nose of Xuanwei Sect, and kill the entire delegation?
Was it the Corpse Clan True Seal or Heavenly Corpse Talisman obtained from Emperor Corpse Heavenly Monarch, or was it some strange treasure produced in the Corpse Prison Ridge?
None of this matters anymore!
Lu Qian took a deep breath and now had to immediately inform Xuanwei Sect, Lingshou Sect and Qinglian Zhenzong to mobilize all their troops. Before the Sikong family could make full preparations and launch an attack, they had to wipe out the Sikong family and the corpse clan from Cangzhou!

However, the other party is one of the four old sects, a giant in Cangzhou, and one of the cornerstones of Cangzhou's stability. His one-sided statement alone is not enough for Miaomiao Xuanjun to lead his troops to attack.

I need evidence.

While he was thinking about it, he heard Zhao Yunchang stretch out his hand and point.

"There are still a small number of corpses, currently in the northwest of Cangzhou."

Lu Qian stared at the place he pointed, his body trembled and his eyes widened.

In places where people cannot see, the Communication Office of the Intelligence Department of the Yunshan Sect took quick action, and three messages marked as the most urgent were sent to the Xuanwei Sect, the Lingshou Sect, and the Qinglian Zhenzong.

A dramatic change is about to begin. Since the war between the two states, Cangzhou's most massive expedition is beginning to brew.

But they are still waiting for a signal.

In the flashing rays of light, the Cloud-Stepping Chariot suddenly plunged into the Mianlong Mountain.

The light of the mountain protection formation flashed for a moment, then disappeared, reflecting the millions of stars that flickered in the sky. A full moon hung high in the sky like a jade plate, and the clear moonlight spread across the sky and earth.

"Lu Qian is back." Among the towering mountains southwest of Mianlong Mountain, a huge figure stood lightly on the tenderest branch at the top of the tree, looking coldly at the gate of Yunshan Sect.

The straight-line distance between here and Longshou Peak is less than fifty miles, but the mountains are long and the trees are lush, so the Tibetans cannot find anything here and have no idea where to start.

The disciples of Yunshan would never have imagined that there were inhuman monsters lurking at their very doorstep.

The moonlight illuminated its body. It was a giant corpse covered with scars, with three heads and six arms, and a ferocious face. With a single breath, evil clouds spewed out of its mouth and nose, and were sucked back in the next moment. The trees under its feet were still green and fresh, showing its strong control ability.

The spiritual pressure on its body surged back and forth, equivalent to the cultivation level of a human cultivator in the late Jindan stage.

"I'll come back if I want to." A child's head said nonchalantly, "Do I have to report to the 17th Patrol Officer?"

The young man in the middle shook his head and said, "What is there to report? We are just waiting for the war to start in the southeast and for the order to come. I just don't know how long it will take. To be honest, my patience is almost exhausted."

"It's almost there, it's almost there." This time it was the head of the old man on the far right. "It'll only be a few days. When the time comes, we'll rush in, rob the people, kill them, and leave."

The child showed a cruel smile: "If the eight of us attack together, we can take down Mianlong Mountain in one fell swoop. By then, we may even be able to catch up with the Southeast War. That will be our stage."

The young man was dissatisfied: "I've told you many times that the three of us are one, and can only be counted as one, so we should attack with six people."

"Not six people, not six people." The old man shook his gray beard, "Do those three corpse slaves count as people? They are just three dogs."

While they were debating, suddenly a flash of light appeared on the mountain protection formation of the sleeping dragon.

Under the full moonlight, one Lingxu Zhenyuan divine ship after another slid out of the mountain protection formation and flew at full speed in all directions. Around each divine ship, there were some twisting black shadows following.

The giant corpse flashed under the tree with a speed that was totally inconsistent with its body size, hiding in the shadow of the tree, with three pairs of blood-red eyes peering up at the sky.

How is this going?

Is the Yunshan Sect planning to launch an expedition?
But they had not received any notification of the uprising in the southeast, and the Cangzhou factions were still kept in the dark. Moreover, these airships were heading in all directions, and their target was definitely not the Sikong family.

What does the Yunshan sect want to do, train soldiers?

This is not impossible. They have been monitoring the movements of Mianlong Mountain for a long time and have indeed seen the Yunshan Sect conducting emergency exercises simulating actual combat, and even the large-scale military exercise of the Nine Counties of Cangzhou.

While they were wondering, several Lingxu Zhenyuan divine ships had already passed over the head of the giant corpse. Three pairs of eyes finally saw clearly that around each divine ship, there were ten black-scaled pythons shaking their heads and tails and dancing with transparent thin wings.

This is something new, and it has not been discovered in previous investigations.

The corpse clan's keen sense of living creatures allowed it to immediately determine that the black python was not a living creature, but should be a puppet-like creature.

Moreover, each of these Lingxu Zhenyuan divine ships can only carry 20 to 30 cultivators. This number is too small for either attacking or training.

Before it could figure it out, these Shenzhou ships suddenly stopped moving forward, and the black pythons around each Shenzhou also scattered and formed neat formations in the air.

At first glance, with forty Shenzhou ships as the center and four hundred black pythons as nodes, it formed a huge net covering the area of ​​100 miles around Mianlong Mountain.

At this moment, the giant corpse suddenly had a bad premonition.

But with a humming sound, a beam of light rushed up from the Shenzhou, and light also spurted out of the mouth of the black python. These lights intertwined together and merged in an instant. A huge spherical light curtain separated the inside and the outside, covering the area of ​​100 miles in radius!
"Not good!" the child screamed, "This is some kind of barrier, the communication is cut off!"

"Not good, quickly join them!" the old man also shouted.

But the giant corpse flashed forward, and the moonlight in the sky suddenly became extremely bright. The misty moonlight was like layer upon layer of gauze, which was soft but strong, and it blocked it.

In the moonlight, a young man with extraordinary bearing, maturity and elegance came floating over.

The giant corpse's three pairs of blood-red eyes locked onto him.

He just smiled and said, "I am Yunshan Wanfa."

The giant corpse roared, and three voices intertwined together.

"How did you find us?!"

But before Lin Le could answer, the giant corpse stretched out its body, and with a crackling sound, its entire body had expanded to a height of ten feet. The thick evil spirit gushed out from every pore of its body, and in an instant all the surrounding trees were corroded and collapsed.

With a thunderous sound, the giant corpse leaped high into the air, with its six arms crossed, and in the midst of the storm, it slapped Lin Le hard.

East of Mianlong Mountain.

In the dense forests between mountains, a Jindan cultivator with a black face and evil spirits surging around him was moving quickly. When he saw the barrier in the air separating the inside and the outside, he knew something was wrong and immediately wanted to reunite with his companions.

There are six people in the southeast, east, north, west, southwest and south of Mianlong Mountain, or in other words, three corpses and three corpse slaves.

At this moment, the corpse slave hiding in the east was running towards the southeast, because there was the strongest combat force deployed by the corpse clan.

A Nascent Soul level evil corpse.

But suddenly, thick clouds and fog spread out in front of him, covering everything above, below, left and right.

His face changed. This was not ordinary mountain fog, but spiritual fog that could obscure spiritual consciousness. It was the secret method of cultivators!

There was a loud bang!
He didn't even see what it was before he was thrown out by the violent explosion, smashing countless trees and even blowing his defensive magic weapon crooked. Ripples flashed in the air, and a silent water whip covered with space fluctuations followed, trapping him tightly.

"The mountains and clouds are misty, I will capture you and bring you back." There was a fairy standing in the clouds.

North of Mianlong Mountain.

A hunched and skinny monster corpse saw the barrier in the sky closing, let out a strange howl, and also moved towards the southeast.

A strong murderous aura surged from its body, and it also had a spiritual pressure equivalent to that of a late Jindan. Moreover, it had some special magical powers when escaping, and it crossed a thousand feet in a flash.

Then it suddenly stopped, because under the water-like moonlight in front of it, there stood a Jindan monk with a stern face and thin figure.

The faint sound of swords vibrated in the air.

"Yunshan Mingzhao, come and defeat you!" (End of this chapter)