Journey to the head

The setting sun is blood-red, and the world is devastated.

After a great battle, the forest below turned to ashes, the mountains were shattered, and gullies appeared, as if there had been a huge earthquake.

At this moment in the battlefield, beams of light rose up and flew away. They were the monks from various sects who had made up their minds and temporarily disbanded their armies, returning to their respective homes to put an end to the corpse chaos.

"Junior sister, this is Master's formation diagram and formation base, and I am passing it on to you as well." Ling Xuan Lingjun had tears in his eyes and stroked his hands tremblingly for a few times before he solemnly handed the formation diagram and formation base of the Nine Star God Array to Jiang Baitao.

The formation diagram was a circular star disk, with the shadows of the stars flickering in it. The formation base was nine flags, each embroidered with images of the Nine Stars, in different colors, shining brightly, and emitting mysterious fluctuations.

This is a magic weapon-level array base diagram. If Jiang Baitao wants to use it, he must advance to the Golden Core stage.

After all, the incident happened suddenly, and Bai Tao had no contact with Qiancheng Lingjun before. It is unrealistic for her to say how sad she is about Lingjun's death.

However, Bai Tao and Bei Luo Shimen could clearly feel the sincere love and earnest teachings of this spiritual master when he was dying, and they naturally felt sad.

Now she solemnly took the formation diagram, feeling its heavy weight, and bowed to Ling Xuan Ling Jun: "Sister Ling Jun, I will practice diligently and live up to the reputation of our master."

As soon as she said this, she suddenly realized that although the spiritual master in front of her was dressed like a woman, noble, beautiful, gorgeous and splendid, with the potential of being a beauty of the country, he was actually a man.

Should I call her senior brother or senior sister?
However, Ling Xuan Ling Jun didn't care. He wiped his tears and patted Bai Tao's shoulder: "Master accepted three disciples before you. I was the first one to join. There were two other junior brothers after me, which are your two senior brothers. Now they are all Jindan Zhenren."

"Although our master has trained us diligently and we all have our own strengths, it is a pity that no one can fully inherit his art of formation. This is what he was most concerned about. Today, I finally found a successor, and I am extremely happy."

"Master asked me to take care of you before he died. Don't worry. If anyone dares to bully you in the future, I will never forgive him!"

Lu Qian watched from the side, thinking that Tao Tao was really blessed. Not only was she unscathed in this battle, but she also saved Miao Miao Xuanjun's life, found a large array of Taoist inheritance, and got a Yuanying, two Jindan, and three cheap senior brothers. Tsk tsk, I am so envious.

But speaking of it, Taotao's is Yunshan's. In this way, the connection between Xuanwei Sect and my family is even closer. She is really my Yunshan's lucky general.

Lingxuan Lingjun spoke to Lu Qian for a few more words, discussed the current situation, finalized a draft, and then drove the Xuanwei Sect's floating island to the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts with Taoist Xichan.

Before leaving, Taoist Xichan shouted, "Lu Qian! You have so many treasures on you, and so many spiritual essences. Ha, you are really Jinchan'er's favorite."

He chuckled maliciously: "No chance this time, you must compete with me next time, I will make a mountain of gold and silver for you to taste."

Lu Qian bowed his hands helplessly. This old man still remembered the grudge and wanted to avenge him for the five-colored divine light he hit him with during the battle for innate spiritual energy.

Miaomiao Xuanjun went to the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts for recuperation under the protection of Lingxuan Lingjun, marking the end of the war that started with an ambush and raid by the Sikong family, after many twists and turns and repeated reversals.

The Sikong family sent one Yuanshen, four Yuanying, and nearly forty Jindan. There were also five champion-class Chibao Thunder Boats, carrying four hundred and sixty to seventy Foundation Establishment warriors and nearly twenty thousand Qi Refining elites.

After the battle, the triumphant Xuanjun Sikong Sheng was defeated and died, and the only Nascent Soul Spirit Lords left were the seriously injured Sikong Shengji, Sikong Yang, and Sikong Qing, who only had his Nascent Soul left. There were only fifteen Golden Core True Men left, three Chibao Thunder Boats in varying states of damage, more than 250 Foundation Establishment Soldiers, and more than 14,000 Qi Training Elite Soldiers.

This group of people has retreated into Xiyi Mountain and joined forces with Qingyuan Sanren, a traitor of the Xuanwei Sect.

In addition, there are a small number of foundation-building feathered masters and seven or eight thousand elite Qi-cultivating practitioners, and nearly twenty thousand ordinary Qi-cultivating practitioners, who are now scattered throughout the Sikong family's territory with the Musashi Mountains as its core.

The Xuanwei School, the Lingshou Sect, the Qinglian Sect and the nine northwestern counties also suffered heavy losses.

The realm of Miaomiao Xuanjun of the Xuanwei School has fallen to the early stage of the Yuanshen, and his vitality has been severely damaged, his origin has been severely damaged, and he has fallen into a coma. It is unknown how long it will take for him to wake up.

Qiancheng Lingjun and Yichen Lingjun died in battle, leaving only Lingxuan Lingjun to support the remnants.

In addition, four Jindan, forty-five foundation-building, and two thousand four to five hundred elite Qi-training people were killed.

Only the Nascent Soul of Yuanxu Lingjun of the Spirit Beast Sect survived, while Xuangui Zangliu died in the battle.

The Qinglian Sect and the Northwest Nine Counties suffered the least damage. In particular, only some Jindan Zhenren were injured in the Northwest Nine Counties.

Judging from the damage alone, both sides in this battle were actually injured and there was no winner.

But if we only talk about the war between the Xuanwei School and the Sikong Family, after this battle, the Sikong Family was already at a great disadvantage.

At present, Lingxuan Lingjun has sent a message to the scattered Xuanwei Sect army, informing them of the battle situation. After hearing that Miaomiao Xuanjun was seriously injured and unconscious, and took refuge in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, and that Lingxuan Lingjun was the only Yuanying left in the sect, even the Jindan of the "house-born sons" responded to Lingxuan Lingjun's call and expressed their willingness to obey his orders.

The power of the Xuanwei Sect declined to the bottom, but the unity among the disciples reached its peak.

In addition, it was somewhat unexpected that most of the "hermit" sect's Jindan clearly drew a line between themselves and Qingyuan Sanren, and came to join Miaomiao Xuanjun and Lingxuan Lingjun.

Some of them were the "hermit" sect's Jindan and subordinate monks who were already on the battlefield. After hearing about Qingyuan Sanren's betrayal, they were shocked and immediately spoke out to attack him, firmly supporting Miaomiao Xuanjun's rule.

The other part was the "hermit" monks who were unwilling to obey Qingyuan Sanren's orders and directly fled from Xiyi Mountain when he raised the banner of rebellion and seized the mountain protection formation.

At present, Qingyuan Sanren has only four golden elixirs and more than forty foundation-building feathered priests under his command.

This fully demonstrates that Qingyuan Sanren's betrayal was only his personal act, and not a collective action of the "Hermit" faction. He only controlled a small number of loyal followers, and at most coerced some factional monks. Most of the "Hermit" faction monks were still loyal to the Xuanwei faction.

Come to think of it, the purpose of the "hermit" faction is to stay away from disputes and concentrate on cultivation.

Most monks in factions are ascetics who practice pure mind and abstinence. They don’t even want to take part in factional struggles for power, so how could they think of rebellion?

If the power of Xuanwei Sect is reintegrated, even if subordinates and vassal sects are not included, Lingxuan Lingjun will still have a huge force under his command.

Including forty Golden Core True Immortals, more than five hundred Foundation Establishment Feathered Scholars, and forty thousand Qi Training Elite.

The overall strength of the Spirit Beast Sect does not include subordinates and vassals.

Yuanying, Yuanxu Lingjun (Yuanying), Youde Lingjun + Bai Ze, Xichan Taoist (Meng Zhenzi) + Golden Toad, Yinpo Centipede.

There are eighteen Golden Elixir True Immortals, more than two hundred and fifty foundation-building feathered warriors, and more than twenty thousand elite Qi-cultivating warriors.

Qinglian Zhenzong does not count subordinates and vassals:
Yuanying, Ripple Spirit Lord.

There are fourteen Golden Core True Immortals, and the number of Foundation Establishment Feathered Scholars and Qi Refining Elites is similar to that of the Spirit Beast Sect.

The nine northwestern counties of Cangzhou did not suffer any hard blows in this battle, and the damage was not great, especially the Jindan Zhenren were not injured, and the overall strength was not much weakened compared to before the war. Including the Yunshan Sect, the nine northwestern counties of Cangzhou had one Yuanying, twenty Jindan Zhenren, more than 240 foundation-building feathered warriors, and more than 25,000 elite Qi training warriors.

In addition to the nine northwestern counties, Cangzhou also has a number of independent Jindan sects.

After the casualties in this battle, they had a total of thirteen Jindan, more than two hundred foundation-building feathered warriors, and more than twenty thousand elite Qi-training warriors.

The Sikong family colluded with the corpse demons and started a rebellion, trying to compete with the Xuanwei Sect for hegemony in Cangzhou. If Sikong wins, everything will be easy, and perhaps a large number of independent Jindan sects will bow to him.

But now that Sikong Sheng was defeated and killed, the Sikong family became the target of public criticism, and everyone wanted to kill them like a rat crossing the street. No matter whether it was Xuanwei, Lingshou, Qinglian, Yunshan or the independent sects in Cangzhou, they all wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible and then tear a piece of fat meat from them.

Even if the remnants of the Sikong family were to join forces with Qingyuan Sanren at this time, all the combat power in Xiyi Mountain would be no more than four Nascent Soul cultivators (two of whom were seriously injured, and one only had Nascent Soul left), nineteen Golden Core cultivators (with varying degrees of injuries), three hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, and less than twenty thousand elite Qi Training cultivators.

This is no match for the combined forces of Xuanwei Sect, Lingshou Sect, Yunshan, the nine northwestern counties, and other Cangzhou sects, and can be destroyed with a single thunderbolt strike.

However, the zombie disaster that suddenly swept across Cangzhou forced all the sects and factions to stop their actions to attack the Sikong family, adding variables to the war situation.

At the same time, the disaster of zombies means that the evil corpse clan has come to an end, and has directly become the next primary target of all sects and schools!
In this situation, what will the Sikong family do?
"If the Sikong family still wants to resist now, they only have three choices." Facing Lu Qian's question, Lin Leshizang turned and answered.

"One is to take root in Xiyi Mountain, take advantage of the factions' lack of time to eliminate the zombies, occupy the spiritual veins near Xiyi Mountain and strengthen the defense, and at the same time summon the huge grassroots cultivators from the Musashi Mountain Range."

"There are four thousand years of Xuanwei Sect's savings on Xiyi Mountain, which is enough to squander for a long time. If the corpse clan monsters make any moves later, we can use the central geographical location to respond, which may be able to support for a while."

"But as a cultivation family, the Sikong family's roots are not in Xiyi Mountain after all. Staying here is like water without a source and a tree without roots. It is nothing but a slow death."

"Second, while the various sects are too busy to take care of other things, we should abandon Xiyi Mountain and transfer all of Xiyi Mountain's Yuanshen-level mountain protection formation and stored essence to the Musashi Mountains!"

"There is also a zombie outbreak in the Sikong family's territory, but they still have a large number of grassroots monks left. Previously, in order to preserve the fire, they dispersed these nearly 30,000 monks. Now it is more conducive to clearing the zombie tide and protecting the clan members."

"As long as we lead the army back to the Musashi Mountains, the situation will change immediately. By the time the chaos of corpses is over, Sikong Shengji, Sikong Qing, and Sikong Yang will have recovered from their injuries. Together with Qingyuan Sanren, there will be a total of four Nascent Souls guarding the Yuanshen formation. Since we are fighting on home soil, we will have a long way to go. Without the leadership of Miaomiao Xuanjun, it will be difficult for the Cangzhou sects to make up their minds to tackle this tough challenge."

"After all, no one wants to be the first to suffer losses. As long as the Sikong family grasps this mentality, the strategic space will be greatly expanded. At least before Miaomiao Xuanjun recovers, the Sikong family can still hold on."

"Third?"

Just now, Lu Qian exposed the fact that the Sikong family was in contact with the Dragon Clan, and Lin Le heard it clearly outside the venue. At this moment, he also guessed that his master Jiang Qingfeng was the target of the Sikong family!
As long as they abduct Jiang Qingfeng, the Sikong family can obtain the protection of the dragon clan in the outer sea. Not only can they escape the crime of colluding with the corpse clan, but they can also leave Cangzhou directly under the protection of the dragon clan and go to the dragon clan's sphere of influence.

Therefore, the third option is for the Sikong family to take a risk, give up everything, and choose to take advantage of the zombie disaster to attack Mianlong Mountain and try to kidnap Jiang Qingfeng!
Therefore, whether it is to clear out the zombie tide, resist the disaster of living zombies, or defend against possible raids, we need to return to the territory immediately!
When Lu Qian, Lin Le, Yu Jiao, Jiang Baitao and Zhao Yunchang were preparing to board the Stepping Clouds and Flowing Clouds Chariot, Lianyi Lingjun, who was also returning to the northeast of Cangzhou, came over to say hello.

After exchanging a few words of information, he lowered his voice.

"Lu Qian, the Sikong family abandoned the Wushang Mountains in order to ambush Lord Miaomiao Xuan. The Spirit Beast Sect and I sent out a team each, and we easily occupied the ancestral vein of the Sikong family."

"The Sikong family left in a hurry, and there are still countless treasures in the Musashi Mountains that have not been transported away in time. That is the real gold and silver mountain! I think we——"

Before he could finish, Lu Qian was already startled and asked hastily, "You easily occupied the Musashi Mountains? Didn't the team you sent out run into any evil spirits from the corpse clan?"

Lianyi Lingjun shook his head: "No, I also wonder where the zombies have gone. Maybe they have dispersed to various places to start zombie disasters?"

Lin Le was also horrified, and all the bad feelings from before came back to his mind.

Lu Qian felt a chill rushing straight to his head. He took a deep breath to suppress all his worries, hoping that perhaps the corpse demon was still hiding and had not shown up even after the cultivators from the Qinglian True Sect and the Lingshou Sect occupied the Musashi Mountains.

He turned to Zhao Yunchang and was about to ask him a question when suddenly a beam of light came flying towards him.

It was the Taoist Wudi who went to explore the Musashi Mountains and returned.

While he was still in mid-air, he shouted, "Master Lu, Little Friend Lin! There are no signs of any corpse demon activity around the Wuzang Mountains. I have used my magical powers and activated the earth spirit to check, but there is nothing!"

Lu Qian's face suddenly changed, and he yelled, "What's going on, Zhao Yunchang?!"

Zhao Yunchang was startled and said in panic: "Master Lu, it can't be wrong! In my perception, the four Yuanying-level corpse monsters and nearly thirty Jindan-level corpse monsters are all here-"

Before he could finish his words, Lu Qian could no longer hold back and apologized. The Soul-Suppressing Pagoda locked him in place and pointed the sword at his forehead.

After learning Fang Hui's spiritual diagnosis and treatment skills, the powerful consciousness became extremely flexible. At this moment, it turned into thousands of threads, easily penetrating Zhao Yunchang's instinctive spiritual defense and going straight into his sea of ​​​​consciousness.

Thousands of tentacles of divine consciousness danced, entwining Zhao Yunchang's soul, carefully probing it like peeling off silk threads from a cocoon, and slowly unfolding his soul -

At this moment, Lu Qian’s consciousness was shaken violently!
In the most hidden part of Zhao Yunchang's soul, a small, twisted corpse clan seal suddenly appeared!

Realizing that the true seal buried in Zhao Yunchang's body was touched, Ji Shu raised his head and smiled coldly.

True and false, false and true.

What he saw was what I wanted him to see.

You will believe it just by paying a Yuanying and five golden pills.

Tian Yuanzi, you are so stupid.

Looking up at the Mianlong Mountain in front of him, Ji Shu gave the order.

"General, you have already attracted all the attention of Taiyi Paradise. With the cover of the Chaos Heavenly Secret Talisman, Taiyi Paradise will not be able to pay attention to Cangzhou for a while."

"The forces in Cangzhou have dispersed to various places to rescue their mortal people. Even this Mianlong Mountain is empty."

"The opportunity has arrived. Attack!"

Four Nascent Soul corpses rose into the sky, and evil clouds rolled in, covering Mianlong Mountain.

Nearly thirty Jindan evil corpses stretched their bodies, let out terrifying howls, and with a bang, crashed into the mountain protection formation! (End of this chapter)