Journey to the head

Originally, the people of Yunshan Sect evacuated according to Lu Qian’s order. After an anxious wait, they saw the thousand-mile giant whale descending from the top of the Mianlong Mountains in the distance.

It was Taiyi Paradise. Taiyi Paradise finally noticed the catastrophe in Cangzhou and came to rescue!
Everyone was excited and immediately rushed back, but before they arrived, the giant whale broke through the air again and flew away to Mount Xiyi.

The Taoist Wudi, who was in good condition, first went to Mianlong Mountain and summoned the earth spirits to search the mountain. He then returned to tell everyone that Lu Qian, Jiang Qingfeng and Yu Jiao were not found, and the two Yuanshen Dragon Kings, Ji Shu and Sikong Shengji were also missing.

Everyone naturally concluded that Taiyi Paradise had taken the people away. But did Taiyi Paradise arrive in time? Did it successfully save Lu Qian and his men? Even though everyone comforted each other, they were still worried.

So Lin Le and Taoist Wu Di went to Xiyi Mountain again to pay homage to Taiyi Paradise, while everyone else stayed in Lingsha City to transfer the Meihuafang emergency intelligence system back, re-establish the command and intelligence center, preside over the overall corpse elimination, and recuperate from their injuries.

But when Lin Le and Wu Di arrived, He Ming and Wu Zhuo Zhen Jun had already begun interrogating Long Jun and could not be seen. Another spirit of Taiyi Paradise told them that Long Jun, Ji Shu and Sikong Shengji had been imprisoned, but Lu Qian and others were missing!

It is not clear what exactly happened and what situation Lu Qian and others are in now. We will have to wait until the interrogation in Taiyi Paradise is completed to find out.

Lin Le couldn't help but feel extremely anxious. How could he sit and wait in Xiyi Mountain? He immediately returned to Lingsha City to tell the situation. He hurriedly instructed matters such as eliminating the zombie tide, dealing with the corpses, resettling the civilians, and counting the war losses. He left Taoist Wudi in Lingsha City, and brought Wu Yan, Gu Nishang, who was unable to rest and recuperate, and Jiang Baitao to Mianlong Mountain to investigate the situation, hoping to find clues about the disappearance of the leader.

What caught the eyes of Yunshan and his companions was a scorched mountain that was lifeless and dull.

Although they were in the mountains before, all attention was on Ji Shu, the two Yuanshen Dragon Lords, and Lu Qian and Jiang Qingfeng who were trapped in a desperate situation. No one had time to pay attention to the damage to Mianlong Mountain.
At this moment, they went back and forth, even though they were mentally prepared, when they saw such a scene at first glance, they were all in disbelief and froze in place.

The mountain is charred and cracked, and collapsed in various places. The mountain, which was originally full of greenery and lush forests, is now only left with a few small carbonized tree stumps.

The pavilions and towers hidden in the green and scattered around in an orderly manner seem to appear vividly before my eyes, as well as the various buildings connected by roads. Now, they have basically collapsed and are scattered all over the ground, turning into a ruin.

Thick black smoke was still rising into the sky. Who would have thought that this was once a fairyland, a wonderful place for practicing Taoism, and the gate of the famous Yunshan Sect!
Wu Yan's left shoulder, left arm and torso were still wrapped in bandages. She stared at the scene blankly and reached out to grab a handful of charred soil.

"The spiritual vein of Mianlong Mountain has disappeared."

Yes, what shocked and worried everyone the most was that after the war, the spiritual vein of Mianlong Mountain disappeared!

It's impossible. Spiritual veins are invisible. I have never heard of any attack or means that can touch them!
Why did the spiritual vein disappear after a night of fierce fighting?
If even the spirit veins were destroyed, what kind of attack was this? Could the Sect Master and the others still survive? !
“Look for them!” Lin Le gritted his teeth. “Master and Master are blessed by heaven and will surely be able to escape unscathed!”

……

The interrogation of Qingyuan Sanren went very smoothly. Even before Wuzhuo Zhenjun asked any questions, Qingyuan Sanren, with a dejected face, had already confessed everything.

Coupled with the testimonies of several of his disciples or direct descendants, the evidence of his betrayal of the Xuanwei School and his defection to the Sikong family is clear and the reasons are understandable.

First, life span. Although Qingyuan Sanren was already in the late Nascent Soul stage, he was old and weak, and his life span was coming to an end. His fear of death, his attachment to life, and his yearning for the Great Dao were all known to the outside world.

Second, dissatisfaction. The purpose of the "hermit" faction is to practice meditation, not to take sides, not to fight, and not to be disturbed by the outside world. However, the factional struggle within the Xuanwei faction intensified, and Miaomiao Xuanjun handled it improperly, and the "house-born children" and "wild fox Zen" split and opposed each other, and the fight was even brought to the table!

This seriously affected the cultivation of the "Hermit" sect's cultivators, and made Qingyuan Sanren's already limited time even more tense. Many cultivators in the faction turned to "house-born children" and "wild fox Zen" in order to protect themselves or get resources, which made Qingyuan Sanren very angry and extremely disappointed with Miaomiao Xuanjun.

Under such circumstances, the Sikong family seized the opportunity and used the "Wanshouzhi", a rare treasure obtained from the Prison Corpse Ridge, which was not even in the Xuanwei Sect's treasury, as bait, and easily instigated Qingyuan Sanren to rebel.

It was the Corpse Clan who used assassination to cause internal conflicts within the Xuanwei Sect and made everyone feel insecure. Then the Sikong Family used the treasures provided by the Corpse Clan to instigate a part of the "hermit" sect represented by Qingyuan Sanren to rebel. Everything was a set up.

As for Qingyuan Sanren, it was too late to regret after entering the game. The Sikong family suffered a sudden and tragic defeat, and the Dragon Clan, who had placed great hopes on them, also fell directly. Trapped in Xiyi Mountain, Qingyuan Sanren chose to surrender directly when Taiyi Paradise arrived.

After failing in speculation, he was completely desperate and just wanted to die quickly.

On the other side was Master Heming, who was in charge of interrogating Ji Shu.

Ji Shu said, "I have countless treasures that you humans need. You will get nothing if you kill me. How about a deal?"

She stopped abruptly.

But Master Heming sneered, pulled with both hands, the space shook, and a space gap opened above her body.

Bright and brilliant light flowed out, and endless inspiration filled the stone chamber.

"This is your talent, right? Companion space? If you can improve your cultivation and upgrade your talent to be able to store more than just dead objects, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to catch you. Unfortunately, you can only stop here."

Ji Shu could only remain silent, so Heming Zhenjun naturally chose to torture him. However, before those cruel punishments were actually used, Ji Shu laughed miserably.

Whatever, no matter how long we delay, the General will not come to rescue us.

She spoke.

As soon as she uttered the word "I", she became weak and her body went limp, with blood gushing out of her seven orifices!

A thick purple light rippled in her eyes, and densely packed strange symbols flashed across them.

That is the true seal of the corpse clan!

Even the space confinement of Master Heming was useless. In just one thousandth of a breath, Ji Shu's soul was directly wiped out by the corpse clan's true seal!
Ji Shu, the seventeenth patrol officer of the Prison Corpse Desolate Land, died there.

Heming Zhenjun threw her empty shell to the ground and snorted. The Heavenly Corpse Talisman was strange and unpredictable, and its level was extremely high. Even he could not stop it.

This is the true seal of the corpse clan buried deep in Ji Shu's soul. Once Ji Shu wants to reveal the taboo, it will be activated and Ji Shu will be killed directly.

Now, it is unknown whether Ji Shu is ready to confess to being annihilated or to actively trigger the annihilation mechanism in order to commit suicide.

Ji Shu, the culprit of the corpse clan's disaster, died. The course of the corpse clan's disaster and the reason why it finally turned to Mianlong Mountain became a mystery.

To investigate thoroughly, they had to interrogate the Sikong family monks, question Miaomiao Xuanjun, the former supreme leader of Cangzhou, and, lastly, question the Yunshan sect’s party members.

"Have Xuanwei Sect send Lord Miaomiao here." Lord Heming ordered, "Our sect will rescue him."

The Five Turbidities True Lord snorted heavily.

According to preliminary investigation, it was heard that Miaomiao Xuanjun was first poisoned by the sea clan's soul. When the residual poison was severe, his vitality was severely damaged, and he was seriously injured, he took the Burning Realm Pill. Only then, with the help of the heroes of Cangzhou, he killed the newly promoted soul Sikong Sheng.

In this process, Lu Qian’s contributions and efforts were indispensable.

Although he won, Miaomiao Xuanjun also suffered a severe damage to his origin and fell into a deep sleep.

Under normal circumstances, who knows how long it would take for him to wake up, how long it would take for him to restore his vitality, and how long it would take for him to stabilize his cultivation and not let it decline further.

As for restoring his original level of cultivation, that would take a long time.

Now, in order to question, Taiyi Le Tu has to make an effort to wake up Miaomiao Xuanjun. Wuzhuo Zhenjun is very unhappy about this.

Previously, Miaomiao Xuanjun tried his best to assure me that he could eliminate the corpse monsters and the rebel Sikong family, but I actually believed his lies!

As a result, he did not come to Cangzhou in person, but only used the Tianji Mirror to detect the situation in the Western Twenty-Three States. Later, the Tianji Mirror was blocked by the Immortal Talisman of Rebellion, and all the attention of Taiyi Paradise was attracted by General Yan, which led to the deterioration of the situation in Cangzhou.

If my garrison commander is fired later, it's all because of that idiot Miaomiao! My mistake was that I praised him too much!

Speaking of which, Miaomiao Xuanjun has ruled Cangzhou for nearly a thousand years. How come no one noticed that he was so incompetent before?

It is true that only fierce fire can refine true gold, and only when things happen can one test one's ability. When the world is at peace, it is no problem to let a pig lead Cangzhou.

Now that such a big thing has happened, the entire Cangzhou is almost destroyed. Miaomiao Xuanjun has failed to supervise properly, made wrong decisions, and responded inappropriately. He bears major leadership responsibility and will definitely be held accountable by the Council of Elders!

By that time, I'm afraid Miao Miao Xuan Jun would feel that it would be better if he didn't wake him up in the first place...

Cursing Miaomiao Xuanjun in his heart, Wuzhuo Zhenjun immediately began to organize the interrogation of the Sikong family cultivators, focusing on Sikong Shengji, who was seriously injured and dying, and Sikong Yang, who was seriously injured.

There is also a Sikong Qing who is quite funny. Originally, he only had his Nascent Soul left when he escaped. After arriving at Xiyi Mountain, he found spiritual treasures from the Sikong family's armory and was currently recovering his body. However, the entire Sikong family's top leadership was wiped out.

I heard that the people of the Sikong family are stubborn and hard-headed, and they are easily overwhelmed with passion and would rather die than surrender. However, now they have captured a single Sikong monk.

Instead, tens of thousands of cultivators and hundreds of millions of clansmen of the Sikong family are already under the control of Taiyi Paradise.

With just a few clicks of the finger, this small underworld family can be turned into dust!
Under such circumstances, I believe that the leaders of the Sikong family will make a wise choice.

In order to ensure the success of the interrogation, they had to administer medicine first to ensure that Sikong Shengji and Sikong Yang were in good condition and able to respond.

The Five Turbidities True Lord put all this account on the head of the Miaomiao Xuan Lord.

……

On Mianlong Mountain, Lin Le, Wu Yan, Gu Nishang and Jiang Baitao were searching the mountain quickly.

What is even more tragic than the complete destruction of Mianlong Mountain is the corpses of disciples scattered across the mountain.

It seemed as if in the blink of an eye, they could still be seen laughing, but at this moment, they had turned into corpses scattered among the ruins.

There was not a single complete corpse. Broken limbs frequently appeared among the broken bricks and tiles, and a pile of minced meat might be right under your feet.

The search had not gone far when Jiang Baitao could no longer hold back and hugged Bei Luo Shimen, whose body had shrunk, tightly, tears welling up in her eyes.

She sobbed as she collected the remains of the Yunshan disciples she had found and placed them in a pile. Beiluo Shimen also sobbed softly, his voice sad.

Suddenly, Jiang Baitao paused. She saw an old, headless corpse among a pile of rubble.

The corpse fell on a pile of mud and flower pot fragments. The familiar figure, the sleeves and elbows of the robe polished to a shine, was clearly Cui Shanyan!

"Uncle Cui!" Bai Tao bent down tremblingly and picked up the body. She was stunned for a long time, then looked around blankly, searching for his head.

While wiping her tears, she thought, what should I do if Linglong knew?

Lin Le and Wu Yan also endured great grief as they searched out the bodies of their disciples from the ruins and put them away carefully.

Gu Nishang looked at all this and let out a long sigh.

The Mianlong Mountain, which was once a place full of life, has now become a ghost town...

Lu Qian, where are you?
At this moment, her expression suddenly changed.

Although Gu Nishang's left shoulder was shattered, she was still in the Nascent Soul stage, so she would recover after a period of recuperation. She had taken elixirs and urgently treated her injuries, so now she could only not use her left hand, but her spiritual power and consciousness had recovered.

She took a step forward and slapped the ground hard with her hand!
The mountain rumbled and shook, and a flame burst out from the ground. The flames shot up into the sky, holding up a misty and dreamy gem.

It’s the Yuanpin Pearl!

Wu Yan screamed and took the Yuan Pin Pearl in her hand. The pearl shook and returned to Wu Yan's Dantian, swallowing up almost all of her spiritual power.

It turned out that the Yuan Pin Pearl's spiritual power was exhausted, and Ji Shu slammed it into the deep ground. Its aura was no longer noticeable, and its brilliance was gone, so it was not noticed by the two warring parties.

After that, Yuan Pinzhu had been absorbing spiritual energy underground. Before it had fully recovered its ability to move, it felt the spiritual vein of Mianlong Mountain vibrate, and all the spiritual energy in the mountain suddenly dissipated!
Afterwards, the spiritual energy became even thinner, and the Yuanpin Pearl had to absorb the weak earth spiritual energy in the earth veins, recover a little, drill upwards a little, and slowly approach the surface.

It was discovered by Gu Nishang at this time and was finally dug out.

"Xiaoyan!" Zhu Ling shouted excitedly.

"Sister Zhu Ling!" Wu Yan asked anxiously, "Have you seen my master? Where did he go?"

Zhu Ling was stunned: "What? Lu Qian is missing?!"

Seeing that she knew nothing, Wu Yan's newly risen hope was shattered again.

At this time, Gu Nishang looked at the ground again, and Lin Le's expression also changed.

There was a wave of earth approaching rapidly from underground. Gu Nishang was about to take action, but Lin Le quickly stopped her.

"That's my sect's secret treasure, the Earth Dragon Shuttle. Is this Wang Ruoyu coming?"

The light of escape broke through the ground, and the person who got off the Earth Dragon Shuttle was Zhuang Hui. Inside the shuttle cabin were the weak Xiao Tianci, and Wang Ruoyu, who seemed to be holding something.

It turned out that after Zhuang Hui rescued them, he only had time to hastily hide them in the mountains and left behind a lot of healing pills before going to help Mianlong Mountain.

After the battle, Zhuang Hui found them again. Zhuang Hui didn't know that Mianlong Mountain had been destroyed, and thought that Lu Qian and others were on Mianlong Mountain, so he returned with the Earth Dragon Shuttle.

"Junior Brother Xiao! Are you okay?" Lin Le saw that Xiao Tianci was covered in blood, extremely weak, with black corpse poison lingering on his face. It was obvious that he had been seriously injured after a fierce battle.

He hurriedly went forward to support him, but Xiao Tianci just shook his head sadly and gestured to Wang Ruoyu.

Lin Le's heart skipped a beat. His spiritual sense had already scanned the result, but he still looked over in disbelief.

Wang Ruoyu's eyes were red as he stared at himself.

What he was holding tightly in his arms was the motionless Li Da!
Lin Le began to tremble and staggered forward two steps, trying to take over Li Da's body.

Wang Ruoyu subconsciously held on tightly and pulled twice before slowly letting go.

His lips trembled twice, and suddenly he let out a loud cry.

"Brother Lin, Li Zi... Li Zi... died in the battle."

(End of this chapter)