From the fake emperor to the concubine

"Hahaha!" Ling Xiaoyun suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard he could barely breathe.

"Zheng Tianhao, you're still the same as before, always so self-righteous."

"So what if there are many of you? Do you think I don't know what kind of people you Zheng family members are?"

"If it weren't for your so-called ancestor coming out of seclusion, your entire Zheng family would have disappeared from this world by now."

Zheng Tianhao was not afraid at all: "Ling Xiaoyun, don't forget that all the guys you sent to deal with our Zheng family are dead."

Ling Xiaoyun sneered disdainfully: "I know you want to talk about your Zheng family's so-called ancestor, but if he's so powerful, where is he now?"

"If you're so capable, then make him take action right now and wipe us out. Why waste your breath arguing with us here?"

Ling Xiaoyun's words seemed arrogant, but this time Dugu Yunfeng nodded secretly.

This guy's performance is finally starting to look somewhat decent.

Although his words seemed like arrogant mockery, they actually contained a deeper meaning.

He was trying to find out whether the Zheng family patriarch was ready to make a move.

For ordinary cultivators, the existence of the Zheng family patriarch was still just a rumor, the truth of which was hard to discern.

But these people knew perfectly well that this person did exist, and was incredibly powerful.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be risking everything to try and wipe out the Zheng family at this time, to prevent them from growing stronger and causing trouble for them again.

Before they took action, they received a vague message, which led them to speculate that the Zheng family's patriarch had likely gone into seclusion to cultivate again.

Such a powerful person, who had just finished his seclusion, immediately began another one.

This inevitably leads to much speculation in people's minds.

Could it be that this patriarch of the Zheng family actually has some serious injuries?
That's why he has remained in seclusion for so many years.

This situation exists to some extent in every faction.

Ordinary cultivators can recover from injuries by using elixirs and cultivating.

However, these experts are so powerful that neither cultivation techniques nor elixirs can help them recover.

To recover, one can only rely on decades or even centuries of seclusion to gradually accumulate strength.

If that's the case, then the Zheng family patriarch likely expended a great deal of power in his last attack.

Therefore, he had no choice but to immediately begin his seclusion.

If they're not mistaken, even if they were to wipe out the Zheng family now, their so-called ancestor would absolutely not lift a finger.

After all, although they are all his descendants, these people are separated by countless generations.

That so-called ancestor has already saved them once, and this time, because of his own injuries, he might very well stand idly by.

As for whether the patriarch of the Zheng family will retaliate after he emerges from seclusion.

Since their last departure from the pass, the Zheng family has gone through countless generations, let alone them.

If they guessed wrong...

Ling Xiaoyun and the others were not afraid at all, because they already had a plan for dealing with this situation.

Zheng Tianhao's breath hitched. He really had no way to refute the other party, since the ancestor had indeed gone into seclusion.

However, he was just saying it casually. There are probably very few people in the world who know that the Zheng family is completely different now than before.

Let alone having twice as many people as the opponent, even if you have fewer people than the opponent...

Before Zheng Tianhao could even finish this thought, he saw Dugu Yunfeng suddenly move.

With a light touch of its toes on the ground, it suddenly transformed into a spirit fox and swiftly charged towards them.

The distance between the two sides, while not very far for experts like them, was certainly not close either.

At least at this distance, no matter what attack is launched, the opponent will have plenty of time to react and respond calmly.

However, Dugu Yunfeng's movements were very strange. Although she was not moving fast, Zheng Tianhao and the others could see it clearly.

In fact, before the other party even gets close enough to them, each of them can come up with dozens of ways to deal with the situation.

But for some reason, it was as if my mind suddenly lost connection with my body, and I couldn't move even a finger.

They could only watch helplessly as Dugu Yunfeng, transformed into a spirit fox, came before them.

He weaved through all of them.

Experts like Zheng Tianhao could clearly see Dugu Yunfeng's movements.

However, Zhang Yunfan and his group of Foundation Establishment cultivators did not possess such abilities.

They only saw a glimmer of light, which flew to Zheng Tianhao and the others in the blink of an eye, weaving through the crowd.

Then the light stopped, and the spirit fox transformed back into Dugu Yunfeng.

The woman gave a soft snort: "Seal!"

Above the heads of all members of the Zheng family, including Zheng Tianhao, a character formed of blood appeared simultaneously.

After the seal appeared, the blood on it quickly fell and flew towards them.

It's obvious without even thinking that this is definitely not a good thing.

Someone unleashed their spiritual energy and blasted it towards the blood-red characters above their head.

The burst of spiritual energy shattered the blood-red character into pieces.

But the blood was unaffected; it quickly reformed into blood-red characters and continued to fly towards them.

Some people took the initiative to attack, while others chose to use their defensive techniques to withstand the attack.

However, their protective spiritual energy seemed to have no effect on these blood beads.

The blood passed through their protective spiritual energy and entered their bodies with almost no effort.

Some, seeing the situation was not good, tried to use their movement skills to dodge.

But those blood-written words were like a persistent infection, and no matter what movement techniques or escape methods they used, they were useless.

The crimson seal remained about a foot above their heads, and blood droplets from the blood-red characters kept falling onto them.

As more and more blood beads gathered on their bodies, their cultivation levels visibly began to decline rapidly.

In just a few breaths, the Foundation Establishment stage expert had lost all his cultivation and was no different from an ordinary person.

"Open for me!" a member of the Zheng family roared. The blood beads that were originally attached to his body were blasted out by the spiritual energy and quickly vaporized and disappeared.

Unfortunately, very few people were able to break the seal. Apart from the elders who were particularly powerful, only four members of the Zheng family successfully broke Dugu Yunfeng's seal.

After sealing them away, Dugu Yunfeng turned around and charged at them again.

This time, however, she was filled with overwhelming killing intent, clearly intending to kill them.

The main reason why everyone didn't react to Dugu Yunfeng's sneak attack was that she didn't reveal any killing intent when she made her move.

This meant that their spiritual senses, as cultivators, were completely unable to react in time.

It wasn't until they were caught in the trap that they realized something was wrong.

This time, Dugu Yunfeng arrived with murderous intent. Zheng Tianhao reacted immediately: "Don't even think about it!"

He flashed forward, blocking Dugu Yunfeng's path, and struck him with a palm.

At the same time, he shouted urgently, "Second brother!"

Between brothers, there's no need to say a word; Zheng Tianming immediately understood Zheng Tianhao's meaning.

They immediately used a secret technique to open a gap in the seal of the small cave, sending all the sealed Zheng family members out.

While he was doing these things, Ling Xiaoyun was not idle either.

Taking advantage of a gap in the seal, they immediately used a teleportation array to bring over a few more people from outside.

"Hmph! You think you can stop me?" Dugu Yunfeng didn't take Zheng Tianhao seriously at all.

Although the two did not have much contact, Dugu Yunfeng knew Zheng Tianhao's strength very well.

A spoiled rich kid with ordinary talent forcibly built up his cultivation level by using rare and precious materials.

How can it compare to her many years of arduous practice?

Besides having a good family background, what do these spoiled rich kids have that can compare to people like them who have cultivated themselves step by step to their current level through their own efforts?

Therefore, even though she sensed the immense power contained in Zheng Tianhao's palm strike, Dugu Yunfeng didn't take it to heart.

Just like before, it looks powerful, but because it wasn't cultivated by itself, it's all show and no substance. If not used properly, it can't unleash its true power.

Therefore, Dugu Yunfeng did not hesitate to gather all her spiritual energy and meet the attack with a palm strike.

Her thinking was very simple: although Zheng Tianhao's cultivation was illusory, he was still the head of the Zheng family.

If we can severely damage him, it will definitely be a heavy blow to the Zheng family.

Little did she know that Zheng Tianhao had the same idea when she came up with it.

With three sect leaders arriving at once, even though they have a large number of people, many unexpected things might happen in the ensuing melee.

Dugu Yunfeng suddenly made a move, catching them off guard and sealing the cultivation of the vast majority of the Zheng family members.

But precisely because of this, he was completely separated from the protection of Ling Xiaoyun and Yu Xinghai.

In the blink of an eye, their attacks clashed.

“A playboy is a playboy, do you really think…” Before Dugu Yunfeng could finish speaking, she felt an incredibly vast and terrifying force surging towards her.

It was as if she were facing not a human being, but a terrifying ancient beast.

Even though she tried her best to resist, the opponent's spiritual energy easily tore through her defenses.

The violent spiritual energy surged into her meridians like a river bursting its banks.

Seeing that his own heart meridian might be directly shattered by Zheng Tianhao's spiritual energy, Dugu Yunfeng Mengde bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood mist.

The blood mist resembled a phoenix, emitting a mournful cry.

The phoenix instantly disintegrated, and Dugu Yunfeng's body turned into a cloud of blood mist, flying behind Ling Xiaoyun, where it reverted to human form.

The blood phoenix escapes!

This was Dugu Yunfeng's most skilled escape technique, which had helped her escape death countless times.

Unexpectedly, he used his life-saving measures so quickly today.

As soon as her figure reappeared, Dugu Yunfeng immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

Although the person escaped, their injuries could not be fully recovered.

"You two... be careful. Zheng Tianhao is different from before. Rumors... the rumors are true." Her gaze towards Zheng Tianhao was filled with hatred mixed with envy.

The ancestor of the Zheng family passed down cultivation techniques to his descendants, which greatly enhanced their strength.

This cannot be hidden from those who are interested.

However, in their view, even so, it's not a big deal.

After all, the lower one's cultivation level, the easier it is to improve.

Even if it were them, as long as they were willing to invest a lot of cultivation resources, they could forcibly raise a Qi Refining cultivator to the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, doing so would not bring them any benefit.

Cultivators who improve their skills in this way are far less powerful than those who cultivate on their own.

Just like Zheng Tianhao before, even though his cultivation level was no worse than Ling Xiaoyun and the others, in their eyes, Zheng Tianhao was still a weakling whom they could manipulate at will.

Dugu Yunfeng even dared to attack Zheng Tianhao directly, despite being surrounded by the elders of the Zheng family.

However, after Dugu Feng suffered a loss, they were astonished to find that their thinking seemed to be completely wrong.

It seems that the ancestor of the Zheng family not only enabled the ordinary members of the Zheng family to rapidly improve their cultivation.

Even a master like Zheng Tianhao, under his tutelage, had his cultivation become incredibly formidable.

Dugu Feng's crushing defeat was partly due to her underestimation of her opponent and carelessness.

However, this still couldn't conceal the illusion that Zheng Tianhao's strength had increased dramatically.

Even if Dugu Yunfeng is careless, Ling Lingxiaoyun is not confident that she can severely injure her in one move.

"Damn it, Zheng Tianhao is always so annoying. Why does God favor these trash so much, allowing them to easily obtain things that we have to fight to the death for?"

Ling Xiaoyun cursed angrily, her Dao heart almost collapsing.

Yu Xinghai rolled his eyes in annoyance and said bluntly, "What's the point of saying all this now? Do we really have any way out?"

"Just fight, it's all about the winner taking all."

With that, Yu Xinghai slashed open his arms, and a strange shriek came from between his fingers.

The Netherworld Flying Eagle Claw unleashed its full power, hurtling straight towards the location of the Zheng family.

It used both claws to grab at the two people simultaneously.

"Don't you even know what time it is? How dare you be so arrogant in front of the Zheng family? Let me teach you a lesson."

Zheng Tianming charged forward and engaged Yu Xinghai in battle.

One of the two men was the leader of a sect, a master who had spent half his life cultivating.

The other is the family members who have been suppressed for countless years and have sacrificed a great deal for the family.

The two sides were both wounded the moment they met.

Yu Xinghai's claws left five deep, bone-revealing wounds on Zheng Tianming's chest.

Zheng Tianming's spirit sword also cut a deep wound on Yu Xinghai's thigh.

In their fierce battle, it was clear that Zheng Tianming was at a disadvantage.

After all, although their cultivation levels improved rapidly, their combat experience was vastly different.

In other words, the fact that they could fight to a near-equal footing under these circumstances precisely demonstrates that Zheng Tianhao, Zheng Tianming, and the others are actually more powerful than Ling Xiaoyun, Yu Xinghai, and the others.

With both sides' leaders having already made their move, the ordinary cultivators naturally wouldn't stand idly by either, each displaying their unique abilities and engaging in battle. (End of Chapter)