Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 252: Ma Family Attacks the Village
The day of departure finally arrived, and Pei Yi and other people who were guarding the house came to see them off.

Chu Huer's face was flushed. As the leader of this trip, as long as he could drive the youngsters to Changyun Ma's house safely in the flying boat, he would be able to earn a hundred good deeds.

This was a great job for Chu Huer, as he was only a few years away from the optimal age for foundation building. He was eager to earn merit and obtain a spiritual item for foundation building from the warehouse.

Yuan Jin carefully looked at the six-leaf green lotus flag on the flying boat for a while before speaking: "Brother Chu, be careful on the road and send a message when you arrive."

Chu Huer responded loudly: "Brother Yuan, don't worry. I will definitely hand over all the disciples in the sect to the hands of the head brother in good condition."

Yuan Jin just nodded. Along the way to Changyun County, many families were the ones who came to congratulate Kang Dabao when he established his foundation, so it should be safe.

Otherwise, given the cautious nature of Master Kang, he would not have let Chu Huer lead the team alone.

Chu Huer turned around and counted the number of people again. The six-leaf green lotus flag fluttered in the wind, and the flying boat formation rose up, heading towards Changyun County.

The whole journey was just as Yuan Jin had expected. After the Chongming Sect had produced two people who had established their foundation, many people in the surrounding area had already recognized the six-leaf green lotus flag held on the flying boat.

Nowadays, people with a little knowledge in the surrounding area have already included the name of Chongming Sect back into the "History of Yunjiaozhou Sects and Families".

The Chongming Sect went through seven generations of leaders and took two hundred years to revive. This story would be enough to take up a few lines in the "History of the Yunjiaozhou Sects and Families".

Although the Chongming Sect had only recently returned to the foundation-building forces, when Jiang Qing and Kang Dabao had not yet established their foundations, the Chongming Sect was closely related to the deaths of two foundation-building members of the Qingyun League.

In addition, Kang Dabao and Jiang Qing were both under 60 years old when they established their foundation, which is considered early among the major Jindan sects.

Therefore, when it comes to the reputation of Chongming Sect in the outside world, it is actually not much worse than those long-established major sects.

It was just like when Kang Dabao used the stories in the book "The Genealogy of Sects and Families in Yunjiaozhou" to enlighten his two disciples Han and Duan.

Nowadays, many families around here would more or less remind their disciples of Chong Mingzong when teaching them, and remind the younger generations not to offend the disciples of the big sects accidentally.

Chu Huer took advantage of this opportunity. His flying boat, holding the six-leaf green lotus flag, flew smoothly into Changyun County, where monks from the Ma family were already waiting.

After both parties verified their identities and exchanged pleasantries, Chu Huer waited for all the disciples to get off the flying boat one by one and put it away. Then the group switched to the spiritual horses prepared by the Ma family monks and set off.

The Changyun Ma family's ancestral land is on the border of Changyun County, adjacent to Dingzhou. It is mountainous and lacks spiritual power, so it is not a good place.

Because of this, the Ma family has never had a prosperous time.

At most, there are only two foundation-building masters alive at the same time. More often, like now, there is an old foundation-building master like Ma Wenhan to keep up appearances and protect their own interests from being eroded too much by outsiders.

Managing a household is like rowing against the current; if you don’t move forward, you will move backward.

Mijiazhai was not the first vassal force that could not be suppressed under the rule of the Ma family in the past few hundred years, but it was the most embarrassing one.

As a powerful foundation-building force, the Ma family cannot even subdue a Qi-cultivating bandit. Because of this, the Ma family has been ridiculed by outsiders over the years.

Chu Huer was riding his spiritual horse past a spiritual field of the Ma family. There were only some red spiritual grains growing there, and the ears of grain were shriveled. It was obvious at a glance that the grains were not growing well.

People always say "a broken ship still has three thousand nails", but it is clearly a foundation-building force that has been passed down for hundreds of years. However, even Chu Huer, a complete layman, can see that his family's farming is not as good as that of the Chongming Sect headed by Master Kang.

A glimpse of the whole picture is enough to show the decline of the Changyun Ma family.

Chu Huer paid his respects to the four Foundation Establishment cultivators in charge, then turned around and went with the welcoming Ma family cultivator to settle all of Chongming's disciples, and told them to have a good rest.

Ma Wenhan had trained the Ma family disciples a few days ago, and the Chongming disciples could not rest for too long, so they had to go to Mijia Village to fight. The disciples had been traveling all the way and it was very tiring, so they should take the time to rest and recuperate.

It took Mingzhe a lot of effort to help Chu Huer arrange accommodation for his fellow disciples, so he was left alone in the end.

But being able to have a courtyard of my own to live in gives me some peace and quiet, which is a good thing.

When the moonlight was bright, Duan Anle was afraid that Mingzhe would be lonely, so he brought Pei Que to drink tea with Mingzhe. Ye Yaoling lived alone, and she came over with a basket of plum blossoms, rarely participating in this gathering of fellow apprentices.

Du Qing lived with an uncle who was from Shandugang. The latter was also a casual cultivator, and was lucky enough to follow Pei Yi on the Kuixing shuttle and escape back to the sect from the Jiazixu Mountain, and only then did he become his master.

His actual physical strength may not be much stronger than Du Qing's, but he has a very domineering attitude.

Du Qing was also considered an elder of the Chongming Sect, and he had never suffered such humiliation in front of the head of the Kang Sect. In terms of seniority, cultivation, ability, and background, Du Qing was no worse than this uncle.

But he was of a lower generation, so he could only sulk. When he heard the noise, he came over awkwardly.

In this way, all five young men from Chongming Sect who came this time were present.

Mingzhe picked up a plum that Ye Yaoling brought. Although it was not expensive, it tasted good. Mingzhe ate a few with some snacks, and even a kid from a well-off family like him thought it was good.

In a very good mood, he started talking to Du Qing, who seldom attended fellow disciples' gatherings and was still a little reserved: "I heard that Senior Brother Du has a new wife who gave birth to two sons for Senior Brother. Senior Brother has many children, which is really a blessing."

Du Qing did not show much joy when Mingzhe mentioned this. He raised his mouth with a bit of disinterest. The sweet tea tasted bitter. He sighed softly, "I hope someone with spiritual roots will come out this time."

Everyone laughed when they heard this. All the fellow disciples knew that Du Qing had taken in many concubines over the years, and had given birth to many children through his hard work.

Including the daughters who had married off in the past, Du Qing probably had nearly a hundred descendants. If the grandchildren were included, the number would be even harder to calculate.

Unfortunately, among these descendants, not one had spiritual roots, which made Du Qing very worried.

Duan Anle had been with Du Qing in the caravan for some time, and had a good relationship with this junior fellow apprentice who was much older than him, so he said a few words of comfort, which made Du Qing feel much better.

After eating Lu Mei, everyone was about to leave, but Ye Yaoling had no intention of leaving.

"Why, Junior Sister has fallen in love with Junior Brother Ming's spiritual tea? Junior Brother Ming, why don't you quickly pack some back for your Senior Sister Ye?" Pei Que is the most well-behaved person in front of his elders, but when he is with his fellow disciples in private, he is a real unruly person.

He made a face while saying this, which was very frivolous, making Mingzhe and Ye Yaoling blush.

Duan Anle glared at him and said to Ye Yaoling in a gentle voice, "Junior sister, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Maybe Yaoling is overthinking. It seems that a few Taoist friends from the Ma family lingered outside my courtyard for some time." Ye Yaoling's face turned slightly red with embarrassment.

She has a quiet personality. Over the years, she has either been practicing diligently under Pei Yi's care, or helping her mortal relatives in the Hengshan tribe to do things like expel monsters.

Encountering such a thing as soon as she went out made her a little overwhelmed.

"The Ma family is so uneducated!" Mingzhe slammed the stone table, and the tea sets on it jumped up. He came from a good family, had never experienced any adversity, and had never been bullied anywhere, so how could he tolerate the Changyun Ma family bullying their fellow disciples?

Thinking of this, anger instantly appeared on Mingzhe's handsome face, and he was about to pick up his flying sword to go outside Ye Yaoling to see what was going on and get an explanation.

Du Qing was worldly-wise. From what Ye Yaoling said, the Ma family members had not done anything out of line. If something went wrong, the Chongming Sect might not be in the right.

Du Qing was afraid that Mingzhe's instigation would make Duan Anle and Pei Que angry as well. When he was about to persuade them, he saw that the two had stopped Mingzhe, and he felt relieved.

"Okay, don't act rashly without knowing the whole situation." Duan Anle pushed Mingzhe down to his seat, and before the latter could say anything else, he said to Pei Que:
"Junior brother, please take Junior Brother Ming back to the courtyard to rest. Junior Brother Ming's courtyard is located in the center of our Chongming disciples. Junior Sister Ye, please rest here. If anything happens, it will not be hidden from all of us.

I'll go to the place where Junior Sister Ye used to live. In a few days, we will go to the battlefield, so we'd better not cause any trouble with the Ma family. After all, we are guests. If we make a big fuss in someone else's territory, it will be embarrassing for the teachers and leaders. "Everyone knew that he was right, Mingzhe's anger eased a little, and Ye Yaoling, the victim, also persuaded them a few times, and the matter was finally dropped.

Pei Que took Mingzhe back to rest, and Ye Yaoling stayed there. Du Qing was tired of the uncle who shared the room with him, so he followed Duan Anle to keep him company.

When he walked outside Ye Yaoling's courtyard, Du Qing was still somewhat uneasy.

Since he joined the Chongming Sect, he has had classics to study and spirit stones to receive. His cultivation, magic tools, and skills are no longer the same as before.

Even in the Chongming caravan after Duan Anle took over, Du Qing was no longer considered a mediocre person when he mingled with a group of casual cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training.

But if he really wanted to fight with the children of the Foundation Building family, Du Qing was still a little afraid of the risk of causing disputes between the two Foundation Building families.

He was just like that. He was afraid that his teachers would forget about him, but he was also afraid that they would remember him. There was nothing he could do about it. A person's background really determined many things.

Compared to Du Qing, Duan Anle is much braver.

He was the first to go outside the courtyard, took out the token and checked the gate, and entered the courtyard. No outsiders appeared along the way. This was what Du Qing wanted, and the two of them didn't say anything more, and each chose an empty room to sleep.

The next morning, when the Chongming disciples got up, they received the news from Chu Huer and set off that same day following the Ma family team.

At the same time, Pei Que also learned a piece of news from Kang Dabao, and shared it with his fellow disciples who had lined up and were about to set off: "The Ma family intends to form a marriage alliance with our Chongming Sect."

"Oh, so that's why the Ma family went outside Senior Sister Ye's courtyard last night!" Mingzhe thought of this and became angry again: "Even if that's the case, they shouldn't have done such a disrespectful thing."

"Did the master agree?" Duan Anle asked. Ye Yaoling showed a trace of trepidation, and everyone turned to look at him. Pei Que thought for a moment, "The teachers told me not to ask any more questions. From this point of view, this matter is probably almost certain."

"It can be said that it is almost certain," Kang Dabao, Jiang Qing and Chu Huer stood on the flying boat, looking at the two or three hundred clansmen of the Ma family who had gathered, and nodded.

Considering the hundreds of Qi-cultivating people in the Ma family, Sect Leader Kang has made up his mind not to reject this marriage.

Ma Wenhan only had a few years left to live, and by then the Ma family would have to find a reliable foundation-building force to join. Since the two families were in-laws, even if the Chongming Sect didn't have such a good appetite and couldn't swallow it all in one go, they would still be able to get a few bites of the oil.

Kang Dabao didn't feel guilty about this plan in his mind. After all, to be fair, the way he, the leader of the Kang family, ate was definitely one of the best among his peers. At least he wouldn't do anything to suck people's blood.

Ma Wenhan knew all this, but he still wanted to marry into the Chongming clan. After all, there was no one in the clan who could take over, so he wouldn't be able to take care of much of what happened after his death.

I can only have the same mentality as those ordinary people who sell their children. Although I feel sad, I also hope to find a good one.

Shan Sheng had to leave temporarily at this time. Chu Huer saw that there was no outsider here. After hearing what Kang Dabao said, he looked towards the Ma family team and pointed at the outstanding Ma family member at the front and said:
"Junior brother, I heard that Ma Yansong is the marriage candidate that the Ma family ancestor wanted, and he is his great-grandson."

Jiang Qing glanced in the direction of Chu Huer's finger, and when his eyes swept over Ma Yansong, he got a general idea.

He is nearly thirty years old, has reached the seventh level of Qi training, looks good, but is dressed a little greasy.

At this age, his cultivation is certainly not slow, but his foundation is not solid. Most of his cultivation is probably achieved by relying on elixirs. He is the type most favored by the monsters in the Jackdaw Mountains.

"Not very good," Jiang Qing only briefly commented, and after thinking for a while, he said again: "Senior Brother Pei may not agree."

"Ha, it's not good. But marriages have always been about marrying in. Our Chongming clan has few people, and any missing one in the clan will reduce the liveliness. I have never agreed to marry my daughter here." Master Kang just smiled.

Chu Huer also laughed: "I'm afraid the Ma family can't bear to part with their daughter."

Kang Dabao waved his hand and said, "It's okay. I just said, let the Ma family show their skills and then we can talk about other things. Let's see if his family members can put in some effort this time."

Both families had made preparations in advance, so the team assembled quickly, and the two flying boats arrived outside Mijiazhai in a short time.

The Mi family leader had already known about the coming of the Chongming Sect, but the Changyun Ma family was also involved, which made the former a little annoyed.

"Four foundation-building people? Two hundred Qi-cultivating people from the Ma family, and the one with the surname Mi, these are different from what you said before?" A toothless old man stared at the head of the Mi family sinisterly, causing cold sweat to break out on the latter's back.

"Mijiazhai has not paid back a single cent of the price you offered. If you break the contract at the last minute, those people outside who haven't come back yet will spread the news. I'm afraid you will lose a lot of business in the future."

The head of the Mi family sighed lightly, his tone calm. He was also living on the edge of a knife. Since he dared to ask the foundation-building master to help, he would not be scared by the words of this toothless old man.

"What a youngster." The most famous old man with bald eyebrows sneered among the three. He was the Senior Feng who had temporarily raised the price. He was the most famous among the independent cultivators in Changyun County and the one who could be manipulated by the big boss of the Mi family the most.

After all, a good reputation can provide them with a lot of help in earning resources for their practice. It would be a pity if it were lost.

Thinking of this, the bald-browed old man glanced at the head of the Mi family, a fierce light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he thought to himself what a pity.

If this guy is outside without any preparation, the three of them just need to kill him, and then set up a formation with the people outside to divide up all the treasures of Mijiazhai over the years.

Why bother fighting for him?

"Anyway, what this Mi guy wants is just for us to help defend the formation for a month. There's no need to fight too hard, right? I think among the four foundation-building cultivators on the opposite side, there are two old and two young ones. The old one is weak and the young one is immature. They are not even mid-stage cultivators.

Even if they have better skills and better spiritual weapons, we can rely on the second-level formation. We can't be defeated for a month, right?" The only old woman among the three foundation-building cultivators advised.

The other two thought about it carefully and realized that among the three, except for the toothless old man who was still an early-stage cultivator, the other two were middle-stage cultivators.

The names of the two Bingyes on the opposite side were a little scary. How many of the casual cultivators who could possibly achieve foundation building had not come out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood? Who would be easily fooled?

The three of them had just finished discussing it, but Ma Wenhan outside the formation had already started to move with the Ma family members.

Ma Wenhan usually looks timid, but once he is on the battlefield, he is decisive and does not say a word. He just holds a spiritual-level copper bell in his hand, and the golden air gathered in his shriveled chest suddenly spurts out and hits the copper bell.

The bell rang loudly. After hearing it, the Ma family members felt their blood boiling and their spiritual power swelled. They each raised their magic tools and talismans and smashed them towards the light curtain of the Mi family village's formation.

Although there is no clear structure, the morale is indeed very high.

Master Kang could see that Ma Wenhan did not have much experience in commanding battle formations, and it was unknown what he had done as the head of a clan for nearly two hundred years.

He turned around and looked at the purple copper bell in Ma Wenhan's hand with some envy. This spiritual weapon could inspire the morale of hundreds of monks present. It was much more powerful than the white bear fang flag he usually used.

But just as this thought came to his mind, it was interrupted by a burst of witch fire that emerged from the Mi family village.

As the foundation-building cultivator in the main formation, Ma Wenhan was of course on guard at all times. He had carefully studied the formations used by the rebels in Mijiazhai before, and had prepared countermeasures one by one.

But this witch fire had never been heard of before. Ma Wenhan was surprised, but he quickly raised a magic fan. A strong wind blew up instantly, and a large amount of dust was rolled up to cover the witch fire.

The wind was extinguished and the fire started. The group of Ma family members in the front were burned by the witch fire and screamed. Their clothes and flesh were clearly not burned, but after struggling for a few breaths, they stopped breathing.

The scene was so terrifying that even Ma Wenhan looked shocked.

Sect Leader Kang frowned upon seeing this scene, thinking, "It will be difficult to leave this village quickly."

(I have something to do on Monday, so I will update it tonight. If I have time to update after get off work on Monday, I will update another one.)
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