Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 269: Changning Sect Affairs
Seeing that there was still a faint spiritual aura on Guixiang's body that had not dissipated, Kang Dabao knew that he must be the disciple who had just established the foundation of Taoism that Yue Feng mentioned last time.

"What a pity, I found out too late." Kang Dabao narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Guixiang, whose face had become much younger, and sighed in his heart.

If Kang Dabao had come to Chongming Market a month or two earlier and found out Guixiang's whereabouts, he might have been able to kill this enemy by doing a favor to Yue Feng.

But now that this old enemy has reached the stage of building a foundation, his price in the Yue family has naturally risen sharply, and Yue Feng will definitely not be able to give him up.

Alas, fate is something that is hard to explain.

He Dezong, who was placed with high hopes and had been shouting "there is hope for building a foundation" for nearly twenty years, died while building his foundation; on the other hand, Gui Xiang, an unknown person, was able to achieve the foundation of Taoism, which is truly regrettable.

It's a pity that Kang Dabao knew that Guixiang had joined the Yue family, but he thought that the latter would live a muddle-headed life from then on, allowing him, the head of the Kang family, to deal with him properly after he had time.

But I didn't expect that after taking it for granted, this scabies disease would become a serious problem.
The two men looked at each other. Sect Leader Kang had a cold look in his eyes, while Gui Xiang had a blank expression on his face. Neither of them spoke a word.

The master of the Yue family, who came to Chongming Tower to deliver the spiritual object, did not notice anything unusual. He felt that his work was done successfully, so he hurried back to report.

Kang Dabao withdrew his gaze only after he saw the figures of Guixiang and the Yue family's master leaving together gradually fade into obscurity.

"What a pity, it would be better if it wasn't in the market." Although Kang Dabao has just completed the foundation building stage, his current skills are definitely strong among those of the same level.

It should be a great chance to defeat a new foundation-building cultivator who has not even been able to refine his spiritual energy.

He let out a long sigh, knowing that this was another regret that was useless.

If Guixiang had become a bandit on his own, it would have been easy to deal with; but unfortunately, this guy had already become a retainer of the Yue family.

The Foundation Establishment disciples are not so worthless. Kang Dabao doesn't think that Yue Feng would be willing to take Gui Xiang out and do him a favor at this time.

Fortunately, there is still a long time to come. Now at least we know that Guixiang has already established his foundation, so we can make plans early. It is much better than being kept in the dark.

"Let's look for another opportunity. It's your own fault if you don't kill the snake. "Master Kang cursed himself in his heart and returned to his own retreat room in the Chongming Building. He checked the items in the storage bag sent by the Yue family one by one.

"Two second-grade low-grade star-shooting crossbows, one stack of second-grade medium-grade defensive talismans, and one stack of second-grade high-grade talismans. One hundred first-grade high-grade defensive talismans, one hundred and fifty first-grade high-grade attack talismans, and fifty bottles of first-grade high-grade medicinal pills."

Objectively speaking, these supplies are considered abundant, but they are still much less than what Master Kang had expected.

The head of the Kang family did not want to be rejected by the Fei family. After the failure, he ran to the head of the Yue family, but the autumn wind still failed to hit the target. Yue Feng was obviously not a foolish man who was easy to fool.

However, those two second-grade inferior star-shooting crossbows are pretty good supplies. When combined, they can be used as a foundation-building weapon against the Qi-cultivating disciples of the Changning Sect.

When the Xian Dynasty withdrew from Yunjiaozhou, the Yue family seized and captured many county arsenals and obtained many good things.

If it were the Niu family of Dingnan, which was once as famous as the Yue family of Hancheng, they would definitely be reluctant to give out a powerful weapon like the Star-Shooting Crossbow as a favor.

Unfortunately, because of Guixiang’s incident, even though Kangda received the aid, he could not be happy for long.

"Wait another three days. If Deng Baichuan still hasn't come out, send someone to call him out. As for Guixiang, forget it. 'Don't worry about it. Everything is determined by fate.' I will deal with him when the time comes."

Kang Dabao calmed down, put away his storage bag, and concentrated on practicing.

A blacksmith must be strong himself. When you have reached a higher level of skill, you will naturally have fewer worries.

If he, the head of the Kangda Sect, was still the small peddler who walked the streets and lived from day to day, how could he be so friendly and cheerful with the head of the Yue family in Hancheng, how could he put the plump and beautiful steward of the big sect on the bed to play with, and how could he win the heart of the daughter of a wealthy family?

The latter two certainly have feelings for him, but this feeling is also placed on the head of Chongming, who has already established his foundation with Bingye and has a strong reputation. Kang Dabao knows this in his heart, but he doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

As long as you keep working hard like this, what you have already got in your hands will not be lost, and what you can get in the future will be enough to make you daydream.

Even if the road ahead is covered with thorns, it doesn't matter. Just use the knife and axe in your hand to clear the way.

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At sunset, the warm afterglow sprinkled on the cliffs, covering the elegant Laoniu Mountain with a golden coat. The sky in the distance gradually turned red, and Changgeng rose to the west, bringing out a corner of the night.

The main gate of Changning Sect was built on Laoniu Mountain in Baisha County.

There is a second-grade superior spiritual vein here that is quite rare in Jingnan Prefecture. It is enough to support dozens of foundation-building practitioners and thousands of Qi-cultivating minor practitioners. It used to be the mountain gate of a large fake alchemy sect.

However, the fake elixir master has been in meditation for many years, and his disciples have been found by the Liangyi Sect to have some connections with the Immortal Dynasty during these years.

Now his disciples were divided into several branches by Jiang Yuan, the leader of the Black Sand Peak of the Liangyi Sect, who was under the jurisdiction of Jingnan Prefecture, and scattered and randomly placed in various places in Shannan Road. The empty mountain gate on Laoniu Mountain was just right for the Changning Sect to establish its sect.

This is the sect of the Jiadan Sect. Jiang Yuan did not even move a single blade of grass or a single tree, leaving them all to the newly established Changning Sect. This treatment can be considered generous.

However, Dai Fu, the first leader of the Changning Sect, did not feel much about this.

In the past, the sacred land of the Zhenling Sect was much smaller than that of Laoniu Mountain, but it did not need to be shared with other families.

But there was no way around it. In order to redeem the Hongyi Sect's golden elixir from Kuang Liuting, the Liangyi Sect had openly and gradually given up the entire Yunjiao Prefecture and even several counties adjacent to it.

After this, the Liangyi Sect almost implemented the order of the Star Picking Tower Master and completely handed over Yunjiaozhou to the Immortal Dynasty for management.

The Qingyun Alliance, which the Zhenling Sect joined, was the loyal dog of the Liangyi Sect in Yunjiao Province, and had long been a thorn in the side of the Yunjiao government.

After the battle of Xiaowu Mountain, the Qingyun League was severely damaged and had no capital to compete with those local forces who were anxious to submit their surrender to the Yunjiao State Court.

If the Zhenling Sect chooses to continue staying in its own mountain gate, its Taoist lineage will be cut off sooner or later.

As a last resort, Dai Fu was recruited by Jiang Yuan, the leader of Heisha Peak of Liangyi Sect, and relocated his sect.

If Dai Fu had known earlier that the Liangyi Sect had been so indulgent towards Yunjiao Zhouting in recent times, to the point that several Jindan cultivators and dozens of fake Dan masters in the sect had almost all survived.

He must have made plans early to provide his disciples with a good way out.

Now the Zhenling Sect, together with the Changxian Lin Family and Fengzhou Ge Family, has been incorporated into the Changning Sect. They have no way out, and Dai Fu does not feel that this is a good idea.

It has been some time since the various families reunited, but the barriers between them still show no signs of disappearing.

During each quarterly meeting, there would always be rumors of a dispute such as a member of the Fengzhou Ge family raping a mortal woman from the Changxian Lin family; or a spirit beast raised by a disciple of the Zhenling Sect smashing the spirit corpse of the Fengzhou Ge family.

These internal struggles were discussed so much that Dai Fu was really annoyed.

If he had known that this sect would be established like this, he would not have been so easily persuaded by Jiang Yuan's so-called fake elixir opportunity to sit in the so-called position of the head of the sect.

These high-level monks are accustomed to making promises in front of others.

I don't know if Jiang Yuan will still remember to give me a chance to make a fake pill after I have worked so hard to help Liangyi Sect eliminate the problems of Xinyun League.
Today was the day for the monthly meeting as usual. Dai Fu was a little bored and wanted to ask his personal Taoist boy to take a message to the hall. But when the words were on his lips, Dai Fu thought about it and went to the meeting hall anyway.

After all, the military supervisor from Black Sand Peak had brought news again. If he didn't go, he would be hated for losing the fake elixir opportunity that Fumo had mentioned.

Dai Fu arrived the latest. There were two men and one woman sitting in the hall.

In addition to the plain-looking Chen Ye, there are also Ge ​​Qinglan, the head of the Ge family in Fengzhou, and Lin Kunxue, the head of the Lin family in Changxian. The three are now the elders of the Changning Sect. In name, there is no distinction between the first and the last, and they are equal to each other. The former is an old woman with unkempt hair and a dirty face, wearing a black linen spiritual weapon robe, with a blank expression and no spirit;
The latter was a burly man eight feet tall, with muscular body and sword-like eyebrows.

He should have had an air of heroism, but when facing the hunchbacked Ge Qinglan and the skinny Chen Ye, his aura was far less than that of the two in front of him.

"Greetings, Master!" Seeing Dai Fu come in, the three of them bowed in turn.

Chen Ye was the most polite, followed by Lin Kunxue.

Ge Qinglan was the slowest to get up, just like an ordinary old woman. She stood up with difficulty holding the seven-treasure walking stick, and it was difficult for her to bend her waist when she saluted.

"Oh," Dai Fu sneered in his heart. This old woman still didn't give in.

Dai Fu knew that during the battle of Xiaowu Mountain, Ge Qinglan used her own spirit corpse to kill two or three hostile foundation-building warriors.

It's only been a few years? Why do you have to act so old every time you meet?

"Pretending!" Dai Fu scolded the old woman in his heart, but there was no abnormality on his face. He walked to the head seat, returned the greeting and sat down. Then the other three also sat down.

Chen Ye was quite satisfied. No matter what happened in private, at least the high-ranking officials of Changning Sect behaved properly in public and did not make things too ugly.

Otherwise, if Jiang Yuan asked about it, Chen Ye would find it difficult to explain.

Dai Fu sat at the top, and the first thing he was concerned about was the income and expenditure of the sect. It had been a confusing account from the beginning, and each family still had to calculate their own account.

After listening to the vague words of Lin Kunxue and Ge Qinglan for a long time, Dai Fu, the head of Changning Sect, counted on his fingers for a long time before he could barely figure out that this huge Laoniu Lingshan Mountain and the fake Dan Daochang were managed by them to the point where they could barely make ends meet.

"That's ok. Fortunately, I haven't lost money yet." Dai Fu comforted himself. It is not easy to deal with the Changning Sect.

It would be better if the Ge family of Fengzhou was as good as the Lin family of Changxian. The latter had suffered heavy losses in the battle of Xiaowu Mountain, losing two foundation-building warriors and many Qi-training stalwarts.

After the last attack on Shen Baiyue, the Lin family cultivators retreated too slowly and were surrounded and killed by the New Cloud Alliance.

As a result, the once prosperous Chang County Lin family now has only two people who have established their foundation, including the head of the family, Lin Kunxue.

The previous battle was a conscription war, and the Liangyi Sect should provide compensation;
The Liangyi Sect was not as generous as the Yunjiaozhou Court this time. The relief was given very untimely. They only said that they were short of the main ingredients for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill and it would take a few years before the relief was given.

However, the Liangyi Sect has dominated various states for hundreds of years, so it still has some credibility, and the other families do not expect it to default on its debts.

From now on, this matter will be considered an internal matter of Changning Sect. The Lin family suffered a great loss in the attempt to kill Shen Baiyue, and Changning Sect also compensated them with two foundation-building spiritual objects.

But they are certainly not as precious as the Foundation Establishment Pill. They are all items of similar value to the Reed Flower Pill used in the Foundation Establishment. At most, they can increase the probability of foundation establishment by half.

The Lin family has already arranged two foundation-building seeds to prepare for the foundation-building work, but they don't know whether one of them can succeed.

Therefore, the Lin family was the weakest in the Changning Sect at this time. Although they had the title of elders of the council, most of the time, they just served as the background board for the fight between Dai Fu and Ge Qinglan, and did not express any opinions.

The Ge family of Fengzhou had to move to Laoniushan Mountain this time because they lost many members due to their inability to defeat their old enemy, and there were only two foundation-building people left in the family.

But Ge Qinglan was just like Dai Fu, a genuine late-stage foundation-building cultivator. Her methods were not weak either, and the foundation-building cultivators that were chewed up by her life spirit corpse were enough to prove this.

What's even more rare is that she is much younger than Dai Fu. She is only about 150 years old, but she has already reached the late stage of foundation building. If she can continue at this speed of practice, then it is not impossible for her to have a chance to make a fake pill in the future.

Therefore, although Dai Fu could easily suppress Lin Kunxue, whose family was in decline, it was very difficult for him to subdue the old woman Ge Qinglan.

As the military supervisor stationed in Changning Sect by Jiang Yuan, the chief of Heisha Peak, Chen Yezi could also see the undercurrents hidden within.

But he was just an ordinary cultivator in the early stage of foundation building after all. Perhaps he would be looked up to by everyone in the hall because of his feat of practicing Qi and cutting through the foundation building. Dai Fu and Ge Qinglan would also be polite to Chen Ye for the sake of Liangyi Sect.

But that was all regarding official business. If Chen Ye wanted to interfere in how the two sides got along in private, it would be a bit of an overstepping of the line.

"Master is a little too hasty. The Changning Sect hasn't even finished its internal strength yet. If we rashly start a war with the New Cloud Alliance, I'm afraid we won't gain any advantage."

Chen Ye sighed, pulled himself together, and took out another bright yellow silk book, saying briefly: "Master said that Changning Sect had enjoyed the grace of the emperor, and should have worked hard to make merit in the first battle. But after killing Shen Baiyue, we lost two more Lin elders. How can this be tolerated?

"Master's letter is asking, are we doing our job seriously? When will we see the Xinyun League, this group of Xianchao running dogs, fall apart?"

It would have been fine if Chen Ye hadn't said anything at first, but as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Kunxue could no longer suppress the sadness on his face and tears welled up in his eyes. He is truly a tough guy with a soft heart.

How could they not feel sad? If there were no such talents among the next few generations of the Lin family in Chang County, then even in a hundred years, the Lin family might not be able to train two more foundation-building cultivators. How could they not feel resentment when all of them were lost in one day?

Dai Fu had a sad look on his face and Ge Qinglan shed tears. Both of them seemed to be touched by Chen Ye's words and their faces were full of sadness.

"Jiang Feng is right. We suffered a great loss in this battle, and two Elder Lins were killed by the bandits. Seeing that morale has dropped, we should not rush into the battle. We need to make more preparations."

Chen Ye's words sounded nice, but Dai Fu had already prepared something to stop him.

"Master said in the letter that if Changning Sect does well this time, not only can we be exempted from half a decade of taxes, but the pensions owed before will also be paid first."

"It's still like looking at the plum to quench thirst." These words did not appease the experienced foundation-building practitioners. After Chen Ye finished speaking for a long time, no one responded.

Chen Ye did not seem annoyed, he just put away the silk book in his hand and said seriously:
"Master also said in his letter that if some fellow Taoists are ignorant of the general situation and just go through the motions, I can write it down and report it to him. I think such people must admire the style of the Immortal Dynasty, so it's a good opportunity to have a good chat with them."

"Huh, it's just as expected." Dai Fu and Ge Qinglan, the two old rivals, sighed in their hearts at the same time.

This is when the real purpose is revealed. The David Dynasty uses cruel methods to control its subordinates, but the Liangyi Sect is not any worse.

Not to mention that Heishafeng Zheng gave them some face and negotiated some prices with them. Even if he didn't promise a word, the people present had no capital to compete with the fake pill master.

If they still drag their feet and don't want to deal with the New Cloud Alliance, then they can just wait for Black Sand Peak to send people to deal with them. They have plenty of ways to deal with those unruly forces under their rule.

Dai Fu was retorted by Chen Ye, and Lin Kunxue was speechless. Ge Qinglan had no choice but to stand up again tremblingly and said in a hoarse voice: "Elder Chen, this military matter is of great importance. It will take some time to prepare properly."

"How long will it take?"

"It won't take too long, maybe a year."

"Too long, too long. Three months is enough." Chen Ye made a gesture that did not allow any objection, stopping Ge Qinglan's rebuttal, and then said bluntly:
"My fellow Taoists, the longer the night, the more trouble we have. It is better to fight quickly and make a quick decision. Don't worry, although I am a disciple of Fengzheng, I will never flee from the battlefield. I will definitely advance and retreat with you fellow Taoists and plan for a good future!"

After a moment of silence in the hall, the three of them looked at each other and stood up solemnly: "How dare you disobey my order!"

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