Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 348: Knock the Mountain to Shock the Tiger (Please Subscribe)

Three months passed by in a flash.

The Shenzhu Sect invited Master Zheng to come forward and promised not to target the Chen family of Wolong Island anymore.

Using this as a condition, he got the sect leader's order back from Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan asked Master Zheng about the situation of the Shenzhu Sect.

"There are only three Jindan Zhenren, none of them are Jindan, and they are all in the early stage of Jindan. They can't take care of themselves. Even the dispatch team from Wutong Mountain Range has been recalled."

Master Zheng told him that only after returning the sect leader's order would the Shenzhu Sect have a chance to reorganize its strength.

"The Divine Bamboo Sect already has a tense relationship with several smaller sects in the surrounding area. They occupy the best third-level spiritual vein and cultivate a large area of green jade spiritual bamboo."

"For the next hundred years, it would be good enough if the Divine Bamboo Sect can hold on to its original spiritual vein. They have assured me that the Divine Bamboo Sect has issued a ban, strictly prohibiting its disciples from coming to Wolong Island."

Chen Xuan gave face to Master Zheng and returned the leader's order of the Shenzhu Sect.

In fact, even if he didn't return it, the Shenzhu Sect couldn't do anything to him.

However, he was completely useless with that thing.

Afterwards, Chen Xuan asked Master Zheng about the war situation at the front.

"This time we're serious."

Master Zheng told Chen Xuan that the major clans of the four countries had occupied many spiritual veins in the Wutong Mountains, and directly auctioned them to the families and individual cultivators who joined the team to fight.

"The price is half the normal price, but it's still a legitimate spiritual vein, and there are plenty of people willing to risk their lives."

The first- and second-level spiritual veins around the Wutong Mountains have almost been occupied by the sects of the four countries.

What remains are more than a dozen third-level spirit veins and one fourth-level spirit vein.

"So, the war won't end so soon. I guess the Jindan cultivators from each sect are going to meet their end."

Chen Xuan deeply agreed.

He also wants the third-level spiritual vein.

If he forms a pill, he will definitely go on an expedition with the sect and try to exchange his merits for a third-level spirit vein.

Nowadays, the major sects have become aristocratic families, the social classes are solidified, and the path to upward mobility is becoming increasingly narrow.

But one thing is that the sect's merits will still be rewarded.

This is the most basic principle to maintain the normal operation of the sect.

If merit is not rewarded, the sect will lose its prestige, lack cohesion, lose talent, and it will be difficult to continue to develop.

“Therefore, I have concluded that the major sects of the four countries will continue to recruit cultivators and engage in a large-scale fight.”

……

Chen Xuan asked Zhou Liqi to collect information from the sect.

The Zhou family has extensive connections in the Jinyang Sect and is well-informed.

As long as you are willing to pay some price, you can get first-hand information as quickly as possible.

The four national sects advanced deep into the Wutong Mountains.

The powerful Lingyuan Sect of the Yu State joined forces with the Lieyan Sect of the Lu State and gradually gained the upper hand, advancing all the way towards the coalition forces of the Xu State and the Song State.

Xuantian Sect performed poorly in this war.

It’s not that they are not strong enough, but that they are not ruthless enough and their fighting style is too orthodox.

In comparison, the states of Yu and Lu were much more flexible.

Guerrilla warfare, ambushes, night attacks, there are even demonic and evil cultivators in the team.

Moreover, Xuantian Sect's leadership ability has been questioned.

The Golden Core Master of the Beast Emperor Pavilion openly challenged the Xuantian Sect and led his team to find another route to advance.

Chen Xuan sighed inwardly.

Over the years, the Xuantian Sect has been declining.

In the Seven Sects Competition, he was surpassed by the Jinyang Sect, and even though he led his team to fight, he was unable to convince the Beast Emperor Pavilion.

Ultimately, the Xuantian Sect was not strong enough to suppress the ambitions of the Jinyang Sect and the Beast Emperor Pavilion, nor could it bring satisfactory results to the State of Song.

Of course, these have little to do with Chen Xuan.

It's just to seize the spiritual vein, it's not to the point of destroying the sect.

From a personal perspective, Chen Xuan is more concerned about the performance of Jin Yangzong.

After all, he is the elder of the Law Enforcement Hall of Jinyang Sect.

……

Two months later, Jinyang Sect began to recruit monks to go to the war front.

Different from the first time.

The cultivators recruited this time are only foundation-building cultivators.

The rewards and pensions are quite considerable, which makes many foundation-building cultivators tempted.

The Jinyang Sect opened up many rare spiritual objects, including certain strategic resources, to the foundation-building monks who accepted the call.

As long as the merits are sufficient, second-level elixirs, foundation-building pills, superior exercises, inherited skills, magic weapons...

Even the second-level spirit veins in the inland can be exchanged.

If a cultivator who accepts the call dies on the battlefield, his accumulated merits will also be valid and can be exchanged or auctioned with the sect.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Especially the inland second-level spiritual veins, which can be passed on to future generations, so it is inevitable to be tempted.

Normally, the major sects would only auction some first-level spirit veins, and would not put out second-level spirit veins.

"The fighting in the Wutong Mountains has nothing to do with the Dongshan Sea."

Chen Xuan thought so.

They are all large sects with a history of thousands of years, and are guarded by Yuanying Zhenjun. The major sects of the four countries will not spread the war in Wutong Mountains into a war of extermination.

After all, this melee among the four nations was to seize the newly discovered spiritual veins.

Everyone depends on their ability.

In the short term, the Yuanying True Lords of the major sects will not take action.

Unless the ownership of more than a dozen third-level spirit veins is clearly determined.

Only the Yuanying Zhenjun of each major sect would come out to fight for the largest fourth-order spiritual vein.

Of course, the world of cultivation is ever-changing.

The development of the war will spread rapidly if it gets out of control, affecting all the cultivation forces in various countries.

"I hope these sects' golden cores can control the war situation and not make the fighting too brutal!"

Chen Xuan prepared for the worst.

Steamships, which have been the subject of heavy investment in research and development, have made great progress.

If an extreme situation occurs and the war affects the Dongshan waters, he will take his family and relatives, as well as the mortals on Wolong Island, to the deeper waters and rebuild their homes on the large islands there.

To this end, he made friends with the sea monster king and prepared for his future retreat.

He rode on a spiritual green dragon, used his flying skills to fly through the clouds, and went to investigate a deserted island in the deep sea.

The area is large enough and there are many forests, copper, iron ores, coal and other resources. If mortals migrate here, living will not be a problem.

"Unfortunately, although those deserted islands also have spiritual energy, it is only first-level and of poor quality."

"If you are a mortal, you can still adapt to life there. But it is not very friendly to cultivators above the foundation building stage."

Chen Xuan asked Zhu Yao to take some family monks who were breeding red-eyed green bamboo snakes and golden dart frogs and stay there first.

To this end, he spent a lot of effort and asked Liu Ruyan to help set up a large spirit gathering array around the deserted island and fill it with high-quality spirit stones for cultivation.

Liu Ruyan estimated that by exchanging eight high-grade spirit stones every year, she would be able to advance to the second-level spirit island in about thirty years.

It is still too early to leave the Dongshan waters and rebuild a home on a deserted island in the deep sea.

Chen Xuan has communicated with the killer whale demon king and is willing to pay a certain amount of spirit stones and emperor fluid on a regular basis in exchange for their protection.

Now, what he has to do is to concentrate on practicing and improve his strength as soon as possible.

Liu Ruyan, along with two disciples, moved into Longxing Villa.

Chen Xuan and she became sworn sisters.

For this purpose, a whole-day buffet was held in Wolongfang City.

This confirmed the relationship between the two as sworn siblings.

Jiang Yingxue and others were also very satisfied.

Chen Xuan didn't even take in a female cultivator of Liu Ruyan's caliber who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage. It was obvious that he would not marry again.

Little did they know that what Chen Xuan valued was Liu Ruyan's formation inheritance and he didn't want to have too much involvement with her.

He has three wives, three sons, two daughters, and a large number of relatives, friends, and wives who have come to him for refuge. The burden is heavy enough.

I really don't have the energy to have another wife.

Every morning, Chen Xuan would take half an hour to study formations with Liu Ruyan.

Among the basic skills such as alchemy, weapons, arrays, talismans, swords, and planting, array formation is recognized as the most difficult, no doubt about it.

The rest of the basic skills can be explored on your own through books and jade slips.

Without inheritance, it is almost impossible to practice the formation successfully.

Liu Ruyan's heritage comes from a Liu family of cultivation in the State of Yu. It is said that her ancestors were disciples of a sect who moved here from other places.

The Liu family has two foundation-building cultivators who have settled in Chengping Mountain for many years. In addition to their own children, they also adopt immortal seedlings with spiritual roots from the territory under their jurisdiction.

After Liu Ruyan was diagnosed with a mid-grade water spiritual root, she was adopted by the Liu family since she was a child and soon showed a talent for learning formations.

Among the more than a thousand disciples of the Liu family, only Liu Ruyan inherited the Liu family's ancestral formation.

Once a formation master becomes successful, he becomes a profession even rarer than an alchemist.

After Liu Ruyan was promoted to a first-grade top-grade formation master, she worked day and night to create various first-grade formation plates and flags to increase the wealth of the Liu family.

Later, she used her savings of many years to buy a foundation-building pill from a regular customer, and luckily she was able to build her foundation.

After successfully building her foundation and stabilizing her realm, Liu Ruyan immediately found the nearby Shenzhu Sect, became a nominal elder, and hid inside.

The Liu family wrote to Liu Ruyan many times, inviting her to return to their house for a reunion, but she refused.

Later, Liu Ruyan found an opportunity, bought a house on Feiyan Island, and moved to the island to live.

After interacting with her for a long time, Chen Xuan discovered that Liu Ruyan was actually a very simple person.

She lives in her own world, obsessed with the art of formations, does not like dealing with people, and extremely hates socializing.

In terms of views on many things, she is not much smarter than Jiang Yingxue.

However, whenever he talked about formations, he became high-spirited and energetic, with a bright and confident glow emanating from his whole body.

Formations are her favorite.

No wonder she was able to stand out from the thousands of Liu family disciples and be promoted to a second-level formation master.

However, she soon began to doubt her life.

Bright Light Formation, Earth Wall Formation, Stone Formation, Water Dragon Formation, Wind and Thunder Formation...

In just two months, Chen Xuan learned many first-grade low-level formations.

The breadth of his knowledge astounded Liu Ruyan, who could hardly believe her eyes.

How could she know that Chen Xuan had the ability of clairvoyance. After Liu Ruyan explained the principles of the formation, he could effortlessly see through the trajectory of the spiritual energy in the formation.

Setting up this first-grade, low-grade formation is just a trial run.

As time went by, Chen Xuan's speed in mastering the formation gradually slowed down.

A year later, Chen Xuan began to encounter a bottleneck when learning the first-grade superior formation.

"So, actually I don't have much talent for formations."

Chen Xuan pondered in his heart.

Even with cheating tools like the divine eye and magical powers comparable to those of a perfect foundation, it would take two or three months to learn a first-grade top-grade formation.

Chen Xuan decisively gave up learning how to set up the formation, but instead understood the general idea, understood its operating principles, found the trajectory of the spiritual energy, and found a way to break the formation.

"Brother Chen, aren't you learning the art of formations for the purpose of setting up formations?"

"It's too difficult. I'm not a formation genius like Sister Ruyan. I'll learn more in depth when I have time later!"

Liu Ruyan opened her pretty eyes, tilted her face to the side, and looked confused.

In more than a year, Chen Xuan became a first-class formation master.

He actually told her that it was too difficult and that she didn't have the talent for formations?

Back then, Liu Ruyan studied for thirty years before reaching this point.

So, people are different.

In Chen Xuan's eyes, the formation art that Liu Ruyan was most proud of was just one of the hundreds of arts of cultivation and was not that important.

At this time, a tribesman came in to report.

Chen Xuan took the visiting card and his expression darkened slightly.

Then he handed the visiting card to Liu Ruyan.

The inscription on the gold-threaded border reads: "Master Liu of Chengping Mountain in Yu State has come to the island to pay a visit to Island Master Chen Xuan."

Longxing Villa, reception room.

Chen Xuan looked at the head of the Liu family in front of him with great interest.

From the spiritual perception, we know that he should be in the middle stage of foundation building and is nearly two hundred years old.

Although the States of Song and Yu declared war, Wolong Island did not prohibit any country or sect from landing on the island.

Everyone knew that the so-called four-nation melee was just to divide up the spiritual veins of the Wutong Mountains and had nothing to do with ordinary cultivators like them.

"Island Master Chen, thank you for the spiritual tea. I came to visit the island in a hurry this time, so this small gift is not a token of my respect."

Patriarch Liu took out a gift list, which surprisingly contained many of the alchemy herbs Chen Xuan needed. It seemed he had done his homework before coming.

"Brother Liu, you are too polite. I won't accept it without merit. If you have anything to say, please speak frankly."

Chen Xuan casually put the gift list aside.

He is wealthy now and doesn't lack these resources.

"There's something I'm wondering if Island Master Chen knows. Your adopted sister, Liu Ruyan, is from our Liu family."

"Oh. Chen didn't know."

Chen Xuan said lightly.

"This, Liu Ruyan, is engaged to my great-grandson Liu Guangping."

Patriarch Liu said slowly.

He took out a marriage contract, which not only had the names of Liu Ruyan and Liu Guangping on it, but also the magical aura of Liu Ruyan's signature.

Chen Xuan smiled slightly.

At first, he felt amused when he heard about Liu Ruyan's experience.

In order to avoid the wolves, he took the initiative to run into the tiger's den.

It has to be said that Liu Ruyan, who concentrates on learning the art of formations, has questionable IQ and EQ in other aspects.

"So what?"

"If my sister-in-law doesn't want to, then Master Liu wants to use this marriage contract to come to my Wolong Island and snatch her away?"

It’s not that Chen Xuan has a broad vision, it’s just that their status and position are different.

For a family like the Liu family's foundation building, it would be no match for him.

The sect leader and the Golden Core True Person both perished in the inner sea of his Wolong Island. Would he care about a family of cultivators with only two people at the Foundation Establishment stage?
Moreover, they are enemies, so there is no psychological burden in killing them.

"Island Master Chen is joking."

The head of the Liu family waved his hand lightly, and the marriage contract ignited a burst of spiritual fire, which burned to ashes after a dozen breaths.

"Brother Liu, what do you mean?"

"To be honest with Island Master Chen, I have always treated Liu Ruyan as my own daughter and taught her the art of formations."

A look of regret appeared on the face of the head of the Liu family.

"My Liu family's ancestor was once a second-rank, top-grade formation master. I never expected that when it came to me, a thousand direct descendants would be inferior to an adopted wild girl."

"The engagement is canceled, and the Liu family will never mention it again. Please also ask Island Master Chen to tell Liu Ruyan that, for the sake of her upbringing and education, she should return to Chengping Mountain when she has time to visit the brothers and sisters she grew up with."

Chen Xuan waved his hand casually.

The gift list flew back to the head of the Liu family.

"I'll pass on the message. Please take back the gift."

Chen Xuan remained silent.

Who knows what the Liu family is planning.

He would never let Liu Ruyan return to Chengping Mountain alone.

There is no need and no point.

The Liu family of Chengping Mountain will only be a burden to Liu Ruyan and will not be beneficial to her growth.

However, Wolong Island can provide Liu Ruyan with security and resources, allowing her to concentrate on practicing the art of formations.

Chen Xuan can also help her break through to the middle stage of foundation building.

"I hope that Island Master Chen can help me and allow Liu Ruyan to meet me to clear up the misunderstanding..."

Patriarch Liu requested.

"Brother Liu, wait a moment. I'll go ask her."

Turning into the back hall, Chen Xuan saw Liu Ruyan who looked a little anxious.

When she heard Chen Xuan say that the head of the Liu family had burned the marriage contract, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and calmed down.

"Brother Chen, should I go see him?"

"Sister Ruyan, are you going back to the Liu family in Chengping Mountain?"

"No return!"

Liu Ruyan said firmly.

"Then there's no need to meet."

Chen Xuan explained, "You can only know a person's face but not his heart. Even I can't tell what Liu Jia'an's intentions are. Since we won't be seeing each other anymore, why bother with this?"

"I'll listen to Brother Chen."

Back in the reception room, Chen Xuan sent the head of the Liu family away on the pretext that Liu Ruyan was in seclusion practicing.

However, as soon as the head of the Liu family left Wolong Island on a flying boat, Chen Xuan followed on the spiritual green dragon.

Both the man and the dragon have the ability to sense souls and can lock onto the aura of the head of the Liu family within a hundred miles.

With the speed of the Liu family head's flying boat, the spiritual green dragon had no difficulty tracking it.

Fly all the way.

Only when they arrived at Weiwu County on the coast did the head of the Liu family stop.

Chen Xuan collected the spiritual green dragon, changed his clothes and appearance, performed the spiritual water escape technique, and lurked in the shallow sea beside the seawall.

The head of the Liu family was on the seawall, where two monks were waiting for him.

"Damn it, this Chen Xuan is going too far!"

As soon as the head of the Liu family reached the seawall, he started cursing Chen Xuan.

"Ancestor, if I wasn't worried about the Sea Monster King's revenge, I really wanted to kill him on the spot!"

Chen Xuan, who was lurking in the sea, was stunned when he heard this.

I didn’t expect that the Liu family member who smiled in front of me would be such a person!

It’s not that he is a heartless and mean person, he has seen a lot of such things.

But the head of the Liu family dared to brag, fight with him, and even kill him.

After thinking about it, he realized that the head of the Liu family was pretending and saying it to another person.

really.

Another cultivator said calmly, "The Liu family doesn't need to be angry. My Lingyuan Sect will settle accounts with a villain like Chen Xuan sooner or later!"

Lingyuan Sect?
The Lingyuan Sect, the largest sect in the Yu Kingdom?
Chen Xuan's mind raced, wondering if he had offended Lingyuan Sect recently.

However, there is no need to think too much about this kind of thing.

As long as you block someone's way, you will become their enemy.

Right or wrong is not important at all.

"Friend Lei is right. However, I didn't lure Chen Xuan out this time. I feel ashamed!"

"It doesn't matter, there will be a chance."

Chen Xuan felt a surge of anger in his heart.

One was in the middle stage of foundation building, and two were in the late stage of foundation building. If they were placed in the Dongshan Sea, he would have attacked and killed them in one fell swoop.

However, this is on the seawall of Weiwu County in Yu State. Not far away is the county capital heavily guarded by Lingyuan Sect, and there may be a Jindan Zhenren.

Chen Xuan thought of several plans to kill the three people in his mind.

But no matter which one is used, it cannot be done quietly, and will attract the Jindan Zhenren from the county city.

That guy named Lei is in the late stage of foundation building and is also a disciple of Lingyuan Sect. He must have some strength.

At this moment, Chen Xuan felt a sense in his heart, and another soul came flying towards him.

"Fake Dan real person!"

After sensing the other party's strength, Chen Xuan moved slightly away from the seawall.

"Master Sun, Liu Ruyan refused to come to Chengping Mountain, and Chen Xuan didn't fall for it."

The monk surnamed Lei said in a low voice.

"That's all right. Let's see how long he can be so proud."

The fake Dan Sun Zhenren said in a cold voice.

"The sect has issued an order from the sect leader. Anyone who sees Chen Xuan within the territory of Yu State must be killed without mercy."

"The same is true for Lu."

The monk surnamed Lei sighed softly.

"I'm afraid that Chen Xuan won't set foot on the land of Yu and Lu."

"He can't stay on Wolong Island forever!"

Sun Zhenren said bitterly: "He colluded with the Sea Tribe Demon King and destroyed the leader of our Yu Kingdom Sect. If we don't punish him, who else will obey our Lingyuan Sect!"

The cultivator surnamed Lei agreed, "Master Sun is right. Zhu Yitian from the Divine Bamboo Sect is such a fool, he was fooled so easily!"

"Not entirely. If you're involved in a situation, you'll be in chaos. Besides, that's his only Foundation Establishment descendant."

"No one expected that the Sea Monster King would attack Chen Xuan, and that he would be the strongest killer whale in the sea."

Master Sun shook his head and sighed, "It's wrong. The Divine Bamboo Sect is so incompetent that they actually chose this idiot leader."

The cultivator surnamed Lei smiled and said, "This is also a good thing. The Shenzhu Sect is not strong enough to protect itself. If it were to be completely merged into the Lingyuan Sect, everyone would be happy!"

Upon hearing this, the two foundation-building cultivators of the Liu family laughed dryly in agreement.

"Friend Lei is right."

"If it weren't for the Lingyuan Sect's intervention, the Shenzhu Sect would have been wiped out by the surrounding sects long ago."

Everyone knows it.

Lingyuan Sect is not only interested in the spiritual vein of Shenzhu Sect, but also the eternal green jade spiritual bamboo industry.

From the perspective of Lingyuan Sect, helping Shenzhu Sect to take revenge and then merging it into the sect would be beneficial in every way.

"Forget it, it doesn't work this time, let's wait for the next chance."

Master Sun said with emotion.

The monk surnamed Lei instructed the two Liu family members to inform him as soon as they had any news.

"Chen Xuan is a man of unfathomable depth. Don't act rashly. Not to mention the two of you, even I wouldn't dare to claim I can defeat him."

"Remember, if Liu Ruyan comes to Chengping Mountain, arrest her and lure Chen Xuan here. Afterwards, the sect will reward you handsomely."

The monk surnamed Lei warned.

After saying this, the monk surnamed Lei left with Master Sun.

The Liu family's ancestor and the Liu family's head looked at each other.

"Let's go back too."

Ten miles away, Chen Xuan used the sea water to conceal his breath, and used his spiritual perception to hear the conversation of the four people in his heart.

"The Lingyuan Sect is fine, I'll let them go for now. A mere small cultivation family dared to ambush me. If I don't avenge this, I'm not a wise person."

Chen Xuan was not sure that he could kill the Lingyuan Sect cultivator instantly.

If he was entangled, this is inland near the sea, not belonging to the Dongshan Sea, and the Sea Demon King could not take action, so he would be in danger.

But it was just the words of the Liu family's ancestors and the Liu family head...

Chen Xuan pondered in his heart.

Through the spiritual perception, Master Sun and the monk surnamed Lei had already gone far away.

The two Liu family members, probably because they were in the inland of Yu Country and had confidence in the public security, traveled slowly on the flying boat.

One is in the late foundation building stage, and the other is in the middle foundation building stage. In the inland counties of Yu Kingdom, there are indeed not many Tribulation Cultivators who would provoke them.

Suddenly, the ancestor of the Liu family felt something.

He looked up.

At some point, dark clouds began to gather in the sky, and cold winds blew.

"Why did the weather suddenly change?"

Patriarch Liu asked with the same curiosity.

"careful!"

The Liu family ancestor issued a warning.

In the thick dark clouds, he vaguely saw a green dragon snake, appearing and disappearing in it.

Suddenly, I remembered something.

"go!"

The ancestor of the Liu family exerted his magic power on the flying boat, speeding it up.

However, it was too late.

Suddenly, more than ten talismans floated out from the dark clouds, drawing out more than ten purple thunderbolts as thick as buckets, each one a hundred feet long, striking the two men head-on.

"It's Chen Xuan!"

The Liu family ancestor's expression suddenly changed.

It was the first time he saw someone activate so many thunder talismans at the same time to fight the enemy.

He quickly raised a khaki shield and urged the flying boat to speed up and escape.

The head of the Liu family beside him also used a defensive magic weapon, a shining mirror.

However, everything is in vain.

next moment.

More than ten purple sky divine thunders lined up and chased the two of them, striking down with continuous rumbling sounds.

(End of this chapter)