The road is vague

Chapter 83 The Lu Family's Past

Wang Feng was the first to express surprise about Lu Cuicui's matter.

"Why, their Lu family has more problems than your Ye family?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan couldn't help but glare at Wang Feng again.

"It's not that the Lu family has too many things going on, it's that Lu Cuicui's family has too many things going on!"

Ye Xuan sighed.

"Perhaps it's because her parents were so in love. Ever since Lu Cuicui's father died in battle in Zhongshan Kingdom, her mother has become a little irrational. She personally went to Zhongshan Kingdom to investigate the cause of Lu Cuicui's father's death. She actually found out that he was killed by a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Zaizao Sect. So after returning, she spent all her family wealth and spared no expense to ask the Lu family's senior brothers and sisters to help her avenge Lu Cuicui's father."

Li Mo felt a headache just by listening to it.

To say she was bad was not the truth, but she was actually seeking revenge for her husband, which was truly chaste and heroic.

Say what you will about her, she actually threatened to take revenge privately for something that happened in public.

You can't be the only one allowed to kill while others wait to be killed. If everyone is like her, wouldn't the life and death of the war become a joke?
This type of person is emotional and difficult to reason with.

Now Li Mo could finally understand the storyteller's story. He knew why the protagonists would kill one person and then suffer endless revenge and vengeance from the other party's noble family. It seemed that the story could not unfold without this description.

Although reality is not as the storyteller describes, there are indeed some examples where the lives of one's own family members are life, while the lives of others are worthless and deserve to be killed.

However, such emotional cases are ultimately only a minority.

From another perspective, the puppeteers of the Re-Creation Sect are indeed the nemesis of the monks of the Lingmu Sect.

According to what Zhou Zheng said at the time, when fighting with the monks of Zaizao Sect, one must never trust the Eye of the True Spirit.

Li Mo seemed to be lost in thought.

After this graduation examination, he will participate in a so-called friendly exchange meeting. If he has the opportunity, he will definitely take a good look at the humanoid puppetry of the Re-Creation Sect monks.

"As a result, the Lu family's revengers were ambushed, and the murderer of Lu Cuicui's father had even broken through to the Golden Core stage. She caused the deaths of three Lu family cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage, and one completely lost the possibility of reaching the Core Formation stage. Only four people escaped. Many people in the Lu family are filled with resentment towards her."

Li Mo was speechless.

Weren't the two countries at war at that time? Were these people crazy and ran to the enemy camp to assassinate their target?

Or did they receive some false intelligence and end up being ambushed?
If this inference is correct, then the person who provided the false information is most likely Lu Cuicui's mother. She was eager for revenge and went to Zhongshan State to conduct a private investigation. Her methods were too crude and the other party knew about it in advance.

If this is true, it is understandable that the people of the Lu family resent her.

As for Lu Cuicui's father who died in battle, Lu Cuicui mentioned it several times, and Li Mo also knew about it.

Over the years, Lu Cuicui and Lu Shun have received a large amount of silver subsidies every year for the children of martyrs of the Daqian Kingdom.

The Lu family has never treated the two of them unfairly in official matters.

After they became children, they joined the Continuing Education Hall and received spiritual stones and contribution subsidies from the Lingmu Sect every month. In addition, every quarter the sect would arrange for different uncles in the Foundation Establishment Stage to visit them to show their care and comfort. Therefore, every time Lu Cuicui mentioned her father, she showed a hint of pride and had a sense of belonging to the Lu family, but she never mentioned her mother.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yidan looked puzzled.

"What happened next? What does this have to do with Lu Cuicui?"

Ye Xuan shook her head.

"Later, because of the ostracism from the families of the dead and injured in the Lu family, I became a little crazy. At that time, I was still young, and when the four major families occasionally gathered, my family wouldn't let me contact Lu Cuicui. I also heard from others later that Lu Cuicui's mother actually threatened that if anyone could give her 100,000 spirit stones, she would bring Lu Shun and Lu Cuicui to her house and make them slaves... Alas, I was ignorant at that time and ostracized this little sister. Don't look at Lu Cuicui as if she's fine now, she was actually quite pitiful back then."

"I go!"

Wang Feng, the young master of Yuancheng, was shocked when he heard this.

Ye Xuan showed a hint of sarcasm.

"She has a good idea. That's 100,000 spirit stones. Even if it's a top-grade, ten-thousand-year-old elixir, it would only be worth that much. Who would agree to such an outrageous deal?"

Zhu Yidan felt sympathy.

"If you put it that way, Lu Cuicui is truly pitiful. She's been without a father since she was a child, and yet she has to bear so much external pressure. I didn't notice that before. I always thought she was quite cheerful and petite and attractive."

After Zhu Yidan finished speaking, he was still confused.

"But what does her mother need so many spirit stones for?"

"It is said that the Daqian Kingdom has a secret organization that gathers intelligence and occasionally accepts assassination missions from abroad. The name of this organization is Touqi. Lu Cuicui's mother found this organization, and the price Touqi offered was 100,000 spirit stones."

Say it.

Ye Xuan looked at Li Mo with complicated eyes.

"That's why I just said this might not be easy. Lu Cuicui has shouldered too much since she was a child. She only looks fine on the outside because she has a brother. As for her mother... well, you'll understand if you meet her in the future."

Upon hearing this, Wang Feng and Zhu Yidan looked at Li Mo with complicated expressions.

This was the first time Li Mo heard about Lu Cuicui's family affairs, and he couldn't help feeling mixed emotions. It's true that every family has its own problems.

The disciples of aristocratic families are not necessarily as glorious as they appear.

"I see."

Li Mo nodded silently.

At this time.

The final day's graduation examination officially began. Li Mo, who was in the first round of the semi-finals, was immediately called.

"I'll go up first."

Wang Feng, Ye Xuan, and Zhu Yidan all cheered for Li Mo.

"Come on, Li Mo!"

"Li Mo..."

"Come on, Shi Yongjie!"

"Shi Yongjie..."

However, what surprised Li Mo was that Shi Yongjie also received support from many people.

As he entered the barrier, the sounds outside stopped abruptly.

Li Mo then carefully examined Shi Yongjie, who was standing across from him. He still had his signature mustache, but his features looked more mature, exuding a calm aura. He wasn't one to show off, but rather reliable and organized.

At this moment, Shi Yongjie looked at Li Mo with a solemn look in his eyes.

Neither of them spoke, but just looked at each other seriously, and then saluted each other respectfully.

"Game start!"

With a loud shout from the referee, the two men moved at the same time.

Shi Yongjie took out a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, and drew the bow and pulled the string in one go.

The arrow cut through the sky and headed towards Li Mo!

At this moment, the distance between the two sides was more than twenty-five feet, which was beyond the maximum distance that many Qi training cultivators could control their magic weapons. However, as a bow and arrow magic weapon, the arrow's range was far beyond that of other magic weapons. Even a Qi training cultivator could easily reach a range of more than one hundred feet. However, the disadvantage was that they could not control the arrow's flight trajectory and could not recall it.

Li Mo, who summoned the mutant demon wolf king, saw this, and his expression did not change at all.

He took a well-timed step to the right and easily avoided Shi Yongjie's premeditated attack by turning his head.

Boom!
The arrow exploded on the barrier, causing some ripples in the barrier.

It is worth mentioning here the difference between formations, prohibitions, and barriers.

The so-called formation requires the support of various objects as the base of the formation. The most common ones are magic tools, formation flags, and spiritual wood. For example, the Qingming Mountain Protection Formation is a super formation that is a perfect combination of more than 3,000 magic tools buried in various places and the Qingling sacred tree.

The flag array arranged by the flag array is only suitable for the protection of small-scale caves, and the number of array bases can hardly exceed the Nine Nine Techniques.

As for the so-called restrictions, they are related to runes.

Rune masters can change the basic properties of certain rune carrier materials by etching silver tadpole characters, seal characters, or other exotic runes.

For example, the walls can glow, the ground is extremely hard, there is no spiritual energy in the space, the gravity within the range is doubled, the magic weapons are sharper, etc.

In addition, runes are also applied in the arrangement of large formations, the arrangement of altars, and the art of refining equipment.

Finally, there is the so-called barrier.

This often refers to a special formation field formed by the precise combination of a large number of creatures, which usually has a strong purpose.

For example, warding off evil spirits, banning fire, eliminating spirits, stopping killing, banning the air, driving away poisons, etc.

The so-called barrier used in the sect's assessment was merely a killing barrier formed by a few Foundation Establishment cultivators, used to protect certain technical and core personnel in the rear when two armies were battling against each other.

When major powers go to war, super barriers formed by thousands of military monks can even make a huge battlefield a no-fly zone in an instant, and all objects that rely on magic power to fly will fall. Under the constant collision of various military formations and barriers, the rules and order of the battlefield are constantly fought over, various mysterious restricted areas are generated, and strange combinations are formed between them.

Even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage would be greatly troubled by this and would be unable to exert his true strength.

of course.

Li Mo's understandings were merely based on the experience of Lingmumen's preachers in the foundation-building stage.

Whether formations, prohibitions, and barriers will have other manifestations depends on the specific situation and cannot be generalized.

After dodging Shi Yongjie's preemptive attack, Li Mo nodded quietly.

Most of the disciples in Lingmumen's advanced study hall had outstanding performances, which can be regarded as an explanation for their three-year academic career.

The mutant demon wolf king charged forward and began to chase and bite continuously.

Shi Yongjie's bow and arrow magic weapon was useless, and a trace of despair appeared on his face. He successively summoned the flying sword and round shield magic weapons, which were of good quality, and the two continued to deal with each other on the field.

Li Mo stood in the distance, hoping that Shi Yongjie could have a more outstanding performance.

have to say.

Shi Yongjie not only has good magic weapons, but they are all high-quality mid-grade magic weapons. His five elements magic is also remarkable. He can be regarded as an elite disciple in the sect. However, in Li Mo's opinion, it is still a bit too incredible for him to make it to the semi-finals with such strength.

This batch of disciples, in particular, is a gathering of heroes.

When even Chen Yu and Ye Yimeng, two disciples at the tenth level of Qi training, were eliminated early, Shi Yongjie's qualification seemed even more abrupt.

At this time.

Faced with the powerful attack of the mutant demon wolf king, Shi Yongjie slapped the storage bag on his waist, took out a hammer-shaped magic weapon, and stood with his hands clasped above his head, trying to launch a fatal blow to the demon wolf king.

"A top-grade magical weapon?"

Li Mo raised his eyebrows.

With Shi Yongjie's seventh-level Qi training level, forcibly driving a top-grade magic weapon was like a child swinging a sledgehammer, and in the eyes of high-level cultivators, it was full of flaws.

The mutant demon wolf king stopped and his three heads actually made a "howl" sound, as if mocking someone.

It was not a low-level puppet. Then it stood still, shaking its tail to rest, and looked with its six eyes at Shi Yongjie, who was holding the hammer magic weapon and waiting for it to come to the door, as if it was looking at a fool.

Shi Yongjie continued to inject magic power into the flying hammer magic weapon, but he was unable to do so and his face turned red and his neck became thick.

But the mutant demon wolf king kept just the right distance from him and didn't give him any chance at all. Shi Yongjie had no choice but to step forward with a red face. However, what greeted him were two wind blades that attacked Shi Yongjie from the left and right.

Shi Yongjie tried to dodge with his body movements.

He was not sure in his heart, and as two wind blades passed by as fast as afterimages, a miracle happened and he successfully dodged them!
Then Shi Yongjie was overjoyed. He gritted his teeth and let out a loud shout, then summoned this top-grade magic weapon called the Stone-Breaking Hammer and smashed it hard at the mutant demon wolf king.

After doing all this, Shi Yongjie felt like a deflated ball, unable to fight anymore.

The speed of the stone-breaking hammer is not very fast.

Upon seeing this, the mutant demon wolf king jumped back while shaking his tail, easily avoiding the attack of this top-grade magic weapon, and was about to pounce and bite again.

"Brother Li Mo, please stop!"

Shi Yongjie stood where he was and shouted loudly.

Li Mo hurriedly signaled the mutant wolf king to stop.

After taking a short breath, Shi Yongjie looked at Li Mo solemnly and bowed respectfully with his fists clasped.

"I'm not very skilled in martial arts, and I'm defeated with all my heart. I admit defeat."

He had indeed tried his best, but the gap between the two was too big, and he was really powerless to save the situation. He could only try his best to maintain his last bit of dignity, and took the initiative to tear off the refuge talisman, turning into a white light and instantly disappearing into the barrier.

(End of this chapter)