A hundred lifetimes of cultivation, merely seeking immortality in the cultivation world.

Chapter 208 Looting the Shen Family

Cui Tao and Shen Wanzhong quickly looted the entire Cui clan. Their actions were extremely swift. Under Cui Tao's leadership and with the assistance of many cultivators from the Shen family, the numerous members of the Cui clan were unable to mount any effective resistance.

"Why? Why are you helping the Shen family and slaughtering us!"

In fear and despair, the Cui clan watched as their elders raised their knives and sacrificed them one by one, their blood condensing into clusters of crimson light.

Some people couldn't help but question it.

The Cui family took all the spirit stones and packed up all the spirit herbs.

When Qiyang Mountain was stained red with blood, the Shen clan's cultivators trembled with fear.

This family, which had existed for over a century, was thus on the verge of extinction.

"Brother Cui is indeed decisive in his actions. If it were me, I would probably be more hesitant."

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Shen Wanzhong smiled kindly and clasped his hands together.

"It's a pity that these sentient beings in the Saha world chose the wrong path, and in the end, they can only face destruction."

"Old Shen, we know you inside and out, why the need for such ridicule?"

Cui Tao looked at Shen Wanzhong and smiled disdainfully.

The Cui and Shen families were originally both families under the rule of the Qingchi Demonic Sect in the west of Yunxia. Hundreds of years ago, they betrayed the Demonic Sect and joined Yunxia. One family joined the Weapon Refining Peak, and the other joined the Beast Taming Peak.

Qiyang and Pinghu are originally one spiritual vein, which is a pseudo-second-order spiritual vein.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Yunxia Sect deliberately divided this spiritual vein in two with great supernatural powers. Thus, the two sects could only be enemies. Only when one side was destroyed could the other side absorb the other's fortune and spiritual energy to rebuild the spiritual vein.

Centuries have passed, and the people of Yunxia and the ordinary people of both tribes have almost forgotten their origins.

However, the half-step Foundation Establishment practitioners of the Cui and Shen families have always understood this secret and have passed down many of the methods of the Qingchi Demonic Sect to this day.

Ignoring Tao's cold voice.

"The Great Dao is ruthless. Since they have enjoyed our protection for a hundred years, it is only right that they should sacrifice their lives to die for their clan. As long as Cui Ze and I are alive, the Cui clan is still alive. I think they should be grateful in the afterlife."

"Besides, when your Shen family falls from grace, won't you do the same thing?"

Shen Wanzhong revealed a compassionate smile, everything was understood without words.

Cui Tao activated his magic incantation, slightly refining the blood essence of the myriad souls obtained through blood sacrifice. Then, thunder rumbled in the sky, and an invisible wisp of evil smoke mixed in with it.

As the billowing smoke dissipated, several scarlet pills floated in Cui Tao's palm.

"This is thirty percent of your share, Fellow Daoist Shen. You'd better watch yourself."

Cui Tao tossed two of the coins to Shen Wanzhong. Shen Wanzhong's eyes flashed with greed, but he quickly regained his compassionate expression and accepted them with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Cui, you are indeed a trustworthy person. Goodbye and don't see me off."

After speaking, Cui Tao did not linger any longer, allowing the Shen family to seize everything belonging to the Cui family of Qiyang, and then flew away.

"Brother, the saying goes, 'cut the weeds and eliminate the roots to prevent future troubles.' Why don't we take this opportunity to kill him? Now that we have Cui Yong under control, let him go up and die to wear us down. With three against two, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to capture him?"

Shen Wanding's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

Cui Yong remained awkwardly silent, inwardly cursing Shen Wanding a thousand times over.

"Even a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Cui Tao is unfathomable. It is said that he even possesses a half-step second-tier secret treasure. If we hastily catch up, we may end up making a mess of things."

Shen Wanzhong shook his head, his gaze deep, and chanted a Zen mantra.

"Moreover, Cui Tao's retreat this time was not because he was afraid of us. You should know that if he hadn't known that offending the Zhang and Zhao families of Danfeng would attract the attention of many wolves in the outer sect, who would not have let the Cui family go, he would have had to choose to cut off his tail like a gecko and flee. Otherwise, he would not have been afraid even if he had fought with us."

Shen Wanding was unwilling and stared fiercely at Cui Tao and the others as they left. It took him a long time before he finally put down his magic sword.

aside.

Shen Changzhu gave a bitter smile, only then realizing how vicious and ruthless these half-step Foundation Establishment elders were. They were so cruel that even the family itself was nothing more than someone who could be abandoned or killed at will.

Shen Changzhu sighed, just about to ask the two elders what to do next.

However, Shen Wanzhong frowned and his expression changed drastically.

"Oh no! A thief has taken advantage of the situation and sneaked into the clan!"

With the moon high in the sky, the outer residence of the Shen family in Pinghu was completely silent.

Lu Qingyun lay on the roof, his gaze sweeping across the courtyard below like a hawk. This time, Shen Wanzhong and Shen Wanding, both half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators, as well as Shen Changzhu, the sinister one, were all absent, which was a perfect opportunity for him to take advantage of the situation.

The Shen family ancestral home.

The three-courtyard house was now only lit in the main hall and the east wing. The two half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators were still in Qiyang and had not yet returned. Those who were in charge of the clan were just old, weak, sick and disabled people who had retired from the front line and were at the fourth or fifth level of Qi Refining.

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"Don't miss this opportunity."

Lu Qingyun took out a concealment talisman from his pocket and stuck it to his chest, instantly concealing his aura to almost nothing.

He swayed and drifted into the courtyard like a falling leaf.

His footsteps landed silently, thanks to the "Treading Snow Without a Trace" movement technique he had chosen from the Zhao Clan's Scripture Pavilion. Under the cover of his half-step Foundation Establishment divine sense, these cultivators couldn't even detect a trace of him.

Walk through the gravel path in the front yard.

Lu Qingyun headed straight for the Shen family's Treasure Pavilion, a small building where the Shen family stored spirit stones and magical artifacts. The Zhao family had already scouted the location a month ago.

The barrier outside the Treasure Pavilion shimmered with a dark blue light. Lu Qingyun smiled slightly and took out a barrier-breaking bead from his sleeve.

This was prepared in advance by Zhao Qingxuan, specifically for breaking the restrictions of the Qi Refining stage. She originally thought it wouldn't be useful in Qiyang and would be taken back for nothing, but unexpectedly it came in handy for the Shen family.

Lu Qingyun bit his fingertip, and a drop of his blood fell onto the bead, which immediately emitted a faint golden light.

"Click!"

The restriction shattered instantly, and the wooden door of the Treasure Pavilion slowly opened. Lu Qingyun slipped inside, his movements as swift as a ghost. The pavilion had three floors; the first floor contained ordinary pills and magical artifacts, which he ignored and went straight to the second floor.

On the second shelf, there were more than thirty mid-grade spirit stones and three magic artifacts neatly stacked.

A look of surprise flashed in Lu Qingyun's eyes. He quickly swept the spirit stones into his storage bag and then picked up the magic artifacts to examine them closely—one was a high-grade flying sword, another was a defensive spirit turtle shield, and the third was a rare bewitching bell.

"Although the quality is average, it's still worth several hundred thousand spirit stones!" Lu Qingyun put the three magic artifacts into his pocket and was about to go to the third floor when he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps coming from downstairs.

"Someone has broken into the Treasure Pavilion!" a gruff voice shouted.

Lu Qingyun ignored it, knowing that the sound of breaking the seal had alerted the Shen family disciples. He quickly went up to the third floor and saw an ancient wooden box in the center with talismans pasted on it.

Lu Qingyun stuffed the wooden box into his storage bag, then leaped out of the third-floor window.

"There it is!"

The Shen family disciples in the courtyard had already spotted him, and seven or eight of them surrounded him, each holding a magical artifact.

The leader was a middle-aged man at the sixth level of Qi Refining, wielding a long sword, who shouted sternly, "Who dares to cause trouble for the Shen family of Pinghu!"

Lu Qingyun sneered, took a step and his figure rose several feet higher. At the same time, he waved his right hand and more than ten [Explosive Flame Talismans] scattered towards the crowd like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Flames shot into the sky, and waves of heat rolled in. Although the Shen family disciples were not weak, they were caught off guard and were blown about.

Although the man at the sixth level of Qi Refining blocked the flames with his sword, he still had to take several steps back.

Immediately afterward, Lu Qingyun's sword light struck, and the man tried to use the same trick again, blocking with his sword.

However, bang! A crisp sound rang out.

His sword snapped instantly, and his head was smoothly sliced ​​open and fell to the ground.

"Master, you actually killed my master!"

This man was the strongest among those left behind by the Shen family. Upon seeing his death, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, not daring to step forward, filled with apprehension.

Lu Qingyun stood calmly atop the building, a faint aura of a half-step Foundation Establishment cultivator approaching from the west. "Back so quickly?"

Lu Qingyun raised an eyebrow and shook his head regretfully. If it weren't for the quick reactions of the two half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Shen family, he wouldn't even have needed to escape.

Lu Qingyun's gaze swept over the crowd downstairs, and he used his movement technique to break through the encirclement, disappearing into the night in a few leaps.

Behind them came the angry curses and shouts of the Shen family disciples, but they grew farther and farther away.

He ran for over thirty miles in one breath, until Pinghu was already behind him, before stopping. He found a secluded cave, set up a simple warning array, and then eagerly opened his storage bag to count his spoils.

There were thirty-six mid-grade spirit stones, a high-grade flying sword, a spirit tortoise shield, a bewitching bell, and a wooden box with talismans affixed to it. He carefully peeled off the talismans, opened the wooden box, and inside was a second-tier wood-elemental treasure, a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

"What a pleasant surprise!"

Lu Qingyun couldn't help but laugh out loud, his eyes almost overflowing with joy. "I originally thought I would have to explore several more secret realms to find enough precious medicines to cultivate my supernatural abilities, but I never expected to obtain this rare precious medicine from the Shen family. I'm afraid Shen Wanzhong prepared this for his own breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment stage."

"If that old man finds out, he'll probably be so angry he'll vomit blood!"

Lu Qingyun examined the spirit stones and magical artifacts again, and touched the flying sword with great affection. The sword was cold to the touch, with a faint, cold light flowing through it.

"What a fine sword! It's many times stronger than the magic sword in my hand. I'm afraid it's a magic weapon passed down from the Shen family to future generations. It's a pity that I got it so well."

Lu Qingyun carefully put his things away, leaned against the cave wall, and let out a long breath. Moonlight streamed in from the cave entrance, illuminating his smiling face.

"The exquisite craftsmanship of this magic sword even surpasses that of the sword I saw belonging to Zhao Rushou in the Zhao family. The origins of the Shen family are probably extraordinary. Could it be that the rumors from my previous life, that these two clans are branches of two major clans of the Qingchi Demonic Sect, are true?"

He muttered to himself, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes, "It's a pity that because of those two half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators, we couldn't completely plunder the Shen family, and we can't tell whether this matter is true or false."

"Moreover, Shen Wanding is an earth-element cultivator, yet there are no earth-element treasures to be seen. He must be carrying them with him. Once my cultivation breaks through again, I will surely come back to visit."

The wind howled outside the cave, and the distant shouts of the Shen clan's pursuers could be faintly heard, but Lu Qingyun remained calm. Not to mention their low cultivation level, even if Shen Wanzhong himself came, they wouldn't be able to find him under the cover of the tiger-shaped pendant.

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He had already planned his escape route. There were seven or eight forks in the road, so the Shen family's people couldn't find this place at all.

Lu Qingyun closed his eyes and regulated his breathing.

"As expected, the path of cultivation cannot rely solely on hard work; one must also rely on this kind of risk-free business."

Among the Shen family.

"It's lost! It's really lost!"

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Shen Wanzhong flew into a rage, and his pale yellow robes fluttered even without wind.

The thief not only robbed him of the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum he was preparing to break through to the half-step Foundation Establishment stage, but also stole the First Ancestor's sword.

Cui Yong, Shen Wanding, and Shen Changzhu searched separately, but all their efforts yielded no results.

Shen Wanzhong's face was contorted with rage, his eyes bloodshot, devoid of any trace of compassion or mercy.

Cui swallowed hard and pulled Shen Wanding to his side.

Shen Wanding frowned and grabbed Cui Yong.

"But you filthy scoundrel, you colluded with outsiders to plunder my family's treasures?!"

"No, Lord Wan Zhong, this really has nothing to do with me!"

"My life is already in your hands, how could I possibly do such a foolish thing?"

Shen Wanzhong grabbed the old man who had been killed by Lu Qingyun, staring intently at the smooth cut on his neck, and said coldly, "If he is not lying to me, this person is indeed unrelated to him. This treasure is someone else, the one who seized the Cui family's treasure trove in Qiyang, the one at the mid-stage of Qi Refining."

"He not only plundered the Cui family's treasure trove and played Cui Tao like a puppet, but he also starved us. He already knew the strengths and weaknesses of our clan. While we were making arrangements for the aftermath at Qiyang Mountain, he immediately went to Pinghu and ransacked our clan's Zangshilou."

"Brother..."

Shen Wanding's eyes were filled with hatred as he gripped Cui Yong tightly.

"Could it really be such a coincidence that we all managed to track that person down, only for this useless puppet to run into him at Qiyang Mountain?"

"Perhaps he's just putting on an act to deceive us!"

"Let's search for your soul."

Shen Wanzhong said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Cui Yong's face immediately turned pale.

Lu Qingyun returned to Yunxia Sect, removed his human skin mask, and skillfully drove to the General Affairs Hall to submit his mission.

Before leaving.

The student in charge of the affairs looked at him a few more times, his eyes filled with envy.

When they were in the early stages of Qi Refining, they were still struggling in the sect, while Lu Qingyun already had the protection of many powerful members of the Zhao family and could go to the Yunxia Mountains to gather inspiration at any time.

Is this wind so easy to collect?

Zhen not only had to contend with the possible schemes of Foundation Establishment True Persons, but also had to snatch chestnuts from the fire right under the noses of several Half-Step Foundation Establishment True Persons. If he hadn't been well prepared, Zhen would have been in serious trouble, not to mention the puppets Cui used.

Ignoring the envious glances of his disciples, Lu Qingyun informed Zhao Qingxuan and Chen Xiru of the danger.

Chen Xiru is in seclusion again, so let's leave it at that.

On the other hand, Zhao Qingxuan also had good news. The precious medicine from Dajing had been delivered ahead of schedule. The death of Zhao Ruchan had a huge impact on all the branches. After this incident, all the branches were much more sensible.

Half a month later.

Lu Qingyun sat cross-legged in the center of the secret room, his energy and spirit fully restored.

The room was built with bluestone on all four sides, and a ring of red copper nails was embedded in the gaps between the walls. The nail heads were engraved with small restrictions that locked away vital energy. It took Zhao Shi half a month to finally arrange the room properly.

Now, the spirit stones turn into smoke, swirling around, making people's noodles scald.

Four jade boxes were placed in front of Lu Qingyun, their lids half-open, emitting a shimmering light. Inside were the four precious medicines he had been searching for all this time.

Upon seeing this, Lu Qingyun's eyes widened, and he lightly made a hand seal.

"Everything is ready; it's time to break through to the Qi Refining Perfection stage!"

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