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Chapter 224 Dividing into Four Groups, Lin Hongyu's Self-Redemption [Please Subscribe]

The small White Fang stronghold was quickly captured in one wave of attacks by more than two hundred Foundation Establishment and Purple Mansion cultivators.

Most of the cultivators inside were killed, with only a few left to be questioned for information.

Through these people, everyone quickly learned that after the news of the Dragon Transformation Sect feeding dragons with dragons spread, the three Purple Mansion stage cultivators in the White Fang stronghold went to the White Dragon branch to question the hall master and others, leaving only a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators to lead a group of Qi Refining stage cultivators to maintain the operation of the stronghold.

But just before Zhou Chun and his army arrived, three more Foundation Establishment cultivators escaped from the stronghold.

That's why such a stronghold could be easily captured in one wave.

After learning all this, Daoist Mingjing frowned deeply.

After frowning and pondering for a moment, he addressed the various Purple Mansion stage cultivators standing or sitting around him, saying, "The situation at the White Fang stronghold is certainly not an isolated case. I fear that most of the other strongholds will also be far from their peak condition. Therefore, I have decided to divide our forces. Do any of you fellow cultivators have any objections?"

Upon hearing this, a cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage immediately replied, "If we are to split our forces, how does Fellow Daoist Mingjing plan to divide them? How many routes will we take?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another cultivator at the Purple Mansion stage chimed in, "Indeed, although we have a considerable number of people, if we are too scattered, it will be difficult to quickly break through the stronghold if we encounter a tough opponent!"

"Rest assured, fellow Daoists, even if we split up, we certainly won't be too far apart."

At this point, Daoist Mingjing said in a deep voice, "I plan to divide our forces into four routes, each consisting of eight Purple Mansion cultivators and forty Foundation Establishment cultivators. This way, no matter which stronghold we encounter, we will have an overwhelming numerical advantage!"

"Besides Fellow Daoist Mingjing's group, who should lead and command the other three groups?"

A glint of light flashed in the eyes of a cultivator from the Purple Mansion Realm, and he asked a new question.

Upon hearing this question, Daoist Mingjing glanced around at all the Purple Mansion cultivators before slowly saying, "The other three routes will be led by Junior Brother Minghe, Fellow Daoist Zhao, and Fellow Daoist Lü. Is this acceptable to everyone?"

Of the three people he mentioned, apart from the Minghe Daoist from Qinglian Temple who was only at the mid-stage of the Purple Mansion realm, the other two were at the late-stage of the Purple Mansion realm, and their families were among the top thirty families in the previous "Hundred Clans Conference".

Upon hearing his arrangement, cultivators like Zhou Mingde, who knew they would never be in charge, were naturally indifferent to whatever arrangement was made.

However, the other late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators frowned slightly, seemingly unwilling to be subordinate to others.

However, they had reservations, and for a moment no one spoke up to object.

Upon seeing this, Daoist Mingjing immediately gave a wink to Zhou Mingde and several other cultivators at the early and middle stages of the Purple Mansion realm.

"I, Zhou, will obey Fellow Daoist Mingjing's every command!"

"I will follow Fellow Daoist Mingjing's instructions in everything."

"I, Chen, will only obey Fellow Daoist Mingjing's orders!"

Zhou Mingde and the others responded one after another, indicating that they would follow the instructions and arrangements of Daoist Mingjing.

At this point, the other Purple Mansion cultivators, who knew they had no chance of being in charge, could only echo their sentiments.

After most people echoed Mingjing Daoist's arrangement, those few late-stage Purple Mansion cultivators, despite their discomfort, could only reluctantly agree.

So, Daoist Mingjing immediately divided all the people into groups.

Perhaps as a reward for Zhou Mingde's earlier initiative in speaking out, the Zhou family was assigned to Mingjing Daoist's group, and were not led or commanded by anyone else.

After the groups were formed, Daoist Mingjing took out a map of the wilderness that Qinglian Temple had secretly drawn up and made a copy for the other three commanders. He pointed out the locations of the strongholds to be attacked and the tasks to be carried out after the strongholds were captured.

Then, a dozen or so Foundation Establishment stage cultivators with insufficient magical power were left at the White Fang stronghold to wait for the subsequent Qi Refining stage cultivator teams to arrive, while the four teams split into four groups and rushed towards the other four Dragon Transformation Sect strongholds.

Just as Zhou Chun and the others were heading from the White Fang stronghold to the next stronghold, the great battle at the Crimson Dragon branch had already begun.

Among the various branches of the Dragon Transformation Sect, the Crimson Dragon Branch was second only to the Black Dragon Branch in strength, so the Moon Wheel Sect was the main force attacking the Crimson Dragon Branch.

At this very moment, over four hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Moon Wheel Sect, led by thirty-six Purple Mansion cultivators, formed three secret battle formations of the Moon Wheel Sect called the "Crescent Moon Shooting Star Formation".

Through secret battle formation techniques, they linked their magical power together, using the power of the moon's radiance as a guide, transforming it into powerful spiritual arrows that shot towards the Crimson Dragon Branch Altar's protective formation.

One after another, silver-white arrows, each tens of feet long, streaked across the sky and plunged into the Crimson Dragon Branch Altar's protective array like meteors from outer space, emitting bursts of booming and explosive sounds.

The power of those silver-white arrows was such that even ordinary Golden Core cultivators wouldn't dare to take them head-on.

At the same time, fifteen Golden Core cultivators were also distributed in all four directions of the Crimson Dragon Branch Altar, each unleashing their magic treasures and supernatural powers to relentlessly attack the protective array of the Crimson Dragon Branch Altar.

Faced with such a fierce offensive, the cultivators of the Dragon Transformation Sect in the Crimson Dragon Branch were all in danger, and each of them was filled with fear.

The strength of the Crimson Dragon Branch is definitely not weak. There are three Golden Core stage elders alone, plus the hall master and two deputy hall masters, making a total of six Golden Core stage cultivators. In addition, there is a fourth-order mid-grade Crimson Fire Dragon guarding the area.

With such power, and with the protective array in place, they would not be without a fighting chance even against Golden Core cultivators outside who outnumbered them many times over.

However, at this very moment, the leader of the Crimson Dragon Hall, influenced by that "rumor," had already led a mid-grade fourth-tier Crimson Fire Dragon to the main altar!

Ostensibly, he did this in response to the requests of the Dharma Protectors and Elders, to give an explanation to the leader and deputy leader.

But in reality, they were afraid that the two deputy hall masters and three elders would "rebel" and surround and kill the fourth-order mid-grade Crimson Fire Dragon.

After all, just over a hundred years ago, the Grand Elder of the Crimson Dragon Hall did something similar.

With the absence of a hall master at the late Golden Core stage and a mid-grade fourth-tier Crimson Fire Dragon to oversee the situation, how could the Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators within the Crimson Dragon branch not be filled with panic and fear in the face of the Moon Wheel Sect's powerful offensive from outside?

They were all very clear that with the current strength of the branch altar, there was no way it could withstand the offensive of the Moon Wheel Sect outside.

It seems that the protective formation will be forcibly breached within two days.

At that time, without the protection of the protective array, whether they could break through and escape when faced with an attack from Moon Wheel Sect cultivators who outnumbered them would depend entirely on luck.

As a protector of the Crimson Dragon Hall, Lin Hongyu was no exception.

At this moment, while she was trying her best to provide power to the protective formation, she was also anxiously thinking about her own escape route.

After taking the Crimson Sun Pearl Pill that she had taken from the Jiang family, she successfully broke through to the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm.

Given her age of less than four hundred years at this time, she may well have the opportunity to try to form a core in the future.

However, not long after she emerged from seclusion, news spread that the Dragon Transformation Sect was feeding dragons with humans.

Upon learning of this, she was shocked and furious, feeling deceived and betrayed, and utterly heartbroken.

It makes sense. Anyone who knew that after hundreds of years of hard work and cultivation, they would ultimately be kept as food for a worm would be mentally devastated and find it hard to accept.

If it weren't for the restraint of the "Dragon Soul Seed," all the dragons of the Dragon Transformation Sect would have been slaughtered in an instant by the furious protectors and elders.

After her anger subsided, Lin Hongyu was naturally unwilling to become food for an animal.

She must strive to break free from her shackles and escape her confinement!

So before the three major sects made their move, she sent a trusted confidant with treasures and her secret letter to the Zhou family, asking them to help her break free from her confinement and shackles.

"Judging by the time, the Zhou family should have received my secret message. I hope that guy isn't really so heartless and can help me this once!"

She muttered to herself, but she wasn't very confident.

It wasn't just because she lacked confidence that Zhou Daoyi would help her, but also because she wasn't very confident that her own plan would succeed.

But that's all she can hope for now!

On the other side, just one day before the battle at the Crimson Dragon branch altar began, a woman in red with the cultivation level of the early Foundation Establishment stage suddenly found the Zhou family and specifically asked to see the Zhou family patriarch, Zhou Daoyi.

Although Zhou Daoyi had secretly emerged from seclusion, he remained extremely low-key and did not appear in front of his clansmen. Only Zhou Jiahe, the fifth elder who was nominally in charge of the family, knew about his emergence from seclusion.

When she heard that a woman who had never been to the Zhou family before had come to see the clan leader Zhou Daoyi, she was also very surprised.

However, he still refused the woman in red's request to visit, citing Zhou Daoyi's seclusion to break through to the Purple Mansion.

Unexpectedly, the woman in red was extremely irritable and completely ignored her polite refusal. After she refused, she directly attacked the Zhou family's protective mountain formation and even used a third-tier magic talisman!

Such an offensive was bound to alarm Zhou Daoyi.

In the end, Zhou Daoyi personally captured the woman in red and interrogated her about her origins.

However, after Zhou Daoyi learned about the woman's origins and purpose from her, he quickly released her from her restraints, and his expression changed drastically.

It turned out that the woman in red was the messenger sent by Lin Hongyu.

He was not a member of the Dragon Transformation Sect and had never practiced the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique".

She was adopted by Lin Hongyu when she was young and secretly taught her cultivation. She had long regarded Lin Hongyu as her godmother and took Lin Hongyu's surname, becoming Lin Wan'er.

After Lin Hongyu helped her successfully establish her foundation, she allowed her to travel in Jing Kingdom as a rogue cultivator, to gather information and do certain things for her. Previously, Lin Hongyu also used her to communicate with the Zhou family through correspondence.

This time, Lin Hongyu wanted to break free from the shackles of the Dragon Transformation Sect, so she took advantage of the panic among the high-ranking members of the Crimson Dragon Branch to secretly meet with her, handing her some treasures and a letter, and instructing her to deliver them to Zhou Daoyi personally as quickly as possible.

It was precisely because Lin Hongyu had told her about the seriousness of the matter that she was willing to use a third-tier magic talisman to attack the Zhou family's protective mountain formation in order to attract Zhou Daoyi's attention.

In the letter, Lin Hongyu earnestly requested Zhou Daoyi to help her connect with the Golden Core cultivators of the three major sects, considering their past as husband and wife. She offered to act as an inside agent to provide information to the three major sects and help them kill the fourth-tier mid-grade Crimson Fire Dragon at the Crimson Dragon branch.

The activation of "Dragon Soul Seed" requires the cooperation of a living dragon.

Once the fourth-tier mid-grade Crimson Fire Dragon of the Crimson Dragon Hall is killed, the restrictions on Lin Hongyu and the elders and protectors of the Crimson Dragon branch altars will be lifted, and they will no longer need to cultivate while wearing the tight headband.

Of course, Lin Hongyu also knew that it would be difficult to persuade Zhou Daoyi and the Zhou family to risk helping her based solely on their brief affair.

Therefore, in her letter, she promised that as long as she successfully escaped danger, she would donate all the wealth she had accumulated in her life to the Zhou family, and would also be willing to do some things for the Zhou family in secret in the future.

In order to win over Zhou Daoyi and the Zhou family as much as possible, she also listed some of her treasured items in the letter, including two Foundation Establishment Pills, a spiritual item to help open the Purple Mansion, as well as various dragon-born monster eggs and rare dragon blood spiritual items.

Undoubtedly, her approach was very successful, successfully hitting Zhou Daoyi's weak spot.

Zhou Daoyi may not have cared about her so-called one-day marriage, but he definitely cared about the substantial wealth she had accumulated.

With two Foundation Establishment Pills, barring extremely bad luck, the Zhou family can almost certainly produce another Foundation Establishment cultivator, just enough to fill the vacancy left by the loss of Second Elder Zhou Chongshan soon.

The spiritual objects that assist in opening the Purple Mansion are even more precious, giving Zhou Daoquan, the third elder of the Zhou family, a chance to break through to the Purple Mansion.

Because he had taken over all the family's resources, Zhou Daoyi always felt somewhat guilty towards the Third Elder, Zhou Daoquan, since Zhou Daoquan had broken through to the late Foundation Establishment stage before him.

Furthermore, his ability to cultivate to the late stage of Foundation Establishment was also due to the fact that the Supreme Elder Zhou Mingde had provided him with a large number of pills.

Therefore, when Zhou Daoyi saw an opportunity to make up for his guilt, he really didn't want to give it up.

However, he also knew that once he acted as a matchmaker for Lin Hongyu, the fact that the Zhou family was colluding with the Hualong Sect cultivators would no longer be able to be kept secret.

All the collaborations that were previously carried out with Lin Hongyu may be exposed to the three major sects.

Even if the Zhou family made significant contributions in this war, they might not escape being punished by then!

After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Daoyi seemed to have made a decision. He suddenly said to Lin Wan'er in front of him, "I know everything. Miss Lin, you can stay in the Zhou family to cultivate from now on. I will send someone to inform the Supreme Elder at the front line about this matter immediately."

Upon hearing this, Lin Wan'er replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "If you wish to send someone to deliver a message, Senior Zhou, you might as well allow me to accompany you. My familiarity with the wilderness will save the messenger from many detours and allow me to promptly convey a reassuring message to my godmother!"

"this……"

Zhou Daoyi hesitated slightly and did not agree immediately.

He kept Lin Wan'er as a hostage, partly to prevent Lin Hongyu from using her to do anything detrimental to the Zhou family.

Judging from Lin Wan'er's words, it seemed that Lin Hongyu had made another agreement with her and would not feel at ease until she replied.

This made him fear that his detention of Lin Wan'er might backfire and harm the Zhou family.

After weighing the pros and cons, she finally nodded and said, "Alright, then I'll trouble Miss Lin to lead the way!"

I've been bleeding after bowel movements for the past few days. I don't know if it's caused by internal hemorrhoids or rectal polyps. I have an appointment with the doctor this morning. I hope it's just internal hemorrhoids, otherwise I'll have to suffer a lot during surgery!

(End of this chapter)