Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 371 Riding the Dragon on a Western Expedition [Please Subscribe]

After leaving the Qinglian Temple, Zhou Chun's face was filled with joy.

The outcome of his trip to Qinglian Temple was far better than he had anticipated.

Upon learning of his purpose, Qingweizi only hesitated briefly before quickly agreeing to the Zhou family's plan to seek revenge against the Jiang family.

They even encouraged the Zhou family to do this without worrying about any pressure from the Tianjing Sect.

Although no definitive guarantee was given, given Qingweizi's status, the fact that she would say such a thing suggests that if Tianjingmen were to intervene, Qinglian Temple would most likely not stand idly by.

Since Qingweizi had said so, Zhou Chun and the Zhou family naturally wouldn't be polite.

After Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou family, he immediately informed Zhou Mingde and the others of Qing Weizi's attitude.

After hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhou Mingde's expression shifted, and he said meaningfully, "It seems that Qinglian Temple also deeply hates these traitors from the Jiang family. This time, we've practically delivered ourselves into their clutches!"

"It's nothing to be used as a tool by others. Being able to serve as a tool for Qinglian Temple shows that our Zhou family's strength has been recognized by Qinglian Temple, which is a good thing for our Zhou family."

Zhou Daoyi said calmly, showing no resentment towards being used as a tool by the Qinglian Temple.

Zhou Daoquan, standing to the side, nodded repeatedly, saying, "That's right. Since Qinglian Temple intends to use our Zhou family as a tool, then we must demonstrate the sharpness of that tool and let Qinglian Temple see the value of our Zhou family!"

"So what should we do now? How many people should we send to Lingzhou?"

Zhou Chun looked at the three elders and asked about the deployment of troops.

Actually, he already had his own ideas, but because he was a junior, he couldn't say them directly. So he could only ask the elders what their plans were.

Fortunately, Zhou Mingde and the others understood him.

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Daoyi immediately said, "Zhengchun, you are the clan leader. You should be the one to decide what to do."

Zhou Mingde nodded in agreement, saying, "Daoyi is absolutely right. Zhengchun, you can make the arrangements. We will all follow your instructions."

Since both of them said so, Zhou Daoquan naturally wouldn't disagree.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun no longer feigned modesty and immediately said, "Since the three elders have said so, then this junior will dare to speak frankly."

"In my opinion, since Qinglian Temple is willing to shield the family from the pressure from Tianjing Sect, then the family has no need to be timid and hesitant."

"Therefore, I suggest that all four of the family's Purple Mansion cultivators be mobilized. Except for one who remains at the border of Lanzhou and Lingzhou as backup, the other three should lead the family's six Foundation Establishment cultivators straight to the Jiang family's mountain gate and attempt to destroy the entire family!"

They'll cut down the mountain and wipe out the entire family!

Upon hearing Zhou Chun's words, Zhou Mingde and the other two exchanged bewildered glances.

Then Zhou Mingde clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Good! What a brilliant plan to destroy a mountain and exterminate a clan! That's how it should be done! That's how we can show the Zhou family's abilities and enhance our family's prestige!"

"The Jiang family has repeatedly offended my Zhou family. If there is an opportunity to wipe them out, that would be the best outcome!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded slightly, agreeing wholeheartedly.

With everyone in agreement, Zhou Chun quickly mobilized his troops and summoned the six Foundation Establishment cultivators.

The six individuals are Zhou Jiarui, Zhou Jiahe, Zhou Zhengyong, Zhou Zhengqing, Zhou Xinlan, and Zhou Xindie.

Inside the entire Jiufengling Mountain Gate, only Zhou Zhengyuan, who was not good at fighting, and Zhou Xintie, who had just successfully established his foundation, remained.

At the same time, before setting off, Zhou Chun also had the Intelligence Hall send an eagle message to Zhou Jiapeng, who was stationed at the pioneering base, so that he could immediately go to the border between Lanzhou and Lingzhou after receiving the message.

After arranging everything in this way, Zhou Daoyi summoned his spirit pet Qingqing, and the group of ten rode on the dragon, rushing towards Lingzhou at an extremely fast speed.

Lingzhou and Lanzhou are adjacent to each other, and it is only a little over a thousand li from Zhoujiashanmen to the border of Lingzhou.

Once a third-tier Azure Dragon unleashes its speed, it can travel a thousand miles in an hour.

Therefore, the Zhou family's group of ten arrived at the border between the two states in just over an hour after leaving their family's mountain gate.

Before the establishment of the Tianjing Sect, Lingzhou and Lanzhou were both under the jurisdiction of the Qinglian Temple. There was no actual boundary between the two states, and cultivators from both states could travel freely without any hindrance.

However, with the establishment of the Tianjing Sect and its exclusive control of Lingzhou, observation points set up by both sides began to appear on the border between Lingzhou and Lanzhou.

These observation points are essentially reconnaissance posts, mainly used to observe whether there are signs of a large number of cultivators crossing the border from the opposing forces, serving as a reconnaissance and warning function.

Of course, if a high-level cultivator is discovered entering the country, these observation points will immediately report the relevant information.

At this moment, the Zhou family arrived riding a dragon. The azure dragon's vigorous and majestic appearance was quickly spotted by some border observation points.

Because they were traveling from Lanzhou to Lingzhou, the observation point at Tianjingmen hurriedly reported the dragon's westward journey.

However, the speed at which the observation points reported information could not keep up with the speed of the Azure Dragon.

After Zhou Daoquan, who was in charge of the rendezvous, went down to wait in the border area, Qingjiao headed straight for the Jiang family's mountain gate under Zhou Daoyi's command.

The Jiang family was once a family that the Zhou family dared not easily provoke. Although none of the Zhou family's high-ranking members had ever been to the Jiang family's mountain gate, both the former patriarch Zhou Daoyi and the current patriarch Zhou Chun knew how to get there.

Then they saw a blue dragon soaring and weaving through the clouds, while the earth and mountains below swept past at high speed.

Before long, a mountain range with towering peaks appeared in the sight of everyone on the dragon's back.

"We've arrived. This is the Qingxia Mountain Range where the Jiang Family Sect is located. The Jiang Family Sect's headquarters should be over there!"

In the sky, Zhou Daoyi ordered the Azure Dragon to slow down and pointed to a certain spot in the mountain range below.

"Let's charge in and catch them off guard before they get any news!"

Zhou Mingde's eyes turned cold, and he responded with murderous intent.

This statement was immediately agreed upon by Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun.

With a thought, Zhou Daoyi caused the azure dragon beneath his feet to swirl its tail and accelerate instantly.

A quarter of an hour later, the Azure Dragon, carrying the Zhou family's group of nine on its back, swooped down from the clouds and landed directly above a forest.

Then the nine people on the dragon's back dispersed, each reaching for their storage bags and spirit beast bags at their waists, summoning their magical artifacts and releasing their main battle pets.

A mid-grade, third-tier demonic beast, the Fire God Jackal!

Second-tier superior-grade demonic beast, Silver Lightning Python!

Second-tier mid-grade demonic beast, Golden Armored Rock Turtle!

Second-tier low-grade demonic beast, Golden-winged Tiger!

Second-tier low-grade demonic beast, Blue Feather Fire Kite!

One after another, enormous demonic beasts were released by the Zhou family, their howls and roars filling the air, creating a truly magnificent spectacle.

"Let's do it!"

With a loud shout from Zhou Mingde, the Zhou family cultivators and their spirit pets in the sky launched an attack on the forest below.

Various magical lights flashed, wind blades howled, lightning roared, flames raged, and sword energy pierced the air...

Under the attack of numerous magical artifacts and spells, the forest instantly shattered like a dream, revealing a sea of ​​green clouds.

It turns out that the forest that was visible to the naked eye was actually just an illusion created by the array.

Suddenly attacked by a powerful external force, the illusion of the formation instantly collapsed. The green sea of ​​clouds that was responsible for the main defense inside also surged violently during the attack, looking like it was about to collapse.

It appears that the Zhou family only sent three Purple Mansion stage cultivators and six Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, but in reality, if you include their spirit pets, that's five third-tier combatants and ten second-tier combatants!

Such a lineup is fully capable of shaking the mountain gate formation of a powerful immortal cultivation clan like the Jiang family.

The sudden and fierce attack on the mountain gate's protective array alerted the Jiang family cultivators inside, who all came out to join the attack.

When they saw the people and monsters attacking their mountain gate through the array's mist, they immediately knew who the enemy was.

"A third-tier flood dragon and a third-tier fire god jackal—the enemy is the Zhou family of Lanzhou!"

A Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Jiang family, looking grim, revealed the origins of the enemies outside and then hurriedly rushed towards a nearby array base.

At the same time, Jiang Shicheng, a cultivator from the Jiang family's Purple Mansion, shouted loudly, instantly echoing throughout the Jiang family's mountain gate.

"All members of the Jiang family, heed my command! The crisis of our family's destruction and extermination is imminent. Except for essential personnel, everyone must immediately proceed to their respective array bases to guard the mountain gate!"

Before the shout had even finished, Jiang Shicheng himself had already appeared at the most important position of the mountain gate's protective array, taking the central control array flag from a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Jiang family and personally controlling the array.

While manipulating the formation to defend against the attacks of the Zhou family cultivators outside, he ordered the Foundation Establishment cultivator assisting him, "Immediately send out a thousand-mile communication talisman to request reinforcements from the Heavenly Mirror Sect, and also ask the Guo and He families to send troops to support us!"

After giving the order, he angrily shouted at the Zhou family members who were attacking outside: "Fellow Daoists of the Zhou family, what is the meaning of this? My Jiang family has never provoked the Zhou family in all these years, why are you making such a big fuss to try to wipe out my clan?"

Upon hearing his words, Zhou Mingde, who was focusing all his efforts on attacking the mountain-guarding formation, immediately sneered and said, "Jiang Shicheng, you are also a Purple Mansion cultivator, someone to be reckoned with, so how come you don't even have the courage to take responsibility for your actions?"

"Your Jiang family has repeatedly targeted important members of my Zhou family. Do you even have any regard for the Zhou family's existence?"

"What happened today is all your fault. Don't blame me, the Zhou family, for being ruthless!"

Upon hearing these words, Jiang Shicheng's expression immediately changed.

As if struck by a sudden realization, he scanned the Jiang family cultivators inside the mountain gate with his divine sense, then shouted at a nearby Foundation Establishment cultivator, "Where is Chuanxiong? Why isn't he with the family?"

Upon hearing this, the Jiang family cultivator quickly replied, "Reporting to the Supreme Elder, Chuanxiong went to the market three days ago!"

This answer immediately made Jiang Shicheng feel even more uneasy, and he couldn't help but ask again, "Haven't we heard any news about him in the past few days?"

"No, I haven't heard any news."

The clansmen's answer immediately made Jiang Shicheng understand why the Zhou family had suddenly come to his door.

He immediately flew into a rage and cursed, "You worthless wretch! My Jiang family is ruined by fools like you!"

Then he stopped trying to explain himself to the Zhou family members outside.

However, they also knew in their hearts that since the Zhou family had chosen to go to such great lengths to destroy the Jiang family, it must be because Jiang Chuanxiong, who was not in the family, had done something that greatly angered the Zhou family.

Now that the deed has been done and the Zhou family has made the decision to launch a distant expedition against the Jiang family, it is clear that he cannot resolve the matter with just a few words.

At this point, adopting a humble stance and making excuses would only further demoralize the team.

He took a deep breath and then addressed all the Jiang family cultivators in a stern voice: "My fellow Jiang family members, today is the most severe crisis our Jiang family has faced in hundreds of years. The enemy has come with the aim of annihilating our entire Jiang family. They want to kill all the cultivators with the surname Jiang, sever our Jiang family's lineage, and plunder our Jiang family's wealth!"

"As members of the Jiang family, can you just stand by and watch this happen? Can you willingly offer yourselves up for slaughter? Are you willing to hand over the wealth accumulated by your family over a thousand years?"

His deep voice seemed to possess a strange power.

All the Jiang family cultivators who heard his words couldn't help but recall those scenes.

Inside the mountain gate, the ancestral hall is burning...

One by one, the clansmen fell into pools of blood, some were burned to ashes...

The treasure vault, which even members of the Jiang family were not allowed to enter under normal circumstances, was breached by enemies who broke down the gates and stormed in to plunder it...

After these scenes flashed through their minds, a surge of intense anger instantly filled the chests of all the Jiang family cultivators.

"We swear to defend our family to the death, and we will fight to the bitter end!"

A Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Jiang family suddenly roared out.

Immediately, the roars of the Jiang family cultivators echoed throughout the mountain gate.

At this moment, no one cared about why the Zhou family wanted to destroy the Jiang family anymore; they only thought about how to protect the Jiang family, even if it meant death.

Families and individuals are always like this: they rise and fall together.

"I just saw the flame of the Thousand-Mile Communication Talisman. It must be that the Jiang family has already asked the Heavenly Mirror Sect for help."

Outside in the sky, Zhou Daoyi was simultaneously using his magical artifacts to attack the Jiang family's protective formation while also promptly sharing his findings.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingde replied without changing his expression, "This was expected. Now we just need to see what Qinglian Temple does."

After saying that, he frowned slightly and said, "The Jiang family's protective mountain formation doesn't seem any weaker than our family's Five Directions Miro Formation. It will probably take at least half a day to break through it!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chun suddenly interjected after hearing his words, "This junior believes that half a day is just right, and if possible, a whole day would be even better!"

"Oh, what do you mean by that, Masazumi?"

Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi's attention was immediately drawn to Zhou Chun's words, and even their offensive slowed down.

Zhou Chun calmly and eloquently said, "Half a day is enough time for the Tianjing Sect to react. If the Qinglian Temple cannot suppress them, then either Yu Jinghua will come in person, or several Purple Mansion stage cultivators will be sent to rescue them. In either case, we will have no choice but to retreat."

"If either of these two scenarios applies, and we did not break the Jiang family's great formation or slaughter the entire Jiang family, they would at most be helping the Jiang family out of their predicament, and would not be able to attack us with their full strength."

This unusual angle immediately surprised Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, who clearly hadn't considered such a thing.

Then Zhou Mingde couldn't help but ask, "What does 'that day is even better' mean?"

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(End of this chapter)