Just as the "Falling Star Valley" was slowly returning to normal and the demand for various alchemy and equipment making was endless, seven months had passed since the great war and the bleak winter had arrived.
Su Yuan is an old man in "Falling Star Valley". He has entered the late stage of foundation building for more than 30 years, and his actual age is now 143 years old.
At his age, there is no hope for him to form an elixir in this lifetime.
Therefore, more than ten years ago, he had to find ways to enter the "Fanxing Pavilion" and become a deacon. It was the place where the elixirs and magical weapons refined in the "Falling Star Valley" were stored.
There he can be the first to know what good elixirs the sect has refined, and then the deacons and disciples here will have the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first.
You can buy the best elixirs, magic weapons and spiritual tools at the most favorable prices.
Su Yuan stayed in the "Fanxing Pavilion" for seventeen years. He also used his identity as a deacon to purchase two fourth-grade "Zengyuan Pills".
"Zeng Yuan Dan" is very useful for foundation-building cultivators to break through small realms, but in order to be on the safe side, Su Yuan plans to go into seclusion immediately after purchasing the third "Zeng Yuan Dan" to break through the false pill realm.
The longer a cultivator lives, the more afraid he becomes of death, and the more he desires a longer life. This is certainly true for Su Yuan as well.
However, at this critical moment, four sects invaded. Whether you like it or not, all the foundation-building cultivators will be sent out to lead their disciples to the outer valley to fight the enemy.
Su Yuan was no exception. He didn't know that he was too old and had long been excluded from the elite disciples by Xingming.
Therefore, although there were many foundation-building disciples among the disciples who were secretly transferred, his name was not among them, and he was left in the valley as a meat shield.
Although he knew that this battle was a matter of life and death, Su Yuan had no worries and was able to think positively.
Ever since he knew how difficult it was to form a pill, he simply refused to accept even one disciple. He didn't even have enough spirit stones of his own, so how could he have the energy to take care of so-called disciples
Before the war, Lin Xinghe also promised them various benefits. Because of this, Su Yuan thought he had found a good opportunity.
As long as he makes great achievements in this battle, he can use this as a condition to directly ask the sect for one or even two "Zengyuan Pills".
Since he was also an elder of "Falling Star Valley", when choosing a defense point, the deacon on duty let Su Yuan's team choose a place first.
So Su Yuan discussed it with the other three foundation-building cultivators and they quickly reached a consensus.
They thought that if they set an ambush near the mountain gate, the enemy would have just entered, when their momentum and numbers were the greatest. Although they could kill more enemies, they would have a greater chance of being beaten into a paste.
As for the section between the mountain gate and the inner valley, the area is too large and the enemies are too scattered, so the number of people that can be killed by our side is limited.
Therefore, they finally decided to choose a defense point near the entrance to the inner valley, which was where the enemy would eventually arrive, and by then the enemy would have suffered heavy losses, so they could make a final blow.
At the same time, if they are unable to defend themselves, teleporting into the inner valley is the most convenient way, and their chances of survival are much greater.
But the result surprised Su Yuan's team. In the end, only a small team of less than five people came to defend their team.
Moreover, the other side had only one Foundation Establishment cultivator leading the team. When they easily killed the enemy team, they then received the news that all the enemies had been strangled and that "Falling Star Valley" had won.
Su Yuan and his friends simply couldn't believe the first news they received, but more and more messages like this came in from all directions.
At this moment, most of the members of Su Yuan's team were extremely happy. They won the victory and survived without even a single person being hurt. How could they not be happy
But this was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Su Yuan.
It was not until he returned to Neigu and inquired about the details that he learned more about the whole story.
Originally, there were indeed quite a few monks who were about to approach the inner valley, but in the end they were wiped out by several teams working together, and there were about 100 to 200 of them left.
But he didn't know that an enemy Jindan cultivator had appeared there, otherwise he would have had no other reaction except fear.
While facing the remaining enemies, the Grand Elder of the "Qingfeng Sect" arrived with a large group of foundation-building warriors.
With their participation, the remaining hundred or so enemies were all killed before they even completed 60% of the journey from the mountain gate to the inner valley.
This made Su Yuan sigh to the sky about his bad luck. He was in the late stage of foundation building. In this battle, he should get a lot of benefits anyway.
Even if they could get something from the enemy, among the five people they killed, there was only one who was at the Foundation Establishment stage. The things in the storage bag were not enough for the four of them to share. So, they could only get about ten spirit stones.
But something even more annoying happened later. After the battle, Sect Leader Lin Xinghe was seriously injured and went into seclusion, while the previous Sect Leader Xing Ming suddenly returned miraculously.
The former sect leader placed more emphasis on the disciples' contribution to the sect.
So after taking stock of the battle results, the position of deacon of "Fanxing Pavilion" that Su Yuan had paid a huge price to enter was taken away by three people headed by Zhu Luomu.
How could Su Yuan accept defeat? He wanted to find the current sect leader to negotiate and see if he could get some help so that he could continue to stay in "Fanxing Pavilion".
Although Su Yuan is an elder of "Falling Star Valley", he is only over 140 years old now. When he entered "Falling Star Valley", Lin Xinghe was already the sect leader.
Therefore, our understanding of the star moth may be just from what we know from ancient books.
Finally, when he saw the Star Moth and the three brothers and sisters from Zhu Luomu's sect standing beside the sect leader, he had a bad idea in his mind.
Xing Ming had a smile on his face and waved his hand kindly, asking Su Yuan to sit down wherever he wanted. He was also quite friendly towards him.
Then, without waiting for Su Yuan to speak, he casually said, "Deacon Su, you don't have to be restrained. Although I haven't been in the sect for hundreds of years, you are very familiar with my disciples. Now that you are here, just be casual. By the way, what do you want to talk to me about? Tell me slowly... Hehe..."
At that time, Su Yuan was completely stunned, and the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered.
Afterwards, he suppressed his fear, found out some things and said a few words, then left in a hurry.
Afterwards, he was assigned to guard the "Star Crushing Room".
Although there is a lot of money to be made here, due to the strict rules of the sect, far fewer people use the underground "Star-Breaking Room".
The "Small Broken Star Chamber" on the ground is generally used by disciples in the Qi Condensation Stage. Those people are so poor that they have almost no spirit stones to practice with, so how can they get any benefits from it
At the same time, the duty here is rotated, with one shift per month. Including Su Yuan, there are a total of three foundation-building cultivators taking turns on duty.
In this way, the benefits he can get will be even less.
Su Yuan knew that he could no longer afford to offend Zhu Luomu and his two low-key companions, so he blamed all the disasters on others, namely the other teams that killed one or two hundred enemies.
When these people ate the meat, in the end, only a drop of soup was left for him to "drink", or rather "lick".
As for those enemies who were eventually killed by the Grand Elder of the Qingfeng Sect, he of course automatically ignored them in his heart.
If he knew which fellow disciples had disrupted his plan, he would definitely get back the losses from them the next time he came to the "Star Shattering Room".
But no matter how he inquired, he finally got some news.
"It was several teams led by Zhu Luomu that joined forces to fight the enemy. Apart from that, he couldn't even find out who the Qi Condensation disciple who appeared there was. It seemed as if someone was deliberately concealing everything.
All of this was caused by the fact that the current sect leader Xing Ming did not allow anyone to tell about the war on the grounds of protecting the monks who came to support the Qingfeng Sect.
This reason seemed far-fetched to Su Yuan. It seemed that the current sect leader was hiding something.
But because of this, Su Yuan no longer dared to inquire further, because he remembered that someone had spread the rumor that the Great Elder was seriously injured and had been severely punished by Xing Ming, and his end was said to be quite miserable.
Perhaps the things he inquired about also involved the sect leader Lin Xinghe, or even the great elder.
After Su Yuan combined the information he had previously inquired about, he made his own judgment. In the end, he attributed everything to the current sect leader.
"This must have been done by the former sect master himself, who deliberately gave all the credit to his disciples."
Whenever he thought of this matter, Su Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the "Broken Star Cave", became filled with anger.
The more he thought about these things, the more upset he became. Usually, in the end, apart from shaking his head vigorously to try to get the matter out of his mind, the only thing he could do was to think of something else to distract himself.
Suddenly, he thought of the people in a certain "Star-Breaking Room".
"That person has been in there for more than half a year, but he still hasn't come out to this day. This person's strength is so terrifying, but why don't I know him?"
After Su Yuan distracted his attention, the first thing he thought of was the person who made the three deacons feel incredible.
Before July, he had brought a young man wearing the uniform of the "Falling Star Valley" sect and holding a jade slip with the sect leader's message to the underground T-shaped weapon refining room.
At that time, he was very concerned about the cultivator whose cultivation level he could not understand at all. He wondered how the cultivator could get a jade slip with the sect master's personal message.
Their sect leader had been missing for a very long time, and even he had never seen him before. After his miraculous return, how come this person who obviously looked like a disciple of the valley could be associated with the former sect leader
This alone was enough to make Su Yuan notice this young man.
Later, something even more surprising happened to Su Yuan. The man had not come out after entering for more than half a month. At that time, Su Yuan did not take this matter to heart.
It was also the day for another foundation-building cultivator to take over, so Su Yuan went back to rest.
During the month since he returned, although not intentionally, he had tried to find out what the man looked like.
Unfortunately, there were very few people in the valley who knew Li Yan, and Su Yuan didn't ask the right person. He certainly didn't think that the disciple the other party knew the most was in the Qi Condensation Stage.
Afterwards, he put the matter behind him, and now the sect leader seemed to be keeping an eye on the cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
He didn't dare to secretly inquire about the news of other fellow disciples. If he was caught as a spy and his soul was searched, he would be really finished.
And just two months later, when he was on duty again and was handing over to the previous monk, he unexpectedly discovered that the T-shaped refining room was still being used by someone.
So he hurriedly asked the deacon when this T-shaped refining room was opened. The deacon was stunned for a moment before asking.
"It might be opened when Senior Brother Liu was on duty. It should be out soon in about a month."
Su Yuan immediately felt that something was wrong. He took out the sound transmission talisman and sent it to Junior Brother Liu. A moment later, the other party's answer surprised him.
"Brother, wasn't the T-shaped refining room opened when you were there? Could something have gone wrong?"