Yunping Mountain.
Dark clouds covered the moon and the mountain wind howled.
Guannan Fort is located in a steep terrain deep in the mountains. A hundred-meter-high wall was built between two towering green mountains, stretching for more than ten miles to protect the various sects in Yunping Mountain.
Guannan Fort is the headquarters of Qianji Tower. It was jointly established by a group of monks who are proficient in the art of Yanjia mechanisms. It has been only three hundred years since then, and has only lasted for three generations.
However, the importance of Guannan Fort to Yuquan Sect is self-evident. As long as Guannan is not broken, Yunping will not be lost.
If Guannanbao is lost, the gate of Yunping Mountain will be wide open. No matter whether it is the monsters from upstream or people with evil intentions, they can easily attack the interior of Yunping Mountain and seize the mineral resources.
After receiving the "Rakshasa Order", Qianji Tower evacuated the elderly, weak, women, children and monks who were unable to fight in Guannan Fort and sent them to Yuquan Sect.
Because Chenzhou Sanren was ruthless and cruel, he would kill anyone he attacked, not even their souls. They were all imprisoned as ghost slaves and tortured for eternity, so many weak forces in Yunping Mountain did not dare to confront him head-on.
If their sect can produce a Nascent Soul cultivator, it is considered a pillar of the sect who is cultivated with all the strength of the sect. If one of them dies, the sect will soon be swallowed up by other forces and fall into decline.
Therefore, they only sent a batch of supplies to Qianji Tower to resist the attacks of Chenzhou Sanren.
Only the Yuquan Sect sent two Yuanying Zhenjun to Guannanbao to provide assistance.
In the Qixing River Basin, none of the sects had any cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage. Even in the Tianxing Sect, there was only one cultivator in seclusion who was trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and was at the peak of the Spirit Transformation stage.
The same goes for the Yuquan Sect. There is only one supreme elder in the Spirit Transformation Stage who stays in the sect and never goes out.
The Nine Rivers Realm has had an unwritten rule since ancient times that cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage should mind their own business and not easily interfere in the affairs of other river basins.
This time, the Xiong family from the Baxian River basin sent people to the Qixing River in the name of eliminating demons and defending the Way. They only sent a Nascent Soul cultivator to lead the team and did not dare to say explicitly that they were helping the Tianxing Sect.
If someone with ulterior motives reports this to the Upper Three Rivers Basin, the disciples in the Nine Rivers Realm Lord's Immortal Palace will take action, and no one will have an easy time then.
To put it simply, the Realm Lord will not care if it is just a "minor fight", but once it rises to the level of Divine Transformation and causes great damage to the Jiuhe Realm, the Realm Lord will intervene.
However, as a Mahayana cultivator, he does not care which "monkey" dominates which territory within the realm. All he wants is overall stability within the realm, so that the fruits of his enlightenment can evolve naturally within the realm.
At this moment, the moon was at its zenith, and it was the seventh day since Qianji Tower received the Rakshasa Order.
The moonlight was dim, and the light of the torches on the city walls at the pass flickered in the night wind. The heavy machine guns were pointed at the plains outside the pass and the dense forests in the distance. The dark muzzles gleamed with cold light, and were filled with murderous intent.
More than a dozen teams of guards took turns patrolling the city walls, keeping alert for enemy attacks.
The two Nascent Soul cultivators sent by Yuquan Sect and the two Nascent Soul cultivators of Qianji Tower respectively guarded Guannan Fort to ensure that the city defense formation was stable and would not be taken advantage of.
At the pass of the city wall, Lou Guanqing, a middle-aged cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage, sat cross-legged on top of the Talisman Tower with his eyes closed to rest.
A young man in blue clothes ran quickly up the city wall where there was a no-fly formation, made way for the patrolling guards, came to the foot of the talisman tower, and looked up to report.
"Dad, I just received news that the person who killed clans in various places in the Seven Star River before was a fake. The real person, Chen Zhou San Ren, has told many sects and families to kill those who impersonated her."
Lou Guanqing opened his eyes wide, came down from the talisman tower, took the information from Lou Cunming and examined it carefully.
"Dad, are we safe? The real boss is here, so the fake ones won't have time to attack us, right?"
Lou Guanqing snorted, "Naive! Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chenzhou Sanren is just a cover for Tianxing Sect. They must attack Guannan Fort. Only by taking down Guannan Fort can they successfully enter Yunping Mountain and unify the Seven Star River."
Lou Cunming scratched his head and said in distress, "When will this quarrel end? I think the Grand Elder of Yuquan Sect has long lost the desire to fight. If he hadn't promised the previous Sect Master that he would take care of the sect's disciples, he would have left Yuquan Sect and traveled long ago with the so-called Grand Forgetfulness that he practiced."
The demise of other sects in the Qixing River Basin might be due to the crazy expansion of the Tianxing Sect, but the Yuquan Sect has come to this point today entirely because of their supreme elder, who practiced the supreme way of forgetting emotions, took everything lightly, and followed the way of heaven and nature.
As a result, he did not stand up for Yuquan Sect in many matters that he should have been in charge of.
Lou Guanqing frowned in distress. "No matter what, the Tianxing Sect has been doing evil all these years and has used evil means to expand its territory. They are definitely not good allies. It's a pity that the Zhuge family can't interfere too much in the affairs of the Seven Star River, otherwise it would be easy to deal with."
"Then can't we go to the Zhuge family and move to Baxian River?" Lou Cunming asked.
Lou Guanqing seemed somewhat tempted, but also hesitant.
"It was not easy for our ancestors to build the Qianji Tower. This family business cannot be destroyed in my hands. We will have to wait and see. Moreover, the reason why the Zhuge family secretly supports us is because we can serve as their spies in the Seven Stars River. If we leave the Seven Stars River, we will lose our value to the Zhuge family."
Lou Cunming hung his head and sighed. He was really tired of the days of fighting and killing. His biggest dream was to go to a place like the Zhuge family and concentrate on learning the art of Yanjia.
He heard that recently the Zhuge family had a guest elder who was knowledgeable and gave interesting lectures, and he really wanted to go and meet him.
Unfortunately, the development of Qianji Tower requires their brothers and sisters, so they can only stay within this square city wall.
Just like... these bugs under my feet.
insect?!
"Dad, look!"
Lou Cunming pointed in horror at the small black bugs that crawled out from the cracks in the bricks of the city wall.
When Lou Guanqing saw this, his expression became stern and he pushed Lou Cunming away and shouted.
"Enemy attack!!"
Before he finished speaking, there were sounds of bricks and stones cracking on the city wall, and countless black flying insects poured out from the cracks, gathering into a large black cloud, covering the sky and the sun, and buzzing incessantly.
The two guards in the Foundation Establishment stage were caught off guard and swallowed up by the cloud of insects. They immediately let out shrill screams, and blood splattered all over the ground.
However, in the blink of an eye, the two Foundation Establishment guards turned into bloody withered bones covered with minced meat in the cloud of insects.
Lou Cunming was horrified, and Lou Guanqing waved a ray of green light to repel the cloud of insects that were flying towards him.
The clouds of insects attached themselves to the protective barrier and gnawed at it with their sharp front jaws frantically, and in a short while they had bitten a big hole in it.
Only then did Lou Guanqing see that there were many ghosts under the city wall, including evil spirits with hideous faces crawling up the wall quickly.
Also, at the edge of the dense forest at the end of the plain, a group of evil cultivators in black were lined up with a female cultivator in green clothes, white hair and a black mask as their center, staring at Guannan Fort with a covetous eye.
"Sinking, sinking boat and scattered people!" Lou Cunming shouted in horror.
"The sunken boat is here!"
A cold female voice suddenly came from above their heads. Lou Guanqing was shocked and protected Lou Cunming and retreated. He saw that there was an extra person on the top of the talisman tower where he was just now.
He was totally unaware of it, and Lou Guanqing instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
I saw that person standing against the cold wind of the night, with her long hair flying and her green shirt refreshing. She raised her hand to take off the black mask with gold patterns on her face. Her eyebrows were mature and cold, and her red lips curled up in a mocking arc.
"Auntie, I've been waiting for them for a long time!"
Seeing this, Lou Cunming screamed in fear again.
"Shen, Shen Zhou San Ren! Really Shen Zhou San Ren!"
(End of this chapter)