Chapter 219
Chapter 219
After Fu Changsheng announced his retreat, Liu Meizhen approached Fu Molan that day to talk about going to Taiyun County in Jingzhou, but Fu Molan did not agree:
"Madam, I am currently refining a second-level puppet and this is a critical moment. I will not be able to spare time for several years. I am afraid you will have to find someone else."
If it was Fu Changli or Fu Changli.
Even if they have important matters on hand, they will definitely respond to the mistress's order as soon as possible.
Fu Molan obviously has better ideas.
Liu Meizhen was not annoyed. She pondered for a while and said:
"Molan, in that case, how about you replace Uncle Fei and help guard the spiritual stone vein in Liangyun Mountain?"
The Lingshi mine is managed by Fu Yongyi.
Also.
There is also a mountain protection formation.
Unless they encounter a powerful enemy, the foundation-building master guarding this place does not need to show up, and Fu Molan can concentrate on refining her puppets, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Fu Molan nodded immediately and said:
"Madam, if Elder Ouyang is willing, I naturally have no problem with that."
Liu Meizhen smiled and said:
"Uncle Fei is a person who can't stay still. He will definitely thank you for staying in that boring Liangyun Mountain for him later."
Finished.
Liu Meizhen immediately sent a message to Ouyang Fei. Less than a moment later, Ouyang Fei replied happily, expressing his willingness to follow Liu Meizhen to Taiyun County in Jingzhou.
Upon seeing this, Fu Molan immediately packed up her things and went to Liang Yunshan to take over the items with Master Yu.
Liu Meizhen went to find Fu Changli who had just returned from the Shiwandashan Mountains to rest:
"Fourth sister, sister-in-law, please help me go to the Shangguan family and ask them to rent a treasure ship that can carry tens of thousands of people."
This is not the first or second time that the Fu family has rented the Shangguan family's treasure ship.
Fu Changli agreed immediately.
Liu Meizhen returned to the family mansion and gave some instructions to the five children. Fu Changli rented the treasure ship back and set off with Ouyang Fei.
Taiyun County is actually adjacent to Jingzhou.
Just cross the Yuwen family's fiefdom in Huaibei Prefecture.
The two of them rode on the two-headed green-eyed giant python. Ouyang Fei felt the flying speed of the green-eyed giant python and praised it:
"Meizhen, if your flying pet gets any faster, it will be able to catch up with the Purple Mansion Master. And it seems that your pet has the potential to transform into a dragon, not bad."
With this two-headed green-eyed giant python, they could reach Taiyun County at least ten days earlier.
Arrived at the border of Situ family’s fiefdom.
In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Liu Meizhen still handed over the visiting card.
Situ Feng glanced at the beautiful handwriting on the visiting card and asked a clan member:
"Just the mistress of the Fu family?"
"Reporting to the young clan leader, in addition to the Fu family's mistress, there is also an elder from another family who was recruited by the Fu family."
Situ Feng knocked on the table.
Some time ago, at the auction site of Wanning Chamber of Commerce, from the aura inadvertently emanating from No. 68, who was sitting in the private room next to him, he could tell that the person sitting inside must be Fu Changsheng.
After Fu Changsheng returned from Wanning Market, he announced that he would go into seclusion.
Now Liu Meizhen suddenly wants to run to Taiyun County:
"What exactly is the Fu family up to?"
The mysterious box at the auction site flashed through Situ Feng's mind. If he hadn't wanted to save the spirit stones for the final auction of the Foundation Establishment Pill, he would definitely not have let anyone else have the treasure:
"Could it be that Fu Changsheng really has unlocked the box?"
He pondered for a while.
Situ Feng waved his hand:
"Let them go directly, and send a message to the spies left in Taiyun County, asking them to keep a close eye on the movements of the Fu family members arriving in Taiyun County."
"Yes, Young Patriarch."
The tribesmen took the order and left.
Liu Meizhen and the other person waited for a while.
Led by the Situ clan members themselves, they crossed the fiefdom.
Wait until people leave.
Ouyang Fei whispered:
"I heard that Situ Feng is now the head of the Situ family. After this young man took over, the Situ family made many friends and did not easily get into disputes with other families. The Situ family has experienced rapid development under his leadership. Moreover, he is already in the late stage of foundation building at a young age. The whole Huaibei Prefecture is saying that he is the most promising among the Huaibei families to break through to the Purple Mansion."
If not.
Liu Meizhen would not personally hand over the visiting card.
Coming down from the Taisi Mountains of the Situ family, it was the border of Jingzhou. A military border town had been set up here. As soon as the two arrived, the soldiers guarding the border town came forward:
"Stop, where are you from? Please show me your ID tokens?"
The soldiers are building their foundation for cultivation.
In military border towns, if anyone dares to disobey orders and act without authorization, the soldiers in the border towns have the right to execute first and report later.
Liu Meizhen and Ouyang Fei did not dare to act rashly and handed over their identity tokens.
General Zhou took the token and flipped his right hand. A diamond-shaped mirror appeared in his hand. He cast a spell into the mirror, and the mirror lit up with a thin white mist. He threw the token into it, and the white mist rolled. General Zhou sensed it for a while.
The magic formula is collected.
The token returned to the hands of Liu Meizhen and the other person.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty.
All cultivators who embark on a journey of spiritual practice must register their identities with the relevant government offices of the Great Zhou. Otherwise, they will not be able to leave the state for the rest of their lives. Moreover, the imperial court will conduct random identity checks from time to time. Once anyone is found to be unregistered, they will be imprisoned until someone comes forward to provide a guarantee and their identity is verified. Only then will they be released.
General Zhou cast a spell on an invisible formation, and a light curtain suddenly lit up in the empty space in front of Liu Meizhen and the other person, and a gap appeared in the light curtain.
Liu Meizhen and the other person stepped over the light curtain.
What came into view was no longer the mountain, but a village.
"Uncle Fei, wait here. I'll ask someone for directions first."
"it is good"
Ouyang Fei responded verbally, but he was worried in his heart.
Think back to the beginning.
When he passed by the border town for the first time, he was curious and excited, but looking at Liu Meizhen's expression just now, she seemed calmer than him.
After a while.
Liu Meizhen came out of a villager's house and met up with Ouyang Fei. She quickly said, "Uncle Fei, the Liu family of Taiyun County is in Taishan County. We are now in Nishan County. We have to cross the Liuli River to get there."
Arrived at Liuli River.
Ouyang Fei swept his spiritual sense.
They found that Liu Meizhen's aura had been condensed to the late stage of Qi Refining, and even the giant blue-eyed python was put into the spirit beast bag. The two of them crossed the river on a bamboo raft.
In the middle of the river.
Ouyang Fei hesitated and said:
"Meizhen, have you figured out how to get the Liu family to follow us to the fiefdom?"
"No hurry. I will first pay a visit as a girl from the Liu family in Anyang County to find out more about the Liu family. Just in case, I'll trouble Uncle Fei to meet them outside."
"Okay, if there's anything wrong, send me a message immediately."
Going ashore from Liuli River.
The Liuli Mountain not far from the river is the Liu family mountain gate of Taiyun County.
Ouyang Fei used the invisibility spell and hid in the peach forest not far away.
Arrived at the mountain gate.
When the Liu family monk saw Liu Meizhen coming, he immediately warned:
"who?"
Glass Mountain.
In the meeting hall.
Liu Ming, dressed in a gray robe, sat at the head of the table.
On his left and right sides were old men with gray beards. He was the youngest among the dozen people in the venue, but perhaps because he had been practicing talisman formations since he was a child, he was only over fifty years old but already had a head full of gray hair.
Elder Liu, who was sitting at the lower left, nodded his cane with a worried look on his face:
"Patriarch, there are rumors that the Yang family went to Huainan Prefecture in Jingzhou with the Jiupin Tang family some time ago. It is said that the Yang family successfully bid for a foundation-building pill. After returning from Jingzhou, the Yang family leader has not shown up again. If the rumors are true and the other party has really succeeded in building a foundation, then... then the revenge of our Liu family's genocide is imminent!"
Their Liu family and the Yang family have been fighting for hundreds of years.
They have long been an unbreakable enemy.
Once a person from the Yang family reaches the foundation-building stage, there will be no chance for the Liu family to escape.
The Second Elder Liu on the right was a few years younger than the First Elder, but because of the injuries he had received when he was young, he was already a candle in the wind. He gritted his teeth and said:
“Patriarch, there are only two options before us. One is to seize the opportunity while Patriarch Yang has not yet established his foundation and unite with the other three great families to attack the Yang family together.
The second is to wait and see, and take a gamble that Patriarch Yang will not be able to successfully build the foundation.
But no matter which plan we choose, we must first move our family's seed clan members out of Taiyun County, and try to get as far away from the Yang family as possible."
Liu Mingyun smiled bitterly:
"Second uncle, our Liu family has been a family of talisman masters for generations. It's okay for us to draw talismans and set up formations, but it's undoubtedly a pipe dream for us to attack the Yang family's mountain gate as a vanguard. Moreover, the other three families in Taiyun County are not stupid. Even if they are related by marriage, they will definitely not rashly agree to let us attack the Yang family."
There was only one way forward for them.
That is to evacuate Taiyun County:
"Dear elders, in order for the Liu family to continue its inheritance, we must prepare to move as soon as possible." The atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy.
five years ago.
Liu Mingyun also obtained a foundation-building pill.
But the foundation building failed.
At that time, the Liu family emptied out all their assets to exchange for that one Foundation Establishment Pill. Now the foreign debt has not been paid off yet. It is undoubtedly a pipe dream to want to break through the Foundation Establishment before the Yang family.
Seeing that everyone was silent.
Elder Liu tapped his cane and recalled:
"Master, if I remember correctly, when I was still a child, your great-grandfather mentioned in the lecture hall that he had been to Jingzhou when he was young. At that time, I was curious and asked him a lot about the customs and habits of Jingzhou. When I returned home, I told my parents about it. When I went to bed at night, I learned from my parents' casual chat that it seemed that your great-grandfather had a girlfriend in Jingzhou."
"Your great-grandfather had agreed that after the spring hunt, he would go to Jingzhou to marry the girl, but unfortunately he died during the hunt."
"if."
"If your great-grandfather's lover had given birth to a boy or girl, maybe, maybe we could move to Jingzhou."
The words have not yet fallen.
The second elder on the opposite side rejected it outright:
"Brother, I think you are really old and confused. Even if the great-grandfather of the family head really left a seed in Jingzhou, it is not certain whether the child can grow up smoothly. Even if he grows up by chance and starts a family, he is just an ordinary mortal. If we go there, where can we stay?"
Everyone nodded.
Liu Mingyun also disagreed:
"Jingzhou borders the Shiwan Mountains, and the beast tide is coming. We are going to Jingzhou now. Following the conscription order, we will be the first group to rush to the front line. We can't go to Jingzhou anywhere else. Moreover, Jingzhou is very lacking in spiritual energy, which is far inferior to our Jingzhou. It will be extremely difficult to recover there."
The Great Elder also had a glimmer of fantasy.
So I didn't insist too much.
Everyone discussed for a while.
After a while.
However, a guard hurriedly rang the alarm bell.
Liu Mingyun's face turned pale:
"Could it be that Patriarch Yang has really achieved a breakthrough in his foundation building?"
Immediately, a spell was cast into the magic circle, and a light curtain rose up. The guard ran in breathlessly, bowed and said:
"Reporting to the master, a woman has come down the mountain, claiming to be the descendant of the master's great-grandfather in Jingzhou. She has also sent a visiting card."
This statement came out.
Everyone present turned their eyes towards the Great Elder.
The Great Elder was also stunned for a moment. He just opened his mouth to say that, and he was right. He quickly said:
"What level of cultivation does that woman have?"
If you are a mortal.
It is definitely impossible to travel thousands of miles from Jingzhou to Jingzhou.
Even if one has the ability to cultivate Qi, it would be difficult to reach this place safely on one's own unless one follows a caravan or teams up with others.
If not.
Qi-refining cultivators would not tend to stay in their own state and not move.
The guard was still panting at this time:
"Reporting to the Great Elder, that female cultivator is in the late stage of Qi Refining."
Late stage of Qi Refining? !
Liu Mingyun frowned:
"You didn't let anyone in?"
"Without the master's order, I dare not."
"Um"
Liu Mingyun nodded slightly.
Seeing his reaction, the second elder's eyes lit up:
"Master, do you suspect that this is a fraud by the Yang family?"
"It's hard to say, but it's always better to be careful."
Liu Mingyun took the visiting card handed over by the guard, but saw that it said "Liu Family, Anyang County, Huainan Prefecture". The elder came forward to take a look and his pupils shrank:
"Master, Anyang County is exactly the place your great-grandfather mentioned. How about we go down the mountain and take a look?"
If the seeds left by Emperor Gaozu really develop into a small family there, then it is worth considering.
Liu Mingyun did not object, but still said to the Sixth Elder:
"Sixth Uncle, please go to the ancestral hall and bring our family's blood-testing instrument down the mountain."
Even with an identity token.
Who knows if this is foreign aid invited by the Yang family.
Liu Mingyun still felt that it was better to be cautious.
The group of people came to the foot of the mountain in a mighty manner, and they saw Liu Meizhen who had been waiting for a long time. The elder glanced at Liu Meizhen, then looked back at Liu Mingyun, and muttered:
"Not really."
So many generations apart.
It’s normal if it doesn’t look like that.
Liu Mingyun stepped forward and saluted through the magic array light curtain, but did not ask any more questions. After the Sixth Elder took the blood-testing instrument and came down the mountain, he saluted again and said:
"I'd like to trouble you to drop a drop of blood into this blood-testing ritual."
Liu Meizhen took a quick look with her spiritual sense and saw that it was an ordinary blood-detecting instrument. She swung her sword finger decisively, and a ticking sound was heard.
A drop of blood fell on the blood detector.
hum!
The blood-detecting instrument lit up with a bright red light, and the blood from the blood-detecting instrument lit up a rune inside.
See this scene.
The Great Elder laughed and said first:
"It really is the bloodline of our Liu family. Patriarch, quickly open the formation!"
Everyone was a little impatient.
perhaps.
Liu Meizhen's arrival can really be their life-saving straw.
They welcomed the people to the mountain and sat down.
The great elder couldn't wait to say:
"Niece, how many cultivators are there in the Liu family of Anyang County besides you?"
The great-grandfather of the Liu family probably didn't have time to leave behind any inheritance, so even if his descendants embarked on the path of cultivation, without any foundation and support from family elders, they could only live a precarious life as casual cultivators.
Liu Meizhen had made up her mind on the way here.
So I didn’t reveal too much:
"Great Elder, our lineage is considered one of the three major Qi-refining families in Anyang County."
hiss!
Everyone present gasped.
It was somewhat unexpected that the Liu family of Anyang County had developed into one of the three major Qi-refining families.
Everyone present looked at each other. Liu Mingyun, who was at the top, was also a little moved, but he remained calm:
"Sister, you have come all the way to Taiyun County. Could it be that you are here to recognize your relatives? But what difficulties have your clan encountered?"
In the phrase.
Liu Meizhen half true and half false:
"Brother, to be honest, I came here this time because I wanted the main sect to support a group of talisman masters to go to Huainan Prefecture. As you all know, the beast tide is coming. In order to survive the beast tide, all we can do now is to strengthen the defense of our clan."
Speaking of beast tide.
The hearts of the people present, which had been raised at first, suddenly sank.
Yes.
If he goes to Huainan Prefecture, I'm afraid Ta Men will not escape death.
Liu Mingyun did not hide it:
"Sister, if you had come a few years earlier, we, the descendants of the Liu family, would have agreed without hesitation. But now we can hardly protect ourselves!"
talking.
He also talked about the grudges with the Yang family.
Finally, he said dejectedly:
"Although our great-grandfather died in the spring hunt and was unable to take you back to our clan, we have not gone to Anyang County in recent years. After all, we owe you a debt. However, given our current situation, we are in a difficult situation. Sister, I am really sorry for making you go there in vain."
"How could it be a wasted trip!"
The great elder nodded the cane in his hand.
Buzzing sound:
"Niece, come with me to the Sutra Library later. You can copy down all the martial arts manuals and the complete inheritance of the talisman master in the clan and take them back."
"also"
"If you, the head of the family, want to migrate with your clansmen, the large number of people will definitely attract the attention of the Yang family. We old men won't go with you. Instead, we can go to Jingzhou with this niece. Firstly, while we are still able to move, we can really do something for this branch of Anyang County. Secondly, our trip to Jingzhou can divert the attention of the Yang family. No matter how capable they are, they dare not rush to Jingzhou to kill people."
Those present were all elderly elders.
Hear the words.
Instead, they reconsidered:
"I listen to my elder brother"
"Yes, it would be good if I could make a little more contribution to the Liu family before I die."
"Yes, yes, that's how we do it."
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Seeing this, Liu Mingyun thought about it again and again and did not object.
But he still looked at Liu Meizhen who had remained silent:
"Sister, if you mind being targeted by the Yang family, you can just take a copy of the secret manual from the Sutra Library and leave."
(End of this chapter)