“The decline of the Burning Heaven Clan is already a foregone conclusion!”
Yang Junshan’s conclusion that it was not that difficult to make obtained the approval of a large majority of the Madame Yang’s clansmen present.
“Next up, in the battle against the foreign forces, if the Burning Heaven Clan were to react to the loss of face again, the various factions in the cultivation world would not mind having a Taotie Feast, once the number one sect in the world of cultivation, when they resist the invasion of the foreign forces!”
Yang Junshan’s words caused many of the Madame Yang clansmen to be stunned. Only Zhou Yi, Yan Qinxi and the others had expressions that seemed as if it was natural and proper, but to have the qualification to participate in such a grand event, caused them to be unable to suppress the nervousness and agitation in their hearts.
“In fact, I’m afraid that the conspiracy aimed at the Burning Heaven Clan is not only aimed at the foreign lands. If my guess is not wrong, then even if the Burning Heaven Clan has dealt with him appropriately, there will still be people who will urge them to ‘make a mistake’. In this feast, our Yang family must try our best to get all the benefits we can without damaging our own strength.”
However, Yang Junshan did not intend to give any more explanation. This kind of competition for the undisguised benefit of the cultivation world, it was better to let them know from someone else earlier that it was better than suffering a great loss in the future when they understood it better.
As for the matter of fighting against the foreign forces, I will handle it. My Yang family has just risen to power, and my foundation is shallow, but hasn’t the cultivation world always said that the Madame Yang’s family is a ‘One Person Family’?
Yang Junshan’s words actually made all of the’s people, who had some dignity, feel embarrassed. Although the number of experts in the Madame Yang was increasing, and the confidence of the aristocratic families were also increasing, it was undeniable that all of them together could not compare to the sense of security and honor Yang Junshan had brought to the entire Yang family.
The Yanzhou was a large province witotal of eight counties. The territory of each county was filled with all sorts of forces, roughly speaking, the number of powers with Dao Realm experts guarding them amounted to five.
He had even claimed to be the number one power in the world of cultivation. Among the remaining four powers, the Golden Crow had divided the prefecture into its sphere of influence, the main influence of the True Sun Palace was operating in the prefecture, the Sunfire Sect was occupying the prefecture, and the Deng Family, which was also known as the “Fire Lion Family” was occupying more than half of the prefecture. In addition, countless other powers and clans were mainly operating on the outskirts of the city, which was controlled by the major powers of the other counties.
Yang Junshan had already decided to respond to the Immortal Palace’s call to head to the Yanzhou. In fact, before he had even entered the Yanzhou, he had already received invitations from four major powers other than the Golden Crow. Of course, what was even more important was not Yang Junshan’s cultivation and strength, but his identity as a formation grandmaster.
However, after careful consideration, and after hearing news from the Yanzhou from Yang Junhao and Ning Bin, in the end, Yang Junshan still refused the other three families’ invitations and rushed to the Burning Heaven Clan alone.
Even though Yang Junshan had already predicted the situation in the Yanzhou, when he finally arrived at the Yanzhou, the continuous deterioration of the situation was still far beyond his imagination.
After the ambush of the five Dao Realm experts from the Burning Heaven Clan, although it caused great panic in the cultivation world of the Yanzhou, the Dao Realm experts of the Yanzhou actually did not take the threat of the Ghost Clan to heart.
On that day, the Ghost Cultivators who had attempted to assassinate the five Dao Realm experts of the Burning Heaven Clan had paid a heavy price. The two Ghost Cultivators who had assassinated the Huagai’s field cultivator Daoist Chi Quan had died in the end, and the Ghost Cultivators who had assassinated the two Qingyun Realm cultivators, Daoist Chi Shan and Daoist Chi Yuan, had suffered heavy injuries on both of them. As for the two who had fallen, they were the new heirs of the Burning Heaven Clan, Hong Feng and Hong Yan.
Ghost Cultivators’s assassination techniques were incomparably sharp and were often hard to guard against. Once the attack was successful or failed, they would immediately flee.
No matter how amazing the Ghost Cultivators Escape Technique was, it was difficult for it to escape unscathed due to the spatial interference. Although the six Ghost Kings attacked the five Dao Realm cultivators and caused three to die and two to suffer injuries, the six Ghost Kings still paid a price of one to die and one to be caught off guard. With the Dao Realm experts of Yanzhou on guard, the Ghost Kings were not the only ones who made their moves.
However, although Dao Realm cultivators were not afraid of the Spirit King’s sneak attack, they were still being threatened by the Ghost Cultivators. In fact, the evil spirits and the judges were wreaking havoc everywhere.
Adding on the sudden counterattack from the Golden Crow, in a situation no one expected, when the ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan led the clan and announced that he would join the ranks of the followers of the Golden Crow King Clan, the Golden Crow was immediately disintegrated. Many disciples who were unwilling to become the claws of the Demon Clan were massacred, while the forces from outside the realms poured in from different directions.
The position of the Fen County was approximately at the center of the Yanzhou, its position was roughly the same as the Yuxian to the Yuzhou.
The location of the Burning Heaven Clan’s mountain gate was located in the Fen County and the Earth Fire Abyss Prison was also located in the center of the vast underground world. Although it was not verified, most of the Yanzhou’s cultivators believed that the Burning Heaven Clan’s mountain gate was located right above the Earth Fire Abyss Prison.
Perhaps it was because of the suppression by the Burning Heaven Clan’s sect right above the Earth Fire Abyss, the Alien Cultivatohat continuously poured in from the Earth Fire Abyss Prison, when they appeared on the surface, were usually distributed in different locations within the Fen County.
When Yang Junshan rushed to the Fen County, although there were still many Burning Heaven Clan Cultivators from the Cauldron County and Candle County who were in the midst of reinforcements for the encampment, the situation in the entire Fen County had already eroded. The location of the Burning Heaven Clan’s gate was actually no different from an island.
The only difference was that the Burning Heaven Clan’s sect’s training hall walace where the Burning Heaven Clan’s legacy was maintained for thousands of years. Even though the Burning Heaven Clan had suffered heavy losses before, wanting to destroy the entire sect and destroy the entire Burning Heaven Clan was not an easy matter.
Yang Junshan’s arrival was naturally warmly welcomed by the Burning Heaven Clan, but it seemed like the Burning Heaven Clan was in a state of being a group of dragons without a leader, even though they were receiving him enthusiastically, there was neveowerful Burning Heaven Clan cultivator that came out to receive him.
Yang Junshan did not seem to be in a hurry. He spent the entire day wandering around in a permissible area within the Burning Heaven Clan’s mountain gate, but this caused him to meet many foreign cultivators who came to help at the same time as him. However, when Yang Junshan looked carefully, he realized that among these foreign cultivators, the most were Xi Zhou cultivators.
But not all cultivators were like Yang Junshan, who seemed to have been forgotten, because after most of the cultivators were received, they were quickly assigned duties by the Burning Heaven Clan, and were then assigned to the Burning Heaven Clan cultivators to patrol and guard and leave.
It was one thing if there were people from the Dao Realm Patriarchs that were close to him, but if there were none, then immediately after, Dao Realm experts from the Burning Heaven Clan would pay a visit, and after a while, the two of them would leave the reception area, and sometimes, there would be two or even three Burning Heaven Clan cultivators from each side who would pay a visit to the same Dao Realm cultivator that had come to reinforce the other.
However, as the reinforcements of the cultivators were being arranged to leave by the Burning Heaven Clan, Yang Junshan, who had been emptied out the entire time, became even more abrupt, and even the cultivators from the other powers had strange looks in their eyes as they looked at Yang Junshan.
When morning of the second day, the entire Burning Heaven Clan’s training hall suddenly erupted into an uproar. Inside the training hall, five to six mountain peaks collapsed due to the shaking, and the bright yellow magma that shot into the sky turned crimson the moment it fell, the pungent yet dense gray fog pervaded the air, causing half of the training hall to be affected.
Just at this moment, a young cultivator with long hair that was casually tossed behind his head hurried over, and when he saw Yang Junshan from afar, he cupped his hands and said: “Is this fellow Yuzhou Jun Shan?”
Yang Junshan laughed, and said: “It’s me, it seems like your sect has finally remembered me.”
The person revealed a look of guilt and said, “Fellow cultivator, please don’t blame me. It’s not that the sect doesn’t value you, it’s just that they are too focused on you and can’t settle the dispute.”
Although Yang Junshan had guessed it long ago, when he heard the cultivator before him admit it, he was still shocked in his heart. The competition within the Burning Heaven Clan had actually already reached such a stage.
“I don’t know how to address you,” he said. “Since we’ve been at loggerheads, why did you ask Fellow Daoist to come here?” Yang Junshan asked with a smile.
“I am Hong Lu, the third generation disciple of our sect.”
The person introduced himself, then suddenly smiled: “Actually, Fellow Daoist has yet to make any decisions regarding your duties. It’s just that Fellow Daoist has already seen how rampant the Alien Cultivator is in the Earth Fire Abyss Prison. I can’t wait for the seniors of the sect to argue, so I’ll have to invite Fellow Daoist first.”
After Daoist Hong Lu finished speaking, his narrowed eyes even carried a bit of pride and cunning.
“So it’s someone from the same generation!”
Yang Junshan glanced at Daoist Hong Lu with some surprise. Ever since Yang Junshan had advanced into the Qingyun Realm, among the cultivators of the same generation, even among the famous sects and large sects, it was not that there were none that had not advanced into the Dao Realm, but most of them had only been at the Rui Qi Realm. This Daoist Hong Lu was the first time Yang Junshan had seen someone of the same generation as him.