Mucheunze practiced cultivating Qi, focusing on the Wood Spirit of the Five Spirits Capturing Demonic Qi.
Compared to the slow and steady cultivation of the Five-Color Purple Azure Qi, which takes decades to accumulate and requires significant resources to quickly enhance one's cultivation, the Five-Element Spirit Capturing Demon Qi has a faster speed of practice and less resource consumption.
The only drawback is that cultivators who practice the Demonic Spirit Capturing Qi need to fight fiercely with demon beasts to absorb their essence and power, thereby transforming them into spiritual Qi.
Using demon beasts as elixir, as long as they can survive in each battle, cultivators can achieve foundation-building at the fastest speed with the least investment.
In conclusion, Mucheunze, who emerged victorious from the Western Sea Battle, is an extremely skilled cultivator in both fighting and subduing demons.
His strength and alertness are unparalleled among fellow cultivators.
Guarding the cultivator's residence, the banquet hall.
Mucheunze, holding a gold chopstick, listened to Grandpa Er of Gu family talking big while picking up a piece of horse intestine.
As the plate intestine entered his mouth, it was still the familiar taste and texture, smooth and tender, deliciously so.
However, there seems to be something strange outside this familiar taste.
Blood, the taste of fresh blood.
It's getting stronger... What's happening?
It should come from the door.
Hmm? ! ?
Instantly, Mucheunze, seated at the head of the table, didn't even have time to put down his chopsticks. He immediately activated a divine ability——transforming his body into a blessed deer.
There is at least a purple palace-level cultivator causing chaos, controlling his daughter and others such as Wang Yulou.
The white deer did not speak, but instead used its vast divine consciousness to form a massive hammer and heavily strike at Wang Xianmeng.
"Wang Xianmeng! Wake up!"
At the same time, the white deer increased its efforts, appearing by Zhou Yingxi's side in a flash. He bent down and bit his daughter.
With his daughter's heart racing and her mind in disarray, he didn't look back as he plunged into the water of Qin Yun Qingxi.
There, there is the spiritual eye of a grand array!
Mucheunze is gambling, betting that at least a purple palace cultivator dares not to easily commit atrocities during the Red Light Campaign. He wants to activate the array to seek help!
Seeing Mucheunze leave with a mouth full of blood, Yulou revealed a smile.
Survived.
"Little fellow cultivator, you have the qualifications of a purple palace, I'm waiting for you to open a purple palace."
"We will meet again then."
A non-masculine, non-feminine voice echoed in his mind. Yulou's smile froze on his face, and his body shivered uncontrollably.
He knew that the troublesome mysterious great cultivator was about to leave.
On the other side, Wang Xianmeng had also woken up almost instantly, noticing Yulou who had bitten off his tongue and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood on the ground.
He noticed it later than Mucheunze and didn't realize that this was a great cultivator of at least purple palace level doing mischief.
The patriarch made a decisive move, activating his divine ability. His deep green body emitted a dense array of spiritual energy.
In the spiritual energy, he teleported to Yulou's side with the Wood Spirit Evasion Technique and casually threw Hongmei to one side.
"What, Xianmeng? What's going on?" Grandpa Er of the Gu family was the last to react.
He sensed something big happening from the actions of Mucheunze and Wang Xianmeng, so he also summoned his own spiritual artifact.
The solidified green spiritual energy spread out, and from the various information left in the air, Wang Xianmeng saw everything that had just happened.
Wang Xianmeng's face turned ashen as he shielded Yulou and Yuan'an, and he glared at Grandpa Er of the Gu family.
"Gu Laozhier, don't move, sit there, and the true disciples of the sect will be here soon!"
After communicating with Yulou through the transmission of thoughts, Wang Xianmeng guessed that the audacious great cultivator had already fled.
Wang Xianmeng is now fully aware of what had happened.
On the competition field, Gu Yayue, who had been hiding throughout the competition, grabbed first place at the last moment.
After that, he controlled Wang Yulou to perform according to his script, but Wang Yulou broke free from his control.
Upon discovering that Yulou had broken free from control, the great cultivator worried about any unexpected incidents and hid for a little while.
After investigating and ensuring that there were no other high cultivators secretly observing, he wanted to continue controlling Yulou.
But by then, Yulou was already following Wang Xianmeng.
He waited and waited, until Wang Yulou entered the Residence of the Defending Cultivators and sat at a table apart from Wang Xianmeng, he finally acted.
On the way, he manipulated Yulou's words and even blinded Yulou's auditory sense, so that Yulou couldn't hear Wang Xianmeng's response.
Wang Xianmeng was terrified to the point of having sweat on his forehead——just now, he had chatted with Yulou for quite a while!
It was all the great cultivator who was pretending to deal with him!
If it weren't for Yulou's immediate action of biting off his tongue and spitting out blood for help, the three children would have encountered something terrible. Wang Xianmeng dared not imagine.
Hongmei: I'm sorry, but the dear patriarch, my name is Wang Yushuo.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Looking at Yulou's mouth full of blood, Yuanan panic-strickenly asked.
“S” Wang Yulou collapsed to the ground, answering weakly with little energy, he was really scared.
Zhou Yingxi was controlled, Wang Yuanan was controlled, Hongmei was controlled, the patriarch, Mucheunze, and Grandpa Er of the Gu family were deceived.
It's too terrifying.
"What?" Yu'an, still bewildered, asked. The patriarch pushed him aside and gently brushed over Yulou's face with his hand.
"Hold on a bit." The patriarch whispered.
Using spiritual force, he controlled the bite of Yulou's tongue together, and then took out the bottle of spiritual essence refining vein pill from his chest. He poured out a pill and fed it to Yulou.
"Don't talk, recover well, I understand everything."
Looking at the feeble Wang Shijun, the patriarch forced a smile and instructed.
"Now there's nothing wrong, the person can't move us, indicating that he doesn't want to reveal his identity. Now he should have already left."
Yulou pointed towards the southeast, that was the direction of the Great Tian Tai Mountain, expressing his message succinctly.
"Guo!"
"Hmm, he may also have some problems. Such a handsome figure, we three didn't notice him from beginning to end, ha, laughable, laughable, being played like this by others!"
The patriarch sighed.
"Dong~ Dong~ Dong~ Weng~"
A low and resonant voice sounded, and Yulou, who was sprawled on the door of the banquet hall, looked up in the direction of the sound.
A black jiao dragon had appeared in the sky above Qingxi Fang.
Mucheunze's reinforcements have arrived.
Wang Xianmeng let out a long breath and said.
"It's the Bao Jiao Realperson, Yuan'an, stay by your brother's side. I'll go to meet the realperson."
The old patriarch's heart is still so considerate. Considering that Yulou has just suffered a great calamity, he specially instructed Yuan'an to stay by his brother's side.
Wang Xianmeng soared through the sky and, along with Mucheunze, reported the giant changes that had occurred in Qingxi Fang to the trueperson after meeting with him.
The cultivators in the market didn't know what had happened, but they saw a black jiao dragon hovering in the sky, thinking it was some kind of legendary purple palace demon general, and they all scared themselves half to death.
But they saw the Defending Cultivator and the patriarch of the Anbei King family who had recently made a big fuss going over, so they were no longer afraid.
Mucheunze and Wang Xianmeng welcomed the Black Jiao Dragon. The Tianshe Sect worships the Heavenly Snake, and there are also spiritual beasts guarding the Red Light Campaign. It means that the Black Jiao Dragon is their own jiao, not an external one.
"Hmph, the Wang family is making a lot of noise. Being watched by someone is not surprising!"
The black jiao dragon's eyes did not move at all, and its mouth was merely closed. The Bao Jiao Realperson only communicated with the two through voice transmission.
"Realperson, there may be thieves who want to disrupt the relationship between the Heavenly Snake Sect and the Red Light Campaign, and disrupt the opportunity for our ancestor's golden pill."
Wang Xianmeng answered calmly.
The Bao Jiao Realperson has lost his physical body and possesses the jiao's remains. The small celestial realm is gradually collapsing, and the loss of life essence is inevitable.
What's even more unfortunate is that the Bao Jiao Realperson from the Zhou family and the Master of Mengxi had a very unfriendly relationship in the sect in their early years.
The Zhou family had set its sights on the Wang family, hoping to break through with a marriage alliance with the Wangs and repair their relationship with the line of the Mengxi Patriarch.
But the Wang family rejected it, so the situation is worrying Bao Jiao Realperson naturally had a poor attitude towards Wang Xianmeng.
The plot twists are quite significant, but they are not the result of a brainstorm.
As an author transitioning into the fantasy and martial arts genre, I value readers' opinions greatly. However, it's similar to love; the more you value it, the more your actions become distorted.
I had prepared a plot for an online competition before the release, and I prepared it very hard. However, some readers responded that the pace was slow and did not meet the core satisfaction of fantasy martial arts. Therefore, I wrote two and a half thousand words a day for one day just to quickly pass the plot.
Afterward, the readers continued to respond that the plot was not engaging (although I had already tried my best to create it), so I immediately increased the pace, accelerated the rhythm, and added a section of intense conflict—this is what you are reading now.
This plot was not just something that came to my head. There are reflections and foreshadowing in the beginning, and various corresponding plots in the later part.
Here are four examples without spoilers:
The first example: I wrote earlier that Mucheunze was a scattered cultivator who came from the Western Sea and later became a son-in-law. This set the stage for his first discovery of Yulou's danger.
The second example: In the broader context, I repeatedly indicated and implied that the disputes had begun, with some people causing chaos to control Yulou and acting out a script. This itself is part of the chaotic events.
The third example: When I wrote the first update today, I said at the end that everyone has a bright future in creation, which can be interpreted as an implicit indication of an unexpected event.
The fourth example: The Wang family is in a period of transformation, so the patriarch supports Yulou's competition to help the Wang family gain fame and increase potential prestige and influence. However, the transition of contradictions has determined that the process of becoming strong will inherently bring about more unexpected events and risks. As the Wang family becomes stronger, they attract attention—those causing chaos are temporarily targeting the Wang family. If he had planned more carefully, he wouldn't have chosen a stable family like the Wangs.
