When I take my cultivation to the extreme

Chapter 139 The storm is rising, Cangshan Mineral Veins

In Tianxiao Palace, Yi Chaosheng and Yi Xixuan were both there.

Li Fan was a little surprised when he saw Yi Xixuan.

Although Yi Xixuan is Yi Chaosheng's niece, and it is normal for her to appear at Tianxiao Peak, Yi Xixuan has been in seclusion since Li Fan entered the school and has not been seen.

At this time, it was a bit sudden to see her appear here.

Yi Xixuan turned back and looked at Li Fan.

Ten years have not left any traces of time on Yi Xixuan. She is as if she came back from Falling Star Sea yesterday, with no change in her appearance.

Still dressed in white, his temperament is as pure as dust.

She turned around and saw Li Fan, with a look of surprise on her face.

"Are you in the late stage of foundation building?" Yi Xixuan asked.

Li Fan also came to his senses. He first greeted Yi Chaosheng, then nodded to Yi Xixuan and said, "Hello, Senior Sister Yi. Yes, I have just come out of seclusion and my cultivation is in the late stage of foundation building."

Yi Xixuan's face was even more surprised.

"The last time you were on Lingsha Island, you were only at the Qi Refining stage and had not yet reached the Great Consummation. It was only about ten years ago. Your advancement in cultivation... is too scary," she said.

Not only her, but also Yi Chaosheng looked surprised.

However, after a second thought, Yi Chaosheng seemed to have thought of something, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes, and the look of surprise was much less.

Yi Chaosheng looked at Li Fan and said, "Li Fan, it's time for you to leave seclusion."

"The sect has been in a lot of troubles recently, and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere. Since you have come out of seclusion and have the strength to reach the late stage of foundation building, there are many things that need you."

"Yes, Master." Li Fan nodded and said, "I heard some news that the situation in the sect is very tense now?"

"How come it has only been more than two years before things have deteriorated to this point?"

Although he had some general knowledge of the situation before, the outer disciples had limited knowledge and low knowledge. The real key was to get the news from Yi Chaosheng.

"Mo Yuan Sect has gone too far this time." Yi Chaosheng said.

Yi Chaosheng told Li Fan about the changes in the pattern of the southeastern area of ​​Tianyuan Continent in the past two years.

Li Fan listened carefully.

In the past two years, it was not the expansion of Wandao Sect that caused conflicts, but the Moyuan Sect causing trouble everywhere.

Li Fan and Luo Caicai once killed a late-stage foundation-building monk in Jingou Valley. At that time, there was some evidence that there were secret contacts between Moyuan Sect, Xuanyin Sect, Yunhe Valley, and even Donghua Sect of Zhengdao Sect. , and that investigation was also the trigger for today's situation.

In the past two years, as the matter deepened, Wandaomen gradually saw the truth and the truth.

Mo Yuan Sect, Xuanyin Sect and Yunhe River Valley, these three sects did not know when and under what conditions they reached an alliance.

The Wandao Sect does not yet know the specific alliance concluded, but it can be seen that these three families have joined forces and are jointly targeting the Wandao Sect.

Moreover, the conflicts in the past few years are not only limited to the world of immortality. The Moyuan Sect is also causing trouble in nearby countries.

Mortal kingdoms such as Lingshu, Bihua, Hehe, Danguo, etc. have had friction with each other in recent years, and some countries have also experienced civil strife. Four or five major wars have been fought, each time causing hundreds of thousands of casualties. Including the civilians involved, the total number of deaths due to the war exceeded three million.

Although the world of cultivating immortals has established rules and regulations not to interfere in mortal affairs, such war may be a harbinger of troubled times.

As the leader of the decent sect in Tianyuan Southeast, Wandaomen always has to do something.

The news that the disciples sent out to investigate the matter received surprised the Wandao Sect's senior officials.

Behind these wars, there is a vague shadow of the Moyuan Sect.

Although I don’t know what the Moyuan Sect’s people are planning, Wandaomen did not wait, but also exerted influence and mediation, striving to prevent the Moyuan Sect’s plan from succeeding.

It's just that in the mortal realm, the seeds of hatred and ambition have been sown, and with some well-intentioned people adding fuel to the flames, the war situation is likely to get worse.

The situation is getting increasingly chaotic now, but it's not all bad.

Donghua Sect, which had an indifferent relationship with Wandao Sect before, although it also had contacts with Moyuan Sect during the investigation, unexpectedly did not participate this time, but was waiting and watching.

Yi Chaosheng and Yi Xixuan had just returned to the sect this time. They had gone to Donghua Sect to discuss matters with the head Gongsun Sihua.

Yi Chaosheng said: "...Things like this, it is rare for the Donghua Sect to express its position, saying that it will not interfere in the grievances between us and the Moyuan Sect, and that it can partially share the pressure from the Xuanyin Sect. After all, their two sects There is a feud, and the leader of the Xuanyin Sect died at the hands of the leader of the Donghua Sect seven hundred years ago."

"If Donghua Sect can fulfill its promise, it will at least share the pressure from Xuanyin Sect. Wandao Sect can focus on fighting against Moyuan Sect and Yunhe Valley, which will save a lot of trouble."

Li Fan nodded and said: "Donghua Sect is an upright sect after all. If our Wandao Sect falls, Moyuan Sect, together with Xuanyin Sect and Yunhe River Valley, will easily swallow up Donghua Sect. They are probably afraid of dying. "

Yi Chaosheng nodded and said: "That's the truth. But we can't expect the people of Donghua Sect to put in much effort. They hope that my Wandao Sect will consume our foundation so that they can re-establish their position in Tianyuan Southeast."

"As long as Donghua Sect doesn't hold back, we can't expect them to be of the same mind as Wandao Sect."

Li Fan nodded.

Yi Chaosheng said: "Li Fan, you need to rest for a few days first, and then go to the Shanggong Pavilion to find the second elder Li Xinlong to report. There are many tasks in the sect recently, so you should hurry up and get involved."

"But there is no need to worry too much. Although the situation is tense, it is not yet dangerous. Most of the sect missions are not life-threatening, and they are all completed in teams. Just think of it as a personal experience."

"Okay." Li Fan agreed.

"Well, I have to go to the Tianyuan Peak Council Hall to discuss some matters with the elders. You can go and do your business." Yi Chaosheng said.

Yi Xixuan, who was next to him, heard this and said, "I am also going back to Tianshan Peak, so let's go with Li Fan."

Yi Chaosheng looked at Yi Xixuan, nodded slightly, and said, "Okay."

Yi Xixuan nodded, looked back at Li Fan, smiled slightly, and said, "Let's go."

Li Fan saluted and left Tianxiao Peak with Yi Xixuan.

After walking out, Yi Xixuan stood still in the square in front of Tianxiao Palace, looked back at Li Fan, and said, "It's surprising that you can grow up so fast."

"You were very courageous back then, but your cultivation level was really not good enough. I actually didn't think you would definitely be able to enter the Ten Thousand Doors Sect, but now it seems that you are living a prosperous life in the sect."

Li Fan smiled slightly and said: "I still have to thank Senior Sister Yi for this matter. If it weren't for your help back then, I wouldn't be able to hang out there in Luo Xinghai. It's much more difficult for casual cultivators to practice more intensively than for sect disciples." Yes, being able to enter thousands of doors has saved me a lot of time and energy and avoided many detours."

"The origin is still because of your relationship with Senior Sister Yi."

Yi Xixuan nodded.

She actually didn't know how to contact Li Fan.

Although they had met before, it was just a few encounters. To say that they had not been together for a long time, they were not very familiar with each other. It was just that Li Fan saved her at that time, so Yi Xixuan was more impressed. Now that they met again, Yi Xixuan felt that she had something to say, but she didn't know where to start.

She was not very good at dealing with people, so she thought about it again and again, but finally said nothing.

Li Fan and Yi Xixuan arrived at Tianshan Mountain together.

Yi Xixuan seemed to feel that she didn't know what to say, so she took Li Fan to the front and back of Li Xinlong's residence, said she had something to do, and left first.

Li Fan also felt a little strange.

He had an intuition in his heart that Yi Xixuan wanted to say something, and seemed to view him differently, but there was no direct evidence.

Seeing Yi Xixuan leaving, Li Fan shook his head slightly.

"I must be overthinking it."

He exhaled and stepped into Li Xinlong's residence.

in residence.

"Are you in the late stage of foundation building?" Li Xinlong asked with surprise after seeing Li Fan.

Li Fan felt that after leaving isolation this time, the first words he said to anyone he met seemed to be this.

He was also patient and replied to Li Xinlong as usual.

"You... entering the country are a bit scary." Li Xinlong sighed with emotion. After a moment, he added: "Oh, yes, you are here to take on the sect's mission. It just so happens that you will have a mission tomorrow for your late-stage foundation building, with the master. Jin Daosheng, the eldest disciple of the sect, and the other eleven direct disciples of the sect in the foundation-building period, went to Cangshanping, where someone from the Yunhe River Valley took action first and captured it. Your mission is to take this place back."

Li Xinlong and Li Fan were also familiar with each other. He knew that Li Fan had been in retreat in the past few years, so he explained.

"Cangshanping is a Xiuxianfang City location on the edge of our Wandao Sect's sphere of influence. In fact, it is closer to the Yun River Valley, but it has always been protected by our Wandao Sect. It can be regarded as an enclave outside the sect."

"Although this place is far away from Zihua Mountain and is on the edge of our sect's influence, it is very important because there are many spiritual vein mineral deposits here, which produce low-grade and medium-grade spiritual stones. In addition, there are also purple gold copper, Zhijin stone, and Jiuqu mines. It is an extremely rich source of minerals including pearlite and other mineral veins.”

"The sect has always attached great importance to this place. There are two inner sect deacons in the late stage of foundation building and seven other deacons in the middle stage of foundation building and early stage guarding it."

"More than ten days ago, people from Yunhe River Valley raided Cangshanping, led by Qu Congze, a Jindan disciple of Yunhehe's generation, and Cangshanping was lost."

"However, the people from Yunhe River Valley made a surprise attack, but they were still cautious and did not really form a deadly feud. One late-stage Foundation Establishment and two mid-stage Foundation Establishment deacons from our Wandao Sect were captured. The rest of them escaped and brought the news back. The sect."

"The other party is unjust and sends Jindan disciples to sneak attack. We must also show our respect. Moreover, Cangshanping is an important resource producing area. Minerals account for [-]% of the sect's annual needs. We must take them back!"

"Your first mission after leaving seclusion is to go to Cangshanping with Jin Daosheng and other disciples to recover the lost land."

Li Xinlong said.

Li Fan nodded when he heard this.

His seniority in the sect is getting deeper and higher, his status is getting higher and higher, and he understands some of the inside information of Wandao Sect better.

Among Wandaomen sects, there is never a shortage of food, clothing, and training resources.

Although disciples want to obtain these, they have to do sect tasks and continuously accumulate good deeds in order to obtain them. But in general, good deeds are regarded as the internal currency of Wandao Sect, and they are not physical existences like spiritual stones. It is the rules and authority of ten thousand sects and has no real value.

Those elixirs, spiritual vein minerals, and treasures from heaven and earth are the things that truly support the value of good deeds.

As for these elixirs, natural materials, earthly treasures and other items, in addition to some of them being grown and mined by Wandao Sect in Zihua Mountain themselves, a considerable part of them were obtained from the outside world.

Li Fan knew that the Wandao Sect had a very large sphere of influence. This sphere of influence did not refer to the national boundaries of the mortal empire, but to individual resource points.

In other words, there are Xiuxianfang cities, Xiuxianfang families, and gathering points around the spiritual mines.

Some of these places are directly controlled by Wandao Sect, and some are controlled by various cultivating families. But no matter what, a considerable part of the resources will eventually be transported to Wandao Sect from various cities and resource points within the control range. among.

It is precisely with these material resources that Wandao Sect can flourish and the disciples within the sect can have a foundation for practice.

Correspondingly, Wandao Sect does not collect these resources from various cities and towns in vain.

Wandaomen also offers a rare commodity.

That is……

order.

In the world of cultivating immortals, if there is no strong dominant party, it will be quite cruel. There are constant struggles for skills and resources, and there are also robber cultivators who specialize in robbing and killing as a way to obtain resources.

If this chaos continues, what will definitely happen is that they will kill each other, and even resources will be exhausted, and no one will be willing to do basic mining, planting and other work.

A righteous sect like Wandao Sect, on the one hand, receives material support, and on the other hand, it also provides order to all places within its sphere of influence.

Whether there is a severe calamity cultivator, or there is friction between cities and towns due to trade, it is the people from the Wandao Sect who come forward to calm and deal with these matters.

This is also what the direct disciples in the late stage of foundation building who are at a higher level do outside.

Cangshanping, although it is an enclave outside Wandao Sect, is extremely rich in resources. The minerals produced account for [-]% of Wandao Sect's daily consumption, so it must not be given up.

Moreover, Yunhe River Valley's sneak attack on Cangshanping was an announcement to the outside world that they did not recognize the order provided by Wandao Sect.

This is something the sect cannot tolerate.

Li Fan understood this and went through it in his mind.

Li Xinlong also gave Li Fan specific arrangements for his trip.

At Shenshi, the sect disciples who were about to go to Cangshanping gathered at Tianyuan Peak and traveled all night. Tomorrow night they would arrive at Qinggenfang, the city of immortal cultivators closest to Cangshanping, where they would spend the night repairing and get the weapons stationed at Qinggenfang. After hearing the news about the disciples of the sect, they will go to Cangshanping on the next day. There may be a fierce fight at that time.

All the elders of the sect informed the direct disciples who participated in this operation and issued strict silence orders. After learning the news, they could only gather together to act and no information should be leaked.

After Li Fan got the news and got the jade chip as a token of this operation, it was almost time for the disciples to assemble for this sect mission.

Li Fan then bid farewell to Li Xinlong.

He came out of Tianyuan Peak today, but he didn't expect that he would have to return to Tianyuan Peak to gather again in the evening.

Three o'clock in the future.

Li Fan wielded his sword and came to Tianyuan Peak.

He found the place Li Xinlong mentioned and saw that eleven people had gathered here.

Among them was Luo Caicai, whom Li Fan was familiar with.

(End of this chapter)