When I take my cultivation to the extreme

Chapter 141 Pre-war intelligence, Yujue’s warning

Li Fan followed the team, wielding his sword without saying a word. When the sun set the next day, he arrived at Qingganfang.

Qingganfang is located in the southwest of Lingshu Kingdom, very close to the destination of this trip, Cangshanping. Monks in the late stage of foundation building can reach Cangshanping in seven or eight hours with their swords.

Qingganfang is close to Qinggan Mountain. It is a quite large market. There are three to five thousand monks who usually live and trade here. Plus some mortals who usually serve in the market, it is like a small city in the mountains. .

Li Fan and other members of the Wandao Sect came here, firstly to take a break, and secondly to listen to some of the latest news.

The owner of Qinggenfang is Ouyang Dan. The Ouyang family, the Zhang family, and the Bai family jointly control Qinggenfang, with the Ouyang family as the main one, the Zhang family, and the Bai family as the auxiliaries.

These three families all have one thing in common, that is, their ancestors were all disciples of the Wandao Sect. Later, they left the sect and spread their branches, forming the Immortal Cultivation Family and taking control of Qinggenfangfang City.

Li Fan has become more knowledgeable and knows that this pattern is very common.

In fact, there are far more disciples of Wandao Sect than those seen in Zihua Mountain. However, after some disciples of inner and outer sects are promoted to deacons, especially if they reach the later stage of foundation establishment, if they have accumulated enough merits, they can freely choose to join the sect. Continue to serve as a deacon, or go out to garrison.

For example, at Cangshanping, some inner sect deacons take the lead and guard the place, which is directly controlled by Wandao Sect.

And if nothing unexpected happens, over time, these inner sect deacons may apply to the sect to change their identities. On the one hand, they are still related to the Wandao sect, and on the other hand, they start to form a force or family. After a few generations, a The new Fangshi and Xiuxian families were born.

This is actually how the Xu family on Luo Xing Island came to be.

When Li Fan and others arrived at Qingganfang, the owner Ouyang Dan had already received the news and was here to greet them.

Li Fan saw this Ouyang Dan.

This person has a rectangular face, a broad forehead, and a receding hairline. He looks middle-aged, with a good figure and has not yet gained weight.

Ouyang Dan is also the same as he looks. He speaks in a straightforward manner and seems to be very serious.

This serious look matched well with Jin Daosheng.

After Ouyang Dan welcomed Li Fan and other Wandao Sect disciples, he led them to a building.

"Senior Brother Jin, fellow cultivators of Wandao Sect, I know you are coming, so I will empty Anxian Tower, the best residence in Fang City, to wait for you masters to arrive."

"This place has been carefully cleaned, and the people serving inside have also received special training and will never leak any information."

Ouyang Dan said to Jin Daosheng.

Although he is over fifty years old, he still follows the custom and calls Li Fan and others senior brothers and senior practitioners.

"Forget the people who are serving, please evacuate from the building. We are here to do work, not to enjoy."

“With a large number of people, chaos is inevitable, so keep everything simple.”

"I accept Master Ouyang's wishes."

Jin Daosheng said.

After hearing what he said, Ouyang Dan did not insist and ordered all the waiters in the building to exit.

"Senior Brother Jin, what happened at Cangshanping makes me somewhat worried."

"Qinggenfang is not too far from Cangshanping. Foundation-building monks can get here in seven or eight hours. Will the people in Yun Valley be detrimental to Qinggenfang?"

After the others withdrew, Ouyang Dan asked worriedly.

"Master Ouyangfang, don't worry too much. The people in Yunhe River Valley are not that bold yet. Qingganfang is different from Cangshanping. It is closer to Zihua Mountain. The sect will not let this place fall." Jin Daosheng said.

Ouyang Dan felt slightly relieved after hearing this.

Li Fan and others entered Anxian Tower.

Li Fan entered Anxian Tower and found a room on the third floor. As soon as he settled in, Zuo Junhui suddenly came to find him.

Li Fan was slightly surprised and didn't know what Zuo Junhui meant by looking for him.

"There are stationed deacons from the Wandao Sect here in Qingganfang. They have been gathering information since the fall of Cangshanping. Now the person in charge has come to state the information. Senior Brother Jin is quite impressed by Junior Brother Li. He knows that you have extraordinary combat power. You are qualified to attend and listen, so you asked me to come to you." Zuo Junhui said.

After a pause, Zuo Junhui continued: "Although we are here, including Senior Brother Jin, there are thirteen people in total, but Senior Brother Jin actually doesn't like many of them. It is right for Senior Brother Jin to ask Junior Brother Li to leave." You looked at me differently.”

Li Fan smiled when he heard this.

Since he won first place in the sect competition and reached the late stage of foundation building, his value has increased and his status in the sect has also been invisibly improved.

Li Fan said: "Okay, I will go with Senior Brother Zuo."

There was nothing in his room, so he followed Zuo Junhui to the top floor of Anxian Building.

top floor.

The largest and only room.

Jin Daosheng lives here.

The guest room is large, and its layout is modeled after that of a house, with a hall, bedrooms, and even a study room.

At this time, there were four people in the hall.

Li Fan saw Jin Daosheng and Zhao Xu present.

Seeing Li Fan arriving, Jin Daosheng nodded slightly, while Zhao Xu smiled.

Li Fan understood.

Jin Daosheng was indeed very discerning. Except for Zuo Junhui, his die-hard supporter, Li Fan, who was first in the sect competition, and Zhao Xu, who was third, the others who came to listen to the information were not notified.

But I have to say that after doing this, Li Fan felt quite valued.

Although he didn't attach too much importance to this, he also had a deeper understanding of Jin Daosheng's behavior.

Opposite Jin Daosheng, two people stood.

The leader looks about fifty years old, has a square face, and is in the late stage of foundation building.

The other person, whom Li Fan was much more familiar with, was Hu Feng.

Hu Feng has not been seen for more than two years, and his temperament has become much calmer. It seems that he is quite settled, and his realm has also reached the early stage of foundation building.

Hu Feng was a little surprised to see Li Fan, but he immediately calmed down and nodded to Li Fan.

Li Fan and Zuo Junhui found their seats.

"Everyone is here. There is a formation here. Outsiders cannot hear what is said. Please tell us about the situation in Cangshanping." Jin Daosheng said.

"Yes," said the square-faced middle-aged monk.

"Yunhe River Valley captured Cangshanping more than ten days ago. Although they captured and expelled our disciples, most of Cangshanping's spiritual minerals were circulated to the outside world, and there were many merchants and miners. The news could not be completely blocked. We sent people I entered Cangshanping in disguise, contacted some lower-level monks who were loyal to me, Wandao Sect, and roughly got some information."

"Among the Yunhe Valley monks at Cangshanping, only Qu Congze, an early-stage Golden Elixir monk, was seen. No one saw any other Golden Elixir monks."

"There are less than ten other foundation-building monks that anyone has seen."

"Although it is possible that the other party deliberately hid it, or that the identity of the person who provided the clues and information was too low to be seen, it can also explain some problems."

"And the people from Yunhe River Valley don't seem to want to occupy Cangshanping for a long time."

"They are constantly plundering the spiritual minerals in Cangshanping's inventory and speeding up the transportation back to Yunhe River Valley. It seems that they have little confidence in holding Cangshanping, and more like they want to make a profit and run away."

The square-faced monk said.

"What is your judgment?" Jin Daosheng asked.

"I think that the people in Yunhe River Valley don't want to keep Cangshanping at all, but are just trying to test it. Maybe Senior Brother Jin will retreat when they hear you arrive at Cangshanping." The square-faced monk said.

After a pause, he said: "Junior Brother Hu Feng is the person in charge of inquiring about the information. If you have any details, you can ask him."

Hu Feng quickly handed over his hand.

Jin Daosheng asked some detailed questions, and Hu Feng answered them fluently.

Soon, everyone in the room roughly reached a consensus.

The people of Yunhe River Valley seemed to be just trying to get lucky and fight against the autumn wind.

"Okay, you two have worked hard, please step back first." Jin Daosheng said. The square-faced monk and Hu Feng quickly resigned.

When Hu Feng passed by Li Fan, he blinked.

Li Fan understood that Hu Feng must have something to say.

"Room [-], Tianzi A, on the third floor." Li Fan said.

Hu Feng blinked again and followed the square-faced monk away.

There were four people left in the room: Jin Daosheng, Zuo Junhui, Zhao Xu, and Li Fan.

"If you listen together, you will understand. What do you think?" Jin Daosheng asked.

Zuo Junhui pondered for a moment and said: "The information should be correct and consistent in all aspects. The Yunhe River Valley side probably had no intention of actually occupying Cangshanping. They also knew that they could not hold it, so they and the inner sect deacon It’s the same thing, just make a fortune and leave.”

Jin Daosheng nodded.

Zhao Xu thought for a moment and said, "It's a bit like the haying valleys of some nomadic tribes. I agree with Senior Brother Zuo."

Jin Daosheng nodded, and at the same time his eyes fell on Li Fan.

"Li Fan, what do you think?" Jin Daosheng asked.

Li Fan looked back and said: "Senior Brother Zuo, what Senior Brother Zhao said is right, but at this time, I think there is still one doubt."

"Oh? What are the doubts? Please tell me." Jin Daosheng asked.

Li Fan thought clearly and said: "Since Yunhe River Valley doesn't think it can defend Cangshanping, why do you still want to provoke our sect?"

"If it's just for testing, isn't it a bit expensive?"

"I always feel like it might not be that simple."

"Hey, Li Fan, you may be overthinking," Zuo Junhui said. "You haven't interacted with the people in Yunhe River Valley enough. You may think that these people are as far-sighted as the elders and leaders of our sect. In fact, this is not the case at all. .”

"The people of Yunhe River Valley are famous for their self-interest theory. They will do anything for profit, and there is no bottom line. You may think highly of them. The consistent style of this sect is to hit three poles if there are no dates, even if there are no dates. Failure doesn’t mean much loss anyway.”

"I think they just want to take a gamble and see if they can take advantage of this. If they succeed, they will take advantage of the situation to occupy Cangshanping. If they fail, they will loot and leave."

"Maybe." Li Fan said.

He still felt that something was fishy.

But Li Fan has no evidence, and has never dealt with the Yunhe River Valley, so he really has no position to say anything.

"Okay, since we don't have any objections, let's follow the original plan and launch a raid tomorrow to regain Cangshanping." Jin Daosheng said.

This little meeting ended like this.

Li Fan said goodbye and returned to Room [-], Tianzijia, on the third floor.

Before Hu Feng came, Li Fan sat on the bed and adjusted his breathing for a while.

However, this was an ordinary breath adjustment, but Li Fan was in a trance unconsciously, as if he had entered a dream.

However, Li Fan entered this 'dream' with a clear consciousness.

Li Fan suddenly discovered that the surrounding environment had changed. It was dusk, the setting sun was like blood, and he was flying in the air with his sword.

Not far ahead, spiritual energy fluctuations were like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, coming towards us.

"boom!"

A dazzling white light like the sun flashed through, and Li Fan was suddenly startled.

This kind of power cannot be achieved by the Taoist skills of foundation-building monks, so it must be a golden elixir monk.

In the dazzling white light of the explosion, a figure rushed out first, followed by three figures following closely behind, chasing after him.

Li Fan could see clearly at this time that the purple figure rushing out was Jin Daosheng.

Jin Daosheng was in an extremely miserable state. His purple robe was torn, his skin was burnt black, and his bun was messed up. His left arm was exposed, with injuries so deep that his bones were visible, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

Behind him, three Jindan monks were chasing after him.

The leader was wearing a black robe, a black scarf on his head, and a black gauze on his face. He waved his hand and a black demonic energy gathered into a dragon and went straight towards Jin Daosheng.

Jin Daosheng wanted to avoid it, but a magic weapon composed of a thorn ball cage suddenly flew over and spread out in front of Jin Daosheng, controlling him inside.

In the magic weapon caged by the thorn ball, Jin Daosheng tried to break through and suffered another wound on his body.

The demonic black dragon flew in and hit Jin Daosheng's back heart.

Daosheng Jin spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

Another golden elixir monk attacked. With a wave of his hand, a purple crescent shovel-like magic weapon flew out and went straight to the back of the golden elixir saint's neck.

"Be careful!" Li Fan couldn't help shouting when he saw this.

However, Jin Daosheng was too seriously injured and could no longer alert his surroundings. He could not even maintain his flying posture.

The purple crescent shovel cut off the back of Jin Daosheng's neck, and the Jin Daosheng's head and body were separated.

Li Fan was shocked.

He swept away his consciousness and scanned the front carefully.

At this time, Li Fan discovered that all the foundation-building disciples of the Wandao Sect around him had been slaughtered.

He is one of the last people alive.

Li Fan also sensed that one of the three golden elixir monks chasing Jin Daosheng was in the late stage of golden elixir, and the other two were one in the middle stage of golden elixir and the other in early stage of golden elixir.

Originally, monks in the late stage of foundation building couldn't clearly judge the specific strength of monks higher than him, but Li Fan's divine consciousness liquid was different.

at this time.

Li Fan's warning to Jin Daosheng was noticed by the black-robed Jindan late-stage monk.

The black-robed monk raised his hand, and another demonic black dragon rolled towards Li Fan.

Li Fan wanted to release the Earth Demon Soul-Calming Bell to resist, but when he patted the storage bag, he suddenly realized that the storage bag was empty and there was no magic weapon.

Li Fan was shocked.

In his desperation, he actually started to use two Taoist techniques at the same time.

The left hand had previously used the Fire Phoenix Burning Heaven Technique, and the Lihuo Purple Flame Red Emperor Divine Thunder was already being constructed on the right hand.

However, Li Fan suddenly realized that he had no spiritual power at all in his body. He only had skills, but nothing was released.

The demonic black dragon had already rushed in front of Li Fan.

Li Fan screamed in surprise, and the demonic black dragon swallowed him into its belly.

Li Fan felt his flesh and blood dissolving, and in an instant, it turned into a pool of blood.

"what!"

Li Fan screamed and opened his eyes suddenly.

He was breathing heavily, and after a few breaths, he realized that he was still in Room A, Tianzi No. [-], Anxian Building.

"Nightmare?" Li Fan blurted out.

After a moment, his expression changed slightly.

Li Fan took out the jade of creation that he carried with him.

I saw that the red color on the jade had faded by one-third.

(End of this chapter)