bookcurios Chapter 266: Incite Xuanwu to rebel?
Chapter 266: Incite Xuanwu to rebel?
Bai Lan nodded. She had heard Han Xuzi mention it before.
"Xuanwu was not in the hands of human cultivators since its birth. Instead, it later signed a contract with a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Qingyuan Sect by chance. But as far as I know, that Nascent Soul cultivator has already died. The beast has a proud personality. How could it be willing to sign a contract with anyone again after the contract was dissolved?" The Fox King sneered.
"So the Fox King wants me to incite Xuanwu to rebel?" Bai Lan raised his eyebrows.
"How can a divine beast be willing to be inferior to humans? Xuanwu must have a reason to stay in Qingyuan Sect. Now that good and evil are about to fight, if we can get his help, the beast race may be able to profit from it and severely damage the human cultivators."
Your plan is brilliant. While good and evil are battling each other, you take advantage of the absence of the sect's core forces and several Nascent Soul ancestors, and join forces with Xuanwu from inside and outside.
In this world of cultivation, although monsters have strong reproduction abilities and are numerous in number, they have always been the disadvantaged party because of their slow growth period and the fact that monsters below level seven have not yet developed their intelligence and are relatively stupid.
The last time a collective beast tide occurred was in the ancient times ten thousand years ago. As human cultivators have become stronger, beast tides have become a thing of the past.
After all, the first and second level monsters are almost like walking spiritual herbs to human cultivators, and they are all cultivation resources.
Monks can ascend to become immortals, and so can monsters. Therefore, the hatred and conflicts between humans and monsters are fundamentally about competing for resources.
But most of the monsters are brainless, and there are very few high-level monsters like the Fox King who have established territories for the sake of their tribe.
Many high-level monsters do not care about the lives of their own kind and only care about their own cultivation.
"If Xuanwu is willing to cooperate with me, not only will he be able to use most of the fox clan's resources, but I will also give him an extra thousand-year-old cold marrow." The Fox King made the condition.
"Don't worry, Fox King. I will do my best to persuade Senior Xuanwu."
The Fox King was relieved. She would go back and tell the sect's ancestor to keep an eye on the big turtle and make sure it didn't cause any trouble.
After three days of traveling with the fox clan, Bai Lan obtained a seventh-level demon fox tail, a small teleportation array, an evergreen ancient tree root, and also dug up a lot of rare spiritual herbs.
She handed all the spiritual herbs and evergreen ancient trees to the spirit of the weapon, and planted them in the center of the four spiritual veins to allow them to grow quickly.
The Fox King's mission is certainly not important at all.
So as soon as Bai Lan left Fuli Valley, he immediately forgot about it and went straight to the secret realm where Diwu Yin and Ning Yan were.
"Ning Yan, have you and the fifth fellow Taoist arrived?" Bai Lan asked in a voice transmission.
"It's a good thing that Brother Bai still remembers us. I thought you were obsessed with your own business and didn't care about us two." Ning Yan's voice was filled with resentment.
She had been longing for the second level of ice-condensing-into-qi, and thought that she would be able to see Bai Lan as soon as she arrived in Cangyuan City.
But she didn't expect Bai Lan to stand her up.
When I asked the Fifth Yin, it turned out that he had gone to the fox den with some fox princess.
Bai Lan spent three days leisurely among the foxes that filled the mountains of Fuli Valley, and the two of them waited for Bai Lan at the entrance to the secret realm for three days.
"Alas, I had to work so hard to escape from that fox den, so please don't make fun of me anymore."
Ning Yan and Diwu Yin were stunned: "Are you injured?"
Even though Bai Lan was gifted, it was not an easy task for him to sneak into the monster cave alone with his foundation-building cultivation.
"The Fox King is not a vegetarian. My consciousness was damaged by her." Bai Lan said weakly.
"What should I do?"
Bai Lan smiled bitterly: "It's okay, it's just that his consciousness is damaged, his body is fine. You have been waiting for three days, it's not good to let you wait any longer, I will meet up with you now."
Ning Yan and Diwu Yin looked at the severed sound transmission note in front of them and were silent for a moment.
After Bai Lan left Fuli Valley tens of thousands of meters away, two figures suddenly surrounded him from the left and right.
One was Hanxuzi, and the other was a female cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul who had previously placed an order for the demon-luring grass from Bai Lan.
"Two ancestors, what a coincidence, haha."
Bai Lan laughed awkwardly. She strongly suspected that these two people had been waiting for her outside the valley.
“Hahahahaha! I knew you would make it out alive. I have found the whereabouts of my Millennium Ice Herb! Hahaha.” Hanxuzi looked contented, with a smile in his eyes. He pointed at the female cultivator beside him and said, “Don’t try to deny it. Hand over the spiritual herb.”
"......Hmph." The Nascent Soul female cultivator threw a jade box into Hanxuzi's hands with an expressionless face.
Obviously, the two of them had made some kind of bet with Bai Lan, and the bet was whether Bai Lan could get out of the fox clan safely.
It was also obvious that the female cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage gambled that she would not be able to come out alive, and as expected, she lost to Hanxuzi.
Bai Lan also handed a storage bag full of demon-luring grass to the two of them.
"Not bad, not bad. They are all ten-year-old Demon-Luring Grass." The Nascent Soul female cultivator was very satisfied and handed a storage bag to Bai Lan.
Seeing that the relationship between the two seems so familiar, could it be that this female cultivator is Qingyuan Sect’s other Nascent Soul ancestor, Fu Guang?
"But speaking of which, what is the situation within the fox clan? Is there a mountain protection formation in the Fuli Valley? How many eighth-level fox monsters are there? How strong are they?" Han Xuzi twirled his beard and looked at Bai Lan.
The Nascent Soul female cultivator at the side shook her head: "Even if there is only one Fox King, you and I are no match for her in her territory. She has broken through to the eighth level for hundreds of years, and her strength is comparable to that of a late Nascent Soul cultivator."
“Well, both of us are in the middle stage of Nascent Soul. Even if we can’t win, can’t we just run away?” Han Xuzi was eager to fight.
It was indeed impossible to defeat them. The fox clan had two eighth-level demon foxes, and there were several mountain protection formations set up outside the valley. There were also evergreen ancient trees inside that continuously provided them with spiritual power.
It is truly easy to defend and difficult to attack. After all, when the ninth-level fox demon ancestor was still alive, the fox clan once prospered.
Bai Lan was silent for a moment, then directly handed several drawings to Han Xuzi.
Han Xuzi took the drawing, glanced at it first, and then was surprised for a moment.
The blueprint clearly depicts the terrain conditions within the Fuli Valley, the key points of the three mountain protection formations, and the number and strength of the fox demons.
Most importantly, she even drew a distribution map of the spiritual herbs in the valley.
"There are only two eighth-level monsters left in the fox tribe, the Fox King and the chief elder of the fox tribe. In addition, the former ninth-level fox tribe ancestor has set up three valley protection formations on the outskirts of Fuli Valley. Even if a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage takes action, it will be difficult to conquer them for the time being."
"That's okay. You and I should just use the demon-luring grass to find other high-level demon beasts." Hanxuzi gave up decisively.
The female cultivator also nodded in agreement.
The two ancestors of Qingyuan Sect seemed to be looking for high-level monsters to kill.
Now that there are so many high-level monster materials, the only possibility is to refine formation plates or magical instruments. Could such a large quantity of monster materials be a preparation for the war between good and evil?
Forget it, she should not ask too much about the affairs of the Yuanying Patriarch.
"By the way, I learned from the Fox King that she seems to be trying to win over the Xuanwu beast in the back mountain of Qingyuan Sect to act as an insider and profit from the battle between good and evil."
Hanxuzi raised his eyebrows and looked at the female Nascent Soul cultivator beside him, with a hint of mockery in his eyes.
The Nascent Soul female cultivator's expression remained unchanged, and she nodded slightly: "We two know about this matter, don't worry, even without the soul contract, Xuanwu will not betray Qingyuan Sect."
Hanxuzi also nodded: "Yes."
Xuanwu no longer has a soul contract? Bai Lan really wants to add another one to it, but unfortunately, she definitely can't beat an eighth-level beast.