Chapter 170 Investigation
After making his decision, Hongshan Sect’s Patriarch Yang decided to use the greatest strength of Hongshan Sect to capture Chaoyin Mountain, and it would be best if he could kill a few Purple Mansion monks of Qingxuan Sect to weaken this increasingly powerful enemy. In addition to leaving four Purple Mansion monks who had to guard the mountain gate, he sent out almost all the high-level monks in the sect.
Even he himself went around in person, ready to kill people in person if the situation was unfavorable.
Soon, the seven Purple Mansion monks of Hongshan Sect came to Qingliang Mountain, the frontier stronghold, under the leadership of Mu Huaishan.
Mu Huaishan summoned the foundation-building monks of Jiangkou County and asked directly: "Have your people found out the exact news of Chaoyin Mountain?"
"Reporting to Senior Mu, Chaoyin Mountain is guarded very tightly. Any stranger who approaches will be killed and detained by the monks stationed on the mountain. Although we have sent a lot of people, no one can pass the news back." Xiao Hongxuan, the head of the Xiao family, said.
Recently, the task of gathering intelligence was assigned to Xiao Hongxuan. In order to avoid too much loss and to avoid alerting the monks of Chaoyin Mountain, Xiao Hongxuan did not go out in person during this period, but sent a large number of low-level monks to try to approach Chaoyin Mountain.
Unfortunately, the progress was not smooth. Although he sent seven or eight Qi training monks to the vicinity of Chaoyin Mountain, these Qi training monks soon disappeared without a trace as soon as they approached Chaoyin Mountain.
All Xiao Hongxuan could do was to confirm that there was a powerful formation in Chaoyin Mountain, but he hardly got any useful information, and instead alarmed the monks stationed on the mountain.
When Mu Huaishan heard Xiao Hongxuan's nonsense, his face turned red and he cursed: "I asked you to gather intelligence, not to alert the enemy."
Knowing that Xiao Hongxuan did not dare to take the risk to go to Chaoyin Mountain, although Mu Huaishan was unhappy, he also knew clearly that even if Xiao Hongxuan took action personally, he would have the same ending as those Qi training monks, and it would be impossible to investigate the formation of Chaoyin Mountain clearly.
Mu Huaishan turned around and said to an old man with a simple appearance: "Brother He, these vassal foundation-building families are probably useless. It seems that we have to rely on ourselves to find out the truth about Chaoyin Mountain."
This simple old man is the leader of the seven purple mansion cultivators of Hongshan Sect. He is wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe, and the crown and belt on his head look a bit old. His face is thin, with many wrinkles faintly revealed, revealing a trace of oldness, and it seems that he has not lived long.
This person is called He Zhenze, the oldest purple mansion cultivator in Hongshan Sect. Now he is over 400 years old, and his cultivation has reached the ninth level of purple mansion, which is no less than that of the Black Mountain Liang Patriarch.
At this age, He Zhenze's life span is not much, but for the future of Hongshan Sect, this person still took the initiative to volunteer to preside over the overall situation of this battle.
"Brother Huaishan, do you think Chaoyin Mountain is a trap?" He Zhenze is over 400 years old and has seen many intrigues and deceptions of cultivators. He has a very calm personality and will not easily take action without clarifying the situation of Chaoyin Mountain.
Mu Huaishan has been analyzing the situation of Chaoyin Mountain for a long time. When he heard He Zhenze's question, he immediately told his thoughts.
"From the information we have now, a small spiritual stone mine should have been discovered here, so Qingxuan Sect will let the five local foundation-building families share a share. It seems that Chaoyin Mountain should have cultivated a fourth-level spiritual vein and arranged a fourth-level formation. To do this in a short time, there must be more than three purple mansion cultivators on the mountain, including a fourth-level formation master."
He Zhenze nodded silently and said: "Since Chaoyin Mountain is well prepared, there must be many cultivators guarding the mountain. And we can't send a large number of people to attack Chaoyin Mountain if we want to cross the Duanyun Mountains, otherwise it will consume a lot of spiritual rice along the way, This long-term war of attrition is very disadvantageous to us.
So this time, to take Chaoyin Mountain, we can only mobilize the cultivators with successful cultivation as much as possible. "
"Brother He is right. It's too late for us to get the news. Here in Chaoyin Mountain, Qingxuan Sect has taken the lead. They have arranged a fourth-level formation. Only one purple mansion cultivator is left to cooperate with the low-level cultivators stationed, which can contain the three of us. Now that the snake has been alerted, the cultivators of Qingxuan Sect must have been prepared. I don't think it's easy to act without figuring out the truth of Chaoyin Mountain. "
The person who spoke was a middle-aged Taoist nun in her forties or fifties. This person is also the purple mansion elder of Hongshan Sect, named Dong Hongyu, and her cultivation has reached the fourth level of purple mansion. She is not only a fourth-level formation master of Hongshan Sect, but also the only female cultivator among the seven purple mansions in this operation.
"Since we want to find out the truth, why don't the seven of us act together and break through the fourth-level formation on Chaoyin Mountain, so that we can take care of each other and avoid being defeated one by one by the Qingxuan Sect cultivators." He Zhenze was the leader of the seven people. Seeing that it was impossible to take them by surprise, he planned to let the seven purple mansion cultivators first explore the truth of Chaoyin Mountain.
He Zhenze and the other seven were all cultivators who had opened up the purple mansion. Their flying speed was very fast. In just one day, they crossed the Broken Cloud Mountains and arrived near Chaoyin Mountain.
At this time, the area of hundreds of miles near Chaoyin Mountain was already wrapped in a large area of thick fog, and even the five mortal towns near Chaoyin Mountain were tightly protected by the thick fog.
"Junior Sister Dong, how is the situation?" He Zhenze looked at the formation below and asked the fourth-level formation master beside him.
In order to seize the spirit stone mine on Chaoyin Mountain, Hongshan Sect also went all out. In addition to the high-level cultivators stationed at the mountain gate, even the fourth-level formation master of the sect personally took action.
Dong Hongyu flew around Chaoyin Mountain for several circles, frowned and said: "It is the Nine Ding Formation. This formation is very troublesome. There is no clever way to break the formation. You can only use hard work to break the formation. As long as you take down three formation points, you can break this formation.
I don't know how many purple mansion cultivators from Qingxuan Sect have come. If there are less than five, we will be sure to break the formation. If there are more than five, we will probably suffer losses if we rush into the formation."
"Let's not rush to attack the formation. Why don't we act separately and take down the vassal of Taicheng County first to see if the purple mansion cultivators in the formation can divide their troops." He Zhenze said with a cold smile.
The seven purple mansions of Hongshan Sect smiled at each other and went in the direction of the five major families one after another. In order to avoid being separated and broken one by one, and losing purple mansion cultivators, they were actually bluffing and were very close to each other.
Once attacked, the seven purple mansion cultivators can quickly support each other.
Just as the seven Purple Mansion monks of Hongshan Sect left, a smoke rose from Chaoyin Mountain, and then three sword lights flew out from Chaoyin Mountain.
The three sword lights followed the monks of Hongshan Sect and soon disappeared without a trace.
