Chapter 236: Inquiring for Information

Adventuring was not the biggest mistake made by the Hongshan Sect monks. The most important reason why they suffered heavy losses in Yanlai Peak was arrogance and greed.

They thought they had more people and more power and were sure to win, so they did not take the Taicheng County family seriously and rashly chose to attack Yanlai Peak.

Because of greed, they were afraid that the Yanlai Peak foundation-building monks would not be able to resist and escape with the floating wealth, so they chose to surround and divide the troops.

As a result, Wu Xiangwen of Yanlai Peak seized the opportunity and killed three people in a row with the help of the talisman. In a short time, he surrounded and annihilated all the enemies along the way, completely breaking the balance between the two sides.

In addition, Hu Boyu, a ninth-level foundation-building monk, came to reinforce. The Hongshan Sect monks lost their spirit and had no determination to win, so they could only flee down the mountain in disgrace.

The lessons learned from this battle were summarized internally by the three families of Zhang, Wu and Liu. After the war, the clan leader personally wrote down his notes and stored them in the family classics, so that later generations could learn from them.

With the previous experience of the Hongshan Sect cultivators, Zhang Leqian, Wu Xiangwen and other eyewitnesses would certainly not make the same mistake. Several of them put forward cautious opinions and immediately changed Han Yan's decision.

So Han Yan ordered half of the foundation-building cultivators to stay and seal the castle, and the other half of the foundation-building cultivators searched the local cultivators within 5,000 miles to investigate the details of the Feng family in Fengcheng Castle.

Zhang Zhixuan's divine sense was extraordinary, far beyond the normal foundation-building cultivators, so he naturally had to go out to find people.

He flew carefully at a low altitude, and his divine sense in his mind kept scanning the nearby low-level spiritual mountains, and soon found a complete small family.

This small family had only seven cultivators, hiding in the wild mountains and ridges 2,000 miles away from Fengcheng Castle. They were very small, with no more than 1,000 mortals, and established a small town in the deep mountains.

Zhang Zhixuan was a family cultivator, and he knew very well that without the permission of the Feng family, these vassal small families would not be able to practice nearby.

These vassal small family cultivators may have low cultivation, but they must be local snakes, and their history may be longer than that of the Feng family.

Because of their low cultivation level, these cultivators at the bottom of the cultivation world do not need to go through twists and turns, and it is easier for them to survive such a big storm than the foundation-building families.

In the past twenty years, because of the war between Qingxuan Sect and Hongshan Sect, Hongshan Sect was the defeated party, and more than twenty foundation-building families have been wiped out.

Even the victorious Qingxuan Sect suffered more than thirty foundation-building cultivators, and there were also unlucky people like the Ma family who were wiped out.

Zhang Zhixuan summoned the locust demon knife, broke the protective formation of this small family with one sword, and easily subdued several low-level cultivators. He glanced at the trembling Qi-refining cultivators below and asked: "Where are you from, and what is your relationship with the Feng family in Fengcheng Castle?"

"Our place is called Taichong Valley, and it has nothing to do with Fengcheng Castle. How can a small family like us who is secluded from the world have any relationship with the Feng family?" The person who spoke had a handsome appearance and looked to be in his thirties, but his eyes rolled slightly, and it was obvious that he was not telling the truth.

Zhang Zhixuan came from a family of cultivators, and he knew clearly that as long as the Feng family did not decline, these nearby vassal families could not leave their control.

Zhang Zhixuan was in enemy territory, so he was naturally impatient to expose this person. He flashed his hand lightly, and a spiritual light took off the head of this person.

"I hope you can recognize the current situation and tell some truths. You all know what the situation is now. If you dare to lie again, I may have to kill you and wipe out your entire family." Zhang Zhixuan glanced at everyone indifferently. Although his voice was slow, every word was clear.

The remaining few Qi training cultivators looked at each other, with a hint of fear in their expressions. Only now did they recognize the current situation.

Zhang Zhixuan made two moves, the first time he broke the mountain gate formation, and the second time he killed one person. Let these Qi training cultivators realize that now is not a time for peace, and the Fengcheng Castle they rely on can no longer protect their homes.

Although Zhang Zhixuan killed their own people and made them feel very hateful, this situation where life and death were in the hands of others made them dare not show their anger on their faces, lest Zhang Zhixuan get angry and wipe out their entire family.

Zhang Zhixuan's trip was to gather intelligence, not to kill people.

The reason why he killed one person first was just to establish his authority and let these small family cultivators recognize the current situation.

"Does the Feng family have a purple mansion cultivator in their ancestors? How many years have their family been passed down in Jiangnan County? You all know these. I hope you tell the truth. After all, your head is on your head, and it is not worth it to risk your life for the Feng family. As long as you tell the truth, I will let you live and let you become a vassal of the Qingxuan Sect's foundation-building family."

"The Feng family has been based in Fengcheng Castle for a thousand years. Four hundred years ago, someone in their family did open up a purple mansion in Hongshan Sect." Zhang Zhixuan asked, and the remaining Qi training cultivators looked at each other, and in the end, the oldest person chose to tell the truth.

"How high is the cultivation level of the Feng family's Purple Mansion, how many years have they sat in meditation, has the Feng family developed smoothly in the future, and has they experienced the crisis of extinction?" Zhang Zhixuan continued to ask.

Zhang Zhixuan only took a look at the building of this small family, and from the colorful decorations peeling off the beams and pillars, he knew that they had settled here for at least three hundred years.

Even if the family cultivators are weak, they have more inheritance than the casual cultivators. At least they have a rich collection of books that can record the experience of generations of cultivators.

This kind of information may not be known to the local foundation-building casual cultivators, but these vassals of the Feng family must be very clear.

Since the old man who practices Qi has decided to tell the truth, he no longer conceals it and tells all the information he knows clearly.

"The ancestor of the Feng family had cultivated to the late stage of the Purple Mansion. He was a fourth-level weapon refiner. At the peak of the Feng family, there were seven foundation-building cultivators, making it the largest immortal cultivation family in Jiangnan County. However, after the death of his ancestor, the Feng family's momentum gradually declined. Now there are only two foundation-building cultivators. However, their family has a Purple Mansion ancestor, and they are more prestigious among the local families in Jiangnan County."

"Good, very good. If you cooperated from the beginning, why would I kill people? Do you have any books about the Feng family, even memoirs or something like that?" Zhang Zhixuan continued to ask.

The old Qi training cultivator stood up, took out dozens of yellowed old books from the family library and handed them to Zhang Zhixuan, saying: "Reporting to the senior, they are all here, but these books are not systematic, and the senior needs to look through and summarize them."

"You are a person who knows the times. The most important thing for a cultivator to practice Taoism is to know the times. Get paper and pen! I will write a letter to guarantee you. After Fengcheng Castle is captured, you can take my letter to the cultivator who occupies the spiritual vein of Fengcheng Castle, and you can keep the spiritual vein of your family and continue to pass on the family."

Zhang Zhixuan took these dozens of old books, left the spiritual vein, and continued to search near Fengcheng Castle.

Because of the war between the two sects, Jiangnan County fell into war. Some shrewd casual cultivators and cultivators from small families have given up their spiritual veins and fled to the wilderness.

Zhang Zhixuan searched for two or three days in a row, searching all the nearby spiritual veins, but did not find a cultivator. Although he found some scattered villages and towns and discovered a large number of ordinary mortals, it was a pity that mortals had almost no inheritance and did not know the situation of the ancestors of the Feng family at all.

Unable to find anyone, Zhang Zhixuan had no choice but to give up and choose to return to Fengcheng Castle.