Chapter 608: Review
After sending off several masters, Chu Yang summoned the leaders from all walks of life to review the gains and losses of this war in Xiaoxiangxiyuan.
There were fewer representatives than at the mobilization meeting. Obviously, the losses of this war were much higher than Chu Yang expected.
As Chu Yang's staunch ally, the Jiang family supported Chu Yang the most. Almost all of their elite troops were dispatched, and Jiang Yuntao led the team personally to escort Xiaoxiangxiyuan.
Jiang Yuntao also performed his duties conscientiously and performed very bravely in this war. He even activated the amulet that could withstand a fatal blow three times, which shows how critical the situation he faced was.
During the review, Jiang Yuntao did not participate because he was recovering at home. The representative of the Jiang family was replaced by Jiang Xiaoyuan, who was responsible for relaying the content of the meeting to Jiang Weiguo.
The local forces in Jiangzhou, which also allied with the Jiang family, also made a lot of efforts this time. Each family sent two or three elite children. Among these people, there were only a few in the foundation-building stage, and the others were all cultivators in the Qi-refining stage. They also suffered the most casualties in this war.
Next, there were the foundation-building masters sent by the Wei family. These people were very strong, especially with the weapons provided by Chu Yang, which was like adding wings to a tiger. They formed a battle formation in the battle and killed many zombies together. They also suffered varying degrees of injuries, but no one was seriously injured or died. This shows that the cultivation family is still very powerful.
The rest of the people were all casual cultivators who came to help at the invitation of Chu Yang.
These people have been hanging out in the martial arts world for many years and have rich experience in killing enemies. Especially Chu Yang offered a huge reward, which made these casual cultivators very excited. They have been hanging out in the martial arts world for many years just to get some cultivation resources to improve their strength.
Chu Yang has no shortage of cultivation pills and magic tools, so the two sides hit it off and recruited no less than twenty foundation-building masters.
Of course, in this battle, some of the independent cultivators came with the attitude of taking advantage of the situation. There were many masters gathered in Xiaoxiangxiyuan. It can be said that it was an earth-shaking force in any place. In their opinion, anyone who dared to bully Chu Yang must have a brain problem. It is estimated that he would be torn into pieces before they could make a move.
However, when the battle really started, the independent cultivators were finally afraid.
The enemy had four Jindan stage masters as soon as they came on the field. The formation was not small. Especially when they heard that the real enemy they were going to face was still hiding in the dark, many independent cultivators had the idea of escaping.
However, before they could leave in the chaos, someone found the mounds of earth outside the graves of Xiaoxiangxiyuan. Those things were like pangolins, and they could easily walk through the ground, which made them very nervous. The scary thing was that when those things came out, they were really scared. Those hideous and dirty zombies kept approaching, surrounding Xiaoxiangxiyuan like a zombie siege. It was impossible to escape.
Fortunately, there was a great formation set up by a master in Xiaoxiangxiyuan. When the zombies approached the formation, they seemed to be blocked by invisible glass and could not get closer. The casual cultivators finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Unfortunately, they were too happy too early. As the battle in the sky continued, Liu Changfeng's appearance greatly changed the situation. A gap was broken in the Xianglong formation. The zombies rushed in frantically from the gap as if they had received an order. Fortunately, Chu Yang responded in time and asked Xu Jingyi to lead people to stop them, so that the zombies did not flood in in large numbers.
With no way to retreat, the casual cultivators could only pick up weapons and start fighting with the zombies that rushed in.
As Liu Changfeng destroyed the Xianglong formation, more and more zombies entered Xiaoxiangxiyuan. Finally, the formation was completely broken, Chu Yang was seriously injured and fell down, and everyone was surrounded by zombies. If they cooperated with each other and fought for their lives, they would have no problem resisting for a while.
However, in this desperate situation, the casual cultivators had no desire to fight and only wanted to find a chance to escape.
Finally, as people kept falling, an older casual cultivator finally couldn't bear the fear in his heart and gritted his teeth to break out in the direction with fewer zombies.
His running immediately led the other casual cultivators around him to run out in a swarm. The casual cultivators' resistance line collapsed immediately, and the zombies rushed straight into the crowd in the center.
Perhaps his life was not over. Just when the zombies rushed towards the crowd, Yuxuan Zhenren, who had been watching coldly, finally took action. It was just a small dewdrop, and all the zombies seemed to be frozen, and their whole bodies turned into ice sculptures, without any attack power.
Looking at the fleeing cultivators, people kept falling down when they broke through the siege. Only one in ten managed to escape, and most of them died at the hands of zombies. It can be said that man proposes, God disposes...
When counting, only two of the cultivators came, and they were seriously injured. However, they were more righteous and did not run away in the critical moment, so they were qualified to attend the review meeting.
Of course, they came not only to watch the fun, but the rewards offered by Chu Yang were what they really cared about. After all, they were really qualified to take the elixirs and magic tools.
The remaining people who participated in the battle were basically those who had a close relationship with Chu Yang, such as the Liyuan disciples, the Wei brothers and sisters, and Jiang Xiaoyuan who was a guest.
These people were very important and could not afford any mistakes. Chu Yang also provided them with the most protection, including amulets, healing medicines, and weapons to kill enemies. Therefore, many of them were unscathed, and the others were only slightly injured, which was a good ending.
Of course, this battle did not cause greater losses, and we have to thank one person, that is Zhuo Miaojin.
If she hadn't gotten the "shadow poison" in advance and prepared Chu Yang, the shadow poison applied to the zombies during the fight a few days ago would have spread instantly, greatly reducing the combat power of the monks guarding Xiaoxiangxiyuan, and eventually they would not be able to wait for Yuxuan Zhenren to arrive, and all of them would become the dead souls of the zombies.
The most puzzling thing for Chu Yang in this battle was why the monks recruited by Liu Changfeng did not show up. According to Chu Yang's estimation, there were at least thirty or forty foundation-building monks under Liu Changfeng's command, but from the beginning to the end of the battle, these monks did not even show up, which was really abnormal.
However, Chu Yang also had some guesses, and perhaps he would know the reason when Xu Jingyi came back.
During the time when Chu Yang was unconscious, the Jiang family had notified families in various parts of Jiangnan to let them come to claim their children. These zombies were frozen into ice sculptures by Yuxuan Zhenren, and there was no life from the inside to the outside. They were dead, and letting them take them back for funerals was also a place for these innocent dead souls.
At first, when they learned about their children, the Jiangnan families were still a little skeptical and thought that the Jiang family had some conspiracy, but when they confirmed that it was indeed their children lying in the coffin, they were furious.
After learning that it was Liu Changfeng, the legitimate son of the Xie family, who did it, the families gathered more than 200 people and chartered a special plane to Shuzhong again. This time, they did not just question. The furious Jiangnan family directly fought with the Xie family until all the adult males of the Xie family died, and then they burned down the Xie family ancestral temple and left.
According to the news from the Jiang family, the Jiangnan family found the whereabouts of the head of the Xie family, Xie Yuanwei, in the Xie family. Xie Yuanwei's condition shocked everyone who saw it.
The head of the Xie family was actually chopped off his limbs and pickled in a jar to make a human pig. When everyone found him in the cellar, Xie Yuanwei was already unconscious. Everyone judged from his messy mumbling that it was his own son who did it.
Why did Liu Changfeng attack Xie Yuanwei? This is what all the families in Jiangnan want to know. Later, the mystery was solved after an elder who hid in the well was caught.
According to this elder, when Xie Yuanwei was young, he was very dissatisfied with his father's marriage with the Liu family and always wanted to marry Wei Yuxin, the second daughter of the Wei family. However, Xie's father flatly rejected Xie's proposal on the grounds that it was the parents' order and the matchmaker's words. Xie has always been upset and often drank to drown his sorrows.
It was for this reason that after getting married, Xie treated his wife Liu very badly. He often beat Liu after being drunk, especially after Xie's father died in the second year, and it became even worse.
Liu was a weak woman who had never practiced martial arts. She was often beaten and injured. Even during the ten months of pregnancy, Xie Yuanwei could not stop violent treatment.
It is lamentable that Liu's concept is very traditional. The idea of marrying a chicken follows the chicken and marrying a dog follows the dog is engraved in her bones. She is ashamed to tell her family about her experience and has been silently enduring this pain.
After Liu Changfeng was born, Liu endured the anger for her son. This submissive look made Xie Yuanwei even more disgusted, and Liu Changfeng was often blamed and scolded. Fortunately, with Liu's careful care, Liu Changfeng has been growing up vigorously in the three years after his birth.
Liu Changfeng was precocious. From his father's crazy talk after drinking, he remembered the name Wei Yuxin. He understood that it was this person who made them suffer this pain.
When he was three years old, Xie Yuanwei went crazy after drinking and beat the mother and son. Liu was weak and had been beaten for many years. She had accumulated a lot of hidden injuries. Even if the Xie family had healing medicine, it would be difficult to recover.
In the end, she didn't survive this beating.
In her last moments before death, only Liu Changfeng was by her mother's side. On her deathbed, Liu held Liu Changfeng's hand, with reluctance in her eyes, and said to him in a weak voice: When you grow up, leave the Xie family, leave your father, and never come back.
After that, Liu closed her eyes forever.
From beginning to end, Xie Yuanwei never came to see Liu.
Liu Changfeng kept his mother's last words in his heart, but he never thought of running away, because he had hatred in his heart. He hated his father and the woman named Wei Yuxin. In the following years, this hatred not only did not fade with time, but became unforgettable.
