Chapter 223 – The Original Reason for the Township’s Guardianship

Chapter 223 – The Original Reason for the Guardianship of the Town
Seeing this, several people also nodded their heads to Li Fei in return.

Within a few moments, the group was led by Hua Mengyue to the Ancient Yuan City’s Council Hall.

After everyone was seated, Hua Mengyue then looked at the people present and said with a slightly gloomy expression:
“Everyone, I’m sure you all have questions as to why you and I have been arranged to be here.

Moreover, with this arrangement, there are a full eight Purple Mansion cultivators.

Among them, you and I, six of us, have even reached the late stage of Purple Mansion.”

Seeing Hua Mengyue suddenly bring up this matter, the faces of everyone here except Li Fei couldn’t help but straighten up.

Indeed.

This was something that they had felt quite puzzled about before they came.

According to normal practice, an Immortal City with a protective array would normally be guarded by a late Purple Mansion cultivator, plus three or four early-middle stage Purple Mansion cultivators, and that would be just about right.

But what about them?
There are six late stage Purple Mansion cultivators.

In addition to Jiang Rendao, who was at the third level of Purple Mansion, and Bai Zixuan, who was at the fifth level of Purple Mansion, there were six late stage Purple Mansion cultivators.

Combined with the nearly fourth-ranked protective formation here, the Falling River Taiyi Formation, even if they encountered a fourth-ranked Jindan Demon King, they would still be enough to block it.

Such a huge force, yet they had all placed it in this Ancient Yuan City.

If it was said that there was no reason for it, Jiang Chengxuan and the others would not believe it no matter what.

“Truthfully.”

Just to hear Hua Mengyue continue, “The reason why you and I, all arranged to be here, its main reason, in fact, is ……”

Hua Mengyue slowly took a deep breath, before speaking in a deep voice:

“Underneath the ground of this Immortal City of yours and mine, a top-ranking fourth-order spirit vein has been discovered.”

“What? A top tier fourth rank spirit vein?”

With a few words, it instantly caused everyone here to be shocked in their hearts.

Obviously, they all understood very well what the so-called top tier fourth rank spirit vein actually meant.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that a top grade four spirit vein was enough to supply more than six or seven late Jindan real people to cultivate at the same time.

If they were to be replaced by demonic beasts, then it would be six or seven Demon Kings.

If this news were to be spread.

Especially if the demonic beasts were to learn about it, I’m afraid that those Demon Kings who fought all day long for territory and resources would go completely crazy.

At all costs, they would definitely turn the Ancient Yuan Mountain Range and even a thousand-mile radius into a paradise for their demonic beasts.

Under this kind of temptation, even if it is two groups that were once mortal enemies of each other, there is a possibility that they will temporarily stop and work together to deal with their great enemy, the human race.

Almost instantly, Jiang Chengxuan, Shen Ruyan, Jiang Rendao, and the three members of the Bai Clan all felt a huge pressure in their hearts.

Only to hear Bai Mingshan, the White Family’s old ancestor, say, “Fellow Daoist Hua, as well as Fellow Daoist Li Fei, I dare to ask the two of you, regarding the existence of a fourth-order top-level spirit vein underneath the ground of this city, who knows about it at the moment?”

The implication was that this news, has it been learned by anyone unrelated.

Especially the demonic beast side.

If this news had already been leaked out, or if there was a risk of it being leaked out, then they would not hesitate to consider leaving.

Even if this order was given by the Aqua Sword Pavilion, they would have to leave.

Even if they might be wanted in the future, or even verbally abused, they would never casually joke with their own lives and the lives of their entire clan.

It was really this news, once it was leaked out.

Especially if it was learned by the demonic beast side, then there was no need to consider that this Ancient Yuan City that they were in would simply be impossible to defend.

Not to mention them, even if there were two or three Jindan real people present, it would be impossible to hold on to it at all.

At that time, the demonic beast side would absolutely sacrifice everything to take this location for themselves.

At this moment, even Jiang Chengxuan Shen Ruyan, these two could be said to be Hua Mengyue’s close friends, both of them had their gazes firmly fixed on her face that could be described as perfect.

Carefully observing the changes in her expression.

If something was really wrong.

Then even though each other as close friends, then can not say, can only say sorry.

They were the same as Bai Mingshan’s few people, and could never bring their clansmen here to die when they knew that they would surely die.

Fortunately, from the beginning to the end, Hua Mengyue and Li Fei’s expressions were calm.

It was as if they didn’t even see what was in the minds of the several people.

Only seeing Hua Mengyue faintly smile, she then looked at the people present and said:
“Don’t worry, so far, other than you and I here, this news is only known to a few of our sect’s most central Tai Shang Elders, as well as a few of Tian Yue Sect’s Tai Shang Elders.”

After a pause, he heard Hua Mengyue add:
“The ones who discovered the abnormalities here in the first place were the Flowing Flame Elder of this Sect, as well as the Ice Elder of the Tian Yue Sect, also known as Elder Wen.

The first time they noticed the abnormalities here, they utilized great magic power and various means to block all possible clues in this place.

Afterward, they notified their respective sects.

Let the other Jindan elders within the sect come.

Without alerting the demonic beast side, a number of Jindan real people joined forces together to completely isolate all the aura of that top tier four spirit vein.

Now, even if a Jindan ranked and skilled in arithmetic real person came over, it would simply be impossible to easily calculate the anomalies in this area.”

“I see.”

After listening to Hua Mengyue’s explanation, Jiang Chengxuan and the others present, their hearts then let out a slight sigh of relief.

With many Jindan real people from the two old Jindan sects striking out at the same time, it was thought that the abnormality in this room shouldn’t be easily detected by anyone.

In this way, it seems to explain why they need so many late Purple Mansion cultivators to come here at the same time to take charge of the guard.

It was thought that they definitely wanted to preserve the defense line of the Ancient Yuan Mountain Range in this demonic beast chaos.

At the very least, this Gu Yuan City where they were located must not be easily lost.

Otherwise, once they let the demonic beasts occupy this place.

Then after a long time, I’m afraid that it would be impossible to hide the existence of a top tier fourth rank spirit vein in this place.

At that time, in order to ensure the safety of this area, the many Demon Kings might trigger a medium-sized or even larger-scale beast tide.

Don’t doubt the integrity of those demon kings, in front of such a huge benefit, what agreement that is bullshit.

Unless they really go overboard, there is a certain possibility that they will attract the attention of their human race YuanYing True Lords.

Otherwise, this kind of dumb loss, their human race side can only be pinched nose to recognize.

In addition to the above mentioned, the other reason for not letting the demonic beasts occupy this place, which is also the most important reason, is that the demonic beasts with this top grade 4 spirit vein will definitely increase their strength greatly within a certain period of time.

This was definitely a potentially huge threat to their entire Liang cultivation world.

If not, when the next demonic beast chaos comes, their human side will be defeated, and that’s even a possibility.

After thinking about these issues, Jiang Chengxuan couldn’t help but have a new doubt floating in their hearts.

That is, this location is so important, why not directly let the two sects of the Jindan real person, personally over to guard it?
As if seeing the doubts in the hearts of the crowd, Hua Mengyue couldn’t help but continue:
“The main reason why I let you and I come here to guard, rather than a Jindan real person, is that I don’t want to cause alarm on the side of the demonic beasts.

After all, after so many years, this area of the Ancient Yuan Mountain Range, what exactly is the situation, our human race and the demonic beasts are all very clear.

Let you and I Purple Mansion cultivators again, even if the power placed here is slightly larger, can also use my human race is determined to defend the defense line as a reason to explain the past.

However, if the one who is here is a Jindan real person, then it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the Demon Beast Demon King.

At least the existence of a Demon King is an unstable factor in itself.

Once time passed, it was inevitable that the other party would see something broken.

The loss would not be worth it.

When I say this, I think all of you should be able to understand, right?”

“Uh-huh.”

After hearing this explanation from Hua Mengyue, everyone present, including Jiang Chengxuan, couldn’t help but nod their heads.

This explanation, indeed, made sense.

Having six of them at the late stage of Purple Mansion, plus two other Purple Mansion cultivators, for a total of eight Purple Mansion cultivators guarding this place, was indeed considered quite a sound arrangement.

In this way, it would not attract too much attention from the Demon King, nor would there be any accidents due to the lack of strength in this place to guard it.

“Alright.”

At this moment, one could hear Hua Mengyue say again:

“What should be explained, now I have made it clear.

Then to follow, in order to ensure that our secrets here are not leaked, I also ask that all of you make a Heart Demon Oath first.”

For this request from Hua Mengyue, the hearts of the people present had obviously already anticipated it.

After all, for something as important as this place, for the crowd, it was impossible to not require any precautions at all.

Jiang Chengxuan and the others could also understand this.

Soon, the group of people were in front of Hua Mengyue and Li Fei, and one after another, they made the Heart Demon Oath.

A few moments later.

Then he heard Jiang Chengxuan say, “Fellow Daoist Hua, nowadays, we have all just arrived here for a short while, and we don’t particularly know about Ancient Yuan City, or its surroundings.

You’ve been here for some time, so why don’t you carefully talk to us about what the situation is roughly like in this Ancient Yuan City and its surroundings.”

After the exchange just now, Jiang Chengxuan and the others also already knew that the Bai Clan’s group that was here at the moment was just one step ahead of them.

As for the situation here, they were likewise not very clear.

At this moment, when they heard Jiang Chengxuan’s words, they couldn’t help but turn their gazes towards Hua Mengyue.

Hua Mengyue slightly pondered before she said with a rather grave expression:

“Truth be told, before you guys came here, the demonic beast side, had already launched an attack on my Gu Yuan City.”

“What? There has already been an attack on my Ancient Yuan City?”

The crowd could not help but be taken aback.

Just then, they saw Hua Mengyue nod her head.

“Not bad.

It’s a good thing that that attack was just a test run, and although the number of demonic beasts was high, there were no demonic beasts above the second rank that appeared.

Ancient Yuan City did not suffer any threats.”

At those words, Jiang Chengxuan and the others couldn’t help but all let out a secret sigh of relief.

If it was just a tentative attack, then it was indeed still nothing.

They were afraid that if the other party came up, they would directly use their full strength, and that would be a real headache.

After all, the number of their cultivators was not comparable to demonic beasts.

At the top of the day, the entire Ancient Yuan City would only be able to put together a few thousand people at most.

And on the demonic beasts’ side?

Moving tens of thousands, or even more.

Even if they were noble Purple Mansion Superiors and most of their cultivation levels had reached the late stage.

Facing tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 demonic beasts, they would still feel great pressure.

By then, it was hard to say how long their city guard formation could support them.

At this moment, after the crowd had roughly planned and distributed the duties that each of them would have to fulfill afterward, they didn’t continue to stay for much longer, and soon left the grand council hall.

Coming outside, Jiang Chengxuan and the three of them were led by Hua Mengyue personally to their cave residence located here.

Looking at the departing back of Jiang Chengxuan’s group, Bai Zixuan of the Bai Clan couldn’t help but frown slightly.

She looked towards her elder brother as well as the old ancestor and said, ”Seventh uncle, as well as elder brother, that Jiang family is merely a family that has re-emerged in recent years, what makes them equal to my Bai family?

Especially that Hua Mengyue.

Seeing the way she treats the other party, it’s clear that she’s putting my two families on the same level.

Even the patrolling and stationing tasks for each period of time afterward, you, my two families, and Hua Mengyue themselves, are even the same, isn’t it also too much to look down on that Jiang family?”

Hearing Bai Zixuan’s words, the Bai Family’s old ancestor, Bai Mingshan, and the current head of the Bai Family, Bai Yuanchen, couldn’t help but look at each other.

Then he heard Bai Yuan Chen say, “Zixuan, I wonder what you think of the Jiang Family’s Jiang Chengxuan and that Shen Ruyan?”

“Them?”

A trace of thought flashed through Bai Zixuan’s eyes, and then she tried to speak:

“They should just be Purple Mansion cultivators who have just been promoted to the late stage not long ago, right?
I didn’t feel much of a threat from them.

What? Is there something wrong with them, the couple?”

After saying that, her gaze could not help but look at her brother and uncle once again.

Just then, she saw Bai Yuanchen shake his head and said, “You don’t feel any threat from them, that’s because the difference in strength between you and them is too great.

Just as an ant would not feel threatened by a tiger.”

“Uh……”

Bai Zixuan suddenly opened her bright eyes slightly.

“How is this possible?”

“There’s nothing impossible.”

Bai Yuanchen said with a slightly grave expression, “Just now, both Seventh Uncle and I felt it very clearly, on that Jiang Chengxuan and his wife, we felt an unprecedentedly great pressure.

And ……”

As the words came to this point, Bai Yuan Chen couldn’t help but take a deep breath before hearing him continue:

“That Jiang Chengxuan’s wife, Shen Ruyan, who is known as the Falling Thunder Fairy, her cultivation is already truly at the ninth level of the Violet Mansion realm.”

“What? The ninth level of the Purple Mansion?”

A flash of shock immediately surfaced on Bai Zixuan’s face.

One must know that their Bai Family’s old ancestor, Bai Mingshan, who was now with them and whom she called her seventh uncle, was only at the peak of the ninth level of the Violet Mansion.

Moreover, he had stayed at this realm for a full hundred years.

And what about that Shen Ruyan?

How long has she only been there?

And she’s already a ninth level cultivator of the Purple Mansion?

At that thought, Bai Zixuan seemed to have thought of something, and couldn’t help but turn her gaze, once again, towards the two people in front of her, and couldn’t help but say:
“Elder brother, seventh uncle, since that Shen Ruyan, her cultivation is already at the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, then her husband, Jiang Chengxuan, could it be that he is also already a ……?”

(End of chapter)