Chapter 564: Establishing Authority (5)
"How dare you! They are trying to rebel!"
After hearing what Bai Xuanyue said, Bai Zhu was furious: "Without my permission, they dared to use unorthodox techniques to break through the realm of heaven and man and abandon the inheritance of the ancestors. This is treason, this is rebellion, this is... damn it!"
Bai Zhu was furious, and sword beams flashed around him, cutting deep marks on the ground of the ancestral hall. Bai Xuanyue and others were so frightened that they dared not speak.
The realm of heaven and man!
Some elders of Jianmen are trying to use the secret techniques of other sects to break through to the realm of heaven and man!
In cultivation, except for a very small number of lucky people with great luck, other serious practitioners take every step with trepidation, as if every step is a desperate chasm.
In the present Yuanlingtian, there seem to be countless high-level cultivators. Each sword gate has dozens of supreme elders at the half-step heavenly realm, and there are millions of masters at the Zhaoxukong and Ningdaoguo realms as the backbone of the sect.
In fact, it took a long time, countless resources, and hundreds of millions of ordinary disciples to accumulate the number bit by bit. The higher the level of cultivation, the more difficult it is to break through. To get any improvement, it is harder than ascending to heaven.
Thirty thousand years ago, before the catastrophe, in the vast Yuanlingtian, with countless sects and countless cultivators, over the long years, only nine great beings in the realm of heaven and man were accumulated!
It’s such a big world, but there are only nine of them!
It can be seen how difficult it is to break through the realm of heaven and man.
This also highlights the weight and status that a powerful person in the realm of heaven and man has in Yuanlingtian.
But now, only 30,000 years have passed since the catastrophe. The high-level cultivators of Yuanlingtian were once wiped out in blood. The high-level cultivators of today are all the result of hard training during these 30,000 years.
In particular, that catastrophe caused many profound inheritances to be cut off, and among them, the method of how to break through the Heavenly Man Realm from the Half-Step Heavenly Man Realm was almost completely wiped out. So far, the only clear inheritance of the complete method of reaching the Heavenly Man Realm is Jianmen's "Taishang Sword Canon".
Unfortunately, the last chapter of the Supreme Sword Canon is in Bai Zhu's hands.
Except for core members of the Bai family like Bai Xuanyue who had the opportunity to comprehend it once or twice, Bai Zhu held the "Taishang Sword Canon" tightly in her hands, just like a jealous woman who tied her husband to her side with an iron chain.
Therefore, in the past 30,000 years, in the vast Yuanlingtian, as far as Bai Zhu knew, he was the only one who had reached the celestial realm!
He had become accustomed to the feeling of being high above, looking down on all living beings, stirring up the wind and clouds, causing the entire Yuanlingtian to shake violently with just one glance, and affecting the fate of countless cultivators.
Previously, a Lu Yu suddenly appeared in the Changsheng Sect, who was a celestial being who practiced the blood magic. This had dealt a heavy blow to Bai Zhu. He felt that half of his once supreme authority had been robbed. He had been angry for a long time because of this matter. Many times he wanted to find Lu Yu to fight to the death, but he couldn't make up his mind!
Before Lu Yu had figured out what was happening on his end, he heard that inside Jianmen, other families that had always been obedient to the Bai family and to Bai Zhu had the guts to overtake them by taking a detour and using a secret technique that they had dug up from somewhere to break through to the Heavenly Man Realm!
“This is treason!” Bai Zhu cried out to the sky in anguish, “A bunch of ungrateful wolves… How could they forget that it was only my grandfather who saved the entire Yuanling Heaven with his sword and brought Jianmen to an unprecedented peak!”
"What do they want?"
"What on earth do they want to do?"
"They didn't say a word, nor did they tell me, the great elder, that they were just secretly trying to break through to the Heavenly Man Realm... Let's not talk about whether they have the life, the qualifications, or the ability to do so... What exactly do they want to do by doing this?"
Bai Xuanyue said softly at the side: "The villains are ambitious and greedy... They have long been dissatisfied with my Bai family for occupying the position of headmaster for many years and allocating more than half of Jianmen's resources to my Bai family. Especially Bai Yuan..."
After coughing a few times, Bai Xuanyue whispered, "Plus, in recent years, many of our Bai family's elite disciples, including Xuanfeng, have been attacked and killed. They probably think that our Bai family is about to decline."
Shaking his head, Bai Xuanyue continued, "In previous years, with you in charge, the other families would not dare to act rashly. But after the incident with the Changsheng Sect, they may think that with Lu Yu restraining you, you have no time to be distracted, and their chance has come."
“As for using other sects’ secret techniques to break through the Heavenly Man Realm and abandoning the orthodox inheritance of the Supreme Sword Canon, their behavior is absolutely the same as betraying their master. However, they may have already had the intention of breaking out with their disciples and establishing their own sect once they have broken through.”
Bai Xuanyue sighed: "In Jianmen, although they are very powerful, they are still inferior to our Bai family. If one of them can really break through the Heavenly Man Realm, run away and establish his own faction, and call himself the ancestor of the sect, I don't know how happy they will be."
The more Bai Zhu listened to Bai Xuanyue, the more his body trembled.
His eyes flashed with sword light, and he said sternly: "Since this is the case, they all have the intention of apostasy, I will take back all the Jianmen inheritance from them on behalf of my grandfather and father! Haha, Jianmen, it is good to have them, but it is not bad without them!"
Bai Xuanyue hurriedly dissuaded him, "Grandmaster, you must not do that. If you act brazenly without any solid evidence of their capture, I'm afraid... I'm afraid... the lower-level disciples will become disloyal and lose their moral integrity. This will cause people to lose their moral integrity!"
Bai Zhu angrily said, "Why should I care about those low-level disciples? They are nothing but ants!"
Bai Xuanyue smiled bitterly.
Bai Zhu is a typical second generation, who has been pampered since childhood, doesn't care about anything, and has a smooth life, so his mind is a little simple. Indeed, compared to them, those low-level Jianmen disciples are ants. With one sword, he can easily kill thousands or tens of thousands...
But can a sect be without these low-level disciples?
No way!
Without them, where would your food, clothing, and other necessities come from? If something happened, who would run errands for you? If you were to go out, who would serve as a guard of honor? If two families were to fight, even if you defeated the other side and occupied countless of their territories, who would you let guard the four directions?
However, Bai Zhu was angry, and Bai Xuanyue felt a little scared when he tried to persuade him.
'Whoosh!'
An extremely sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and a flash of golden light flew into the Patriarch's Hall.
Bai Xuanyue hurriedly took the golden light, pointed his finger, and the golden light spread out, and a letter slowly emerged in the light curtain. Bai Xuanyue quickly glanced at the urgent letter sent back by Jianmen's secret agent ambushing , and suddenly laughed.
"The white turtle did something interesting this time."
"Old Ancestor, you see, Bai Yuan and her boyfriend have seized the power of the Li family in the Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty, and are gathering their troops, preparing to let Yin Yuan start a rebellion."
"Hmm?" Bai Zhu took the letter, glanced at it, and raised his eyebrows: "This is just a small matter. Bai Yuan can do whatever she wants. What's the big deal about a mere Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty?"
Bai Xuanyue smiled and said, "The Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty is indeed not important. But the White Turtle incident, whether it was the timing of the attack, the excuse he found, or the target he attacked, was just right."
"Among those not-so-stable families, there is the Li family."
"Let's see how the Li family reacts to Bai Yuan's actions this time. If they use the Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty's affairs to stir up trouble, the ancestor will kill the chicken to scare the monkeys and establish his authority!"
"If the Li family is indifferent to the invasion of the White Turtle in the Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty, it proves that they are indeed harboring ulterior motives and are planning to break out. In this case, we must be cautious and make thorough preparations in advance."
"Even more, you, the ancestor, will have to take action yourself, and let the Li family's ancestor Li Xu...if he goes astray when he breaks through the heavenly realm, he will be seriously injured and die. The Li family will be leaderless and can only let us control them."
Bai Zhu nodded slowly, with strange lights flashing in his eyes.
Bai Xuanyue whispered, "Over the years, important members of my Bai clan have been attacked and killed many times... I have always suspected that someone in Jianmen colluded with the murderer... I even suspect that it was someone in Jianmen who did it."
"I know this very well. For example, the Li family is outside and has collected many vassal forces, but they concealed it. Those scattered cultivators in the mountains are not powerful, and their inheritance is messy and unclear. But it is not difficult to gather a few half-step heavenly realm cultivators from them. If they are combined with some strange formations, it would be easy to kill a few people in my family with deliberate calculations."
Bai Xuanyue said quietly, "The trouble starts from within. The enemy is not outside, but inside the mountain gate. This is what I have been most worried about in recent years."
From within Bai Zhu's body, bursts of sword sounds rang out, shaking the huge hall.
Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty, Tianfeng City, in the imperial city.
Early in the morning, the golden bell and jade drum were struck, and the civil and military officials of the Nine Phoenix Fairy Dynasty walked into the court hall in a line, trembling with fear. They saw Yin Yuan sitting on the throne in the middle, surrounded by a group of subordinates headed by Yu Changle.
These people, like Yu Changle and several other old eunuchs, all followed Yin Yuan from Jishengtian to Yuanlingtian.
The other group of men and women of various ages were the "guest officials" that Yinyuan had recruited from various evil sects in the name of Bai Yuan while eating and drinking with Bai Yuan over the years.
This group of people...
Anyway, Lu Yi looked like a bunch of rotten things, none of them looked like decent people. I really don't know where Yin Yuan got such a group of top-notch people from.
Yinyuan sat on the throne and issued an imperial edict directly in the name of Li Yuan.
The first was to mobilize all the troops of the Jiufeng Immortal Dynasty and gather them in Tianfeng City to prepare for a war.
The second is to deprive all the original generals of the Jiufeng Immortal Dynasty of their power and give the power to command the troops to a group of trusted followers headed by "Lu Zhishen".
In the main hall, the faces of countless ministers of the Nine Phoenix Immortal Dynasty changed horribly.
The group of "confidants" around Yinyuan were all smiling , clapping and cheering.
