Chapter 581: Drifting (1)
Bai Zhu was suppressed and Jianmen was defeated.
Bai Xuanyue was as frightened as a fish that had escaped the net, and fled back to the gate of Jianmen Mountain alone. All the other Jianmen disciples who accompanied him, including many elders from the Li, Luo, Yuan, and Zuoqiu clans, were caught in the net.
Lost, lost, a huge loss.
After that catastrophe, for the first time in 30,000 years, Jianmen made a big move, mobilizing almost half of its elite disciples to fight against other sects... but they were defeated miserably, so completely that even the spectators hadn't reacted before they fell flat on the ground and became dead salted fish.
Bai Xuanyue fled back to Jianmen, issued orders, and summoned the disciples guarding the Jianmen strongholds across the country to "return to the mountains to serve the king". At the same time, he activated the mountain protection formation and sealed the mountain gate.
This formation was set up by the Supreme Being himself back then. It was extremely powerful, and even three or five celestial beings working together would have difficulty breaking through it. It also contained extreme killing power, and was a pure slaughter formation. Anyone who trespassed would be killed.
Therefore, although Bai Zhu was defeated, Jianmen’s hometown is still as strong as a rock.
The mountain gate was defended, but the outer strongholds could not be defended.
Not to mention other things, just say that this time Jianmen went to Qianyun City to interfere with the alliance between the two sects. Except for Bai Zhu, the great elder of the Heavenly Man Realm who was suppressed, the other half-step Heavenly Man Realm powerhouses who were captured alive included nine from the Bai family, and the other four families together, a total of eleven people!
Twenty great masters of the Half-Step Heavenly Man Realm fell into the hands of the enemy. In addition, in the past few years, people from the Bai family continued to die outside, including Bai Xuanfeng. There were as many as five great masters of the Half-Step Heavenly Man Realm who were attacked and killed.
Including this, Jianmen lost a total of twenty-five half-step celestial beings.
On the surface, Jianmen announced that it had only a little over fifty elders at the Half-Step Heavenly Man Realm!
Half of the country collapsed.
After the battle in Qianyun City, for a full half month, Yuanlingtian was calm and peaceful. Bai Zhu's scream stunned countless cultivators, and many sect leaders and elders took half a month to swallow pills and barely recovered from their injuries.
Subsequently, Jianmen's vassal forces in various places began to be harassed by countless independent cultivators.
No one knows where these casual cultivators came from, and they are all nameless. You can't find any distinctive features from them. But they have extremely high cultivation, extremely strong magic power, and extremely cruel methods.
The outermost part of Jianmen, those big and small forces and monk families that had submitted to Jianmen and served as Jianmen's outer retainers and spies, were harassed by people day and night, either sending letters to ask for money or breaking into the house in the middle of the night to rob.
What's worse, when these vassal members of Jianmen were walking outside, they would suddenly be struck by a flash of lightning or stabbed by a sword from behind, killing them on the spot. Then, some independent cultivators would leisurely step forward, touch the corpses in public, and strip off all the corpses except for their trousers.
With the support of some forces of unknown origin, a series of human tragedies broke out among these Jianmen vassal forces.
How come an old butler who has served the family for dozens of generations suddenly turns against his master and seizes his family's property?
What? An illegitimate child who had been wandering outside for thousands of years suddenly came with a large group of masters to ask for his share of the family property?
A bastard son born to a concubine or a maid suddenly rose up in rebellion, killed his legitimate brother who had been bullying him for many years, killed the elders of the family, and brazenly took control of the family power.
There was even a concubine who was so daring that she colluded with outsiders and poisoned the master of the family by shouting "Da Lang, take medicine". As a concubine, she sat on the throne of the master of the family.
In short, within a few months, all kinds of demons and monsters, all kinds of strange, unreasonable, and immoral things that made the people of the world stunned and dumbfounded, were staged in the homes of Jianmen's vassal forces.
Thanks to the efforts of these unknown forces, Jianmen's outer territory shrunk rapidly, and one vassal force after another was either seriously damaged, or was taken over by poison, or even disappeared directly.
Soon, this evil fire burned fiercely in Jianmen’s direct territory.
Let's not talk about the Jiufeng Immortal Dynasty. This unfortunate child's family fortune was emptied by Lu Yi and Yin Yuan. Now the country's elite are expanding massively in the territory of Xianghuo Dao.
There are more than a hundred immortal dynasties directly under the jurisdiction of Jianmen.
The core high-ranking officials of the more than one hundred immortal dynasties, such as the royal relatives of various countries and the high-ranking officials of the aristocratic families, were all recalled to Jianmen by Bai Xuanyue's order to assist in the garrison. As a result, the major immortal dynasties were leaderless and their high-end combat forces were withdrawn.
Lacking high-end combat power, under the instigation of those with ulterior motives and the pressure of powerful forces, those things that happened to the peripheral vassals soon broke out within these one hundred or so immortal dynasties.
The illegitimate son destroyed the legitimate wife, the concubine destroyed the wife, the side branch destroyed the main branch, the slave destroyed the head of the family...
There are people among the royal family, aristocratic families, local tyrants, and even the most ordinary small families of monks who try to take advantage of the situation.
Although Jianmen was strong, its territory and its manpower were only a drop in the ocean compared to the huge Yuanlingtian cultivation world. When , Jianmen suddenly understood the essence of "people's war" and "human wave tactics".
When the titles of 'the first sect in Yuanlingtian' and 'the only supreme master in Yuanlingtian' could no longer shock the world, and when all the cultivators in the world saw the rot and hollowness within Jianmen, Jianmen's misfortune was already doomed.
Faced with such chaos, Bai Xuanyue did not issue any orders to respond.
No matter how many letters of distress came his way like a meteor shower, and no matter how his own territory continued to shrink, Bai Xuanyue did not react at all.
He just knelt in the ancestral hall day and night, burned incense, kowtowed, and prayed in a low voice. Every seven days, he would prepare a white cow, a white horse, and a white sheep as a sacrifice, burn strange incense, and lead the remaining elders in the mountain gate to hold a large-scale sacrificial ceremony.
Finally, one year after the battle in Qianyun City, the ancestral hall of Jianmen was quietly shrouded by a strange force.
In the ancestral hall, the portrait of the Supreme Lord who lived thirty thousand years ago lit up with a faint glow. In the portrait, the Supreme Lord, who was dressed in snow-white and had a handsome appearance, had a flash of sharp sword light in his eyes, and then locked onto Bai Xuanyue who was kneeling in the middle.
"What's the matter? Why do you want to disturb the upper realm?"
An extremely faint, almost imperceptible voice echoed in the Patriarch's Hall. The voice was extremely long and erratic, as if it came from an extremely high and distant unfathomable place. Each word was stretched out in a long tone, and when people listened to it, they had a strange feeling that time and space were distorted and their souls were torn apart.
"Ancestor, Jianmen is in danger." Bai Xuanyue knocked his head to the ground and recounted in detail what happened in Qianyun City a year ago.
"It is only natural that the Senluo Cult is restless. They may have received an order from the higher realms and are deliberately making things difficult for me. I have already guessed this." The Supreme Supreme sneered, "What is the origin of the Changsheng Cult?"
"Transformed from the Miro Sect? Miro Sect? Miro Sect? Miro Master? Hmm... No, Miro Master died a thousand years ago, and all his disciples were exterminated. Now his true teachings are in my hands, and some of his disciples have been transferred to my name and can be commanded at will. The Miro Sect has no reason, and does not have the courage and foundation to oppose my Jianmen."
"Investigate! Find out the details of Lu Yu and Lu Yi. Let's see who interfered. Haha, don't they know that fate is in my hands? What's the point of them making trouble?"
Bai Xuanyue laughed dryly while looking at the portrait of his ancestor: "I'm afraid that Jianmen doesn't have the power to investigate this matter thoroughly now. Now that all the major sects in Yuanlingtian have joined forces to attack, the 188 vassal immortal dynasties that you defined back then are now in flames..."
"Where's Bai Yuan? Let her come over." The Supreme Supreme said coldly, "In her hand, she has the Two Realms Disk that I gave her. With the help of the Two Realms Disk, I have accumulated some Creation Fairy Dew and other spiritual treasures. I will send them all to you so that you can quickly recover your vitality and strength."
"To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country. Since the descendants of the four great sword-serving disciples under my tutelage are restless, let's kill them all. What's the point of keeping disobedient dogs? Anyway, their four ancestors followed me to ascend to the upper realm, and they have all perished in several battles... So, there is no need to consider the little affection we had back then, and let's kill them all."
"Let Bai Yuan come over. I need to ask her how she has been doing in accumulating external skills these days!"
Bai Xuanyue and a group of Bai clan members behind him all had extremely interesting expressions on their faces.
A terrifying pressure suddenly descended from the portrait of the Supreme Supreme. He shouted sternly, "What happened? What did Bai Yuan do?"
Bai Xuanyue hurriedly prostrated herself on the ground, her forehead pressed against the ground, and said in a hoarse voice: "Young Master, she, she, she met someone in the lower realm..."
The tone of the Supreme Lord also became extremely strange: "She, has a lover? What qualifications? What background? What cultivation?"
Bai Xuanyue didn't dare to look up, and muttered in a low voice: "He was born as a casual cultivator... The young master invested a huge amount of resources and forcibly raised his cultivation to the level of Zhaoxukong, which is close to the half-step heavenly realm... Because he used the spiritual treasures of the upper realm to forcibly raise his cultivation, we don't know what his talent and aptitude are."
There was no movement in the Patriarch's Hall for a long time.
After a full half day, six hours, it was not an exaggeration to say that, the portrait of the Supreme Supreme finally moved without wind, and an erratic voice sounded faintly: "What stage have they reached?"
Bai Xuanyue was sweating all over, and her clothes were soaked with sweat: "If it had been a little longer, I'm afraid, I'm afraid... the baby would have come out."
"Crack"...
In front of the portrait of the Supreme Being, the large altar table suddenly split into two pieces and fell to the ground with a bang.
Inside the hall, everyone prostrated themselves like Bai Xuanyue, with their foreheads pressed against the ground, and trembling like a group of quails that were frightened crazy by thunder.
