Advancing rashly was not the biggest mistake made by the Hongshan Sect monks. The most important reason why they suffered heavy losses at Yanlai Peak was arrogance and greed.
They thought that they had the strength to win, so they didn't take Taicheng County's family seriously at all, and rashly chose to attack Yan Laifeng.
Because of their greed, they were afraid that the foundation-building monks at Yanlai Peak would not be able to resist escaping with their wealth, so they chose to surround and divide their troops.
As a result, Wu Xiangwen of Yanlaifeng seized the opportunity and used the talisman to kill three people in a row. He surrounded and annihilated all the enemies in a short period of time, completely breaking the balance between the two sides.
Coupled with the reinforcements from Hu Boyu, a monk at the ninth level of foundation building, the Hongshan Sect monks lost their spirit and determination to win, and could only flee down the mountain in despair.
The experiences and lessons of this battle were summarized internally by the Zhang, Wu, and Liu families. After the war, the patriarch personally wrote down notes and stored his experiences in the family classics, so that future generations can take warning.
With the lessons learned from the monks of the Hongshan Sect, Zhang Leqian and Wu Xiangwen who had experienced it would certainly not make the same mistake. They all put forward cautious opinions and immediately changed Han Yan's decision.
So Han Yan ordered to leave half of the foundation-building monks to seal the castle, while the other half of the foundation-building monks searched the local monks five thousand miles away to investigate the details of the Feng family in Feng Castle.
Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual knowledge was far beyond that of a normal foundation-building monk, so he naturally wanted to go out to find someone.
He flew carefully at low altitude, and the consciousness in his mind kept scanning the nearby low-level spiritual mountains, and he soon found a complete small family.
This small family only has seven monks, hidden in the barren mountains two thousand miles away from Feng Castle. They are very small, with no more than a thousand mortals, and they have established a small town in the mountains.
Zhang Zhixuan is a family monk, and he knows very well that without the permission of the Feng family, it is impossible for these small vassal families to practice nearby.
These monks from small vassal families may have very low cultivation, but they must be local snakes, and they may have a history older than the Feng family.
Because their cultivation is low and they do not attract attention, these monks at the bottom of the world of immortality do not have to go through twists and turns, and it is easier to weather such a big storm than a family in the foundation-building stage.
In the past twenty years, due to the war between the Qingxuan Sect and the Hongshan Sect, with the Hongshan Sect being the defeated side, more than twenty members of the Ji Zhu family have been wiped out.
Even Qingxuanzong, the victor, suffered more than thirty injuries to the foundation-building monks, and some unlucky ones like the Ma family were wiped out.
Zhang Zhixuan sacrificed the Locust Demon Sword and broke through the protective formation of this small family with one blow, easily restraining several low-level monks. He glanced at the trembling Qi Refining monks below and asked: "Where are you here, and how are you doing?" What’s the relationship between Feng Castle and the Feng family?”
"The name of our place is Taichong Valley, which has nothing to do with Feng Castle. How can a small family like ours, which hides away from the world, have any relationship with the Feng family." The speaker has a dignified appearance and looks to be in his thirties, but his eyes are bright He turned around slightly, obviously not telling the truth.
Zhang Zhixuan came from a family of monks and knew clearly that as long as the Feng family did not decline, these nearby vassal families would not be able to do without their control.
Zhang Zhixuan was in an enemy situation, so he was naturally impatient to expose this person, so he took off the person's head with a flash of his hand, a flash of spiritual light.
"I hope you will recognize the current situation and tell the truth. You all understand the situation now. If you dare to lie to me, I will have no choice but to kill you and wipe out your whole family." Zhang Zhixuan looked at everyone indifferently and spoke. Although his voice was slow, he spoke every word clearly.
The remaining Qi-training monks looked at each other with a hint of fear in their expressions. Only now did they understand the current situation.
Zhang Zhixuan took action twice, the first time breaking through the mountain gate formation, and the second time killing a person. These monks in the Qi training period realized that this was no longer a time of peace, and the Feng Castle they relied on could no longer protect their homes.
Although they felt very resentful that Zhang Zhixuan killed his own people, this situation of life and death being controlled by others made them dare not show their resentment on their faces, lest Zhang Zhixuan would get angry and kill them all.
Zhang Zhixuan's trip was to gather information, not to kill people.
The reason why he killed one person first was just to establish his authority and let these small family monks understand the current situation.
"Are there any Zifu monks among the ancestors of the Feng family? You all know how many years their family has been in Jiangnan County. I hope you will tell the truth. After all, it is your own head, and it is not worth risking your life for the Feng family. As long as you
If you tell the truth, I will let you live and become vassals of the Qingxuan Sect's foundation-building family."
"The Feng family has been established in Feng Castle for thousands of years. One of their family members did open the Zifu in Hongshan Sect four hundred years ago." Zhang Zhixuan asked. The remaining monks in the Qi training period looked at each other in confusion. In the end, the oldest one chose to tell the truth.
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"How high is the cultivation level of the Feng family's Zifu, how many years have they been incarcerated, will the Feng family's future development be smooth, and have they ever gone through the crisis of annihilation?" Zhang Zhixuan continued to ask.
Zhang Zhixuan just looked at the building of this small family and knew from the colorful decorations peeling off the beams and columns that they had settled here for at least three hundred years.
Even though the family monks are weak, they have more inheritance than the casual monks. At least they have a rich collection of books that can record the experiences of generations of monks.
This kind of information may not be known to the local foundation-building casual cultivators in detail, but these vassals of the Feng family must be very aware of it.
Since the old Qi practitioner decided to tell the truth, he no longer concealed anything and told all the information he knew clearly.
"The ancestor of the Feng family had already reached the late stage of Zifu. He was a fourth-level weapon refiner. At its peak, the Feng family had seven foundation-building monks. It was the largest cultivating family in Jiangnan County. However, after his ancestor passed away, Feng
The momentum of the family has gradually declined, and now there are only two monks in the foundation-building stage, but their family has ancestors of Zifu, and they are relatively prestigious among the local families in Jiangnan County."
"Okay, very good. If you cooperated from the beginning, why should I kill people? Does your family have any books about the Feng family, even memoirs and the like." Zhang Zhixuan continued to ask.
The old Qi-training monk stood up, took out dozens of yellowed old books from the family library and handed them to Zhang Zhixuan: "Reporting to senior, they are all here, but these books are not systematic, and seniors still need to read and summarize.
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"You are a person who knows the current affairs. The most important thing for a monk is to know the current affairs. Get a pen and paper! I will write a letter to vouch for you. When Feng Castle is captured, you can take my letter and give it to the spirit of the captured Feng Castle.
If you become a monk, you can preserve the family's spiritual heritage and continue to pass it on to the family."
Zhang Zhixuan took these dozens of old books, left this spiritual vein, and continued to search near Feng Castle.
Due to the war between the two sects, Jiangnan County was caught in the flames of war. Some shrewd casual cultivators and small family cultivators had given up their spiritual veins and fled into the wild mountains.
Zhang Zhixuan searched for two or three days in a row, searching all the nearby spiritual veins, but could not find a single monk. Although he found some scattered villages and towns and found a large number of ordinary mortals, it was a pity that the mortals had almost no inheritance and had no idea about the situation of the Feng family ancestors.
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Continuing to find no one, Zhang Zhixuan had no choice but to give up and chose to return to Feng Castle.