Nine hundred years ago, the spiritual veins on Wutong Peak were only second-order low-grade, and there was a family of monks named Liu Family on it.
The Liu family in Wutong Peak is not very powerful. There are only about two hundred monks among them, and there are only two monks in the foundation-building stage.
Among them, the clan leader is in the middle stage of foundation building, and the other family elder is in the early stage of foundation building.
A common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade!
In the Tianhe region, there is a family surnamed Zhao on a first-order middle-grade spiritual vein not far from Wutong Peak.
Originally, the Zhao family was just a Qi-refining family, but perhaps due to luck, among their clan members, which numbered less than a hundred, three foundation-building monks appeared one after another in just a few decades.
Among them, their clan leader Zhao Jiachun even got an opportunity outside and reached the late stage of foundation building in one fell swoop.
As a result, a first-level mid-grade spiritual vein was naturally unable to support the current Zhao family, so the patriarch Zhao Jiachun set his sights on Wutong Peak.
But although the Zhao family has three monks at the foundation-building level, and Zhao Jiachun himself has reached the late stage of foundation-building, he also knows that relying solely on the strength of his family may not be able to break through Wutong Mountain, which the Liu family has managed for a long time.
Therefore, after careful preparation, he contacted many casual cultivators and promised that after breaking through the Liu family, all the spiritual stones, elixirs, ores, magic weapons and other resources in the family's inventory would belong to these casual cultivators, while the Zhao family only needs spiritual veins.
, spiritual fields, and various classics.
With such huge profits, it naturally attracted a lot of casual cultivators to participate.
Seeing that the number of people was almost enough, Zhao Jiachun led all the clan members above the fourth level of Qi Refining and more than a hundred casual cultivators to launch a genocide war against the Liu family of Wutong Peak.
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The details of this battle have not been recorded. Zhao Yiheng only knows that it cost forty-six Qi Refining Stage tribesmen dead, one Foundation Establishment Stage elder died, one Foundation Establishment Stage elder was seriously injured, and dozens of casual cultivators died.
At the cost, Zhao Jiachun, the family's first-generation ancestor in the foundation-building period, finally captured Wutong Peak.
After that, the whole family moved and re-established the family on Wutong Peak.
After hundreds of years of management, the Wutongfeng Zhao family gradually became one of the five most powerful monk families in the Tianhe region.
When their family was at its most prosperous, there were more than 700 clan members in the Qi Refining Stage and ten elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage. The spiritual veins on Wutong Peak allowed them to cultivate to the third level of middle grade.
Moreover, each generation of the family has at least one monk who is at the peak of the foundation building stage.
For a long period of time, the Zhao family of Wutong Peak was the most powerful foundation-building family in the Tianhe region besides the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain.
But things in the world are like floating clouds, they come together and disperse!
Hundreds of years later, when Zhao Yiheng took over the family from his ninth uncle Zhao Tianqi, Wutong Peak had already declined.
The family's strength has hit rock bottom, and its sphere of influence and industries in major cities have shrunk repeatedly.
Especially with the strong rise of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain in the past hundred years, their interests in Tianhefang City had to be surrendered.
Nowadays, the Zhao family only has less than 500 monks in the Qi Refining stage, and after the death of Zhao Yuanlin, there are only four elders left in the Foundation Establishment stage.
In addition to Zhao Yiheng, who got a chance in the Xianyuan Sect more than ten years ago and broke through to the late stage of foundation building, there are two other family elders who have also broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, and the remaining one family elder is in the early stage of foundation building.
In fact, strictly speaking, compared to the situation when Zhao Yiheng took over the family, when there were only three foundation-building elders in the family, the current Wutong Peak has actually recovered a little bit of its vitality under his leadership over the years.
Not only did two tribesmen successfully break through and build foundations in seclusion, but the number of tribesmen in the Qi refining period also increased.
Of course this was due to the opportunity he got, but some of his actions were also very important.
Opportunity and the right patriarch gave this declining family hope to rise again.
Although the Wutong Peak Zhao family is still the weakest among the five major families, it is at least much stronger than the other foundation-building families in the Tianhe region.
No family dared to try to replace their Zhao family.
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It stands to reason that with the current strength of the Zhao family, the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain will not launch an attack rashly, because even if Wutong Peak is defeated, they themselves will definitely lose a lot of people.
In Zhao Yiheng's view, Qingyuanshan should have waited for his family to become even more declining before he dared to launch an attack.
And this was why he was confused when he heard the news from Fangshi: Qingyuanshan was a little anxious!
"Is it because they see that the family has been rising again in recent years and are afraid that our Zhao family will become the next Taiqiu Mountain?"
But when Qingyuan Mountain gathered family monks and headed towards Wutong Peak, the Li family of Taiqiu Mountain actually announced that they would join the battle, so Zhao Yiheng had some vague guesses.
"Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain have joined forces!"
In fact, this is a normal inference based on the situation on the surface. In fact, countless casual cultivators and monk families in the Tianhe area think so.
The Wutong Peak Zhao family has resources at its disposal. Although its strength has improved slightly over the years, the family's overall strength is still insufficient.
The Wang family in Qingyuan Mountain is powerful, but they want to swallow up the Zhao family before it rises.
And the newly rising Li family in Taiqiu Mountain will definitely not want another powerful family to appear and threaten their status.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Zhao family's strength in Wutong Peak is now at its lowest point, it is a normal plan to completely suppress it and seize resources to strengthen itself.
Although the Zhao family of Wutong Peak is at the bottom among the five major families, it is also a family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. Whether it is the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain or the Li family of Taiqiu Mountain, if they want to swallow them up alone, they will undoubtedly have to do so by themselves.
It will also hurt your muscles and bones.
Therefore, an inference in the minds of many monks naturally formed:
Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain conspired, and the two families joined forces to destroy the Zhao family, eliminate the threat, and share the profits equally.
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But...that is not the case. Both the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain and the Li family of Taiqiu Mountain knew clearly that there was no conspiracy between them.
Although each had the idea of invading the Zhao family before, they were all waiting for the opportunity and wanted to wait until the Zhao family was weak enough before taking action.
In fact, if the Zhao family continues to develop like this under the leadership of Zhao Yiheng, the idea of the two families will only be an idea and will not be put into actual action.
Because the cost of destroying the Zhao family is too high!
But just as Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain were waiting for an opportunity to see if the Zhao family could rise again, the appearance of a person broke the deadlock and caused this war of genocide, or in other words, accelerated this genocide.
The development process of the war.
This person is Li Qingshui, who is the seventeenth in the Li Jiaqing generation in Taiqiu Mountain.
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Therefore, judging from the final result alone, Zhao Yiheng and the other monks in the Tianhe area were not wrong in their inferences, but they did not know the "reason" before.
Underlying this "reason" is Li Qingshui's persistence in the past ten years. With the belief that he would never give up until the Zhao family was destroyed, he launched countless large and small killings.
After confirming that his fifth uncle Li Changqing had completely stabilized his state, and that he had obtained the tacit approval of his seventh uncle Li Changji, he launched his final plan.
That is: kill Wang Linyu, the elder sent by Qingyuan Mountain to investigate the Zhao family, and then spread the news that Wang Linyu was killed by the Zhao family.
As the situation advanced to this point, Li Qingshui knew clearly that his actions would not be noticed by Qingyuan Mountain, but Wang Linyu was already dead. Whether he died at the hands of Taiqiu Mountain or Wutong Peak was no longer that important.
The important thing is that Li Qingshui is clearly sending a signal to Qingyuan Mountain:
The Li family in Taiqiu Mountain has decided to join in this genocide!
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In a cave near the top of Taiqiu Mountain, Li Qingshui woke up from his practice. He stood up and walked around the cave, sometimes lowering his head to meditate, sometimes stopping to murmur. When he finally sat down on the stone bed again, he took the
He said softly with a smile:
"Calculating the time, it should be almost done. I don't know how many people Uncle Wu brought with him?"
Since he took over the investigation of the Zhao family in Wutong Peak from his third brother Li Qinghuan, he discovered that as the matter deepened, the Wang family in Qingyuan Mountain also discovered the anomaly in Wutong Peak and sent monks to secretly investigate.
So after discovering this situation, a terrible plan took shape in his mind.
Especially after learning that his fifth uncle Li Changqing had fallen into seclusion to break through the golden elixir realm, he accelerated the advancement of his plan.
Because he has full confidence in his fifth uncle Li Changqing, with the Liquid Condensation Pill, the latter has a great chance of successfully condensing the pill.
But in fact, he didn't know that the fifth uncle Li Changqing and the eighth uncle Li Changji had concealed the information about Bai Yuetan and the Star Soul Fruit. Li Changqing did not use the liquid condensation pill during the retreat.
If Li Qingshui knew at that time that his fifth uncle Li Changqing did not use the Liquid Condensation Pill during the breakthrough, it is still unknown whether he would have dared to continue completing this plan!
After all, his plan is undoubtedly a risky move for the entire family.
Of course Li Qingshui himself knew this, and in order to maintain absolute confidentiality and not be blocked by other elders of the family, he did not even tell his eighth uncle Li Changji before implementing the specific plan.
It wasn't until the patriarch Li Changqing successfully formed the elixir and went into seclusion to stabilize his state that he returned to Mount Taiqiu and told his eighth uncle Li Changji the entire plan.