Decades ago, the Corpse Ghost Sect issued a recruitment order to the Zhao family, asking them from Wutong Peak to send people to the Hengduan Mountains to participate in the war.
After the Corpse Sect's operation to plan the fifth-level spiritual veins ended, the already severe situation of the Zhao family in Wutong Peak became even more critical. The patriarch Zhao Tianqi died, and there were only three foundation-building elders left in the family.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Yiheng, the fifteenth member of the Zhao family, took over the entire family and began to serve as the patriarch.
After settling many of the family's affairs, he temporarily handed over the management of the family's affairs to his thirteenth uncle Zhao Yuanji, but he himself left the family and went to the Xianyuan Sect.
He had been away for nearly ten years. When he returned to his family again, he brought back a lot of resources and also learned a piece of news about the secret realm of the ancient battlefield.
Afterwards, after discussions between him and the other two family elders, they decided to devote all their efforts to seeking opportunities in this secret realm.
If successful, the Zhao family may be able to rise again and avoid the covetousness of the other four major families in the Tianhe region.
If it fails, it also means that the fate of the Zhao family is like this. In the cruel world of cultivation, it is just a step ahead of the crisis of genocide.
There is no doubt that this is an action that stakes the fate of the entire family.
Judging from the subsequent results, Zhao Yiheng won the bet!
The Zhao family of Wutong Peak obtained a fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon, an extremely large number of spiritual stones, and various resources from that secret realm.
It was precisely because of these opportunities that their family later gave birth to two more foundation-building elders, namely Zhao Yuanlin and Zhao Yingque.
Moreover, inside the fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon, Zhao Yiheng also discovered a broken fourth-level puppet beast, as well as a puppetry inheritance.
Although a fourth-level puppet beast is far inferior to a real person at the Golden Core stage, if it can be repaired successfully and exert its own strength, then the Zhao family of Wutong Peak will have no problem in protecting the mountain gate.
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So in the next few decades, Zhao Yiheng began to select talented tribesmen to learn the inheritance of puppetry, and at the same time ordered his family to secretly collect various grades of ores.
Since the puppetry inheritance he received was dedicated to making puppets from various minerals, if his family wanted to train a puppet master, they would need to invest a lot of minerals in the early stage.
However, what Zhao Yiheng did not expect was that the other members of the family were not very talented in practicing puppetry. After spending a lot of ore resources, no member of the family became a second-level puppet master. The most talented person was also
Just a first-level puppet master.
On the contrary, he himself, after decades of study, had unknowingly entered the third level of the Puppet Way.
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According to the inheritance of puppetry that the family received from the secret realm, puppets can be roughly divided into two types. One is low-level puppets that do not require the control of a puppet master.
The other type is an advanced puppet that needs to be controlled by a puppet master.
The former only relies on spirit stones or spirit-imbuing magic circles to drive it, and its limbs are very clumsy. What it can do is limited, and its strength cannot be fully utilized.
The latter is different. This kind of advanced puppet controlled by a puppet master can perfectly exert its full strength and complete many delicate tasks.
For example, the four ape-shaped puppets that Li Xuangang brought back from the Ten Thousand Stars Islands were low-level puppets that did not require the control of a puppet master.
The fourth-level low-grade lizard puppet that Zhao Yiheng obtained was a high-level puppet that required a puppet master to control it.
However, the amount of ores of each level required to repair this low-level fourth-level high-level puppet is too large, and Zhao Yiheng's own attainments in puppetry are only level three.
Therefore, this fourth-order low-grade lizard puppet has never been completely repaired, and its cultivation strength has been hovering between the third-order and fourth-order. Under Zhao Yiheng's full control, it was able to exert four levels of power in a short period of time.
The combat strength of the lower class.
But the Zhao family knew that such a semi-finished fourth-level puppet was not enough. They needed the clan leader to become a fourth-level puppet master and more ore resources.
Originally, under the leadership of Zhao Yiheng, the situation of the Zhao family gradually improved after they obtained the resources in the secret realm.
Unfortunately, while their family was secretly collecting ore resources, Li Qingshui of Taiqiu Mountain seized the opportunity and provided the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain, who had been coveting their Wutong Peak, with an excellent help to launch a war of genocide.
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All of this happened so suddenly that Zhao Yiheng's plan to break through to the fourth-level puppet master and then repair the fourth-level lizard puppet to protect his family completely came to nothing.
When Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain both launched an attack on Wutong Peak, Zhao Yiheng knew that he was already too late.
So he could only make urgent arrangements and use this fourth-level lizard puppet that had not yet completed all repairs as his last resort.
But he also knew that with this alone, the chance of his family resisting the joint attack of the two Jindan families was still slim, so he had to prepare for the worst.
And this plan is to use the family's stores in various Dafang cities and the large amount of resources left in the stores as exchange conditions for the help of Jiuhua Mountain and Luoying Mountain.
Of course, it is obviously impossible to rely on these resources to win them over to fight against the Wang family and the Li family, but it can still be used as the last hope to protect the family.
After discussion, Zhao Yiheng decided to let the youngest Zhao Yingque take the fourth-level mid-grade magic weapon and all the remaining family resources in it to escape from the war.
The remaining three foundation-building elders are responsible for delaying time for him, and most importantly, attracting the attention of the two golden elixir-level monks guarding outside the peak, so as to ensure that he leaves Wutong Peak through the secret passage.
In the process, they tried their best not to be discovered by the two of them.
But what Zhao Yiheng never expected was that the fourth-level medium-grade magic weapon he prepared for his family, as well as the many resources in it, would be captured by Li Qingshui before Zhao Yingque arrived.
Due to the fact that it cannot be stored in a storage bag, Li Yuheng was arranged to get it first.
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In fact, from Zhao Yiheng's point of view, his family is not without hope. Under his plan, Wutong Peak has two hopes of survival and one hope of rising again.
The first time was with the help of the defense and self-destruction of the third-level high-grade green snake soul-eating array, which dealt a heavy blow to the attacking Wang family and Li family.
But he didn't expect that the Wang family was so fully prepared, even the fourth-order mid-grade crystal energy giant crossbow was deployed, and it also blocked most of the damage caused by the "Green Snake"'s self-destruction.
The second time was to use the twenty-seven third-level talismans left by the ancestors of the family to hold back the foundation-building monks on the opposite side so that they could not participate in the battle of the Qi-refining period clansmen below. In this way, as long as one's own clansmen caused enough casualties to the opponent
, that would make the Wang and Li families feel that the cost of capturing Wutong Peak was too high, and they would choose to retreat.
But he did not expect that the fighting strength of the Qi Refining Stage monks in Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain was actually more powerful than he imagined.
The third time was to use the unfinished repair of the fourth-level puppet lizard to cause damage to several of the opponent's foundation-building monks and detonate them at the last moment.
Under the detonation of the fourth-level puppet, the attack power must be extremely powerful. The two golden elixir stage monks guarding outside the peak will definitely show up immediately to protect their foundation-building stage tribesmen, and he, his thirteenth uncle Zhao Yuanji, and the three
Brother Zhao Yizhi was able to take the opportunity to escape from the blockade of the two golden elixir stage monks.
But Zhao Yiheng did not expect that Wang Hansheng, the Jindan real person of the Wang family, would be so tyrannical. He would use magic weapons to control the fourth-order lizard puppet before it exploded, and give most of the fourth-order puppets that his family had worked so hard to repair.
Collect it.
At this point, the nine-hundred-year-old Zhao family in Wutong Peak was completely wiped out in the hands of the last patriarch, Zhao Yiheng, leaving only a glimmer of hope to re-establish the family in the Ten Thousand Stars Islands.
And this is the only one of Zhao Yiheng's many arrangements that succeeded. He calculated that he would chase and intercept the Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain within the Tianhe area, so he relied on the power of the Hu family in Jiuhua Mountain and the Pan family in Luoying Mountain.
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Under the current circumstances, Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain would never dare to start a war with their two families at the same time. Moreover, Hu Yanqiu, the patriarch of the Hu family, and Pan Haijun, the patriarch of the Pan family, are both monks at the pinnacle of foundation building. Among many clan members
Under the cover of the people, I believe that the foundation-building elders sent by the Wang family and the Li family cannot stop them.
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Right or wrong, success or failure, changed dramatically overnight.
From now on, there are only four major families left among the five major foundation-building families in the Tianhe region, and the name of the Zhao family in Wutong Peak will gradually be forgotten by the world as time goes by.
The chaos within Wutong Peak's sphere of influence is still continuing, but Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain have sent tribesmen to stabilize it, focusing on those resource points, after all, they will be the source of spiritual stones for their two families from now on.
In addition, there are many Qi Refining families in the surrounding areas that have been defeated by casual cultivators, and many family monks have become casual cultivators.
When Li Qinghuan followed the arrangements of his eighth uncle Li Changji and stabilized the Wutong Peak area, a paper crane sent by his seventh uncle had already arrived in his hands.
Standing on the top of a mountain, behind him were more than twenty tribesmen wearing the same black mysterious clothes. The message crane in his hand turned into ashes and dissipated in the wind. Li Qinghuan looked in the direction of Taiqiu Mountain and murmured to himself:
"What are you planning to do, Seventeenth Brother?"