Chapter 28 Collusion

A spirit boat over ten feet long was suspended in the air, flying towards Xihefang at lightning speed. A middle-aged Taoist with a Taoist style sat leisurely on the spirit boat. He wore a purple Taoist crown on his head, and faint runes were engraved on the crown. It was obvious that he was extraordinary.

"Chief, the news has been passed from the front. Fellow Daoist He and his men have taken down Xihefang, and the cultivators of the five families of Wu, Yang, Liu, Ma, and Zhang have fled in all directions." An old man walked quickly on the spirit boat and said excitedly.

The middle-aged Taoist priest smiled and pointed to the market in front and said, "So, Xihefang is already in our pocket."

The old monk smiled and said, "Yes, Daoist He asked us to prepare the spiritual stones. The spiritual talismans, spiritual pills, and spiritual objects in Xihefang will all fall into our hands. This time, we will follow the usual practice. As long as the spiritual stones are 50% of the market price, all these spiritual objects will be given to us. As long as we don't sell them locally, we can slowly sell these spiritual objects and get a good price."

This middle-aged Taoist priest is Hu Boyu, the head of the Hu family. The Hu family was originally a large immortal cultivation family in Wu State, and there are still purple mansion cultivators in the family.

Unfortunately, because of the wrong team in Xuansu Sect, the Hu family completely lost power in the chaos in Wu State decades ago, and the purple mansion cultivators in the family also died in the chaos.

After losing their backers in Wu State, it was impossible to keep the mountain gate. The cultivators of the Hu family were like dogs that lost their homes. They hurriedly fled their hometown and came to the unfamiliar Yu State.

Hu Boyu was quite cunning. He knew that if he wanted to survive in Yu State, he had to make friends with the four major sects first, so he began to make friends with Qingxuan Sect monks at all costs.

After more than ten years of preparation, he sent his daughter who had thunder spirit roots to Qingxuan Sect under the introduction of a Qingxuan Sect foundation-building monk.

This girl was gifted and beautiful, and she was the most beautiful in Qingxuan Sect. After entering the sect, she attracted the attention of the Qingxuan Sect's Jindan Patriarch, who took her in as a concubine.

From then on, the Hu family gained a firm foothold in Yu State.

Hu Boyu nodded happily and said, "You will drive the spiritual boat in a while, give the spiritual stones to Wei Mazi first, and then leave with the spiritual objects. I will not show up. Wu Xiangyuan is dead, and the remaining Qi training cultivators are irrelevant. Tell Wei Mazi and others not to kill wantonly, so as not to offend the five major families completely."

Because they are foreign cultivators, the Hu family has no foundation in Yu State. In order to seize the spiritual veins, they colluded with Wei Mazi, He Laodao and others who also fled from Wu State in 30 years to attack Zhang Family's Jiuhua Mountain.

After Wei Mazi and others conquered Jiuhua Mountain, they not only swept away all the spiritual objects on the mountain, but also sold Jiuhua Mountain to Hu Boyu, obtaining tens of thousands of spiritual stones.

And Hu Boyu was like a yellow bird behind him. After the deal was done, he immediately went out and pretended to expel Wei Mazi and others.

The biggest benefit of the abnormal changes thirty years ago was undoubtedly obtained by Hu Boyu.

With only tens of thousands of spirit stones, they obtained a third-level spirit vein and took root in the country of Yu.

This time, the situation was the same as thirty years ago. As long as the spirit stones were delivered and the conditions were negotiated, Hu Boyu would appear outside Xihefang City, expel Wei Mazi and others, and take back Xihefang City.

Then, relying on the backers in Qingxuan Sect, they negotiated conditions with the five major families.

Xihefang City is located next to Qingli River. Because the five major families have invested in spirit stone resources for many years, a third-level spirit vein has been condensed in the market.

The third-level spirit vein is already the foundation of a foundation-building family. Once Xihefang City is lost, it will be a serious injury to the five major families.

The history of the five major immortal cultivation families in Taicheng County has been more than two thousand years, and the shortest one, such as the Zhang family, has been three or four hundred years.

The reason why they can survive is because they have a backer in Qingxuan Sect, but once the Hu family occupies Xihefang. Now that the Hu family is powerful in Qingxuan Sect, the five major families must give up some of their interests.

This time, the five major families are completely on the same front, which is different from the situation thirty years ago. The power of the five families in Qingxuan Sect is not small. Although they will not completely lose Xihefang, they will probably give up a considerable part of their interests to the Hu family.

The old Taoist of the Hu family nodded and said, "Don't worry, patriarch. We have done this twice and are already familiar with it. But you still have to go to Qingxuan Sect in person to meet niece Peiyu. We still have to rely on her at that time to avoid the siege of the five major families. As long as Qingxuan Sect stands up for us, the five major families will hand over the control of Xihefang City to us even if they are not satisfied."

"Third brother is right. After Wei Mazi and others leave, I will go to Qingxuan Sect immediately and ask Peiyu to find someone to settle this matter. Wu Siheng of the Wu family has opened up the Purple Mansion, and Wu Xiangyuan is his nephew. Since Zhang Chuyun passed away, Xihefang has been controlled by the Wu family. If he insists on it, I am afraid that it will take the intervention of Patriarch Jin to suppress this matter."

The two foundation-building cultivators of the Hu family discussed for a while, and then the old Taoist Hu first drove the spirit boat to take away all the spiritual objects in Xihefang, and then the two drove Wei Mazi and others away like a game.

Hu Laodao led the main force of the family to garrison in Xihefang, while Hu Boyu rushed to Qingxuan Sect without stopping, using the spiritual boat magic weapon.

Qingxuan Sect is located on the edge of the Nanhuang Mountains. You can go deep into the Nanhuang by crossing Qingxuan Sect.

Where there are monsters everywhere and spiritual energy is abundant. Because few cultivators dare to go deep into the Nanhuang, there are countless rare spiritual objects here.

Qingxuan Sect guards the exit of the Nanhuang. It is famous in Yu State and dominates the three counties in the southeast by relying on the unique Nanhuang spiritual objects.

The entire Yu State is controlled by the four major immortal cultivation sects. Because of the ancient war, the vast sea was turned into a white land, and countless spiritual mountains and spiritual veins were destroyed, almost completely destroying the Yu State immortal cultivation world.

Therefore, no cultivator from the four major sects has been promoted to Yuanying for three thousand years.

Without the support of Yuanying cultivators, the status of Yu State's immortal cultivation world is naturally not high, and it has always been regarded as a vassal of the nearby neighboring country Wu.

Hundreds of years ago, the Wu Kingdom's overlord Xuansu Sect's Grand Elder, a mid-Yuanying cultivator Liu Xuanyan, disappeared, and even his natal golden lamp gradually extinguished, and there has been no news since then.

Yang Xuanzhen, another early Yuanying Grand Elder, was at odds with the sect leader Liu Lingjun. The two did not even talk about superficial harmony, and almost broke out into a full-scale conflict.

After decades of fighting, Xuansu Sect's leader Liu Lingjun gradually lost, failed in the struggle and disappeared completely.

And the cultivators who stood on the wrong side in this sect's internal strife also left Wu and fled to nearby neighboring countries.

The continuous major changes led to the great decline of Xuansu Sect's power, and even its control over Yu Kingdom's immortal sects was somewhat powerless and not as good as before.

Because Xuansu Sect reduced its oppression of Yu Kingdom, Yu Kingdom's immortal cultivation world has gradually prospered over the past hundred years. Although the number of high-level cultivators above the Jindan stage has not increased, the number of purple mansion cultivators has increased by more than ten people.

As long as this situation continues for a few hundred years, the immortal cultivators of the Yu State may be able to break free from the control of the Xuansu Sect of the Wu State and restore their ancient prosperity.