155: Chapter 155 The Zhao Family of Taisu Mountain, Annihilated!

"Since you have decided, Changqing, let little Lingxi Cultivate this Cultivation Technique." Chen Xuanyi nodded.

"Right, how many immortal seedlings were there in yesterday's Spiritual Root testing?" Chen Changqing remembered something and asked.

"Including yesterday and those already on the mountain, there are three in total, named Chen Linghao, Chen Liyan, and Zhang Qiu. Two of them are members of the main Chen Family clan, while the other was unwilling to change his surname and has been incorporated into the foreign surname Cultivators. Among these three, Linghao has the highest talent, possessing Three Spiritual Roots of Gold, Fire, and Earth." Chen Yuanzhan explained.

"Mm, I understand. Cultivate these three little fellows well; our Family is still very short of manpower nowadays." Chen Changqing nodded.

The Chen Family already had over two hundred Cultivators. The majority were main-line Cultivators, branch-line Cultivators accounted for twenty percent, and another ten percent were foreign surname Cultivators.

The composition of foreign surname Cultivators was more complex than that of the main and branch lines. The branch lines more or less possessed the Chen Family Bloodline but were not direct clansmen; rather, they were Cultivators with other surnames who changed to the Chen surname. Although they were branch lines, their treatment in the Chen Family was the same as that of the main-line clansmen.

Foreign surname Cultivators were composed of two types of people: one type consisted of Cultivators who possessed the Chen Family Bloodline but were unwilling to change their surname, and the other consisted of other Cultivators recruited by the Chen Family or who voluntarily joined the Chen Family.

Together, they formed the foreign surname Cultivators. The resources they obtained in the Chen Family were less than those of the main and branch-line clansmen, and most resources required them to contribute to the Chen Family before they could possibly obtain them.

To manage the foreign surname Cultivators, the Chen Family specially purchased a mountain peak to settle them and appointed three Elders to be responsible for their management.

Of course, as for Wuyue Mountain, the Cultivators here were not many nowadays, numbering only a few dozen. Therefore, even if there were foreign surname Cultivators, there actually were not many, let alone setting up the position of Elder.

Only Qingyang Mountain possessed such conditions.

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Yongzhou, Taisu Mountain.

At this moment, Taisu Mountain was dead silent. Countless carved balustrades and jade-inlaid buildings had long been destroyed, and many peaks had also been cut off at the waist.

A group of Cultivators dressed in black robes were looting the treasures of the Zhao Family, while another portion piled up the corpses of the Zhao Family Cultivators who had just died and completely annihilated them with a fireball spell.

High in the air, two Cultivators with extremely terrifying auras stood. They had just undergone a tragic battle, and although the auras on their bodies had dropped quite a bit, this aura, even if seen by a Purple Palace Cultivator at a glance, would inevitably cause shock and terror.

"Ever since we made a move against the three prefectures of Cang Prefecture, Bing Prefecture, and You Prefecture, the attention of the entire Yan Country has been focused on these three prefectures. Yet, they never expected that we would do the opposite and deal with the Taisu Mountain Zhao Family." Wei Zhen smiled and spoke.

"Indeed! However, as a Golden Core Family with a Legacy of over a thousand years, this Zhao Family is truly worthy of the name. I didn't expect them to be so tricky to deal with. Clearly, there wasn't even a single Pseudo-Core Realm Expert in their clan, yet relying on six Purple Palace Cultivators, they actually managed to withstand the attacks of two of us Pseudo-Core Realm Experts and ten Purple Palace Cultivators." Lu Yan frowned.

"The reason why we joined forces is precisely because these Golden Core forces, even if they no longer have a Golden Core Master guarding them, possess extremely formidable strength."

"If we hadn't brought the Eight Gates Sky-Locking Formation, I'm afraid we still wouldn't have taken them down by now, and they might have even transmitted messages to the other Golden Core forces." Wei Zhen felt increasingly fearful the more he thought about it.

At that time, they thought their lineup was enough to easily take down the Zhao Family. Unexpectedly, this battle was fought with such difficulty; out of the dozen or so Purple Palace Cultivators they brought, three died and five were heavily injured, which was equivalent to losing more than half of their combat strength.

The crucial point was that wanting to deal with the remaining Golden Core forces in the future would definitely not be as simple as this time.

"Let's clean up the aftermath early, and then try not to show our faces during this period to avoid being caught by the other Golden Core forces. Moreover, it's best for us to hide in Cang Prefecture right now." Wei Zhen proposed.

Lu Yan also agreed. The two hurriedly instructed the Cultivators under their command to seize the time to handle things. Next, they would hide in Cang Prefecture and dodge the limelight for this period first.

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Ten days later, a piece of news instantly spread throughout the entire Dayan.

After hearing it, countless people felt shocked in their hearts for a long time.

A Golden Core force with a Legacy of over a thousand years had actually been wiped out just like that without a sound.

Although in that great battle a dozen or so years ago, the Golden Core Old Ancestor of the Taisu Mountain Zhao Family died under the siege of several Tier 4 Demon Kings, even without a Golden Core Master guarding them, their strength was not something other forces could eliminate.

Just that set of Tier 4 Formation was not something several Purple Mansion Masters could break through by joining forces, let alone that they ostensibly still had four Purple Mansion Masters.

Yet with such strength, they were wiped out without even a shred of news leaking.

This news immediately caused panic and shock among all forces. Even the other few families that were also Golden Core forces had portions of their families lose their sole guarding Golden Core Old Ancestor in that great battle a dozen years ago.

What they feared most right now was ending up with the same fate as the Taisu Mountain Zhao Family.

However, possessing the strength to annihilate the Zhao Family, everyone couldn't help but recall that a few months ago, an organization calling itself the Anti-Immortal Alliance suddenly appeared in the field of vision of Yan Country. They carried out varying degrees of destruction in the three prefectures of Yan Country, causing the attention of all forces in the entire Yan Country to be focused within these three prefectures.

As a result, they unexpectedly abandoned continuing to cause destruction in these three prefectures and instead ran directly to Yongzhou to annihilate the Zhao Family.

Therefore, the ten Golden Core forces immediately held communications to discuss how to root out the Anti-Immortal Alliance Cultivators.

In a mere single day, they unanimously stood together on the stance of dealing with the Anti-Immortal Alliance.

Headed by Biluo Palace, the ten Golden Core forces mobilized, using bounties and dispatching a large number of Cultivators to investigate any Anti-Immortal Alliance Cultivators that appeared, and then rooting out more remnants of the Anti-Immortal Alliance through these Cultivators.

After tracing for about a month, they discovered that behind the Anti-Immortal Alliance were five False Core Cultivators.

Under their command, there were also dozens of Purple Palace Cultivators. As for Foundation Establishment Cultivators and Qi Refining Cultivators, they were countless.

Moreover, the forces they were entangled with were extremely numerous, and quite a few forces had their people within them.

This intelligence terrified them. As the actual rulers of Yan Country, they actually didn't know when such a force came into existence and even developed to such a level of strength today.

Five False Core Cultivators—even if they all added up together, they didn't have this many. After all, False Core Cultivators could be considered the strongest combat power beneath the Golden Core Stage.

The so-called False Core was the Realm achieved when a Purple Mansion Ninth Layer Perfection Cultivator attempted to break through to the Golden Core Stage and failed during Core Formation.

Core Formation was different from opening up a Purple Mansion and condensing a Nascent Soul; failure did not necessarily mean death.

If there were Core Formation spiritual items to assist in Core Formation, such as the Golden Essence Pill, once Core Formation failed, there was a possibility of escaping the fate of certain death.

And if one did not die after Core Formation failed, their magical power would naturally advance a step further. Not to mention compared to the Golden Core Stage, it was definitely something the Purple Mansion stage could not compare to.

In Yan Country, there had once been a battle record of three False Core Cultivators joining forces to fight to a draw with a Golden Core Master.

This was also one of the reasons why the ten Golden Core forces were so terrified.