SEC Chapter 293 Several Parties' Actions
Chapter 293 Several Parties' Actions
As they stepped from the warmly lit Wei residence into the eerie, resentful graveyard atop the hill, Wei Ying and Lan Zhan wore similar expressions of coldness and solemnity.
Amidst the howling, foul-smelling winds of decaying corpses atop the hill, Wei Ying leaned close to Lan Zhan's ear and whispered, "Lan Zhan, how is my sister's health?"
Lan Zhan frowned and said bluntly, "Wei Ying, the situation is not good. If this drags on for too long, I'm afraid he will be overwhelmed!"
Upon hearing this, Wei Ying took a deep breath, turned to the side and extended a palm toward Lan Zhan, "Then, Lan Zhan, let's end this final act together!"
Under the dim, faint starlight, Lan Zhan unhesitatingly placed his hand on the open palm in front of him, his eyes, like amber shimmering in the sunlight, filled with unwavering determination.
The two stood silently side by side atop the mass grave, gazing into the still dark sky, waiting for dawn to break.
At that time, the Never-Sleeping City, also shrouded in night, was brightly lit. Countless commands were sent from the hands of Wen Ruohan, Lan Wenjing, Nie Changfeng, and Lin Yingsu in different directions. The communication talismans of different colors were like dazzling rainbow bridges, crossing the endless darkness and weaving a colorful net that encompassed all the major families in the cultivation world.
In the latter half of the night, countless aristocratic cultivators, awakened by this tremendous commotion, were filled with countless thoughts and imagined all sorts of conspiracies and schemes!
It felt as if hundreds or thousands of years had passed before the last few hours of the night slowly came to an end. Just as dawn broke, all the Xuanmen cultivators, their eyes red from staying up half the night, received a new round of arrangements from the Wen, Lan, Nie, and Lin families.
Since the Qishan Never-Sleeping City Grand Gathering a few months ago, driven by an insatiable desire to further their cultivation, the Hundred Families reached a consensus with an alliance centered around Wen Ruohan, Lan Wenjing, and two others.
That is, they are willing to follow the arrangements of Wen Ruohan and others, and work together to convert and suppress the evil spirits sealed in the Yiling Burial Mound and other forbidden areas, so as to restore a peaceful and tranquil world!
Of course, Wen Ruohan and the others' arrangements must be fair, just, and transparent, and the safety of each family's children must be guaranteed as much as possible. If the losses are too heavy along the way, don't blame them for choosing to cut their losses in time.
At first, each family had doubts about Wen Ruohan and the others' arrangements, and did not think that such group monster-hunting could bring much benefit. Therefore, their attitudes were extremely perfunctory, and each family only sent three or five mediocre and incompetent disciples to serve under the four families.
However, as time went on, the disciples of each family and the dozens of small teams composed of the four families' disciples, under the command of the four family heads who were in charge of the overall situation, efficiently, quickly and with minimal casualties, easily completed each objective time and time again.
The team members also gained a lot from each operation, enriching their experience in fighting various evil spirits, improving their practical experience and teamwork skills, and most importantly, they were able to obtain rewards from the hunting targets or their dwellings each time.
For example, targets of the spirit type can be obtained from flesh, bones, hides, spiritual herbs, spiritual materials, minerals, jade, etc., which can be used for alchemy, talisman making, and artifact forging.
For example, long-standing fierce corpses and vengeful ghosts may acquire, in varying quantities, the cultivation manuals, magical swords and treasures carried by evil spirits;
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After several such attempts, the Hundred Families saw the enormous benefits involved and hurriedly stuffed most of their clans' manpower into the land reclamation team. If they weren't afraid that their clan's land would be left unguarded and be raided by others, they probably would have put their entire clan in!
Forced by reality, the Hundred Families had no choice but to rotate their disciples in batches. As for themselves and their families, they naturally participated in the rotation without any rotation!
By the middle stage, independent cultivators and sects who had been detached from the cultivation world also joined the fray as a force to be reckoned with, organized by powerful reclusive cultivators and newly emerging independent cultivators.
The larger team means a much faster pace of the all-out crackdown on forbidden areas and mass graves, but it also means that the internal power struggles and conflicts within the team will become more intense and complex.
While the powerful clans, rogue cultivators, and sects were locked in a fierce battle, the Chen Dynasty, which had experienced years of rapid development, led its accumulated forces and a contingent of men from various noble families and powerful clans in the mortal world. With lightning speed, it rose to power and joined the purge.
The various families, independent cultivators, and sects, each constrained by the other, were shocked, angry, and resentful at the sudden rise of the Chen Dynasty's power, but they were also powerless to stop it. Unwilling to take the lead in suppressing and preventing the Chen Dynasty from joining, they could only helplessly accept this fact.
Therefore, the various forces whose interests were closely tied to the four families of Wen, Lan, Nie, and Lin, even though they had many speculations about the big commotion of the four families in the latter half of the night before, and were surprised and uncertain about the content of the large-scale personnel mobilization order issued by the four families, did not hesitate to accept the order and promptly assembled the appropriate personnel to rush to the designated location.
In an instant, from a high altitude, one could see that on the vast land where the morning light was just beginning to break, countless people in colorful robes were busily and orderly converging from all directions toward the mass grave in Yiling, with the same goal in mind.
At the foot of the mass grave, in front of the Zhangyu Curse Wall, which had been largely demolished, Wen Ruohan, dressed in flamboyant red, Lan Wenjing, dressed in flowing white, Nie Changfeng, dressed in fierce blue, and Lin Yingsu, dressed in light blue, stood calmly with their hands behind their backs, clearly waiting for the others to receive orders and come over.
After that, a large group of young men from various families, who were on duty in shifts, stood with their heads bowed and hands clasped, not daring to utter a sound, silently waiting for the arrival of those who came later!