Published: March 2, 2025
CHAPTER 65: Little Eyebrow Mountain
Liu Yu and the others naturally hoped that the more cultivators both families sent, the better. However, both families were clearly burdened with concerns and wouldn't send out their entire clan. After all, they still needed some people to guard the family's assets. If they sent too many cultivators out and left their families vulnerable, it would be easy for loose cultivators to raid their resource points, resulting in significant losses. After all, loose cultivators were notorious for picking the bones from the dead.
After some negotiations, both families agreed to send out eight cultivators each: one in the seventh layer of qi refinement, two in the sixth layer, and five in the fourth and fifth layers of qi refinement. As for cultivators in the early stage of qi refinement, their spiritual consciousness was weak, and they couldn't even control magical artifacts. They could only cast minor spells, which would be tantamount to sending them to their deaths.
After bargaining with the Hou and Gongsun families, the final distribution of benefits was as follows: Liu Yu and his group would share the resources and spiritual stones obtained from defeating the enemy, while both families would share the resource points controlled by the Feng family. Additionally, after exterminating the cultivators of the Heavenly Harmony Sect, Liu Yu and his companions must report the information about the extermination of the enemy cultivators to the Yuan Yang Sect, acknowledging the legitimacy of the two families occupying the Feng family's resource points.
With the endorsement from the Yuan Yang Sect, both families could rightfully occupy the Feng family's resource points, giving them a moral justification that no one would dare to question.
Once everything was settled, it was already two days later at the hour of the dog. At this time, Liu Yu and his group had reached a rough agreement with the two families.
A group of twenty-one cultivators headed towards the Little Eyebrow Mountain Feng family.
Among them, there were three in the late stage of qi refinement and eighteen in the mid stage of qi refinement, their strength far surpassing that of the Feng family. As long as nothing unexpected happened, taking over the Feng family would be a piece of cake.
Although the number of cultivators from the two families exceeded that of Liu Yu and his companions, the actual decision-making power still rested in the hands of the highest cultivators: Liu Yu, Hou Yanze, and Gongsun Cang, with Liu Yu, as the stationed envoy of the Yuan Yang Sect, naturally holding the most power.
That night, the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, and the ground was shrouded in dim light. The sounds of rustling came from all directions, the noise made by the wind stirring the leaves.
“Tonight is a night for killing under the black moon and high winds.”
Everything seemed to foreshadow an unrestful night. Liu Yu gazed into the distance, a flicker of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.
The Feng family was located two hundred miles east of Cold Moon City. Among them, Hou Yanze and Gongsun Cang were most familiar with the specific location. As cultivation families in this region, they had understood one another through years of competition and covert conflicts.
To accommodate the speed of the mid stage qi refinement cultivators, Liu Yu and the other three intentionally slowed down their escape speed. Finally, after an hour and a half, they reached the gathering place of the Feng family's commoners—Feng Family Town.
Feng Family Town was where the clan members without spiritual roots lived. The town had about ten thousand people, mostly members of the Feng family, along with a few married-in wives or sons-in-law, all of whom had some ties to the Feng family. True outsiders were rare.
At this moment, it was just past the hour of the rat, and most people in the town had already blown out their lamps and gone to sleep, with only a few scattered households still lit.