radicalducati Chapter 96 Negotiation
Chapter 96 Negotiation
An hour later, at the Bloodhand camp in the north.
Several sword lights shot into the sky and spread out in different directions.
The slowest flying sword in the middle was carried by a man in a black robe with an ashen face; he was none other than Bao Xingqian, a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the thirteenth family.
"That old bastard Zhang Jingzhai! That old dog Fan De!"
Bao Xingqian cursed incessantly, his flying sword hovering low, almost skimming the treetops. The mountain wind blew his curses intermittently, but it couldn't dispel the resentment in his chest.
The meeting just now is still fresh in my mind. It was clear that Bloodhand and the other two companies had already communicated with each other, and this meeting was just to finalize the matter.
Zhang Jingzhai, dressed in an official robe, sat upright in the main seat, tapping his fingers on the table: "'Extinction' does not mean killing everyone; disintegration is also a form of 'extinction.' With Xu Ping'an dead, the common people will scatter into the markets, and Wujialing will be finished."
Bao Xingqian slammed his fist on the table: "No way! The Xu family is deeply entrenched; if we don't wipe them out, they'll rise again sooner or later!"
"The Heavenly Inspector has arrived at Flower Fruit Mountain," Zhang Jingzhai added. "At this time, with such widespread slaughter, who will explain this to their superiors?"
"The Heavenly Court doesn't care about internal strife in Aolai!" Bao Xingqian roared, but when he looked around, the three Foundation Establishment families—Blood Hand, Ghost Sail, and Wind and Rain Pavilion—were all drinking tea with their heads down, and no one responded.
"Since only Elder Bao insists on killing them all, fine..." Kong Fande tapped his fingers on the table and slowly began to speak, "Your other Elder Lü has been guarding Sushanfang, and he is aware of the current situation. I'll go back and shout that we'll only fight one of your thirteen families. Guess how many people will rush over?"
Bao Xingqian glared at Kong Fande, a man who had always looked down on him, a fact he had always known.
Both received great kindness from Wujia Village, yet Bao Xingqian was treacherous and repaid kindness with enmity, while Kong Fande helped Xu Ping'an when the Xu family was on the verge of collapse, showing loyalty and righteousness.
For this reason alone, Kong Fande has always looked down on him, and even yesterday when he went to the Yichun Brothel to solicit a prostitute, he was charged a higher fee.
Too bad. No matter how much you struggle, I will wipe the Xu family out of the world soon. Then we'll see who looks down on whom!
The two men stared at each other like fighting cocks. Bao Xingqian gritted his teeth and finally squeezed out two words: "Fine."
The flying sword swept across the mountain ridge, and Rotten Peach Peak was already in sight.
He took a deep breath, suppressing his anger—if he couldn't kill them all, killing Xu Ping'an would do. He would let these ordinary people live a few more days. These ordinary people had lost their foundation; he could just hire a few assassins to infiltrate Sushanfang and slowly kill them.
As for Cai Fei... according to inside information, this son of Aolai is still hiding in Huaguo Mountain, probably intending to be a coward.
Anyway, he'll be going to the Great Wilderness soon, so let Xingyue worry about it. It's none of the Thirteen Families' business anymore!
"I'll settle accounts with you after this is all over."
Bao Xingqian sneered, sheathed his flying sword, and landed in the thirteen camps.
Chu Huihui was also furious at this moment.
Just half an hour ago, she received a message from Chu Zhiyin, informing her that he had secretly led more than thirty cultivators into the mountains and went directly to Rotten Peach Peak through the underground passage.
Strangely, despite so many people entering the mountains, the Chu family's sentries did not react at all!
Such negligence in the face of battle!
So she immediately set out to patrol the mountain.
The July sun was unbearably hot, but the cultivators had their own ways of dealing with it. The ice array on the paper kite was activated, and Chu Huihui, wearing armor, patrolled the mountain under the protection of two cultivators, one in front and one behind.
As the leader of the main village, Chu Huihui was not incapable of using Tie Muying, but she was used to keeping a low profile. The reason she was able to preside over the Chu family was not because of her cultivation or authority, but because of her meticulousness and responsibility. However, it was clear that she was losing control in the face of today's grim situation.
"Let's go down and take a look." This is a sentry post at the entrance of the cave where the common people are hiding. It is considered a key area, but when we flew over, we didn't see anyone. Chu Huihui immediately wanted to go down and check.
The three landed quickly, with the two in front and behind them observing their surroundings very cautiously, afraid of missing any potential dangers.
It turned out to be a false alarm. The guard had been drinking and was sleeping in the shade. When he was woken up, he grumbled, "I didn't sleep at all last night. I was so tired that I drank some alcohol..."
"Tie him up." Chu Huihui didn't say much, and signaled her companion to use vine binding magic to tie the man to the tree. He was still allowed to hold the signal arrow, but a thorn was placed around his neck as a slight punishment.
After finishing, the three continued to hop on the kite to patrol, but apart from the area near Rotten Peach Peak in the south, all the other sentry posts and defense points were obviously lax. Chu Huihui went down to check again and again, from being annoyed at the beginning to gradually becoming numb.
Among the mountain dwellers, some were drinking, some were gambling, some were dozing off, and some simply skipped out on the ridge...
Even the two cultivators who had been accompanying her were respectful, but when it came to administering punishment, they were rather perfunctory. The vine binding technique was indeed a vine binding technique, but they simply pulled a vine and tied it around once...
"Is it all confirmed?" Chu Huihui glanced at her two assistants. "Is it certain that the Elders' Council is going to betray their teammates?"
"They're not exactly teammates..." one of the cultivators said awkwardly. "That Cai Fei, he claims to be of the Chu family bloodline, but you're the only one who knows him. We don't recognize him at all..."
Chu Huihui sighed.
To most of the Chu family, Cai Fei was indeed an outsider. Supporting Cai Fei was already controversial. Chu Zhengshan, who had the highest prestige, always looked down on Chu Shanyun, this oddball, and by extension, she also looked down on her son, Cai Fei.
Now that Cai Fei has brought about the destruction of his clan, Chu Huihui thought that the old elder would abandon Wujialing, so she had been urging Xu Ping'an to run away for the past two days.
But after seeing Chu Zhiyin's letter, she knew she was wrong—who would have thought that the old elder would risk the lives of the entire village for Cai Fei!
It seems something extraordinary has indeed happened at Flower Fruit Mountain!
The main mountain of the Chu family is quite large. To survey it from the top to the bottom, the spiral path would take several hours. Normally, it would take half an hour to fly there once, but today it would take even longer.
Chu Huihui inspected everything thoroughly, punishing those who deserved punishment and making improvements where necessary. By the time she finished inspecting everything, the sun had already set in the west.
As dusk approached, a message arrived as scheduled. When Chu Huihui looked at it, it was a message from Elder Chu Zhengshan: "The Great Sage has manifested! Son of Aolai, my Chu family cannot betray our righteousness. I will arrive within an hour. Huihui, be prepared."
This really means war!
However, if a first-order communication talisman can reach the location, it means the person is already nearby. Why then does it still say an hour?
Chu Huihui was puzzled, but she had already sent a message to inform the elders and managers that a meeting would be held at the mountaintop in one incense stick's time.
From afar, cultivators could be seen flying in from the east, led by two flying swords. It was the old steward and Kong Fande's team. And behind them—Chu Huihui's eyes widened—there were so many people!
The group appeared to have seventy or eighty people from a distance, much to Chu Huihui's surprise.
Are there really so many righteous men from Aolai?
However, Chu Huihui had no time to think about it, because a large group of cultivators flew up from all sides of Chu Family Village—the cultivators from Blood Hand and several other families also gathered around.
Looking at the flight directions on both sides, they are converging on the south side—that's where the mountain archway is located, and also near the Rotten Peach Peak where Wujialing is temporarily staying.