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After Zhou Chun and his companions reached the outskirts of Tuyun Ridge, Zhou Mingde commanded his mount, the Fire Divine Jackal, to halt. After taking a moment to collect his breath, he exhaled forcefully and bellowed, “Tuyun Ridge’s Guo Family, generation after generation you have received the grace of Green Lotus Temple. Yet now you betray the Senior Sect, show no signs of repentance, and your crimes must be punished!”
Before the echoes of his shout had faded, he clasped his hands toward heaven and declared, “Today we are here by decree of the Senior Sect, tasked with the annihilation of your clan!”
Though the Cultivation World operates on the principle of the survival of the fittest, all matters still require a justified cause.
Even the Zhou Family’s previous extermination of the Jiang Family was done under the pretense of avenging the murder of a Foundation Establishment Elder of the Zhou Family.
This time, in attacking the Guo Family of Tuyun Ridge without any personal grudges, they had to resort to the pretext of vanquishing rebels on the orders of Green Lotus Temple.
In this way, although they themselves were the ones taking action, everyone in the Cultivation World would know who truly intended to eliminate the Guo Family.
This freed the Zhou Family and other clans from bearing the infamy of wanton slaughter.
On Tuyun Ridge, upon hearing Zhou Mingde utter the words “annihilation of your clan,” all the cultivators of the Guo Family went pale, with many of the lower-leveled cultivators revealing fear in their eyes.
It had only been a few years since the Jiang Family was wiped out by the Zhou Family.
As a family that had friendly relations with the Jiang Family, many cultivators of the Guo Family had visited the ruins of the Jiang Family to pay their respects to their old friends.
Now, hearing those who had slaughtered the Jiang Family speak of annihilating the Guo Family, how could the cultivators of the Guo Family not change color?
Guo Tong, the Supreme Elder of the Guo Family, was no exception.
A flash of panic crossed his eyes, but he quickly suppressed the fear in his heart, gritted his teeth as if he had made a decision, and then shouted loudly, “Taoist Friend Zhou, Guo has a question for you. If my Guo Family were to abandon our sect’s residence now and move our entire clan to another country, could you spare my Guo Family from death?”
When he spoke these words, Guo Tong’s heart was naturally bleeding.
The reason they had chosen to pledge allegiance to the Tianjing Sect was that their family’s sect residence was in Lingzhou, and to ensure the future development of their family, they had no other choice.
If they had known this day would come, it would have been better to simply abandon their residence in Lingzhou from the start; perhaps they could have received another location from Green Lotus Temple as a new sect residence.
But there is no medicine for regret in the world; having made their choice, they had to bear the consequences of their mistakes.
Zhou Mingde could certainly empathize with Guo Tong’s current state of mind.
After all, almost a century ago, the Zhou Family also made the wrong alliance in a war between major powers and had to flee their homeland to settle in a foreign land.
Unfortunately for the Guo Family, they were not the Zhou Family; they lacked the strength of the Zhou Family, and their timing to flee was too late.
Therefore, in response to Guo Tong’s question, Zhou Mingde fell silent for a while before speaking in a complex tone, “The only option given in the decree I received is the extermination of the Guo Family.”
As Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun spoke these words, they both vaguely realized the intent of Green Lotus Temple.
Although they had come to attack the Guo Family of Tuyun Ridge by the command of Green Lotus Temple, so as not to bear the stigma of unjust killing,
the fact remained that they were the ones taking action, and the families of the cultivators they attacked and exterminated would surely seek vengeance against them as their primary targets.
Therefore, if they showed mercy today, it would be they and their families who would suffer in the future.
More importantly, once their hands were stained with the blood of the families under the banner of Tianjing Sect, the likelihood of them being accepted by Tianjing Sect in the future would greatly diminish.
However, even with this realization, Zhou Chun and the others had no other choice.
Now they were like an arrow drawn to its fullest on the bow; they had no choice but to release it.
It was just as Zhou Mingde often said, in the power struggles between major forces like Tianjing Sect and Green Lotus Temple, a small family like the Zhou Family could only drift along, pushed by the currents, with no chance of breaking away.
Sadly, Guo Tong had not seen through this, or perhaps he had but, finding himself in such a situation, had no other choice.
His complexion first turned deathly pale, then he flushed with a surge of blood, his eyes nearly splitting with rage as he shouted, “Very well, very well, since it has come to this, don’t blame my Guo Family for fighting to the bitter end with you!”
“Let’s fight them!”
“Fight!”
“Fight, fight until it’s fish dead, net broken!”
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One by one, the Guo Family cultivators shouted in anger, their emotions surging en masse.
At this moment, they all knew they had no second path to take; even surrender wouldn’t be accepted.
If that was the case, they were certainly determined to take a piece of flesh from the enemy even in death!
Since Guo Tong didn’t conceal these sounds, Zhou Chun and the others in the sky outside could hear the rallying cries from the Guo Family cultivators atop Tuyun Ridge.
The desperate cries full of indignation were hard to bear for those who, like them, came from cultivation families.
As the saying goes, the death of the rabbit grieves the fox; misfortune of one’s own kind is keenly felt.
The Guo Family of Tuyun Ridge is like this today; who’s to know if their own families won’t be the same someday?
In the struggle between great powers, these cultivator families had no control over their fate.
Unless, one day, their families could also become a major power like the Huangfu Family in the Great Zhou Kingdom, boasting a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator of their own!
For a moment, many actually felt sympathy for the Guo Family, and their will to fight greatly diminished.
Seeing this, Zhou Mingde’s heart sank, and he immediately said in a loud voice, “Fellow Taoists, now that each of us serves our master, there’s not much to say. If you don’t want to implicate your families and bring calamity upon your descendants, please give it your all and let no one escape!”
Hearing these words, the others’ expressions changed subtly, their thoughts quickly snapped back to reality, and their rationality restored.
Indeed, there’s no turning back once the bow is drawn; since they had already taken the orders to come to Tuyun Ridge, they had no route of retreat.
If they didn’t annihilate the Guo Family, Green Lotus Temple would surely investigate their negligence in combat, and it wouldn’t be surprising if they were even accused of collusion.
With these thoughts, everyone began to clamor and their fighting spirit was reignited.
“Then let’s begin!”
Seeing that the morale was usable, Zhou Mingde waved his hand and directly issued the command to attack.
Consequently, everyone unleashed their Divine Skills and began to strike at the Guo Family’s Mountain Protection Array.
Zhou Chun did the same as when they attacked the Jiang Family, immediately summoning his three Spirit Pets, the Silver Lightning Python, Golden Armor Rock Turtle, and Golden Winged Tiger, allowing them to freely attack the Formation.
He himself threw the Golden Rainbow Sword, sending out streaks of golden Sword Qi toward the hazy yellow Array Protective Shield.
Attacking the Mountain Protection Array required a lot of patience and endurance unless you could break through in a short time.
The Guo Family of Tuyun Ridge might not compare to the Jiang Family, but their gate’s Mountain Protection Array was also set up by a skilled Array Master, able to withstand the continuous fierce assaults of several Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators.
Here, including the Fire Divine Jackal, there were only three individuals with Purple Mansion-level combat power, while the defenders also had Guo Tong, a Purple Mansion Cultivator.
Therefore, it was impossible for them to break through the Guo Family’s Mountain Protection Array in a short period; they had to continuously attack to deplete the Array’s power.
Luckily, they were not in a rush this time; one day was fine, three days were fine, even ten days were fine.
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The primary purpose of Green Lotus Temple’s action wasn’t to eliminate the Guo Family and other families, but to force the Tianjing Sect to enter the war.
That way, they could openly dispatch people to participate in the war.
As the Guo Family of Tuyun Ridge was being besieged, several other large Lingzhou cultivation families were also encircled, and various Communication Talismans desperately flew towards the Tianjing Sect’s gates like sheets of paper.
Yu Jinghua, the Deputy Sect Leader of Tianjing Sect, was also troubled after receiving these distress signals.
He originally thought that Green Lotus Temple wouldn’t dare to go too far, especially since Tianjing True Person had given him some guarantees when he was drawn to Tianjing’s side.
But now the direction of the situation made him feel as if he had been deceived.
“Perhaps there’s another possibility, that he never cared about the life and death of these families from the start. He might even want to use Green Lotus Temple’s sword to clear out these unwanted weeds, in order to cultivate truly loyal new seedlings in the future!”
A bold conjecture suddenly emerged in Yu Jinghua’s mind, and then he was stunned.
