Chapter 220: Behind the Scenes
However, the Tu family also suffered heavy losses this time. In the three attacks and the final decisive battles, the Tu family lost a total of seven Foundation Establishment masters, six others were seriously injured and five were slightly injured.
Due to his serious injuries, six seriously injured Foundation Establishment Martial Arts warriors died seven days later; five slightly injured Foundation Establishment Masters were unable to recover to their original martial arts level for some reason. Of course, this is a later story.
It can be said that although the Tu family achieved a vigorous victory and won the favor of the people of Tai'an City and also helped to establish the family image in Yunwu County, the Tu family suffered a major loss, so they could only lose their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.
Fortunately, Luosha Village has been entrenched in Luosha Mountain for more than ten years and has done all the activities of robbing families. There are many spirit stones and rare treasures in the warehouse, which has made up for part of the losses of the Tu family.
At night, the Tu family was in the house.
"The head of the family, the dispute between us and Luosha Village is very strange this time. What is certain now is that the person who kidnapped our Tu family to transport supplies yesterday was definitely not the second leader of Luosha Village. But who is the one who has a grudge against our Tu family and provoked our fight with Luosha Village. What is the purpose? Also, the powerful Jindan realm hidden in the secret is also very strange. The fourth brother was repeatedly plotted against, but when I arrived, the other party disappeared."
The events that happened in the past two days made Tu Xingxiang, the elder of the Tu family, very puzzled.
Tu Tiezhe, the head of the Tu family, looked solemn. It is a critical period for the rise of the Tu family, and no mistakes can be made.
If the Duanmu family can help support the eldest prince to ascend the throne, the Tu family will be the minister of the humerus in the future and will definitely be promoted to one of the four major families of Yunwu County and the country, second only to the Duanmu family.
Tu Tiezhe thought about it and could not think of which force the person behind the scenes was. The Tu family was backed by the Duanmu family, which is well known to everyone. If Tu family was to be moved, it would be equivalent to the Duanmu family.
At least, from the moment, no party has the strength or courage.
"Check it out, check it out carefully. I want to see who dares to make ground on our Tu family. In addition, Xingxiang, let's continue to set up the arrangements and strictly defend the inside of the Tu family during this period to prevent the people behind the scenes from making small moves. You five elders have worked hard this time and take turns to be on duty at night. If you find any abnormal movements and send a signal immediately, I don't believe that the six powerful people in our Tu family, the Jindan realm, cannot catch the person behind the scenes."
After two days of investigation, the Tu family still found nothing and had no clue at all.
Just as the Tu family members were all relaxed their vigilance, Xuan Yuanhao planned another major event.
At midnight, six Foundation Establishment disciples and twelve Marrow Cleansing Realm disciples were patrolling and walking within the Tu family with responsibilities.
"Why do I feel particularly sleepy tonight and have no energy?" said a foundation-building warrior in the lead.
"Brother Chen, could it be that you had a fierce battle with your sister-in-law last night?!" A martial artist in the Marrow Cleansing Realm joked that they were all children of the Tu family's direct descendants, and they were usually together without big or small.
"Go to you, it's big or small. Your sister-in-law is feeling unwell these days. Who am I going to fight?" Tu Chen said, and kicked the ass of the Marrow Cleansing Warrior.
"When Tu Chen said this, I also felt something was wrong today. I was a little tired and my mental strength was not so concentrated. Could it be that we had eaten something bad, right?" Other patrol personnel also agreed.
In fact, as they guessed, Qin Yayan and Zhou Ruozhu took advantage of the opportunity of helping in the kitchen to incorporate the medicine liquid that Xuan Yuanhao had refined in advance into the midnight snack of the eighteen patrol personnel. At this time, the medicinal properties were gradually attacking.
However, the patrolman in the Marrow Cleansing Realm happened to have something to do and didn't have time to have midnight snacks, so he just escaped the disaster.
Tu Chen was also alert. They all knew that there was a mastermind behind the scenes specifically targeting the Tu family. At this time, he felt abnormal and was about to turn around and report to the elder who was on duty in the family. He felt his body soft and fell down without any sense of consciousness.
Immediately afterwards, the other people fell to the ground one by one, and suddenly fell to the ground in a row.
The patrolman in the Marrow Cleansing Realm did not react for a moment and was stunned.
When he woke up and was about to shout loudly, he felt a phantom coming towards him, and then he no longer felt anything.
Xuan Yuanhao temporarily took the eighteen patrol personnel who had fallen to the ground into the small world inside, and then left quietly, returned to his simple residence and slept overnight.
Before dawn the next day, the angry voice of the head of the family Tu Tiezhe came from the meeting hall of the Tu family's inner house, "How is this possible? Six Foundation-building warriors, twelve Marrow-cleaning warriors, and eighteen living lives, how could it be that they disappeared from the Tu family out of thin air? There was no trace of fighting at the scene, and no clues left. Check it out for me, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they would have to find their bodies. In addition, every room of the Tu family had to search and everyone had to interrogate."
No wonder Tu Tiezhou was angry. A series of things happened recently, which caused the Tu family to suffer heavy losses.
First, eight Foundation Establishment Warriors and eight Marrow-Sweeping Realm warriors who transported materials were killed by the second invaders of the Rakshasa Village. Then, they had an inexplicable battle with the Rakshasa Village. Seven Foundation Establishment Warriors were killed on the spot, and six seriously injured people died without treatment. There were even more casualties in the Marrow-Sweeping Realm warriors. Late last night, strange things happened inexplicably, and six of the six Foundation Establishment Realm patrol personnel disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace of clue.
In a few days, the Tu family lost twenty-six Foundation Establishment Martial Arts warriors, and five martial arts realms fell from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Marrow Cleansing Realm due to injuries. The lost Foundation Establishment Realm warriors stood at the Tu family's foundation establishment brothers.
It's a challenge, a bare-hearted challenge.
Obviously, there are behind the scenes who deliberately target the Tu family.
Tu Tie Hand suddenly thought of a powerful spiritual sense he captured a few days ago late at night. Since then, disasters have occurred in the Tu family one after another.
On that day, the residences of the staff in the outer courtyard, including Xuan Yuanhao and five others, were searched and questioned one by one, but naturally nothing was found.
Yes, even the powerful people in the inner house of Jindan realm were unaware of it. How could these fellow staff members in the outer courtyard find any clues?
However, since this incident, the defense of the Xu family's inner house has become more stringent. Every night, two elders from the Jindan realm are arranged to be on duty. Sixteen Foundation Establishment Realm disciples and sixteen Marrow Cleansing Realm disciples are divided into two groups and take turns to serve at night.
In the following days, no abnormalities occurred.
Xuan Yuanhao is still waiting for a more suitable opportunity.
Xuan Yuanhao temporarily set up a small formation to isolate the spiritual exploration in his simple accommodation, and secretly discussed the next countermeasures with Qin Yayan and four others.
"Last time the Tu family wiped out Luosha Village, and emptied the treasure house of Luosha Village, and gained a lot. In addition, the Tu family accumulated and plundered themselves over the years, I think the Tu family's treasure house must have a lot of spirit stones and treasures. If we can emptied the Xu family's treasure house, we will definitely be able to severely attack the Tu family's momentum, affect the Tu family's next development, and even affect the court situation in Yunwu County."
When Bao Daqiong heard that he was about to rob the Treasure House Treasure House, he immediately became interested and said quickly: "Yuanhao, tell me your plan and we will cooperate with you to implement it."
"Yan'er, you and Ruozhu have a reason to go out in the past two days and find a way to contact Senior Brother Yiming. He should hide in Tai'an City to protect us secretly. Tell Senior Brother Yiming about our plan and ask him to help you solve it."
"Senior Brother Wu, then you will use the art of controlling fire to ignite the Tu Family Ancestral Hall. The Tu Family Ancestral Hall enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of the Tu Family throughout the ages, and is the most important place of the Tu Family. Once the ancestral hall catches fire, it will definitely cause a great response and attract the attention of most people."
"At that time, Yan'er, Ruozhu and junior brother Bao, I will first rush to the Tu family treasure house. After Brother Wu succeeds, he will also come to meet us immediately. We must empty the treasure house before several Jindan realm masters of the Tu family come back to their senses and evacuate the Tu family safely, otherwise we will be put in a very dangerous situation."
Xuan Yuanhao arranged his plans and tasks in all aspects, and arranged his retreat.
After all, the Tu family has six powerful people in the Golden Pill Realm. If one is not careful, it is very likely that the five of them will be put in danger. Even with the protection of the golden lotus and the small world inside, Xuan Yuanhao was completely unsure of retreating.
On another night, a powerful spiritual sense passed over the Tu family. Then, an aura that could only be emitted by the Golden Pill Realm appeared above the Tu family, as if he was rushing to go.
The iron-slaughter captured this spiritual consciousness and aura immediately, and together with the other five elders of the Golden Elixir, they went up to the void and prepared for battle.
"Forgive me, the head of the Tu family and all elders. I am a casual cultivator. I am in a hurry to rush to Tai'an City and fly from Guicheng. I have no intention of disturbing the Tu family. If you offend me, please forgive me." Jiang Yiming apologized immediately and explained the reasons.
"Because you are passing by, please leave Tai'an City quickly. Don't circle for too long to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings." Tu Tiezhe saw that the other party was also a powerful Jindan realm, but his martial arts realm was obviously lower than his. Since he could greet the Tu family openly and apologize in advance, he should not be the mastermind behind the Tu family's disasters one after another.
After all, the other party did not show any malice, and now he intercepted the other party and had to let the other party leave quickly.
Sure enough, Jiang Yiming accelerated his figure, flew in the air, quickly leaving Tai'an City, slowly dissipating.
The head of the Tu family and several elders returned to their respective positions, and the disciples who were urgently mobilized were disbanded on the spot.
In such a short time, Xuan Yuanhao had already sneaked into the periphery of the Wu family treasure house. After Wu Yan ignited the Tu family ancestral hall, he took advantage of the chaos to open the Tu family treasure house and looted all the spirit stones and treasures inside.
On the other hand, Wu Yan had already taken advantage of the chaos to sneak into a place more than a hundred meters away from the Tu Family Ancestral Hall and quickly used the fire control technique. He saw a wisp of faint fire light flying around the Tu Family Ancestral Hall. The fire went from small to large, and eventually turned into a fire dragon, covering the Tu Family Ancestral Hall.
Wu Yan, wearing Tu family guard clothes, ran towards Tu family treasure house while shouting: "No, put out the fire, the ancestral hall is on fire."
Wu Yan's voice and fire quickly attracted the attention of the head, elders and some guards of the Tu family. For a moment, the Tu family members ran to the ancestral hall, holding various buckets or basins filled with water in their hands.
Tu Tiexhou, the head of the Tu family, rushed to the scene of the ancestral hall as soon as possible. He saw the sound of a guard, shouting "It's on fire", but ran in the other direction.
Although Tu Tiezhe felt something was wrong, he didn't think about it in detail. After all, the first priority now is to put out the fire to avoid the destruction of the ancestral hall.
Just as the Tu family was busy putting out the fire, Xuan Yuanhao and four others easily knocked down four guards guarding the treasure house. When they were about to enter the treasure house, they found that the Tu family had a very strict defense of the treasure house. The warehouse was built with solid black gold iron and earth rock cloud stone, which was extremely sturdy. Even Jindan realm warriors could not break through the wall without making any sound.
Moreover, the treasure house has been locked, and even the lock is made of black gold and real iron. With the strength of Xuan Yuanhao and others, it is impossible to break the lock core.
Xuan Yuanhao had no choice but to take advantage of the situation. Since he couldn't attack, he could only do it.
Xuan Yuanhao quickly used the fire control technique to release all the Ziwei Tianhuo. Ziwei Tianhuo belongs to the emperor's fire, with the most yang and strong flame power and the destructive killing power. It is just right to melt the locks cast by Xuanjin and real iron.
Even so, because the Xuanjin True Iron is too hard and powerful, Xuan Yuanhao also spent a lot of time melting the lock core.
For Xuan Yuanhao and the others, every minute and every second are very precious.
Finally, after a few dozen breaths, the lock core was finally melted and the Tuber Family Treasure House opened.
However, just when Xuan Yuanhao and others were about to enter the Tu Family Treasure House to "rob" it, a new problem arose - the Tu Family Treasure House is shrouded in a formation, and if you want to enter, you must break the formation in progress.
In desperation, Xuan Yuanhao had to stop again and carefully study the formation, either completely breaking the formation, or discovering loopholes in the formation or reproduction gates and entering safely.
For Xuan Yuanhao, the most ideal method is of course to find loopholes or genitals and enter the formation with the momentum; therefore, once the formation is forcibly broken, the spiritual power around the treasure house will undergo a huge change, which will immediately alarm several powerful people from the Tu family in the Golden Pill Realm.
Fortunately, Xuan Yuanhao had a very advanced formation. In less than half a cup of tea, he had already deduced the formation's Shengmen and led everyone to easily enter the Tuber Family Treasure House.
The five people acted separately and quickly placed various items in the Tujia Treasure House into the storage magic weapon, making them very busy.
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On the other hand, with everyone's efforts to extinguish it, the fire in the Tu Family Ancestral Hall has been basically under control.
The slaughtered Tie Hand stroked the incident tonight and found strange things one after another.
First, a casual cultivator in the Jindan realm used the passage above the Tu family to disturb everyone; then the Tu family ancestral hall caught fire for no reason, causing a huge commotion. Even a guard was panicked and ran in the opposite direction while shouting.
Wait, the opposite direction, that's...
Tu Tiezhe immediately thought of the Turban family's treasure house. The mastermind behind the scenes planned a series of events and made such a big noise. The intention was not to burn the Turban family's ancestral hall, but to loot the Turban family's treasure house.
"No, we were hit by the enemy's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and we kept some people to continue to put out the fire, and the others rushed to the treasure house quickly." Tu Tiezhe realized that the big thing was not good, so he immediately arranged it and led the five elders to rush to the treasure house.
Seeing that the treasure house's indiscriminate guard fell to the ground and died, Tu Tie's palm stumbled; however, he also hoped that the treasure house's exterior wall and door lock were all made of indestructible mysterious metal iron, and it was impossible for the mastermind to break into the door without disturbing himself.
When he arrived at the gate of the treasure house, he saw that the lock core had melted and the door was already open, and Tu Tie's palm was cold. However, he still sent the formation to protect the treasure house. The formation was arranged by the Tu family several years ago by a formation master outside Yunwu County.
When he saw that the formation was unscathed, Tu Tie Hand finally let go of his heart. As long as the formation was still there, the treasure in the treasure house would naturally be safe and sound.
Tu Tiezhe took the five elders to open the formation and enter the treasure house. The six people were stunned. In addition to pouring some boxes and cabinets and some valuable items, all the spirit stones, gold stones, elixirs, magic weapons, martial arts, etc. that the Tu family had accumulated over the years and all the spirit stones, gold stones, elixirs, magic weapons, martial arts, etc. that had been plundered from Luosha Village were all looted.
Seeing this scene, Tu Tie Hand, as the head of the family, couldn't help but be distracted and roared loudly, "Who did it? Who did it? When I catch the person behind this scene, I must suck your tendons and peel your skin, so that you can't survive or die."
The Tu family’s treasure house was looted, which means that the Tu family’s roots were cut off. If a family does not have spiritual stones, magic weapons, martial arts, elixirs and other resources as support, it can be said that it is difficult to move forward.
This will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the Tu family, which is rising and trying to join the four major families of Yunwu County and the State. If this batch of treasures cannot be retrieved, the Tu family will most likely not recover from this.
Despite this, Tu Tiezhe deserves to be the head of the Tu family and a master at the sixth level of the Jindan realm. He quickly calmed down and immediately deployed countermeasures and remedial plans.
"The person behind the scenes first pretended to use the Tu family to attract our attention; then someone lit my Tu family ancestral hall while we were unprepared, and then took advantage of the time when we were busy putting out the fire to loot the treasure house. There may be more than one person behind the scenes. Among them, some are good at controlling fires, and some are good at breaking the formation, otherwise it would be impossible to easily enter the treasure house. So many materials can be taken away, which shows that the other party must have a large capacity of storage magic weapon. This shows that the identity and status of the person behind the scenes must be quite low. I did not notice the fluctuations in spiritual power just now, and the other party is extremely likely to be still in the pit.
Hidden in our Tu family, even if it is not in our Tu family, it is absolutely impossible to leave Tai'an City. If you continue to instruct, all the disciples will mobilize urgently, and the whole family will be martial law. Search every corner. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must dig out the person behind me. In addition, Lao Wu, you go to the city lord's mansion and ask the city lord to start martial law in the whole city from now on. Only in the city, you can only enter, not leave, and search from house to house. Anyone who is not Tai'an City must be strictly investigated. In addition, everyone in the Tu family must be strictly interrogated, especially those who are not from the direct disciples of this sect, and pay more attention to investigations."
I have to say that Tu Tiezhe's analysis was very accurate and his response measures were very appropriate. However, he ignored one thing that the enemies he faced were not ordinary people, but Xuan Yuanhao, who was extremely smart and had endless trump cards.
Chapter completed!