Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

Seeing this scene, Chen Tian was quite surprised.

In the cultivation world, many sects and families would set up guardian illusion formations to protect their own mountain gates, but these guardian illusion formations usually only had one layer.

But even with this one layer, the daily maintenance cost was extremely high, easily costing thousands of immortal crystal stones. Accumulated over a year, it was a huge expense for ordinary sects.

But this Cao family was good, actually setting up seven layers of illusion formations outside the mountain gate, overlapping each other to form a huge formation.

And to maintain these seven illusion formations, the immortal crystal stones needed each year were truly an astronomical figure. Chen Tian believed that even the peerless wealthy families like Hailan Sect and Longting Pavilion probably couldn't afford it.

However, this was enough to prove how terrifying the power of this Cao family was.

Although he felt a little curious, Chen Tian didn't care too much. After all, the purpose of his trip was to find the Nirvana Pill, and he didn't care about other things.

Thinking like this, Chen Tian identified the direction and shot towards the south of this plain.

Although outside the illusion formation, it was a range of overlapping mountains, but breaking through the illusion formation, what came into view were all plains full of exotic flowers and plants, and even the spiritual energy here was much richer than the outside world.

At the southern end of the plain, there was a high ground that bulged high, and its appearance was like a turtle standing upright with its head raised.

And the Cao family's mansion was built on the back of this turtle high ground, high in the south and low in the north, and hundreds of buildings of various sizes were built accordingly.

At first glance, these buildings didn't have anything special, but looking down from the air, it could be found that the arrangement of these buildings actually formed a huge 'Bagua' (Eight Trigrams) pattern.

And the Cao family's main courtyard was located in the very center of this Bagua, which was a huge courtyard with four horizontal and four vertical sections.

The Cao family's main courtyard was simply decorated, but in its central area, there was a huge black hole about a hundred feet wide. It could be said that this black hole was the real center of the entire Cao family, and those buildings were built around this black hole.

Although the black hole was not big, it was extremely deep, like a huge mouth suddenly cracked on the earth. Looking down from the edge, it would give people a feeling of dizziness, as if being stared at by some huge demon.

At this time, six people were already standing in order around the black hole, and the positions they stood in were also very particular. If you observed carefully, they corresponded to the Big Dipper in the sky.

However, the Big Dipper has a total of seven positions, so outside of these six people, there was still a vacant position in the southeast direction, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

These six people could be divided into two factions. Among them, three people, led by Cao Fangcun, were all wearing blue long gowns, obviously they were all members of the Cao family.

The other three were a middle-aged beautiful woman wearing a yellow embroidered skirt with fluttering ribbons, an old man in gray with white hair but bright eyes, and a child wearing only a red bellyband, like a three-year-old child.

Cao Fangcun frowned slightly, pondered for a while, and said with a graceful demeanor: "Elder Ning, don't worry, please be patient for a while. Don't worry, the person I'm looking for will definitely not disappoint you."

"Hehe, I think your Cao family is really becoming foolish from seclusion. With the six of us joining forces, is there any place in this world we can't go? Why do you have to go to so much trouble to find another person? Moreover, I heard that the person you're looking for only has a Ninghai realm early stage cultivation base. With such strength, how can he compare with us? I think you're recommending this person to join out of selfish motives."

Faced with Cao Fangcun's persuasion, the old man in gray did not appreciate it, but continued to ridicule.

After hearing this, a trace of suspicion could not help but appear in the eyes of the others.

They also couldn't figure out why Cao Fangcun would so strongly recommend a person with only a Ninghai realm early stage cultivation base to join, and was quite respectful to this person in his words. This was really a thought-provoking move.

It should be known that adding one more person meant one more person to share the treasure.

If this person's strength was equal to everyone else, then everyone would have no complaints, but what made them unhappy was that the person Cao Fangcun recommended had a much lower cultivation base than everyone else. How could they be convinced?

They would only think that this person could sit and wait to share the treasure by passing himself off as one of the group, and when encountering danger, they would have to bother to protect him. Not only would he be of no use, but he would also drag down the overall strength.

Thinking of this, a trace of suspicion could not help but appear on the faces of the middle-aged beautiful woman and the child wearing the red bellyband.

In fact, not to mention them, even the other two Cao family members were surprised by Cao Fangcun's decision.

In their eyes, Cao Fangcun, as the young master of the Cao family, had always been a wise and steady person. He never made mistakes in his work and was respected by all the clan members, but why was he suddenly confused at this moment?

If it was an ordinary trivial matter, they wouldn't say anything and would let Cao Fangcun fool around. However, today's matter was the most important event in the Cao family's history of more than ten thousand years, and it was an important moment that they had been preparing for for a long time. They would never allow any carelessness.

Therefore, when Cao Fangcun proposed to invite a Ninghai realm early stage cultivator to join, the Cao family's internal affairs were also strongly opposed. But unexpectedly, Cao Fangcun, who was usually kind to others, was incredibly resolute at this time, and actually overcame all objections and finally decided on this matter.

Although they had not yet seen the person Cao Fangcun invited, they were all indignant about it in their hearts, feeling that Cao Fangcun's lifelong reputation would be ruined by this.

But even if they were angry, Cao Fangcun was after all their young master, the future head of the Cao family, and they would not allow anyone to slander him.

Therefore, after hearing the old man in gray speak disrespectfully, a Cao family elder standing on Cao Fangcun's left hand side immediately snorted coldly: "Elder Ning, you should know that our young master never makes mistakes in his work, so please be polite when you speak, otherwise, don't blame Cao Cuo for being rude."

"Hehe, never makes mistakes? That's only in the past! I'm afraid that from now on, your young master will become a laughing stock. Tsk tsk, I really feel sorry for your Cao family."

The old man in gray didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, and still didn't forget to ridicule.

Hearing his words, the faces of the two Cao family elders sank, as if they were extremely angry.

But at this moment, a powerful aura suddenly shot from the distant sky!