Immortal Palace Longevity

Although it has received the "care" of the Yan family, Wangyue City is not the Yan family's sole authority after all, but is jointly run by three Jindan elders.

Everyone belongs to the same sect, so at least it is fair on the surface.

Under such circumstances, many of the monks from the Yan family had to go to the front lines, not to mention Liu Yu, an outsider.

So this time Liu Yu was inevitably assigned a somewhat risky mission, to sneak attack on a mineral vein of Hehuanmen on the border of Jingzhou, demanding that it be destroyed so that it could not be mined normally.

He had already been mentally prepared for such an arrangement.

This kind of task may be very risky for ordinary foundation-building monks, but for Liu Yu now, it may not be so.

With his current strength, as long as he doesn't encounter people like Hehuan Liuzi, or falls into siege or ambush, the risk is actually very small.

All confidence comes from one's own strength. If he wants to escape, if the Golden Core cultivator does not take action, there will not be many people who can keep him during the foundation building period.

Under the scanning of spiritual consciousness, all the scenery is so clear, the grass, soil, trees and rivers are clearly visible in the spiritual consciousness, and even the insects buried deep under the ground are clearly visible.

Except for the monks who were performing this mission, no monks from Hehuanmen were found nearby.

This made Liu Yu breathe a sigh of relief and regain his consciousness, but the string in his heart still did not relax.

Along with him on this mission were eight other foundation-building monks and seventy disciples in the middle and late stages of Qi refining.

It is worth noting that among the foundation-building monks who performed this mission, there were two "acquaintances" that Liu Yu was relatively familiar with.

They were Zhuang Shilong who came to Wangyue City with him, and Xie Junjie who exchanged the Huang family's alchemy inheritance.

The two people seemed to be familiar with each other, and they were still talking while running. Liu Yu turned his head and looked over while thinking, but Xie Junjie happened to look over as well.

The two of them looked as usual and nodded to each other with a smile on their face. The monk who didn't know it thought that the relationship between the two was very good, but then naturally turned his head, but the smile on his face was gone.

"It's best not to offend Liu, otherwise..."

Liu Yu's eyes narrowed slightly.

However, it is difficult for ordinary monks in the middle stage of foundation building to endanger his life. The most noteworthy person in the team is not these two people, but a tall man with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, wearing dark blue clothes.

In the spiritual sense, this person is the person with the strongest spiritual pressure that Liu Yu has ever seen besides Elder Jindan. The aura around him is extremely deep, and he is even stronger than Li Butong.

This made him feel a lot of pressure, and he thought that he had no chance of winning against him. After all, his realm was too far apart.

"Zhou Zhuofeng"

This person is one of the Three Heroes and Four Heroes of Yuanyang Sect, ranking fourth.

Not only has his cultivation reached the peak of the late foundation building stage, but he is also a Leilinggen monk, and his reputation is far-reaching and his strength is incomparable.

They are the most powerful group of monks during the foundation building period. Their status in the Yuanyang Sect is even higher than that of the leader Zhuang Ziling. They are an outstanding representative of the sect's foundation building monks.

"Even monks like Zhou Zhuofeng have been sent out. It seems that the sect attaches great importance to this mission."

Liu Yu's eyes flashed with deep thoughts. Although there were only nine Foundation Establishment monks in this mission, they were very powerful.

Including Zhou Zhuofeng, there are three monks in the late stage of foundation establishment, four monks in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and only himself and one other person in the early stage of foundation establishment.

The average level of cultivation is considered high in the foundation building period, and they are all sect monks with good roots and excellent magical weapons. There is no problem in easily defeating a team of foundation building monks.

Although the ordinary foundation building team also consists of nine people, most of them are in the early to middle stage of foundation building, and not all of them are sect monks. The actual combat strength is uneven and far from comparable to this.

In order to prevent being discovered in advance, the seventy-nine monks landed fifty miles away from the target, and then continued on foot, with very few conversations during the period.

While Liu Yu was vigilant and thinking, the trees and grass gradually became sparse, and the green in the distance began to decrease, followed by a yellow wasteland dotted with sporadic green.

As far as the field of vision can be seen, there are two ordinary hills more than a hundred feet high, and there is a fairly wide valley between the two hills.

In the second half of the Youshi period, the sun was only shining brightly. With the eyesight of a cultivator, one could clearly see miners queuing up to hand over today's harvest, then collect food and return to their shacks to rest.

"Amethyst Mine."

Approaching the mission target, Zhou Zhuofeng paused and waved to signal everyone to stop.

"Use the terrain to hide and prevent being discovered by the Hehuanmen monks."

"We will launch a surprise attack at midnight when the enemy cultivators relax their vigilance, and strive to succeed in the first attempt."

"If anyone is accidentally discovered by the Hehuan Sect monks, he will be dealt with strictly according to the sect's rules and will not be lenient!"

Zhou Zhuofeng stared at the valley for a while, then turned around and gave instructions lightly.

As one of the Three Elites and Four Heroes, he is highly valued by the sect's senior leaders, and he is the strongest in the field, so there is no doubt that he will be the sole leader.

When an order is given at this time, it is natural for everyone to obey.

"Yes, Senior Brother Zhou (Uncle Zhou)."

Regardless of whether they were monks in the foundation-building stage or disciples in the Qi-refining stage, they all accepted the order suddenly, and then each found a place to hide.

Liu Yu also jumped onto a leafy tree, picked a thick branch and sat cross-legged.

A ray of spiritual consciousness enters the storage bag and checks his magic weapons, spiritual weapons, talismans, talismans, etc., to make sure they are all in familiar places, so that he can quickly take them out at a thought.

The main purpose of the sect's mission this time is to destroy the mine as much as possible, kill as many monks and miners as possible, paralyze it and make it unable to operate normally, and it will be unable to mine normally for at least ten years, causing losses to the Hehuan Sect.

The raw amethyst from the amethyst mine can be refined into a kind of refining material called "Firefly Amethyst" after complex refining.

The price of Firefly Amethyst is not low and the sales volume is very good. It is a good auxiliary material for refining top-grade and top-grade magic tools. As long as a small amount is added during the refining process, it can make the fusion of other materials smoother, and the spiritual power will run much more smoothly in it.

This mine is not small, and the amount of raw amethyst ore mined is very considerable. Refining it into Firefly Amethyst and then selling it into spiritual stones can bring a considerable amount of income to the Hehuan Sect every year.

Its importance is not much different from that of the Bingliu Spiritual Medicine Garden of the Yuanyang Sect. If it can be paralyzed, it will definitely be a big blow.

However, unlike the Bingliu Spiritual Medicine Garden, this place is only 180 miles away from the gateway of Jingzhou, "Tianqiong City". With the speed of the mid-stage foundation-building cultivators, they can arrive in less than half an hour.

Tianqiong City and Wangyue City are located at the edge of Qingjing Continent, facing each other from the north and south, and are of similar size. The Jindan elder of Hehuan Sect is also in command in the city.

So we must fight quickly, otherwise we will definitely fall into an unfavorable situation. The elders sent Zhou Zhuofeng, probably for this reason.

Liu Yu thought silently, and was ready to run away immediately if the situation was not good.

However, everything has its pros and cons. It is precisely because the purple crystal mine is too close to Tianqiong City, and the front battlefield and various resource points need manpower, that the number of Hehuan Sect cultivators here is not large.

According to the information sent by the hidden man in Hehuan Sect, even when the situation was the most tense, there were only nine foundation-building cultivators and seventy or eighty Qi-refining cultivators stationed, and now there will be fewer, not more.

Of course, even if there are fewer people, it would be best if we could catch the enemy cultivators by surprise and gain a first-mover advantage. The purple crystal mine is not light, so there will be no shortage of various sentries.

It is easy to be discovered during the day, but at night we can get closer, which is more beneficial to our side.

As time goes by, although the sun is very unwilling, it still has to sink into the horizon, and the last ray of afterglow also disappears completely.

The starry sky tonight is particularly dim, the bright moon is nowhere to be seen, and the sky is darker than before.

"A dark and windy night is a good night for killing."

The dark vision is beneficial to our side. The 79 cultivators who are carrying out the mission are waiting quietly. At this time, they have no mood to talk. Most of them take out their magic tools and wipe them silently.

They all know that a fierce battle is inevitable tonight!

"The mission begins, and a quick battle is a quick decision."

When the midnight arrived, Zhou Zhuofeng's words reached the ears of every cultivator in the woods, and then a burst of rustling sounds rang out.

"Yes!"

The deacons and disciples of the foundation-building stage all obeyed the order, then walked out of the woods and onto the wasteland, heading towards the valley between the two mountains, aiming directly at the purple crystal mine.

The foundation-building monks opened the way ten miles ahead, and the Qi-refining monks steadily advanced ten miles behind. Seventy or eighty figures approached the purple crystal mine silently.

"Uh ah"

Small screams were heard from time to time in the wilderness, but they disappeared immediately before they could spread further.

These were the sentries arranged outside the mine, but unfortunately they were only at the Qi-refining stage. Because the mine was too close to Tianqiong City and had never been attacked in recent decades, they relaxed their vigilance.

Although these Hehuan Sect monks were well hidden, they had nowhere to hide under the careful search of the foundation-building monks. Some monks even died without knowing how they died, and had no time to send messages.

While removing the sentries and steadily advancing, the Yuanyang Sect monks slowly approached in the night, from the initial fifty miles to the range of twenty miles.

At this time, everyone was on one of the hills, looking down at the purple crystal mine in the valley.

There were only a few lights in the mine, which could not dispel the thick darkness at all. It was still silent, which meant that the Yuanyang Sect had not been discovered.

Nodding to each other, several foundation-building monks of the Yuanyang Sect did not hesitate, and slowly advanced towards the mine according to the previous rhythm.

Twenty miles, sixteen miles, thirteen miles, ten miles!

Approaching the mine within fifteen miles, it means that it has completely entered the sight of the Hehuan Sect monks. As long as the enemy monks set up sentries on another hill, they can easily detect the Yuanyang Sect.

Although there were nine foundation-building monks who cleared the sentries, they were powerless to the sentries on the other hill. They could only bite the bullet and move forward. The later they were discovered, the better.

"Enemy attack!"

From fifteen miles to ten miles, although the Hehuan Sect monks were slack because of the long-term comfort, they finally discovered many Yuanyang Sect monks.

After all, seventy or eighty people are too conspicuous, and simple invisibility can't hide under the Sky Eye Technique.

"Ah!"

With a long whistle, the sentry on another hill finally discovered this group of "ill-intentioned" monks and issued a warning to the mine in time.

The silent night sky was broken by this long whistle, and then seven or eight white lights quickly flew towards the mine.

"Not good, sound transmission."

Zhou Zhuofeng, Liu Yu and other foundation-building monks quickly reacted and knew that they had been discovered.

"Take fifteen disciples to quickly clear the sentries outside, and leave no disciples of the Hehuan Sect outside. Come back to join after the task is completed."

Since he had been discovered, Zhou Zhuofeng quickly adjusted his strategy.

Continuing to hide was just a deception, so he simply ordered the fifteen disciples to kill the sentry post, while the remaining monks approached the mine openly and at full speed, no longer sneaking around to suppress their speed.

Needless to say, when he was giving instructions to the disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, Liu Yu, Xie Junjie, Zhuang Shilong and other eight foundation-building monks had already taken out their magic weapons and turned into various kinds of escaping light and moved forward at full speed.

Ten miles is too short for the foundation-building monks who control the magic weapon. Only a quarter of half an hour has passed and the time is approaching.

Unfortunately, the early warning from the Hehuanmen sentry post finally worked. Before Liu Yu and others approached, the light red mask covering most of the mine had gradually brightened.

The color changes from light red to pink and gradually to dark red.

Liu Yu frowned slightly. He didn't need to think about it to know that someone was operating the formation with all his strength, making the formation that was running in a low-power state run at full power, and its power began to recover.

Although the eight Yuanyang Sect foundation-building monks had various thoughts in their minds, the movements of their hands were not slow at all. Before the escape light fell, they had already taken out the best magic weapon and blasted it towards the formation without hesitation.

From the sentry warning to the approaching attack, not much time actually passed. It could be seen that not all the Hehuanmen foundation-building monks had arrived yet, and only three magic weapons were out to stop the attack.

The Yuanyang Sect's foundation-building monks have a relatively high level of cultivation, and the monks who performed this task were all above average in strength, and only two of the eight magic weapons were blocked.

The remaining six top-quality magic weapons wiped out the obstacles of many Qi Refining Stage monks' magic weapons and spells, and bombarded the pink light shield.

“Bang bang bang”

Six loud bangs in a row completely broke the silence of the night and spread in the wilderness.

The power of the formation has not fully recovered, and the red mask trembled after the continuous bombardment. Six "pits" suddenly appeared on the surface, and the area of ​​the pits was dim and nearly transparent.

Inside the formation, a charming female practitioner wearing pink gauze and a charming face was operating the formation. Her face turned pale when she saw this scene. However, after all, she was a foundation-building monk who had experienced many battles. She knew that her life and death were now at stake. At the critical moment, the Yuanyang Sect monks must not be allowed to break the formation.

Otherwise, life and death will be in the hands of others, and given the relationship between the two sects, there may be no chance of survival.

Without hesitation, the enchanting female cultivator sprayed a mouthful of essence and blood on the array plate, and fired dozens of spells in succession in order to restore and maintain the array.

This place is not far from Sky City. She believes that as long as she persists with her formation, reinforcements will surely arrive and the current predicament will be solved.

Outside the formation, Liu Yu and others saw that the effect of the blow was significant, and without hesitation controlled the magic weapon to turn back and accumulate strength. At the same time, they lowered the escape light to increase their strength. The two magic weapons bombarded the formation at the same time, hoping to break through quickly.

Our strength is definitely better than that of the Hehuanmen monks. As long as the obstacle of the formation is removed, it will be easy to complete the task.