Just like that, the power center of the Dongfang family suddenly lost nearly half of its people.
Those who left were from the younger generation. The older generation would definitely not leave the Dongfang family. They knew very well that without the Dongfang family, they would be nothing.
Dongfang Chengwen actually didn't think about taking revenge on them, because he also understood that they had so few direct descendants and needed to rely on the strength of the side branches.
"Chengwen, it is true that you have gained power, but your direct lineage is small in number and you have no collateral lineage to assist you. How are you going to manage this family?" Dongfang Xiao asked.
Dongfang Lin immediately spoke.
"Second Grandfather, there are many branch families in the East Wilderness who were expelled for violating family rules. We can send a message to them and let them choose the right people to return to the main family."
These words startled Dongfang Xiao. He didn't expect that Dongfang Xiao would use this method to fill the vacancy left by the departure of the side branch.
This is indeed a good idea. Those who have separated from the family are eager to return to their main family. It can not only fill the gap in the family, but also recruit a group of people who support Dongfang Lin and his family. Why not do it?
"Well, this is indeed a good idea. What do you plan to do about your daughter's marriage to Tianshui Fairy Palace? The Elders' Hall has already agreed to this matter." Dongfang Xiao threw another difficult problem to Dongfang Lin.
But Dongfang Lin refused without even thinking about it.
"I'm sorry, I didn't agree with this matter from the beginning."
Having said this, Dongfang Xiao didn't know what to say anymore and could only sigh heavily.
"Hey! Okay, go ahead, but you have to think about the consequences." Dongfang Xiao said his last sentence and walked to the elders' seat and sat down.
Chapter 446 Siege (5000 words + 3300 monthly tickets plus)
There is no suspense about the Dongfang family. At least in terms of power, no one can reverse the situation.
Ye Liuyun and his second sister chatted until the evening and talked about many things. Ye Ningshuang knew that Ye Liuyun could not stay in the Dongfang family for too long, so she cherished the time she was still in the Dongfang family.
Around seven or eight o'clock in the evening, after Dongfang Chengwen took over the power of the family under the witness of the family elders, he came to Ye Ningshuang under the leadership of Dongfang Lin. He wanted to thank Ye Liuyun in person. Dongfang Dieyi and Dongfang Canglan also came.
"Shuang'er, you and brother Yun are still chatting. You siblings have such a good relationship. It feels like if no one interrupts you, you can chat for days and nights," Dongfang Lin joked.
When Ye Ningshuang saw her children and father-in-law coming, she quickly stopped talking with Ye Liuyun.
"Father, you are here. I haven't seen my younger brother for a long time. As soon as we meet, I have a lot to say." Ye Ningshuang said with a smile.
These words made Dongfang Lin and Dongfang Chengwen feel ashamed. After all, Ye Ningshuang really had not had a good life in all these years since she came to their Dongfang family.
"Liuyun, uncle is so grateful to you. Without you, our family would never have a bright future." Dongfang Chengwen bowed to Ye Liuyun with great gratitude.
Ye Liuyun would naturally not accept Dongfang Chengwen's luggage. After all, he was his sister's father-in-law, who was of the same generation as his father.
"Eh? No, uncle, there's no need. We are a family. If I don't help you, who else can I help? Actually, I was angry with you, but after thinking about it carefully, I realized that your family is powerless, so I changed a method and helped the direct descendants of your Dongfang family to take back the power." Ye Liuyun also said frankly.
Dongfang Chengwen was embarrassed when he heard this. To be honest, even he used to think that it was marrying up for the Ye family's daughter to marry into the Dongfang family.
After all, they are half a cultivating family, while the Ye family is just a mortal family. They had thought about it before, and finally agreed to the Beiming family's suggestion for Li Muyun's sake.
"Oh! I am so ashamed of your grandfather. I didn't do what we agreed upon back then." Dongfang Chengwen said with a wry smile.
When this was mentioned, Ye Liuyun became very curious.
"Uncle, let's not talk about anything else. I'm very curious. When did your four major families arrange the marriages for my sisters with my grandfather?" Ye Liuyun asked curiously.
Ye Ningshuang and the others didn't know about this matter. Anyway, it was decided before they were born. It happened a long time ago. It can be traced back to the time when Ye Feiwu was the Minister of Revenue of the Tang Dynasty.
When Ye Feiwu was about 30 or 40 years old, he received the envoys of the four major families on behalf of the royal family. After all, the four major families were the richest in the four major regions. The taxes they paid accounted for more than half of all the taxes in the Tang Dynasty. The court attached great importance to them.
The first family Ye Feiwu came into contact with was the Beiming Family, and then he established private contact with the other three families through the Beiming Family.
At that time, the Tang Dynasty had not yet been completely unified. It only had about two-thirds of its current territory, and some land in the four major regions was in the hands of other small countries.
After Ye Feiwu took the position of prime minister, he began to promote policies to attack those countries, big and small. After 10 to 20 years of efforts, the entire territory of the Tang Kingdom was returned to the Tang Dynasty. In other words, there were no other countries in this small world.
Ye Feiwu's power also reached its peak, but because of Li Muyun's incident, Ye Feiwu must have been secretly dissatisfied with the Li family. In addition, the emperor began to have some hostility towards him. In order to protect himself, he had to use the connections given to him to arrange a way out for their family and the Lin family.
Ye Liuyun basically knew what happened next.
After hearing Dongfang Chengwen's acceptance, Ye Liuyun didn't expect that his grandfather's arrangement had started so early.
"So, grandpa is now in Zhongzhou commanding the rebel kings of the four regions, right?" Ye Liuyun guessed.
It is not easy for the outside world to disintegrate the Li Dynasty in the secular world without the help of practitioners. The only way is to let them fight among themselves, consume the power of the Li royal family, and then give them a fatal blow in the end.
This is Ye Feiwu's method. He was able to become the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. His methods in the court are definitely beyond the reach of ordinary officials.
Not to mention that because of Ye Liuyun's elixir, he gained a lifespan of 200 years. Even now, Ye Feiwu still has a lifespan of 170 or 180 years, so he has plenty of time to play with them.
Because no one in the secular world or the royal family who knew Ye Feiwu existed anymore, even if he stood in the court openly, no one would know that he was Ye Feiwu.
"Well, he is in Zhongzhou. Your grandfather actually seized the opportunity. After we told him that the Jiutian Holy Land was in chaos and could no longer interfere with the direction of the secular world, he decisively chose to act." Dongfang Chengwen said.
But in fact, Ye Feiwu was about to forget all these preparations. It was Ye Liuyun's elixir that made him return to his youth and ignited the fire in his heart.
"This? No way, my grandfather, is he planning to overthrow the Li family and become the emperor himself?" Ye Liuyun guessed.
Dongfang Chengwen chuckled.
"It's hard to say. We can only go with the flow. Even if your grandfather doesn't take action, our four great families and the other four families will not allow the Li family to continue to control this small world." Dongfang Chengwen said.
There is no need to look at the other four families, they must be the four families that the Lin family married into. This makes exactly eight forces fighting against the Li court, which is exactly the same as the eight factions in the Jiutian Holy Land trying to seize power.
After Dongfang Chengwen talked with Ye Liuyun for a while, he left first. He had a lot of things to do. In the end, only Dongfang Lin, Dongfang Dieyi and Dongfang Canglan stayed.
"Uncle, I'm sorry." This was Dongfang Canglan's first words.
He just stood in front of Ye Liuyun with his head down. Ye Ningshuang beside him didn't know what to say about Dongfang Canglan. For a while, Dongfang Canglan didn't seem like his son at all. He stuck to those side branch children every day.
It's just a copycat, trying every possible way to please them.
To be honest, Ye Ningshuang looked down upon this kind of behavior and criticized him many times, but Dongfang Canglan responded to Ye Ningshuang with just one sentence, saying that he was trying to please them just to make their family live more comfortably with the son of the Dongfang family.
How should I put it? From Dongfang Canglan's perspective, he is the only male in the direct line of the Dongfang family of this generation, and his goal is to revitalize the direct line.
"Hey! Don't say sorry to me, kid. You should say sorry to your sister, mother and father. Your idea is too naive. Do you think that if you lower your status and curry favor with those people from the side branches, they will let you return to the center of power? Your idea is too naive."
"Also, even if you want to change the future, you shouldn't use your sister as a token of your allegiance. Even if you finally achieve your goal, what does it matter? There must be a bottom line for everything." Ye Liuyun didn't know how to evaluate Dongfang Canglan.
Compared with Nangong Mufeng, Dongfang Canglan is actually more mature, but Ye Liuyun does not like this kind of unscrupulous behavior.
Dongfang Canglan did not make any excuses. He just did it. It was not his character to make excuses.
Just like that, three days later... Dongfang Quyang and others left the Dongfang family with their families one after another. As for where to go, that was not a problem that Dongfang Lin and others needed to think about.
With half of the people gone at once, the Dongfang family suddenly became empty. Dongfang Lin and his son have been very busy these past few days. On the one hand, they have to give property to these families who have split up, and on the other hand, they have to contact the branches in the Dongfang area.
And Ye Liuyun didn't plan to stay any longer.
Before she left, she gave Ye Ningshuang a lot of pills, all of which were cultivation pills, life-saving pills, and other life-saving pills. Ye Liuyun also wrote down the instructions for use on a piece of paper, and repeatedly told Ye Ningshuang not to let too many people know about these pills.
Ye Liuyun did not tell Ye Ningshuang in detail about the specific effects of these pills, but only gave a general idea. It was not that she did not trust Ye Ningshuang, but that she could not completely trust the people of the Dongfang family.
Even if they were her sister's children, she couldn't trust them because she said she would treat them as descendants of the Ye family, but this was just Ye Liuyun's wishful thinking.
No matter how badly the Dongfang family treated them before, their sense of belonging still belongs to the Dongfang family, and it cannot be the Ye family. This is a very realistic issue.
Sometimes, the relationship between people depends entirely on the depth of the feelings. If the feelings are deep, even if people are not related by blood, they can become brothers who have shared life and death.
At the edge of Dongfang Island, Ye Liuyun and Jiang Wanshan disappeared into the horizon in an instant on a flying boat. Ye Ningshuang looked very sad, and she wiped away the tears that she could not suppress.
She knew that after this separation, she didn't know when they would meet again, but that was life. Even in this secular world, as they grew older and started their own families, the times they met would decrease.
Look at Ye Liuyun on the flying boat again. She had been standing at the bow, looking at the gradually shrinking Dongfang Island. She only withdrew her gaze when Dongfang Island was completely out of sight.
"Oh!" Ye Liuyun let out a long sigh.
"Master, where are we going next? Back to the cloud? Or somewhere else?" Jiang Wanshan asked.
Ye Liuyun pondered for a moment and then spoke directly.
"Let's go to Zhongzhou from the secular passage, and then go to Xichuan from Zhongzhou. I have to go see my third sister. After I have sorted out all the things at home, we will go back to the cloud."
Jiang Wanshan nodded, then drove the flying boat to increase its speed.
Actually, Ye Liuyun should have gone to see her grandfather first, but unfortunately, no one knew where Ye Feiwu was, and it was impossible for Ye Liuyun to conduct a thorough search.
So he could only go to his third sister who had a goal in mind first, then to his parents, and finally come to Zhongzhou to look for his grandfather's whereabouts when he returned to Donghuang.
During this period, Ye Liuyun basically treated the visit as a visit to relatives, and took the opportunity to check out the situation in various parts of the Tang Kingdom.
When passing through Zhongzhou, how should I put it? Zhongzhou is still relatively peaceful at the moment, except that the place where it borders Donghuang is heavily guarded, and the people from Donghuang are not allowed to come in, nor are the people from Zhongzhou allowed to go out.
The rest of the place was relatively peaceful. After all, the war had not yet spread to Zhongzhou, and those rebel kings were secretly negotiating terms with the court.
Most of the rebel kings demanded that the territory be divided and governed. What this meant was that they wanted the imperial court to separate Donghuang, Xichuan, Beiyuan and Nanling into separate areas and give the rebel kings a high degree of autonomy.
They were also willing not to fight for the throne, but how could the imperial court agree to such a thing? Once agreed, it would mean splitting the Tang Dynasty into five parts.
But the question is, what can you do if you disagree?
These rebellions seemed to have a tacit understanding. Once the imperial court dared to refuse openly, they would attack the Zhongzhou territory at the same time.
Although Zhongzhou is powerful, it is difficult to completely resist the simultaneous attacks of the four major domains, and the hope of winning is very low.
The imperial court has been leaderless until now, and government affairs have always been handled by Prince Jing Li Zhen, who is also very troubled. In addition, many ministers have suggested that Prince Jing succeed to the throne and officially preside over state affairs.
But Prince Jing is not a fool. Once he succeeds to the throne, the usurpation will be confirmed. What will be the consequences if it is confirmed? I am afraid that even Zhongzhou will be in chaos. Therefore, Prince Jing has been rejecting suggestions from all sides and trying to resolve the conflict.
Crossing Zhongzhou from Donghuang to Xichuan, even if Jiang Wanshan drove the flying boat at full speed, it would probably take several days to land.
At this time, Lin Aoxue in the Taixu Secret Realm started fighting with others again, and met a direct disciple. As soon as they met, the other party asked to fight with Lin Aoxue.
During this period of time, she has fought with several direct disciples and has never lost a single battle. The direct disciple she fought with today is very strong and has a special physique. He is a direct disciple of Tianqiong Peak and his name is Xuan Hao.
He himself possesses the Purple Thunder God Body, a rare thunder physique. Those who practice thunder with this physique are several times stronger than ordinary thunder spirit root cultivators.
This person is probably the strongest opponent in Lin Aoxue's opinion at the moment. He is stronger than Xuantian because he entered the sect earlier than Xuantian and is much older than Lin Aoxue. He did not participate in the last Nanling event because of his age limit.
Don’t ever think that the team sent by the Supreme Induction Sect at the last Nanling event represents the peak combat power of all the peaks of the Supreme Induction Sect. Obviously not. They only represent the strongest combat power among the new generation.
He is considered the top one among this group of people of similar age, but if you include the younger generation of disciples, it’s a different story. Those who are in the Four Extreme Secret Realms under 500 years old are considered the younger generation.
"Hahaha, it feels good, it feels good, Junior Sister Ye, you are the strongest opponent of your generation that I have ever seen."
"Ninth level of thunder." A wild young man with thunder all over his body was using powerful thunder magic to attack Lin Aoxue.
The power of his thunder was extremely fierce. Purple lightning fell towards Lin Aoxue in the space, and the ground collapsed and mountains collapsed wherever it went.
But Lin Aoxue had already activated the Feathered Immortal Shadow to resist the thunder magic.
This Xuan Hao is not only powerful in thunder magic, but also has extremely strong physical combat ability. This guy, like Ji Chunling from Yun Sect, is also a practitioner of both magic and body.
Moreover, his physical body is definitely stronger than Ji Chunling's. His physical strength has also reached the level of the Four Extreme Secret Realms.
Even though thunder magic was useless against Lin Aoxue, physical attacks still caused her to suffer several heavy losses. Just now, she was accidentally hit by a punch from the opponent. Although she blocked it in time, she was still a little embarrassed.
"Senior Brother Xuan Hao is really powerful. Senior Brother, are you sure we want to continue fighting? Excuse me, but we have been fighting for five minutes with no winner. If we continue, we will have to fight for our lives. Do you think it is necessary for us to go all out today?" Lin Aoxue and Xuan Hao confronted each other across a canyon.
Xuan Hao had a very enjoyable battle with Lin Aoxue, but when he glanced around, he found that there were many people watching. So he had to consider the consequences. Would it be good for him if he and Lin Aoxue fought here and both of them suffered losses?
He currently has no confidence in defeating Lin Aoxue. Even if he can win, it will probably be a miserable victory.
"Well, okay, let's stop here for today. I look forward to further fighting in the future." Xuan Hao thought about it and decided to give up for now. This place was not safe and not suitable for a big fight.
After saying that, the two of them simultaneously turned into a trail of afterimages and ran in opposite directions, trying to escape the sight of those around them.
This is very disadvantageous for Lin Aoxue. Every time she fights with others, she will put herself in danger.
However, the real trouble finally found Lin Aoxue. After taking the invisibility pill, Lin Aoxue came to a more secluded area.
But just as she was about to rest and recover her strength, something unexpected happened. Purple light suddenly rose up all around her and quickly gathered together to form a formation that enveloped the area where Lin Aoxue was.
The moment the formation was completely closed, Lin Aoxue immediately narrowed her eyes.
"Formation? What a huge formation. It seems that they know I am in this area and are planning to use the formation to isolate this place and then kill me." Lin Aoxue guessed correctly.
As the formation rose, five Four Extreme Secret Realm monks from different factions appeared at a commanding height.
The five of them scanned the area with grim looks on their faces. They were sure that Lin Aoxue was in this area, but they just couldn't see her.
“Haha, Senior Sister Xuanmiao, please come out. We know you are in this area. This area has been sealed off by us using a Xuan-level top-grade formation. Unless you have the cultivation level to the mysterious realm, it is impossible for you to escape from here.” A woman who looked somewhat seductive said with a smile.
Lin Aoxue took a deep breath, then removed her invisibility and appeared in their sight.
"Which side are you from, the Anti-Immortal Alliance?" Lin Aoxue asked.
The person who could create such a powerful formation to deal with her obviously wanted to kill her, so it was unlikely that he was someone from the Supreme Induction Sect.
"We're finally out. It's good that you know it in your heart. There's no need to explain it clearly. Today, this place is the burial place of you and one of us. Only one of us can walk out alive." The leading woman smiled grimly.
The moment Lin Aoxue appeared, they began to prepare. They predicted Lin Aoxue's retreat route, set up a formation along his retreat route, and then trapped him.
Chapter 447: Trump Cards (5000 words + 12 Fire Tickets)
