Chapter 338: A female genius with amazing background, she is really ambitious
"We have finally arrived at Jiwang Mountain."
Over a steep mountain range, Li Dingguo rode on the back of a large golden eagle circling in the air, looking at the extremely peculiar terrain of Jiwang Mountain below, and said to Wan'er who was riding on the back of Da Meng nearby, "The terrain of Jiwang Mountain looks like layers of circular ravines and mountains."
"It really is worthy of being the place where the ancient Shennong and Houji first cultivated and planted grains. It is full of spiritual energy."
"There should be a medium-sized spiritual vein underground, so the spiritual energy can gather here without dispersing."
Li Dingguo had seen many spiritual sites of various levels, and after a brief observation, he was able to make an accurate judgment.
I have read an introduction about Ji Wang Mountain in an ancient book. This time, Li Dingguo and Wan'er rode two big golden eagles and brought two big goshawks directly to the east. It was easy for them to find their destination, Ji Wang Mountain, without having to ask anyone for directions.
This kind of circular mountain range was the first time that Li Dingguo saw it with his own eyes, proving that what was recorded in the ancient books was true.
"Brother, let's ask Da Jin and Da Meng to lower their flying altitude and find our target as soon as possible to avoid any unknown accidents."
Wan'er said in an anxious tone.
So far, this is one of the few times Wan'er has been anxious.
The last time she was so anxious was six years ago in the dilapidated temple in Dingbian City, when Li Dingguo had a stomachache and was seriously ill and dying.
She was so scared at that time that she didn't sleep for three days and three nights. Her tears ran dry. She tried every way to take care of Li Dingguo, hoping that he would get better.
Fortunately, Li Dingguo was lucky enough to survive the disaster with his strong physical talent. He was pulled back from the brink of life and death by Wan'er, so he was able to save his life.
Now she was so anxious, it was obvious that her nature as a foodie had kicked in. She wanted to seize the Lingtao Garden as soon as possible and have a good feast.
She had never eaten any acquired spiritual fruit before, and she was already looking forward to it.
"Well, we need to find our target as soon as possible."
Li Dingguo nodded after hearing this, and instructed Dajin and other level 5 spirit birds, "Dajin, Dameng, Daqing, Xiaoqing."
"All of you descend to an altitude of three thousand feet and search with all your strength for any place where there are fluctuations in the aura of the formation."
"Or we can find a mountain road that is passable by carriages and horses."
"The Tian family has its roots here. They will definitely use a large number of carriages and horses to transport supplies in and out from time to time, and they will definitely build a mountain road leading directly to the outside world."
Having had a similar search experience deep in the Qinling Mountains, Li Dingguo was very calm and confident.
“Chirp!”…
As soon as Li Dingguo finished speaking, several level five birds hissed softly, then swooped down quickly, stopped after reaching a height of three thousand feet, and continued to circle over the huge mountain range.
For a level five spirit bird with top talent in this area, it is not a big deal as long as it can determine the approximate location and find the target's trace.
About half an hour later, the big Jin made a discovery and swooped down rapidly. The other three big birds followed closely behind and landed directly on the flat ground at the end of the mountain path.
The front looks like an ordinary mountain range, and there is nothing unusual at first glance.
After Li Dingguo and Wan'er jumped down from the back of the golden eagle, they immediately used their spiritual thoughts to carefully inspect the area.
"Sure enough, there is a formation fluctuation here."
"This formation is a third-grade upper-grade five-element formation."
As a master of primary array formations, Li Dingguo could easily distinguish the aura of the primary five elements array. He said to Wan'er, "If this array was set up by Shennong Houji himself, it means that he is also an ordinary practitioner."
"This shows that the Chinese race at that time was in the lowest level of living environment. It is estimated that they did not even have any advanced cultivation techniques. Some basic formations and cultivation techniques were still figured out by themselves."
Li Dingguo did not think too much about the history of the origin of the Chinese race, which was already untraceable. He could not figure it out anyway, so he said to Wan'er, "This is a third-grade upper-grade small five-element wheel formation, which has the ability to reproduce endlessly."
"This is also the reason why this formation has been able to survive until now and has not collapsed."
"This formation has some flaws, which is why the Tian family accidentally discovered it. Then, through research on the formation, they were able to successfully enter it and occupy this large spiritual land."
From all indications, the Tian family, including Tian Shenglan, does not have any formation masters.
Otherwise, they should have repaired this small Five Elements Wheel Array long ago. They would not have allowed the flaws formed over the years to remain.
This will not only have a great impact on the power of the formation, making it difficult to guard this place, but it may also be discovered by Qi Refining Realm practitioners from outside.
"Wan'er, Dajin, be prepared for a surprise attack."
Li Dingguo said immediately, "This third-level superior formation is very easy for me to crack."
"In order not to alert the enemies inside, I will open a gate in this protective formation and will not break it."
After he explained everything clearly to Wan'er and the four spirit birds, he began to calm down, used his mind to communicate with the colorful formation rune in his sea of consciousness, raised his hand and shot out a stream of five-colored light towards the air more than ten feet away in front of the left.
"Buzz..."
After a slight muffled sound, in the place where the five-colored light sank, there was a flash of colorful light for a while, and then a colorful light door about three meters square appeared out of thin air.
"Let's go in!"
Li Dingguo shouted to everyone and stepped into the light gate first.
“Swoosh!”…
Wan'er and Da Jin reacted very quickly. Their figures flashed and they rushed into the colorful light gate one after another.
As soon as the figures of the two people and four birds disappeared, this gorgeous colorful light gate also disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared.
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"Homeowner!"
"The final result of our Tian family's junior talent competition has come out."
"The top ten talented boys and girls are queuing up in the central square."
Tian Li, the patriarch of the Tian family, stood in the meeting hall and reported to the head of the family, Tian Shenglan, respectfully.
Today, the Tian family has become a well-known and powerful force, and various rules have long been established.
This time, Tian Shenglan's distribution of acquired high-quality spiritual peaches could not be done as she did twenty years ago, where she would give them to whoever she liked or who was loyal.
If one wants to convince everyone and put an end to the small thoughts of the Tian family members, the best solution is to hold a competition for the younger generation of talents in the family, select ten winners, train them vigorously, and qualify them to eat the acquired top-grade spiritual peaches.
This is also normal operation.
The more powerful a force is, the more likely it is to encounter such situations.
If you want to avoid internal conflicts, you must follow the rules.
Unlike twenty years ago, Tian Shenglan had an amazing adventure and started from scratch and could do whatever he wanted.
Twenty years ago, after Tian Shenglan obtained thirty top-grade spiritual peaches in the secret realm, she directly gathered the ten people she trusted most and distributed two acquired top-grade spiritual peaches to each of them. She then transformed some maids and servants with ordinary talents into monstrous geniuses!
The female shopkeeper who was killed by Wan'er at Yumen Ferry was Tian Shenglan's personal maid. She was loyal to her and was trained by Tian Shenglan with all her heart, and grew up quickly.
With the help of these extremely loyal maids and servants, Tian Shenglan was able to quickly take control of the Tian family.
Then she spent twenty years transforming an ordinary family into a prominent merchant family.
But the situation of the Tian family today is very different from what it was twenty years ago.
The Tian family is now wealthy and powerful. After twenty years of rapid development, there are hundreds of core members of the Tian family, including some talented young boys and girls.
For long-term planning, Tian Shenglan decided to publicly distribute the top-grade spiritual peaches. This time, he could only adopt a method that would convince everyone. Ten places would be decided through a competition among the younger talents of the clan.
Each of the ten family geniuses who win the competition will be rewarded with two acquired top-grade spiritual peaches.
I have to say that Tian Shenglan is very ambitious.
This is an extremely rare and top-grade acquired spiritual fruit, and yet he is willing to give out so much of it to distribute.
Under normal circumstances, with Tian Shenglan's hard work, it would be natural for the Tian family to become the leader of Shanxi merchants within ten years.
A leader of a force with great courage is definitely a decisive factor in the development and growth of this force.
"Okay!" Tian Shenglan, the beautiful woman sitting in the main seat, stood up suddenly and shouted to the two assistants standing beside her, "Mingzhu, Mingyue, the two of you take the two peach wood boxes containing ten high-quality spiritual peaches each, and follow me to the big square."
"Li Dingguo, who is sworn enemies of us big Shanxi merchants, has led hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the pass, conquering cities and territories with great force, as if he were in an empty land!"
"According to reliable information collected from various parties, Li Dingguo is a hidden dragon. The Fuxing Army he created is truly terrifying."
"For the sake of our Tian family's future, we must try our best to speed up the pace of our Tian family's development so that we can compete with the other party in the future!"
"Humph!"
She snorted coldly, looked at the dozens of core members of the Tian family in front of her, and said, "In our Tian family's spiritual peach garden, the more than 2,000 middle-grade spiritual peaches produced by the thirty acquired middle-grade spiritual peach trees will be fully ripe in three days."
"With so many precious acquired middle-grade spiritual fruits, our Tian family's strength will be able to increase several times this year."
"I want to see. After several years of silent development, our Tian family has produced about 2,000 level 4 warriors. Add to that the nearly 10 current level 5 masters. What will Li Dingguo use to fight our Tian family?"
"For thousands of years, the Ming Dynasty has not seen an army composed of thousands of Qi Refining Realm warriors. Our Tian family will fill this gap."
"When the time comes, our Tian family may be able to compete with Li Dingguo for the world!"
Even Li Dingguo did not expect that Tian Shenglan was so ambitious.
Her biggest dream is to be like the great empress Wu Zetian!
It’s true that Tian Shenglan wants to become an empress.
She was not just imagining things, she was really confident.
If Li Dingguo had not discovered the Tian family's secret in advance, it would have been possible to do so with the help of the family's large number of acquired spiritual peaches.
For all practitioners in the Body Refining and Qi Refining stages, the effects of acquired spiritual fruits are truly tremendous.
Acquired spiritual fruits are not just cabbages. Even an acquired spiritual fruit of the highest quality can be described as priceless.
Even in the ancient mythological period, a large number of small and medium-sized forces could not even see one post-heavenly grade spiritual fruit.
You know, that was in the ancient mythological period.
In the late period of ancient myths and legends, the entire Chinese nation at that time owned nothing more than a fire date tree, which was a medium-grade acquired spiritual root, and a five-colored ear of grain, which was a high-grade acquired spiritual root.
As for other innate spiritual roots and acquired spiritual roots, they are all controlled by the major forces of all races.
It is conceivable how powerful the foundation that Tian Shenglan possesses now is.
Judging from the future development potential of the Tian family, it is not a dream for Tian Shenglan to emulate the great empress Wu Zetian.
Of course, this is based on the premise that Li Dingguo had not discovered her and the Tian family’s secret so quickly.
"Congratulations, Patriarch!"...
After Tian Shenglan finished speaking, dozens of core members of the Tian family at the scene showed joy on their faces and congratulated her loudly.
"Well, from now on we need everyone to work together and work hard for the rise of our Tian family."
Tian Shenglan waved her hand calmly and said, "We should go to the family's central square as soon as possible and distribute these acquired high-quality spiritual peaches to the talented younger generations of the family."
"Only if these talented younger generations grow up as quickly as possible, our Tian family will be able to compete with Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army in the future and destroy this new force that is extremely hostile to us big Shanxi merchants."
"As for the next few years, let Li Dingguo and his Fuxing Army fight the Ming Dynasty to the death, with both sides suffering losses."
"After three to five years, our Tian family will be able to clean up the mess."
I have to say that Tian Shenglan's vision and shrewdness are both outstanding.
If things develop normally, this would definitely be a good strategy to reap the benefits while others are still working on it, and it is absolutely correct.
Unfortunately, she doesn't know yet that her luck is bad. The great fortune she possesses is not enough to bear such a great blessing today, and a powerful enemy has already come to her.
"Oh!"
When Tian Shenglan, leading dozens of core clan masters, was striding happily out of the meeting hall, the half-open copper-clad wooden door in front of them was knocked away by a blow, and the huge hall turned into fragments that flew away in the sky!
"Dong dong..."
As a huge dark yellow bell with a diameter of ten feet appeared, mysterious and magical bell sounds continued to ring!
The magical bell sound enveloped everyone on the scene in an instant. Sound waves that were specifically designed to kill and injure the cultivators' souls were transmitted directly into their sea of consciousness!
"No!"
"ah!"……
This sudden dark yellow bell emitted extremely powerful sound waves.
Most of the Tian family's Qi Refining Realm practitioners here, including three great masters with the fifth-level mid-stage cultivation, were caught off guard. They didn't even have time to utter a complete scream before their souls were destroyed by the mighty bell sound, and they fell dead on the spot with blood gushing from all their seven orifices!
The only people from the Tian family still alive at the scene were Tian Shenglan and two personal maids in the late fifth stage.
This was because a seal that suddenly appeared from Tian Shenglan's body blocked the critical strike of the bell, allowing the three of them to remain safe and sound.
The other dozens of core members of the Tian family who were in the Qi Refining Realm had all died!
"My natal divine weapon?"
"Or a seal?"
Li Dingguo succeeded in his surprise attack and killed most of the Qi Refining Realm enemies with his all-out attack, but he was shocked by the life-defending artifact on Tian Shenglan's body.
It’s not that he hasn’t thought about whether Tian Shenglan, who has amazing luck, has a life-saving divine weapon to protect her.
I just didn’t expect that the aura of her life-saving artifact was so powerful!
Although the aura emitted by this artifact is not of the innate level, this seal artifact is more powerful than all the acquired artifacts he has seen. It even far exceeds the innate top-grade artifact Cornucopia that Li Dingguo now collects in the Human Emperor Cauldron!
This is absolutely outrageous.
An acquired divine weapon is actually more powerful than an innate top-grade divine weapon?
Even in ancient myths and legends, there are only a few acquired top-grade magical artifacts.
Considering the legend that coincides with this acquired artifact, the answer is self-evident.
"what!"
"A young genius with a large bell image? You are the damn leader of the Renaissance Army, Li Dingguo!"
"How could you come here? Could it be... Could it be that Xiaomei, who was in charge of Yumen Ferry, was killed by you?"
Tian Shenglan, who was just full of pride, was almost driven crazy when he saw that his core members, who were masters of the Qi Refining Realm, were almost wiped out by this great master who suddenly showed up.
Fortunately, her cultivation was strong and she didn't really go crazy. Looking at the dark yellow bell of the attacking young genius, it was clear to her that this sudden and powerful enemy was none other than Li Dingguo, the leader of the Fusion Army!
After Li Dingguo entered the Pass, he often used his own natal Dharma image to kill the enemy, and the military killing formation he personally presided over was manifested by a large dark yellow bell.
These circumstances could not be concealed from the various major forces that were paying close attention to him.
Tian Shenglan was certainly not completely ignorant of Li Dingguo's powerful killer weapon, so it was not surprising that she guessed the enemy's identity at once.
"Li Dingguo, you deserve to die!"
"Today I will smash you to pieces to avenge the deaths of my people!"
"Fantianyin! Go!"
"Smash this evil thief to death!"
Under the circumstances on the scene, one of the two people will inevitably die here today.
Tian Shenglan was furious, and with his mind fully activated, he manipulated his own divine weapon, the Fantian Seal, which he had obtained through an encounter, to become more than ten feet in size, and with unparalleled power, he smashed it down right in front of Li Dingguo!
With her own cultivation at the peak of level five, activating her innate divine weapon Fantian Seal which had already unlocked four seals, she didn't believe that this little thief Li Dingguo would be able to contend with her!
According to rumors, Li Dingguo is a very talented person, but he is too young after all. His current cultivation level is only at the peak of the middle fifth level, which is far inferior to Tian Shenglan.
(End of this chapter)
