Chapter 223 The Xu Family Besieged by Northern Forces
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Knowing that Li Wanbao, who was going to the Valley of Trials, was carrying a talisman, the four foundation-building monks of the Xu family couldn't sit still. They have seen the power of that talisman. The two large formations arranged by Xu Ziyan were destroyed by that talisman, which shows its power. In this way, in the minds of the four Xu family monks in the foundation period, it has been determined that Xu Haoliang, Xu Ziyan and others may have died in the Valley of Trials, that is to say, almost all the elites in their family died in the Valley of Trials.
This consequence is very serious. If Xu Haoliang, Xu Ziyan and others really all died in the Valley of Trials, the Xu family will inevitably be in a fault situation. Even if they wiped out the Li family, Xiao family and Wu family. Even if they got the territory of Juque City, but they have the ability to defend Chapter 223 Can the Xu family live in the encirclement of the northern forces?
Not to mention being able to defend it, even if the Yang family in Nanlin City and the Zhou family in Canglang City don't come to grab their own territory, then the Xu family doesn't have any disciples to send out to manage it. Do you still have to take care of your own territory? Does the ancestral land always have someone to stay behind? Could it be that if you want to send Houtian's disciples out, they won't be killed by those small and medium-sized families within the sphere of influence of Juque City?
I'm afraid that in this way, without the Yang family of Nanlin City and the Zhou family of Canglang City taking action, as long as their ancestors fall, the small and medium families in the Northland will destroy the Xu family, not to mention the Yang family and Canglang of Nanlin City Will the Zhou family in the city watch from the sidelines?
Once the news of the death of Xu Haoliang, Xu Ziyan and other disciples in Trial Valley spread, it may be the beginning of the actions of the Yang family in Nanlin City and the Zhou family in Canglang City. They will first carve up Juque City. At that time, the Xu family could only watch helplessly, and then the Xu family's peripheral sphere of influence would be further reduced, and the Xu family could also only watch helplessly. Because the Xu family has lost the middle power, there are only four old men in the foundation building period and dozens of high-ranking hall masters and elders in the Qi refining period. It is impossible to compete with the Yang family in Nanlin City and the Zhou family in Canglang City. of.
Once the Xu family's sphere of influence is compressed, it will mean that the Xu family will lose a lot of resources if they encircle the Xu family. .
The four foundation-building monks couldn't sit still anymore. Xu Dingtian and Xu Dingyang stayed in the family to sit in town. The ancestors of the Xu family and Xu Haoran came outside the Valley of Trials and waited there with sad faces.
In the Valley of Trials, Xu Haoliang, Xu Ziyan and others searched carefully for four days. During the period, they really searched for a few people, and finally completed the search on the seventh day after entering the Valley of Trials, making sure that no fish slipped through the net. In the entire Valley of Trials, there are only disciples of the Xu family left.
Everyone didn't know what was going on outside, so they decided to take another day of rest in the Valley of Trials to recover from the loss and injuries of the past few days. Once out of the Valley of Trials, you will encounter battles, so you can show your peak strength. In the past six days, these disciples of the Xu family were indeed exhausted.
Not just physically, but mentally as well. Now that he knew that only his side was left in the entire Valley of Trials, his nerves relaxed.
Xu Ziyan arranged another talisman array to cover all the breath-adjusting people in it, so as not to be disturbed by the monsters in the trial valley when he was waiting for others to adjust their breath.
However, for them to take a rest here, it would hurt the ancestors of the Xu family and Xu Haoran outside the Valley of Trials. The two have been wandering outside the Valley of Trials for four full days, and their hearts have already sunk to the bottom of the valley. Now it is the seventh day of Trial Valley Dabi, and the two of them are going to wait here until night. If Xu Haoliang, Xu Ziyan and others don't come out today, they will give up here, return to the family, and discuss the loss of Xu's family. After the disciples, what kind of strategy should be adopted to the outside world. How did the two of them know that at this time Xu Haoliang and Xu Ziyan were still searching for the fish that slipped through the net of the three families in the valley.
At the same time, all kinds of information were continuously sent out from Zhongducheng. The Yang family in Nanlin City and the Zhou family in Canglang City are both ready for the expedition. Their first goal was Juque City, which used to be the Han family. Once the Juque city fell into the hands of the Yang family and the Zhou family, they would basically encircle the Xu family in the central capital.
And those small and medium-sized families are also in action. The subordinate families that originally belonged to the Yang family in Nanlin City and the Zhou family in Canglang City are naturally ready to go out with the Yang family and Zhou family. And those neutral small and medium-sized families, especially the small and medium-sized families that originally belonged to the Han family in Juque City, some were in a wait-and-see state, and some simply voted for the camp of the Yang family or the Zhou family. Even the originally dependent families of the Xu family were shaken in confidence and watched cautiously. The entire Xu family was in a precarious state.
As the sky gradually darkened, the complexions of the ancestors of the Xu family and Xu Haoran had turned gray. The hearts of the two people were already cold. They looked at each other, and then at the Valley of Trials. The ancestor of the Xu family said with a dark face:
"Well, let's go back"
"En." Xu Haoran nodded heavily. As a contemporary patriarch, he certainly knows what it means to lose a disciple in the Valley of Trials, and of course he knows that the road ahead of the Xu family will be full of thorns. However, what can be done if you know it, what you have to do is how to face it.
The two of them looked at the Valley of Trials sadly at the same time, and then quickly jumped up and flew towards the Xu family's ancestral land in the central capital city.
When everyone in the capital saw that only the ancestors of the Xu family and Xu Haoran had returned, everyone in the Xu family fell silent. Immediately, the news that all the disciples of the Xu family who went to the Valley of Trials died spread to all parts of the Northland.
Nanlin City.
Yang family.
Yang Rui sat on the top seat of the meeting hall, crushed the message in his hands, and laughed loudly:
"Hahaha……"
Yang Linglong, who was next to her, saw her father laugh happily, and guessed something in her heart, looked at her father happily and asked:
"Father, there is news from Zhongdu City"
"It's true that the disciples of the Xu family led by Xu Haoliang have entered the Trial Valley for seven days and have not come out again. The ancestors of the Xu family and Xu Haoran who have been waiting at the entrance of the trial valley have returned to the family, which shows that Xu Haoliang and those disciples of the Xu family You have stayed in the Valley of Trials forever. Hehe, Linglong, it seems that your wish will not come true, then Xu Ziyan has already died in the Valley of Trials."
Yang Linglong's face was full of unwillingness, regret, and inexplicably a little sadness...
Yang Rui stood up from his seat and shouted to everyone in the hall:
"Departure Goal Juque City"
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Canglang City.
Zhou family.
Zhou Ba stood on the high platform, and shouted to the disciples of the Zhou family who were all ready to go:
"Departure Goal Juque City"
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Zhongducheng.
Xu family.
In Xu Haoran's study.
The ancestors of the Xu family, Xu Dingtian, Xu Dingyang and Xu Haoran sat there, everyone's faces were full of unwillingness and grief. They have just made a difficult decision to abandon Juque City. Because it was the ancestor of the Xu family who went to sit in Juque City in person and defended it, and no one from the family went to manage it. Once the ancestor of the Xu family left, he would still be captured by Nanlin City and Canglang City. The result was that many of the Xu family died That's all for disciples.
This was a painful decision. Emperor Tai Xuanzong exterminated the Han family of Juque city and handed over the sphere of influence of Juque city to his Xu family, but the Xu family couldn't keep it. This must be a great irony. The direct consequence of this matter is that the sphere of influence of the Xu family will be continuously squeezed. The far-reaching impact is that many affiliated families that originally belonged to the Xu family will defect to the other side's camp, and the decline of the Xu family is inevitable. .
The order was spread from Zhongdu City, and the disciples who went to Juque City to receive the forces withdrew back, and Juque City changed hands within a day. Moreover, the Yang family of Nanlin City and the Zhou family of Canglang City reached an agreement to jointly manage Juque City, and then began to sweep away the peripheral forces of the Xu family in Zhongdu City. And the Xu family's peripheral forces have already received the family's order to gather those abandoned territories towards the central capital.
There is no way to do this, because the central capital is also very empty at this time. In this battle, in the Xu family's ancestral land, although all the disciples of the Li family, Xiao family and Wu family were wiped out, the Xu family also suffered many casualties. More importantly, a total of two hundred elite disciples of the family's Qi refining period died in the Valley of Trials. Naturally, the Xu family didn't know that nearly a hundred of the two hundred disciples in the Qi refining period had died, and there were more than a hundred elite disciples who were currently in the Valley of Trials.
As for the Houtian disciple who died in the Valley of Trials, the Xu family had nothing to regret. Because the previous Trial Valley Competitions were all competitions between disciples in the Qi Refining Period. The disciples of the Houtian realm only went in to pick herbs as a labor force. Therefore, the Houtian disciples who went to the Valley of Trials were all below the seventh floor of Houtian. The disciples above the seventh floor of the day after tomorrow all stayed in the family. These people are the seeds that are likely to break through the innate, and they are the future of the family. Naturally, they will not be sent to the Valley of Trials before they have grown up.
Because of this, the ancestral land of the Xu family in the central capital city at this time also has no disciples available, and the operation of the entire family is almost at a standstill. Therefore, on the one hand, in order to avoid greater casualties, on the other hand, disciples are also needed to replace those who died. Come do the family thing. The Xu family had no choice but to issue an order for all Xu family disciples to withdraw. The family also wanted to select disciples with some aptitude from those peripheral disciples, vigorously cultivate them, and see if they could fill in the gaps in the Xu family. If it can be cultivated, it will slowly regain its own territory. However, the four foundation-building monks of the Xu family also knew in their hearts that this was just a good wish, and the chance of it being realized was very small, and the decline of the Xu family was inevitable.
So, what are the Xu family disciples in the Valley of Trials doing now? It stands to reason that five days have passed since Xu's disciples adjusted their breathing, and Xu Ziyan and the others should have returned to the family long ago. But they still haven't returned, and the Valley of Trials formation is still operating intact. What made Xu Ziyan and others stay in the Valley of Trials?
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I can't do it anymore, I'm too tired and my arms hurt, everyone, I'm going to sleep
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