Great Xia World, outside the Longmen Demon Capital Branch.

"Have you really decided to quit?"

Lu Jiang and Mu Zihan stood opposite each other, he looked at Mu Zihan, who lowered his head and bit his lip, silent, and his brows furrowed deeply.

Half a year ago, he and her relationship was confirmed and they became lovers.

"I'm sorry, Ajiang," Mu Zihan's voice trembled slightly after a long silence, "I am a member of the Mu family after all, and I can only obey the call of the family." ”

“……”

Lu Jiang clenched his fists, and the green tendons on the back of his hands burst out, but he couldn't say half a word.

He is also from a family, although due to various reasons, the Lu family has basically merged into Longmen and has become one of the very few ancient heirloom families that "abandon the dark and turn to the light", but the Lu family is still a family after all, and he can understand Mu Zihan's current situation.

Mu Zihan joined the Dragon Gate as a child of the family because of some intertwined interests, for Great Xia, no matter how special and important the Dragon Gate itself is, for her, it is just a semi-official organization.

To put it bluntly, although she joined Longmen, Longmen's responsibilities can only be regarded as a job for her, and the Mu family is her home, although this family is very large, it can still be regarded as a "family".

For a person who can give up his current "job" and his family can give him a better future, it is self-evident which is more important, his family or a job.

It's just that what Longmen represents is not an ordinary job after all, but a judge who wants to overthrow the corrupt order of the current cultivation world, and the Mu family where Mu Zihan is located is not an ordinary family, it is the strongest cultivator family in Great Xia at present.

As the strongest family in the entire Great Xia, although it has not torn its face with Longmen, it is also impossible for the Mu family to surrender to Longmen, once it surrenders, it means that in the war against many families, Longmen has basically laid a victory.

As for peaceful coexistence......

One of the original intentions of the establishment of the Dragon Gate was to destroy the family system in the cultivation world, and unless one party submitted, there could be no real peace between the Dragon Gate and the family.

And once Mu Zihan obeyed the dispatch of the family, left Longmen, and returned to the Mu family, it would mean that she was on the opposite side of Longmen.

There will be no more possibilities between her and Lu Jiang.

“…… I understand your situation and decision, and I will arrange for the relevant departments to review all your behaviors during your tenure in Longmen," Lu Jiang's voice was a little dry, "If there is no problem with the results of the review, you can resign." ”

"Well, thank you, Team Leader Lu," Mu Zihan nodded, holding back the tears oozing from the corners of his eyes, and leaned over and bowed slightly, "I'm sorry for you." ”

"Don't you ask what you're going to do if there's a problem with the review?"

"No need," Mu Zihan shook his head, "I haven't done anything to be sorry for Longmen during my time in Longmen, so I have a clear conscience, so naturally there is no need to worry." ”

"I hope so."

Coldly dropping a sentence, Lu Jiang turned around and walked into the branch building behind him.

Mu Zihan squatted on the ground, buried his face deep in his knees, and let out suppressed sobs.

……

In the Great Xia world, the Mu family, a dark and hidden, quiet room filled with a biting chill.

"Ancestor, why did you suddenly call Zihan's child back, her talent is very average, and it is difficult to become a big weapon if she stays in the family, if she puts it in the Dragon Gate, she may be able to ...... at a critical moment."

A burly middle-aged man with a square face stood outside the quiet room, through the door, and spoke respectfully to an old man with a white beard and a withered body in the secret room, but he was interrupted only halfway through.

"That child's talent is indeed not very good, but her real role is definitely not to become a shadow buried in the dragon gate," the voice from the quiet room was old and weak, like a candle in the wind, "She has a far more important purpose than being a shadow." ”

Although the voice in the quiet room was old and weak, mixed with one or two weak coughs from time to time, the burly middle-aged man standing outside the quiet room did not dare to be disrespectful in the slightest.

This old man, who is described as withered and has a weak breath, is named Mu Changgeng, who is the oldest ancestor of the Mu family today, and was also a figure who has overwhelmed an era one hundred and fifty years ago.

At that time, the Xizhou Cross Sect was crusading eastward, and wanted to use the holy army composed of 300,000 believers to fight in the family's civil war, and the unprecedentedly weak Great Xia bit off a piece of flesh.

At that time, the families in Great Xia were fighting, the regime was shaky, and the overall strength was extremely weak, and the Cross Sect saw this opportunity and wanted to break the myth of the undefeated dragon of Great Xia.

However, the high-level members of the family at that time knew in their hearts that although the family was about to fight the dog's brain, as long as there was a transcendent Dao Sect, no matter how weak the state of the Great Xia cultivation world was, the Eastern Crusade of the Cross Sect was only killing itself.

What everyone didn't expect was that just when the Holy Army of the Cross Sect was approaching the border of Great Xia, the patriarch of the Mu family, who had just stepped into the realm of the Nine Heavens, left a suicide note and rushed to the border with almost all the elite disciples of the Mu family.

In that battle, most of the three hundred elite disciples of the Mu family were killed in battle, two of the three clan elders of the Nine Heavens Realm were killed in battle, and the contemporary patriarch Mu Chang Geng broke through the battle and slashed the two Nine Heavens and the seven Eight Heavens of the Crucifixion Holy Army.

The Crusader Holy Army came with great momentum, but before they even crossed the border, they were broken in the back, and the remnants rolled back to Xizhou in ashes.

Although the Mu family suffered heavy losses in this battle, it also established an unparalleled prestige in the territory of Great Xia, especially Mu Changgeng's breakthrough to the Nine Heavens Great Perfection, and he relied on his strong strength to forcibly support the crumbling Mu family.

After more than ten years of recuperation, the Mu family has naturally become the strongest family in Great Xia.

It's just that no matter how amazing he is no matter how amazing he is, after all, he is still one step behind, although he has stepped into the Nine Heavens Great Perfection at the age of sixty, but since then it has been difficult to save, and he has not been able to touch the threshold of the Ten Heavens.

Now that his limit is approaching, his qi and blood are exhausted and decayed, and his vitality is lost, and there is basically no possibility of further progress.

Of course, even if he is already a remnant of fire in the wind now, once his strength completely explodes, looking at the world, except for the three Venerables of the Ten Heavenly Realms who are high above, I am afraid that only the current Dao Sect Leader Yi Daozun has the ability to suppress him.

"Ignorant of the Underworld, I don't know what you mean by Old Ancestor......"

Mu Mingxiao, the contemporary patriarch of the Mu family, stood outside the quiet room with a respectful tone.

"You don't have to worry about this, you just need to bring all the family members, including Mu Zihan, to the old man, remember, as long as it is a person with the blood of my Mu family in his body, no matter where he is, he must be summoned back, and no one can be missing."

Mu Changgeng did not answer Mu Mingxiao's question, but only ordered in an indifferent tone.

“…… The juniors obeyed. ”

Mu Mingxiao saluted and retired to the quiet room, turned around and left, within a radius of ten miles, and there was no more life.

In the cold quiet room, the old man who described the withered body was covered with thick frost, and the breath of life on his body was suppressed to the limit.

Not only him, but the entire ashram was completely covered with frost several feet thick, not only cold, but also without the slightest light.

The chill here could freeze an Eightfold Heaven Realm cultivator alive in a short period of time, but it was the best means he could use to slow down the loss of qi, blood, and vitality and prolong his lifespan.

But in the battle on the border of Great Xia at the beginning, he was really seriously injured, and the 300,000 holy army cooperated with the Nine Heavens of the Cross Sect and the Eight Heavens powerhouses to form a battle formation, and the power was so great that it almost covered the sky and the sun.

Even if the two clan elders had already used their lives to impact the battle array, even if he broke through in battle, even if there were strong people from other clans rushing to help in the later stages of the battle, he would eventually pay a huge price.

even pulled out his bones raw, and turned his foundation into an earth-shattering killing power.

Being able to survive to this age after being injured like this, even if it is to delay the passage of life with the help of the 10,000-year-old Xuan Ice that was fortunately found from the bitter cold land of the extreme north, it is already an extremely amazing thing.

It's a pity that although Wanzai Xuanbing can prolong his life, it is not an elixir of immortality after all, with his current state, within three months, the limit will come.

Sitting cross-legged on a stone platform, the shepherd Geng stretched out a thin palm covered in thick frost, and gently stroked a stone slab in front of him, on which was a blood sacrifice method.

"I'm sorry...... The path had been opened, but I didn't have the strength to go there, so I had to do it...... Sorry ......"

Stroking the slate that he had obtained by chance a few years ago, Shepherd Geng let out a murmur that only he could hear.

……

Great Xia World, Dongyue Taishan, Pengxuan Cave Heaven.

It was still the pavilion standing in the middle of the waterhole, and in the clear and exciting sound of the white waterfall, Gu Yunze smiled and threw a sunspot into the chessboard in front of him.

"Smack-"

The sound of the chess pieces falling on the board sounded, but the sunspots did not stop on the chessboard, but went straight into the chessboard, entered the small space that came with it, and entered the three-dimensional black and white array.

"Admit it."

Throwing out the chess pieces, Gu Yunze smiled and said.

"Well, Gu boy's chess skills are getting stronger and stronger, and he is really a genius."

Daoist Xuanhua tried his best to keep his little face tight, so as not to show the loss of losing chess on his face, which would make him look very unkind to his predecessors.

"It's just a fluke."

Gu Yunze waved his hand to tidy up the chessboard, and the black and white chess pieces flew out and fell back to the flag box.

"If nothing else, the old ghost of the herd family should be about to start."

Picking up the milk tea at hand and taking a sip, Xuanhua said.

He didn't seem to have the consciousness that he was five hundred years old at all, and even called an old ghost to Shepherd Geng, who was only about half his age.

"Huh...... Calculate the time, it's almost over, if he doesn't do it, his body will probably not be able to hold it anymore," Gu Yunze picked up the tea cup in his hand and took a sip of the emerald green tea soup, "In fact, it was a bit surprising that he could endure it until now." ”

"Perhaps, this decision is still a little difficult for him after all," Xuanhua said vaguely as he chewed the caramel pearls in the milk tea, "If he had made a decision earlier, he wouldn't have dragged it out like this." ”

"Now he can only say that he can barely breathe a sigh of relief by relying on the ten thousand years of Xuan Ice that Poor Dao left in the bitter cold land of the extreme north, as long as he leaves that ice room and makes a move, he will disperse that last breath."

"One chance is enough, after all, only if you have the correct mastery of the method, the blood sacrifice is actually not a very laborious thing," Gu Yunze's illusory figure narrowed his eyes slightly, and the corners of his mouth had an unexplained smile, "Especially, when the blood sacrifice is for others." ”

"A generation of Tianjiao, will they still choose that path in the end? What a pity......"

"When the old ghost of the Mu family is in high spirits, he is also a generation of heroes, and he has some heroic looks, if he really embarks on this road, it is indeed a pity."

After throwing the finished milk tea cup into a spatial crack, Xuanhua took out a brand-new, steaming cup of milk tea from another crack.

Although they said that they were sorry and regretful, Gu Yunze and Xuanhua's eyes were deep, and they couldn't see the slightest regret.

After all, since the road ahead has been opened for Blue Star, someone has to go up and make a trip, right?

In the trajectory of the Destiny Copy, the reason why Jiang Shaohan was able to become a pseudo-Ten Heavens was not only the recognition of the sacrificed Terran warriors and his own talent, but also an important factor, which was the talent that his uncle had improved for him after sacrificing himself with blood.

But there is a very strange problem in this - although the method of sacrifice does not have high requirements for cultivation, it has always been an extremely precious method in the Blue Star cultivation world, and the method of blood sacrifice is even more so.

A blood sacrifice method that can greatly improve the cultivation and talent of the recipient after sacrificing all blood relatives is extremely precious to think about, and even if you want to create it, it is very likely that the will of the earth will be involved.

Jiang Shaohan's uncle could only barely be regarded as a middle and high-ranking army at most, although his cultivation and status at that time were not low among ordinary cultivators, but it seemed that he was still far from qualified to obtain such a precious method.

So, how did he get this extremely precious blood sacrifice method?

"Gu boy, anyway, we don't have anything to do now, do you want to open a plate again?"

Taking a sip of milk tea, Xuanhua rubbed his little hands, his eyes were implied with expectation, and he asked Gu Yunze.

He lost the last game just because he was a little careless, and as long as he opened it again, he would definitely be able to get rid of it.

"Okay, anyway, my incarnation is separated by the world, so I have a bit of the ability to play chess," Gu Yunze put the teacup he was holding in his hand, smiled and nodded, "Except for playing chess, I can't do anything else now." ”

"Who will fall first this time?"

Xuanhua asked.

"Hmm...... The elders come first, the young come later, this time, you will be the Taoist leader to hold the white son. ”

Gu Yunze opened his mouth and said humbly, pushing the white flag box in his hand to Xuanhua's hand.

"In that case, then the poor way is better to obey than to obey!"

Xuanhua took out a chess piece.

"Dao Chief, wait a minute, I'll send a message to Xiao Jiang first," Gu Yunze raised his hand to cut open a spatial crack, took out a mobile phone, quickly edited a text message, and then closed the screen and threw it back into the spatial crack, "Okay, it's done." ”

"Well, that's the end of the poor road."

Xuanhua Dao Chang was eager to try.

"Please."

Gu Yunze smiled and made a gesture of please.

"Smack-"

In the continuous sound of the white waterfall falling into the water, the sound of chess pieces falling into the pavilion sounded clearly, startling away a leisurely swimming fish.