Decades ago, the Ghoul Sect launched a requisition order against the Zhao family, asking them to send people to the Hengduan Mountains to participate in the war.

After the end of this Ghoul Sect's action to plan the fifth-order spirit vein, the already grim situation of the Zhao family of Wutong Peak became even more critical, the patriarch Zhao Tianqi died, and there were only three elders left in the foundation building period in the family.

In this case, Zhao Yiheng, who was the fifteenth in the Zhao family's Yi generation, took over the entire family and began to serve as the patriarch.

And after he settled many matters of the family, he temporarily handed over the affairs of the family to the thirteenth uncle Zhao Yuanji to manage, while he himself left the family and went to the territory of Xianyuanzong.

This has been going for nearly ten years, and when he returned to the family again, he brought back a lot of resources, and also learned a piece of news about the secret realm of the ancient battlefield.

After consulting with the other two clan elders, they decided to devote all their clan strength to seeking opportunities in this secret realm.

If they succeeded, their Zhao family might be able to rise again and avoid the coveting of the other four major families in the Tianhe region.

If it fails, it also means that their Zhao family's fate is like this, and in the cruel cultivation realm, it just advances the crisis of extermination.

There is no doubt that this was an action that gambled on the fate of the entire family.

And judging from the results later, Zhao Yiheng won the bet!

The Zhao family of Wutong Peak obtained a fourth-order mid-grade magic weapon from that secret realm, an extremely large number of spirit stones, and various resources.

It was also with these opportunities that their family produced two more elders in the foundation building period after that, namely Zhao Yuanlin and Zhao Yingque.

Moreover, in that fourth-order mid-grade magic weapon, Zhao Yiheng also found a broken fourth-order puppet beast, as well as a puppet inheritance.

Although a fourth-order puppet beast was still far inferior to a Jindan stage real person, if it could be successfully repaired and exert its own strength, then their Wutong Peak Zhao family would have no problem keeping the mountain gate.

So in the next few decades, Zhao Yiheng began to select talented clansmen to study the puppet inheritance, and at the same time instructed the family to secretly collect ores of various grades.

Since the puppet inheritance he obtained was dedicated to various ores to make puppets, if their family wanted to train a puppeteer, they would need a lot of ore investment in the early stage.

However, what Zhao Yiheng didn't expect was that the talent of the rest of the clan in cultivating puppetry was really not high. After spending a lot of ore resources, no one has become a second-order puppeteer, and the most talented person is only a first-order puppeteer.

On the contrary, it was himself, after decades of study, who had unknowingly entered the third order of the puppet path.

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According to the inheritance of the puppet technique that the family obtained from the secret realm, the puppets can be roughly divided into two types, one is the low-level puppets that do not need to be controlled by the puppeteer.

The other is a high-level golem that needs to be controlled by a puppeteer.

The former only relies on spirit stones or spirit pouring magic arrays to drive, and his limbs are very clumsy, and his ability is limited, and his strength cannot be exerted.

The latter is different, this kind of high-level puppet controlled by a puppeteer can perfectly exert its full strength, and can also complete many delicate tasks.

For example, the four ape-shaped puppets that Li Xuangang brought back from the Wanxing Islands were low-level puppets that did not need to be controlled by puppeteers.

And the fourth-order low-grade lizard puppet that Zhao Yiheng obtained was a high-level puppet that needed a puppeteer to control.

However, due to the huge number of ores of each order required to repair this fourth-order low-grade high-grade puppet, Zhao Yiheng's own attainments in puppet art were only third-order.

Therefore, this fourth-order low-grade lizard puppet has not been able to complete the complete repair, and its cultivation strength has been hovering between the third-order and the fourth-order, and under Zhao Yiheng's full control, it can exert the combat strength of the fourth-order lower-grade in a short period of time.

But the Zhao family knew that such a half-finished fourth-order puppet was far from enough, they needed the patriarch to enter the ranks of the fourth-order puppeteer, as well as more ore resources.

Originally, under the leadership of Zhao Yiheng, the Zhao family had gradually improved after obtaining the resources in that secret realm.

However, it is a pity that when their family was secretly collecting ore resources, Li Qingshui of Taiqiu Mountain seized the opportunity and provided an excellent help for the Qingyuan Mountain Wang family, who had always coveted their Wutong Peak, to start the battle of extermination.

All this happened too suddenly, and Zhao Yiheng's plan to break through to the fourth-order puppeteer with all his strength, and then repair the fourth-order lizard puppet to protect the family completely failed.

When Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain both launched an attack on Wutong Peak, Zhao Yiheng knew that he was too late.

So he could only make urgent arrangements and use this fourth-order lizard puppet, which had not yet been fully repaired, as his last resort.

But he also knew that just by relying on this, the chances of their family resisting the joint attack of the two Jindan families were still small, and he had to prepare for the worst.

And this plan is to use the family's stores in the major Fang City and the large number of resources left in the store as an exchange condition, in exchange for the help of Jiuhua Mountain and Luoying Mountain.

Of course, it is obviously impossible to rely on these resources to win them over and resist the Wang family and the Li family with themselves, but it is still possible to use them as the last hope to protect the family.

After discussion, Zhao Yiheng decided to let the youngest Zhao Yingque flee from the war with the fourth-order mid-grade magic weapon and all the remaining resources of the family within it.

And the remaining three of them were responsible for delaying time for him, and most importantly, attracting the attention of the two Jindan stage monks guarding outside the peak, so as to ensure that he would not be discovered by the two of them as much as possible during the process of leaving Wutong Peak through the secret passage.

But what Zhao Yiheng didn't expect was that the fourth-order mid-grade magic weapon he prepared for the family, as well as the many resources in it, were actually caught by Li Qingshui before Zhao Yingque arrived, and arranged for Li Yuheng to take the lead.

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In fact, in Zhao Yiheng's view, his family is not hopeless, under his plan, Wutongfeng has two hopes of survival, and one hope of re-rising.

The first time was to use the defense and self-explosion of the third-order high-grade Green Snake Soul Devouring Array to deal a heavy blow to the attacking Wang family and the Li family.

But he didn't expect that the Wang family was so well prepared, and even the fourth-order mid-grade crystal energy giant crossbow was dispatched, and he also stopped most of the damage caused by the self-explosion of the "Green Snake".

The second time was to use the twenty-seven third-order talismans left by the ancestors of the family to drag the monks of the foundation building period on the opposite side, so that they could not participate in the battle situation of the clansmen in the Qi refining period below, so that as long as their own clansmen caused enough casualties to the other party, it would make the Wang and Li families feel that the price of capturing Wutong Peak was too great, and they chose to retreat.

But he didn't expect that the fighting strength of the Qi Refining Stage cultivators of Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain was actually stronger than he imagined.

The third time was to use the fourth-order puppet lizard that had not been repaired to inflict damage on several of the opposing party's foundation building stage monks and detonate them at the last moment.

Under the detonation of the fourth-order puppet, the attack power must be extremely strong, and the two Jindan period monks guarding outside the peak will definitely immediately appear to protect their foundation building period clansmen, and he, the thirteenth uncle Zhao Yuanji, and the third brother Zhao Yizhi, will be able to take the opportunity to escape the blockade of the two Jindan stage monks.

But Zhao Yiheng didn't expect that Wang Hansheng, the Jindan real person of the Wang family, would be so domineering, and he actually used a magic weapon to control the fourth-order lizard puppet before it exploded, and took away most of the fourth-order puppets that their family had worked so hard to repair.

At this point, the Zhao family, which had lasted for nine hundred years in Wutong Peak, was completely annihilated in the hands of the last patriarch, Zhao Yiheng, and only a glimmer of hope was left to re-establish the family in the Wanxing Islands.

And this is the only successful point among Zhao Yiheng's many arrangements, he calculated that Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain would definitely be surrounded and intercepted within the scope of the Tianhe region, so he used the power of the Hu family of Jiuhua Mountain and the Pan family of Luoying Mountain.

In this situation, Taiqiu Mountain and Qingyuan Mountain would never dare to start a war with their two families at the same time, and Hu Yanqiu, the patriarch of the Hu family, and Pan Hai, the patriarch of the Pan family, are both monks at the peak of foundation building, and under the cover of many clansmen, I believe that the elders of the foundation building period sent by the Wang family and the Li family will not be able to stop them.

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Success or failure changes overnight.

Since then, there are only four major families left in the five major foundation building families in the Tianhe region, and the name of the Zhao family of Wutongfeng will gradually be forgotten by the world with the passage of time.

The chaos in Wutong Peak's sphere of influence continued, but Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain had already sent their clansmen to stabilize it, and the focus was on those resource points, after all, they were the source of spirit stones for the two of them from then on.

In addition, there are still many Qi refining families around that have been broken by scattered cultivators, and many family cultivators have been reduced to casual cultivators.

When Li Qinghuan obeyed the arrangement of Eighth Uncle Li Changji and stabilized the range of Wutong Peak, a communication paper crane of Seventh Uncle had already arrived in his hands.

Standing on the top of a mountain, behind him were more than twenty clansmen dressed in the same black Xuanyi, the communication paper crane in his hand turned into ashes and dissipated in the wind, Li Qinghuan looked in the direction of Taiqiu Mountain, and muttered to himself:

"Seventeenth brother, what are you going to do?"