Nine hundred years ago, the spiritual veins on Wutong Peak were only second-order lower grades, and there was a monk family named the Liu family on them.

The family power of the Liu family of Wutongfeng is not large, among which there are only more than two monks in the clan, and there are only two monks in the foundation building period.

Among them, the patriarch is in the middle stage of foundation building, and another family elder is in the early stage of foundation building.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty!

In the Tianhe region, not far from Wutong Peak, on a first-order mid-grade spiritual vein, there is a family surnamed Zhao.

Originally, this Zhao family was just a Qi refining family, but perhaps due to luck, among their less than a hundred clansmen, three foundation building period monks appeared one after another in just a few decades, and their patriarch Zhao Jiachun even got the opportunity outside and reached the late stage of foundation building in one fell swoop.

In this way, a first-order mid-grade spiritual vein naturally could not support the current Zhao family, so the patriarch Zhao Jiachun locked his eyes on Wutong Peak.

However, although the Zhao family has three monks in the foundation building realm, and Zhao Jiachun himself has reached the late stage of foundation building, he also knows that he may not be able to break through Wutong Mountain, which the Liu family has been operating for a long time, only by relying on his family's strength.

Therefore, after careful preparations, he contacted a lot of loose cultivators, and promised that after defeating the Liu family, all the spirit stones, pills, ores, magic weapons and other resources in his family's inventory would belong to these scattered cultivators, and their Zhao family only needed spiritual veins, spiritual fields, and various classics.

Under such heavy profits, it naturally attracted a lot of casual cultivation participation.

So seeing that the number of people was almost enough, Zhao Jiachun led all the clansmen above the fourth level of qi refining, as well as more than a hundred scattered cultivators, to launch this extermination war against the Liu family of Wutong Peak.

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The details of this battle have not been recorded, Zhao Yiheng only knew that at the cost of the death of forty-six Qi Refining Period clansmen, the fall of one Foundation Building Period Elder, the serious injury of one Foundation Building Period Elder, and the lives of dozens of scattered cultivators, Zhao Jiachun, the first generation of the family's Foundation Building Period ancestor, finally won Wutong Peak.

After that, the family migrated and re-established the family on Wutong Peak.

After hundreds of years of operation, the Zhao family of Wutong Peak gradually became one of the five most powerful monk families in the Tianhe region.

At the peak of their family, there were more than 700 people in the Qi Refining Period, ten elders in the Foundation Building Period, and the spiritual veins on Wutong Peak allowed them to cultivate to the third-order middle grade.

Moreover, each generation of the family has at least one monk at the peak of the foundation building period.

For a long time, the Wutongfeng Zhao family was the most powerful foundation building family in the Tianhe region except for the Qing Yuan Mountain Wang family.

But the world is like floating clouds, gathering and scattering!

Hundreds of years later, when Zhao Yiheng took over the family from his ninth uncle, Zhao Tianqi, Wutong Peak had already declined.

The family's strength has fallen to the bottom, and its sphere of influence and industries in major markets have shrunk repeatedly.

Especially under the strong rise of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain in the past hundred years, their interests in Tianhefang City have also had to be surrendered.

Now their Zhao family only has less than five hundred Qi Refining Stage cultivators, and after Zhao Yuanlin's death, there are only four elders left.

In addition to Zhao Yiheng, who got the opportunity in the territory of Xianyuan Sect more than ten years ago and broke through to the late stage of foundation building, there are two family elders who have also broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, and the remaining family elder is a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building.

In fact, strictly speaking, compared to the situation when Zhao Yiheng took over the family, there were only three elders in the family building period, and the current Wutong Peak has actually recovered a little bit of vitality under his leadership over the years.

Not only did two clansmen successfully break through the retreat and build the foundation, but the number of clansmen in the Qi refining period also increased.

Of course, there is a reason for the opportunity he got, but some of his actions are also very important.

Chance and the right patriarch gave the declining family hope to rise again.

Although among the five major families, the Wutongfeng Zhao family is still the weakest one, but at least it is much stronger than the rest of the foundation building families in the Tianhe region.

No family dared to try to replace their Zhao family.

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It stands to reason that with the current strength of the Zhao family, the Qing Yuanshan Wang family would not attack rashly, because even if Wutong Peak was defeated, they themselves would definitely lose a lot of clansmen.

In Zhao Yiheng's opinion, Qing Yuanshan should have waited for his family to become more declining before daring to attack.

And this is also where his doubts lie when he heard the news from Fang City: Qing Yuanshan was a little anxious!

"Could it be that they have seen that the family has re-emerged over the years, and they are afraid that my Zhao family will become the next Taiqiu Mountain?"

But when Qing Yuanshan gathered the family monks to march towards Wutong Peak, the Li family of Taiqiu Mountain also announced that they had joined the battle, so Zhao Yiheng already had some vague guesses.

"Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain have joined forces!"

In fact, this was a normal inference based on the situation on the surface, and in fact, the countless scattered cultivators and monk families in the Tianhe region all thought so.

The Zhao family of Wutongfeng has resources in hand, and although their strength has improved slightly over the years, the overall strength of the family is still insufficient.

And the Qing Yuanshan Wang family is powerful, but he wants to swallow it in one bite before the Zhao family rises.

And the newly rising Taiqiu Mountain Li family will definitely not want another powerful family to appear and threaten their position.

Taking advantage of the fact that the strength of the Zhao family of Wutong Peak is at the bottom, it is a normal plan to completely suppress it and seize the resources to strengthen itself.

But although the Wutongfeng Zhao family is at the bottom of the five major families, it is also a family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, whether it is the Qingyuan Mountain Wang family or the Taiqiu Mountain Li family, if you want to swallow it alone, you will undoubtedly hurt your muscles and bones.

Therefore, a corollary in the minds of many monks was naturally formed:

Qing Yuanshan and Taiqiu Mountain conspired, and the two joined forces to destroy the Zhao family, eliminate the threat, and share the benefits equally.

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But...... This is not the case, the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain and the Li family of Taiqiu Mountain clearly know that there has been no conspiracy between them.

Although they had all had the idea of violating the Zhao family before, they were all waiting for an opportunity and wanted to wait until the Zhao family was weak enough to make a move.

In fact, if the Zhao family continues to develop like this under the leadership of Zhao Yiheng, the idea of the two of them will only be an idea after all, and will not be put into practical action.

Because the price of destroying the Zhao family is too great!

But just when Qingyuan Mountain and Taiqiu Mountain were waiting for the opportunity to see if the Zhao family could rise again, the appearance of a person broke the deadlock, causing this war of extermination, or speeding up the development process of this war of extermination.

This person is Li Qingshui, who is the seventeenth in the Qing generation of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain.

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Therefore, judging from the final result alone, Zhao Yiheng and the rest of the monks in the Tianhe region were not wrong in their reasoning, but they did not know the previous "reason".

And below this "reason" is Li Qingshui's persistence in the past ten years, he held the belief that he would not destroy the Zhao family's vow and never give up, and launched countless battles large and small.

And after determining that the fifth uncle Li Changqing had completely stabilized the realm, and he had also obtained the tacit approval of the seventh uncle Li Changji, he launched the last plan.

That is: kill the elder Wang Liangyu sent by Qing Yuanshan to investigate the Zhao family, and then release the news that Wang Liangyu was killed by the Zhao family.

At this point, Li Qingshui clearly knew that it was impossible for him not to be detected by Qing Yuanshan, but Wang Liangyu was already dead, and it no longer mattered whether he died in the hands of Taiqiu Mountain or Wutongfeng.

The important thing is that Li Qingshui is clearly sending a signal to Qingyuan Mountain:

The Li family of Taiqiu Mountain has decided to join in this extermination operation!

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In a cave near the top of Taiqiu Mountain, Li Qingshui woke up from his cultivation, he stood up and walked around the cave mansion, sometimes bowing his head and pondering, sometimes stopping and whispering, and when he finally sat down on the stone bed again, he said softly with a smile:

"Calculate the time, it should be about the same, and I don't know how many people the fifth uncle has brought?"

Since he took over the investigation of the Zhao family of Wutong Peak from the hands of his third brother Li Qinghuan, he found that as the matter deepened, the Wang family of Qingyuan Mountain had also discovered the abnormality of Wutong Peak, and he had also sent monks to investigate secretly.

So after discovering this situation, a terrible plan took shape in his mind.

Especially after learning that the fifth uncle Li Changqing had fallen into a retreat to break through the Jindan realm, he accelerated the advancement of his plan.

Because he has a very sufficient confidence in his fifth uncle, Li Changqing, in the case of the condensation pill, the latter has a great chance of the condensation pill succeeding.

But in fact, he didn't know that Fifth Uncle Li Changqing and Eighth Uncle Li Changji had concealed the news of Bai Yuetan and Star Soul Fruit, and Li Changqing did not use the Condensate Pill during the retreat.

If Li Qingshui knew that Fifth Uncle Li Changqing did not use the Condensate Pill during the breakthrough process, it was still unknown whether he would dare to continue to complete this plan!

After all, for the entire family, his plan was undoubtedly a risky move.

Of course, Li Qingshui himself knew this, and even for the sake of absolute secrecy and not being hindered by the other elders of the family, he didn't even tell Eighth Uncle Li Changji before implementing the specific plan.

It wasn't until the patriarch Li Changqing succeeded in marrying the Dan and went through the retreat of the stable realm that he returned to Taiqiu Mountain and told the eighth uncle Li Changji all the plans.