At the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, there are large or small villa groups. With beautiful scenery, fresh air and mild climate, it is known as the most livable place in China, and the villas here are wildly sought after by wealthy people from all over the world.

But further into the mountains, the buildings became rudimentary due to the lack of transportation. Continuing to go up the mountain, ordinary mountain people are rare, and they can only occasionally see the simple tents built by cultivators.

In a col surrounded by mountains on three sides in the inaccessible mountains, there is a small two-story building with five bays. The hillside behind the small building has been carved out into a two-acre field, which is planted with some common vegetables, grains, and some herbs that ordinary people do not recognize.

This house, although much better than the surrounding farmhouses, is not particularly eye-catching. But among the cultivators, this place is a place with a great reputation, because the owner of this place is the legendary figure in the cultivation world, Tian Chuan.

When Tian Chuan was young, he was not a person in the cultivation world, but just an ordinary martial arts enthusiast. But he taught himself Tai Chi and soon became a generation/sect/teacher, teaching countless disciples. At the same time, he is also a super-successful business tycoon.

After the age of 40, he entered the Tao with martial arts, donated the company with a market value of more than 100 billion yuan to the country, and began his reclusive cultivation career. In just ten years, he has successively crossed several major realms of body forging, qi gathering, and Cheng Dan, and has achieved a legend in the cultivation world.

Today, when the earth's cultivation resources are becoming more and more scarce, cultivation is becoming more and more difficult, and it is estimated that there will be no more than 20 people who have entered the Jindan realm, and in the past hundred years, there has been no record of anyone successfully ascending. Everyone didn't know if there were still high-level cultivators alive. Tian Chuan is known as a once-in-a-millennium genius in the cultivation world, and is recognized as the most promising Jindan monk to ascend.

Now that he has become a Jindan Dacheng, he has brought his wife to protect the Dharma and went out to find the opportunity to ascend, leaving only his 22-year-old son Tian Xu at home. His four personal disciples also stayed at his house, accompanying the little junior disciples to wait for the news of the master's successful ascension.

As Tian Chuan's only son, Tian Xu has not inherited much of his father's cultivation talent, although he has practiced since he was a child, but for more than ten years, his realm is still hovering at the seventh layer of the forging body, which is far inferior to the inner disciples of the general cultivation sect.

The few senior brothers who were staying at home, not to mention the senior brother Qin Liqiang, who had already entered the Great Achievement of Qi Gathering and could be Ning Dan at any time, and even the fourth senior brother Feng Fan, who had just started for less than four years, had already gathered his energy.

Tian Xu himself didn't care about this, his interest was almost all on the study of traditional Chinese medicine, and he won the title of a small national player at a young age.

It was a sunny morning. The senior brothers completed the regular morning exercises, and the senior brother Qin Liqiang beckoned everyone to take care of the medicine garden and vegetable garden, but Tian Xu pulled the fourth senior brother Feng Fan, who had the best relationship with him, and said, "Senior brother, let the fourth senior brother help me concoct the medicinal materials I harvested two days ago." ”

Qin Liqiang said heartily: "Okay, fourth, you can go and help the little junior brother." ”

At this moment, the originally clear sky suddenly fogged up, and the fog became thicker and thicker, covering the entire col in just a few minutes. The mist came strangely, with a faint red tinge.

According to legend, if a monk crosses the tribulation and ascends, there will be a vision between heaven and earth, and the golden light will be everywhere. And if someone fails to cross the catastrophe, there will also be a vision, that is, the red mist is shrouded. None of the current cultivators had ever seen the golden light vision, but the red mist after the failure of the tribulation would occur once every few decades.

Several people felt something, and their mood became nervous, and they came to a secret room on the first floor together, where the soul cards of all the members of the Tian Clan's Taiji Sect were stocked.

The soul card is a kind of safety indicator unique to the cultivation world, and when the owner of the soul card dies, the soul card will break. Generally, it can only be made by cultivators of the realm above Ning Dan, and it takes a lot of energy, and in relatively large sects, important people will make one, and sometimes it will be made for disciples who go out to perform important tasks.

There were only seven people in Tian's Taiji Gate, and Tian Chuan made soul cards for everyone before he went out to ascend.

As soon as they entered the secret room, they found that the green jade soul cards of the Tagawa couple were already full of cracks. Just when he was at a loss, Tian Chuan's faint figure suddenly floated on the soul card, and Tian Xu shouted loudly: "Dad!"

At this time, Tagawa spoke: "When you saw this image, I was already gone. You don't have to grieve, as a monk, you are going to die a well-deserved death. ”

Several people didn't dare to interrupt Tian Chuan's speech, but just stood quietly and listened, only to hear Tian Chuan continue: "After my death, Tian's Taiji Gate will be taken over by the eldest disciple Qin Liqiang. My Tian's Taiji Gate was established not long ago, and the talents are scarce and the strength is low. And a few of our masters and apprentices, who have advanced very quickly in cultivation, must be jealous of other sects. They may come and snatch the cultivation secret method or magic weapon that does not exist at all, so they must be guarded against. Before any of you succeed in condensing the pill, you must live in seclusion to protect yourself and avoid conflict with others, otherwise I am afraid that this will bring you unwarranted disasters, remember. ”

"Tian Xu's cultivation talent is insufficient, it is difficult to make progress, in the future, he will only use Tai Chi as a fitness method, and it is not bad to go out of the mountains and be an ordinary person. You don't have to force it. Liqiang and a few people don't deliberately protect Tian Xu, his own strength is like this, you can only protect him to make him more concerned by various sects, and protecting him is harming him. ”

"Tianjiaao is full of spiritual energy, and it is a treasure land for cultivation. You are currently powerless to protect, if someone comes to rob you, you don't have to force them to stay, just let them go, everything is for self-preservation. ”

"I don't have much assets left, so I'll leave 10 million for each of you as cultivation funds. The cultivation network trading account given to you before can still be used, so please pay attention to safety when trading. ”

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As time passed, Tagawa's image gradually faded, and suddenly there were two "pops, pops", and the soul cards of Tagawa and his wife exploded one after another, and Tagawa's shadow disappeared.

Tian Chuan thought that he would never see his parents again, and he only felt sadness coming from it, and tears fell uncontrollably. Feng Fan wiped his teary eyes, supported Tian Xu, and persuaded: "Little junior brother, the master is gone, don't be too sad, there is still something to do." ”

Qin Liqiang said: "Many people in the cultivation world know about the master's impact and ascension. Now that the vision has been revealed, I am afraid that the enemy will soon come. Let's go pack up now, and gather here in half an hour to leave. ”

Everyone had no opinion on this, so they agreed and went back to their rooms to clean up.

Tian Xu didn't have anything to bring, so he brought some of the finished medicines he had made, and one of the wound medicines to several senior brothers, as well as several more precious medicinal materials. Then put some change of clothes in your backpack and you're pretty much there.

He went out to his parents' bedroom door to find something or two to keep. Just as he wanted to push the door, he vaguely heard movement inside, "I don't know which senior brother is inside?" he thought secretly.

Just then, the door suddenly opened, and a large hand reached out from inside, grabbed him by the neck, and pulled him in.

"The enemy is coming too fast. The thought flashed through his mind. When he just wanted to touch the green jade soft sword on his waist, the other party's strong internal force had already arrived, and he only had time to see that the other party was a masked man in black, his body was already restrained, and he couldn't move.

Without waiting for the other party to close the door, a blood-stained long sword had already stabbed the man in the chest, but it was the second senior brother Wang Song who rushed to hear the news.

The man flipped his hand and showed a short sword, opened Wang Song's long sword, and slashed it between his chest and abdomen, and the two fought together at the door. Although the man's blade was short, his strength was very strong, and the swing of the short sword brought up a snow-white qi, forcing Wang Song to retreat step by step. Suddenly, the sword light flashed, the two had stopped, Wang Song's neck had been cut, blood spurted far away, and his body immediately fell to the ground.

When that person faced Wang Song, Tian Xu was casually thrown to the ground by him, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he witnessed the whole process of killing his second senior brother. But his body was restrained, but he couldn't move, and he couldn't even make a sound. At this time, the battle stopped, and he suddenly thought of a terrible question: "The second senior brother and this person are fighting so loudly, why didn't the other three senior brothers come out to help?"

At this moment, the door of the senior brother next to him burst open, and a man in black fell straight out of it, falling to the ground and convulsing, seeing that he was no longer alive. Then, Qin Liqiang, whose chest was stained with blood, walked out of the house with a half-long sword in his hand.

Seeing this, the masked man here greeted him with a short sword in his hand and fought with Qin Liqiang. Qin Liqiang was seriously injured, and he could no longer exert his usual combat strength, and was quickly suppressed by this masked man.

Tian Xu was anxious, but he had no choice but to silently recite the heart-purifying mantra passed to him by his mother/relatives and slowly open up the sealed meridians. This Pure Heart Mantra is a spiritual cultivation method that can adjust the body and open up the meridians without using internal force. In fact, even if he was not sealed in the meridians, he had no internal force to use, and Tian Xu, who was a seventh-order forging body, had not yet cultivated his internal force. In general, it is only after entering the gathering stage that there is an internal force that can be used in battle.

With the operation of the Pure Heart Mantra, Tian Xu's meridians were gradually opened, and his body slowly returned to a controlled state, but he still didn't dare to move casually, he knew that his realm was too low, so he could only use the green jade soft sword passed on to him by his father to send a blow, relying on sneak attacks to control the enemy. If you miss a shot, you won't have a chance to make a move.

But the battle between Qin Liqiang and the masked man was always far away from Tian Xu, and Qin Liqiang deliberately stayed away from Tian Xu, probably because he was afraid that he would be injured by the aftermath of the battle.

Seeing that the senior brother was becoming more and more difficult to resist the masked man's attack, Tian Xu was in a hurry and had no choice. At this moment, the masked man's short sword crossed a strange arc, and with a "snort", he cut off Qin Liqiang's right arm holding the sword at elbow, and then plunged into Qin Liqiang's right chest.

At the same time, Qin Liqiang's left hand slapped between the masked man's chest and abdomen, and the masked man was beaten into the air and landed in front of Tian Xu.

Qin Liqiang struck a deathly blow and burst out with all his strength, but he was seriously injured, the true qi in his body was insufficient, and the masked man was not lightly injured, but he did not die. He struggled a few times underground, and finally stood up, laughing: "Haha, the secret of Tian's cultivation has finally fallen into my hands." ”

Suddenly, a faint blue light flashed, and the masked man's waist was broken into two, but it was Tian Xu who shot from behind him.