Chapter 48: Planning
Wang Xian discussed the countermeasures with Zhu Renzhi, and they both felt that only by swallowing or eradicating the Ma family's forces could they really seize this small spirit stone mine, and they thought the other party thought the same.
At present, there are dozens of Qi Refining Stage cultivators on both sides, and the Foundation Building Period monks have all been spelled out, and the headquarters of the two are supported by low-level formations, and dozens of Qi Refining Period monks cannot attack it.
The whereabouts of the two heads of the family are secretive, and there are many followers, and several times when the two sides are attacked, they can break through and return to the sect or family compound with all their might, and resist with the array. At the same time, he sent out a transmission note to ask for help from the nearby Qi Refining Stage Scattered Cultivators and the Seven Great Sect Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators, and finally repelled the other party, making it difficult for both sides to achieve their goal.
Baishamen is about 1,000 miles away from Huatian Sect and about 1,400 miles away from Fengling Sect, but the disciples of Fengling Sect in the Qi refining period have many low-level spirit beasts, and once the Qianli transmission note is issued, it will not take long to come at full speed, while the monks of Huatian Sect can only arrive on horseback.
Wang Xian asked Zhu Renzhi about the situation of the Ma family in detail.
There are more than 300 people from the Ma family living in the Ma family courtyard, most of whom are mortals. Ma Zhe, the former head of the Ma family, cultivated in the early stage of the foundation, and his ancestors were all mortals, living on the east side of Yingzhu Mountain, in the west of Rongwan City. When he went out to study, he inadvertently got the opportunity to enter the cultivation realm, and after being seriously injured and falling off the cliff at the top of the Shadow Pearl Mountain, his whereabouts are unknown.
The successor head of the family, Ma Ming, the son of Ma Zhe, is in his sixties, a monk at the end of Qi refining, an uncle is a mid-stage Qi refining cultivator, both sons are in the early stage of Qi refining, and the other generations are mortals. There are also dozens of Qi refining period monks in the clan courtyard, all of whom are monks worshiped by the Ma family for many years, responsible for taking care of the family and nursing the courtyard, and the Ma family provides spirit stones for them to cultivate on a monthly basis.
There are also thousands of warriors, domestic servants, slaves and maids in the courtyard. The Ma Family Courtyard is built on the mountain, and after the expansion of Ma Zhe, it is only slightly smaller than Baishamen.
Ma Ming took over as the head of the family since Ma Zhe fell off the cliff, and has been befriending Fengling Sect with all his heart, and the strongest strength that has been identified is eight Qi Refining Late Stage Cultivators, four Attendants, and four Perennial Town Guardian Courtyard Arrays. In addition, there are about 30 monks in the early and middle stages of Qi refining. Usually live in a simple place, and the entry and exit guards are like clouds, and there are generally more than ten monks to escort them.
The main source of spiritual stones of the Ma family is the hundreds of spiritual fields not far from Yingzhu Mountain in the western suburbs of Rongwan City, and there are a small amount of spiritual elixirs and large spiritual valleys planted in the spiritual fields, and the spiritual valley is the most commonly eaten by monks in the Qi refining period of Yunhu Prefecture. Lingtian is guarded by monks in the middle and early stages of Qi refining. Ma Ming will go to inspect once a month, and the time of the inspection is uncertain.
Wang Xian and Zhu Renzhi agreed that Baishamen was in the Ming and Huatianzong was in the dark, and there might be action at any time in the near future.
Wang first asked Zhu Renzhi to gather the team of Baishamen monks, reduce the patrols of the monks outside, and recently said not to have any action to stimulate the other party, wait for news, wait for changes, and be ready to go out at any time.
Zhu Renzhi saw that he only needed to send someone to contain the Ma family, focusing on defense, and the risk was not great, so he didn't listen too much to Wang Xian's offensive arrangements, and planned to wait and see what happened.
The two sides finally exchanged a few hundred miles of transmission notes, and they could communicate to each other within a radius of two hundred miles in Rongwan City, and Zhu Renzhi gave Wang Xian Baishamen Keqing token, and explained that Baishamen was close to the Ma family in Rongwan City, so that it was convenient for Wang Xian to enter the city to do business, and Wang Xian took his leave and left.
Wang Xian sat on the carriage to Rongwan City, reminiscing about the conversation with Zhu Renzhi, the spiritual power of the Ma family's spiritual field is estimated to be related to the spiritual stone mine on Yingzhu Mountain. No wonder the Ma family is worried that once the spirit stone mine is dug up, the spiritual power of the spirit field will gradually be exhausted, unless they are mined together and the spirit ore resources are equally divided, there will definitely be a rush.
The best result of the dispute between these two families would have been to divide the spirit stone mine equally. But from the beginning, the Ma family had two monks in the foundation building period, and Baishamen had one monk in the foundation building period, and the strength was very different.
The Ma family may not have taken advantage of the situation to destroy Baishamen's ambition to swallow the Shadow Pearl Mountain alone, because they did not know the exact location of the spirit stone mine in advance, they asked for joint mining and equal division of the spirit stone mine, and it was difficult to guarantee that it was not a delaying strategy.
Once Baishamen is in the plan, he is forced to agree to joint mining under pressure, so that the Ma family can find out the specific location of the Lingshi mine, which may be the destruction of Baishamen.
It's just that the elder of Baishamen saw through the plot of the Ma family, and first promised to think about it for a few days to stabilize the Ma family, and then preemptively launched a fierce attack, and fought for the other party's two foundation building period monks at the cost of their surnames, regained the disadvantage, and finally became a stalemate.
Wang Xian secretly sighed, the strength of the cultivation realm is respected, and there is no national law and fairness to speak of. The Ma family and Baishamen conspire with each other, fighting to the death at every turn, which is not uncommon in the cultivation world. In order to get a piece of the pie, if he intervenes in it, if he is destroyed by the other party's joint Fengling Sect, there will be no waves, and vice versa.
Wang Xiantian's surname is pure and thick, and his mood is indifferent, and the last time he killed the three murderers of Zhonglong, it was also because the other party was very famous, and he did not have a chivalrous heart. The cause of this dispute between Baishamen and the Ma family is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong.
However, several of Wang Xian's fellow disciples died in this battle, and the same is true of Fengling Sect, between the sects, each is its master, and it is the same as fire and water, fighting to the death, which is also a fate that low-level monks are difficult to get rid of, and sooner or later they must face it. Wang Xian let go of his sigh and decided to make every effort to plan to destroy the Ma family's forces.
Rongwan City is a medium-sized mortal city with a population of hundreds of thousands, simple buildings, and prosperous streets. The northwest part of Rongwan City is built on the mountain, and the north-south direction of Yingzhu Mountain has become a natural barrier in the northwest of the city, just like a leaf attached to the upper part of the west city wall, and near the end of the mountain is the west city gate.
Wang first took a carriage to the West City Gate, showed the Baishamen Keqing token, and entered the city when the soldiers guarding the city were busy respectfully laughing and nodding their heads. Baishamen, like the Ma family, has an extremely prominent position in Rongwan City, and the rich and noble families within a radius of several hundred miles want to rush to send their children into the door.
Wang Xian quickly found the inn closest to the Ma Family Courtyard, which was a dark spot in Baishamen. Wang Xian specially asked for a guest room on the third floor of the top floor with the guest token, and entered this set of one hall and one room, elegant and comfortable guest room, Wang Xian opened the west-facing wooden window in the hall, from which you can see the Ma family courtyard about a mile apart.
I saw that the architectural style of the clan courtyard was similar to that of Baishamen, and the scale was slightly smaller than that of Baishamen. Backed by Yingzhu Mountain, surrounded by high walls, although it is a clear sky, there is still a faint white mist floating between the faint pavilions, which should be because of the protective formation.
Outside the high wall is a bluestone road built by a wall, which is kept at a distance of more than ten zhang from other buildings in the city, and is far away in a semicircle to protect the Ma family courtyard.
After observing the terrain of the Ma family courtyard from a distance, Wang Xian went downstairs and traveled in a carriage. First, he slowly drove along the bluestone road outside the high wall of the Ma family courtyard with the flow of people, checked the nearby terrain from the window, and then went out of the West City Gate to the southwest.
This time I went to the Majia Lingtian, which was more than ten miles away from the Majia Courtyard, not far from the foot of the southern end of Yingzhu Mountain outside the city. After a while, the carriage drove onto the small road about a hundred zhang away from Lingtian.
I saw that hundreds of spiritual fields were surrounded by a one-person high fence, and a small number of Qi Refining Stage monks and a large number of mortal warriors rode horses, patrolling the bluestone path laid by their own families outside the fence.
Wang Xian walked back and forth along the spiritual field, and through the gap in the fence, he found that there was a low-level formation supporting the spiritual field with strong spiritual energy, which was estimated to be a medicinal field used to grow precious spiritual medicine, and the others were all spiritual fields planted in the spiritual valley, and the spiritual energy was very thin. The price of Linggu in the cultivation realm is not high, and it relies on a large amount to make money, and there is no formation support.