A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 568: Chapter 468: Day of the Tiger’s Roar (Part 3)

”Now, the reinforcements are still on their way, and all places in your county are already empty. I have two Golden Core Masters by my side. Tell me, where should I choose as the next attack target?”

At this moment, Master Yeguang felt a chill creep over him, his heart turned cold.

He wanted to refute, he still had a last resort. If Lu Qian turned elsewhere, he would counterattack Minglong Mountain, or even strike Lingsha City again, at worst, exchange territories.

But the words hadn’t even reached his lips when he swallowed them back.

He knew, this was just self-deception.

He had reached his limit, any further without recuperation might damage his origin, and Master Xuan Jing was already injured; reinvading Zhongming was fraught with danger, for there was still a Master Cangfeng there! Even if they exchanged territories, the various mountain gates within Sanshan County had been peaceful for so long, accumulating considerable resources. If exchanged, he would suffer greater losses than the Yunshan Sect, which had only one Lingsha City!

The best result would be mutual destruction.

At this moment, Cang Jing had to admit, in this round he lost, the Liyuan Sect lost, and Sanshan County lost!

Lu Qian, with rapid blitz tactics, gained great strategic advantage. Even though Guh Niqiang had just been defeated, it didn’t affect Lu Qian’s plan to roam freely in Sanshan County.

He knew that even Lu Qian couldn’t afford such tactics, and he also knew that Lu Qian wanted to force him into compromise negotiations, or else Lu Qian wouldn’t have revealed this plan as a bargaining chip.

But he couldn’t afford to fight it out, the vast Liyuan Sect couldn’t perish together with the Yunshan Sect.

He could only make concessions, bleeding for a chance to recuperate, and bide time to take revenge.

At this moment, his heart was filled with remorse.

Regret! Hate! Why did he listen to the instigations of Lie Tiansheng, foolishly provoking the Yunshan Sect, resulting in heavy losses and being blocked right at his doorstep by Lu Qian!

Master Yeguang weakly exhaled, at this moment, his hair and beard grew even whiter: ”Very well, what do you want?”

On January 18th of the 373rd year of Jia Shen, the Yunshan Sect used all its cards, fought fiercely, and despite several near-extinction moments, ultimately managed to hold on and secured the victory in the defense of Lingsha City.

In this battle, they slaid Master Fengfeng and Master Lingyin, two Golden Cores, killed Xu Chengyun, Sect Leader of Xuanguang Sect, and Yuchi Hui, the Sect Leader’s Disciple of Liyuan Sect along with eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators, destroyed nine enemy floating battleships, and killed over four hundred enemy Qi Cultivation Elites.

Afterward, they gathered the elite for a rapid strike on Sanshan County, forcing Master Yeguang to negotiate under Yanghua Mountain, establishing a new order in Chongming County and Sanshan County.

The main terms of this negotiation included:

1. Liyuan Sect ceded to Yunshan Sect the southern territory of Sanshan County, including spirit veins such as Minglong Mountain, Yongcui Valley, Wenning Mountain, accounting for about a quarter of Sanshan County’s total area, with thirty-seven county towns and a population of seven million.

2. Liyuan Sect ceded to Yunshan Sect the northwestern territory of Chongming County, including spirit veins such as Kong Family Castle, Fucang Mountain, accounting for about a sixth of Chongming County’s total area, with thirty county towns and a population of five million.

3. Out of humanitarian concern, Liyuan Sect provided a one-time subsidy for the funeral expenses and family allowances of the deceased to Yunshan Sect, totaling 150 Spirit Crystals.

4. Both sides would ceasefire with newly demarcated territories, with a truce period of fifty years.

On the same day, Master Cangfeng of the Mingyu Sword Sect gathered forces while Honored Guest Elder Liang Zhixing of the Xuanguang Sect fled, bringing down Mingjian Mountain with a single battle. The once dominating Xuanguang Sect of Chongming County for six hundred years was hence reduced to a mere speck of dust in history.

The widespread war spanning Chongming, Sanshan, and Liangxiang finally came to a halt.

Future historians of the Yunshan Sect unanimously marked this day as significant, calling it the ”Tiger’s Roar” day.