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Chapter 278: Chapter 169: Breakthrough, Upgrading to Ninth-Grade Noble Family, Murderous Intent Lurking (Part 3)

Once again, bordering the Fu Family’s territory.

Whether it is due to personal grudges or driven by interests.

The Cao Family and Hee Family will not sit back and watch the Fu Family grow stronger. Once promoted to the Ninth Grade, the Fu Family will have access to more resources, making it difficult to eliminate them.

The Gongsun Clan Leader said indifferently:

”If the Cao Family and Hee Family aren’t foolish, they’ve already sent people to monitor the Fu Family. We don’t need to notify them, but just in case, leak some information to the Yin Yang Double Fiend, saying that Fu Changsheng has the Ping Family’s Clan Treasure.”

The Yin Yang Double Fiend is notorious in the South Huai Prefecture as a pair of tribulation cultivators, a man and a woman. They practice a dual cultivation attack technique, and together their combat power rivals late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

If the Cao Family and Hee Family fail.

The Yin Yang Double Fiend will surely take advantage, leaving Fu Changsheng with no chance of survival.

With one less Foundation Establishment in the Fu Family, their rise to a Ninth-Grade Noble Family would be hopeless, and with only a little girl who recently achieved Foundation Establishment left in the Fu Family’s territory, she does not count.

The Gongsun Clan Leader calmly closed his eyes.

Over the years.

The quasi-Ninth-Grade Noble Families that died under the Gongsun Family’s schemes are countless, and the Fu Family will be no exception.

The man in the black robe left after receiving his orders.

.....

In a secret cave mansion in Qianyun Mountain.

Cao Sijun, the Second Elder of the Cao Family, sat cross-legged. After a while, a rainbow light swiftly approached outside the cave.

Cao Sijun waved his sleeve.

The array light curtain of the cave mansion opened, revealing Hee Jingdong, the Second Elder of the Hee Family, who flashed in. Hee Jingdong scanned Cao Sijun with his divine sense, paused for a moment, cupped his hands, and said:

”Congratulations Brother Cao for advancing to the Seventh Layer of Foundation Establishment.”

”Congratulations to you too.”

Hee Jingdong’s cultivation was also at the Seventh Layer of Foundation Establishment.

After some small talk, the two sat down.

Hee Jingdong spoke:

”Brother Cao, have you contacted that old thing, Ping Clan Leader?”

Back then, their three families united to attack the Cloud Soaring Tribe but were defeated.

They were both in retreat breaking through to the late-stage Foundation Establishment, so they were not aware. If they were there, such a defeat would not have happened.

Cao Sijun waved his hand:

”The Ping Family has closed themselves off. Previously, it was rumored that four of their Foundation Establishment Elders had long perished, which now seems true.”

In the past few years.

They saw the Fu Family take action to seize the Ping Family’s resources in Pingshan County, and the Ping Family remained silent, confirming their suspicion.

As a result.

Their two families also took action to seize and divide the resources of Kuixian County and Ningyang County, the Ping Family’s territory.

With only two Foundation Establishment cultivators left in the Ping Family, and the Ping Clan Leader seemingly still recovering from severe injuries, the original three-family alliance collapsed. If not for the Ping Family’s Mountain Protection Array being a Tier Three Array, the two families would have attacked long ago.

Between noble families.

Only interests are eternal, everything else is false.

Hearing this, Hee Jingdong hesitated for a moment, but couldn’t help saying:

”Brother Cao, if the Fu Family advances to a Ninth-Grade Noble Family, the interests affected are not only ours. For this ambush against Fu Changsheng, we cannot be the only two taking action. The Shangguan Family being in cahoots with the Fu Family is one thing, but the Cui Family, Qii Family, and Hongg Family can’t possibly do nothing, right? Otherwise, we should try to contact one or two of them?”

Cao Sijun waved his hand:

”You’re well aware of the characters of the Cui Family, Qii Family, and Hongg Family. Last time, when we wanted to ambush Lin Tianfu when the Lin Family was promoted to the Ninth Grade, wasn’t it the Cui Family that leaked? And according to our spies, Fu Changsheng went alone to the South Huai Prefecture this time. The two of us at the late-stage Foundation Establishment are more than enough to deal with him.”

Fu Changsheng, within just twenty years, leaped from the Qi Cultivation Second Layer to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment. Surely, he holds some amazing secret.

This time, he has made a personal appearance.

To seize this opportunity from the other party.

Therefore.

Cao Sijun did not want more people involved.

Hee Jingdong was also confident in his own combat power, hearing this, he chuckled and said:

”Indeed, Fu Changsheng isn’t even forty, lacking experience in Dharma Combat. Even if he advances to the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, he won’t be a match for us. So Brother Cao, let’s make preparations early.”

...

Fu Changsheng, riding the Celestial Thunder Sword, left Luofeng Mountain and flew leisurely towards the South Huai Prefecture, taking breaks at night by setting up a cave mansion, not in a hurry to reach his destination.

When he crossed the Plum Blossom Grove.

Qianyun Mountain came into view.

It was already late in the day.

Fu Changsheng glanced over, hesitated for a moment, then turned back towards the Plum Blossom Grove.

Within Qianyun Mountain.

Having lain in ambush for a long time, Cao Sijun and Hee Jingdong watched Fu Changsheng turn back, causing Hee Jingdong to gnash his teeth. If it were a regular Foundation Establishment cultivator, they would have reached the South Huai Prefecture by now, but Fu Changsheng lingered, arriving several days later than expected, wearing off his patience entirely, he grumbled:

”Brother Cao, Fu Changsheng is in the Plum Blossom Grove, there’s no need to wait any longer, let’s make our move.”

”No rush.”

Cao Sijun shook his head.

After waiting so long, another night won’t matter.

Otherwise.

The trap they set in Qianyun Mountain would be for nothing.

Hee Jingdong frowned slightly. In his view, their combined strength in the late-stage Foundation Establishment was enough to kill Fu Changsheng, but Cao Sijun’s insistence on setting up a trap array seemed overly cautious.

However.

At least Fu Changsheng had shown up.

So just wait a bit longer.

...

On a hill five miles away from the Plum Blossom Grove.

The Yin Yang Double Fiend saw Fu Changsheng settling down in the Plum Blossom Grove again. The Yin Woman spoke:

”Old ghost, after passing the Plum Blossom Grove, ahead is Qianyun Mountain. At Fu Changsheng’s pace, he can reach the South Huai Prefecture by sunset. If we don’t make a move, we won’t get another chance.”

Old Yangg hesitated for a moment.

Biting his teeth, he said,

”Fine, we’ll act at midnight!”

Fu Changsheng has a Tier Three Spiritual Artifact on him.

The couple certainly wouldn’t be foolish enough to confront him directly.

At midnight.

The Yin Woman opened her mouth, and with a flash of witch light, a Gu insect emerged and disappeared into the ground.

The Yin Yang Double Fiend, having escaped to the Great Zhou from the Southern Border, uses their lifebound spiritual artifact differently from the Great Zhou cultivators, utilizing Gu insects as their artifact.