“Cooperation… cooperation?!!”
Fang Lezhong was stunned for a moment, and then he was filled with ecstasy.
In comparison, let alone Fang Xianzong's ninth level of Tongmai, even if he had reached the ninth level of Jindan, it would not be as important as supernatural powers.
So he immediately raised his legs and prepared to leave Fang Xianzong and return to the pavilion.
However, Lin Kuang suddenly said, "Bring that little guy here as well."
"Um?"
Fang Lezhong paused, having a bad feeling.
"hehe."
Lin Kuang smiled faintly, "You should be able to see that the reason I didn't agree to your request is because I was worried that the Fang family would destroy the bridge after crossing the river."
"Although you can't control the Purple Palace Seed Dao, I'm also afraid that after I teach you my magical powers, you'll destroy my bridge after crossing the river."
“But now, I’ve figured out a way to have the best of both worlds.”
As he spoke, Lin Kuang pointed at Fang Xianzong in the distance and said, "Pass your magical powers to this young man."
"Why?"
Fang Lezhong had his back to Fang Xianzong, looking a little ugly.
"Because if you don't cultivate the Tao, you can't cultivate supernatural powers."
Lin Kuang raised his mouth and said, "If you can't cultivate magical powers, you can't continue to teach magical powers."
"As long as I bite the bullet and teach only one person, no matter how much you want to kill me, you must wait until he plants the Dao to verify the authenticity."
"This way, at least until then, I'm safe."
"Maybe, before he does anything, I'll find a way to escape."
"My life span is short, so I can only teach you once at most, and I can only teach you to low-level warriors like you."
"This is my last concession. If you disagree, just kill me."
As Lin Kuang spoke, Fang Lezhong's eyes became increasingly gloomy.
"What if he can't cultivate this magical power?"
Fang Lezhong said coldly, "Isn't it all in vain?"
"Divine powers are not restricted by rules. Human aptitude is also a kind of rule. The only difference is how fast or slow one cultivates."
Lin Kuang said casually, "Of course, if you are worried, you can replace it with someone with higher qualifications. I don't care. As long as the realm does not exceed Tongmai, it will be fine."
Those with high aptitude have a realm no higher than Tongmai...
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
Fang Lezhong really wanted to curse.
Now, in the entire Fang family, it’s not that there are no people younger than the Xian generation, but they are still children and it is not time for them to practice martial arts.
Among the Xian generation, those with higher qualifications had already been cleansed.
"Just a reminder, whether to kill me or accept my conditions, I advise you to make a decision early."
Lin Kuang pointed up and down the mountain, "There is no one else on the mountain now, you still have a chance to choose. If other people come later, I'm afraid it will be more than just failing to kill me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Lezhong's expression became extremely interesting.
Just as Lin Kuang said.
If this matter were to be known by people from other rooms, I would have no choice at all.
It’s not a question of whether to kill Lin Kuang or not, because he won’t be killed at all.
But it is a question of to whom the supernatural powers will be passed on.
Don't forget that imparting supernatural powers consumes your lifespan.
With this in mind, no matter who obtains the supernatural power, even if it is to be passed on in the future, it will definitely be given priority to the closest person.
"As expected of the previous Taoist master, what a conspiracy."
Fang Lezhong took a deep look at Lin Kuang and turned to face Fang Xianzong.
Xu Chong tried hard to put on a confused expression.
"Xianzong."
Fang Lezhong said with a smile, "Didn't you want to enter Chunqiu Hall before? Now your chance has come."
"Ah this...Uncle , Xianzong doesn't quite understand."
Xu Chong scratched his head.
"You don't need to understand now."
Fang Lezhong said indifferently, "You just need to know that after you are taught magical powers by this Lin Kuang, the Xianzi generation quota of Chunqiu Hall will definitely be yours, and it will last until you reach the level of cultivation. Unless you don't want to stay there anymore, no one can take it away from you."
"Uncle..."
Ecstasy broke out on Fang Xianzong's face.
"This is an opportunity that Uncle fought for you without telling the other families. Uncle might be punished for this, so you must seize it."
Fang Lezhong spoke with deep sincerity.
Xu Chong secretly sneered, with a hint of fear in his ecstasy: "Will my uncle be punished for this? Forget it, Xianzong can just not enter the Spring and Autumn Annals..."
“Nonsense!”
Fang Lezhong interrupted him in feigned anger, but he was very satisfied in his heart, "You treat such an important matter as a joke, how can you ?"
"This... Xianzong knows his mistake."
Xu Chong looked ashamed.
"It's good to admit your mistakes."
Fang Lezhong's expression lightened up a bit, "Remember, you must remember what Lin Kuang taught you, because it will allow you to far surpass your peers after you cultivate the Dao."
"Xianzong, please remember this."
Xu Chong nodded solemnly.
"Go ahead."
Fang Lezhong waved his hand.
A breeze wrapped Xu Chong up, passed through the lightning cage outside the pool, and brought him into the pavilion.
At this moment, Fang Lezhong caught a glimpse of a figure appearing at the foot of the mountain out of the corner of his eye.
Just came out of the stepless tomb.
Look at the figure...the elder of the seventh clan!
Fang Lezhong's expression changed, and he said anxiously: "Lin Kuang, teach me quickly. If you are late, I will kill you even if I have to take the punishment!"
After saying this, Fang Lezhong didn't bother to wait for Lin Kuang's reply and immediately raised his hand.
Crash.
The water surface around the pool rose suddenly, and gathered in the air along the lightning net, forming a hemispherical water cover that completely concealed the situation inside.
Almost instantly, Xu Chong completed the four steps of dispelling Lin Kuang's phantom body, switching to Lin Kuang's false appearance, creating Lin Kuang's phantom body, and switching to Fang Xianzong's false appearance.
Fang Lezhong was unaware of this and faced the people coming down the mountain.
“Yo.”
The elder of the Seventh House also noticed the abnormality on the mountainside at this time and floated over, "Fang Lezhong, you failed to recruit him, so you resorted to forcing him to confess?"
"You'll find out soon."
Fang Lezhong remained calm.
"whispering sound."
The elder of the Seventh House sneered, "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but Lin Kuang is in the Yang God Realm. Do you know what the Yang God Realm is? His spirit is under his control and he can easily erase any form of pain. Apart from killing him or trapping him, there's nothing you can do."
"Fang Letian, elders of this level are not allowed to kill each other, but I think it's okay to just beat you up."
Fang Lezhong said coldly, "What do you think?"
“…”
Fang Letian's face turned dark and he walked away with a flick of his sleeves.
His realm is indeed slightly lower than Fang Lezhong's. Now that he has no allies, it is better not to confront him head-on.
"etc."
Fang Lezhong suddenly spoke.
"how?"
Fang Letian turned around gloomily, "Are you really going to do it?"
"I'm not that boring."
As he spoke, Fang Lezhong reached into his bosom and took out his blood talisman.
The next moment, a stream of blood thinner than a hair shot out from the blood talisman and fell accurately into a tomb at the foot of the mountain.
"The Sixth Clan Elder Fang Lezhong summons the entire clan to the main hall to discuss matters!"
The solemn words were carried away by the blood.
"Well……"
Fang Letian was confused. "If there is anything, can't we just go to the elders' meeting? Is it necessary to alarm the clan leader and convene a meeting of the whole clan?"
"This is my right as a clan elder. I can use it even if I have nothing else to do."
Fang Lezhong said lightly.
Fang Letian paused, feeling somewhat exasperated.
Just as he was about to say something, a voice suddenly came from the tomb where the blood fell.
"allow!"
"Thank you, Patriarch."
Fang Lezhong bowed from a distance in that direction.
Soon, the same blood flew out from the tomb, but the amount was countless times greater.
Countless blood and energy went in all directions and each chose a tomb to fall into.
Fang Letian and Fang Lezhong also received one.
"The meeting will be held in the main hall immediately!"
The clan leader's voice came from the blood symbols of the two.
Xu Chong, who also possessed the blood talisman, also received the same message.
"The meeting in the main hall? Was it Fang Lezhong who did it..."
Xu Chong narrowed his eyes, controlled Lin Kuang's phantom body and said, "It's over. You can take him away."
"good."
Fang Lezhong laughed loudly and, ignoring Fang Letian's anger, stretched out his hand.
The water curtain faded away, and Fang Xianzong was taken out as he was.
"Uncle, I..."
Xu Chong remained three parts confused and three parts bewildered.
“No hurry.”
Fang Lezhong waved his hand and glanced at Fang Letian: "Don't worry, I will explain everything later."
At this time, tombs all over the mountain opened one after another, and one after another, members of the Fang family walked out of them, either on foot or flying, and headed towards the main hall at the foot of the mountain.
"Humph! I want to see what tricks you can come up with."
Fang Letian snorted coldly and turned away.
Fang Lezhong turned around and looked at Xu Kuang in the pavilion.
"Why, you don't believe me?"
Lin Kuang pulled the corner of his mouth, "You can ask that little guy if I passed him anything."
"No, I actually believe this a little more than before."
Fang Lezhong narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "After all, you don't look like you will die soon... You must be very careful about your life."
Xu Chong's heart sank.
Fang Lezhong is right.
If his life span is really coming to an end, then Lin Kuang's facial expression would have changed significantly after he taught him a magical power.
But Lin Kuang is just a fake after all.
Whatever appearance you have when the false appearance is created will be fixed afterwards, and you can neither become younger nor older.
It is indeed a loophole.
After thinking about it, Xu Chong controlled Lin Kuang to speak.
"If you want to force me to teach you more times, I advise you to give up this idea."
"No matter how much life I have left, teaching you once is my bottom line."
"Of course, you can also gamble."
As he spoke, Lin Kuang pointed at Fang Xianzong expressionlessly, "I bet that after you force me to death, he really gets magical powers."
"You misunderstood me."
Fang Lezhong smiled and shook his head. "In the entire Fang family, the only ones who have had close contact with you are Xianzong and me... Xianzong, does the person who taught you magical powers look older than before?"
“…”
Xu Chong held back his laughter, and the expression on his face changed from confusion to affirmation, "Yes, uncle."
Fang Lezhong glanced at Xu Chong with satisfaction, and then said, "Lin Kuang, if this cooperation is successful, I promise to do my best to protect your life. I also hope that after this, you are willing to cooperate with us... and our Sixth House in other areas."
Lin Kuang waved his hand and said nothing.
"Let's go."
Fang Lezhong didn't care, "Almost everyone has arrived."
The breeze lifted the two of them and floated towards the foot of the mountain.
Not long after, the tomb with the words "Clan Council Hall" engraved on it was opened.
"Don't panic for a while, just deal with it normally, I believe in you."
Fang Lezhong looked at Xu Chong encouragingly and stepped in first.
"Believe me...you have taken a broader path."
Xu Chong complained secretly and followed him in.
A staircase that looks ordinary and almost no different from other tombs, but when you reach the bottom, you will see a bright view.
A huge hall as large as two football fields comes into view.
In the middle there is a main platform with twelve secondary seats, a total of thirteen seats, on which there are tables and chairs.
Eleven of the twelve seats were already occupied, and they were the eleven elders of the clan.
The clansmen from each family surrounding the high platform were noisy and bustling.
"Which elder initiated the clan meeting? Why is there no one here yet?"
“I don’t know…”
"Isn't it hard to guess? Only eleven of the twelve elders came, and none of them spoke. It must be the remaining one."
"The rest? Let me count, one, two, three, four... the elders of the Lezhong clan from the sixth branch?"
"Hasn't House Six been in decline for many years? Why are they suddenly calling for a clan meeting?"
"Is it Caihe again?"
"Impossible. The marriage ceremony takes place once every five years. It's not time yet. Besides, we haven't seen any ordinary men or women. They are all our own people..."
"I suggest that the collection be set once a year. After all, we can just let the side branches go to Daqing to arrest people, and we don't have to work hard."
"You're overthinking it. Last time, the Second Branch elders even suggested changing it to once every ten years, fearing that we would become addicted to sex."
“…”
A cold light flashed in Xu Chong's eyes.
Fang Xianzong told him about this.
To put it bluntly, it is the selection of a spouse by the direct descendants of the three major families.
The objects of selection were ordinary people in Daqing, both men and women, some willing and some forced, to be used as reproductive tools for the direct descendants of the three major families.
Based on this point alone, Xu Chong could not have the slightest favorable impression towards the three major families.
"Come on, follow me to the stage."
Fang Lezhong nodded to Xu Chong, floated up with him, and landed on the empty second seat.
"Quiet!"
It was the old woman whom Fang Lezhong called aunt last time who spoke.
It seemed to be the ability of the Dharma Realm. A breeze blew by and the hall fell silent.
"Lezhong, the clan leader asked you to host it yourself."
The old woman gestured to the other party with joy.
"good."
Fang Lezhong nodded slightly and spoke loudly: "This clan discussion was initiated by Fang Xianzong of the sixth branch... Fang Xianyu , has been killed by Fang Xianzong."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Letian stood up suddenly.
"What did you say?!"
Fang Letian glared at Fang Lezhong and Fang Xianzong behind Fang Lezhong.
It’s not that Fang Xianyu is so important to the Seventh House... Fang Xianyu’s qualifications can only be considered above average in the Seventh House.
But the problem is that Fang Xianyu is his grandson.
Otherwise, Fang Xianyu would not have been qualified to enter the Earth-level training hall right after leaving it.
"You heard it right, Fang Xianyu is dead."
Fang Lezhong replied calmly, glancing at the audience, "The people who just came out of there should have seen it."
“That… is true.”
A member of the second branch spoke up, "When I came out, I passed by the Jizi training room and smelled blood. I found Fang Xianyu dead inside. I think I was not the only one who saw him."
"I saw that, too."
"He is indeed dead. It seems that he died after a fierce battle."
"I didn't expect it was Fang Xianzong who did it..."
Those who knew the situation spoke one after another, their tone very calm.
It's obvious that he is used to this kind of thing.
"impossible!"
Fang Letian slammed the table and said, "Xianyu came to the training hall this time to prepare for a breakthrough and cleansing. Even if the breakthrough fails, there is no way a loser can kill him!"
"I advise you to watch your tone."
Fang Lezhong smiled strangely, "You will regret it later."
"Don't interrupt!"
Fang Letian said viciously: "I don't believe that Fang Xianzong alone can kill Xianyu. There must be others who joined in. I suggest finding the person who broke the rules and publicly execute him together with Fang Xianzong!"
"how?"
The second branch elder said coldly, "Do you suspect that the younger generation of my second branch has interfered?"
The other elders did not speak, but many of them had grim expressions.
"That's not what I meant..."
Fang Letian choked and realized that his words might have offended a lot of people.
At this moment, Xu Chong suddenly took a step forward, and a force left his body and blasted towards Fang Letian through the air.
Fang Letian waved his sleeves and easily defeated the force, and at the same time he became furious.
"You look for ..."
The word death could not be uttered.
Because the strength of that force has reached the ninth level of Tongmai!
"Don't blame me, Elder Letian."
Xu Chong cupped his hands and said with a smile: "I am just trying to prove myself. It is not a problem to kill a loser who failed to cleanse himself."
“Good job!”
"Hahaha!"
"If Xianzong is a loser, then Fang Xianyu is even more of a loser!"
“…”
The six young people from the audience started to make a noise.
Fang Letian's face was extremely ugly, but he could not and did not dare to refute.
Peers compete with each other, and there is no guilt in life or death.
This is a rule that has been deeply rooted over thousands of years. Even if he is an elder of the tribe, he cannot break this rule, otherwise he will suffer the common hostility of others.
"alright."
The old woman knocked on the table and looked at Fang Lezhong with a stern expression, "You applied for a clan-wide meeting just for such a small matter?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the other elders reacted one by one.
"Yeah, Fang Lezhong, are you making a big deal out of nothing?"
"It's just one more Tongmai ninth level. Is it worth making such a fuss?"
"How about a big banquet to celebrate..."
“…”
All kinds of sarcasm.
"Please forgive me, aunt."
Fang Lezhong ignored the others and nodded to the old woman, saying, "What Lezhong wants to say is related to Lin Kuang and magical powers."
The elders of the tribe were stunned.
The tribesmen below the stage started to make a noise, some were confused, and some suddenly opened their eyes wide.
"Shut up!"
The old woman scolded, and after everyone quieted down, she signaled Fang Lezhong to continue.
"I have captured Lin Kuang and taken him to the cave for more than a month. It was not until today that he finally gave in and made an offer."
Fang Lezhong spoke to himself.
"What conditions?!"
Including the old woman, all the elders of the eleven clans spoke at the same time, their voices hurried and their eyes eager.
"Lin Kuang said that he didn't have much time left, so he would only teach me his magical powers once at most, or else he would rather die by himself."
Lin Kuang smiled.
"Only once..."
The old woman frowned and said, "Then let him teach one person first, and after verifying the authenticity, force him with his life."
"Yeah, he can't leave here anyway, so we have the final say on how to control him."
Fang Letian followed up.
At this moment, all Fang Xianyu and his legitimate grandson were thrown out of his mind.
"And even if we force him to death and he can't pass it on a second time, as long as one of us learns it, we can pass it on to each other."
The second branch elder said sinisterly.
The others nodded repeatedly, agreeing with him.
"Why do you all think Lin Kuang is stupid... After all, he was once a Taoist master, couldn't he have thought of this?"
Fang Lezhong shook his head and sighed, "His conditions are very clear, he will only teach one person, and this person's realm cannot exceed Tongmai."
"Can't exceed Tongmai?"
The old woman frowned, "Why?"
"Because only those who cultivate the Tao can develop supernatural powers, and only those who have developed supernatural powers can pass them on to the next person."
Fang Lezhong shrugged, looking helpless. "It's obvious that Lin Kuang wants to use this to keep himself alive for a few more years... After all, we have to wait until the person being taught breaks through to the seed path before we can verify the authenticity of the magical power."
The elders fell silent.
Fang Lezhong was not in a hurry either. He calmly waited for these people to laugh at him.
After a while, the old woman spoke again: "It takes time to cultivate the Tao, and it also takes time to cultivate supernatural powers... As expected of the previous Tao master, this conspiracy, we have no choice but to take the bait."
"Indeed, this Lin Kuang has some abilities."
"No wonder the Lin family supported him so much back then."
"So what if you have the ability? You still fell into our hands, right?"
“…”
All the elders spoke up, seemingly complaining about Lin Kuang, but in fact they were exchanging fierce glances with each other.
There is no doubt that they all want the opportunity to be taught supernatural powers to fall on their direct descendants.
Only Fang Letian's expression kept changing.
He finally understood what the scene on the mountainside was about.
And just as Fang Lezhong said, he has already begun to regret it.
If Lin Kuang bites to death and really only teaches once, then the subsequent transmission of magical powers will all fall on Fang Xianzong's shoulders.
There is no doubt that the first to benefit is the patriarch, followed by the elders' council.
And his words and actions against Fang Xianzong just now may make him the last one in the list...
"so……"
Fang Letian said in a very depressed tone, "Lin Kuang has already passed on his magical powers to Fang Xianzong, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the elders from each family who were still secretly competing with each other suddenly froze and turned to look at Fang Lezhong.
Fang Lezhong smiled calmly and nodded.
"That's right."