Chapter 886: Golden Sword City
"Master, the young master is also worried and confused, and the Tian family of the ancient Qi State is indeed powerful. If they use the Lin family's affairs as an excuse to cause trouble and make things worse, it will be difficult for us to deal with it." An elder of the clan said upon seeing this.
"If they really want to embarrass our Ju family, there will be other things besides the Lin family's affairs, and we can't hide from them even if we want to! Besides, with me here, the Tian family won't dare to do anything, otherwise things will really get out of hand and no one will be in a good situation.
So don't pay any attention to the Tian family, just let it go. But Ju Gongyan's move is too radical and too dangerous, which makes me quite worried!"
"The head of the family means that the Sixth Elder wants to use this disaster to seek a breakthrough?" An elder of the clan trembled slightly and said with a look of surprise.
"I should say both. With Ju Gongyan's personality, it would be difficult for him to abandon his old friend, his wife and children. Otherwise, it would be against his will and it would easily leave him with demons. So he went with the flow and took an unconventional approach, using this disaster to hone himself and seek a breakthrough.
If he survives this disaster and escapes from the southern border, perhaps he will be able to get a glimpse of some Taoist secrets, step into the half-Taoist realm, and truly have hope of becoming a Taoist immortal!
Alas, it is because our Ju family has fallen into decline and there are too few opportunities left. Otherwise, why would he take such a risky move?" said Ju Gongyuan.
Having said that, Ju Gongyuan glanced at his son Ju Tingmao and the clan elder who had just spoken, revealing a very complicated look.
There is a hint of regret, shame and helplessness in this complexity.
Naturally, there are some family heritage and opportunities, but there are differences in closeness, and people are inevitably selfish. No matter whether it is his son or the elder, their blood relationship with him is far beyond that of Ju Gongyan, and their talents and bones are not inferior to Ju Gongyan.
So he naturally chose to give the opportunities accumulated in the family to the two of them.
But now it seems that his choice might have been wrong.
The clan elder and Ju Tingmao both understood the deep meaning behind Ju Gongyuan's gaze. The former lowered his head, while the latter held his head high with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
Ju Gongyuan glanced at his son and said nothing.
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One year later, beside a stream in a vast mountain in the southern border of Kundong Domain, Ju Gongyan was silently treating his wounds. His face was pale, his breathing was disordered, but his eyes were sharp and firm.
The woman with the broken arm standing next to him looked at Ju Gongyan dealing with the shocking wound and seemed to want to say something but stopped herself several times.
The ancient Qi State was a powerful country. Not only did it have spies throughout the southern border, but it also had powerful figures in the country who were good at deduction and tracking.
With Ju Gongyan's level of cultivation, it would be difficult for the ancient Qi State to track him down unless they sent out Taoist immortals to make all-out efforts to deduce and calculate.
But when he fled with his old friend’s wife and children, the situation was completely different.
Of this mother and son, one has the cultivation level of an eighth-grade True Immortal, and her foundation has been damaged; the other is just an infant with no cultivation at all.
Powerful people who are good at deducing and tracking Taoism can roughly calculate the location of others through people who are closely related to them.
Therefore, throughout this year, although Ju Gongyan was careful in every way, he was still discovered by the people of the ancient Qi State many times and even fell into their encirclement.
Fortunately, Ju Gongyan was very powerful, and the Taoist immortal of the ancient Qi State was proud of his status and also wanted to train his disciples, so he did not take action personally. This caused Ju Gongyan to be in danger several times, but he was able to escape in the end.
However, after a year, Ju Gongyan had been injured many times and was exhausted both physically and mentally, but he did not have a real chance to recuperate.
Ju Gongyan's loyalty naturally moved the woman with the one-armed son deeply and made her feel guilty. She tried several times to persuade Ju Gongyan to leave alone and stop caring about them, but he flatly refused.
There was even one time when the woman with the one-armed really didn't want to be a burden to Ju Gongyan anymore, so she secretly left with her child, but was soon found by Ju Gongyan.
"Brother Ju, if this goes on..." After a long time, the woman with the broken arm couldn't help but speak.
“You don’t need to say more. For those of us who practice Taoism, pursuing immortality is an act that defies heaven. If I give up after such a small difficulty, how can I ever hope to become a Taoist immortal?
You don't have to feel guilty. I saved you and your for the greater good, for the sake of my friendship with your husband, and also for the sake of pursuing my own path to immortality." Ju Gongyan interrupted the woman with the broken arm without waiting for her to continue.
"But after being hunted down for a year, we have used up all our immortal stones and elixirs that replenish our immortal power. If we continue to be hunted down like this, you and I won't be able to quickly replenish what we have consumed, and we will definitely not be able to escape from the southern border!" said the woman with the broken arm.
Immortal practitioners live in a place filled with immortal energy. They only need to absorb the immortal energy floating between heaven and earth every day to almost meet their own needs for practice.
However, if you want to shorten your daily meditation time, or improve your cultivation faster, or if the use of immortal arts consumes a lot of energy and you need to replenish the loss, you will need to rely on resources such as immortal stones, immortal pills, and blood and flesh medicines.
Over the past year, Ju Gongyan and the woman with the one-armed had been on the run and fighting. Not only were they often injured, but they also consumed a huge amount of energy.
Therefore, the speed at which the immortal stones and immortal pills were consumed was extremely fast. Before we knew it, they had been completely consumed dozens of days ago.
Without immortal stones and immortal pills to quickly replenish the loss, their cultivation could not recover and their strength was greatly reduced.
And this situation will form a vicious cycle. As time goes by and with each fight, their situation will only get worse.
"At your and my level, ordinary immortal houses are definitely not able to meet our needs, and high-end immortal houses must have the eyes and ears of the ancient Qi State, so we definitely cannot exchange immortal stones and immortal pills. But if this goes on for a long time, without rapid replenishment, our strength will be greatly reduced. I'm afraid that even a ninth-rank True Immortal, several seventh- and eighth-rank True Immortals will be able to surround and kill us." Ju Gongyan frowned when he heard this, his face looking solemn.
"Brother Ju, actually..." the woman with the broken arm said hesitantly.
Seeing this, Ju Gongyan immediately waved his hand and interrupted, "Sister-in-law, there is always a way out. Let me think about it again."
Seeing this, the woman with the broken arm's lips trembled, but finally she closed her mouth and looked at Ju Gongyan quietly.
Soon, Ju Gongyan seemed to have thought of something, and a look of indecision appeared on his face.
After a long while, Ju Gongyan seemed to have finally made a decision. He fixed his eyes and said, "We are now in the Tongheng Mountains. Three hundred thousand miles away is the Golden Sword City."
"Golden Sword City?" The woman with the broken arm had a look of doubt on her face.
“This Golden Sword City is a Taoist force that has only risen in the last hundred years. I went there a few years ago and met the elder of Golden Sword City, Jin Yichen, and became friends with him.
This person is a ninth-grade true immortal with extraordinary strength. I feel that he should be a trustworthy person. We can go to Jinjian City now, and then we can secretly exchange some immortal stones and immortal pills that we need through him. "Ju Gongyan explained.
