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Various emerging industries in Wancheng Country are developing rapidly.

However, Chixing Mountain in Wancheng Kingdom has been shrouded in dark clouds all day long in recent years.

Getting weaker day by day.

I feel more and more frightened every day.

No one in the entire Chixing Mountain was optimistic about the future.

There is only endless pessimism.

and deepening despair.

Among them, Hongyan Daozu, the sect master of Chixing Mountain, has a sad face all day long. He often stands on the top of the main peak of Chixing Mountain, looking at the fireworks in the world through layers of mist, and is in a daze.

He murmured to himself: "When did mortals become superior to immortals?"

"Think about how prosperous my Chixing Mountain was back then. There were nearly a hundred immortals and nearly ten thousand disciples. Feiyun Mountain was suppressed by me for thousands of years. Guanglei Mountain did not dare to provoke me. In the mortal city, the waiters were respectful and rushed to offer sacrifices."

What about now?

"Hey~!"

Daozu Hongyan sighed, his white hair flickering in his ears, as if he had aged dozens of years.

No hope in sight.

This huge Red Star Mountain will soon fall apart and perish.

Why do you say that?

How could Chixing Mountain, which occupies the core section of a large spiritual vein, die?

But it is true.

In less than a hundred years, Chixing Mountain will surely perish!

The reason is, of course, because of the evil Wancheng Kingdom!

Wancheng's vigorous promotion of universal education in the country and the establishment of a training academy almost robbed Chixing Mountain of all the sources of disciples from the mother's womb.

Especially for those disciples with excellent qualifications and outstanding talents, every city used to compete to send them to Chixing Mountain, and Chixing Mountain had to pick and choose them.

What now?

Not to mention the disciples with excellent qualifications, but the disciples with average qualifications. If Chixingshan wants to recruit disciples, it will take a lot of effort and various means to convince their parents.

They also had to recruit disciples and elders to go down the mountain in person, risking being arrested by the Special Public Security Bureau to bring the disciples up the mountain.

Over the past few years, six disciple-recruiting elders have been imprisoned in mortal prison for the crime of "kidnapping and trafficking in children", and they have not been released to this day.

He went to the realm of Guanglei Mountain to recruit disciples. After being discovered by Guanglei Mountain, the other party directly attacked Chixing Mountain and forced the dozen or so disciples back.

After trying all possible means, in the past few years, the number of new disciples in Chixing Mountain has been less than a hundred.

More than a hundred disciples died due to various conflicts and dangerous missions.

In other words, in terms of talents, Chixingshan has been unable to make ends meet.

A more serious problem than the shortage of talents is the economic income of Chixing Mountain, which has declined like an avalanche in recent years.

The main reason is that the "offerings" from mortal cities have decreased significantly.

In the past, Chixing Mountain received so much of the offerings from cities every year that it could not be used up. The food it received could not be eaten and a good portion had to be thrown away. The property it received was piled up like a mountain, and there was not even a warehouse to store it. There were all kinds of things. There are countless precious raw materials for refining weapons and herbs for refining elixirs.

What now?

There are more than sixty cities in Chixing Mountain, but only five are still being donated... five of the twelve core cities around Chixing Mountain.

Not to mention the small amount of things offered, the value has also shrunk severely. If you can't express dissatisfaction, it will make the remaining five cities angry and they will not offer anything in the future.

This is also related to the battle with Feiyun Mountain many years ago. Chixing Mountain used mortal monks in twelve cities as cannon fodder. More than 90,000 people out of 100,000 were killed in the battle. The heavy losses caused almost all the cities to be destroyed. Filial piety makes every family cry bitterly.

But Chixing Mountain didn't provide any financial compensation or verbal comfort. The few thousand people who survived were only given the status of outer disciples. They learned almost nothing and had to do all kinds of chores and bear the internal burden. The disciples humiliated him in every possible way.

In the end, almost all of the thousands of people went down the mountain and no longer served.

The people of Chixing Mountain were heartbroken, and their relationship with the twelve cities plummeted. It could be said that they had lost their base.

There is a saying that "You only know how to cherish when you lose it." This is true for Chixing Mountain. After more than 99% of the mortals' offerings were interrupted, Chixing Mountain was seriously unable to make ends meet financially and began to eat away at the capital accumulated in the past.

And after products such as "Air Control Suit" and "Magic Weapon Three-piece Set" appeared in Wancheng Kingdom, there was also a "buying wave" on Chixing Mountain. A large number of disciples had no intention of practicing and just thought about it all day long. money, and then purchase these sets through various channels.

Chixing Mountain’s expenses have skyrocketed.

Daozu Hongyan took strict measures to prohibit the purchase of those "mortal things". If he found one, he would confiscate one. As a result, his disciples were strongly dissatisfied, and then they put on air-control suits, rebelled from the sect, and joined the Wancheng Kingdom. … Even the immortals can’t catch up.

Within half a month, more than 100 people defected.

Daozu Hongyan had no choice but to abolish the ban and return the confiscated magic weapon sets.

They even turned a blind eye to the behavior of many disciples who secretly went down the mountain to make money and work in psychic factories run by mortals, without imposing any restrictions.

Because it is better for these disciples to make their own money to buy those expensive magic weapon sets than to form a group to steal the property from the sect's warehouse and then sell it for consumption in the mortal world.

After all, the sect would not pay these disciples for practicing in the mountains.

Most of the disciples are penniless.

Being accustomed to the excitement and prosperity of the mortal world, those disciples began to get bored with the boring practice and were very interested in the new things that kept emerging in the mortal world. Their way of thinking was gradually influenced and even assimilated by mortals. , which produces a strong impression.

Over time, the disciples weakened their hatred for Wancheng Kingdom, lost confidence in the sect, became confused in their thinking, and wavered in their stance. Before they could show their cards to Wancheng Kingdom, they were already timid.

Some disciples are even developing into "surrender faction".

The most fundamental reason for this result is that Wancheng Kingdom is more advanced and stronger.

The other is that Wancheng Kingdom is more developed and wealthy.

And no matter which aspect, Chixing Mountain has no chance of winning.

Even if there is an ancestor in Chixing Mountain who is in trance.

Where is the road?

How to choose and plan for the future of Chixing Mountain?

Regarding this issue, during this period, Daozu Hongyan discussed with several elders in the sect and the only remaining ancestor for several days.

We are still discussing this issue today.

In the sect's main hall.

"It's better to move the mountain gate, leave the Wancheng Kingdom, and find another suitable spiritual line. With the Wancheng Kingdom here, our Chixing Mountain will be destroyed sooner or later." An elder said, thinking that the only way to move out is to remove the Taoism of the Chixing Mountain. , can be continued.

"No!"

Someone immediately shook his head and retorted, "How hard is it to find a suitable spiritual vein? The slightly better spiritual veins are occupied by mountain gates. If you want to relocate, these mountain gates must be destroyed! For the Destroying Sect, even if the Chixing Mountain is slightly damaged, it will still be destroyed from there. Large spiritual veins migrate to small and medium spiritual veins. The spiritual energy is insufficient and cultivation is slow. Who can adapt to this environment?"

A rich man who is used to living a comfortable life is now forced to suffer poverty and make do with it. The huge gap is not only unbearable mentally, but also unbearable when it comes to living in such a situation.

What's more, these elders in the palace were on Chixing Mountain, facing caves with 100 times and 80 times the intensity of spiritual energy respectively. None of them would choose the cave with 80 times the concentration to practice.

So when I thought of moving the sect there with those small spiritual veins that were few in caves with a spiritual energy that was 50 times more dense, almost no one in the room agreed.

"The spiritual veins of my Scarlet Star Mountain are unparalleled by any mountain gate in the world. If you move away, you will be asking for weakness. You must not do it!"

"If we don't move the mountain gate, what will happen if Wancheng Kingdom intensifies the persecution? If we can't recruit disciples and have no financial resources, aren't we just as weak?" the elder asked.

The hall was quiet for a while.

"boom!"

An elder hammered the low table in front of him, gritted his teeth and said, "Then we will try our best to destroy the Wancheng Kingdom! Take back everything that belongs to Chixing Mountain!"

This elder is one of the few hard-line representatives left in Chixing Mountain. His voice of fighting with all his strength and fighting to the end once dominated the mainstream, but now...

No one in the room responded, they just shook their heads.

"We still have our ancestors. As long as our ancestors kill all the top leaders of Wancheng Kingdom, Wancheng Kingdom will definitely collapse!" The elder stood up and shouted.

"Bi Daozi, please sit down. This method has been tried before, but the Wancheng country has a special system and the country's leaders rotate. Killing a few has no effect. Instead, it will anger them and attract thunderous revenge." Hong Yan Daozu shook his head and said.

Of course, killing Zhang Shanhe, the soul of Wan Chengguo, will definitely have obvious results. However, Zhang Shanhe is extremely cunning and has countless substitutes. The probability of a successful assassination is extremely low, but his counterattack and revenge can make people The hostile forces felt pain in their spines and deeply regretted it.

Even if Zhang Shanhe was successfully killed, Daozu Hongyan did not dare to confirm that the Wancheng Kingdom would really be in chaos and collapse. Because this country has a special system, the death of individual important figures would not have an overall impact that could shake the overall situation.

Therefore, Taozu Hongyan never expressed his agreement with the hard-line opinions of the sect.

The only remaining Patriarch Yin Kui is the sect's last trump card. Dao Ancestor Hongyan would never play it out like that and then suffer the rapid demise of Chixing Mountain.

"Relocating the sect won't work, nor will assassinating the top leaders of Wancheng Kingdom. What should we do?"

"Isn't it possible to just sit and wait for death?"

An elder screamed, his face full of despair.

"merge."

"Chixing Mountain can be merged with other bulks."

At this time, Patriarch Yin Kui, who was sitting at the top and had been silent until now, suddenly spoke and said something.

merge?

All the elders in the field were very surprised and asked one after another, "How to merge with that sect?"

"Qingyun Mountain."

Ancestor Yin Kui said, "Qingyun Mountain has been severely suppressed by Guanglei Mountain in recent years. It lacks strength and needs external assistance."

"I went to Qingyun Mountain the day before yesterday and discussed this matter with Hongping Daozu. He agreed, but..."

"But what?" Someone asked immediately below.

"But after the merger, Qingyun Mountain will be the main one and Chixing Mountain will be the auxiliary. After entering Qingyun Mountain, we will no longer be able to act in the name of Chixing Mountain. We will all be the disciples of Qingyun Mountain from now on."

After Ancestor Yinkui finished speaking, there was silence below.

In other words... extremely disappointed.

What is the difference between this merger and the demise of the sect?

Who else will remember Chixing Mountain in the future?

Of course the people and the orthodoxy are still there, but in the future they can no longer say that they are the elders of Chixing Mountain, and they are no longer characters from Chixing Mountain.

From then on, I depended on others, looked at people's looks, took people's charity, had to be driven and shouted at by others, and became a second-class commodity, completely losing my independence.

Who accepted this result?

"I think the merger can be..."

Seeing that no one responded, Daozu Hongyan spoke up. He had an agreement with Patriarch Yinkui beforehand, and he believed that the merger could be accepted, even though he would lose his sect title.

"The sect master and all the elders and ancestors, the traitor of our sect and the ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Wancheng Kingdom, Shen Quan, went up the mountain to ask for an audience."

At this moment, disciples outside the hall came in to report.

Daozu Hongyan was stunned for a moment, and his words were choked back in his stomach.

Chenquan.

This traitor, what is he doing here again?