Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 63 Geng Shiheng

"Wait, the Mang Cult?"

Li Xiangming was a little confused, not knowing how he had gotten involved with the Mang Cult.

"Madam Zhen is a member of the Mang Cult."

Tang Xueyan clenched her fists, hating that name to the core.

Li Xiangming's heart skipped a beat, and names such as Tang Xueyan, Bei Hanmen, Xu Zibu, Madam Zhen, and the Mang Sect kept churning in his mind.

After a long pause, he let out a soft breath: "You believe that the calamity of the Northern Cold Gate was caused by Madam Zhen, and that Nie Rong's disappearance is also related to Madam Zhen. Therefore, you followed Madam Zhen all the way to the vicinity of Changyang Valley, then participated in this gathering, and happened to encounter Nie Rong?"

"That's probably it."

Tang Xueyan nodded.

"Good, what a wicked religion."

Li Xiangming was so angry he laughed. After all the twists and turns, the root of the problem lay with the Mang Cult.

These persistent ghosts have been eyeing the Li family for who knows how long.

The blind man and the hunchbacked man I had encountered earlier were undoubtedly members of the Mang religion.
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"Ah!"

Ghost King Qi sneezed and couldn't help but shrink his body even tighter.

"Blind Luo, we've suffered a huge loss this time."

Blind Luo tilted his head: "Can you stop thinking about your few ghost soldiers?"

"How many?"

Ghost King Qi raised his voice, as if his body had grown taller.

"Those are the hundreds of ghost soldiers I painstakingly forged, not just a few!"

"Now that things have come to this, what else can we do?"

Luo the Blind replied casually and then went back to meditating.

"It's all that woman, Madam Zhen's, fault."

Ghost King Qi continued to ramble on: "Why doesn't she go back for no reason? She insists on playing around on the Li family's territory. I think she'll get herself into trouble sooner or later."

"You can try to persuade her in person."

Ghost King Qi fell silent for a long while before finally speaking: "She only has two human puppets backing her up. If you ask me, she doesn't deserve the position of protector!"

"I don't know what the leader is thinking. In terms of seniority and strength, who is worse than her?"

In the end, we got nothing.

"Hey, woman, you've got some serious skirt tricks up your sleeve."

"It's fine if you complain to me, but if these words get back to Madam Zhen or the leader, you'll be in big trouble."

Blind Luo pricked up his ears, as if listening to something.

"Hmph, I doubt she'll ever hear it. Being so ostentatious, she's being watched by countless people."

Ghost King Qi was still dissatisfied.

Just then, a sweet, delicate voice reached their ears.

"Ghost King Seven, if you don't want that mouth of yours anymore, I can tear it off for you."

"Madam Zhen?"

Ghost King Qi was startled and quickly shut his mouth.

At the same time, he glanced gloomily to the side, thinking, "Damn blind Luo, he didn't even warn me when people came."

As the sound faded, three figures appeared at the distant intersection.

The leader was a burly man with stubble and a stern gaze.

Luo the Blind spoke up: "Madam Zhen, has the tail been dealt with?"

"After killing more than a dozen people, no one dared to follow."

The burly man with stubble spoke in a woman's voice, and at the same time, his appearance underwent a dramatic transformation, instantly turning into a stunningly beautiful and noble woman.

"I don't think so."

"I am blind Luo," Luo said calmly.

"Oh?"

Madam Zhen frowned. Knowing that Blind Luo had good hearing, she beckoned, "Nie Rong, go and take a look at the back."

Nie Rong nodded blankly and was about to leave.

But Blind Luo interrupted, saying, "No need, this friend is already here."

As he spoke, Blind Luo suddenly stood up, and a surge of powerful magic, like a golden dragon, crashed down on the nearby vegetation.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sent up a cloud of dust, and a dark figure leaped out from the spot.

Nie Rong locked onto his target and arrived in an instant. His sword flashed like lightning, it was the "Surprising Rain" from the Li family.

"So fast!"

The dark figure was startled, realizing it couldn't dodge in time. It silently chanted an incantation, and a cloud of black mist condensed around its body, forming a physical form that forcefully blocked the sword strike.

"The Netherworld Protection Spell?" "So it's a little devil from the Geng family."

Madam Zhen chuckled softly, having already recognized the other party's origins.

Geng Shiheng looked at the group of people in front of him, and when he saw Luo the Blind, he was surprised. He had never expected to be discovered.

It's also my fault. When I saw the demoness change her face, I was bewitched and failed to control my magic.

Thinking of this, Geng Shiheng felt deeply remorseful.

"How did that brat from the Geng family end up on the Li family's territory?"

Ghost King Qi asked in confusion, "Could it be that the Geng and Li families have cooperated?"

"They're probably after us."

Blind Luo frowned.

"What does this mean?"

Ghost King Qi still didn't understand.

"You idiot, have you forgotten what we did to the Geng family before?"

Madam Zhen looked disgusted. She had heard that the other party had almost been burned to death by the Li family brat. Not only was he weak, but he also loved to gossip.

Ghost King Qi, however, did not see Madam Zhen's expression and was still puzzled by the appearance of the Geng family.

"How is that possible? We've been so discreet, how did he manage to follow us?"

Halfway through his speech, Ghost King Qi suddenly realized something and angrily pointed at Madam Zhen: "So it was your problem after all. It was your plaything that lured people here."

At that time, the scoundrels from the Northern Cold Clan followed Madam Zhen, and Luo the Blind repeatedly suggested getting rid of this scourge.

However, relying on her position as a protector, Madam Zhen insisted on sparing the other party's life, claiming it was for a game.

As a result, the Geng family discovered this trail and followed the clues.

"So what."

Madam Zhen didn't take it to heart.

"These portraits representing the three of us are now hanging in front of the Geng family's Foundation Establishment cultivator!"

Ghost King Qi was furious and was just short of attacking Madam Zhen.

Unexpectedly, Madam Zhen glanced at him and said coldly, "If you're afraid of death, don't join the Mang Cult."

Suddenly, Ghost King Qi trembled and let out a strange, inexplicable laugh.

"Alright, Madam Zhen, say no more!"

Luo the Blind Man saw that Ghost King Qi was about to unleash his power and spoke up to stop him.

This place is not far from Danggui Mountain. If Ghost King Qi's ghost soldiers cause trouble, it might attract the attention of the Li family.

Knowing the seriousness of the matter, Madam Zhen snorted coldly and stopped provoking Ghost King Qi.

Ghost King Qi's teeth chattered, as if he wanted to make a move, but he never actually did.

Seeing that the two were gradually calming down, Blind Luo then looked at Geng Shiheng with his lifeless eyes and said, "You were the mysterious person that Yu Liu from Flying Fox Cave mentioned near Changyang Valley, weren't you?"

By this time, Blind Luo had fully realized that the other party had been following him for at least four or five days.

Whether it was Madam Zhen, or herself and Ghost King Qi, they had all been followed.

The only one capable of such a technique is probably the Geng family's unique ghostly secret method, "Five Ghosts Concealing Shadow Step".

Ghost King Qi thought of the same thing. He couldn't care less about being angry with Madam Zhen and looked at Geng Shiheng as if he were a rare treasure.

He had long coveted the Ghostly Dao inheritance of the Geng family.

"So what?"

Seeing that his identity had been exposed, Geng Shiheng stopped pretending, opened his hands, and a small banner appeared in his hands.

The small banner swelled rapidly in the wind, growing to the height of an adult in the blink of an eye. The banner was decorated with five ghost heads of different shapes, constantly twisting.

Upon seeing it, the group felt their souls tremble and dared not look any further.

"Ghost King Seven, how does it compare to your Soul-Summoning Banner?"

Madam Zhen asked curiously.

Ghost King Qi snorted coldly and did not reply.

Upon seeing this, Madam Zhen scoffed, realizing that Ghost King Qi's soul-summoning banner was inferior to that of the other side.

Ghost King Qi's face was filled with anger, and his fists clenched tightly under his hunched cloak.

Madam Zhen ignored him completely and turned to Geng Shiheng, smiling as she said, "I've heard that the Geng family has a Geng Shipei, who is hailed as a genius that appears only once in a century, and is as famous as Li Xiangren of the Li family. I wonder if that's you?"

This time it was Geng Shiheng's turn to sneer, "If Shi Pei were here, you would have gone to see Shi Cheng long ago."

"But it's not too late now. The Geng family has already remembered your Mang Cult. You won't escape to the ends of the earth."

Upon hearing this, Ghost King Qi and Blind Luo's faces instantly darkened.

They acted on behalf of Redstone Valley, but they didn't intend to expose their identity as members of the Mang Cult.

But in the end, it was still discovered.

　Sorry everyone, the internet where I live is terrible right now, and the Wi-Fi connection to my computer keeps dropping, which is very inconvenient. So I'm typing on my phone, but I'm not used to it yet, and I'm not typing as much. I'll try to spend more time during the day these next couple of days to see if I can get back to updating twice a day.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)