Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

In Lingxu Mountain, outside Xutong Valley, in a valley, several people were moving slowly forward in the darkness. They were the Tuoba ancient clan.

"Chief, do you still need me to go into the mountains to track down those two people?"

Elder Xiaoliu asked as he walked.

After Elder Xiaoliu knocked out Monk Mingzhi, he went in the direction of the Great Elder, but didn't see anyone, so he hurried to the direction of Elder Two. Just then, A'mei was about to leave, so he stretched out his hand to stop her, but was stopped by the clan leader. After A'mei left, the three of them searched carefully again, but there was no trace of Elder Two. The clan leader and the Great Elder were in a heavy mood, and then they came to the valley where Elder Five was. Everyone saw that Elder Five was just too weak and not seriously injured, so they felt relieved. Elder Five told the clan leader that someone took Huang Xiyi away into the mountains, but unfortunately he was too tired and it was a little dark, so he didn't see who that person was. Elder Xiaoliu saw that he and the clan leader were not injured, so he asked the question at the beginning.

The clan leader had a heavy heart all the way, thinking in his heart, how could the righteous and evil ways appear together in the ancestral temple of the Tuoba ancient clan? The strong aura of the Holy Emperor Art and the disappearance of the second elder made the clan leader a little worried; and the leader of the Tianyou Sect who came down the mountain said that he had no intention of being an enemy of the Tuoba ancient clan, was it true?

Where is the Great Elder? At this moment, he was terrified, and the appearance of the Holy Emperor Art made him even more uneasy.

"Xiao Liu, take Wu Zi and this monk back to Buluo Ridge first and activate the mountain protection formation. The clan leader and I will go to the ancestral temple!"

The Great Elder spoke first.

The Great Elder had no idea that before the clan leader arrived, he had already ordered the entire clan to prepare for war and activated the mountain protection formation.

"Yes"

Elder Xiaoliu took his men and left.

"Hongpeng, come with me to our ancestral temple. There are some things you need to know!"

After the Great Elder finished speaking, he entered the Lost Forest, and the Clan Leader followed closely behind him.

Xutong Valley is very large, even larger than the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain. Five hundred years ago, the entire Tuoba ancient tribe lived in this valley. Now the valley is still full of traces of the Tuoba ancient tribe's survival, including a two-story wooden building with a round roof, fire altars, wells, and racks for drying barbecued meat. Most of them are in ruins. The wooden thatched shed in the middle of Xutong Valley, the round-roofed cylindrical house is very intact. It is the ancestral temple of the Tuoba ancient tribe.

After the Great Elder and Clan Leader Tuoba Hongpeng walked in, they bowed their heads and knelt down. They were kneeling down to worship the spirit tablets of the clan leaders of the ancient Tuoba clan.

After the two stood up, the great elder walked to the ancestral tablet and took out a yellowed paper from under a tablet with Tuoba Yuliang's name engraved on it.

"This is a record of an event that happened in our lineage five hundred years ago. It is not recorded in the clan history."

After saying that, he handed it to the clan leader Tuoba Hongpeng.

"Only the clan leaders of our lineage knew about this, but you became the chosen one of our clan. The previous clan leader told me about this. When there is another clan leader in our lineage, we will pass it on!"

It turns out that the inheritance of the Tuoba ancient clan is not fixed. Normally, it is passed down from a certain lineage. The clan leaders of previous generations were all from the lineage of the great elder. But when it came to Tuoba Hongpeng, the inheritance of the Tuoba ancient clan's power changed. Tuoba Hongpeng was like a chosen son of heaven. He continued to grow in strength since he was a child, while the number of clan leaders continued to decrease. At that time, everyone knew that the inheritance had changed. Tuoba Hongpeng replaced the lineage of the patriarch. The Tuoba ancient clan had appeared several times in the history of the Tuoba ancient clan, and the clan members did not care too much. However, there was a shameful and even discarded history in the lineage of the great elder, which they did not want the clan members to know about. It was not recorded in the clan history and was preserved in this way.

Tuoba Hongpeng opened the paper carefully. His initial curiosity turned into heaviness, then shock, and even a little worry. Finally, his expression became very solemn.

The paper records roughly the following:

The Tuoba ancient clan was indeed driven away by the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain. The clan leaders of all generations thought that it was for the inherited power of the Tuoba ancient clan. It was not until five hundred years ago that they learned that the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain was used to seal something. In fact, the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain is a Five Buddhas Formation. As for what is sealed, it is unknown. How did the Tuoba ancient clan know such a secret?

Because five hundred years ago, the amazing genius Xuan Ku of the Fuchen Temple in Lingxu Mountain was a member of the ancient Tuoba clan. The reason why Xuan Ku was amazing was not only because of himself, but also because he inherited part of the power of the ancient Tuoba clan. The clan leader at that time knew it, because Xuan Ku was the illegitimate son of the clan leader Tuoba Yuliang at that time, an illegitimate son who lost his moral character after drinking.

In fact, it was not considered a drunken misconduct. The clan leader Tuoba Yuliang at that time found that the outsiders had broken into the Soul Devouring Cave in the south of Lingxu Mountain, so he wanted to drive them away. However, the other party's strength was beyond his expectations. Even though he had the power of inheritance, he was seriously injured and fled back to Xutong Valley, where the Tuoba Ancient Clan was located. During the period of recuperation, the clan leader Tuoba Yuliang got drunk and suddenly felt hot and unbearable, so he raped a woman of the same surname in his clan! When the clan leader regained consciousness, the big mistake had been made. Soon after, the woman became pregnant. The Tuoba Ancient Clan did not allow marriages with the same surname; and the child was regarded as a gift from God to them by the Tuoba Ancient Clan, and it could not be aborted. If the child was aborted privately, according to the clan rules, it would be thrown into the Soul Devouring Cave.

Eventually, the child was born in secret, and the clan leader sent the child outside the Fuchen Temple. The child was Master Xuanku. At that time, Tuoba Yuliang wanted to protect the child and could not bear to kill him; secondly, he wanted to plant a seed of revenge, because the ancient Tuoba clan had never forgotten the humiliating history of the Fuchen Temple driving out the clan members and burning the ancestral hall.

Xuan Ku lived a very comfortable life in Fuchen Temple. No one knew about it except the clan leader, not even Xuan Ku's mother.

When Xuan Ku became famous throughout the world, the clan leader Tuoba Yuliang was also very pleased. After all, he was his own child. Seeing Xuan Ku become successful, Tuoba Yuliang once wanted to give up revenge, but everything did not go as he wished.

When Xuan Ku, Shen Chuyi, and Xuanyuan Hongming were caught in a love triangle, a mysterious and distinguished guest came to the Tuoba ancient clan - Ji Zhenjun, the guardian of the Ji family ancestral hall in Zhongzhou and the great-uncle of the current head of the family.

Tuoba Yuliang didn't know this person's purpose, because although the Ji family was the leader of the righteous path, it had no intersection with the ancient clans of Manghuang, and the Ji family was thousands of miles away.

Ji Zhenjun directly stated the purpose of this trip, which was to use the Soul Devouring Cave, a forbidden place of the Tuoba Ancient Clan, to eliminate the devil and save the world. Tuoba Yuliang did not want to get involved in the dispute between good and evil, and secondly, the Soul Devouring Cave was a forbidden place of the Tuoba Ancient Clan, so how could outsiders enter at will? Moreover, he was very confused in his heart, how could Ji Zhenjun know the existence of the Soul Devouring Cave! Ji Zhenjun refused, but he never expected that Ji Zhenjun directly said that Xuan Ku was a member of the Tuoba Ancient Clan, and was Tuoba Yuliang's son!

Just like this, he was half threatening and half succumbing to the pressure from the Ji family. Because Ji Zhenjun was accompanied by more than 200 masters of the Ji family who were outside Xutong Valley, Tuoba Yuliang could only agree to lend the Soul-Devouring Cave to the Ji family. He was also very curious about what Ji Zhenjun was going to do with the Soul-Devouring Cave, which was a punishment cave with no exit.

So he led the Ji family to the Soul Devouring Cave. When the Ji family set up a formation outside the Soul Devouring Cave, Tuoba Yuliang was shocked, because the person who injured him outside the Soul Devouring Cave that year had a similar technique to that used to set up the formation. In addition, Ji Zhenjun knew Xuan Ku's life experience and the Soul Devouring Cave, and there was an outsider who broke into Xutong Valley on the night he was drunk and had sex. Tuoba Yuliang realized that he had been set up for more than 20 years! But what was the point of understanding it? It was too late.

After the Ji family arranged the formation outside the Soul-Devouring Cave, they left without making any other requests to the Tuoba Ancient Clan and Tuoba Yuliang. However, Tuoba Yuliang knew in his heart that after more than 20 years of planning, it was impossible for him to just give up. Sure enough, not long after, Xuan Ku came to the door, lured Tuoba Yuliang away, and had a fight. Halfway through the fight, Xuan Ku told Tuoba Yuliang that he was indeed a member of the Tuoba Ancient Clan, because Xuan Ku felt that the unknown huge energy in his body was exactly the same as Tuoba Yuliang's.

He asked Tuoba Yuliang what he was doing all this for. Tuoba Yuliang told Xuan Ku about his difficulties, his initial intention of revenge, and his intention to give up revenge. Xuan Ku left crying and laughing.

A few days later, Tuoba Yuliang received a letter from Xuan Ku, which roughly explained the reason for the initial dispute between the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain and the Tuoba ancient clan, and also stated that the blood of the Tuoba ancient clan should be returned to the Tuoba ancient clan, and the two sides owed each other nothing.

Not long after, Tuoba Yuliang learned that the Fuchen Temple on Lingxu Mountain was reduced to ashes overnight, and he felt that something was wrong, so he moved his entire family to Buluoling, but everything was peaceful, and even the Xutong Valley remained unchanged.

Later, Tuoba Yuliang inquired about Xuan Ku's news and learned that he had entered the Soul-Devouring Cave. He also realized that he had returned to the ancient Tuoba clan as a sinner. He felt very sorry and blamed himself. Although he had avenged the Fuchen Temple, Tuoba Yuliang was still uneasy. The Ji family never looked for Tuoba Yuliang again, and five hundred years passed in a flash.

Five hundred years later, the ancient Tuoba clan had the aura of the Ji family again. How could this not shock the great elder? So he decided to tell everything to the clan leader Tuoba Hongpeng.

After reading the yellowed paper, clan leader Tuoba Hongpeng couldn't calm down for a long time. The disappearance of Fuchen Temple in Lingxu Mountain five hundred years ago was not only caused by the extermination of the evil sect. Behind it was not only the shadow of the Tuoba ancient clan, but also the involvement of the Ji family. What did Xuan Ku do back then!