Immortal Cultivation Families: The Rise of the Jinling Immortal Clan

The person who appeared at this moment was Cai Fangcheng, one of the murderers who had harmed Xia Yongye in the past.

After more than a decade, he has now reached the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Just as Cai Fangcheng was leisurely flying towards the mine, a black-robed man standing on a flying sword suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

Cai Fangcheng was startled, shocked that his divine sense had failed to detect this person. He immediately became alert and instantly conjured a spell in his hand.

"Fellow Daoist Cai, it has been more than ten years since we last met, and your charm is as undiminished as ever. I have come today to fulfill the promise we made years ago."

Just as Cai Fangcheng was beginning to have doubts, a cold wind suddenly swept past him, and he immediately sensed something was wrong, but it was too late.

"Hehehe, how dare you offend my master, boy, you're in for a beating."

In the last moments before Cai Fangcheng lost consciousness, this voice kept echoing in his mind; however, he could never wake up again.

After more than ten breaths.

In the distance, Xia Yuhui held a soul tightly and chuckled softly: "Finally, we've captured one person, but unfortunately, Cai Tingxiang is nowhere to be found."

After saying that, he moved one hand, and a ball of flame began to burn the soul in his hand.

The soul immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream, but Xia Yunhui ignored it completely and continued to increase his magical output. After a while, the soul fainted from the pain.

"Qingfeng, search his soul, but don't kill him. I want to torture him for a while longer."

Upon receiving this order, a ghostly figure suddenly appeared on Xia Yuhui's right hand, instantly revealing Qingfeng's appearance. Qingfeng respectfully replied, "Yes, Master!"

After saying this, he took the soul from Xia Yuhui and immediately used the soul-searching technique, which is used only by second-tier innate spirit ghosts.

Before long, Cai Fangcheng's soul, which had been in a deep sleep, was suddenly awakened by the excruciating pain, letting out a series of shrill screams. However, Qingfeng ignored him and continued to search for his soul.

Half an hour later, Qingfeng transmitted a message to Xia Yuhui. Xia Yuhui immediately nodded, his face showing surprise, but a cold smile appeared on his face after a short while.

Cai Fangcheng's body, which had already perished, suddenly appeared beside Xia Yuhui, bowing to him and saying, "Master, I have taken control of this body. What should we do next?"

Xia Yuhui's expression turned solemn as he replied, "The plan has changed. A new Foundation Establishment cultivator has emerged in the Cai family, and there is also a Foundation Establishment cultivator in their main camp who entered the Foundation Establishment realm more than ten years ago. We must kill this new Foundation Establishment cultivator first."

In any case, Xia Yuhui never expected that the Cai family, whose strength was originally comparable to that of the Xia family, would secretly harbor two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In this way, the Cai family would have three Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Xia Yuhui could not be sure whether the Chimu family still only had three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

If Qingfeng Mingyue hadn't successfully advanced to the second-tier spirit ghost and mastered the soul-searching technique, Xia Yuhui would probably have recklessly sought revenge against the three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, it's not too late for anything now.

"Since it's inconvenient for my Xia family to take action, then I'll let the demonic cultivators do it for me..."

On a mountain range thousands of miles away from Maple Spirit Mountain, there are about a thousand mortals mining spirit ore, while cultivators dressed in Cai family attire patrol around them from time to time.

Just then, Cai Fangcheng was speeding towards them on his sword in the distance. The cultivators on the ground saw him approaching and immediately activated the array restrictions to let him pass.

"Brother, how did it go? Did you make any gains at the market fair?" An ugly-looking cultivator hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"It's alright, but there wasn't much to gain. I'm a bit tired, I'll go rest for a while." After saying that, Cai Fangcheng entered the mine and slowly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Three days later.

The mine was still operating normally, but the Cai family cultivators who were on patrol suddenly rushed into the formation and shouted, "Enemy attack! Come quickly, it's demonic cultivators."

The busy mortals were suddenly thrown into a panic and fled in all directions.

"Do not move rashly! With us here, quickly enter the mine and take shelter." Upon witnessing this scene, the cultivator immediately shouted in a deep voice, organizing everyone to enter the mine in an orderly manner.

A dozen or so breaths later, a cloud of black smoke appeared in the sky. Deep within the smoke, Xia Yuhui, dressed in a black robe, held the Hundred Ghosts Banner, which had been repaired by Xia Guangyao.

Behind him were seven or eight black-robed cultivators, all of whom were at least at the late stage of Qi Refining, with the two at the very front having reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

Xia Yuhui stared at the commotion below, a contemptuous sneer appearing on his lips, and instantly unleashed the aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The Qi Refining cultivators below sensed this terrifying aura and immediately panicked. However, in a short while, a double-layered light screen enveloped the entire mountain range. This formation was the great formation that protected the mountain range.

Above the sky, Xia Yuhui saw this second-tier formation, and his expression also became solemn.

Finally, he reluctantly took out a second-tier formation-breaking talisman from his storage bag.

However, he did not use it immediately. Instead, he shouted down, "Cai family cultivators below, I do not wish to waste this second-tier formation-breaking talisman. If you hand over 10,000 spirit stones, I will spare you this time. Otherwise, once your tortoise shell is broken, I will leave you without a single piece of armor."

Upon hearing this, the Qi Refining cultivators below were immediately thrown into a panic.

Just then, a handsome monk dressed in white, with an elegant demeanor, emerged from the mine with Cai Fangcheng.

As soon as he appeared, he immediately released his Foundation Establishment power, calming the panicked Cai family cultivators.

This person was Cai Tingdu, another Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Cai family whom Xia Yuhui had learned about during his soul search.

This person successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage two years ago and has now been sent here by the Cai family to prevent a sudden counterattack from the Xia family.

Overall, the Cai family's deployment this time was quite appropriate. This location is not only adjacent to the Xia family's main base, Fengling Mountain, but is also a key resource point.

It can be said that if Xia Yuhui had not broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage, even if the Xia family had gathered all its cultivators to launch a counterattack, they would have been slaughtered by this Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Unfortunately, Xia Yuhui successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, and now the situation has reversed.

“Fellow Daoist, do you truly intend to oppose my Cai family? If you leave now, I will pretend this never happened.” Cai Tingdu stared at Xia Yuhui and said in a deep voice.

"Hehe, I thought you were some great figure, but you're just a junior who has just entered the Foundation Establishment stage. If you have the guts, come out and fight me. If I lose, I will leave." Xia Yuhui's voice was deep and resonant. To outsiders, he sounded like an old man, so his words did not seem out of place.

"Hmph, I see that you are only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, yet you dare to speak so arrogantly. If you are unwilling to leave today, then take action to break the formation. My uncle is on his way. If you dare to make a move today, my Cai family will issue a warrant for your arrest in Jinling County, so that you will never have a place to stand again."

Xia Yuhui, however, showed no anger. Looking at the second-tier array-breaking talisman he had taken from the family treasury, he smiled slightly. All the nonsense he had just said was nothing more than a way to communicate with the bright moon inside the array. Now that the communication was over, it was time to make his move.

Thinking of this, he nodded to himself and then put the second-tier array-breaking talisman into his storage bag.

Upon seeing this, Cai Tingdu, who was inside the formation, was stunned. He was unsure whether Xia Yuhui wanted to fight or make peace. Just as he was about to ask, his expression suddenly changed drastically. At that moment, a pitch-black ghost hand had pierced through his chest, and the ghost hand was constantly emitting ghostly energy that was corroding his body.

On his deathbed, he could only murmur, "Ghost, ghost..."

The next instant, his body collapsed to the ground.