Even though Lu Ping was highly skilled, he was still facing seven direct disciples of the Nine Xuan Tower at the same time, including three Tower Leaders. Naturally, he did not have the confidence to win, which was why he had used the cover of the fog to launch a sneak attack.
Since they were not fighting head-on, the Eight Trigrams Master of the Nine Xuan Tower was caught off guard and was captured alive by Lu Ping. Then, he was thrown into the House of Gold and imprisoned.
At the same time, Samling made his move. At this time, Samling was facing a direct disciple of the Nine Xuan Tower who was at the peak of the early Dharma stage.
This was because Lu Ping had taken the initiative to launch a sneak attack and disrupted the formation of the seven direct disciples of the Nine Xuan Tower. He managed to pin down six of them, while the remaining one was surrounded by Samling.
Although Samling was only at the peak of the Core Forging stage, Samling, who had condensed a ninth-grade Golden Elixir, was already very powerful. Previously, they had joined forces to fight against a Dharma adept. Although they were facing a direct disciple of the Nine Xuan Tower, they were not afraid.
Just as Lu Bi and Lu Hai joined forces to block the attack from the Nine Xuan Tower's cultivator, Lu Ling 'er suddenly jumped out from the side and bit the cultivator's arm.
At this time, the Nine Xuan Tower's cultivator, who had suffered a series of setbacks, finally managed to retract the fog that Lu Ping had set up with the help of Zhu Jiuluan's black teapot. However, Samling had already returned to Lu Ping's side, and Lu Ping was standing in front of them.
When the Nine Xuan Tower's cultivator recognized Lu Tianping, everyone's expression changed. It was not only because Lu Ping was able to fight against a late Dharma adept, but also because they suddenly remembered that something shocking had happened to Lu Tianping. He had three Green Sea Snakes by his side, and it seemed that the Green Sea Snakes had sent a great practitioner to investigate, but in the end, the three Green Sea Snakes had not been taken away from Lu Ping.
The Green Sea Snake's venom was well-known in the world, and almost every Green Sea Snake's venom was different, and the venom would increase with the Green Sea Snake's level of practice. After one's level of practice had reached the Dharma stage, every Green Sea Snake's venom could be considered a rare poison in the world.
However, although the Green Sea Snake's venom was strange, it was affected by the level of practice. With Lu Ling 'er's current peak Core Forging cultivation, even if she bit the Nine Xuan Tower's cultivator, she would not be able to remove or expel the venom for the time being. With The Friar's strength at the peak of the early Dharma stage, it was completely possible for him to suppress the venom.
However, in reality, at this time, the wound on the Nine Xuan Tower's cultivator's arm had already been frozen by frost. No matter how much he mobilized the inner Yuan in his body, he could not suppress the cold venom in his arm at all.
Unless he cut off his own arm, but if he did so, his physical body would be damaged. In the future, if he wanted to improve his level of practice, he would have to take a more arduous path than ordinary people.
In reality, after Lu Ling 'er had taken his breath, the cold venom stubbornly stuck to his arm and did not spread into the cultivator's body. It was also not suppressed by the cultivator's inner Yuan in the slightest.
Zhu Jiuluan had already understood the situation on his side at the first moment. He knew that today, he was afraid that he would be defeated by Lu Tianping. Originally, he had wanted to use the Nine Xuan Tower's name to pressure Lu Ping into releasing the poison, but he did not expect that the Green Fox Nine Bandits and Lu Tianping were actually jackals of the same tribe!
At this time, Zhu Jiuluan remembered that when Lu Tianping first rose to prominence in the Central Plains, he had teamed up with Xie Tianyang of the Purple Sun Palace and Sang Yu of the Spirit Taming Beast Sect to fight against the fourth elder of the Tenma people, Ma Li.
Previously, Xie Tianyang and Sang Yu had attacked the Nine Xuan Tower's Seven Star Tower and Eight Trigrams Tower Master because of the Green Fox Nine Bandits, causing the Seven Star Tower Master and Eight Trigrams Tower Master to be demoted one after another. This was why the previous Nine Palace Tower Master was automatically promoted to the Seven Star Tower Master, ranked tenth among the direct disciples. Now, the person who had been captured by Lu Ping had the right to directly become the Eight Star Tower Master, and Zhu Jiuluan also had the opportunity to take control of the Nine Palace Tower.
Not long after Zhu Jiuluan took control of the Nine Palace Tower, he once again targeted the Green Fox Nine Bandits. There was no other reason, but he simply wanted to establish his authority over the Green Fox Nine Bandits.
Two of the Nine Profound Tower's Tower Masters were deposed one after another. Admittedly, it was because they coveted the women of the Green Fox Nine Bandits, but it was also because they lost to Xie Tianyang and Sang Yu in an extremely ugly manner.
But after Zhu Jiuluan took control of the Nine Palace Tower, there were quite a few voices in the sect who believed that the reason she was able to take control of the Nine Palace Tower was because she had a grandaunt named Pure Yang, Laozu. If not for this grandaunt supporting her, Zhu Jiuluan wouldn't even be able to enter the top ten direct disciples.
In fact, before Zhu Jiuluan took control of the Nine Palace Tower, when she was only ranked eleventh among the direct disciples, there were similar voices in the Nine Profound Tower. They said that the reason she was able to become a direct disciple was because of Eighth Sister Zhu Laozu.
But at that time, these voices were very low. Zhu Jiuluan had a certain level of ability, so she completely treated these rumors as the jealousy of others.
But after taking control of the Nine Palace Tower, her status rose once again. The nine Tower Masters of the Nine Profound Tower had always been the direct disciples of the direct disciples. The person in charge of the Nine Profound Tower, as well as Laozu, had always been groomed from among the nine Tower Masters.
Being able to become one of the nine Tower Masters not only meant that one's strength was superb, but it also meant that the Nine Profound Tower had spared no effort in grooming one. Thus, the competition between the nine Tower Masters had always been extremely fierce. Thus, whether it was intentional or not, the pressure of public opinion caused by taking control of the Nine Palace Tower this time was something that even Zhu Jiuluan, with Eighth Sister Zhu Laozu's support, found it hard to bear.
Thus, Zhu Jiuluan urgently needed to establish her authority, and the target of her authority was naturally the Green Fox Nine Bandits, the instigators of the change in the position of direct disciple of the Nine Profound Tower.
Because of the battle between Xie Tianyang and Sang Yu with the direct disciples of the Nine Profound Tower, the Nine Profound Tower had directly demoted the two Tower Masters, but the two of them had also been summoned back by their respective sects to reflect on their mistakes. Without their support, wouldn't it be easy for the Green Fox Nine Bandits to capture them?
However, the usually arrogant Zhu Jiuluan chose to be cautious this time. She did not hesitate to invite the two Tower Masters of the Seven Star Tower and the Eight Trigrams Tower to capture the Green Fox Nine Bandits together.
Just like Zhu Jiuluan, the Eight Trigrams Tower Master had also been promoted from the tenth direct disciple to the eighth after the previous two Tower Masters were demoted. Although he did not receive as much criticism as Zhu Jiuluan, there were still people who coveted his position and were naturally eager to prove themselves.
As for why they had invited the Seven Star Tower Master, it was very simple. Although Zhu Jiuluan had received a lot of criticism from the entire Nine Profound Tower, she still had the Pure Yang cultivator, Laozu, behind her. There was no lack of people in the sect who would purposely try to curry favor with her. This Seven Star Tower Master and the other four direct adepts who had accompanied Zhu Jiuluan out this time were obviously because of this reason.
In reality, their original plan had been progressing rather smoothly. For some unknown reason, the Green Fox Nine Bandits had once again appeared near the Nine Profound Tower, and from the original nine, there were only six of them left. After Zhu Jiuluan and the others had captured three of them alive, the remaining three Dharma adepts, Green Fox, Green Tiger, and Green Wolf, who had the highest level of training, had headed south.
Zhu Jiuluan and the others had chased them all the way and were just about to succeed in one fell swoop when the sudden appearance of Lu Tianping had ruined their plans.
This time, Lu Tianping had once again stood up for the Green Fox Nine Bandits. It was obvious that the Green Fox Nine Bandits had some unknown relationship with Xie Tianyang, Sang Yu, and Lu Tianping.
The Green Fox Nine Bandits had always worked together. This time, Lu Ping had been puzzled as to why only Green Fox and the other two were together. He had initially thought that it was because the other six did not have a high enough level of training. But now, he found out that three of them had already been captured. However, he did not know where the other three were.
At this point, Zhu Jiuluan's face had already turned green with anger. She opened her mouth and said, "How can the lives of a few lone practitioners be worth the lives of my Nine Profound Tower's disciples? Lu Daoyou, if you insist on becoming an enemy of my Nine Profound Tower, have you thought about the consequences?"
Lu Ping found it funny and said, "Since Fellow Daoyou Zhu also thinks that my three good friends are just lone practitioners and their lives aren't worth anything, then I ask Fellow Daoyou Zhu to release my three good friends. In exchange, I will also release your Eight Profound Tower's Eight Trigrams Master. Exchanging one for three, your sect's Eight Trigrams Master's value is not low. Fellow Daoist Zhu's words are indeed true! "
Although the Green Fox Nine Bandits had already acknowledged Lu Ping as their master, even if it was not because of Sang Yu's status as Green Fox's sworn brother, Lu Ping would not deliberately use them as his slaves. In front of Zhu Jiuluan, he only treated them as friends.
Naturally, Zhu Jiuluan did not know that the Green Fox Nine Bandits had already acknowledged Lu Ping as their master. It was only right and proper for Lu Ping to stand up for them. She only knew that after failing on the verge of success, she would face even greater suspicion when she returned to the Nine Profound Tower. Even with her Great Aunt's support, she might not be able to withstand the criticism of others.
It was as if she could already see that the position of the Lord of the Nine Palaces, which she had obtained with great difficulty, would change hands once again. She would also become an ordinary direct disciple like the previous two Lords who had been demoted. For a moment, her mind was in a mess, and the logic of her words was disordered, causing her own family to be dragged into this mess.
At this time, it was clear that Lu Ping was standing up for the Green Fox Nine Bandits, so Zhu Jiuluan no longer dared to throw tantrums. She only hoped that she could bring back the people who came with her in one piece. Otherwise, there would be no room for negotiation. Even if Eighth Sister Zhu could cover the sky with one hand in the Nine Profound Tower, she would not have the face to occupy the position of Nine Halls Master.
Zhu Jiuluan gritted her teeth and said, "Fine, as long as you release Eighth Senior Brother, I will also release the three bandits. However, you must first cure my Junior Brother Xu of the cold poison!"
Lu Ping smiled, "Of course. If there is no need, I will not shed all pretense of cordiality and make an enemy of a sacred sect like the Nine Profound Tower. However, you have the advantage in numbers, so it is best that you release my three friends first."
Zhu Jiuluan's face darkened, "Then when will you release my Eighth Senior Brother?"
Lu Ping said, "You can rest assured. When my friends and I retreat to a safe place, the Eight Trigrams Master will meet up with you with the antidote."
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