As an evil cultivator, he couldn't be too merciful. He couldn't spare anyone who deserved to be killed.
He could also use the lives of these itinerant cultivators as a warning to those who had designs on him.
Apart from wanting to end the battle quickly, he also wanted to lure the snake out of its hole by using the Soul-Extinguishing Bell this time.
He used the Soul-Extinguishing Bell in the cave abode and was blocked by the door, so it couldn't reach the market more than 50 kilometers away.
However, it was still very likely that the surrounding cave abodes could hear it.
Everything in the world was no longer a secret as long as there was a second person who knew about it.
As long as someone other than him heard the bell, it would definitely spread.
It would take him a long time to find Chen Ji, so it was better to lure him out.
After a few hours, the new avatar and divided soul had finished fusing.
His name was Lu Zong, and he was the person who set up the trap in the cave abode.
Lu Zong was originally from Shannan, but he was not a cultivator from Zhao Country but Wei Country.
Wei Country was in the west of Zhao Country and was far weaker than Zhao Country in the past.
When the Zhao royal family was still around, they often attacked Wei Country.
If not for the Beast Tide that broke out in the Heavenly Slash Mountain Range and Huiyan Mountain many times and restrained Zhao Country's energy, Wei Country would have been destroyed long ago.
After the Zhao royal family was destroyed, the higher-ups of the three major sects also suffered heavy losses.
So far, the high-end combat power of the three major sects was much weaker than that of Wei Country.
Among the more than ten large and small countries in Beiyuan Xiuxian, only Zhao Country and Qin Country maintained the unification of the royal family.
In the other countries, the royal family was either long gone or just one of the major forces. It was the same for Wei Country.
When the royal family of Zhao Country was still around, they seized all the strongholds at the border.
Even if Zhao Country was not strong now, the surrounding countries could only take back some of the territory at the edge and couldn't attack Zhao Country.
However, Zhao Country was no longer as powerful as before, but they still occupied the strongholds at the border. The forces of Wei Country were always under the threat of Zhao Country.
The forces of Wei Country naturally wanted to take back those strongholds, but Wei Country was also in a state of disunity. Only the forces near the border wanted to attack Zhao Country.
There was no benefit for the other forces to attack Zhao Country, so they naturally wouldn't help. They were also worried that the forces near the border would take back their territory and become stronger.
Not only did they not help, but they also kept hindering them.
Therefore, there were no major battles at the borders of Zhao and Wei. Instead, there were many small skirmishes.
Lu Zong was originally a cultivator from a family clan near the Cold River Pass at the border of Zhao and Wei. When the Wei Nation attacked the Cold River Pass, they did not want to lose too many of their own disciples. Therefore, they tried their best to recruit affiliated family clans.
Most of the Lu Zong family's experts had died in battle. If they continued to maintain the family, the family's disciples would all be finished sooner or later.
In order to preserve a little bit of their lineage, the remaining cultivators of the Lu Clan all dispersed and went to various places to become rogue cultivators.
At that time, Lu Zong was only a Qi Refinement cultivator and did not carry the inheritance of the Lu family.
Later on, he succeeded in building his foundation without the help of a Foundation-Building Pill.
The Wei Nation forces wantonly captured itinerant cultivators as cannon fodder.
These rogue cultivators fled to other places, and many of them fled into Mount Huiyan.
Mount Huiyan, near the Frigid River Pass, was the lair of the demonic beasts.
The cultivators who fled to Mount Huiyan had a slim chance of survival.
Lu Fang was very lucky. When she used the Earth Escape Talisman to escape, she encountered an underground river. She followed the river to the north and finally escaped to the north of the mountain.
In order to survive, he had killed many people and hunted many monsters. There were not many places in Shanbei that could accommodate him.
After many years, he finally arrived at Treasure Mirror Lake.
He had obtained an upper-grade rank-two array inheritance and became a rank-two array master with his good talent.
Most array masters knew some refining techniques. Lu Fang's refining skills were not high and were only at the upper-grade rank-one level. There was no value in nurturing him at all.
It was not easy to earn spirit stones from array masters. That was why he came up with such a plan to use the cave abode to set up a trap and lure people in before killing them and robbing them.
Lu Fang's Cultivation Method and Magic Art were all very ordinary things. Over the years, the Immortal's Cave's traps could not deceive people. She did not have many Spirit Stones in her hands. Even her Magic Weapon was only a second-tier high-grade long sword.
The quality of the sword was not good and was inferior to the Tiger Claw Blade. Wang Daoyuan could not use it at all.
The other five cultivators, including the cultivator that he killed when he first arrived at the market, did not have anything good either.
He only found some useless jade slips, six flying swords, and more than 40,000 spirit stones in the six storage bags.
Lu Fang's value was not great as his refining skills were too low. An array master could only help refine a few array discs in the space of the spiritual pearl.
However, his cultivation was not low and he could blend in with the blood shadow.
He could learn the inheritance of the Gui Yuan Sword Sect in the space and increase his battle strength.
After joining the blood shadow, he could try to make You Lang a mere figurehead or fight to become a manager himself.
After Wang Daoyuan meditated for a long time in the cave abode, a middle stage Foundation Establishment cultivator came to greet him.
That person said, "Senior, my master has something to discuss with you. Please come to the Mirror Lake Restaurant for a chat."
Wang Daoyuan sneered, "What does your master have to do with me? I don't have anything important to discuss with your master.
Scram, if you disturb my cultivation again, the five outside will be your examples. "
There were still five late stage Foundation Establishment cultivators' corpses hanging on the rock at the entrance of the cave abode. He was only a middle stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, how could he not kill them?
He did not dare to say anything else and left with his tail between his legs.
He arrived at the Mirror Lake Restaurant and reported to the long-bearded and short-bearded cultivators.
The long-bearded cultivator laughed, "This Daoyou is quite capable. Six people went to ambush him and five of them were hung up as a warning to others. Lu Zong is still missing.
Our informants also did not see Lu Zong come out. He was most likely beaten to a pulp.
Our informants reported that not long after the six of them went in, they heard the sound of a bell. After half a cup of tea's time, the five of them were hung on the rock.
He might have a sound wave attack magic tool. His methods are far above yours and mine, so we should try to rope him in.
It's a pity that this person is very wary of us and did not accept our invitation. "
The short-bearded cultivator said, "As soon as he arrived at the Mirror Lake Oasis, he came looking for trouble twice and killed seven people. It would be strange if he wasn't wary.
We were too hasty in inviting him. He just finished killing people, so we invited him and said that we have something to discuss.
No matter how you look at it, it seems like we sent people to assassinate him and after they failed, we wanted to lure him in and kill him.
Our plan is not urgent and we can slowly rope him in.
Let's find an excuse to meet him and dispel his wariness before we talk about other things. "
The long-bearded cultivator nodded and said, "Let's do it this way then. This person's cultivation techniques, spells and magic tools are all good. I haven't seen him buy anything in the market either. It can be seen that he has very high standards.
It just so happens that there's going to be a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator exchange in a while. Let's take out some good stuff and invite him in the name of the exchange. "
Two months later, the long-bearded and short-bearded cultivators personally came to the door of Wang Daoyuan's cave abode.
The long-bearded cultivator shouted, "I, Ji Cheng, and my younger brother, Ji Yue, have come to invite Daoyou to participate in the late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator exchange. I wonder if Daoyou is willing to entertain us two brothers?"
Wang Daoyuan scanned with his spiritual sense and discovered that the two of them were both peak Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The strength of peak Foundation Establishment cultivators was not easy to estimate. Some were not much different from Foundation Establishment Level 9, while some were far stronger.
Some like Shi Zhenbang could even exchange two blows with Zifu Realm cultivators.
Therefore, early-stage and mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators would respectfully address peak Foundation Establishment cultivators as seniors when they met them.
If he did not entertain the two peak Foundation Establishment cultivators who had personally come to invite him, he would be offending them.
If he really became enemies with these two brothers, he did not even have the confidence to win against one of them with his strength, let alone two brothers.
He still had to deal with Chen Ji. If he could avoid offending these two, he would try his best not to.
Wang Daoyuan closed the cave abode's defensive formation and said, "Daoyou has come to visit. Please forgive me for not coming out to welcome you."
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