C1746 The danger of Fifth Family!
If it was said that Grandmaster Qingha and Ancestor Yuan Mo were legendary characters of the Four Great Families, then Luo Fu Yuan was a legend of the Four Great Families.
Among the four great clans, there were many Ancestral Immortals who had managed to cultivate a grade two elephant. However, if one looked closely, many people would realize that although there were a lot of Ancestral Immortals in the four great clans who had cultivated to a second grade elephant, in reality, more than 80% of them were concentrated in the second grade elephant to fifth grade elephant region.
As for those who were ranked higher than Grade Five Elephant, Grade Six, Grade Seven, Grade Eight, and Grade Nine, they were even rarer and incomparably rare.
Grade six Elephant Ancestral Immortal had become an important watershed in the Four Great Aristocratic Families.
Among the four great families, once someone was able to reach the rank 6 elephant when they became an Ancestral Immortal, they would definitely be highly valued by the four great families. With all kinds of resources and power bestowed upon them, they would naturally be able to become the top elders among the four great families within a short period of time.
However, the higher the grade of the Ancestral Immortal Elephant, the harder it was to control and the harder it was to raise one's cultivation. Even if the Four Great Families took over a treasure land like the Taiyuan Ancient City and had endless resources, it would be extremely difficult for Ancestral Immortals who had reached Grade Six Elephant and above to raise their cultivation.
Luo Fu was someone who had cultivated to a Grade Six Elephant and at the same time, had raised his cultivation to Grade Nine Ancestral Immortal. He was the previous head of one of the four great families, a legendary figure.
Only the previous Patriarchs of the other three families, Shentu Yuanzhen, Bai Chuan, and Gu Lan Tianchuan were comparable to him in strength and stature.
However, the four bosses had not appeared for many years. Even if the Four Great Families and the Non-Four Great Families on the No Return to the Ancient City had the most intense conflict in history, causing many Ancestral Immortals from the Four Great Families to perish, these four bosses would remain as calm as ever. There was no intention for them to personally suppress those who were not from the Four Great Family.
Amongst the four families, the number of people who had the qualifications to meet these four bosses were even fewer. Some people even suspected that the four old masters had long since used up their lifespan and passed away silently.
However, no one had expected that these four patriarchs would suddenly appear at this time and that Luo Fu Yuan would publicly announce that they would officially sacrifice to the heavens in three days.
A deathly silence fell upon the Profound Crow Paradise, followed by an uproar. Those Ancestral Immortals who were worried that they might become sacrifices had their hearts set on the matter. However, because their status was too low, they did not have any authority to speak out against it. Thus, they could only bear with it.
Now that Luo Fu Yuan had announced it, the matter of offering the heavens had become a foregone conclusion, how could they bear it?
Even if his position was too low, so what if he didn't have the authority to speak?
If he remained silent any longer, he might die. After finally getting to his current cultivation level, who was willing to be slaughtered at the neck? Furthermore, it was a ridiculous way to die as a sacrifice to the heavens?
However, Luo Fu Yuan soon spoke again. He only said one short sentence: "Let the offerings be seized from the outside!"
Just this sentence caused everyone's hearts to tremble, and then their hearts to palpitate.
It was clear that the higher-ups of the four great clans were going to capture Ancestral Immortals from outside the Four Great Aristocratic Clans as their offering. Eight hundred Ancestral Immortals … Capturing eight hundred Ancestral Immortals to be their offering was something which, in the eyes of many people, was incomparably cruel. So what if you are cruel? It's better to die than to die! If others don't serve as sacrifices, then I will serve as a sacrifice. No matter how I choose, I won't be chosen right?
Furthermore, the Ancestral Immortals, who were not from the Four Major families, had gone too far this time. Not only had they fought with the Four Major families in the No Return to the Ancient City, they had also killed quite a few Ancestral Immortals from the Four Major families.
By capturing 800 Ancestral Immortals to serve as sacrifices, not only would it allow the Four Great Aristocratic Families' Heaven's Sacrifice to proceed smoothly, it would also allow them to destroy the alliance of the Ancestral Immortals from the other Four Great Aristocratic Families.
As such, with almost no objections from anyone, the matter of the four families sacrificing the heavens was settled just like that. The quarrelling of the four great families did not need to continue anymore, once again, they appeared harmonious and harmonious.
However, the ritual was set for three days later. Within three days, he would have to capture eight hundred Ancestral Immortals. Time was also extremely tight. Therefore, with the consent of the four old masters of Luo Fu, other than Ancestor Yuan Mo bringing a portion of the big shots of the Black Crow's Wonderland to guard this area and wait for them, Grandmaster Zhizun had brought another group of Black Tortoise Mansion experts to pounce on the No Return to the Ancient City, preparing to launch a wave of attack and capture eight hundred Ancestral Immortals in one fell swoop.
No Return to the Ancient City.
Now, it was no longer a temporary base for the Ancestral Immortals of the four great clans.
The fact that around thirty thousand Ancestral Immortals from the other clans had gathered here at the same time had already filled the previously unremarkable No Return to the Ancient City with a terrifying aura of an Ancestral Immortal. Anyone with a cultivation level lower than the Ancestral Immortals in a radius of millions of miles couldn't even stand straight, and could only choose to leave.
It could be said that other than the Ancestral Immortals from the Four Great Aristocratic Families, there had never been such glory since ancient times. As for the top experts who had formed this sort of situation, they knew very well that the reason why the Ancestral Immortals of the other clans, who had always been under the suppression of the Four Great Aristocratic Clans, could be so impressive, was because of their unity.
After all, they were originally scattered about on their own and did not have much interaction with each other. There was even a considerable amount of hatred. It was not easy to maintain such a unity. Once the four families found an opportunity to stir up trouble, this unity that they had barely managed to maintain could crumble at any time.
In order to not be destroyed, a group of top elders worked together to form the Fifth Family, clenching their teeth tightly and negotiated with the four great families. They must get a portion of the Great Surge Empire's benefits, so that it would become the common interest of all the ancestors of the four great families.
All strife was for the sake of profit.
Endless enmity, benefits come first.
As expected, after not even the Four Great Family's Ancestral Immortals felt that there was a common interest, this kind of unity that seemed to be difficult to achieve became much more intense. The big shots that set up the Fifth Family all secretly heaved a sigh of relief.1
However, what they didn't expect was that the Four Great Aristocratic Families would be so tough. Facing the rise of the Fifth Family, he actually did not give in at all, and no matter what, he was not willing to give up that part of the benefits of the Great Surge Empire. Even during the negotiations, there were still no signs of compromise after several gunshots and intense clashes.
This gave the heads of the great leaders of the Fifth Family a headache, and they also felt quite helpless.
To be honest, the reason they created the Fifth Family was definitely not to fight to the death with the four great families. Because they knew very well in their hearts that this temporarily formed Fifth Family was indeed like what the Four Major families had said, a mob.
Even if they had temporarily formed an alliance for the sake of common interests, they would still have the glorious name of the Fifth Family. How could they possibly become a truly unbreakable entity? Compared to the Four Great Clans, who had been proclaiming that they shared the same aura since ancient times, they were not on the same level at all.
Furthermore, the four big families have too many ancient experts hidden, it makes people lose confidence just by thinking about it.
Once the hidden big shots of the Four Major Families made their move, the Fifth Family would definitely fall apart, and at that time, it would definitely be the doomsday for these rogue cultivators and Ancestral Immortals. For the Four Major Families to no longer have existences like the Fifth Family, they would definitely annihilate them no matter what.
They only wanted to create a phenomenon where rogue cultivators and Ancestral Immortals united would be very powerful, to pressure the four families, forcing them to make some concessions, and to divide up the benefits for the Fifth Family, that was enough.
But right now, the four families obviously didn't have that intention. They seemed to have already seen through the weakness of the Fifth Family. They would rather fight against the Fifth Family than give in in the slightest. It was obvious that he wanted to waste time to kill Fifth Family, so that Fifth Family herself wouldn't be able to endure the pressure and collapse after a long confrontation.
In the past few days, the Fifth Family camp had indeed started to show some signs of trouble. Some not-so-prominent rogue cultivators and Ancestral Immortals had begun to make unfavorable remarks.
There were so many things to say, but all of them had the same meaning. There was no point in going against the four great families at all!
This wasn't the fault of these rogue cultivators and Ancestral Immortals. In fact, it was clear that the Four Major families could not give away the benefits that the Fifth Family wanted. Even if Fifth Family were to risk his life and fight with the Four Major families, forcing them to compromise a little would only result in a small portion of the benefits.
However, the Fifth Family's plate was too big. If it contained the entire Tai Yuan Realm's Ancestral Immortal Loose Practitioners, how could a small portion of them be enough? In the end, they were still divided among the great Rankers of the Fifth Family. These rogue Ancestral Immortals, who did not stand out in the Fifth Family, received nothing at all.
Since there was nothing to be gained from working here for such a long time, who would be willing to risk their life to fight against the Four Great Aristocratic Families? Rather than that, they might as well disperse this kind of alliance and let everything return to the control of the four great families. In any case, they were only minor characters. Even if the four great families obtained complete control of the city, they would still have to settle with the minor characters like them, right?
It was reasonable, but to say it out loud would be killing the heart.
And words ferment.
However, the top leaders of the Fifth Family could not use force to cut off these heartless words. They could only get even more worried and feel extremely vexed.
On this day.
The top leaders of the Fifth Family finally could not sit still anymore. They gathered the more famous and representative members of the Loose Cultivator Ancestral Immortals and began a new round of discussions.
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