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Chapter 1245: Civil War in Shushan

Just five hundred meters underground on this rugged hill.

In an ancient underground palace, less than a hundred disciples, led by Cao Gu, Yu Shu and Ling Bo, one of the Seven Saints of Shu Mountain, were all regulating their breathing and healing their injuries.

Among them, Cao Gu, who is good at medicine and is also known as the Medical Saint of Shushan, is refining pills that can heal injuries.

Seeing that her soft black hair, which originally reached her waist, was now mixed with a few obvious white strands, Ling Bo couldn't help but feel a little worried. However, given the current situation, all she could do was to comfort the remaining Shushan disciples in the hall.

Then Ling Bo looked at Yu Shu who was fiddling with the voice transmission token. The other's narrow fox eyes no longer had the usual shrewdness and steadiness, and his expression was a little impatient. It was not until he noticed Ling Bo's gaze that he put down the token, took a deep breath, shook his head and said.

"It can be confirmed that there is a formation in the Shushan area that interferes with the magnetic signal, or there are some special treasures. Although I have spent three days and basically figured out how to create this sound transmission token, it is difficult to develop a stronger version that can break through the signal interference.

Therefore, there is no need to count on this voice transmission token to contact the outside world in the short term.

According to the information from Daoyu, the sound transmission token we got is at least two versions behind the Ghost Market. If we had their token to refer to."

As he was talking, Yu Shu fell back into his old habit of being curious and inquisitive. He quickly stopped talking, put the token away, and glanced casually at the location where Cao Gu was, and then his brows knitted together subconsciously.

"Senior sister, her hair."

"It should be because we consumed too much energy. When the war suddenly broke out, it was Senior Sister Cao Gu who rushed to the front. If it weren't for her decisiveness and Elder Qingwei's reminder, we would have become food for those monsters long ago."

Ling Bo was a little depressed.

After awakening her destiny body, she was under a lot of pressure. After all, she never expected that its original owner, or an existence similar to her previous life, would betray Shushan because of a man, a demon who had long harbored conspiracy.

After she got some fateful stories about the Fairy Sword series from Dao Domain, she found that the disciples in the sect looked at her differently.

She wanted to do something to prove that she would never betray Shushan.

But given the current situation, the more she did, the more mistakes she would make, so she could only lock herself in the room, using the excuse of seclusion, and temporarily leave everything to time to resolve.

In recent days, she has had few external exchanges, and they are only visits from several senior brothers and sisters who are also members of the Seven Saints. Of course, the person she interacts with the most is her younger sister, Ling Yin, after she knew that there was an inevitable death in her future fate.

Ling Yin has been sticking to her all the time. If it weren't for the important mission of representing Shushan to attend the ceremony in Dao Domain, she should still have this little tail by her side.

It was lucky for her that the other party was not with her.

This also made Ling Bo, who was almost in despair, feel a little more comforted.

"Senior Sister, can we wait for Uncle Dugu and the others to come?" Yu Shu's voice interrupted Ling Bo's thoughts.

She first looked at the disciples who were still practicing qigong to heal their injuries, confirmed that no one else was paying attention to their conversation, and then replied through voice transmission.

"I hope they don't come back. You should have seen how powerful the enemy is. What's more, the enemy also includes the leader."

Ling Bo still feels a little dazed.

One day after the Shushan delegation went to Daoyu to watch the ceremony.

I was originally in seclusion, but was forcibly summoned to the main hall. All the disciples from Mount Shu were there, and it was at this time that Master Taiqing put forward a choice.

Completely cut off from the Taoist realm, seek the method of becoming an immortal, and join a new force.

Or continue to stubbornly stay in this quagmire with no future.

The other party's statement was brief and decisive, and they directly gave a time limit. Those who were willing to stay could continue to stay in the residential area, while the others would gather at the Demon Locking Tower.

Although Lingbo was given the title of one of the Seven Saints, in reality this position was more like an empty title, meant to appease people, but it did not have much power. This also meant that after True Man Taiqing said this, neither she, Cao Gu, nor Yu Shu had the chance to ask questions.

After this sudden conference ended.

The five elders Qingwei, Jingming, Heyang, Cang Gu and Youxuan began to arrange their close disciples to gather outside the Demon Locking Tower.

However, he was much colder towards the young and strong representatives headed by the Seven Saints.

In fact, after awakening the destiny body, an invisible crack appeared inside Shushan.

The first sign of this rift was the treatment of Jiang Qing. Dugu Yuyun and Situ Zhong, the leaders of the group, said that they could not allow a swordsmanship genius with a bright future to be imprisoned for no reason just because of hidden dangers that had not yet occurred.

However, the five elders of Shushan took Jiang Qing's instability into consideration, and used this as an example given by the Dao Realm.

Xie Xiaofeng and Murong Qiudi.

It particularly points out how rational and patient Murong Qiudi was throughout the battle for the Hidden Dragon Ranking. However, after seeing Xie Xiaofeng injured, he immediately lost his composure and turned into a reckless love-brained idiot, dragging the then Northern Barbarian Dynasty to ruin their overall advantage.

You should know that before this, Murong Qiudi and Xie Xiaofeng had never met each other.

It’s just because they are destined to be in tragic love, it’s just because of the existence of emotional tribulation.

A female wise woman who was originally neutral in her stance and even had a great chance to watch the fight, directly killed all the backbones of her own forces. It was also from this battle that the Shangyang clan, which belonged to the Murong family, among the ten major tribes of the Northern Barbarians, gradually went to extinction.

If not for the fact that too many elites of the Shangyang clan were consumed in the battle for the Hidden Dragon Ranking, how could Murong Fu have successfully completed the blood sacrifice of the entire clan with just his crippled body and insignificant mind?

Once this example came out, Dugu Yuyun and Situ Zhong were speechless.

They also temporarily accepted the result that Jiang Qing was in seclusion at best, but was actually under surveillance and imprisonment.

But it was also because of this incident that the young and middle-aged faction fully realized that there were too many gaps between their thinking and consciousness and those of the old faction. If they wanted to prevent similar things from happening again and if they wanted to truly control their own destiny, they had to gain more power within Shushan.

And with the second wave of awakening of destiny bodies, that is, the successive outbreaks of the Seven Saints, even greater pressure was brought to the old school.

Later, at the Shushan regular meeting, it was decided to seal the memories of the Seven Saints' destined bodies in order to prevent the Seven Saints' self-consciousness from being completely washed away by the memories of the original owners. But there were actually some other reasons. The old faction was worried that the Seven Saints would also follow the example of the middle-aged faction and start to actively seek power.

To be honest, the leaders of Shushan and their elite disciples throughout the ages were not people who were greedy for power, but the problem was that they all had their own style of doing things and unique set of codes of conduct, and most of them were swordsmen who would rather break than bend.

Moreover, the more talented a person is, the stronger his self-awareness is, and the more confident and persistent he is in his choices.

If these elites were distributed over hundreds of years, there would naturally be no impact, because these geniuses are the pillars of Mount Shu, so they would naturally gain some little arrogance in power.

But if they were all gathered together, conflicts of ideas would inevitably arise.

Especially those who have awakened the memories of their predestined bodies have long been accustomed to the way of doing things in that life without being subject to too much coercion, which has also further consolidated their ideas and policies.

For example, Dugu Yuyun and Situ Zhong, who had always agreed with the decision of the Five Elders, also began to demand a more reasonable way to deal with the Jiang Qing incident after awakening their memories.

Even though they failed in the end, they still managed to gain some rights and conditions.

If there were another wave of Seven Saints.

Then the entire Shushan Mountain would be thrown into chaos.

At this time, the invisible crack had already appeared, especially when it came to the problem of Ling Bo. His situation was similar to that of Jiang Qing, but perhaps because he did not possess the latter's enchanting talent, or perhaps the young and strong faction's secret efforts had begun to show results.

In short, although Lingbo is in seclusion, he is not subject to too many restrictions on his actions, and the choice of seclusion still comes from his personal will.

However, the unpredictable and treacherous situation in the dark began to emerge.

The confrontation in concepts and practices is reflected in all aspects.

However, this transformation is more like a replica of the pro-war faction and the pro-scourge faction in Dao Domain, so this secret struggle will not affect the true unity within the organization, no matter in the eyes of Dugu Yuyun or Ling Bo.

But when Dugu Yuyun led some elite disciples to watch the ceremony, and on the second day, Sect Leader Taiqing forced them to make a choice, even the most confused people realized that the hidden dangers within these days were about to explode completely.

Afterwards, a group of people led by Lingbo, Caogu and Yushu did not choose to follow the leader. They had their own insistence, including more than 1,500 disciples. At the same time, they also realized that all external communications of Shushan had been cut off.

The top leaders headed by Taiqing ignored them and had already begun preparing to evacuate through the Demon Locking Tower. Among them was Qingwei, one of the Five Elders and the 22nd head of the Shushan Immortal Sword Sect who belonged to three generations in the fateful story.

Before he left, he had a long conversation with Lingbo and the other two.

He also told them that there was a protective formation on the five peaks in this residential area. Although the formation was part of the entire Shushan formation, it could also be cut apart. In times of crisis, the enemy could even be harmed by detonating the five peaks.

At the same time, under this residential area, there is a closed underground palace.

These are secrets known only to the true top leaders of Shushan. Even the newly emerging Dugu Yuyun and Situ Zhong are not aware of this.

These explanations have, to a certain extent, explained many problems.

"Sister, I don't quite understand Elder Qingwei. He first told us these secrets that can save our lives, and then said that there are irreconcilable contradictions between our two factions. One of the sources of the contradiction is the ridiculous jealousy.

But he just didn't want us to die in vain, so he even left behind some important resources and elixirs.

But he clearly chose that side."

Yu Shu, whose fateful memory was sealed, was simply unable to understand this problem. He had been trapped in the small circle of Shushan since he was a child. With his talent, it was even more difficult for him to deeply appreciate the complexity and darkness of human nature.

On the contrary, Ling Bo, because of the problem of fateful body, has been reading the information of the Legend of Sword and Fairy series recently, constantly examining and reflecting on the behavioral logic of that "I".

In addition, even though his memory was sealed, he could not empathize with his original owner's various stupid choices that seemed to be caused by a love affair.

Therefore, she can see more clearly when it comes to human nature.

"Jealous? Especially at their age, they pursue not only the peak of martial arts but also the path to immortality. When they see that we are about to catch up with their strength easily, how could their mentality not change drastically?

Of course, I would rather believe that it was the evil swordsman who has not yet been born who was causing trouble.

Or maybe it’s all fate.”

Ling Bo sighed.

The qualifications of the Five Elders of Shushan are only at the level of the weakest among the Seven Saints, while the strong Seven Saints level is already the peak level of the human race in the Fairy Sword series. The gap is indeed huge.

Like in the original work, due to their limited qualifications, the Five Elders knew that the Purest Law had great hidden dangers, but for the sake of that slight chance of becoming immortals, they still created the real monster regardless.

Even if they were prepared now through the memories of their second life, from Lingbo's perspective as a bystander, they would probably still be forced to take this step in the end, unless they could give up their pursuit of power and die decisively!

The five elders who abandoned all evil thoughts, or instilled all evil thoughts into the Evil Sword Immortal, truly possessed an admirable spirit of sacrifice. After all, at that time, they could be called perfect people.

As for now.

"What are you thinking about?" After successfully refining a batch of pills and arranging for his disciples to distribute them, Cao Gu came to Ling Bo's side.

Ling Bo gently stroked the other person's black and white hair, with some heartache in his eyes.

"Sister, don't push yourself too hard."

"Since Senior Brother Taiwu is not here, I have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting you." Cao Gu smiled, and her pretty face showed a glow that could not be desecrated.

"We are able to survive thanks to Senior Sister's arrangements."

After guessing from Elder Qingwei some cruel truths about what they would face next, they had some discussions and the suggestion of gathering everyone's strength and leaving Shushan directly seemed to be the safest option.

But Cao Gu directly denied it, and the reason she gave was very simple.

The evacuation led by the headmaster and the five elders obviously had a follow-up plan. They did have some sympathy and compassion for their former fellow disciples, but before that they needed them to not become part of the process that would disrupt their plan.

Otherwise, what he will face next is slaughter by his fellow disciples.

But is it possible to leave so easily and alert the Dao Realm?

You have to know that the thing that disrupts the magnetic signal still exists.

Their range of activities has actually always been limited to this place.

And they have only one choice if they want to survive.

That is to follow the information revealed by Elder Qingwei, use the existing forces to protect this residential area, wait for changes in the outside world, and then seek a glimmer of hope. (End of this chapter)