133: Chapter 133 A sneak attack! Stealing the Emperor's Banner!

"The Eight Great Families are gone..."

Outside the Lu Family courtyard.

The Clan Chief of a minor family from Daliang Country said with a rather dazed expression.

Beside him, the Clan Chief of another minor family also wore a complex expression, with a surreal feeling on his face.

Within their respective counties, the Eight Great Families ran amok unchecked.

Whether it was spiritual mine excavation, Medicinal Pill transactions, the transmission of Cultivation Technique, or even the price of every single spiritual rice grain, everything was controlled by the Eight Great Families.

Ordinary minor families had to hand over the majority of their annual operating profits to the Eight Great Families.

Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary minor families to survive within the counties controlled by the Eight Great Families.

In the past, it was not as if minor families had never wanted to unite and rebel against the Eight Great Families.

However, whether it was an Immortal Cultivator or a Martial Cultivator, both emphasized resources and foundations.

The members of the Eight Great Families had spiritual rice supplied for their meals every day, Formations provided for their cultivation, and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi produced within the county to refine.

Even if ordinary minor families united, they ultimately could not compare to the foundation of the Eight Great Families.

Over time, these minor families all accepted the exploitation of the Eight Great Families.

They had thought such days would continue forever, but they never expected someone to emerge abruptly out of nowhere.

With the power of one person, he fought against all the experts of the Eight Great Families, almost driving the Eight Great Families to extinction!

"This kind of strength is simply too powerful to be human!"

The Immortal Cultivators of various minor families gazed at Qin Muyuan, who was completely uninjured, their eyes filled with amazement and admiration.

Meanwhile, inside the Lu Family courtyard.

"A bumper harvest of spoils of war!"

Looking at the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items precipitated from the various Immortal Cultivators in the courtyard, Qin Muyuan instantly felt a wave of pleasant relief in his mood.

These Immortal Cultivators were really something. Leaving just like that, yet they still left him with so many gifts.

How awfully polite of them.

"Xiao Chang."

Qin Muyuan called out and asked:

"You haven't entered Qi Condensation yet, right?"

Outside, Xiao Chang was stunned and said: "Brother Qin, I really haven't entered Qi Condensation yet. It's mainly because my cultivation time is too short, and I haven't mastered the tricks of the Cultivation Technique yet..."

"Hey, don't worry about any tricks or non-tricks."

Qin Muyuan said:

"Take a look. Which of these Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items present do you have your eyes on?"

"Come and get them yourself."

"Ah?" A question mark instantly popped up on Xiao Chang's forehead, and with a shocked expression, he said:

"Brother Qin, I'm not even an Alchemist right now..."

"It doesn't matter. Just take them and store them first; they'll come in handy later."

Without allowing any argument, Qin Muyuan called Xiao Chang into the Lu Family courtyard, letting him freely choose from the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items provided by these kind people.

As he spoke, he looked at the silver-haired, red-eyed Senior Sister Nangong by Xiao Chang's side and asked:

"Do you want some too?"

"..." Nangong Yueqing was silent for two seconds and shook her head: "Unearned rewards are not to be accepted."

After speaking, she reminded him:

"Young Master Qin, Junior Brother Xiao's current cultivation Realm doesn't even count as an Alchemist."

"Getting Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items ahead of time will probably attract the attention of those with ulterior motives."

In the Immortal cultivation world, possessing Heaven And Earth Treasure without a cultivation Realm...

...is often not a good thing, but a disaster.

Furthermore.

Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items are precious resources capable of enhancing cultivation Realms.

The reason many Immortal Cultivators find it difficult to Breakthrough to a higher Realm is precisely due to the lack of corresponding Heaven And Earth Treasure.

Without Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, it is utterly impossible to refine Spiritual Qi and step into the Qi Condensation Realm.

Lacking Foundation Establishment marvelous items similarly makes it impossible to stabilize the Dao foundation and Breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Even though Qin Muyuan had established his prestige by slaying the Eight Great Families this time.

There were still numerous Cultivators in the Immortal cultivation world whose Heart-Nature gradually twisted due to being lifelong plagued by the suffering of lacking Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Foundation Establishment marvelous items.

Even knowing that Xiao Chang was under Qin Muyuan's protection, these Cultivators might still take desperate risks driven by extreme desire.

Hearing Nangong Yueqing's persuasion, Qin Muyuan pondered slightly and was just about to speak—

Swoosh!

An invisible offensive suddenly broke through the air from behind, aiming straight for Qin Muyuan's back!

Nangong Yueqing quickly detected the attack, her expression turning stern.

The palm hanging by her side quickly formed a hand seal, and a Daoist Magic quietly met and counterattacked.

It isn't until her Daoist Magic was cast that Uncle Yang, guarding beside the fire-ox carriage, suddenly snapped to awareness and shouted urgently:

"Watch out!"

Hum hum hum!

Yet facing this attack, among all the people present, Qin Muyuan was the first to notice it.

He spun around abruptly, heavily slashing out with the chainsword in his hand that had already violently activated—

Clang!

A wave of violent Qi surged from the chainsword as it chopped straight down, slicing open the cyan longsword that came hurtling towards him.

Just as Qin Muyuan used the chainsword to block the cyan longsword.

A figure clad in a black robe and a mask, moving at an astonishing speed, suddenly burst forth from the crowd.

However, the direction they were running toward was not Qin Muyuan's location.

Instead, it was that purple Qi fluttering human emperor banner snapping in the wind!

The figure grabbed the human emperor banner, joy appearing on their face. Raising a hand to wipe across it, they attempted to erase the Magic Treasure mark left by Qin Muyuan inside the human emperor banner.

Yet the next second.

The smile on their face froze, replaced by barely concealable astonishment.

This was simply because.

Just as they attempted to wipe away the Magic Treasure mark left on the purple Qi human emperor banner.

They shockingly discovered that the mark was as hard as if it were cast from gold and stone!

Like a small horse pulling a heavy cart, it was utterly immovable!

"How is this possible?!"

The figure was utterly panicked; their method of erasing marks had always worked a hundred times out of a hundred in the past.

Let alone a mere Huajin Realm Martial Cultivator.

Even the Magic Treasure marks left by powerful Immortal Cultivators in the Purple Mansion Realm could be instantly refined, erased, and turned to their own use by them.

But at this moment.

In front of this banner, even when using their full strength in erasing methods, they couldn't even erase a fraction of the mark!

"Dare to snatch my gear?!"

Just as the figure was greatly shocked, a cold voice came from behind.

Hum hum hum!

The next instant, the roaring chainsword suddenly struck.

Knowing Qin Muyuan's methods from watching on the side, the figure gritted their teeth fiercely and decided to give up the hundred souls banner they had set their eyes on early on.

Seeing this, the figure placed their hands in front of them and formed a special hand seal.

Accompanied by the Formation of this hand seal, the figure's form rapidly became translucent, as if being evaporated, and instantly vanished into thin air in mid-air.

Qin Muyuan's chainsword chopped down, only feeling like it struck empty air.

Besides that, there was nothing else.

"Hmm?!" Qin Muyuan swept his gaze around, simultaneously unleashing Killing Intent Perception to its full limit.

But he gained nothing.

That figure just now had extremely powerful control over Killing Intent.

It wasn't until they made a move that Qin Muyuan perceived the Killing Intent.

It was precisely relying on the perception of Killing Intent that Qin Muyuan was able to react immediately and counter-defend against the attack.

Yet at this moment, even with Killing Intent Perception fired up to maximum capacity, Qin Muyuan still couldn't find that figure.

"That person has escaped."

At this time, Nangong Yueqing, who had secretly dismissed her Daoist Magic, spoke up:

"When that person failed to succeed with a single strike just now, they already used a special Divine Ability method to leave."