Chapter 358: The Five Elements Royal Family, the third-order puppet!

“Grand Elder Jin of the Xu Family shattered the Five Elements Wang Family’s mountain gate? ”

Lu Changsheng was very surprised to hear this news.

This was definitely a major event!

One must know that in the Cultivation World, every force values its reputation.

Just like him and Golden Dragon Ridge.

It seemed like a small matter, a conflict with Grand Elder Jin.

But to the Jin Family and others, their Family had slapped Golden Dragon Ridge’s face, and they had to get even!

The reason the Jin Family didn’t act against Bihu Mountain was simply because they weren’t strong enough.

If the Jin Family were to produce another False Core True Person one day and gain sufficient strength, they would definitely move against Bihu Mountain immediately!

And shattering another’s mountain gate was an even more serious situation.

It was a blatant slap in the face, trampling the other Family underfoot!

Beast Taming Xu Family and Five Elements Wang Family were both Core Formation level forces, standing in Jiang Country for over a thousand years, possessing astonishing power, truly colossal entities, rarely dared to be provoked.

Now, the Old Ancestor of the Xu Family actually shattered the Wang Family’s mountain gate, which was absolutely a major event!

“It is rumored that all the Disciples of the Beast Taming Xu Family died in the Purple Nether Secret Realm, and the Fake Core Old Ancestor of their Family was also killed on his way back.”

“This incident enraged the Beast Taming Xu Family, and their Core Formation True Person came out of seclusion.”

“After an investigation, the Beast Taming Xu Family declared that the Five Elements Wang Family was responsible for this matter, so the Old Ancestor of the Xu Family personally went to their door to demand an explanation.”

Lu Miaoyun poured tea for Lu Changsheng and explained.

“Because of the Purple Nether Secret Realm incident?”

Lu Changsheng was stunned to hear this.

Others might not know the full story, but he was very clear on what happened.

A total of ten Disciples from the Beast Taming Xu Family, except for one who died in an accident, the other nine were killed by his two sons.

And the Fake Core Old Ancestor of the Xu Family was killed by him.

How did this Beast Taming Xu Family blame the Five Elements Wang Family?

“Hmm, but there are also rumors that the Beast Taming Xu Family couldn’t find out which force was responsible for this incident, so they used the Five Elements Wang Family to assert their power.”

Lu Miaoyun continued.

“Asserting power with the Five Elements Wang Family? Isn’t this Beast Taming Xu Family a bit too overbearing?”

Lu Changsheng frowned slightly, feeling it was unreasonable.

Even if the Five Elements Wang Family’s foundation wasn’t as deep as the Beast Taming Xu Family’s, they were still a Core Formation level force, with a Core Formation True Person overseeing them.

How could they swallow such a humiliating insult as having their mountain gate shattered?

If the Wang Family couldn’t get even, it was likely that for the next few decades, or even a century, people would remember that the Beast Taming Xu Family shattered their mountain gate.

So, to assert their power, they would engage in a death feud with the Wang Family. In Lu Changsheng’s opinion, this was somewhat unreasonable; there should be other reasons.

“Could it be that the Xu Family truly believes the Wang Family killed their Fake Core Old Ancestor?”

Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

“Husband, do you remember the monster tide fifteen years ago?”

Lu Miaoyun said softly.

“Of course, I remember.”

Lu Changsheng lightly sipped his tea and nodded.

Such a monster tide back then was truly a rare sight in centuries.

Not only did the Yu Ling Sect suffer heavy losses, with two Core Formation True Persons and one third-tier Yao Beast dying, but Qingluan Immortal City was also nearly breached.

And Xiahou Wuwo, whom he killed, had also participated in that monster tide, so he remembered this matter very clearly.

“Before, there were rumors that the Old Ancestor of the Xu Family was severely injured during the monster tide, and his condition was unknown, leading to rumors of bad news for the Xu Family outside.”

“This Purple Nether Secret Realm incident was even seen by the Xu Family as a targeted provocation and test from other forces, so the Xu Family had to respond strongly.”

“However, there are many different opinions about this matter, and some rumors even point the finger at the Four Great Immortal Sects, but the Xu Family couldn’t possibly blame the Four Great Immortal Sects, so after much deliberation, they chose the weakest among the peer-level forces, the Wang Family.”

Lu Miaoyun came behind Lu Changsheng, massaged his shoulders, and said.

The matter between the Xu Family and the Wang Family had been causing quite a stir recently.

And she knew about her husband’s relationship with Xu Ruyin, so she had gone to investigate this matter.

“Good heavens, this can be considered a lucky coincidence, right?”

Lu Changsheng was a bit speechless, not expecting that something he did casually would make the Xu Family suspect the Four Great Immortal Sects.

But thinking about it, it was normal.

Apart from the Four Great Immortal Sects, what other force had the ability to target the Xu Family?

He continued to ask, “Then what is the Wang Family’s attitude towards this matter?”

“It is rumored that when the Old Ancestor of the Xu Family went to the Five Elements Wang Family this time, he not only brought his third-tier Spirit Beast, the Earth Dragon Beast, but also a third-tier Black Tortoise and eight hundred Fire Crow Dao Soldiers.”

“The Wang Family Old Ancestor could only contend with the Xu Family Old Ancestor by relying on the Family’s grand formation.”

“If the Wang Family Old Ancestor were to leave the Family’s grand formation, he might even be suppressed and killed by the Xu Family Old Ancestor, so the Wang Family could only swallow this bitter loss, greatly boosting the prestige of the Beast Taming Xu Family.”

Lu Miaoyun’s fresh and elegant face was filled with emotion.

Even though she knew her Family had already far surpassed many surrounding Family forces.

But hearing about the strength of the Beast Taming Xu Family still made her heart tremble.

Two third-tier Spirit Beasts, and Dao Soldiers nurtured only by top-tier forces!

With such a lineup of power, ordinary Core Formation True Persons were simply no match.

“Tsk tsk tsk, this lineup is truly luxurious. So, the Wang Family was completely blockaded by the Xu Family Old Ancestor.”

Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but sigh with emotion when he heard these words.

He thought to himself that this Beast Taming Xu Family was indeed strong and overbearing enough.

A Core Formation True Person leading two third-tier Yao Beasts and eight hundred Dao Soldiers, he was probably invincible among Core Formation cultivators, rarely meeting an opponent!

And for the Xu Family Old Ancestor to dare to go out like this, it was estimated that there was an unknown third-tier Spirit Beast guarding his Family!

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t take such a risk.

“It seems the Five Elements Wang Family has indeed declined.”

“If a revitalizing leader doesn’t emerge to turn the tide, I’m afraid the Five Elements Wang Family’s name will be difficult to maintain.”

Lu Changsheng sipped his tea and said with emotion.

As far as he knew, the Five Elements Wang Family was a new Core Formation force that had only risen in the past thousand years.

Initially, it was just a small Qi Refining Family, but then their ancestral grave emitted golden light, and the Family produced an unparalleled Genius with a ‘Five Elements Body’.

It was this person’s rapid rise that allowed the previously unknown Wang Family to be promoted to a Core Formation Family!

The ‘Five Elements’ in the Five Elements Wang Family also came from this Wang Family Old Ancestor’s Daoist title.

However, with the passing of this Wang Family Old Ancestor, the once flourishing Five Elements Wang Family gradually began to decline.

After all, not all families were like the Beast Taming Xu Family, possessing third-tier Yao Beasts, Dao Soldiers, and other foundational suppressors.

The Five Elements Wang Family’s rise back then was too fast!

It relied entirely on the Wang Family Old Ancestor alone.

And this Old Ancestor’s Cultivation Technique Legacy Magic Treasure, etc., could only exert their maximum power in the hands of someone with a Five Elements Body.

But how rare was a Five Elements Body? How could the Wang Family be so lucky as to produce another Five Elements Body?

So, after this Wang Family Old Ancestor passed away, although the Wang Family still had a Core Formation True Person in charge, there was no one who could truly support the Family.

They could only rely on the foundation left by their predecessors, living off past gains, maintaining the status quo, and allowing the Family to continuously decline.

Now, the matter between the Beast Taming Xu Family and the Five Elements Wang Family made Lu Changsheng feel that the Wang Family was indeed in trouble.

Otherwise, if they still had some foundational means, it would be impossible for them to allow the Xu Family Old Ancestor to blockade their gate and shatter their mountain gate like this.

If the Five Elements Wang Family couldn’t produce a revitalizing leader within a hundred years, it was feared that in another hundred years, the Family would fall from the ranks of aristocratic families.

After hearing about the Beast Taming Xu Family and the Five Elements Wang Family, Lu Changsheng told Lu Miaoyun to pay more attention to such news when she had time.

If there were any developments with these top-tier Family forces, she should let him know.

After all, if forces of this level caused a major incident, it might affect his own Family.

Afterward, Lu Changsheng went to check on his concubine Xia Zhiyue’s Foundation Establishment Breakthrough and inquired about his son Lu Yun’s industrial relocation.

Lu Yun told Lu Changsheng that the Family’s industrial relocation plan was already complete and could be moved to White Tiger Mountain at any time.

After a moment of thought, Lu Changsheng asked Lu Xianzhi to first establish a Puppet branch factory in White Tiger Mountain for a trial run.

If there were no problems, they would begin a full relocation after Lu Ping’an’s Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment.

“Yes, Father.”

Lu Yun nodded in response.

Lu Changsheng continued to ask Lu Yun about some Family matters and his children.

Perhaps due to Lu Changsheng’s own situation, like Li Feiyu’s, many of his children preferred to go out for training and seek Opportunities.

For example, his daughter Lu Ruyi, after the White Tiger Mountain incident, resigned from her duties, focused entirely on Cultivation, and after breaking through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer, also applied to go out for training.

“Hoo!”

Lu Changsheng exhaled lightly upon hearing Lu Yun’s words and said, “Yun’er, you can slightly adjust the Family’s Cultivation resources as needed.”

“And you can inform the Family’s Disciples that the Family currently has a channel to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills. As long as they can Cultivate to Qi Refining Peak early, they can apply to the Family for a Foundation Establishment Pill.”

Lu Changsheng said.

Previously, the Family had always encouraged childbirth.

In terms of Cultivation, the Family’s welfare benefits were relatively good, but incentives were mediocre.

Now that the Family was not lacking Foundation Establishment Pills, Lu Changsheng felt that they could provide more incentives in this area.

As long as his children were competitive, even if they had Low Grade Spiritual Roots, he was willing to give them Foundation Establishment Pills to let them try to establish their Foundation!

“There’s a Foundation Establishment Pill channel…”

Lu Yun was shocked to hear this.

Previously, Lu Changsheng had him send a Foundation Establishment Pill to Qingzhu Mountain, which made him guess that his father probably still had Foundation Establishment Pills.

He didn’t expect his father to actually say that the Family now had a Foundation Establishment Pill channel!

“Father, I don’t think this kind of thing should be announced in the Family. If it gets out, it might cause trouble.”

“If any of my younger siblings Breakthrough to Qi Refining Late Stage, I will talk to them and mention this. What do you think?”

Lu Yun said.

“Alright, you can arrange these as you see fit.”

Lu Changsheng nodded.

He had rarely interfered with Family affairs.

He only occasionally suggested general directions, leaving the specifics to his children to handle.

After chatting with his son Lu Yun, he went to visit his other children, inquired about their situations, and then Lu Changsheng told Lu Miaoge and Lu Miaoyun that he was going to Qingyun Sect to visit Zhao Qingqing.

Now that he was at Qingyun Sect, Lu Changsheng felt inexplicably guilty for some reason.

He was afraid that while walking with Zhao Qingqing in Qingyun Sect, he would run into Xiao Xiyue’s Master, Immortal Master Caiyun.

Upon seeing Zhao Qingqing, Lu Changsheng noticed that her belly indeed harbored a life force, and he was very happy.

Immediately, he stayed with Zhao Qingqing in Qingyun Sect for half a month.

After leaving Qingyun Sect, Lu Changsheng thought that he seemed to need to go to Falling Cloud Mountain Range to visit Xiao Xiyue.

“Sigh, this is just a few outside. If I had wives and Dao Companions all over the world, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even be able to keep up.”

Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but sigh.

He planned to go home and then take his daughter Lu Wangshu with him.

Although this daughter was a third wheel, affecting his and Xiao Xiyue’s Cultivation of the Sun Moon Reincarnation Art.

But the mother and daughter were already together so little, he still hoped they could spend more time together.

[Congratulations to Host! Your descendants have given birth to 300 offspring. You have received one lottery chance.]

As Lu Changsheng had just returned to Bihu Mountain, a System prompt sounded in his mind.

“Three hundred already.”

Lu Changsheng’s eyes showed a hint of emotion.

When his grandchildren numbered two hundred, his own children also numbered exactly two hundred.

But now, he only had two hundred and eighteen children, while his grandchildren already numbered three hundred.

As time went on, this difference in numbers would only grow larger.

After all, his most frequent baby-making period was in the first twenty years.

And it was among this batch of children that there were more Mortals.

At this moment, Lu Changsheng suddenly remembered that he seemed to have not visited the Lu Family in Ruyi County for a long time.

“Sigh.”

Lu Changsheng sighed and went directly back to Xumi Grotto-heaven.

The environment within the Grotto-heaven was now exceptionally beautiful.

Since Lu Changsheng and Lu Miaoge rarely Cultivated on weekdays, only Ling Zixiao and Bai Ling consumed Spiritual Qi through Cultivation, causing the Spiritual Qi around the Spirit Eye Spring to condense into mist, like a fairy land on earth.

There were two wooden houses next to the medicinal garden, but Lu Ping’an spent most of his time overseeing White Tiger Mountain.

Lu Quanzhen had already gone out some time ago, leaving Bihu Mountain.

“System, lottery.”

Lu Changsheng looked at the medicinal garden, which showed no significant change in appearance, and silently thought to himself.

Immediately, the lottery wheel appeared, with golden light revolving.

[Ding! Congratulations to Host for obtaining a third-tier Puppet!]

[Reward has been distributed to the System space. Host can view it at any time.]

“Hmm, a third-tier Puppet?”

Lu Changsheng raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

He was naturally very familiar with Puppets.

Not only had he crafted many second-tier Puppets himself, but the Family’s main source of income currently was Puppets.

However, the highest-grade Puppet he had encountered so far was only a High Grade second-tier one.

Because High Grade Puppet Materials were rare and difficult to find, and crafting them was also very troublesome and time-consuming.

So far, he had only crafted one High Grade second-tier Puppet.

As for third-tier Puppets, even Lu Changsheng had only heard of them and had never encountered one.

Puppet Masters were not as popular as Array Masters, Alchemists, Talisman Masters, or Artifact Forgers; it was even questionable whether there was a third-tier Puppet Master in the entire Jiang Country Cultivation World.

“I heard that some third-tier Puppets can already act like Dao Soldiers, capable of following certain commands without relying entirely on Divine Sense control. I wonder if the System-produced Puppet is such a high-quality Puppet.”

Lu Changsheng felt a bit expectant and looked into the System space.

[Puppet: Thousand-Faced Fox Puppet]

[Grade: Third-tier]

[Description: The masterpiece of Immortal Master Qianji of the Puppet Spirit Sect, a Puppet mimicking the form of a Thousand-Faced Yao Fox, with his wife’s Soul injected into it, allowing the Puppet to possess simple consciousness and thought, maximizing its effectiveness and capabilities.]

“Ah???”

Lu Changsheng was stunned when he saw the Puppet’s description.

Although it was said that High Grade Puppets were certainly extraordinary.

And the items produced by the System were all quite amazing.

But this was really… too bizarre, wasn’t it?

Crafting a Puppet mimicking the form of a Thousand-Faced Yao Fox, Lu Changsheng understood that.

Most Puppets would use Yao Beast forms.

For example, when crafting a Puppet using the complete skeleton of a Yao Beast, they would try to replicate the Yao Beast’s original form as much as possible to maximize the Puppet’s combat power and functionality.

But what the hell was injecting his wife’s Soul into it?

Did it require such a huge price to make the Puppet possess a certain simple consciousness and thought?

“Extract!”

Lu Changsheng wanted to see what was so powerful about this third-tier Puppet.