Sheepback City, Mo Mansion.

Compared to the ancient, understated elegance of the Wei Mansion, the Mo Mansion's courtyard appears far more lavish.

The entire courtyard covers an area of over 100,000 square meters, exactly twice that of the Wei Mansion, adorned with various gold and silver ornaments. Coupled with the gilded large characters on the plaque, it resembles a nouveau riche establishment.

At this moment, several cultivators are seated in the assembly hall of the Mo Mansion.

All these cultivators are male, ranging in appearance from middle-aged to elderly, dressed in luxurious attire, and exuding an aura that is both robust and long-standing.

Sitting at the foremost position is a portly man in his fifties, with a thick crop of hair at his temples and a slightly balding patch at the front of his forehead.

This man is the Patriarch of the Mo Family, 'Master Mo' Mo Lisen, at the Eighth-Layer Foundation Establishment Realm, currently striving towards the ninth layer.

If fate favors him with enough opportunity, he might have a slight chance of becoming a Core Formation Realm cultivator.

Aside from Mo Lisen, those seated in the assembly hall include other members of the Mo Family's few Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, with two at the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer and three at the early-stage Foundation Establishment.

Such a configuration is by no means weak, even somewhat formidable, surpassing the cities under Mo Family's domain by at least four hundred miles.

However, the foundation for maintaining such a cultivator lineup sees no daylight, as Sheepback City's development history is rife with savagery and plunder, with every brick of the Mo Family Manor stained with human blood.

At this moment, seeing that everyone has arrived, Mo Lisen lightly coughs and says:

"You all have seen Yang Hengjun's letter and the Memory Pearl video, I presume. The reason for gathering everyone here today is to discuss the matters concerning Chixian City.

It is now confirmed that, apart from the information we already had, the Wei Mansion has also lost both the old and current patriarchs, two formidable combat powers.

Currently, only one Third-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wei Shudu, remains stationed in the city, and they have captured a second-tier giant monster alive.

The unverified information is the Wei Mansion's possession of a small Spirit Stone mine currently being exploited.

This is all the information Yang Hengjun has reported back, does anyone have any thoughts?"

As soon as Mo Lisen's voice fell, a cold-looking elder sitting beneath him spoke:

"I know Yang Hengjun quite well. He is indeed somewhat skilled in gathering intelligence, and although there is no video record for the Spirit Stone mine, its credibility is still very high.

Besides, even if the Spirit Stone mine is fictitious, the Wei Mansion must surely have other ordinary mines, otherwise, they couldn't have absorbed so many refugees into the city."

This person's name is Mo Daoran, the most senior clan elder of the Mo Family and one of only two cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer.

Listening to Mo Daoran's words, the bearded stout man sitting beside him, and who also happens to be Mo Lisen's elder brother, Mo Yun, slammed the table:

"Second Brother, Fourth Uncle spoke correctly. Even if the Wei Mansion does not have a Spirit Stone mine, the ownership of a city is definitely invaluable.

Now that Chixian City has only one Third-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator remaining, and the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer Wei Fan has also been split in two, the hearts of the people in the city are unstable.

With us six working together, what wave could Wei Shudu, a mere Third-Layer Foundation Establishment, possibly stir?"

On the main seat, upon hearing this, Mo Lisen nodded slightly, his face revealing a thoughtful expression.

Being a sly old fox, Mo Lisen has always adhered to the principle of meticulous planning before acting.

Thus, under normal circumstances, even after receiving Yang Hengjun's reply, he would send another spy to verify one or two things.

After all, written correspondence theoretically has certain possibilities of forgery.

But this time is different; among the items Yang Hengjun brought back was not only a letter but also a Memory Pearl.

The thing about Memory Pearls is that they come in different grades; the better the Memory Pearl, the clearer the image and the longer the recording.

Locally, it would be like paying to watch in 4k or 1080p.

Ordinary Memory Pearls may have mediocre filming effects, but they have an advantage— they cannot be recorded into an illusion array— or rather, the materials are too poor to carry the array's runes.

Therefore, the footage shot by Yang Hengjun must be real on-site recordings.

Coupled with the rabbits' reconstruction techniques, which have surpassed Mo Lisen's understanding, he had little hesitation in believing this footage.

It's like the early 20th-century Kanas Lake Monster.

It took more than ten years to easily debunk it as a marketing stunt by the taimen fish, but at the time, people had unwavering faith that it was an unknown water monster, bringing countless views to "Approaching Science."

Actually, just watching TV was not that bad. Some innocent youths, like the pen name novice fishermen, even spent 120 yuan on a boat ticket to see nothing.

This is a matter of the era setting cognitive limits, and even the locals with undeveloped intellects were like this, let alone in the technology-deprived Damo Realm.

Therefore, as an indigenous person, Mo Lisen inevitably got tricked.

Seeing all the clan members brimming with high spirits and eager to go, Mo Lisen didn't hesitate any longer:

"Gather all clan members above Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer, set off for Chixian City within one hour at the latest!"

Forty-five minutes later, the Mo Family's forces were fully assembled.

This time, Mo Lisen did not bring too many cultivators. Besides the six Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, including himself, he only brought twelve additional clan members above Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.

Not considering the other Foundation Establishment cultivator stationed at Demon Gateway and a few high-level Qi Cultivation clan members in the city, this was the strongest force the Mo Family could muster.

Although Chixian City had only one Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator stationed, Mo Lisen still gave the opposing party the utmost attention.

As for the soldiers at the Qi Cultivation Realm and even the Mortal Realm, he did not summon them this time.

Firstly, these individuals cannot fly due to their realm limitations, and their movements will hinder the team.

Secondly, the conquest of cities in the Damo Realm essentially involves battles between high-level cultivators.

Extraordinary individuals born from spiritual energy mean that as long as the upper echelons settle the victory, the city's claim is no longer in doubt.

As for the mortals within the city... that is not an issue Mo Lisen needs to spend his energy considering.

Because in this world, without the protection of a city, it's essentially seeking death, so although some civilians might escape, the vast majority will ultimately choose to resign themselves to fate.

This is the tragedy of ordinary people born in a chaotic world.

That's why people say they'd rather be dogs in peaceful times than humans in turbulent ones.

With all preparations complete, Mo Lisen waved his hand:

"Let's go!"

As Mo Lisen and his group flew out of Sheepback City.

In the combat room of the Fire Camp.

Lin Ziming, looking at the figures recorded from afar on the screen, brightened up:

"Report to command immediately, they've made a move!"

Although the flight path between Sheepback City and Chixian City is theoretically a straight line, no one can guarantee there won't be a sudden change of direction.

Moreover, although the Memory Pearl can be tampered with, it must either be destroyed on the spot or carried in a spatial bag, neither of which can relay location information—unless Mo Lisen is like Frieza in Dragon Pearl, stupidly carrying the Dragon Pearl outside despite having spatial technology, thus getting discovered.

Considering these factors, the rabbits made another preparation:

Ordered Bo Binghui's information team to set off and arranged a drone relay station near Sheepback City two days in advance.

These drones don't need to capture crystal-clear images; they only need to detect moving human trajectories.

Honestly, this approach is highly likely to be a futile effort, but from a strategic perspective, all uncontrollable factors must be eliminated.

Sure enough.

The Mo Family, extremely confident, did not change their route—or rather, except for tactics like the rabbits', generally, no one would think of stealth in a guaranteed victory.

The distance between Sheepback City and Chixian City is over seventy kilometers, equating to one hundred forty miles. Due to current spiritual energy scarcity in the Damo Realm, Foundation Establishment cultivators generally need to sit and restore spiritual power after flying about forty miles.

However, the Mo Family is relatively wealthy, and Mo Lisen possesses some type of enhancing array that can reduce spiritual power consumption.

Thus, the group only rested once before gradually approaching Chixian City.

Upon flying to approximately twenty miles from Chixian City, Mo Lisen signaled everyone to cease advancing.

Then they uniformly descended to the ground.

This location is close to a small mountain spring with low flow, a vertical small canyon with a height of around twenty meters, oriented north to south.

This was a meeting spot proactively suggested by Yang Hengjun in his letter, referred to as Rat Extermination Creek in his correspondence.

According to Yang Hengjun, attacking Chixian City is not urgent, meeting at Rat Extermination Creek could lead to discovering new information he acquired.

This was a very reasonable suggestion, so Mo Lisen didn't hesitate to accept it.

Upon landing, Mo Lisen tore open a red talisman.

This was an ordinary talisman known as the Intermittent Heat Talisman, a paired sub-mother talisman commonly used for intelligence exchange.

Its effect is simple—upon tearing, the mother talisman automatically heats up, and the sub-talisman can sense this temperature within two miles—the Intermittent Heat Talisman only has heating functionality, cannot pinpoint with divine sense, but the temperature increases as both sides get closer.

As Mo Lisen tore open the talisman, his brother Mo Yun looked at a certain bird in the sky killing insects, seemingly thought of something interesting:

"Second brother, have you heard of an ancient legend?"

Mo Lisen glanced at him, casually replied:

"Which legend?"

"It's said in ancient times there existed flying dragon monsters, these beasts were extremely cautious, often consuming the enemy's essence from a distance when faced with a great threat—like the birds above us—only overwhelming with victory and attack when assured of victory, I believe, like the flying dragon attacking, we are sure to..."

Before Mo Yun finished speaking, Mo Lisen felt a strong tailwind brushing past him, then...

"Boom—"

Mo Lisen looked up to see a large hole appear in his brother's chest.

"Great triumph of the full moon..."

Plop—

Without finishing his sentence, Mo Yun collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.