Chapter 180 - 180 165 Reevaluating the Ninth Mountain's Colonel (Requesting monthly ticket)

Chapter 180: Chapter 165: Reevaluating the Ninth Mountain’s Colonel (Requesting monthly ticket) Chapter 180: Chapter 165: Reevaluating the Ninth Mountain’s Colonel (Requesting monthly ticket) “What?” As Yun Tiansheng’s words fell, the main hall of the Yun Family became instantly noisy. You look at me, I look at you, did you hear that wrong? All eligible descendants of the Yun Family entering the Ninth Mountain at this critical juncture, isn’t that madness? Immediately, there were sounds of banging on the table. “Ridiculous, since when did it become your place as a junior to make decisions for the Yun Family?” “Last night too, as soon as you returned, you interrupted the elders’ discussion. What kind of rules did you learn in the Ninth Mountain?” A person from the Third branch of Yun Family, looking like a scholarly young man with a long beard and wearing a jade crown, who normally likes to fight for a position within the family right after his older brothers, spoke out in anger, taking a stance as an elder. As he spoke, he even posed, turning his head towards Yun Chuxiong sitting in the principal seat, “Second brother, I don’t know what you think, letting your son behave recklessly?” Yun Tiansheng, ranking third among the next generation of the Yun Family, also had younger relatives looking at this impressive third brother, unhappily saying: “Third brother, not to criticize you as a younger brother, but now in Jingguan City, who doesn’t know that Youmen Pass has been breached, the Devil Race army is menacing, and even the Demon Suppression Envoy, an important figure, couldn’t escape a fatal outcome. You’re asking all of us to join the Mountain-cutting Army and enter your Ninth Mountain, isn’t that pushing us into a fire pit?” Immediately, there were echoes of agreement. “Exactly, it’s not as if you want to drag us into the fire pit with you, well, I’m not going.” “Whoever wants to go can go!” The younger members of the Yun Family protested one after another, turning the great hall into a marketplace. “Enough!” At this moment, Yun Fangting from the main branch of the Yun Family spoke up with a frown, and the noise gradually subsided. Seeing the head of the main branch frowning at Yun Tiansheng, his tone was still relatively calm, “Tiansheng, you have been hardened through constant battles in the military, among the younger generation, you are the most composed. Uncle knows this must be your idea, speak up, why?” Yun Tiansheng still held great respect for his uncle, who had supported the Yun Family to this day. His purpose today was mainly to persuade his uncle. With a respectful bow, he earnestly said: “Uncle must well perceive that the calamity of demons in the Ten Thousand Mountains is not merely a local or locus problem. Shu will face a great reshuffling, situations are changing rapidly. Nephew has followed the Ninth Mountain in wars across regions and deeply felt this. If the Yun Family remains aloof in Jingguan, just like the commoners here, becoming accustomed to comfort, when real threats arise, it may be too late for regrets. The family needs to prepare early!” “Oh?” Fang Yunting, hearing his nephew speak, did not dismiss him for his younger status. This nephew was quite decisive, voluntarily abandoning a secured path arranged by the family and opting to join the Ninth Mountain, battling widely and advancing rapidly in cultivation, earning his own insights. A glint of appreciation flashed through his eyes, “Indeed, the Devil Race from the Ten Thousand Mountains is formidable, and you overseers are likely unable to continue as before, hence the gathering of all major Noble families and Sects in Jingguan City, and as a local Noble family, we naturally received an invitation and will definitely contribute.” “But from your proposal, I can’t see any benefits for the family.” “Why?” Yun Tiansheng immediately responded. “Our General!” Upon hearing this, the critical Third Branch angrily retorted, “Again with your General! Yun Tiansheng, remember you are a descendent of the Yun Family, not a loyal follower of your General. Moreover, that Colonel of yours has just been appointed, you haven’t been with him for long, the Tiger Talisman hasn’t even been awarded, and no one has heard of him. Are you entrusting the future of our Yun Family to him, what is this nonsense?” Yun Tiansheng showed no respect to this third uncle, expressionlessly said: “That’s why I said, the Yun Family cannot afford to remain isolated, Third Uncle needs to get out more.” “Yun Tiansheng, how dare you talk to me like this, attempting to overturn the order,” the Third Branch burst out in anger, standing up, puffing his beard and glaring. “Tiansheng, how are you speaking to your Third Uncle?” His father, Yun Chuxiong, finally spoke up, twitching his brows, a headache emerging from his decisively acting eldest son, softening the atmosphere. “Enough!” The Yun Family main branch raised his hand, pressing down, resting one hand on the armrest of his chair, leaning slightly forward, eyes gleaming with a sharp light, “Listening to your words just now, it seems there’s an underlying message. Isn’t that Colonel from the Ninth Mountain a newly appointed one? Didn’t the overseers plan a ceremony to bestow the seal? Our Yun Family has also done some inquiries, yet no news of this person.” Yun Tiansheng knew the words he was about to speak were crucial to convincing his family, his eyes gradually changed, he took a deep breath and began to recount, “Half a month ago, the Ninth Mountain had just suffered a defeat, over ten thousand men, barely one in ten survived, I too was lucky to survive, had to retreat back to the overseers, it was rumored that our mountain would be placed under the administration of another!” “On that day, demons from all directions attacked, the overseers dispatched various Mountain-cutting Army troops to combat, we received orders, led the surviving troops to support the northwest direction, over four thousand miles from here, White Emperor City, where there was a Human Demon rebellion, and our new Colonel was there!” “When we first met the General, coinciding with the Demon Cult’s four major Heavenly Passes, wielding Taoist Soldiers, approaching White Emperor City in a critically perilous situation, the General burst forth, slew all four Heavenly Passes, and turned the tide.” “Following this, the news returned to the overseers, the overseers then urgently dispatched orders through Eight Hundred Miles Urgent, commanding us to shift battle over five thousand miles, sending troops to Tianxiong Pass, where another rebellion surfaced due to demon-induced unrest.” “The day General arrived, he quelled the rebellion of the Three Families with thunderous methods, beheading five Heavenly Passes, annihilating the Three Families with hundreds of heads rolling, thousands died at his single command—how dominating.” “I myself followed by General’s side, witnessing with my own eyes more than ten powerful Taoist Soldiers, none of whom could withstand ten moves under the General, all slain under his horse.” At this point, the hall had become so silent that one could hear a pin drop, most of the Yun Family were slightly trembling due to the events described by Yun Tiansheng. What is all this chaos. To him, a powerful Taoist Soldier is like mere cabbage, readily chopped down by their General. That’s someone who can support a major power on their own! Yet Yun Tiansheng continued to drop bombshells: “Later I found out, the General also killed many Heavenly Pass Demons. Despite his fierce and dominating killings, he was never stingy with us, rewarding us with the flesh and blood of a Heavenly Pass Demon, and also....” Saying this, he flicked his sleeve, a small bottle flew out, followed by a burst of blood light flying from the bottle along with a surge of dense Essence Qi that quickly filled the hall. As soon as everyone smelled it, their spirits lifted and they couldn’t help but gaze intently. With a piercing shriek, a gigantic black bird flew out from the blood light, fluttering through the hall. “The Blood Essence of a Heavenly Pass Demon!” In the hall, the main branch couldn’t help but narrow their eyes. Members of the Third branch and others couldn’t sit still, whispering among themselves, their eyes becoming fiery, involuntarily swallowing their saliva. “This was also... rewarded to you by that General!” “That’s right!” Yun Tiansheng nodded, this was a casual reward from the General after his arrival yesterday. Feeling the expressions and the shift in tone around him, his face also eased, “Not long ago, at the foot of Yunding Mountain, there was a Chief Disciple of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, who merely because our General returned from Tianxiong Pass, spent time with our General....seeing his failure to break through the Heavenly Pass, the General ordered me to send two drops of Demon Blood Essence!” Saying this, he turned his head, directing his gaze towards a figure standing behind the fifth section, “Zhuo Sheng is aware of this matter too.” Among the many elders and older siblings, Yun Zhuosheng, who was usually unnoticed, found himself the center of attention and quickly nodded, “Ah yes, I witnessed it myself, at that time....” Speaking, he relayed the incidents at the broken temple, even the details of Chen Yuan casually slaying a Demon afterward. He had wanted to speak of this yesterday, but his third brother told him not to talk nonsense, and now he could finally speak out. For a moment, the hall fell into silence as everyone quickly assimilated this information. After a long silence, the main section finally spoke up, their tone grave: “The Yun Family must re-evaluate this Ninth Mountain’s Colonel, but this matter is too risky, involving the future of the family, we must be cautious.” “Tiansheng, and you younger ones, step down.” With that, he waved his hand. Seeing this, Yun Tiansheng bowed his hands, then left the hall. Soon, only a few heads of sections remained in the hall. “What do you think about what Yun Sheng’s nephew said?” The lips of several sections moved slightly. A few minutes later, Yun Fangting’s voice rang out in the hall, “Chuxiong, bother you to visit White Emperor City, meet the Colonel there, ascertain specific news about this Ninth Mountain’s Colonel, and hurry back before dawn the day after tomorrow!” “Yes, big brother!” Not long after, the second branch of the Yun Family, Yun Tiansheng’s father, personally set off for White Emperor City! ...... Meanwhile, at the Ninth Mountain, as time passed, the progress of recruiting and purchasing horses was quite slow.