Chapter 545: Ma Hong Yun


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    How big was the possibility of a mortal sessfully plotting against a Gu Immortal?


    Fang Yuan might be a rank five peak stage Gu Master, but it would be almost impossible for him as


    well to cross the boundaries of immortal and mortal.


    Fang Yuan was a Gu Immortal in his past life, there might be no mortal that had as deep of an


    understanding of this as him.


    Fortunately, Fang Yuan’s n was not just himself as a mortal going against a Gu Immortal. He would


    borrow the strength of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the bright guidance from his previous life’s rich


    experience and also the precious information from Lang Yand spirit; all these allowed his n to


    have a higher chance of sess. With this, he had a twenty percent chance of seizing Immortal Gu


    Landscape As Before.


    Twenty percent probability was already the highest among the three ways to save Dang Hun mountain.


    Only an Immortal Gu could contend against Immortal Gu Gruel Mud.


    Based on his wide vision and experience from his five hundred years of experience, Fang Yuan knew


    of only three Immortal Gu that could save Dang Hun mountain.


    First was the rank six earth path turn rock Gu, this Gu was with Western Desert’s rank six Gu Immortal


    Sun Cu.


    Second was simrly an earth path rank six Immortal Gu Rebuilding Mount Dongshan, which was in


    Eastern Sea’s Hai Shi blessednd.


    Third was time path rank six Immortal Gu Landscape As Before. This Gu had not yet been created and


    was not a naturally formed Gu. Its master Tai Bai Yun Sheng was only a rank five Gu Master currently.


    To seize turn rock Gu, Fang Yuan would have to deal with Gu Immortal Sun Cu who had been a Gu


    Immortal for over a dozen years.


    And the situation would be even more bad if he wanted to scheme against Rebuilding Mount


    Dongshan; Fang Yuan would be cing himself under the radar of Gu Immortals, and would he be able


    to exchange for the Immortal Gu as a mortal? This was nothing more than a kid carrying gold and


    strolling around the ck market.


    Thus, the third n of Immortal Gu Landscape As Before had the lowest risk and the highest


    probability of sess.


    Even if Tai Bai Yun Sheng would advance into a Gu Immortal, he would only be a greenhorn and would


    not be familiar with the qualitative change of strength.


    Compared to the veteran Sun Cu and that group of Gu Immortals in the Hai Shi blessednd, this


    opponent was much more easy to deal with. 　　…


    Northern ins, December.


    The blizzard was gradually bing bigger and appeared more frequently. Even if there was no


    blizzard, the pure white snow had covered the whole northern ins, and even the blistering hot


    sunlight became powerless.


    The time of the ten year blizzard was already approaching closer.


    Tian Chuan, warm pond valley.


    “Tribe leader, this is the spirit spring C.” Ma You Liang worriedly pointed at the dried spirit spring and


    introduced it to Ma Ying Jie.


    Ma Ying Jie’s brows furrowed deeply.


    This spirit spring C was one of the only three remaining spirit springs of warm pond valley.


    Now that it was dried up, only spirit springs A and B were left to support Ma tribe. This was disastrous


    news to Ma tribe.


    The spirit springs in northern ins were different from the spirit springs in other regions.


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    Northern springs had little spring water and narrow spring opening, so they burst out fiercely and had


    poor foundation, so theysted the shortest time.


    Eastern springs were plentiful in numbers, southern springs gurgled, northern springs were intense and


    western springs were pure.


    A mid-sized n couldst for over ten years in southern border, using one spirit spring. As long as


    they did not use up the spirit spring excessively, they could continue to use the thin and continuous flow


    of the spirit spring.


    But it was different in northern ins.


    Spirit springs formed quickly in northern ins and quickly finished as well. Add in the intense warfares


    in northern ins, a mid-sized tribe would require at least three or four spirit springs to sustain


    themselves.


    Ma Ying Jie became Ma tribe’s new tribe leader after he returned to the tribe. Ma tribe had lost at their


    attempt to charge into super tribe level and was now reduced to a small tribe, causing therge warm


    pond valley to appear spacious and empty.


    Ma tribe had rations and water sources, moreover had made ample preparations.


    But a spirit spring was amodity that was an essential and important resource to a Gu Master’s


    cultivation. Once the blizzard arrives, ces like warm pond valley would be the final ce of


    refuge.


    Not only beast groups, other Gu Masters would alsoe to stay.


    As the owner of the ce, Ma tribe not only had to resist against the blizzard but had to negotiate with


    these people as well.


    The primeval stones from the spirit spring were the backbone in supporting a Gu Master’s battles. Now,


    out of the three backbones of Ma tribe, one was broken. The weak Ma tribe that was left with thirty


    percent of their foundations suddenly had ten percent less because of the drying spirit spring C.


    However, Ma Ying Jie had no countermeasures to deal with such a problem.


    If he had a ‘river as before’ Gu, he could immediately restore spirit spring C to its original condition,


    resolving this problem, but he did not have it.


    “Lord tribe leader, are spirit springs really so important?” Fei Cai asked on the way back.


    After he returned to the tribe, as a benefactor who saved Ma Ying Jie, he was immediately liberated


    from his ve status and was now a free person.


    At the same time, he was still Ma Ying Jie’s personal attendant.


    Ma Ying Jie worriedly nodded: “A spirit spring’s drying up has an extremely huge influence towards Gu


    Masters. And Gu Masters are the pirs of a tribe. Our Ma tribe not only needs Gu Masters as an


    important strength to resist all kinds of cmities during the blizzard disaster, but also to fight for new


    resources to develop the tribe after the disaster…”


    Fei Cai eximed then asked while walking: “Then, can’t we find new spirit springs? Our warm pond


    valley is sorge, who is to say that there are only these three spirit springs.”


    Fei Cai’s words were filled with his optimistic spirit.


    Ma Ying Jie gave a bitterugh: “Northern ins’ spirit springs can indeed form in a short time, there


    might be a fourth spirit spring in warm pond valley, but the probability is close to zero. The thing is


    every ten years as the blizzard approaches, spirit springs in all regions of northern ins will continue


    to be dry and dead. After the blizzard disperses, new spirit springs will gush out inrge numbers.


    At that time, all the regions of northern ins will have plentiful water vegetation and you might even


    find one spirit spring every hundred li. That is the best time for every tribe and every beast group to


    grow.”


    “It was like that…” Fei Cai only then realized he had lived for this long and was still ignorant, and was


    not familiar to such situations.


    “Ahh!” Suddenly, he screamed as he fell down to the side.


    They were walking a path beside the cliff, fortunately it was a gentle slope and not a precipice. Fei Cai


    had lost his footing and rolled down from the slope, screaming as he fell.


    “This guy…” Ma Ying Jie was amused at the series of hrious screams from Fei Cai, his tightly knitted


    brows slightly rxed.


    “You idiot, you can’t even walk now? Climb up quickly… hmm?!” Ma Ying Jie suddenly stopped, his


    eyes opened wide as he looked incredulously at a brand new spirit spring gushing out from the slope.


    This spirit spring’s mouth had been covered by a rock.


    But this stone was pushed by the rolling Fei Cai, letting the spirit spring that was covered reveal itself.


    This was clearly a recently formed spirit spring, otherwise Ma tribe would not have missed it during


    their search before the battle.


    The volume of the spirit spring was enormous and in a short few moments of time, over a hundred


    primeval stones gushed with the spring water and fell on the surrounding ground.


    “This…This is actually a new spirit spring and one that directly surpasses the volume of spirit spring A!”


    Ma Ying Jie was so happy that even his eyes started reddening, “Is this the so-called joy after extreme


    sorrow? This is definitely the blessing of our ancestors in Longevity Heaven!”


    “Tribe..tribe leader… I have returned!” At this time, Fei Cai came back while limping a little, and as he


    saw the new spring, his eyes simrly opened wide, “Strange, how could there suddenly be a spring


    here?”


    Ma Ying Jieughed heartily: “Fei Cai, you are the lucky star that heaven sent to me. From today


    onwards, you should change your name. Fei Cai sounds simr to trash, how could I Ma Ying Jie have


    trash beside me? From now, you shall be called Hong Yun, Fei Hong Yun! It indicates luck shining on


    our Ma tribe, joy after extreme sorrow!”


    However, Ma Ying Jie was not happy for long, as seven dayster, Hei tribe army arrived and


    surrounded warm pond valley.


    The very night the Hei tribe army garrisoned nearby, the three spirit springs of warm pond valley


    simultaneous turned ck,pletely polluted.


    A letter to surrender soon reached Ma Ying Jie’snd.


    Ma Ying Jie had not expected Hei Lou Lan to not let him go even after clearly achieving the final


    victory!


    The spirit springs that were contaminated by the use of Gu worms could no longer produce primeval


    stones and were all useless. Although Ma tribe still had stocks of primeval stones, they had already lost


    the possibility of continuing to stay in warm pond valley.


    “I had not thought Hei Lou Lan would be so hell-bent on attacking! He has requested our Ma tribe to


    surrender in the letter, which does not vite the rules set by Giant Sun Immortal Venerable back then!


    Damn it, he is truly hateful!” Ma Ying Jie clenched his fists, his heart filled with anger, hatred,


    helplessness and powerlessness.


    “Hei Lou Lan who is nicknamed ck Tyrant, has always been brutal and violent. It seems the battle


    before created a fear in him towards Ma tribe. But because of Ancestor Giant Sun’s rules, he wants to


    put Ma tribe under his sight and continue to oppress us.” Ma You Liang was sitting stiffly on his chair


    and analyzed this with a heavy voice.


    After pausing for a while, he continued: “Actually, this is also good, we can surrender to Hei Lou Lan


    which would mean we can enter Imperial Court blessednd as well.”


    Ma Ying Jie shook his head: “This is where Hei Lou Lan’s sinister intent lies in. It is true Ma tribe will be


    able to stay in Imperial Court, but what about others? Let me ask you, how many tribesmen do we have


    left with surname Ma?”


    Ma You Liang paled as he answered: “Only over one hundred and thirty.”


    “Precisely so.” Ma Ying Jie nodded with a heavy expression, “To grow our tribe, we would need to take


    in outsiders and also wantonly connect with marriage and haverge numbers of offspring. But as long


    as Hei Lou Lan sent amand to forbid our Ma tribe from taking in outsiders and even only allowing


    us to have inter-tribe marriage, then how long would it take for our Ma tribe to grow?”


    Ma You Liang’s face turned even paler.


    He realized the seriousness of this problem.


    Politics was dirty, and not allowing them to marry outsiders could be easily done. Hei Lou Lan would


    only need to use the reason of protecting the purity of Huang Jin family’s bloodline and he would be


    able to justly suppress Ma tribe’s development.


    “Then what should we do?” Ma You Liang lost hisposure.


    Ma Ying Jie was silent for a while before resolutely saying: “We will bestow surname Ma to the


    outsiders and take them as our own tribesmen!”


    “Lord tribe leader, if we do this, our Ma tribe’s Huang Jin bloodline will really be…” Ma You Liang spoke


    hesitantly.


    “We will have preventive measures. Huang Jin bloodline is our Ma tribe’s pride, we can never let it be


    contaminated. If the situation takes a turn for the better, we can denounce these people and strip away


    their Ma surname.”


    Ma You Liang only then felt at ease and nodded, approving this n.