AWB Chapter 177 Moving to a new home
Chapter 177 Moving to a new home
"Yes, my parents are both fine. It's a long story. Tonight, while I was cultivating at home, I felt uneasy, as if something was about to happen. So I took my family and left home early. But we hadn't been gone long when we encountered the attack on the village by those treacherous cultivators."
Cui Ying didn't intend to hide everything; she gave a general account.
"I see!"
Hearing this, Gu Qinghong and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Xie Qing, standing nearby, coughed violently a few times, clutching his chest, and said through gritted teeth:
"The Dong family is incredibly audacious to dare to come here. If our city lord hadn't been so perceptive, seeing through their schemes and sending Foundation Establishment experts and the Windwing Army to annihilate them in advance, our entire village would probably have been slaughtered."
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement and began to hurl insults at the group of people who had just left.
Looking at the collapsed courtyards and two or three bloodied corpses at the village entrance, Cui Ying thought of herself. If she hadn't been able to protect herself, and if she had gained Lei Yujing's favor, she might have been reduced to ashes tonight.
She shook her head, not daring to think about it further.
After this matter was concluded, Cui Ying returned to a secluded cave behind Fengxi Ridge. Looking at the intact Four Seas Overturning Array, the last weight in her heart was lifted.
She went inside with the array plate in her hand, and after reuniting with her family, she briefly explained what had happened outside. For the rest of the time, they stayed there without any intention of going out.
The next morning, the sun shone brightly, but the temperature began to cool, and the vegetation in the nearby mountains and forests gradually took on an autumnal hue.
The Cui family members stood before the ruins, their expressions complex. Cui Zhengming and Wang Rong, in particular, had glistening tears in their eyes.
"Sigh, the place I've lived in for decades is gone just like that. I really feel terrible about it."
"That's right! But then again, losing the house is better than losing your life!"
Wang Rong patted Cui Zhengming on the shoulder, forced a smile, and turned to greet the Cui siblings who were rummaging through a pile of charcoal:
“Our new house has been built for quite some time now. We originally planned to move in before your third sister got married, but it seems even the heavens couldn’t bear to see us continue to suffer, and they’re rushing to let us move into our new house!”
“Mother is right. As the saying goes, those who survive a great calamity are destined for good fortune. There’s no point in us continuing to sigh and lament here. Let’s hurry up and move in while it’s still early.”
“That’s right. Yesterday, that group of people rushed in from outside the village. I wonder if the Seven Star Grass seeds that were just planted in the spirit field have been ruined.”
Cui Lin nodded, as if she had remembered something, and then spoke.
Upon hearing this, Cui Zhengming lost all interest in reminiscing about the past. He immediately instructed Wang Rong to take his siblings to prepare for the new house, while he himself rode on a cloud and hurriedly headed towards the spiritual fields outside the village.
Meanwhile, Cui Ying and her family arrived at Fengxi Ridge behind the house. After entering the new house, she did not rush to clean all the houses with her family using the Cleansing Technique. Instead, she took out the array plate of the Four Seas Overturning Array and six array flags from her storage bag.
"Third Sister/Third Sister, are you going to set up that isolation formation from last night again?"
Upon seeing this, Cui Lin, Cui Yue, Cui Yan, and the others, who were casting a purification spell, all stopped what they were doing and gathered around.
"That's right, this formation is called the Four Seas Overturning Formation, and its defensive capabilities are comparable to a second-grade formation."
"Go!"
With a gentle lift of her hands, Cui Ying caused the six array flags to rise into the air, trailing pale white tails. As if they were sentient, they dispersed in all directions and transformed into six shooting stars, flying into the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain.
In an instant, smoke rose from the foot of the mountain, and thick layers of gray smoke spread out, completely enveloping Fengxi Ridge.
Without further ado, the gray smoke gradually faded, and in the distance, the houses on the mountaintop disappeared. The entire mountain seemed to be frozen in this moment, no longer changing.
"Alright! The Four Seas Overturning Formation has been set up. The mist formation attached to it will remain open indefinitely. To ordinary cultivators, it will just look like an ordinary mountain range."
After Cui Ying finished speaking, she embedded the array plate in her hand into the stone wall on the right side of the hall. Immediately, a palm-sized array eye appeared. This array eye had two layers, inner and outer, and emitted a faint white light as it slowly rotated.
"This array is divided into an outer array and an inner array. If a certain area of the outer array lights up, it means someone is breaking into the array from the foot of the mountain. If the inner array lights up, it means that person is already close to the top of the mountain. If it is a powerful enemy, we need to activate the array immediately to block them."
Cui Ying clapped her hands, pointed to the two swirling array points, and continued to explain to her family:
"Once you break through to the late stage of Qi Refining, you can use your divine sense to refine this array and then control it freely. For now, you can only continue to use the method of dripping blood into the array's eye to gain the right to freely enter and exit this array."
"Understood, Third Sister/Third Sister!"
Led by Wang Rong, Cui Cong and his wife, along with Cui Lin, Cui Yue, and Cui Yan, quickly stepped forward and dripped blood from their fingertips into the solution.
The array's core flickered upon contact with the blood, and the group immediately felt a faint connection to the array.
"This Four Seas Overturning Heaven Formation is even better than I imagined. It can conceal the mountain gate and prevent cultivators from spying on it. If necessary, it can also activate the inner formation for defense."
“Once my father’s cultivation level is higher, I can hand over control to him. In a few years, after my third sister and Xiaoyue Cui Yan have grown up, our Cui family will have a firm foothold in the village.”
After seeing that her family members had all dripped blood from their fingertips, Cui Ying breathed a sigh of relief and pondered to herself.
In the following days, the Cui family was extremely busy. After all, the new mansion was built to be extremely spacious. Not to mention the exquisitely designed landscape pavilions, there were nearly a hundred rooms of all sizes.
It's more than a hundred times bigger than their old courtyard.
Even if all of Cui Ying's siblings were to get married and have children, there would still be enough people in the Cui family.
With the help of magic, Wang Rong and the others worked for quite some time to clean the huge mansion until it was spotless.
As noon approached, she was preparing to make lunch when she suddenly remembered that Cui Zhengming had not yet returned. She quickly called over Cui Yan and Cui Yue, who were running around happily in the yard.
"You two hurry down the mountain and call your father back!"
"Okay, Mom/We'll go right now!"
The siblings cheerfully responded and were about to descend the mountain when they heard Wang Rong call out from behind:
"Wait, Cui Yue, take the little iron beast with you, and on the way, make a trip to the Gu family, Wang family, Zhu family, Changsun family, and Zhao family. Tell them to come over and have some fun at our house!"