Chapter 7: The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows?

“If there are people from the Hu family in Yanyang Sect, it would be fine.”

Shang Ting took a deep breath and thought to himself:
“I’m afraid there’s a traitor hiding in the family.”

If it is the former, Shang Ting can let Shang Yangde contact the family secretly, unaware of the oriole behind!

However, if it is the latter, there is a spy planted by the Hu family in the family…

If he acted in this way, the Hu family might come out in full force and annihilate the merchant along with the reinforcements!
By then, it will harm the family.

“Changing the route and sneaking into Huangyan Mountain secretly is the safest option.”

“But if the Hu family insists on hunting us down along the way, we may not even be able to escape!”

Thinking of this, Shang Ting glanced at the group of merchants.

Without exception, everyone had dark clouds hanging over their heads and encountered murderous intent.

It seems that the traitor is definitely not among them, which is good news.

“By the way, uncle has a letter paper.”

Shang Ting sat steadily beside the campfire, calmly thinking about how to deal with the seemingly inescapable ambush by the Hu family.

Ten days ago, at the foot of the Immortal Platform of Yanyang Sect.

Shang Yangde once said that after the entrance examination was over, he would use a message paper to inform the head of the family that he had not received the Foundation Establishment Pill.

He must have used it once.

“uncle.”

Shang Ting found Shang Yangde and used the art of transmitting sound.

“Xiaoting, what’s the matter?”

“We’re going to die.”

Shang Ting’s calm words made Shang Yangde break out in a cold sweat.

In view of Shang Ting’s previous performance, he dared not disobey Shang Ting’s words.

He immediately listened attentively to Shang Ting’s analysis.

After hearing this, Shang Yangde was terrified and couldn’t help but glance around the forest frequently.

Shang Ting said calmly:

“Uncle, don’t worry. The Hu family has set up an ambush in Huangsha Valley, which is still hundreds of miles away.”

Judging from the fortune, only a thick and foul-smelling black fog was floating down, and the dark clouds themselves did not move down.

This shows that the Hu family’s foundation-building cultivator did not take action.

He only ambushed and killed an old man in the late stage of Qi training and a group of young people aged fifteen or sixteen.

It would be enough for the Hu family to send out two or three people in the late stage of Qi training, and bring some people in the middle stage of Qi training.

But at this time, Shang Yangde frowned and raised a huge doubt:

“Xiaoting, do you think that the master and I have never considered the issue of the traitor?”

“I have indeed sent a message to the head of the family, and he also announced the matter in the elders’ meeting, just to keep us safe. If there is a traitor in the family, he must have passed the news to the Hu family.”

“And if there are people from the Hu family in Yanyang Sect, they will definitely know that our foundation-building pills were stolen.”

“Then why did the Hu family risk going to war with our merchants and the Yao family and come to attack us when they knew we didn’t have any foundation-building pills?”

Shang Ting heard this, smiled coldly, and asked in a voice transmission:

“If you were the head of the Hu family, would you be sure that our merchants really didn’t get the foundation-building pill?”

“What if this is fake news deliberately released by our merchants?”

Shang Yangde’s face changed drastically.

Shang Ting laughed again:
“They are just a few Qi training monks anyway, just kill them.”

“If the convoy can’t go back, we merchants will definitely not get the Foundation Establishment Pill. But perhaps the Hu family can still snatch a Foundation Establishment Pill.”

“Low risk, high return. If it were you, would you do it?”

Shang Yangde remained silent after hearing this.

Given his loyal nature, he was hesitant and did not dare to do it.

But Shang Ting replied coldly in his heart:

“If it were me, I would not only do it, but I would do it thoroughly!”

If he were from the Hu family, he would be prepared even for the eagle behind the oriole!

They came out in full force, and both foundation-building masters were mobilized.

By then, even if the worst-case scenario is implemented, what will happen if the merchant’s foundation is built?
It’s just right to kill them all at once and break the stalemate!
Conquer the Shang family, sweep away the Yao family, and take this opportunity to unify Huangyan Mountain!

Of course.

The Hu family is just a nouveau riche family that has risen in the past two hundred years and does not have such courage.

Judging from the fortune, it was just as Shang Ting expected.

“Send the message and have the master come alone in secret. We will wait for the opportunity.” Shang Ting said calmly with cold eyes:
“Don’t the Hu family like to pretend to rob cultivators when they assassinate them?”

“Then we will treat them as robbery cultivators and kill them all.”

Shang Yangde looked at his nephew deeply. It was the first time he saw Shang Ting like this.

Thoughtful, calculating, and ruthless.

When did the fine family tradition passed down by our business community since ancient times produce someone like Xiaoting?
However, what this old man didn’t know was.

Shang Ting looked at his hesitation and sighed in his heart:
“Even such a great opportunity is too good to be true!”

“My descendants are unfilial! I established the principles of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness only to show them to the righteous forces in Tianyu Territory.”

“I didn’t expect that they would actually carry it out completely after I died?”

Since it was a matter of life and death, Shang Yangde dared not delay.

He took out the letter paper from the package and immediately retreated into the carriage:

“Okay! Xiaoting, come and see if I can put it this way…”

……

a few days later.

The merchant’s carriage team finally drove slowly towards the Yellow Sand Valley.

In the carriage, Shang Ting suddenly opened his eyes with a sharp look.

Scan around.

This Huangsha Valley is worthy of its name of Huangsha.

As we went along, the originally dense forest vegetation around us quickly turned into desertification.

Shang Ting took another look at his luck.

The dark clouds are still there as usual, but the black fog has completely covered the fields on the ground!
But the old tree was waving its branches at this moment…

“coming!”

In the Yellow Sand Valley, Hu You communicated with the eight people around him via telepathy.

The mission this time is important, but the target to be ambush is quite simple.

But the head of the family, Hu Xue Leng, still attached great importance to it and sent out four people in the late Qi training stage and five people in the middle Qi training stage!

And he has rich experience in killing.

Compared with Shangjia, an old man in the late stage of Qi training, and twenty or so young seedlings.

It’s like throwing a stone at an egg; it breaks at the slightest touch!
Hu You, 21 years old, middle-grade spiritual root, fourth level of Qi training.

He is a leader among the younger generation of the Hu family and has rich combat experience.

This time, the head of the family specifically asked him to come for training, and he must kill people and see blood.

The team leader Hu Haoyi excitedly transmitted the message:
“Don’t let any of them go. Use all bloody means and don’t leave any trace of our Hu family!”

“There were only a few when I left, but how come there were more than 20 when I came back?”

“I don’t know what’s going on with this merchant. But it doesn’t matter, they are just some small seedlings.”

Gulu Gulu…

Under their gaze, the merchant’s carriage team slowly drove into the valley.

“Kill them and seize the foundation-building pill!”

Suddenly, when the carriage team completely entered the Yellow Sand Valley, a strange cry was heard!

Almost instantly!

The trip rope snapped shut, and the horses stepped into the trap one after another. The merchant team was instantly thrown to the ground!

Even in the face of such an easy and overwhelming situation.

Hu Haoyi and others are still making careful calculations, and they use all their strength even when a lion fights a rabbit!

Immediately afterwards, nine people from the Hu family quickly emerged from the sand walls on both sides!
Each of them was tall and strong, wearing a blood-red turban, dressed in black, and holding sharp swords, and they rushed forward!

There are four in the middle stage of Qi training, and five in the late stage of Qi training!
“Haha, kill!”

The leader, Hu Haoyi, has a broad back and a sturdy build.

He laughed loudly and urged “Juechenxue” to rush into the carriage team.

With just one blow, the hood of the car was chopped off.

With another blow of the knife, he slashed at the young man in plain clothes in the car!
“Oh!”

However, there was a loud bang, and it was Hu Haoyi’s head that exploded into a bloody mist!
The burly body collapsed limply.

“what happened!?”

Hu You and others who rushed up from behind stared at the tragic scene in front of them in disbelief, and a bad premonition rose in their hearts.

Immediately afterwards, a foundation-building aura burst out from the body of the young man in plain clothes!
His appearance changed, and a thin, hunchbacked old man appeared, with white hair and a murderous look on his face.

It turned out to be the owner of the Shang family, Shang Rucai!
(End of this chapter)