676: Chapter 672: The Actions of the Sima Family 676: Chapter 672: The Actions of the Sima Family Ye Tian silently sat down and then began to ask, “First, tell me, how is the Sima Family structured?
As the steward, you must be very clear about this, right?”
Zhang Bo, controlled by Ye Tian, could not lie and could only slowly say:
“The Clan Leader of the Sima Family, named Sima Yun, and his younger brother Sima Feng, are the core members of the Sima Family.
Sima Yun’s son is named Sima Kuan, and Sima Feng’s son is named Sima Hong; these two are the next generation of the Sima Family.
Sima Yun, Sima Feng, and Sima Kuan are all Inner Sect Disciples of Tianmen, having cultivated the force of nature from a young age.
They possess immense strength, virtually unrivaled in the world!
However, only Sima Hong is not so skilled, thus he has never been accepted by Tianmen.
Beyond these four, the Sima Family also has four major stewards, Zhang Huang Ma Li ‘Four Uncles’, all of whom are external members of Tianmen.
Underneath the four major stewards are the Martial Artists under the Sima Family’s command, totaling 47 people.
In addition, the Sima Family also possesses more than 100 puppets, and initially had four divine beasts, the Great Ape Kings, but after one died, only three remain.
This is the entire combat power of the Sima Family!”
“…”
After listening to Zhang Bo’s narrative, Ye Tian frowned deeply, mumbling in his heart.
He had inserted a silver needle into Zhang Bo’s forehead, and Zhang Bo naturally did not lie.
Under such circumstances, it was unlikely for him to lie.
Just looking at the overt combat power, the current Night King Hall was simply no match for the Sima Family!
In the Night King Hall, including himself and the recently joined Ding brothers, there were only 36 people, much fewer in number than the Sima Family.
What’s more important was that all these Martial Artists from the Sima Family were powerful beings who could manipulate the force of nature, and they were not easy to handle.
As the leader of the Night King Hall, even when confronting Zhang Bo, the steward, he almost suffered a defeat; facing the three Inner Sect Disciples of Tianmen from the Sima Family, he feared he could hardly win…
Adding the puppets and divine beasts owned by the Sima Family, the power of this force was simply indescribable!
“What kind of cultivation techniques do Sima Yun, Sima Feng, and Sima Kuan use?”
Ye Tian then asked, for as the saying goes, “Knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” If he knew what kind of cultivation techniques the people of the Sima Family used, then he could take precautions in time.
Zhang Bo continued, “Although I am a steward, I have never known what kind of cultivation technique Clan Leader Sima Yun uses, because with the strength of the Sima Family, not even the fiercest of enemies would require the intervention of the Clan Leader!
As for Sima Feng, he is a Puppet Master, and all the puppets of the Sima Family are made and controlled by him.
Sima Yun’s son, Sima Kuan, is even rarer to see.
He has always been in Tianmen and seldom comes home.”
Even from forcing the chief steward Zhang Bo, Ye Tian couldn’t get sufficient clues.
Ye Tian had a conflict with Sima Feng and his controlled puppets, so he knew a thing or two about them.
However, he could not comprehend the strengths of the other two masters of the Sima family, which was undoubtedly not a good thing…
Since they were disciples of the inner gate of Tianmen, the skills of Sima Feng and Sima Kuan should be comparable, while Sima Yun, as the Clan Leader, although not demonstrated, his strength should be slightly superior to that of Sima Feng.
After digesting the information, Ye Tian continued to inquire, “What exactly is Tianmen as a sect?’
He had originally thought that Zhang Bo knew some clues about Tianmen, but instead, Zhang Bo just sighed and said, “I only know that Tianmen is a sect that cultivates the force of nature, originating from ancient times.
As for the rest, I, being an external disciple, have no idea.
My cultivation technique was taught to me by Sima Yun, but Sima Yun only taught me ‘Wind Flow Strength,’ the method of absorbing and utilizing the force of nature.
As for the rest, he never passed it on to me.”
Ye Tian felt somewhat helpless.
The mystery of Tianmen lay in that even the disciples from their own sect knew nothing about the sect, which indeed made Ye Tian sigh deeply.
The Ding brothers were also external disciples of Tianmen and could use the cultivation technique of ‘Wind Flow Strength.’ However, unfortunately, the brothers only knew this one technique and were completely unaware of the origin of the technique, even the details of their master who taught them.
Of course, for Ye Tian, whether Tianmen was good or evil, or what its purpose was, he had no time to care about now because he had not faced this ancient sect head-on.
Right now, what Ye Tian was most concerned about was information about the Sima Family!
“Zhang Bo, when I fought you, you recognized that the power I used originated from ‘Spirit Vein’.
What exactly is this so-called ‘Spirit Vein’?
Is it something your Sima Family has been looking for?”
Ye Tian asked carefully, and since Zhang Bo was coerced by the silver needle, he naturally couldn’t lie…
“Exactly!”
Zhang Bo nodded and spoke confidently.
“The Sima Family came out in full force this time, precisely to search for the Spirit Vein.
According to ancient texts, the location of the Spirit Vein is in Jiang City, but the exact location can only be known from the ‘Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map’!
Sima Yun told us four major stewards that as long as we could find the ancient map of Jiang City in the ‘Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map’, we could then deduce the exact location, so we have always been searching for this ancient map!”
In his words, Zhang Bo had told Ye Tian all about the actions of the Sima Family in their search for the “Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map”!
Within the Spirit Vein lay an immense force of nature, capable of resonating with the force of nature.
Therefore, the more martial artists in Jiang City who utilized the force of nature, the more likely the Spirit Vein was to reveal its true form!
Thus, Sima Feng spread rumors, claiming that a “Dragon Vein” was discovered in Jiang City, and that whoever obtained the Dragon Vein would become invincible in the world!
Although many martial artists did not know what the Dragon Vein was, they flocked to Jiang City in hopes of becoming powerful.
Regrettably, after arriving in Jiang City, these martial artists could not find any clues, so they had nothing to do, causing quite a bit of trouble for the city’s public order.
To force these martial artists to use the force of nature, the Sima Family would send their own martial artists or puppets to ambush these martial artists, during which many martial artists were killed in battle.
Upon seeing this situation, the remaining martial artists dared not stay in Jiang City and could only leave dejectedly…
Latterly, the Sima Family learned that the “Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map” was in Lingyin Temple in Jiang City and sent Huang Bo to retrieve it from the temple, but, regrettably, Huang Bo died an untimely death.
And the Head Priest of Lingyin Temple, Ling Tong, ended up destroying the “Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map.” The only person who had seen the “Yu Gong Jiuzhou Map” was the Night King, Ye Tian, who had always opposed the Sima Family!
Thus, Zhang Bo sent Xu Cheng to follow Ye Tian, and, if necessary, to steal the map from Ye Tian’s home…
However, unfortunately, although Xu Cheng managed to do it, the map he stole was a fake!
Sima Yun racked his brains and deduced the exact location of the Spirit Vein from the fake map, thus sending people to excavate the Spirit Vein, but they dug in the wrong place and walked into an ambush, resulting in the entire excavation team being wiped out…
“So that’s how it is…”
Ye Tian nodded as he listened.
Numerous doubts finally connected into one line, and he almost understood the whole story, but merely understanding this was far from enough; Ye Tian still had many mysteries unsolved.
“Were the items in Jiang City’s ancient tomb also taken by your Sima Family?”
Ye Tian asked again, to which Zhang Bo immediately replied, “Yes!
Although Jiang City’s ancient tomb was not excavated by the Sima Family, it was because the archaeologist Xue Yunfu wanted to enter Heaven’s Gate, so he looted the ancient tomb himself and stole the treasures from it.
After the tomb raiding incident was released, the Sima Family spread rumors, saying that the tomb raiders in Jiang City had severed Jiang City’s Dragon Vein, and the power was ready to burst forth; this was to attract all the martial artists into the ancient tomb so that the Sima Family could wipe them out in one fell swoop.
With the rumors of the Dragon Vein, the Sima Family killed many strong men in the ancient tomb.
Eventually, no strong men dared to come, and the Sima Family also heard that there were clues about Jiang City’s ancient map in the tomb, so they completely emptied the tomb of its contents, leaving only a skeleton behind!”
“Heh, is that so?”
Ye Tian smiled slightly, noncommittally.
Indeed, there was Jiang City’s ancient map in the ancient tomb, but on the skeleton, the Sima Family had taken away everything else, leaving behind only the most valuable thing!
“Zhang Bo, what exactly is this ‘Spirit Vein’?
And exactly how can the ‘Spirit Vein’ be obtained?”
Ye Tian inquired curiously, considering that the excavation team sent by the Sima Family had definitely made full preparations, surely intending to take the Spirit Vein with them.
However, the red jade stone he found in the underground watercourses of Jiang City, with his own ability, he could not move it.
So, by what means could the Sima Family’s people take away the Spirit Vein?
“King of the Night, you are wrong!”
Zhang Bo immediately denied Ye Tian’s words.
“In fact, the purpose of the Sima Family sending us to look for the Spirit Vein was not to take the Spirit Vein away but to stimulate the energy within the Spirit Vein.
But since the people we sent to excavate didn’t know what the Spirit Vein was, they fell into your trap!
If we had known earlier that you had found the Spirit Vein, we wouldn’t have needed to dig there; we could have simply confronted you directly!”
Zhang Bo regretted falling into the trap, which resulted in him being caught, and he had to reveal the Sima Family’s secrets to Ye Tian, their greatest enemy.
“Who told you I discovered the Spirit Vein?
In fact, I also came upon this power by coincidence and dared not use it rashly.
If it weren’t for the life-or-death moment in our battle, I certainly wouldn’t have used that power.
Zhang Bo, thanks to you, I now know what this ominous power I control is really about!”
Zhang Bo couldn’t lie to Ye Tian, but that didn’t mean Ye Tian couldn’t lie to Zhang Bo.
The fact that he had found the location of the Spirit Vein, no matter what, could not be exposed to the Sima Family’s people, so now that Zhang Bo had been caught, Ye Tian also could not divulge any information.
Of course, although Zhang Bo had said so much, Ye Tian’s doubts were still not completely dispelled…