And last night, Baiyu only gave a rough account, which left him still unclear about what exactly happened. The Fenglai Valley he mentioned is the territory assigned by the Qingxuan Sect to the White-headed Eagle clan.
"By using the defection of a White-headed Eagle from the Qingxuan Sect, the West Wind Pavilion falsely accused the White-headed Eagle clan of colluding with the Demon Sect. They gathered all their forces to besiege Fenglai Valley. If it were just that, my mother could still have led the entire clan to escape with her cultivation. But who would have thought that the Peacock King, who has always been our enemy, would also take this opportunity to ambush my mother. Our clan was thus routed, and my mother was captured, her fate unknown."
Baiyu said with a somewhat low voice.
"If it weren't for Father accompanying Uncle Jiu to the Northern Border, would these people dare to act so recklessly?"
"Doesn't the Sect Master and the Black Dragon Elder care about this matter?"
Xu Taiping asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Sect Master? Hmph, he has long been wary of the power of our White-headed Eagle clan. Last night's incident might even have been his personal instruction. In recent years, he has been weakening and balancing the demons in the mountains by inciting conflicts among them."
"As for the Black Dragon Elder, he is nothing more than the Sect Master's watchdog!"
Xu Taiping didn't really know how to comment on this matter.
After all, he was human and couldn't empathize with the demons' perspective.
Moreover, when he reviewed the sect's records in the bronze mirror earlier, he had seen many cases where spirit beasts rebelled, leading to the tragic deaths of sect cultivators.
"West Mountain cultivators, heed the imperial edict!"
"West Mountain cultivators, heed the imperial edict!"
"West Mountain cultivators, heed the imperial edict!"
At this moment, three consecutive voices, like the sound of a great bell, echoed in the sky above the Green Bamboo Residence.
"This sounds like the voice of the West Wind Pavilion's Pavilion Master."
Xu Taiping immediately recognized that the voice belonged to the West Wind Pavilion's Pavilion Master, Liu Songshan.
"To actually use the West Mountain's mountain-stabilizing treasure, the Great Yellow Bell of Wind Speech. This fellow must be about to announce something related to last night."
Hearing this, Baiyu jumped onto Xu Taiping's shoulder, his eyes becoming wary.
Xu Taiping had also read about the Great Yellow Bell of Wind Speech in the transmission jade slip. It was both the West Wind Pavilion's mountain-stabilizing spiritual treasure and a valuable item used to communicate with cultivators in the nearly ten-thousand-mile mountain range.
"Last night, the White-headed Eagles of Fenglai Valley rebelled. The West Wind Pavilion and the Cloud Ridge Peacock King jointly repelled the rebel demons and quelled the rebellion."
As Baiyu had predicted, Liu Songshan's announcement through the Great Yellow Bell was indeed related to last night's rebellion.
"These bastards, they unjustly besieged our Fenglai Valley, and now they are falsely accusing our White-headed Eagle clan of rebellion. How despicable!"
Baiyu was furious, almost about to reveal his true form and soar up to confront the West Wind Pavilion.
Fortunately, he was held back by Xu Taiping.
"Don't rush to get angry. Listen to what else he has to say."
Baiyu nodded, suppressing his impulse.
"Although most of the rebel demons have been punished, there are still many who have escaped. If you encounter them in the mountains, those who can kill them will be rewarded with a thousand merit points, and those who report their whereabouts will be rewarded with ten merit coins."
Liu Songshan's voice echoed again in the mountains.
"They are trying to exterminate our White-headed Eagle clan."
Hearing this, Baiyu said angrily.
Regardless of the thousand merit points for killing, even the ten merit coins for reporting are a significant amount for cultivators outside the mountains.
It's easy to imagine that the scattered cultivators in the mountains will hunt the surviving White-headed Eagles with great enthusiasm.
"Xu Taiping, if you also covet those merit points, you can take me to the West Wind Pavilion. Once my mother is dead, I have no reason to live."
Baiyu said with a somewhat low voice.
"If you really don't want to live, you can go yourself. I won't betray a friend for a few merit points."
Xu Taiping looked at Baiyu, somewhat displeased.
He couldn't comment on the Sect Master's actions to weaken the demons, but since Baiyu was his friend and hadn't done anything heinous, he naturally stood by Baiyu in this situation.
Baiyu felt a warmth in his heart, and his previously depressed eyes brightened.
"From now on, Fenglai Valley will be managed by the Cloud Ridge Peacock clan, and the transmission of items in the West Mountain will be jointly managed by the Peacock King and the West Wind Pavilion."
Perhaps because of the need to activate the treasure, there was a slight pause between Liu Songshan's sentences.
"So that's it, so that's it. One of you has your eye on our Fenglai Valley, and the other on the benefits of goods transportation in the mountains. No wonder you two hit it off."
Liu Songshan's words were undoubtedly a revelation of their true intentions.
"Finally, we will display the White-headed Eagle Queen Mother Nightingale in Fenglai Valley for seven days, and then publicly execute her to set an example."
Upon hearing this, Baiyu froze in place.
"Mother... Mother is alive?!"
First shocked, then overjoyed, he impulsively took to the air.
"I'm going to save Mother!"
However, before he could fly far, he was sucked back by Xu Taiping, who was holding the green gourd.
"Why are you stopping me again, Xu Taiping?"
Baiyu shouted inside the gourd.
"You can't even escape from this gourd. How can you save your mother?"
Xu Taiping looked at Baiyu, who was flying and jumping inside the gourd.
The power of his gourd was not strong enough to hold a spirit beast like Baiyu, let alone a regular wild animal. He could only capture Baiyu because he was too weak at the moment.
Hearing this, Baiyu's head drooped, and he slumped in the gourd like a deflated balloon.
"But... I can't just stand by and watch them kill my mother, can I?"
Baiyu suddenly looked up, his eyes meeting Xu Taiping's through the gourd's opening.
The usually defiant Baiyu now looked very helpless.
Seeing Baiyu's eyes, Xu Taiping fell silent.
"Xu Taiping, is there any way I can see my mother? I know it's almost impossible to save her, but I just want to see her one more time."
Baiyu suddenly begged Xu Taiping.
"If you can let me see her, I will bind myself to you with a soul pact and serve you for sixty years."
He added, his eyes filled with determination.