Chapter 692: Mingde is in danger, emergency rescue
Lin Hongyu is the nominally first Jindan monk of the Zhou family. Although she usually does not do anything in the Zhou family, she has accumulated prestige over hundreds of years and has a pivotal position in the Zhou family's circle of monks.
Xu Fu, who is voting now, was still a junior who was slowly tempered under her hands.
What's more, she is also the Taoist companion of Zhou Daoyi, the supreme elder of the family.
So when she voted for Zhou Zhigan, things became a little tricky.
Just like Zhou Zhiying was influenced by his father Xu Fu and voted for Zhou Zhixiong just now.
Who can guarantee that Zhou Daoyi will not be influenced by Lin Hongyu and make the same choice as his fellow Taoist?
At this time, the core tribesmen below who were attending the meeting but did not have the right to vote couldn't help but look at Zhou Daoyi, including Zhou Xinyan who had not yet voted.
You must know that according to the rules, the Supreme Elder has five votes per person!
Therefore, whoever Zhou Daoyi chooses will be eligible to redeem the elixir-forming spiritual items.
"What about you, Xinyan? Which one of them do you think more highly of?"
Zhou Daoyi didn't seem to know that he had the final decision-making power. He just looked at Zhou Xinyan calmly and asked for his opinion.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xinyan suddenly showed a look of hesitation on his face.
He actually had a plan for a long time, but the current situation forced him to think more.
Because firstly he couldn't figure out Zhou Daoyi's thoughts, and secondly he was more concerned about Zhou Zhiying's other background.
But at this time, facing the attention of many tribesmen, he could not wait long to make a decision.
Finally, after carefully weighing it in his mind, he looked at Zhou Daoyi and said, "I also vote for Zhigan, and I am more optimistic about his success rate in forming pills!"
Such a slippery man!
After hearing Zhou Xinyan's words, many of the core tribe members below secretly scolded him for being too smooth.
But now it was two votes to two, and the final choice still fell to Zhou Daoyi.
Everyone's eyes could only continue to turn back to him.
Zhou Daoyi seemed to have been prepared for it, and he quickly nodded and said: "Since it is two votes to two votes, then this decision will be made by me."
After speaking, he turned his attention to Zhou Zhixiong and said: "I am also more optimistic about Zhixiong's talent for making talismans. I hope he can successfully form pills and make more and better talismans for the family in the future!"
After the words fell, Zhou Zhixiong was immediately overjoyed. He stood up excitedly and bowed to him and said: "Thank you for your respect, the elder. I will definitely live up to your expectations!"
On the other hand, Zhou Zhiqian, after his expression changed for a while, quickly calmed down again and seemed to have accepted the result.
Seeing this, Zhou Daoyi nodded secretly, and immediately said to him: "Zhiqian, although you failed this time, you don't have to be too depressed. After all, with your longevity, you can continue to wait for the next application!"
"Yes, this junior understands."
Zhou Zhiqian lowered his head slightly and replied respectfully.
But in fact, I didn't take Zhou Daoyi's words seriously.
In another thirty years, he will be over 400 years old. Even if he obtains an elixir-forming spiritual object at that time, the success rate of elixir-forming will be affected.
With his temperament, he obviously didn't want to wait any longer.
After the results came out, this week's first alchemy spiritual object distribution meeting after the reform of the Zhou family came to an end.
Zhou Zhixiong, who was qualified to redeem the elixir-bound spiritual items, went around looking for people to borrow good deeds from and prepared to exchange them for the elixir-bound spiritual items.
With his excellent skills in making talismans, he has actually accumulated a lot of good deeds in his family over hundreds of years.
It's just that before, whether it was the foundation-building pills, or the spiritual objects that assisted in opening up the Zifu, as well as some pills and spiritual objects that assisted in cultivation, he had spent a lot of good deeds.
And his goal is to exchange for a complete set of elixir-forming spiritual objects.
Therefore, relying solely on your own accumulated good deeds is definitely not enough.
At the same time, because of his excellent skills in making talismans, the core members of the family who have a lot of good deeds and even family elders such as Xu Fu have a good relationship with him. At this time, they are naturally willing to lend him some good deeds.
In fact, Zhou Zhiqian's failure in competing with him this time may not have nothing to do with this aspect.
After all, although Zhou Zhiqian seems to have better qualifications, the problem is that he has not been in the family for decades, and his relationship with other tribesmen is not very good. He also lacks the opportunity to fight side by side with other tribesmen to resist the beast tide.
Therefore, when he competes with Zhou Zhixiong, a talented charm maker, more people will be willing to support him.
In fact, when he went to see Zhou Xinyan before the meeting, although Zhou Xinyan did not clearly express his support for him, she was generally more optimistic about him.
Zhou Zhiqian himself probably understood this situation now, so after the results came out, he quickly chose to accept his fate.
After Zhou Chun learned about the voting results, he did not make any statement on it. He just asked his apprentice Zhou Zhiying to send Zhou Zhiqian a fourth-level low-grade defensive talisman and 300,000 spiritual coins, saying that he was personally against him for Zhou Zhiqian. A reward for establishing a discipline of swordsmanship.
Zhou Zhiqian is also a smart man. After receiving the things and words handed over by Zhou Zhiying, he understood what Zhou Chun meant.
So after thanking Zhou Chun, he exchanged his family's good deeds into various strength-enhancing spiritual objects, then said goodbye to Zhou Daoyi and left the family.
Since his popularity within the family is not as good as Zhou Zhixiong's, and his contribution is not as great as that of Zhou Zhixiong, he can only use his own method to look for opportunities to form pills outside.
This kind of thing where all things can be obtained with only the sword in hand is more in line with the practice of sword cultivator!
On this day, Zhou Chun was practicing the "Golden Light of Luo Bao" magical power in the cave, and suddenly received a message from Zhou Daoyi.
After reading the message, he continued to practice his magical power for a while without any hurry. It was not until he successfully used this magical power to knock down the third-level high-grade magic weapon of Taoist companion Su Yuzhen that he sent a message with his spiritual consciousness to invite Zhou Daoyi to come to the cave. Narrative.
When Su Yuzhen saw that his magic weapon was knocked down, he lost contact with him directly. He couldn't help but compliment the Taoist monk: "My husband's magical power is progressing very fast. I think he will be able to knock down the magic weapon soon. Then I will be able to knock down the magic weapon."
Live up to his reputation as a treasure!"
But after hearing this, Zhou Chun shook his head slightly and sighed: "It's still far from enough. The opponents I will face in the future will have the most powerful magic weapon in their hands. If this magical power wants to defeat such a level treasure,
I’m afraid it will take hundreds of years of hard work to achieve it!”
Under the high roof of the Nascent Soul Stage monks, the speed of cultivating magical powers is naturally much faster than that of ordinary monks.
For example, he did not even practice the "Golden Light of Falling Treasures" magical power every day, but he practiced it in ten or twenty years to the point where he could knock down third-level high-grade magic weapons.
But any magical power becomes more and more difficult to practice as time goes by.
Although this "Golden Light of Fallen Treasure" magical power has great potential, in theory it is possible to defeat even the Heavenly Spiritual Treasure.
But in fact, the difficulty of practicing later is even greater than the "Golden Escape Technique".
To achieve the level of knocking down the best magic weapon, it requires hundreds of years of hard work, and it also requires cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage as a prerequisite.
But even so, Zhou Chun still had to keep practicing.
Because this magical power is indeed of great use, not to mention that he can also increase the power of this magical power through his natal magical power [Qiongqi Meng].
The same goes for the [Phaseless Geng-Gold Divine Light] magical power, which has now almost become Zhou Chun's most valued magical power.
The last time he fought against Master Xuanzhen, the power displayed by this magical power made him very satisfied, and he was also looking forward to the power of this magical power after it was fully developed.
More importantly, this [Shadowless Geng Golden Divine Light] can also speed up the progress of cultivation through some external objects.
For example, by decomposing, absorbing and refining top-level spiritual materials such as [Geng Gold] with divine light, you can speed up the progress of this magical power.
Zhou Chun plans to focus on collecting top-level spiritual materials such as [Geng Gold] when participating in some exchange meetings in the future.
Soon after, Zhou Daoyi, who had received his message invitation, came to the cave, but Su Yuzhen left after serving tea to the two of them, not wanting to interfere with the Zhou family's family affairs.
"The matter has been investigated clearly. The disappearance and death of Zhou Baisheng's parents that year was an intentional fraud. In fact, both of them were taken to a monastery under the Yuelun Sect for training."
"And Zhou Baisheng still has his own concubines and children there, and they have all become disciples of the Moon Lun Sect."
"It can be deduced from this that Zhou Baisheng's success in building the foundation that year should be due to the resource support of the Yuelun Sect. He himself has long been corrupted by the Yuelun Sect and has become a family traitor!"
After Zhou Daoyi took a sip of tea, he spoke in a low voice about the results of the two years of investigation.
With the Zhou family's current power and resources, it's a good thing that no irregularities were discovered before.
After knowing that Zhou Baisheng is a traitor, it will not be difficult to find out the reason for his betrayal by looking through the family files, investigating his past travel records and contacts, and mobilizing intelligence personnel from all parties to collect information.
It's just that this consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and it can't be done for every clan member.
In addition, if every clan member is really investigated in this way, it will easily cause panic among the people inside.
After all, immortal cultivators attach great importance to privacy, and even though many Zhou family cultivators are well-behaved within the family, no one knows if they have committed any crimes outside.
If it is found out by then, whether to deal with it or not is another complicated issue!
After Zhou Chun listened to Zhou Daoyi's words, he just nodded slightly and said: "The aura on Zhou Baisheng's body that day gave me a sense of familiarity. I guessed it was the spirit of Master Yinyue. Now it seems that things are different.
Sure enough, it’s the Lunar Sect that’s up to something!”
"Including the people who were interrogated before, there are already five spies planted by the Moon Wheel Sect in my Zhou family. These are just the ones we discovered. There are probably others we haven't discovered yet."
When Zhou Daoyi said this, a trace of anger emerged in his eyes.
Although it is very normal for various forces to plant spies into other forces in the country.
But as the Zhou family is a cultivating family, it is undoubtedly very annoying for the clan members to be bribed to betray the family like this.
Zhou Chun naturally noticed the anger in the elder's eyes. After thinking about it, he said: "Let's do this. Send an official letter to the Yuelun Sect in my name and ask them why they want to destroy the relationship between the two forces.
Let’s see how they respond first.”
"Didn't the people from the Yanyang Sect also discover a few of them? Let's send an official letter to question them."
Having said this, he said with a little helplessness: "Although it is indeed a bit painless to do so, under the current circumstances, the family is really not suitable for blind expansion. It is better to wait for a hundred or two hundred years until the number and quality of the family have increased."
After you meet your expansion needs, start trouble with them again and let them cut your flesh!"
You can't become fat by eating in one go.
The current territory of the Zhou family does not have enough manpower to digest it, so it is not advisable to blindly occupy more territory.
Therefore, we can only work step by step, and when the quantity and quality of the monks increase, we can continue to occupy more territory and resources, and snowball to strengthen our own power.
Zhou Daoyi also understood this truth.
Therefore, after listening to Zhou Chun's words, he could only extinguish his anger, nodded and said: "I understand, let's do this first."
Then he sent official letters to both factions in Zhou Chun's name.
Although the two factions received the official letter, they did not reply, as if there was no such thing.
Anyway, they all know that now that the relationship between the two parties has deteriorated, it doesn't matter whether they explain it or not.
If the Zhou family really wanted to take action against them, this would be the best excuse.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, ten years have passed since Luo Qingni successfully gave birth to a baby.
On this day, Zhou Chunben had broken through another small level in the "Golden Escape Technique", and he happily invited Luo Qingni to come and have tea and discuss Taoism to share his cultivation experience.
Unexpectedly, in the middle of the exchange between the two, Zhou Daoyi suddenly came to the door of his cave with an anxious look and knocked on the door to ask for permission.
This made him frown slightly and hurriedly let the person in.
"Something serious has happened. Uncle Mingde's soul tablet suddenly appeared cracked half a quarter of an hour ago. It seems that his life is in danger!"
Zhou Daoyi knew that the matter was of great importance, and as soon as he saw Zhou Chun, he directly told him the reason for coming here in a hurry.
Then Zhou Chun's complexion changed drastically in an instant.
"Let's go to the ancestral temple first!"
He waved his hand with a gloomy expression, and immediately took Zhou Daoyi with him to fly to the ancestral temple and arrived at the quiet room where the soul tablets were stored.
This place is always guarded by elders from the Zhou family who have cultivation levels above Foundation Establishment. The requirements for these monks on duty are that once they come here to guard, they are not allowed to leave the mountain gate again in this life!
The person on duty here at this time is a white-haired old woman with a late-stage foundation-building cultivation.
She was originally at the place where Zhou Mingde's soul tablet was stored, looking nervously at the soul tablet.
It wasn't until I noticed someone coming from behind me that I turned around and glanced back. Then I hurriedly bowed to the two arriving people and saluted: "Junior Zhou Yuanhe, pay homage to the clan leader and pay homage to the supreme elder."
"Xiao He, please go out first. We will call you if necessary."
Zhou Daoyi waved his hand and asked the old woman to go out first.
Then he and Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Mingde's cracked soul card and waited.
At this time, all they can do is wait.
Because the place where Zhou Mingde was traveling was not close to his family, even if Zhou Chun rushed there with all his strength, he would not be able to reach it in a day or two.
And if there is really a possibility of his demise, the result should come soon.
After waiting like this for almost half an hour, they both felt a little relieved when they saw that the soul card was not really broken.
Then Zhou Chun quickly said in a deep voice: "The soul card is not broken, which means that the old man has not died yet. He has just suffered a serious injury that hurt his soul. There is still a chance for rescue!"
After saying that, he looked at Zhou Daoyi and asked, "Uncle, do you know where he has traveled to now?"
"Two years ago, someone sent a message, saying that they had traveled to Wuyang Country, which is close to the Immortal Cultivation World in the Far West, and were planning to travel to the Immortal Cultivation World in the Far West later!"
Zhou Daoyi quickly told the news he knew.
According to the rules of the Zhou family, when members of the core clan or above travel, every five years, they must ask someone to deliver news back to the family, roughly informing them of the area they are in and where they plan to go.
In this way, whether the family calls for something, or the family sends people to investigate when something goes wrong, they won't be like headless chickens.
Zhou Mingde has been traveling for many years, and he has always followed this rule. He often entrusts some large multinational chambers of commerce to deliver news to the great Zhou Kingdom, which is easy to receive, and then passes it back to his family through the monks of the Zhou family.
After hearing his answer, Zhou Chun immediately nodded and said: "In that case, I will take his old man's soul card and go to Wuyang Kingdom to search for it. I will leave the family to you, uncle!"
When Zhou Daoyi heard this, he immediately responded and said: "Don't worry about the family. If possible, we must save the life of our great uncle Mingde!"
"I will."
Zhou Chunyan replied briefly and concisely, and immediately put away the cracked soul tablet with a wave of his sleeves. Then he exchanged a few words with Luo Qingni, who was still in his cave, and quickly brought Lord Yinlong and Lord Fengyuan with him.
Left the family mountain gate.
Saving people is like putting out fires. After leaving the mountain gate, Zhou Chun directly let Lord Silver Dragon manifest his true form, and then flew with Lord Fengyuan to the world of immortality in the far west on a dragon.
The flying speed of the fifth-level Thunder Dragon King was naturally faster than Zhou Chun himself. In less than three days, he arrived at Wuyang Kingdom, which is close to the realm of immortality in the far west.
In order not to alert the top-level beings in this country and hinder his rescue of people, Zhou Chun could only let Lord Yinlong and Lord Fengyuan suffer some injustice at this time and return to the spirit beast bag first.
Then he took out Zhou Mingde's soul tablet.
More than two days have passed, and the cracks on the soul card have become larger, but they are still not broken.
This shows that Zhou Mingde's injuries only worsened and he did not die.
Zhou Chun also felt at ease, and immediately used the source of Zhou Mingde's soul in the soul card as a medium to use the secret tracing method to find his true body.
But what made Zhou Chun's complexion slightly change was that he had tried several secret tracking methods, but none of them had the expected effect.
It seems that there is some kind of strong resistance blocking the arcane tracking effect!
"When such a situation occurs, either the Supreme Elder has been captured and detained in a special isolation formation, or he has fallen into a special secret space, or a secret cave with isolation tracking effect!
"
Zhou Chun's eyes flashed, and he instantly deduced several of the most likely outcomes.
Then the first result is eliminated first.
Because if that can be achieved, the best way at this time is actually to kill the person, so that the tracking secret method will be difficult to take effect!
If it is the latter two situations, then you need to find a local monk to inquire about the situation.
Thinking of this, Zhou Chun immediately restrained his cultivation and transformed into a mid-stage Jindan monk, and then immediately flew to several large markets in Wuyang Kingdom.
Originally, according to his own idea, he wanted to directly capture a few local Golden Core monks and interrogate him for the intelligence information he wanted.
But after he went to Fangshi and made some inquiries, he knew what had happened to Zhou Mingde.
It turns out that just a few days ago, a secret realm of void suddenly appeared above an ancient battlefield in Wuyang Kingdom, attracting many monks who came after hearing the news to enter it to explore and search for treasures.
But now the entrance to the Void Secret Realm has been jointly controlled by the Earth Mother Cult, the largest force in Wuyang Kingdom, and two other major forces, and monks who are not from the three forces are prohibited from entering.
After Zhou Chun inquired about this news, he immediately knew that Zhou Mingde had probably entered the secret realm of the void.
The so-called secret space of the void, as the name suggests, is a secret space formed in the void.
Some of these void secret realms are naturally formed, but most of them are created by humans.
It is said that this kind of void secret realm was very popular in ancient times. Those powerful forces would open some such void secret realm to hide treasures or do things that are not convenient for outsiders to know.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, in order to artificially open up this kind of void secret realm, you must first have at least the late Nascent Soul cultivation level, and then you must find a suitable space gap and master the opening of the void secret realm.
method, and then spend a lot of rare resources to arrange space formations to maintain the operation of the secret realm.
Therefore, after the ancient times, many man-made secret realms of the void collapsed and disappeared on their own because they were not properly maintained.
The secret realms of the void that still exist in the world of immortality today are either naturally generated secret spaces, or they have a big force that spends resources to maintain them for a long time.
Seriously speaking, Zhou Chun has also been to such a secret realm of the void, and that was the "Tian Ling Trial" he participated in when he was still in the Qi training stage.
That trial place was a natural secret space that Tianlingmen once discovered and mastered, and it was transformed into this unique trial place.
From this we can also know that not all secret realms in the void are full of opportunities and treasures.
The spiritual energy in some void secret realms is so thin that apart from being used as a large warehouse, it actually has no great use.
But since the Void Secret Realm that appeared in Wuyang Kingdom has attracted so much attention from the Earth Mother Cult and other big forces, I’m afraid it’s not the kind of Void Secret Realm that is useless!
After roughly understanding the situation, Zhou Chun suddenly frowned and couldn't help but murmured: "This is a bit troublesome. Many void secret realms will exclude Nascent Soul monks from entering. If I want to go in to save the Supreme Elder, I can only
I sent the avatar to rescue me, and I don’t know if the secret realm will cut off the connection between the avatar and my body!”
In these years, Zhou Chun naturally did not neglect the practice of "Taiyi Divide Divine Technique", and this technique is not that far away from the second level of Dacheng realm.
However, before the legendary "Second Nascent Soul" is developed, the body still needs to maintain a strong connection with the incarnation to maintain the operation of the avatar.
Otherwise, the incarnation does not have the support of the main body, and the separated soul will directly fall into dormancy to maintain its own immortality.
Despite this concern, Zhou Chun quickly rushed to the location of the Void Secret Realm.
When he arrived near the secret realm of the void, he found that the three major forces of Wuyang Kingdom had put the area hundreds of miles away from the entrance under martial law.
Many monks who were unwilling to give up gathered outside to watch and discuss the situation related to the Void Secret Realm.
Zhou Chun also easily learned from some monks who had witnessed it before that before the monks from the three major forces appeared and blocked the entrance to the Void Secret Realm, a golden elixir-level monk did break in with a fourth-level fire attribute monster spirit pet.