Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 333 Missing, Cold Cave

However, after Qing Jiao took Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun away from Lei Xi Island, they flew back to the mainland along the route they took under Zhou Daoyi's guidance.

However, they had flown less than five hundred miles when they discovered Zhou Mingde, who was catching up with them using the "Flowing Fire and Flying Stars Escape".

After learning from Zhou Mingde that a fourth-level monster might catch up with them, the group discussed for a moment and then asked Zhou Chun, who had the weakest cultivation, to escort the Yuan Zhu Fruit Tree back to the mainland.

Of course, in order to protect Zhou Chun's safety and prevent any accidents, Zhou Mingde gave him the Vulcan Jackal to carry with him.

Then Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Mingde each fled towards the mainland along different routes.

In this way, the risk is once again dispersed.

If a fourth-level monster really catches up, it will most likely not chase a second-level human cultivator.

But Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi have to rely on their luck.

If the fourth-level monster catches up with them, one of them will definitely be targeted.

Whether they can get rid of the other party's tracking, luck will play an important role.

At this time, Zhou Chun could only pray in his heart for the two elders of the clan.

After he separated from the two elders, he rode on the golden-winged tiger and escorted the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree back along the same route.

They had taken this route before and had not encountered any dangers of note along the way.

At this time, only half an hour had passed since Lu Ran returned along this route. If Zhou Chun continued to walk, the danger would definitely not be that great.

This was indeed the case. Zhou Chun returned along this route. Although he encountered some attacks from ignorant first- and second-level monsters, he easily dealt with them.

Until he successfully reached the land beside Longyuan Lake, he did not encounter any danger worth mentioning.

As soon as he came back, Lu Ran showed up to meet him.

"It seems that you, Daoist Fellow Zhou, have succeeded. I wonder why the other three Daoists did not return with Daoist Fellow Zhou?"

At the edge of the water, after Lu Ran appeared, he just glanced at the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree held on the back of the golden-winged tiger, then looked at Zhou Chun with strange eyes and inquired about the situation of Zhou Mingde and the other two.

Zhou Chun saw this, and after a moment's hesitation, he told the truth: "Just as Senior Lu reminded me, there are indeed fourth-level monsters protecting those lightning dragon lizards. After the three great elders found out that the lightning dragon lizards were asking for help, they decided to split up into four groups and return to the shore. I happened to be on the same path that Senior Lu took, so I got there first."

Although he was worried about the three elders, he did not believe that all three would die in Longyuanze.

So he was not afraid that Lu Ran would dare to do anything to him.

If you really use evasive words and try to cover up something, it may only lead to the opposite effect.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, Lu Ran nodded thoughtfully and said, "Is that so? Then I will wait for the other three fellow Taoists here!"

"It would be great if Senior Lu is willing to accompany me."

Zhou Chun agreed without hesitation.

Then the two of them waited patiently on the shore.

After waiting for almost an hour, the two finally saw Zhou Mingde return.

"Grand Elder, you are finally back!"

Seeing Zhou Mingde appear, Zhou Chun was relieved and hurried forward to inquire about the situation.

At this time, Zhou Mingde's face was pale and dry, and he looked as if he was seriously injured.

Facing Zhou Chun's concerned question, he waved his hand and said, "I am fine. It's just that performing the escape technique has caused some damage to my body's vitality. I will be able to recover after a month or two of rest."

After saying that, he made eye contact with Lu Ran, nodded slightly as a greeting, then looked at Zhou Chun and said, "What's wrong? Daoyi and Daoquan haven't come back yet?"

"Yes, so far, I have only seen you return!"

Zhou Chun nodded with a worried look on his face.

"That may be because I chose the right direction. Let's get there first!"

Zhou Mingde's eyes flashed and he spoke softly, as if he was not worried at all that anything might happen to Zhou Daoyi and the other two.

After he finished speaking, he looked at the Yuanzhu Fruit Tree placed on the ground again, and suddenly said again: "It is not a good idea to keep this Yuanzhu Fruit Tree here. We have to transplant it back to the family as soon as possible. Zhengchun, you take it back and plant it first. I will just wait for Daoyi and the others here."

"This……"

Zhou Chun hesitated slightly and looked at Zhou Mingde's face.

But he only saw the firmness in the other person's eyes that would not tolerate any argument.

So he could only swallow his humble words, nodded slightly and said: "Junior understands, then I will go first."

After saying this, he said goodbye to Lu Ran beside him, then released the golden-winged tiger again and ordered it to carry the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree all the way to the exit of the underground sewer.

After Zhou Chun left for a while, Lu Ran suddenly looked at Zhou Mingde and said, "Brother Daoist Zhou, don't you have the soul cards of the other two brothers in your hand?"

The soul plate he mentioned is a special treasure that can collect a wisp of soul separated from a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator.

If this Purple Mansion stage cultivator dies unexpectedly, his soul tablet will break, letting people know that something has happened to him.

Generally, the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators of large sects keep this kind of soul tablet in the sect so that the sect can know their life and death status in time.

The Zhou family did have soul tablets in the past, like Zhou Mingde himself had one.

When he left the family, the soul tablet would be placed in the Zhou family's ancestral temple. The Zhou family's patriarch would stop by every day to check whether the soul tablet was normal.

However, Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan, who later successfully opened up the Purple Mansion, did not have soul tablets.

At this time, facing Lu Ran's question, Zhou Mingde immediately said: "The refining of the soul tablet requires precious spiritual wood such as the soul nourishing wood. Although my Zhou family has some savings now, we have never encountered such spiritual objects."

"Besides, I also believe that Daoyi and Daoquan are blessed by fate, so there is no need to worry about their safety!"

After hearing his answer, Lu Ran stopped talking.

On the other side, after Zhou Chun protected the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree and entered the exit of the underground river, he changed to the Silver Electric Thunder Python and went upstream. It took him nearly two days to return to Lanzhou.

Afterwards, he changed into the Golden Winged Tiger and safely transported the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree back to Zhoujia Jiufeng Ridge.

And precious spiritual roots like the Zhuyuan Fruit Tree should naturally be planted in the safest and most spiritually rich place in the Zhou family.

Therefore, after returning to the family mountain gate, Zhou Chun went straight to Pagoda Peak.

He walked all the way to the top of the mountain, in front of Zhou Mingde's cave.

Then he moved the jade jar containing the Zhuyuan fruit tree horizontally over a pit, pulled out the fruit tree and put it into the pit, then quickly filled it with soil.

After doing all this, he looked at Zhou Jiahe who had already rushed over and said, "Thirteenth Aunt, the rest is up to you." "Don't worry, Patriarch, I will do my best to take good care of this spiritual root!"

Zhou Jiahe nodded solemnly, then stepped forward, made hand gestures and cast a spell, gathering spiritual energy to send down rain and dew to nourish the Zhuyuan fruit tree.

Zhou Chun stayed on the top of the mountain for a while. After observing for a while, he saw that there was no major problem, so he went back to his residence to rest.

After Zhou Chun meditated and rested for several hours, he came out but still had not heard of the return of Zhou Mingde and others.

This made him feel heavy-hearted.

He hoped that Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan were just lost, otherwise the loss of either of them would be an unacceptable huge loss for the Zhou family.

And from an emotional point of view, Zhou Chun didn't want these two elders whom he loved most to be in any danger.

As time went by, Zhou Chun felt tormented and had difficulty falling asleep every day.

Even though his fellow Taoist Su Yuzhen kept comforting him, he couldn't feel at ease.

After waiting for five days, he finally saw Zhou Mingde return.

Yes, Zhou Mingde came back alone, but there was no trace of Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan.

This result made Zhou Chun's face instantly turn ugly.

Zhou Mingde saw his expression and knew what he was feeling at the moment, so he took the initiative to explain, "After Zhengchun left, I waited for Daoquan to return for half a day, but later I waited for Daoyi to return for three days!"

“Although we don’t know why Daoyi has been so late and hasn’t returned, Daoquan and I feel that there is no need to wait there any longer, so we asked Daoist Fellow Lu Ran to arrange for someone to wait there for us, while Daoquan and I went back first!”

At the end of his words, Zhou Mingde's voice became much heavier.

There is no doubt that among the three Purple Mansion Stage cultivators of the Zhou family, Zhou Daoyi is definitely the most important one.

But now there is no news from him.

This made Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun feel very heavy.

But now that things have come to this, no matter how worried they are, they can only accept reality.

So after a long silence, Zhou Chun nodded to Zhou Mingde and said, "Junior understands. Grand Elder, you have worked hard. Go back to the cave and rest first!"

"Don't worry too much. Daoyi has some life-saving items in his hands. It won't be that easy for him to get into trouble. Maybe he was just delayed by something!"

Zhou Mingde comforted Zhou Chun again before returning to the cave to recuperate.

In the next two or three months, Zhou Chun went to Longxing Valley several times in person.

However, no news was received about Zhou Daoyi.

This made him even more worried about this elder.

Because he was worried about this matter, Zhou Chun couldn't be happy even though the two Qi Refining cultivators of the Zhou family who had obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill had successfully established their foundations and came out of retreat one after another.

At this time, the news of Zhou Daoyi's disappearance could no longer be concealed, and almost all the elders of the Zhou family knew about it.

This also made the Zhou family elders, who were originally very happy because the family had one more Yuan-building fruit tree and two more foundation-building cultivators, lose their smiles.

Since the Zhou family took root in Jiufengling, although many members of the family have died accidentally in wars and adventures, no one with cultivation above the Foundation Establishment Stage has died accidentally.

Not to mention the Purple Mansion Stage cultivators!

Now thinking that Zhou Daoyi, the most important Purple Mansion Stage cultivator of the Zhou family, might have met with an accident, all those who knew about it felt very heavy-hearted.

Even Zhou Zhengqing and Zhou Zhengbai, the two new foundation-building monks, no longer had smiles on their faces.

Only those Qi-refining cultivators of the Zhou family who were unaware of the situation were delighted because the family had a new spiritual item that they could exchange for to assist in building their foundation.

There were fourteen Yuan-building fruits hanging on the fruit tree at that time. Zhou Chun took out four of them at once and put them into the family treasury for the clan members to exchange.

The rest were all sealed and stored in jade boxes, ready to be released slowly for exchange later.

After all, it takes a hundred years for the Zhuyuan fruit tree to bloom, bear fruit and mature.

If all the Yuan-Building Fruits were released now, not only would there not be enough clansmen to redeem them all, but even if they were all redeemed, there would be no way to replenish them later.

On this day, Zhou Chun, who was worried about Zhou Daoyi's safety, rushed to Longxing Valley again in advance.

He knew in his heart that if Zhou Daoyi returned to the wilderness and didn't find them, he would definitely go to Longxing Valley first.

However, to his disappointment, after arriving at Longxing Valley this time, he still did not receive any news about Zhou Daoyi.

But just when he was extremely disappointed and was about to hand over his things and go back, Zhou Zhengyong told him something.

"Xu Fu and his team discovered a natural cave in a mountain range the day before yesterday. It was freezing cold and there were roars of strange beasts. The spirit pet they sent in to explore the way died soon after, so they didn't dare to act rashly again."

"Originally, I was planning to go there in person today to investigate, but since you are here, I think it would be safer for you to go with me."

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun's expression also changed, and he nodded immediately and said: "Okay, then I will go with you, Brother Yong, to explore the cave."

After saying that, he and Zhou Zhengyong, together with Xu Fu who was leading the way, went to the natural cave.

The three of them set out from Longxing Valley and after flying for more than a thousand miles, they arrived at a place with towering mountains.

The fog in this mountain range is extremely heavy, and many places are filled with mist, making it difficult to see.

There are many kinds of monsters in the mountains, including some second-level monsters.

The natural cave discovered by Xu Fu and his team was actually in the outer area of ​​the mountain range.

Otherwise, with the strength of their team, they would not be able to penetrate deep into the center of the mountains.

At this time, under the guidance of Xu Fu, Zhou Chun quickly landed at the bottom of a broken valley. Then, with a sweep of his spiritual sense, he found the natural cave he mentioned.

Deep in the valley, I saw a crack that went deep into the mountain. Wisps of frosty white air kept drifting out of the crack, and many icicles condensed on the stone walls of the nearby valley.

Zhou Chun tried to release his spiritual sense to explore deeper into the crack, but he was surprised to find that after his spiritual sense penetrated about a hundred feet into it, it was blocked by a strange force and could not go any deeper.

"This is a bit strange. Could it be that there is a formation set up by a cultivator inside?"

There was a flash of surprise in Zhou Chun's eyes, and then after a moment of hesitation, he patted the spirit beast bag at his waist and released a "Black Armor Golden Feather" demon insect.

Then he used the "Insect Puppet Technique" to attach a wisp of his spirit to the demon insect, and controlled the insect to fly into the crack of the mountain.

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