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True Man Qingxiao has fallen!
When Zhou Chun learned the news, his worries about the war ending too quickly suddenly disappeared. He felt refreshed and breathed a sigh of relief.

It was like a huge rock that had been pressing on my back was suddenly gone!

People always grow!

A hundred years ago, or even a few decades ago, Qinglian Temple was a huge behemoth to Zhou Chun, and he did not even dare to think about the consequences of becoming an enemy of it.

He knew that if he offended Qinglian Temple, a few Jindan-stage cultivators would be able to destroy the Zhou family.

But now, after experiencing the great battle between the Yuanmo Legion and the Tianling Legion, and after personally fighting with a Jindan-stage cultivator, Zhou Chun's mentality towards Qinglian Temple has undergone a huge change.

In his eyes, the only person who is truly worthy of awe in Qinglian Temple is True Man Qingxiao.

This is not because he is arrogant, but because it is the truth.

After all, in the Purple Mansion realm, he can be said to be invincible, and the only people he can take seriously are the Golden Core cultivators.

And now he is very confident about forming the golden elixir, and in his heart he actually already regards himself as a golden elixir stage cultivator.

In addition, the Zhou family has Lin Hongyu, a Jindan-stage cultivator, as well as allied Jindan families such as the Su family.

In this way, even though the total number of Jindan-stage cultivators in their families is not as many as that in Qinglian Temple, they are no longer something that Qinglian Temple can control at will.

The premise is that True Man Qingxiao no longer exists!
But before that, there happened to be a Zhenren Qingxiao in Qinglian Temple.

Because of the existence of this Yuanying-stage immortal, Zhou Chun could not think of a way to mediate with Qinglian Temple no matter how hard he racked his brains before.

Everything he had done before was only something that could be successful in theory, but might not actually be successful.

But things are different now.

Now with the death of True Man Qingxiao, Qinglian Temple has lost its only True Man in the Nascent Soul Stage and has in fact lost the power to suppress other Jindan families.

In the past, because of the existence of True Man Qingxiao, no matter how excessive Qinglian Temple's actions were, the other Jindan families could only endure it silently and dared not say anything more.

After all, the strength and lifespan of a Yuanying stage cultivator are much stronger than those of a Jindan stage cultivator. As long as he personally takes action, no Jindan stage cultivator can escape.

However, without the Yuanying stage real person to intimidate them, even though Qinglian Temple is still much stronger than other Jindan families, it no longer has the crushing effect.

If you really force them into a corner, the Jindan-stage cultivators will sacrifice their families and hide in the dark to hunt down the low- and middle-level cultivators of your Qinglian Temple. This will cause your Qinglian Temple to suffer heavy losses and lose the support of the people!
Therefore, once True Man Qingxiao passed away, any Jindan family would be qualified to negotiate terms and bargain with Qinglian Temple, instead of having to rely on Qinglian Temple to control them as a vassal as before.

Zhou Chun had always been worried that after the war, Qinglian Temple would find an excuse to attack the Zhou family, either openly or secretly eliminating them, the top leaders of the Zhou family, or even find an excuse to destroy the Zhou family directly.

So he tried his best to kill enemies and gain merit on the battlefield, trying to use his glory to make Qinglian Temple hesitate and not dare to use some crude charges to destroy the Zhou family.

But regardless of whether this approach is effective or not, at least the initiative is no longer in the hands of the Zhou family and him, but in the hands of Qinglian Temple.

If Qinglian Temple is really determined to take action against the Zhou family, the Zhou family actually has no ability to resist at all.

It’s different now!

Now that True Man Qingxiao has passed away, if Qinglian Temple really attacks the Zhou family again, the Zhou family will have a strong counterattack capability!
Both Lin Hongyu, the Jindan-stage cultivator, and the Zhou family's [Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Formation] can pose a threat to the Jindan-stage cultivators of Qinglian Temple, not to mention that the Zhou family has several Jindan family allies.

Zhou Chun believed that as long as the Jindan-stage cultivators of Qinglian Temple were not all crazy, and as long as the Zhou family had not touched upon the core interests of Qinglian Temple, they would definitely not openly attack the Zhou family immediately after the war.

As for the actions in secret, the worst that can happen is that after the war, the Zhou family's several Purple Mansion Stage cultivators will not leave the family's mountain gate residence!
As long as we can wait until Zhou Chun succeeds in forming the Dan, all problems will no longer be a problem.

"Besides, I have this in my hand now!"

Zhou Chun looked at the secret book in his hand and a happy smile appeared on his face.

Then he quickly went to pay a visit to Commander Wei Yong.

"Your subordinate greets His Excellency the Commander."

Inside the main hall, Zhou Chun bowed and paid his respects when they met, his face full of joy.

"Zhengchun, there's no need to be polite. You look so happy. Did something happy happen to you?"

Wei Yong glanced at his expression, waved his hand gently, and asked with a smile.

"Ahem, it's not really a happy event, I just have something I want to present to the commander."

Zhou Chun coughed twice with some embarrassment and handed over the secret book in his hand.

After all, Master Qingxiao died for the greater good. Even though Zhou Chun knew there must be some kind of deal involved, he certainly couldn't say that he was very happy about his death.

Even when facing Wei Yong, it wouldn't work.

Fortunately, Wei Yong had no intention of asking too many questions. He just turned over the secret book that he handed over and started to look through it.

Seeing this, Wei Yong's expression turned ugly.

After he quickly read the contents of the secret book, he looked at Zhou Chun with a gloomy face and asked, "Where did you get this?"

"I got it from the 'Prince of the Netherworld' Yin Shaotian. At that time, I and Li Qianyang worked together to deal with this beast. In the end, this beast was killed by the fourth-level ghost king he summoned. His relics were obtained by me and Li Qianyang. The original of this secret book fell into the hands of this junior. Li Qianyang just made a copy!"

Zhou Chun explained the details in a calm tone without adding any exaggeration.

After learning that True Man Qingxiao had passed away, there was no need for him to try so hard to discredit Qinglian Temple.

After hearing his answer, Wei Yong looked at him deeply, then nodded and said, "I understand. I will give this item to Grandmaster Yin Yue to see what he thinks."

"My subordinate understands."

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Zhou Chun looked at Wei Yong and asked about what happened after the war.

"Although the war is basically over now, many demon monks are still hiding in remote places and lurking in the Tianling realm. Therefore, according to the commanders' wishes, the Tianling Legion cannot be disbanded so quickly."

"But even if we don't disband now, we won't need so many people. After all, we need some people to go back and guard the rear!"

"Therefore, I estimate that each country will dispatch some of its own cultivators to station there to search for and arrest the demon cultivators who are causing chaos."

Wei Yong did not hide anything from Zhou Chun and immediately told him what he knew.

After hearing his answer, Zhou Chun finally felt relieved.

This is an official announcement that the war is over!

So he quickly asked, "How do you calculate the reward for merit? I still have a lot of military merit and [Demon Killing Order] that I haven't used yet!"

"Don't worry about this. The rewards will definitely be based on the original standards. We may even add more optional benefits later. If you don't have anything special to redeem now, you can wait a little longer!"

Wei Yong smiled slightly, which gave him another reassurance.

Zhou Chun was also very tactful and immediately bowed to express his gratitude, saying, "I feel relieved now. Thank you, Commander, for clearing up my doubts."

Then he handed the photo beads and related magic materials that recorded his previous kills of various demon cultivators to Wei Yong, and asked him to report his achievements.

Ever since the battle in the Jueling Desert, when they had recorded their own achievements through the photo beads, later users of the beads strongly requested the legion to develop the exchange of this treasure.

The upper echelons of the legion also complied with public opinion and put a batch of photo beads on the shelves for the monks below to redeem.

However, due to the difficulty in refining and the high demand, at that time only Purple Mansion Stage cultivators were eligible to redeem it.

After Wei Yong took the things he handed over, Zhou Chun did not bother him any more and took his leave.

After waiting for a few more days, further orders were finally issued.

According to the order, all monks who have served for more than ten years and those who have made outstanding contributions can retire directly and return to their hometowns. Those who do not want to retire can continue to serve in the legion.

Among them, Zhou Chun undoubtedly meets the requirement of outstanding contributions.

Not only him, but even Zhou Zhengyong meets the retirement criteria for Foundation Establishment cultivators with outstanding merits.

It’s a pity that Zhou Daoyi does not meet the requirements and can only continue to serve in the legion.

But this is not unacceptable to the Zhou family.

Therefore, after learning that he could retire, Zhou Chun found Zhou Zhengyong and planned to return to the family together.

But when the two were about to set off, Zhou Zhengyong suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and suggested: "If we go back to the family, we just happen to pass by Sanxian Mountain. We haven't been back for many years. Why don't we stop by and take a look this time?"

Hearing what he said, Zhou Chun was also slightly stunned.

Sanxian Mountain is the original location of the mountain gate of Sanjue Sect, and it can also be said to be the ancestral home of the Zhou family.

However, when Zhou Chun came to this world, he was already in Jingguo. Although he had integrated the memories of his original body, he had never really lived in Sanxian Mountain after all, and he did not have much special feelings for the place.

However, when Zhou Chun looked at Zhou Zhengyong, whose hair was already white, he immediately understood what the other party meant.

So he quickly nodded and said, "Brother Yong, you are right. We should go over and take a look."

Then he let the golden-winged tiger come out to transport him, and the two brothers went to the Sanxian Mountain together.

The golden-winged tiger was extremely fast. In less than half a day, it brought Zhou Chun and the other two to the vicinity of Sanxian Mountain.

After the Sanjue Sect was forced to flee to Jingguo, the Three Immortal Mountains fell into the hands of the She family, a family of immortal cultivators who were close to the Corpse Demon Sect.

Later, with the invasion of the Yuanmo territory, the She family followed the Corpse Demon Cult and joined the Yuanmo Legion, and this place became the base of the Yuanmo Legion.

But now this place has already been conquered by the Tianling Legion and has become the headquarters of a certain battalion.

Although Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong had retired from the Tianling Corps and handed in their identity tokens, Zhou Chun's reputation was still loud enough.

After learning that he came to pay tribute to his family's ancestral home, the Jindan-stage cultivator in charge of the place was very considerate and let them in directly.

When you enter Sanxian Mountain, the first thing that catches your eye is the three thousand-foot-high peaks, which are an important part of the origin of the name "Sanxian Mountain".

After the spiritual veins of the Three Immortal Mountains were leveled by a skilled array master, a spiritual eye was born on each of the three peaks. The concentrations of spiritual energy on the three peaks are basically the same.

At the beginning, the three families of Sanjuemen each occupied a mountain as their family base.

But after more than a hundred years, and during this period of time, there were many wars. Now, except for the mountains and rivers, the Three Immortals Mountain can still match the Three Immortals Mountain in Zhou Chun's memory, and the rest of the traces of the Three Absolute Sects are almost completely gone. "Alas! In just over a hundred years, everything has completely changed!"

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar mountains and rivers beneath his feet, even if Zhou Zhengyong had thousands of words in his heart, in the end they could only turn into such a sigh.

Zhou Chun had already expected this to happen.

But he did not say anything to comfort Zhou Zhengyong. He just silently accompanied him as they walked around the mountains, paying tribute to the past.

After Zhou Zhengyong had visited all the places he wanted to go and felt that it was enough, the two of them went together to bid farewell to the Jindan stage cultivator who was stationed there.

Unexpectedly, just as he was bidding farewell, the Jindan-stage cultivator on duty suddenly looked at Zhou Chun and said, "In fact, if Brother Zhou wants to retake his family's old place, it's not that he doesn't have a chance."

Hearing this, Zhou Chun was also shocked, and immediately exclaimed: "Why do you say that, Senior Lu?"

"Isn't this simple? Although the demon cultivators in the Yuanmo Realm have been driven away, the original forces in the Fengguo Immortal Cultivation Realm have also been completely wiped out. Only the top leaders and some elites of the most powerful Corpse Demon Cult have managed to escape. These vacant territories cannot be taken over by the Jingyang Sect alone. New forces must move in!"

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, you have made outstanding contributions in this battle, and the Zhou family was the former owner of the Three Immortal Mountains. If we can find a senior who has a say in the army to help us speak up, it shouldn't be difficult to take back this family ancestral home!"

The Jindan cultivator named Lu smiled slightly and expressed his own opinion.

After hearing what he said, Zhou Chun quickly calmed down.

That’s right, what the Jindan cultivator named Lu said sounded right and reasonable at first glance.

But the problem is, the person who even he has to call a senior must be a real person in the Nascent Soul stage.

However, Zhou Chun did not have the ability to find a Yuanying stage immortal to speak for the Zhou family. Even if he went to find Immortal Baiyue, the other party would not agree to it.

So this thing seems feasible, but in fact it is impossible to do it at all.

What’s more, Sanxian Mountain is not only the ancestral home of the Zhou family, but also the ancestral home of the Li family of elixirs and the You family of formations.

If these two families knew that the Zhou family was occupying Sanxian Mountain under the pretext of reclaiming their old territory, they would probably intervene.

But for Zhou Chun, even if he didn't want the sacred land of Sanxian Mountain, he didn't want to rebuild the Sanjue Gate with these two families.

After all, the current Zhou family has every hope of reaching the peak status of the Three Absolute Sects with the strength of one family.

These thoughts quickly passed through his mind, but Zhou Chun still bowed to the Jindan cultivator surnamed Lu and thanked him, saying, "Junior understands. Thank you for your guidance, Senior Lu."

"Okay, okay. Take care, Brother Zhou."

The Jindan cultivator named Lu watched Zhou Chun and the other two leave with a smile on his face.

After leaving Sanxian Mountain, Zhou Zhengyong suddenly suggested that he wanted to go and see the Zhou family members nearby.

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Chun finally agreed.

It is only because the evil cultivators have been killing people wantonly to practice their skills in the territory of Feng State that the number of mortals in these areas ruled by the evil cultivators is only one in a hundred compared to before.

The cities and towns where the Zhou family's mortals once lived have now become ruins, with no one left alive.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhengyong couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, "These demon cultivators are really heartless. I don't know how the mortals in the Yuanmo Realm survived!"

Zhou Chun knew something about this.

As far as he knew, the mortals in the Demonic Realm could not form a country at all. They existed in the form of city-states and tribes, and they often went to war with each other.

The bodies and souls of the mortals who died on the battlefield would be used by the demon practitioners accompanying the army to practice their skills.

Most of the time, the materials for magic cultivation are obtained in this way.

Only when encountering certain special circumstances that require large-scale blood sacrifices, will the demonic forces in the city-states and tribes directly massacre the city.

From this perspective, the demon cultivators are obviously just bad, not stupid, and they all know that they cannot fish in a pond.

Unfortunately, in the Tianling world, these demon cultivators chose to take advantage of the situation. Perhaps they never thought that they could truly occupy this place at the beginning!
"Since we can't find anyone, forget it."

Zhou Chun glanced at the ruins beneath his feet and then tried to persuade Zhou Zhengyong.

He was in a hurry to go back and discuss relevant matters with Zhou Mingde and didn't want to waste any more time on trivial matters.

However, just as he persuaded Zhou Zhengyong and the two were preparing to set off again to return to the Zhou family, suddenly a roar of fighting sounded from the mountains not far away.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Zhengyong immediately said: "Let's go over and take a look. Maybe there are mortals from my Zhou family there."

"Then go and have a look."

Zhou Chun nodded, and immediately grabbed Zhou Zhengyong and flew towards the place where the battle took place.

Relying on his powerful spiritual sense, Zhou Chun discovered the situation on the battlefield from a long distance away.

It turned out that a team from the Tianling Legion was besieging and killing several demon cultivators, and there was indeed a settlement of mortals near the battlefield.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately captured those demon cultivators through the air and handed them over to the cultivators who were surrounding and killing them.

Then he sent them all away amidst their numerous thanks.

Afterwards, he and Zhou Zhengyong went to the place where mortals lived, and shouted to the surviving mortals there, "Is there anyone with the surname Zhou among you? Does anyone still remember the Zhou family of the Three Absolute Sects?"

Hearing his words, the mortals immediately became agitated.

Many people seemed to have something to say, but seemed to be hesitant and did not dare to speak out loud.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhengyong immediately said, "Don't worry about anything. We are also surnamed Zhou, and we are descendants of the Zhou family of the Three Absolute Sects. Even if you are not surnamed Zhou, we will not attack you, mere mortals!"

As soon as these words came out, a middle-aged man who looked like he was seriously deficient in energy and blood stood up, looked at the two of them with a face full of surprise and said in a trembling voice: "Really? Are you, no, are the two immortal masters really cultivators from the Zhou family of the Three Absolute Sects?"

"Of course it's true. Why would we monks deceive you mortals for this?"

Zhou Zhengyong nodded slightly and didn't care about the other party's rudeness.

After hearing what he said, the middle-aged man immediately knelt on the ground, crying with joy: "Master, I, your unworthy descendant Zhou Dongyun, pay my respects to you!"

"And me, I am also a descendant of the Zhou family!"

"Zhou Hu, descendant of the Zhou family, pays homage to the Immortal Master!"

"Zhou Mei, a descendant of the Zhou family, pays respect to the Immortal Master!"

It was like a gap had been opened. As the middle-aged man prostrated himself on the ground, many other members of the Zhou family followed suit and prostrated themselves on the ground.

When other mortals who were not surnamed Zhou saw this, they showed panic expressions, and many of them also prostrated themselves on the ground, but did not dare to make a sound.

Just when Zhou Chun was about to ask these people to stand up, a young man kneeling on the ground suddenly kowtowed to him and begged: "Master Immortal, Master Immortal, please save Lian'er! She is also a descendant of the Zhou family, please save her!!!"

After the young man finished speaking, some of the other Zhou family members who were kneeling down soon followed him and began to plead for mercy.

"Yes, Master Immortal, please save Lian'er. She is a good girl and she has saved many of us before!"

"That's right, Master Immortal, since you are the Immortal Master of the Zhou family, please save Lian'er. She is also a cultivator of my Zhou family!"

Hearing these pleading voices, Zhou Chun also became curious.

He knew that mortals were generally very afraid of immortal cultivators and did not dare to take the initiative to make requests to them. Not to mention that these mortals of the Zhou family should have suffered a lot of torture from the evil cultivators, so they should be even more afraid of immortal cultivators.

In this situation, the person who could make them beg him to save someone in such a united way must be extraordinary.

He immediately waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, explain the situation clearly first. If you want Zhou to save someone, you have to see the person first!"

As soon as the words fell, the young man who begged first hurriedly told him the situation and took him to where the woman named "Lian'er" was.

By the time Zhou Chun followed the young man to the outside of a cellar, he had almost understood the situation.

He swept his spiritual sense inside the cellar, and saw a beautiful woman lying quietly on a small bed in the cellar that was nearly two meters deep, with her eyes closed and her face pale.

The woman looked extremely beautiful at first glance, but because Zhou Chun was scanning with his spiritual sense, he could easily discover the shocking situation beneath this beautiful face.

I saw that the woman's body below the neck, which was covered with a quilt, was covered with all kinds of hideous bloodstains. Those bloodstains looked like they were slowly cut with a knife. In addition to the bloodstains, there were also many scars that had already healed.

This woman also had some cultivation, probably around the third level of the Qi Refining Stage, but her aura was that of magic.

But the breath of life in her body is now extremely weak and almost extinct.

The young man who brought Zhou Chun here obviously knew the situation of the woman. When he saw Zhou Chun just standing still at the entrance of the cellar, he knelt down again and begged tearfully, "Those demons threatened Lian'er with all of our lives in order to make her cooperate with them in practicing magic. Lian'er endured endless pain and refused to commit suicide in order to save us. Please, Master Immortal, please save her!"

Zhou Chun roughly understood the situation at this time.

Those few demon cultivators should be the ones who escaped from the nearby battlefield after the Sanxian Mountain stronghold was breached.

Because they didn't have time to escape to the rear, and they happened to have established a secret base here in advance, they have been hiding here, controlling these mortals as slaves for their cultivation.

The woman in the cellar should be a person with spiritual roots, and was trained into a blood slave by one of the magic cultivators of the Blood Bone Sect.

In order to make the woman willing to be his blood slave, the evil cultivator threatened her with the lives of her relatives and friends.

As for the scars on the woman's body, they were probably caused by some abnormal hobby of the evil cultivator.

Zhou Zhengyong was right beside Zhou Chun and heard the situation clearly. When he discovered the miserable state of the woman in the cellar, he couldn't help but sigh, "She is willing to sacrifice herself to feed the demon for her friends and relatives, and she won't give up even if she is cut into pieces. This woman is truly of noble character, but it's a pity that she was born at the wrong time!"

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Thirteenth brother, if you can save her, then save her, even if you have to destroy her cultivation in the future and let her become a mortal!"

He wouldn't normally call Zhou Chun like that.

Now that it is called this, it can explain a lot of things.

Therefore, after hearing his words, Zhou Chun nodded slightly and said, "I'll try my best!"

If I can’t make up for it today, I will continue to make up for the words tomorrow.

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