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Chapter 528 Treasure, Attacked [Subscription Request]

A incomplete treasure map that had been collected for many years was finally completed, and Zhou Chun was still very interested in this matter.

Not only him, I believe any cultivator would be interested in this kind of thing.

After all, there are so many legends about various treasures in the world of immortal cultivation.

Every cultivator, no matter if he is a solo cultivator, a family cultivator, or a sect cultivator, has fantasized about becoming the lucky person in the stories and legends.

The key point is that these legends are not all fabricated, but there are many examples of them being true.

Without going into details about the past, let’s just talk about the two most famous examples that Zhou Chun has participated in.

One is Zhenren Tianjing. When he was young, he accidentally obtained the inheritance of "Zhenren Xuanjing", a casual cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. He inherited the legacy left by this Zhenren, and finally succeeded in transforming the elixir into a baby and became a Zhenren in the Nascent Soul!

Another example is the secret island discovered by Luo Qingni and others based on the treasure map. Zhou Chun was also a personal participant in this matter and gained great benefits from it.

With these successful examples in the past, and now a treasure map of a fairly high level has been completed and found by the Zhou family, how could Zhou Chun not be interested in the treasure recorded on the treasure map!
But although he was interested, Zhou Chun had no intention of going treasure hunting right away.

He pondered for a while, then said to Zhou Mingde, "The treasure map is only written on third-level animal skin. The treasures hidden in it may not be that precious to us. Why don't we let a few family elders take people to test it first? If they succeed, it will be an opportunity for them!"

Zhou Chun said this not because he looked down on the treasures on the treasure map, but he knew in his heart that the family could not rely on himself and Zhou Mingde, two Jindan stage cultivators, to handle everything.

Sometimes we also need to find things to do for those foundation-building cultivators and purple mansion cultivators.

Something like this, exploring an already identified treasure location, is undoubtedly a great opportunity.

It would naturally be a good thing if the family elders and core members sent out could solve the problem and bring back the treasure.

If they can't solve the problem, it won't be too late for me to take action myself.

Zhou Mingde naturally understood the meaning of Zhou Chun's words. After hearing it, he just hesitated for a moment, then smiled and nodded in response: "This is a good approach. We should find something for those young people to do, so that they don't develop the bad habit of relying on the family for everything!"

After the two reached a consensus, they discussed it for a while and decided to let Zhou Xinlan and Zhang Liang, two Purple Mansion stage cultivators, take Zhou Sihan, Zhou Xinyan and six other Foundation Establishment stage cultivators to search for the treasure together.

Just in case, Zhou Chun also gave the golden-armored mountain turtle stone to Zhou Xinlan to protect herself.

After Zhou Xinlan and others set off, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde waited patiently for news at home.

On the other side, after Zhou Xinlan and Zhang Liang led the team out of the family mountain gate, they went to the final treasure location on the treasure map under the leadership of Zhou Sihan.

After several days of travel, the group soon arrived at the treasure location.

"The mountain range ahead is called 'Wutou Ridge' by the local monks. There are a lot of poisonous black lacquer trees growing in the mountain. Once these black lacquer trees are destroyed, whether they are burned or cut down, they will release highly toxic smoke and odor, which can poison and kill Qi Refining Stage monks."

"There are also many poisonous monsters living in the forest, such as the black-headed snake, the black bird, the black jade centipede and other monsters!"

"The treasure is hidden deep inside the Wutou Ridge, in a mountain filled with poisonous miasma. It is protected by a powerful formation. A large number of black crows live on the mountain, including five second-level black crows. The bird king is a second-level top-grade demon bird!"

Outside a black forest, Zhou Sihan, who had been here before and was responsible for leading the way this time, pointed to the large black forest in front and described the situation inside in a serious tone.

He had come here alone to look for treasure, but he almost suffered a serious defeat because he underestimated the poisonous insects and monsters inside.

And that group of black birds completely extinguished his idea of ​​taking the treasure by his own strength. After returning, he could only honestly hand over the other half of the treasure map he had obtained.

After hearing his words, Zhou Xinlan waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "With my niece Xiaolian here, it's fine if those poisonous insects and monsters don't come. But if they dare to come and die, it's just the right time to give them a tonic!"

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Zhou Yuanlian, who was specially recruited into the team.

"The younger generation will definitely do their best."

Zhou Yuanlian replied with a cold expression, without any emotion in her words.

Zhou Xinlan and other Zhou family cultivators seemed to be used to this, and no one thought that she was dissatisfied with anyone because of her expression and tone.

Anyone who knows Zhou Yuanlian knows that because of her practice, she has the same cold attitude towards everyone. It is said that this does not change even in front of clan leader Zhou Zhengchun!
At this time, the group, led by Zhou Xinlan, strode into the forest.

The reason for walking instead of flying in the air is naturally to save mana and avoid exposure.

"Wutouling" is the territory of monsters. Although I have never heard of any third-level monsters appearing there, there are quite a few second-level and first-level monsters.

If you fly directly over it, you will easily be besieged by the monsters inside.

Especially those black birds, they have a very strong sense of territory in the air and will never allow people from the Zhou family to fly freely in the sky.

Moreover, there are always some low- and middle-level cultivators adventuring here all year round. If such a large group of people from the Zhou family flew over from the air, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.

By then, once the local foundation-building cultivators or purple mansion cultivators are attracted, the treasure location will no longer be hidden!
With the strength of the Zhou family's team, the scattered monsters and poisonous insects in "Wutou Ridge" naturally could not pose a threat to them.

After walking in the mountains and forests for less than half a day, they arrived at their destination.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, a large area of ​​dark blue miasma was spreading over the mountains and forests, which could not be blown away by the wind or dispersed by the sun.

Deep within this dark green miasma, there are several mountains hundreds of feet high. From time to time, loud and piercing strange screams can be heard from the mountains.

Everyone stopped outside the miasma area, and then saw Zhou Yuanlian step forward and go inside and stay for a while.

Then he went back outside, patted the storage bag on his waist, took out several talismans made of unknown insect shells and handed them to Zhou Xinlan and others, "Wear these poison-repelling talismans on your body, and you should be able to ignore the miasma here for three hours."

It is called a talisman, but actually it should be called a talisman instrument.

The "True Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons" records the methods of refining many poison-repelling magical instruments and talismans. Zhou Yuanlian's current cultivation level is at the initial stage of foundation building, and it is still difficult for her to refine those powerful poison-repelling magical instruments.

However, some talismans that do not require very high craftsmanship to make are already capable of making some of them skillfully.

The materials used to make these talismans are generally the shells of poisonous insects. Some also use spiritual wood, animal skins, animal bones, and scales. The production process also requires the magic power cultivated from the "Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra".

This can be said to be Zhou Yuanlian's unique skill.

At this time, everyone followed Zhou Yuanlian's instructions, hung the poison-repelling talisman on their chests, and then stepped into the miasma.

All of a sudden, an invisible force pushed the miasma around everyone away by several feet, preventing it from touching them.

With the protection of the anti-poison talisman, everyone no longer needs to expend magic power to resist the invasion of miasma, saving them a lot of magic power.

But as they went deeper into the miasma area, they were soon attacked by the owner of the place.

Only bursts of dull flapping sounds could be heard coming from the depths of the miasma, and soon a series of black arrows pierced through the miasma and shot towards everyone.

However, Zhou Xinlan and Zhang Liang, two Purple Mansion Stage cultivators, had already given advance warnings, and these black arrows were eventually either dodged by everyone or blocked by their spells and magic weapons.

Then the enemy figures that attacked them also appeared in the air.

What they saw were fat black birds. They looked a bit like crows, but their bodies were as fat as balls, and their eyes were purple-black.

This is the black bird, a demonic bird whose blood is extremely poisonous!

At this time, there were about fifty black crows attacking the Zhou family's monk team, led by a second-level low-grade black crow bird.

Ordinary first-level black crows can basically only spit poisonous arrows, but some first-level high-quality black crows can perform the "poison rain technique".

If they fight one-on-one, they are no match for the cultivators of the same level.

But unfortunately, this kind of monster bird basically never stays alone, and always comes out in groups.

Dozens of first-level black birds spewed out poisonous arrows to attack at the same time. The cultivators in the early stage of foundation building had to avoid their sharp edges to avoid being contaminated by their highly toxic venom.

Before this, Zhou Sihan came here alone and was chased by three second-level black crows and hundreds of first-level black crows all the way. In the end, he was able to escape with his life by sacrificing a third-level low-grade talisman!
But this time the black birds hit a wall.

When they appeared, Zhou Xinyan, Zhou Sihan and six other Foundation Establishment cultivators immediately attacked at the same time. Various magical weapons and spells flashed and competed in the sky, and most of the flock of birds were wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Even the second-grade inferior black bird did not have a chance to escape before it was chopped down from the sky by Zhou Xinyan, who had reached the late foundation building stage and used the "Jia Mu Xuan Guang Sword".

"Nineteenth brother's 'Jia Mu Xuan Guang' magical power is indeed extraordinary, worthy of being a magical power attached to a top-level martial art!"

Seeing that they had dealt with the enemy without him having to do anything, Zhou Xinlan praised Zhou Xinyan and the others without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, Zhou Xinyan calmly shook his head and said, "No matter how extraordinary it is, it is still a foundation-building method. If a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator like you attacks, I'm afraid I won't be able to take a single move!"

These words immediately made Zhou Xinlan not know how to respond.

He knew in his heart that Zhou Xinyan, as the first cultivator with superior spiritual roots born after the Zhou family took root in Jiufeng Ridge, and also of the same generation as him, had always been quite proud of himself.

As a result, after building the foundation, because there was no direct elder to support and help, and because he was arrogant and chose the difficult to practice top-level martial arts method "Jia Mu Xuan Gong", his training speed was left behind by Zhou Xinlan and other brothers.

Finally, with the help of his father Zhou Zhengyong, Zhou Xinlan obtained assistance in opening up the Purple Mansion spiritual objects, and successfully opened up the Purple Mansion one step ahead of all his peers, leaving them behind by a major realm.

How could Zhou Xinyan, who has always been proud, accept this!
Therefore, those who are familiar with Zhou Xinyan have found that he has been going out for adventures more often than before, but has been communicating with fellow monks less and less, as if he is holding his breath. This time, Zhou Chun arranged for Zhou Xinlan to lead the team to collect the treasure, and also arranged Zhou Xinyan into the team, which must be another big stimulus for Zhou Xinyan.

Under such stimulation, Zhou Xinlan's words of praise might become harsh to his ears.

After Zhou Xinlan discovered this, he could only shake his head helplessly. He did not respond to Zhou Xinyan's words. He just asked everyone to clean up the fallen black bird corpse on the ground and continue to move towards the mountain where the treasure was.

But perhaps it was because the black crow that had just escaped came back to report the news. Just as they finished cleaning up the battlefield, Zhou Xinlan and Zhang Liang's spiritual sense discovered a large number of black crows flying towards them.

"Quick, everyone, get ready immediately, those black birds are coming out in droves!"

Zhou Xinlan shouted a warning while taking out his magic weapon and preparing to attack.

Not long after the words were spoken, hundreds of black birds appeared in everyone's sight.

Among them, the huge figure of the second-grade top-grade black bird is particularly conspicuous.

"I'll deal with the Bird King, and leave the rest of the black birds to you. Brother Zhang, please lead the charge for us!"

Zhou Xinlan gave orders in a deep voice to command everyone to fight the enemy. With a push of his spiritual sense, a long sword magic weapon turned into a beam of fire and slashed towards the second-grade top-grade black bird.

With his Purple Mansion stage cultivation, it would be easy for him to deal with a second-order top-grade monster.

But what is worth mentioning is that this black bird is worthy of being the king of the bird flock. Even though it has only the second-level upper-grade cultivation, it dares to take the initiative to attack Zhou Xinlan, a Purple Mansion period cultivator.

It seemed to be able to slightly control the poisonous miasma. With the flapping of its wings, it could condense and compress the poisonous miasma into a sky full of poisonous arrows that shot towards Zhou Xinlan.

Unfortunately, this attack, which was extremely threatening to a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, did not cause any ripples when it landed on the protective shield of the [Xuan Gang Zhu] activated by Zhou Xinlan.

However, the long sword that Zhou Xinlan used cut off a piece of its wings with the first strike, and chopped off its head with the second strike!

After killing the Black Bird Queen with two strikes, Zhou Xinlan did not interfere in other people's fights, but was ready to rescue people at any time.

But in fact, he was worrying too much. Except for Zhou Yuanlian, the other foundation-building cultivators who followed him this time were all veteran foundation-building cultivators who had been building the foundation for many years. Everyone had several second-level magic weapons in their hands, so there was no way they could fail in dealing with the remaining three second-level black crows and the other first-level black crows.

In less than a quarter of an hour, most of the hundreds of attacking black birds were killed, and only dozens fled in all directions, luckily escaping with their lives.

No one cared about the escaped black birds. The people who had made great gains were now busy collecting the corpses of the monster birds on the ground.

The black bird's feathers and the poison sacs in its body are both materials for refining weapons, and are also good materials for Zhou Yuanlian to practice poison skills.

Zhou Xinlan made the decision on the spot and handed over all the bodies of several second-level black birds, except for their feathers, to Zhou Yuanlian for disposal.

No one objected to this.

Not to mention the unclear relationship between Zhou Yuanlian and clan leader Zhou Zhengchun, just the contribution Zhou Yuanlian made to everyone along the way by providing detoxifying and anti-toxic items made him qualified to obtain these things.

Besides, they also wanted to take this opportunity to make friends with this tribesman, so that in the future, whether they wanted to ask him for help in detoxification or to buy poison and anti-poison talismans from him, it would be easier to ask.

It took less than a quarter of an hour to resolve the battle, but it took nearly three quarters of an hour to clean up the battlefield.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, everyone set out again.

At this time, because the flock of black birds had been eliminated, the group encountered no resistance on the way forward and soon arrived at the mountain where the treasure was located, which was also the nest of the black birds.

At this time, there were no other monsters on the mountain except some black bird chicks that could not fly yet.

"It's a pity that if a demon bird like the Black Crow wants to advance to the second stage, it must form a large flock of birds. Otherwise, we can bring some eggs and chicks back to the family to raise!"

Another female cultivator in the team, Zhou Siyu, looked at the baby birds and eggs in the bird nests and couldn't help but sigh with a look of pity on her face.

The combat power of the second-level black bird is still very good, and its poison spells are also very strange and difficult to defend against. It can be considered a good spiritual pet.

But just as Zhou Siyu said, if a social monster like the black bird wants to produce a second-level monster, it needs to form a flock of birds.

However, it is impossible for the Zhou family to raise one or two hundred black crows to cultivate second-level black crows. The cost is too high and it is not worth it at all.

At this time, Zhou Yuanlian suddenly said: "There are many poisonous herbs on this mountain that are beneficial to my practice. I will go pick them first. When you find the treasure, just call me."

"Since this concerns your cultivation, niece Xiaolian, you can go by yourself."

Zhou Xinlan nodded slightly and agreed immediately.

Then he and Zhou Sihan and others took out the printed map and started looking for the specific treasure location.

After following the map and searching separately on the mountain for about two quarters of an hour, everyone finally found the treasure location recorded above.

"This is it. The treasure is inside this stone wall!"

At the foot of a cliff, Zhou Xinlan and others held the treasure map in their hands and compared it repeatedly. Finally, they unanimously determined that the location marked on it was the cliff in front of them.

Then Zhou Xinlan pondered for a moment, then directly took out the long sword magic weapon and chopped at the stone wall.

However, after the long sword magic weapon broke through the stone wall about ten feet deep, it was blocked and could not advance any further.

"There really is something mysterious going on!"

With a flash of joy in his eyes, Zhou Xinlan immediately retracted his long sword and looked at Zhang Liang.

This time Zhou Chun sent Zhang Liang to be his partner because he knew that the place where the treasure was hidden must be guarded by a formation, and Zhang Liang's current attainments in formations were not much worse than those of some formation masters.

"Zhang will try it first."

Zhang Liang nodded slightly, and immediately stepped forward to test the formation inside using the methods of a formation master.

After working for about half an hour, he shook his head slightly and said to Zhou Xinlan, "I can't tell the specific origin of this formation, but its arrangement is quite clever. It has been connected to the spiritual veins of this place, and it also has the function of hiding the aura. If we rely on ourselves, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break this formation by force!"

Hearing his words, Zhou Xinlan couldn't help but sigh, then nodded and said, "Then let's try to attack first. If it doesn't work, then go back to the family and report to the clan leader."

After saying that, he called on everyone to attack the mountain wall in front of them.

Under their attack, the outer layer of the mountain wall was quickly broken and fell off, revealing a dark brown formation shield inside.

The defensive power of this formation shield is very strong. Even when Zhou Xinlan attacked with all his strength, he could only make it slightly flicker.

After trying to attack for half an hour without any results, Zhou Xinlan gave up completely.

He immediately asked everyone to stop the attack, then looked at Zhang Liang and said, "Brother Zhang, you come and set up a formation to cover this place first. I will let my nineteenth brother go back to the family to report the situation to the clan leader."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Zhou Xinyan and said, "Nineteenth brother, you have two second-level spirit pets, and you are no worse than me in terms of continuous travel. I would like to trouble you to go back to the family and report the situation here!"

"I understand. Then you, Fourth Brother, take care of yourselves too."

Zhou Xinyan nodded, and did not lose his temper over such an important matter. He quickly said goodbye to everyone and returned to Jingguo.

In this way, relying on the two second-level spirit pets, Blue-Feathered Fire Kite and Fiery Dragon Python, who took turns to travel, Zhou Xinyan returned to the gate of Tuyunling Mountain in just two days.

After learning about the treasure trove from Zhou Xinyan, Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde discussed it and decided to go to Chengguo in person to retrieve the treasure.

He did not let Zhou Xinyan lead the way, but just asked him to have a good rest first. He took the original treasure map and rushed to Chengguo alone.

Fearing that the night would be too long and troublesome, Zhou Chun did not use the golden-winged tiger or the thunder dragon for transportation. Instead, he directly used his own magic weapon, the [Taibai Dragon-Slaying Sword] to hurry on.

Only a few hours passed and he appeared in the border area between Jingguo and Chengguo.

But at this moment, the [Moon Toad Orb] in Zhou Chun's body suddenly sounded an alarm frantically, conveying a warning to him.

This was the first time Zhou Chun encountered such a situation after refining this treasure.

After a moment of hesitation, he hurriedly activated this treasure to perform the magical power of "Taiyin Body Guarding Immortal Clothes" to protect himself.

And just the next moment after the silver-white fairy clothes appeared, a cold snort suddenly sounded in Zhou Chun's mind, and he was attacked by spiritual consciousness.

However, the person who made the attack obviously did not expect that not only was Zhou Chun's spiritual awareness stronger than that of ordinary mid-stage Jindan cultivators, he was also protected by the third level of "Heart Lotus Dharma". This time, the spiritual attack only caused him to lose consciousness for a moment before he quickly recovered.

At this time, the silver-white fairy clothes outside Zhou Chun's body were shaking violently, and a white transparent long sword suddenly appeared in front of his chest.

The power emanated by this sword is much greater than that of the [Taibai Zhanjiao Sword]. Even if it is not a top-grade magic weapon, it is probably not far behind.

As this magic weapon appeared, Zhou Chun's wildly spreading spiritual awareness also captured the attacker's location.

According to his spiritual sense, there was a vague human figure hidden in the clouds somewhere more than ten miles away from him!

(End of this chapter)