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Chapter 563: Missing Zhou Yuanlian [Subscribe]

The reason why Zhou Chun marked on the second level of "Han Guang Sword Art" that only those who have mastered the second level of the sword art can observe the sword-grinding stone was that he originally wanted to use it to inspire the tribe members and select those with talent in sword cultivation.

In fact, the sword whetstone was used by Shen Jianxing, a sword cultivator in the late Jindan stage who had comprehended the sword intent. It was an inspiration for cultivators to comprehend the sword intent, and it was not something that Zhou Zhiqian, who was in the early stage of foundation building, could touch.

Rashly viewing such treasures is not only useless, but also harmful.

Therefore, after explaining the situation to Zhou Zhiqian, Zhou Chun also said: "My words are always valid. If you can successfully open up the Purple Mansion in the future, you can come and observe the sword-grinding stone!"

After that, he gave a warning to the thoughtful junior, "Moreover, the most important thing for sword cultivators is to compete with other sword cultivators in sword fighting, and to hone your sword energy and sword skills in sword fighting. If you really want to go on this path and achieve something, you should start traveling early!"

"I understand. Thank you for your guidance, Chief. I will apply to the family for an outing in the next few days!"

Zhou Zhigan's expression changed, and he immediately bowed to Zhou Chun to express his gratitude, then prepared to turn around and leave.

But at this moment, Zhou Chun spoke again.

"You wait first."

Zhou Chun first called Zhou Zhiqian, then patted the storage bag on his waist and handed him a few third-level magic talismans, "Take these magic talismans. If you encounter danger on the road, don't be stingy with the treasures. As long as you can save your own life, you can discard the trivial things!"

Zhou Chun has always been generous in helping and supporting talented and motivated juniors.

Since Zhou Zhigan is indeed talented in swordsmanship and dares to fight and hone himself, Zhou Chun will of course give him things to protect his life and prevent him from dying easily.

"Thank you for the treasure, Chief. I will definitely keep your teachings in mind!"

Zhou Zhigan's eyes flashed with joy, and he immediately took the talisman, bowed solemnly with a grateful look on his face to express his gratitude, and then walked out of the cave with firm steps.

After Zhou Zhiqian left, Zhou Zhiying suddenly blinked her beautiful eyes, looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Master, you don't seem to think highly of Brother Zhiqian?"

"Oh, why do you say that?"

Zhou Chun's expression changed and he looked at the disciple with some curiosity.

Zhou Zhiying immediately said seriously: "It's very simple. If you really think highly of Brother Zhiqian, you wouldn't have given him a magic talisman, but a talisman treasure. I heard that the power of a talisman treasure is much stronger than that of a magic talisman!"

Hearing her words, Zhou Chun couldn't help but say with a bit of a smile: "I told you, what profound ideas can a little girl like you have!"

Then he raised his hand and flicked the girl's forehead in the air and said, "What do you know, little girl? Although the talisman is powerful, how can he exert the power of multi-killing with his cultivation in the early stage of foundation building? In fact, it is far less useful than the third-level low-grade magic talisman that I gave him!"

Then he looked at the disciple angrily and taught him a lesson: "Besides, what do you think the talisman is? Is it a cabbage that can be picked up on the road? If a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building holds such a treasure, it will do him more harm than good, and it will only bring disaster and misfortune!"

"Oh, is that so?"

Zhou Zhiying nodded as if thinking about something, but it was unclear whether he really understood or took it to heart.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Chun naturally wanted to teach this apprentice a lesson and let her know the value of money!

Three months later, Zhou Zhiqian applied to his family for permission to travel outside and officially left the family to embark on the path of honing his swordsmanship.

According to the rules of the Zhou family, once the core members or elders of the family decide to travel and are away from the family for a long time, the corresponding family welfare benefits will be suspended during the period of time they are away from the family.

If Zhou Chun hadn't reminded him, Zhou Zhigan might not have made this decision so quickly. After all, he had just successfully built his foundation not long ago and was not well off now.

Several months passed, and one day Zhou Chun suddenly received a letter from Fengguo. After reading the letter, he couldn't help but sigh, his expression slightly complicated.

It turned out that the Jindan-stage cultivator ancestor of the You family had passed away, and now he sent a letter to invite Zhou Chun to attend his funeral.

The You family's move was obviously to use the Zhou family's power to intimidate others and prevent anyone from targeting the You family because of the death of the You family's ancestor.

But in Zhou Chun's view, this move is of no help at all.

The Zhou family and the You family were indeed old friends for a thousand years, but ever since the split of the Three Absolute Sect, the friendship between the two families has been gradually weakening.

Even when the You family and the Li family "returned home" together and reoccupied the blessed land of Sanxian Mountain, the Zhou family only casually sent an elder there.

And since the two families returned to Feng State, the exchanges between the three families have decreased again.

This kind of thing cannot be hidden from anyone. Anyone who really wants to take over the You family will be found out with just a little investigation.

However, after thinking about it, Zhou Chun decided to visit Zhou Mingde and talk to him about this matter.

What was somewhat beyond his expectations was that after knowing this, Zhou Mingde intended to go to Sanxian Mountain to attend the funeral of the ancestor of the You family.

After a moment's thought, Zhou Chun understood Zhou Mingde's idea, and naturally would not stop this elder from wanting to "return home in glory".

"Then I'll have to trouble you to handle this matter."

He nodded with a smile on his face and agreed to pull down.

Afterwards, Zhou Mingde appointed two elders and brought along several foundation-building cultivators. They were surrounded by a group of younger generations and headed for the Three Immortal Mountains of Fengguo.

This trip lasted for half a month.

When he returned from Fengguo, Zhou Mingde's complexion was visibly rosy, and he was obviously in a very good mood.

When he saw Zhou Chun, who was in charge of the family, he immediately laughed and said, "Haha, Zhengchun, you would never have thought that during the You family's funeral, Li Jingxuan, one of the main masters of the Three Immortals Mountain, actually took the initiative to let me sit at the top, and repeatedly praised me and the Zhou family in his words, with an attitude of being humble and subservient!"

At this point, his face darkened again, and he smiled coldly, "It's just that there is one thing he may have forgotten, but I have never dared to forget it!"

"Back then, when that thief Yu Jinghua wanted to usurp the Zhou family's turf, I went to see him overnight, but he refused to see me. He didn't care about the thousand-year friendship between our two families at all and stayed out of the matter completely!"

"Now that my Zhou family has regained its glory and entered an unprecedented heyday, he finally remembered the thousand-year friendship between our two families. How ridiculous!"

Zhou Chun really didn't know about this. It seemed that Zhou Mingde had been holding it in for a long time, and finally found an opportunity to avenge his previous shame.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of something and said, "If I remember correctly, Li Jingxuan should have passed his 800th birthday. With only a hundred years left to live, he probably can't guarantee that he can train a Jindan-stage cultivator for the family. Now that he has seen the situation of the You family, he will inevitably feel sympathy for his own kind, and thus have some unrealistic ideas!"

"That's right, Zhengchun, you hit the nail on the head!"

Zhou Mingde nodded repeatedly, appreciating and even admiring Zhou Chun's quick thinking ability.

He smiled and said, "Speaking of which, this time I also saw the Li family's twin brother and sister with top-grade spiritual roots that we envied so much. Although one of them has reached the late Purple Mansion stage and the other has reached the middle Purple Mansion stage, they both seem to have little confidence in successfully forming a pill!"

Zhou Chun couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this and said, "That's going to be difficult. With the Li family's background, it's not too difficult to prepare a set of Jindan spiritual objects, but if the person who is going to Jindan lacks confidence, the success rate will be unpredictable!"

"Haha, isn't that right? Li Jingxuan must be having such a headache right now that he can't even sleep!"

Zhou Mingde laughed again, with a hint of gloating in his laughter.

However, just when the two of them were making fun of the fact that the Li family had no successor, they turned around and lost all interest because of something that happened within the family.

It turned out that Zhou Sihan, who had previously presented the fifth-level thunder dragon's teeth, failed to open up his purple mansion after taking the "Kailing Pill" bestowed by Zhou Chun!

This failure caused serious damage to his soul, and it is estimated that he will not be able to attack the Purple Palace again in the future.

In fact, for the current Zhou family, having one more or one less Purple Mansion Stage cultivator does not have much impact.

But if they fail once, it would be equivalent to destroying a clan member who had the hope of opening the Purple Mansion, and also wasting a precious spiritual object that could help open up the Purple Mansion.

Such a double loss would surely make family leaders like Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde feel depressed and regretful.

It is said that good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly.

Less than three months after Zhou Sihan failed to open up the Purple Mansion, another incident happened in the Zhou family that Zhou Chun had to pay attention to. It turned out that Zhou Yuanlian, who had gone out to collect poisonous herbs and poisons for cultivation, had not returned for half a year beyond the expected time!
As the only poison cultivator in the foundation-building stage in the Zhou family, Zhou Yuanlian is qualified to leave a soul tablet in the family ancestral temple.

After Zhou Chun learned from Zhou Xinyi that Zhou Yuanlian was missing, he quickly went to the ancestral temple to check on her soul tablet.

It was found that the soul tablet was intact and not damaged at all.

But this only means that Zhou Yuanlian is not in danger of life now.

If she were captured and imprisoned, or trapped in a formation, or even trapped in some natural dangerous place, as long as her life was safe, there would be no problem with the soul tablet.

And once there is a problem with the soul card, it is likely to be a fatal problem.

Therefore, Zhou Chun did not take it lightly. He immediately asked the clan elder Zhou Xinyan to take the lead and bring four core foundation-building clan members and a dozen capable elite Qi-training clan members to look for Zhou Yuanlian.

In Zhou Chun's eyes, Zhou Yuanlian, a poison cultivator who practices the "Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra", is more important than some family elders.

Because poison cultivators have an ability that even Jindan stage cultivators like them cannot possess, and that is the ability to cause large-scale destruction!
Zhou Yuanlian is now in the middle stage of foundation building. The poisonous smoke or gas she releases can kill hundreds or thousands of Qi training cultivators or first-level monsters in a very short period of time.

This is something that many Purple Mansion Stage cultivators cannot do!

Therefore, in many wars involving immortal cultivation or monsters, Zhou Yuanlian is a strategic weapon that can directly determine the outcome of a war!

In view of this, as long as there is a possibility of saving the situation, Zhou Chun will never allow anything to happen to Zhou Yuanlian.

So far, several members of the Zhou family with poor spiritual roots have chosen to practice the "Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra", but no one has been able to persist to the late stage of Qi training, and the failures have all been killed by the backlash of the poison.

In this situation, Zhou Yuanlian, who has reached the middle stage of foundation building, absolutely plays an irreplaceable role.

Fortunately, because of Zhou Yuanlian's importance, Zhou Chun has always had strict requirements on her going out, requiring her to report where she is going and when she is coming back.

Therefore, if we want to look for the person now, we won't have to run around like a headless fly.

According to the information Zhou Yuanlian left behind, he was heading to a place called Huochi Valley in Jinzhou to look for several poisonous plants and insects that only grew there.

Jinzhou is the territory of Yanyang Sect. It borders Yanzhou and Cangzhou and is a relatively barren and desolate area.

There is not even a Jindan family in this state. There are only three major immortal cultivation clans leading the immortal cultivation world. The Zhou family sent an elder to lead a team here, and they are no longer afraid of any force here.

What Zhou Chun didn't expect was that Zhou Xinyan and others who were sent to Jinzhou searched for half a month but couldn't find any trace of Zhou Yuanlian.

According to the Eagle News sent back through the intelligence station, the man almost searched the Fire Red Valley and the surrounding areas, but there was no sign of Zhou Yuanlian.

The only discovery was a trace of a battle found deep in the Fire Red Valley. Judging from the traces of poisonous corrosion at the scene, it should have been done by Zhou Yuanlian.

This shows that the person has indeed been there.

In this situation, Zhou Chun had no choice but to take action himself.

He took out Zhou Yuanlian's soul tablet from the ancestral temple and went directly to Jinzhou Huochi Valley.

Less than a day later, Zhou Chun appeared above the Fire Red Valley.

Zhou Xinyan was still staying in Huochi Valley at this time. When he saw Zhou Chun appear, he hurried forward to pay his respects.

"Junior greets the clan leader. I failed to do my job well this time. Please forgive me, clan leader!"

Zhou Chun had no intention of exchanging pleasantries, but just waved his hand and said, "It's not your fault. Go gather the tribesmen first, and I will cast a spell to find Xiaolian's whereabouts!"

After saying that, he took out Zhou Yuanlian's soul tablet, and then used it as a medium to perform the secret technique of finding people.

As Zhou Chun cast the spell, the soul tablet in front of him began to shake slightly, then spun in the air and pointed the arrow in a certain direction.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately reached out and grabbed the soul tablet and flew in that direction.

After that, Zhou Chun would cast a spell every certain distance and then move forward in the direction indicated by the soul tablet.

After casting the spell seven times, he had arrived at a mountain range at the junction of Jinzhou and Yanzhou.

"This place is more than 700 miles away from the Fire Red Valley. There is no reason for Xiaolian to come here on her own. It seems that she was captured by someone!"

"But with her cultivation strength, being able to capture her alive without hurting her is something that even a Purple Mansion Early Stage cultivator cannot do. If she has that kind of cultivation, why would she hide in such a desolate place?"

When Zhou Chun thought of this, he cast a spell again and determined the true location of Zhou Yuanlian.

His figure flashed and soon he flew over a pine forest in the mountains.

Looking down from the sky, there is an endless red pine forest below, with red pine trees that are more than ten meters tall.

But in fact, these are all illusions. A very sophisticated illusion array has been set up here. Even if a Purple Mansion Stage cultivator comes here, he may not be able to see through it.

But Zhou Chun is a Jindan-stage cultivator, and his spiritual awareness is even stronger than that of an ordinary Jindan-mid-stage cultivator. This illusion array is naturally useless in his eyes, and he can see through it at a glance.

However, even though he easily saw through the illusion array, it did not mean that he could enter it directly without alerting the monks inside.

Such sophisticated illusion arrays have an early warning function, and once someone enters it, an immediate warning will be issued.

Zhou Chun was worried about Zhou Yuanlian's safety, so it was not a good idea to rush into the formation at this time.

After observing outside for a while, he left the place first and found Zhou Xinyan and other younger generations of the family.

Later, under Zhou Chun's arrangement, Zhou Xinyan and others searched slowly along the way and gradually found the vicinity of the red pine forest.

Then, by accident, Zhou Xinyan and others discovered the existence of the illusion array and worked together to break it.

As Zhou Chun expected, when he found out that the only person attacking the formation was Zhou Xinyan, an early Purple Mansion cultivator, the owner of the formation immediately showed up to capture him.

What surprised Zhou Chun was that the late Purple Mansion cultivator who came out of the Red Pine Forest was actually wearing the robe of the Yanyang Sect!

"What's going on? Why did the people from Yanyang Sect try to capture Xiaolian?"

Zhou Chun's face darkened, and he felt the difficulty of the situation.

But he did not hesitate at all when he took action.

He appeared soon and used the secret technique of [Concentric Golden Lock] to seal the cultivation of the monk from Yanyang Sect, thus eliminating the possibility for him to send out an alarm to call for help.

After capturing this man, Zhou Chun carried the ugly-looking Yan Yang Sect cultivator into the formation.

Although he did not have a token of passage, as he was not affected by the illusion array, it was naturally easy for him to pass through the illusion array and enter the inner room.

It turned out that the inside of the illusion array was not a red pine forest, but a mountain planted with a large area of ​​hexagonal fire maple spiritual trees. The spiritual energy there was as rich as that of the Zhou family's Jiufeng Ridge.

In addition to the ugly man captured by Zhou Chun, there are also many low- and middle-level disciples of the Yanyang Sect.

At this time, because the ugly man was captured in an instant, all the disciples of Yanyang Sect were in a daze and had not yet recovered.

When Zhou Chun saw this, he immediately knew that this should be a resource point of the Yanyang Sect.

So he hesitated for a moment, then suddenly shouted loudly: "I am Zhou Zhengchun, the patriarch of the Spirit Beast Zhou Family. You don't need to panic. The purpose of my coming here today has nothing to do with you. Just proceed as usual!"

It’s numb! I can’t say much about the bad things that happened today. I’ve already mentioned it in the group. Anyway, I’ll start to make up for the words slowly tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)