Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 333 Missing, Cold Cave

However, after Qing Jiao took Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun away from Thunder Lizard Island, under Zhou Daoyi's guidance, he flew back to the mainland along the route they had taken when they came.

But they only flew less than [-] li before they found Zhou Mingde who was chasing after him with "Flying Fire and Flying Stars".

After learning from Zhou Mingde that there might be a fourth-order monster chasing after them, the group discussed for a while and asked Zhou Chun, who was the weakest in cultivation, to escort Zhuyuan Fruit Tree back to the mainland.

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

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

In this way, the risk is once again spread out.

If there is a fourth-level monster chasing after it, there is a high probability that it will not chase a second-level human monk.

It's just that Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi are going to gamble on their luck.

If the fourth-order monsters catch up, one of them will definitely be targeted.

And whether they can get rid of each other's tracking, luck will be very important.

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

After he separated from the two elders, he rode a gold-winged tiger and escorted the Zhuyuan fruit tree back along the same route as before.

They had traveled the route as it came, without encountering any noteworthy danger along the way.

At this time, it was only half an hour before Lu Ran returned along this route. If Zhou Chun went again, the danger would certainly not be too great.

The fact is also the same. Zhou Chun returned along this route. Although he also encountered some unsightly first-order and second-order monster attacks during the period, he easily dismissed them all.

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

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

"It seems that Zhou Daoyou and you have succeeded. I don't know why the other three Daoists didn't come back with Zhou Daoyou?"

At the edge of the water, after Lu Ran showed his body, he just glanced at the Zhuyuan fruit tree supported by the golden-winged tiger on his back, then looked at Zhou Chun with strange eyes and asked about Zhou Mingde and the three of them.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun pondered for a while, and then said honestly: "As Senior Lu reminded, the group of thunder lizards is indeed protected by fourth-order monsters. The three elders found the thunder lizard After asking for help, we decided to divide our troops into four routes to return to the shore, and this junior happened to be on the same route as Senior Lu, so he would be the first to arrive."

Although he was worried about the three elders in his heart, he didn't believe that the three elders would all perish in Long Yuanze.

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

If the words are really flickering and trying to cover up, it may have the opposite effect.

Sure enough, after listening to his words at this time, Lu Randang nodded thoughtfully and said, "Is that so? Then I will wait here for the other three fellow Taoists!"

"Senior Lu is willing to accompany you. Naturally, it couldn't be better."

Zhou Chun agreed without hesitation.

Then the two waited patiently on the shore.

After waiting like this for almost an hour, the two finally waited for Zhou Mingde to return.

"Elder Supreme, you are back!"

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

At this time, Zhou Mingde's complexion was sallow and dry, and he looked like he was seriously injured.

Facing Zhou Chun's concerned question, he waved his hands and said, "There is nothing serious about the old man, but the use of escapism has caused a bit of damage to the body's vitality. It will recover after a month or two of recuperation."

After speaking, he touched Lu Ran's eyes, nodded slightly to say hello, then looked at Zhou Chun and said, "What? Haven't Daoyi and Daoquan come back yet?"

"Yes, so far, this junior has only seen you come back alone!"

Zhou Chun nodded with worry.

"That may be the direction the old man chose, let's go first!"

Zhou Mingde's eyes flickered, and he said softly, as if he wasn't worried about what would happen to Zhou Daoyi and the two of them.

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the Zhuyuan fruit tree that was placed on the ground, and suddenly said again: "It is not a solution to keep this Zhuyuan fruit tree here, and it must be transplanted back to the family as soon as possible. Let’s take it back and plant it first, and the old man will just wait here to tame them.”

"This……"

Zhou Chun hesitated slightly, he looked at Zhou Mingde's face.

But he only saw the firmness in the other party's eyes.

So I could only swallow the humbly words, nodded lightly and said: "The junior understands, then the junior will take a step first."

After saying goodbye to Lu Ran who was beside him, he released the golden-winged tiger again, and continued to let him carry the Zhuyuan fruit tree all the way to the exit of the underground waterway.

After Zhou Chun left for a while, Lu Ran suddenly looked at Zhou Mingde and said, "Don't fellow daoist Zhou have the soul cards of the other two fellow daoists?"

The soul card in his mouth is a special treasure, which can contain a ray of soul separated by the monks of the Zifu period.

If this cultivator of the Purple Mansion Period accidentally falls, the Fate Soul card will be broken, letting people know that something happened to him.

Generally, those cultivators of the Zifu stage in the big sects have left this kind of life and soul cards in the sect, so that the sect can keep abreast of their life and death conditions.

The Zhou family used to have a soul card, just like Zhou Mingde himself had one.

When he left the family, the life soul card would be placed in the ancestral hall of the Zhou family. The patriarch of the Zhou family would stop by every day to check whether the life soul card was normal.

But Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan, who later succeeded in opening up the Purple Mansion, did not have a soul card.

Facing Lu Ran's question at this time, Zhou Mingde immediately said: "The refining of the soul card requires the use of precious spiritual wood such as nourishing soul wood. Although my Zhou family has little savings now, it has never been possible to meet such spirit."

"What's more, Zhou also believes that Daoyi and Daoquan are auspicious people with their own heavens, so there is no need to worry about their safety!"

Hearing his answer, Lu Ran also stopped talking.

On the other side, after Zhou Chun protected the Zhuyuan fruit tree and entered the outlet of the underground river, he changed to the silver lightning thunder python and went upstream in vain, returning to Lanzhou in nearly two days.

Afterwards, he changed into a golden-winged tiger and transported the Zhuyuan fruit tree back to Jiufengling of the Zhou family safely.

And the precious spiritual root like the Zhuyuan fruit tree is naturally planted in the safest and most spiritual place of the Zhou family.

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

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

Then the jade vat containing the Zhuyuan fruit tree was moved horizontally to the top of an earth pit, the fruit tree was pulled out and placed in the earth pit, and quickly filled with soil.

After doing all this, he looked at Zhou Jiahe who had rushed over and said, "Thirteen Gu, the rest is up to you."

"Patriarch, don't worry, I will definitely do my best to take care of this spiritual root!"

Zhou Jiahe nodded solemnly, stepped forward and cast spells, gathered spiritual energy and rained dew to nourish the Zhuyuan fruit tree.

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

After Zhou Chun meditated and rested for several hours, he still didn't hear the news of Zhou Mingde and others' return after he came out.

This made him feel heavy all of a sudden.

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

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

Time passed day by day, and every day Zhou Chun would feel tormented and unable to sleep.

Even the Taoist companion Su Yuzhen has been comforting him, but it can't make him feel at ease.

After waiting like this for five days, he finally waited for Zhou Mingde's return.

Yes, Zhou Mingde came back alone, but Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Daoquan were nowhere to be seen.

This result made Zhou Chun's complexion instantly ugly.

Seeing his expression, Zhou Mingde also knew what mood he was in at the moment, and immediately took the initiative to explain: "After Zhengchun you left, the old man waited for half a day for Daoquan to return, but later the old man and Daoquan waited together. After three days, I couldn't wait for Daoyi to return!"

"Although I don't know why Daoyi was late for so long and didn't come back, both the old man and Daoquan felt that there was no need to wait there any longer, so they asked fellow Taoist Lu Ran to arrange someone to wait there for him. The old man and Daoquan Then go back first!"

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

There is no doubt that Zhou Daoyi is definitely the most important among the three current Zhou family monks in the Zifu period.

But now he has no news.

This made both Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun feel very heavy.

But things have come to this point, no matter how worried the two are, they can only accept the reality.

So Zhou Chun nodded to Zhou Mingde after being silent for a long time and said, "Your junior understands, you have worked hard too, Supreme Elder, let's go back to the cave to rest first!"

"Don't worry too much, Daoyi also has some life-saving items in his hands, so it won't be so easy to have an accident, maybe it was just delayed by something!"

Zhou Mingde comforted Zhou Chun again, and then returned to the cave to recuperate.

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

However, they never got any news about Zhou Daoyi.

This made him even more worried about the elder.

Because of this matter in his heart, Zhou Chun couldn't be happy even if the two Qi-refining stage monks of the Zhou family who had obtained the foundation-building alchemy successfully passed the level successively.

At this time, the news of Zhou Daoyi's disappearance could not be concealed, and almost all Zhou's parents knew about it.

This also made Zhou's elders, who were so happy because the family had an extra Yuan Zhu tree and two more Foundation Establishment monks, lose their smiles.

Since the Zhou family took root in Jiufengling, although many members of the clan died accidentally in wars and adventures, none of the people who had cultivated above the Foundation Establishment Stage had an accidental death.

Not to mention the purple mansion period monks!

Now thinking that Zhou Daoyi, the most important cultivator of the Zhou family, might have had an accident, everyone who knew about it felt very heavy.

Even Zhou Zhengqing and Zhou Zhengbai, the two new Foundation Establishment cultivators, did not have any smiles on their faces.

Only those monks in the Qi refining period of the Zhou family who didn't know were delighted because the family had newly added an auxiliary foundation-building spirit that they could exchange for.

At that time, of the fourteen Zhuyuan fruits hanging on the fruit tree, Zhou Chun took out four at one time and put them in the family treasure house for the people of the clan to exchange.

The rest are all sealed and stored in jade boxes, and will be slowly released for exchange in the future.

After all, it takes hundreds of years for a Zhuyuan fruit tree to bloom and bear fruit until it matures.

If all those Zhuyuan fruits are released now, not to mention that there are not so many tribesmen who can exchange them, even if they are really exchanged, there will be no way to replenish them in the future.

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

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

However, to his disappointment, after arriving in Longxing Valley this time, he still didn't get any news about Zhou Daoyi.

But just when he was very disappointed and ready to go back after handing over the things, Zhou Zhengyong said something to him.

"Xu Fu and the others found a natural cave in a mountain range the day before yesterday. It was very cold inside, and there were roars of strange beasts. The spiritual pet they sent in to explore the way died quickly inside, so they didn't dare to act rashly again. .”

"Originally, I planned to go there to find out in person today, but since you are here, Thirteenth Brother, I think it would be safer for you to go with me."

After hearing his words, Zhou Chun's expression also changed, and he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, then I will follow Brother Yong to explore that cave."

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

The three of them set off from Longxing Valley, and after flying for more than 1000 miles, they came to a mountain.

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

There are also many monsters of various kinds in the mountains, and there are many second-order monsters among them.

The natural cave that Xu Fu and the others discovered was actually in the outer area of ​​the mountain range.

Otherwise, with the strength of their team, they would not be able to go deep into the center of the mountain range.

At this time, under Xu Fu's guidance, Zhou Chun quickly landed at the bottom of a broken valley, and after a sweep of his consciousness, he discovered the natural cave he was talking about.

In the depths of the valley, a crack opened deep into the mountain, and wisps of frosty white air continuously drifted out from the gap, causing many icicles to condense on the stone walls of the nearby valley.

Zhou Chun tried to release his spiritual consciousness to probe deeply into the crack, but he was surprised to find that after his spiritual consciousness was immersed in it for about a hundred feet, it was blocked by a strange force and it was difficult to go further.

"This is a bit strange. Could it be that there are formations arranged by immortal cultivators?"

Surprise flashed in Zhou Chun's eyes, and after he pondered for a while, he reached out and patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and released a "Xuanjia Jinyu" demon insect.

Then he used the "Insect Puppet Technique" to attach a ray of distraction to the demon worm, causing it to fly into the cracks in the mountain.

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