The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 313 Ancient Cave Mansion (Please subscribe!)
  "Yu'er, is everyone here?"

Xu Shengsheng stood in front of the clan mountain gate and asked his grandson Xu Zhiyu who was following him.

Glancing at the four clan brothers and sisters standing beside him, he nodded and replied:

"Clan leader, Zhinan, Zhiqiang, my eleventh brother, and Zhimin are all here. It's time to set off!"

"Where is Zhikai? Isn't he going?"

He didn't speak, but Xu Zhinan replied first:
  "Grandpa, the clan leader, and Brother Zhikai were called by our ancestors to inquire about Fangshi, so they can't go with us!"

Xu Shengsheng nodded, took out the flying sword and ordered:

"In that case, let's go!"

After finishing speaking, he took the lead in taking off on the flying sword and headed straight to the southwest, followed by several others who were not slow at all.

After flying for about two hours, at a place about several miles away from the location marked on the treasure map, Xu Chengsheng asked everyone to put away the flying sword. Because the treasure map was relatively simple and only marked an approximate location, everyone searched separately.

Xu Zhiyu walked in one direction and looked at the surrounding environment. There were only wild grasses and stone forests, not even a taller tree. He couldn't help but frown and thought:

"In such a desolate place, with no spiritual energy at all, who would hide the treasure here? It's really strange!"

He vigilantly scanned the surroundings with his spiritual consciousness and shuttled through the unusually vast stone forest, holding a copied map in his hand for comparison at any time to avoid getting lost.

As far as you can see here, there are only bare stone pillars with similar shapes, and there are no other reference points, so it is easy to get lost.

After searching like this for a while, he took the lead in finding the location marked on the treasure map. Here was a huge stone pillar, which looked unremarkable, but after repeated confirmation, he was sure it was here.

Instead of acting rashly, he activated the signal talisman and waited here. In just a few breaths, all the clan members arrived.

"Yes, it's right here. You guys stay away and I'll test it out."

After careful comparison, Xu Shengsheng found that this was indeed the destination of their trip, but he was afraid of danger, so he told Xu Zhiqiang and the others to go further away. He took the flying sword weapon and prepared to attack the big stone pillar.

He stabbed the stone pillar with his sword, and saw that the flying sword passed through the stone pillar without any hindrance. However, it did not leave any traces on the stone pillar. Unexpectedly, the stone pillar was actually illusory.

Seeing this scene, Xu Zhiyu almost dropped his jaw in shock. You must know that when he found the big stone pillar, he scanned it with his spiritual consciousness several times and found nothing strange at all. Moreover, as a monk of Zifu, his grandfather, according to Judging from his performance, he shouldn't have noticed anything unusual.

However, no matter from which angle you look at it, there is nothing special about this stone pillar. If you hadn't touched it, no one would have thought it was a shadow.

After looking at it for a moment, Xu Shengsheng took the lead and entered the stone pillar with his sword, and motioned for the others to follow. Xu Zhiyu clasped the fake baby talisman in his hand and followed his grandfather in, and the others followed suit.

After entering, they found that they came to a corridor, surrounded by darkness, but for monks who could see at night, there was no obstacle at all. As they walked, they looked around with their spiritual consciousness.

Although this corridor is relatively rugged, it is not long, about a hundred feet deep, and comes to the end. There is a tightly closed bronze door with three large characters engraved on it - Seclusion.

After walking a few steps to the door, everyone looked at each other and smiled. In any case, it was not a surprise. This place was basically an ancient cave. It was finally a worthwhile trip.

Xu Shengsheng activated his magic weapon, the flying sword, to strike at the bronze door. Just when the sword was about to hit the bronze door, a light red light emerged, which perfectly deflected the blow. The flying sword also bounced off at the same time. return.

"Yu'er, you guys stand back. There is a formation covering this door. I attacked with a third-level low-grade magic weapon, but it was difficult to shake. It seems that this formation is not low-grade. I'll try again!"

After finishing speaking, he also took a few steps back and took out a third-level metallic low-grade attack talisman. This talisman had extremely powerful attack power. When activated, it emitted a dazzling light, and finally gathered into a large talisman with a length and width of more than ten feet. He punched the bronze door with his fist.

"Bang!" A loud noise came, the light curtain only trembled slightly, but the formation remained unbreakable.

Xu Zhiyu, who was standing three feet away behind his grandfather, felt the surging fire-attribute aura coming from the formation. He immediately judged that this formation should be a fire-attribute formation, and the lowest grade was third-level low-grade.

"Huh!" Xu Shengsheng took a deep breath, turned around and said to the younger generations:

"There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad! The good news is that this should be the residence of an expert in the Zifu period, and his cultivation level is still higher than mine. The bad news is that the formation covering the door should be three Although it is a mid-level one, it operates without a master, but its power cannot be underestimated. It is difficult for me to break through it in a short time alone, so I need your help!"

Xu Shengsheng had roughly deduced the cultivation level of the owner of this cave and the level of the formation based on the magical weapon attack and the spiritual talisman attack just now.

In fact, the best way to break the formation is to find the weak point of the formation, and then attack there, which not only saves time but also energy, but it requires the guidance of the formation master to do it, and the five people from the Xu family who came this time are basically against I don't know anything about the law, so I can only choose to attack by force.

In fact, this is also the most common method used by monks in the world of immortality when they encounter ancient caves. Just think about it, who would bring an array master with them when hunting for treasure? Among the four arts of the Alchemy Talisman Formation, the number of Formation Masters is the rarest. Even if you want to find an Formation Master to break the formation, you can hardly find one.

However, the storm formation also has one disadvantage, that is, the moment the formation is destroyed, the main formation disk used to control the formation will also explode. If you think about it, this formation disk is usually placed in a storage bag. If the formation disk explodes, it means that the storage bag will be destroyed. This will cause a lot of losses, but without the formation master, don't There is no other way. It is better to get part of it than not to get it at all.

But this is not absolute. Most monks who are about to retire will take the main array plate out of the storage bag and put it aside, leaving behind chance things for future generations. There are also many such cases.

"Clan leader, just tell us what you want us to do? We will definitely obey!"

When the four of them, Xu Zhijuan, heard that the cave in front of them was probably the cave where the Zifu monks were enthroned, they all screamed with joy. Among them, Xu Zhiqiang was the most excited and shouted loudly.

Xu Zhiyu also acted very happy, but he was basically influenced by his younger brothers and sisters. He had seen a lot of great things in the world, and even the Lord Huashen had given him a lot of benefits, so for the mere monks of Zifu Sihua Dongfu doesn't particularly care about it, but takes it seriously.

"Okay, then you will watch the point where I attack, use your most powerful spells or magic weapons to attack, and try to break this formation as soon as possible."

Xu Shengsheng held a sword flower and ordered in a loud voice. The other four just nodded and stared at the clan leader to see where he would attack.

Xu Shengsheng pointed his sword and stabbed hard at a place in the lower left corner of the formation. Then Xu Zhiqiang and others' attacks followed one after another, and they continued to vent towards that part of the formation.

Xu Zhiyu's strongest method is the palm thunder. After many trainings on the battlefield, his palm thunder can move at will and have instant effects. It is also extremely powerful and can be improved in the later stages of foundation building. A monk, if you take a hit, you will be punished on the spot. Xu Zhinan and Xu Zhisong also majored in ancestral fire-attribute skills, and the spells they cast were extremely powerful. Xu Zhiqiang used a sledgehammer to hit the formation fiercely.

For a moment, the air became anxious, and the originally calm formation began to fluctuate violently under the repeated bombardments of the Xu family. As one day passed, the entire formation was like a bubble. It also cracked open.

The formation was broken, and a bronze door was naturally unable to stop them. Xu Zhiyu struck another palm thunder, and the entire door was broken into dozens of pieces. It turned out that this door was made of stone. I don't know why it was painted. Bronze color.

Xu Shengsheng waved his sleeves, and the debris blocking their progress was swept aside.

Contrary to what they imagined, behind the stone gate was not a stone room, but a cave with a universe inside.

After entering the stone gate, the space suddenly opened up. A small river about two feet wide appeared in front of them. They were now on the left bank of the river.

There were weeds growing on both sides of the river, and there was a row of wooden houses on the opposite side of the river. Xu Zhiyu felt the water aura rushing towards his face, and felt as if he was bathing in cold water, which was extremely cool.

"This is an underground water vein! I didn't expect that this place looks deserted, but there is indeed a water spiritual vein underground!" Xu Zhisong exclaimed.

Xu Shengsheng, who felt it carefully, was even more ecstatic, because the concentration of spiritual energy here is the third-level low-grade, and it is a very pure single-attribute spiritual vein. The land is fertile and the spiritual energy is sufficient. With a little development, it can become a good family industry.

Almost instantly, he had already made a plan in his mind: the river could be used to cultivate fish, shrimps, crabs and other aquatic products. The land on both sides of the riverbank is fertile and can be used to open up spiritual fields and plant spiritual grains and rice.

At this time, Xu Zhiyu's attention shifted to the row of wooden houses. The industries developed here belong to the family. If there are any treasures in these wooden houses, everyone present will have a share. Of course, the premise is that Nothing too valuable.

"Come on, let's go into the house and take a look. I'll go in first and you'll hold off!"

Xu Shengsheng, who had finished planning the place, also noticed the row of houses. He looked at the wooden houses and gave instructions.

A group of people came to the wooden house. After seeing the materials used in the wooden house, they couldn't help but sigh: What a great effort!
  It turns out that the wooden house was built with a second-order medium-grade spiritual wood - Phoenix Tail Bamboo. This kind of spiritual bamboo has a tough texture and is most suitable for making shields. There is a small piece of it planted on the Xu Family Mountain.

The facades of some of the main buildings of the Xu family are made of this spiritual bamboo, but the eight wooden houses in front of them are all made of Phoenix tail bamboo. If nothing else, these Phoenix tail bamboos are sold in the market. The price will not be less than 100,000 spirit stones. This also shows that the owner of this place must be wealthy. Otherwise, how could he spend so many spiritual stones to build a residence?
  And I don’t know if it’s because this place has not been inhabited for a long time. The whole phoenix bamboo that was buried in the soil and used as a foundation actually came back to life after it was dead and grew to six or seven feet high, which shows its tenacious vitality.

Everyone couldn't wait to open the first wooden house. It looked like it should be a bedroom. There was a bed and some daily necessities in the room.

There were no good things found here, only a few first-order spiritual objects. In line with the principle of not losing everything, Xu Zhiyu received these one by one into the storage ring. Of course, he did not want to devour them all, but put them away temporarily.

"Hey, there is a jade slip here, which seems to record the life of the owner of the cave."

Xu Zhinan, who had a sharp eye and quick hands, found a jade slip under the pillow of the bed. Perhaps because of the age, the originally milky white jade slip was now slightly yellowed.

Everyone was attracted by her words, and Xu Zhinan handed the jade slip to Xu Shengsheng. Afterwards, several people took turns to inspect the jade slips.

There isn't much recorded on it, it only records major events, such as cultivation breakthroughs, the discovery of treasures, and the entire process of discovering this place.

From the jade slips, we can learn that the owner of this place was a master of water and wood dual spiritual roots on the ninth level of Zi Mansion during his lifetime. Originally the young patriarch of a Zifu family in Jiaozhou, he was later killed by a mysterious monk because of the treasure in his family. He was the only survivor.

After the accident, he came to Yongzhou, the farthest place from Jiaozhou, incognito. He originally planned to practice hard here, and after he succeeded in practicing, he would return to Jiaozhou to investigate the murderer behind the scenes.

He accidentally discovered the water spirit vein here by chance, and made this place his cave.

After his cultivation broke through the Zi Mansion, he once returned to Jiaozhou to investigate the matter of the family's annihilation. However, because there were too few clues, he found nothing, and in the end he had no choice but to let it go.

At the end of the jade slip, it is written that he went on a trip. Judging from the date recorded, it is more than a thousand years ago, which is much longer than the Xu family settled here.

However, he has not come back for such a long time. He must have encountered an accident or died at the end of his life, because the Zifu monks live for six hundred years. It has been more than a thousand years now, but it is not impossible to break through to the golden elixir. But that is not the concern of everyone in the Xu family.

What they are most concerned about now is the treasure mentioned in the jade slip. They are wondering whether the treasure has been brought out by them. If so, where is the treasure? Did he take it with him or leave it here?

The last few people discussed it and then conducted a blanket search of the place. Unfortunately, the search was fruitless.

Some of the remaining rooms only have a futon, and some are simply empty with nothing at all.

However, they still found one good thing. It was in the sixth room. There were several shelves filled with various formation disks. This was not surprising. After all, they learned about this landowner from the manuscript. In his lifetime, he was a third-level mid-level formation master. The most important thing is that a jade slip was found on the shelf, which not only recorded in detail his formation formation experience from childhood to adulthood, but also the inheritance of a third-level high-grade formation.

This discovery made everyone ecstatic and smiling, and they were so excited that they couldn't contain themselves for a moment. Just because this formation inheritance is so precious, it is also the Xu family's most urgent inheritance of the hundred arts of cultivating immortals. Having this jade slip is equivalent to having an formation master beside you to give guidance. Even if formation mages need talent the most, they believe that as the family grows, there will always be people who are geniuses in formation.

After the excitement, Xu Zhiyu, who was the first to regain his composure, asked everyone:
  "Clan Chief, look at the treasure mentioned in the jade slip. Could it be the third-level formation inheritance jade slip we got?"

"This" Xu Shengsheng, who was still immersed in joy, was brought back to reality by his grandson's question. The other three also began to consider this issue.

"Probably not!" Xu Zhisong first came to the conclusion and then analyzed:

"According to the jade slip, the Zifu family where the owner of the Cave Mansion was born has a total of four Zifu monks, including two from the ninth floor of the Zifu. With such strong strength, the clan was actually exterminated. Such a move. A person's cultivation level must be at least Jindan cultivation level. But for Jindan Zhenren, the inheritance of complete third-level formations does not seem to be worth taking such a big risk."

"What Brother Eleven said is true. The family of the owner of the Cave Mansion also belongs to the Lingxiao Sect. It was exterminated for no apparent reason, and the Lingxiao Sect has not traced it out. This shows that the origins of the mastermind behind the scenes are definitely not small, and the plan is very big. It’s the inheritance of the third-level formation, so I won’t take the risk of offending the Lingxiao Sect.”

Xu Zhiqiang agreed with Xu Zhisong's analysis and also gave his own reasons.

In the end, after everyone's discussion, they all agreed that this treasure should be found elsewhere, but how to find it has become a difficult problem for the family monks.

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