For some reason, when he learned that Yan Yunfei and Yue Shan, who had fought side by side that day, were also called to Red Tiger Mountain by Xiao Bufan, Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and the pressure in his heart suddenly became much lighter.
Since he was not the only one who was called to Chihu Mountain, the worst case scenario he was worried about would not happen.
"Let's go. Senior Xiao is already waiting for you, Daoist Zhou, on the mountain. It's not good for him to wait any longer."
After Yan Yunfei chatted with Zhou Yang for a few words, he took the initiative to stop the conversation and urged him to go up the mountain quickly.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang could only follow him anxiously towards Lingshan, which was shrouded by the formation.
When they arrived at the mountain, Zhou Yang was taken directly to Xiao Bufan's cave by Yan Yunfei. Then, with Yan Yunfei's look of asking for blessings, he was called into the cave alone by Xiao Bufan.
"Junior Zhou Yang, I have met senior Xiao."
Zhou Yang walked into the Cave Mansion and came to the living room of the Cave Mansion. He immediately saw Xiao Bufan sitting on a Taishi chair drinking tea.
In the face of his salute, Xiao Bufan just raised his eyes to look at him, and then continued to take sips of tea without saying a word, and had no intention of letting him get up. Obviously, he wanted to intimidate him.
Take a look.
Zhou Yang didn't feel much about this. In his previous life, when he was a clerk in an office, he was often angry with his boss and supervisor. At that time, he had endured it. Now he faced Xiao Bufan, who had the power to kill him.
What does it mean for a monk from the Zifu period to be so angry?
After letting him dry for nearly half an hour, Xiao Bufan put down the still steaming tea in his hand, glanced at him indifferently and asked: "Tell me, why did my flying eagle puppet fall into your hands?"
In your hand?"
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately straightened his body and stood up straight. Then he reached out and took off the storage bag containing the flying eagle puppet from his waist, handed it over with both hands, and shouted injustice loudly:
"Senior, please be clear, this junior is unjust. That day, after the junior planned to ambush two chasing demon cultivators, he was recuperating under a sand dune to recover his mana. Suddenly he encountered the senior's flying eagle puppet chasing the demon cultivators. Of course, the junior cannot turn a blind eye to this.
, he immediately suppressed his injuries and joined in the pursuit.”
"Later, the demon cultivators separated and fled. After I and your flying eagle puppet worked together to kill a demon cultivator, your puppet also fell to the ground due to exhaustion of spiritual power. After I put it away at that time, I prepared to wait until I returned to the oasis.
Passed to you, I didn’t expect that by the time this junior returned to the oasis, there would be no trace of you, senior.”
"Later, when I returned to the Baisha River Oasis and heard about your plan from Elder Chen, I was really scared to death. Because of my impulsiveness, I almost made a big mistake and almost ruined my senior's plan to eliminate demons.
Big plan!"
By the end of the sentence, Zhou Yang's face was full of fear and regret.
This was not something he was pretending to do, it was the truest thought in his heart after he heard that Xiao Bufan planned to trap and kill Xue Moya.
He was both lucky and scared at the time. Fortunately, he only killed one demon cultivator who escaped and picked up a puppet flying eagle. If he had been greedy at that time and killed one demon cultivator and then went after another person, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
!
Of course, this was also thanks to the Wang family that he had robbed. If he hadn't thought of returning to the Wang family's spiritual mountain at that time, he might have really been able to chase another escaped demon cultivator.
After Xiao Bufan listened to his explanation, he saw that the look on his face did not seem to be fake. The originally cold expression was a bit more humane. He couldn't help but look at him with a half-smile and said: "So,
Are you admitting that you looted the Wang family’s spiritual mountain?”
"Looting Lingshan? Why did the senior say this!"
Zhou Yang looked at Xiao Bufan with a "surprised" look on his face, as if he had no idea that Wang's Lingshan Mountain had been looted.
"What? You still want to pretend to be stupid? Do you think you have done this perfectly? Apart from anything else, Senior Brother Zhang specifically told me about the three [Golden-haired Blue Sheep] in your home after he came back from your home.
It’s there!”
Xiao Bufan's eyes were sharp and he stared at Zhou Yang with cold eyes, very unhappy with Zhou Yang's pretending to be stupid.
He may not care much about the things that were looted from the Wang family by Zhou Yang, but Zhou Yang's behavior of taking advantage of the situation made him dislike it. Now that Zhou Yang still wants to deny it in the face of the facts, he feels even more uncomfortable.
.
"Juniors don't dare!"
Zhou Yang lowered his head slightly and resolutely surrendered.
A good man will not suffer the immediate disadvantages, and a real man can bend and stretch. If he talks too hard at this time, it will only make Xiao Bufan use the topic to make the matter more serious. He only does this if he has a flaw in his brain!
Sure enough, seeing him surrender, Xiao Bufan's expression softened slightly, but he still looked at him with a very unhappy look and snorted heavily: "Hmph, according to the sect's rules, not only will you be chased for taking advantage of others,
If you get back the stolen goods, you will have to abolish your cultivation as a punishment!"
When Zhou Yang heard the words "abolition of cultivation", even though he knew that Xiao Bufan was just saying this to scare him, Zhou Yang's eyelids jumped sharply and his heart skipped a beat.
Of course, these reactions of his did not escape Xiao Bufan's eyes, which made his face look much better. Then he changed the subject and continued: "But I don't want to pursue it too much if you have done a good job in rescuing and eliminating demons."
This is about it. Those stolen goods should be regarded as a reward from the sect and me for your merits in slaying demons. However, this is only done once and will not be repeated in the future. Do you understand?"
Of course Zhou Yang understood that it must be the Chen family ancestor who had taken two third-level elixir prescriptions from him and used his strength to make Huang Shamen and Xiao Bufan accept this distribution method of confiscating stolen goods in lieu of rewards.
Of course, it is enough for him to understand this kind of thing in his heart, and he must not say it out loud. Otherwise, if this word is opened, other people will follow suit. What prestige will Huang Shamen have in the future? Do we still need to have sect rules?
Therefore, after he took a deep breath, he immediately lowered his head and gave a deep salute: "Junior understands, thank you for your tolerance, senior. Senior is so kind and kind. I, junior, can't thank you enough!"
"Don't be too busy thanking me for now. Although Daoyou Chen interceded for you about your looting of Wangjia Lingshan, I don't have to pursue it. However, the matter of the three of you abandoning me to escape that day is not so easy to resolve. I have already applied to the sect for recruitment.
The three of you have been stationed here at Chihu Mountain for ten years, what do you have to say?"
Xiao Bufan stared at Zhou Yang and finally revealed his true intention of asking Zhou Yang to come to Chihu Mountain to meet him.
It turned out that although he didn't want to investigate deeply about Zhou Yang and the other two people abandoning him that day, that incident obviously made him feel very humiliated, so he used his power to summon the three people to Chihu Mountain to serve, and gave him some advice.
discipline.
"Junior, follow the sect's arrangements in everything!" Zhou Yang sighed in his heart, nodded resignedly, and said nothing more.
The official level is overwhelming!
He understood this truth very deeply in his previous life, let alone in this extraordinary world.
Weakness is original sin. This is a truth that cannot be truer in this extraordinary world.
Xiao Bufan and he both knew who was justified and who was not justified in what happened that day. However, Xiao Bufan had a high level of cultivation and a big fist, so reason was in his hands.
It's like the leader in his previous life asked him to do something, and he knew that he would be criticized or even fined if he did it, but he still had to do it because if he didn't do it, the leader would punish him!
The current situation will only be ten times or a hundred times worse than the situation in the previous life. If he couldn't stand it in the previous life, he could still choose to resign and leave, but in this life, he doesn't have the second option at all!
Seeing that he had a good attitude at this time, Xiao Bufan finally had a look of satisfaction on his face. He couldn't help but waved his hands gently and said: "Okay, now you go out and communicate with the two of them. From now on, the three of you will
Let’s form a team and act together!”
"Junior, please take your leave."
Zhou Yang bowed and exited the cave. Sure enough, he saw Yan Yunfei and Yue Shan, who had come after hearing the news, waiting for him here.
"Hehehe, we meet again, Fellow Daoist Zhou."
Seeing Zhou Yang come out, Yue Shan winked at him gently, then smiled and greeted him with a smile like an old friend reunited.
"Yue Dao is friendly."
Zhou Yang suppressed the annoyance in his heart and nodded slightly in response.
"Let's go, let's go sit down at Yue's temporary residence first. In the next ten years, we will practice in the same place and fight side by side."
Yue Shan said, taking the lead and flying towards his temporary cave on Chihu Mountain.
After taking Zhou Yang and Yan Yunfei into the cave and opening the isolation formation in the cave, Yue Shan's smile suddenly faded. He looked at Zhou Yang with a gloomy expression and nodded and said: "Uncle Xiao must be here."
Please explain the situation to Fellow Daoist Zhou. At this time, he was called to Chihu Mountain to garrison and participate in daily patrol operations. Needless to say, the dangers involved need not be explained by Yue, Fellow Daoist Zhou also knows it!"
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he immediately smiled bitterly and said: "Can't Fellow Daoist Yue reveal some inside information? It's so good that the monk of Zifu guarding Chihu Mountain suddenly changed from Senior Luo to Senior Xiao. Don't say that Fellow Daoist Yue is...
Daily defense changes!”
"Yue really didn't know about this. Yue's status in the sect is average, otherwise he wouldn't have been recruited here so easily by Master Xiao!"
Yue Shan shook his head with a depressed look on his face, but his expression didn't seem to be fake.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but look at Yan Yunfei who was standing aside.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, don't look at Yan. Yan is also confused about this matter. Senior Xiao has issued an order to the Yan family. Does Yan dare to disobey the order?"
Yan Yunfei shook his head repeatedly, indicating that he didn't know anything.
"To be honest, what Uncle Xiao did this time was really unreasonable. The last time we rescued him, he almost lost his life. If he didn't give us any benefits, just forget it, and he would retaliate by recruiting us to a place like Chihu Mountain.
Guarding is really uncomfortable!"
Yue Shan said with a face full of resentment, but suddenly complained about Xiao Bufan.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang and Yan Yunfei couldn't help but look at each other, and then fell silent.
What Yue Shan said was actually what they were thinking, but they did not dare to say it out for fear of bringing disaster to the family.
Especially Zhou Yang, as the patriarch of the Zhou family, he must be cautious in his words and deeds when it comes to high-level monks. It is best not to listen, let alone complain.
Therefore, although he was full of depression and had nowhere to vent, he wisely changed the subject immediately and said: "Forget it, since no one knows any inside information, we can only act with caution. I also ask Taoist Yue to tell Zhou something."