Zhou Yuanjing, the elder of the Zhou family, unexpectedly died outside. This incident soon spread in the Zhou family, and even many people in other families knew about it.
The monks of the Zhou family were talking a lot about this, and many people wrote to the family's foundation-building monks, requesting to find out the truth and severely punish the murderer.
The Zhou family's foundation-building monks also responded to the clan's appeal. Three foundation-building monks, Zhou Yang, Zhou Minghan, and Huang Yi, set off from the Yuquan Lake Oasis separately and launched a dragnet search along the road to the Baisha River Oasis.
A few of them searched vigorously for a month, but could not even find the place where Zhou Yuanjing was killed. In the end, they could only issue a reward order and offer a reward to all monks for information about Zhou Yuanjing, even the place where he was killed.
"Obviously, Yuan Jing must have been attacked by a Foundation Establishment monk who was far more powerful than herself, and was killed instantly without any resistance. Only in this way can we explain why we three Foundation Establishment monks searched for a month.
There are no traces of the fighting!"
On Yuquan Peak, the three foundation-building monks of the Zhou family returned to their family after completing their search, and behind closed doors they shared their respective opinions on Zhou Yuanjing's death.
As the elder, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan was the first to express his speculation.
After Zhou Yang heard this, he did not rush to express his opinion. Instead, he looked at Huang Yi and asked: "Huang Daoyou, you were once a casual cultivator. You should know more about the casual cultivators and bandits in the Baisha River Immortal World than we do. What do you think, based on Bage's experience?"
With his cultivation and the magic weapon and talisman on his body, can casual cultivators and bandits who are in the Qi training period be able to kill him instantly?"
Huang Yi originally didn't want to express his opinion on this kind of matter, but since Zhou Yang asked him about it, it seemed inappropriate for him not to say anything.
He immediately said: "If it is a head-on confrontation, it is certainly impossible for a monk in the Qi training stage to instantly kill Elder Yuan Jing without leaving obvious traces of the battle. But if it is a sneak attack, it is difficult to say."
What he said was ambiguous, and it was as if he had not said it. He was very tactful.
Zhou Yang frowned slightly, nodded and said: "I understand, let's stay here for now. I will go to the clansmen to comfort them and explain the situation."
He did not explain his views.
Next, Zhou Yang personally came forward to explain the investigation situation to the clan members. According to him, Zhou Yuanjing was missing rather than dead because the Zhou family did not find her remains or belongings.
Of course, many people know that the so-called "disappearance" is 90% equal to death. The definition of "disappearance" shows that the family's foundation-building monks do not want to make this matter too big and affect the operation of the entire family.
Of course, if you just do this, you will definitely not be able to completely convince others, so Zhou Yang said: "Don't worry, everyone, the family will continue to pay attention to the investigation of the disappearance of Elder Yuan Jing, and because he disappeared while performing family tasks
, on behalf of the family, I will give his descendants 2,000 contribution points as compensation, and transfer the contribution points he accumulated during his lifetime to his descendants intact."
A pension of 2,000 contribution points is definitely not low, and it also allows Zhou Yuanjing's descendants to inherit the contribution points he accumulated during his lifetime.
At this time, many Zhou family monks stopped talking.
At this time, they finally realized the superiority of contribution points compared to spirit stones. Not only does this thing not need to take up space like spirit stones, but it also follows people. Even if you die outside due to an accident, your family will
Contribution points can still be passed intact to future generations.
Among Zhou Yuanjing's descendants, there are only two descendants with low-grade spiritual roots. The contribution points Zhou Yuanjing earned during his life and death were divided between the two, making these two descendants who were only at the second and third levels of qi cultivation suddenly better than many
In the later stages of Qi training, monks will become even richer.
Next, the turmoil caused by Zhou Yuanjing's "disappearance" passed quickly after the family's senior officials deliberately downplayed it. Only some members of the Zhou family who were originally planning to go on a trip temporarily postponed their trips due to the incident and were ready to wait and see.
For a while.
Only Zhou Yang personally made a trip to Baisha River Oasis, escorted his tenth brother Zhou Yuanpeng, who was also newly promoted to the Zhou family elder, to Yuquan Tower to replace Zhou Xuanjin, and then took Zhou Xuanjin back to Yuquan Lake Oasis for retirement.
Things seemed to have passed just like that.
After half a year passed like this, the monks of the Zhou family who had postponed their travel plans saw that the situation seemed to have calmed down. A few brave people submitted applications to the family elders, and then either traveled alone or in groups of three or three.
Accompanied by relatives and friends, we left the Yuquan Lake oasis and walked into the vast sea of sand.
When Zhou Yang went from Yuquan Lake Oasis to Baisha River Oasis for the first time, he was attacked by bandits, which showed that the journey was not peaceful.
However, in recent decades, as the strength of the Zhou family has grown day by day, and a large number of bandits were killed during the original demonic chaos, monks of the Zhou family basically encountered no danger when walking this road.
Now Zhou Yuanjing, the elder of the Zhou family, suddenly "disappeared" on this road, making this originally safe road unsafe again.
On this day, after a sandstorm, a monk from the Zhou family riding a camel suddenly appeared on this road.
This monk from the Zhou family was only at the fifth level of qi training, and his face was a little immature. He was riding on the back of a camel, staring at the sea of sand in front of the camel with wide eyes, as if he could tell that the front was normal sand.
Or a quicksand land hiding a quicksand trap.
With this look, he looks like a newbie who rarely travels far.
These newbies who have just left home have always been the favorite targets of bandits.
In the vast sea of sand, as long as your hands and feet are clean, everything will be buried by the yellow sand, just like the "missing" elder of the Zhou family.
The peeper hiding in the dark thought of this, his eyes turned cold, and murderous intent suddenly arose in his heart.
However, he did not take action immediately. Instead, he continued to hide in the dark and peeped. He waited until the Zhou monk rode a camel dozens of miles away before he jumped up from the sand where he was hiding without even touching the ground.
He stepped on a sword beam and chased after the Zhou family monk in the direction he left.
Because he was flying close to the ground, it was not until he was less than ten miles away from the target that the Zhou family monk riding on the back of a camel finally discovered through the sound of flying swords piercing the air that he was followed by a foundation-building monk who could fly with a sword.
But at this time, there is obviously no difference between discovering and not discovering.
The spy had no intention of talking nonsense with the target. When he was two or three miles closer to the target, he immediately waved his sleeves and released another flying sword to stab the target.
However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as he released the flying sword, a cold snort suddenly sounded in his ears.
snort!
The cold snort frightened the onlooker to the point of death. The sword light under his feet immediately turned and he was about to run away.
He recognized the owner of this voice!
It's that person's voice!
It was the voice of the person who made him hate and fear him!
At this time, he had no time to think about why that person was here. He just wanted to escape, and first escape from the person's attack range!
Unfortunately, he had just escaped a few dozen feet when he suddenly seemed to have gone crazy. He shouted "Ah" with his hands on his head and dropped the flying sword to the sandy ground below.
Fortunately, the sand was soft, and the altitude he was flying at was not very high. With the physique of a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage, this fall would not kill him. At most, he would only suffer some internal injuries.
But is it really that simple?
Obviously not.
Although this voyeur's cultivation level is not low, it is enough to reach the fourth level of foundation building, but how can Zhou Yang's "God-Destroying Needle" be so easy to bear?
With the strength of his spiritual consciousness, although his consciousness would not be directly shattered into a vegetative state by this blow, his consciousness would be severely damaged and he would pass out on the spot.
Zhou Yang, who was disguised as a Qi-training monk riding on a camel, moved at this time and quickly landed in front of the voyeur on the ground with the light of his sword. Then with a wave of his sleeve, he uncovered the voyeur's face.
A grimace mask made from the "Forbidden God Stone".
The ghost face mask was lifted, and a strange yet familiar face suddenly appeared in Zhou Yang's eyes.
"As expected, it's you, Chen Fangli!"
Zhou Yang looked at the face of the unconscious man on the ground, and there was not much surprise on his face.
This Chen Fangli failed to cause trouble at his foundation ceremony more than 20 years ago, but was severely slapped in the face by him. After returning, he was even banned from the White Camelback by the ancestor of the Chen family for 20 years.
At that time, the relationship between the Chen and Zhou families was in the honeymoon period, and he, who had exposed his "Qianyang Treasure Body", gained Cao Wenjin's attention and became someone worthy of wooing in the mind of the ancestor of the Chen family.
Chen Fangli brought trouble to Zhou Yang on behalf of the Chen family on such an important occasion as the foundation celebration. Of course, the ancestor of the Chen family could not spare him.
But now that times have changed and times have changed, the relationship between the Chen family and the Zhou family has actually broken down.
Chen Fangli was released after his 20-year ban. After discovering this situation, how could he not feel revengeful?
Zhou Yang was investigating the murder of Zhou Yuanjing, and the first target of suspicion was the Chen family.
And when he was investigating the recent whereabouts of the Chen family's foundation-building monks, he happened to find Chen Fangli's high-profile records of coming and going in Ping'anfang City, so he listed this person as the biggest suspect.
However, suspicion is suspicion. Without evidence, he would definitely not dare to visit the Chen family to question the crime.
So he openly searched with the old patriarch Zhou Minghan for a month, and issued a high reward to find Zhou Yuanjing's whereabouts. His "incompetent and furious" look made the murderer relax his vigilance.
Secretly, this plan of "pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger" has been made long ago.
He knew very well that if the murderer was really Chen Fangli, he would never be satisfied with just killing Zhou Yuanjing.
Just killing Zhou Yuanjing, who was at the ninth level of Qi training, how could Chen Fangli, who had been banned for twenty years, vent his resentment?
Now the facts have proved that Zhou Yang's inference was completely correct. After Chen Fangli tasted the benefits of killing Zhou Yuanjing, which made Zhou Yang anxious, he really refused to stop and continued to ambush on this road, preparing to attack other Zhou family monks.