"Ying'er, I'm leaving now. I'll leave my house to your care for the time being. If there's something urgent and I need to go home to make a decision, you can fly along this route and use the [Lingxi Jade Pendant] to send a message to me."
"Also, every six months, I will send a message to someone nearby to report that you are safe. If you don't receive a message from me twice in a row, you can go directly to me."
On Chihu Mountain, Zhou Yang, who had just returned to his family for less than half a month, said goodbye to his Taoist companion Xiao Ying again.
He left home this time, but he was preparing to fulfill what he had said to his father Zhou Xuanhao, and to personally search for his adopted mother Zhou Xuanyu and adopted sister Zhou Yuanyao who had been missing for decades.
This was also a last wish that Zhou Xuanhao made to him before he passed away, and it was also the last wish of the late patriarch Zhou Minghan.
Whether it is to fulfill the last wishes of the two elders or to find out the reasons for the disappearance of the two clan members, Zhou Yang must find these two people out of both emotion and reason.
So after taking care of all the things that needed to be done in the short term, Zhou Yang prepared to spend a few years searching the entire boundless sea of sand to find the missing mother and daughter of Zhou Xuanyu.
"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. I will take good care of you at home. You should be careful outside."
After many years of getting along, Xiao Ying also knew that this matter had become Zhou Yang's heartache, and of course she would not stop Zhou Yang from doing it at this time.
"Then I'm leaving." Zhou Yang looked at the Taoist monk, nodded, and left the Chihu Mountain Oasis with a mortal man in his fifties.
The mortal man taken away by Zhou Yang was named Zhou Hong. He was the grandson of Zhou Yang's seventh sister, Zhou Yuanchun, and Zhou Yuanchun was Zhou Xuanyu's daughter.
In terms of blood, Zhou Hong and Zhou Xuanyu are already three generations apart, which is actually beyond the search range of the fourth-level high-grade spell "Moving Heaven and Earth".
However, this time the person who cast the spell to search for Zhou Xuanyu's mother and daughter was not Zhou Yang, but Xu Song, who had cultivated in the Golden Core stage, so the gap between three generations was not a problem.
Casting low-level spells with high-level cultivation can greatly improve the effect of the spell.
A monk in the Nascent Soul stage can use the "Heavenly Moving Relative Searching Spell" to track the whereabouts of blood relatives within ten generations. When a monk in the Golden Core stage uses this spell, the tracking range will also be expanded to within five generations.
Therefore, it is not a problem to use Zhou Hong's blood as a spell-casting medium to find people.
Zhou Hong was a mortal, so he naturally did not dare to disobey the orders of the Supreme Elder, who had the highest status in his family.
Although he didn't know what the Supreme Elder was going to do with his own blood.
Naturally, the existence of Zhou Xuanyu cannot be known to such mortals. The only people in the Zhou family who know about this matter now are Zhou Yang and his wife and Zhou Guangxiang's brother and sister.
You need to find someone, and of course you can’t look for someone blindly.
Over the years, although the Zhou family has not found any clues about Zhou Xuanyu and his daughter, they have also found the area where they lived some time before they finally disappeared.
At that time, Zhou Yuanyao was only at the ninth level of qi training. Although Zhou Xuanyu was at the foundation level, in order to hide his identity and play a role in training his daughter, he would definitely not take his daughter to fly with a sword.
So under normal circumstances, mother and daughter should not have been able to run far at that time.
So Zhou Yang set out this time and went directly to that area, then collected a ball of Zhou Hong's blood and asked Xu Song to cast a spell.
Xu Song was a ghost cultivator, and Zhou Hong couldn't let Zhou Hong discover this, so after collecting the blood, Zhou Yang knocked him out and watched Xu Song cast the spell.
Xu Song was seen holding the blood collected from Zhou Hong's body in one hand, while he was chanting words and doing the Dharma.
After a while, he finished the practice, flicked his sleeves, and the blood condensed into a blood sword that circled around the unconscious Zhou Hong three times, and then dissipated!
"No, the mother and daughter you mentioned are not within the search range of the spell."
In fact, Xu Song didn't need to explain, Zhou Yang knew this when he saw it.
He himself was tracked by the ancestor of the Chen family using this spell, and he also knew the function of this spell very well.
If the person being tracked is within the spell's search range, the Blood Sword will follow the induction and track him. If he is not within the spell's induction range, the Blood Sword will automatically disperse and the spell will fail.
Therefore, when he saw this situation now, he was not surprised, nor did he show any disappointment. He just nodded and said: "With the cultivation level of my predecessor at the golden elixir stage, the search range of a single casting could reach at least ten thousand miles, so let's start with
Try searching for a range of 300,000 miles along the east side!"
Taking the area of 10,000 miles where Zhou Xuanyu and his daughter were last missing as the center, 300,000 miles will be searched in the southeast, northwest and each other. This is Zhou Yang's initial plan.
It is not easy to complete this plan. Without the help of Jindan monks like Xu Song, it would take at least ten years for Zhou Yang to learn the "Heaven-Moving and Earth-shaking Family Search Curse" alone.
It will take eight years to complete this plan.
But now, with Xu Song's help, only half a year has passed and they have searched the area hundreds of thousands of miles east.
Two years later, Zhou Yang and Xu Song searched all four directions and millions of miles away, but still found nothing!
"According to what your boy said, there are only two situations for the mother and daughter now. Either they have left the boundless sand sea of immortality, at least the boundless sand sea of immortality that you know, or they are trapped in a certain
In a secret realm with a forbidden formation, the spell effects are blocked by the forbidden formation!"
In the vast sea of sand, Zhou Yang and Xu Song stopped on a sand dune. They looked at the boundless sea of sand, and their expressions were a little ugly when they thought of the two years of running around and achieving nothing.
"If it is true as the senior said, then the only way is to use the method mentioned by the senior. If this method is not enough, Zhou will be worthy of the two elders under Jiuquan!"
Zhou Yang murmured to himself with a gloomy face, raised his palm, and took out a black wooden sign.
This black wooden tablet is Zhou Xuanyu's soul tablet, which contains a fragment of Zhou Xuanyu's soul. Over the years, the Zhou family has judged Zhou Xuanyu's life and death based on the integrity of the soul tablet.
Now that the whereabouts of Zhou Xuanyu's mother and daughter could not be found using the ordinary "Heavenly Moving Spell", Zhou Yang could only try more extreme methods to find them.
You must know that there are many secret ways to find people in the world of immortality, but the "Heaven-Moving Family Finding Spell" is just a spell that requires the least use and has the widest scope of application.
When it comes to the effect of finding people, many occult and magical powers are much stronger than it.
The most obvious one is the "Underworld Crow" used by the Beast Control Sect to track Zhou Yang. This bird can track Zhou Yang's whereabouts from hundreds of thousands of miles away, which shows its strong tracking effect.
However, this kind of mysterious magical power of searching for people usually requires the person's own essence, blood or soul to be used as a medium to be successful. Under normal circumstances, few immortal cultivators will give their essence, blood, soul to others.
The method Zhou Yang wants to use now is to ask Xu Song to use the ray of soul left by Zhou Xuanyu in the soul card as a medium to use the secret magic technique "Evil Ghost Chasing Technique" to find Zhou Xuanyu's whereabouts.
And once he does this, no matter whether he succeeds or not, Zhou Xuanyu will permanently lose this ray of soul, and the Zhou family will no longer be able to determine Zhou Xuanyu's life or death through the soul card in the future.
"Since you have made up your mind, I will naturally help you."
Xu Song glanced at the black wooden sign in Zhou Yang's hand, stretched out his hand, took it into his own hand, and then started doing the magic directly.
Tens of breaths later, he finished the practice, waved his hand, and a green-faced and fanged grimace suddenly appeared, and he swallowed the black wooden sign that sealed a ray of Zhou Xuanyu's soul in one gulp.
However, just a wisp of the soul of a monk in the foundation-building stage did not seem to satisfy the ghost face. After it swallowed the wisp of soul, a pair of ghost eyes flashing with ferocity and violence looked at Xu Song, the spell caster.
And Xu Song didn't seem to be surprised by this. When he took out a black flag and waved it at the ghost face, a bird and beast soul with a strong yin energy fell into the ghost face's mouth and was swallowed by him as a sacrifice.
After devouring the sacrifice, Ghostface seemed to be finally satisfied. He immediately opened his mouth to Xu Song and spat out a stream of ghostly energy that fell on Xu Song's palm and condensed into a Ghostface mark.
Seeing this, Xu Song immediately put away the black flag and magical weapon, then raised his hand to Zhou Yang and said: "This mark can last for ten days. Within ten days, we must find the whereabouts of your adoptive mother.
Otherwise the mark will disappear automatically."
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's set off quickly."
Zhou Yang immediately waved his hand, released the "Fantasy Cloud Boat" and jumped on it. Then he waved his mortal descendant Zhou Hong to the flying boat and followed Xu Song's guidance to leave the place.
After flying like this for eight days, while flying over a sandy area, the grimace mark on Xu Song's hand suddenly came out of his body. Jie Jie smiled strangely and threw himself into the sand below, and soon disappeared.
In the sight of one person and one ghost.
"That's right, it's right here."
A person and a ghost in the sky looked at each other, with joy in their eyes.
Immediately, one person and one ghost fell directly to the ground and began to explore the underground.
"It's a bit difficult to deal with. I can only judge that the formation level here is as high as fifth-level high-grade, but I don't know the origin of its roots at all."
"If you want to break the formation and save people, unless you can find several Jindan monks to attack, you can only wait until I figure out the weaknesses of this formation before helping you break the formation and save people."
In a cave deep underground, Zhou Yang and Xu Song, one person and one ghost, stopped in the cave. Both of them looked a little unhappy.
It turned out that after they followed the ghost face mark all the way underground, they found a large underground ruins. However, this underground ruins were protected by a powerful fifth-level high-grade formation. With the power of one person and one ghost, they were unable to
This formation can be broken.
If the formation is not broken, Zhou Xuanyu and his daughter, who are already known to be trapped in the underground ruins, will naturally be unable to escape.
Hearing Xu Song's words at this time, Zhou Yang's face darkened and he couldn't help but ask: "Senior Xu, how long do you think it will take to figure out the weaknesses of this formation?"
"It's hard to say. I was only a mid-level fifth-level formation mage during my lifetime, but the level of this formation is as high as a high-level fifth level. With my ability, if I want to study the weaknesses of this formation and break it, it might take three to five years if I'm lucky.
If you are not lucky, it may happen in ten or twenty years!"
Xu Song shook his head, knowing exactly why Zhou Yang asked such a question, and he immediately told the whole situation.
Sure enough, when he heard what he said, Zhou Yang's face turned dark.
Zhou Xuanyu is also a monk of the "Xuan" generation of the Zhou family. He is only a few years younger than Zhou Xuanhao, and he only succeeded in building the foundation when he was nearly a hundred years old.
If it really takes more than ten or twenty years to break the formation, it is very likely that by the time they break the ruins formation, Zhou Xuanyu will have died of old age and died sitting inside.
However, despite his dark face, Zhou Yang knew in his heart that Xu Song had no need to lie to him.
Moreover, the opponent, who is a fifth-level formation mage, is his only hope of breaking the formation and saving people. He cannot blame the opponent even if he wants to.
There was no other way. He could only grit his teeth and nod: "Then everything is troublesome for seniors. If you need anything, seniors, just ask Zhou. As long as you don't let Zhou kill people and extract their souls for you, there will be no problem."