It is common for high-level monks to spend several years in retreat at a time. When Zhou Yang finished his retreat on Lingxi Peak, five years passed in such a hurry.
This was the first time he had been in seclusion like this for several years, and he no longer had the same feeling of "one day in the cave, a thousand years in the world" like the first time.
What's more, when he came out of seclusion this time, he didn't come out of seclusion on his own initiative. It was Taoist companion Xiao Ying who forcibly knocked on the seclusion to call him out after receiving urgent news from her family.
"What happened?"
After he walked out of the door of the retreat room, he looked at the Taoist monk Xiao Ying waiting outside the door, and without saying any nonsense, he directly asked the whole story.
"Nineteen days ago, Guangtai, who was in charge of Red Fox Ridge, suddenly sent a message to his family saying that he was attacked by a fourth-order demonic beast, a three-tailed demon fox, and asked for support from the family."
"But by the time Guang Xiang received the news and arrived on the griffin beast, the mountain guarding formation in Red Fox Ridge had been broken by the demon fox, and more than 20 family monks including Guangtai were all killed by the demon fox. At the same time,
The number of mortals has also been lost by the thousands."
"Later, Guangxiang and the griffon teamed up to fight the demon fox. Although they relied on a fourth-level high-grade spiritual talisman you gave him to injure the demon fox and drive it out of the oasis, they found that the demon fox was not far away, so he
That’s why I urgently sent someone to summon you and ask my husband to make up your mind.”
Xiao Ying also knew that the matter was urgent and immediately told Zhou Yang the whole story in a hurried tone.
"What? Guangtai has fallen!"
Zhou Yang's face darkened, and his face instantly became extremely ugly.
Although Zhou Guangtai was already old when he built the foundation and his future potential was not great, he was still a foundation-building monk, and he was a meritorious official who contributed an advanced martial art and a secret treasure such as the "Kunxu Order" to the family.
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Such a meritorious minister of the Zhou family died when Shou Yuan was just halfway through his life. It was definitely a big loss to the family.
Moreover, this was also the first foundation-building monk of the Zhou family to die abnormally after Zhou Yang opened the Purple Mansion.
"That damn beast, it was his luck that he escaped with his life. I didn't expect that he would dare to come back!"
"Does it think that after being promoted to a fourth-level monster, it can come back to seek revenge?"
"If you dare to kill a monk from my Zhou family, this time I will peel off its skin and bones, extract its soul and refine its soul in order to pay homage to the dead members of my Zhou family!"
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed fiercely, and he was also angered by the news.
Immediately, after informing his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, he rode the golden-winged thunder eagle directly to Red Fox Ridge.
The Golden-winged Thunder Eagle is extremely fast and can travel tens of thousands of miles a day, and Zhou Yang is in a hurry. Even if he encounters a sandstorm on the way, as long as it is not a super strong sandstorm that must be avoided, he will directly ride through the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle.
And passed.
Therefore, in just five days, he arrived at Chihu Ridge and met Zhou Guangxiang who was sitting here.
"Uncle Jiu, you are finally here!"
"My nephew, I am ashamed. Not only did I fail to save the lives of Guangxiang and the others, I also failed to keep that demon fox to avenge them!"
As soon as Zhou Guangxiang saw Zhou Yang, he took the initiative to apologize and admit his mistake, with a very depressed look on his face.
What happened in Red Fox Ridge this time was also a blow to his prestige as a clan leader. After all, it was not a small matter to kill a foundation-building elder and more than 20 clan members at once, not to mention that thousands of mortals also suffered.
The poisonous hand of the demon fox.
Otherwise, he would not have sent a letter asking for help despite knowing that Zhou Yang was practicing in seclusion.
"It's not your fault in this matter. If you are at fault, I am also at fault. That beast escaped from me in the first place!"
"But now is not the time to pursue these matters. The top priority is to find the traces of that beast and cut it off quickly to prevent more tribesmen from being poisoned by it!"
Zhou Yang waved his hand, without any intention of blaming Zhou Guangxiang, but simply stated his decision in a deep voice.
"I'm afraid I have to ask Senior Xu to take action on this matter. Although I used the fourth-grade high-grade spiritual talisman given by Uncle Jiu to injure the demon fox, its wind escape technique is really mysterious, and it seems to have a hidden magical power.
Even the gryphon patrolling the sky couldn't find its whereabouts, but I vaguely knew from my feeling that it hadn't gone far, so I guess it's still evil."
Zhou Guangxiang hurriedly explained the situation he had grasped and gave his own suggestions.
Zhou Yang heard the words, pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "In that case, I will leave the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle here to help you patrol the oasis, and then I will personally invite Senior Xu to come over."
Immediately, he left the golden-winged thunder eagle to patrol the oasis, and he used the "Huan Yunzhou" to rush to the underground ruins.
A few days later, when Zhou Yang returned to Red Fox Ridge from the underground ruins with Xu Song, the situation changed again.
"Two days ago, the demon fox sneaked into the oasis and attacked the mortal town. Not long after it took action, it was discovered by the golden-winged thunder eagle. Then my nephew rushed over with the gryphon to support. Together with our efforts, the demon fox was severely injured again.
Now it must have really left the neighborhood and fled back to its lair to heal."
As soon as Zhou Yang landed at Red Fox Ridge, Zhou Guangxiang, who had been waiting for a long time, stepped forward to report the latest progress.
After talking about the progress of the situation, Zhou Guangxiang waved his hand again and took out a jade bottle from the storage ring given to him by Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang himself got two storage rings from the relics of Blood Netherworld, and later got two more in the wild jungle. After killing Zhong Chuming, he got another one, and now he had five storage rings in his hand.
Of these five storage rings, he gave one to Taoist couple Xiao Ying and one to Xu Song. After Zhou Guangxiang opened the Zifu, he also gave one to them as a reward for his promotion to the Zifu, and he still kept it in his hand.
There are two used.
At this time, Zhou Guangxiang took out the jade bottle and handed it to Zhou Yang and said: "This jade bottle contains the blood and hair of the demon fox. Senior Xu only needs to use it as a medium to perform the Thousand Miles Soul Chasing Technique to find the demon fox's lair."
It’s there.”
"Very good, as long as this thing is here, the demon fox is dead."
A smile flashed across Zhou Yang's face, and he reached out to take the jade bottle, with a terrifying murderous intent flashing in his eyes.
Next, Zhou Yang released Xu Song from the "Yunshen Card", and then asked him to use the blood and hair of the demon fox as a medium to cast the fifth-level spell "Ten Thousand Miles Soul Chasing Technique" to track the demon fox.
"Found it, chase over there."
After Xu Song finished doing this, the soul-chasing blood bird formed by the "Ten Thousand Miles Soul Chasing Technique" flew out and flew towards the west of the oasis.
Immediately, Zhou Yang jumped on the back of the golden-winged thunder eagle, and drove his spiritual pet to chase the soul-chasing blood bird.
As for Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Yang asked him to stay in Chihu Ridge just in case.
After chasing more than 20,000 miles westward, the soul-chasing blood bird took Zhou Yang to a small oasis in the sand sea, and then plunged into the ground of the small oasis.
"Hiding underground?"
Zhou Yang's eyes flickered, and he couldn't help but look at Xu Song beside him.
"I'll drive it out."
Of course Xu Song understood what Zhou Yang meant. When he took out the pitch-black demon flag and shook it, a huge wolf-soul evil spirit jumped out of it and burrowed directly into the place where the soul-chasing blood bird landed.
underground.
After killing the fifth-level demonic beast "Heart-Eating Demonic Wolf", Zhou Yang collected the corpses of the demonic elixir and the demonic wolf, but the soul of the beast fell into the hands of Xu Song, who was refined into the demonic banner to strengthen the demonic banner.
power.
Nowadays, the power of this magic flag is due to the refining of the beast souls of two fifth-level monsters, "Gen Mountain Turtle" and "Heart-Eating Demonic Wolf", and it has been successfully promoted to a fifth-level low-grade magic weapon.
In nature, wolves are the natural enemies of foxes. Although the three-tailed demon fox has extraordinary blood, it is still no match for the attack of the evil spirit transformed from the spirit of the fifth-level demonic beast "Heart-Eating Demonic Wolf", and is quickly forced to escape.
to the ground.
But as soon as it escaped from the ground, the magic flag in Xu Song's hand suddenly turned into a ball of black light and rolled onto it. Then it didn't even have a chance to use its own magical power to escape, and was knocked unconscious by the magic flag.
"The three-tailed demon fox is a rare beast. Are you really willing to kill it?"
Xu Song stretched out his hand, and the demon flag that knocked out the three-tailed demon fox flew back to his hand. Then he shook the demon flag and took in the wolf soul that came out of the ground again.
"If it hadn't killed my Zhou family members, I might have tried to tame it, but now, of course, I have to make it kill people to pay for it!"
Zhou Yang answered Xu Song's words, waved his hand, and a sword light flew out, directly decapitating the unconscious three-tailed demon fox.
After he killed the three-tailed demon fox with one sword, he did not let Xu Song's magic flag absorb the demon fox's beast soul. Instead, he used the "soul extraction technique" to extract and retain the demon fox's beast soul, and then carefully peeled it off.
A whole fox skin of the demon fox, and the three fox tails of the demon fox are specially retained.
"This demon fox's clone technique is quite extraordinary. I would like to try to see if I can use its fox skin and beast soul as materials to refine a robe with the life-saving function of the clone."
Zhou Yang finished peeling off his soul and explained the reason in a low voice to Xu Song who was standing aside.
The fourth-level high-grade magic weapon "Celestial Silkworm Clothes" he is currently wearing was a relic obtained from the monks of the Great Light Immortal Palace in the underground ruins.
When he was attacked by the "Heart-eating Demonic Wolf", this item played a great role at the critical moment, saving his life and giving him ideas for refining this kind of protective clothing. (I have revised the previous article to change it.
The Qianyang Golden Body was replaced by a magical weapon. After all, using this non-instant magical power seems a bit unreasonable under those circumstances.)
Of course, the robe made from the fur of the demon fox is definitely not suitable for him to wear. Even if it is really practiced, it will be given to Taoist companion Xiao Ying or disciple Lu Xuewei for use.
"Your idea is not bad. If it succeeds, you will indeed get a rare life-saving thing."
Xu Song nodded slightly, understanding and agreeing with Zhou Yang's approach.
Then a strange color flashed in his eyes, and he looked towards the place where the demon fox was hiding before and said: "There seems to be something going on down here. I almost lost contact with the released wolf soul just now. Let's go down and see what's going on.