Although Li Hong and Zhou Tongyue were given full authority to handle the matter of entering Cangyuan Immortal City, it was impossible for Zhou Yang to really let everything go.
This time he has brought most of the top officials of the Zhou family of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World. If these people make any mistakes here and suffer heavy losses, the Zhou family may not follow in the footsteps of Huang Shamen, but it will go backwards.
Hundreds of years is not an exaggeration at all.
So after Li Hong and Zhou Tongyue left, Zhou Yang carefully restrained his aura and rushed to a place a hundred or two hundred miles away from Cangyuan Immortal City to lurk.
This distance would prevent the Jindan monks in the fairy city from discovering his whereabouts without him taking the initiative to reveal his aura, but would allow him to receive the distress signal from Zhou Guangxiang and the others in time and kill them in time to rescue them.
Of course this is just a worst case scenario.
The best case scenario is that the "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cang is still alive and can still intimidate the deputy city lord Geng Zhong. He waits for him and Yin Hanguang to destroy Guo Jinhong before coming to "peacefully take over" Cangyuan Immortal City.
But things always take a turn for the worst.
Less than half a month after Zhou Yang and Li Hong met, the latest information about "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cangyuan came through Li Mubai.
It turns out that as early as half a year ago, "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cangyuan passed away.
Just because of some of the arrangements he made during his lifetime, and because Geng Zhong now has no rivals, he was unwilling to take the risk of opening this cover when the Li family blocked the news and began to withdraw from Cangyuan Immortal City.
After all, only he and a few members of the Li family knew the true situation of "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cangyuan, and Geng Zhong only learned that he was about to die soon through the appearance of his last appearance.
If "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cangyuan deliberately faked his death in order to test his attitude towards the Li family, he would only harm himself if he was so eager for success.
Anyway, most of Cangyuan Immortal City has fallen into his hands, and he has enough patience to wait for the answer to be revealed.
Originally, everything was like this. The Li family withdrew from Cangyuan Immortal City, and Geng Zhong would just wait and take over after a few years.
But the appearance of Zhou Guangxiang caused some changes in things.
There is no airtight wall in the world. The Taoist couple Li Mubai and Zhou Guangxiang reunited, and several of Zhou Guangxiang's children met their mother who had been missing for many years again after decades. These people's emotional changes and mentality changes cannot always be hidden from those who are interested.
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Geng Zhong soon received a report from the spy stationed in the Li family and learned about the mysterious identity of the Zifu period monk within the Li family.
After he learned the news, he took it very seriously and even went to the Li family in person in the name of visiting the "Cangyuan Sanren".
At that time, Zhou Guangxiang had not yet left the Li family. With Geng Zhong's third-level cultivation of Jindan and the tip of an informant, when he arrived at the location and scanned it with his consciousness, Zhou Guangxiang's whereabouts were naturally traceable.
Fortunately, because Zhou Guangxiang was wearing the disguise mask given by Zhou Yang, even if Geng Zhong discovered her existence, her current cultivation was very different from when she left, and her aura had also changed a lot, so that
He was unable to identify her on the spot, but he became suspicious based on her identity as a female Zifu period monk.
Knowing that Geng Zhong had become suspicious, Zhou Guangxiang and Li Mubai did not dare to stay in the city anymore. They quickly sent a message to Zhou Yang and Li Hong and others from the Zhou family outside the city, informing them to be ready to retreat, while they packed up and prepared to leave.
Cangyuan Fairy City.
But what the two of them didn't know was that after Geng Zhong became suspicious, when he left, he ordered people to check the information on the middle- and high-level monks who had recently entered the city, and at the same time ordered people to keep an eye on the Li family.
So as soon as Zhou Guangxiang and his wife moved, Geng Zhong immediately knew that they were going to run away.
Why are they running away?
Of course, it was because the origin of the female cultivator was unknown, and she was probably Li Mubai's Taoist companion Zhou Guangxiang.
After discovering this, Geng Zhong immediately became excited.
The reward for Zhou Yang in the "Backlight Alliance" is very high. Anyone who kills or captures Zhou Yang can receive a "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir", a fifth-level medium-grade magic weapon, and thirty high-grade spiritual stones.
Even Zhou Guangxiang and Xiao Ying, two women who were closely related to Zhou Yang, also had their own rewards.
Geng Zhong, who was about to ascend to the position of Lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, didn't really appreciate the reward on Zhou Guangxiang, but he wanted to catch Zhou Guangxiang and interrogate Zhou Yang's whereabouts.
As long as Zhou Yang's exact whereabouts are found, even if the news is reported to the Haoyang Sect, he can get a large reward and leave an impression in front of Guo Jinhong, a monk at the Nascent Soul stage.
Therefore, when Zhou Guangxiang and Li Mubai had just left the Li family and before they could leave the city, Geng Zhong, who had received the news, had already arrived and killed them.
Fortunately, Zhou Guangxiang was traveling in Cangyuan Immortal City. When he received the message from his sister, he asked the Zhou family monks who were still in the city to disperse out of the city and rushed over to pick up his sister and her brother-in-law's family.
Therefore, when Geng Zhong was about to take action, he arrived at the scene in time and stopped Geng Zhong by offering the fifth-level puppet beast given to him by Zhou Yang to save his life.
Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Guangxiang are twin brothers and sisters, and as the old saying goes, nephews are like uncles. Li Zifeng, the eldest son of Zhou Guangxiang and Li Mubai, looks very similar to Zhou Guangxiang.
Therefore, as soon as Geng Zhong saw Zhou Guangxiang's appearance, he immediately knew that he had guessed correctly.
He couldn't help shouting with excitement on his face: "Okay, Zhou Guangxiang, you little bitch, you dare to come back. Over the years, Geng and countless monks in this far west land, you, the little bitch, and your master are not the best."
It was so hard to find it, but I didn’t expect you to deliver it to me by yourself. It’s really great!”
Hearing his words, the faces of Li Mubai and Zhou Guangxiang, the two men closest to Zhou Guangxiang, suddenly changed.
"Geng Zhong, what do you want to do? Your ancestor is not dead yet, so you want to do something to us, the children of the Li family?"
Li Mubai blushed in shock and anger and glared at Geng Zhong, trying to scare him with the title of "Cangyuan Sanren".
However, what made his face turn pale was that after Geng Zhong heard what he said, he sneered and pierced the tiger skin he was relying on.
"I'm afraid Old Ghost Li's bones are no longer in Cangyuan Immortal City at this time. Do you think you have concealed it perfectly? Geng didn't want to touch you before, but he just wanted to see you know each other, and he didn't want to be known as a ruthless person.
, you just think that Geng is afraid of your tiger skin!"
"you……"
Li Mubai pointed at Geng Zhong with a pale face, but could not say a word.
That's right, just three days ago, the body of "Cangyuan Sanren" Li Cangyuan was quietly taken out of Cangyuan Immortal City by the Li family monks and buried in a secret manor of the Li family.
Less than ten people in the entire Li family knew about this news. Li Mubai didn't know why Geng Zhong knew it, but he actually already had the answer in his heart.
Seeing this, Zhou Guangxiang, who had never spoken before, immediately pushed Li Mubai towards his younger sister Zhou Guangxiang, and said in a deep voice: "Brother-in-law, please take Xiang'er and Feng'er away first, and I'll stop him!"
When Li Mubai heard what he said, he immediately became anxious and shouted loudly: "No, brother, you and Xiang'er go first. I'll stop him. I don't believe that Geng Zhong really dares to kill my son of the Li family in Cangyuan Immortal City."
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"Mubai, stop arguing, I believe in you, brother, let's go!"
Zhou Guangxiang suddenly reached out and grabbed Li Mubai, who was about to say something else, and was about to leave with him and his children.
"Leave? None of you can leave!"
A sneer flashed across Geng Zhong's face, and he suddenly made a magic spell with both hands, mobilizing the power of Cangyuan Immortal City's city defense formation to seal off the city area, trapping several people here.
After doing all this, he looked at the tiger puppet beast with fiery eyes and said: "This fifth-level puppet beast should be the one that Zhou Yang left for you to save your lives, right? It seems that his net worth is higher than Geng imagined.
The prize is much richer, and he is worthy of being a man who has won three consecutive battles to the death, but after today, this treasure belongs to Geng!"
"Then it depends on whether you have the life to take it!"
Zhou Guangxiang shouted sharply, and with a thought in his mind, the tiger-man puppet beast roared, picked up the axe, and pounced on Geng Zhong.
The real combat power of this tiger-man puppet beast is definitely no worse than that of a third-level golden elixir monk, but its methods are not as varied as those of a golden elixir phase monk.
Geng Zhong was blocked by it and could not spare much power to capture Zhou Guangxiang and others.
However, he was not in a hurry at all, because as he mobilized the city defense formation, a large number of his immortal city guard monks were coming, and Zhou Guangxiang and others would definitely not be able to break the city defense formation and escape in a short time.
"No, Old Man Geng has changed the authority of the city defense formation, and these access tokens in our hands are no longer valid!"
During the formation, Li Mubai took out the token for entering and exiting the fairy city originally held by the Li family and tried it, then threw away the token with anger on his face.
He had finally seen what it meant to take a break from tea.
You must know that this Cangyuan Immortal City was built by their ancestor of the Li family, "Cangyuan Sanren", and the city protection formation was also arranged by someone else. As a result, "Cangyuan Sanren" has only passed away for a year, and Geng Zhong, the deputy city lord, has
He secretly changed the access rights of the city defense formation, which shows that he has had evil intentions for a long time.
Changing the access rights to the city defense formation is not an easy task. Geng Zhong had planned something evil for a long time. He had hired a skilled formation master to find out the details of the city defense formation. How could it be possible that "Cangyuan Sanren" had just died?
Not long after his death, he completed the mastery of the city defense formation.
It should be noted that until now, the most important central control token of the original city defense formation is also in the hands of the Li family. This was the biggest reliance for the Li family to negotiate with Geng Zhong. Unexpectedly, this reliance has long been worthless!
When Zhou Guangxiang heard the Taoist monk's words, a look of disappointment flashed across his face, and then he cheered up and comforted him: "Now we can only wait. Uncle Jiu is outside the city. He must have received the news and arrived now. As long as he
With the arrival of the old man, all difficulties will be solved!"
"Senior Zhou has just succeeded in forming the elixir less than a hundred years ago. Even if his strength before forming the elixir was amazing, now he is only at the second level of the golden elixir. The defensive formation of Cangyuan Immortal City is a fifth-level mid-level magic array. He can
OK?"
Li Mubai looked at his Taoist monk with some unconfidence and asked, his face full of suspicion.
Sometimes he couldn't understand why his Taoist monk was so confident and blindly confident in his uncle who looked younger than him!
Although he had to admit that the clan uncle did have his own merits. After all, not every golden elixir-stage monk could successfully form an elixir and successfully assassinate a mid-stage Nascent Soul monk, causing that Nascent Soul monk to be killed.
The early monks had to give up their original bodies and take reincarnation.
"Hmph, are you doubting Uncle Jiu's strength? If you don't believe it, you will know later!"
The matter involved Uncle Jiu, whom he most admired and admired. Even though he was a Taoist monk who shared the same bed, Zhou Guangxiang did not give a good look. He glared at Li Mubai with a displeased face, turned his head and continued to look at his brother Zhou Guangxiang and Geng Zhong.
of battle.
When Li Mubai saw this, he thought it was a lie if he said he didn't like the taste, but the Taoist couple had just reunited after a long separation, and he didn't want to offend the Taoist couple because of such a quarrel, lest he stay alone in the empty room for decades.
At the moment, I could only laugh twice and didn't say any more about this topic.
Let’s talk about Zhou Yang. After receiving the message from Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Yang, who was hiding outside the city, rushed towards Cangyuan Immortal City.
At that time, because Geng Zhong had not yet taken action, he could not reveal his true cultivation level and fly away in the clouds, so as not to alarm the snake and end up self-defeating.
But when he saw the city defense formation in Cangyuan Immortal City activated from a distance, he immediately realized that something had changed, and Zhou Guangxiang's whereabouts must have been exposed.
Therefore, he no longer cared about hiding his cultivation, and directly used the "Rainbow Golden Escape" magical power, and flew outside the defensive formation of Cangyuan Immortal City.
When he arrived, Geng Zhong happened to be fighting with the tiger puppet beast envoy Zhou Guangxiang.
When he saw this through the shield formed by the city defense formation, he felt a little relieved, and then he frowned and locked eyes with Geng Zhong with murderous intent.
Geng Zhong, who was only at the third level of Jindan, was not in Zhou Yang's eyes. If he really tried his best, he could take down such a thing in just three moves.
On the contrary, the city defense formation was a bit tricky. With his strength, it would take some time to break through such a formation.
Fortunately, although Geng Zhong activated the city defense formation, it was only partially activated and did not activate the power of the entire city defense formation.
If all the defensive formations of a fairy city like Cangyuan Fairy City were activated, not even Zhou Yang, not even a ninth-level golden elixir monk could break it down by one person.
However, if this kind of city defense formation is to be fully activated and exert its maximum power, it must be deployed in advance and arrange people to guard the base of the formation, which cannot be done in a short time.
This gave Zhou Yang the opportunity to break through the formation and save people.
I saw him standing in mid-air outside the formation. With a wave of his hand, a silver long knife was sacrificed by him.
He has many powerful magic weapons in his hand, but if he wants to achieve the goal of breaking through formations and saving people as quickly as possible, it must be this "Taiyin Zanpakutō".
"cut!"
He pinched a spell in his hand and shouted in a low voice. The silver sword suddenly emitted a bright silver light and landed on the defense formation of Cangyuan Immortal City like a silver meteor.
Boom!
With just one strike of the sword, the shield formed by the Immortal City's protective formation shook violently, and the roar spread throughout the city.
"Okay, so awesome!"
Within the formation, Li Mubai looked up at the scene, his legs shook uncontrollably, and he raised his head in shock with a face full of shock.
It was not that he had never seen a Golden Core cultivator attack before, but an attack as powerful as the one just now was beyond the ability of an ordinary Golden Core cultivator. At least he knew that Geng Zhong would definitely not be able to do it.
Then his eyes flashed with joy, and he looked at Zhou Guangxiang with piercing eyes and asked: "Madam, what kind of cultivation level does Uncle Jiu have? This kind of strength is definitely not something that a monk in the early stage of the Golden Core can possess!"
"Hmph, who told you that Uncle Jiu is a monk in the early stage of the Golden Core? Uncle Jiu is a genius, and he has been successfully promoted to the middle stage of the Golden Core not long ago!"
Zhou Guangxiang snorted coldly and answered the Taoist couple's question with a proud face.
Upon hearing her words, Li Mubai opened his mouth wide enough to swallow a goose egg, and remained silent for a long time.
He remembered what he had said before about doubting Zhou Yang's strength, and his fair face suddenly turned red with blood, which was out of embarrassment.
When Zhou Guangxiang saw him like this, instead of comforting him, he said with a proud face: "I'm warning you, you'd better be more respectful to my ninth uncle in the future, otherwise even if I don't settle the score with you, my eldest brother will never forgive me.
you!"
"I, I understand."
Li Mubai opened his mouth, like a defeated rooster, and responded with a dejected look on his face.
There is no way, who told him that in terms of cultivation, he can't compare with his brother-in-law Zhou Guangxiang. In terms of family background, the Li family, which has lost the golden elixir stage monks, can't compare with the Zhou family. This makes him face
When Zhou Guangxiang was the brother-in-law, he really didn't have much confidence.
Speaking of Geng Zhong, Geng Zhong was also shocked when he saw the power of Zhou Yang's sword.
He naturally recognized Zhou Yang, but he never expected that Zhou Yang, who had only been forming pills for less than a hundred years, would already have such strength.
I think he is loyal and has been forming the elixir for nearly 400 years. Now he is only at the third level of the golden elixir. Whether he can break through the bottleneck of his cultivation and advance to the middle stage of the golden elixir in this life is still unknown.
And what about Zhou Yang?
In less than a hundred years, his cultivation level jumped three levels to reach the fourth level of the Golden Core. This speed of cultivation really made Geng Zhong shocked and jealous. He was extremely frightened and jealous.
"Yes, it must be that silver long sword magic weapon. He must rely on that fifth-level high-grade magic weapon to have such strength. That is not his true strength, it must be like this!"
Geng Zhong stared intently at the silver sword and attributed all the credit for Zhou Yang's blow to this fifth-level high-grade magic weapon, unwilling to believe that it was Zhou Yang's own strength.
"Let you be arrogant now. Let's see how arrogant you can be after I inform Senior Guo Jinhong of your appearance!"
"When the time comes, I will definitely ask Senior Guo to reward me with this silver long sword."
He thought viciously in his heart, but his attack on Zhou Guangxiang became more and more fierce.
Zhou Yang's appearance made him feel great pressure. Now he was not absolutely sure whether the city defense formation could block Zhou Yang's attack.
So he planned to capture Zhou Guangxiang and others first, and then evacuate with the hostages to the city lord's palace. This was the core of the entire city defense formation and had the strongest defense. As long as he retreated there, he would have enough time to fully activate the city defense formation.
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At that time, he might be able to use the power of the city defense formation to trap Zhou Yang in the city and suppress him, and then gather the power of the entire city's guarding monks to suppress Zhou Yang!
It's a pity that the idea is good, but the reality is cruel.
After Zhou Yang discovered his movements, he not only increased the frequency of his sword attacks, but also used magic weapons such as "Lion Fire Ruyi" and "Mountain-Moving Seal" to join the attack.
After this fierce attack for dozens of breaths, the shield formed by the city defense formation was smashed by his sword, revealing a huge gap. The next moment, his figure flashed and appeared in the city defense formation.
"Zhou Yang, let me let you be arrogant for a while. In a few days, senior Guo Jinhong will come here. Then Geng will see if you can still be arrogant!"
In the city lord's palace, Geng Zhong's resentful voice quickly spread throughout the city.
However, after he discovered that Zhou Yang had broken the protective barrier of the formation, he already knew that there was nothing he could do and sneaked back into the city lord's palace, not daring to fight Zhou Yang head-on.
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he couldn't help but sneered: "Hey, no matter how bad Zhou is, he won't be like a turtle like you. He only knows how to huddle in a turtle shell and scream. People like you are not qualified."
Stealing the position of city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City?"
Geng Zhong was very angry when he heard that he called him a "shrinking turtle". He couldn't help but cursed angrily: "Who can't speak nonsense? If you really have the guts, don't run away. If you still dare to be here after seven days,
Geng will kneel down and call you grandpa!"
"Forget it, you are such a bastard who always wants to recognize your grandfather when you meet him. Zhou is not sensitive to thanking you. He wants whoever loves him!"
Zhou Yang shook his head in a dignified manner, and the look of disgust on his face was noticed by many people.
For a time, the fairy city was full of uncontrollable joyful laughter, sweeping away the tense atmosphere that had been filled with chaos and war.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah, I'm so angry. You bastard, you dare to call me a bastard. I'm talking about your ancestors and your ancestors..."
Geng Zhong is anxious, anxious!
The dignified Golden Core cultivator was as anxious as a street gangster, and started to curse with profanity, without any trace of the demeanor of a Golden Core cultivator.
But at this time, Zhou Yang was too lazy to argue with such an incompetent coward. He directly moved his hand and brought Zhou Guangxiang, brother and sister, and Li Mubai and his son in front of him. Then, the clouds under his feet combined with the light, and he was riding golden auspicious clouds in an instant.
He rushed out of the fairy city and disappeared from the sight of the monks in the city.
At this moment, the handsome figure of his flying away in the clouds formed a sharp contrast with Geng Zhong who was still swearing and cursing in the city lord's palace.
Perhaps Geng Zhong himself did not expect that at this moment, many monks' impressions of him would undergo a 180-degree change.
The shrewd and capable image he had spent hundreds of years painstakingly creating collapsed due to today's scene, and was defined by many monks as a hypocritical, cowardly and shameless villain who could only hide in the city lord's palace and quarrel in anger.
And when what happened today spread through the mouths of monks all over the city, his reputation as incompetent and cowardly could no longer be washed away.