Deep in the hurricane canyon filled with the smell of blood, Zhou Tao, the acting head of the Zhou family, led several elders and was massacring groups of masked men in black on horseback.
One of the ghost-faced men wearing a green mask intervened to stop Zhou Tao from the massacre. The two fought each other, and soon moved their positions and flew to the distant sand dunes to fight.
And among the black-clad crowd of horse bandits, who were like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep being slaughtered by the eight elders of the Zhou clan, a hunchbacked old man and an old woman on crutches suddenly came out.
The two of them each fought against four elders from the Spirit King Realm and the Spirit King Realm. Not only did they not fall behind, they also had a slight advantage.
On the sand dunes far away, the green-faced man and Zhou Tao had already stopped fighting each other.
"How did you get together with those two old guys?"
Zhou Tao and the green-faced man seemed to know each other, and they actually talked and questioned each other like old friends.
"Met him halfway!"
"They are the reinforcements secretly invited by Zhou Tai and Zhou Song. You also know that at our level, it is almost impossible to kill each other to determine the winner."
The green-faced man replied calmly, neither humble nor arrogant. It was obvious that he was only cooperating with Zhou Tao and was not his subordinate.
Zhou Tao frowned when he heard this, and before he could speak again, a scream came from the distance.
"snort!"
Zhou Tao, who disappeared instantly, snorted coldly. When he reappeared, he had already joined forces with four close elders to attack the hunchbacked old man and the old woman on crutches who were about to attack again.
"stop!"
The two sides fought for a while, and then the green-faced man teleported into the battlefield and stopped the fighting between the two sides.
At this moment, Zhou Tao and the four elders beside him suddenly attacked the dozens of Zhou clan members behind them.
The figure flashed quickly, and dozens of Zhou clan members fell into a pool of blood in the blink of an eye.
The huge gap in strength cannot be made up by the strength of bloodline.
The hundreds of guards of the Zhou clan who were fighting in the distance had already stopped and gathered together, looking with some fear at Zhou Tao and the four elders who were going on a killing spree.
"You go back to your ancestral land first!"
"yes......"
Zhou Tao glanced at the hundreds of personal guards and did not kill them directly.
The hundred personal guards felt as if they were being amnesty upon hearing this, and flew into the depths of Hurricane Canyon one after another.
Soon, only the green-faced man, the hunchbacked old man, the old woman on crutches, and Zhou Tao were left in the field.
All the horse bandits and men in black had already been ordered to leave, and now there were only eight strong men left on the battlefield besides the corpses.
"We, the Zhou clan, must not be in chaos!"
"These corpses are priceless to you! I can make the decision to give them to you!"
Zhou Tao's eyes fell on the hunchbacked old man and the old woman on crutches, and he made a condition that he thought the other party would not refuse.
When the old man with a hunchback and the old woman with a cane heard this, they also had surprised looks on their faces.
They all looked at the corpses of the Zhou clan not far away, with greed in their eyes.
But the two of them didn't just leave. Instead, they each made conditions for other benefits.
Zhou Tao, who looked a little gloomy, finally agreed to the two of them.
Although the selection of the new clan leader this time was the result of countless discussions between him and the top elders, second elders and other senior officials, he reached an agreement.
Although he was regarded as the acting clan leader in the past, he was only promoted because of his numerous meritorious services and the secret support from his branches.
Even though he seems to be very stylish and powerful, in fact he has a lot of trivial matters every day, and he cannot make the final decision on the major issues in the clan.
The First Elder, Second Elder and others did not take him seriously at all.
If his cultivation hadn't reached the half-step Spiritual Realm, he wouldn't have been able to compete with the First Elder, Second Elder and others.
In order to facilitate the smooth selection of the new clan leader this time, he not only deployed a lot of back-ups, but also paid a lot of price.
The green-faced man was the reinforcement he secretly invited this time, and planned to help defend against the threat of the First Elder and the Second Elder.
Four of his elders have surrendered, and the other four disobedient elders have all died.
The hunchbacked old man and the old woman on crutches, after receiving the benefits promised by Zhou Tao, turned around, looked at each other, smiled and left.
The hurricane in Hurricane Canyon can only resist outsiders with weak cultivation. For top experts such as the hunchbacked old man and the old woman on crutches, the hurricane in Hurricane Canyon cannot harm them at all.
The two disappeared almost instantly. After the green-faced man took out the black robe and put it on himself, he silently followed Zhou Tao and others into the depths of the Hurricane Canyon.
The altar whirlpool in the cave is not accessible to outsiders, but as long as you smear the blood of Zhou Clan members, you can enter the whirlpool smoothly.
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In the Ice Valley Cemetery, the fighting battlefield has long been covered by wind and snow.
The roar of dragons combined with golden light and red flames is almost a nightmare of beast-shaped black shadows.
Zhou Fan tried his best to attack, and finally burned and shattered the beast-shaped black shadow into ashes.
Just when he had consumed a lot of forbidden energy and bloodline power and fell into a coma, almost being swallowed up by countless black shadows in the distance, an old figure suddenly appeared next to him.
Like a phantom afterimage, Zhou Daozhi and Zhou Fan easily passed through countless circles of black shadows.
In the thatched cottage courtyard deep in the Ice Valley Cemetery, Zhou Hong and Ye Lan were both looking at the countless black figures wandering outside the courtyard with worried faces.
The pale and injured two people resisted their impulses and did not rush out of the yard rashly.
At this moment, an afterimage that quickly passed through the group of black shadows entered the small courtyard in an instant.
Zhou Hong and Ye Lan were both secretly shocked. Before they could react, they saw an old man with a withered face throwing Zhou Daozhi into the yard.
Zhou Fan was led into the thatched house by him, leaving Zhou Hong and Ye Lan unable to react for a moment.
"Don't offend his old man, he is the gravekeeper of Ice Valley Cemetery."
"Hurry up and recover from your injuries. We will have to ask him to bring Xiaotong's body back later!"
Zhou Daozhi stood up and warned Zhou Hong and Ye Lan, then quickly walked out of the thatched house.
I saw the gravekeeper in the room stretching out his hands as old as the bark of an old tree and groping Zhou Fan's body together. Those who didn't know better thought he was an old pervert.
"Dad! What is a gravekeeper?"
"I've never heard of it?"
How could Zhou Hong be in the mood to heal his wounds? He came to his father Zhou Daozhi and asked in a low voice, obviously worried that the so-called tombkeeper would be harmful to Zhou Fan who was unconscious in the house.
"The gravekeeper is a top man who has guarded the cemetery for generations. I have never met him. I only know about him from my ancestral records."
Zhou Daozhi explained in a low voice that he was actually just guessing and was not sure that the old man with unpredictable strength was the tombkeeper.
The Ice Valley Cemetery is difficult for outsiders to enter. If he hadn't been desperate, he wouldn't have risked staying in such a dangerous place.
Although this is a cemetery, it is also a place of oppression.
"eccentric!"
"What a weird and funny kid!"
At this time, the voice of a haggard old man talking to himself came from the thatched house.
His deep-set eye sockets glowed with a faint green light, and turned out to be a pair of mutated celestial pupils.
The withered old man was staring at the faint golden light on Zhou Fan's skin, opening his eyelids and looking at his pupils suspiciously.
The faint green light in his eyes gradually glowed with flames. When the two green flames rotated in the eyes of the withered old man, his sight directly penetrated Zhou Fan's red pupils and saw the pair of mysterious pupils behind them.
Light.
"ah!"
With just one glance, the haggard old man with the mutated sky pupils screamed.
Two drops of bright red blood dripped down, and the eyes of the withered old man were actually injured.
"No! Impossible!"
"That little girl has awakened the incomplete purple pupil. How can you, a junior from another generation, do that?"
"You, you also awakened and mutated the Buddha bones of the Ye family. This, how is this possible!"
"And the dragon's chant? Have you returned to your ancestors and awakened the sound of dragon Lin?"
Every time the withered old man said something in shock, the expressions of the three people outside the thatched house changed.
Especially Ye Lan and Zhou Hong, they looked at each other and saw shock and disbelief in each other's eyes.
As we all know, the bloodline inheritance of ancient tribes will only inherit the one with the strongest bloodline, and cannot inherit the bloodline of both sides.
Even interracial marriages will be cursed. Not only will there be various congenital defects, but the power of the inherited blood will also be weakened.
Therefore, in order to prevent the inheritance of bloodline from being eventually lost, various ancient tribes prohibited intermarriage with foreign tribes.
When Zhou Hong met Ye Lan and fell in love with him, he didn't know Ye Lan's true identity.
Later, it was learned that she had the blood of the Ye family, and the two parties had been inseparable for a long time and finally chose to be together.
Fortunately, neither Zhou Fan nor Zhou Tong had any congenital defects. Only Zhou Tong had an extra vertical pupil and it was a congenitally mutated celestial pupil.
"You guys just wait outside! I want to have a chat with this guy alone!"
When the injured and gaunt old man opened his eyes again, the dim light in his pupils had long disappeared and turned into a pair of dull, turbid eyes.
He said something to Zhou Daozhi and the three people outside the thatched hut, and with a wave of his hand, the door of the thatched hut was closed directly.
Zhou Hong was shocked outside the house and hesitated whether to break in, but saw his father Zhou Daozhi shaking his head at him.
The three of them waited anxiously outside the thatched house, while Zhou Fan inside the house had slowly woken up.
He opened his eyes and looked at a withered old face so close to him that his heart almost stopped due to fright.
"Haha! Don't be afraid, little guy!"
The withered old man showed what he thought was a kind smile. The wrinkles on his face were like the bark of an old tree, and his smile was scarier than a ghost. Zhou Fan's brows jumped wildly when he saw it.
He quickly sat up and found himself in a strange thatched house.
"Senior saved me?"
Zhou Fan asked tentatively!
"Well! You can call me the gravekeeper!"
"I am the ancestor of you juniors!"
The withered old man's answer surprised Zhou Fan slightly.
Listening to the meaning of the other party's words, it is not difficult to guess that he should live and guard in this windy and snowy cemetery all year round.
"Why do you have double pupils?"
"And what happened to the mutated Buddha bone that awakened in your throat bone?"
"Why do you know dragon chants? Why can you still grow dragon scales after awakening the Heavenly Eyes?"
"And why is the blood in your body so weird?"
The withered old man asked several questions in succession, and all of his questions hit home. Zhou Fan's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he became even more wary of the withered old man.
He just shook his head slightly and said nothing, and did not answer the withered old man's question.