Zhang Zhixuan and the others came to Hongliu Mountain and went straight to the gate of the Zhou family in Hongliu Mountain.
There are only about thirty monks in the Zhou family on Hongliu Mountain. Apart from seven or eight acres of spiritual land, a small family like theirs has no fixed income.
Fortunately, the Zhou family's ancestors have inherited it, and their family has also trained two weapon refiners. They often contact some local cultivators to refine magic weapons for them, and rely on this craft to exchange some resources for cultivating immortals for the family.
This kind of small immortal cultivating family is slightly better than the casual cultivator, but far inferior to the foundation-building family like the Zhang family.
The monks of the Zhou family almost live together as a clan, and they have opened dozens of caves on a cliff to serve as cave dwellings.
Because there are few monks, there are no monks guarding their mountain gates, and there are no knowledgeable guests to entertain visitors.
On the cliff, the monks of the Zhou family also arranged a second-level high-grade earth dragon formation to protect their cave.
Zhang Zhixuan took out a transmission note and sent it into the formation.
In a moment, more than a dozen monks from the Zhou family walked out of the cave and came down the mountain to greet Zhang Zhixuan in person.
They also wore white mourning clothes.
Of the thirty or so monks in the Zhou family, only two have reached the ninth level of Qi training. In addition to the clan leader Zhou Wenjian, there is also an elderly monk named Zhou Yanghu.
Zhou Yanghu is already one hundred and sixteen years old, and is about to reach the age of two years. He is already in his twilight years. Although he has cultivated to the ninth level of Qi training, apart from his experience, his fighting ability is now inferior to that of a monk at the seventh level of Qi training.
Under the leadership of Zhou Yanghu, Zhang Zhixuan and others came to the living room of the Zhou family.
The living room is located in a bamboo building under the cliff. This bamboo building is quite exquisitely built. In front of the living room, there is the ancestral hall of the ancestors, and there is even a scripture pavilion with a collection of books in the back.
These buildings also use some spiritual objects as materials. Although they are not as good as those of foundation-building families like the Zhang family, they are still very attentive.
Everyone sat down, and Zhang Zhixuan said: "Senior Zhou, to be blunt, Chief Zhou and others are just missing, and there may be a chance of survival. Why do you have to wear mourning for him? This is not to curse him to die early and to be reborn.
Well?"
After hearing Zhang Zhixuan's words, Zhou Yanghu awkwardly arched his hands and explained: "Senior Zhang doesn't know something, but there is a soul-fixing tree growing in our house. As long as the monk has just broken through the Qi training period, take an inch-long tree.
Cut the soul wood and put a drop of blood on your middle finger to refine a soul-suppressing talisman.
Then put this soul-suppressing talisman in the family ancestral hall to replace the soul lamp. Once the soul-suppressing talisman is broken, it means that the monk has passed away."
Zhang Zhixuan has already established the foundation, and the Zhou family has no kinship relationship with him. According to the rules of cultivating immortals, those who have mastered it come first. Although Zhou Yanghu is already senile and may be buried at any time, he still has to call Zhang Zhixuan "senior".
After listening to Zhou Yanghu's explanation, Zhang Zhixuan realized that he had misunderstood the Zhou family, so he said with shame: "I am ignorant and reckless. Seniors are already old, so don't call seniors anymore. Let's call you Daoyou Zhang!"
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan was interested in getting closer to each other, an old guy like Zhou Yanghu who had become a mature man immediately followed him and flattered him a few times, which brought the relationship between the Zhou family and Zhang Zhixuan a lot closer.
After everyone chatted for a few words, Zhang Zhixuan took the lead in getting to the point and said: "The three patriarchs of Zhou have never returned. What is the situation in the Black Python Mountain? How much do you know?"
Zhou Yanghu looked at the younger generations of the Zhou family and said, "Wen Nian, please explain to fellow Taoist Zhang."
"Black Python Mountain is less than fifty miles away from Hongliu Mountain. I have never heard of spiritual veins before. It can only be regarded as an ordinary barren mountain.
There are many black scales in that mountain, so it is called Black Python Mountain.
But although Black Scale Man is highly poisonous, it is not a monster.
Some time ago, giant pythons often came down from the Black Python Mountain and devoured the people working in the fields. In just ten days, more than 30 people were swallowed by the giant pythons.
This situation attracted the clan leader's attention, so he took Jian Tong and Jian Xiong to the Black Python Mountain to inquire about the news. Unexpectedly, they never came back. One day later, the soul-suppressing talisman of the three of them was broken.
The patriarch is already the highest-level monk in the family, and Jian Tong and Jian Xiong are also mid-stage Qi training monks. The three of them cannot solve the problem, and we don't dare to intervene casually.
So I can only go to the Zhang family to ask for help, sorry to trouble Senior Zhang." The speaker's cultivation level is around the sixth level of Qi training, and he is a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance.
Although he was older, facing Zhang Zhixuan in the foundation-building stage, he was very cautious and was afraid of saying something wrong and offending Zhang Zhixuan.
After listening to Zhou Wenian's words, Zhang Zhixuan already had a general understanding of Black Python Mountain, but if he wanted to get more detailed information, he had to go to Black Python Mountain to take a look in person.
Zhang Zhixuan looked at everyone and said: "It's getting late today. Tomorrow you select ten people to explore the Black Python Mountain with us.
Although you are protected by me, there may be danger, so you cannot let Shengguadanzi go, and you must choose a monk who is over thirty years old and in the Qi training period."
There are only more than thirty monks in the Zhou family, and there are seven or eight innate-stage young people in the family. If ten monks in the Qi-training stage are sent out, if there is a slight mistake, they may be injured or even wiped out.
Danger.
After hearing Zhang Zhixuan's request, Zhou Yanghu looked embarrassed and was about to complain a few words when he heard Zhang Zhixuan continue: "We can come this time because the Zhou family has been very responsible over the years.
Going to Black Python Mountain this time is risky. A ninth-level qi-training monk from the Zhou family died in Black Python Mountain.
At this time, you, the Zhou family, must contribute, otherwise, what sense would it make if we, the Zhang family, are the only ones to take action?
The reason why you have ten people in your family is for their safety so that they can help each other.
Patriarch Zhou died in the Black Python Mountain a day later, which shows that the enemy is not a third-level monster and is not a troublesome one.
But what exactly is the situation in Black Python Mountain? We have to go up there and see for ourselves before we can be sure. At that time, we may need a lot of manpower to search for traces."
Zhang Zhixuan's words immediately blocked Zhou Yanghu's mouth. He could only obey Zhang Zhixuan's arrangement and recruit key members from the family to cooperate with Zhang Zhixuan.
Early the next morning, Zhang Zhixuan and the others hurried to Black Python Mountain with ten Zhou family monks.
There were many giant pythons in the Black Python Mountain, and there were python trails where giant pythons crawled out everywhere. Zhang Zhixuan and others followed the python trails and killed more than a hundred huge black-scaled pythons in a row before he even made a move.
As everyone goes deeper and deeper, there are more and more giant snakes in Black Python Mountain, and some of them are even about to turn into monsters.
This kind of giant python, which is more than three feet long, can even pose a certain threat to the lone Qi-training monks when they meet them. Unfortunately, it encounters Zhang Zhixuan, a foundation-building monk. With a single swing of the flying sword, it can kill them.
One by one, the giant pythons turned into minced meat.