On the mountainside of Taiqiu Mountain, inside the Li family's family charity hall.
At the door of the side room where Li Xuangang usually stayed, a clan member of the Xuan generation opened the door of the side room at Li Yuxian's signal.
When he entered, Li Yuxian closed the door again and reminded him softly:
"Uncle Clan, Uncle Ninth is inside."
The Li clan member named Li Xuanqin nodded slightly to show that he knew. Then, after Li Yuxian closed the door again from the outside, he turned around and walked into the side room.
He walked around a black and white screen with countless cuttlefish swimming on it, and then saw Li Xuangang sitting behind a wooden table in the center of the side room.
He walked forward, stopped a few feet away from the wooden table, then bowed and saluted:
"Xuan Qin has met Ninth Brother."
Li Xuangang knew that someone had entered the side room, but he had too many things on his mind at the moment, so he waited until Li Xuanqin saluted him at the exit before he raised his head from the desk and looked at the figure in front of him.
When he saw it was Li Xuanqin, a smile appeared on his face, and he stretched out his hand to ask him to come over and sit down opposite him.
Li Xuanqin also had a smile on his face, walked forward, pulled a wooden chair on the side of the wooden table and sat down.
After he straightened his posture, he called out "Brother Nine" again.
Li Xuanqin ranks 33rd among the members of the Li Jiaxuan generation. His current cultivation level has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. He is one of the few members of the family who has been performing tasks outside.
Therefore, it is rare to see him on Mount Taiqiu.
Li Xuangang had rarely seen him in the family before, but he still had some impressions of this clan brother, and from the book about the distribution of clan members he saw from the eighth uncle's hand last time, he also knew that Li Xuanqin was the first group to follow
The clansmen who boarded the treasure ship with their sixth uncle Li Qingshu.
Logically speaking, I shouldn't see him here at this time. He should still be performing family tasks on the fourth-level treasure ship.
And counting the days, there are still several years until the time for the clan members on the treasure ship to rotate.
So after simply packing up the pile of jade tubes and classics in front of him, Li Xuangang asked Li Xuanqin about his purpose of coming.
"Why is Xuan Qin looking for me when you come back this time?"
Li Xuanqin's face became respectful, knowing that Brother Ninth was now the chief elder of the family, so when faced with the inquiry, he immediately responded:
"Brother Jiu, I do have two things I want to tell you."
As Li Xuanqin spoke, he took off a storage bag from his waist and handed it over.
When Li Xuangang saw this, he took the storage bag with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
But he did not open it immediately, but continued to listen to Li Xuanqin's story.
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On the wooden table between Li Xuangang and Li Xuanqin, there was a burner of sandalwood for refreshing, and more than half of it was already burning at the moment.
A wisp of lavender smoke about ten inches high emerged from the golden support at the bottom, and finally spread to all sides at the highest point, and gradually disappeared in the space.
Only a faint hint of sandalwood can be smelled in the air.
When Li Xuanqin smelled the sandalwood, his mind suddenly became clear, and his thoughts on what he was describing became clearer.
During this process, Li Xuangang listened quietly without interrupting the other party. It was not until the story was finished that he became silent with a serious face.
It turned out that after the Li family's treasure ship returned from Hengduanfang City to the port of Tianhefang City, Li Xuanshan on the treasure ship called Li Xuanqin to the cabin and ordered him not to participate in the subsequent voyage of the treasure ship, but to board the treasure ship and follow the family.
The caravan that stayed in Tianhefang City returned to Taiqiu Mountain together.
Naturally, Li Xuanshan's instructions were not unreasonable. From Li Xuanqin's story, we learned that this time the former mainly asked him to bring back two things to Li Xuangang.
The first was to bring back a storage bag, but Li Xuanqin didn't know what was in the storage bag, but Li Xuanshan told him to keep it properly and hand it over to Li Xuangang.
The second was to bring back a piece of news, and it was this news that made Li Xuangang's face become serious.
"Tenth brother Li Xuankun disappeared in the Hengduan Mountains!"
After hearing the news from Li Xuanqin, Li Xuangang's heart tightened, and the hand holding the storage bag tightened even more. There was a layer of light cyan scales looming on the arm hidden under the black suit.
Li Xuanqin noticed the change in Ninth Brother. After he finished speaking, he stopped talking and waited for the latter to make a decision.
The two of them were silent for a few breaths. Li Xuangang calmed down and loosened his right hand from the storage bag.
So he opened his mouth and said:
"Is there any information you don't have? Be more detailed!"
Li Xuanqin took out a jade tube from his storage bag, handed it over, and said:
"Brother Fifteen said this news was given to him by someone sent by Fourth Uncle, so he doesn't know the details. However, this jade tube was carved by Fourth Uncle, and it should contain relevant details about Brother Ten's disappearance."
Li Xuangang took the jade tube and stared at it. He wanted to immerse himself in his spiritual consciousness several times to check it, but finally gave up.
Looking at the jade tube in his hand, he was silent for a moment, then got up from the wooden chair and walked towards the door of the side room.
"follow me."
Li Xuanqin did not dare to hesitate and quickly stood up and followed behind Li Xuangang.
The two entered the lobby, where the clan members who had received family tasks bowed and saluted, but Li Xuangang ignored them and quickly walked out of the Shanggong Hall.
The clan members who were still in the lobby of the Shanggong Hall naturally saw that something was wrong with Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang at this time, and they were all speculating whether something big had happened to the family.
Li Yuxian, who was still sorting out the family tasks in the Shanggong Hall at this time, was also doing the same. Looking at Uncle Jiu's leaving figure, he was also secretly guessing in his heart whether something had happened.
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When Li Xuangang and Li Xuanqin appeared again, they had already arrived at the family ancestral hall on the mountainside.
He opened his hand to take a picture of the genealogy on the altar in front of him. With a wave of his sleeve, the genealogy turned to the page with the clan members of the Xuan generation.
Li Xuangang frowned and searched for Li Xuankun's name on it. After finding it and confirming that the three words "Li Xuankun" had not faded and that his life was safe, his brows relaxed again.
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Walking forward, he returned the genealogy to the altar and put it away. Then Li Xuangang turned around, picked up the jade tube in his hand, put it on his forehead, and began to read the specific contents inside.
What Li Xuanqin said was correct. The fourth uncle Li Qingjing did record the specific circumstances of the disappearance of his tenth brother Li Xuankun in this jade tube.
According to the information recorded in the jade tube by Fourth Uncle Li Qingjing, Xuan Kun had reached the peak of Qi refining a year ago.
So he made a request to his fourth uncle Li Qingjing at the Lingshan Gathering Point, saying that he planned to go to the Hengduan Mountains alone to seek opportunities to break through the realm, and he repeatedly promised that he would only move around the periphery of the Hengduan Mountains and not go too deep.
The fourth uncle, Li Qingjing, considered that Li Xuankun had been in and out of the Hengduan Mountains many times over the years and had sufficient experience, so he agreed to this request after giving him some protective measures.
But I never expected that since Li Xuankun entered the Hengduan Mountains, he would never appear again.
After waiting for half a year, Li Qingjing asked the clansmen stationed at Lingshan Gathering Point and found that no clansman had seen Li Xuankun again in the past six months, so he sensed something was wrong.
However, at this time, Li Qingjing was only vaguely worried. In the past, Li Xuankun had stayed in the Hengduan Mountains for several months.
This time it just took a little longer. Maybe he encountered some special encounter inside. After a while, he might come out of the Hengduan Mountains and return to the Lingshan stronghold.
Therefore, Li Qingjing asked the tribesmen who entered the Hengduan Mountains to hunt monsters to pay attention to Li Xuankun's traces, while waiting for the latter to return on his own.
But I didn't expect that more than half a year would pass by.
At this time, a full year had passed since Li Xuankun entered the Hengduan Mountains.
Therefore, Li Qingjing, who had just come out of seclusion, realized that something might have happened to Li Xuankun after he learned about the situation from the people stationed there.
Contact the family's store in Hengduanfang City as soon as possible to determine the clan members who are performing family tasks there. In the past year, Li Xuankun has not been seen in Hengduanfang City, so he knew that this matter could no longer be postponed.
So Li Qingjing immediately recorded the relevant information in the jade tube and asked Li Xuanshan, who arrived in Hengduanfang City on a treasure ship, to take the jade tube back to his family.
Because there were too many things on the treasure ship, Li Xuanshan couldn't leave, so he asked Li Xuanqin to go back to Taiqiu Mountain for him and bring the jade tube to his ninth brother Li Xuangang.
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Knowing the whole story, Li Xuangang took off the jade tube from his forehead, his face uncertain.
Seeing this, Li Xuanqin didn't dare to disturb him and still stood there waiting for Brother Ninth's arrangements.
Walk out of the ancestral hall and stand on the steps under the eaves.
The sky outside, which was cloudless not long ago, has already begun to gather dark clouds.
Li Xuangang's face was serious, his eyes were half-closed as he looked to the west, and a strong evil aura began to spread from his body.
Feeling this coldness, Li Xuanqin couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
Then a gust of wind and rain came, and he saw that the jade tube in Ninth Brother's hand was broken into countless fine particles.
He started to wonder what happened to Brother Ten?
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What happened to Li Xuankun is what Li Xuangang also wants to know.
He looked at the west where dark clouds were gathering and the wind and rain were thick. He thought of the abnormal behavior of Li Xuankun in the past, and couldn't help but feel a little angry.
Just as the fourth uncle said in the jade tube, Xuan Kun was hiding something from the family, and now he is out of the family's control!
His eyes were half-closed, his gaze flickering inside. Facing the wind and rain, Li Xuangang murmured softly:
"Li Xuankun...what are you doing?"
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It seemed that this connection between blood lines was induced. In a certain cave in the distant Hengduan Mountains, Li Xuankun, who was sitting cross-legged to recover his spiritual power, was suddenly awakened, and his mind began to panic inexplicably.
He stood up and pushed away the boulder blocking the entrance of the cave. Looking at the heavy rain outside in the dense forest, a sad look began to appear on his face.
Suddenly, there was a very special wave of spiritual energy inside the cave, so Li Xuankun had no time to find out the source of the panic in his heart.
He quickly used magic to pull back the boulder to block the entrance of the cave, and then took out a formation disk given to him by his fourth uncle Li Qingjing and unfolded it in the entrance of the cave. After arranging the concealment formation very skillfully, he immediately turned around and returned to the interior of the cave.
The family's standard black mysterious clothes on his body were gone, replaced by an ordinary blue gown.
Except for his unusually handsome appearance, he no longer looks like a member of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain, but an ordinary casual cultivator.
Li Xuankun's figure was hidden in the darkness of the cave. The black was so pure that no matter how hard he looked, he could not be found.
At this moment, the rain was pouring heavily outside the cave, and heavy raindrops fell in the dense forest, making sounds that seemed chaotic but contained a special rhythm.
This kind of sound brought an inexplicable sense of peace to the two figures in the cave on such a rainy night!
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One day later, Li Xuanqin left Taiqiu Mountain again. He followed his family's caravan to Wujiangfang City in the west.
And with him, there was a jade tube that the ninth brother Li Xuangang brought to the fourth uncle Li Qingjing.
It records some of the measures taken by Ninth Brother to deal with the disappearance of Tenth Brother Li Xuankun.
The huge tortoise beast was getting farther and farther away from the family. Li Xuanqin fell at the end of the caravan and turned his head to look at Taiqiu Mountain shrouded in mist and rain.
At this moment, he suddenly understood to some extent Ninth Brother Li Xuangang's anger towards Tenth Brother, and inexplicably felt a little sympathy for the former.
Under everything that seems calm, who knows what kind of storms are hidden?
Family affairs are inherently dangerous at every step, so be careful at every step.
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In the side room of the Shanggong Hall, Li Xuangang sat silently on a wooden chair, surrounded by purple sandalwood, and his face could not be seen clearly.
After a long while, he suddenly sighed, and then he sorted out some matters related to the family on the wooden table. Finally, he opened the storage bag that his fifteenth brother Li Xuanshan brought to him to see what was inside.
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This was a small storage bag, and it was covered with family restrictions, so after Li Xuangang was immersed in his spiritual consciousness, he opened it very smoothly.
Since this is a small storage bag, naturally there isn't much stuff inside.
In fact, Li Xuangang only saw two items from inside.
One is a very delicate pure white jade bottle, and the other is a jade tube.
His eyes moved back and forth between the two, and finally the jade tube was picked up for inspection.
There is only one line of words in the jade tube, and only the following words of Liao Liao are recorded:
"Brother Ninth, you owe me 4,567 points of family contribution!"
Putting down the jade tube, the corner of his mouth showed a slight arc, and the negative emotions in his heart due to the matter of his tenth brother Li Xuankun disappeared a lot.
In the hazy purple sandalwood, he reached out and opened the pure white jade bottle.
The moment the cork left the mouth of the bottle, an extremely rich smell of blood immediately poured out from it, filling the entire side room in an instant.
"Third-grade high-grade monster essence blood?"
After checking that everything was correct, Li Xuangang put the jade bottle and jade tube back into the jade tube, then left the Shanggong Hall and turned into a ray of light and flew back to his cave.
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The sky after the wind and rain is so pure that apart from clean, there is no other more appropriate adjective to describe it.
At such a moment when the rain was over and the sky was clear, a cave in Taiqiu Mountain was opened, and a tall black figure walked out of it.
He has an upright body shape and pleasant facial features. He is none other than Li Xuanyu, the twelfth-ranked person in the Li Jiaxuan generation!