"Why does Senior Sister Hanyuan have white hair?" Xu Yinglian asked curiously.
"Before, I was poisoned by cold in my mother's womb." Luo Baiyuan replied, "I was born with a defect in my body, so my head turned white."
"I didn't expect that it would be so difficult for me, senior sister." Xu Yinglian said with emotion, "To be able to win the position of the chief of the Golden Core Realm now is really admirable."
Qiu Changtian didn't interrupt, he just listened silently.
He knew that Junior Sister Xu liked this kind of "hard work and success" story the most. Especially since Senior Sister Luo had a low starting point, was a chief executive, and was also a woman, she could win Xu Yinglian's sympathy even more.
"There is nothing worthy of admiration." Luo Baiyuan replied, "It's just a fluke."
"A fluke?" Xu Yinglian smiled nonchalantly, "If the chief of the Golden Core Realm can be lucky enough to get it, then I don't know what difficulties will happen in the world."
After being trained by Qiu Changtian for many years, she now has a strong immunity to this kind of "academic humility".
Luo Baiyuan was a little confused and said honestly:
"Junior sister Qiongying, I won't lie to you, it was just a fluke... There are three senior brothers of my generation, all of whom are far stronger than me in strength. Later, they were all promoted to Nascent Soul. My cultivation speed is too slow.
So I stayed in the Jindan realm and became the chief."
Xu Yinglian:…………
Qiu Changtian turned his head to hold back his laughter, but Xu Yinglian keenly noticed it and immediately gave him a fierce look.
She thought about how Senior Brother Gou had left the Chief of the Foundation Establishment Realm to her after he formed the elixir in advance. When she saw her husband laughing, she suddenly felt a little angry.
"Junior Sister Qiongying and Junior Brother Chang Geng have such a good relationship." Luo Baiyuan said with envy, "It is a blessing to have a confidante in life; in the end, it is a blessing to be lucky enough to be destined. It is so rare."
"Senior sister is joking." Xu Yinglian was shy and said in a low voice, "Senior sister is so good, there will definitely be no shortage of good talents to match her."
The two began to enter the mutual exchange stage of first acquaintance between women, and their relationship quickly heated up.
Qiu Changtian was very conscious and did not interfere in their friendship rashly. He just stood on the bow of the boat with his hands folded and looked into the distance.
The reason why the three of them did not wield swords but traveled by boat was naturally to deceive others - it is said that the traitors of the Xu family did not wield swords the whole time and traveled south along the Yangtze River disguised as mortals.
After taking a boat from Dongting Lake into the Xiangjiang River, Xu Yinglian no longer chatted with Senior Sister Luo, but cheered up and observed the surrounding environment carefully.
According to the records of the Xu family's search for the traitor, the last time he was located was along the Xiangjiang River.
Then he completely lost his whereabouts... Through the arithmetic test, you can probably confirm that the other party has fallen.
In fact, over such a long period of time, most of the villages and towns on both sides of the Xiangjiang River and the villages in the nearby mountains and forests have been searched by the Xu family, and indeed no trace of the traitor has been found.
Although the relics left by Fengtong are precious, the most important thing is the commemorative meaning of "the things left by the ancestors". Of course, it is impossible to spend generations in vain to find them.
Xu Yinglian's guess was that the other party must have entered a secret realm somewhere.
Only a secret realm of its own world can hide the body of a monk without being discovered.
However, without any clues, searching for the entrance to an unknown secret realm along the entire Xiangjiang River is no different from finding a needle in a haystack.
"Ah Jing!" Qiu Changtian asked tentatively, "Is there any way to scan the entire Xiangjiang River?"
"Yes." Kunlun Mirror replied angrily, "I still have the means to scan the entire world of cultivation. Do you believe it?"
"Don't lie? Two warnings." After Qiu Changtian finished training A Jing, he returned to the cabin and began to read the information Xu Yinglian brought alone.
The entire Xiangjiang River is more than 200 miles long. A blanket search is unrealistic. Evidence must be searched from other places to narrow the scope of the investigation as much as possible.
According to the records provided by the Xu family, the traitor's name was "Xu Zhi". He was a bad guy with pus on his head and sores on his feet. He betrayed the family because he had a traitorous bone in the back of his head... What the hell is this?
Qiu Changtian read the records carefully and found that, apart from a lot of political smears, there was not much valuable information.
For example, why Xu Zhi betrayed the Xu family, only a few places mentioned that he failed in the fight for power within the clan, so he betrayed the Xu family and went south.
Of course, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that those who cultivate immortality should cultivate immortality well. How can there be any saying that fighting for power should not be fought for?
Can the power based on the organizational structure compare with the power of Weili’s own cultivation?
It was obvious that the political struggle was too fierce and the last person in power of the Xu family could not tolerate Xu Zhi, so the latter had to flee.
Xu Zhi originally had very good Taoist talents within the clan, and was also one of the core members of the clan's senior leadership. Otherwise, he would not have been qualified to enter Fengtong Mausoleum.
At that time, the Tiannan Xu family seemed unprepared for his defection, or perhaps they misjudged the time of his defection. As a result, he was discovered missing by the clan only half a day after his defection, and his mausoleum was stolen.
After leaving the Xu family, Xu Zhi first arrived at Jiangling City with a sword (there were many witnesses, so it can be confirmed), then disguised as a mortal and sneaked into the city, and continued south along the river.
There are no ID cards or cameras in this world, so once a practitioner uses disguise and blends into the vast sea of people, it is almost impossible to be discovered. This is why the Six Paths of Demon Sect can never die under the encirclement and suppression of the Orthodox Sect of the Three Purities.
The reason why I say "almost" is because there is a secret method in this world called "Shu Shu".
In short, the Xu family in Tiannan invited the Jian family in Qingzhou, and through calculations, it was confirmed that he continued to go southwest along the river by boat, arrived at Dongting Lake, entered the Xiangjiang River, and then disappeared.
In arithmetic, there are many explanations for "no traces", such as casting a spell to block the arithmetic, such as involving a deeper secret that makes the calculation impossible, or entering a cave that cannot be covered by the arithmetic, etc.
So the Xu family deployed a large number of manpower around the Xiangjiang River to investigate. The strange thing is that Xu Zhi was like a mud cow drowning in the sea, leaving no traces at all... All information came to an abrupt end here.
Where did Xu Zhi plan to go? Qiu Changtian opened another book "Shenzhou Hydrological Records", found the map, and saw that Xu Yinglian had marked it.
If you connect Tiannan, Jiangling City, Yangtze River, Dongting Lake, and Xiangjiang River into a line, you can know that Xu Zhi is always heading southwest.
What is there in the southwest? There are hundreds of thousands of mountains in southern Xinjiang. Xu Yinglian drew a circle here with a red pen.
Maybe he was going to Donghuang Road, maybe he was looking for a place to live in seclusion, but Xu Zhi's destination was most likely Southern Xinjiang.
Although Southern Xinjiang is far away from the Central Plains, there are many witch clan heritages and heresy, many of which can shield the evil spells. Therefore, if people in the Central Plains are hunted by enemies and choose to isolate themselves from the world without being disturbed, they will often
Choose to go to southern Xinjiang to find local foreigners, or go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to find foreign monks, instead of escaping to Mobei, beyond the Great Wall, or to the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
But if this is inferred, then Xu Zhi most likely does not have the ability to shield the arithmetic, otherwise he would not be focused on running to southern Xinjiang.
Thinking about it this way, accidentally entering a secret realm, causing traces of his calculations... and even traces of his existence in this world to completely disappear, became the most likely among many possibilities.
However, where is the entrance to this secret realm? Without any clues, isn’t it like looking for a needle in a haystack?
Qiu Changtian thought about it and finally sighed and asked Kunlun Mirror:
"Ajing, you said before that you have a way to scan the entire Xiangjiang River, right?"
"I suggest you go back to the time when Xu Zhi rebelled against the clan, and follow him all the way to see where he goes. This will be more reliable." Kunlun Mirror suggested.