A week later.

The boundary of Qinghe City.

With a few melodious chirps, a group of black dots gradually appeared in the sky in the distance, flying extremely fast, and in an instant, they came to the Sunset Mountain outside Qinghe City, circling for a while.

It turned out to be seven handsome eagle owls with black feathers!

On the back of each eagle, sitting or standing, there is a heroic young man, they talk to each other, and the powerful aura that inadvertently leaks out is enough to cause an earthquake of panic in this small pond on the boundary of Qinghe City.

All the masters of the Hundred Tribulation Realm!

"Senior Brother Qin, is that city ten miles away Qinghe City? This place, I am here for the first time, although it is not rich, but the mountains and rivers are far away, and it has a unique flavor. ”

"That's right, that's Qinghe City. See the mountains in the distance? It is the Lianyun Mountain Range, there are a large number of fierce beasts entrenched in the mountain range, every month of the year, there are a large number of warriors into the mountain to hunt, repeatedly prohibited. Some people eventually died in the mouth of the beast, and some people hunted the beast and made a fortune. ”

"Lianyun Mountain Range? It's a familiar name......"

"I know this! I've seen it on an inscription in the academy, and it seems to be related to an ancient rumor that involves some ancient river demon......"

The seven teenagers talked for a while, and soon, one of them sighed: "Alas! The more I talk, the more I want to stay as a guest, and I don't know whether the ancient rumors in the Lianyun Mountains are true or false, I like to explore the secrets the most. ”

"Haha, this is Senior Brother Qin's hometown, with him as the east, do you want to go into the mountains to explore the secrets, are you afraid that you won't have a chance? When we have completed the mission of the academy, when the time comes, we will come here for a tour or two. ”

"Yes, the situation is urgent, if we rush to the northwest a moment earlier, we may be able to save one more innocent people. It's time to say goodbye, Senior Brother Qin, I'll say goodbye! ”

"Good! Senior brothers, take the first step, and I will follow after returning home to save my relatives. ”

As the conversation gradually ended, the six handsome black cloud eagles continued on their way, gradually flying into the distance, and finally only one person and one eagle remained.

The young man who stayed behind was none other than Qin Ziyun.

In the past, when he left Qinghe City, he was a heavy heavenly cultivator in the Hundred Tribulation Realm, and now that he has returned, although the realm has not improved, the quality of the vitality has been refined too much, and it is not the same as the beginning......

Meanwhile.

Qinghe City, Qin Mansion.

Qin Hongyu, the patriarch of the Qin family, sat in the room with a haggard face, looked at the two people in front of him, sighed slightly, and asked, "The entire mansion has been cleaned, right?" ”

Under his command, there stood a man and a martial artist: the old butler who managed the family's internal affairs, and Zhou Zhongdao, the leader of the Divine Tiger Guard.

At this moment, Qin Hongyu inquired, and the old housekeeper immediately frowned, and replied: "It has all been cleaned up, and all kinds of furniture and other items that have been damaged have also been listed, ready to be exchanged for the old for the new." Just ......"

"It's just that the treasury has been emptied, and there is no money to be allocated at all? Okay, I already know about this, and there is no hurry to buy furniture, so let's put it aside for the time being. ”

Qin Hongyu smiled bitterly and said, "That day the Scorpion Gate Envoy has such ruthless methods and a greedy appetite. I was not satisfied with eating the millions of belongings we had prepared, and I even had to forcibly raid the house and scrape the last of the family's foundations......"

Sighing again, Qin Hongyu stopped speaking, looked at Zhou Zhongdao under his command, and asked, "How is the injury of our Qin family disciple, has it been counted?" ”

Zhou Zhongdao said in a deep voice: "The statistics are out." In this battle, twenty-three of the younger generation of disciples of our Qin family were slightly injured and nine were seriously injured. ”

"Among our Qin family's Awakening Soul Realm masters, five were slightly injured and two were seriously injured."

"Fortunately, that Scorpion Sect elder has taken a measured hand, and none of our Qin family members have been killed."

"Measured?" Qin Hongyu sneered, "Didn't you hear that elder's words at that time? Next year, and now, they will come again and take offerings from us. What does that mean? This is to raise us as pigs, for fear that we will die and the net will be broken, so we deliberately show mercy. ”

Zhou Zhongdao fell silent.

Qin Hongyu asked again, "What about the seventh child?" He has been conscientiously guarding the treasure house for many years, and when he was slapped by the elder of the Scorpion Sect, the scorpion venom entered his body, and now he has been treated, what is the situation? ”

Zhou Zhongdao shook his head and said slowly: "The seventh master has not woken up so far. The scorpion venom in his body is too domineering, and ordinary medicinal stones can only delay the speed of poison and death, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and it cannot completely expel the poison at all. ”

Qin Hongyu's tone was categorical and unquestionable: "In my generation, there is only one brother left, no matter what, I have to save his life." ”

Zhou Zhongdao was silent.

At this time, a young steward came to report in a hurry: "Master, it's not good, the herbs are running out again!" ”

Qin Hongyu frowned and scolded: "What are you panicking about? Didn't I tell you that if there were not enough herbs, I would send someone to Baicaotang to get them? The big shopkeeper behind Baicaotang has been friends with me for many years..."

When the young steward heard this, he suddenly showed a smile that was more embarrassing than crying: "Back to my lord, our people just came back from Baicaotang, and the big shopkeeper behind Baicaotang said that he can't continue to pay on credit, he has done his duty to you..."

Qin Hongyu took a deep breath, slowly loosened his clenched fist, and said weakly: "Okay, I know about this." A group of people were dispatched from the house, fully armed, and entered the Lianyun Mountains to collect medicine. ”

"I'll do that." Zhou Zhongdao said: "The Divine Tiger Guards don't have to take care of the injured, just let me personally lead the team and go into the mountains to collect medicine." ”

Qin Hongyu nodded and waved everyone back.

At this moment, there was another hurried footstep outside the room, and before anyone arrived, Qin Hongyu's unhappy voice was the first to be transmitted: "What happened again?" ”

"Father, I'm back!"

"What?!"

Qin Hongyu was taken aback, looked up in disbelief, and suddenly saw a handsome young man striding in, the young man had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, his appearance was not handsome, but he was quite attractive, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, it was not Qin Ziyun, who was it?

"Yun'er, you... How did you get back? ”

"Why can't I come back? By the way, father, I just met Uncle Zhou and his party at the door, what happened at home, why did everyone look sad? Uncle Zhou squeaked, and didn't say anything when he asked, did someone owe our family money and didn't pay it back? ”

As soon as the words fell, Qin Ziyun gradually sensed that something was wrong, the smile on his face disappeared, and he frowned and asked, "Father, didn't you receive the letter I sent back?" No, according to the time, the family letter and the Danshu jade scroll should have been delivered a long time ago..."

His voice grew weaker and weaker, so much so that by the end, it had completely turned into mumble.

"Home letter?" Qin Hongyu looked surprised, "Yun'er, when did you write the letter home?" I've been looking forward to your letters, and I've been paying attention to the people in the house early..."

Qin Ziyun shook his head, "Father, don't mention this matter for the time being, when I return to the academy, I must investigate it clearly." I wonder what the outcome of the negotiation with the Scorpion Gate Messenger was? ”

As the patriarch of the Qin family, Qin Hongyu was naturally able to distinguish the priorities of things, he smiled bitterly and said, "Negotiating... It's broken. ”

At that moment, Qin Hongyu told the story as it was.

About a week ago, a team of Scorpion Sect envoys led by a Great Thousand Realm elder and three Hundred Tribulation Realm deacons finally arrived at the boundary of Qinghe City and began to contact and negotiate with the Qin family under the pretext of the death of their disciples.

The process was not smooth. It can even be said that from the moment the negotiations began, the atmosphere was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, which was about to erupt.

Afterwards, to sum it up carefully, the requirements of the Scorpion Gate side were nothing more than three points: First, hand over Qin Ziyun and give the Scorpion Gate an explanation.

Secondly, the lion opened his mouth and demanded a huge amount of compensation to make up for the loss of the Scorpion Gate.

Furthermore, the Qin family bowed down to the ministers, and looked forward to the Scorpio Gate, and from then on, they paid tribute every year, and if there was an order, they must obey it.

The first request to hand over someone, Qin Hongyu said that he would not agree to anything, no matter what, he would not hand over his son. The second request, the other party's appetite is too big, and the Qin family is powerless and can't meet it.

The last request to bow down to the subordinates is even more outrageous, how could Qin Hongyu, as the head of a clan, agree to let the clansmen and others be slaves from now on?

From beginning to end, Qin Hongyu implemented the harmonious principle of turning big things into small things and small things into small things, tolerated step by step at the negotiation table, and proposed that he could compensate money appropriately.

On the side of Scorpio, he has a tough and aggressive attitude.

In the end, Qin Hongxin couldn't stand it anymore, and accused the other party of having no heart to negotiate at all, and there were some verbal disputes during the period. The elder of the Scorpion Sect made a powerful move, directly beating Qin Hongxin to a serious injury, and threatened that this was just a small lesson.

In an instant, the situation escalated, and a scuffle broke out between the two sides, but fortunately, Qin Hongyu restrained him in time, and the Qin family did not have too many casualties.

Afterwards, the Qin family was humiliated and relented, and had to offer a large amount of property that had already been prepared. The Scorpion Sect elder was especially dissatisfied, and connived at his disciple to loot the treasure house of the Qin Mansion, and then he walked away, and threatened to come back next year.

After silently understanding what happened, Qin Ziyun immediately fell silent.

He clenched his fists tightly and said in a deep voice: "Father, the Scorpion Gate is too deceitful, I must get this justice back!" ”

Qin Hongyu said: "It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, Yun'er, this revenge must be avenged, but not now." There is a Great Thousand Realm elder in the envoy team sent by the Scorpion Sect, and our Qin family is not an opponent at all, so we can only endure humiliation and bear the burden......"

Qin Ziyun nodded, but he was silently calculating in his heart: "Among the envoy team of the Scorpion Sect, there is a Great Thousand Realm Elder, three Hundred Tribulation Realm deacons, and dozens of Awakening Soul Realm disciples, and the number of people in the group is almost a hundred. ”

"They took a lot of their belongings, which more or less slowed down the trip. In just a few days, I couldn't go far at all, I rode the black cloud eagle to catch up, with the speed of the black cloud eagle, it was still too late! ”

After figuring out the key, Qin Ziyun was not in a hurry, he opened his mouth and asked: "Father, in which room is the seventh uncle recuperating from his injuries, take me to see it, I should have a way to get rid of the scorpion venom in his body." ”

When Qin Hongyu heard this, his face immediately showed joy.