Yang Xian came to the Zhou family's resident formation and sent a message, the monks of the Zhou clan guarding the formation had come to contact, and at the same time, this Zhou clan member also sent a summons to inform their patriarch. Yang Xian waited quietly, and the last time he arrived, it was also this Zhou clan who guarded the formation to receive him.

What Yang Xian is thinking about now is to hand over the task, and prepare to recover the jade plate of the token issued by the sect for the task, which means that it has been successfully completed. The so-called sect task release, this kind of individual or family release task, the sect will give the publisher a task jade plate with relevant information on it, and the disciple who receives the sect's task will get another task jade card as a certificate after completing the task, and the information of the two jade cards is the same. At the beginning of the task, the two jade cards are separated, and the two jade cards together represent the completion of the task, and you can hand over to the sect. The Spirit Sword Sect forms the most common task system with this basic operation, if the disciple who receives the task loses the task jade card, it can also be solved, but it requires a lot of procedures to make up, which is very troublesome, but this situation rarely occurs.

The station of the Zhou family is on the small slope of the extension of the Wuyin Mountain Range, called the Hidden Spirit Mountain, and it can be seen at a glance that the station of the Zhou family has a first-order high-grade mountain protection formation trapping formation, if the formation is all opened, it can temporarily trap the immortal cultivators in the early stage of foundation building. However, the consumption of all the open formations is very large, and at least 100 lower-grade spirit stones are required every year. In order to save spirit stones, the mountain protection array will generally not be opened, but it will still open a first-order low-grade warning formation in front of the station and connect with the main formation, when the warning formation is attacked, the mountain protection array will be activated, the role of the warning formation not only ensures safety but also effectively saves resources, the warning formation only needs to spend 10 spirit stones per year, and the warning formation opens the setting of the mountain protection array, which is the most secure means in the immortal cultivation world, because the Zhou family has been an immortal cultivator in the foundation building period, so the overall protection is still very perfect.

Now Yang Xian is standing in front of the warning formation and waiting, the disciples stationed there are very puzzled looking at this disciple of the Spirit Sword Sect, a few days ago it was only the third layer of qi refining, just like himself, he broke through after only a few days of not seeing him, and became the fourth layer of qi refining, this disciple of the upper sect is really different. But his face was so pale, he was afraid that he was injured.

After a cup of tea, Zhou Yuanqing, the current patriarch of the Zhou family, arrived with a group of clansmen, and then greeted him warmly: Yang Daoyou went to sit in the family, and I have prepared high-quality tea for Yang Daoyou to taste.

Yang Xian knew that it was a pretext, this old fox, he was alone, although he had the task of the sect, but how could he easily enter the former Zhuji family formation, in case the clan did not talk about martial arts and opened the formation, it would be impossible to escape. Yang Xian also smiled and said, "Patriarch Zhou is polite, I just completed the task of the sect this time, and I am here to hand over." Zhou Yuanqing was shocked, and when he looked closely, Yang Xian's cultivation was already in the middle stage of qi refining, but Yang Xian did not restrain his breath, he was quite sharp, and his breath was up and down, unstable, and it looked like he had recently broken through. Zhou Yuanqing said without changing his face: "Congratulations to Yang Daoyou for cultivating for the great advancement, he came in a hurry, he didn't prepare any kind of congratulatory gifts, these 5 lower grade spirit stones will be given to Daoyou, just a small gift, not a respect, this mission is a lot of trouble for Daoyou, I don't know what the final result of this mission is, is there any additional gain?" ”

When Zhou Yuanqing said the extra gain, he deliberately accentuated his tone, Yang Xian knew that this was the old guy asking about his injury, and Yang Xian also wanted to find out why the Zhou family would use the mortal investigation incident to release this task, because the Yipin family also issued a task at a price.

"Yang has been searching for the figure of the nobleman in the mountain range for the past few days, but he found nothing, and when he was exploring deeply, he accidentally ran into a first-order medium-grade spirit beast python, and barely escaped from the snake's mouth between life and death.

Speaking of this, Yang Xian also pretended to cough a few times.

"First-order middle-grade spirit beast," Zhou Qingyuan pretended to exclaim, Yang Xiaodaoyou was affected, Zhou Qingyuan pushed the 5 spirit stones forward again, "It's just a small gift, please be sure to accept it."

Yang Xian was not hypocritical, and accepted it, "Patriarch Zhou, has the task of the sect been completed this time?" ”

"Yang Xiaodaoyou, look at my memory, I am old, I am useless, I almost forgot about it, this is the jade plate of the sect's mission."

Yang Xian took the task jade plate handed over by Zhou Qingyuan, and took out a jade plate from his arms and put it together. Clasped his hands into fists, "Patriarch Zhou, Yang's task is completed, rush back to the sect to resume his life, and there will be a period later." With that, he turned and left.

Watching Yang Xian leave with the wind, a middle-aged man behind the patriarch of the Zhou clan walked out quickly, "Uncle Clan, Hao'er's matter hasn't been settled yet?" ”

"Hao'er is most likely fallen, my most beloved grandson!" Zhou Qingyuan said with tears on his face.

Zhou Hao is the most talented teenager of the Zhou family, the qualification of the three spiritual roots of fire, wood and earth, with the assistance of the elixir, he began to cultivate at the age of 8 and cultivated to the point of the fourth layer of qi refining at the age of 18, and he did not encounter a bottleneck in the middle stage of qi refining, such a cultivation speed is the core seed that the Zhou family is most likely to break through and become the foundation building period. The Zhou family currently does not have immortal cultivators in the foundation building period, and the old opponent was Zhang and Huang's two families 30 years ago, almost all the clansmen broke through to the foundation building period, Zhang and Huang fought against each other, even so, the Zhou family, which was the original opponent, was still suppressed so much that they couldn't lift their heads, 30 years ago, everyone was similar, but 30 years later, the situation was completely different. Now Zhou Hao's hope for this foundation building period is gone, although under the management of the Spirit Sword Sect, he will not be exterminated openly, but the living environment of the Zhou family will become worse and worse, and it is only a matter of time before the clan is wiped out. After the suppression of the Zhang and Huang families, at present, the entire Zhou family is the ninth layer of qi refining, and the cultivation in the late stage of qi refining, there were originally 6 in the middle stage of qi refining, but now there are only 5, and the rest are 21 are all miscellaneous spirit root monks from the first to third layers of qi refining, in the previous family, there were at least five or six monks in the ninth layer of qi refining, and even the monks of the tenth layer of qi refining who built a foundation in half a step, but now they are deliberately targeted by the Zhang and Huang families, and under the influence of the conscription of the Spirit Sword Sect, the mortal base has declined, the number of monks is also declining, and the family is rapidly decliningHave a bone in one's throat.

Zhou Qingyuan walked back with a group of clansmen, with a lot of thoughts in his heart, the task released to the Spirit Sword Sect this time is to kill three birds with one stone, first of all, it is to deter the Zhang and Huang families to show their attitude, although their own family is not in the Yipin family, but there is still the protection of the Spirit Sword Sect, this is the common eldest brother, the two families have done too much over the years; Secondly, every time a genius appears in the Zhou family, it will wither, and Zhou Hao, a genius, is no exception, the people of the Spirit Sword Sect came to investigate and search, but what they were looking for was a mortal, and their meaning was self-evident, this was to show the Zhang and Huang families that we knew who did it, but we didn't investigate it deeply, which was also a manifestation of softness. In the end, it is to see if you can borrow the banner of the Spirit Sword Sect, this is just an expectation, if the disciples who perform the task can have a certain connection with the Zhou Clan, or even one step closer, then at least get a little relationship, but Yang Xian is very slippery from beginning to end when he performs the task, and he runs away after dealing with things, there is no way, it is impossible to forcibly leave the disciples of the Spirit Sword Sect! If you offend the Spirit Sword Sect, you will directly destroy the clan. The backer of the Spirit Sword Sect is very good, very tenacious, and will not fall. The hope of the Zhou family now is himself, and the fate of the 27 immortal cultivators in the current family is also tied to himself, he is close to 70 years old this year, although the lifespan of the late stage of qi refining is about 120 years, but Zhou Yuanqing still wants to fight for a chance to build a foundation before the age of 80 as much as possible, so he seeks stability in everything, stabilizes the Zhang and Huang families, and also strengthens his determination to develop secretly, if something happens to him again, then the Zhou family will be finished, even if there is the protection of the Spirit Sword Sect, it will disappear completely, Because of the Yipin family or the sect, the existence of the late stage of qi refining is necessary, without the cultivation of the late stage of qi refining, then the Yipin family or sect will not exist, which is also the bottom line of the Spirit Sword Sect, at the same time, Zhou Yuanqing basically does not go out of the mountain protection array, and does things carefully, also to prevent the assassination of the Zhang and Huang families, the Zhang and Huang families have not torn their faces yet, or it may be that the two families are wary of each other, so they left the Zhou family to survive. Zhou Yuanqing sighed secretly, it is not easy to be the head of a clan! Surrounded by two hungry wolves, a way out must be found for the Zhou family.

Yang Xian didn't know Zhou Yuanqing's various thoughts, his only idea now was to return to the sect as soon as possible to hand over the task and cultivate seriously.