The distance between the Yuquan Lake Oasis and the Baisha River Oasis is more than 6,000 miles, if Zhou Yang flies alone, counting the time spent resting and replenishing mana, one day is enough to arrive.

However, when he flew with his mother Lin Yuting with the sword, this time was almost doubled, and it took more than two days to arrive.

When he arrived at the Baisha River Oasis, Zhou Yang did not contact Chen Pingzhi immediately, but first sent his mother Lin Yuting to the newly built "Ping'anfang City" to meet his father Zhou Xuanhao, and then went to the "Qingniu Mountain", a family branch established by the Zhou family on the Baisha River Oasis.

Qingniu Mountain was originally the spiritual mountain of a small family of Qi cultivation on the Baisha River Oasis, and the spiritual vein level on the mountain was only second-order and lower, this small family had only been established for less than a hundred years, and there were only eight family cultivators, including the head of the family.

The last time the sand bandits attacked the oasis, this small family was directly wiped out, and only some family mortals survived.

A small family like this whose entire clan was wiped out, even if the Chen family had the heart to help them, they had no way to start, they couldn't let a group of mortals occupy the Spirit Mountain, and then slowly wait for their family to give birth to a baby with spiritual roots to rebuild the family, right?

This is simply not realistic, and it is a great waste of resources.

Therefore, after the Liu, Yang, and Zhou families wanted to establish a family branch in the Baisha River Oasis, the ancestor of the Chen family waved his pen and assigned the area around Qingniu Mountain and Qingniu Mountain for dozens of miles to the Zhou family as the family branch station.

After Zhou Xuanhao led thousands of mortals of the Zhou family to the Baisha River Oasis five years ago, he settled down in Qingniu Mountain, and then those mortals of the Zhou family established a small town under the mountain and slowly expanded the number, and the monks of the Zhou family built a palace attic on the mountain for the monks to rest and live, and the "Fengyue Tower" was also set up on the mountain.

After Zhou Yang came to Qingniu Mountain, he first went to the places where the mortals of the Zhou family lived.

In the past few years, most of the thousands of mortals who migrated here have now branched out and given birth to offspring, and the population of the town has exceeded 5,000, including those swaddling babies.

The land in the Baishahe Oasis is very rich, the grain production is very high, and if the land allocated to the Zhou family by the Chen family is fully developed and utilized, it is still possible to feed 10,000 or 20,000 people.

Moreover, the population is not livestock in the cattle and sheep pen, the population can move, and even if the number of mortals of the Zhou family here in Qingniu Mountain exceeds the limit of land support, they can migrate and leave to settle in other places.

However, those mortals who left the territory of the Zhou family would not be able to enjoy the protection of the Zhou family monks, and they would only have to rely on themselves to support themselves at that time.

The troubles of later generations cannot be felt by predecessors.

The mortals of the Zhou family in the town under Qingniu Mountain are at least very comfortable now.

In order to let them spread out here safely, the Zhou family directly sent wives for men for free, and women helped recruit sons-in-law for free, and directly used the benefits that could be seen to help them find a large number of handsome men and beautiful women to match them with from the mortal settlements of those small families who were ruined, and their lives were much better than their relatives in the Yuquan Lake Oasis.

Zhou Yang secretly observed for a while, and after confirming that these mortals did not complain much about the family letting them move here, he left this place with relief.

He, the patriarch of the Zhou family, is the patriarch of the Zhou family, the immortal cultivation family, and the patriarch of the Zhou family's secular mortals, and the thoughts of these secular mortals also need him to pay a certain amount of attention, at least these mortals can't let these mortals always grit their teeth and look like they want him to die when they mention him as the patriarch.

Leaving the mortal settlement, Zhou Yang went to the spiritual mountain of Qingniu Mountain.

Zhou Xuanhao is in charge of "Ping'anfang City", Qingniu Mountain is now under the jurisdiction of Chen Ting, a relative monk of the Zhou family, who is the husband of Zhou Xuanyan, the eighth aunt of Zhou Yang, who practices qi for eight layers of cultivation, and it is just right to sit in Qingniu Mountain, and the shopkeeper of "Fengyue Building" is employed by a six-layer female cultivator of the Zhou family.

After Zhou Yang arrived at Qingniu Mountain, he didn't go to see the two, but first went to the women's lounge outside the "Fengyue Building" to restrain a mortal woman, and then used "ecstasy" to charm the woman's mind and ask about the situation of the "Fengyue Building".

Under the effect of "ecstasy", the woman has to answer questions, and through her answers, Zhou Yang soon had an intuitive understanding of the operation of "Fengyue Tower".

It should be said that the result still satisfied him.

When the "Fengyue Building" was first established, he formulated some strict regulations, strictly prohibiting managers from using their rights to force women in the building to accompany those who did not want to accompany them, strictly prohibiting those who came to stay overnight to harm the women in the building, strictly prohibiting greed and deducting the rewards of the women in the building, and even more strictly prohibiting the women in the building from withdrawing for any reason.

Now it seems that the person in charge of the Zhou family here has taken his statement to heart, at least in the past few years, the above things have not appeared in the "Fengyue Building".

The mortal women in it also retired one after another through the rewards obtained by giving birth to offspring, and then took the rewards given by the family to recruit men to form a family in the small town under the mountain.

After he understood the situation clearly, he lifted the effect of the "ecstasy", and then put the unconscious woman back on the bed, and left Qingniu Mountain directly, without any intention of meeting the two monks on the mountain.

He knew very well that as long as he didn't show up and didn't make it clear that he had been here and that the Zhou family monk in charge of it was here, he would never dare to take it lightly and neglect his explanation.

After going around from Qingniu Mountain and returning to "Ping'anfang City", Zhou Yang sent a message to Chen Pingzhi through the Chen family monk in Fangfang City, informing the other party that he was coming.

"Hahaha, Zhou Xiaoyou is really a believer, Chen has been waiting for Xiaoyou for a long time. ”

Chen Pingzhi was in a hurry, Zhou Yang just rested for an hour in the "Yuquan Building" not long after the new opening, and he rushed over after receiving the news.

"Not long after the younger generation took over the family, there are always some things to explain clearly before going out, but it has taken a lot of time, and it has been annoying that the seniors have waited for a long time. Zhou Yang arched his hand, and his face showed just the right amount of apology.

Chen Pingzhi's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help laughing and said: "Hahaha, Xiaoyou's words are serious, I am waiting for the foundation building monk, more than 200 years of life, just a few days of waiting, what is it? If Xiaoyou still has something to solve, it can be solved later, Chen can still afford to wait for this time!"

"No need, the things that the juniors should do have been done, if it is convenient for Senior Chen, you can now tell the juniors what you want the juniors to do. Zhou Yang shook his head, but he went straight to the point and asked about the purpose of Chen Pingzhi's trip.

Seeing him so refreshing, Chen Pingzhi finally showed a heartfelt smile on his face.

He looked at Zhou Yang with a smile on his face and said, "This matter is a long story, Chen will make a long story short." ”

"This time, I asked Zhou Xiaoyou to come over to help, I want Xiaoyou to accompany the old man to explore the cave left by a senior monk, the original owner of the cave should not be more than the foundation building period, and there is not much danger for us. ”

And so it was!

After listening to Chen Pingzhi's words, Zhou Yang said in his heart.

Since Chen Pingzhi asked him for help and guessed in advance, he could also answer according to the plan he had thought of in advance.

He looked at Chen Pingzhi with a smile on his face, his face was solemn, and he asked solemnly: "Senior Chen is so calm, then please forgive the juniors for taking the taste, the juniors want to ask the juniors, if there is something to be gained from this expedition, can the juniors have a share?"

It's okay to owe favors to come and help, but if you help in vain, it's definitely not okay.

When Chen Pingzhi lent the cave mansion to build a foundation for him, he also received a lot of benefits from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, and now he came to help the other party, of course, there must be a reward to be appropriate.

Of course, Chen Pingzhi also knew this truth, so when he heard him ask like this, he didn't get angry, but just restrained the smile on his face, looked at him and replied: "If Xiaoyou didn't make a move, Chen gave Xiaoyou a hundred spirit stones for the journey, if Xiaoyou made a move, Chen will give Xiaoyou one to two percent of the harvest depending on Xiaoyou's contribution, what does Xiaoyou think?"

The harvest of one to two percent is naturally far lower than the income of a normal group of monks to explore, but if the factor of returning favors is taken into account, this sharing ratio is not unacceptable.

Zhou Yang thought about it, and finally nodded and said, "Just do what Senior Chen said." ”

"Then you and I'll leave now. Chen Pingzhi seemed to be really anxious and was about to leave.

And since Zhou Yang had already agreed to help, he could only keep up with his footsteps at this time, and after the two of them left Fang City, they directly released their flying swords and flew towards the boundless sand sea outside the Baisha River Oasis.

When Edgeworth was flying, in order to allow Zhou Yang to keep up, Chen Pingzhi, who was already a sixth-layer foundation cultivator, deliberately slowed down a lot, and at the same time, he also told Zhou Yang the reason why he was in a hurry to leave.

"It's good for Daoist friends to know that Huangshamen has already agreed to my ancestor's request for help, and in the near future, he will send a Zifu monk and ten foundation building monks to come to the Baisha River Oasis to help investigate the whereabouts of that group of sand bandits. ”

What the?

When Zhou Yang heard the news, he was really surprised.

He was not surprised that someone would come to Huangshamen, after all, when the gang of sand bandits attacked the Baishahe Oasis, they even robbed their shop in Huangshamen.

However, the Huangshamen would send the Purple Mansion monks to stay for a long time to assist the Chen family in searching for the whereabouts of the sand bandits, and the deep meaning of this is worth pondering.

You must know that the monks of the Purple Mansion period are all a radish and a pit, and they usually sit on one side and have important tasks.

If the Chen family found the whereabouts of the gang of sand bandits and applied to Huangshamen for assistance from high-level monks, it would be normal for Huangshamen to send Zifu monks to help.

But now that the Chen family didn't even know where the gang of sand bandits were, it was surprising that Huangshamen could send a high-ranking Zifu period monk to lead ten foundation-building monks to stay in the Baishahe Oasis for a long time.

As the patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Yang was of course very concerned about this situation, so although he knew that it was a bit inappropriate to ask such a question, he still couldn't help but ask Chen Pingzhi: "Please forgive the juniors for being presumptuous, can Senior Chen know why Huangshamen did this? Which Zifu senior in Huangshamen will come?"

"Xiaoyou is asking Chen, the matter of contacting Huangshamen is all done by the ancestor himself, Chen now doesn't know how the ancestor said about moving Huangshamen, is this news, or did my brother secretly tell Chen!"

Chen Pingzhi didn't know if he really didn't know, or he didn't want to say more, anyway, Zhou Yang couldn't get any useful information from him.

This cast a shadow over his heart.

He knew very well that there must be a reason for Huangshamen's abnormal behavior, and they, the vassal families under Huangshamen, would definitely be involved.

couldn't help but think of the guess he had made about the origin of that gang of sand bandits, could he really guess it?