Chapter Seventy-Seven: A Clear Conscience (I)
A boundless sea of sand, beneath the nameless sand dunes.
said that Zhou Yang hid under the sand dunes to recuperate, and naturally he didn't know how much worry his hiding had brought to his family.
There is no spiritual vein here in the sand dune, and if he wants to recover his mana, he can only hold the spirit stone in his hand to absorb the spiritual power in the spirit stone and refine it into mana, this speed naturally cannot be compared with the third-order spirit vein.
If it was on the third-order spirit vein, he would be able to recover all his mana in just one day, but if he absorbed the lower grade spirit stone, he would not be able to succeed without a day or two of effort.
However, mana recovery is still a small matter, even if it takes a little more time, it is nothing.
For Zhou Yang, the most uncomfortable thing is that the loss of essence and blood cannot be recovered.
He used the "Blood Escape Technique" to escape for his life, and he consumed more than 20% of his essence blood at once, but taking the "Purple Jade Heart Replenishing Pill" only made up less than 10%.
Now the loss of more than 10% of the essence blood has become the source of his discomfort.
It must be known that essence and blood are the foundation of a monk, and the damage to essence and blood affects all aspects.
The most intuitive manifestation is that Zhou Yang's original handsome image, because of the excessive loss of essence and blood, has now directly turned into a pale and languishing image of a sick showman, and anyone who sees it knows that this person is sick.
These depleted essence blood can't be replenished in a day, and his cultivation can't be improved in a day, and at the same time, he can't engage in intense, long-term fighting, and it's best not to do anything that consumes mana.
Otherwise, once the injury is affected due to excessive mana consumption and the vitality is damaged, it will be even more difficult to make up for it in the future, and it may even leave an injury that cannot be healed for a lifetime.
Originally, at this time, the best way to deal with it was to return to your own cave mansion, close the cave mansion and retreat for a few years to slowly recover.
It's a pity that for him now, this condition is simply not realistic.
The sand dunes had no spiritual veins, so they were not a place to recuperate at all, and he did not dare to enter a state of deep retreat in such a place without any formation protection.
Therefore, his original plan was to stay for two days to recover his mana, and then return to the Baisha River Oasis to find a recovery strategy after the mana was restored.
It's just that he didn't expect that Chen Pingzhi, who threw himself away and ran away, did not escape his life in the end, and died in the vast sea of sand.
Therefore, when the ancestor of the Chen family cast the "Touching Heaven and Earth Searching for Relatives Spell" and took Zhou Xuanhao to find the sky above the sand dunes where he was hiding, he was shocked by the huge momentum on the body of the Purple Mansion period monk, and thought that it was the Purple Mansion period master among the sand bandits who chased him, and his already pale face turned white in an instant, and his eyes already showed despair.
Then just when he was desperate and ready to risk his life and use the "Blood Escape Technique" to escape again, the shouts of his father Zhou Xuanhao reached his ears in time.
"Where is my son Zhou Yang? My father is coming to you, come out and see my father!"
Is it the voice of the father?
In the underground secret room, Zhou Yang, who was casting a spell, shook his hands, almost thinking that he was hallucinating because of the loss of essence and blood.
It wasn't until later that he heard Zhou Xuanhao's shouts again and again, that he was sure that he had heard correctly, and immediately quickly escaped out of the underground secret room and came to the ground in surprise and joy.
When he got to the ground, he saw the ancestor of the Chen family and his father Zhou Xuanhao standing in the sky with the sword hanging in the air, and Zhou Yang's heart was completely put back in his stomach.
"Junior Zhou Yang, I have seen Senior Chen. ”
The ancestor of the Chen family was there for cultivation and identity, Zhou Yang didn't dare to be rude, so he could only bow and salute him first, and then saluted his father Zhou Xuanhao, who was looking at him with excitement and excitement: "The child has seen his father." ”
He was courteous for a few weeks, and even if the ancestor of the Chen family was in a bad mood now, it was not easy to have a direct attack, so he could only look at him with a straight face and ask: "These common rites are exempt, the old man asks you, you and Pingzhi went out to explore together, why are you the only one here now? What happened during your expedition?"
Zhou Xuanhao, who was on the side, heard him ask, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but a huge force of divine consciousness directly isolated him.
Needless to say, this was obviously the possibility of the Chen family's ancestor taking action to prevent him from colluding with Zhou Yang.
This kind of situation that happened at the level of divine consciousness, Zhou Yang was not a party to it, and he couldn't find anything, not to mention that the question of the ancestor of the Chen family was not difficult to answer in his opinion.
What's more, he also has a grudge against Chen Pingzhi for leaving him and running away alone, and now that the ancestor of the Chen family took the initiative to ask, don't blame him for complaining.
Immediately, he started with the discovery of the "Thousand Machines Cave Heaven" by the two of them, and told all the details of how the two fought against the puppet beasts, how they distributed the harvest in the cave, and how Chen Pingzhi begged for help after being attacked by someone, and how he later said goodbye and ran away without saying a word.
He asked himself that there was nothing to be sorry for Chen Pingzhi when he came out on an expedition this time, so when he said these words, there was no hesitation or hesitation, which could be described as done in one go, without any hint of falsehood.
However, he only said that Chen Pingzhi left him and ran away alone, but he didn't say much about how he fought against the two sand bandits and how he used the "Blood Escape Technique" to escape for his life.
And the ancestor of the Chen family listened to his narration, his face did not change in the whole process, only when Zhou Yang said that Chen Pingzhi left him and ran away alone, his eyes moved slightly, and a trace of annoyance flashed in his eyes.
When Zhou Yang finished speaking, he hadn't said anything, and Zhou Xuanhao, who had also listened to Zhou Yang's story, was already anxiously shouting loudly for his son: "Senior Chen, you heard it, Yang'er He definitely didn't do anything to be sorry for Pingzhi's seniors, and the fall of Pingzhi's predecessors has nothing to do with him!"
Chen Pingzhi is dead!
Zhou Yang's face was stunned, he finally knew how the ancestor of the Chen family would appear here, and then his face suddenly became ugly.
If Chen Pingzhi was still alive, what he said just now would be enough to give an explanation to the Chen family.
But Chen Pingzhi died!
Chen Pingzhi's death, even if the ancestor of the Chen family believed that what he said just now was not false, he would definitely not be so good.
Sure enough, after hearing Zhou Xuanhao shouting for Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the Chen family couldn't help glaring at him fiercely, and said in a cold voice: "The old man is not deaf, and he can still hear the voice clearly, so I don't need you as a junior to teach the old man how to do things!"
Zhou Xuanhao was glared at by him, and suddenly trembled with fright, and hurriedly lowered the flying sword and fell to the ground, bowed deeply and saluted: "The juniors don't dare, just now the juniors recklessly bumped into the seniors, please calm the seniors' anger." ”
Seeing this, Zhou Yang was also shocked in his heart, and couldn't help blurting out loudly: "Senior Chen, one person does things and one person is responsible, this matter has nothing to do with my father, you want to investigate the fall of Pingzhi's seniors, the juniors can fully cooperate, please don't implicate the juniors' families." ”
"Heh, your father and son have a deep father-son relationship, and when you say this, it seems that the old man is not close to people, and he bullies the small with the big!" The ancestor of the Chen family sneered, and there was already a trace of annoyance in his words.
What's wrong?
Their Chen family died a foundation-building monk, and they became an unreasonable party?
"Juniors don't dare!"
Zhou Xuanhao and Zhou Yang's hearts jumped, and they lowered their heads deeply and didn't dare to say a word more.
The anger of the Purple Mansion Stage monks was not something that the two of them could bear if they really provoked the Chen family ancestor, and there would be no good fruit for the two of them to eat.
Fortunately, after all, the ancestor of the Chen family was a cultivator in the late stage of the Purple Mansion, and he had been practicing for hundreds of years, so he still had the ability to control himself.
Seeing that the two of them admitted their mistakes and relented, he didn't pursue the disrespectful remarks of the two just now, but just looked at Zhou Yang with sharp eyes and asked sharply: "Zhou family boy, the old man asks you, you said that Chen Pingzhi left you alone and ran away, but what proof is there? And why didn't you finish your words just now? Why do you want to hide the fact that you got out?"
Prove?
Who can prove it to themselves?
Sand bandits?
Zhou Yang's face was bitter, and he couldn't answer the question of the ancestor of the Chen family at all.
In fact, the ancestor of the Chen family and he both knew that it was impossible for witnesses to testify in this kind of thing, and the intention of the ancestor of the Chen family to ask him this question was not to ask him to find witnesses to testify at all, but to have other intentions.
It's just that if that matter is brought up by the ancestor of the Chen family, it is equivalent to confirming what the other party said before, and there is a suspicion of bullying the small, so the other party will use this method to imply that he proposed it himself.
But for him, once he brought up that matter, it meant that his privacy and his secrets might be exposed to others, which was something he was very difficult to accept, and few immortal cultivators could accept it.
He didn't want to answer, but the ancestor of the Chen family wouldn't watch him delay like this, and couldn't help asking, "What? Do you want to answer the old man, or did you make up what you said before?"
"Ancestor ......" Zhou Xuanhao looked at Zhou Yang, who bowed his head and was silent, and couldn't help but say a few words to defend his son, but unfortunately, as soon as he spoke, he was pressed back by the colossal momentum exuded by the ancestor of the Chen family.
"Did the old man let you speak?"
The ancestor of the Chen family glanced at him sharply, and the meaning of the warning was already obvious.
Zhou Xuanhao was a dignified foundation building monk, but at this time, he didn't dare to take a breath more, so he could only lower his head in frustration, not daring to say another word.
When Zhou Yang saw this scene, he was shocked and angry, how could he want to see his father humiliated for himself again?
I saw that his face was flushed and he looked directly at the ancestor of the Chen family, and said in a resolute voice: "Why is the ancestor so aggressive? You want the junior to provide witness evidence, the junior can't do it, but the junior can return to the Baisha River Oasis with the ancestor, and then in front of the seniors of Huangshamen, accept the interrogation of the ancestor [Asking the Heart], so as to prove that what the junior said is true and has a clear conscience!"
"Okay, you said it yourself, don't regret it when the time comes!"
The ancestor of the Chen family looked at him deeply, but this time he didn't care about his verbal collision anymore.
He has persecuted people like this, can't he make them feel a little emotional?
As long as he can achieve his goal, he still won't care about this little bit.