On the mountainside of Taiqiu Mountain, in the Li family's family charity hall.

At the door of the side room where Li Xuangang often stayed, a member of the Xuanzi clan was pushing open the door of this side room at the signal of Li Yuxian.

When he entered it, Li Yuxian covered the door again, and reminded softly:

"Uncle Clan, Uncle Nine is inside. ”

The Li clansman named Li Xuanqin nodded lightly, indicating that he knew, and then after Li Yuxian re-covered the door from the outside, he turned around and walked towards the side room.

He walked around a black and white screen with countless cuttlefish swimming on it, and then he saw Li Xuangang sitting behind a wooden table in the center of the side room.

He walked forward, stopped at one foot of the wooden table, and bowed and bowed:

"Xuan Qin has seen Brother Jiu. ”

Li Xuangang knew that someone had entered the side room, but he was thinking a little too much at this time, so he waited until Li Xuanqin came out to salute him, and then he raised his head and looked at the figure in front of him.

Seeing that it was Li Xuanqin, a smile appeared on his face, and he stretched out his hand to ask him to come over and sit down opposite him.

Li Xuanqin also showed a smile on his face, walked forward, pulled a wooden chair on the side of the wooden table and sat down.

After straightening his posture, he called out "Ninth Brother" again.

Li Xuanqin is ranked thirty-third among the Li family's Xuanzi clansmen, and his current cultivation is already at the ninth level of qi refining, and he is one of the few clansmen in the family who has been performing tasks outside.

Therefore, he is rarely seen on Taiqiu Mountain.

Li Xuangang had rarely seen him in the family before, but he still had some impressions of this clan brother, and in the book about the distribution of clansmen that he saw from the eighth uncle last time, he also knew that Li Xuanqin was the first batch of clansmen to follow the sixth uncle Li Qingshu to board the treasure ship.

It stands to reason that he shouldn't have seen him here at this time, he should still be on a family mission on that fourth-order treasure ship.

And counting the days, there are still several years before the rotation of the clansmen on the treasure boat.

So after simply cleaning up the pile of jade tubes and classics in front of him, Li Xuangang opened his mouth to ask Li Xuanqin about his intentions.

"What is Xuan Qin looking for me when he comes back this time?"

Li Xuanqin's face became respectful, knowing that Brother Jiu was now the chief elder of the family, so in the face of the inquiry, he immediately responded:

"Brother Jiu, I really have two things I want to talk to you about. ”

Li Xuanqin said as he took off a storage bag on his waist and handed it over.

Seeing this, Li Xuangang also took the storage bag with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

But he didn't open it immediately, but continued to listen to Li Xuanqin's narration.

......

On the wooden table between Li Xuangang and Li Xuanqin, there was a stove of sandalwood used to refresh the mind, and more than half of it was burning at the moment.

A wisp of lilac smoke about a dozen inches high emerged from the golden base at the bottom, and finally spread out to all sides at the highest point, and gradually disappeared in the space.

Only a faint hint of sandalwood could be smelled in the air.

Li Xuanqin smelled this sandalwood, and his mind suddenly became clear, and the idea of what he was telling became clearer.

In this process, Li Xuangang listened quietly and did not interrupt the other party, until he finished speaking, he fell silent with a serious face.

It turned out that after the Li family's treasure ship returned from Hengduanfang City to the port of Tianhefang City, Li Xuanshan on the treasure ship called Li Xuanqin to the cabin and told him not to participate in the subsequent voyage of the treasure ship, but to board the treasure ship, and then return to Taiqiu Mountain with the caravan left by the family in Tianhefang City.

Li Xuanshan's order will naturally not be for no reason, and from Li Xuanqin's narration, I know that this time the former mainly asked him to bring back two things to Li Xuangang.

One was to bring back a storage bag, but Li Xuanqin didn't know what was in this storage bag, but Li Xuanshan told him to keep it properly and hand it over to Li Xuangang himself.

The second is to bring back a piece of news, and it was this news that made Li Xuangang's face serious.

"Tenth brother Li Xuankun has disappeared in the Hengduan Mountain Range!"

Hearing the news from Li Xuanqin's mouth, Li Xuangang's heart tightened, and the hand holding the storage bag increased a little strength, and there was a layer of pale cyan scale armor looming on the arm hidden under the black Xuanqin.

Li Xuanqin noticed the change in Brother Jiu, and after he finished speaking, he no longer spoke, but waited for the latter to make a decision.

The two were silent for a few breaths, Li Xuangang's heart calmed down, and his right hand in the storage bag had been released.

So he spoke:

"What more information is there?"

Li Xuanqin took out a jade tube from the storage bag, handed it over, and said:

"The fifteenth brother said that the fourth brother sent someone to hand it to him, so he didn't know the specific situation, but this jade cylinder was burned by the fourth uncle, and there should be relevant details of the tenth brother's disappearance. ”

Li Xuangang took the jade tube, stared at the past, and tried to immerse himself in his divine sense several times to check it, but finally gave up.

Looking at the jade cylinder in his hand, he was silent for a moment, then got up from the wooden chair and walked towards the door of this side room.

"Follow me. ”

Li Xuanqin didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly got up and followed behind Li Xuangang.

The two entered the lobby, and the clansmen who took over the family tasks here bowed and saluted, but Li Xuangang ignored it, but walked out of the Good Gong Hall quickly.

The clansmen who remained in the hall of the Good Achievement Hall naturally saw that Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang was wrong at this time, and they were still speculating about whether something big had happened to the family.

At this time, Li Yuxian, who was still sorting out the jade tube of the family task in the Shangong Hall, was the same, looking at the back of Uncle Jiu leaving, and secretly guessing in his heart whether something had happened.

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By the time Li Xuangang and Li Xuanqin reappeared, they had already arrived at the family ancestral hall on the mountainside.

With his open hand, he took a picture of the genealogy on the altar in front of him, and with a wave of his big sleeve, the genealogy turned to the page where there were Xuanzi clansmen.

Li Xuangang frowned and looked for Li Xuankun's name on it, until he found it, and confirmed that the three words "Li Xuankun" had not dimmed, and his life was worry-free, and his brows stretched again.

......

Walked forward, sent the genealogy back to the altar and put it away, and then Li Xuangang turned around and picked up the jade cylinder in his hand and pasted it on his forehead and began to check the specific contents inside.

Li Xuanqin is not wrong, the fourth uncle Li Qingjing did record the specific situation of the disappearance of the tenth brother Li Xuankun in the Hengduan Mountains in this jade tube.

According to the news recorded by the fourth uncle, Li Qingjing, in the jade tube, Xuan Kun had already reached the peak of the Qi refining realm a year ago.

So he made a request to the fourth uncle Li Qingjing at the Lingshan gathering point, saying that he planned to go to the Hengduan Mountain Range alone to seek an opportunity to break through the realm, and repeatedly promised that he would only be active in the periphery of the Hengduan Mountain Range, and would not go too deep.

And the fourth uncle, Li Qingjing, considered that Li Xuankun had been in and out of the Hengduan Mountains many times over the years and had sufficient experience, so after giving him some protective measures, he agreed to this request.

But he never expected that since Li Xuankun entered the Hengduan Mountain Range, he never appeared again.

After waiting for half a year, Li Qingjing asked the clansmen stationed at the Lingshan Gathering Point, and found that no clansmen had seen Li Xuankun again in the past six months, so he sensed that something was wrong.

However, at this time, Li Qingjing only faintly had some worries, and Li Xuankun had also stayed in the Hengduan Mountain Range for several months in the past.

This time it's only been a little longer, maybe he has encountered some special encounter inside, and after a while, he may come out of the Hengduan Mountain Range and return to the Lingshan stronghold.

Therefore, Li Qingjing instructed the clansmen who entered the Hengduan Mountain Range to hunt demon beasts to pay attention to Li Xuankun's traces, while waiting for the latter to return by himself.

But I didn't expect that more than half a year would pass.

At this time, a full year had passed since Li Xuankun entered the Hengduan Mountains.

Therefore, at this time, Li Qingjing, who had just left the customs, realized that Li Xuankun might have had an accident after learning about the situation from the people stationed there.

contacted the family's store in Hengduanfang City for the first time to determine the clansmen who carried out the family tasks in it, and they had not seen Li Xuankun in Hengduanfang City in the past year, knowing that this matter could not be delayed any longer.

So Li Qingjing immediately recorded the relevant situation in the jade tube, and asked Li Xuanshan, who arrived in Hengduanfang City by treasure boat, to bring the jade tube back to the family.

And because there were too many matters on the treasure ship, Li Xuanshan couldn't leave, so he asked Li Xuanqin to go back to Taiqiu Mountain for him and bring this jade tube to the ninth brother Li Xuangang.

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Knowing the ins and outs of the whole thing, Li Xuangang took the jade tube off his forehead, and his face was cloudy.

Seeing this, Li Xuanqin didn't dare to disturb, and still stood in place waiting for Brother Jiu's arrangement.

Walk out of the ancestral hall and stand on the steps under the eaves.

Outside, the clear sky that had been cloudless not long ago had already begun to gather dark clouds.

Li Xuangang's face was serious, his eyes were half-squinted and he looked at the west, and a strong evil aura began to spread from his body.

Feeling this coldness, Li Xuanqin couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

Immediately, a gust of wind and rain came, and he saw that the jade cylinder in Brother Jiu's hand was shattered into countless fines.

He didn't start to guess what happened to the tenth brother?

......

What happened to Li Xuankun is also what Li Xuangang wants to know.

He looked at the dark clouds and the stormy west, and thought of the abnormality that Li Xuankun had shown in the past, and couldn't help but feel a little angry.

As the fourth uncle said in the jade tube, Xuankun has something to hide from the family, and now he is out of the family's control!

His eyes were half-squinted, his eyes flickered, and in the face of the wind and rain, Li Xuangang whispered:

Li Xuankun...... What the hell are you doing?"

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It seems that the connection between this bloodline has been induced, and in a certain cave in the distant Hengduan Mountain Range, Li Xuankun, who was sitting cross-legged to recover his spiritual power, was suddenly awakened, and his mind began to panic inexplicably.

He got up and pushed away the boulder blocking the entrance to the cave, and began to look sad at the heavy rain in the dense forest outside.

There was an incomparably special aura fluctuation inside the cave, so Li Xuankun didn't have time to explore the source of this panic in his heart.

He hurriedly cast a spell to pull back the boulder to block the entrance of the cave, and then took out a formation plate given to him by Sibo Li Qingjing and spread it out in the entrance of the cave, and after arranging the concealment formation very skillfully, he immediately turned around and returned to the inside of the cave.

The family-standard black robe on his body was gone, replaced by an ordinary blue robe.

Except for his unusually handsome appearance, he no longer looked like a member of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain, but an ordinary casual cultivator.

Li Xuankun's figure was hidden in the darkness of the cave, the black was very pure, and he couldn't be found no matter how he was found.

At this moment, the heavy rain outside the cave was dripping, and the heavy raindrops of beans fell between the dense forests, making a sound that seemed chaotic but contained a special rhythm.

This kind of sound on such a rainy night brings an inexplicable peace to the two figures in the cave!

......

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A day later, Li Xuanqin left Taiqiu Mountain again, and he followed the family's caravan to the west of Wujiangfang City.

And with him, there is also a jade tube brought by the ninth brother Li Xuangang to the fourth uncle Li Qingjing.

It records some of the measures taken by the ninth brother to deal with the disappearance of the tenth brother Li Xuankun.

The huge giant tortoise beast was getting farther and farther away from the family, and Li Xuanqin fell at the back of the caravan and turned his head to look at the Taiqiu Mountain that was surrounded by smoke and rain.

At this moment, he suddenly understood the anger of the ninth brother Li Xuangang towards the tenth brother, and inexplicably felt a trace of sympathy for the former.

It seems that everything is calm, who knows what kind of turbulent waves are hidden?

The family affairs are already thrilling and cautious.

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In the side room of the Good Gong Hall, Li Xuangang sat silently on the wooden chair, surrounded by purple sandalwood, and his face could not be seen clearly.

After a while, he suddenly sighed, and then he sorted out some matters related to the next family on the wooden table, and finally opened the storage bag that his fifteenth brother Li Xuanshan brought to him to see what was inside.

This is a small storage bag, and the cloth is a family prohibition, so after Li Xuangang immersed himself in his divine sense, he opened it very smoothly.

Since this is a small storage bag, naturally there is not much in it.

In fact, Li Xuangang only saw two items from inside.

One is a very delicate pure white jade bottle, while the other is a jade tube.

The gaze moved back and forth between the two, and finally the jade tube was picked up to examine.

And there is only one line of words in the jade cylinder, and only Liao Liao's words are recorded:

"Brother Jiu, you owe me four thousand five hundred and sixty-seven points of family contribution!"

put down the jade tube, the corners of his mouth showed a trace of curvature, and the negative emotions in his heart because of the matter of his tenth brother Li Xuankun disappeared a lot.

In the hazy purple sandalwood, he reached out and opened the pure white jade bottle.

The moment the cork left the mouth of the bottle, an incomparably thick bloody gas immediately poured out of it, filling the entire side room in an instant.

"Third-order high-grade demon beast essence blood?"

After checking that it was correct, Li Xuangang took back the jade bottle and the jade cylinder, and then moved out of the Good Gong Hall, turning into a ray of light and flying back to his cave.

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The sky after the storm is so blue that there is no more appropriate adjective than clean.

At such a rainy and sunny moment, a cave on Taiqiu Mountain was opened, and a tall black figure walked out of it.

With a good figure and pleasant facial features, it is Li Xuanyu, who is the twelfth in the Li family's Xuanyu generation!