According to the plan, early tomorrow morning, it will be the time for the spiritual materials purchased in the Guanghan Palace to be loaded on the ship, and everyone will return to the sect with the ship.

However, after Hua Tianzong and his party finished fighting and returned to the wing, only an hour later, they received a summons from Shi Qing, the steward monk. Everyone came to the room where the captain of the Heavenly Sword Peak, Ran Huabing, was the leader.

Ran Huabing's wing room was twice as large as Wang Xian's other disciples in the foundation building period, and he was sitting in the main seat of the living room, and glanced around at the disciples who had just arrived, with a solemn expression.

Wang Xian noticed that the disciple of Hua Tianfeng, who was rescued by everyone on the way this time, sat in the first seat under Ran Huabing's left hand, and sat face to face with Shi Qing, who was sitting in the first seat under his right hand.

After a period of recuperation, the rescued Hua Tianfeng disciple has recovered from his injuries. Everyone saw that he was also sitting solemnly on the mat, and they all realized that the atmosphere today was a little unusual.

Sure enough, Ran Huabing nodded to the rescued Hua Tianfeng disciple, and the disciple began to tell everyone the reason for summoning everyone.

It turned out that the rescued monk was a latent monk stationed in Chierdo City from Huatian Fengtang, named Zhu Yong. He worked as a mobile vendor selling spiritual objects in the Fang Market of Chierdo City, and Peng Hu, another fellow disciple who lurked in the Houtumen shop as an acolyte, and was jointly responsible for the intelligence collection of the cultivation realm in Chierdo City.

Both of them used the cultivation at the end of Qi refining to hide people's eyes and ears so as not to attract attention.

Last time, Peng Hu sent news that the Houtumen store had purchased a jade plaque of a monk from hundreds of years ago, which recorded the cultivation of a monk at that time, and the monk's name was Zhang Qingmin.

In what Xiuzhen has seen, it is mentioned that in the southwest outside the city of Chierdo, about one or two hundred miles away, a monk once disappeared.

The missing monk had just obtained a thousand-year-old ice milk stone, a mid-level spiritual artifact of the Ice and Earth Clan, which was sold at a grand auction in Fang City.

After he left the auction, he was followed by Zhang Qingmin and another group of people who coveted his spiritual objects. Zhang Qingmin originally wanted to kill people and seize treasures, but when he tracked him to more than a hundred miles southwest of the city, he lost his trace in his consciousness.

At that time, Zhang Qingmin's divine sense found that when the monk disappeared, there had been a fierce fight, and what was fighting with the monk was the ghost skill of the ghost cultivator.

Under the deterrence of the ghost skill, Zhang Qingmin did not dare to go to investigate the truth, but waited until the end of the battle between the two sides and there was no spiritual power fluctuation, Zhang Qingmin went to investigate carefully, but at that time, he could no longer detect the movement.

Based on this, Zhang Qingmin speculated that there must be a ghost cultivator's lair near a hundred miles southwest of Chierdo City. That ghost cultivator, intercepting and killing that monk, was naturally to absorb his dantian spiritual power, thinking that it had been used.

However, judging from the reactions of the monks in the vicinity at that time, there should not be a large number of ghost cultivators underneath this place.

Therefore, Zhang Qingmin speculated that the ghost cultivator should be a lone ghost cultivator, as long as he was found and killed, he could get the ice milk stone of the missing monk, and maybe even find traces of other ghost cultivators in Mengyuan Prefecture.

Peng Hu, as a waiter monk in the Houtumen shop, paid attention to every move of the monks in the shop, and found out about the matter in time.

He went to the area of a hundred miles southwest of Chierdo City several times to investigate, and he found that after Houtumen obtained this jade plaque, he also sent several monks in the foundation building period to the area mentioned by Zhang Qingmin to carefully investigate.

Houtumen probed several times, found nothing, and did not give up. It wasn't until he got a spirit beast that tracked the spirit object that the Houtumen monk found the whereabouts of the missing monk, which turned out to be in a lair deep underground.

In the storms on the wasteland, the wind continued to blow away the large areas of dirt and gravel on the ground of the lair, and the lair got closer and closer to the ground until it could be detected by a fifth-level spirit beast.

In order to prevent there were still ghost cultivators in the lair, the Houtumen monks did not dig after finding the lair. Instead, he planned to wait until the two foundation-building monks who had been invited for assistance from the main gate met up with the two foundation-building monks who were resident in Chierdo City, and then began to dig with the strength of four people.

The monks of Houtumen were extremely interested in the clues of Ice Stone Milk and Ghost Cultivation, and for this reason, they did not hesitate to go to great lengths to alarm the General Sect to send reinforcements.

Houtumen, who took refuge in a first-class demon sect in the Northern Luo Kingdom, below the master of the sect, most of them practiced demonic skills. The Demon Sect has always turned a blind eye to ghost cultivation, and as long as they don't infringe on their own interests, they don't care about ghost cultivation.

However, when the ghost cultivator appears near his own territory, they can't ignore it, but they just won't take the initiative to provoke it.

However, Huatian Sect is different, immortal cultivators and ghost cultivators are cultivators who swear to be incompatible, as long as they find ghost cultivators, they will want to get rid of them as soon as possible.

The matter of ghost cultivation naturally attracted Zhu Yong's great attention. He asked Peng Hu to seize all the belongings of the missing monk at all costs, and collect all possible clues to the ghost cultivation, as for the ice stone milk, it is just an incidental thing, it is good to be able to find it, but it doesn't matter if it can't be found.

In order not to let the Houtumen monks take the lead. Zhu Yong and Peng Hu launched the excavation in advance before the reinforcements from the Houtumen General Gate arrived.

Because Peng Hu didn't get too close when he followed the Houtumen monks, and the two didn't track the spirit beasts of the spiritual objects, when they were digging, they explored and dug at the same time, took some detours, and dug for several miles before finally digging into the secret room. It took a lot of time and a lot of mana.

After breaking into the secret room, the two found that there were two storage bags in the secret room, one belonged to the monk who photographed the ice milk stone recorded in the Xiuzhen record, and the other belonged to a ghost cultivator.

From the traces at the scene, it can be roughly inferred that when the ghost cultivator was outside to intercept and kill the monk, he encountered fierce resistance. In the end, although the monk was killed and the storage bag was taken away by the ghost cultivator, before he died, he desperately triggered a fire storm talisman that burned the ghost cultivator's divine consciousness and mana to serious injuries.

The ghost cultivator returned to the underground chamber and self-destructed all the passages to retreat to heal his wounds, but eventually died of his injuries and died before he could heal. To this day, there are still ghost cultivators in the secret room who have turned into ashes, leaving behind a wisp of ghost energy, as well as a little charred black powder formed after the firepower, which is estimated to be stained by ghost cultivators.

Zhu Yong accepted the storage bag of the ghost cultivator on the spot, and the two of them took out the thousand-year-old ice milk stone and checked it, planning to divide the spiritual object equally after escaping.

But just as the two of them were about to exit through the tunnel they had dug themselves, they were intercepted and killed by the four monks of the foundation building period who arrived in time.

Originally, it should not be difficult for the two Huatian Sect foundation building period monks to escape against the four of them. But the two of them had dug several miles of tunnels, and they had lost twenty percent of their mana.

And the monks of the Houtumen are all cultivators of the earth surname Demon Skill, and there are many spells that can be used underground, and they have received a lot of help from the earth element.

In addition, the Houtumen monk blocked the exit of the secret room from the outside, forcing the two to fight in the narrow secret room, as a result, Peng Hu fell, and Zhu Yong also fell into a heavy siege.

Speaking of this, Zhu Yong paused for a while, revealing a gloomy expression, obviously he felt pity for Peng Hu's fall, if Peng Hu held on for a while, he would be able to wait for Wang Xian and his party to escape.

When the people saw him pause, they also pondered in silence. Wang Xian and the others originally thought that Zhu Yong and the others were trapped for the ice milk, which did not belong to the scope of Fengtang's duties, if it was for their own selfish interests, killing people and seizing treasures, taking risks lightly, and exposing the secrets of cultivation during the foundation building period, it would be against the rules of the sect.

Who knows, the inside story is not what it seems, Wang Xian's impression of Zhu Yong has changed greatly.

Everyone knows that Fengtang is only responsible for gathering information, and is not responsible for taking the initiative to carry out attacks. However, collecting intelligence is also risky, and if it is detected, it may fall into a bitter battle at any time. There are not many Fengtang monks who have fallen in order to gather information.

Ghost cultivation is considered to be the scum of the cultivation world, the natural enemy of the cultivator, and everyone is punished for it. The immortal cultivators of the Taitian Continent have always sworn against them. Demon cultivators also avoid ghost cultivators.

The Cultivation Realm didn't even recognize ghost cultivators as cultivators, because they couldn't fly to other star realms, and they were just harmful spirits who survived.

In the previous life of ghost cultivation, they were immortal cultivators, demon cultivators, and demon cultivators, and when their longevity was exhausted, they were unwilling to fall into reincarnation, and they still practiced ghost skills after death, retaining the remaining wisps of ghosts and divine consciousness. At this time, their physical bodies were dead, and only skeletons and ghost dantian remained.