Zhou Yuanjing, the elder of the Zhou family, unexpectedly fell outside, and this matter quickly spread in the Zhou family, and even many people from other families knew about it.

The monks of the Zhou family were talking about it, and many people wrote to the monks of the foundation-building period of the family, requesting to find out the truth and severely punish the murderer.

The foundation-building monks of the Zhou family also responded to the demands of the tribe. The three foundation-building monks, Zhou Yang, Zhou Minghan, and Huang Yi, set off separately from the Yuquan Lake Oasis and carried out a dragnet search along the road to the Baisha River Oasis.

A few of them searched for a month in a big way, but they couldn't even find the place where Zhou Yuanjing was killed. In the end, they could only issue a reward order to all the monks to ask for news about Zhou Yuanjing, even if it was the news of the place of death.

"Obviously, Yuan Jing must have been attacked by a foundation-building cultivator whose strength far exceeded his own, and then was instantly killed without any resistance, so it can be explained why our three foundation-building cultivators searched for a month, I can't find any traces of fighting!"

On Yuquan Peak, the three Zhou family cultivators at the foundation-building stage returned to the family after completing the search, and closed the door to talk about their views on Zhou Yuanjing's fall.

As the elder, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan was the first to express his speculation.

When Zhou Yang heard this, he did not rush to express his opinion, but looked at Huang Yi and asked, "You Huang Daoyou used to be a loose cultivator. You should know more about the loose cultivators and sand bandits in the Baishahe Xiu Xianjie than we do. With the cultivation base and the magic weapon talisman on his body, can loose cultivators and sand bandits in the Qi training period be able to kill him instantly?"

Huang Yi didn't want to express his opinion on this kind of thing, but Zhou Yang had already asked him, and it seemed inappropriate for him not to say anything.

Immediately he said: "If it is a head-to-head confrontation, it is definitely impossible for a cultivator in the Qi training period to instantly kill Elder Yuan Jing without leaving obvious traces of fighting skills, but if it is a sneak attack, it is difficult to say."

What he said was ambiguous, and what he said was equal to not saying it, and it was very smooth.

Zhou Yang frowned slightly, nodded and said: "I understand, let's stop here for the time being, for the clansmen, I will appease and explain the situation."

He didn't say what he thought.

Next, Zhou Yang personally explained the investigation to the clan. In his opinion, Zhou Yuanjing was missing rather than dead, because the Zhou family did not find his remains and relics.

Of course, many people know that the so-called "missing" means that 90% of them are dead. The definition of "missing" means that the family's foundation-building cultivators do not want to make the matter too big and affect the operation of the entire family.

Of course, if you just do this, you will definitely not be able to convince other people, so Zhou Yang added: "Everyone, rest assured, the family will continue to pay attention to the investigation of the disappearance of Elder Yuan Jing, and because he disappeared to perform family tasks. , on behalf of the family, I gave 2,000 contribution points to his descendants as a pension, and transferred the contribution points he accumulated during his lifetime to his descendants."

The pension of 2000 contribution points is definitely not a low amount, and it can also allow Zhou Yuanjing's descendants to inherit the contribution points he accumulated during his lifetime.

This time, many of the Zhou family cultivators stopped talking.

At this time, they finally realized the superiority of contribution points compared to spirit stones. Not only does this thing not need to take up space like spirit stones, but it also follows people. Even if you die outside because of an accident, your family members Contribution points can still be passed on to future generations as they are.

Among the descendants of Zhou Yuanjing, there are only two juniors with low-grade spiritual roots. This time, the contribution points Zhou Yuanjing earned before and after his death were divided into two points, making these two juniors who only practiced the second and third levels of Qi, suddenly more than many. In the later stage of Qi training, the monks will become richer.

Next, the turmoil caused by Zhou Yuanjing's "disappearance" was deliberately downplayed by the senior family members, and it passed quickly. Only some Zhou family members who were planning to go out for a trip were affected by this incident and temporarily postponed the trip, ready to wait and see. for a while.

Only Zhou Yang personally made a trip to the Baisha River Oasis to **** Zhou Yuanpeng, the tenth younger brother, who was also newly promoted to the Zhou family, to Yuquan Building to replace Zhou Xuanjin, and then took Zhou Xuanjin back to the Yuquan Lake Oasis for retirement.

It looked like it was over.

After half a year, the cultivators of the Zhou family who had postponed their travel plans seemed to have calmed down when they saw the situation. A few daring people submitted applications to the family elders, and then either traveled alone or in two or three groups. With the help of relatives and friends, I left the oasis of Yuquan Lake and walked into the vast sand sea.

Zhou Yang was attacked by sand bandits the first time he traveled from Yuquan Lake Oasis to Baisha River Oasis, which shows that the road was not peaceful.

However, in recent decades, with the strength of the Zhou family getting stronger day by day, and the fact that a large number of sand bandits were killed during the demonic chaos, the cultivators of the Zhou family basically encountered no danger when they walked this road.

Now Zhou Yuanjing, the elder Zhou Yuanjing, suddenly "disappeared" on this road, making this originally safe road unsafe again.

On this day, after a sandstorm, a monk from the Zhou family riding a camel suddenly came along the road.

This cultivator of the Zhou family has only practiced the fifth level of Qi after seeing his breath, and his face is also a little immature. He rode on the back of a camel and stared at the sand sea in front of the camel with wide eyes, as if he could see that the front was normal sand. Or quicksand with hidden quicksand traps.

In this way, at first glance, it is the kind of rookie who rarely travels far.

These rookies who have just left the house have always been the favorite targets of the sand bandits.

In the vast sand sea, as long as the hands and feet are clean, everything will be buried by the yellow sand, just like the "missing" elder of the Zhou family.

The peeping person hiding in the dark thought of this, his eyes turned cold, and his heart suddenly became murderous.

But he didn't do it right away, but continued to hide in the dark and watch, until the Zhou family cultivator rode a camel to several dozen miles away, and then he jumped up from the sand where he was hiding without his feet touching the ground. Stepping on a sword light sticking to the ground, he chased after the Zhou family cultivator in the direction that he left.

Because he was flying close to the ground, it wasn't until he was less than ten miles away from the target that the Zhou family cultivator, who was riding on the back of a camel, finally heard the sound of flying swords breaking through the air and found a base-building cultivator who could fly with his sword behind him.

However, at this time, there is obviously no difference between discovering and not discovering.

The peeping person didn't mean to talk nonsense with the target at all. When he was two or three miles close to the target, he immediately waved his sleeves and released another flying sword to assassinate the target.

However, what he didn't expect was that just as he released the flying sword, a cold hum suddenly sounded in his ears.

snort!

The icy humming made the peeping horrified so much that the souls of the dead were blown away, and the sword light under his feet immediately turned, and he was about to run away.

He recognized the owner of this voice!

It's that person's voice!

It was the voice of the person who made him hate and fear!

At this time, he has no time to think about why that person is here, he just wants to escape, escape the attack range of that person first!

It's a pity that he just escaped several dozen feet away when he suddenly seemed to have lost his mind.

Fortunately, the sand was soft, and the altitude he flew at that time was not high. With the physique of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment period, this fall would not kill him, but at most suffered some internal injuries.

But is it really that simple?

Obviously not.

Although this peeping person's cultivation base is not low, and he has four layers of foundation building, how can Zhou Yang's "Destroyer Needle" be so good?

With the strength of his consciousness, although he would not be directly smashed into a vegetative state by this blow, his consciousness was severely injured and he passed out on the spot.

Zhou Yang, disguised as a qi-training cultivator, was riding on the back of a camel. At this time, his body moved, and he quickly stepped on the sword light and landed in front of the peeping person on the ground. Then, he waved his arms to reveal the peeping person's face. A grimace mask made from the "Forbidden Stone".

The grimace mask was lifted, and a strange yet familiar face suddenly appeared in Zhou Yang's eyes.

"Sure enough, it's you, Chen Fangli!"

Zhou Yang looked at the face of the unconscious person on the ground, there was not much surprise on his face.

This Chen Fangli~lightnovelpub.net~ failed to make trouble at his foundation building ceremony more than 20 years ago, but he slapped his face hard, and after returning, he was banned by the ancestors of the Chen family in Baihuofeng for a full two years. ten years.

At that time, the relationship between Chen and Zhou was in the honeymoon period, and he exposed the "Ganyang Treasure Body". Because he was valued by Cao Wenjin, he also became the object that the ancestors of the Chen family thought worth winning.

Chen Fangli represented the Chen family to trouble Zhou Yang on important occasions such as the Foundation Establishment Ceremony, of course the ancestor of the Chen family could not spare him.

It's just that now the times have changed, the world has changed, and the relationship between the Chen family and the Zhou family has actually broken.

At this time, Chen Fangli was released after the 20-year ban expired. After discovering this situation, how could he not feel revenge?

Zhou Yang was investigating the murder of Zhou Yuanjing, and the first suspect was the Chen family.

When he was investigating the recent whereabouts of the Chen family's foundation-building cultivator, he happened to find Chen Fangli's high-profile entry and exit records in Ping'anfang City, so he listed this person as the object of greatest suspicion.

But doubts are doubts, and without evidence, he would definitely not dare to go to the Chen family's door to inquire.

Therefore, he and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan searched for a month, and issued a high reward order to find Zhou Yuanjing's whereabouts. A look of "incompetent fury" made the murderer relax his vigilance.

Secretly, this plan of "playing as a pig and eating a tiger" has long been made.

He knew very well that if the murderer was really Chen Fangli, he would never be satisfied with killing just one Zhou Yuanjing.

Just killing a ninth-level qi practitioner, Zhou Yuanjing, how could Chen Fangli, who had been imprisoned for 20 years, vent his grievances?

Now, the facts have proved that Zhou Yang's inference is completely correct. After Chen Fangli tasted the sweetness of killing Zhou Yuanjing, Zhou Yang was in a turmoil.