Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 77 Investigation and Speculation [Second update for subscription]

Jiufengling, Bailan Peak.

Bai Lanfeng is also one of the nine peaks, and Zhou Jiahui's home is here.

Unlike Zhou Jiahe who has never married and had children, Zhou Jiahui has a Taoist spouse and children.

Her Taoist partner, Shen Xin, was originally a disciple of the Sanjue Sect. After the split of the Sanjue Sect, she did not choose to join the Spirit Beast Villa. Instead, she took her children to stay at the Zhou family and accompanied her to Jiufengling.

At this time, seven days had passed since Zhou Jiahui left Jiufengling, Shen Xin, the Taoist companion who hadn't seen her return, also began to worry.

"It's been seven days, why hasn't Jiahui come back? Isn't it enough to go out for five days in the past?"

In the room, Shen Xin with white hair on his head walked back and forth in the room with a worried expression, feeling very uneasy.

But after hesitating for a long time, he still couldn't let go of the worries in his heart, and took the initiative to go to Pagoda Peak to meet with the patriarch Zhou Daoyi to inquire about the situation.

As Zhou Jiahui's Taoist companion, although he didn't know what Zhou Jiahui was doing after leaving the family, he also knew that it was assigned by the patriarch Zhou Daoyi.

So at this time, seeing that his Taoist companion had not returned for many days, he could only go to the patriarch Zhou Daoyi to inquire about the details.

"What, Jiahui hasn't returned for seven days since she went out this time?"

In the "Zhongping Palace", Zhou Daoyi was shocked when he met Shen Xin and learned from him that Zhou Jiahui had not returned home for seven days.

Then there was a flash of worry in his eyes, and he nodded to Shen Xin and said: "I know about this matter, I will immediately arrange someone to investigate this matter, you should go home and wait for the news!"

Shen News said, and immediately bowed deeply to Zhou Daoyi and said: "Then please ask the patriarch!"

After sending Shen Xin away in this way, Zhou Daoyi pondered for a while, then called Zhou Jiahe, the peak owner of Baozhi Peak, and said in a deep voice: "Jiahui went to the underground river to collect the poisonous stickleback mucus, and has not returned for seven days. Now, I am worried that something might happen to her, so go to Hongyafang City as soon as possible, take Zhengchun to the underground river to investigate the situation, and see if she has been there!"

Zhou Jiahe was startled when he heard this, and a look of worry about the clan sister instantly appeared on his face.

She immediately replied in a deep voice: "Yes, this junior will obey the patriarch's order."

Then, not daring to delay for a moment, he rushed directly to Hongyafang City with two big horned green sheep.

"What? Aunt Nineteen hasn't returned for seven days!"

In the Spirit Beast Zhai, when Zhou Chun learned about this from Zhou Jiahe who rushed over, he was also shocked.

Then without hesitation for a moment, he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, my nephew will go with you, Thirteenth Aunt!"

So the aunt and nephew left Fangshi very quickly, and then changed to the bighorn green sheep brought by Zhou Jiahe somewhere outside the Hongyan Mountains, and went straight to the underground river together.

Of course, although the two were anxious at this time, they did not relax their vigilance. They used various methods to detect the situation behind them on the way to prevent being followed.

After rushing to the outside of the mountain range in this way, the two placed the two big-horned green sheep in the cave where Luo Guangshun used to store the horses, and then walked to the water pool together.

Not long after, the two arrived at the edge of the pool.

"There are no traces left recently, so the nineteenth sister must not have been here in the past seven days!"

By the water pool, after Zhou Jiahe's spiritual sense swept across the gravel beach by Tan Bian inch by inch, he revealed the situation of his investigation with a very ugly expression.

For the sake of safety, coupled with Luo Guangshun's previous demonstration, under Zhou Chun's suggestion, every time Zhou Jiahui came to the water pool alone to catch poisonous sticklebacks to collect mucus, he never went deep into the underground river and only lured them with blood food. .

So if she had caught a stickleback near a pool recently, even if she had cleaned it up before leaving, there would definitely be some traces left.

And the most important point, every time Zhou Jiahui came over, he would leave a scratch on an unremarkable stone by the pool to prove that he had been there.

Now Zhou Jiahe did not find the scratch left by Zhou Jiahui on the stone.

"It seems that Aunt Nineteen encountered an accident on the way here!"

Zhou Chun whispered his own judgment in a very heavy tone.

Seven days had passed, but Zhou Jiahui hadn't even arrived at the water pool.

If something unexpected happens, I'm afraid it's more than auspicious!

"Since Nineteenth Sister was appointed by the patriarch to do this task, she was also given Lianxinzhi. Even if something unexpected happens, as long as she is not killed instantly, she can secretly leave Lianxinzhi as a mark."

When Zhou Jiahe said this, Dang even looked at Zhou Chun and said, "Let's go back to the family immediately and ask the patriarch to use Lianxin mole mother to find the trace of the nineteenth sister!"

"Okay, then do it!"

Zhou Chun nodded, and immediately returned with Zhou Jiahe to the cave where the bighorn sheep were stored. Then, regardless of the fact that the two bighorn sheep hadn't rested yet, they directly fed strong medicine to stimulate their life potential and let them gallop all the way.

After running more than half of the distance like this, and exhausting the two bighorn green sheep to death, Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiahe's aunt and nephew directly used the flying magic weapon to finish the remaining half of the distance, and returned to Jiufengling as quickly as possible.

"Okay, I know the situation, you should rest well, I will let the third elder take the heart-broken mother for a trip in person!"

In the "Zhongping Palace", Zhou Daoyi's expression became heavy after listening to the reports of Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiahe who hurried back, and he quickly responded.

And Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiahe were really exhausted physically and mentally at this time, and after hearing this, Dang even went back to the residence on Baozhi Peak to rest.

After resting like this for half a day, Zhou Chun got up with a heavy heart.

The matter of Zhou Jiahui's disappearance is too delicate at this juncture.

Now that Spirit Beast Zhai has just been revitalized by the big sales of "Touch of Despair", if there is a problem with the output of "Touch of Despair" at this time, it will be a big problem.

And Zhou Chun was more worried about another thing, that is, if something happened to Zhou Jiahui, would the location of the underground river be known to outsiders?

With such preoccupations, he couldn't sit still and went to Baiyao Peak.

"Although the powder formula of Touch of Despair is complicated, this powder is not a pill after all, and there is no problem in alchemy technology. If there are monks who are proficient in pharmaceutical skills and know all the ingredients in it, I can't guarantee it. The other party will not deduce and restore the formula!"

"So if you don't want this kind of poison to be imitated by outsiders, you have to strictly control the leakage of the stickleback mucus. Without this kind of mucus, even if outsiders restore the formula of the medicine powder, it will be useless!"

On Baiyao Peak, facing Zhou Chun's questioning, Zhou Jiawei expressed his opinion without any concealment.

This answer undoubtedly made Zhou Chun feel even more heavy.

What the third elder Zhou Daoquan said after returning from the outside made the faces of several Zhou family insiders even more ugly.

"I took the Lianxin mole mother back and forth and ran four times, but none of them received any response. From this, we can know that the Lianxin mole on Jiahui's body is either dead or taken away. a place far away!"

I saw that in the "Zhongping Palace", several members of the Zhou family who knew about it gathered here, listening to the third elder Zhou Daoquan explain the experience of going out this time.

Lianxin Mole is a special kind of strange insect domesticated by the Zhou family. Even if its mother and offspring are separated by hundreds of miles, it can sense and lock on to the location of the offspring.

Therefore, every core member of the Zhou family, as well as some elite members who received special attention, would carry a heart-to-heart worm with them, and hide it in the sole of their shoes or in their trouser pockets.

In this way, if they are in danger of life and death outside, they can let the heartless worms drill deep into the ground, so that the family can find the place where they were killed afterwards, so that they can track down the murderer and avenge themselves.

At this time, I heard that Zhou Daoquan took the mother Lianxin mole to search for several times, but he couldn't find the worm on Zhou Jiahui's body. All the Zhou family monks present realized the seriousness of the matter.

Coincidentally, Zhou Chun and the others looked at the patriarch Zhou Daoyi, waiting for his speech.

"Lianxin Mole is a special spiritual insect re-cultivated by my Zhou family after taking root in Jiufengling. Even the ordinary members of my Zhou family don't know about its existence, and it doesn't have any mana in it. Enemy spotted!"

"And Jiahui, even if she is captured alive, she should know that she will leave Lian Xincai as the family's position, and she will not be so stupid that the enemy will take her and Lian Xincai away together!"

"So we have reason to believe that Jiahui was not only killed, but even the Lianxin that he carried with him was discovered and destroyed!"

Under the eyes of everyone, Zhou Daoyi slowly expressed his opinion
After hearing his words, Zhou Daoquan raised his eyebrows immediately, and said in a deep voice: "The patriarch thinks that someone in the family revealed the existence of Lianxin? Someone colluded with outsiders to assassinate Jiahui?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out!"

Zhou Daoyi nodded with a gloomy expression.

"The nineteenth sister was killed when she went out to collect the stickleback mucus. Outsiders plotted against her for the stickleback mucus. If so, wouldn't the Spirit Beast Villa be the most suspect?"

When Zhou Jiahe said this, he also gritted his teeth and said: "It makes sense, only they are the easiest to learn about the existence of Lianxin Mole from the traitors in the family!"

Her guess is reasonable.

But Zhou Daoyi, as the patriarch, couldn't just make such a determination just because of such a speculation.

Immediately waved his hands and said: "It's not possible to make such an arbitrary decision. Maybe there is no traitor. It's just that Jiahui encountered a powerful opponent's surprise attack, and was obliterated and captured alive without any preparation!"

After finishing speaking, he said in a deep voice: "The top priority now is to find out where Jiahui's accident really happened, and investigate the location to determine the truth of the incident!"

However, just when he finished speaking and was about to arrange manpower to search for Zhou Jiahui's accident location, Zhou Chun, who had never said a word, suddenly spoke.

"If, I mean if, if Thirteenth Aunt's conjecture is true, and the enemy who murdered Nineteenth Aunt came for the poisonous stickleback mucus, shouldn't he wait for Nineteenth Aunt to go to the water pool to lure out the poisonous stickleback? Do you want to do it?"

"If it wasn't for the stickleback mucus that harmed Nineteenth Aunt, then with Nineteenth Aunt's cultivation and strength, what kind of strong person could make her unable to even keep her heart? Why would such a strong person want to Harm the nineteenth aunt?"

When Zhou Chun said this, seeing that everyone's eyes had been attracted to him, he immediately continued:

"If it's the former, since there is no trace of Aunt Nineteen's arrival at the water pool, it means that she was killed halfway. At the same time, it can also mean that she discovered the enemy who was following her in advance, so she has enough time to leave her behind."

"And the enemy knows that she is responsible for collecting the stickleback slime, tracked her accurately, and was discovered by her, and then they were able to kill Lianxin Mole afterwards. This must be someone in the family who leaked the secret!"

"If it's the latter, we have to think about why that strong man would harm Nineteenth Aunt? What good will it do him?"

Compared with Zhou Jiahe's speculation mixed with personal indignation, Zhou Chun's analysis is undoubtedly much more reasonable, and it does not bring any personal likes and dislikes.

Therefore, it also attracted the attention of Zhou Daoyi, the patriarch, and Zhou Daoquan, the elder.

After Zhou Daoyi pondered for a while, he raised his head and said: "Let's talk about the latter that Zhengchun said first. If it is the latter, then the person who murdered Jiahui can only have one purpose, to disturb the audience and induce us to turn our hatred to the soul." Beast Villa."

"But based on this alone, we have no proof. The Zhou family is definitely not going to trouble the Spirit Beast Villa. If he wants to make the Zhou family and the Spirit Beast Villa fight, he will definitely continue to use other means to fight the fire." !"

Having said that, his expression turned slightly cold, and he immediately said in a cold voice: "If that's the case, we just need to remain unchanged to cope with all changes, and wait for the murderer who murdered Jiahui to jump out again!"

But he also knew in his heart that this might not be a big deal.

Therefore, his face soon changed again, and he said with a sad face: "If the former is the case, then it is really unfortunate for the family!"

After listening to his analysis, everyone felt that the truth was almost the same as these two situations.

So the third elder, Zhou Daoquan, also quickly said: "Then let's go both ways, and first hide the news of Jiahui's disappearance. Don't make any big noises, and see if there is really some black hand behind the scenes!"

"On the other side, we will closely monitor and investigate those members of the family who know the truth, and see if we can find out who is the traitor!"

Zhou Daoyi, the patriarch, should have said this, but Zhou Daoquan, as the elder of the family, was not overstepping, at most it was inappropriate.

But Zhou Daoyi obviously didn't care about this point.

Immediately, he also nodded and replied: "Yes, let's do it like this. I will tell Jiahui's Taoist couple and children to tell them!"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at everyone in the hall, and finally fell on Zhou Chun.

I saw him saying: "Zhengchun, you don't need to go back to Fang City for the time being, I will arrange someone else to take your place, and then you will stay in the clan and assist me in investigating the traitor in the clan! "

Hearing his words, Zhou Daoquan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was thinking.

Zhou Jiahe didn't respond, and was still in grief.

But Zhou Chun was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly responded: "Yes, this junior obeys."

(End of this chapter)