The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Nanzhou Region, Zilan Secret Realm.

"Brother, I told you a long time ago that a thief who specializes in stealing the spiritual veins of the secret realm has appeared recently. Our secret realm will not be open to the public this time, but you insisted on your own opinion. Look, someone still succeeded, didn't he?"

Two great monks in the late Nascent Soul stage, wearing black robes and with dignified faces, were standing in the belly of a thousand-foot-high mountain, staring at a wide cave with gnashing teeth.

It is obvious to see that the high-level spiritual vein originally located in this mountain range was drawn away from this cave.

These two people are the two deputy valley masters of Zilan Valley. After receiving the report from the sect disciples that there were changes in the secret realm, they rushed over immediately, suppressed their cultivation, and entered the secret realm.

But they were still a step too late and did not catch the thief. All they saw was a dry mountain range that had lost the moisture of its spiritual veins.

"Investigate, investigate thoroughly, this matter cannot be let go.

I remember that last year, the secret realm of Wenhua Sect seemed to have been robbed, and a fourth-section low-grade spiritual vein was stolen.

Contact them and jointly issue a wanted order. If anyone finds the whereabouts of this thief and reports it to us, you can choose a fifth-level spiritual creature.

If anyone can capture this thief alive and hand him over to us, I will reward him with a Numbing Infant Pill, and I will make it impossible for him to ascend to heaven or enter the earth."

When the senior brother heard the junior brother's dissatisfied words, he gave an order directly and fiercely.

Unexpectedly, when the junior fellow heard the senior brother's order, he did not give any response, but just kept smiling bitterly.

"What's wrong? Junior Brother, is there something wrong with what I said?"

The senior brother noticed something was wrong, turned his head to look at the junior brother, and asked in confusion.

"Brother, you don't know that this Spiritual Vein Thief has committed dozens of crimes, and he not only committed crimes in our South Continent, but also roamed around the entire Central Continent.

At the beginning, he first stole spirit veins in the secret realms of the major sects in the Central Continent. Later, after being wanted, he fled to the Northern Continent, where he continued to commit crimes, then moved to the Western Continent, and finally came to our Southern Continent.

Think about it, how could the sects that were harmed by him not hate him to the core? Many sects had jointly issued wanted orders and offered rewards that were even more generous than ours, but this guy was as slippery as a loach and had never been caught.

As time went by, not many monks paid attention to these wanted notices, because this guy was too difficult to catch. "

The junior fellow disciple obviously hated this so-called Spirit Vein Thief as well, but felt powerless to arrest him.

"So, Junior Brother, is this what you mean?"

"What else can we do? Wait and see. This guy commits crimes so frequently, he will be caught sooner or later. Let's wait and see."

……

The spirit vein thief mentioned by the two valley masters of Zilan Valley was naturally Xu Zhiyu. The past twenty years or so of his life were not lived in vain. He was either stealing spirit veins or on his way to steal spirit veins.

Over the years, he has achieved remarkable results. He has stored more than forty fourth-level spirit veins in the sealed space, and the number of third-level spirit veins is smaller, but there are still more than ten of them.

He originally planned to stop after committing a few crimes, but what he didn't expect was that each time he committed a crime, it went extremely smoothly without any trouble at all. This made him bolder and he began to commit crimes everywhere.

In fact, what Xu Zhiyu didn’t know was that the reason why he was so successful in committing crimes was not because of his own clever methods, but because someone was helping him secretly.

This person was naturally Fan Yunbai. Of course, because she was concerned about the ascension channel, she did not do it herself, but handed the matter over to the two elders who had reached the state of transformation in Xuantian Ice Palace.

She ordered them to follow Xu Zhiyu secretly and protect his safety without any slackness.

Therefore, every time Xu Zhiyu took action, although on the surface he seemed to be alone, there were actually two other gods cooperating with him.

Helping him to deceive inspections, helping him to hide his whereabouts, and even luring the Nascent Soul cultivators who were chasing him, this enabled him to succeed time and time again.

Besides this, another important reason why he acted so smoothly was that all the gods of Zuzhou and even the gods of the entire Ten Continents were attracted by a piece of heavy news, and no one paid attention to his nonsense.

Otherwise, his rampant crimes would have slapped the faces of all the major forces of the God of Transformation, and it would be unlikely that no God of Transformation would come forward to target him.

The eye-catching news was, of course, the emergence of a new ascension channel. Originally, everyone thought it was a rumor and did not take it seriously.

But as various details were gradually revealed, the major gods had to believe it even if they wanted to. Even those old antiques who had fallen into a deep sleep and faked their death to prolong their lifespans were alarmed.

All the gods were trying to find out who leaked the news and try to find clues.

But the one who leaked the news was Fan Yunbai, a cultivator who had reached the great perfection of the Spirit Transformation Realm. Naturally, she was extremely cautious before doing anything, so how could she be caught by others?

So even though this matter is now fermenting very seriously, many gods are still confused about who the instigator is.

Finally, they felt that this was not going to work, so the three super powers issued a gathering order and notified the high-level leaders of the demon clan at the same time, agreeing to meet in a secret place to discuss this major event that concerned the fate of all cultivators.

Xu Zhiyu naturally knew nothing about this. After robbing the Zi Lan Secret Realm, he came to a place called Sanyang Market to rest and check what he had gained from the trip.

He booked a room in a high-end inn in the market town. Just as he was about to have a good rest, he suddenly heard a voice in his sea of ​​consciousness, which frightened him so much that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"My friend, you have stolen dozens of fourth-level spirit veins. Isn't it time to stop? There is only one end for those who are greedy, and that is death. It's time to stop."

"Who, who is speaking, who are you?"

Xu Zhiyu asked in a terrified voice, but no one responded.

He didn't want to rest at this moment, he just wanted to escape from here, so he quickly left Sanyang Market, took out the sixth-grade high-quality talisman left by his master, and instantly fled to a place tens of millions of miles away. Coincidentally, this place was not far from Jiushi Sect. Seeing this, he didn't care to think too much and immediately rushed to the location of the sect. He didn't dare to stay in Zhongzhou any longer, otherwise he might be killed.

The ones who issued the warning to him were naturally the two Divine Transformation Elders from the Xuantian Ice Palace who had been following him secretly to protect him. They were really fed up with Xu Zhiyu's endless theft of spiritual veins.

However, when they sensed that he had flown out of Sanyangfang City and were about to chase him, they suddenly discovered that they had lost his trace, which immediately made their faces change.

When they flew to the location where the talisman was offered to check, Xu Zhiyu had disappeared without a trace.

"Uncle Master, what should we do now? Young Master Xu has disappeared. How should we explain this to the Grand Elder when we return?"

A relatively young female cultivator at the second level of the Spiritual Transformation Realm asked an old woman beside her with a grim expression.

"Don't be afraid. He can't go anywhere. The one he used just now must be an escape talisman. He shouldn't be able to get too far."

The old woman's cultivation level was at the fourth level of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, and she looked relatively steady. After finishing her analysis, her terrifying spiritual sense immediately extended in all directions, trying to find any clues.

Don't think that this is a useless effort. For the Divine Transformation cultivators, as long as they can confirm that you have been to a certain place, they can lock on to your location and the direction you left.

But this time they were destined to be disappointed. The methods that had worked before failed this time. No matter what means they used, even the sixth-level tracking device, they could not detect Xu Zhiyu's whereabouts.

"This is really troublesome. The teleportation talisman used by this kid doesn't seem to be simple. He can actually avoid our detection. This is definitely not something that an ordinary talisman can do. Maybe it's a sixth-level talisman.

It seems that we have no way to solve this matter. We can only go back and report to the Grand Elder. She has great magical powers and should be able to determine his whereabouts."

After trying everything, even the old woman lost confidence and said in frustration.

The two stayed there for a while, and after confirming that Xu Zhiyu would not appear again, they tore open the space in front of them and walked in, and went directly to report to Fan Yunbai.

However, less than an hour later, the two men reappeared at the same place with a look of fear on their faces.

Just now, when they met Fan Yunbai and explained the whole story to her, she scolded them and warned them that if they failed to complete the task of protecting Xu Zhiyu, they would never be able to return to Xuantian Ice Palace.

This punishment was simply too cruel for them. If it were before Fan Yunbai woke up and broke through his cultivation, they would not mind switching to other Divine Transformation Sects, because the strength of Xuantian Ice Palace was gradually declining, and there was nothing to regret about leaving.

But now they are definitely unwilling to leave, because their supreme elder's cultivation has broken through to the peak of this world, and he has also privately revealed to them the news that there is hope for them to ascend to heaven in the future.

However, after being scolded, Fan Yunbai also provided them with an important clue, which was to go to the Jiushi Sect in Nanzhou Region.

It turned out that Fan Yunbai, using her identity as a great master of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, conducted a detailed investigation throughout Zuzhou, and finally learned that the place where Xu Zhiyu first appeared was Jiushi Sect.

It has to be said that these major forces in Zuzhou are so terrifying that it is basically impossible for you to completely avoid their sight. Unless you are not targeted by them, it is only a matter of time before your whereabouts are exposed.

The speed of a Jindan cultivator's travel was naturally much faster than that of Xu Zhiyu, who only had Jindan cultivation. So when the two of them arrived at Jiushi Sect, he was still halfway there.

The arrival of a Divine Transformation cultivator is a big event, especially for a second-rate fringe force like the Jiushi Sect.

Originally, there were three Jindan cultivators left behind in the Jiushi Sect, but two of them accepted the invitation of the three major super powers to attend the Jindan gathering to discuss the matter of the passage to the spiritual world.

The only one left in the sect now is a supreme elder who had just been promoted to the God Transformation realm. Upon learning that a great God Transformation realm master was coming, he immediately led his disciples to welcome him.

However, he was also muttering in his heart, because in his impression, Xuantian Ice Palace should have nothing to do with their Jiushi Sect.

First of all, the two sects are located in the North Continent and the South Continent respectively, hundreds of millions of miles apart. Secondly, the two sects have never had any business dealings and at most only know each other's names.

No, it should be that they know each other's names, but the other party may not know their names because the gap in strength between the two sides is too great.

This is even more so now, because the news that the Xuantian Ice Palace's supreme elder, Fan Yunbai, has been promoted to a great perfectionist in the Spirit Transformation Realm has now spread throughout Central China.

With a nervous mood, the Jindan cultivator of Jiushi Sect warmly received the two distinguished guests from Xuantian Ice Palace.

After the two sides exchanged greetings, he invited them to the reception room and asked them about their purpose.

But what was puzzling was that these two people did not have much interest in him or the entire Jiushi Sect, but kept releasing their spiritual sense as if they were searching for something.

This kind of behavior is actually very rude, but when they thought of the cold face of the Supreme Elder, they couldn't help but shiver and didn't care about much else.

The Jiushi Sect's Divine Transformation cultivators, faced with such unreasonable behavior, naturally dared not say anything but be angry and could only let them do as they pleased.

In this way, the two sides sat opposite each other in the reception room for three days before Xu Zhiyu's figure appeared within the consciousness range of the two gods of Xuantian Ice Palace. This discovery instantly made the two of them breathe a sigh of relief, and their hanging hearts fell back into their stomachs again.

Seeing their expressions, Jiushi Zong Huashen, although he didn't know what happened, his expression relaxed and he was not so nervous anymore.

Xu Zhiyu hurried to the gate of Jiushi Sect. After the inspection, he immediately rushed to the teleportation hall and asked to be teleported away immediately, even if it meant paying more for the teleportation fee.

Although somewhat surprised by his actions, the Nascent Soul cultivator in charge of the Teleportation Hall in Jiushi Sect still met his request for the sake of the shiny high-quality spirit stones.

Of course, it should also have a lot to do with the fifth level of Nascent Soul cultivation displayed by Xu Zhiyu. After more than 20 years of practice, his cultivation has broken through to the fifth level of Golden Core. With the blessing of the belt, the highest level he can display is naturally the fifth level of Nascent Soul cultivation.

If he was only at the Golden Core stage of cultivation, he really wouldn't dare to take out so many high-quality spirit stones. He was unfamiliar with the place and it would be easy for someone to harm him.

After Xu Zhiyu teleported away, the two gods from Xuantian Ice Palace who had been watching him also determined that his destination was Xuanzhou. In order not to repeat the mistake of the last time, they immediately said goodbye and followed him. (End of this chapter)