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Not long after Cang Min left with Qixia, Yan Xiling also left to mind his own business.
After a while, the seven people who had escaped were shocked to restart the airship. The feeling of being stuck in a quagmire had long since disappeared.
That night, they rested in Chunan Town.
The next morning, Yang Zhen summoned Chen Fugui and ordered him to post recruitment notices in Fangshi. He also interviewed several people who had just defected to arrange their tasks. That Bao Yinglian, persuaded by Chen Ru and others, also stayed in the fort and became a steward.
Chen Ru and Zhou's brother and sister had been "expelled" from the Tongxin Association. The three of them were greatly relieved after hearing the news. However, Yang Zhen did not plan to arrange them in Chunan Town, but brought them back to the county hall to avoid the disbanded alliance coming.
As for Zhang Qianfan, after these ten days of experience, he is more inclined to stay in Wushui County. However, as the fourth elder of Tongxinhui, he is not as free as Chen Ru. At Yang Zhen's suggestion, he wrote a letter to the association, expressing his hope that as a representative of the association, he would continue to negotiate cooperation matters with Yang Zhen, and he sincerely requested approval.
At noon, the group returned to the county museum.
Zixue and Zhao Yueer said goodbye and left. Although Yang Zhen was reluctant to part with it, there was nothing she could do to stop it. As Yiyi said goodbye, he asked the little girl again, what deal did you reach that night?
What came out was a shy and happy eye roll from the other party, and Zixue's kind ridicule:
"Don't worry, you will know in a few days!"
After the two girls left, Yang Zhen seemed to have some leisure time. Every day, she would either invite some friends to enjoy picnics and martial arts competitions in the countryside at dusk, or she would watch Liu Rou foolishly calling "cheating sister" in the middle of the night, and then pull her into the space. .
He then entered.
Here he became very busy.
In addition to practicing and exercising as usual, he also split his consciousness again with the help of Yiyi, creating two spaces that seemed independent but were closely together.
Six black and white quicksands of time were thrown into these two nine-foot-sized spaces.
In the black quicksand space, the time flow rate is three times that of the outside world. That is, for every year that passes in the outside world, the creatures in the space grow three years older.
This can be used to speed up the growth of the Demon Soul Flower.
Yang Zhen originally considered using it as a place for Youyou to recover. However, the little fairy grass told him that Youyou was already close to transforming. If you try to accelerate the ripening at this time, the result will be a disabled girl with missing arms and legs. It is better to let her nourish slowly.
The white quicksand space delays one hour in the outside world to three hours.
What does that mean?
In other words, if Yang Zhen stayed in this space for three years, only one year had actually passed in the outside world. And his real age is only one year older, not three.
It sounds the same as black quicksand, but it's actually completely different.
In this space, he can just do a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing.
Experiment with suitable gunpowder formulas.
Yang Zhen had long since abandoned the idea of black powder. Facts have proved that the black powder produced in this world has limited power, and a bullet fired from a blunderbuss cannot even kill a rabbit.
Until last month, he witnessed the earth-shattering loud noise in Tianlei Mountain.
After many experiments, he has discovered that the Hades Steel Stone, which has absorbed spiritual energy, is mixed with black moss powder and can explode violently under violent impact.
This power is very terrifying.
Yang Zhen hopes to find the most suitable ratio between the two. To do this, he needs a lot of time and repeated testing.
Now this new space has saved him a lot of time.
While Yang Zhen was transforming into a chemist and working tirelessly on explosives, two people in Shuyang County were talking about him.
…
Shuyang County, Fangshi
In a private room of a certain restaurant, a tough-looking middle-aged man took out twenty spiritual stones and handed them to the other party.
"Brother Zhao, thank you very much. When you go to the sect for official business, I will invite you to the best restaurant in Yunya Town, haha!"
Zhao Liyu happily accepted the spirit stone. As for the Yunya Town banquet, they are just polite words and don't need to be taken seriously.
"What the hell, Senior Brother Zhou is too polite. My younger brother didn't do much to help, so I deserve it, haha! I wonder if Brother Zhou has any other instructions?"
Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment, he had already asked all the questions that should be asked.
"By the way," he remembered something, "who was your predecessor's chief subject from Yushan? Did you just say that when he first met Yang Zhen, he took a psychic mirror to test his soul?"
"yes."
"Why did he do that?"
"This is Taoist Master He Jing's request. Because something happened to the child's family, we were worried that he had been frightened and his mind was damaged, so we ordered a test." Zhao Liyu explained.
Zhou Yuan raised his eyebrows: "What are the test results?"
"The soul is intact and very powerful," Zhao Liyu recalled the scene at that time: "Later, Yu Zhuke increased his efforts and almost hurt Yang Zhen. Senior sister He Jing was very angry and asked Yu Zhuke for compensation of hundreds of spiritual stones."
"Haha!" Zhou Yuan said with a smile: "Didn't you say last time that this Yu Zhuke is not a generous master? By doing this to Taoist Master He Jing, wouldn't he be offending him to death?"
Suddenly his expression changed: "Yushan later left you behind and followed Taoist He Jing to Qingluo Mountain. As a result, he died alone in the cave. The two elders of the Zhu family who were involved in this incident were both killed. There is no evidence, could this be..."
He didn't say any more, but the meaning was clear, Yu Shan died strangely.
"Senior Brother Zhou, don't talk nonsense!" Although Zhao Liyu accepted his benefits, he was always under the care of the Zhao family, so naturally he couldn't let him talk nonsense, so he said urgently:
"Yu Zhuke and Senior Sister He Jing have a very good relationship! We are still together, together..."
He suddenly faltered.
"What are we doing together?" Zhou Yuan asked curiously, and took out ten more spirit stones.
Zhao Liyu thought about it carefully. Although he, He Jing, and Yu Shan shared the stolen goods that time, although it was not a glorious thing, it did not violate any sect rules. It was not a big deal to say it. .
So he told about his experience of going to Zhu's hometown that day and extorting three sums of spiritual stones.
Finally, he said: "Senior Sister He Jing is so bright and graceful. She is not the kind of person who hides her sword behind her smile and cares about every detail."
The implication is, Brother Zhou, please don’t make random guesses.
"Hahaha!" Zhou Yuan laughed loudly, seemingly without any grudge in his heart.
Then he asked again: "According to what you said, is it Yang Zhen's decision to give up the inheritance of spiritual veins, even to give up the Zhu family's one hundred spiritual stones every year?"
"Yes. Later we asked Taoist Master He Jing, and she was also surprised."
"But the Kongming Stone Mine is in that mountain."
"Yes, Senior Brother Zhou, what you mean is..." Zhao Liyu was a little confused.
"Do you think he would have known that there was a Kongming Stone Mine in the mountain?" Zhou Qi asked.
"Impossible!" Zhao Liyu said flatly: "Otherwise, why would he give up the right to inherit the spiritual veins? If he reported it directly to the sect, according to the sect's rules, since the Kongming Stone Mine is on his family's territory, he will receive a share of the annual mining income. Isn’t this a good thing to just sit and collect the spiritual stones and let the pie fall from the sky?”
"That's true." Zhou Yuan nodded slightly: "But how could he find the Kongming Stone Mine?"
"It is said that I lost my way while playing there when I was a child." Zhao Liyu explained.
Zhou Yuan remained silent, thinking secretly in his heart.
After Zhao Beiqing's death, he returned to Shuyang County. This time it took him several months, but he gained a lot.
The biggest gain was that he finally confirmed that Taoist Yi, whose pseudonym was Taoist Liu, had been looking for a woman named Jin Qingchen.
Jin's escape from the Zhu family was most likely instigated by him.
The reason! When a person flees, she usually takes with her the things she considers most important.
So what is the most important thing about Jin? Did Yi Jinbo get what he wanted?
This person left Zhuyang County soon afterwards. From this point of view, Zhou Yuan tended to think that the other party had succeeded.
As the investigation deepened, he was surprised to find that this Jin was actually Yang Zhen's biological mother!
Yang Zhen!
He had no idea what Yi Jinbo was doing with his mother.
The child was already ten years old at the time and was very independent-minded. He even clearly remembered the incident when he got lost as a child.
Then he must also remember the scene when Jin met Yi Jinbo before his death.
It seems that I have to go see him again!
…
About the same day, somewhere in Chongzhou
A middle-aged man in a purple robe was writing and drawing in front of the eucalyptus table when a subordinate opened the door and came in.
"Master Protector, a jade slip has been transferred from Shaozhou. A brother has been overdue for seven years and has not returned. This is his self-report. Since his experience was in Chongzhou, the alliance asked us to verify it."
"Yes." The man responded calmly, took the jade slip, put it against his forehead, and looked at it casually.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "Monkey King Cave Lingshi Mine? Has this person ever stayed in Monkey King Cave Lingshi Mine?"
As if thinking of something, he stood up, took out a jade slip from the nearby bookshelf, and looked at it carefully.
This is a copy from the sect.
The content is exactly Yang Zhen’s report on the battle at the Monkey King Cave Spirit Mine.
"A Qi practitioner, even if he has a talisman, can he easily kill a late-stage foundation builder? There must be something fishy about this!"
"Come here!" He ordered: "Invite this brother Zuo Yinwu over. I want to see him in person."
