Not long after, all the people who entered the trial place appeared at the exit.
The old man was slightly surprised and said: "So fast...huh?" Before he finished speaking, he noticed the strange expressions on several people's faces.
"What's wrong with you?"
The old man asked with a frown.
"Uncle, all level four and above monsters in the trial area are gone!"
"What?!"
The old man's expression changed in shock, his eyes widened, his eyebrows and beard trembling, "Gone?!"
"Yes, it's gone! No body was found, and no trace was found. We have searched everywhere in the trial area, and we couldn't even find the breath!"
"Where's the seventh-level monster, the Bird Feather Green Flame Beast?"
"It's gone too! No signs of fighting were found in its habitat."
After hearing this, the old man stood sluggishly, his hands trembling and his face extremely pale.
"Uncle, uncle?"
"Huh?" The old man regained his consciousness and stamped his feet: "I want to go and check it myself!"
After saying that, he flew straight up and turned into a stream of light and swept into the trial place.
Not long after, the stream of light reappeared, and as soon as the old man appeared, he staggered a few steps.
His body was hunched, as if all his energy and energy had been taken away.
"How could this be so..."
The old man murmured absently, and several people next to him looked at him in confusion and hesitation.
Turning his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Qin Xuan with a confused expression beside him. The old man was startled for a moment, and a cold light suddenly shot out of his eyes.
"Qin Xuan! I want to ask you, what exactly did you do in the trial place, and who did you offend!"
The loud and powerful shouts blessed by spiritual power directly shocked Qin Xuan's soul. Qin Xuan's body shook violently and he almost knelt down.
"Uncle Mingjian, this junior really didn't do anything!"
Qin Xuan shouted in grievance.
Qin Jianming said angrily: "Uncle, although Xuan'er has a naughty temper, he is not an unreasonable child. There must be something fishy about this matter. I hope my uncle will not embarrass a junior."
The old man snorted and said: "That's all. I will take him back to meet the ancestor immediately. You must rush back in time after settling the affairs here."
"yes!"
…
The Qin family mansion.
"Sister Jing, this is the Qin family."
Qin Xinyao and others entered the mansion together, then separated from the crowd and turned around to a small, secluded courtyard.
"This is my place."
Qin Xinyao pushed open the courtyard door. The yard seemed a bit deserted, with vines climbing over the old walls. Weeds emerged from the cracks in the bluestones on the ground and grew tenaciously. The corners were dotted with tiny yellow and light purple flowers.
"No one usually comes here. Sister Jing, you don't have to hide."
As soon as she finished speaking, Jing Yingrong appeared directly in front of her.
The peerless woman is alone, and the dilapidated courtyard suddenly looks like a paradise, and the whole place is filled with brilliance.
Qin Xinyao was stunned for a moment.
"gorgeous……"
Jing Yingrong: "Thank you for the compliment."
Her serious look made Qin Xinyao laugh.
"The place is so crude that it makes my sister laugh. I didn't live here before. Ever since...that incident, my mother and I were forced to move here."
Qin Xinyao said as she opened the door of the front room.
What catches the eye is the spirit tablet enshrined on the table, with the words "The place of loving mother Qin Yulian" written on the spirit tablet.
"After my mother passed away, I was the only one left to live here."
Qin Xinyao picked up the spiritual tablet and wiped it carefully and gently, with a sad look on her face.
Jing Yingrong stared at the spirit tablet with an unclear expression.
A piece of dark and purple wood suddenly appeared in her hand. She put her two fingers together and scratched the surface of the wood.
"The position of Li Chengkong."
The spiritual power carved writings on the Wufang sacred tree, reflecting the fine starlight.
Jing Yingrong gently stroked these words, her long eyelashes lowered, covering up a slight ripple.
Qin Xinyao looked at each room with a mirror. Finally, she pointed to the wing next to her bedroom and said, "Sister Jing, you can live in this room."
Jing Yingrong nodded.
Qin Xinyao: "I'm going to practice. With the reward for first place this time, I will soon surpass Qin Xuan. Sister Jing, you can wander around the mansion as you like, no one can stop you anyway."
Saying that, Qin Xinyao covered her mouth and smiled, quite naughty.
Jing Yingrong: "Do you want to surpass him?"
Qin Xinyao nodded: "He is the first person of the younger generation of the Qin family, and he has the cultivation level in the early stage of foundation building. But, I am also in the foundation building stage now."
"If I can break through to the middle stage of foundation building one step ahead of him, then I don't have to hold back and can openly compete with him."
Qin Xinyao clenched her fists and had high morale.
Jing Yingrong said calmly: "I will practice with you."
Qin Xinyao was stunned for a moment, then she realized something and said with a surprise look on her face: "Okay!"
…
"I've met my ancestor."
The old man saluted respectfully to a man sitting on the seat.
The man looks about forty or fifty years old, much younger than the old man. His eyes were half closed, as if he was concentrating with his eyes closed.
"What's the matter? Didn't I say not to disturb my retreat?"
The man's words were calm, but the old man's body was trembling slightly.
"Ancestor, I have no intention of disturbing my ancestor's Qingxiu. It's just that something unexpected happened now. Apart from you, ancestor, there is no one else in the Qin family who can make the decision."
"Oh? Even you can't solve it? Why, is there news about Qin Huansi?"
"It has nothing to do with Qin Huansi. Qin Xuan, come in!" the old man shouted towards the door.
Two Qin Xuan walked in together.
"Junior Qin Xuan, pay homage to our ancestor."
The ancestor of the Qin family's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes were as bright as lightning.
He stared at the two people in front of him who were like mirror images rather than twins, and his face darkened little by little.
"Tell everything about what you have done and the people you have met. Don't omit or conceal anything."
Qin Xuan started from the time when he found the body of the six-armed demon ape at the trial site.
After listening to Qin Xuan's story, the ancestor of the Qin family frowned and looked thoughtful.
At this time, the old man said again: "Ancestor, there is one more important matter." Then, he reported the disappearance of high-level monsters in the trial ground.
The ancestor of the Qin family's expression changed several times. He tapped his fingers on the armrest of the seat and said, "The source of these two incidents must be the same person."
Old man: "Juniors think so too."
Ancestor of the Qin family: "To be able to achieve this level, the other party's cultivation level must be far above mine."
Upon hearing this, both the old man and Qin Xuan changed their expressions.
The ancestor of the Qin family continued: "The other party has refused to show up so far. He must have left. I can't think of it. As for Qin Xuan, it may not be that you have offended the other party, or it may be that the other party sees that you have cultivated a lot among the younger generation. The highest, making you a target.”
Qin Xuan felt bitter and said depressedly: "Then what should I do, junior?"
The ancestor of the Qin family did not answer for a long time. Qin Xuan looked up at him anxiously, but heard the ancestor say: "I can't tell the truth from the false. Either wait and see what happens, or put it to death and live."
