Pingdu shanliu family, a Xiuzhen family living in the west of Qingyun mountains for hundreds of years.
It is said that the ancestor of the Liu family was a disciple of Qingyun gate. Because there was no hope of building a foundation, he created a small Xiuzhen family near the branch of Qingyun Mountain.
According to legend, it has been nearly 500 years since the Liu family. In these 500 years, the Liu family has always been a Qi practicing family. It did not become a foundation building family until one of the family members succeeded in building a foundation a hundred years ago.
At present, there are 180 people of the Liu family on Pingdu mountain. Except that the patriarch Liu Taichang is a base building friar, all the others are just Qi practitioners.
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Under the leadership of Liu Taiyang, Shen Ruiling and the three soon entered the family protection array of the Liu family and began to walk to the top of the mountain along the stone steps.
While walking up, Shen Ruiling did not forget to look around at the scene of the Liu family, and secretly compared it with his own Yunbifeng.
On both sides of the mountain road, on the vast land from the foot of the mountain to the hillside, the Liu family has opened up nearly 100 mu of spiritual fields here. These spiritual fields have been planted with full grain spiritual Valley, a scene of bumper harvest!
Through Lingtian, Shen Ruiling and his party came to the buildings on the hillside, where attics are closely arranged, large and small, scattered.
With the arrival of Shen Ruiling, many Liu people on Pingdu mountain gathered on the roadside and looked at Shen Ruiling and them with evasive eyes.
Looking at these Liu people, Shen Ruiling couldn''t help wrinkling slightly, as if he couldn''t understand it.
I saw that most of them Liu''s people were wearing funeral clothes for burial, and their eyes at the three of them were evasive, as if they were very afraid.
Although she was confused, Shen Ruiling didn''t show anything, but quietly followed the patriarch and sixth uncle and walked towards the top of the mountain.
After half a cup of tea, Shen Ruiling and the three came to a lobby on the top of the mountain. Looking at the scene in front of them, they were even more confused.
The nanmu coffin was placed in the middle of the lobby. On both sides of the coffin were Liu''s people dressed in hemp and filial piety, and several women in mourning clothes were crying and wailing in front of the coffin.
Seeing this scene, Shen Jinghua and Shen huanchi couldn''t help looking at each other. Then Shen Jinghua looked at Liu Taiyang and asked:
"Who''s the mourning hall in your family?"
"Report back to the elder, this is my family leader''s mourning hall!"
Liu Taiyang said with a sigh, his face full of pain.
Hearing the speech, Shen Jinghua couldn''t help but look shocked and asked in disbelief:
"Liu Daoyou has died?"
It''s no wonder that Shen Jinghua had this reaction. You know, Liu Taichang was already a monk in the early stage of foundation construction. How could the good one suddenly die?
On the other hand, Shen Ruiling and Shen huanchi also looked at each other tacitly. The only foundation building friar of the Liu family fell. I''m afraid things here are not simple!
In the face of Shen Jinghua''s interrogation, Liu Taiyang dared not hide it, and quickly said:
"My family leader has fallen!"
"When did it happen?" Shen Jinghua asked in a deep voice.
Liu Taiyang said sadly as he recalled:
"Report back to the elder. Just a few days ago, the trace of the demon Python appeared on the mountain seven days ago. The clan leader led several people to the mountain to search. As a result, he didn''t come back. Finally, the soul lamp saved in the family went out!"
After hearing this, Shen Jinghua''s three faces were all dignified. I''m afraid Liu Taichang''s death was caused by the demon snake.
Moreover, if you can solve a monk at the early stage of foundation construction, the level of this demon snake will not be too low. At least it has the strength of third-order inferior!
After being silent for a while, Shen Jinghua looked at Shen huanchi behind him, and then slowly said:
"Take us to put incense on Liu Daoyou!"
Hearing the speech, Liu Taiyang was stunned, but he quickly reacted and quickly replied:
"Three elders, please follow me!"
With that, Liu Taiyang led Shen Jinghua into the mourning hall.
After he said a few words to the crying women, the women got up and left, and threw a grateful look at Shen Jinghua.
Then, Liu Taiyang took the three incense sticks from the people on one side and respectfully handed them to Shen Jinghua.
Here, after Shen Jinghua took over the column incense, they came to the coffin and bowed towards the memorial tablet.
After seeing what they had done, the Liu people on one side cast friendly eyes. Obviously, they didn''t expect Shen Ruiling to look at them like this.
Aware of the emotional changes of these Liu people, Shen Ruiling couldn''t help admiring uncle Liu. This move to recruit and buy people''s hearts really worked well.
They have just arrived here. They are not familiar with the place. It is obviously impossible to rely on the three of them alone to quickly search for the demon python, so they must rely on these local forces led by the Liu family.
So even though Shen Ruiling resisted the act of bowing to strangers, for the sake of his death, and for the smooth completion of the task, he didn''t care about it.
After the incense, the three of Shen Ruiling, led by Liu Taiyang, went to a reception hall and sat down one after another.
After taking his seat, Shen Jinghua looked at Liu Taiyang and said:
"You first tell me what the specific situation looks like!"
Facing Shen Jinghua''s inquiry, Liu Taiyang''s face showed a touch of deep sadness again and slowly said:
"I''ll tell you back, sir. It started more than two months ago. At that time, there was a rainstorm and mountain torrents in our area.
Then the mortal towns of several families here were suddenly attacked by snakes, killing and wounding many mortals.
At the beginning, we didn''t pay much attention, just let them take strict precautions and think it would be better when the rainy season passed.
But unexpectedly, after a period of time, our family friars went into the mountain to collect medicine and disappeared inexplicably. There were no people alive and no bodies dead.
At that time, we knew that the situation was wrong and began to organize people to investigate the mountain, but there was no clue.
Until a month ago, a member of the Xu family ran down the mountain and said he saw a huge demon Python eating people. We didn''t know that there was a third-order demon Python here.
Then our clan leader passed the information to Qingyun gate and hoped that zongmen would send someone to help us catch and kill demon python.
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After hearing these words, Shen Jinghua''s faces showed a dignified look.
From Liu Taiyang''s words, we can understand that the demon Python suddenly appeared two months ago, which may be related to the rainy season.
Moreover, the strength of this demon Python must be above the third level, otherwise it would not be able to kill Liu Taichang in the early stage of foundation construction.
Besides these, I can''t analyze anything.
After a moment of silence, Shen Jinghua said again:
"Your Liu family is the only foundation building family in this area. Although Liu Daoyou has fallen, there should be no problem commanding the other three Qi practicing families?"
"That''s nature!"
Liu Taiyang quickly accepted it, and seemed quite proud.
"Well, take my token and go to the other three families to convey orders. Let each family bring 20 people here tomorrow, and then we will go into the mountain to see the situation!"
"I see, master!"
After receiving the token from Shen Jinghua, Liu Taiyang arranged for someone to pass the order to three Qi practicing families!
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