Chapter 243: Fallen

After flying for more than an hour, he finally found a suitable place, a small mountain several hundred meters high.

Lin Zhangqing found a cave on the mountainside and drilled directly into it. It was several dozen meters to the end.

Thinking about it, he went out to the cave entrance and placed twenty-four Purple Crystal Scorpions there, letting them hide and patrol.

Afterward, he returned to the deepest part of the cave, communicated with Lin Zhangliu, and let it leave a spatial mark in this place, so it would be convenient to come over in the future.

Afterward, he entered the inner space. Soon the deer surrounded him. Every time he saw them, Lin Zhangqing was very happy.

Especially Lu Xiaoling and Lu Xiaomin, the other Three-Colored Deer were elegant and beautiful, only they gave Lin Zhangqing a feeling of being cute and very adorable.

After petting and smoothing the fur of all of them, he fed them Spirit Nurturing Pills, kept Lu Youqiang behind, and let the other Three-Colored Deer go play by themselves.

Communicating with it through the contract, he told it that he needed it to be his mount for a period of time. Lu Youqiang agreed very easily. Afterward, Lin Zhangqing let it go to tell Lu Xiaoya and Lu Xiaoling first.

Zhao Liyu saw that Lin Zhangqing finally had time, so she said: "Subordinate greets Master!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded, thinking that he needed to bring Lu Youqiang out as a mount, so he needed to prepare some food for it in advance.

So he ordered Zhao Liyu: "Go help me prepare two bundles of alfalfa grass; I need to take them away in a while."

Zhao Liyu agreed and hurriedly went to harvest the alfalfa grass.

He himself came to the edge of the deep pit and took out the top-grade water-attribute raw ore harvested yesterday.

From the storage bag, he released it and let it fall straight into the deep pit, letting Lin Zhangliu absorb and digest it directly.

After a while, a burst of joyful emotions came from his heart, knowing that Lin Zhangliu was sharing its happy mood with him.

After absorbing this top-grade raw ore, the space should be about ten thousand mu, which could be considered a small achievement.

However, it was still far from the twenty-five thousand mu needed to advance to the fourth tier, so he had to continue to work hard.

Then he came to the side of the Foundation Establishment fruit tree and looked at the eleven Foundation Establishment fruits hanging on the tree. After considering it, he picked them all down directly.

Ten of them were packed in a jade box, and the remaining one was packed in a small jade box.

Then he returned to the courtyard. Now the courtyard had array protection, and the deer wouldn't approach here casually.

He released the ten Purple Crystal Scorpions he had selected in advance. They were all the strongest existences in the scorpion group, specifically selected by Lin Zhangqing, half male and half female.

Doing this was also to see if they would breed offspring after reaching the second tier, or if they must reach the third tier.

First separate them, and then each was issued a Foundation Establishment fruit. As soon as they saw it, they hugged it and started gnawing.

Lin Zhangqing hurriedly told them through the contract not to destroy the fruit core, otherwise, he suspected the fruit core would be gnawed and eaten by them.

After they finished eating, he took back the fruit core the first time and put it in the jade box just now.

Then he first put a spirit light shield on himself, took out ten portions of Hundred Flowers Drunken Soul Wine sufficient for Foundation Establishment from the Xuan Yuan Heavy Water Bottle.

The ten little fellows immediately boiled, rushing to Lin Zhangqing's side. Every time it was like this, he was used to it.

He forcibly ordered them not to be excited; everything was arranged, and each had a share, and then fed the spirit wine to them one by one.

Soon, in just a moment, the ten little fellows all fell into a deep sleep. Lin Zhangqing put them all back into the spirit beast bracelet space.

Expecting them to advance to the second tier, they could bring him some surprises, just not knowing when they would wake up.

Hoping they wouldn't let him down. Lin Zhangqing had invested heavily, both Foundation Establishment fruits and Drunken Soul Wine. Lu Youqiang and Lu Xiaoya didn't have this treatment.

After harvesting, he left the courtyard, summoned Lu Youqiang, put it into the spirit beast bracelet, and took the two bundles of alfalfa grass handed over by Zhao Liyu.

And ordered Zhao Liyu to take good care of the space, and then Lin Zhangqing exited the inner space.

Returning to the cave, Lin Zhangqing thought about it, went to a relatively far place at the foot of the mountain, and collected several storage bags of soil and some large stones. Then he returned to the cave, first filled half of the cave tunnel with soil, and pressed the outside with large stones.

Finally, he found some plants like thorn vines and planted them nearby, and cast Spirit Rain Technique and Catalysis Technique.

Soon it grew into a dense large patch, and he also cleaned up the traces of activity. In this way, this cave was completely covered.

There was partial space inside, and the fourth spatial mark was also here. When Lin Zhangliu sent him over, he could just come out using the Earth Escape Technique.

This place was more than an hour's journey from the Qingyun City market, not far or near, just right.

After doing these, he continued to rush on the road. Now this place was still relatively close to the Qingyun Sect, so he prepared to leave a greater distance and wait until tomorrow to start riding Lu Youqiang and rush on the road with the Wind Escape Technique.

Just like this, sleeping in the open, he rushed on the road with high intensity for five consecutive days, and finally saw Nine Peaks Mountain from afar.

But now the Ancestral Mountain was shrouded in clouds and mist, more than double the usual, obviously the effect of opening part of the Nine-Curved Cloud River Great Formation.

Because if the great array was fully opened, Nine Peaks Mountain should be covered by clouds and mist and couldn't be seen at all.

However, Lin Zhangqing didn't rashly approach, but first put Lu Youqiang into the spirit beast bracelet.

Then he let Chu Yi and Chu Er fly over to scout carefully. Lin Zhangqing specifically let Chu Yi open the Golden Eye Void-Breaking Eye to specifically check this range.

He had to confirm there was no problem before going over. Fortunately, after a while, Chu Yi and Chu Er both sent back that they didn't find the figures of other cultivators.

This made Lin Zhangqing feel at ease. He took off the spirit-concealing mask on his face and put it back into the storage bag.

Revealing his true face, this move was very necessary, otherwise, he was afraid he would be attacked. He flew toward the Nine Peaks Mountain mountain gate on his sword.

When approaching, he held his identity jade token in his hand and input spiritual energy to activate it.

However, before he could approach, the clouds and mist automatically split a gap, and two people walked out, one of whom was Lin Zhangqing's father, and the other was Ben Shu, who had hunted together before.

Lin Zhangqing was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted: "Father, Ben Shu, I'm back!"

"Changqing is back! Your father often talks about you in front of us!" Ben Shu greeted Lin Zhangqing enthusiastically.

Father was also overjoyed, and the smile on his face couldn't be hidden. He reached out and patted his shoulder vigorously, "It's good to be back! It's good to be back!"

Lin Zhangqing laughed "Hehe!" twice, and then stepped forward to hug his father vigorously.

Father patted his back and continued: "Go home quickly! Your mother and aunt are both at home. Go back and let them take a look."

Lin Zhangqing knew that he should indeed let them take a look first, so they would be at ease, and hurriedly agreed.

Then, with a thought, he summoned Chu Yi and Chu Er down, and then put them all into the spirit beast bag.

Father opened his eyes wide and hurriedly asked: "Qing'er, why do you have two Golden Winged Birds?"

Lin Zhangqing said proudly: "Chu Yi found a wife outside himself and brought her back here. Now she has also signed a contract with me. I named her Chu Er!"

Father then nodded: "Chu Yi is quite clever! Smarter than Chu Wu and Chu Liu!"

Afterward, the three entered the great array. Arriving here, Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but ask: "Father, what exactly happened? Who was ambushed, and is the injury serious?"

Hearing Lin Zhangqing ask this, the smiles on both their faces disappeared, and both fell silent. Finally, it was Ben Shu who spoke: "The one who was ambushed was your Fourteenth Uncle Lin Maoxiang."

"About a month and a half ago, when he came back from the market, he was ambushed by two Foundation Establishment cultivators on the way."

"Your Fourteenth Uncle fought desperately to break out, returned to the family to explain his funeral arrangements, and died not long after!"

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