【Skill:

Second level: Flying Escape skill is 130/2000, Transformation skill is 50/1000, Stealth skill is 210/500.

First level: perfection in all aspects (details omitted)]

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 100/100]

[Occupation: Pentathlon first-order limit (details omitted)]

After leaving Zhangjia Xiaoyuan, Meng Zhou walked all the way out of the central area.

In fact, according to the original plan, since he received a large number of second-level waste elixirs and waste weapons from the host Hexin, he was going to help Bai Ya make a formal breakthrough.

But in Meng Zhou's plan, Bai Ya's breakthrough is not a single event. He also needs to take the opportunity to complete the leap from the first level to the second level by several professions.

This involves an idea he had long before he established the foundation, which was to integrate the Rope Spirit more closely into his own practice system.

After various gains from personal breakthroughs, his originally relatively general ideas became clearer and clearer.

To complete breakthroughs in several professional systems, you need to use some spiritual stones.

But because of Zhuo Yuan's active promotion, he received an unplanned sword manual, which also cost him almost all of his spiritual stones.

Therefore, Meng Zhou slightly adjusted his practice rhythm and practiced in seclusion for a few days in the Zhang Family Courtyard.

The reason why he didn't rush out to earn spiritual stones was because he felt that after today, he probably wouldn't have to worry about spiritual stones anymore.

When Meng Zhou appeared in the business district, he had completely changed into a different person.

And when he stood at the door of Yu Peng's residence, he had once again transformed into "Yakashi Zhou", and his cultivation level had returned to the level of Qi training.

However, he deliberately concealed the specific levels of Qi training.

One can only vaguely feel the power in the later stage of Qi training, but the specific induction is difficult to confirm.

Meng Zhou gently knocked on the door, and soon the door opened from the inside.

Yu Peng looked at Meng Zhou with surprise in his eyes.

"Uncle Zhou, you are here!"

After saying that, he welcomed Meng Zhou into the room. Meng Zhou immediately saw Chu Zheng standing up from his seat and walking towards him.

Meng Zhou smiled and stepped forward to greet him: "Brother, did I miss your business?"

Chu Zheng smiled and said: "That's right, I originally planned to come to Qinglinfang in the near future, but now it's just a few days early."

"How many days have you been here?" Meng Zhou asked.

"I just arrived yesterday." Chu Zheng replied.

Meng Zhou nodded. He and Yu Peng agreed to meet again today in advance. This is because the association has gradually found a stable and safe route by arranging frequent trips between Nuanyun Valley and Qinglinfang.

It is possible to predict Chu Zheng's arrival time at Qinglinfang more accurately in advance.

——Their traveling is different from Meng Zhou, because they have to carry a large amount of precious resources back and forth. They cannot walk, and they will try to minimize the possibility of sleeping in the wilderness. They all use magical weapons and flying boats, using each first-order spiritual vein as a springboard.

Move forward in twists and turns.

The overall journey will be longer, but safer.

Multiple people on the same boat can alternately control the flying boat, and it can also achieve long-term endurance flight.

Now, I don’t know how many chambers of commerce, gangs, and families use this method to transfer boatloads of resources back and forth between Qinglinfang and the spiritual place where it is located.

It’s not like there aren’t people who are motivated by interests and want to pay attention to these spaceships.

However, this act of directly competing for food with Qingxuanzong, which was originally a despised robbery and cultivation activity, immediately attracted a thunderous attack from Qingxuanzong.

Moreover, the methods are quite harsh, and the attack on this kind of behavior is completely connected.

Not only will the participants themselves die, but the forces behind them will also be tragically affected.

After such an iron-fisted purge, the safety of the cobweb-like routes within the Qingxuan Territory connected with spiritual veins as nodes has been greatly improved.

When old friends met, Meng Zhou did not talk about business immediately. Instead, he chatted with Chu Zheng about the various changes in Nuanyun Valley.

Meng Zhou was also really curious about the changes in Nuanyun Valley.

Moreover, only by having a more accurate grasp of the current development of the association can he organize his own rhetoric.

Generally speaking, the development of the association did not exceed Meng Zhou's expectations.

There may be many differences in details, but the differences in general direction are not big.

At this moment, another thing that Chu Zheng talked about made Meng Zhou look shocked.

"How did the Zuowangkan become an industry of the association? When did this happen?"

Chu Zheng thought for a while and said: "It should be around the tenth day of February."

Meng Zhou asked hurriedly: "I remember that the owner of Zuowang Hall is called 'Hu Cai', right? What happened?"

Chu Zheng was not surprised that Meng Zhou was curious about this matter.

After all, since Brother Zhou came to Nuanyun Valley, he has been practicing in seclusion at Zuowang Pavilion. It is only natural for him to have more affection and attention there.

Chu Zheng said: "Hu Cai is dead."

Meng Zhouyi was stunned, "Dead? How did you die? When did you die?"

Chu Zheng recalled it and said: "It should be the first day of February, but no one can tell the specific day of the month when he died.

The reason why we knew he was dead was because his family members found out through a special method that he had suffered a disaster, so they forced him to break open the stone chamber where he was in seclusion. Only then did we find that he had been dead for a long time and his body had become rotten and smelly.

The condition of his death was also quite miserable, with a ferocious face and bleeding from all his orifices. There were even what appeared to be fragments of internal organs in front of where he fell to the ground and died.

It is speculated that his internal organs were suddenly broken during the retreat, and many of them were even mixed with blood and spurted out of his mouth, bleeding from all his orifices, and he died quickly."

Speaking of this, Chu Zheng couldn't help but trembled, shook his head and said:

“That scene was somewhat breathtaking.

I have heard in the past that there are people who go crazy during Qigong practice, but the most serious cases I have come across are, at most, damage to the meridians and Dantian, and a regression in cultivation.

This is really the first time I’ve seen such serious backlash!”

Meng Zhou hurriedly asked: "Were you at the scene at that time?"

Chu Zheng nodded and said:

"At that time, Yu Peng had been arranged to come to Qinglinfang, and his house was vacant, so I moved there.

What's more important is that during the time when you were in Zuowang Hall for consultation, many professional monks who I arranged to see you had moved their residence to Zuowang Hall for the sake of convenience, so as not to travel back and forth."

Meng Zhou thought of Yan Xiong and Miao Lin, who were typical examples.

Even after he took a liking to them, they had no intention of leaving. Instead, they seemed to want to take root there.

Many of the other professional monks who were cured by him were also like this. In this way, many professional monks gathered in the Zuowang Pavilion unknowingly.

Once this kind of atmosphere was formed, even if Meng Zhou left quietly, the atmosphere still did not change, and more and more professional monks gathered there.

Therefore, Chu Zheng lived in the stone room where Yu Peng once lived.

His relationship with Yu Peng was only a superficial reason, the real reason was that the association needed someone with sufficient status to sit there.

When "Hu Cai" died tragically in his retreat, Zuowang Hall had already become the first gathering place with the highest concentration of professionals in Nuanyun Valley.

Meng Zhou thought of another thing in his mind.

It seems to be, um, the second day of February.

At that time, I had just participated in the auction on January 30 and spent two days in seclusion at Ruyiju.

Then, on the second day of February, I went out to the stall area to buy a large number of high-quality ice talismans and flying arrow talismans, and then went to the central area to experience the foundation-building phenomenon up close.

On the way to Hexin Tower, I saw Yiyin, the deputy head of the Law Enforcement Hall, beating "Mother Yun" of Meixiang Tower to death in the street.

While "Hu Cai" was practicing in seclusion in a stone chamber, he suddenly started to bleed from all his orifices, spit out his internal organs and died miserably. The time was also in early February.

"Was the sudden death of 'Hu Cai' affected by the death of 'Mother Yun'?

In other words, ‘Mother Yun’ controls the life and death of ‘Hu Cai’, ‘Hu Gui’ and others in some way, and with her death, all those under her control will die suddenly?”

With these thoughts swirling in Meng Zhou's mind, he suddenly asked: "Why did the Zuowang Hall fall into the hands of the association?"

Chu Zheng twirled his beard with his hand, a proud smile on his face, as if he once again remembered an operation that made him quite proud.

"Actually, I had been in contact with Hu Cai long before his sudden death. I wanted to buy the Zuowang Pavilion at a reasonable price in the name of the association."

When Meng Zhou heard this, his eyes widened unconsciously.

But if you think about it carefully, this seems reasonable.

Zuowang Hall has gradually become the first settlement place for professional monks in Nuanyun Valley, and its importance within the association has naturally increased day by day.

On the other hand, the association also made a lot of spiritual stones through the Nuanyun Valley and Hongsong Ridge trade routes.

In this case, it is also very reasonable to take down the Zuowang Hall and turn it into a back garden that belongs entirely to the association.

"Hu Cai did not agree to my proposal at the time, saying that it was an important asset of their family and it was impossible to let it go."

"But who would have thought that not long after, he died suddenly and in such a confused way!"

Having said this, Chu Zheng shook his head and sighed, as if he was lamenting the impermanence of the world.

Then, he continued to talk about the change of hands of Zaowang Hall.

"The Hu family members who came to deal with Hu Cai's funeral were stunned for a long time without speaking after seeing the tragic scene of his sudden death, as if they were frightened.

Then he complained in a low voice, 'Hey, it's unlucky, why are people dying one after another? Can this damn place still be wanted?!'

He went to collect Hu Cai's body, but I thought about his words.

Because according to what we know, the proprietor of Zuowang Hall is Hu Gui, and he was suddenly replaced by Hu Cai last year, saying that there were other arrangements within the clan.

But I heard something fishy from the Hu family’s complaint, so I planned to deceive him!”
To be continued...