"Chen Zhou is missing?" Master Ding asked with a slightly focused gaze as he looked at the second disciple standing in front of him.
Chen Zhou is his registered disciple. Chen Zhou's dragon-type spirit pet bloodline is relatively pure, and he plans to accept it as a formal disciple after a while.
A few days ago, Chen Zhou came and wanted to enter the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts. Since Chen Zhou paid a considerable price, no other cultivators would say anything if he said anything, so he agreed.
As a result, ten days passed and Chen Zhou was not teleported out of the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts.
"Master, I have checked the records of the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, and he has not left the cave!" Yuan Xun bowed and replied.
He didn't care about Chen Zhou's life or death, but he paid attention to Chen Zhou's affairs because his master, Master Ding, wanted to accept Chen Zhou as a formal disciple.
Chen Zhou was missing, but he felt somewhat happy. Who would like to have another junior brother to share the master's care?
"Who was in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts during this period? Have you checked?" asked Master Ding in a deep voice.
In the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, as long as you do not actively attack the spirit beasts, the spirit beasts will not attack the cultivators, so there is no danger in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts.
The only danger might come from the cultivators. Since there is no surveillance from the sect in the cave, there have been incidents of fellow disciples killing each other in the past.
Later, the Wanshou Sect noticed this phenomenon and tried to reduce the number of cultivators who entered the cave at the same time, thus making it very rare for them to kill each other.
"Master, Chen Zhou followed Li Shizhen into the cave. At that time, Li Shizhen was the only one in the cave. Now Li Shizhen has left the cave and returned to the cave residence!" Yuan Xun gave a prepared answer.
Not only his second senior brother, but even Sect Master Ji knew that Chen Zhou was planning to take advantage of Li Shizhen, and he had issued a warning to Chen Zhou.
But Chen Zhou was only thinking about integrating Li Shizhen's dragon-type spirit pet, and with the support of Master Ding, he ignored the warning from Ji Zongmen.
"Go and bring Li Shizhen to me!" Master Ding ordered calmly.
He was too lazy to investigate. As long as Li Shizhen was captured, everything would be clear.
Just as Yuan Xun turned around and was about to leave, a magic spell of communication flew over and landed in front of Master Ding.
Master Ding opened the message transmission spell, and then his face was slightly stunned.
"Wait!" He quickly waved his hand and stopped Yuan Xun.
"Master, do you have any other instructions?" Yuan Xun turned around and asked in confusion.
"Li Shizhen has been accepted as a disciple by Hu Hongan. Please show me Li Shizhen's information first!" said Master Ding, shaking his head.
This message was sent by Master Hu in order to accept Li Shiming as his disciple.
Master Ding may not care about a cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage, but he cannot ignore Master Hu.
Li Shiming is the formal disciple of Master Hu, and Chen Zhou is the registered disciple of Master Ding. If they arrest Li Shiming for the sake of being a registered disciple without any evidence, I'm afraid Master Hu will not let it go.
"Master, I have already investigated this Li Shizhen. Here is his information!" Yuan Xun took out a jade slip and handed it over.
"You are thoughtful!" Master Ding nodded with satisfaction and took the jade slip.
When Yuan Xun heard his master's praise, a smile appeared on his face. He did so many things not for Chen Zhou, but to cater to his master's preferences.
He likes whatever the master likes. Even if he doesn't like it in his heart, he has to show his attitude of liking it.
Master Ding looked at Li Shiming's information and wondered why Master Hu would accept Li Shiming as his disciple.
It is not an easy matter for a great monk to accept disciples. Several great monks in the sect do not accept many disciples. The main reason is that the great monks have too much influence. If the disciples they accept are not good, it will affect the great monks' reputation.
In addition, the disciples of great monks will occupy more resources of the sect, so the great monks will intentionally control the number of disciples.
"Master Alchemist, when did Old Hu care about this?" Monk Ding muttered to himself.
No matter how good Li Shiming's talent for alchemy is, as long as he is the sect's alchemy master, would the alchemy master dare not help to make the elixir if the great monk asks?
"Master, Li Shizhen has just been promoted to the Nascent Soul stage. I'm afraid he doesn't have the ability to kill Chen Zhou!" Yuan Xun reminded at this time.
"The kind of people that Old Hu likes can't be viewed with common sense!" Master Ding said casually while looking at the information.
Perhaps Master Hu did not accept Li Shiming as his disciple, and after reading the information, Master Ding would think that Chen Zhou’s disappearance had little to do with Li Shiming.
But the fact that Li Shiming was accepted as a disciple by the great monk Hu means that Li Shiming is not an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator and must have some kind of talent that even the great monk Hu noticed.
"Go meet Li Shizhen and ask him directly about Chen Zhou's disappearance and listen to his answer!" Monk Ding thought for a moment and then ordered.
Although Li Shiming cannot be touched for the time being, the matter cannot be left like this. Letting Yuan Xun go to his house is to alert the enemy and see Li Shiming's attitude.
"Yes, Master!" Yuan Xun bowed and responded.
After Yuan Xun left, a hint of murderous intent appeared on Master Ding's face. Anyone who dared to kill his disciple, even if he was a registered disciple, would have to bear his wrath.
There was another reason for letting Yuan Xun go, which was to paralyze Li Shiming and make him think that the investigation was still ongoing.
Master Ding didn't need any investigation. He believed that Li Shiming killed Chen Zhou, so Li Shiming must pay the price.
Li Shiming was very surprised when he received the message from a man named Yuan Xun, as he did not know Yuan Xun.
He did not meet Yuan Xun immediately, but sent a message to Feng Lanxin to inquire about Yuan Xun's information.
What surprised him was that Yuan Xun was a cultivator from the dragon lineage and the second disciple of Master Ding.
Although there are many factions within the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, the great monks will not participate in such factional disputes, and only the younger generations will compete.
This kind of internal factional struggle is also to maintain the vitality of the sect. Only competition can create motivation.
Li Shiming is a cultivator from the Phoenix lineage, and Yuan Xun is a cultivator from the Dragon lineage, and also a disciple of a great cultivator. Why would he come to find him?
Although he didn't know the reason, he knew it was best not to refuse.
It was still in the pavilion that he met Yuan Xun.
"Congratulations, Junior Brother Li. I heard that you were accepted as a disciple by the great monk Hu." Yuan Xun said sincerely with a warm smile on his face.
That is to say, Li Shiming has telepathy. Yuan Xun is a peak cultivator in the early Nascent Soul stage. Although he cannot listen to Yuan Xun's voice, he can sense Yuan Xun's emotions.
In his perception, Yuan Xun's emotions were not like this.
Yuan Xun's emotions were very strange, including anger, gloating, sympathy, and many other complicated emotions.
"Senior Brother Yuan is really well-informed. I have just been accepted as a disciple by the master!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
"I came here this time on the orders of my master to ask you something!" Yuan Xun stared at Li Shiming and said.
"Please speak!" Li Shiming sensed that Yuan Xun's mood had changed again, and he seemed to be preparing for an all-out attack.
Of course, this full-strength attack is not a real attack, but a form of psychological warfare, suddenly asking a question and getting an answer.
What Li Shiming did not sense was that Yuan Xun was performing a spiritual secret technique.
"It was you who killed Chen Zhou!" Yuan Xun activated his spiritual secrets and said loudly.
He did not use a question sentence, but an affirmative sentence. If it was really Li Shiming who killed Chen Zhou, he would definitely reveal his flaws under the sudden attack of the spiritual secret technique.
Of course, this spiritual secret technique did not have much offensive power, and he did not dare to use the offensive spiritual secret technique in Li Shiming's mountain.
He mainly wanted to see Li Shiming's reaction so as to determine whether Li Shiming was the murderer of Chen Zhou.
But what he never expected was that when he used the secret technique of the spirit to attack Li Shiming, Li Shiming's "Humanity Reincarnation Art" automatically protected and launched a counterattack.
Li Shiming's spirit is very strong. His spirit is composed of five spiritual cultivation methods, plus the spirit existing in his brain which is formed by the 190 CPUs of his life treasure IBMz15. The sum of these is his total spirit.
Launching a mental attack on him will not have any effect on him unless the intensity of the mental attack exceeds the limit of one hundred and ninety-one brains.
Yuan Xun only felt a pain in his head and almost fell to the ground.
In other words, his cultivation was strong enough to stabilize his body.
"Senior Brother Yuan, you actually launched a mental attack on me!" Li Shiming roared.
As he roared, the mountain formation was immediately activated. At the same time, his mountain formation was also actively asking for help from the sect's formation, mobilizing the power of the sect's formation.
This kind of mountain formation was set up by the sect. Even if the cultivators living in it strengthened the formation on their own, they would not touch the formation set up by the sect.
This is because the mountain formation set up by the sect has a part that is connected to the sect’s main formation.
Once the mountain formation discovers that the owner of this place is under attack, it will immediately activate the formation to suppress the attacker.
If the mental attack launched by Yuan Xun had not been backfired, the mountain formation would not have been able to detect it. However, after the backlash, when Li Shiming, the master, loudly raised the issue, the formation activated its protection of the master.
Yuan Xun only felt his body sinking as the power of the formation took effect on him.
He didn't dare to make any more attacking moves. Once he did, it would be confirmed that he had attacked Li Shiming in Li Shiming's mountain.
If that happens, first of all, he will be punished by the sect, and secondly, Master Hu will come after him, and even Master Ding will not be able to save him.
When he used the message-transmitting spell to apply to enter Li Shiming's mountain, it was equivalent to agreeing to live in peace in Li Shiming's mountain.
This is the unspoken rule of the world of immortal cultivation, and it is a rule that all cultivators must follow.
"Junior Brother Li, wait a minute, this is a misunderstanding!" Yuan Xun said loudly.
His previous attempts could be explained, but if he really took action, it would be difficult to explain.
Li Shiming stopped and looked at him, waiting for his next words.
"I was just concerned about Junior Brother Chen Zhou. I heard that you were also in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts at that time, so I couldn't help but test it out. I had no intention of attacking you!" Yuan Xun explained repeatedly.
"Please leave my mountain. I will report this matter to the sect!" Li Shiming said with a gloomy face, pointing outside the mountain.
Yuan Xun turned around and flew out of the mountain covered in dust and dirt. He knew that he had lost face now.
Who would have thought that Li Shiming, a cultivator who had just been promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, actually had such strong spiritual power that the secret spiritual techniques he used could backfire.
"There are still some troubles!" Li Shiming shook his head helplessly and said to himself.
However, he was not too worried. Now that he had Master Hu as his strong backer, as long as there was no evidence, Master Ding would be unable to do anything to him in the sect.
As for leaving the sect, unless Great Monk Ding takes action personally, there are not many Nascent Soul early stage monks who can defeat him. Even if it is a Nascent Soul middle stage monk, he can escape with his divine feet ability.
Thinking of Chen Zhou, he had not checked on the body after he put it away.
Chen Zhou's corpse should have been cultivated through some kind of body-refining technique, but unfortunately his Nascent Soul did not have the runes of the body-refining technique, which made it impossible for him to exert the power of the body-refining technique in the Nascent Soul Dharma state.
If such a corpse is sacrificed to make a refined corpse, the effect will be best, and the strength of the refined corpse will be the top among the refined corpses of the same level.
However, in order to refine this corpse into a refined corpse, its appearance needs to be changed, otherwise it will only bring trouble to oneself.
He also found Chen Zhou's mustard seed ring in the computer room. Inside the mustard seed ring, Chen Zhou's wealth was not as rich as he had imagined.
Chen Zhou's fourth-grade magic weapons are all here. No matter how powerful they are, they can only be stored in the computer room and never see the light of day.
Li Shiming was looking through the space in the mustard seed ring, searching for a spiritual object that interested him.
"The Phantom Dragon will like these!" He couldn't help but smile and said to himself when he saw a bunch of spiritual objects with the aura of dragon blood.
These spiritual objects were all found by Chen Zhou for his dragon-type spiritual pets. He was also considering letting the dragon-type spiritual pets absorb all the dragon blood at once in order to make the best use of these resources.
These spiritual objects are good things that can enhance the bloodline of Chen Zhou's dragon-type spiritual pet, but for the Phantom Dragon, they are just snacks.
"The Secret Technique of Dragon Dancing for Nine Days, an unexpected harvest!" When he was checking the jade slips, he found that one of the jade slips contained a record of the 'Secret Technique of Dragon Dancing for Nine Days'.
He had obtained the secret contract of the dragon lineage before, but that secret contract was only ordinary in the dragon lineage.
This 'Dragon Dance Nine Heavens Secret Technique' is the top secret technique of the dragon lineage, which records many advanced methods of controlling dragon pets, and one can even borrow the power of dragon pets for oneself.
Li Shiming didn't think much of the other spiritual objects in Chen Zhou's mustard seed ring. It's not that they were worthless, but they were some fourth-grade tools that he couldn't easily use.
"This Chen Zhou is too poor!" Li Shiming couldn't believe that a registered disciple of a great monk had only this much wealth.
In fact, he had wronged Chen Zhou. Chen Zhou's wealth was originally quite substantial, but in order to enter the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, most of Chen Zhou's wealth was consumed, causing Chen Zhou's wealth to shrink severely.