Mortal Seeking Immortal

While the two were talking, they had finished touring the entire underground trading area. Ye Zhou bought a general topographic map of the Linghuan Continent and then left the underground trading area with Hou Yuan.

On the way back to Wuliang Mountain, Ye Zhou and Hou Yuan separated. Ye Zhou went to his cave on Wuji Mountain and handed over most of the exchanged medium-grade spirit stones to Xiaoshan. He also gave him a batch of spirit plants and asked him to practice well in his cave. Then he rushed back to Wuliang Mountain and began to practice the exercises every minute.

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Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, Ye Zhou had been in the Spirit Beast Sect for a year.

On a remote and spacious hillside on Wuliang Mountain.

Two docile spirit beasts, the long-eared wind fox beasts, which were known for their speed, stood up vigilantly and looked around from time to time, and sometimes bent over and quickly swallowed a large piece of vermilion spirit fruit in front of them. Seeing that there was no one around, the two little beasts ate with relish.

The long-eared wind raccoon beast is very timid. It can sense any movement within a few dozen feet. Once it finds any danger around, it will immediately run away. The speed of an adult long-eared wind raccoon beast is comparable to that of a cultivator in the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

Just as the two long-eared wind raccoon beasts were frantically devouring the spiritual fruit, a nearly dim and invisible black shadow suddenly flashed dozens of feet away. This black shadow was like a small flying insect flying quickly in the air, and it was so fine that it could not be detected.

The black shadow did not leave any spiritual power fluctuations, not even a faint wind. In just a moment, this black shadow appeared three feet away from the two long-eared wind raccoon beasts.

At this time, the long-eared wind raccoon beast seemed to have just noticed something, and immediately stopped eating alertly, stood up and looked around.

After feeling the solemn atmosphere in the air, one of the long-eared wind raccoon beasts suddenly let out a scream, and its body jumped forward, instantly turning into a residual shadow and fleeing forward.

Its companion followed closely behind, fleeing at full speed in another direction.

Long-eared wind raccoons generally do not forage too far from their caves. There is a narrow and deep cave entrance no more than thirty feet away from the direction where the two long-eared wind raccoons fled.

At the speed of the two long-eared wind raccoons at this time, it only takes two breaths to escape back to the cave.

At the moment when one of the long-eared wind raccoons fled, the dim and invisible black shadow moved, and chased it at a speed faster than the long-eared wind raccoon.

At the moment of approaching the long-eared wind raccoon, a hand suddenly stretched out from the black shadow, grabbed the fur on the back of the neck of the long-eared wind raccoon with one hand at lightning speed, and lifted the long-eared wind raccoon up.

The long-eared wind raccoon beast kept struggling in the hand, kicking its powerful hind legs in the air, as if trying to break free from the restraint of the hand, but all this was useless. The hand seemed to be nailed to the skin of its neck. No matter how the long-eared wind raccoon beast struggled, it could not break free from his palm.

After the black shadow captured a long-eared wind raccoon beast in an instant, it quickly changed direction and quickly caught the other long-eared wind raccoon beast in the same way before it escaped into the cave.

The two long-eared wind raccoons seemed to accept their fate and hung their heads and legs in the hands of the black shadow, pretending to be dead. At this time, the black shadow shook slightly in the air, and Ye Zhou, wearing the clothes of a registered disciple of the Spirit Beast Sect, appeared in the same place!

Ye Zhou looked at the two long-eared wind raccoons he had just captured, and his eyes showed a little satisfaction: "I finally caught you. It's worth my hard work in practicing the Liangyi Step for a year."

The two long-eared wind raccoons have not yet opened their spiritual intelligence, so they naturally don't understand what Ye Zhou said. They trembled slightly in Ye Zhou's hands.

Seeing the long-eared wind raccoons so timid, Ye Zhou couldn't help but smile and shook his head and said: "Forget it, I won't scare you, let's go."

After that, Ye Zhou put the two long-eared wind raccoons on the ground. The moment Ye Zhou let go, the two long-eared wind raccoons rushed into the cave not far away like an arrow from a string, and disappeared without a trace.

Ye Zhou stood up and brushed off some dust on his body, and walked to the foot of the mountain.

In this year, in addition to practicing the Liangyi Step to the great perfection stage, Ye Zhou's speed is comparable to that of the cultivators in the great perfection stage of foundation building.

Relying on a large amount of elixirs and his own diligent practice, Ye Zhou also improved his cultivation from the initial stage of foundation building to the middle stage of foundation building. Although he was in the middle stage of foundation building, Ye Zhou could compete with the late stage of foundation building by relying on the special practice of his cultivation method.

Outside the courtyard where the spirit insects were raised, all the registered disciples who came in and out of this place saluted Ye Zhou respectfully the moment they saw him.

During this year, when Ye Zhou was free from raising spirit insects, he did not forget to teach other disciples how to raise the spirit insects in their hands.

With Ye Zhou's guidance, the disciples did not make any mistakes in raising spirit insects in this year.

Not only did no one receive punishment from the Sixth Elder, but the Sixth Elder also often gave a lot of elixirs, spirit stones and other things, which made the treatment of the registered disciples under the Sixth Elder rise sharply, which had never happened before.

Therefore, all the registered disciples were grateful to Ye Zhou. Whether they were older disciples or disciples who came in with Ye Zhou, they all respectfully called Ye Zhou "Senior Brother Ye".

Ye Zhou was about to go inside to check on the spirit insects he raised when he heard a voice that was very familiar to him: "Senior Brother Ye, please stay."

Ye Zhou turned around and saw Sheng Jin walking towards him with a smile on his face. Ye Zhou smiled and said: "Senior Brother Sheng Jin, you are teasing me again. It's fine for others to call me Senior Brother, but why are you following them?"

"You are the most experienced disciple here. I was able to join the sect thanks to your advice. I am not worthy of your title of senior brother."

Sheng Jin said seriously, "I am not teasing you. I am here to congratulate you in advance. You are finally going to make it."

A trace of doubt flashed across Ye Zhou's eyes. Sheng Jin explained, "According to a senior brother I know, due to the lack of manpower on the mountain, the master has recently thought of accepting another registered disciple to serve him."

"Here, you are the disciple that the master likes the most. As long as you serve the master, will you still be afraid of not having the opportunity to become a direct disciple in the future? When you become a direct disciple one day, you will be worthy of my title of senior brother."

Ye Zhou said seriously to Sheng Jin, "Even if I am lucky enough to become a direct disciple under the master's seat one day, you will always be my senior brother in my heart."

After hearing this, Sheng Jin's face showed a little touch, and he patted Ye Zhou's shoulder with emotion.

Ye Zhou's face was not as excited as Sheng Jin expected, but rather a bit solemn.

Sheng Jin thought that Ye Zhou was worried about accidentally angering the Sixth Elder, so he comforted Ye Zhou and said, "Don't worry, Junior Brother. According to the senior brothers who serve Master, Master has always been tolerant of the disciples who serve him. As long as they don't do anything rebellious, he generally won't punish the disciples easily."