Mortal Seeking Immortal

Ye Zhou looked at the poisonous tail black bee that had been lying on the side for a long time. He was about to let it go and secretly follow it back to the nest, but he saw the poisonous tail black bee fall to the ground, its breath had been cut off, and a faint black smoke floated from it.

Xu Wanwan was shocked, took out the magic weapon and looked around vigilantly: "Demonic energy?! How could there be demonic energy in this poisonous tail black bee? Could it be that a demon cultivator has secretly lurked in our Tianlong Mountains?"

Ye Zhou frowned slightly as he looked at the curled up corpse of the poisonous tail black bee on the ground. Now there are traces of evil cultivators everywhere in the Linghuan Continent. It is not impossible for them to appear in the Tianlong Mountains. However, if this matter is really related to the demon cultivator, perhaps the sect will have to send someone else to deal with it. However, before that, Ye Zhou needs to investigate and confirm it carefully.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou stood up and said to Xu Wanwan: "Let's go, take me to your spirit stone mine first."

Ye Zhou had a hunch that if there were really demon cultivators sneaking into the Tianlong Mountains, their purpose should be related to the small spirit stone mine owned by the Xu family.

Xu Wanwan led the way in front, and Ye Zhou followed behind her. After a while, the two arrived at a seemingly ordinary hill deep in the Tianlong Mountains.

Ye Zhou looked around and saw that this hill had nothing special except that the spiritual energy was richer than the surrounding mountains. There was a deep cave entrance on the hillside near the top of the hill. The cave entrance was large enough to accommodate several people. There was a formation at the entrance to prevent outsiders or monsters from entering. At this moment, this formation had already been broken.

On a relatively flat open ground not far from the cave entrance, a simple wooden house was built for the monks on duty to rest. The door of the wooden house was wide open, and outside the door lay a human monk skeleton that had been eaten by poisonous black bees until there was no trace of flesh and blood left.

The skeleton was lying face down, with two hand bones tightly clasped on the ground, as if it had suffered great pain before death.

Through the remaining clothes and fabrics on the monk's skeleton, it can be seen that this monk is a monk from the Xu family.

When Xu Wanwan saw this monk, she seemed to recognize his identity, and a trace of grief appeared in her eyes.

Ye Zhou walked towards the cave entrance and vaguely sensed that there was a trace of demonic energy left in the cave. Ye Zhou was afraid that there was an ambush in the cave. When he was still a few steps away from the cave entrance, he stopped and Xiao Yuan came out of his sleeve, leaving a faint black afterimage in the air, and shot into the cave with a whoosh.

After a while, Xiao Yuan flew back to Ye Zhou to report, baring her teeth and claws while squeaking and gesturing at Ye Zhou. After a while, Ye Zhou finally spoke: "You mean there are no other living things in the cave except for a dozen skeletons of monks, right?"

Xiao Yuan nodded, pointed to the skeleton on the ground, and flew the word "five" in the air. Ye Zhou said: "There are only five skeletons of Xu family monks. You haven't seen the clothes worn by the remaining skeletons, right?"

Ye Zhou's words were affirmed by Xiao Yuan. Ye Zhou touched Xiao Yuan's back shell and praised: "Well done."

After receiving Ye Zhou's praise, Xiao Yuan couldn't help but feel proud and flew into Ye Zhou's sleeve again.

Ye Zhou called out to Xu Wanwan, who was still secretly sad, and said, "Miss Xu, let's go in."

Xu Wanwan responded without hesitation and led the way into the mine. Once they entered the mine, the light around them instantly dimmed. Fist-sized moonstones were inlaid on the wall for lighting, and these moonstones emitted a cold white light.

The mine was very deep. The two walked for about half an hour and finally reached the bottom of the cave. There was more demonic energy left here than outside the cave. There were many traces of fighting on the cave wall. There were more than a dozen skeletons in different clothes lying on the ground. The storage bags on the skeletons had disappeared, and there were several abandoned magic tools scattered around.

On the cave wall in front of them, more than a dozen low-grade spirit stones were embedded on it. A trace of spiritual energy floated out from the spirit stones. There were many stones that had been excavated but not taken out scattered on the ground, as well as some excavation tools scattered together.

Ye Zhou asked, "Miss Xu, do you recognize the clothes worn by the corpses of these monks?"

Xu Wanwan glanced at the corpses on the ground and nodded affirmatively, "Yes, the clothes worn by these monks belong to several other small families living near the Tianlong Mountains. It's strange, how could their people die here?"

After hearing this, Ye Zhou asked again, "Miss Xu, take a closer look. Are there no monks from any family here?"

Xu Wanwan took another closer look and said to Ye Zhou, "Senior Ye, there are no monks from the Qingwu Sect here."

"Qingwu Sect?"

Xu Wanwan informed Ye Zhou of the general news about the Qingwu Sect, and also told Ye Zhou that the leader of the Qingwu Sect had a foundation-building mid-stage cultivation level. A few years ago, it was rumored that he was about to break through to the late stage of foundation-building. The four elders in the Qingwu Sect all had the foundation-building early stage cultivation level.

Ye Zhou guessed that the Qingwu Sect might have colluded with the demon cultivators in order to seize the Xu family's spiritual stone mine, and persuaded several other families except the Xu family to form an alliance.

Under the leadership of the Qingwu Sect, the demon cultivators were able to successfully find the location of the Xu family's spiritual stone mine.

But in this cave, the Qingwu Sect and other forces suddenly fell out for some reason and started fighting. The Qingwu Sect and the demon cultivators slaughtered all the cultivators of these families.

However, these are just Ye Zhou's current guesses, and the specific situation is still unknown. He asked Xu Wanwan to take him to the nearest family to investigate the situation.

Half an hour later, the two flying on the swords saw a densely packed house in front of them from afar. Xu Wanwan pointed at the house and said to Ye Zhou: "Senior Ye, the Qian family's residence is in front."

"The head of the Qian family has set up several attack formations around to prevent attacks. If foreign cultivators forcibly break into their territory, they may be attacked by the formations. Let's go down."

Ye Zhou nodded, and the two landed their flying swords on a small hill not far from the Qian family and quickly moved towards the location of the Qian family.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Ye Zhou saw two black bodies of Qian family cultivators who had obviously died of poisoning on the side of the road.

There were traces of monsters gnawing on these two bodies, but the monsters that had eaten these two bodies all died not far from the bodies without exception.

Ye Zhou stepped forward and took a look, and saw that there were traces of being scratched by the poisonous needles of the poisonous tail black bees on the two bodies.

They were holding several empty medicine bottles tightly in their hands, and it was obvious that they had taken detoxifying pills before their death. However, due to the strong venom of the poisonous black bees, these ordinary detoxifying pills had no effect on the poison of the poisonous black bees.