Chapter Fifty-six: Background

  Zhou Heng was taken aback and asked, "Are there any other powerful experts in the Jin family?"

  He himself is not afraid, but worries about bringing trouble to the Zhou family, especially Zhou Dinghai.

  "She is Kim Soo-myeong's brother's mother, Ryu So-e!" Lin Fengxiang's expression turned solemn, "She is from the Black Water Temple!"

  "What?!"

  Zhou Heng was truly shocked at this moment, and he had killed Jin Xiuying initially because of the presence of Zhu Zhi and the four people who took out the token from the Black Water Temple, which intimidated the people of White Jade Valley to only dare to make a move in secret.

  Since Ke Bai 'Yu' Valley also has a connection with Hei Shui Dian, how can it be so taboo?

  "You're really stupid, as a member of the Black Water Temple, there's naturally a hierarchy! Lin Fengxiang gave him a flirtatious glance, causing Zhou Heng's heart to flutter uncontrollably. However, Lü Su'e and Bai Yugu's relationship isn't good, and Bai Yugu doesn't dare bring her out to show off!"

  "What's going on?" Zhou Heng asked in pursuit.

  "I heard that Lv Su'e was originally Kim Tengyi's apprentice, but that dignified old man..." Lin Fengxiang's pretty face turned red and she didn't continue speaking.

  "What's going on?" Zhou Heng was clueless about men and women matters, blinking his eyes as he looked at Lin Fengxiang.

  "Bad egg!" Lin Xiangxiang's pretty face became even more charming, and she couldn't help but give Zhou Heng another glance, full of charm.

  Suddenly, something in Zhou Heng's heart seemed to come alive, and a strange feeling surged up. He hastily suppressed it and said, "Nonsense, I really don't know what you're talking about!"

  "You're still talking!" Lin Xiangxiang stomped her foot, with a face full of pouting, "Anyway, Jin Tengyi did something shameless, and then there was the birth of Jin Xiulong brothers!"

  Zhou Heng finally understood that although the master and apprentice did not have a blood relationship, their union was also unacceptable to secular society. Lin Fengxiang said that Jin Tengyi had done something shameless, which should be forcing Lv Su'e, so Lv Su'e would have a bad relationship with Bai Yugou.

  "Lv Su'e's innate talent is very high, possessing the power of bloodlines, as an eight-star spiritual body. Although it wasn't until she was almost fifty that she broke through to the Gathering Spirit Realm, she then made rapid progress, and just twenty years later reached the third heaven of the Gathering Spirit Realm. She was taken in as a disciple by the Black Water Temple, and is said to be on the verge of breaking through to the Initial Division Realm!" Lin Fengxiang's expression turned grave as he spoke.

  "Initial Boundary!" Zhou Heng's face also turned solemn.

  Although he can kill Jintian Yi, it's because the other party underestimated him too much. Otherwise, he would not be a match for Jintian Yi at all. And after entering the Gathering Spirit Realm, he also understood the gap between the Gathering Spirit Realm and the Refining Body Realm even more clearly. This gap is equally applicable to the Gathering Spirit Realm and the Initial Division!

  Lv Su'e might have wished for Jin Tengyi's death, but as the mother of the Jin Xiu brothers, how could she remain unmoved upon learning that both sons had died at Zhou Heng's hands?

  If Lü Suxiao is still in the Three Realms of Gathering Spirit, then even if Zhou Heng can't defeat him, he might have a chance to escape. If they fight with their lives on the line, they could both end up severely injured. But if it's the initial stage... Zhou Heng doesn't see any hope!

  He won't belittle himself, but rather acknowledge the gap in strength.

  Although his strength has increased rapidly, this world is full of strong people, and the Gathering Spirit Realm is just the beginning of martial arts. He doesn't even have the qualification to be complacent.

  "But you don't have to worry too much, even if Lü Su'e really broke through to the initial division, she wouldn't dare to come to Jiuling Sect and kill people!" Lin Fengxiang said confidently, "Because my grandfather is the white silver elder of Heishui Temple!"

  "Oh?"

  "Alas, I have to teach you again, you foolish idiot!" Lin Fengxiao deliberately sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "The Black Water Temple has many skilled masters, only those with strength at the initial stage of division can become elders!"

  "Among them, the first division of the heavy heaven is the Bronze Elder!"

  "The first division of the two heavy heavens is the White Silver Elder!"

  "The first division of the Triple Heaven is the Purple Gold Elder!"

  "Why not the Golden Elder?" Zhou Heng 'inserted' a question.

  Lin Fengxiao had another urge to hit the wall, and she said viciously to Zhou Heng: "Why must you call him Elder Huangjin?"

  Zhou Heng shrugged and said, "I was just casually asking!"

  He finally understood why the Jiuling Sect had such confidence, it turned out that there was a white silver elder in the Black Water Temple as their backing. Presumably, the Qingyun Sect also had a similar background, so the three major forces were evenly matched and could only rely on their own strength to compete with each other, rather than relying on the power behind them.

  Because they were all under the jurisdiction of Heishui Temple.

  Lin Fengxiang was originally delighted to be reunited with Zhou Heng, but now she's being provoked to the point of rage, and she feels that this little scoundrel is still as detestable as before! She said irritably: "So, you'd better stay in the Jiuling Sect, where it's absolutely safe. Otherwise, I won't bother with you!"

  She stormed off, and Zhou Heng couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile as he watched her captivating back view quickly disappear.

  Next, let's consider the road after tomorrow.

  Hei Jian possesses an extraordinary ability that completely changes Zhou Heng's previous thoughts. He is destined to take the path of slaughter!

  Staying in the Jiuling Sect is safe, but it also means that he has put aside the most powerful weapon without using it, which is a very foolish act. He is now a strong man in the Jiling Realm, and with the divine mystery of Feiyun Step, even if Lü Su'e, the person from Baiyu Valley, monitors him, it's almost impossible to catch him.

  Unless he was unlucky enough to run into this guy directly.

  Instead, Zhou Dinghai's safety needs to be considered. What if Lv Su'e can't catch him and goes after Zhou Dinghai to threaten him?

  Zhou Heng thought for a long time and decided that he had to swallow his pride and let the Jiuling Sect take in his father, with Bai Yinlong as a deterrent, Lv Su'e would not dare to cause trouble.

  I've been to Yuanyishi Town once.

  It was a quiet night, and on the second day, Zhou Heng had just woken up when he heard someone knocking at the gate.

  He opened the door and took a look, but it was Lin Fengxiang again.

  "How did you come again?" Zhou Heng shook his head, "No wonder your cultivation progress is so slow, it turns out that all the time was 'wasted' by you!"

  Lin Fengxiang's fragrance was so enticing that she almost jumped up, where did she waste her time? Among the younger generation of Jiuling Sect, how many people could compare to her? But who let the person standing in front of her be a freak? And if you add another freak, Jing Tian, she can only rank third!

  "Never mind, I'm a lady of great importance and won't bother to argue with you!" She walked into the yard without any courtesy, "Hurry up, pack your things, we're going to the Pingtian Mountains!"

  "What's the point of going there again?" Zhou Heng had just returned from there and didn't intend to go back into the mountains at all.

  "Something strange has happened!" Lin Xiangxiang said mysteriously, "Yesterday I received news that the cave in the mountain is haunted!"

  "What's 'cave'?" Zhou Heng was stunned for a moment, then thought it must be the mine where the terrestrial rock cloud stone was located. "What does 'haunted' mean?"

  "This young lady is not clear, I heard that many miners suddenly grew red 'hair' on their bodies, became invulnerable to swords and guns, and had incredible strength, killing people at sight. Now even the mine can't be mined!" Lin Fengxiang said excitedly.

  Red 'hairy' monster?

  Zhou Heng thought of the "Misty" Valley of Death, under the influence of that crimson stone monument, the corpses on the ground all grew red "hair" and came back to life, this scene still makes people shudder to this day.

  How could the same changes occur in the mysterious fog valley and the underground rock cave, which are separated by an unknown distance?

  "I heard you also saw the red-haired monster in Misty Valley, let's go take a look and see if both sides are the same!" Lin Fengxiang urged.

  Zhou Heng was somewhat moved, and until now he still didn't know how those corpses turned into red 'hairy' monsters, and that blood-colored stone monument was suppressing a head of donkey, all of which exuded an eerie aura!

  Blood-colored stone monument under suppressed a deep bottomless pit, he dare not go down from there, then, will the mine tunnel be a breakthrough?

  His blood was flowing with a strong spirit of adventure, and he was eager to move at any moment.

  "Go!" Zhou Heng made a swift decision.

  The two left Jiuling Sect and headed into the mountains. Zhou Heng asked as they walked, "What did the sect master say about this matter?"

  "My father said this matter is too strange, we must move troops to the Black Water Temple!"

  "Hey, if Heishui Temple intervenes, won't the owner of the mine be changed?"

  "What can I do? Who would have thought such a strange thing would suddenly happen!"

  Five days later, the two arrived at the entrance of the Diyan Yunshi mine. The place had undergone a great transformation by then. A huge platform had been built outside the entrance, with rows of tents that could accommodate over a hundred people, while more than ten people were guarding the entrance.

  "What a person! Oh, Miss!" Someone immediately asked when they found Zhou Heng and Lin Feng approaching, but when they saw Lin Fengxiang, they immediately changed to a respectful attitude.

  "What's the situation now?" asked Lin Fengxiang.

  "All the miners who turned into red-haired monsters have lost their sanity and attack any living thing they see!" The man hastily replied with respect, "Elder Chen Yu is currently sitting at the entrance of the cave to calm things down!"

  Lin Fengxiang pulled Zhou Heng to the entrance of the cave and said in a gentle voice to a sixty-year-old old man, "Uncle Fei, Xiang'er has come to see you!"

  "Hey, how did Fragrance come here?" The old man only glanced at Lin Fengxiang before turning to Zhou Heng, his eyes suddenly shining brightly as he grunted and said, "Gathering Spirit Realm!"

  "What?!" More than a dozen cultivators around him who had reached the twelfth layer of Body Refining exclaimed in unison.

  How could such a youth under twenty be an existence of the Gathering Spirit Realm?

  Fei Chen Yu was sent by the Jiǔ Líng Zōng to suppress the mine, because the Di Yan Yun Shi mine was truly precious, and it was not excessive to mobilize a Jù Líng Jìng elder. He didn't know that Zhou Heng still had the feat of killing Jin Teng Yi with one sword, but a strong Jù Líng Jìng cultivator under twenty years old was already stunning enough.

  "Little brother, how should I address you? Forgive me for my ignorance, but I haven't seen you before!" Fei Chenyu clasped his fists in a greeting to Zhou Heng. Although there was a great age difference between them, in the world of martial artists, only strength mattered. If Zhou Heng were at the initial stage now, Fei Chenyu wouldn't even dare call him "little brother", and would have to respectfully address him as "senior"!

  "In last week, Zhou Heng, who had only joined the sect half a year ago, hadn't seen him either, it's very normal!" Zhou Heng still bowed with one hand, without pretending to be humble as a junior.

  "Half a year ago?" Fei Chenyu muttered to himself, he just happened to be sent here half a year ago, and unexpectedly missed the rise of a genius. But he absolutely could not have thought that he would come here just as Zhou Heng discovered the Diyan Yunshi mine!

  "Uncle Fei, we're going into the mountain cave!" Lin Xiangxiang didn't want to stand there foolishly and immediately made a request.