The Rise of the Shen Family

The Liu family in Pingdu Mountain, a cultivating family that lived on the west side of the Qingyun Mountains for hundreds of years.

Legend has it that this Liu family ancestor was a disciple of the outer sect of Qingyunmen. Because there was no hope of building a foundation, a small family of self-cultivation was created next to the branch of the Qingyun Mountains.

It has been nearly 500 years since the legend of the Liu family. In the past 500 years, the Liu family has always been a family of qi training. It was not until a member of the family successfully established a foundation a hundred years ago that it became a foundation-building family.

There are now 180 members of the Liu clan on Mount Pingdu, except for the patriarch Liu Taichang, who is a foundation-building cultivator, and the rest are only Qi-training cultivators.

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Under the leadership of Liu Taiyang, the three of Shen Ruiling quickly entered the Liu family's clan protection formation, and started walking along the stone steps to the top of the mountain.

As he walked upwards, Shen Ruiling didn't forget to look around at the scene in the Liu family's land, secretly comparing it with his own Yun Bifeng.

On both sides of the mountain road, on the vast land from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, the Liu family has opened up nearly 100 mu of spiritual fields here. scene!

Passing through the Lingtian, Shen Ruiling and his party came to the building complex on the mountainside, where the attics were closely arranged together, large and small, and scattered.

With the arrival of Shen Ruiling and the others, many Liu clan members on Pingdu Mountain gathered on the side of the road and looked at Shen Ruiling and the others with evasive eyes.

Looking at these Liu clan members, Shen Ruiling couldn't help but wrinkle slightly, as if he didn't understand.

I saw that most of them, the Liu clan, were wearing mourning clothes for funerals, and they looked at the three of them with evasive eyes, as if they were very scared.

Although there was some confusion in his heart, Shen Ruiling didn't say anything, just quietly followed behind the patriarch and sixth uncle, and walked towards the top of the mountain.

After half a cup of tea, the three of Shen Ruiling came to a lobby on the top of the mountain, looking at the scene in front of them even more confused.

I saw this nanmu coffin was placed in the very center of the lobby. On both sides of the coffin stood Liu clan members dressed in linen and filial piety, and several women in mourning clothes were crying and wailing in front of the coffin.

Seeing this scene, Shen Jinghua and Shen Huanchi couldn't help but look at each other, and then Shen Jinghua looked at Liu Taiyang and asked:

"Whose mourning hall is this in your family?"

"Reporting to the seniors, this is the mourning hall of my family head!"

That Liu Taiyang said with a sigh with a look of pain on his face.

Hearing this, Shen Jinghua couldn't help showing a look of shock on his face, and asked incredulously:

"Fellow Daoist Liu has passed away?"

It's no wonder that Shen Jinghua would have this reaction. You must know that Liu Taichang is already a monk in the early stage of foundation building, so how could he suddenly die?

On the other side, Shen Ruiling and Shen Huanchi also looked at each other very tacitly. The only foundation-building cultivator of the Liu family has fallen, and things here are not easy!

In the face of Shen Jinghua's cross-examination, Liu Taiyang did not dare to hide it, and hurriedly responded:

"My family leader has fallen!"

"When will things happen?" Shen Jinghua asked in a deep voice.

Liu Taiyang said sadly while recalling:

"Return to the seniors,

Just a few days ago, there was a trace of the monster on the mountain seven days ago. The patriarch led a few people up the mountain to search, but they never came back. In the end, even the soul lamp kept in the family went out! "

Hearing this, the faces of Shen Jinghua and the three of them couldn't help but become solemn. The death of Liu Taichang was probably the result of that monster snake.

And if you can solve a cultivator in the early stage of foundation establishment, then the level of this monster snake will not be too low, at least it has the strength of the third-order low-level!

After being silent for a while, Shen Jinghua glanced at Shen Huanchi and the two behind him, and then slowly said:

"Take us to the incense stick for Fellow Daoist Liu!"

Hearing this, Liu Taiyang couldn't help but stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted and responded quickly:

"Three seniors, please come with me!"

After speaking, Liu Taiyang led Shen Jinghua and the three into the mourning hall.

I saw that after he said a few words to the crying women, the women got up and left, and cast a grateful look at the three of Shen Jinghua.

Then, Liu Taiyang took the three sticks of incense from the clansman on the side, and respectfully handed it to the three of Shen Jinghua.

Here, after the three of Shen Jinghua took the incense stick handed over, they came to the front of the coffin and bowed towards the tablet.

After seeing what they had done, the Liu clan members on the side cast their good-natured glances, obviously not expecting that Shen Ruiling and the others would look at them like this.

After sensing the emotional changes of these Liu clan members, Shen Ruiling couldn't help but admire Uncle Six in his heart. This move to buy people's hearts really worked well.

They had just arrived here, and they were unfamiliar with the place of life. It was obviously impossible for the three of them to quickly search for the monster python, so they had to rely on these local forces headed by the Liu family.

So even if Shen Ruiling resisted the act of bowing to strangers, but for the sake of his death, and for the successful completion of this task, he didn't care about it.

After the incense was served, the three of Shen Ruiling, led by Liu Taiyang, went to a parlour and sat down one after another.

After being seated, Shen Jinghua looked at Liu Taiyang and said directly:

"Tell me about the specific situation first!"

In the face of Shen Jinghua's inquiry, that Liu Taiyang's face showed a touch of sadness again, and slowly said:

"Reporting to the seniors, this matter has to start more than two months ago, when it rained heavily and flash floods broke out in our area.

Then, the mortal towns of our several families were suddenly attacked by a group of snakes, killing and injuring many mortals.

At the beginning, we didn't pay much attention, we just asked them to take precautions, thinking that it would be good to wait for the rainy season to pass.

But I didn't expect that after a period of time, our family cultivators went into the mountains to collect herbs and disappeared for no reason.

At that time, we knew that something was wrong, and we started to organize people to go into the mountains to investigate, but there were no clues.

It wasn't until a month ago that a member of the Xu family ran down from the mountain and said that he saw a huge monster eating people. We didn't know that there was a third-order monster python here.

Then our patriarch passed the information to Qingyunmen, hoping that the sect would send someone to help us hunt down the monster python.

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After listening to these words, Shen Jinghua and the three couldn't help showing a dignified look on their faces.

From Liu Taiyang's words, we can understand that this monster python suddenly appeared two months ago, which may be related to this rainy season.

Moreover, the strength of this monster must be above the third rank, otherwise it would not have the ability to kill Liu Taichang in the early stage of foundation building.

Apart from these, there is nothing to analyze.

After being silent for a while, Shen Jinghua said solemnly again:

"Your Liu family is the only foundation-building family in this area. Although Daoist Liu has fallen, there should be no problem in commanding the other three Qi-cultivating families, right?"

"That's natural!"

Liu Taiyang hurriedly agreed and seemed quite proud.

"Okay, take my token and go to the other three families to give orders, and ask them to bring 20 people from each family to come here tomorrow, and then let's go into the mountain to see the situation together!"

"Understood, senior!"

After taking the token handed over by Shen Jinghua, Liu Taiyang arranged for someone to pass the order to the three qi training families!

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