Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 20: Mu Family’s Compensation, Return to the Family
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However, after the middle-aged man in yellow chose to chase Zhou Chun, it meant that Mu Ziying was safely out of danger.

She also knew that the situation was urgent, so even though she was worried about the safety of the Mu family monks and Zhou Chun, she rode her horse at full speed all the way, heading straight for Biyun Mountain.

After changing horses and galloping for nearly two hours, she finally returned to the Mu family.

Then, without waiting for the Mu family cultivator who was guarding the mountain gate formation to ask about the situation, she hurriedly told him about the danger that the Mu family cultivator and Zhou Chun were in.

Hearing that several members of the Mu family were in danger, as well as Zhou Chun, the distinguished guest invited by the family, was also in danger, the Mu family cultivators guarding the mountain gate formation immediately realized the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly rang the alarm bell to wake up several Mu family foundation-building cultivators who were practicing.

"Quick, Ziying girl, come with me to rescue Fellow Daoist Zhou. Great Elder, go to Wild Wolf Ridge first to check the situation. We can make a decision after I meet up with you!"

On Biyun Mountain, after hearing the whole story from Mu Ziying, Mu Xuanfeng, the head of the Mu family, changed his face drastically and immediately made the decision to save people.

Then he and Mu Jianghe, the eldest elder of the Mu family, split into two groups and quickly flew away from Biyun Mountain.

The speed at which a Foundation Establishment cultivator can fly at full speed is far beyond that of a Qi Refining cultivator. It takes less than an hour to fly a distance of two or three hundred miles.

Therefore, following Mu Ziying's guidance and with the advantage of a commanding position, Mu Xuanfeng quickly discovered the charred body of the [Black Scale Horse] and the bloodstains left on the ground by the middle-aged man in yellow.

"The blood hasn't dried yet, and there are no signs of burning bodies on the ground. It seems that Brother Zhou has escaped."

Mu Xuanfeng looked at the bloodstains on the ground, then glanced at the traces left by Zhou Chun when he left, and quickly made a judgment.

Then he raised his hand and released a magical power, and picked up a handful of the blood-stained soil on the ground and held it in his hand. Then he pinched his fingers and chanted a spell, using the smell of the blood on the soil as a medium, and performed a secret tracking technique.

Secret techniques like this, which track based on residual scents on hair, clothing and other items, can be considered a way of measuring whether a family or sect of immortal cultivation has any foundation.

For those immortal cultivation families and sects that have mastered this secret art, if a family member is killed outside, as long as there are foundation-building cultivators who can find the scene in time, based on the murderer's lingering breath at the scene, there is a high probability that the murderer who has not escaped far can be found.

Of course, this is based on the premise that the murderer himself does not have the relevant countermeasures.

As soon as the secret technique was used, Mu Xuanfeng quickly sensed the whereabouts of the murderer through it.

"That way!"

He turned his eyes and looked in the direction the murderer left, and immediately chased after him with Mu Ziying.

After chasing for dozens of miles, Mu Xuanfeng looked at a mountain below with cold eyes.

"Humph, do you think you can escape danger by hiding in these desolate mountains? How naive!"

With a cold snort, Mu Xuanfeng took Mu Ziying directly to a hidden cave on the top of the mountain, and then strode into the cave.

After a while, the middle-aged man in yellow clothes with blood on his collar and unconscious was carried out of the cave by Mu Xuanfeng.

After leaving the cave, Mu Xuanfeng turned his gaze to Mu Ziying who was following behind him and said, "Ziying, you just heard it too. Fellow Daoist Zhou should be fine now. You will have to work hard and shout to find him in the mountains. I will go to Wild Wolf Ridge to meet the Great Elder first."

"Yes, Ziying obeys your command."

Mu Ziying responded, and then saw Mu Xuanfeng carrying the middle-aged man in yellow clothes into the air and quickly flying out of her sight.

After watching Mu Xuanfeng go away, she thought about Mu Xuanfeng's instructions, and immediately started walking in the surrounding mountains, shouting Zhou Chun's name loudly as she walked.

It turned out that according to the middle-aged man in yellow, after bandaging his wounds and chasing Zhou Chun for a while, he lost his target in this mountain range.

Then, because he was injured and worried that he might meet the monks from the Mu family who came to support him when he returned to Wild Wolf Ridge, he hid in the mountains.

However, he never expected that the Mu family would value Zhou Chun so much, and it was the clan leader Mu Xuanfeng who came personally to look for and rescue Zhou Chun.

As a result, he was trapped in the cave and had nowhere to escape.

After learning this, Mu Xuanfeng concluded that Zhou Chun must have used some concealing method to hide in the nearby mountains.

That's why Mu Ziying is now shouting all over the mountains and fields looking for someone.

Although this method is a bit clumsy and laborious, it is indeed very effective.

Somewhere under a pile of earth and rocks formed by a landslide, Zhou Chun heard Mu Ziying's familiar voice, and hurriedly asked the rock turtle covering him to move aside and crawl out of the pit.

It turned out that he had been hiding in this earth pit before, using the rock turtle's innate breath-concealing ability to cover his own breath in order to avoid the search of the middle-aged man in yellow.

The range of the spiritual consciousness of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage is limited, and its effectiveness is greatly reduced when encountering obstacles such as soil and rocks.

Once the Rock Turtle enters the turtle rest state, it becomes like a lying rock, completely losing all the characteristics of a living being. Even if a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage does not pay attention, his spiritual sense may not be able to detect it.

Therefore, a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage can only see a rock turtle in the turtle's resting state with the naked eye at a close distance.

But the place where Zhou Chun was hiding was under a cliff, with weeds and bushes growing nearby. Not to mention that the middle-aged man in yellow had difficulty walking, even if he had normal legs, it would be impossible for him to walk all the way to the end of the cliff to see a pile of rocks.

At this time, Zhou Chun came out from his hiding place, listened carefully, and immediately responded to Mu Ziying's call loudly.

Not long after, he saw Mu Ziying in purple clothes appear on the cliff.

"I'm so glad that you're okay, Brother Zhou. The guy who was chasing us has been captured by the clan leader, and it was the clan leader who specifically ordered me to look for you in this mountain range."

On the cliff, when Zhou Chun used the "Wind Control Technique" to get to the top, Mu Ziying, who was sweating all over, immediately smiled at him and told him what had happened before.

After listening to her story, Zhou Chun felt relieved and nodded, "I see. Thank you for your hard work, Brother Mu."

"This little bit of hard work is nothing. If it weren't for you, Daoist Brother Zhou, leading that person away, Ziying would have turned into ashes by now. It should be Ziying who is thanking Daoist Brother Zhou."

As Mu Ziying spoke, she bowed to Zhou Chun earnestly to express her gratitude.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun had no choice but to accept her greeting.

Then the two of them walked back to Biyun Mountain together.

When Zhou Chun and Mu Ziying returned to Biyun Mountain, they quickly noticed the change in the atmosphere within the Mu family.

All the Mu family cultivators he met had heavy expressions, as if something was weighing on their minds. Even the number of people who greeted him decreased significantly.

This immediately made him realize that the situation at Wild Wolf Ridge was probably much more serious than he had imagined.

It is very likely that the Mu family’s strength is not enough to resolve this matter.

Sure enough, after learning that he and Mu Ziying had returned, the head of the Mu family, Mu Xuanfeng, summoned him in person.

"This time, Daoist Zhou got into danger. It was because the Mu family failed to take good care of him. We broke the promise we made to Patriarch Zhou. On behalf of the Mu family, I would like to apologize to Daoist Zhou."

In the office hall of the head of the Mu family, after seeing Zhou Chun coming, Mu Xuanfeng did not say anything else. He first stood up and bowed to Zhou Chun to express his apology.

Zhou Chun didn't dare to enjoy the apology of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building as casually as he did to Mu Ziying.

He immediately stepped aside and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "Senior Mu, you are too polite. How can I be so worthy of your courtesy?"

Seeing this, Mu Xuanfeng stopped forcing her, and just nodded slightly, saying, "The mistake has been made, and an apology is really useless."

After saying this, he looked at Zhou Chun with a look of relief and sighed, "Fortunately, Daoist Fellow Zhou is blessed with great fortune and has great means. He did not let the Mu family make a big mistake, so this old man and the Mu family have the opportunity to apologize and compensate Daoist Fellow in person!"

Zhou Chun was very pleased with these words.

A verbal apology is just a show of force and is not as useful as real compensation.

However, he could not show his inner thoughts on his face. Instead, he showed a look of fear and said thankfully, "I am really lucky this time. If that person had not been careless and my pet had injured his legs, I am afraid I might not have been able to hold on until you arrive."

Hearing his words, Mu Xuanfeng's eyes suddenly flashed with coldness, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Brother Zhou. That guy is now locked up in the Mu family's dungeon. If you are willing, the Mu family will let you personally cut off his head to avenge yourself."

Then he raised his hand and a storage bag flew from a storage rack in the hall into his hand, and he handed it to Zhou Chun.

"In addition, this storage bag belongs to that fellow. It contains all his wealth. Consider it as compensation from me and the Mu family for Brother Zhou's shock. Brother Zhou, please do not refuse it."

Refusal is impossible.

After experiencing the previous battle, Zhou Chun deeply felt the gap between his own strength and wealth and those of the late Qi Refining cultivators.

The several magical weapons of the middle-aged man in yellow left a deep impression on him. They were definitely rare and valuable things.

Now that these things belong to him, how could he refuse?

He didn't even bother to be modest at the moment, he just grabbed the storage bag and bowed deeply to Mu Xuanfeng, saying: "Thank you for your kindness, Senior Mu. I am grateful for it."

As for how to deal with the middle-aged man in yellow, Zhou Chun naturally would not really interfere.

He believed that the Mu family would never let that guy have an easy time.

"As long as Brother Zhou is willing to accept it."

Mu Xuanfeng waved his hand, then stared at Zhou Chun and said slowly: "The Mu family may have encountered some problems recently. If you continue to stay in the Mu family, the Mu family may not be able to take good care of you. Therefore, I would like to ask you to return to the Zhou family first."

"As for the matter of teaching the art of taming beasts, we can discuss it later."

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