Nine Transformations of the True Spirit.

Chapter 178 Qingyou Zhenren
"Master Qingyou?" Chen Yuan frowned slightly, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Are you talking about Master Qingyou who ran rampant in Qi State more than a thousand years ago and killed five Jindan cultivators of Ziyang Sect?"

A hint of surprise flashed across Yu Qing's eyes. "Yes, Fellow Daoist Chen is well-informed and knowledgeable. He even knows about this old event from a thousand years ago. I admire you."

Chen Yuan smiled faintly and said, "I have only read a few classics and have heard a little about this Immortal. Is the treasure that Daoist Yu mentioned related to this Immortal Qingyou?"

When he was reading the classics about the secret realm of Dongxu Mountain in the Sutra Library, he saw the records about Zhenren Qingyou.

This was a cultivator in the late Jindan stage. He suddenly appeared in Qi's immortal cultivation world more than a thousand years ago. For some unknown reason, he had a conflict with Zi Yang Sect and killed five of Zi Yang Sect's Jindan cultivators in a row. Two of them were in the late Jindan stage. His ferocious power shook Qi's immortal cultivation world.

Yu Qing nodded and said, "Yes, I have a token in my hand that can open the cave formation of Master Qingyou and obtain Master Qingyou's treasure!"

Chen Yuan was surprised. "Are you serious? As far as I know, Master Qingyou should have died at the hands of Master Shikong, the head of Ziyang Sect. How could there be a treasure left behind?"

Yu Qing smiled and said, "This is just Ziyang Sect flattering itself. Taoist Shikong did personally hunt down Qingyou, but he managed to escape. It was only because of his face that Taoist Shikong claimed that he had killed Qingyou."

Chen Yuan nodded slowly and asked, "If I remember correctly, since then, Master Qingyou has never appeared in the Qi Kingdom's cultivation world again. If he is not dead, he should have left Qi Kingdom. How could there be a cave left behind?"

Yu Qing said solemnly, "Master Qingyou actually did not leave Qi. He lived in seclusion in Dingzhou and established a family of immortal cultivators. They used his original surname, Yu, and multiplied and flourished, and have been passed down for a thousand years. This family is our Dingzhou Yu family!"

Chen Yuan was surprised. "Master Qingyou is the ancestor of the Yu family? I am so disrespectful."

He bowed to Yu Qing, who waved his hands and said with a wry smile, "We are unworthy descendants. We have caused our family to perish at the hands of the devil. We are ashamed of our ancestors' reputation."

Chen Yuan comforted him, "You don't have to blame yourself, my friend. The Yu clan is not completely destroyed, and there will be a day when they can regroup."

Yu Qing said excitedly: "You are right, Daoist friend. Although the Yu clan is destroyed, the legacy of our ancestors is still there. Before our ancestor Qingyou founded the Yu clan, he had an extremely secret cave residence in which he left many treasures. As long as I can enter this cave residence and obtain the treasures left by my ancestors, I can rebuild the Yu clan."

At this point, he paused and bowed to Chen Yuanshen: "This is what I want to discuss with Fellow Daoist Chen. I hope you can help me enter the ancestral cave and take out the treasures. We will split the treasures equally. What do you think?"

Yu Qing looked extremely sincere, but Chen Yuan did not agree immediately.

He raised the teacup and took a sip of the spiritual tea. His thoughts turned, and he soon discovered the contradiction in Yu Qing's words.

If Master Qingyou was the ancestor of the Yu family, why didn't he leave his treasures directly to the descendants of the Yu family?
Yu Qing must be hiding something, but Chen Yuan doesn't care about the relationship between Master Qingyou and the Yu family. The opportunity to obtain Master Jiedan's treasure cannot be missed.

However, Yu Qing was willing to share the treasure with an outsider like him, so this matter would definitely not be that easy. He put down the teacup and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your trust and telling me such a secret, but this matter is of great importance, and it is difficult for Chen to make a decision in a hurry. Please explain the matter in more detail."

Yu Qing nodded and said, "Even if you don't want to tell me, I will tell you the whole story. But I am a descendant of the Yu family's side branch. I only learned about this from the elders of the clan when the Yu family was destroyed three years ago. I don't know the inside story very well..."

"At that time, the Yu clan was besieged by a dozen foundation-building demon cultivators led by Liu Fan. Liu Fan suddenly used a secret treasure to break the formation and unexpectedly broke through the clan's protective formation and broke into the clan's territory. Our Yu clan was defeated and retreated step by step. Finally, we retreated to the ancestral hall and were on the verge of destruction."

"At this time, the clan's chief elder suddenly gathered me and several surviving cultivators in the early stage of foundation building together, handed us a jade slip, and said that it recorded a secret cave with many cultivation resources. He asked us to write down the map, break out separately, find an opportunity to take out the treasure, and rebuild the Yu clan."

"Afterwards, the only two elders left in the clan fought desperately with the cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building. Several of us cultivators in the early stage of foundation building took the opportunity to break out, but the demon cultivators had been prepared. Everyone else died. Only I was lucky enough to escape. I followed the map and found the secret cave. I took out the things hidden in it. The most precious thing was this token."

Yu Qing said this, touched his storage bag, took out a token, and handed it to Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan took it and looked at it. The token was about the size of a palm, gray and inconspicuous. It seemed to be made of the most common crude iron in the mortal world. There was a word "You" engraved on one side, and the other side was blank with no words or pictures.

Chen Yuan turned the token over and over several times and scanned it inch by inch with his spiritual sense, but he did not find anything unusual, not even a trace of spiritual energy. It seemed to be just a token used by mortals.

He handed the token back to Yu Qing: "Is this the token that can open the formation of Master Qingyou's cave?"

Yu Qing nodded and said, "Yes, before the breakout, the Great Elder specifically reminded us that the reason the demon cultivators besieged our Yu family was for this token, and we must not let it fall into the hands of the demon cultivators."

Chen Yuan frowned and said, "So Liu Fan already knew about the cave?"

Yu Qing said solemnly, "That's right. When the Great Elder handed the jade slip to us, he also told us about the Qingyou ancestor's cave. It turns out that my Yu family's ancestors had already discovered the location of the ancestral cave, but the protective formation was so powerful that it could even block Nascent Soul cultivators and could not be broken at all."

"If we want to break through the protective formation and enter the cave, we can only use the two tokens left by our ancestor Qingyou. But for some reason, our ancestor only left one token in the clan, and the other token disappeared. For hundreds of years, our ancestors of the Yu family have been looking for the trace of the other token, but they have never found it."

"Ten years ago, the clan leader accidentally got the news of another token and went to Jing Country to look for it, but a few months later, his life lamp suddenly went out. This matter was concealed by several elders, and even the cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building in the clan did not know about it."

"It was not until three years ago that the demon cultivators suddenly besieged our Yu clan's formation, told the story, and threatened several elders to hand over the token in order to spare the entire Yu clan. The elders then realized that the demon cultivators were after our ancestral cave, and that the clan leader was lured out of Qi by the demon cultivators and ambushed and killed!"

"Fortunately, my Yu family ancestors acted cautiously and did not leave the other token in the family. Instead, they hid it in a secret cave, preventing the evil cultivator from succeeding. Before I and a few of my clansmen broke out, the elders informed us of this and told us to be careful of the evil cultivators chasing us."

(End of this chapter)