Chapter 272 The Two Brothers Finally Meet, and the Sideline Has a Son Called Treasure

There is such a special cave in the clan land of Canglong Zhang family.

This place is sealed all year round, and no one is allowed to set foot in it.

Overall, it is a forbidden place.

But there are no extraordinary demons imprisoned here.

And this is the residence of Zhang Xiong and Zhang Zhongxiu, the first generation of the Zhang family.

Zhang Wei declined the request of Qun Yao and others to come here, and came here alone with a food box.

The environment around the cave is very quiet, and there is no weeds. It can be seen that someone often cleans the entrance of the cave.

There are some second-level restrictions at the entrance, which are enough to resist the attack of the foundation-building cultivators in a short time.

But this can't stop Zhang Wei now.

It's just that Zhang Wei didn't force the barrier, but used the power of space to directly cross these restrictions and enter the cave.

With the effect of the magic circle, there is no accumulation of dust in the cave.

But the "dead air" that has not been lived in for a long time still permeates every corner of the cave.

Zhang Wei looked around and found that there were many bookshelves in the cave, and many books were piled on them.

He subconsciously reached out his hand, but accidentally touched a handful of fragments.

After more than two hundred years, these books have become brittle.

But they can be used with care.

"Huh?"

At this time, Zhang Wei frowned and found that there was actually a breath of a living person in this cave.

The breath was very faint, and it seemed that he was an ordinary person.

And it seemed that he had just been here once a month ago.

Zhang Wei was shocked.

So he let go of his mind and carefully sensed it, and found that this breath had been moving around the periphery of this cave, and the objects he mainly touched were still these books, and he put them away after reading them, without any damage.

"Reading books?"

Zhang Wei felt a little strange, and released electromagnetic force to stabilize the structure of these books, and then took out a book and opened it.

"Is this... the book I left behind?"

Zhang Wei was shocked when he saw the content inside. He didn't expect to see the books he left behind in Zhang Xiong's cave.

And looking at the annotations above, his elder brother had studied them carefully.

That ordinary person's goal is these books?

Zhang Wei was a little surprised.

You know, before he left, he copied all the books about science and technology in his mind, and one of them was left in the Zhang family's library.

He didn't put it away, anyone can read it.

Why take the risk to come here to read it?

But Zhang Wei didn't want to arrest anyone for the time being.

Shaking his head, Zhang Wei put this matter aside for the time being and walked towards the quiet room used for cultivation.

The door of the quiet room opened, and what came into view was a low platform with a second-level spirit gathering array engraved on it.

In the center of the spirit gathering array, an old man with gray beard sat cross-legged.

The sunlight shone through the dome skylight opened above the cave, bringing a vitality to the old man's body.

It felt like he was still alive.

But Zhang Wei knew that it was just a corpse.

"Brother, I'm back..."

Zhang Wei said lightly, but if you listen carefully, you can hear the slight tremor in Zhang Wei's words.

The corpse in front of him was his brother Zhang Xiong!

Although Zhang Wei had prepared himself mentally on the way here, when he saw his brother Zhang Xiong's corpse, he still felt a pain in his heart and a suffocating feeling enveloped his whole body!

After a long breath of turbid air, Zhang Wei walked to the low platform and sat opposite Zhang Xiong. He took out a few side dishes and a pot of wine from the food box and placed them between his two brothers, and poured a glass of wine for himself and Zhang Xiong respectively.

Looking at the old corpse of his brother in front of him, Zhang Wei raised his head and drank the wine in the cup.

Three hundred years ago, not long after Zhang Wei and Chi Lian were swept away by the Yellow Spring Storm, Qun Yao came to the Zhang family to visit Zhang Xiong in person.

At that time, Zhang Xiong had just broken through the middle stage of foundation building, and his life span increased by another half a century. The whole Zhang family was immersed in the joy of the master's breakthrough, so Qun Yao did not want to tell Zhang Xiong and Zhang Ping the bad news, so as not to make them sad.

But even so, Zhang Xiong still guessed that his younger brother Zhang Wei had encountered an accident.

After repeated questioning, Zhang Xiong said nothing and left a letter, passing the position of the head of the family to Ping'er, and then went into seclusion again.

Whether it was Zhang Ping as a son, Qun Yao who was watching, or Zhang Wei who heard the news three hundred years later, they all knew.

He wanted to break through the Purple Mansion...

He could only live for three hundred years and see his younger brother Zhang Wei if he became a Purple Mansion Master with a lifespan of five hundred years.

But unfortunately...

He failed.

Although with the help of Qun Yao, Zhang Xiong did not have to worry about cultivation resources, but at the critical moment of the last unity of heaven and man... he missed the best time to copy the true map of the Great Dao.

When she learned that Zhang Xiong failed to break through.

Qun Yao also ran around for this matter.

She hoped to find a treasure that would allow Zhang Xiong to break through the Purple Mansion again.

But this... led to another tragedy.

When Zhang Xiong failed to break through and his lifespan was almost over.

As a son, Zhang Ping was also anxious.

At this time, Zhang Ping, with the support of Qun Yao, had reached the late stage of foundation building and needed to prepare for the breakthrough to the Purple Mansion Realm.

So a hundred years after Zhang Wei left, when a new wave of Longmen tide came, he ventured into the outer sea of ​​Linglong to search for the elixir.

As a result, once he left, he never came back.

The death of his son once again dealt a huge blow to Zhang Xiong, who was already approaching the end of his life. It didn't take long for him to sit in this cave.

At this point, the last two relatives of the Zhang family that Zhang Wei was familiar with came to an end...

"Brother, little brother, I'm going out to rest."

After a long time, Zhang Wei finally spoke.

He told his brother in front of him about his three hundred years of life abroad.

It's as if the other person is still alive.

The tone was ups and downs, but the real danger was not revealed.

At this moment, he is like a wanderer who has just returned home after traveling for a long time. In front of the elders at home, he only reports good news but not bad news.

Buzz————

Just as Zhang Wei was talking, strange rhythms spread out from Zhang Wei's body, and then swept through the entire cave.

Semi-illusory shadows suddenly appeared in the void.

It is the image of Zhang Xiong!

These Zhang Xiong are either sitting or standing, practicing or reading and drawing talismans.

There are many different postures.

But it was lifelike, as if Zhang Xiong had come alive at this moment.

However, these are just memories.

Under the emotional fluctuations, Zhang Wei's electromagnetic divine thoughts spilled out uncontrollably. Under the influence of the power of the soul, he directly aroused the Tao Yun that belonged to Zhang Xiong that remained in the cave.

These images are records of Zhang Xiong’s life in the cave.

Just like the photo of the Cyclops Li Mo that Zhang Wei met in the Snow Palace.

Zhang Wei is still talking to himself, and the image of Zhang Xiong in these Taoist records has become older with the passage of time.

Finally, when Zhang Wei talked about the plot of his return to the Five Realms through the Nether Sea Eye, the image of Zhang Xiong presented by Daoyun gradually became as old as the corpse of Zhang Xiong in front of Zhang Wei.

And then... disappear.

"call……"

Zhang Wei breathed out the breath of alcohol, swept away the food and put it away, then stood up swaying with the wine bottle.

"Brother, I have something else to do, so I'm leaving now. I'll see you again when I have the chance."

With that said, Zhang Wei picked up the wine bottle and poured a sip of wine into his mouth, then turned around and left unsteadily.

However, just as he walked to the door, he suddenly heard an old voice.

"Zijie..."

Zhang Wei stopped, his eyes widened, and there was no trace of drunkenness on his face.

He turned his head and looked behind him.

At this moment, a faint light appeared on Zhang Xiong's body, which outlined Zhang Xiong's middle-aged appearance like a candle in the wind.

Looking at Zhang Wei, Zhang Xiong looked pleased, smiled slightly and said: "You have grown up..."

As the words fell, a wisp of wind blew through the void, and Zhang Xiong's extremely illusory figure suddenly disappeared like mist.

Also dissipated at the same time was Zhang Xiong’s body.

It's like it never appeared.

"Brother..."

Zhang Wei murmured, and two wisps of tears fell down at some point and became wet on his cheeks.

But at this moment, there was no sadness in his heart.

A smile appeared on his face.

Zhang Wei poured all the remaining wine in the flask into his mouth, then walked out of the door laughing.

What Zhang Xiong said just now was not Zhang Wei's illusion.

Those are the true words of Zhang Xiong.

That is his divine thought!

At the end of his life, Zhang Xiong successfully cultivated the power of spiritual thoughts, and used this power to cast sealing spells, sealing his extremely weak soul in his body with unknown sealing spells.

This spell seals extremely thoroughly.

Even the perception of the outside world is cut off. Without the stimulation of strong enough spiritual power, Zhang Xiong's remaining soul may remain sealed in the body until it dies.

This is the fate where you won't even be able to enjoy reincarnation.

But it is this almost dead state that extends Zhang Xiong's "life" to the greatest extent.

Let him wait for the return of his younger brother who can't find a home.

It later proved... Zhang Xiong succeeded.

At the end of his life, Zhang Xiong finally met his younger brother.

And Zhang Wei also saw the last side of his brother.

When we walked out of the cave, it was already sunset.

A curtain of night has hung above the sky, squeezing the living space of the sunset.

Under the sky, there is the bustling Zhang family land.

The birthday banquet has started, and now the seats are full of guests. Thousands of tribesmen are happily congratulating Zhang Tianyi on his 200th birthday. It is a good scene.

Zhang Wei didn't care about this. The moment he walked out of the cave, he just felt that the heavy stone that had been pressing on him disappeared, making him feel unprecedented free and relaxed.

Buzz~~

As if breaking free from the shackles, a slight wave of energy erupted from Zhang Wei's body.

Zhang Wei looked at his hands and murmured: "The peak of the early stage of Yuanying..."

After seeing his brother for the last time, the last obsession in Zhang Wei's heart melted away, and it was normal for him to have a breakthrough in his cultivation.

But...it can’t be upgraded any more!

Feeling the pain in his limbs, Zhang Wei felt a little depressed.

The condition of the second body is not bad. When practicing the Five Thunder Tiangang Jue, there is no need to worry about the impact of the surge in mana on the body.

But his body...

Zhang Wei's current cultivation level of Tianlei Divine Refining Technique has only reached the late stage of Jindan, but now Zhang Wei's actual cultivation level is at the peak of the early stage of Nascent Soul.

The backward skills forced Zhang Wei to use mana that was far beyond his limit in quantity and quality, making him feel uncomfortable.

It felt like he was wearing shackles.

If his cultivation level broke through again and he became a mid-stage Nascent Soul, Zhang Wei suspected that even if he didn't explode, his blood vessels and meridians would burst because of the surging mana!

"I need to vent my anger..." Zhang Wei muttered, and then he planned to ask Chi Lian for help.

However, at this moment, he suddenly sensed a sneaky figure approaching here in his mind.

The person was a teenager.

He was not very old, about thirteen or fourteen years old.

His clothes were not bright, and even had two patches.

This treatment was not even considered in the main veins of the five houses, and some of the nearby branches.

But the other party had a familiar aura.

Thunder spirit power...

"Hmm?"

Zhang Wei raised his eyebrows, and remembered the aura of the ordinary person who was looking for a book in the cave, so he hid his body and appeared beside the teenager.

Watching him sneakily turn into the bushes beside a cave, and then lift up a pile of rubble to reveal a... dog hole?

And there is no ban, you can get into the cave by going in!

Zhang Wei was stunned. He didn't expect that his elder brother's cave ban was bypassed like this?

Then Zhang Wei watched the boy sticking his butt and struggling to get inside. The difficult look made Zhang Wei laugh.

So he raised his leg and kicked the boy's butt.

"Ouch!"

Zhang Baozang could only scream, and then with the sound of clothes tearing, the whole person rushed directly into the cave, and then fell into a rolling gourd due to inertia.

As a price, his already torn clothes were completely scrapped.

"My clothes..."

Zhang Baozang looked at his clothes distressedly. This was his best clothes, with only two inconspicuous patches.

If it weren't for the birthday banquet of Zhang Tianyi, the clan leader, who required the whole clan to dress smartly and not to bring shame to the Zhang family in front of foreign guests, he would not have been willing to wear it.

But soon, Zhang Baozang thought of a very important question.

"Who kicked me?"

Zhang Baozang was shocked. You know, this is a forbidden area. If he, a side branch, broke into it and was discovered, it would be over!

It would be fine if he was kicked out of the Zhang family tree, but what if they discovered his spiritual power and his cultivation was abolished?

Thinking of this, Zhang Baozang rolled and crawled towards the dog hole, wanting to return the same way.

But as soon as he put his head in, he looked up and saw Zhang Wei squatting at the entrance of the dog hole, looking at him leisurely.

Zhang Baozang felt it carefully and found that there was no spiritual power fluctuation on this person.

Either his strength was far superior to his, or he was just an ordinary person like himself before.

But it was obviously impossible. How could someone who could come here when the Zhang family held a birthday banquet be an ordinary person!

So this person is much stronger than me!

And he is also a stranger. With my memory of working in the Zhang family for ten years, I don’t remember such a person in the Zhang family.

Then there is only one possibility!

The other party is a spy who sneaked into the family land while the Zhang family was holding a birthday party!

It’s life-threatening...

No, I can’t just sit there and wait for death, I have to find a way to save myself!

Thinking of this, Zhang Baozang raised his head and showed a smile that was uglier than crying, saying: "This... Please tell me what you want, senior. I will help you to complete it even if I have to go through fire and water. I only ask you to spare my life."