Chapter 576: Silent Death

This trip to Da Zhou took about five years.

Because they practiced in a place without spiritual veins for five years, they also slowed down their steps.

In these five years, their cultivation did not make any further progress.

However, in these five years in Huoshan, Zhang Zhixuan spent more time on creating exercises, and the exercises for the middle stage of Jindan have been mature.

In terms of deducing exercises, his talent is far superior to his peers. Even if Qingchan has the memory of his previous life, he is far inferior in this regard.

Now Zhang Zhixuan has deduced the exercises of the Pure Yang Treasure Book to the fifth level of Jindan. Only by practicing his own exercises can his cultivation speed catch up with Qingchan's pace.

After returning to the sect, he immediately recorded a copy of the diary jade slip he got from Hong Daoren to Jin Laozu. This kind of diary of Jindan cultivators for hundreds of years is also of great benefit to Jin Laozu's cultivation.

In addition, he also exchanged the refining methods of the three puppets extracted from the jade slip to the sect's Sutra Pavilion in exchange for good deeds worth 60,000 spirit stones.

After dealing with these chores, Zhang Zhixuan was about to return to the Lingjing Mountain Cave House, but was stopped by Zhang Yunlan who came in a hurry.

"Fourteenth Uncle, I'm afraid my father is dying. Go and see if you can delay him for a while."

Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan were about to leave, but they saw Zhang Yunlan's eyes full of tears and her pretty face full of sorrow.

Although Zhang Yunlan's cultivation was not low and she was over a hundred years old, she also had a very clear understanding of the ways of the world.

Her cultivation had long surpassed her father Zhang Sidao, and she had also reached a level that Zhang Sidao could not reach on the path of Taoism, but her dependence on her father was still hidden in her heart.

She lost her mother when she was a teenager, and it was her father Zhang Sidao who raised her up, taught her Taoism, and led her on the path of immortal cultivation.

Because of the protection of Zhang Zhixuan's three elders, their generation of cultivators had a relatively smooth path of Taoism. As long as they had good spiritual roots and sufficient qualifications, they could basically make further progress.

Although Lan Niang's magical powers are already quite good and she is over a hundred years old, in terms of ruthlessness and decisiveness, her generation lacks training and is far inferior to their fathers, let alone the three ancestors of the Zhang family.

In the past hundred years, some of Zhang Yunlan's brothers and nephews have passed away. It is not that she has not experienced the pain of losing her relatives.

But it was not until Zhang Sidao died that Zhang Yunlan felt that the sky was about to fall. She was unwilling to accept this situation.

Zhang Zhixuan calculated Sidao's age and his face suddenly became gloomy. He looked at Qingchan and said, "Sidao's time is up. Let's notify his family."

Sidao is about twelve years younger than Zhang Zhixuan. He is now exactly 190 years old. According to the lifespan of a cultivator in the foundation-building period, a cultivator who is good at health preservation can last for about four sixty years.

Unfortunately, Sidao's early years of cultivation were difficult, his behavior was reckless, and he accidentally took a failed elixir, which seriously damaged his foundation. Even though the conditions of the Zhang family gradually improved later, he only regained ten years of life, which was still about fifty years less than that of a normal foundation-building cultivator.

Although Sidao was a generation younger than Zhang Zhixuan, he was a generation older. Among the foundation-building cultivators in the family, only he, Sihong, and Tonghuai could barely be considered as assistants to Zhang Zhixuan in managing the family in his early years.

When they were cultivating, although the conditions at home had improved, they still had to face many difficulties and suffer a lot.

The old patriarch also took good care of them.

These three most qualified foundation-building cultivators also had a closer relationship with the three ancestors.

Sidao and Sihong were both family cultivators who could talk to the three ancestors. Ordinary family foundation-building cultivators, unless there was something important, would not dare to disturb the cultivation of this Jindan-stage ancestor.

Zhang Zhixuan and his wife immediately turned around and hurried to the cave where Sidao lived.

Sidao's cave is a third-grade upper-grade spiritual vein, which was inherited from his master Chen Hongyuan.

Since Lan Niang opened up the Purple Mansion, the Chen family has also benefited from her.

Some relatives with more distant bloodlines also shamelessly mixed up, relying on Lan Niang's influence in the sect to place people in some lucrative positions.

After Zhang Zhixuan and the other two entered the cave, they found that Sidao's complexion was very bad, and it seemed that he was already at the end of his life.

His skin was like dry bark, and his breathing was very rapid.

The one who took care of him was a grandson of Sidao. His sons had no spiritual roots and died of illness decades ago. Even among his grandsons and great-grandsons, only a few are still alive today.

Sidao's grandson is named Zhang Yuanyou. This person's spiritual roots are not bad. He is a cultivator with three spiritual roots and is now about seventy years old.

However, in order to cultivate Lan Niang, who had better spiritual roots, to open up the Purple Mansion, Si Dao could only sacrifice Yuan You's interests. He did not help him at the most critical moment of his foundation building, which made him miss the opportunity to build his foundation in vain.

Because of this matter, this grandson has had some grudges with him in recent years, and their relationship is relatively distant and not close.

Seeing that Si Dao was dying, he hurried to his grandfather's cave.

His descendants did not know about Si Dao's early years, including Lan Niang.

In the early years, she was young, and Si Dao did not tell her about this. In the last few decades, in order to avoid Lan Niang's worries, Si Dao would not tell her that his life span was insufficient.

Even Si Dao's specific age was not known to his younger generations. After all, they lived in Qingyang Mountain, far away from the family, and it was impossible for them to go to the Tiantai Peak family ancestral hall to look through the family tree.

After seeing the two Jindan period ancestors in the family, Zhang Yuanyou was about to wake up his grandfather, but found that Zhang Zhixuan shook his head gently.

"It seems that we can't wait for Hanyan. What are you going to do with Sidao's funeral? Will he be buried in the sect cemetery or in the family?"

"Everything is up to uncle." Sidao's life was in danger, and Lanniang was already a little confused, so she could only entrust Zhang Zhixuan with the funeral.

"It's better to send him back to the family cemetery. Sidao's parents are mortals. His closest cultivator is your aunt and nephew and Uncle Seventeen. Let him be buried next to his grandfather! There will be someone to take care of him on the road to the underworld."

After Zhang Zhixuan arrived, Sidao fell into a coma and never woke up. In the evening, he passed away quietly. He left with very little noise. Except for Zhang Zhixuan and his wife, even Lanniang didn't know.

He left quite suddenly, and he didn't even have time to leave a last word.

Zhang Zhixuan knew that Sidao had a lot to say to everyone, to himself, to Hanyan, to Lanniang, and to Yuanyou.

Unfortunately, things in the world are unpredictable, and eight out of ten things are not as you wish.

In the end, he left quietly without saying anything.

Zhang Zhixuan was in a heavy mood and arranged Sidao's funeral. He refined his bones and buried them together with his wife Chen Weilan's ashes. They were ready to move to the family cemetery and bury them under his seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengjian.

Chen Weilan did not succeed in building the foundation. She was about ninety years old when she gave birth to Lan Niang. She died when Lan Niang was very young. In order to commemorate his wife, Sidao did not name Lan Niang according to the family tree, but used the homophonic name of his wife.

For ordinary cultivators, marrying wives and concubines is to multiply the population or to vent desires. There is not much deep affection between husband and wife, including Zhang Zhixuan and Han Yan's father, who had countless wives and concubines when they were alive.

However, Sidao and Chen Weilan had a very deep relationship. The two gave birth to seven or eight children. After Chen Weilan passed away, Sidao did not marry again for ninety years and spared no effort to help his wife's family. He did not ignore Chen Weilan's family just because he was gone.

Now these two loving couples are finally buried together. Perhaps Sidao is not afraid of going to the underworld.