Chapter 1: Young Zhou Yang
The extreme west, within the boundless sea of sand.
The boundless sand sea is like its name, with sand as the sea, boundless.
The sandy sea environment is harsh, and there are very few places suitable for humans to live in. Only a few desert oasis can accommodate humans to live in and survive.
Yuquan Lake is one of the few desert oasis in the boundless sea of sand that can be inhabited by people.
The oasis is more than 100 miles long from east to west, more than 70 miles wide from north to south, high in the east and low in the west. There is a mountain named Yuquan Peak on the east, which is hundreds of meters high. It is surrounded by trees and clouds and mist. At the foot of the mountain is the source of life of the entire oasis - Yuquan Lake.
Yuquan Lake covers an area of more than ten square kilometers. The lake water comes from an underground river. The water volume is extremely large and the water quality is clear and sweet. It can be drunk directly.
The more than 100,000 humans and countless birds and beasts on the land of thousands of square kilometers of Yuquan Lake Oasis are all supported by the clear water of this lake.
And the Zhou family of Yuquan is the owner of the Yuquan Lake Oasis.
The first person to discover the Yuquan Lake Oasis was Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Yuquan Zhou family. Now there are more than 100,000 humans living in this oasis, and they are all Zhou clan members who are related to the Yuquan Zhou family.
The Zhou family of Yuquan is a family of immortal cultivation. Its ancestor Zhou Yuquan, who was a disciple of the "Huangshamen" of the immortal cultivation sect. He resigned from the sect more than two hundred years ago and established the Zhou family of Yuquan Lake in the Yuquan Lake Oasis. It has been around for seven generations now.
To this day, Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou clan, has already been transformed. However, after more than two hundred years of development, the Zhou clan of Yuquan is now a powerful immortal cultivation family with a foundation-building monk, dozens of Qi training monks, and more than 100,000 vassals.
Ordinary Zhou clans mainly live in three small towns in the Yuquan Lake Oasis, either farming fields or grazing cattle and sheep, living a self-sufficient and carefree life.
The cultivators of the Zhou family live uniformly on the Yuquan Peak, which is rich in spiritual energy.
Yuquan Peak itself is a second-level high-grade natural spiritual vein. After more than two hundred years of cultivation in the Zhou family, it has now been promoted to the third-level middle-grade level, which can be used for several foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi training monks to practice.
Zhou Yang is the sixth generation monk of the Zhou family in Yuquan.
The name of the twelve generation was personally drafted by Zhou Yuquan, the founder of the Zhou family of Yuquan.
Only when the Zhou clan members detect spiritual roots and have the qualifications to practice can they be included in the genealogy. After death, the spirit card is entered into the ancestral hall and worshipped by future generations.
There are 15 people in the Zhou family "Yuan" generation in Yuquan, and Zhou Yang is ranked ninth, but in terms of cultivation, he is the first of the fifteen.
At this time, he, a well-known "little genius" in the Zhou clan, was sitting cross-legged in a natural cave on the hillside of Yuquan Peak with his eyes closed. He pinched his skills and used all his strength to absorb and refine the milky white earth vein spiritual energy that was steaming in the cave.
The spiritual energy of the earth vein is a kind of essence of the combination of the spiritual vein and the earth vein, and it has miraculous effects on low-level immortal cultivators to break through the realm.
However, it is difficult to foster spiritual energy in the earth veins and spiritual veins, and it can only be nurtured in some special places where the earth veins meet and the spiritual veins. The entire Yuquan Peak can only be nurtured by the "Yuyang Cave" where Zhou Yang is located at this time.
The amount of earth vein spiritual energy produced in the "Yuyang Cave" can only be used for a monk in the Qi training stage to break through every ten years, and it is only effective for monks below the seventh level of Qi training.
Therefore, only a few particularly outstanding tribe members of the Zhou family can use the spiritual energy of the earth vein during the Qi training period to make breakthroughs.
Zhou Yang's ability to use "Yuyang Cave" to make a breakthrough is of course related to his identity as the first person in the "Yuan" generation. Otherwise, his father was the sixth elder of the Zhou family in Yuquan. The "Yuyang Cave" that was opened every ten years is not his turn, a 17-year-old boy, to use it.
You know, among the dozens of Qi training tribe members in the Zhou clan, there have been many people waiting for this opportunity for 10 or 20 years!
At this moment, Zhou Yang pinched his hand and sat cross-legged, breathing evenly, and breathing. During each inhalation, the milky white earth vein spiritual energy turned into two mist-air spiritual snakes and drilled into his nostrils, which was refined into his own magic power.
In this way, when the amount of milky white earth vein spiritual energy in the cave dropped to less than 30%, Zhou Yang's eyes were suddenly opened, and his shoulder-length hair fluttered behind him without wind, and his momentum almost doubled compared to before.
I saw him grow up and murmured with joy on his face: "I finally broke through the sixth level of Qi training, and the earth's vein spiritual energy is indeed well-known. This has saved me at least three years!"
At the age of seventeen, the sixth level of Qi training, and at this age, even among the immortal cultivation sects like Huangshamen, only a few elite disciples with top-grade spiritual roots can achieve it.
Zhou Yang's spiritual root qualification is actually only medium-quality.
"The patriarch said that I may have a special treasure body, so that my cultivation speed can far exceed that of the cultivator with the same qualifications. Unfortunately, my treasure body detection is difficult, and only major sects like Huangshamen can pass secret techniques to detect it."
"Although I, Zhou, is a vassal of Huangshamen, it is impossible to ask Huangshamen to help test the treasure body, unless I am willing to join Huangshamen!"
"But once you join the Huangshamen, you will be subject to the Huangshamen's sect rules, and there will be countless elders on your head who can shout to me. How can I feel as comfortable as I am in the clan now?"
"Hmph, there is a saying that it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. The Huangshamen family has great business and a top-grade spiritual root genius. Even if I have a treasure body, I am just an elite disciple after going to Huangshamen. The benefits I enjoy may not be as good as it is in the Zhou clan now. At least the elders here are all looking forward to my success in building the foundation in the future, and they are all dedicated to my considerations."
"Besides, as long as I successfully build the foundation, the treasure body will naturally awaken and derive the treasure body's magical powers. At that time, you will naturally know what kind of treasure body you have."
Zhou Yang is not an ordinary person, he is a reborn person whose soul comes from the earth world, with twenty or thirty years of memories of his previous life than ordinary people.
Although most of the memories of the past 20 or 30 years of past lives cannot be used in this fairy world due to the very different world environments, some of the methods, experiences and principles of dealing with people are things that can be used in all worlds.
Others only saw Huang Shamen’s majesty, with the Golden Pill Ancestor in charge inside, and dozens of vassals vassals like Yuquan Lake Oasis outside. There were no shortage of various martial arts and treasures. He even wanted to join and become one of them after sharpening his head.
But I don’t know that although the welfare benefits of the sect are good, the rules are also strict. Once you enter the sect, you will be involuntarily. Ordinary disciples in the Qi training stage must complete the tasks assigned by the sect every year. Once the task cannot be completed, the benefits will be stopped at the least, and the cultivation level will be abolished and expelled from the sect!
Moreover, the sects have serious gangs. In order to show themselves in front of the high-level sects or compete for the right to use certain spiritual lands, low-level disciples have put in full force to suppress their competitors, and the competition is very fierce.
The ancestor of Zhou was originally a foundation-building cultivator of Huangshamen. There are records of information about Huangshamen and classics in the clan. Therefore, no one is willing to be Huangshamen disciples unless they are those who are not qualified for spiritual roots and want to fight for it.
Zhou Yang was very tired of office struggles in his previous life. He finally had the opportunity to get rid of that kind of struggle in this life, and of course he would not let himself get trapped in again.
Therefore, he had already made up his mind that even if the great way is hopeless and the immortality is hopeless, he would never want to live a life of intrigue all day long.
Innate, qi training, foundation building, purple palace, golden elixir, nascent infancy, tribulation, return to emptiness, and unity of Tao. These are the nine realms of cultivation. If you want to truly live forever, you can only become a celestial immortal with the body and the great way.
However, as far as Zhou Yang knows, since there were immortal cultivators in this world, I have never heard of anyone who truly lives forever. The division of the nine major states of practice is just a legendary immortal who is out of heaven and has not been verified.
Therefore, for 99% of the monks, the Jindan stage monks who have a thousand years of life are their highest pursuit in their practice.
In this way, it is no wonder that he is unwilling to participate in those intrigues for the sake of the illusory legend of immortality.
Cultivation is also cultivating the mind. Since the original mind is unwilling to participate in those intrigues, Zhou Yang of course must choose to follow his original mind.
As soon as he broke through the realm, he was excited and thought a little too much. After a while, Zhou Yang suppressed the messy thoughts in his heart and looked at the remaining milky white earth veins and spiritual energy in the cave.
"Although every time the Yuyang Cave is opened, the earth vein spiritual energy inside can be absorbed as much as possible, since I have successfully broken through the realm, absorbing these earth vein spiritual energy will only help me stabilize the realm, and it is not very effective."
"In this way, it's better to retain these earth veins and let the opening of Yuyang Cave be a few years ahead of time to benefit other tribesmen."
It is not advisable to fish in a solidarity, and it is not easy to produce spiritual energy in the earth veins. It is too wasteful to simply improve magical power and cultivation. Since Zhou Yang has decided to stay in the clan to develop, he will certainly not do such evil things that harm the public and the private sector.
He made a decision in his heart, and immediately opened the cave door and walked out of the cave, explaining the situation to the elders of the family who were guarding outside.
"Yuyang Cave" is an important place in the Zhou family. Family elders have been guarding each year. Now the one guarding outside is Zhou Xuanhe, a monk of the "Xuan" generation, who is also the uncle of Zhou Yang's fourteen clans.
At this time, when Zhou Yang successfully broke through the realm and walked out of the inside, he heard him telling the situation inside. Zhou Xuanhe, wearing a green base with a white crane and a Taoist robe embroidered with white cranes and auspicious clouds, nodded and smiled with relief: "Not bad, Yang'er, you are worthy of being the most promising person in our Zhou family. You have this overall view at a young age. If the old patriarch and brother knew about this, they would definitely be very pleased!"
The old patriarch he mentioned was Zhou Minghan, the only foundation-building cultivator in the Zhou family, and he was also the only remaining member of the "Ming" generation. The eldest brother refers to Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao, who is also the sixth elder among the eight elders of the ninth level of the Zhou family's Qi training stage, and the boss of the "Xuan" generation.
As long as the monks of the Zhou family are of the same generation, they are called brothers by each other, and for different generations, they are called uncles, uncles, children and nephews by each other.
At this time, facing the praise of Zhou Xuanhe, the fourteenth uncle, Zhou Yang humbly stated that this was what he should do as a member of the Zhou clan, and he was not proud of his identity and cultivation at all.
This performance was seen in Zhou Xuanhe's eyes, and he was much more respectful to this junior.
It is rare to have the sixth level of Qi training at such an age. What’s even more rare is that you can be not arrogant or impatient and take into account the overall situation. Perhaps the hope of the next generation of the Zhou family will really fall into this.
Thinking of this, he remembered something again and said quickly: "Since you have successfully broken the realm, then go to the mountaintop cave to pay homage to the old patriarch. He had given instructions earlier that if you can successfully break the realm, you will go to see him."
"There is such a thing? Then I will not disturb my 14th uncle. Thank you for protecting my 14th uncle."
Zhou Yang's expression moved, and immediately thanked Zhou Xuanhe, and rushed to the old patriarch's cave located at the top of Yuquan Peak.
Chapter completed!