The land in the far west, within the boundless sea of sand.
The Boundless Sand Sea is just like its name, with sand as the sea and boundless.
The environment of the sand sea is harsh, and there are very few places suitable for human habitation. There are only a few desert oases that can accommodate human habitation and survival.
Yuquan Lake is one of the few desert oases suitable for human habitation in the boundless sea of sand.
The oasis is more than a hundred miles long from east to west and more than seventy miles wide from north to south. It is higher in the east and lower in the west. There is a mountain called Yuquan Peak in the east, which is hundreds of meters high. There are many trees on it and the clouds are shrouded. 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 originates from an underground river. The water volume is huge, the water quality is clear and sweet and can be drank directly.
More than 100,000 humans and countless birds and animals on the thousands square kilometers of Yuquan Lake Oasis all depend on the clear water of this lake.
The Yuquan Zhou family 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. Today, more than 100,000 people living on this oasis are all Zhou Yuquan clan members who are related to the Yuquan Zhou family.
The Yuquan Zhou family is a family of immortal cultivators. Their ancestor, Zhou Yuquan, studied under the "Huangshamen" sect of the cultivating immortals. He resigned from the sect more than 200 years ago and founded the Yuquan Zhou family in the oasis of Yuquan Lake. It has now gone through seven generations.
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Today, the ancestor of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuquan, has long passed away. However, after more than two hundred years of development, the Yuquan Zhou family has now become a powerful organization with one foundation-building monk, dozens of Qi-training monks, and more than 100,000 vassal mortals.
Cultivation family.
Ordinary Zhou clan members mainly live in the three small towns in the Yuquan Lake Oasis, farming fields or grazing cattle and sheep, leading a self-sufficient and carefree life.
The immortal cultivators of the Zhou family live together on Yuquan Peak, which is rich in aura.
Yuquan Peak itself is a second-level high-grade natural spiritual vein. After more than two hundred years of cultivation by the Zhou family, it has now been promoted to a third-level mid-grade, which can be used by several foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi-training monks.
Zhou Yang is the sixth generation monk of the Yuquan Zhou family with the name "Yuan".
Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Prosperity, and Eternal Green. These twelve-character names for generations were personally drawn up by Zhou Yuquan, the founder of the Yuquan Zhou family.
Zhou clan members can only be included in the family tree after their spiritual roots have been detected and they have the qualifications to practice. After their death, their spiritual tablets will be entered into the ancestral hall to be offered incense by descendants.
There are fifteen members of the "Yuan" generation of the Yuquan Zhou clan, and Zhou Yang ranks ninth, but in terms of cultivation, he is the first among the fifteen.
At this time, he, a well-known "little genius" in the Zhou family, was sitting cross-legged in a natural cave on the mountainside of Yuquan Peak with his eyes closed.
It is transformed into the milky white earth vein aura steaming in the cave.
Earth vein aura is an essence of energy bred by the combination of spiritual veins and earth veins. It has a miraculous effect on low-level immortal cultivators who can break through obstacles.
However, it is difficult to breed the spiritual energy of the earth veins. It can only be produced in some special places where the earth veins and spiritual veins meet. Only the "Yuyang Cave" where Zhou Yang is located at this time can breed the entire Yuquan Peak.
The amount of earth vein spiritual energy bred in the "Yuyang Cave" can only be produced every ten years for a monk in the Qi training stage to break through, and it is only effective for monks below the seventh level of Qi training.
Therefore, among the dozens of Zhou clan members who are in the Qi training stage, only a few particularly outstanding ones can use the earth vein spiritual energy to make breakthroughs during the Qi training stage.
Zhou Yang's ability to use the "Yuyang Cave" to make breakthroughs is of course related to his status as the first person of the "Yuan" generation. Otherwise, his father is the sixth elder of the Yuquan Zhou family, and the "Yuyang Cave" opened in this decade
"It was never his turn as a seventeen-year-old boy to use it.
You know, among the dozens of people in the Zhou clan who are in the Qi training stage, there are many who have been waiting for this opportunity for ten or twenty years!
At this moment, Zhou Yang was sitting cross-legged with the hand-kneading method, breathing in and out evenly. With each inhalation, the milky-white earth vein aura turned into two mist spiritual snakes and penetrated through his nostrils, and was refined into his own magic power.
In this way, when the amount of milky white earth vein aura in the cave dropped to less than 30%, Zhou Yang's closed eyes suddenly opened, and his shoulder-length hair automatically started to flutter behind him without wind, and his momentum increased by almost 10% compared to before.
Double.
He stood up and murmured to himself with a face full of joy: "I finally broke through to the sixth level of Qi training. The earth vein aura is indeed well-deserved. This has saved me at least three years of time!"
Seventeen years old, sixth level of Qi training. At this age and level of cultivation, only a few elite disciples with high-grade spiritual roots can achieve this level of cultivation in immortal sects like Huang Shamen.
Zhou Yang's spiritual root qualifications are actually only of average quality.
"The patriarch said that I may be carrying some kind of special treasure body, and my cultivation speed can far exceed that of monks with the same qualifications. Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect the treasure body. Only big sects such as Huang Shamen can detect it through secret methods."
"Although I, Zhou, am a vassal of Huangshamen, it is impossible to ask Huangshamen to help detect the treasure body, unless I am willing to join Huangshamen!"
"But once you join the Huangsha Clan, you will be bound by the rules of the Huangsha Clan, and there will suddenly be countless seniors above you who can yell at you. How can I be in the clan now?
Comfortable?"
"Humph, you would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. The Huangshamen family has a great cause, and there is no shortage of geniuses with high-grade spiritual roots in every generation. Even if I have a precious body, I will be nothing more than a phoenix after I go to Huangshamen.
The benefits enjoyed by elite disciples may not be as good as those in the Zhou clan today. At least the elders here are looking forward to my success in building the foundation in the future, and they are all thinking about me wholeheartedly."
"Besides, as long as I successfully build the foundation, the treasure body will naturally awaken and derive the treasure body's magical power. By then, I will naturally know what kind of treasure body I have."
Zhou Yang is not an ordinary person. He is a reborn person whose soul comes from the earth world. He has twenty or thirty years more past life memories than ordinary people.
Although most of the past life memories of the past twenty or thirty years cannot be used in this fairy world due to the vastly different world environment, some of the methods, experiences, and principles of living in the world can be used in all worlds.
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Others only saw that Huang Shamen was majestic and majestic, with the Jindan Patriarch sitting inside, and dozens of desert oases such as Yuquan Lake Oasis outside serving as vassals. There was no shortage of various skills and treasures, and they wanted to join in even if they wanted to join.
Become one of them.
Little do they know that although the sect's welfare benefits are good, the rules are equally strict. Once you join the sect, you can't help it. Ordinary Qi-training disciples must complete the tasks assigned by the sect every year. Once they fail to complete the task, the benefits will be stopped.
Treatment, at worst, abolition of cultivation and expulsion from the school!
Furthermore, there are serious cliques in the sect. In order to express themselves in front of the higher-ups of the sect or to compete for the right to use certain spiritual lands, the low-level disciples work hard to suppress their competitors. The competition is very fierce.
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The ancestor of the Zhou family was a foundation-building monk of Huangshamen. The information about Huangshamen is recorded in the clan's classics. Therefore, all members of the Zhou family, unless they are not good at spiritual qualifications but want to compete,
people, otherwise no one would be willing to become a disciple of Salmonella Huang.
Zhou Yang was tired of office fights in his previous life. He finally had the opportunity to get rid of that kind of fight in this life, and of course he would not let himself fall into it again.
Therefore, he had already made up his mind that even if there was no hope of success or immortality in this life, he would never want to live a life of intrigues and intrigues all day long.
Xiantian, Qi training, foundation building, Zifu, golden elixir, Yuanying, transcending tribulations, returning to the void, and combining the Tao. These are the nine realms of practice. If you want to achieve true immortality, you can only become a person who is in harmony with the Tao.
Only the Taoist gods will do.
However, as far as Zhou Yang knows, since there have been immortal cultivators in this world, no one has ever been heard of who is truly immortal. The division of the nine realms of cultivation is only passed down by the legendary immortals from outside the world and has not been verified.
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Therefore, for 99% of the monks, having a golden elixir stage with a thousand-year lifespan is their highest pursuit in practice.
In this case, it is no wonder that he is unwilling to wrong himself to participate in those intrigues for the sake of that illusory legend of immortality.
Cultivation is also about cultivating the mind. Since the original intention is not to participate in those intrigues, Zhou Yang must of course choose to act according to the original intention.
Having just broken through the realm, he was excited and thought too much. It took a while for Zhou Yang to suppress the messy thoughts in his heart and look at the remaining milky white earth vein aura in the cave.
"Although every time the Yuyang Cave is opened, the earth-line spiritual energy inside can be absorbed as much as possible, but since I have successfully broken through the realm, absorbing these earth-line spiritual energy will only help me stabilize my realm, and it will not have much effect."
"In this case, it is better to retain these earth vein auras and advance the next opening of Yuyang Cave a few years to benefit other tribesmen."
It is not advisable to consolidate the land while fishing. It is not easy to generate the spiritual energy of the earth veins. It is too wasteful to simply use it to improve the cultivation of mana. Since Zhou Yang has wholeheartedly decided to stay in the clan and develop, of course he will not do such evil things that harm the public and enrich the private life.
He made a decision in his mind, immediately opened the door and walked out of the cave, explaining the situation to the family elders who were guarding outside.
"Yuyang Cave" is an important place of the Zhou family, and family elders have been guarding it all year round. The person currently guarding it is Zhou Xuanhe, a monk of the "Xuan" generation and Zhou Yang's uncle from the fourteenth clan.
At this time, when he saw Zhou Yang successfully breaking through and walking out, and hearing what he said about the situation inside, Zhou Xuanhe, who was wearing a cyan bottoming robe with a white crane and auspicious clouds embroidered on it, immediately nodded with relief and said with a smile: "Not bad.
Yes, Yang'er, you are indeed the most promising person of our Zhou Jiayuan generation. You have such a big picture view at a young age. If the old patriarch and eldest brother know about this, they will definitely be very pleased!"
The old patriarch he refers to is Zhou Minghan, the only monk in the foundation-building period of the Zhou family, and the only remaining member of the "Ming" generation. The eldest brother refers to Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao, who is also one of the eight qi practitioners of the Zhou family.
The sixth elder among the nine levels of elders, the boss of the "Xuan" generation.
As long as the Zhou family monks are of the same generation, they will address each other as brothers, while those of different generations will address each other as uncle, nephew.
At this time, facing the praise from Zhou Xuanhe, his fourteenth uncle, Zhou Yang very humbly said that this is what he should do as a member of the Zhou clan, and he was not at all proud of his identity and cultivation.
Seeing this performance in Zhou Xuanhe's eyes, he thought highly of this junior.
It is rare to have the sixth level of Qi training at such an age. What is even rarer is to be able to be neither arrogant nor impatient and take the overall situation into consideration. Perhaps the hope of the next generation of the Zhou family will really fall on this son.
Thinking of this, he remembered something again and said quickly: "Since you have successfully broken through, then go to the top of the mountain cave to meet the old patriarch. His old man had given instructions earlier. If you can successfully break through, you will be free."
Go see him."
"Is this happening? Then my nephew will not disturb Uncle Fourteen. Thank you Uncle Fourteen for protecting my nephew."
Zhou Yang's expression changed, and he immediately thanked Zhou Xuanhe and hurried to the old patriarch's cave at the top of Yuquan Peak.