Zhou Yang didn't know that he had become the psychological shadow of his peers.
Seeing Zhou Bao's performance in his eyes, he only thought that the other party was introverted and didn't pay too much attention to it.
After all, he and Zhou Bao didn't have much friendship. Taking care of each other in the future was also for the sake of third grandfather Zhou Quan, so the two of them would not interact too much.
So he just said a few polite words and said nothing more.
In fact, Zhou Yang is also an outlier among the entire "Yuan" generation of the Zhou family.
Due to the memory of his previous life, he has been precocious since he was a child. He does not like to play with other people of the same age. Instead, he likes to hide in a secluded place and practice quietly by himself, often sitting for a whole day.
He was able to reach his current level of cultivation at such a young age. In addition to his good spiritual root qualifications, this aspect also accounts for a large proportion of his credit.
Children are all playful and active. How can they calm down and meditate at such a young age? People like Zhou Yang who carry memories of past lives, and only those who are indifferent by nature and don’t know what fun is, can maintain high standards in childhood.
Intense practice.
And this kind of maverick behavior naturally caused Zhou Yang's relationship with his peers to become very weak, and he was even ostracized and isolated by his peers for a time.
By the time his peers grow up, understand the truth and apologize to him, this sense of alienation has already formed. Even if he doesn't care, those peers will be ashamed and unwilling to spend more time in his presence.
, the relationship will not improve much.
This situation will only become more and more serious as his cultivation level becomes higher and his fame becomes bigger and bigger.
So much so that now, his peers can only look up at him, this genius brother who has left them far behind in terms of cultivation, and have completely lost the courage to talk to him on an equal footing.
In any case, the arrival of Zhou Bao, the clan brother, did help Zhou Yang a little.
Although this clan brother is not very good at cultivation, he is still a fourth-level immortal cultivator. With him here, Zhou Yang can safely hand over the chores of more than ten acres of spiritual fields and some mines in Qingping Mountain.
While the other party was taking care of it, An Xin and old man Zhou Quan went to the mine and waited for the [gold-eating rat] monster to arrive.
At this time, the cruelty of the world of immortality becomes apparent.
Even though he knew that the return of the [Gold-eating Rat] would definitely cause the death of the miners mining in the mine, at the insistence of old man Zhou Quan, Zhou Yang's proposal to have the miners temporarily stop working and evacuate the mine was directly rejected by the old man.
Rejected ruthlessly.
The old man not only rejected his proposal ruthlessly, but also gave him a stern education lesson.
"Xiao Jiu, you must remember that monks like us are most afraid of being merciful. Whether it is today's mediocre mortal miners or family monks like me, as long as they abandon us, we can gain the strength of the family and continue the inheritance of the family.
If you go down, then you should abandon us without hesitation!"
"Gekkos can be reborn after their tails are cut off. As long as the family can pass it on, our cut off tails will sooner or later grow back in the next generation!"
"You are the hope of our Zhou family. If you can successfully build the foundation in the future, the position of the patriarch of the Zhou family will be passed to you. If you are soft-hearted and cause trouble, it will not only harm you, but the entire family.
Zhou family!"
The old man who usually had a kind and kind face, when he said these words, his expression was indescribably cold, and he looked like a completely different person.
Zhou Yang knew that at this moment, the other party was no longer talking to him as a kind elder, but as a family elder.
As a child of a cultivating immortal family, you must put the interests of the family first in everything you do, and never cause huge losses to the family just because of personal mercy.
To be honest, he did not completely agree with this theory that family interests were supreme, but he also knew that this was the normal way of survival for all immortal cultivating families in the world.
And although old man Zhou Quan's approach seems cold and unhuman, it is actually the best choice to quickly achieve his goal.
Monsters are not beasts. Beasts can only act based on instinct. In addition to possessing the power of monster energy, monsters also have spiritual intelligence. The intelligence of second-level monsters is not low and they know how to think simply.
If they ordered the miners in the mine to withdraw and seal the mine, the [Gold-Eating Rat] monster would definitely realize something was wrong and would never show up again when it came over and discovered this situation.
Therefore, in order to lure this monster out, the miners must be used as human bait, and someone must sacrifice for this!
Therefore, Zhou Yang did not say anything more in the end and could only acquiesce in what Zhou Quan did.
Miners must not be allowed to know about using miners as bait, so after making the decision, Zhou Yang and Zhou Yang used breath-condensing techniques to restrain their auras, and quietly hid in an uninhabited branch of the mine to wait.
Got up.
The waiting is excruciating, because no one knows when the [Gold-eating Rat] will come, and neither Zhou Yang nor Zhou Quan dare to make any noise, let alone practice.
In order to ensure a smooth stay this time, Mr. Zhou Quan even prepared two bottles of the second-level elixir [Bigu Pill] in advance. A monk taking one pill during the Qi training period can sustain his body's needs for 7 days without needing to eat.
This observance lasted for more than ten days.
One afternoon fifteen days later, because Zhou Yang was too bored, he took out the weapon refining classics given by the old clan leader and studied the weapon refining technique. The mine, which was originally filled with the sound of miners banging and digging, suddenly sounded.
The miners screamed in horror.
"Ah! There is a monster, and the monster kills people!"
"Run quickly and ask the Immortal Master to eliminate the demon!"
The miners screamed, cried for their mothers, threw away their mining hoes and other tools, and ran out of the mine as hard as they could, hating that their parents had lost two legs.
But no one noticed that the "Master Immortal" they called him had already appeared in the mine.
As soon as Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan heard the miners' screams, they immediately put away their breathing techniques and took action.
Instead of squeezing into the narrow tunnel with the miners, they directly used the "earth escape technique" to bypass the miners and go straight to the scene of the incident.
After a while, the two arrived at the scene of the [Gold-eating Rat]'s murder and saw this ferocious beast again.
"Using blood as a guide, the blood spirit appears, come on!"
As soon as he saw the [Gold-Eating Rat], Old Man Zhou Quan bit the tip of his tongue and opened his mouth, spitting out a mouthful of blood to cast the "Blood Spirit Mark" spell.
There was a flash of blood, and before the [Gold-eating Rat] could react, a bloody mark suddenly appeared on its body.
With Old Man Zhou Quan's ninth-level Qi training, he cast the "Blood Spirit Mark" spell. This mark can last for at least one day on the [Gold-eating Rat]. As long as the mark exists for a moment, as long as the distance between the two parties does not exceed a thousand miles, Zhou Quan can
The old man can find the location of the [Gold-eating Rat] at any time through the mysterious induction.
And [Gold-eating Rat] obviously still doesn’t know what this seemingly inconspicuous blood mark represents.
When it was covered in blood, it was really frightened, thinking that the human who severely injured itself last time had cast some kind of magic on itself.
When it discovered that the bloody mark was on its back and had not hurt itself at all, its fur spread all over its body, and a hint of human sarcasm flashed through its scarlet eyes as it grinned at Zhou Yang and the two of them.
Squeak!
It made a sharp rattle from its mouth, and its figure immediately dived into the ground and disappeared from the sight of Zhou Yang and the others.
"What a cunning beast, you have learned to be smart, but if you want to play tricks in front of me, you are still a little green!"
Just as Zhou Yang prepared the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon in preparation and concentrated on guarding against the [Gold-eating Rat]'s attack, old man Zhou Quan seemed to have sensed something and revealed the whereabouts of the beast with a low voice.
It turns out that [Gold-eating Rat] had already developed a fear of the old man's "turning the ground into steel" spell after suffering a loss last time. He didn't even think about fighting the two of them head-on again, but instead started playing "striking in the east and attacking in the west".
Trick.
It looked like it was hiding on the ground and preparing to attack the two men, but in fact it quietly escaped to the exit of the mine and hunted down the escaping miners.
"Let's go to the exit of the mine." The old man shouted, moved, put away his golden melon sledge hammer and rushed towards the exit of the mine.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang, who was belatedly aware of this, also quickly chased after him.
At the exit of the mine, before the miners who had just escaped death had time to rejoice, they saw a black rat as big as a wolfdog emerging from the ground, opening its mouth and biting the nearest people.
"Run!"
The sudden change shocked many miners, and then someone shouted, and everyone suddenly ran away like frightened sparrows in all directions.
But how can these two-legged mortals outrun the four-legged monsters?
I saw a huge black shadow on the ground rushing left and right, and the fleeing miners screamed like wheat and fell down in droves. In just a dozen breaths, dozens of miners fell down.
Nearly half.
If this continues, in less than a minute at most, all these dozens of miners will die under the claws of the [Gold-Eating Rat].
Fortunately, this situation did not occur.
When the [Gold-eating Rat] jumped up to the ground and started killing, Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan, who realized something was wrong, finally arrived on the ground.
The ground becomes steel!
The ground becomes steel!
The two of them looked at the black shadow chasing the miners all over the ground, and they unanimously used the "turning the ground into steel" spell to seal the ground.
The difference is that Old Man Zhou Quan releases the spells he has learned, while Zhou Yang uses the second-level talisman handed to him by Old Man Zhou Quan.
This second-level talisman that seals the magic of "turning the ground into steel" was painted by Zhou Dan, the third elder of the "Guang" generation of the Zhou family and a second-level high-grade talisman maker. It was drawn by Zhou Quan after the old man returned to the family last time.
I specially asked this fifth brother for it.
At this time, the two "turning the ground into steel" spells were used together, instantly turning hundreds of square meters of earth and rocks around the [Gold-Eating Rat] into fine steel, rendering its earth-escape technique useless.
Then, before it could react from the sudden change, the golden melon sledge hammer of old man Zhou Quan had already broken through the air and hit its head.
"Red Flame Sword, go!"
Zhou Yang shouted in a low voice, without even looking at it, and decisively used the second-level mid-grade flying sword "Red Flame Sword" given to him by his father on his fifteenth birthday.
With a flash of fire, the "Red Flame Sword" launched by Zhou Yang struck the [Gold-Eating Rat] who was trying to escape first.
However, as old man Zhou Quan said at the beginning, the [Gold-Eating Rat]'s fur is tough and cannot be broken unless it is a second-level high-grade magic weapon.
The second-level mid-level "Red Flame Sword" slashed at it, only slightly cutting off a wisp of rat hair, leaving a shallow white mark on its body, but it could not hurt its true body at all.
However, Zhou Yang was not frustrated by this, because his sword was just to contain the [Gold-eating Rat] and create opportunities for old man Zhou Quan's golden melon hammer.
Sure enough, when blocked by his sword, the [Gold-eating Rat]'s figure inevitably sluggished a little, and at this moment, the golden melon sledgehammer that was chasing after it hit it heavily on its back.
squeak--
With the heavy hammer applied, [Gold-eating Rat] suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, spitting out blood from its mouth, which even contained some bloody internal organs fragments.
The word "Handi" in Old Man Zhou Quan's "Handi Hammer" is not called for nothing. Once hit by this magic weapon, the magical power of "Handi" in the magic weapon will be stimulated, forming a wave of
The powerful shock force causes secondary damage to the enemy.
[Gold-Eating Rat] Because it grows by devouring metal, its fur and bones are very tough and hard, making it difficult for ordinary magic weapons to damage it.
But no matter how strong its body's defense is, its internal organs can never be as hard as metal. When the concussive force inspired by "Xiandi" magical power fell on it, it instantly caused great damage to its internal organs, forming a
Serious internal injuries.
This is already the second time it has fallen to the same trick.
"Awesome, Third Grandpa is indeed getting stronger and stronger with age. Ginger is still spicy with age!"
Zhou Yang withdrew his flying sword and praised the old man with a look of admiration on his face.
Of course, he is not completely flattering. The old man is indeed much stronger than him. After all, even if we don't care about the difference in magical weapons, the difference between the two people's cultivation is three levels. One is at the sixth level in the middle stage of Qi training.
, one is the ninth level in the later stage of Qi training.
Being able to receive such praise from him, the leader of the younger generation of the Zhou family, even though he knew that his words were exaggerated, the old man Zhou Quan couldn't help feeling proud. He couldn't help stroking his beard and laughing:
"Hehehe, Xiaojiu, you've been rewarded. I'm just relying on my age to keep you a little longer. In ten or eight years, when your cultivation level has improved, Xiaojiu, I'll deal with these evil beasts.
It must be easy to catch."
"Then let me borrow Third Grandpa's auspicious words. My grandnephew will definitely practice hard with Third Grandpa as his goal."
Zhou Yang had a slight smile on his face and accepted the old man's praise unceremoniously.
The two of them were complimenting each other, and no one paid attention to the seriously injured [Gold Rat].
It wasn't until the [Gold-eating Rat] vomited blood and dragged his seriously injured body out of the area of influence of the "Ground to Steel" spell, and disappeared underground, that the two of them looked at each other and smiled, like a fox who had stolen a chicken, with a smile on his face.