[Gold-Eating Rat] I thought that after escaping back to the lair on the Red Flame Iron Mine, I could escape the disaster by relying on the protection of the poisonous fire scorpions outside to recover from my injuries.
It's a pity that it underestimated the methods of human immortal cultivators, and even underestimated Zhou Yang's determination to kill it.
Relying on the precise positioning of the "Blood Spirit Mark", Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan relied on the "Earth Escape Technique" and the help of magic weapons to open up a passage and enter the rat hole fifty or sixty meters underground.
Jiang appeared in front of the [Gold-eating Rat] who was sleeping and recuperating.
Then, before the big rat could wake up from the sudden change and escape, old man Zhou Quan had already used the magic of "turning the ground into steel" to seal off the surrounding earth and rocks.
The most powerful means of escape was blocked, and in a small space like a mouse hole, how could the [gold-eating rat], who was seriously injured, still survive?
After a life-and-death struggle, the big rat, which had infected dozens of lives, was finally killed alive by old man Zhou Quan's pumpkin sledgehammer, which smashed his head open and made him dead.
"Beast, this is your retribution for eating people!"
The old man gently raised his hand, took back the pumpkin sledgehammer that was covered in blood, and with a gloomy expression he hit the [gold-eating rat]'s head with another hammer, until it smashed the rat's head into several pieces.
Just gave up.
It was also at this time that Zhou Yang realized that the old man was not really completely ruthless and did not take the lives of ordinary people seriously.
It's just that the old man has lived for hundreds of years and has been used to life and death. He can hide his emotions very well and will not show them easily.
"It's just that this is a bit pretentious. Isn't it because I made paper and wanted to build a memorial arch for myself?"
Zhou Yang thought of the old man's stern words, and he couldn't help but criticize the old man's behavior.
Of course, as a junior, even if he has some opinions in his heart, he will definitely not and dare not express them like this.
Seniority and inferiority are the basis for the existence of family power. Even if a cultivator pursues freedom and immortality, as long as he does not truly gain freedom or achieve immortality, he cannot completely ignore these four words.
What's more, the current Zhou Yang is not as strong as Zhou Quan.
Just when Zhou Yang was muttering in his heart, the old man Zhou Quan had already taken back the magic weapon, and gently nuzzled at him and said: "Xiaojiu, you can keep this beast's body. Please add some materials later."
If the old patriarch takes a shot at refining it, he will definitely get a few good magic weapons."
Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the old man would say this. Recalling the words he had just slandered the old man in his heart, he suddenly felt ashamed. His face turned red and he shook his head and said: "You shouldn't be like this. This is your Third Grandpa."
How could my great-nephew He De dare to accept this thing if he was killed with one hand?"
"You can take it if you are told. Third Grandpa, I am already my age. Just give me a third-level magic weapon and a fourth-level magic weapon. How many more years can it be used? Besides, you are about to be promoted to the late stage of Qi training. Once
At the later stage of Qi training, you don’t have many magic weapons that you can use, so how will you win in future battles with others?”
Old man Zhou Quan glared at Zhou Yang with an unhappy look on his face, as if Zhou Yang looked down on him by not accepting this gift.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang felt even more ashamed in his heart, and still declined: "My grandnephew accepts the great love of my third grandfather, but this thing is really valuable, and my grandnephew is too ashamed to deserve it. I am too ashamed to deserve it!"
His expression didn't seem to be fake, and when old man Zhou Quan saw it, he couldn't help but be confused.
What's happening here?
Today’s juniors are really hard to understand!
The old man stared at Zhou Yang again and again with a puzzled look on his face, and finally couldn't help but ask: "What do you have to be ashamed of? This beast was discovered and hunted by you and me together, it was those rogue cultivators
We team up to hunt monsters, so we have a share in it, not to mention you and me?"
What puzzles him the most is that although the Zhou family has good tutoring and the clan members are very united and friendly, there is no rule that only the elders are allowed to eat meat and the younger ones are not allowed to drink soup.
The old man has lived for hundreds of years and is well-informed and has dealt with countless immortal cultivators. He can still tell whether a person's face is sincere or fake.
He could see that the look of shame on Zhou Yang's face was definitely coming from his heart and could not be faked in the slightest.
But of course Zhou Yang would not say what he had just planned for the old man to say. Facing the old man's questions and stares, he could only lower his head and say nothing, just wanting this matter to be revealed as soon as possible.
When the old man saw this, he couldn't bear the pressure anymore. In the end, he could only say helplessly: "If you really feel sorry for yourself, just think of it as a favor left by the third grandpa in advance to take care of your second brother for you in the future!"
After saying that, the old man was afraid that Zhou Yang would not agree, so he actually left the mouse hole with an "earth escape technique". If an unsuspecting person saw that hurriedly, they might mistakenly think that the old man felt guilty.
I don’t dare to face Zhou Yang!
This result was completely unexpected by Zhou Yang, so that he was completely stunned.
After a while, he came back to his senses from his daze, and then he couldn't help but sigh with a wry smile: "That's all, there is a saying: the elders give it to you, don't dare to refuse it, just like the third grandfather said, today is the end of the world."
After accepting this favor from him, please look for opportunities to return it to Second Brother and the others in the future!"
After putting away the body of the [Gold-Eating Rat], Zhou Yang rummaged through the rat's body for a while and found some excrement left by the [Gold-Eating Rat] in the past.
The feces of [Gold-Eating Rats] are also treasures. Because they like to devour metals by nature, the feces of [Gold-Eating Rats] sometimes contain some special spiritual gold that they cannot absorb and digest. This special spiritual gold is used in refining some magic.
If added when making the weapon, it can slightly increase the refining efficiency, and it is also an excellent material for repairing damaged magic weapons.
Previously in the [Gold-eating Rat] nest at the refined iron ore vein, Zhou Yang collected a lot of feces that [Gold-Eating Rat] excreted after devouring the refined iron ore, and now some [Gold-Eating Rat] have also collected it here.
Feces pulled out by red flame iron.
When he goes back and uses the weapon refining technique to extract the special spiritual gold from these feces, it will definitely be of great use when refining second-level or even third-level magic weapons.
After scraping the ground three feet to clean up the rat hole, Zhou Yang quickly used the "Earth Escape Technique" to escape back to the ground and joined the old man Zhou Quan who was waiting above.
"Xiaojiu, you said you wanted to kill the [Gold-Eating Rat] before. Now that the monster is dead, what are you going to do next?"
When the old man saw Zhou Yang coming up, he glanced at the bulging storage bag on his waist, but then he talked about the previous test.
"What should we do next? Hasn't Third Grandpa already made a decision in his mind?"
Zhou Yang looked at the surprised old man, smiled confidently, and confidently stated the old man's plan.
"Regardless of whether there is a third-level [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] here, hundreds of Poisonous Fire Scorpions are not something that the two of us can deal with. In this case, why should we take the risk to find out if there is any [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King]?
Of course, we need to return to Qingping Mountain first, and let Third Grandpa tell the old patriarch about what happened this time, and let the old patriarch decide the matter."
Bang bang bang!
The applause sounded, and old man Zhou Quan looked at Zhou Yang with a look of relief. While applauding, he sincerely praised: "Well said! You are worthy of the Qilin'er of the Zhou family who was declared by the old patriarch himself. Xiaojiu, you are a precocious and famous old man.
I have heard about it a long time ago, but I just found out today that you are not only precociously intelligent, but also have a strategic plan, know how to advance and retreat, and know the importance of the situation. With this ability to judge the situation, looking at the monks of the Xuanyuan and Xuanyuan generations of my Zhou family, there is no one who can match you.
No more than three people!”
After saying that, the old man's face straightened, he looked at Zhou Yang solemnly and said: "Yes, I do think as you said, Xiaojiu. Today I will give you a piece of advice. Whenever you encounter such opportunities and encounters in the future,
Unless there is a reason to fight for something that involves risks, you must restrain all greed and curiosity, and put your own life first in everything. You must remember that only chance is the life of a person.
Opportunity, otherwise if you die, no matter how good the opportunity is, it will have nothing to do with you!"
"My grandnephew will bear in mind Third Grandpa's advice and thanks Third Grandpa for his guidance."
Zhou Yang bowed respectfully to the old man and thanked him for his advice.
Although he has known this truth for a long time, the old man's advice is not only the golden words he summed up from his life experience, but also contains the love and affection of the elders for the younger ones. This love cannot be ignored.
Old man Zhou Quan accepted the gift calmly, then he didn't know what he thought of, and sighed with a complex expression:
"As long as you remember, our Zhou family will rely on you juniors from now on. We old people are getting old. Now we can only pass on to you the insights and experiences we have summarized in our lives. I look forward to your future practice.
We can avoid taking some of the detours we have taken, and don’t be like your uncles and uncles who died young and lost their lives early on these detours!”
When Zhou Yang heard what the old man said, he knew that the old man was speaking out of emotion, thinking of those members of the Zhou family who had died violently over the years.
There are many dangers in the boundless sand sea, not only natural disasters and monsters, but also evil.
There are countless oases in the vast sand sea. In addition to the immortal cultivating families like the Zhou family who occupy an oasis to practice, there are also many small oases that are not suitable for large numbers of people to live in and are occupied by solitary cultivators.
These casual cultivators do not have the systematic inheritance of exercises and weapon refining and elixir refining like family monks and sect monks, nor do they receive sect and family benefits. If they want to obtain talisman elixirs and spiritual stone instruments, they can only hunt and kill them.
Monsters or elixirs were collected and brought to the Xiuxianfang Market, where they were sold to shops opened by Xiuxian families and sects in exchange.
Where there is buying and selling, there will naturally be killing.
Hunting monsters and collecting elixirs can be exchanged for spiritual stone elixirs, and hunting monks can also obtain these.
Therefore, many casual cultivators simply formed gangs and became bandits in the sea of sand. They started a business without capital and specialized in killing and plundering other monks' property to help themselves practice.
Even some powerful casual cultivators will deliberately leave spiritual objects in the desert to set traps, and then spread the news of the treasures everywhere, waiting for those cultivators who think they have hit the opportunity to take the initiative to deliver them to their doorsteps.
And in the vast sea of sand, as long as your hands and feet are clean, or you find a small oasis that no one knows about and hide in after you succeed, no one will know who the murderer is, and it will be difficult to find him if he knows.
There are a total of 13 monks of the "Guang" generation in the Zhou family tree, and 18 monks of the "Xuan" generation, but there are only 18 monks in total who are still alive today!
Of the 13 people who disappeared, except for 3 who accidentally died at the mouth of monsters, the remaining 10 people all lost their lives for no apparent reason when they left the family to perform family tasks or went on adventures. Even their bodies were found.
Less than.
Compared with poor casual cultivators, wealthy family monks and sect monks are sometimes more likely to become targets of those criminals.
For this reason, the Zhou family and many immortal cultivating families have specially set up family rules. Any family cultivator who has not reached the late stage of Qi training is absolutely not allowed to leave the family alone to travel and explore adventures.
Old man Zhou Quan has lived for hundreds of years, and of course he has encountered many attacks and killings by rogue cultivators, and has experienced many traps and temptations. He has been able to survive to this day, and has had many lives on his hands.
Therefore, when he said that he had gained experience and insights from his life, there was absolutely no exaggeration.