Immortal cultivators don’t have as many customary rituals as ordinary people. Even for a cultivating family like the Zhou family, when the elder Zhou Qian dies, all the monks from the family on the Yuquan Lake oasis are just summoned to the ancestral hall to keep vigil for him for three days, and then the old patriarch will
Zhou Minghan personally cremated the corpse of old man Zhou Qian with the foundation-building fire, and buried the ashes in the family cemetery.
It was the little cultivating family's helplessness to cremate the bodies of the family monks after they died.
Because the small cultivator family does not have enough power to guard the family cemetery and cannot prevent those demon cultivators who have practiced the demonic corpse refining spell from stealing the corpses of the family ancestors and refining them into zombies.
Once the corpses of family ancestors are transformed into zombies by demons, it will not only be a great desecration of the corpses of the ancestors, but may also affect the lives of family monks and mortals under the family's rule.
This is because newly refined zombies require a large amount of blood food for their growth, and it would be more effective if the zombies were fed by people with the same bloodline as the zombies.
Therefore, for a small cultivating family like the Zhou family, if someone in the family dies while sitting in the body, their body will be cremated and buried to prevent it from being used by demonic cultivators.
Only large sects and large families like Huang Shamen, which have golden elixir ancestors or even great monks in the Nascent Soul stage, will bury the body in the cemetery after their sect or family's high-level monks pass away.
Magic circle and dedicated personnel to take care of it.
After dealing with the funeral affairs of the great elder Zhou Qian, Zhou Yang was summoned by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to enter the cave on the top of the mountain for questioning alone.
"You also know the reason for your great grandfather's death. The family is about to deploy manpower to eliminate the monsters on the red flame iron vein. You have just broken through to the seventh level of Qi training, and you are our Zhou family's future foundation hope. I
I can make the decision for you not to participate in this matter, what do you think?"
"Please, great-grandfather, please don't do this!"
Zhou Yang's face changed, and he bowed deeply to the old patriarch, then raised his head and said loudly: "It was my grandson who discovered the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein. I will give him a share of the dividends in the future. If grandson
How can I convince other tribesmen if I just sit back and enjoy the fruits of the war without participating in the war? How can I reflect the fairness and justice of the family rules?"
"Although my grandson is not talented, he is still willing to use what he has learned throughout his life to contribute a small amount to the expansion of our Zhou family's territory!"
At the end of the conversation, Zhou Yang couldn't help but take out an [Armor-breaking Dagger] magical weapon from his waist and hold it in his hand, as if he wanted to prove his determination.
Seeing his impassioned look, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan felt pleased and amused at the same time.
"Okay, okay, I know your determination, put the magic weapon away first, and then I will count your head!"
The old man smiled and waved his hand, really appreciating Zhou Yang's courage to use the knife in front of him.
If a monk in the Qi training stage dares to use a knife in front of a monk in the foundation building stage, no matter what the reason is, it is a great courage.
And this incident also proved Zhou Yang's loyalty to the Zhou family. If he didn't really agree with the family, how could he say such impassioned words just now? How could he not help but draw his sword in front of the family patriarch in the foundation building period to express his will?
It's not like I hurt this guy in vain!
The old man sighed with relief, and his complexion softened a lot. His eyes looking at Zhou Yang were as loving as looking at his own grandson.
"Since you are determined, Xiaojiu, I will let you know that in about ten years, no more than fifteen years at most, the ancestors of the Chen family in Jinshafang City will organize people to plan and refine the foundation-building elixir.
It's a matter of fact. Our Zhou family and Chen family are in an alliance. When the time comes, as long as a monk in the foundation-building stage participates in this matter, he will be able to obtain the bidding rights for the foundation-building pill."
"Once the family obtains the Foundation Building Pill in the auction, it will definitely be taken by someone immediately. So Xiaojiu, you must work hard to reach the ninth level of Qi training in the next ten years, otherwise this opportunity will be missed in vain.
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The old patriarch looked at Zhou Yang lovingly, and in a solemn tone he slowly revealed this secret matter that was enough to shock the entire Zhou family monks.
After listening to the old patriarch's words, Zhou Yang's pupils shrank suddenly and his breathing became heavy in an instant.
That’s the “Foundation Building Pill”!
Over the years of practicing, Zhou Yang has never been particularly tempted by any spiritual object, but the "Foundation Building Pill" is the only spiritual object that he is particularly concerned about and determined to obtain.
In terms of level, the "Foundation Building Pill" is only a third-level low-level elixir, but its appeal to the majority of monks in the Qi training period cannot be compared to the fifth-level elixir.
It is a well-known fact that "Foundation Building Pill" is rare.
To refine a furnace of "Foundation Building Pill", not only the rare fourth-level elixir [Condensing Yuan Fruit] or a fourth-level monster beast elixir is needed as the main medicine, but also thirty-six kinds of extremely rare third-level elixirs are needed as the main medicine.
Auxiliary medicines, the combined value of these elixirs is greater than the value of the elixirs required to refine a furnace of fourth-level elixirs.
Even a sect like Huang Shamen, which has been inherited for thousands of years and has the ancestor of the Golden Pill, can only refine one furnace of "Foundation Building Pill" every ten years, and the number of pills produced each time is only five to seven.
pieces.
Such a small number is not enough for Huang Shamen's own sect, let alone a small cultivating family like the Zhou family that is attached to Huangshamen.
Therefore, if a small cultivating family like the Zhou family wants to obtain the Foundation-Building Pill, they must either exchange it for a main ingredient for refining the Foundation-Building Pill, or cooperate with other cultivating families to refine the pill.
Zhou Yang, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, has heard of the Chen family since he was a child. The Chen family is a family that has been cultivating immortals for more than 700 years. The current ancestor of the Chen family is not only a master of the late Zifu, but also a fourth-level middle school master.
Excellent alchemist.
As a monk who was not born in a sect, even if the ancestor of the Chen family is a master in the Zifu period, it is impossible to obtain the "Foundation Building Pill" from Huang Shamen and give it to the family's descendants.
Therefore, after the ancestors of the Chen family advanced to the Zifu stage, a "Foundation Building Conference" would be organized every thirty to fifty years. At that time, the invited immortal cultivating families or foundation building experts who were willing to help the Chen family would
Zu Yiyi teamed up to hunt down the fourth-level monsters in the boundless sand sea to obtain the fourth-level demon pill. After they refine the "Foundation-Building Pill", they can obtain the right to bid for the "Foundation-Building Pill".
This is how the "Foundation Building Pill" purchased by the Zhou family more than sixty years ago came from.
At that time, in order to purchase the "Foundation Building Pill", not only did the Zhou family's savings go out, but the Zhou family's second Foundation Building monk after Patriarch Zhou Yuquan, Patriarch Zhou Jian of the "Hua" generation, was seriously injured and lost his life.
Yuan was greatly reduced, and he passed away before his life span of two hundred years.
And that ancestor Zhou Jian was the biological grandfather of Zhou Qian, the eldest elder of the Zhou family who passed away a few days ago.
Now that he learned from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan that the Zhou family was preparing to participate in the "Foundation Building Conference", Zhou Yang was excited and excited, but he also couldn't help but show a hint of worry.
He was not worried that he only had more than ten years to prepare, but was worried about the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's participation in the "Foundation Building Conference".
Although the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is already a late-stage Foundation Establishment monk at the seventh level of Foundation Establishment and a third-level high-grade weapon refiner, when facing a fourth-level monster with the same strength as a Zifu-level monk, this strength is not enough.
It's not enough to see. The fourth-level monster can kill the old patriarch with just one full blow.
As the only existing foundation-building monk of the Zhou family, if the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is seriously injured or dies, it will be a huge bad news for the entire Zhou family, and may very well lead to the demise of the Zhou family.
At that time, even if Zhou Yang successfully obtains the Foundation Establishment Pill and successfully establishes the Foundation, he will not be able to feel at ease for the rest of his life.
Therefore, he thought again and again, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Great-grandfather, my grandson once heard that you can reach Liuyun Continent by crossing the 40,000-mile sand sea in the east and climbing over the Duanyun Mountains that reach into the clouds.
In the world of cultivating immortals, there are abundant resources for cultivating immortals. Even foundation-building pills can be bought in the market with spirit stones. Why don’t we go there to buy foundation-building pills? We have to force a foundation-building monk like you to take the risk to hunt down the fourth-level demon.
beast?"
Regarding the matter of the Immortal Cultivation World in Liuyun Continent, Zhou Yang accidentally learned about it from the notes of a weapon refiner when he was reading the weapon refining classics in the past few years.
Later he asked old man Zhou Quan, but even old man Zhou Quan, who had lived for more than a hundred years, only knew the name of Liuyunzhou Cultivation World, and he didn't know much about the specific situation.
Originally, when he returned to the family this time, he wanted to ask the old patriarch Zhou Minghan about this matter. Unfortunately, he went into seclusion after coming back, but he temporarily forgot about it. Now that he heard the old patriarch talk about the "Foundation Building Pill", he started to ask about it again.
Think of this.
And the situation was just as he expected. As a foundation-building monk and the leader of the clan, the old clan leader Zhou Minghan really knew a lot about the affairs of the Immortal Cultivation World in Liuyun Continent.
"It's rare that Xiao Jiu also knows the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent. It's a pity that you only know the prosperity of the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, but you don't know how many dangerous places you have to pass from us to the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent!"
"Not to mention how many powerful monsters and bandits hiding in the 40,000-mile sand sea, even in the Duanyun Mountains, various third-order and fourth-order monsters are common. It is even rumored that there are even comparable monsters deep in the mountains.
The sixth-level monster of a great monk in the Nascent Soul stage lives in seclusion!"
"Going over the Duanyun Mountains without the cultivation of the Zifu stage is a complete gamble on whether you will be discovered by the monster and become the monster's food!"
"Finally, even if you are lucky enough to cross the Duanyun Mountains and arrive at the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, and buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, do you think that a foreign Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator with such a treasure can return to the Far West safely?
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Zhou Yang was immediately speechless.
A common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade!
The old patriarch was right. Spiritual objects like the "Foundation Establishment Pill" are so precious that even if a monk in the Foundation Establishment stage carries it with him, it will easily lead to death.
If a small family like the Zhou family obtains such a treasure, it will usually be taken by the ninth-level qi-training monks in the clan immediately. Otherwise, if the news is known to outsiders, it may lead to the annihilation of the clan.
That's why the old patriarch told him before that he must cultivate to the ninth level of Qi training before the "Foundation Building Conference" in more than ten years. Otherwise, the family will get the "Foundation Building Pill" by then, and it will definitely
It's not his share anymore.
"My grandson understands. Please rest assured, great-grandfather. Your grandson will definitely reach the ninth level of Qi training before the [Foundation Building Conference]. Your efforts and those of your family will not be in vain!"
He pursed his lips and looked at the old patriarch with firm eyes as he issued a military order.