When Zhou Yang broke through the barrier and walked out of Ziyun Cave, he was already a serious late-stage foundation-building monk.
At this time, nine years have passed since he practiced in seclusion, and sixteen years have passed since he was last promoted to the sixth level of foundation building!
It took him sixteen years to be promoted from the sixth level of Foundation Establishment to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment. This was something he had never thought of beforehand.
The main reason is that after his cultivation reached the sixth level of foundation building, third-level low-grade elixirs such as "Yuanyuan Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill" no longer have any effect on him.
In addition, he took too many of these elixirs. Although he could use "Qianyang Xianguang" to eliminate the erysipelas, his body's drug resistance could not be eliminated.
So during the nine years of seclusion, he basically practiced hard on his own, gradually raising his magic power to the peak of the sixth level of foundation building, and then successfully broke through with the help of the third-level high-grade spiritual elixir "Xuanqing Dan" Breakthrough has reached the late stage of foundation building.
This kind of relying on one's own hard work to increase mana, although it took a lot of time, but the foundation is extremely solid. For Zhou Yang, who has only lived a third of his life, it is not completely unacceptable.
At this time, he walked out of Ziyun Cave, and his powerful spiritual consciousness swept across the entire Red Fox Ridge, and he quickly became aware of the changes that had taken place in the mountain in the past nine years.
At this time, on the Red Fox Ridge, most of the wild weeds and trees that had grown wildly had been cleared away. From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, the spiritual fields had been neatly opened up, and individual plants were planted. At first glance, the "Golden Pearl Rice" trees cover at least hundreds of acres.
In a small valley on the mountainside, more than a dozen spiritual trees were transplanted here by spiritual planters. Each of them occupies an area and grows alone, without having to compete with other plants and trees for sunlight, rain and dew.
At the same time, in the area near the top of the mountain where Ziyun Cave is located, more than a dozen medicinal fields, one to the east and one to the west, have been sparsely cultivated, and seedlings of various elixirs have been planted on them.
Compared with low-level spiritual plants like "Golden Pearl Rice", many spiritual medicines have almost harsh requirements for the growth environment.
For example, the mother vine plant of "Purple Cloud Fruit" needs to grow in a dark cave with rich aura. Some elixirs like to grow in the shade of trees with backlight, while some elixirs can only grow normally under sunlight.
Therefore, when spiritual planters plant elixirs, they must open medicinal fields in various places and then plant elixirs that are most suitable for the environment of the medicinal fields.
Basically, the higher the level of the elixir, the higher the environmental requirements for its growth.
Therefore, the high-level elixirs in the world of immortality are either collected from the wild, or flowed from the elixir gardens of those sects.
Only those sects that occupy a large enough territory and own enough spiritual mountain blessed land can find places that meet the living environment of high-level elixirs to plant these high-level elixirs.
Some sects with real foundation, such as the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, will simply spend a lot of effort to set up formations to change the climate of the four seasons, use human power to interfere with the power of heaven and earth, and artificially create conditions suitable for the growth of various elixirs. The environment comes.
However, Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness scanned the entire Red Fox Ridge, but he did not see the figure of the Taoist companion Xiao Ying, nor the figure of the griffin beast. He must have gone out to do something.
So he immediately took out the Messaging Flying Sword to summon Xiao Ying to explain his release from seclusion, and then headed to the Fire Bat Cave at the foot of the mountain.
The bat droppings in the Fire Bat Cave have long been cleaned up, and now the cave has become the residence of the flying fire bats domesticated by the Zhou family.
Zhou Yuanliang, the animal trainer of the Zhou family, now lives outside the Fire Bat Cave and is responsible for taking care of the initially trained flying fire bats.
As for the other animal trainer of the Zhou family, Zhou Xuanzhao, because of his old age, he has now returned to the Yuquan Lake Oasis to take care of himself.
"Clan Chief, after years of domestication by Uncle Seventeen and me, four of the five underage flying fire bats, one female and one male, were successfully domesticated. The rest of the flying fire bats either died during the process of domestication, or were slaughtered by us after we determined that they could not be domesticated.
Already."
"In addition, of the four pregnant female adult flying fire bats, except for two that successfully gave birth to five live cubs, the remaining two gave birth to dead cubs. Now the cubs have been domesticated and grown into adults.
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"So now there are ten flying fire bats living in this fire bat cave, seven females and three males!"
Outside the Fire Bat Cave, when he saw Zhou Yang coming out of seclusion for many years, Zhou Yuanliang congratulated the Ninth Brother and at the same time took the initiative to tell the results of these years.
Zhou Yang felt a little regretful when he heard that only ten flying fire bats had been successfully tamed, but he also knew that Zhou Yuanliang and others must have tried their best.
Therefore, he did not blame anything for this. Instead, he reached out and patted Zhou Yuanliang's shoulder with approval and said: "Thank you for your hard work, fifteenth brother. You have successfully tamed the flying fire bat and made great contributions to the family. I will definitely discuss it with my great-grandfather later."
I will reward you with merit!"
After praising Zhou Yuanliang, a clan brother, Zhou Yang found out from his mouth that Xiao Ying and others had gone to "Yeguang Town". It was said that hundreds of mortals there suddenly fell ill, and it was suspected that there was a plague.
break out.
And while he was talking to Zhou Yuanliang, Xiao Ying, who received his Feijian message, also sent him a message back.
After reading the message from Xiao Ying, his face froze, and he immediately released his flying sword and flew towards the mine vein.
"Zhou Lang, you are finally out of seclusion!"
In Night Light Town, when Zhou Yang cast his sword light, Xiao Ying threw herself into his arms with joy and gave him a hug.
The two have not seen each other for nine years. This is the longest time they have been separated since they met. It is no wonder that she, who has always been shy, can't help but do such a thing in public this time.
"Ying'er, be good, tell your husband quickly, what happened here? Is there really a plague?"
Zhou Yang held the girl's hand and patted the girl's shoulder gently, but then asked about business matters.
Hearing him talk about this, the excitement on Xiao Ying's face dimmed, then she released her hands holding his body and looked at him and whispered: "It's not a plague, it's poison. The drinking water of these mortals has been poisoned!
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When Zhou Yang heard this, his expression suddenly changed. He looked at Xiao Ying with an ugly face and asked in a deep voice: "Are you sure it was poison? Have you found out who poisoned it? Is it man-made or a monster?"
"Now the poison in mortals has been detoxified by soaking it in water with the detoxifying elixir. As for who poisoned me, I am still looking for it. At present, the possibility of monsters is the greatest!"
Xiao Ying told Zhou Yang's question about using the detoxifying elixir to help mortals detoxify, and directly answered Zhou Yang's question with facts.
If you are not poisoned, the detoxification elixir cannot have an immediate effect.
"I know about this matter, and I will investigate it clearly."
Zhou Yang nodded solemnly, deciding to investigate the truth of this matter himself.
He also agreed with Xiao Ying's speculation about the poisoning of monsters, but he was more afraid that it was man-made. If the poison was man-made, the situation would be very complicated. He had to find out the murderer of the poison!
In order to find out the murderer, Zhou Yangming left Yeguang Town on the surface with Xiao Ying and others, but in fact he secretly returned to the outside of the town by himself and used the "Golden Cicada Hiding Technique" to restrain his aura and hide it, and then released his spiritual consciousness to
The entire town and the surrounding wilderness are shrouded in it.
As of today, Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness has reached a distance of ten miles, while for ordinary monks on the first level of the Zifu who have just successfully opened the Zifu, their spiritual consciousness can only cover a distance of twelve or three miles.
For a ninth-level foundation-building monk like Zhou Minghan, the coverage range of his spiritual consciousness is only four or five miles away, which is twice as far as Zhou Yang!
With such powerful spiritual consciousness, Zhou Yang no longer had any doubts about whether he could successfully open up the Zi Mansion in the future.
If even he couldn't successfully open up the Zi Mansion, then it would be even less possible for other monks to succeed.
While he was monitoring the entire town with his powerful spiritual consciousness, he also counted the number of mortals here. It turned out that after nine years, the number of mortals living in the town, including the villages outside the town, had exceeded
Twenty thousand people.
And he remembered very clearly that according to the plan he and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan planned, the number of mortals from the Zhou family who moved to the new oasis was only more than 12,000!
"These mortals are really capable of giving birth!"
Zhou Yang's eyes twitched slightly, feeling quite headache about this matter.
Compared to encouraging Zhou family monks to have more offspring, he holds the opposite attitude towards the matter of mortals having offspring.
The land in the oasis is limited. If the number of mortals expands too quickly, it will increase productivity in the short term, but in fact it will overdraw the development potential of the oasis in advance.
If this matter is not stopped, the new oasis will become the next Yuquan Lake oasis in less than thirty years!
"This can't go on like this. When we get back, we will ask Ying'er and her father to come up with a sterilization prescription. All women who have given birth to three children must be sterilized!"
Zhou Yang secretly gritted his teeth, became cruel, and made a decision that could be said to be cruel and ruthless.
As for why women are sterilized instead of men, of course it is because the decision to have offspring is entirely up to women, not men.
What will happen if the man in a family is sterilized and the woman becomes pregnant?
Zhou Yang squatted like this outside Yeguang Town for more than ten days.
He was very patient. Even if he didn't find anything for more than ten days, he was not discouraged. He would just change his position every day.
After staying on guard like this for twenty-four days, Zhou Yang finally found the poisoner.
What made him relieved was that the poisoner was indeed a monster, not the human being he was most worried about.
It is an extremely rare second-level high-grade monster called "Phantom Jade Butterfly". This monster usually lives in various jade mines, feeds on jade, and only leaves its lair on full moon nights.
Go to the ground to absorb the power of the moon and practice.
"Phantom Jade Butterfly" itself is not toxic, but when it is practicing, a kind of butterfly powder will fall off its body. This kind of butterfly powder will not cause any serious harm to immortal cultivators, but mortals will be poisoned after smelling it.
fall.
When Zhou Yang saw the "Phantom Jade Butterfly", this monster was dancing upstream of a creek where mortals in Yeguang Town drew water for drinking.