The controversy over the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill did not last long before it subsided.
After thinking calmly, the vast majority of the Zhou family members understood the importance of this matter and supported this rule.
As for the few people who don't understand and don't support it, they can only hold back and have no influence on the overall situation.
Zhou Yang personally monitored the entire Yuquan Peak for nearly a month. After catching several people who secretly gossiped and punished them, no one dared to gossip and slander the family's foundation-building monks again.
"Xiaojiu, thank you, thank you for giving Yaoer this opportunity!"
On Haoyang Mountain, when Zhou Yang came here to visit his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu, Zhou Xuanyu, who had already learned the news, could not help but hold his hand with gratitude on his face and choked up his thanks.
Behind Zhou Xuanyu, Zhou Yuanyao also stepped forward with excitement and hugged Zhou Yang from behind and said: "Brother Ninth, you are the best. Yao'er knows that Brother Ninth, you love Yao'er the most!"
"My foster mother is serious. It is your great-grandfather who you should thank. He made a great sacrifice for this matter!"
Zhou Yang looked at his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu with a look of emotion on his face, but he understood the mood of his adoptive mother at this moment.
Although this foster mother succeeded in building the foundation, the significance of the Foundation Building Pill to her was still a lifelong regret.
This time, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan exchanged the foundation-building pill for Zhou Yuanyao, which finally helped her make up for this regret and repair the invisible rift in the hearts of the grandfather and grandson.
Then he raised his hands back, pulled Zhou Yuanyao down from his back, looked at the girl and said: "And Yao'er, although you are only one step away from the ninth level of Qi training, you must not reach it as soon as you arrive.
At the ninth level of Qi training, I am eager to take the Foundation Establishment Pill to attack the Foundation."
"You have to know that you only have one chance. If you rush to attack the foundation without being fully prepared, if there is an accident, it will not only be a lifelong regret for you, but also for your adoptive mother and great-grandfather.
You have suffered criticism from other tribesmen for your failure!"
Zhou Yuanyao has a middle-grade spiritual root. Even if he takes the Foundation Establishment Pill, the success rate of Foundation Establishment is only 60-70%. Although this probability is not low, there is still a high possibility of failure.
Once it fails, it is impossible for the Zhou family to provide her with a second Foundation Establishment Pill, even if her mother is a Foundation Establishment monk and her great-grandfather is a Foundation Establishment monk.
Therefore, Zhou Yang had to warn this clan girl, who was twice his age, to let her understand the meaning of this Foundation Establishment Pill.
"Don't worry, Xiaojiu. Both your adoptive mother and your great-grandfather will be watching over Yao'er. We won't give her the Foundation Establishment Pill now. We will only give it to her after we are sure that her condition has met the Foundation Establishment requirements.
In hand!"
Zhou Xuanyu naturally understands what Zhou Yang is worried about. Zhou Yuanyao has followed the foundation-building monks of the Zhou family since she was a child. She has a close relationship with several foundation-building monks of the Zhou family. She can be said to be the little princess of the Zhou family. She is very popular among the Zhou family's elders and fellow monks.
of favor.
This means that although she is almost forty years old, except for the last time she participated in the battle to open and expand the new oasis, she has never gone out for training, and her character cannot be completely reassured.
So Zhou Xuanyu has even decided that after Zhou Yuanyao reaches the ninth level of Qi training, he will take her to other large oases to practice for five or six years. He must wait until her mind is mature and stable before giving her the foundation-building pill.
base.
And although Zhou Yuanyao is a bit squeamish, she has listened to Zhou Yang's words since she was a child. At this time, she nodded quickly and said, "Yes, Brother Ninth, don't worry, Yao'er will definitely live up to the trust and expectations of my mother, Grandpa Zeng, and you."
, he will definitely become a foundation-building monk!"
"As long as you understand this."
Zhou Yang nodded, and then told his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu that she should move to the new oasis to live in seclusion.
Zhou Xuanyu had agreed to this matter more than nine years ago, but he had been in seclusion over the years and had no past. Now when he heard him mention the old matter again, of course he agreed to it without any objection.
However, Zhou Yuanyao was asked by Zhou Yang to stay on Haoyang Mountain and continue to learn alchemy from his father Zhou Xuanhao.
Of course he did this for a reason.
Ever since he brought Xiao Ying back to the Zhou family, Zhou Yuanyao had been very unhappy. She felt that Xiao Ying had snatched away her ninth brother, and she had expressed her dissatisfaction overtly and covertly.
Zhou Yang understands Zhou Yuanyao's mentality, so he has deliberately not allowed the two women to meet over the years, and he has tried his best to appear in front of Zhou Yuanyao as little as possible, using this method to dilute Zhou Yuanyao's attachment and admiration for him.
Although Zhou Xuanyu had previously wanted to bring her daughter and Zhou Yang together, she had given up the idea since Zhou Yang came back with Xiao Ying, and instead supported Zhou Yang's decision.
Not to mention Zhou Xuanhao. In order to cooperate with Zhou Yang, he specially assigned many alchemy tasks to Zhou Yuanyao to prevent him from having time to think wildly.
These elders united to oppose this matter. Zhou Yuanyao didn't know that she had no chance, so although she felt aggrieved, she had no choice but to suppress the thoughts in her heart and silently choose to accept her fate.
This time is no exception.
After discussing the matter of Zhou Xuanyu going to live in seclusion in the new oasis, Zhou Yang went to see the "Earth Spiritual Milk" under Haoyang Mountain. After decades of recuperation, the stalactite pillar had once again produced "Earth Spiritual Milk"
"Signs of.
Since this object is one of the necessary auxiliary spiritual objects for refining the Foundation Building Pill, Zhou Yang still attaches great importance to this object.
Now that he saw signs that the "Diyuan Spirit Milk" was producing again, he immediately sent a message to Zhou Guangxiang, who was practicing in Chihu Ridge, to come to Haoyang Mountain and set up a water-proof formation in the underground stone chamber to protect the stalactites from "
After the "Earth Spiritual Milk" overflowed, it was diluted by the river water.
Zhou Guangxiang is now a second-level high-grade formation mage. He has mastered all the formations collected by the Zhou family except for the third-level formations. Don't be too relaxed when setting up a water-proof formation.
After handling the matter of "Earth Spirit Milk", Zhou Yang rushed back to Red Fox Ridge with his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu and Zhou Guangxiang.
Returning to Red Fox Ridge, Zhou Yang asked his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu to wait outside the mountain for a while, while he returned to the cave first to give Xiao Ying a vaccination to prepare her mentally.
Unexpectedly, when he returned to Ziyun Cave, he saw Xiao Ying sleeping soundly on the bed in the bedroom. On the girl's body, a moon-white butterfly with a wingspan of six or seven feet was covering the girl's body like a quilt.
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This moon-white butterfly is no stranger to Zhou Yang. It is the "Phantom Jade Butterfly" that was responsible for the poisoning of hundreds of mortals in Yeguang Town.
So when he first saw this scene, he was so frightened that he thought something was wrong with the girl.
Fortunately, he found that the aura on the girl's body was normal the next moment, so he did not immediately swing his sword to kill the monster.
However, his sudden intrusion and the fluctuation of mana that escaped from his fright still disturbed the "Phantom Spirit Jade Butterfly" on the bed. The monster was so frightened that a white light flashed on its body, and it instantly turned into white light and hid inside.
Into the warm jade bed under Xiao Ying.
At the same time, Xiao Ying, who was sleeping soundly, also opened her eyes and woke up with a "squeak".
Seeing this, Zhou Yang felt a little relieved, and then he quickly stepped forward to help the girl up and asked: "Ying'er, what happened just now? Why did that [Phantom Spirit Jade Butterfly] lie on top of you?"
"Ah, Zhou Lang, are you talking about Xiaodie? I was doing an experiment just now. I found that Xiaodie's [Dream Technique] can not only be used to attack enemies, but can also help people realize various good wishes in their dreams.
The role of tempering one’s mind!”
Xiao Ying first screamed, and then answered Zhou Yang's question with a smile on her face.
"Xiaodie? Could it be that [Phantom Jade Butterfly] was adopted by you as your spiritual pet?"
Zhou Yang looked stunned, but he immediately grasped the key point.
"Yes, at that time I originally wanted to get rid of Xiaodie according to Zhou Lang's instructions, but I didn't expect that Xiaodie was very timid and afraid of death. When he saw me showing up, he was frightened, and then used it
His talent [Dream Technique] created illusions and begged me for mercy. I thought it was pitiful, so I agreed to take it as a spiritual pet!"
Xiao Ying nodded slightly, and then told her the process of conquering the "Phantom Spirit Jade Butterfly".
Zhou Yang was frightened when he heard what she said.
"It's so rash! How can you be so rash? It's a monster. What if it just confuses you with illusions? How can you believe it so easily and let it cast spells on you!"
He looked at the girl with an annoyed look on his face. He was extremely angry that the girl trusted a monster so easily.
"Phantom Spirit Jade Butterfly" is a second-level high-grade monster after all. If it really kills Xiao Ying while she is intoxicated in the illusion, Xiao Ying may not be able to survive the sneak attack even if she is a foundation-building monk.
The girl didn't mind his anger at all, she just smiled and said: "No, Zhou Lang, have you forgotten my [Du'e Qinglian] magical power? Xiaodie even wants to hurt me while I'm dreaming.
It is impossible for me to break through the magical power of body protection and hurt me."
After hearing what she said, Zhou Yang just remembered that the "Green Lotus" magical power in the "Qinghua Sutra of Combating Calamities" that the girl practiced had a characteristic that many magical powers did not have, that is, automatic protection.
host.
As long as the girl is in danger, this magical power will automatically activate the protector. If the "Phantom Jade Butterfly" dares to harm the girl's body while she is sleeping, it will definitely activate the magical power.
Thinking of this, his expression softened slightly, and he held the girl in his arms helplessly, touched her head and said: "Okay, you are right this time, but don't take such risks in the future. Even if you want to do an experiment, at any rate
Let someone protect you too!"
The girl enjoyed his action very much. She could not help but narrow her eyes and nodded gently: "Well, I remember Zhou Lang's words."
Seeing this, Zhou Yang took the opportunity to tell the story about his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu.
He spoke very skillfully. He first told a story in detail about Zhou Xuanyu's deeds before he became a demon, so that Xiao Ying could sympathize with the adoptive mother first, and then he told how Zhou Xuanyu was forced to do so.
After entering the devil's path, how can a person remain in the devil's path while his heart is still in the immortal path? This is explained one by one.
Finally, he hugged the girl's delicate body and whispered: "Although my foster mother was forced to enter the devil's way, as a husband, I can swear to you that after she returned to the family, she never hurt an innocent person again."
She has absolutely nothing to do with those vicious demonic monks!"
"You don't need to say much, Mr. Zhou, I believe you, let's go and see our adoptive mother now!"
The girl stood up from the Taoist couple's arms, gently put her jade hand on Zhou Yang's mouth, blocking what he wanted to say, and looked at him with an affectionate face and said.
Thousands of words are worth saying "I believe in you".
When Zhou Yang heard the girl's words, his body trembled, and a feeling of "what more could a husband ask for when he has a wife like this" arose spontaneously. His face was full of emotion and gratitude, he held the girl's hand and said, "Ying'er
Don't worry, if I, Zhou Yang, fail you in this life, I will be struck by lightning and die a good death!"
After the two of them leaned on each other and stared at each other affectionately for a long time, they walked out of the cave hand in hand with smiles on their faces, and personally welcomed Zhou Xuanyu as a guest in Ziyun Cave.
Then Zhou Xuanyu accepted tea from Xiao Ying, his daughter-in-law, on behalf of his late mother Lin Yuting.
However, Zhou Xuanyu did not live in Chihu Ridge, but went to live in seclusion in a mortal town.
She is a Blood Demon Dao monk, and Lingshan Blessed Land will not help her practice at all. The reason why she practiced in Haoyang Mountain before was just to guard Lingshan for her family.
Now that every third-level spiritual mountain in the Zhou family has foundation-building monks stationed there, she naturally doesn't have to do this kind of thing anymore.
After experiencing Zhou Xuanyu's incident, the relationship between Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying took another step forward, and he also deeply realized that he cared too little about his Taoist companions and accompanied him too little.
So for the next six months, he did nothing but accompanied Xiao Ying to the surrounding immortal world and even went to the Baisha River Oasis.
On this day, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying had just finished their half-year-long travel trip and had just returned to Red Fox Ridge to practice for a few days when the old patriarch Zhou Minghan summoned him to Yuquan Peak with a flying sword message.
"This child Yuan Jing has just been promoted to become a family elder. This time the family sent him to be the shopkeeper of Yuquan Tower. Firstly, it is to exercise his management skills. Secondly, it is also because Xuanjin is old and has applied to the family many times.
I want to return to my family and wait for the end with peace of mind!"
"But now almost half a year has passed, and he has not yet arrived at the Baisha River Oasis to complete the handover with Xuan Jin. Judging from my experience, he is probably in danger!"
On Yuquan Peak, as soon as Zhou Yang arrived here, he was called to the cave by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and explained the reason for calling him here.
Zhou Yuanjing is Zhou Yang's eighth brother in terms of seniority. It has been less than three years since he was promoted to the ninth level of Qi training and became the family elder. His promotion to the ninth level of Qi training is entirely due to the prosperity of the Zhou family.
Those who have this level of cultivation.
Zhou Yang also did not expect that this eighth brother finally became the family elder and died outside like this.
A family elder died for no apparent reason. No wonder Zhou Minghan wanted to recall him, the patriarch, to the family.
After listening to Zhou Minghan's words, he had a lot of thoughts in his mind and suddenly asked: "Brother Bage, how is the magic weapon and equipment on him?"
When Zhou Minghan heard this, he immediately said: "According to the records I found from the family, Yuan Jing should have two second-level high-grade offensive magic weapons, one second-level high-grade defensive magic weapon, and nine second-class high-grade spiritual talismans.
There is a second-level mid-level puppet beast!"
The Zhou family is now very strong. The family has several third-level weapon refiners, third-level alchemy masters and a third-level talisman maker. There is no shortage of various magic weapons and talismans. As the elder of the family, Zhou Yuanjing is certainly not weak in wealth.
"Ba Ge is also an old man in the family who is experienced in martial arts. He has such equipment on his body. Generally, there are two or three people with the same cultivation level as him. They may not be able to kill him. This is strange!"
Zhou Yang slowly stated his conclusion, and looked at each other with the old clan leader Zhou Minghan, and both saw a look of worry in the other's eyes.