There are no years in practice, no years in the cold or the heat.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang has been stationed in the spiritual vein of "Haoyang Cave" for eight years.
After eight years of hard training, his cultivation has successfully advanced to the eighth level of Qi training, which is only one step away from the ninth level of Qi training.
For those who are cultivating immortals during the Qi training period, eight years is not a long time, but it is not a short time either.
For Zhou Yang, eight years only allowed him to advance from the seventh level of Qi training to the eighth level of Qi training. However, for the entire Zhou family, the changes that had taken place in these eight years were huge.
First of all, Elder Zhou Quan and Elder Zhou Dan, who were stationed at the Haoyang Cave Spiritual Vein together with Zhou Yang, passed away one after another. These two elderly people were already close to the limit of Qi training monks, and they were fighting against the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King]
He suffered internal injuries in the First World War and died shortly after the war.
Because they practiced in the same spiritual place, Zhou Yang witnessed with his own eyes the lives of the two old men slowly coming to an end.
At that time, he was deeply shocked when he saw that the two old men had lost all their magic power overnight, and their originally rosy and healthy faces were suddenly covered with wrinkles, and their heads were full of white hair and all their teeth had fallen out.
He originally thought that in his two lives, he would be more magnanimous in matters of life and death, but when he saw with his own eyes two powerful old men, who had chatted and laughed with him the day before, and died at the end of their lives overnight, he was afraid!
Immortal cultivators have great power within themselves, and a ninth-level Qi cultivator can easily slaughter an army of tens of thousands of mortals even with his bare hands.
But once one's life span comes to an end, one is no different from an ordinary mortal, and cannot withstand the power called "years" after all.
Without foundation building, the lifespan of a cultivator in the Qi-training stage is limited to one hundred and twenty years. Without growth, even the ancestor of the Golden Pill who lived for thousands of years will die one day!
Immortality!
Immortality!
Immortality!
It was after witnessing the death of two family elders that Zhou Yang felt an unprecedented desire for the word "immortality" in his heart.
He wanted to live forever, but he didn't want to be like the two elders of his family, who had spent hundreds of years of cultivation and died helplessly in endless reluctance and regret.
He knew what the two old men regretted in the end.
Elders Zhou Quan and Zhou Dan both had the opportunity to attack the foundation building stage, but they were afraid of the extremely high failure mortality rate. No one had the courage to take that step and cut off their own path to immortality.
the way.
Perhaps before they died, the two old men would not feel that their original choice was wrong. After all, compared to the countless monks who died in their fifties and sixties before the foundation building level, they had lived at least nearly twice as long.
But at the moment when they passed away, the two old men must have regretted it. Their unwilling and regretful eyes at the end told Zhou Yang that they regretted it!
Zhou Yang doesn’t want to regret it!
He didn't want to one day die like the two old men in endless unwillingness and regret.
So he made up his mind at that time, as long as he still had the opportunity to further his cultivation in this life, no matter how difficult or dangerous the road ahead was, he would never give up this opportunity.
It was precisely this kind of firm belief that made him move forward smoothly from the seventh level to the eighth level of Qi training. It only took him less than five years to break through, and then after another three years, he reached the level of Qi training.
The peak of the eighth level of Qi is only one step away from the ninth level of Qi training.
Of course, Zhou Yang's ability to improve so quickly is not only due to his own efforts and the spiritual veins of Haoyang Cave that are particularly suitable for him, but also because of the pills his father Zhou Xuanhao gave him before leaving.
Before Zhou Xuanhao left at that time, he specifically called Zhou Yang aside and gave him three different second-level high-grade elixirs. The effect of taking one elixir of each was equivalent to the effect of half a year of meditation on his own.
, and he took twelve pills in eight years.
Speaking of which, this is the first time Zhou Yang has taken pills so frequently to improve his cultivation.
Before that, he had always obeyed the instructions of his father and the old patriarch, and would never use the power of pills to improve his cultivation until the last moment of breakthrough.
This is because although elixirs can greatly improve the mana and cultivation of immortals, they will also leave "erysipelas" in the body of the immortals. If this kind of "erysipelas" accumulates too much and cannot be eliminated over time, not only will it cause
The mana of a cultivator is full of impurities, which will affect his or her future breakthroughs. It will also damage the body of the cultivator and reduce his lifespan.
For those who are cultivating immortals during the Qi training period, "erysipelas" is particularly harmful. If they take too many elixirs to improve their cultivation before foundation building, the "erysipelas" cannot be eliminated in time, even if they take "foundation building pills" later.
When building a foundation, the success rate will also be much lower.
Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, those elders of the cultivating sects or cultivating families with inheritance will explain the dangers of "erysipelas" to their younger generations from an early age, and strictly control the distribution of elixirs, so that no one can bear the temptation of rapid improvement in cultivation and take risks.
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Only those casual cultivators who were lucky enough to make a fortune without being warned by their teachers would happily buy a large number of spiritual pills and take them to improve their cultivation, without knowing the dangers of "erysipelas", thinking that this would enable them to catch up with those in cultivation.
A talent for cultivating immortals with better qualifications than myself.
Little did they know that when they took this step, they had completely lost hope of catching up with others.
Zhou Yang had taken very few elixirs before, and the little bit of "erysipelas" in his body had long been refined through years of hard training, so Zhou Xuanhao dared to take the elixirs to him with confidence.
Unfortunately, even so, he had accumulated a lot of "erysipelas" due to taking elixirs many times in the past eight years, which resulted in a cultivation barrier and he was unable to break through to the ninth level of Qi training in a short period of time.
However, according to Zhou Yang's own estimation, this "erysipelas" will not affect his future path. As long as he no longer takes this kind of elixir to improve his cultivation in the next ten or eight years, the remaining
These many erysipelas will naturally be washed away by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth after he builds the foundation.
"Eight years have passed, and this [Earth Spiritual Milk] has almost been condensed. I wonder how my father is thinking about it!"
Inside the "Haoyang Grottoes", Zhou Yang looked at the creamy yellow stalactite pillar in the stone chamber with complicated eyes, and his mood was very complicated.
The milk-yellow stalactite pillars are like the finest jade. They are as warm as jade and exude a faint brilliance. Zhou Yang, who stays here day and night, can clearly sense that there is a familiar energy gathering and strengthening inside the stone pillars. He does not know that kind of energy.
Strange, it was the earthly aura that he had absorbed.
According to the records about the [Earth Spiritual Milk] that he has seen from the "Records of Wonders of Heaven and Earth" given by his father Zhou Xuanhao over the years, once the earth vein spiritual energy in the stalactite pillars gathers and strengthens to a point, there will be "Earth Spirit Milk"
Milk] overflows from the surface of the stalactite pillars.
In addition to the effects mentioned by the old patriarch, this [Earth Spiritual Milk] is also a rare spiritual object that can improve the cultivation of monsters. The reason why the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] can become a third-level monster
, most likely the result of swallowing a large amount of [Earth Spiritual Milk].
Zhou Yang didn't know before whether he should persuade his father Zhou Xuanhao to take [Earth Spirit Milk] to attack the foundation, but now that he has witnessed the death of two elderly people in the Zhou family, he hopes that his father can take the risk and gain a fortune.
Of course, as a human son, even if he has this idea in his heart, he will definitely not say it out loud. He can only secretly hope that his father can figure it out.
"I don't know how Uncle Second Uncle and the others are doing with the construction of the oasis. Anyway, I can't make a breakthrough in my current cultivation. Next, I will help them build the oasis while practicing the art of weapon refining!"
Putting aside the worries about his father Zhou Xuanhao's foundation building, Zhou Yang's heart moved, but he became a little quiet and thoughtful.
In these years, although the three elders of the Zhou family named Zhou Qian, Zhou Quan and Zhou Dan passed away successively.
However, there are also four monks of the "Xuan" generation, Zhou Xuantai, Zhou Xuanbin, Zhou Xuanlin, and Zhou Xuanyan, who have successively broken through to the ninth level of Qi training and replaced the three deceased monks and elders of the "Guang" generation. As a result, the number of elders in the Zhou family has increased instead of falling.
, reaching nine places.
While Zhou Yang was practicing in seclusion, the elders of the Zhou family also discovered the reserves of the red flame iron ore vein adjacent to the spiritual vein of "Haoyang Cave". This vein turned out to be a relatively rare large-scale mine!
This discovery made the monks of the Zhou family who knew the inside story overjoyed. If the Zhou family did not currently lack foundation-building monks who could guard the spiritual veins of "Haoyang Cave", the old patriarch would have immediately organized a large number of manpower to develop the veins.
Even so, after discussion among the elders of the Zhou family, the family moved thousands of mortals from the Yuquan Lake Oasis to the "Haoyang Cave" spiritual vein, and built a huge earth city on the ground for these mortals.
live.
Of course, the public opinion is that these people have moved to the Qingping Mountain Oasis, and the Zhou family wants to increase the mining of concentrated iron ore.
With the arrival of these thousands of mortals, the spiritual veins of "Haoyang Cave" finally gained some popularity. Then with the help of two new elders, Zhou Xuantai and Zhou Xuanyan, the mortals and monks of the Zhou family worked together to bring the underground
The water from the underground river was diverted to a low-lying part of the desert, artificially creating a desert lake covering an area of several hundred square meters.
After the lake was established, Zhou Xuantai and others began to organize the mortals of the Zhou family to carry water on their shoulders and carry it to irrigate the sandy land to plant drought-tolerant plants, and then used birth-promoting spells to promote the growth of these ordinary plants.
It is worth mentioning that ordinary plants spawned by immortal cultivators using magic cannot survive for a long time, and the fruits and grains produced by plants spawned by magic cannot be eaten by mortals.
But after these proliferating plants dry up and die, they can be used to fertilize the land.
After years of experiments and summaries, the cultivators of the Boundless Sand Sea have long developed a complete oasis construction plan. As long as the geographical environment is suitable and they are willing to invest manpower and material resources, turning the desert into an oasis is not a fantasy.
Zhou Yang was very quiet and thoughtful at the moment. When he left the stone room for seclusion, he walked outside the stone room and saw that in the empty underground grotto, only his fifth uncle Zhou Xuanbin, who was protecting the Dharma, was there meditating with his eyes closed.
The four Zhou family monks here in "Haoyang Cave", except Zhou Yang, the other three are already at the ninth level of Qi training, and their magic power cannot be increased by one point.
Therefore, in order not to disturb Zhou Yang's practice on weekdays, they practiced in the cave outside, and every day they would take turns to assign one person to be the protector of Zhou Yang in retreat.
Except for Zhou Yang, no one in the Zhou family received this kind of treatment.
Zhou Yang also felt heavy pressure because of this. He knew that only by successfully building the foundation could he be worthy of the efforts of these family elders.