Zhou Yang greeted his fifth uncle Zhou Xuanbin, explained the situation, and then came to the ground of "Haoyang Cave".
Eight years have passed, and a large number of desert plants have grown again around the sandy soil slope on the ground. Because of the care of the mortals of the Zhou family, these plants have grown more lush than before, and there are many more types of plants.
Even some mortals have raised sand grouse, sand antelope, sand rabbits and other animals here.
Not far below the sandy slope is Tucheng, where the Zhou Jiafan people live. More than two thousand meters to the west of Tucheng is an oasis under construction.
Because the oasis was newly built only a few years ago, there is only a circle of grassland tens of meters wide around the desert lake formed by underground river water.
Zhou Yang stood on the sandy slope and looked from a distance. Thousands of Zhou family mortals were divided into four teams and stood in four long queues around the lake. Then the people at the front filled the lake with wooden buckets and passed them around one by one.
The hands of those at the back are watering the sand.
A bucket of water poured onto the sand can only penetrate half a meter of sand, and the thickness of the sand in the area chosen as an oasis is on average more than five meters.
If only these thousands of people were to irrigate the sand using such a primitive method, it would be difficult to create an oasis of 100 square meters a year. This still does not take into account the factors of desert erosion.
So now it is the turn of the immortal cultivators to perform.
Among the first-level spells commonly used by cultivators, there is a small spell called "Cloud Gathering and Rain Technique". As long as this spell is cast, water can be condensed even in the hottest place in the boundless sand sea.
And if this first-level spell is used by a foundation-building immortal cultivator near a sea or a large lake with abundant water vapor, then it can really, as the name of the spell says, cause a heavy rain to fall within a radius of several miles.
Desert lakes formed by underground river water are completely different from "big lakes", and Zhou Xuanyan, a ninth-level Qi-training monk, cannot be compared with a monk in the foundation-building stage.
However, as a ninth-level qi-training monk who majored in water-based skills, he used a second-level high-grade magic weapon "Water Cloud Flag" specially used to enhance the power of water-based spells. After performing the "Cloud Gathering and Rain Technique",
It is barely enough to cause a moderate rain to cover one square kilometer of land.
In order to create an oasis as soon as possible, Zhou Xuanyan would use the "Cloud Gathering and Rain Technique" dozens of times every morning, noon and evening to water the land around the desert lake until the mana was exhausted.
Therefore, the sand that Zhou Yang sees now being watered by mortals is actually the land that has been watered by Zhou Xuanyan's magic. These mortals are now watering, which is just a small supplement, barely smoothing out the evaporation of the desert temperature.
water vapor.
"It's really hard on Aunt Xuanyan. Originally, such small things should be done by the low-level monks in the family. Now that she is asked to do such a thing as an elder, she is overqualified and has too much status!
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Zhou Yang couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. In the final analysis, the Zhou family was too weak.
In the eyes of ordinary casual cultivators, the Zhou family, a cultivating family that occupies a medium-sized oasis and has foundation-building monks at its head, is an existence they cannot reach.
But in the eyes of those high-level monks, a family of immortal cultivators like the Zhou family, which only has one foundation-building monk in charge, is a family that anyone can step on.
If people knew that the Zhou family now occupies a third-level spiritual vein in addition to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, in less than a month, other foundation-building monks would definitely come to the door and force the Zhou family to give up the "Haoyang Cave" spiritual lineage.
veins and red flame iron ore veins.
If you encounter those who are cruel and ruthless, they may use this as an excuse to join forces with other foundation-building monks or families to directly break the Yuquan Peak mountain protection formation and carve up the entire Zhou family!
This kind of thing has not happened before.
To prevent this kind of thing from happening, the only way is for the Zhou family to have new foundation-building monks.
So now, all the senior officials of the Zhou family who know about the "Haoyang Cave" are secretly expecting that Zhou Yang, the younger generation who has placed the hope of the whole family, can successfully build the foundation and lead the Zhou family through the difficulties.
Seeing that Zhou Yang came out of seclusion without breaking through to the ninth level of qi training in one breath, Zhou Xuanyan and Zhou Xuantai, the two elders of the Zhou family, both felt it was a pity and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that Zhou Yang is no longer in seclusion, they don't have to assign one person to protect him every day. With one more person sharing the work of creating an oasis, it will be much easier for them, not to mention that Zhou Yang will occasionally find time to go over and help.
Creating an oasis is not something that happens overnight. Zhou Yang and the others are just laying the foundation first. If they really want to create a large oasis in the "Haoyang Cave", it will take at least several generations and take tens or hundreds of years.
can do it.
Therefore, Zhou Yang's main focus after leaving seclusion was actually on improving his weapon refining skills.
In the past eight years or so, he has focused on cultivation and rarely practiced weapon refining, and his skills have become a bit rusty.
But after all, his foundation was still there. After refining the weapon a few times to get familiar with the feel, he regained his form.
In the battle that wiped out the poisonous fire scorpions, the Zhou family harvested a large amount of second-level monster materials. As a second-level mid-level weapon refiner, Zhou Yang also received a lot. Now there is no shortage of weapon refining materials.
However, it was the first time for him to use materials from monster beasts to refine weapons, so it was quite a challenge.
The materials on monster beasts are no better than metal ores. They can be melted into liquid and shaped at will. To use the materials on monster beasts to refine weapons, the type of magic weapon must be determined based on the shape of the material.
For example, the poisonous fire scorpion's scorpion needle can only be used to refine the flying needle weapon.
If the scorpion needle is melted, the unique fire poison of the poisonous fire scorpion on the scorpion needle will also dissipate, and this material will be useless.
Of course, there are also advantages to refining weapons made of monster materials compared to metal ores, that is, the materials on monster beasts have been refined by the monster's own demon power for many years. Not only do they have very few impurities, but it is also more convenient for the refiner to place spells in them.
After some special monster materials are refined into magic weapons, they will also be equipped with certain magical powers that the monsters mastered during their lifetime.
Because he has never used monster materials to refine weapons, Zhou Yang did not dare to directly use precious second-level materials to refine weapons. Instead, he used the materials from the first-level poisonous fire scorpions to practice first. This first-level material "Haoyang Cave"
"There are a lot of them stored in the warehouse, and I don't feel bad if they are wasted.
The first-level poisonous fire scorpion has only two scorpion pincers and scorpion needles that can be used to refine weapons. The scorpion pincers are suitable for refining into a strange weapon "Iron Arm Divine Hook", and the scorpion needles can be refined into "poisonous fire flying needles"
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Compared with the more delicate "Poison Fire Flying Needle", the thick and bulky "Iron Arm Divine Hook" is undoubtedly more suitable for novices to refine.
This so-called "iron arm magic hook" is explained in scientific terms as "exoskeleton armor", which is also a mechanical arm.
Zhou Yang took out the scorpion pliers in stock, first shaved off all the air-dried meat shreds remaining inside the scorpion pliers, put it into the refining cauldron, then poured in a special solution prepared using a variety of acidic ores and plant juices, and then lit it
The fire burns the refining cauldron with fierce fire to soften the scorpion claws inside.
At this time, he put his consciousness into the cauldron to observe the degree of softening of the scorpion's claws throughout the process. When the scorpion's claws began to soften under the action of high temperature and acidic solution, he began to perform the shaping-related weapon-refining techniques recorded in the weapon-refining classics.
The softened scorpion pincers are fine-tuned and shaped into the shape of the "Iron Arm Divine Hook".
After the shaping was completed, Zhou Yang maintained the temperature of the flame while performing the weapon refining method, and placed a "shock" method inside the "Iron Arm Divine Hook".
After the arrangement of the magic ban was completed, he used the "Photography Technique" to pick up the "Iron Arm Divine Hook" and put it into the quenching pool that had been prepared aside. After a burst of white mist evaporated, the magic weapon was
The refining is considered successful.
The first-level magic weapon does not need to be refined, it can be used by injecting real energy and mana. Zhou Yang casually fired a magic weapon and fell into the newly trained magic weapon. Two "Iron Arm Divine Hooks" weighing dozens of kilograms hit it hard.
On top of the iron man used to test the power of magic weapons.
After a loud "boom" sound was heard, dozens of slender cracks as thick as chopsticks suddenly appeared on the iron man made of fine iron, and then two light yellow auras spread out from the "Iron Arm Divine Hook",
It caused a tremor in the entire refining room, and almost knocked over the refining cauldron on the ground.
"Well, the power of this is close to that of a second-level low-grade magic weapon. It seems that my weapon refining skills are very close to the second-order high-grade magic weapon. Very good, keep trying."
With a wave of his sleeve, he fired a burst of magic power to straighten the refining cauldron. Zhou Yang took out another piece of material and put it into the cauldron and continued refining.
After about half a year of this, Zhou Yang finally succeeded in breaking through to the second-level high-grade weapon refiner after hundreds of attempts to refine it, becoming the youngest second-level high-grade weapon refiner in the history of the Zhou family.
Having broken through to the second level of high-grade weapon refining, Zhou Yang immediately sent a message to the old clan leader Zhou Minghan and his parents about the good news. Not long after that, he saw his parents arriving from the "Haoyang Cave" after a long journey.
"Dad, have you made your decision?"
Zhou Yang looked at his parents who had suddenly arrived. After being slightly stunned, he immediately understood what they were doing.
"Why, as a father, can't he just come to see you because he misses you?"
Zhou Xuanhao smiled slightly, seemingly not noticing Zhou Yang's suddenly heavy expression.
"Okay, you two, father and son, don't act like enemies as soon as you meet. On this happy day when father and son meet, why are you talking about these disappointing things?" Lin Yuting saw that the atmosphere was not right, and quickly intervened to calm the atmosphere.
After saying that, he took Zhou Yang's hand and said with a smile: "Let's go, Yang'er will take my mother to your cave. This time, my mother has brought you a lot of specialties and delicacies that are only available in Fangshi.
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