Zhou Minghan has great expectations for Zhou Yang.
The Yuquan Zhou family, starting from the family founder Zhou Yuquan, has always had foundation-building monks in charge, which is why it has been able to develop to its current scale in just over two hundred years.
But now, the Yuquan Zhou family seems to have run out of luck. Since Zhou Minghan, no new foundation-building monks have been born in the past hundred years.
This is dangerous.
What a cultivating family fears most is the sudden death of a high-level cultivator.
Once they lose the protection of the foundation-building monks, the Zhou family may not be able to hold on to the ancestral land of Yuquan Lake Oasis and Yuquan Peak, let alone continue to develop and expand the family size.
Therefore, under Zhou Minghan's secret instructions, the development of the Zhou family in recent years has actually been secretly stopped for a long time. The fear is that if it continues to expand, it will attract the attention of others and lead to the annihilation of the Zhou family after his death.
But after all, this is not a permanent solution. The best way is for the Zhou family to give birth to a new foundation-building monk to take charge of the family before his death.
As long as there are foundation-building monks in charge, with the help of the third-level formation [Ten Thousand Woods Qingtian Formation] on Yuquan Peak and the help of dozens of Qi-training clansmen, even if multiple foundation-building monks attack, they will not be able to hurt the Zhou family.
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Originally, Zhou Minghan had placed his hopes on the juniors of the "Xuan" generation, and had even made up his mind. If no one in the Zhou family had been promoted to the foundation building stage before his death, he would rather put the Yuquan Lake Oasis and the Zhou family's big
Part of the output is dedicated to Huangshamen in exchange for Huangshamen's protection, and the Zhou family cannot be envied and exterminated because they occupy a large amount of interests.
But now, Zhou Minghan realized that maybe he should change his mind.
With the potential shown by Zhou Yang, a junior from the "Yuan" generation, as long as he is given another twenty or thirty years, his hope of building a foundation will probably be much greater than that of those from the "Xuan" generation.
He looked carefully at the young man standing in front of him. The handsome and elegant appearance of the young man was not his focus. What he valued was the neither humble nor arrogant attitude that the young man showed in front of him. He knew that he was looking at him and could still be calm.
A calm attitude in the face.
After reading it, he had only one thought in his mind.
This one can be of great use!
Of course, as an elder, no matter how satisfied or happy he is in his heart, he will not show it too much on his face and cannot encourage the arrogance of young people.
Therefore, although he was extremely happy in his heart, his face returned to a calm look. He looked at Zhou Yang with a calm face and asked: "Do you know the reason why I asked you to come here?"
"My grandson doesn't know." Zhou Yang replied honestly.
"Originally, according to the rules of the clan, young monks in the clan must go down the mountain to experience and serve the family for a period of time before returning to the mountain for meditation."
"But your situation is special. Although you are only seventeen years old, you are already at the sixth level of Qi training. In the past hundred years, no one in the clan has had your level of cultivation when he came down from the mountain at the age of twenty."
"It just so happens that you have just made a breakthrough with the help of the earth's spiritual energy. It will take at least five years to build up your mana. Wouldn't it be a waste of manpower if you stay on the mountain?"
"So I decided to do something special and let you come down early to serve the family. This is also an experience for you and will be of great benefit to your future practice."
Zhou Minghan looked at Zhou Yang who looked attentive, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and spoke out his arrangement in a deep voice.
As he expected, Zhou Yang's expression changed after hearing what he said. Apparently, he didn't expect that calling him here would be such a thing.
But what made him not sure whether he was happy or depressed was that after Zhou Yang's expression changed slightly, he immediately regained his composure, then bowed respectfully and said, "My grandson understands and is willing to obey the family's arrangements."
Seeing this, he asked in a strange tone: "Don't you want to know where I plan to arrange you?"
"My grandson believes that no matter what his great-grandfather arranges, it will ultimately be for the best of his grandson."
Zhou Yang smiled in his heart and said these words that left Zhou Minghan speechless for a while.
After a long while, he laughed angrily and cursed: "He is indeed a little cunning boy. Xuan Hao and his wife are both upright people. How could they give birth to a little cunning boy like you!"
After speaking, without waiting for Zhou Yang to complain, he took the initiative to tell Zhou Yang's arrangements.
"Your spiritual root attributes tend to be gold and fire. You also practice the masculine and domineering technique "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique". Apart from some lack of combat experience, your fighting ability is actually not weaker than any monks of the same level.
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"It just so happens that the monk in the family stationed at Qingping Mountain has reached the end of his stay. You can go over and take over for him for five years. After five years, I will let someone else come over and take over for you."
"In addition, I hope that you can take the time to learn the art of weapon refining among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals during this period. There are currently no good people in the family who can take over my class in the field of weapon refining. If you can make some progress in this aspect,
Making a difference is a great thing for the whole family."
After Zhou Minghan finished explaining his arrangement, he waved his hand and threw a gray storage bag and a small silver shield into Zhou Yang's hands.
"In the storage bag are some low-level weapon refining materials, as well as some of my experience in weapon refining, as well as a copy of "The True Solution to Refining" collected by the family. You must keep these things well, and you must not
Spread the word."
"As for this [Silver Gang Shield] magical weapon, it is the best of the many second-level magical weapons that I have refined. Think of it as my compensation for your early departure from the mountain."
"Okay, if you have nothing else to do, you can leave. The trip to Qingping Mountain should be completed within one month."
Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhou Minghan's words and operations. In the end, he almost instinctively grabbed the things in his hands and said, "Then, my grandson, please leave first."
It wasn't until he walked out of the cave and heard the sound of the cave door closing that he was shocked and came back to his senses to understand what had happened.
He recalled what Zhou Minghan had just explained in the cave, and murmured to himself with confusion in his eyes: "What happened to me just now? How could I lose my soul and not even react at all? This is not like my character.
ah!"
Before he finished speaking, his heart suddenly jumped, and he couldn't help but make a bold guess.
"Did the old patriarch cast some spell on me?"
The next moment, he immediately stopped himself from this dangerous thought.
Even if the old patriarch cast any spells on him, it was definitely just a joke on him. There was no need to think too much about it. Random thoughts would only harm yourself.
Thinking of this, he looked at the storage bag and magic weapon in his hand, carefully put them away, and then said hello to Zhou Jun, the seventh grandfather who was drinking tea alone under the tree, and asked him to help open the formation.
Fa sends himself down the mountain.
Before finally walking out of the formation, Zhou Yang looked back at the top of the mountain and saw his seventh grandfather, Zhou Jun, standing under the tree with a smile watching him leave.
"This kid seems to have discovered something. It seems that we can't use such little tricks to tease him in the future, so as not to cause bad misunderstandings."
In the cave on the top of the mountain, Zhou Minghan saw the change in Zhou Yang's expression after he left through his spiritual consciousness. He tugged on his beard in embarrassment, and a look of regret flashed across his face.
It was true that while he was speaking just now, he secretly cast a soul-stirring spell that he had obtained in his early years to affect Zhou Yang's mind.
It's not that he did this because he was afraid of Zhou Yang's resistance to his arrangement, it was just that he couldn't see Zhou Yang's young and mature look and wanted to tease him.
It's just like those mortal adults who deliberately give a little soju to a child in order to tease him, and then laugh out loud at the child who is pretending to be mature, with runny noses and tears streaming down his face.
This kind of teasing will certainly make the elders feel proud of their success at the time, but they will regret it when they find that their teasing will make the younger generations feel psychologically disgusted with them.
This is the situation for Zhou Minghan now.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang is really mature psychologically, rather than pretending to be mature. He did not really complain about this old man who devoted himself to his family because of this little joke.
After he walked down the top of the mountain, he quickly returned to his attic on the mountainside and sorted out today's harvest behind closed doors.
The first is the storage bag that the old patriarch gave him. This kind of storage magic weapon made of the skin of the demonic beast [Lingxu Rat] is almost common among immortal cultivators. Even the poorest casual cultivator can use it.
Try your best to get one for yourself.
Of course, storage bags are also divided into different sizes. Generally, the storage bags used during the Qi training period are only three feet square, which is barely enough to hold a few sets of changes of clothes and a small amount of sundries.
As for the Yuquan Zhou family, each clan member can receive a five-foot-square storage bag from the family for free as long as their cultivation level reaches the Qi training stage. Because Zhou Yang has a good father, he has a daily use bag in his hand.
The storage bag is one foot square.
But now, his storage bag has been upgraded.
The gray-looking storage bag given by the old patriarch turned out to be three feet square. In addition to a tripod for refining weapons and several refining books, it was also filled with items such as black iron, red copper, etc.
Low-level weapon-making materials such as century-old ironwood.
Zhou Yang made a rough calculation and found that if he was only refining magical weapons such as swords that required less materials, these materials would be enough for him to refine the weapons hundreds of times at least.
"General clan members learn the art of weapon refining. Although the family will provide free materials to practice, they will only give them hundreds of opportunities. The old clan leader gave me so many materials. Even the stupidest person can succeed two or three times.
Come on!"
Zhou Yang looked at the storage bag full of materials, and he would be lying if he said he wasn't impressed.
He knew that the old patriarch had always made a distinction between public and private affairs, and even if he was extremely talented, he would not make an exception specifically for him in this regard.
So there is only one reason why he can use so many materials to practice now. The old patriarch used his personal savings to exchange these materials from the family treasury.
"It seems that the old patriarch really wants me to inherit his weapon refining skills. As the only third-level weapon refiner in the family, he must have seen something. Maybe I really have a good talent in weapon refining."
Zhou Yang thought of the "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique" that he practiced at home, and suddenly he had some enlightenment, a smile of understanding appeared on his face.
Then he carefully put away the storage bag and looked at another thing given by the old patriarch, the second-level magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield].