Zhou Xuanhao's successful foundation building is a great event worthy of celebration for the entire Zhou family. Therefore, after the old patriarch Zhou Minghan rushed to the "Haoyang Cave" to confirm the situation, he returned to the family and sent invitations to everyone.
Immortal cultivators from all over came to watch the ceremony and celebrate.
In the world of immortal cultivators around Yuquan Lake Oasis, almost all the immortal cultivator families and masters of casual cultivators who have a good relationship with the Zhou family have received invitations.
After receiving the invitation, these people either sent their family elders to come with gifts to observe the ceremony and congratulated them, or they personally brought their descendants to increase their knowledge.
The monks of the Zhou family who were originally stationed outside also temporarily put aside their matters and rushed back to their families to participate in this celebration that had not been seen in decades.
A large number of immortal cultivators gathered on Yuquan Peak, making the originally deserted Yuquan Peak suddenly lively.
The Zhou family also took this opportunity to hold a small exchange meeting on Yuquan Peak. They took out some accumulated elixirs, magic weapons, spiritual talismans and other treasures from the treasure house to sell them to the casual cultivators who came here, and at the same time purchased them from the hands of the casual cultivators.
Various raw materials for alchemy and weapon refining.
As for the family monks, since all the major cultivating families basically cultivate their own weapon refiners and alchemists, the second-level elixirs and magic weapons provided by the Zhou family are not enough to attract these people to buy them.
On the contrary, the occasional appearance of unknown spiritual objects in the hands of some casual cultivators would arouse the interest of these family cultivators and purchase a few.
Then the casual cultivators would take the spiritual stones they had obtained and go to the Zhou family's stall to buy magic weapons and elixirs.
But Zhou Yang could no longer see this lively scene.
After he understood something from the words of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, he revealed his feelings to his parents that day, and then followed the old patriarch back to the family.
After returning to the family, Zhou Yang said goodbye to his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu, and then left the Yuquan Lake oasis alone on a Shatuo beast with the advice of the old patriarch and his adoptive mother.
If you don't count the family mission to station at the Qingping Mountain Oasis, this is Zhou Yang's first trip alone in thirty-two years since he came to this mysterious and vast world of immortality.
His destination is the Baishahe Oasis, a desert oasis more than six thousand miles away from the Yuquan Lake Oasis. There is the largest immortal cultivator city in the surrounding tens of thousands of miles away - Jinshafang City.
The ruler of the Baisha River Oasis is the Chen family of Baituoling. The Chen family is a family that has been cultivating immortals for seven to eight hundred years. The founder of the family is an expert from the Zifu period. The contemporary head of the Chen family, Chen Yaohui, is even more outstanding than his masters.
Yu Lan's cultivation level is higher than that of the ancestor who founded the Chen family back then.
Today, the Chen family in Baituoling has one Immortal Cultivator in the Purple Mansion Stage, twelve Immortal Cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, thousands of Immortal Cultivators in the Qi Training Stage, and millions of lay people. It is the largest Immortal Cultivating Family in the surrounding tens of thousands of miles.
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When the children of the Chen family in Baituoling went out, even if they met the disciples of Huang Shamen, they would still give them some face, which shows their prominence.
The Chen family has a prominent family background. A small cultivating immortal family like the Yuquan Zhou family would never be able to get into the eyes of a big family like the Chen family. The two parties are not on the same level at all.
However, Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family who originally founded the Zhou family, once helped the contemporary Chen Yaohui, the head of the Chen family, when he was young, because he was born in Huangshamen.
Therefore, after he opened up the Yuquan Zhou family lineage, the ancestor of the Chen family not only set aside two shops in the "Jinshafang City" created by the Chen family to give to the Zhou family as a congratulatory gift, but also included the Zhou family into the family.
The Chen family is in the ranks of allied families, allowing the Zhou family to share the benefits of this alliance circle.
For example, the Chen family's upcoming "Foundation Building Conference" is an event that only Chen family alliance families are eligible to participate in.
Zhou Yang went to the Baisha River Oasis this time. In addition to looking for opportunities to break through bottlenecks, he was also responsible for the great trust of his family. He inherited his father's business and replaced his father Zhou Xuanhao, who had already established a foundation, to take charge of the shop opened by the family in "Jinshafang City".
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The route from Yuquan Lake Oasis to Baisha River Oasis is already very mature. Although there are no roads in the strict sense of the word in the desert, through the joint efforts of several generations of Zhou family monks, it has been covered in the thousands of miles of desert between the two oases.
, dozens of "signal towers" were established to ensure that Zhou family monks traveling between the two places would not get lost along the way.
Of course, "signal tower" is Zhou Yang's understanding. The actual situation is that the Zhou family's formation masters have refined dozens of first-level high-grade formations "Elemental Magnetic Traction Array" and then had people arrange these formations in Yuquan Lake.
Thousands of miles of desert from the oasis to the Baisha River oasis.
As long as the Zhou family or monks who are closely related to the Zhou family hold a specially refined first-level magic weapon "Yin-Yang Magnetic Needle" and walk on this road, they can use the magic weapon to establish contact with any formation within a hundred miles around.
, there is absolutely no worry about getting lost.
However, although there was a "signal tower" to guide him so that he would not get lost, the dangerous and harsh weather phenomena in the desert still caused Zhou Yang to suffer a lot when he traveled far away for the first time.
After he set off from the Yuquan Lake Oasis, he encountered three sandstorms in just half a month. Every time the sandstorm came, he could only hide under the belly of the Shatuo beast like an ostrich, and then helplessly watched countless yellow sand
"Bury" yourself alive.
And if the sandstorm would only make Zhou Yang miserable at most, then the quicksand that never knew where it would appear in the desert would be life-threatening.
Unlike sandstorms, quicksand will show obvious signs for people to notice before it appears. Only when you step on quicksand will you know that you are trapped in quicksand.
Shatuo beasts are born with special talents that allow them to always detect abnormalities before the arrival of sandstorms and warn their owners in time.
But facing the quicksand, even a monster like it that lives in the desert has nothing to do.
Before people and livestock step on quicksand, it is completely the same as normal sand and is very difficult to detect.
Once he steps on the quicksand, an adult man of normal weight will completely disappear from the ground in less than ten seconds.
Zhou Yang and the Shatuo beast beneath him weigh more than three tons together. Once trapped in the quicksand, it will only take less than three seconds to sink into the depths of the quicksand.
The first time the man and the camel beast fell into the quicksand, Zhou Yang had no time to react before he sank under the sand with the Shatuo beast.
Fortunately, before he went out, the old clan leader Zhou Minghan repeatedly asked him to put a few "earth escape" talismans in his sleeves. In a panic, he activated the talismans in time and escaped from the quicksand area with the Shatuo beast.
This experience of being trapped in quicksand really frightened Zhou Yang. The terrifying and suffocating feeling of falling into an abyss was simply more terrifying than death.
From then on, every day when he sat on the back of Shatuo Beast and moved forward, he would release his spiritual consciousness to scan the ground ten meters in front of him, and at the same time, he would attach "Earth Escape Technique" talismans on his arms and legs.
Although doing this is extremely exhausting, it can at least make people feel at ease.
But as a result, Zhou Yang's forward speed was greatly reduced, and he could only advance less than three hundred miles per day, which was far lower than the Shatuo beast's normal speed of five hundred miles per day.
On this day, after Zhou Yang traveled for a day, both men and horses were exhausted and set up camp at the foot of a sandy slope leeward.
He first set up the tent for camping, then fed the Shatuo beast a few first-level elixir "Jingyuan Dan" refined with the essence of the monster's flesh and blood to replenish its strength, and hung up the camel bell.
After doing all this, he felt free to leave the Shatuo beast to watch for him outside, and then went into the tent to meditate and restore the lost power of his consciousness.
The temperature in the desert is cold at night, and can drop as low as below zero. Zhou Yang is better off in the closed camel skin tent, but the Shatuo beast lying outside has its limbs curled up into a ball, and the breath exhaled from its mouth and nose is condensed.
White mist.
This domesticated Shatuo beast is not only the best riding mount in the desert, but also an excellent sentinel.
In the silent night of the desert, the Shatuo Beast's excellent perception ability can clearly sense the sound of rats digging underground several meters deep. With them on guard, it is basically impossible for desert monsters who want to launch sneak attacks from underground to launch sneak attacks.
success.
The night is getting darker and the temperature is getting lower and lower. The Shatuo beast on guard outside the tent has buried most of its body in the yellow sand, leaving only its head exposed on the ground.
Suddenly, the Shatuo beast, which seemed to be asleep, suddenly opened its eyes, raised its head and looked at the top of the sand slope with vigilant eyes.
Jingle Bell!
The rapid ringing of the camel bells, accompanied by the anxious neighing of the Shatuo beast, quickly woke up Zhou Yang who was meditating and resting in the tent.
Without even thinking about it, he immediately threw up his sleeves and used the silver shield magic weapon that had saved his life many times, and then rushed out of the tent with the magic weapon on his head.
Whoosh!
As soon as he rushed out of the tent, Zhou Yang heard a sharp sound breaking through the air in his ears. This sound was not unfamiliar to him at all. It was the sound of the immortal cultivator using his flying sword to break through the air.
Sure enough, the next moment he saw a golden light hitting his Yin Gang Shield magic weapon.
"Second-level high-quality defensive weapon!"
The golden light scattered on the silver shield, revealing a golden cone weapon about two feet long. At the same time, an exclamation full of surprise also sounded from not far away.
Zhou Yang looked over following the sound and saw two black-robed and masked monks wearing black robes standing on the sandy slope looking towards him.
Seeing him looking at him, one of the black-robed monks reached out and recalled the conical magical weapon that failed in the sneak attack back to his hand. He looked at the silver shield magical weapon in front of him with greedy eyes and growled viciously: "Boy.
, give you a chance to live, hand over this second-level high-grade defensive magic weapon, and spare your life!"
"Sand bandits?"
Zhou Yang frowned and didn't pay attention to the shouts of the black-robed monk. He just looked at the two uninvited guests thoughtfully and asked.
Hearing his straightforward words, the two black-robed monks' eyes turned cold. The black-robed monk who had not taken action immediately said coldly: "You know that we are bandits, but you can still be so calm. It seems that the little brother is not an ordinary person."
Family monk, I wonder which family my little brother comes from?"
"What? Are you going to give up and retreat if I tell you?" Zhou Yang looked at the two of them with a half-smile, his eyes full of ridicule.
"of course not!"
The black-robed monk who spoke out shook his head, then waved his sleeves and held out a sparkling red flag. He looked at Zhou Yang and sneered: "But if you explain your origins clearly, after we kill you, if you gain
Yes, maybe I will be kind enough to give your body to your tribe!"
"I see!"
Zhou Yang nodded, and suddenly waved his hand, and the four "armor-breaking daggers" stuck in his waist were unsheathed, and "swish, swish" turned into four swishy white rays of light and shot towards the sand not far behind him.
under.
ah!
A shrill scream instantly sounded from the ground behind Zhou Yang.
"The third child!"
"Third brother!"
On the sandy slope, the eyes of the two black-robed monks changed, and they couldn't help but exclaimed.
It turns out that there are not two people here tonight, but three people, and one person has been hiding underground, waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
Unexpectedly, people are considered tigers, and tigers are also considered people. Zhou Yang actually discovered that there are people hiding underground.
So while trying to stall for time with the two black-robed monks on the ground, after locking the enemy's position, he suddenly used his magic weapon to launch a counter-attack on the opponent.