The second-level magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield] is made from the fallen tree scales of the second-level spiritual object [Dragon Scale Tree] as the main material, and mixed with the second-level spiritual object [Silver Gang Stone].
There are nine realms of cultivating immortals. The magic weapons, elixirs, formations, and talismans used by cultivators are therefore divided into nine levels from the first to the ninth level. The second-level magic weapons correspond to monks in the Qi training stage.
It is also a second-level magic weapon, which can be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. The [Silver Gang Shield] is a second-level magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-level weapon refiner. Its grade is naturally the highest grade.
Before being refined, this magic weapon looks like it is only about the size of a palm. In fact, as long as Zhou Yang refines it, once it is released during battle, it can turn into a giant shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body, and it can be adjusted as he wishes.
position.
And because [Silver Gang Stone] was incorporated into it during refining, this magical weapon can not only easily block the attacks of flying swords and flying knives of the same level, but also has miraculous effects on spell attacks from cultivators or monsters.
Greatly offsets the damage caused by spells below level three.
"There is a second-order [Dragon Scale Tree] in my Zhou family. Every ten years, we can harvest a few pieces of mature tree scales. It is considered self-produced. However, [Silver Gang Stone] is not common, even if it is just a fist."
The price of a large piece is at least five hundred low-grade spiritual stones, so this gift from the old patriarch is really not light!"
In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the palm-sized silver shield in his hand, and suddenly felt that this magical weapon had become much heavier.
As a cultivating family, as long as each member of the Zhou family reaches the Qi training stage, they can regularly receive spiritual stone offerings from the family every year until they are over sixty years old.
According to the current clan rules, members of the Zhou family who are on the first level of Qi training can receive 10 low-grade spiritual stones a year, and those who are on the second level of Qi training can receive 20 low-grade spiritual stones, and so on, until they are on the ninth level of Qi training.
Change.
Because if there are no accidents, the ninth level of Qi training is the limit for ordinary monks in the Qi training period. The current family rule of the Zhou family is that as long as the family monks advance to the ninth level of Qi training, they will be promoted to family elders. Each elder can receive a gift every year.
An offering of 150 low-grade spiritual stones. There is no age limit for this offering. As long as the elder does not pass away, he can receive the full amount.
Zhou Yang had stayed at the fifth level of Qi training for two years before, and his offerings were only 50 low-grade spiritual stones per year. Based on this calculation, even if he saved all the spiritual stones and didn't use them, it would take ten years of offerings to exchange for one.
Big fist [Silver Gang Stone].
In fact, because he only entered the qi training period at the age of seven, after ten years, not counting the treasures his parents rewarded him as gifts, his total net worth is only more than 300 low-grade spiritual stones.
It can be seen from this that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan regarded the [Silver Gang Shield] as a reward for his early descent from the mountain. What a great gift it was!
"The old patriarch values me so much. I must not let him down. Whether it is learning the art of refining weapons or stationing at Qingping Mountain, I must do it beautifully!"
Zhou Yang felt warm in his heart and couldn't help but tighten the magic weapon in his hand, secretly determined to do well to repay the trust of his elders.
In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed the door tightly and hid in his room to refining the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon he had just obtained. After refining the magic tool and getting good luck, he walked out of the room to prepare for the trip down the mountain.
Prepare.
He first went to another Ksitigarbha Cave in the Zhou family, where he learned the "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique" six-level Qi training technique, and then selected five techniques that were beneficial to fighting from among the many spells collected in the Ksitigarbha Cave.
The practice of magic.
These five spells are the second-level attack spells "Golden Sword Technique" and "Fire Snake Technique", the second-level defensive spell "Golden Light Body Protection Technique", and the second-level auxiliary spells "Sky Eye Technique" and "Earth Escape Technique".
The Qi-training techniques and spells in the Zhou family's Sutra Cave are not allowed to be read by the clan members, but they are not allowed to be taken out of the Cave, and they are strictly prohibited from being taught to outsiders privately.
Zhou Yang used to follow the teachings of his parents and elders. In addition to learning some simple first-level auxiliary spells, he did not distract himself from learning combat spells that were beneficial to fighting, and focused all his energy on improving his cultivation.
But now, since he has to go down the mountain to garrison, there is no guarantee that he will not encounter a battle of spells. If he doesn't know how to fight spells, just relying on a few magic weapons in his hand will be too simple, and it will be easy to be restrained and targeted.
Spells are easy to learn but difficult to master. It doesn't take long to learn how to use them only initially. With Zhou Yang's sixth level of Qi training, it only took about half a month to learn all five spells.
At this time, the one-month deadline given to him by the old patriarch was not far away, so he wrote a letter explaining the situation and asked the elders of the clan to bring it to his parents who were in the city of Xiuzhefang, thousands of miles away.
Then he said goodbye to his familiar elders and fellow monks on the mountain, and went down the mountain alone.
After going down the mountain, Zhou Yang took a camel from the tribesmen at the foot of the mountain, which was necessary for walking in the desert, and plunged directly into the boundless sea of sand.
This is the first time in seventeen years that he has left the Yuquan Lake Oasis, and the first time in two lifetimes that he has set foot in the desert.
The sea of sand is endless, and it is easy for people to lose their way while walking in it.
Once lost in the sea of sand, even cultivators who carry a large amount of water and food in storage bags will eventually starve to death or die of thirst if they cannot reach the oasis before the food and water are exhausted.
Immortal cultivators are much more powerful than mortals, but they cannot completely abstain from grains until they reach the Golden Core stage. Even cultivators at the Zifu stage need to regularly consume meals made from spiritual grains or monster spirit meat to maintain their physical needs.
In fact, even the golden elixir stage monks who are able to resist grain do not dare to fly around in the boundless sea of sand.
Golden Core monks are not afraid of losing their way, but there are not only dangers of getting lost in the sand sea, but also all kinds of terrifying natural disasters and powerful monsters that even Golden Core monks can kill.
Take the famous "Black Sand Storm" for example. Once a Golden Core monk falls into it, the strange power contained in it will cut off his consciousness and shield his five senses. Finally, the endless power of the storm will consume all his mana and grind him to death.
Another example is the most famous fifth-level monster [Sandworm] in the boundless sea of sand. Its body is thousands of feet long, and its mouth has terrifying sharp teeth. It can crush fifth-level defensive magic weapons with great force. If a Golden Core monk is a
If you accidentally fall into the mouth of a sandworm, you will lose your life in a daze.
With these risks, unless there is a reason why they must come, those Golden Core monks will never go deep into the sand sea easily.
Fortunately, neither the terrifying "Black Sand Storm" nor the fifth-level monster [sandworm] that only sleeps in certain underground spiritual veins deep in the desert will appear near the oasis, otherwise Zhou Yang may not dare to
A man sets foot in the desert.
He traveled alone in the desert for about five days according to the map issued by his family, and successfully arrived at his destination - Qingping Mountain.
Qingping Mountain is also an oasis, but it is a man-made oasis.
This oasis is very small, only a dozen square kilometers in size. The oasis was formed only because the Zhou family invested tens of thousands of low-grade spiritual stones here regardless of the cost, and created a second-order low-grade spiritual vein.
The reason why the Zhou family spent so much money to create an oasis here is because a Zhou family member who got lost in the desert discovered a medium-sized iron ore vein here more than fifty years ago.
Concentrated iron ore is a kind of spiritual ore that contains some spiritual energy. After smelting and processing, it can be smelted into the first-level spiritual object refined iron and the second-level spiritual object black iron. These two spiritual objects are used to build ancestral halls for cultivating families or sects, and are hidden there.
It is the main material for important buildings such as scripture pavilions and treasure houses. It is also the main material used by weapon refiners to refine most first- and second-level magic weapons. The market demand is huge.
In order to mine the fine iron ore in the fine iron veins, the Zhou family could only build an oasis here for the miners to live. At the same time, in order to protect the miners from the attacks of low-level monsters in the desert, the Zhou family had to send monks to garrison here.
Whether it is building an oasis or allowing the stationed monks to continue practicing, the Zhou family can only artificially create spiritual veins here.
Of course, all this investment is worth it.
Just this medium-sized refined iron ore vein, the refined iron ore mined every year can be processed and sold, bringing a net profit of more than 500 low-grade spiritual stones to the Zhou family. More than fifty years have passed, and the original investment has long been lost.
I made money back several times.
And judging from the reserves of refined iron ore veins, it can be mined for at least another fifty years.
The Qingping Mountain Oasis is extremely small, and most of the area has been turned into a residential area for the miners. Only a hundred-meter-high hill in the center of the spiritual vein has been set aside as a residence for the stationed monks and a warehouse for finished materials.
It can be said that the top of the hill is the real Qingping Mountain.
Because the current eldest elder of the Zhou family is a second-level formation mage, a second-level formation "Sea of Clouds Light Splitting Array" is also arranged on Qingping Mountain's spiritual veins. The power of the formation makes this hilltop shrouded in clouds and mist all year round.
Covering it makes it difficult for people to see the layout clearly.
Zhou Yang came outside the formation, used his magic power and shouted, the clouds and mist in front of him surged, making a way for him to go up the mountain and enter.
He entered along the formation passage and soon saw the monk stationed inside, a middle-aged scholar with a thin face. This man was the sixteenth among the "Xuan" monks of the Zhou family, and his name was Zhou Xuanjin.
"Hey, why is it that you, Yang'er, are here to replace me? You are not yet twenty years old, right?"
Zhou Xuanjin, who was dressed as a scholar, couldn't help but let out a sigh when he saw Zhou Yang coming in. Before Zhou Yang saluted and said hello, he put down the book in his hand and asked questions.
"Returning to Uncle Sixteen, this is the arrangement of the old patriarch. He said that my nephew's cultivation has reached the standard for going down the mountain, so he made an exception and let my nephew go down the mountain in advance to practice." Zhou Yang answered honestly.
Zhou Xuanjin looked stunned, and muttered in a low voice with a puzzled expression: "The cultivation level has reached the standard of going down the mountain? When did our Zhou family have such a standard?"
After saying that, his heart moved, as if he remembered something, and he quickly cast a "Sky Eye Technique" on himself, and looked at Zhou Yang up and down with golden eyes.
It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. When he looked at it, he couldn't help opening his mouth wide and exclaimed: "Ah! You have broken through to the sixth level of Qi training!"
"After retreating to [Yuyang Cave] a month ago, I got a breakthrough by luck."
Zhou Yang smiled slightly and nodded in acknowledgement.
In fact, in the world of cultivation, it is very taboo to directly use the "Sky Eye Technique" to observe other people's cultivation, and monks often get into fights over this kind of thing.
However, Zhou Xuanjin is his elder, so Zhou Yang doesn't care about such trivial matters.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's amazing, it's amazing, how old you are!"
"I, my uncle, have practiced hard for forty or fifty years before I can reach the seventh level of Qi training. You are good, you have already reached the sixth level of Qi training at the age of seventeen. In another ten or eight years, I'm afraid
Your cultivation level will surpass mine!"
"Hey, I am no longer as good as young people when I am old. They both have the qualifications of middle-grade spiritual roots. Why is there such a big gap!"
Zhou Xuanjin put away his spells and looked at this outstanding junior with complicated eyes. He didn't know whether he should be happy that his family had such a genius, or whether he should feel ashamed and disappointed that his cultivation was about to be surpassed by a junior who was decades younger.
.
This is not the first time Zhou Yang has encountered this situation. After he broke through the sixth level of Qi training, his peers and elders on Yuquan Peak were amazed at his speed of cultivation and were more or less happy.
Like Zhou Xuanjin, they all expressed feelings of loss and gloom.
In response to this, he could only remain silent and not say much.