The story of Liu Xuanxuan's success in building the foundation quickly spread in the Zhou family, and the story that she took two foundation-building pills to successfully build the foundation also spread.
Regarding this matter, not to mention those relatives, monks and guest ministers of the Zhou family, even most of the Zhou family's children are envious and jealous.
In the Zhou family, Liu Xuanxuan was the first person to take two Foundation-Building Pills in a row to build a foundation.
But no matter whether these people are jealous or envious, no one dares to discuss this matter openly.
Because after Liu Xuanxuan successfully established the foundation, Zhou Yang accepted her as his second apprentice after obtaining her consent, and decided to pass on his mantle of weapon refining to her.
With Liu Xuanxuan's talent for refining third-level magic weapons at the ninth level of Qi training, there will be no problem in at least passing on his legacy of weapon refining skills in the future.
After successfully building the foundation and becoming a disciple of Zhou Yang, Liu Xuanxuan's life has reached its peak.
With her example in front of them, many of the Zhou family's relatives, monks, guest ministers, and those outstanding casual cultivators who were still hesitating whether to join the Zhou family seemed to have seen a guiding light, and their thoughts of loyalty to the Zhou family became much firmer.
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Since the Zhou family can spend two foundation-building pills for one Liu Xuanxuan to build a foundation, they can naturally spend the same price for a second person, as long as you are good enough!
However, the good news brought by Liu Xuanxuan's successful foundation construction did not last long, and was washed away by the news that Zhou Guangxiang failed to open up the Zifu.
After half a year of seclusion, Zhou Guangxiang's attempt to open the Zifu ended in failure.
This failure caused a lot of trauma to his soul. Even if Xiao Ying refined the soul-healing elixir for him to take, he would not be able to try to attack the Zi Mansion again for at least ten years, let alone fight with others easily.
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"You will gain wisdom after suffering a hardship. This failure should make you understand that the qualification of high-grade spiritual roots is not a rare thing among high-level monks!"
"Having confidence is a good thing, but blind confidence will only harm others and yourself in the end!"
When Zhou Guangxiang came to see Zhou Yang after leaving the customs, what he received was not the caring and comforting words of his elders, but the cold words of admonishment from Zhou Yang.
No one will have mercy on losers, not even Zhou Yang.
Before Zhou Guangxiang, everything had been smooth sailing, and because he had always been taken care of by elders like Zhou Yang, he had not even experienced a few life-and-death battles.
When a person always does things smoothly, his self-confidence will expand rapidly and he will not be able to listen to the advice of others.
In Zhou Yang's eyes, Zhou Guangxiang before seclusion was undoubtedly like this.
However, as an elder, he would not let this dampen his confidence at that time.
Because at that time, if he had undermined his confidence, not to mention affecting the relationship between the two, he would have easily failed to pass the test.
But now that Zhou Guangxiang has failed, Zhou Yang will no longer tolerate him like this.
"Uncle Jiu has taught you a lesson. My nephew has realized his mistake. It was my nephew who betrayed Uncle Jiu's trust and your cultivation!"
Zhou Guangxiang nodded his head in frustration. He did not dare to refute Zhou Yang's admonishment and honestly admitted his mistake.
He himself is a smart man. After his failure, of course he understood where he failed. He also understood why Zhou Yang, who had always loved him so much, suddenly became so cold to him.
At this time, honestly admitting your mistake is more effective than saying anything.
Sure enough, seeing that he had a good attitude in admitting his mistake, Zhou Yang didn't say anything more about the matter. He just waved his hand and said: "Since you have nothing important to do, you can just take care of the family affairs at home in the next few years. Next time
Come to me again when you are ready."
After reaching the ninth level of foundation building, there is no way to advance. In addition, he cannot attack the Zi Mansion again for at least ten years, and cannot fight with others. In the next ten years, Zhou Guangxiang can only deal with family affairs within the family.
I spent time studying formations.
After handing over family affairs to Zhou Guangxiang again, Zhou Yang returned to seclusion.
After a year and a half of such seclusion, his cultivation reached the fifth level of the Purple Mansion as scheduled.
This year, he was one hundred and sixty-three years old.
A 163-year-old fifth-level cultivator from the Zi Mansion is rare even in the world of Liuyun Continent. Except for those spiritual monks, there are basically few Zi Mansion monks who can possess this level of cultivation at this age.
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Therefore, Zhou Yang is quite satisfied with the speed of his cultivation improvement.
According to this speed, as long as he continues to practice step by step, there should be no problem in reaching the ninth level of the Purple Mansion before the age of 250. By then, he will still have half a lifetime to reach the Golden Core stage.
Good things come in pairs. Shortly after Zhou Yang's cultivation breakthrough, Xu Song, who had been studying the method of breaking the formation at the underground ruins, also sent him good news.
After receiving the news, he quickly took his Taoist companion Xiao Ying and rode the griffin beast to the underground ruins.
"After nearly ten years of understanding, I have mastered the operating principle of this formation. Next, as long as you follow my instructions and attack the location pointed out by me when I break the formation, you will definitely be able to break this formation.
Formation method!"
Outside the underground ruins, Xu Song waited for Zhou Yang and his wife to come over, and then explained his research results to the couple.
Of course, Zhou Yang and his wife definitely didn't understand the formation knowledge he mentioned. They could only act as his thugs and follow his instructions to attack the formation.
According to the method of breaking the formation prepared by Xu Song, in order to break the formation, one Jindan monk and four Zifu monks must attack the five base weaknesses of the formation together.
When it came time to break the formation, the Zhou Yang couple and the griffin beast counted as three Zifu's combat power, the demon corpse Xu Song sacrificed and refined counted as one Zifu's combat power, and he himself was the main attacker.
Before breaking the formation, Zhou Yang looked at the demon corpse that Xu Song sacrificed and refined. He clearly remembered that in the past, this demon corpse was a hornless python, but now, this demon corpse has growths on its head.
A dark green horn about half a foot long.
"Is it because you swallowed the corpse bead?"
He thought to himself, shook his head, and stopped paying attention to this matter.
The top priority is to destroy the protective formation of the underground ruins.
"Everything is ready. Wait for where my magic power is marked, and you will launch a fierce attack there. I didn't tell you to stop, so don't stop, and don't attack in the wrong direction!"
Outside the formation, Xu Song repeatedly warned Zhou Yang and his wife, and then directly used his black umbrella magic weapon and black flag flag magic weapon to attack the formation.
His black umbrella magic weapon can attack and defend. When attacking, the magic light on the umbrella surface shines, condensing a thick black light beam and blasting towards the corner of the formation.
The khaki-colored ruins guarding shield was struck by the black light beam, and it suddenly shook slightly.
At the same time, a turtle hissed from Xu Song's black flag flag magic weapon, and the beast soul of "Genshan Turtle" came out of it, opened its mouth wide, and spit out a beam of black light that fell on the black treasure.
The umbrella attacks that point.
"Now, attack these locations."
A loud shout rang out from Xu Song's mouth. While maintaining his offensive, he waved his hands and fired three mana beams that fell on three weak points of the formation's shield, and then directed his demonic corpse to attack the fourth point.
After the Zhou Yang couple and the gryphon heard his shout, they also used various means to launch a fierce attack on the points he marked.
Just like this, after the two of them, one ghost, one beast and one corpse, attacked fiercely for nearly an hour, the formation shield guarding the ruins finally began to show its weakness and began to shake violently.
After another half an hour passed like this, the formation shield was finally shattered with a loud "bang".
Once the protective barrier of this array was broken, the situation inside the underground ruins was immediately clear.
The situation inside was somewhat beyond Zhou Yang's expectations.
He originally thought it would be an underground building like an underground palace, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a huge underground square that had been hollowed out.
This underground square is square as a whole, with a length and width of thousands of feet. In the center of the square is a circular altar that is ten feet high. Behind the altar stands a palace as large as an acre. On the plaque in front of the palace are the three words "Guangming Palace".
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After Zhou Yang glanced at the altar and the palace, he stopped looking. His eyes fell directly on the two figures below the altar.
Those two figures are none other than Zhou Xuanyu's mother and daughter who have been missing for many years.
Just a few decades later, Zhou Xuanyu has turned into an old woman with white hair and wrinkles on her face. She looks like she is about to die. Anyone who sees her knows that she has only a few years to live.
As for Zhou Yuanyao, decades later, she also successfully established her foundation and became a foundation-building monk, and her cultivation level was no worse than that of Zhou Guangxiang who was in the Zhou family. She was also at the sixth level of foundation-building.
"Yang'er, is it really you, Yang'er?"
Zhou Xuanyu tried his best to look at Zhou Yang's handsome face with his eyes wide open. After decades of absence, Zhou Yang's face had not changed at all. He was still so young and handsome, full of vitality and vitality.
"It's me, stepmother, you read that right, it's the baby, and the baby is here to pick you up!"
Zhou Yang looked at the gray-haired Zhou Xuanyu, his eyes were sore and his voice was choked with sobs.
A careful calculation shows that nearly 80 years have passed since Zhou Xuanyu and his daughter traveled together, and they have not seen each other for nearly 80 years!
Eighty years!
Even if a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage has a lifespan of 240 years, eighty years still takes up one-third of the life.
And an ordinary mortal may not be able to live such a long life, even to the end of his life.
"Woo woo woo, Brother Ninth, you are finally here, you are finally here, I knew you wouldn't leave us alone, I knew..."
Staring at Zhou Yang's handsome face, listening to Zhou Yang's familiar yet unfamiliar voice, Zhou Yuanyao, who had been trapped in this underground space with his mother for nearly eighty years, couldn't help but throw herself into Zhou Yang's arms.
Li burst into tears.
After being trapped for these years, the biggest hope of the mother and daughter was to wait for the family to come to rescue them, and to wait until Zhou Yang came to rescue them.
Now that Zhou Yang is finally here, nearly eighty years of waiting have finally come to fruition. It’s no wonder that Zhou Yuanyao, who is over a hundred years old, still loses his composure and cries bitterly on the spot.
"If you don't cry, don't cry. Yao'er doesn't cry. Ninth Brother is here. Of course Ninth Brother will not ignore you. You are the little dragster behind Ninth Brother. Of course Ninth Brother will not leave you alone."
At this moment, Zhou Yang didn't care that Taoist companion Xiao Ying was nearby. He just hugged Zhou Yuanyao tightly in his arms and coaxed her softly like a child.
He knew that Zhou Yuanyao's emotions needed to be vented at this time, and crying was the best way to do so.
Only when the emotions of mother and daughter Zhou Yuanyao and Zhou Xuanyu stabilized could he ask about the reason why they were trapped and the origin of this underground ruins.