She originally had a short lifespan, but her ability to survive until now could even be said to be supported by her faith.
But after returning to the Zhou family and Yuquan Peak where she was born and raised, the belief that supported her to continue living no longer had the ground to exist.
Later, when she learned from Zhou Yang about the changes that had taken place in the Zhou family over the years, and knowing that everything in the Zhou family was now better than she imagined, she even realized her wish and had no worries anymore.
So less than three months after returning to Yuquan Lake Oasis, she sat on Yuquan Peak with a smile and a peaceful expression.
Because she had long been declared dead in the Zhou family, after Zhou Xuanyu passed away, neither Zhou Yang nor Zhou Yuanyao could hold any memorial activities for her, let alone invite people from various forces to pay tribute to her like they did when Zhou Xuanhao died.
In the end, she could only follow her last wish, and Zhou Yang used the "Qianyang True Fire" to turn her body into ashes and brought her back to Chihu Mountain, and buried her next to the grave of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, allowing the couple who had been separated for decades to Grandparents and grandchildren can always be together under the Nine Springs.
After settling Zhou Xuanyu's affairs, Zhou Yang's life returned to normal.
Most of the time, he spent in seclusion to improve his cultivation. The rest of the time, he spent either accompanying his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, or refining weapons, making talismans and practicing swords. His life was quite relaxed and happy.
During this period, he also studied the white orb that was suspected to be the "Eye of Light", but no matter how hard he tried, he could not refining this treasure, so it was impossible to use it.
This made him admire the old ghost Xu Song's eyesight even more. After just a few glances, he concluded that this object must possess the power of light in order to be refined and used.
Another thing that makes Zhou Yang happy is that after nearly 80 years of practice, Zhou Yuanyao finally transformed her love for him as a girl into a family relationship between brother and sister, and is no longer hostile to Xiao Ying.
Even though she had almost forgotten the art of alchemy because she had been trapped in the underground ruins for nearly eighty years, she took the initiative to ask Xiao Ying for advice on alchemy, hoping to inherit Zhou Xuanhao's original position and contribute to the Zhou family's alchemy business.
Zhou Yang was of course happy to see the success, but at the same time he couldn't help but sigh that the power of time is indeed powerful.
Zhou Yuanyao was such a willful girl at the beginning. After living in a strange place for nearly eighty years, her corners were smoothed by time and she succumbed to reality.
This may be related to Zhou Xuanyu's decades of consistent teaching, but no one can deny the importance of the power of time.
If it hadn't been for decades of calm thinking and seeing the truth clearly, Zhou Yuanyao would probably still treat Zhou Yang's sister-like affection and care for her as an expression of love between a man and a woman, as he did in the past.
Just like that, the beautiful time turned into another twelve years in a blink of an eye.
Twelve years have passed, and Zhou Yang's cultivation level is still at the fifth level of Zi Mansion, not far from the sixth level of Zi Mansion.
However, during this period of time, he finally understood the second advanced sword formation "Twelve Yuan Chen Sword Formation" in "Dayan Sword Art", which allowed his sword control skills to rise to a higher level again. .
At the same time, after years of diligent study and practice in his talisman-making skills, he was successfully promoted to the fourth level and became the first level 4 talisman-making master in the history of the Zhou family.
Another piece of good news is that his spiritual pet, the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle, also fell into a deep sleep half a year ago. If nothing unexpected happens, when it wakes up, it will officially enter adulthood and condense the demon elixir to become a fourth-level demon beast.
These are just the changes that have happened to Zhou Yang himself and around him.
As far as the Zhou family is concerned, twelve years have passed and the Zhou family has added two new foundation-building monks, one of whom is Zhou Yang's eldest disciple Lu Xuewei.
Lu Xuewei, who has high-grade spiritual root qualifications, easily succeeded in building a foundation after taking a foundation-building pill. Her age at the time of foundation-building was the same as Zhou Yang's, thirty-four years old. Moreover, after she succeeded in building a foundation, she quickly
Became a third-level low-grade Talisman Maker.
As for another foundation-building monk, his name is Zhou Tongyao. His parents are ninth-level qi-training monks of the Zhou family. Because of his good formation talent, he was successfully selected into the Zhou family's "Seed Plan".
He was able to successfully build the Foundation entirely by relying on the family contribution points he inherited from his parents. Then, as a member of the "Seed Project", he exchanged the Foundation Establishment Pill for 10,000 family contribution points at half the price.
In fact, over the years, Lu Xuewei and Zhou Tongyao were not the only ones who used the Foundation Establishment Pill. There was also a monk from the Zhou family who exchanged the Foundation Establishment Pill for use.
Unfortunately, even with the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, the man failed in the end.
Xiao Ying listened to Zhou Yang's words and practiced two batches of foundation-building pills, producing a total of nine pills.
As a result, two pills were removed from the market auction and Huang Yi was rewarded with one pill. Liu Xuanxuan used two pills to build the foundation. In addition, three pills used by Lu Xuewei and three others were used. Now, he only has one foundation pill left in his hand.
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Counting the two new Foundation Establishers, the Zhou family currently has as many as seven Foundation Establishment monks, including Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Yuanyao, Zhou Guangtai, Zhou Guangqing, Liu Xuanxuan, and Lu Xuewei.
A double purple mansion, seven foundations.
Such forces have not appeared for the third time in this boundless sea of sand cultivation world for the third time in a thousand years, except for the Chen family.
What's more, in addition to the power of these monks, the Zhou family is also known to have a fourth-order low-grade spiritual beast, the Gripen, a golden-winged thunder eagle that is about to be promoted to a fourth-order monster, and a third-order mid-grade monster, the Flying Divine Leopard.
With these powers added up, apart from the fact that the number of monks in the foundation-building period is not as good as that of Huang Shamen, the high-end power is not inferior to that of Huang Shamen, the ruler of the boundless sea of sand cultivation world.
Nowadays, when the monks in the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea mention the Zhou family, no one is not envious and no one is not in awe.
And in just over a hundred years, Zhou Yang, who led the Zhou family from a family whose inheritance was almost cut off to its current prominent position, has become the heart of the monks in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal World.
Legendary figure.
The younger generation of monks in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World may not know the name of Cao Wenjin, the last golden elixir-level monk in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, but they definitely have heard of Zhou Yang of the Zhou family.
When you have a son, you should be like Zhou Yuanyang. This has become a saying often spoken by the elders in countless cultivating families.
"Look at Zhou Yuanyang, he is also a middle-grade spiritual root cultivator, but he succeeded in building the foundation at the age of thirty-four. You are also a middle-grade spiritual root cultivator, why can't you learn from them?"
"Son, you have to be brave. As a father, I don't expect you to be like Zhou Yuanyang, but you must successfully build the foundation and continue the inheritance of our family!"
"Young man, you know how to mess with these messy things. You are already eighteen years old. At your age, Zhou Yuanyang has already gone out to practice his own business. Are you going to piss me off to death?"
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When a person becomes a legend passed down by word of mouth, his farts will smell good.
How Zhou Yang succeeded, 99% of people will not know. They will only try their best to find out about Zhou Yang's deeds as a boy, inquire about Zhou Yang's life, and then let their descendants learn and imitate.
It seems like this can really make their descendants become the next Zhou Yang.
Of course Zhou Yang didn't know about these things.
During the past twelve years, he had lived in seclusion and devoted himself to practice. Apart from sometimes participating in annual sermons to teach and answer questions to the family's younger generations, few of the Zhou family's disciples below the level of foundation cultivation could see him. Don't call me an outsider.
If Zhou Guangxiang hadn't paid a sudden visit and stated that he wanted to attack the Zi Mansion again, he might not have realized that so many years had passed.
"Go through the test with peace of mind, without any psychological pressure. Even if you fail, Uncle Jiu and I will still be here in the Zhou family!"
In the Qianyang Cave, after Zhou Yang handed the extremely precious "Purple Heart Chalcedony" to Zhou Guangxiang, he saw a nervous look on his face and couldn't help but smile and comfort his nephew.
Just as he said, even if Zhou Guangxiang fails to attack the Zi Mansion again, the Zhou family will still have his sea-fixing needle.
As long as he doesn't die, the Zhou family's status will be as stable as Mount Tai.
Therefore, he had a very good attitude towards Zhou Guangxiang's attack on the Zi Mansion. Of course he would be happy if he succeeded, but at most he would be a little disappointed if he failed.
"Nephew, I will not let Uncle Jiu down!"
Zhou Guangxiang nodded, firmly grasped the jade bottle containing "Purple Heart Chalcedony" in his hand, turned around and left Qianyang Cave, returning to his own cave for retreat.
Since Zhou Guangxiang has not decided on the candidate to succeed his clan leader, after he retreats, Zhou Yang can only continue to perform the duties of the clan leader on his behalf.
When he took over the responsibilities of the clan leader again, the first thing he did was to understand the situation within the clan.
He was quite satisfied with the result. Although the growth rate of the Zhou family's monk population has slowed down in the past ten years, because the monk population base is already large enough, the Zhou family's monk population has now exceeded 600. , plus the monks who are relatives and friends, the total number is close to a thousand.
The number of monks has increased, and the spiritual mountains and spiritual mines occupied by the Zhou family have naturally been fully developed, and financial income has also increased compared to before.
And at the end of the day, twenty-four years have passed since the "New Home Plan" was officially implemented. The Zhou family has already built nine man-made oases in the boundless sea of sand leading to Rhinoceros Island.
The existence of these nine man-made oases has directly pushed the area that monks in the boundless sand sea can explore into the depths of the sand sea by nearly 60,000 miles.
Many monks from the Zhou family entered that area four or five years ago to take risks and explore resources, and have already found several spiritual mines and several underground spiritual veins.
"Calculating the time, there are still three years until the time Jiang Yuyan and I agreed to take action. I wonder how she is preparing?"
"In three years, I should be able to further advance to the sixth level of the Purple Mansion, and the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle should also be able to advance to the fourth level of monster within this time."
"In this way, if Guangxiang succeeds in opening the Zi Mansion, the high-level beings on our side who can participate in the war will be much stronger than originally planned!"
Zhou Yang calculated his own combat strength on his fingers and found that if the foundation-building monks were not included, the high-level lineup they went to Rhinoceros Continent this time would not be much worse than the one organized by Huang Shamen.
As far as he knew, there were only a few fourth-level monsters on Rhinoceros Continent.
"This battle is guaranteed to be won!"
A smile flashed on his face, and his eyes were full of confidence.