With Zhou Yang's guarantee, Zhou Xuanjing and Zhou Xuankun returned to the family with peace of mind and took the invitation letter from the ancestor of the Chen family.
However, although Zhou Xuanjing and Zhou Xuankun left, several other Zhou family monks who went to Huangshamen with him stayed in Fangshi to rest, preparing to rest for a month or two before returning to the family.
Among these Zhou family monks were the second brother Zhou Bao and the third brother Zhou Qi who had been there when Zhou Yang was stationed at the Qingping Mountain Oasis.
Because of old man Zhou Quan's care and advice, Zhou Yang went to the backyard to visit his second brother Zhou Bao who was resting after his eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun left.
"Second brother, I heard from Uncle Eleven that you plan to spread your business after returning home this time?"
In the yard, Zhou Yang looked at his second brother Zhou Bao, whom he had not seen for nearly ten years. He had not seen him for ten years, but this second brother looked increasingly older, and there were even gray hairs on his head.
"Yes, I'm not young now, and it's time to branch out for the Zhou family. Grandpa was right at the beginning. My temperament is not suitable for hanging out in the world of immortality. It would be more suitable for me to return to my family and farm the land."
Perhaps it is because of his age that Zhou Bao is now much more calm when facing Zhou Yang, the most dazzling clan member among his peers, at least not like before when he did not even have the courage to look into Zhou Yang's eyes. .
However, when Zhou Yang looked at the current Zhou Bao, he actually missed the insensitive and introverted second brother.
The reason why Zhou Bao now dares to look at him is because he has completely given up on the pursuit of improving his cultivation and has completely lost his ambition to make progress.
But since it was Zhou Bao's own choice, he couldn't say anything more. He could only nod and said: "Since you have decided, second brother, then apply with your family to go to [Haoyang Cave]. I will discuss it with you." The clan leader explained the situation and asked you to be the lord of the mortal city there, so that you don’t have to leave the clan to perform missions in the future!"
Old man Zhou Quan asked him to take care of this second brother many times. He originally wanted to wait until he established his foundation and took power, and then find an opportunity to arrange an easier and safer job for this second brother, such as working as a long-term employee at "Yuquan Tower". Dude, or serve as an initiation teacher for the next generation of monks.
But now that Zhou Bao has decided to give up his practice, he can only be allowed to become a city lord in a mortal city.
"Thank you, ninth brother, thank you!"
Zhou Bao also knew that this was the greatest help Zhou Yang could give him. After all, the family belonged to everyone in the Zhou family, not just one person. It was impossible for Zhou Yang to make the family white with just one word. If you don't need him to do anything to raise him, how will the other tribesmen think of that?
He just gave up his pursuit of cultivation, but he did not really want to give up his identity as an immortal cultivator or give up receiving family offerings.
"Hey! Second brother, please have a good rest. I won't disturb you."
Zhou Yang let out a long sigh and shook his head. He had nothing more to say, so he stood up and left the yard.
Until he returned to the third floor of "Yuquan Tower" and picked up the half-read collection of rare objects, he was still thinking about what his third grandfather, Zhou Quan, had said to him the day before his death.
At that time, old man Zhou Quan had already anticipated his final day, so he specifically called him to his side and told him: "Xiao Jiu, the biggest regret of Third Grandpa's life is that he failed to live up to expectations when he was young and did not have the courage to attack the foundation." !”
"I can't do it anymore. From now on, the Zhou family can only rely on you juniors. Even if you build a foundation in the future, you must not slack off in your practice!"
"I want to be selfish, why do we immortal cultivators build sects and families? It's not to gather the power of others to facilitate our own cultivation! Xiaojiu, you have extraordinary talents. As long as you are willing to practice hard, you may not be able to surpass all the predecessors of my Zhou family in the future.
I hope you will never be like Third Grandpa and I. When we get old, we regret that we have not tried our best in this life and have only regrets!"
"I'm leaving, so your second brother will ask you to take care of the third grandpa. The third grandpa doesn't ask him to make any achievements in his practice. He just hopes that he can die like me in the future!"
Recalling the majesty of old man Zhou Quan when he hammered down the second-level high-grade monster "Gold-eating Rat", and comparing it with his dying appearance before his death, Zhou Yang couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Why!
He is now at the ninth level of qi training, and in terms of strength, he is probably even stronger than the old man Zhou Quan back then. And if there are no accidents, he will be able to swallow the Foundation Establishment Pill to attack the Foundation Establishment in the near future.
But what if the foundation is established?
Although the lifespan of monks in the foundation-building stage is twice as long as that of monks in the Qi-training stage, without opening up the Purple Mansion, their lifespan will only be over two hundred years old.
Even a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Period like Chen Yaohui, the ancestor of the Chen family, can only double his lifespan, but it will not become a golden elixir. Five hundred years later, it will still be a pile of loess.
Even if you are lucky enough to become a golden elixir and borrow another five hundred years from heaven to extend your life to a thousand years, what will happen next?
Nascent Soul stage?
In the past two thousand years of the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea, there has never been a monk in the Nascent Soul stage!
"If you don't grow, you will eventually become an ant!"
These eight words suddenly appeared in Zhou Yang's mind. It was these eight short words that told the true meaning of why cultivators should cultivate immortality.
"Ant? Even if you are an ant, you have to be a bigger and stronger ant. You must know that ants can also defy nature!"
He murmured to himself, and suddenly smiled, showing an extremely cheerful smile.
At this moment, Zhou Yang felt that his state of mind had improved a lot.
Mental state cultivation is different from mana cultivation. After a monk reaches the ninth level of Qi training during the Qi training period, if he does not attack the foundation building, his magic power will not improve any more. However, mental state cultivation is not subject to this restriction.
Mental state cultivation is a very vague concept. It refers to the degree of understanding of spiritual cultivation and the Tao by cultivators. There is no hierarchical classification such as Qi training and foundation building.
However, according to the summary of senior cultivators, the higher the spiritual level of a cultivator, the lower the probability of going crazy during practice, and the chance of encountering bottlenecks in future practice will be less than that of people with low mental state.
People with low mental state may not be unable to build foundations or form golden elixirs.
However, under the same conditions, the success rate of foundation building and elixir formation for people with high mental state cultivation is definitely higher than that of people with low mental state cultivation.
Whether a monk's state of mind has been improved or not, only he himself knows. No matter how high the level of cultivation is, outsiders cannot know. Moreover, improving the state of mind depends entirely on the monk's own understanding and opportunities, and where external forces can influence it.
Very little.
So although everyone knows the benefits of improving one's mental state, no one will deliberately pursue this, nor can they force it.
After all, no matter how high the state of mind cultivation is, it cannot directly increase a monk's foundation building success rate by several percent like the Foundation Establishment Pill. For monks in the Qi training period, instead of spending time figuring out how to improve the state of mind cultivation, it is better to spend time on
Earn spiritual stones and come up.
Zhou Yang didn't particularly care about the improvement of his mental state, so after laughing, he picked up the book of rare objects and read it again.
The jet black ore he got from the burly middle-aged man Zhong Quan that day, Zhou Yang always felt that this thing was not simple, so when he had nothing to do these days, he was looking through various classics and looking up information, hoping to find out something about this thing.
A record of an unknown wonder.
It's a pity that he has searched through the classics available on the market and has not found any recorded information so far.
No matter which world it is in, knowledge is the most precious wealth. Zhou Yang knew that he did not find the information he wanted. It was definitely not because there were no records related to the pitch black ore in the world of immortality, but because the records about the origin of the pitch black ore were
The classics are relatively rare and are only collected by some powerful forces with a long history. They will not be widely circulated and collected like the "Records of Treasures of Heaven and Earth" in his hands.
Just like the foundation-building techniques collected by his Zhou family, and the inheritance of the fourth-level weapon refiner obtained by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the monks of the Zhou family would not have access to these high-end knowledge if they did not practice to the foundation-building stage.
Perhaps due to some rumors, in the next few months, the number of immortal cultivators in Jinshafang City began to increase significantly. Even the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, who were rarely seen on weekdays, were seen in the city.
The increase in the number of these monks is of course a good thing for the shops in the city. Each shop has seized the opportunity and launched various preferential measures to attract customers.
However, this does not include "Yuquan Tower". Thanks to the overwhelming popularity caused by Zhou Yang's previous large-scale weapon refining, most of the various spiritual objects accumulated in "Yuquan Tower" have been sold. Before he can replenish them, Zhou Yang
Even if you want to join in the fun, you don't have the capital.
It was in this stormy situation that Zhou Yang finally received support from his family three or four months after his sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing and eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun left.
The Zhou family has been preparing for this "Foundation Building Conference" for decades, so when Zhou Xuanjing and his wife returned to the family with an invitation from the ancestor of the Chen family and the good news that Zhou Yang had broken through to the ninth level of Qi training, the old patriarch Zhou Ming
John immediately gathered people and set off according to the plan.
In order to successfully win the Foundation Establishment Pill in this "Foundation Building Conference", in addition to Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, the Zhou family also sent Zhou Jun, Zhou Qi, Zhou Xuantai, Zhou Xuanjing, Zhou Xuanbin, etc.
Five elders of the ninth level of Qi training participated in the battle.
In addition, Zhou Xuanyu, the general affairs elder of the Zhou family, also came to Fangshi. After the "Foundation Building Conference", he took over from Zhou Yang to take charge of the two stores "Yuquan Tower" and "Zuixian Tower".
Their team's minimum cultivation level is the ninth level of Qi training, and they have the experienced old patriarch Zhou Minghan to lead the way. It took much less time to reach the Baisha River Oasis than Zhou Yang did.
After arriving at the Baisha River Oasis, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went directly to the Chen family in Baituoling to meet with the Chen family ancestors to discuss the details of the "Foundation Building Conference". The rest of the people came to Fang City to wait for news, and at the same time, they also collected information from the family treasure house.
The spiritual items brought are replenished into the "Yuquan Tower" container.