Zhou Yang didn't want too many people to know about the discovery of the Lingshi Mine in a short period of time.
Although the Zhou family already has the power to fear no one in this boundless sea of sand cultivation world, the interests involved in a medium-sized spirit stone mine are too great for him to act without caution.
And currently, the spiritual stones stored in the Zhou family's treasury are enough. No matter how many spiritual stones are dug out, they can only be piled up in the warehouse and cannot be turned into various urgently needed treasures.
In addition, each project currently being developed by the Zhou family requires manual participation, and it is difficult to spare too many people to travel thousands of miles to mine the spirit stone mine at one time.
You must know that important mineral veins like the Lingshi Mine are no more important than other mineral veins. Once such a valuable mineral vein starts to be mined, not only the mining can only be carried out by cultivators, but also a large number of monks must be invested in guarding the mine area.
mine to avoid being stolen and robbed.
Like those sects, once a spiritual stone mine is discovered, they will first send high-level array masters to set up a fifth-level magic circle with a wide coverage area to cover the spiritual stone mine area, and then send people to mine the spiritual stone.
The medium-sized spirit stone mine discovered by Zhou Yang has a vein length of hundreds of miles. Such a large area cannot be covered by ordinary fifth-level formations. It requires a large forbidden formation.
Of course, the Zhou family cannot produce such a large formation, so they can only resort to clumsy methods and send a large number of family monks to patrol the borders of the Lingshi mining area, and send at least one Zifu period monk to sit there and provide support at any time.
As he was about to travel to the Great Guangming Immortal Palace area soon, Zhou Yang knew that the Zhou family no longer had such conditions.
So after he returned to Rhinoceros Continent, he first sternly told his apprentice Lu Xuewei not to leak the information about the Lingshi Mine, and then he just informed Zhou Guangxiang about the Lingshi Mine and personally took him to the mine to find the way.
In this way, the matter of the spirit stone mine came to an end for the time being. After Zhou Yang briefly mentioned his promise to Lu Xuewei to the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang, he set off to collect the spirit stone from the underground fire abyss where the "purifying green lotus fire" was discovered.
Fire gold.
Zhou Yang originally thought that after going to the underground fire abyss this time, he could still see the "Fire Lin Beast" that had escaped. He was originally planning to continue trying to see if he could kill the beast.
But what he didn't know was that after he used "Qianyang True Fire" to invade his body, the "Fire Lin Beast" almost died at the bottom of the abyss of fire, so much so that after he recovered, he didn't dare to return to his original habitat.
I came to take a look, for fear of encountering his nemesis again.
Moreover, the reason why the "Fire Lin Beast" originally lived in the underground fire abyss was mainly to practice with the help of the "Purifying Green Lotus Fire". After he took away this heaven and earth spiritual fire, the underground fire abyss had no control over the "Fire Lin Beast".
As far as "beasts" are concerned, it is no different from other places.
Of course, Zhou Yang was a little regretful that he could not see the "Fire Lin Beast", but the large amount of Lihuo Fine Gold that was subsequently mined quickly dissipated this feeling of depression and regret in his heart.
Last time, he used the "Thousand Blade Disk" to mine Lihuo Fine Gold. Because he was worried that the magma would damage this magical weapon, he did not dare to dig deep into the place where the magma was too deep.
This time he came prepared and directly used the particularly high-temperature-resistant "Dayan Divine Light Sword" as a mining tool, and the harvest was huge.
When he returned to Rhinoceros Continent and used the "Lihuo Suzaku Furnace" to extract the Lihuo Fine Gold from the ores, he harvested a total of thirty-seven kilograms and six taels of Lihuo Fine Gold.
It's a pity that although there is a great harvest of Lihuo Fine Gold, the harvest of "Taiyi Fine Gold" and other materials is far from ideal.
The world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea is still too barren and backward. Precious weapon refining materials such as "Taiyi Fine Gold" are generally used by people even if they obtain them, to add to their own flying swords to increase the power of the flying swords.
Few people collect large pieces of spiritual gold without using it.
There was news from the Zhou family that they had helped him purchase it for several years, but they only got five taels, which was still far behind the few kilograms he wanted.
There was no other way, so Zhou Yang could only put down the idea of refining the sword for the time being, and planned to find a way to collect materials to refining the sword after he arrived at the realm of Great Light Immortal Palace.
Time passed quickly, and more than a year passed quickly.
On this day, Xiao Ying, who had been in seclusion for six years, finally succeeded in breaking through and was promoted to the fourth floor of the Purple Mansion and walked out of the seclusion room.
"Congratulations, Yinger, you are finally out of isolation!"
Outside the retreat where Xiao Ying was retreating, Zhou Yang, who sensed the movement in time and came to check on the situation, couldn't help but feel happy when he looked at the Taoist couple he hadn't seen for nearly twenty years. He rushed over and hugged the Taoist couple.
"I also miss my husband!"
Xiao Ying put her hands on the back of Zhou Yang's neck, her beautiful eyes full of joy and pressed her head against the man's chest, unwilling to let go for a long time.
After a brief embrace and affection, the faint feeling of strangeness between the couple that they had not seen for twenty years quickly dissipated completely.
Of course, in the midst of their love, Zhou Yang did not forget about business, and soon told the Taoist couple about the blooming of the "Ning Yuan Guo" tree.
After Xiao Ying heard about this incident, she also attached great importance to it, and rushed to Chihu Mountain with Zhou Yang the next day to check the situation.
So in the next year, Xiao Ying sat on Chihu Mountain, refining various third-level elixirs collected by the Zhou family over the years into elixirs, while preparing various spiritual liquids and collecting them.
The essence of Yimu replenishes the vitality of the "Ning Yuan Guo" tree.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang moved to Chihu Mountain with his wife and husband, studying sword techniques and accompanying his Taoist companions.
A year has passed like this, and before Zhou Yang has fully understood the "Eight Desolations and Liuhe Sword Formation", the celebration of the Zhou family's 400th anniversary has already arrived.
In a place like the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, it is rare for a family to be able to continue to flourish for four hundred years.
Many foundation-building families only inherited the family for a hundred or two hundred years, and then declined due to the death of the family's foundation-building monks and the inability to give birth to new foundation-building monks for a long time, and the inheritance was gradually cut off.
The Zhou family almost became like this back then.
Originally, when the Zhou family celebrated its 300th anniversary, they should have invited many guests and friends to celebrate.
However, at that time, the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea was in a period of turmoil, and the Zhou family had just lost its previous patriarch, so naturally they had no intention of taking care of this matter.
Now that it has been the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Zhou family, the family has been promoted to the Zifu family, and has become the strongest Zifu family in the boundless sand sea cultivation world for two thousand years. This celebration naturally needs to be a big one.
Ever since Zhou Yang announced that he would hold this celebration five years ago, the entire Zhou family has been preparing for this event.
In the past five years, almost all foundation-building families in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World have received invitations from the Zhou family.
At the same time, more monks came to participate in this grand ceremony uninvited without invitations.
Of course, these people are not just here to eat and drink, they are also here for the treasure hunting competition promised by the Zhou family.
Therefore, on the day when the real celebration was held, more than 20,000 monks gathered at the Chihu Mountain Oasis.
Having so many monks gather in an oasis is both an honor and a test for the Zhou family.
You must know that immortal cultivators are not kind people. With more than 20,000 immortal cultivators gathered in an oasis, it is almost impossible not to have some conflicts every day.
For this reason, the Zhou family had to temporarily expand the security team, sending most of the family's Qi-training monks over sixty years old to maintain law and order to prevent large-scale fighting conflicts.
On the day of the celebration, the only monks who could climb up to Chihu Mountain to observe the ceremony were those who had received invitations. They were either Foundation Establishment monks or high-level elders of a Foundation Establishment family. They were all a group of people with status.
At this time, on Chihu Mountain, a heaven-sacrifice altar specially built for the celebration had already been completed.
This heaven-sacrifice altar is circular in shape, nine feet high and three feet wide. It has nine colors from bottom to top and is made of hardware and four kinds of spiritual jade.
Starting three days ago, after burning incense and bathing, Zhou Yang had been sitting cross-legged on the altar, fasting and waiting.
In front of him was a pyramid-shaped wooden building several feet high, on which were placed from top to bottom the ancestral tablets from the Zhou family's ancestral temple.
Among them, the spiritual tablet on the top of the tower only has the words "Heaven and Earth" written on it, which represents God.
The second floor is the spiritual tablets of Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor who founded the Zhou family, and his wife. The third floor is the spiritual tablets of Zhou Huajian, Zhou Minghan, and Zhou Xuanhao, the three foundation-building monks of the Zhou family who have passed away.
Further down, there are the spiritual tablets of the ninth-level qi-practicing ancestors of the Zhou family who have passed away, as well as the spiritual tablets of the monks who are listed on the Zhou family's "hero list", and finally there are the spiritual tablets of the ordinary Zhou family's ancestors who are not well-known.
However, these spiritual tablets stopped when they reached the "Xuan" generation, because from the "Xuan" generation down, there is also a monk of the "Yuan" generation Zhou Yang.
Of course, in the ceremony of worshiping ancestors presided over by him, the spiritual tablets of monks of the same generation cannot be placed.
At this time, as the day of the celebration arrived, Zhou Guangxiang, the current patriarch of the Zhou family, personally delivered the three animals sacrificed to the ancestors to the altar.
These three animals are the second-order high-grade monster "Red-haired Ox", the second-order high-grade monster "White-tailed Black Sheep", and the second-order high-grade monster "Rock and Soil Pig".
Originally, according to Zhou Yang's original intention, he wanted to use the third-level monster as a sacrifice, so that it would appear to be the Zhou family's Zifu family card.
However, although there are many monsters in the boundless sea of sand, there are very few third-level monsters such as cattle, sheep, and pigs. He can't just grab three third-level monsters to make up the number, can he?
So in the end I had to settle for the next best thing and choose three second-level high-grade monsters as sacrifices.
These demon beasts that were used as sacrifices had been fed "Jing Yuan Dan" and some purifying elixirs as early as a month ago, and their excretion openings were sealed with utensils to ensure that they could survive under such solemn conditions.
In a life-or-death crisis, you will not be frightened into shitting and urinating to blaspheme your ancestors.
At this time, as the three animals were presented, the auspicious time came. After burning incense on the altar and bathing, Zhou Yang personally slaughtered the three animals used as sacrifices to God and ancestors on the spot, took their heads and placed them on a jade plate in front of him, and then
Facing the rows of spiritual tablets in front of me, I knelt down on my knees, prostrated and prayed sincerely.
"The ancestors of the Zhou family are above me. The younger generation Zhou Yuanyang leads the 976 descendants of my Zhou family here to pay homage to God and the ancestors. I pray that God and the spirits of the ancestors in heaven will protect my Zhou family and protect me.
The Zhou family will last forever and prosper forever!"
At the same time, Zhou Guangxiang and other Zhou family monks below the altar also knelt down on the ground at the same time, and they kowtowed loudly and shouted: "Please protect me, my ancestors, for the longevity of my Zhou family and for the eternal prosperity!"