Chapter Four Hundred and Twenty Seven: Feng Shui Turns [Four Thousand Characters Chapter]
In less than a day, the "Treasure Hunting Conference" within the Zhou family was settled.
The three Zhou family monks who won the top three places are Zhou Tongyue, Zhou Tongkui and Zhou Fuxing.
What is interesting is that among these three Zhou family monks, except for Zhou Fuxing, who is an alchemist working in Baiyi Hall, the top two are all monks of Zhou Family Zhantang.
"According to the rules set by the family, the first place will be rewarded with a foundation-building pill and a third-level high-grade magic weapon. The second and third place will be rewarded with a foundation-building pill and a third-level mid-grade magic weapon, respectively.
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"But there is no use in giving you the third-level magic weapon now, so I will give you the Foundation Establishment Pill first. If you can successfully build the foundation, you can naturally come to me to receive the magic weapon. If you fail to build the foundation, you can only get the converted family contribution.
Points for reward!”
It was still Zhou Guangxiang who awarded the rewards to the top twenty monks of the Zhou family. He first encouraged the twenty juniors with words, and then distributed the rewards to these people one by one.
Not to mention the rewards received by the top three, the following seventeen monks also received treasure rewards such as third-level spiritual talismans or second-level high-quality puppet beasts.
When the "Treasure Hunting Conference" ended, those foundation-building monks and Zifu monks who were invited by the Zhou family first said goodbye and left.
However, those monks in the Qi training period did not leave so quickly. It is not easy for these people to travel thousands of miles to the Chihu Mountain Oasis. As long as there is no urgent matter and they have to return, they don't mind staying here for another ten and a half days. See
See if there is any opportunity to harvest.
It was also at this time that the Zhou family released the news about recruiting a son-in-law, and took advantage of the popularity to hold a "Son-in-law Recruitment Conference."
This "Son-in-law Recruitment Conference" is definitely not attractive to those monks from the Foundation Establishment family. Even if they really like a certain Zhou family girl, their family will not be willing to watch the monks they have spent resources training to become another family.
Home son-in-law.
But for those casual cultivators and some cultivators from small families who do not even have foundation-building cultivators, the temptation to become the Zhou family's son-in-law and become half a Zhou family cultivator is not small.
Of course, these little things are not worthy of Zhou Yang's attention.
Even if it was Li Hong, whom he had previously valued, Zhou Yang would not be willing to devote more energy to paying attention to such a small Qi-training monk before he made it clear that he was willing to marry into the Zhou family.
After the "Treasure Hunting Conference" ended, he returned to Qianyang Cave, where he secretly met with Chen Ping'an who came to visit him.
"To be honest with Fellow Daoist Zhou, Chen came to see Fellow Daoist Zhou this time to ask Fellow Daoist Zhou's companion to help him refine a batch of foundation-building pills. Chen is willing to pay Fellow Daoist Xiao 50,000 low-grade spiritual stones as a fee!"
In the Qianyang Cave, when Chen Ping'an saw Zhou Yang, he just said a few polite words and then explained his purpose of coming with a nervous expression.
Since the death of Chen Yaohui, the ancestor of the Chen family, the Chen family has only one third-level mid-level alchemist left to support themselves in alchemy.
Although third-level mid-level alchemists can also refine foundation-building pills, the success rate is extremely low. Even if they are lucky enough to succeed, the number of pills produced will not exceed three.
Compared with the materials required to refine a batch of foundation-building elixirs, this success rate and the number of elixirs produced are certainly unsatisfactory.
That's why Chen Ping'an thought of asking the Zhou family for help and asked Xiao Ying, a fourth-level alchemist, to help refine the foundation-building pill.
The Foundation Establishment Pill is only a third-level low-grade spiritual elixir. The 50,000 low-grade spiritual stone cost given by Chen Ping'an is more than the cost of refining a furnace of fourth-level spiritual elixir.
From this aspect, his sincerity is absolutely sufficient.
However, considering the unhappy past of the Zhou family and the Chen family, and the special significance of the Foundation Establishment Pill, Chen Ping'an was really not sure that Zhou Yang would definitely agree to his request.
Sure enough, after Zhou Yang heard his request, he did not respond immediately, but pondered.
After pondering like this for a while, Zhou Yang suddenly looked at him and said: "It's not that Zhou underestimates Fellow Daoist Chen. With your cultivation strength, Fellow Daoist, even with the assistance of other foundation-building monks, you should not be able to kill a fourth-level monster."
Get the Demon Pill? Is the Foundation Establishment Pill refined from this alchemy really only for use by the Chen family?"
Defeating a fourth-level monster and killing a fourth-level monster are two different things. Zhou Yang had also seen Chen Pingan take action. His strength may be considered good in the boundless sand sea cultivation world, but if he wants to kill a fourth-level monster,
The chances of a level monster beast are really slim.
When Chen Ping'an heard what he said, he didn't show any embarrassment, and quickly replied: "Being able to hunt down the fourth-order monster beast is indeed not the result of Chen's efforts. Among them, fellow Taoist Nie helped to successfully kill the monster beast.
However, asking Fellow Daoist Nie to take action is Chen’s exchange for other treasures, not sharing this furnace of foundation-building pills with him.”
That makes sense.
Zhou Yang nodded thoughtfully, and then smiled softly and said: "Since Daoyou Chen is just asking for this, Zhou has no reason to refuse, but there is no need for spiritual stones. My Yinger has been obsessed with alchemy all her life, and she likes to collect all kinds of elixirs.
Fang studies the way of alchemy. Ancestor Chen Yaohui was originally a fourth-level top-grade alchemist. Fellow Taoist Chen only needs to be willing to lend his alchemy manual to my Yinger to read!"
After discovering a medium-sized spirit stone mine with reserves of tens of millions of spirit stones, Zhou Yang really didn't take 50,000 low-grade spirit stones seriously.
As for the things that he could see from the Chen family now, apart from those third-level and fourth-level alchemy recipes, there were only the alchemy notes recorded by the ancestor of the Chen family after he became a fourth-level high-level alchemist.
The elixir recipe involves the inheritance of his family, and Zhou Yang estimates that Chen Ping'an may not be willing to give it as reward.
But as for the alchemy handbook, although this item is important, after all, it does not involve the foundation of inheritance, and the Chen family may still be able to come up with it.
Xiao Ying's alchemy skills have been at the lower level of the fourth level for many years. If she could get the alchemy manual of the ancestor of the Chen family, she might be able to be promoted to the middle level of the fourth level.
Nowadays, it is rare for Chen Pingan to come to ask for help, so Zhou Yang will naturally not miss this opportunity.
Sure enough, after hearing that Zhou Yang asked for the alchemy notes left by the ancestor of the Chen family to the Chen family as a reward for alchemy, Chen Pingan's expression suddenly changed.
As the former number one alchemist in the world of Immortal Cultivation in the Boundless Sand Sea, although the Chen Family Patriarch’s Alchemy Manual is not a priceless treasure, it is definitely not something that can be purchased with just 50,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
But he knew in his heart that since Zhou Yang had already spoken, if he didn't agree, the matter of asking Xiao Ying to help refine the elixir would definitely be ruined, and he wanted to ask Zhou Yang to help refine the weapon or Xiao Ying to help refine the elixir again in the future.
, and almost impossible.
Therefore, after his expression changed again and again, he finally gritted his teeth and agreed.
His face trembled, and he said in a low voice: "The ancestor's alchemy notes are left in the family. Chen will go back to the family to get them for Daoist Zhou. I wonder when Daoyou Xiao will be free to help with the alchemy?"
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "It just so happens that Ying'er has just left seclusion and is free now. When Fellow Daoist Chen goes back to get the alchemy notes, he can bring the alchemy materials with him."
"In that case, please ask Fellow Daoist Zhou to wait a moment. Chen will come back as soon as he goes."
After Chen Ping'an finished speaking, he immediately said goodbye and left Qianyang Cave, returning to Chen's house to pick up the alchemy notes and alchemy materials.
But after Zhou Yang waited for him to leave, he couldn't help but murmur to himself with a smile on his face: "Feng shui has changed. Now in my house, at the beginning, your Chen family used a very ordinary [Yuanyuan Dan] prescription. , in exchange for the [Xianzhi Jade Dew Pill] prescription and the [Three Yang Barrier-Breaking Pill] prescription that I risked my life to get, now it’s time for you to repay your debt!”
At that time, the ancestor of the Chen family threatened to hand over the property he obtained from the Wang family to Huang Shamen, so he was forced to exchange two rare third-level elixir recipes for a cheap elixir recipe in the opponent's hand.
At that time, the situation was stronger than the others. In order to ask the ancestor of the Chen family to help protect his trophies, Zhou Yang could only bear the pain and make this exchange with him.
Now that things have changed, and the Chen family has something to ask of him, he will naturally not be polite to Chen Ping'an because of this.
Chen Ping'an moved very quickly. It only took two days to deliver the alchemy notes and alchemy materials to Zhou Yang.
After Zhou Yang collected the things and gave them to Xiao Ying, who was taking care of the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree on Chihu Mountain, within five days, he handed over five Foundation Establishment Pills to Chen Ping'an.
Xiao Ying is only a fourth-level low-grade alchemist. She is able to produce five pills at a time. She has a lot of luck.
When Chen Ping'an saw that there were actually five Foundation Establishment Pills, the pain in his heart about handing over the alchemy notes instantly faded away.
The alchemy manual he gave to Zhou Yang was only a copy, and the original was still kept in the Chen family. In the future, the alchemists of the Chen family would still have a chance to challenge the fourth-level alchemists with this alchemy manual.
If you really want to calculate it, he actually didn't lose anything.
So after thanking him, he left the Chihu Mountain Oasis with a complicated mood.
Next, Xiao Ying naturally studied the alchemy manual of the ancestor of the Chen family while taking care of the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree.
But Zhou Yang made preparations to go to the Great Light Immortal Palace area.
According to his plan, when he goes to the area where the Great Bright Immortal Palace is located, he will not go alone, but will bring a group of Zhou family monks to teleport there together.
You must know that activating the large-scale remote teleportation circle requires half of the energy of thirty-six high-grade spiritual stones. If he does not take the opportunity to bring some people there, it will be a big loss for Zhou Yang.
However, these people cannot be taken carelessly, because if nothing happens, more than 90% of the people he takes this time will not be able to return to the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality alive again in this life, so of course they must be chosen carefully. careful.
With the size of that large teleportation array, the number of people who could be teleported at one time could exceed fifty, so Zhou Yang's plan was to bring forty-nine Zhou family monks there in addition to himself.
He had not informed anyone of this idea before. It was only after he determined that the place opposite the teleportation array should be a safer place that he informed Zhou Guangxiang of his decision and started planning and discussing the candidates with him.
Zhou Guangxiang had also heard Zhou Yang talk about the teleportation array, but he did not expect that Zhou Yang had such a huge plan.
Zhou Guangxiang has never thought about letting the Zhou family escape from the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality. After all, even he, a monk in the Zifu period, has not yet left the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality. How could he dare to think about it?
But after Zhou Yang said this, he became excited.
Although he knew very well that Zhou Yang could not take him with him to the area where the Great Guangming Immortal Palace was located, but as long as he thought of helping the Zhou family get out of the boundless sand sea and open up a family branch in the outside world of immortality when he was the head of the Zhou family,
He was so excited that he couldn't control himself.
This is a great achievement and honor!
In the future, the Zhou family's family history will definitely write a lot about him, the contemporary patriarch, because of this incident.
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Three months passed quickly, and the results of the foundation building of the monks who were awarded foundation-building pills at the "Treasure Hunting Conference" were gradually released.
The first is the three monks of the Zhou family. Except for Zhou Tongkui, who has low-grade spiritual root qualifications and failed to build the foundation, Zhou Tongyue and Zhou Fuxing both successfully built the foundation and were promoted to become the elders of the Zhou family.
As for the casual cultivator Li Hong, his luck was not very good. Although he had the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, he still failed in the end.
After the foundation building failed, for Li Hong, there were only two ways to build the foundation.
The first path is naturally to imitate Zhou Guangxiang, who also failed to build the foundation by taking the foundation-building pill, and take the risk of practicing the ten-level Dzogchen Qi cultivation to forcefully attack the foundation-building stage.
The second way is to agree to Zhou Guangxiang's original recruitment, marry into the Zhou family, obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill, and hit the Foundation Establishment stage again.
On the one hand, there is a narrow escape from death, and on the other hand, there is the worst failure. Li Hong doesn't have to think too much about the choice.
In the past few months, it is not that no other families have tried to win over Li Hong, but the treatment provided by those families is not as straightforward and straightforward as that of the Zhou family.
What's more, they are also married into a family that cultivates immortality. The Zhou family, now the number one family in the world of immortality in the boundless sand sea, is definitely better than other families.
This can be seen from the great harvest achieved by the Zhou family at the "Son-in-law Recruitment Conference" held after the "Treasure Hunting Conference".
You must know that at that "Sister-in-law Recruitment Conference", only thirty-three female cultivators from the Zhou family came out to recruit a son-in-law. However, the number of cultivators who rushed to sign up and want to marry into a son-in-law was as many as three to four thousand. In a true sense, it was only one in a hundred.
Therefore, after thinking for a few days, Li Hong quickly came to the door, agreed to the Zhou family's conditions, and married Zhou Fuxiang, a female cultivator of the fourth level of Qi training from the Zhou family.
More than a month later, Li Hong, who received the Foundation Establishment Pill's retreat impact again, finally successfully advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage.
At this point, the number of Zhou family's foundation-building monks suddenly increased to thirteen.
Shortly after Li Hong successfully established the foundation, Zhou Yang, after discussing with Zhou Guangxiang and some Zhou family monks, initially determined the candidates to follow him to the Great Guangming Immortal Palace area.
This list of candidates includes Xu Song, a ghost cultivator at the Golden Core Stage, and Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying, a monk at the Purple Mansion Stage.
There are four monks in the foundation-building period: Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Tongyue, Zhou Fuyun and Li Hong.
As for the monks in the Qi training period, Zhou Yang was not in a hurry to choose one right away.
Zhang Yunpeng of Huangshamen only lived for a dozen years at most, and Zhou Yang had to wait until he passed away before he could leave with peace of mind.
Moreover, among the several foundation-building monks he selected this time, Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong have just established their foundations. They still need to give them some years to stabilize their cultivation and improve their strength, so that when the time has passed, they can really help.
busy.
Of course, the most important thing is that the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree has just bloomed and needs special care from Xiao Ying. This matter of collecting Yimu essence to replenish the fruit tree's vitality can only be done by her who has reached the Zifu stage in practicing wood-based skills.
After initially deciding on the candidates to go to the Great Guangming Immortal Palace area, Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang went to Xijiao Continent together and established the Zhou family's inheritance treasure house on Lingxi Peak.
This inheritance treasure house is built in the belly of Lingxi Peak. The inner layer is made of walls made of "Forbidden God Stones", and the outer layer is a special alloy wall smelted from a variety of second-order spiritual gold and third-order spiritual gold. The alloy walls
The wall is one foot thick, and its hardness alone is enough to block the attacks of the monks from the middle stage of the Purple Mansion.
The treasury has only one door and two magic weapon keys. To open the treasury door, in addition to using the matching magic weapon key, a monk with the bloodline of the Zhou family's master is also required to conduct bloodline verification.
If there is no key, or if the key holder is not a monk from the main lineage of the Zhou family, even a golden elixir stage monk who comes in person will not be able to open the treasure house door.
Once violent means are used to forcefully break the door, or attack the walls of the treasure house, the treasure house will automatically trigger the fourth-level array arranged in the treasure house after the walls and doors are broken, detonating the explosive array inside and destroying all the treasures inside.
After the inheritance treasure house was established, Zhou Yang transferred all the fourth-level spiritual objects and secret techniques and other important items in the Zhou family treasure house into it, and then he and Zhou Guangxiang divided the two keys equally.
If they want to open this treasure house in the future, they can only open it by themselves or their descendants, holding the key in person.
ps: A new map is about to be opened. I am working on the detailed plot of the new map. It is a bit slow to write. I will update it today. Sorry!