"Thanks to you, Senior Xu, this time. If you hadn't been here, Zhou would have been able to keep himself safe, but he wouldn't have been able to keep these family members safe!"
Outside a deserted valley, Zhou Yang controlled the Kongxinglou boat to fly out of the valley, landed on the ground outside the valley, and released everyone in the boat. His face was full of joy and he was sincere to Xu Song who was following him.
Thanked him.
At this time, two years have passed since they left the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality. During these two years, they were trapped in the world in the valley without seeing any strangers.
The world inside the valley is obviously a forbidden place of death that no one can enter. Not only are there many ghosts and corpses living in it, but there are also many powerful formations that remain.
If Xu Song hadn't subdued many ghosts and monster corpses to use as servants and cannon fodder to explore the way, and if Xu Song hadn't been a fifth-level mid-level formation master who was proficient in formations, Zhou Yang would have been alive for twenty years, let alone two years.
, he may not be able to walk out of there, let alone bring a group of Qi-training monks with him.
Compared with Zhou Yang and others who had a bad start, Xu Song's gains can be described as huge.
In just two years, his cultivation reached the second level of the Golden Core. Not only did he reach the second level of the Golden Core, but with the help of Zhou Yang, he conquered a Golden Core ghost general who also had the Golden Core cultivation level, as well as a large number of ghost ghosts.
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He even used some Yin-type spiritual objects found in the world inside the valley to re-train his magic umbrella and magic flag, making both of these treasures reach the fifth-level mid-grade magic weapon level.
To be able to refine a fifth-level mid-grade magic weapon so easily with the second level of Golden Core cultivation is probably only Xu Song, who was proficient in the art of weapon refining during his lifetime, could do it.
So now that he heard Zhou Yang's words of gratitude, he sighed with a look of pity on his face: "Hey! In fact, if you weren't in such a hurry to leave, Brother Zhou, we could have worked together to explore the corpse cave again. If we could
After subduing the silver-armored demonic corpse inside, I will be able to fight against a late-stage Jindan cultivator with my own methods!"
In fact, what he wanted to say more was that if Zhou Yang could agree to let him practice here, within a hundred years, he would be sure to reach the middle stage of Golden Elixir.
Of course, he also knew that that was impossible. Zhou Yang could not allow such an important combat force to practice in seclusion here.
Zhou Yang, who knew what he was thinking, immediately raised his hands and said, "Senior Xu means, I understand. It's just the purpose of coming to this far west. Senior, you also know. Wait for me here."
After you have established your footing, even if you don't mention this matter, senior, I still want you to come over here and help me guard the teleportation array!"
"I'm waiting for that day to come."
Xu Song nodded and did not mention the matter again.
Next, Zhou Yang first set up a magic circle in a secluded place and let all Zhou family monks rest there. He used the "Golden Cicada Hidden Breath Technique" to lower his cultivation level to the ninth level of foundation building. Then, according to what a monk at this level should have
Yu Jian quickly went out to inquire about the news.
When you arrive in a new and unfamiliar place, you can never be too careful.
Zhou Yang must find out where he is, find out the distribution of forces around him, and hear the truth about the civil strife in the Great Light Palace thousands of years ago before deciding whether to let the Zhou family monks be exposed to the public.
He kept flying outward with his sword, and the land below was neither covered with yellow sand like the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, nor was it covered with green mountains and green waters like the Liuyun Continent Cultivation World.
The landscape of the earth was like the desert plateau he had seen in his previous life. There were sparse shrubs, shrubs, weeds, flowing water, and some ordinary beasts. However, there were no traces of human habitation or traces of immortal cultivators. However, they could be seen occasionally.
The figures of some low-level monsters.
After flying for two or three thousand miles like this, Zhou Yang finally saw the towering mountain peaks, green forests, and the curling smoke that represented the existence of human beings.
He flew close enough to see the situation clearly.
Not far below a mountain peak nearly a thousand feet high, I saw a crescent-shaped plateau lake fifty or sixty miles long and more than twenty miles wide.
A long winding river flows down from the lake, and it is unknown where it flows. And in the grassy areas along the long river and lake, there are hundreds of thousands of herdsmen grazing cattle and sheep. What he saw from a distance before
Smoke is produced by herdsmen grilling meat and cooking.
Of course, the focus of Zhou Yang's attention was not on the mortal herdsmen, but on the mountain peaks that were shrouded in clouds and mist.
The golden red divine light in his eyes flickered, and he could easily tell that the mountain peak was a third-level high-grade spiritual mountain. The clouds and mist on the mountain were formed by the power of the mountain-protecting formation.
If there are spiritual mountains and formations, there will naturally be immortal cultivators on that mountain.
After finding the immortal cultivator, Zhou Yang would naturally be able to find out where he was.
Despite this, Zhou Yang did not act rashly.
When he first went to Liuyun Continent to cultivate immortality, because he was not familiar with the situation, the monk Dong Jianping he met guessed that he was not from the immortal world.
Fortunately, at that time, Dong Jianping did not publicize the matter because of his several life-saving graces, nor did he plot against his treasure.
Although his cultivation is no longer what it used to be, he is not worried about being found out that he is not from the world of immortality. However, he is afraid that the Zhou family who established his clan here will be targeted in the future, so he guesses that he has the ability to teleport across the world of immortality.
A large remote teleportation array.
Once the existence of the large-scale teleportation array is exposed, not only will the Zhou family lose control of the teleportation array, but it will also endanger the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World and the entire Zhou family. This is something he will never allow to happen.
matter.
So after thinking about it, he immediately dropped his flying sword and walked to the place where the mortal herdsmen lived. Then he sneaked into the tent at night and robbed a few herdsmen using the enchantment spell to collect information.
Of course, these mortal herdsmen would not know anything about the world of immortality, but through their mouths, Zhou Yang at least knew where he was, the name of the spiritual mountain and the origins of the monks on the mountain.
According to the herdsmen, this place is called the Rock Wasteland. It is located in the easternmost part of the Far West. If you go westward for 20,000 to 30,000 miles, you can get out of the Rock Wasteland and enter a land of high mountains.
As for the name of that land with high mountains and lofty mountains, the herdsmen don't know. They heard this news from their ancestors.
As for the Lingshan Mountain that Zhou Yang saw, the herdsmen only called it "Holy Mountain", and the immortal cultivators who lived on the mountain were uniformly called "immortal masters" in their mouths.
According to the herdsmen, the immortal master on the holy mountain will send people to the tribe every three years to measure the spiritual roots of newborns born within three years. If a child with spiritual roots is found, the immortal master will
If they are brought into the holy mountain to practice, their family members will become nobles in the tribe and enjoy various preferential treatment.
At the same time, if the tribe is attacked by a powerful monster, the leader of the tribe can just go to the holy mountain with the token given by the immortal master and invite the immortal master on the mountain to help eliminate the monster.
"Judging from the words of these herdsmen, the monks on that spiritual mountain should not be a family of cultivators, but rather a sect of cultivators."
"It's just that which sect of cultivating immortals is so dilapidated that even the mountain gate is just a third-level high-grade spiritual mountain?"
"Or is that Lingshan Mountain just a branch established by a certain cultivating sect here?"
Zhou Yang looked at the few herdsmen on the ground who had been knocked unconscious by him. Thinking of the news he got from the herdsmen, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
A sect is not a family. To establish a sect, you must have at least a golden elixir level of cultivation.
In the world of cultivating immortals, there are also many declining sects that do not have Golden Core-level monks in charge, but no matter how declining a sect is, there are also Zifu-level monks. With Zifu-level monks, it is not difficult to maintain a fourth-level spiritual mountain.
Those declining sects that don’t even have Zifu-level monks, unless there is a more powerful sect willing to help them preserve the sect’s inheritance, how can they still be called a sect if they can’t even preserve the inheritance of the techniques passed down by their ancestors?
So Zhou Yang didn't believe that Lingshan Mountain was the gate of a certain sect, but he was more willing to believe that it was the branch of a certain sect.
Excluding the Huangsha Sect, which is the only sect in the Immortal Cultivation World in the Boundless Sand Sea, the sects in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent will occupy Lingshan Mountain outside the mountain gate and establish branches to recruit disciples and protect certain important resource points.
Although it is easier for the Immortal Cultivating Sect to recruit people than the Immortal Cultivating Family, it does not recruit everyone. The more powerful the sect, the more stringent the recruitment conditions are.
Many sects of cultivating immortals will not even recruit casual cultivators from the outside world. They will only recruit disciples from vassal cultivating families and mortals within the sphere of influence of the sect and train them from an early age. Only in this way will the disciples trained from a young age truly regard the sect as their own.
The family will not easily rebel against the family.
Therefore, establishing a branch and expanding the scope of disciple recruitment has become something that many sects will do.
But Zhou Yang still has to test whether it is as he guessed.
It's easy to test. According to the information he got from the herdsmen, in more than half a month, the immortal master from the holy mountain will go down to the tribe to test the spiritual roots of the newborn.
As long as Zhou Yang catches a monk at that time, he can get the information he wants.
"More than half a month? That's enough time to wait!"
With a flash of light in his eyes, Zhou Yang looked at the unconscious herders on the ground and quietly sent them back to their respective tents.
After returning the herdsmen, Zhou Yang did not immediately return to the valley to contact the tribesmen, nor did he wait for the monks who were testing the spiritual roots at the herdsmen's side. Instead, he flew westward with his sword.
He wanted to verify the information he got from the herdsmen and see if there were really lofty mountains tens of thousands of miles to the west.
It would be even better if he could meet a lone low-level cultivator on the road. He could catch him and interrogate the information.