The Rock Wasteland was much more desolate than Zhou Yang imagined.
He got news from the mortal herdsmen and knew that he could reach a land of lofty mountains tens of thousands of miles west, so he flew all the way west with his sword.
However, everywhere he flew over, there were only some shrubs and weeds growing. Many places were simply weathered rock areas, with exposed rocks everywhere. No wonder it was called a rocky wasteland.
He didn't know if there were other immortal cultivators living here besides the spiritual mountain he saw earlier. Anyway, he didn't see any cultivators along the way.
But after he flew more than 30,000 miles westward, he did indeed see the majestic mountains that the herdsmen talked about.
It was a stretch of mountains of unknown length. Zhou Yang lifted up the "Lihuo Golden Eye" from a distance of hundreds of miles and looked at it. He could see that there were many snow-capped peaks among the mountains, and he could also see dazzling lights.
Purpose The light of spiritual energy rises from some mountain peaks, and it is obvious that there are spiritual veins on those mountain peaks.
After observing the mountains from a distance for a while, Zhou Yang didn't have any intention of getting closer, and quickly turned around and returned to the rocky wasteland.
He knew without thinking that there must be high-level monks among the mountains, and there might even be a sect of cultivators taking root there. While he still knew nothing about this far west land, he couldn't
I ventured there to meet other monks of the same level.
Otherwise, when communicating, if he doesn't know anything about anything, it will be easy for him to reveal his flaws and make others suspect his origins.
Returning to the resting place of the Zhou family outside the valley, Zhou Yang briefly explained the situation to Taoist companion Xiao Ying and several foundation-building monks, and then took Xu Song to stay at the herdsman tribes.
On this day, Zhou Yang, who had been squatting in the herdsman tribe for several days, finally waited for the immortal master who came down from the "holy mountain" to test the spiritual roots of the herdsmen's children.
There are seven of these so-called immortal masters in total. Except for the leading monk who is in the early stage of foundation building, the other six are in the later stage of Qi training.
At this time, those children in the herdsmen tribe who had not yet tested their spiritual root qualifications had been led by their parents to an open space by the lake in advance to wait in line.
When the immortal cultivators who came down from the "Holy Mountain" rode a second-order low-grade monster called "Qingfeng Pony" to the open space by the lake, the leading early-stage foundation-building cultivator immediately reached out and patted the storage bag and took it out.
A white crystal mirror came out.
He raised the crystal mirror and hung it above a door frame. The mirror light shone a distance in front of the door frame, and then asked the herdsmen holding children to lead the children through the mirror light in turn.
If the mirror shines on someone with spiritual roots, the crystal mirror will emit colorful spiritual lights.
At this time, a monk in the Qi training stage will immediately take the child aside and perform a "spiritual detection technique" to conduct a specific spiritual root aptitude test.
If there is no spiritual root, the crystal mirror will not react in any way.
With such division of labor and cooperation, the detection speed is very fast.
Among several herdsmen tribes with hundreds of thousands of people, the number of surviving children born within three years is less than 20,000. With the detection speed of the mirror light, one day is enough to complete the entire process.
After all the procedures were completed, it was dark. Those so-called immortal masters did not take the four children with spiritual roots detected today to return to the "Holy Mountain" at night, but stayed in the herdsmen tribe.
It was night, with the moon and stars sparse, and seven so-called immortals staying in the herdsmen tribe were having fun in their tents, each holding the beautiful women presented by several herdsmen tribes.
It was under this situation that Zhou Yang and Xu Song secretly entered the tent to arrest people and learn about the situation.
With Xu Song's help, even the foundation-building monk couldn't figure out what was going on before he was possessed. He answered all questions from Zhou Yang honestly.
Time was limited, so Zhou Yang didn't ask too many questions. He mainly asked about the points he cared about.
After asking, he asked Xu Song to control the foundation-building monk to take out a few jade slips from his storage bag and copy them, and then quietly left the tribe, one person and one ghost.
The next day, the foundation-building monk and several Qi-training monks woke up. Except for the Foundation-building monk who walked out of the tent with a surprised look on his face and looked around, the rest of the Qi-training monks had no memory of what happened last night.
In fact, even the foundation-building monk didn't remember what happened last night at all. He just vaguely felt that someone seemed to have asked him something last night. But when he wanted to recall what happened last night, it was...
I can't recall it at all.
This situation made the foundation-building monk even more frightened. He knew very well that something must have happened last night, and he must have been tricked by someone.
Although he didn't know what he had confessed last night, he no longer dared to stay in the herdsman tribe any longer. Even though he urged several Qi-training monks to bring the new disciples back to the mountain gate, he directly wielded the sword.
Flying back to the mountain gate, he went to find the upper level of the gate to report what happened last night.
It's just that his memory of last night was erased by Xu Song using a secret method. Unless he successfully formed the elixir in the future, or a monk in the Nascent Soul Stage came to help, it would be impossible to recall what happened last night.
No matter which one of these two it is, it is basically not something he can do.
At this time, Zhou Yang and Xu Song had returned to the outside of the "Falling Demon Valley" and sorted out what they had gained last night.
"Falling Demon Valley" is the world in the valley that trapped Zhou Yang and the others for two years. This place was a fairy city established by the Great Light Fairy Palace thousands of years ago. In addition to the teleportation to the boundless sand sea and the world of immortal cultivation, the fairy city
Outside the formation, there is a fifth-level high-grade spiritual mountain and several fourth-level spiritual mountains, as well as tens of thousands of monks and millions of mortals.
However, serious civil strife occurred in the Great Guangming Palace thousands of years ago. Those sects and monks in the far west who had long been dissatisfied with the rule of the Great Guangming Palace immediately formed an organization called the "Counter-Light Alliance" and jointly crusaded against the Great Guangming Palace.
Asgard.
At that time, the "Backlight Alliance" was a mixed bag, with not only immortal cultivators but also demonic cultivators, all gathered together to deal with the Great Light Immortal Palace.
At that time, it was a group of demonic monks who attacked the fairy city.
After these demonic monks invaded the fairy city, in order to break the mountain-protecting formation on the fifth-level high-grade spiritual mountain in the center of the fairy city, they even sacrificed the blood of millions of mortals and many monks from the Great Light Fairy Palace in the fairy city area, and set up a terrifying magic formation to prepare for the attack.
Use the formation-breaking method to break through the mountain-protecting formation.
At that time, the guardian of the Great Bright Immortal Palace here was also a ruthless person. When he learned that no reinforcements would arrive, he immediately set up a trap to detonate the spiritual veins on the Lingshan Mountain and the underground fire veins, and destroyed most of the people who had invaded the Immortal City.
The demon cultivators perished together.
After that battle, millions of mortals and tens of thousands of monks perished in the fairy city, and the entire fairy city was destroyed by the shocking explosion caused by the spiritual veins.
The name "Demon Falling Valley" is derived from the fact that thousands of demon cultivators died here in that battle.
And because the demonic cultivators committed so shocking atrocities in that battle, and because they had already gained the upper hand in the crusade against the Great Light Immortal Palace, the cultivators in the "Counter-Light Alliance" used this as an excuse to attack the internal
The magic cultivator carried out rectification and cleaning.
Through mental arithmetic and unintentional calculation, 80% to 90% of the demonic cultivators in the "Backlight Alliance" were instantly wiped out. Even the demonic cultivators who escaped by chance were also attacked by both the "Backlight Alliance" and the "Great Light Immortal Palace" in the following years.
of joint pursuit.
In the past thousand years, it has been difficult to see traces of demonic cultivators in the entire Far West.
The original location of the fairy city is now the "Devil Valley". Because too many monks and mortals died in that battle, especially many demonic monks and the monsters they refined, they fell there together and gradually transformed into a natural place.
The sinister place, coupled with some formation restrictions still operating inside, has turned this place into a well-known desert place in the rocky wasteland, and few immortal cultivators are willing to enter it.
The demonic cultivators wanted to enter it to practice, but the demonic cultivators who dared to do so had been killed by the Golden Elixir cultivators of the "Backlight Alliance" who came from time to time to sweep up the demons for thousands of years.
Now even the most daring demon cultivators dare not risk entering the "Valley of Fallen Demons" to practice.
Zhou Yang and the others were also lucky. During the period of teleportation, they did not encounter any Golden Core monks who came to sweep the "Demon Falling Valley". Otherwise, they would have been discovered by others if they broke the ban and made a fuss inside.
Got killed.
"Now the Great Light Immortal Palace and the Counter-Light Alliance rule nearly half of the Far West respectively, and the Rock Wasteland happens to be located within the territory of the Counter-Light League. If our Zhou family wants to gain a foothold here and establish a family branch, the safest choice is naturally
It’s to join the Anti-Light Alliance and become one of them.”
"But the problem now is that the numerous spiritual mountains within the Niguang Alliance have been occupied by various sects, families and casual cultivators. If our Zhou family wants to establish a clan here, we must either invest a large amount of spiritual stones in remote places.
To build a spiritual mountain, one can only make merit in the war between the Counter-Light Alliance and the Great Light Immortal Palace, and use the merit to exchange for a spiritual mountain as the foundation!"
Outside the "Demon Falling Valley", Zhou Yang told several family foundation-building monks the news he learned during the interrogation. Not only did he want to let these people know the current situation, but he also wanted to see if these clansmen had any ideas.
"Tai Shang Elder, an alliance like the Niguang Alliance, which is composed of several large sects and many small and medium-sized sects and families, is certainly suitable for the survival of immortal cultivating families like our Zhou family, but on the other hand, a loose alliance like theirs is really
If there is a war, I am afraid that a small force like us who has just joined them will easily become the abandoned sons of those in power in the alliance and be sent by them to carry out the most dangerous missions!"
"So this junior feels that we should not be in a hurry to join a certain party. We can first use the identities of casual cultivators to operate in the far west. It will not be too late to decide to join one of the parties after we fully understand the way of survival of the sect families here!"
"
To Zhou Yang's expectation, the monk who spoke first was not several monks from the Zhou family, but Li Hong, a relative of the monks.
He brought Li Hong back to the Far West this time with the intention of valuing his outstanding fighting skills and training him to become a general of the Zhou family branch in the Far West.
But now it seems that Li Hong is not only good at fighting, but also has no weak ability in overall planning.
Looks like you really found a treasure!
Zhou Yang glanced at Li Hong in surprise and joy, and his importance to this person increased.
A smile flashed on his face, and he looked at the other person with the intention of taking a test and asked: "Xiao Li, you are right. In your opinion, how can we, so many monks, stay safe without exposing our origins?"
How about entering the far west through the rocky wastes and the Cloud Mountains?"