The deputy city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City is named Geng Zhong. He is a second-level Jindan practitioner and has been practicing for more than 600 years.
Geng Zhong has been following Cangyuan Sanren since he was in the Zifu period. Because he had contributed a lot in establishing Cangyuan Immortal City, Cangyuan Sanren specially accepted him as a registered disciple and helped him a lot when he was forming an elixir.
Over the years, Geng Zhong has been loyally helping Cangyuan Sanren to take care of various internal affairs in Cangyuan Immortal City. For this reason, he even fell behind a lot in his cultivation.
In Geng Zhong's heart, he has long regarded Cangyuan Immortal City as his own, and he can justifiably take over this Immortal City as soon as Cangyuan Sanren dies.
By then, with the entire Immortal City as its foundation, and his painstaking efforts over the years, the Geng family he has built by himself will have the chance to become the kind of golden elixir family that has been passed down for thousands of years.
After Cangyuan Sanren returned from being injured on the battlefield, Geng Zhong was the first to visit and deliver medicine.
In addition to showing his loyalty, his main purpose in doing this was of course to observe the real injuries of Cangyuan Sanren so as to judge how long he would have to wait before taking over Cangyuan Immortal City.
The result of the visit at that time made him very happy, because according to his judgment, even if Cangyuan Sanren's injuries could be recovered, it would definitely affect his remaining lifespan and cause him to die earlier.
And when he secretly spread the news, the number of loyal monks in Cangyuan Immortal City who secretly relied on him increased a lot. Some people who were previously indifferent to his various hints of wooing were also shaken by this.
No longer reject his attempts to win over.
Therefore, before Zhou Yang arrived, for Geng Zhong, the situation in Cangyuan Immortal City was improving.
But now, with the arrival of Zhou Yang and the news of Li Mubai and Zhou Guangxiang's engagement spreading throughout the city, this good situation has deteriorated to the extreme in an instant.
In one day, just one day, Geng Zhong received more bad news than he had received in the past 100 years!
The monks who were so quick to take refuge with him back then were just as quick to betray him now.
Even some monks who were originally loyal to him were now panicked and didn't know what to do.
It is true that Cangyuan Immortal City is a city of casual cultivators, but there are not only casual cultivators here. After hundreds of years of development, the entire Immortal City has already included several Zifu families and dozens of foundation-building families.
These immortal-cultivating families are the foundation for Cangyuan San and Geng Zhong to rule the fairy city. It is also because these immortal-cultivating families help build and undertake various functions that the fairy city can maintain normal operation.
Therefore, even if a meritorious figure like Geng Zhong participated in the establishment of Cangyuan Immortal City, if he wants to inherit this Immortal City in the future, he still needs to win over these immortal cultivating families and gain their support.
Before Zhou Yang arrived, Geng Zhong had already won the support of more than half of these people, which could be said to be a success.
But now, less than 20% of the monks who can still be summoned to come to him for discussion are left!
"Damn Shuzi!"
"I didn't expect that the person who ruined my life in the end would be the arrogant Li Mubai!"
"If I had known that Zhou Guangxiang had such an origin, how could I have let him, Li Mubai, win the beauty? In terms of cultivation, appearance, and ability, my Ming'er is not ten times better than him!"
Geng Zhong was so hateful that he wanted to cut Li Mubai into pieces for ruining his good deeds.
What he had planned for hundreds of years was ruined by a junior whom he had always looked down upon. If Cangyuan Sanren hadn't been alive, he would have thought of rushing to the Li family and killing Li Mubai.
"This is not over yet!"
"How can I, Geng Zhong, give up my hundreds of years of waiting just because of you juniors?"
"Isn't he the registered disciple of the Nascent Soul monk? It's not like I, Geng Zhong, have no backers!"
With a cold light flashing in his eyes, Geng Zhong suppressed the anger in his heart, his expression returned to calm and he began to comfort the hesitant supporters.
Zhou Yang didn't expect that he would already have such a great influence before he formed the elixir.
Of course he would not be unaware of the turmoil in Cangyuan Immortal City. Even on the day when the news of the engagement spread, many families in the Immortal City sent people to visit him with gifts.
Several Zifu families, with the exception of one family that completely turned to Geng Zhong, also sent him invitations, inviting him to come and preach to the younger generations of the family.
This change made him quite dumbfounded.
He first came to Cangyuan Immortal City to avoid these social events. Unexpectedly, after going around in a circle, he went back again.
But fortunately, he is no different now than in the past. These families in Cangyuan Immortal City are not the big families and powerful forces that he needs to avoid after meeting them.
Therefore, for the gifts that came to his door, he accepted them all according to the order, and asked Qin Yue'er to open the gift list and keep records.
He now understood that since Qin Yue'er could not kill or drive her away, he might as well use her as a maid.
It is better to put her under his nose in this way and monitor her every move than to let her do some conspiracy behind his back.
As for those invitations, he declined them all because he wanted to retreat and comprehend the golden elixir avenue.
In fact, this is not a complete excuse, because he really plans to retreat for a period of time to refine the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Pill" in his hand to purify his own magic power.
As a fifth-level elixir that even monks at the Nascent Soul stage need to owe favors to get, the role of the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Dan" cannot be exaggerated.
After Zhou Yang's cultivation reached the ninth level of the Purple Mansion, he could no longer improve his cultivation even a little bit. However, after he took the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Pill", his mana was condensed and purified, purifying it by nearly 20%!
According to what Han Xiao, the head of the Qingyuan Sword Sect, said at the time, generally, after taking the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Pill", the ninth-level monks of the Purple Mansion can purify their mana by 20% to 30%.
The reason why Zhou Yang was only purified by less than 20% was not because there was something wrong with the elixir he took, but because his mana itself was more pure than ordinary monks of the same level after being tempered by the "Qianyang Immortal Light".
The benefits obtained from taking the magic pill now are naturally smaller.
Despite this, he was still extremely satisfied with the effect of the "Three Transformations of Pure Yuan Dan".
Nowadays, when it comes to the purity of mana essence, there is probably no monk in the Zifu period who can compare with him, not even the monks who have also taken the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Pill".
The purer the mana, the easier it will be to "condensate the elixir", the first step of elixir formation.
This is also the reason why Zhao Hao originally said that the "Three Transformations Pure Yuan Pill" is a treasure that can increase the success rate of forming the pill.
Originally, after his mana was purified, Zhou Yang could take advantage of the situation and try to form pills again. Unfortunately, it was less than three years since he last tried to form pills, and the impact of the last failure to form pills in his dantian had not been completely eliminated, so
I can only suppress this idea for the time being and focus on other things.
He first took out the fifth-level low-grade magic weapon "Binghuo Thunder Bottle" that he had obtained together with the "Three-turn Pure Yuan Dan".
After this magic weapon is refined, it can release a kind of fire divine thunder "Bing Fire God Thunder" to attack. It is much more powerful than ordinary fourth-order high-grade thunder spells, but it is not as powerful as the real fifth-order thunder spell.
Compared with magic, it is far inferior.
In fact, this magic weapon is quite useless to the Golden Core Stage monks, because its attack power does not pose much of a threat to the Golden Core Stage monks in their fights.
And because it takes a lot of mana to activate this magic weapon to release the "Bing Fire God Thunder", if the monks in the Zifu period refine this magic weapon, it won't take many times before the "Bing Fire God Thunder" will be drained out.
Because of its magical power, its effect on monks in the Zifu period is not particularly obvious.
It is precisely because of this that monks in both realms have little use for it, so it was rewarded to Zhou Yang as a bonus.
As a fourth-level high-level weapon refiner, Zhou Yang certainly understands the problems with the "Binghuo Thunder Bottle" magic weapon, but because he is quite interested in various thunder and magical powers, he doesn't mind spending some time.
Refining this magic weapon.
Speaking of which, although the battle on the death battle battlefield was dangerous, Zhou Yang also gained a lot of treasures.
Especially in the last battle, he suddenly jumped up and killed his opponent, causing the opponent's two fifth-level spiritual talismans and a talisman, as well as a treasure that sealed the magical power of the Golden Core monk, to fall into his hands.
It became a powerful trump card in his hand.
With these treasures in hand, plus the fifth-level middle-grade defensive weapon "Black Turtle Shield" that he has refined, even if he is attacked by the early stage monks of the golden elixir, he can calmly use "Blood" after a few moves.
"Escape".
In other words, even if he does not rely on Xu Song's external force, if he meets an early-stage Jindan monk, he can easily save his life as long as the opponent is not a fierce person who has refined a fifth-level high-grade magic weapon or developed some powerful magical power.
Withdrew.
Time flies, and seven years have passed in the blink of an eye.
In seven years, Zhou Yang successively refined three fifth-level magic weapons: "Binghuo Thunder Bottle", "Thunderbolt Golden Light Divine Shuttle", and Spirit Beast Ring, and also practiced the talisman-making technique to the fourth-level mid-level.
Seven years later, the injuries suffered by Cangyuan Sanren on the death battle battlefield have finally eased a lot, and they have come out to deal with matters.
The wedding of Zhou Guangxiang and Li Mubai, which had been delayed for seven years, was officially planned due to the release of Cangyuan Sanren.
Before the wedding, Zhou Yang first went to Cangyuan Sanren's cave to visit him.
On the death battle battlefield, Cangyuan Sanren also witnessed him kill three opponents in a row, and he also witnessed Cangyuan Sanren survive the self-destruction of his opponent's golden elixir.
It was their first official meeting, and when they recalled each other's events, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile, feeling a sense of sympathy for each other.
"Hahaha, when I saw Zhou Xiaoyou's heroic appearance of winning three games in a row, I told my comrades around me that one day I would invite Zhou Xiaoyou to have a drink and get to know each other. I didn't expect that this day would come so soon, and
You and I actually became in-laws!"
In the cave, Cangyuan Sanren laughed heartily after meeting Zhou Yang for the first time. He laughed out loud and took the initiative to grab Zhou Yang's arm and sit at the tea table next to him. He waved cordially and took out the storage ring.
He took out a jar of treasured spiritual wine, opened the sealing mud, and poured a bowl of spiritual wine for Zhou Yang.
Then he picked up the spirit wine and handed it to Zhou Yang and laughed: "Come on, little friend Zhou, let's drink this cup to the full for this wonderful fate between you and me!"
Zhou Yang did not expect that Cangyuan Sanren, who is over 800 years old, would still have such passionate and bold energy. He is really strong and admirable with his old age.
Therefore, after he was stunned for a moment, he was aroused, and he didn't care about the etiquette. He directly took the wine bowl and said loudly: "Okay, junior, I'll toast Senior Li with a bowl first, for senior
Cheers to your safe exit!"
After saying that, he directly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
Seeing this, Cangyuan Sanren smiled even more happily, then he poured himself a bowl of wine and drank it in one gulp.
In fact, this kind of thing where two strange monks drink the spiritual wine or tea given by each other as soon as they meet is a very risky thing in the world of immortality, because no one knows whether the other person will be in the spiritual wine or tea.
What kind of poison?
It should be noted that there are many strange poisons in the world of immortality that even golden elixir stage monks cannot detect and cannot be immune to. Once poisoned, their strength will be greatly reduced even if they are not dead, and then they will become mermaids.
However, Zhou Yang dared to drink Cangyuan Sanren's spiritual wine because he knew that if the other party really wanted to deal with him, there would be no need to poison him.
Moreover, he still has the identity of a registered disciple of Yuan Ying Stage monk Guo Jinhong. Unless Cangyuan Sanren is crazy, it is impossible for them to attack him without any injustice or enmity.
But no matter what, Zhou Yang's unhesitating attitude still made Cangyuan Sanren feel very comfortable, because it fully represented Zhou Yang's trust in him, so he smiled even more happily.
In this way, the two of them chatted about various topics while drinking wine, and they got along extremely harmoniously.
In the end, the two of them chatted and talked about the two juniors, Zhou Guangxiang and Li Mubai.
I saw Cangyuan Sanpeng down a large bowl of spiritual wine in one gulp, and he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly said with emotion on his face:
"Speaking of which, when that boy Mu Bai pursued your niece Zhou Xiaoyou, I didn't agree with it very much, because I wanted him to marry a daughter of the Geng family, so that I would be reborn in the future. Geng Zhong saw my past relationship.
In terms of friendship with the younger generation, I shouldn’t be too harsh on the Li family!”
"But I also appreciate Zhou Xiaoyou's words very much. When it comes to juniors, of course, their own preferences should come first!"
"The original intention of us immortal cultivators is to pursue immortality and freedom. If we violate this original intention, then what is the meaning of living? It is just a flesh and blood puppet without self-awareness!"
After Zhou Yang heard what he said, he guessed that he was probably talking about how he could not help but replace others on the battlefield in a deadly battle in order to repay his kindness.
This matter involved another Nascent Soul monk. Even though he was always bold, he did not dare to express any opinions rashly.
However, he remembered something else. He immediately raised his hand, took out a jade box and handed it over and said, "I heard that your injuries are not serious, Senior Li. I have a fifth-level low-grade elixir here."
Tianxuan Ming Dan], it may be able to help the injury of the senior. This thing should be regarded as the dowry prepared by the junior for Guang Xiang. If you still want to go, don't refuse!"
This "Return to Heaven and Renew Life Pill" was obtained when he killed Zhong Chuming, a monk of the Golden Pill Stage of the Beast Control Sect. Even when he was severely injured by the fifth-level monster "Heart-Eating Demonic Wolf", he did not give up.
Use this elixir for healing.
At this time, he took out this treasure as Zhou Guangxiang's dowry and gave it to Cangyuan Sanren for healing, which shows his love for Zhou Guangxiang.
Ordinary parents know that the richer the dowry they give, the more attention their daughter will receive in her son-in-law's family.
As Zhou Guangxiang's elder, Zhou Yang was worried about how his niece could live a good life in her husband's family.
When Cangyuan Sanren heard his words, he was slightly startled for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing:
"Zhou Xiaoyou is really generous!"
"Your dowry is so generous. If I don't make up for my family's Mubai with a decent betrothal gift, wouldn't it make people laugh at my Li family for being stingy?"
After laughing, he waved his hand and took out a treasure.
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