The more his cultivation level increased, the wider the gap between his cultivation level and that of his peers, and the more he felt the importance of qualifications for low-level practitioners.
Only one or two spiritual root monks can be born among ten thousand mortals. The chance that the descendants of monks will produce spiritual roots is higher, but the chance is only a few tenths.
Most of these people with spiritual roots have lower-grade spiritual roots. On average, only one out of ten people may have a mid-grade spiritual root monk. As for high-grade spiritual roots, there are even fewer. Among a hundred monks
It's hard to find just one person.
There are more than 100,000 members of the Zhou family on the Yuquan Lake oasis, but the total number of monks in the Zhou family who are currently practicing Qi is less than 100, including seven or eight monks with foreign surnames who are married to monks from the Zhou family.
Among the dozens of existing monks in the Zhou family, only the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is a high-grade spiritual root monk, and the rest are all middle-grade and low-grade spiritual root monks.
And how much influence does the quality of spiritual roots have on practitioners?
At the same level of cultivation during the Qi training period, practicing the same exercises, and meditating in the same place, the effect of a low-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for ten days is equivalent to the effect of a middle-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for one day.
Effect.
And the effect of a middle-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for more than ten days may not be as effective as a high-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for one day.
Not only do high-grade spiritual root practitioners practice faster, but when faced with the first level of practice, the "Foundation Building" level, the probability of breakthrough is much greater than that of mid- and low-grade spiritual root practitioners, even if they do not take "Foundation Building Pill".
The rare elixir that can greatly increase the success rate of foundation building also has a 30% probability of being able to break through.
It is said that above the high-grade spiritual roots, there are spiritual monks and Taoist monks.
Any spiritual monk, as long as he does not die prematurely, will definitely become an ancestor of the Golden Core Stage, and there will not be any bottlenecks in the middle.
As for the Taoist monks, they are even more legendary. Since there have been practitioners in this world, there have been less than a handful of Taoist monks, and all of them are super powerful men who have ruled an era.
In addition to the spiritual body and Taoist body, there is also a special physique in the spiritual world called "treasure body".
"Treasure body" is an extremely special physique. Any monk with spiritual roots may possess a treasure body. If a monk with a treasure body can practice the skills that fit the treasure body, his cultivation speed will be faster than those with the same quality spiritual root.
The monks will improve much faster, and as their cultivation level increases in the future, they will also gain unique treasure-body magical powers.
For example, Zhou Yang may possess a treasure body with some masculine attributes, so he clearly has a middle-grade spiritual root qualification. After practicing the masculine and domineering technique "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique", his cultivation speed is as fast as that of a high-grade spiritual person.
The root monk is quite good.
If nothing unexpected happens, Zhou Yang will definitely be able to improve his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi training before he is forty years old.
An ordinary mid-level spiritual root practitioner like Zhou Xuanjin would have to wait until he is seventy or eighty years old before he can reach the ninth level of Qi training.
And if you are an ordinary low-grade spiritual root practitioner, even if you live to the upper limit of the life span of a Qi-training monk, you may not be able to reach the ninth level of Qi-training!
A cruel reality is that the older the monks are in the Qi training period, the more difficult it is to build the foundation. The probability of successful foundation building for monks at the ninth level of Qi training over sixty years old is less than half of that of monks under sixty years old.
For monks in the Qi training stage who are over eighty years old, the chance of foundation building will be further reduced. For monks who are over one hundred years old and in the Qi training stage, Zhou Yang has never heard of such a strange person appearing.
Given Zhou Yang's age and cultivation speed, his success rate in foundation building is indeed much higher than that of ordinary people. This is why the old patriarch Zhou Minghan values him particularly.
It is a pity that the treasure body does not increase the success rate of monks in foundation building. Otherwise, after Zhou Yang reaches the ninth level of Qi training, he can try to build foundation.
Both of them understood these situations, so seeing Zhou Yang's silence, Zhou Xuanjin quickly adjusted her mentality and handed over the work to him.
"Standing at Qingping Mountain, we have three main responsibilities. First, after receiving the alarm from the steward assigned by the family to the mine, we went down to the mine to help the miners get rid of some first- and second-order monsters that occasionally broke in; secondly, we have to protect them.
In the miner camp outside, the finished materials smelted in the camp are promptly delivered to the warehouse on the mountain and stored, waiting for the family to send people to collect them; the last thing is to take good care of the more than ten acres of spiritual land on the mountain, which is related to whether your own stomach is healthy.
Eat enough."
"In addition, if you encounter powerful monsters and human monks that cannot be dealt with, do not leave the formation range easily. The best way is to stick to the formation, and then use your blood essence to activate this third-level communication talisman and wait.
Family rescue.”
"Finally, this is the control formation flag and control method of the Qingpingshan formation. I can only leave after you have refined the formation flag and become familiar with the use of the formation."
As Zhou Xuanjin spoke, he handed Zhou Yang all the things that the stationed monks needed, and taught him step by step how to use these things.
Another four or five days passed in this way, until Zhou Yang fully mastered the second-level formation of the "Sea of Clouds Light Splitting Array", before Zhou Xuanjin returned to his family with the output of the Qingping Mountain Mine in the past year.
After Zhou Xuanjin left, Zhou Yang became the highest-ranking Zhou family member in Qingping Mountain.
He first summoned several managers of the Zhou family who were responsible for managing the mining and smelting of ore veins, and had a preliminary understanding of the operation process, and gave them a few transmission notes with his own breath, so that they could notify him in time if anything happened.
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These people can serve as stewards of the Zhou family, and they are all martial arts practitioners in the Xiantian realm. However, these people have no spiritual roots and cannot develop magic power to become immortal cultivators in the Qi training period. They can only stay in the Xiantian realm throughout their lives.
Of course, for mortals, the strength possessed by Xiantian realm practitioners is enough for them to look up to.
As long as a mortal becomes a practitioner of the Xiantian realm and extracts the Xiantian Qi from the body, he can walk like a galloping horse, carry a cauldron, easily defeat one against a hundred, and have great resistance to various diseases.
It's a pity that mortals are mortals. Without spiritual roots, even if they have developed innate true energy, they cannot cast even the lowest level first-level spells.
The real immortal cultivators with spiritual roots do not recognize these mortals as immortal cultivators at all, and do not bother to have any communication with them.
Zhou Yang does not discriminate against these mortal cultivators, but these people have been discriminated against by real immortal cultivators for a long time, and the concept of superiority and inferiority has long been deeply ingrained in their hearts. Even if he took the initiative to chat with them, no one dared to truly treat him as a member of the same clan with equal status.
chat, so in the end he had no choice but to let these people leave out of boredom.
In the following time, Zhou Yang's life will be simple.
Every morning, he would meditate facing the rising sun for three hours, and then practice the five spells he learned from the Sutra Pavilion for three hours. In the evening, he would allocate half an hour to the spiritual field on the mountain.
Weeding and pest control those Ling Gu that are growing happily.
The spiritual veins in Qingping Mountain are only second-level low-grade, and they are artificial spiritual veins. After supplying the daily spiritual energy of a late-stage Qi training monk, only 20 to 30% of the spiritual energy remains.
Therefore, only about fifteen acres of spiritual fields have been opened here, and the spiritual grains grown are specially used for the food of the monks stationed there, and do not need to be turned over to the clan.
The spiritual grain grown in these spiritual fields is called "Golden Pearl Rice". Its shape is like the cotton tree in Zhou Yang's previous life. It matures once a year, and each plant bears dozens of fruits. When the fruits are ripe, you can peel them off and you can harvest one.
The golden fruit is so golden that it is named "Golden Pearl Rice" because the fruit resembles a pearl.
This kind of [Golden Pearl Rice] grows in spiritual fields and needs to absorb spiritual energy to survive and mature. Therefore, in addition to being rich in nutrients and having an excellent taste, the rice grains also contain trace amounts of spiritual energy, which is very convenient for monks to absorb.
During the Qi training period, monks eat [Golden Pearl Rice] for a long time. Just a small bowl can meet the nutritional needs of the body for two or three days, and it can also slightly improve their cultivation.
Even for monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage or even the Purple Mansion Stage, most of their daily meals are made from this [Golden Pearl Rice].
Zhou Yang started practicing at the age of four, and it only took him three years to complete the ninth level of Xiantian Realm. In addition to his good aptitude, his parents often opened a small stove for him and let him eat this [Golden Pearl Rice] every day.
It has a lot to do with the meat of some low-level monster beasts.
Because he is not a spiritual planter, Zhou Yang does not know some of the magic spells that a spiritual planter must learn to increase the yield of the spiritual field. He can only water, weed, and catch the [Golden Pearl Rice] planted in the spiritual field like an ordinary farmer.
Just catch the insects and make sure they don't die.
As long as he doesn't plant to death, the output of these more than ten acres of spiritual land is completely enough for his daily needs, and he can even have a lot of surplus.
Zhou Yang knew that these balances were the garrison benefits given by the family to the garrison monks. After all, it was the obligation of every adult clan member to go down the mountain to complete family tasks, but they would not receive additional rewards from the family for this.
After allocating half an hour every day to take care of the spiritual field on the mountain, Zhou Yang spent the next half of the night learning the art of refining weapons.
He did not start refining the weapon right away. Instead, he carefully studied the refining classics and the refining notes given by the old clan leader, while practicing with the ore dug from the refined iron ore to learn the most basic materials for refining the weapon.
Three years passed in such a simple and fulfilling life.
Three years later, after Zhou Yang thoroughly understood the knowledge recorded in the weapon-refining classics and fully mastered the techniques of tempering the materials, he took out the materials given to him by the old clan leader and began to formally refine the weapons.
In order to save materials, he chose to refine the simplest first-level sword weapon [Qingfeng Sword].
The main material of the first-level magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword] is fine iron. The handle of the sword can be made of hundred-year-old ironwood and other spiritual wood. Innate realm monks hold the magic weapon and inject the innate true energy. According to the injector's cultivation level, it can inspire three-inch to
The sword light, ranging from one foot to one foot, can damage the enemy.
It is quite simple to refine this magic weapon. First, temper the fine iron with spiritual fire to cast it into a sword embryo. Then, while maintaining the temperature of the flame to keep the sword embryo in a high-temperature heating state, use the mana and consciousness of the cultivator as a guide.
, a [sharp] restriction is arranged in the sword embryo.
When the restriction is completed, it is the time for the long sword to be quenched. If the quenched sword body emits the aura unique to the magic weapon, it means that the weapon has been refined. If not, you will only get a sharper ordinary weapon.
A handful.
All of this is simple to say, but not easy to do. Even though Zhou Yang has imagined the situation during refining countless times in advance and practiced the layout process of [Feng Rui] prohibition countless times in advance, it is his first time to truly refining it.
When the weapon was used, it undoubtedly ended in failure.
As a "bang" sound came from the cauldron, his first time refining the weapon was over, and he didn't even reach the quenching stage.