Jingming Peak is a small peak hundreds of meters high on Baituo Ridge. The peak is less than fifty miles away from the main peak of Baituo Ridge. There was originally a second-order middle-grade natural spiritual vein on the mountain. Now it has been cultivated by the Chen family to a third-order low-grade, which can accommodate
Two or three monks in the foundation building stage and hundreds of monks in the Qi training stage practice.
However, the number of monks like Zhou Yang and others who were thrown off the boat by the ancestors of the Chen family far exceeded the endurance limit of this spiritual peak. A dozen monks in the foundation building stage and dozens of monks in the Qi training stage were crowded in this small
On the mountain peak, the spiritual energy on the mountain's spiritual veins is simply not enough.
After all, Jing Mingfeng is the spiritual peak of the Chen family. No one like Zhou Yang and other small family monks dare to take the charge of destroying the spiritual peak and anger the Chen family.
Therefore, Zhou Minghan and other ten or so monks in the foundation-building period discussed it and decided that everyone should stop practicing for the time being and use the spiritual energy from the spiritual veins on the mountain to supply the cultivators of their respective families in the Qi-training period. If he really wanted to practice, he would refine the spirit stones.
Come to practice.
Zhou Yang's cultivation at the ninth level of Qi training has been unable to be improved, and he has little need for spiritual energy. Moreover, he has no intention of practicing now.
After the Zhou family arrived and settled down on Jingming Peak, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan called him into a quiet room to talk.
"Let's not talk about what happened in Jinxia Mountain for now, let's just talk about the time I went out hunting monsters with Patriarch Chen."
In the quiet room, as soon as Zhou Yang came in and sat down, the old patriarch realized something and placed a soundproof barrier in the room to prevent outsiders from eavesdropping.
Only the powerful spiritual consciousness of monks in the foundation-building stage can set up a soundproof barrier with their spiritual consciousness. As long as a soundproof barrier is set up, it will be difficult for outsiders to eavesdrop without alerting the decorator, even if their spiritual consciousness is ten times greater than that of the one who installed it.
to the content of the conversation.
"As you can see, this trip to hunt monsters went quite smoothly. Not only did I successfully kill a fourth-order monster, but I also killed eight third-order monsters and hundreds of second-order monsters. All the monks who participated in the battle
The harvest is not small.”
"But you have also seen that your seventh grandpa, ninth grandpa and your sixth uncle did not come back. They died in the battle with the monsters. Even Xuantai lost an arm!"
"Fortunately, the efforts of these people are worth it. With their efforts, and the great contribution I made in dealing with the fourth-level monsters, Old Ancestor Chen had already promised on the way back that as long as he refines the building
After the foundation pill, if our Zhou family can come up with 20,000 low-grade spiritual stones, he will ensure that we get a foundation pill!"
Zhou Yang listened silently, even when he heard the old patriarch said that he was guaranteed to get the Foundation Establishment Pill, he didn't show any joy.
What is he so happy about?
For this foundation-building pill, not only Zhou Jun, Zhou Dan, and Zhou Xuanjing, the three elders of the Zhou family, lost their lives, but even his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu and others ended up in a state of disappearance with unknown life and death.
Originally, the Zhou family was relatively weak in terms of high-end combat power above the ninth level of Qi training. Now they have lost four elders, which means that the entire Zhou family's high-end combat power has been reduced by nearly half. How can Zhou Yang still laugh?
Have to come out?
The old patriarch Zhou Minghan seemed not to notice Zhou Yang's ugly face and continued: "You don't have to worry about the spiritual stones. The family's finances have gradually improved over the years. You made the family earn a lot of spiritual stones a while ago.
Coupled with the five or six thousand spirit stones your parents have saved personally, as well as the savings in my hands, our family can still afford twenty thousand spirit stones!"
"And this time, although the Chen family got the biggest share of the harvest from the monster hunt, our families also got a sip of soup. We each got a lot of monster materials and spiritual objects, which was enough to cover part of the cost of purchasing the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Family heritage.”
After saying this, Zhou Minghan stared at Zhou Yang deeply, and suddenly asked: "Do you know the purpose of me telling you this? Do you know why I tell you this?"
"My grandson knows!"
Zhou Yang nodded with a heavy face and murmured to himself in a low tone: "My grandson has always known that, old patriarch, you all hope that your grandson can build the foundation. I hope that after your grandson builds the foundation, you can lead the family to become stronger and make the family stronger."
The blood of our ancestors will not be shed in vain, so that the younger generations of monks in the family can have a better cultivation environment and more cultivation resources!"
"That's right! Why do our family monks live better than casual cultivators? It's because we have a family to rely on, and we have family seniors who are willing to sacrifice themselves to help our descendants. We have the same blood in our bodies, and we all hope that our descendants will be better.
Don’t be like yourself, stuck in the qi training period and foundation building period all your life, we are a group of people with goals, ideals and ambitions!”
"I used to be my husband, and now I am you. We are all chosen by the family elders to achieve their goals, realize their ideals, and realize their ambitions. In order for us to achieve these goals, ideals, and ambitions, they are willing to do anything without regrets.
Use your own path and life to pave the way for us, and use your own bones to pave the way to help us go further and reach higher on the road of spiritual practice!"
"I am telling you so much now, not that I want to use righteousness and family affection to oppress you and burden you with heavy responsibilities. I just want to tell you that if you fail to build the foundation, not only will your path be lost in the future.
I hope that in the future, you will be like those family ancestors who sacrificed their lives to build your foundation, and become the bones that pave the way for those who come after you. Whether you choose to be the leader of the family, or become the corpse that paves the way, it all depends on you!"
To be the leader of the family, or to be the corpse paving the way!
Zhou Yang's mind was shaken. Familiar faces flashed through his mind, including Old Man Zhou Quan, Old Man Zhou Dan, Old Man Zhou Jun, his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu, and his sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing. Finally, he stopped at a very unfamiliar face.
.
That unfamiliar face turned out to be old man Zhou Qian, the former eldest elder of the Zhou family.
Old man Zhou Qian once became the lucky one of the entire Zhou family like him, and got the precious opportunity to take the foundation building pill, but he failed to build the foundation.
As for old man Zhou Qian's life after his failure in foundation building, he also saw and understood it.
Would he like that kind of life? Would he be willing to live that kind of life in the future?
"No, never, I will never fail!"
He looked at the old patriarch Zhou Minghan with bright eyes, his eyes full of firmness and determination.
Seeing this, the old patriarch finally showed a look of relief on his face and cheered: "Okay, just keep this mental state, don't worry about anything next, just prepare to build the foundation here, your adoptive mother and those who are missing
Clan member, I will ask the Chen family to help find it, so you can just wait patiently for the Foundation Establishment Pill to be obtained!"
"Don't worry, great-grandfather. My grandson understands everything. In addition, my grandson has something to give to you and some things I want to tell you that were inconvenient to say before."
As Zhou Yang spoke, he handed over the jade slips he had obtained from the sand bandits recording the secrets of the Blood Demon to the old patriarch, and at the same time shared some of his speculations about the bandits' attack on the oasis.
It can be seen that when the old patriarch heard that the jade slips contained the secrets of magic, his expression suddenly changed and he almost wanted to complain to him.
However, after hearing him explain the details of the magic secrets in the jade slip, his greatly changed expression gradually eased, and then his consciousness moved and he directly released his consciousness to study it.
About half an hour later, the old patriarch withdrew the consciousness he had put into the jade slip, and his expression had completely returned to its original state.
"You have done a good job in this matter. Although these three secret arts are magic methods, they can also be used by me as immortal monks and can be passed down as family heritage. However, after all, they are magic secret skills. It is difficult to follow the truth. It is easy to
Don’t use it in front of others.”
After the old patriarch finished speaking, he turned his hand and put the jade slip into his storage bag.
Then he looked solemnly and looked at Zhou Yang solemnly and said: "But Xiaojiu, remember, the demonic monks are selfish, cruel and inhumane, and are the mortal enemies of us immortal cultivators. If you get the magic method in the future, you will
Utensils and elixirs, no matter how good they are, must not be used in practice. Once obtained, it is best to destroy them immediately. If you cannot destroy them yourself, your family will hand them over to a high-level monk who can destroy them."
"My grandson understands." Zhou Yang nodded seriously.
After studying the secrets of the blood demon, he realized the dangers of demonic monks. Even if the old patriarch didn't tell him, he wouldn't practice magic and use magic weapons.
"Okay, now let's talk about your speculations. In my opinion..."
Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang, the grandfather and grandson, discussed secretly in a quiet room for a long time before it ended, and then Zhou Yang settled down peacefully in the house arranged by the Chen family.
Every day he was either reading the travel notes and personal biographies written by the senior monks, or giving guidance and sharing his practice experience to Zhou Yuanchun and several other tribesmen of his generation. His days were quite busy.
Zhou Minghan, Zhou Xuanbin, and Zhou Xuantai, the three senior Zhou family officials, are relatively busy. Zhou Minghan has to visit the foundation-building monks of various friendly families, exchange lists of missing persons from both families, and pay attention to each other to help each other find them.
Zhou Xuanbin and Zhou Xuantai are the actual persons in charge of fulfilling this agreement. Together with the Qi-training monks from other families who have returned from hunting demons, they must travel throughout the Baisha River Oasis to find the missing monks.
At the same time, the ancestor of the Chen family, after returning to the family to understand the situation clearly from the left-behind Foundation-Building monks, spread the word and offered a reward for a Foundation-Building Pill and a heavy bounty on the origins and hiding places of the sand bandits, while sending people there.
The Huangshamen headquarters requested Huangshamen to use its own intelligence channels to help investigate the origins of the Foundation-Building monks and even the Zifu monks among the sand bandits.
As for him, he adjusted his condition and entered the underground fire chamber on the white camel hump, preparing to open the furnace to refine the foundation-building pill.
The news that the ancestor of the Chen family started refining the foundation-building pill quickly spread throughout Jingming Peak under the deliberate publicity of the Chen family. After Zhou Yang learned the news, he would be lying if he said he was not excited.
However, when he heard that the three foundation-building monks of the Chen family stationed at Jinxia Mountain had all died, his excitement instantly cooled down.
Losing three Foundation Establishment monks at one time was a huge setback for a Zifu family like the Chen family, which had more than a dozen Foundation Establishment monks.
So after the ancestor of the Chen family refines the foundation building pill, will he really take out half of the quantity and distribute it to other families like he did before?