As the grand welcome ceremony came to an end, the news that Zhou Yuanyang, the supreme elder of the Zhou family, had returned after forming a golden elixir, quickly spread to the entire boundless sand sea cultivation world at a speed faster than the wind.
This is a golden elixir stage monk!
Ever since Cao Wenjin of Huangshamen passed away, there has been no golden elixir-level monks in the boundless sand sea cultivation world for more than a hundred years.
It is sad to say that there is not even a single Golden Core Stage cultivator in such a huge world of immortality.
Now Zhou Yang has formed a golden elixir and returned, finally filling this gap.
This is of course a good thing for the entire world of immortality.
For the Zhou family, it is a great good thing.
The Zhou family has a golden elixir-level monk in charge, and has the only golden elixir-level monk in the boundless sand sea of immortality. From now on, the throne of the number one force in the boundless sand sea of immortality will be as stable as Mount Tai, and no one can challenge it, not even Huang Shamen.
No way!
And with an ancestor at the Golden Core stage to guide and care for them, the future cultivation path of the Zhou family's monks will undoubtedly be much smoother than that of monks from other sects and families.
Golden elixir level monks have a lifespan of thousands of years, and Zhou Yang is only three hundred years old now. Even if he stops cultivating at the golden elixir level in the future, he can still take care of the Zhou family for seven hundred years!
Every Zhou family monk understands what this means.
Therefore, even though Zhou Yang, the Jindan Patriarch, only showed his face once he came back and never appeared in front of others again, the discussion among the people of the Zhou clan about this family ancestor has not diminished at all.
With Zhou Yang's current status and cultivation, he certainly wouldn't care about what these lower-ranking people think of him.
In the first few days after he returned to the family, except for Zhou Guangxiang, Lu Xuewei and a few close people who could see him, the rest of the foundation-building monks had no chance to see him even if they were not summoned by him.
Zhou Yang spent the past few days accompanying Taoist companion Xiao Ying, telling her how he was plotted by Guo Jinhong, detained by the Tiansha Corpse King, and how he escaped into the Kunxu Realm.
As for what happened between him and Jiang Fengxian, he did not hide it from Xiao Ying and told it truthfully.
This matter cannot be hidden. After all, his Yuan Yang has been lost. As long as Xiao Ying is promoted to the Golden Core Stage and practices with him in the future, she can easily discover this matter.
If he explains it again at that time, no matter how perfect the explanation is, it will definitely make Xiao Ying sad for a long time, and even leave a knot in her heart for a lifetime.
So he never thought of hiding this from the beginning.
The result was not what he expected. After learning that her lover's first partner for dual cultivation was not herself, Xiao Ying was indeed so sad that she shed tears.
After all, the two of them have been guarding Yuanyang and Yuanyin for so many years because of the agreement Zhou Yang made with her.
Now that Zhou Yang had violated the agreement first, even if it was not his intention, it was a very heartbreaking thing for her.
Therefore, it is not surprising that I cried when I was sad for a while.
However, despite crying and crying, and being sad, Xiao Ying did not resent Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian because of this.
This was the biggest reason why Zhou Yang was willing to confess to her immediately after he came back.
The two have known each other for more than two hundred years and have a deep understanding of each other's personalities.
Zhou Yang knew that Xiao Ying would definitely not blame him for losing her virginity, and Xiao Ying also knew that Zhou Yang definitely did not hide anything from her in this regard.
For a couple who want to live together for hundreds or even thousands of years, trust is more important than anything else.
If even Taoists cannot be trusted, then who else is trustworthy in the world of immortality?
"Then, husband, how do you want to arrange that Phoenix Fairy Sister?"
After she cried for a while, she did not forget the "business". Lihua looked at Zhou Yang with rain and asked about it.
No matter how kind-hearted and kind-hearted she is, it is impossible for her to not care about this aspect.
Zhou Yang heard her words, but he did not answer in a hurry. Instead, he looked at her with a gentle face and asked, "If I take Fengxian over to live with us, Ying'er, will you object?"
"Won't!"
Xiao Ying shook her head gently and answered without any hesitation.
"I knew Yinger you wouldn't object!"
Zhou Yang stretched out his hand to help the Taoist monk wipe the tears on his face, then shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It's a pity that Fengxian is aloof and stubborn. She is used to a free life, and she is not willing to be tied to me like you and be a person."
A good wife and mother!”
After saying that, his face straightened up and he said seriously: "You don't have to worry about this matter. I will not fail you, nor will I fail her. This is my promise to you!"
Zhou Yang is quite powerful to be able to say such things to Taoists openly and honestly.
Fortunately, this is a polygamous fairy world. If it were the world he lived in in his previous life, if he dared to say such words in front of his wife, he might be attacked by a kitchen knife and chopped into pieces.
sewer!
But now, after Xiao Ying heard what he said, she didn't feel surprised or blamed him at all. Instead, she nodded her head obediently and said: "I believe in my husband!"
Then, as expected, the matter was not mentioned again.
After appeasing the Taoist monks and stabilizing the backyard, Zhou Yang was able to think about how to deal with family matters.
At this time, Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family who was in charge of the Chihu Mountain Oasis, was still on his way to the Rhinoceros Island Oasis. Zhou Yang could only learn about the situation of the Zhou family from his niece Zhou Guangxiang.
Zhou Guangxiang and Xiao Ying came back more than ten years before him, and they are very aware of the current situation of the Zhou family.
"If you don't count the family branches in the far west, and only count the main branches of the Zhou family in our Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World, our Zhou family now has one Golden Core Stage cultivator, three Zifu Stage cultivators, and three Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators.
There are seventeen monks, and there are one thousand, three hundred and forty-nine monks in the Qi training stage!"
"At the same time, the number of foundation-building families that have vassalized our Zhou family has reached eight, and there are thirty-four small Qi-training families. They have ten monks in the foundation-building stage and more than 870 monks in the Qi-training stage."
"Financially, the family now owns hundreds of spiritual mountains, tens of thousands of acres of spiritual fields, and dozens of mineral veins. It can provide the family with various incomes every year. Excluding expenses, the remaining various spiritual objects can be converted into spiritual stones.
More than 70,000 spiritual stones."
"At the same time, the total amount of spiritual stones accumulated by the family now totals 670,000 low-grade spiritual stones! There is also an accumulation of resources worth more than 400,000 low-grade spiritual stones, of which the two resources, spiritual valley and ore, are the most abundant!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on the jade bed, listening calmly to Zhou Guangxiang's introduction to the current basic situation of the Zhou family.
When he took Zhou Guangxiang and others to the realm of immortal cultivation in the far west, he determined the future development direction of the Zhou family.
For more than sixty years, the development direction of the Zhou family has generally followed the plan set by him, proceeding in an orderly manner, with only some minor adjustments.
So he doesn't need to worry about the processes, he just needs to know the results.
Generally speaking, he was satisfied with this result.
His eyes flashed, and he glanced at Zhou Guangxiang and said, "Tell me about the difficulties. What are the difficulties that the family is currently facing?"
Of course there are difficulties.
Although the Zhou family is already the well-deserved overlord in the entire boundless sea of sand cultivation world, this does not mean that the Zhou family has no difficulties.
"The difficulties mainly have two aspects. One is the lack of spiritual objects to assist in opening the Purple Mansion. The family now has more than a dozen foundation-building monks, but there are no spiritual objects that can assist in opening the Purple Mansion. As a result, top-level people like Lian Xuewei
The spiritual root monks have been stuck on the ninth floor of the foundation for many years and have not yet been able to successfully open up the Purple Mansion!"
"The second is the shortage of foundation-building pills. When we left the Far West, according to your instructions, Uncle Jiu, we left most of the foundation-building pills in our hands to Tongyue and the others to fulfill your original promise to those who voluntarily went to the far west.
The clan members in the Qi training period of this land promise.”
"On the contrary, there are only three Foundation Establishment Pills left by you in the family, and they will be used up in a short time."
"Although the family's [Condensing Yuan Fruit] tree has passed the flowering period and produced spiritual fruits, it will take at least fifty or sixty years to mature and bear fruit!"
"So in the past fifty or sixty years, in order not to cause fluctuations within the family and among the vassal families, the family must obtain at least ten Foundation Establishment Pills through other methods to stabilize people's hearts!"
After Zhou Guangxiang finished speaking, he silently cupped his hands to Zhou Yang and said no more.
The two difficulties she mentioned are actually not the difficulties of the Zhou family, but the difficulties faced by all the forces in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World.
Even in Huangshamen, which had two Jindan monks at the time, the difficulties in this area also existed. The difference was that it was not as serious as it is now with the Zhou family.
"I don't have the spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Zi Mansion, but I do have a lot of the fourth-level demon pills needed to refine the foundation-building pills. Later, I can ask Ying'er to start refining the pills to replenish the family's foundation-building pills.
vacancies."
Zhou Guangxiang's eyes suddenly lit up.
She noticed that Zhou Yang used the word "a lot".
She was familiar with the character of her Ninth Uncle, and she knew that this Ninth Uncle never boasted about family affairs.
Since the word "a lot" is used, it means that the number of fourth-level demon pills in his hand is really a lot!
That's the truth.
In the Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian killed twenty or thirty fourth-level demonic beasts, and found many demonic elixirs in the storage rings of the golden elixir monks they killed. Now he
There are six fifth-level demon pills in his hand, and as many as thirty-eight fourth-level demon pills!
With so many fourth-level demon pills, if they were all refined into foundation-building pills, with Xiao Ying's current alchemy skills, she would be able to refine at least more than two hundred foundation-building pills!
Of course that's impossible.
Not to mention that the Zhou family has no need for so many Foundation-Building Pills. Even if they do, it would be difficult to find the auxiliary alchemy materials for refining so many Foundation-Building Pills all at once, even if they search the entire boundless sea of sand cultivation world.
Furthermore, the Zhou family now has more than one or two Purple Mansion monks. While taking care of the low-level monks, they also have to consider these Purple Mansion monks.
Fourth-level demon elixirs are the main material for refining many kinds of fourth-level elixirs. It is necessary for the Zhou family to use part of the demon elixirs to refine the fourth-level elixirs that can improve their cultivation and provide them to the cultivators of the Purple Mansion Period.
Study for.
"Okay, I will solve these difficulties. Your task is to manage the younger generations well and not let them ruin the good reputation that our Zhou family has finally accumulated. Do you understand what I mean?"
Zhou Yang waved his hand and took over the difficult task by himself. Then he stared at Zhou Guangxiang and gave her a hint with deep meaning in his eyes.
"Uncle Jiu, don't worry. My niece understands what to do. She will definitely manage this matter with eldest brother and the others later and will never disappoint Uncle Jiu!"
Zhou Guangxiang felt a chill in his heart and quickly responded respectfully.
Of course she understood what Zhou Yang meant.
With Zhou Yang's return after forming the golden elixir, the Zhou family will completely replace Huang Shamen, the original overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World, and become the new generation overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World.
At this time, among the more than a thousand monks of the Zhou family, it is difficult to say that some fools will not take the opportunity to do something that tarnishes the family's reputation.
In the past, if these guys did such things, it would be enough to appease people if the Zhou family could deal with them fairly afterwards.
But now, once something like this happens, it will make people feel that the Zhou family has completely expanded, which will bring great harm to the family's reputation.
If the boundless sea of sand cultivation world is compared to a country, the Zhou family has just ended the troubled times and become the new masters of the country. Those members of the Zhou family are the ministers of the country.
At this time, if the ministers under the new master of the country engage in wanton corruption and cause bad effects, the people of the country will definitely miss the previous generation of masters and feel disgusted with the new master of the country.
Although the country will not change its owner just because the people dislike it, the people's dislike will definitely affect the country's subsequent development.
Therefore, any king who founded a country would seriously rectify all kinds of unhealthy tendencies after the founding of the country to calm the people's minds.
What Zhou Yang wants Zhou Guangxiang to do now is the same.
After sending Zhou Guangxiang away, he called Lu Xuewei, his most valued disciple, into the cave.
"I have suffered so much for you these past years. Now that my master is back, it is up to me to open up the Purple Mansion for you. In ten years at most, I will help you open up the Purple Mansion!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at the female apprentice below who was still as beautiful as a girl, with a look of guilt flashing in his eyes.
Lu Xuewei had taken the "Facial Fixing Pill" refined by Xiao Ying, so her appearance remained the same as that of a girl in her twenties.
However, in fact, she is already one hundred and fifty-three years old this year!
As early as more than forty years ago, her cultivation had reached the ninth level of foundation building. However, without the assistance of "Purple Heart Chalcedony", she failed to open up the Purple Mansion twice.
The two consecutive attempts to open the Zi Mansion failed, which obviously had a big impact on this talented girl, making her doubt whether she was suitable for cultivation many times.
When she heard her most beloved Master mention this matter, she was so excited that she couldn't help crying "Wow".
"Don't cry, don't cry. Xuewei doesn't cry. Master will make the decision for you. Leave everything to Master."
Zhou Yang stepped forward to help the apprentice who was sitting on the ground crying and comforted him softly with a look of pity on his face.
He had told Lu Xuewei many times that he was very optimistic about her future path and said that she had the talent for the golden elixir.
These words had a great motivating effect on the young Lu Xuewei at that time, and were one of the sources of motivation for her hard work in practice.
In fact, Lu Xuewei did not live up to his praise. With her ice spirit root qualifications, it only took her a little over a hundred years to reach the level of cultivating immortals in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World, a place that was completely unsuitable for ice-based martial arts cultivators.
Base level nine.
This speed of practice is not unsatisfactory.
Because of this, Lu Xuewei has always been regarded as a role model by all the younger monks of the Zhou family, and has enjoyed countless honors and praises.
However, as she failed to open up the Zi Mansion twice in succession, and her cultivation had not improved in more than forty years, it was inevitable that there would be some gossip behind her back.
Her cultivation level, which she gained through hard work and hard work, improved rapidly, but she was slandered as relying solely on pills and spiritual substances.
All her efforts were regarded as gains from the guidance and support of her master, Zhou Yang.
But she couldn't refute these slanders!
Could it be that she wants to say that all her achievements are the result of her own hard work, isn't it because she has a good master?
If she really said that, not to mention whether she could live with her own conscience, even Zhou Guangxiang and other senior officials of the Zhou family would probably hate and reject her because of it.
So in these years, she has really been under a lot of pressure.
When Zhou Yang was communicating with Taoist companion Xiao Ying before, he heard some news from Xiao Ying, which led to today's private conversation between master and disciple.
He knew that for Lu Xuewei, any comfort would be inferior to helping her successfully open up the Zi Mansion.
As long as the opening of the Zi Mansion is successful, all the criticisms against it will naturally be defeated.
Moreover, with the help of many spiritual beings he received from the Kunxu Realm, and the fact that he had decided to use the "Qianyang Immortal Light" to help the family's high-level monks practice in the future, the forty years Lu Xuewei had wasted can be used through elixirs in the future.
Make up for it with the help of magical medicine!
He would let everyone know that he did not say it casually when he said that Lu Xuewei had the talent for golden elixir.
Lu Xuewei naturally believed in Zhou Yang, the master. Even though she had suffered a lot of criticism because of Zhou Yang over the years, she had never felt any resentment towards Zhou Yang.
So when she heard Zhou Yang's comfort and promise, she just nodded vigorously, her eyes filled with joy.
After calming his disciples in this way, Zhou Yang began to meet those Zhou family foundation-building monks who were practicing on Rhinoceros Continent or practicing in nearby oasis and had arrived at Lingxi Peak.
More than sixty years have passed, and the number of foundation-building monks in the Zhou family has increased a lot, and many new faces have appeared that Zhou Yang has never seen or is unfamiliar with.
As for the old faces he was familiar with, such as his adopted sister Zhou Yuanyao, she passed away more than ten years ago due to exhaustion of her longevity.
The maximum lifespan of a monk in the foundation-building period is two hundred and forty years old. Zhou Guangqing, the only remaining foundation-building monk in the Zhou family's "Guang" generation, is already two hundred and twenty years old. In a few years, except for high-level monks like Zhou Yang and others,
It’s time for all the middle and low-level monks of the “Guang” generation to pass away.
Now, the new born baby with spiritual roots in the Zhou family has already been given the name "Rong". In another twenty or thirty years, monks of the "Sheng" generation will appear.
Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Blessings and Prosperity, and Eternal Greenness. These are the sixteen characters established by Zhou Yuquan, the first ancestor of the Zhou family, when he founded the Zhou family. Now most of them have been used up. In another year,
In one or two hundred years, the Zhou family will be replaced by a new generation.
Probably the Yuquan ancestor who founded the Zhou family never dreamed that the Zhou family would one day become the overlord of the boundless sand sea of immortality.
Because of Zhou Yang's original division of the main line into branches, six of the seventeen foundation-building monks in the Zhou family have established family branches outside, and rarely return to Lingxi Peak where the main line is located.
Therefore, there are only five Zhou family foundation-building monks gathered on Lingxi Peak, and most of them are young juniors.
Among these five people, apart from Lu Xuewei, Zhou Fuji, and Zhou Futong, there are two other foundation-building monks, namely Zhou Zerui and Zhou Zexin.
At this time, except for Lu Xuewei, who was not present, the four foundation-building monks saw Zhou Yang sitting on the cold jade bed. They quickly knelt down and saluted and said: "My grandson Zhou Fuji... pays homage to our ancestors."
For these monks of the "Fu" and "Ze" generations, Zhou Yang of the "Yuan" generation is definitely the family ancestor in the true sense.
"Everyone, get up. I'm letting you come here today. I just want to get close to you. You don't need to be restrained."
Zhou Yang waved his hand, and an invisible force lifted the four people up, and then comforted them softly with a smile on his face.
He could understand the nervousness of the four of them. He was also nervous when he first met the Golden Core Stage monks.
Sure enough, after hearing his words, the tension in the four people's hearts immediately eased a lot.
After all, this is my ancestor, not an outsider. As a descendant, as long as I don't make any mistakes in etiquette, even if I make a gaffe or make a mistake, there will definitely be no trouble.
The four people understood this and relaxed a lot in the subsequent conversation with Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang talked with the four people for about half an hour, gave several treasures suitable for their use, and clarified some doubts about their practice before ending the summons.
His cultivation and identity are there. It is already a great honor for these young juniors to be summoned by him. However, there is no need to spend some effort to win over these juniors and teach them as before.
After summoning several foundation-building monks in this way, Zhou Yang calmly waited for Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family, to come over.
During this period, he visited the Zhou family's secret treasury on Lingxi Peak and deposited some of the treasures he had obtained from the Kunxu Realm into the secret treasury to benefit the family's descendants.
During his trip to the Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang's net worth has greatly increased. In terms of net worth now, there are probably not many golden elixir stage monks who can compare with him.
Not to mention anything else, but just talking about high-grade spiritual stones, he has as many as eighty-nine pieces in his hands!
The rest of the fifth-level magic weapons, spiritual talismans, talismans and other treasures obtained, as well as various monster materials obtained from killing monsters, the collected spiritual grass, elixirs and spiritual gold mines, Ling Ling Zongzong added these things.
Together, the total value is at least five million low-grade spiritual stones!
If such a huge amount of wealth could be fully realized, he would basically not have to worry about not having enough spiritual stones to spend during the Golden Elixir stage.
It's just that he is not just one person, there is a family behind him.
Those things that he has no use for but that the family can use cannot be sold off.
What's more, if he is really short of spiritual stones, wouldn't there be a spiritual stone mine that has not yet been mined?
Now that he has formed a golden elixir and returned, it is not only a medium-sized spiritual stone mine, but also a large-scale spiritual stone mine. In this boundless sea of sand cultivation world, there is no need to worry about anyone who dares to rob and destroy it!