Chapter five hundred and sixty-seven: Ye Yunshan of the attack!
Xiao Ying's formation of pills cannot be achieved in half a year. With the Chongxuan Mountain protective formation fully activated, Zhou Yang does not need to guard her outside her retreat cave at all times. Therefore, life on the mountain goes on as usual, but all disciples will not be able to do so from now on.
From now on, no one is allowed to go out or leave the mountain gate.
And within two months, the assessment that Zhou Yang had mentioned when Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan, the registered disciples, were initiated, was also held as scheduled.
The assessment was conducted personally by Zhou Yang to ensure that no one would be biased.
"It took three years to advance from the sixth level of Qi training to the seventh level of Qi training. Although you have used the power of elixirs, it is still very good. However, you obviously relied on Ling Zhifu's special skills to get in. Why have you been promoted in these three years?
But you haven’t put any effort into this skill?”
On Chongxuan Mountain, Zhou Yang, whose pseudonym is "Qingyun Sanren", is sitting on a grand master's chair, commenting on a registered disciple who has come forward to accept the assessment.
The named disciple looked happy when he heard his words at first, thinking it was a joke. But when he heard the second half of the sentence, he was sweating profusely and couldn't answer.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but shook his head, waved his hand and said: "Go down."
The three faint words were like a thunderbolt in the ears of the disciple, causing his legs to tremble, and then he retreated with a look of despair on his face.
In fact, even if this disciple didn't say anything, Zhou Yang also knew the reason.
There were only about twenty people on Chongxuan Mountain. Occasionally, he would let out his consciousness and see clearly what everyone was doing.
Most of the registered disciples are actually the same as this person. After suddenly coming to such an environment with rich spiritual energy, they want to spend every minute of their time on cultivation and improving their cultivation.
If it weren't for taking care of the thousands of acres of spiritual fields, medicine gardens, and orchards on the mountain, which were the tasks that the registered disciples had to do, they would not be willing to "waste" a quarter of an hour on it.
Even so, after completing the basic tasks of watering, fertilizing and killing insects, few of these people were willing to stay and continue to take advantage of this opportunity to practice spiritual planting skills. They all wanted to go back to meditate and practice, or go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to browse their works.
It is a heritage that is difficult to come into contact with when practicing as a casual cultivator in the outside world.
It cannot be said that these people are doing something wrong. After all, for those who seek immortality, meditating and practicing to improve their cultivation is always the most important thing. The ultimate goal of all other things is to serve this matter.
But these people should not forget the reason why Zhou Yang recruited them as registered disciples, nor should they forget how they got started.
For monks like Wang Yanzhang who got started by fighting skills and focused solely on cultivation, Zhou Yang would not ask them why they did not focus on improving their spiritual planting skills. The only criterion for assessing them was their advancement in cultivation.
But like this registered disciple just now, a monk was specially recruited to get started by relying on spiritual planting skills. After getting started, he almost gave up the skills that allowed him to get started, and went to practice at the same speed as others. How could Zhou Yang give the Foundation Establishment Pill to
This kind of person who can't even figure out what's light and what's heavy?
Does he lack those few foundation-building monks?
As a Golden Core monk, if he really wants to recruit a group of Foundation-building monks as registered disciples, as long as he is willing to use some resources as bait, a large number of Foundation-building casual cultivators and small family Foundation-building monks will naturally come to him.
disciple.
Therefore, Zhou Yang will naturally not reuse those who cannot see through this point.
In this way, one by one, the registered disciples lined up and took turns to come forward to accept his assessment. Then they were either happy or lost, and then took turns to retreat and wait for the final result.
Wang Yanzhang was also one of those lost souls.
He originally thought that his Qi-training Dzogchen cultivation would allow the nominal master "Qingyun Sanren" to take a second look and understand his situation and give him a chance.
But reality dealt him a cruel blow.
"Qingyun Sanren" indeed did not ask him about his cultivation, but when asked about his spiritual planting skills, he was completely speechless.
Compared to other disciples who are obsessed with spiritual practice, he actually has more time to devote to this, and he indeed works very hard on this.
But he really didn't have any talent in this area. In three years, he barely managed to get to the basic level. In this way, he still killed the results of countless low-level elixirs.
Fortunately, Chongxuan Mountain is rich in spiritual energy. Those worthless low-level elixirs can survive and mature as long as they find a place to sow the seeds and pay attention to watering and fertilizing. Therefore, Zhou Yang can let these registered disciples do whatever they want.
Completely different from Wang Yanzhang, his sister Ye Yunshan was highly praised by the master "Qingyun Sanren" because she successfully upgraded her spiritual planting skills from the second-level mid-level to the second-level high-level in three years.
After raising his cultivation level from the seventh level of Qi training to close to the eighth level of Qi training, he was actually identified as one of the recipients of the Foundation Establishment Pill on the spot.
"After my assessment of you, we have determined the three winners of the Foundation Establishment Pill. They are Ye Yunshan, Li Qingyun, and Ren Fei!"
On Chongxuan Mountain, after all twenty disciples had accepted the assessment, Zhou Yang glanced at the twenty registered disciples with different looks below, and said his decision in a deep voice.
Hearing his words, Ye Yunshan and the other three winners were naturally overjoyed. They knelt down and kowtowed to him with excitement on their faces to express their gratitude.
However, Wang Yanzhang and other unsuccessful monks turned pale, and looked at the three of them with eyes full of envy.
They knew that after these three people obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill, it might not be long before their fellow disciples, who were originally considered equals, might be called "seniors" in the future.
At this moment, Zhou Yang spoke again.
"Of course, those of you who are not selected don't have to worry. As long as you perform well in the future and can gain access to my Dharma Eyes, I will not hesitate to give you elixirs to help you and others build your foundation."
Suddenly, the faces of those who were unsuccessful were filled with surprise.
Zhou Yang's words undoubtedly gave them another hope.
Some people couldn't help but think of Zhou Ronghua, Zhou Rongxiang, and Zhou Shengying, the three brothers and sisters in the Foundation Establishment stage who had started before them. They already knew that these registered disciples who followed their master "Qingyun Sanren" before them had all been rewarded with Foundation Establishment Pills.
However, these five people took the Foundation Establishment Pill to attack the foundation, and only three of them succeeded. The other two senior brothers, Zhou Rongxing and Zhou Shengwei, failed to build the foundation and became the same Qi-training Dzogchen monks as Wang Yanzhang.
Since those five senior brothers and sisters can make Master "Qingyun Sanren" look at him differently and grant him the Foundation Building Pill, why can't they?
Thinking of this, these registered disciples who failed the assessment quickly regained their fighting spirit and confidence, respectfully thanked Zhou Yang and left.
After Zhou Yang distributed the foundation-building pills to the three winners on the spot, he didn't stay any longer and quickly returned to the mountaintop area.
The mountaintop area is a mysterious place for these registered disciples. Not only is it blocked by formations, preventing them from entering, but it is also shrouded in clouds and fog all year round, preventing them from seeing what is going on.
In the entire Chongxuan Mountain, apart from the master and his wife, only Zhou Ronghua and other five senior brothers and sisters who had started before them could enter.
Whenever someone couldn't help but be curious and asked these people about the situation, the senior brothers and sisters who were quite kind to them would immediately scold them with a straight face and not allow them to inquire.
After several people hit the wall one after another, no one dared to inquire about this anymore.
Occasionally, when the high-pitched eagle cries are heard from the top of the mountain, some people can't help but guess whether there is a high-level eagle-like monster in captivity on the mountain.
This is also true. Zhou Yang closed the mountain top area mainly because he did not want those registered disciples to see the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" perched on the top of the mountain.
The wanted order for him from the Beast Control Sect clearly stated that he owned a rare spiritual beast mount, the "Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle".
If those named disciples saw the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" perched on the mountain and recognized its origin, there would be a risk of his true identity being revealed.
That's why he closed the mountain top area and only allowed a few Zhou family descendants who knew the ins and outs to enter this area, and usually helped him feed the spiritual beast when he was in seclusion.
"Golden Winged Thunder Eagle" has been following Zhou Yang for more than two hundred years. Because Zhou Yang has been feeding him various high-level demon beast meat and demon elixirs, it has now fully entered the maturity stage and become a powerful beast.
A fourth-level high-grade monster.
It's a pity that although its strength has grown rapidly, it is far inferior to its master Zhou Yang. So it is clearly a ferocious demon bird that has awakened the blood of barbarian birds, but it has always been only used as the mount of master Zhou Yang.
, a complete waste of talent.
Zhou Yang is actually aware of this problem. However, the enemies he has encountered over the years are either real demons at the Tribulation Stage or real people at the Nascent Soul Stage. Occasionally he encounters an enemy at the Golden Core Stage, but due to various reasons, he is not suitable for summoning.
This spiritual pet, which is still only a fourth-level monster, goes into battle.
Therefore, he could only use a few fourth-level puppet beasts that he had made to play with this spiritual pet, lest if he did not fight for too long, the raptor would really forget how to fight.
The eagle cries that those registered disciples occasionally heard were made when the "Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle" was fighting with the puppets, and when the battle was in full swing.
But now that Xiao Ying is in seclusion to form pills, everything needs to be quiet. Zhou Yang can no longer play this kind of game with this spiritual pet. He even needs to put it into the spirit beast ring and let it sleep, lest it forget him one day.
After being warned, she suddenly got excited and made some noise at the top of the mountain, disturbing Xiao Ying who was in seclusion.
Next, while waiting for the result of Xiao Ying's elixir formation, Zhou Yang continued to practice the "Hidden Dragon Aversion Technique" obtained from Wu Biao, the "Tattooed Man Slaughter".
This magical power can be said to be the magical skill of those who kill and cheat. If you learn this magical power, as long as you are not caught on the spot, you almost don't have to worry about being found afterwards.
However, according to the general rules of the world of cultivating immortals, the more powerful magical powers are, the more difficult they are to practice.
The practice of "Hidden Dragon's Disaster Avoidance Technique" requires the use of a spiritual grass called "Yunxi Grass" as an auxiliary material.
"Cloud Breathing Grass" itself is only a third-level spiritual grass, but because this spiritual grass is not widely used, it is rarely cultivated artificially, which means that it is difficult to find in large quantities.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang found dozens of finished "Cloud Breath Grass" plants in Wu Biao's storage ring, which should be the stock left behind by Wu Biao's daily practice of "Hidden Dragon Avoidance Technique".
In addition, when he was in Xianyang City, he had already asked Xuanyang Pavilion to help him purchase this item. After he accumulated a certain amount, he summoned him to collect it.
Now more than ten years have passed, and although he has not received the summons from Xuanyang Pavilion, he thinks that with the power of Xuanyang Immortal Sect, he will not be unable to do even this.
But even with "Cloud Breathing Grass" as an auxiliary material, Zhou Yang's progress in practicing "Hidden Dragon Avoidance Technique" cannot be considered fast. According to his own estimation, without more than ten years of practice, it would be difficult to master this magical power.
Getting started is for practical use.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang is a golden elixir stage monk, and he still has a lot of longevity. Compared with the benefits of practicing the "Hidden Dragon Avoidance Technique", he can still accept the time cost.
Let’s talk about the brother and sister Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan.
After the assessment, with Zhou Yang leaving first, Wang Yanzhang and other registered disciples who were unsuccessful, except for a few people, most of them gathered around Ye Yunshan and other three people who had obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill to congratulate them.
The idea of these people is also very simple. There is a high chance that these three people will be able to successfully build the foundation in the future. By building a closer relationship with them in advance, it will be more convenient for them to ask for help or anything in the future.
At this time, Ye Yunshan actually just wanted to take her eldest brother Wang Yanzhang back to his residence quickly, and then give him the foundation-building pill she had just obtained to take to hit the foundation-building stage.
But having grown up in the world of immortality, she knows very well that one more friend means more paths.
Not to mention that she has not yet succeeded in building the foundation. Even if she succeeds in building the foundation, she cannot ignore the enthusiasm of these fellow disciples, otherwise she may one day pay a heavy price for her arrogance today.
After dealing with these people like this for half a day, Ye Yunshan found an excuse and took her eldest brother Wang Yanzhang to leave first and returned to the small courtyard where the two of them lived.
There are a large number of small courtyards and palaces built by Yuqing Dao Sect disciples on Chongxuan Mountain. Even registered disciples like Ye Yunshan and others can have a separate courtyard for each person without having to crowd with others.
But Ye Yunshan insisted on living in the same courtyard as Wang Yanzhang, and Wang Yanzhang had nothing to do with this sister.
"Sister, why are you so anxious to bring Brother Wei back? Today is your big day, we should celebrate more."
In the courtyard, Wang Yanzhang looked at Ye Yunshan with a puzzled face and directly asked the question in his mind.
The relationship between the two of them meant that he didn't have to worry about guessing anything, he could just ask if there was anything he wanted.
"Why? It's not for you, big brother."
Ye Yunshan glared at this somewhat careless elder brother, rolled her beautiful eyes, and said angrily: "And what are you talking about? What a happy day, the day you marry me will be my real happy day!
"
When Wang Yanzhang heard what she said, he retorted sullenly: "How many times have I told you that I will not marry you? Isn't it good for us to be brothers and sisters? Why do you always want me to marry you!"
"Then why don't you want to marry me?"
Ye Yunshan glared at him with wide, beautiful eyes, full of resentment, like a resentful woman.
Wang Yanzhang seemed to have not noticed this at all, and said with a helpless face: "Don't you know this? I have sworn a long time ago that if I don't succeed in building the foundation, I will not break the body of Yuanyang!
"
Ye Yunshan seemed to have known that he would answer this way, and couldn't help but stare at him closely and asked: "So, it's not that you don't want to marry me, it's just that before you established the foundation, you didn't want to lose your Yuanyang body and be helpless because of marrying me.
Foundation building, right?"
"You can think so!"
Wang Yanzhang didn't realize anything yet, he just curled his lips slightly and replied in a perfunctory manner.
Today's question and answer has actually been held many times in the past. Every time it comes to this point, Ye Yunshan will look disappointed and never mention it again.
He thought it would be the same this time.
But this time it's different.
After hearing what he said, Ye Yunshan immediately reached into her storage bag, took out the jade bottle containing the Foundation Establishment Pill and threw it at him.
Out of instinct, Wang Yanzhang immediately reached out to catch the jade bottle to prevent it from falling to the ground.
Then he heard Ye Yunshan's righteous words.
"Wang Yanzhang, listen carefully. This foundation-building pill is my dowry. You can take it for me right away to reach the foundation-building stage. After you succeed in building the foundation, we will immediately get married and become an official Taoist couple!"
Wang Yanzhang was immediately dumbfounded.
He looked at Ye Yunshan in shock. The serious look on this sister's face made him realize that she was not joking.
"Sister, you..."
He stammered and looked at Ye Yunshan, suddenly panicking.
Ye Yunshan has been following him for more than ten years, and this is the first time he has seen her look so serious.
No matter how slow his reaction was, he knew that the meaning of what Ye Yunshan said this time was definitely different from the half-joking words before.
So he didn't refuse immediately like before without hesitation.
Because he was also afraid in his heart that if he really refused without hesitation, he would completely break this sister's heart, leading to terrible consequences that he absolutely did not want to see.
He had to admit that after being together for more than ten years, he had long been accustomed to having this sister by his side.
At least with this sister by his side, every time he went home from a mission, he could have a delicious and tasty medicinal meal, and then have a good sleep with peace of mind.
Sometimes when he returns from injury, it is this sister who bandages him and treats him, and helps him buy healing elixirs.
After having this sister, he truly felt the warmth of home.
Therefore, after he failed to build the foundation, he had already made plans to become a monster hunter, but he always did not make up his mind to leave because he was reluctant to leave his sister.
At this time, he suddenly encountered Ye Yunshan's forced concubine. He was extremely panicked and didn't know what to do.
When Ye Yunshan saw this, she seemed to be inspired. She stepped forward to face him face to face. She looked at him with a look of determination and said loudly: "Wang Yanzhang, you can save my life."
Yes, it was you who saved me from being insulted by those villains. From the day you saved me, I have made up my mind to marry you. So if you don’t agree today, then I will give my life back to you.
You, we will never owe each other again!"
"Why is this happening? Why is this happening!"
Wang Yanzhang couldn't help but take a few steps back and looked at Ye Yunshan's pretty face with a blank look on his face, his eyes full of panic.
He had no idea that Ye Yunshan, who had always been obedient to him, would force him to go to the palace on a day like today, forcing him to make such a major decision in his life.
"Since ancient times, passion has been full of hatred, and this hatred will last forever! Wang Yanzhang, if you don't agree to her today, you'd better kill her, otherwise she will hate you because of her love and spend her whole life against you!"
A low voice suddenly sounded in Wang Yanzhang's mind when he was in a state of panic and unable to make a decision.
After hearing this voice, his mind was shaken, and he recovered from his unconscious state in an instant.
He recognized the origin of this voice. It was the voice of the master of Chongxuan Mountain, "Qingyun Sanren".
Wang Yanzhang never expected that when his sister Ye Yunshan forced her into the palace, he would receive a message from his master "Qingyun Sanren", and his words made him shudder.
"No, I will never kill her, even if she really wants to kill me, I will not kill her!"
He responded with a loud shout in his heart, having forgotten that the other party was his master, a golden elixir-level monk who could control his own life and death.
Fortunately, "Qingyun Sanren" didn't seem to care about this, and just continued to send messages to him: "If that's the case, why don't you dare to agree to her? In your heart, marrying her is more terrifying and difficult than death.
Something to accept?”
"I……"
Wang Yanzhang seemed unable to answer this question and was stuck again.
And his frightened and hesitant look soon aroused Ye Yunshan's suspicion. She stopped pressing him for a moment, walked up to him with concern, grabbed his arm and asked: "Brother, what's wrong with you? Are you there?"
Who are you talking to?"
When Wang Yanzhang heard her words, a chill ran down his spine, and he couldn't help but think of the cold and ruthless words of "Qingyun Sanren" just now.
Then he seemed to have made a decision. He took a deep breath and looked at Ye Yunshan and said, "Okay, eldest brother agrees to you. After eldest brother succeeds in building the foundation, he will marry you!"
When Ye Yunshan heard what he said, her delicate body was shocked, and her pretty face suddenly turned red with blood. She grabbed his arm with excitement, shook it violently, and said loudly: "Really? Brother, what are you talking about?"
Really? Did I hear you right? Say it again, I want to hear you say it again!"
It had been a long time since Wang Yanzhang had seen her show such an excited and happy look. The little resistance in his heart had dissipated in an instant. He also squeezed out a smile on his face and said again along with her words: "Sister, you didn't listen.
Wrong, I said I promised to marry you."
After saying this, he also said in his heart: "Master, I am willing to marry Yunshan. If Master wants to punish her, just punish the disciple. I am willing to take the punishment on her behalf!"
It's a pity that his words did not receive any response.
This made him somewhat uneasy, wondering if the master heard what he said.
But he didn't dare to speak out about it, let alone tell Ye Yunshan the truth. He could only keep it in his heart and bear it alone.
Half a year later, Wang Yanzhang took the foundation-building pill given by Ye Yunshan and successfully built the foundation and was promoted to a foundation-building monk.
The other named disciples were obviously surprised by Wang Yanzhang's sudden foundation building. When these people learned that Ye Yunshan had given her foundation building pill as a dowry to Wang Yanzhang to take to build the foundation, their eyes turned red with envy.
Using Foundation Establishment Pills as a dowry, most of the immortal cultivating families, not to mention young monks like them in the Qi-training period, cannot afford such a luxury.
Only large families with Zifu or even Golden Core monks would do such extravagant things when recruiting a son-in-law for an important female member of the family, or when an important female member of the family marries an important family member of the same status.
After successfully building the foundation, Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan became Taoist couples as promised, and invited all the fellow disciples on Chongxuan Mountain to bear witness.
In fact, he also invited the master Zhou Yang through his senior brother Zhou Ronghua, but what made him feel uneasy and confused was that the master who originally wanted to marry Ye Yunshan was unwilling to come out to witness this event.
Something happened.
He was so confused that he didn't dare to talk about it to anyone else, not even to his new wife Ye Yunshan, so he could only continue to keep the matter in his heart.
Two years later, Li Qingyun, the registered disciple who had also received a Foundation Establishment Pill, reached the ninth level of Qi training. He also took the Foundation Establishment Pill and successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Stage. He was promoted to the fifth Foundation Establishment Stage monk on Chongxuan Mountain.
Another year passed, and Ren Fei, the last named disciple who received the Foundation Establishment Pill, also successfully established the Foundation through the Foundation Establishment Pill.
It is relatively rare for three foundation-building pills to create three foundation-building monks. Zhou Yang was also quite happy about this, and even specially gave several third-level magic weapons to the three new foundation-building monks.
Monks can refine and use it, and they are also allowed to choose an advanced skill to practice.
Of course, the advanced skills will only give them chapters in the foundation building period. In the future, unless they successfully open up the Purple Mansion and prove their loyalty with practical actions, they will be able to obtain subsequent skills.
Time passed slowly like this, and soon five years had passed since Xiao Ying went into seclusion to form elixirs.
One day five years later, a huge spiritual energy vortex suddenly appeared on Chongxuan Mountain. Then the entire Chongxuan Mountain and the surrounding spiritual energy of one or two hundred miles rushed towards the spiritual energy vortex, and soon it was in Chongxuan Mountain.
A group of colorful spiritual clouds formed over the mountain.
This kind of movement on Chongxuan Mountain was quickly discovered by some monks working nearby, and then the news that someone on Chongxuan Mountain successfully formed an elixir quickly spread throughout Anguo.