Chapter five hundred and seventieth: Xu Zhengyang's request
Killing one person thousands of miles away hides his merit and fame.
Zhou Yang found that he still somewhat enjoyed this feeling.
That monk from the Qi family is indeed a treacherous evildoer!
When checking his storage ring, Zhou Yang found dozens of human skin masks inside, each one made of real living human skin.
The methods used by cultivators make these masks look lifelike, exactly like when people are alive, but the empty eyes let people know that these are just masks, not real living people.
The owners of the masks are indeed female nuns of various ages and appearances.
It can be seen from this that this monk of the Qi family not only practiced the evil art of tonic harvesting, but also had a perverted hobby of stabbing and killing women who were harvesting tonic and then cutting their faces and skins.
It's a pity that the tonic magic he practiced was never found in this person's storage ring, otherwise there would be one more piece of evidence.
Even so, Zhou Yang believed that after he handed over the dozens of human skin masks to the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, they would definitely be able to use this matter to create some trouble for the Qi family.
Of course, the monk Qi's storage ring contains not only evidence of guilt such as the human skin mask, but also many treasures.
Originally, he was going to the "Ten Thousand Flowers Valley" to celebrate the birthday of a golden elixir girl, and the treasure he prepared for her birthday was quite extraordinary. It was a fifth-level elixir called "Chalcedony Golden Zhi".
This substance can be used to refine elixirs that improve cultivation. It can only be used as medicine after a thousand years. It has a wide range of uses and is generally only grown in the medicine gardens of those big forces.
In addition, in this person's storage ring, Zhou Yang also got a bottle of fifth-level spiritual elixir that can improve the cultivation of middle-stage golden elixir monks, more than 200,000 spiritual stones, a dozen high-grade spiritual stones, and various spiritual elixirs.
Some talismans.
These things are his trophies and are completely at his disposal.
With these things, Zhou Yang did not go back to Chongxuan Mountain, but went directly to Xianyang City.
After arriving in Xianyang City, Zhou Yang first went to Xuanyang Pavilion and asked about the acquisition of "Yunxicao".
Nearly twenty years have passed since he entrusted Xuanyang Pavilion to acquire "Yunxicao", but there has been no news, which makes him very curious.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, please forgive me. This [Cloud Breathing Grass] is so unpopular that almost no one cultivates it. We have been harvesting it for nearly 20 years and only received these fifteen plants. Take a look, if you are not in a hurry to use this thing."
, you might as well try to grow this yourself.”
In Xuanyang Pavilion, facing Zhou Yang's visit, Sun Zhengbin, the current head manager of Xuanyang Pavilion, warmly received him.
But when he asked about the acquisition status of "Yunxicao", this person smiled bitterly, shook his head, and explained the inside story to him.
"Fellow Daoist Sun was joking. If Zhou was not in a hurry to use this thing, he would not have entrusted Xuanyang Pavilion to purchase it."
Zhou Yang shook his head, but did not consider what Sun Zhengbin said next at all.
Although "Cloud Breathing Grass" is not a high-level elixir, as a third-level elixir, its maturity cycle is as long as two to three hundred years. How could Zhou Yang wait for that long.
So after he pondered for a while, he nodded and said: "Let's see, Taoist friends from the East and West will still help Zhou with the purchase, and Zhou can increase the price. Isn't your current purchase price two thousand for a low-grade spiritual stone? Zhou
I am willing to increase the price to 4,000 for a low-grade spiritual stone, the more the better!"
Four thousand low-grade spiritual stones are almost the maximum price for a third-level elixir. If a third-level elixir such as "Cloud Breath Grass" is sold under normal circumstances, even fifteen hundred spiritual stones may not be able to be sold.
When Sun Zhengbin heard what he said, surprise flashed in his eyes, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart. He didn't understand why he valued the elixir "Yunxicao" so much.
But he immediately said: "Young Daoist Zhou is so heroic, and Sun admires it. Please rest assured, fellow Taoist, Sun will immediately let people spread the news. I believe that with such a heavy reward, the acquisition situation will be greatly changed."
"Hopefully!"
Zhou Yang nodded slightly, then left Xuanyang Pavilion and headed for Xuanyang Mountains.
He had already notified Master Qingyang via Feijian in advance. After arriving outside the mountain gate of Xuanyang Immortal Sect, his old acquaintance Xu Zhengyang was waiting for him there.
As soon as the two met, after greeting each other for a few words, Xu Zhengyang said seriously: "Fellow Taoist Zhou, Master Uncle Qingyang is still waiting for you. Xu will not waste any more time here with you, and wait for you to finish meeting."
After Master Qingyang, I also invited Xu to Zhengyang Peak to talk about it. Xu wants to ask fellow Taoists for help!"
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he was slightly startled at first, and then immediately nodded and said: "Junior understands, Senior Xu can rest assured that after junior has met Senior Qingyang, he will definitely come to visit."
Next, without saying anything else, Zhou Yang, led by Xu Zhengyang, rushed all the way to Xuanyang Peak and entered the cave of Master Qingyang.
Zhou Yang entered the "Qingyang Cave" alone. After seeing the real Qingyang, he first bowed and then told the story of how he killed the Qi family monk and the people he got from his storage ring.
The leather mask and some female cultivators that could be used as evidence were handed over to the other party.
"Very good, you did a good job in this matter. With these evidences here, how can the old man Qi Fengyun still be so arrogant!"
After Master Qingyang checked what Zhou Yang took out, he praised him repeatedly with a smile on his face, obviously very satisfied with the completion of his mission.
Then he nodded slightly, looked at Zhou Yang and said: "According to the original agreement, every time you complete a task, the sect will give you a corresponding reward. The reward for this task is 200,000 sect merit points. You are
Do you want to exchange it for a physical reward now, or do you want me to accumulate it and record it for you?"
Zhou Yang had been waiting for his words for a long time. After hearing the words, he immediately said: "Senior, it is clear that the junior Taoist monk has already formed the elixir. Now he is worried about refining the magical weapon of his life. I wonder if there is a fifth-level tree demon in your sect.
[Heart of the Dryad] reserve? This junior is willing to use this mission reward plus some items of equal value to exchange for this item as a reward!"
"The fifth-level [Tree Demon's Heart] can be encountered but cannot be sought. There are many golden elixir-level monks in our sect. Even if we occasionally acquire this thing from the outside world, it will be quickly replaced by others. But if you want this thing...
No."
Master Qingyang shook his head slightly, but he was helpless.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he didn't have much disappointment on his face. He had somewhat expected this result, and he didn't have high hopes for it.
So he immediately took advantage of the situation and said: "The junior would like to ask the senior to help release a bounty message for finding the fifth-level tree demon. Is it possible?"
Forces such as "Xuanqing Taoist Alliance" and Xuanyang Immortal Sect have various bounty lists within them. It is a routine operation for high-level monks within the force to look for a certain treasure by posting bounty messages, and the results are usually very good.
After all, there are too many monks in these two forces. They are scattered all over the Liuyun Continent in the immortal world. They know countless kinds of information. If you provide just one piece of information, you can get a huge bounty, even if it is a golden elixir stage monk.
I'm also happy to earn some extra income from this.
If a Nascent Soul stage monk like Master Qingyang publishes bounty information, there simply won't be many monks willing to provide him with information.
Zhou Yang knew this and made this request.
However, after Master Qingyang heard what he said, he looked at him with a half-smile and said: "The old Taoist came forward to announce the bounty news. At least 50,000 sect meritorious deeds are worth one time. Are you sure you need the old Taoist to help with this?"
Xuanyang Immortal Sect's sect meritorious service value of 50,000, if converted into spiritual stones, would be 80,000, if not 100,000.
And Zhou Yang took the risk of offending a top power to kill a sixth-level golden elixir monk, but he only gained 200,000 merit points.
This really made him feel a little painful.
But it was related to the refining of the Taoist couple's natal magic weapon. No matter how painful he was, he could not delay the matter. At the moment, he could only endure the pain and nodded and said: "Junior, I am sure."
"In this case, the old Taoist will help you publish the news on the [Wind Media List] of the sect and Tao Alliance. When there is news, someone will notify you."
After Master Qingyang finished speaking, he waved his hand and said, "If you have nothing else to do, you can go back."
Hearing this, Zhou Yang quickly bowed his hands and said, "Senior, please forgive me. I have one more thing I would like to ask my senior."
Then he explained the problems he encountered while practicing the "Canglong Body Refining Technique".
"According to what you said, the problem shouldn't be with the practice, but other reasons."
After listening to Zhou Yang's words, Master Qingyang just pondered for a moment and then expressed his opinion.
"The junior also thinks this is the case, but I have never been able to figure out why it is like this. This method of practicing magical powers was obtained by the junior from a magical artifact. It stands to reason that since the senior left this method of cultivating magical powers on the magical artifact,
It’s impossible to do this in vain and leave something behind to embarrass future generations!”
Zhou Yang nodded repeatedly in agreement, and then expressed his confusion with a distressed look on his face.
When Master Qingyang heard this, his eyes changed, and he looked at him as if he had thought of something and said: "Maybe the old Taoist understands what's going on. Take out the magic weapon and show it to the old Taoist."
If other Nascent Soul stage monks said this, Zhou Yang might still hesitate. After all, the dragon cauldron with an animal face pattern was a sixth-level mid-grade magic weapon that had been appraised by Lu Xuanji.
But Master Qingyang said this, Zhou Yang was not worried at all that something would go wrong, and immediately took out the dragon cauldron with the animal face pattern.
After Master Qingyang took the magic weapon in his hand and inspected it, he put it down and nodded to him as expected:
"As expected, the reason why your practice of body refining magical power suddenly slowed down is because you lack another auxiliary weapon, and that auxiliary weapon is this tripod. This kind of magical weapon
Helping people to practice magical powers is indeed a common method used by top practitioners in ancient times!"
This explains everything!
Because if you want to practice the "Canglong Body Refining Technique" to the fourth level or above, you need to use this dragon cauldron with an animal face pattern, so the monk who left this magical power will engrave it on the inside of the cauldron.
And any cultivator who obtains this treasured tripod will definitely not let go of such a sixth-level mid-grade magic weapon without refining it.
As long as someone worships this precious tripod, they can naturally understand the inside story.
It's just that the monk who left the "Blue Dragon Body Refining Technique" probably never thought that Zhou Yang had never refined this sixth-level mid-grade magic weapon because of his insufficient cultivation.
By chance, he got a large amount of high-quality sixth-level dragon spiritual blood when he was in the middle stage of the Golden Core. He easily practiced the "Canglong Body Refining Technique" to the third level, and began to attack the fourth level.
Zhou Yang felt a little dumbfounded when he thought of this. He made a mistake by cultivating his emotions too quickly.
He shook his head and did not think about this happy worry. He looked directly at Master Qingyang and asked: "Senior Qingyang, this junior knows that the secrets and techniques collected in Xuanyang Immortal Sect are as vast and diverse as the sea of stars.
I wonder if there is a secret technique that allows this junior to refine this treasure now?"
"Of course there is such a secret technique, but it is probably not suitable for you as a veteran, because although this kind of secret technique allows you to worship the tripod, with your current magic power, it is probably impossible to activate the tripod to help you practice.
, it is better to concentrate on improving your cultivation, and then consider this issue after your cultivation reaches the late stage of Golden Core."
Master Qingyang nodded first, then shook his head, and expressed his opinions and suggestions in a deep voice.
Zhou Yang did not listen to his suggestion this time, but said with a firm face: "Whether it works or not, you have to try it before you know. Moreover, even if the junior has reached the late stage of the golden elixir, under normal circumstances, he cannot refine and use this thing.
Unless you practice to the ninth level of the Golden Core, but then you don’t know how many hundreds of years it will take!”
"Since you insist on doing this, I won't force you. There are three secret techniques for refining treasures recorded in our sect. You can choose one by yourself!"
As Master Qingyang spoke, he pointed his hand towards Zhou Yang and drove the relevant information of the three treasure refining techniques into Zhou Yang's mind.
This method of Yuanshen teaching is also a method exclusive to Yuanying stage monks. It directly saves both parties the time of copying and reading, which is very convenient.
"This junior has decided to choose this [Blood Soul Sacrifice Technique]."
After Zhou Yang analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of the three secret treasure refining techniques in his mind, he quickly made his choice aloud.
"Okay, then remember it."
As Master Qingyang spoke, he pointed at him again and continued to use the Yuan Shen method to teach him the complete use of the "Blood Soul Sacrifice Technique".
After he had memorized this secret technique, he heard Master Qingyang say: "This secret technique is worth fifty thousand sect merit points. Now you still have 100,000 sect merit points left, but there are still more to come."
Where to spend it?”
"Then give this junior another piece of [Purple Heart Chalcedony]!"
Zhou Yang thought for a moment and then made a decision.
"Okay, the sect's exchange price for a piece of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] is exactly one hundred thousand merit points. You can go back to Xuanyang Pavilion to find Senior Nephew Sun to get it. The old Taoist will say hello to him."
As a result, the 200,000 Xuanyang Immortal Sect merit points that Zhou Yang gained from killing the Qi family monks were all spent in one fell swoop.
He quickly left the "Qingyang Cave", and then, together with Xu Zhengyang who was still waiting outside Xuanyang Peak, went to Zhengyang Peak where he practiced.
At this time, Xu Zhengyang's Taoist companion Li Yuhe had already passed away. Zhengyang Peak seemed a little empty without its hostess.
"Xu had twelve disciples in his life, but only four of them are still alive today. Except for one of the other eight who died unexpectedly, the rest died after running out of life span!"
"If Xu was not touched by the disciples' sitting down, then Yu He's sitting down made Xu feel the same and he began to be extremely afraid of death."
"Xu has lived for more than 800 years. This is a lifespan that ordinary mortals and low-level monks cannot live in several lifetimes combined. However, Xu still feels that he has not lived enough and wants to live longer!"
"There are only two ways for monks in the golden elixir stage to live longer. One is to transform elixirs into infants. After forming a Nascent Infant, their lifespan will naturally be extended to three thousand years, and they can live happily for thousands of years; secondly, they can live longer.
It is to take those life-extending treasures and use the power of these treasures to seize the heaven and earth to extend your life."
"Xu is working hard on the first path, but Xu has just broken through to the eighth level of the Golden Core. I can't even say that he is 100% sure whether he can break through to the ninth level of the Golden Core in less than two hundred years."
, let alone transforming elixirs into babies during this period of time.”
"So, Xu wants to pursue two paths at the same time. First, he can extend his life by looking for a life-extending treasure, and then he plans to transform the elixir into a baby!"
"And this time, Xu asked Fellow Daoist Zhou to come here because he wanted to ask fellow Daoist Zhou to help him. Together with Xu, he would deal with a fifth-level high-grade monster [Frost Wolf King] and seize the life-extending spiritual object [Crystal Ice Orchid] guarded by it.
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On Zhengyang Peak, after Xu Zhengyang made a cup of spiritual tea for Zhou Yang, he slowly told the reason why he came to Zhou Yang this time in a low tone.
He had helped Zhou Yang a lot in the past. When Zhou Yang had not formed the elixir, he also said that he would repay him in the future.
Now that Zhou Yang has formed a golden elixir and is beginning to rise to prominence, as an investor, of course he will begin to receive his rewards.
Zhou Yang didn't think there was anything wrong with this. If he were Xu Zhengyang, he would definitely not let go of his useless coolie and then owe others a favor and ask for help from others.
Therefore, after he pondered for a while, he nodded and responded: "Of course it is okay for junior to help, but I wonder when senior Xu plans to set off?"
When Xu Zhengyang heard what he said, he immediately said: "If you, Taoist friend Zhou, have nothing urgent to do, we can set off right now. If we go back quickly, we can be back in a year or two at most."
"There is nothing urgent, but I need to inform the Taoist monks and disciples first, so as not to worry about them not being able to contact me."
"That's right. Fellow Daoist Zhou just do it."
Therefore, Zhou Yang immediately went to Xuanyang Pavilion, first received the "Purple Heart Chalcedony" promised by Master Qingyang, and then used the Xuanyang Immortal Sect's intelligence channel to spread the news that he and Xu Zhengyang were traveling far away for business.
He informed Taoist companion Xiao Ying and asked her to stay at Chongxuan Mountain and wait for her return.
After doing all this, he left Daoxuan Kingdom with Xu Zhengyang and headed north to the boundless snowfield at the northernmost point of the Immortal Cultivation World in Liuyun Continent.
The Boundless Snowfield is also a dangerous place similar to the Duanyun Mountain Range. It is the territory of the Snowfield Demon Clan. If one can cross the Boundless Snowfield, one can reach the Immortal Cultivation World of Beitingzhou.
But this is difficult, even more difficult than crossing the Duanyun Mountain Range.
Although the Duanyun Mountain Range is dangerous, at least it is not difficult for Nascent Soul stage monks to climb over it.
But the boundless snowfield is different.
Deep in the boundless snowfield, there are not only creatures of the same level as the Nascent Soul Stage monks, such as the sixth-level demon king, but also a kind of alien race called "Frozen Yi People" living there.
This "Frozen Yi man" looks similar to a human monk, but his blood is cold, and the Frozen Yi people are naturally able to cast some small spells such as ice bullets and ice arrows. This is obviously not something ordinary mortals from the human race can do.
The power you possess.
The Frozen Yi people are distributed in tribal units in the vast expanse of snowfields. They even have settled in the Far North Icefield further north in the Beitingzhou Immortal Realm.
In terms of overall strength, the Bingyi people are probably the most powerful alien race in the "Linghuan World", and are not even worse than the human monks in the entire Liuyun Continent's Immortal Cultivation World.
And just like the alien races in the wild jungle will hinder the human monks from establishing communication with the Immortal Cultivation World of Tiannan Continent through the wild jungle, the Frozen Yi people will also attack and kill the human monks who cross the boundless snowfield.
In the boundless snowfield, the Frozen Yi people occupy a huge geographical advantage, and it is difficult for human monks of the same level to defeat them.
Because of the obstruction of these Frozen End people, and the fact that the "Nine Heavenly Gang Wind" above the boundless snowfield is stronger and more violent than in other places, it is difficult for ordinary Nascent Soul Stage monks to cross the boundless snowfield to reach the Beiting Continent Cultivation Realm.
Only the ninth-level Nascent Soul "half-step true immortal" like Lu Xuanji, or some extremely powerful mid-Nascent Soul monks and late-Nascent Soul monks, can try to travel across the boundless snowfield to the world of Beiting Continent.
Fortunately, the Bingyi people only live in the depths of the boundless snowfield. The outskirts of the boundless snowfield, close to the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Liuyun Continent, is the territory of the snowfield demon clan, and there are many snowfield demon clans living on it.
The target of Xu Zhengyang and Zhou Yang's trip is the fifth-level high-grade monster "Frost Wolf King", who is the king of a snowfield monster clan called "Giant Frost Wolf".
They are also fifth-level high-grade monsters. The "Frost Wolf King", the king of a group, is certainly much more difficult to deal with than those lone ranger monsters.
Its spouse is a fifth-level mid-level monster, and there are twenty or thirty fourth-level monster subordinates, many of which are its descendants. There are also hundreds of third-level "frost giant" wolves.
Even if a ninth-level golden elixir monk encountered such a "Frost Wolf King", he wouldn't dare to say he could win. No wonder Xu Zhengyang asked Zhou Yang for help.
The two set out from the Xuanyang Immortal Sect and flew nearly two million miles. It took nearly three months before they arrived at the boundless snowfield at the northernmost point of the Immortal Cultivation World in Liuyun Continent.
When Zhou Yang was in the Kunxu Realm, he also visited the Cold Wind Plain, which had an environment similar to the Boundless Snowfield. The environment there was much worse than the environment outside the Boundless Snowfield.
However, the boundless snowfield also has its own unique features, that is, the snowfield is dotted with forests of various cold-resistant trees such as cedars and snowshirts, and the woods are home to ice bears, reindeer, snow foxes, snow hares, ferrets and other species.
Cold-tolerant animals.
The "frost giant" pack feeds on the animals that inhabit these forests, and their lairs are usually located in ice caves on the edge of the forest.
"Going north from here, and going deep into the snowfield for 170,000 miles, you will arrive at the habitat of the [giant frost wolves]. On the next road, Fellow Daoist Zhou must follow Xu closely, either by flying or walking, and you must not fly randomly.
In order to avoid provoking those fifth-level monsters along the way who have a strong sense of territory."
Above the vast snowfield, Zhou Yang and Xu Zhengyang, who had been traveling for several months, stopped in mid-air. Then Xu Zhengyang pointed to the vast white snowfield in front of him, and told Zhou Yang with a serious face what he should pay attention to on the road.
Their goal is only the "Frost Wolf King". If they provoke other fifth-level monsters along the way, not only will they waste time, they will also be attacked by many fifth-level monsters on the snowy plains.
Although these snowfield demon tribes are not as united as those in the Duanyun Mountain Range, it is still easy to reach a consensus on the matter of treating human monks.
"Senior Xu, don't worry, this junior knows what to do."