Chapter five hundred and ninety seventh: The old Zhou family has a daughter!
"Junior Brother Ren, what else do you have to say now? For the sake of our brothers, Wang will give you a chance to explain your funeral arrangements!"
In a dark mountain gorge, Wang Yanzhang held a blood-stained spear in his hand, looking at a man lying in a pool of blood on the ground with complicated eyes, and his tone was very uneasy.
Of course he couldn't calm down.
If it hadn't already happened, he would never have thought that Ren Fei, who started at the same time as him and had always had a good relationship with him, would actually set a trap to murder him!
Half an hour ago, he was tricked by Ren Fei into coming to this mountain canyon to eliminate monsters and seize treasures. Unexpectedly, when he used his trump card to kill the monsters, he suddenly used the fourth-level talisman given by Master Zhou Yang to sneak attack him.
Fortunately, because he suffered a big loss in his early years, he would always be more cautious when fighting monsters to guard against possible sneak attacks in the dark.
Faced with Ren Fei's sneak attack at that time, although he had no time to activate the fourth-level defensive talisman on his body, he still used the defensive magical power that came with the cultivation method in time and did not die on the spot.
After that, he relied on the life-saving item [Rejuvenation Fairy Dew] given to him by Taoist companion Ye Yunshan to quickly heal his injuries. After a big battle, he successfully defeated Ren Fei and pierced Ren Fei's Dantian with one shot.
Thinking of the previous dangerous situation, Wang Yanzhang was very happy in his heart. If it hadn't been for that drop of life-saving [Rejuvenation Fairy Dew] this time, the person lying in a pool of blood right now would be Wang Yanzhang.
"Ahem, cough, cough, Wang Yanzhang, you don't have to be pretentious. Ren didn't lose at your hands, but at God's will. God won't help me, God won't help me!"
In a pool of blood, Ren Fei, whose face was stained with blood, looked at Wang Yanzhang with wide eyes, his face twisted and trembling, and his eyes were filled with unwillingness and resentment.
His plan was originally successful. Although Wang Yanzhang survived his sneak attack, he was seriously injured and lost the ability to resist. All he needed to do next was to make up for it with one more sword.
But how could he have expected that Xiao Ying would give a precious drop of [Rejuvenation Fairy Dew] to her beloved disciple Ye Yunshan, and Ye Yunshan would then give this life-saving spiritual object to Taoist monk Wang Yanzhang.
It was this kind of completely unexpected thing that made his originally perfect plan fall apart and ended up costing his own life.
It's just that at this time, it's useless to say anything. Not to mention that his cultivation has been abolished, even if his cultivation is still there, he will never escape the word "death" just for the crime of murdering his fellow disciples.
So he quickly closed his eyes and said in a hateful voice: "Stop talking nonsense, just do it. Even if your skills are inferior to others, you will die without regrets!"
Seeing this, Wang Yanzhang couldn't help but shook his head, sighed softly, then nodded slightly and said: "Junior Brother Ren, go on your way!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the spear in his hand turned into a golden light and shot out, instantly piercing Ren Fei's heart.
After killing Ren Fei, Wang Yanzhang buried his body in this unknown mountain stream, and then took his relics directly back to Chongxuan Mountain to plead guilty to Zhou Yang.
At this time, after Zhou Yang had dealt with Zhou Guangxiang's matter, he was preparing to continue practicing in seclusion, but he did not expect that his two registered disciples would actually kill each other.
Of course he didn't believe Wang Yanzhang's words, but judging from the confession obtained after using the "inquiry technique" on Wang Yanzhang, Wang Yanzhang did not lie.
"Do you know why he wanted to assassinate you?"
In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at Wang Yanzhang who was kneeling on the ground, his face slightly unhappy.
When something like this happens, no matter who is right or wrong, it is a scandal for him as a master. It is strange that his face looks good.
Fortunately, Wang Yanzhang and Ren Fei were only registered disciples. If they were formal disciples, Zhou Yang would not only look bad now.
"Disciple doesn't know!"
Wang Yanzhang lowered his head, not daring to look at Zhou Yang's face, and his voice was a little erratic.
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he couldn't help but smile coldly and snorted in a slightly cold voice: "Humph, do you not know, or do you dare not say it?"
Wang Yanzhang suddenly trembled and quickly bowed his head to the ground: "Master, forgive me, Junior Brother Ren did not explain the reason for the sneak attack on the disciple, and the disciple does not dare to speculate!"
"Well, since you refuse to tell me, let's stop this matter. Regarding the truth about Ren Fei's death, you should keep it in your heart and don't tell anyone. Do you understand?"
Zhou Yang waved his hand and did not press too much. He just looked at Wang Yanzhang with a heavy expression and expressed his decision.
When Wang Yanzhang heard what he said, his anxious heart finally fell back into his stomach, and he quickly kowtowed and said, "Disciple understands, thank you Master for your kindness!"
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, his expression softened slightly, and then he said slowly: "One more thing, although Ren Fei is dead, my original words as a teacher still count. After your cultivation reaches the ninth level of foundation construction, for me,
The master will officially accept you and give you [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to open up the Purple Mansion."
In fact, now that only Wang Yanzhang is left as a candidate, he can just accept him as his official disciple now.
But Zhou Yang didn't want Wang Yanzhang to get started so easily. Wouldn't that confirm that Ren Fei's approach as a traitor was correct?
Another thing is that it is not a good thing for Wang Yanzhang to kill his fellow disciples. Postponing his admission for a while can also be regarded as a punishment for him and make him feel in awe.
Wang Yanzhang felt a little disappointed when he heard Zhou Yang's words.
He is only on the seventh level of foundation building now. It will take at least twenty or thirty years to advance to the ninth level of foundation building. He originally thought that after Ren Fei was gone, Zhou Yang would accept him in advance, but he didn't expect that he would have to wait for two or three years now.
ten years.
However, he felt lost in his heart, but he did not dare to show it on his face. Instead, he responded with a grateful face: "Thank you, Master, for your kindness. I will definitely work hard to practice and strive to get started as soon as possible."
"Back off."
Zhou Hui waved his hand and drove people away directly.
After Wang Yanzhang retired, Zhou Yang also began to reflect.
Ren Fei plotted against Wang Yanzhang. The reason is not difficult to guess. It was simply that Wang Yanzhang entered the late stage of foundation building before him, which made him feel that he had lost the opportunity and could no longer compete with Wang Yanzhang for the position of disciple. Therefore, he had malicious intentions and wanted to kill Wang Yanzhang.
This is the only competitor.
Zhou Yang should have anticipated and prepared for this kind of thing when he asked the two to compete.
But he didn't think much of it at the time. He just felt that with him on top, as long as the two disciples weren't stupid, they shouldn't dare to stage a fight with each other in front of him.
In short, he is a little too arrogant and underestimates the evil of human nature.
On the other hand, it was also related to the fact that he didn't really understand the character of Ren Fei, a registered disciple.
The problem reflected here is that he usually devotes too little time to communicating with these registered disciples. He knows nothing about these registered disciples except their names and appearance.
After reflecting on this, Zhou Yang suppressed his original idea of continuing to retreat, and instead decided to take some time to teach the remaining registered disciples on the mountain.
Over the past few decades, Zhou Ronghua and others have successively recruited two new batches of registered disciples in his name, and dismissed some registered disciples who were over eighty years old and had not yet established a foundation, so that they could return to their hometowns to retire.
Counting Wang Yanzhang, there are now a total of seventy-three registered disciples on the mountain, of which twenty-one are monks in the foundation-building stage, and the rest are all monks in the Qi-training stage.
Among those monks in the Foundation Establishment Stage, most of them were monks from the Zhou family who had migrated from the Immortal Realm of the Boundless Sand Sea in the past few years. Only five of them had outstanding performance in these years and were rewarded with the Foundation Establishment Pill and successfully built the Foundation.
Many of the Zhou family monks who migrated here became Taoist couples with registered disciples on the mountain, and some found their favorite Taoist partners outside and gave birth to offspring.
Now the small mountain city outside Chongxuan Mountain is almost full of mortals. Zhou Ronghua and others are planning to build a second mountain city to divert and accommodate more mortals.
Master Zhou Yang was willing to preach and teach the registered disciples in person. The happiest person was not those disciples, but Lu Xuewei, the senior disciple who led the teachers and disciples.
Over the years, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying have been in seclusion for a long time, and she has been taking care of things on the mountain. This made her, who was not good at it, feel dizzy with worry.
Fortunately, her sworn sister Lan Cailian, who failed to attack the pill formation, couldn't bear to see her being punished by Zhou Yang for messing up the matter, so she took the initiative to help her deal with these matters, so that the situation on the mountain did not get out of control.
At this time, Zhou Yang took action personally. As if she had seized the opportunity, she hurriedly approached Zhou Yang and said, "Master Rongzhen, Sister Lan has recovered from her injuries caused by her failure to form the elixir. Now she is preparing to travel and accumulate resources again to prepare for the second round."
The first time I formed the elixir, I am not worried about her traveling alone. I have already agreed to go with her and hope that Master will give me permission."
Forming an elixir is never an easy task. In order to form an elixir, Zhou Yang risked his own life to earn various auxiliary elixir-forming spiritual objects.
Even though Lan Cailian had accumulated a lot of savings over the years, she had already exhausted them all when she asked Zhou Yang to purchase those auxiliary elixir-forming spiritual items. At this time, if she wanted to hit the golden elixir stage, she could only continue to earn spiritual stones to start anew.
Purchase those auxiliary elixir-forming spiritual items.
As a casual cultivator who has not mastered any profound cultivation skills, if she wants to earn a large amount of spiritual stones, the fastest and most direct way is to hunt high-level monsters or accept bounty tasks issued by certain large sects.
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Therefore, after Zhou Yang heard Lu Xuewei's words, he just pondered for a moment, nodded, and told her diligently: "It is a good thing to travel, but you also know what happened to Guangxiang. Going out is not as good as being at home, meeting people
You can only say a few words, but don’t give up everything. You must be careful in everything, and protect yourself first!"
In fact, this was not the first time he had said this to Lu Xuewei, but at this time Lu Xuewei did not show any impatience, but responded respectfully: "Disciple must remember the master's teachings."
Her attitude made Zhou Yang very satisfied. He immediately waved his hand and took out a jade box and handed it to her: "Keep these talismans away and do them when it's time to do it. Don't let go of these things that are outside your body."
, and lost his own life.”
Most of the talismans handed over to Lu Xuewei were made by extracting the origins of the natal magic weapons left by others in his hands, and some were trophies obtained from killing enemies. They were all the finest talismans.
These talismans can be said to be of no use to Golden Core monks. Generally, they will only be used by new Golden Core monks who have just formed a pill and have not yet refined their natal magic weapon, and who do not have a few fifth-level magic weapons with them.
This kind of talisman is used as a weapon against the enemy.
But for the Zifu stage monks, as long as they are not fighting against the Golden Core stage monks and fifth-level monsters, a high-quality talisman is completely enough to serve as a decisive trump card.
"Master loves me so much, disciple, disciple..."
Lu Xuewei looked at Zhou Yang with red eyes, her voice choked with sobs and she couldn't speak.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but smile and reached out to pat her shoulder and said: "Practice well and don't live up to my teacher's expectations of you. This is your greatest reward for my teacher!"
Lu Xuewei left Chongxuan Mountain the next day with her foster sister Lan Cailian and went to the wild jungle for training.
Zhou Yang did not tell her that he had prepared the [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] for her, because he did not want her to feel slack, so he thought that everything would be fine and there was no need to struggle.
Next, Zhou Yang began to personally explain the way of practice to the registered disciples on Chongxuan Mountain. Through daily questions and answers and some observations, he made a survey of the character and character of these disciples to prevent Wang Yanzhang and Ren Fei from happening again.
A kind of fratricide thing.
After half a year of such days, an unexpected piece of good news came to Zhou Yang, which once again disrupted his plan to prepare for retreat.
"I'm pregnant, it's a boy!"
On this day, Taoist companion Xiao Ying suddenly came to Zhou Yang and said this.
Then he was stunned.
Calculating carefully, it has been almost a hundred years since he and Xiao Ying officially practiced dual cultivation. They have practiced dual cultivation not a thousand but hundreds of times. Xiao Ying has not been able to conceive a child for such a long time. Zhou Yang almost despaired of this matter.
He has almost accepted the fact that he has lost his fertility due to being pregnant with the [Qian Yang Treasure Body] or practicing the "Qian Yang Immortal Sutra"!
Now Xiao Ying suddenly said that she was pregnant with her own child, how could she not make him stunned.
After a brief period of daze, I felt ecstatic from the bottom of my heart.
He looked at the Taoist monk's belly with joy on his face. There were obviously no obvious symptoms of pregnancy there, but in his eyes, it seemed that it was indeed much bigger than before.
"When did it happen? How long has it been?"
He pursed his lips and told himself to calm down, but he was still enthusiastic in his heart and his words were full of excitement.
Xiao Ying understood his mood at this time very well, because she herself came here like this. After hearing this, she couldn't help but smile and said: "It didn't take long, probably more than a month. I was not sure at first, until now I found out that the fetus has formed."
Only then did I know for sure that I was really pregnant."
She also had no experience, otherwise she would have been able to confirm this matter as early as half a month into her pregnancy, and there would be no need to wait that long.
After all, it is a basic ability for an immortal cultivator to look inside the body, let alone a Golden Core cultivator like her.
But Zhou Yang obviously didn't care about this little detail at this time. After hearing this, he excitedly picked her up and walked her around the room, laughing non-stop.
After a long time passed like this, he put down the Taoist monk in his arms and asked expectantly: "Let me see if he is okay now?"
"It should be okay. When I looked inside, he didn't react at all."
Xiao Ying blinked and replied to him somewhat uncertainly.
Unexpectedly, after Zhou Yang heard her words, he immediately rejected his previous idea, shook his head and said: "Forget it, if this little guy is disturbed and his energy is exhausted, it will be very serious."
Wonderful!"
The fetus is in an innate state in the mother's body and is the most sensitive. He is afraid that his consciousness scan will disturb the child.
But as soon as he finished saying this, he changed his mind the next moment and said immediately: "But if I use my pupil magic power to check, it will definitely be fine. I have to trouble Ying'er to put away my magic power first."
His expression of an idea at this moment fully illustrates how rich his mental activities are now.
The two have been married for many years, and this is the first time that Xiao Ying sees him, who has always been calm, with such obvious mood swings.
She couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled and said: "I know it, husband, just watch it."
"I saw it, I saw it, it's indeed a boy!"
Zhou Yang's eyes sparkled with golden-red light, and his face was filled with excitement and he was shouting, as happy as a child.
Seeing this, Xiao Ying couldn't help but blinked and said, "Husband, please lower your voice, don't scare him."
When Zhou Yang heard this, he nodded immediately and said: "Yes, yes, Yinger, you are right, but you can't scare my son, otherwise I will be a sinner of the Zhou family."
"Pfft!"
Xiao Ying couldn't help laughing anymore.
She looked at Zhou Yang with an overjoyed expression, and laughed so hard that she turned around and said: "Husband, look at you now. You can't even tell a simple joke like concubine. People say that women will become stupid when they are pregnant, but husband.
You’re stupid faster than I am!”
"Okay, Ying'er, you've become bad too. You actually teased your husband. Let's see how my husband punishes you!"
A look of embarrassment flashed across Zhou Yang's face, and then he angrily picked up the Taoist monk and threw her onto the big bed, sparing the sensitive parts of her body that were easily itchy and numb.
For a time, the couple's cheerful laughter was everywhere in the cave.
Because Xiao Ying was pregnant, Zhou Yang naturally did not dare to go into seclusion anymore. Otherwise, if he was not even present when his son was born, wouldn't he have left regrets for himself?
And for the sake of the future of the child in Xiao Ying's belly, he took Xiao Ying directly to the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, preparing to ask Master Qingyang to use secret techniques to improve his son's cultivation qualifications.
Why do the direct descendants of monks in the Nascent Soul Stage definitely possess spiritual roots and have good spiritual root qualifications?
The accurate answer is naturally because the monks in the Nascent Soul stage have reached the heavenly level and are already "half-immortal bodies", and their bloodline has been passed down to future generations.
But on the other hand, it is also related to the fact that monks in the Nascent Soul stage will use secret techniques to strengthen the child's origin before the child is born.
Spiritual roots are determined by heaven, but they are not unchangeable.
For example, Zhou Yang's spiritual root qualifications have reached the level of high-grade spiritual roots after being refined by the golden elixir vision of "The Great Sun Throws His Arms".
A monk in the Nascent Soul stage who consumes his own Nascent Soul Essence to strengthen the source of unborn babies can also achieve a similar effect, but the effect is not as good as the God-given opportunity of "falling into the arms of the great sun".
However, this kind of thing of strengthening the origin of the baby is also a big loss for the Yuanying stage monks. Generally, unless it is their own child, few Yuanying stage monks are willing to do this kind of self-sacrifice thing.
Before Zhou Yang set off, he was already prepared to spend a lot of money.