Master Qingyang is in the Nascent Soul stage. When he accepts a disciple, he certainly needs to hold relevant ceremonies.
According to the sect rules of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, the disciples of Yuanying stage monks directly enjoy the treatment of core disciples of the sect. The apprenticeship ceremony is held at the time of entry. All monks of the Zifu stage and above within the sect, as long as there is no particularly important matter,
Those who are unable to leave the cave must be present to witness the ceremony.
Therefore, the apprenticeship ceremony held that day was extremely grand. Hundreds of Zifu monks and dozens of Jindan monks, as well as several Nascent Soul monks who were still in Xuanyang Immortal Sect's mountain gate, all attended the ceremony in person to witness Zhou Guangcheng's apprenticeship with Qingyang Zhenren.
This is a big deal.
This will be a very memorable viewing.
In order to protect Zhou Guangcheng, the fact that he is pregnant with the [Xuanyang Spirit Body] will not be revealed to anyone other than those who are currently aware of it until he has sufficient ability to protect himself.
Therefore, the monks watching the ceremony today, except for the Nascent Soul Stage monks above, all know that Zhou Guangcheng is the son of Zhou Yang, a fire attribute monk with high-grade spiritual root qualifications.
Most of them thought that Zhou Guangcheng was able to worship Master Qingyang as his teacher because of his father's contribution.
Although they couldn't figure out what benefits Zhou Yang used to impress Master Qingyang and make him willing to accept his son as his disciple.
After the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying simply said goodbye to their son Zhou Guangcheng, and then left Xuanyang Immortal Sect together and went to the Zhou Family Mountain Gate in Daoxuan Kingdom to visit and express condolences to the clan members there.
After that, the two returned to Chongxuan Mountain and each went about their own business.
Xiao Ying's busy task is to challenge the fifth-level alchemist, because Zhou Yang often uses "Qianyang Immortal Light" to help her temper her body and remove erysipelas. Although she has not been able to form alchemy for a hundred years, her cultivation level has reached the third level of Jindan.
Layer, the progress is not as fast as usual.
This allows her to save a lot of practice time to practice magical powers and improve her alchemy skills.
Zhou Yang has many things to do. He needs to continue to refine the fifth-level magic weapon, continue to improve his level of weapon refining, and then take advantage of the free time of the "pregnancy device" to practice magical powers and improve his cultivation.
A Golden Core monk will always have endless things to do unless he wants to give himself a holiday.
When people are busy, they always have little idea of the passage of time.
When Zhou Guangxiang was frustrated and asked to see Zhou Yang because of the failure to form the elixir, and asked to return to the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortality for retirement, Zhou Yang was shocked to find that eighteen years had passed!
"Do you want to return to the family? That's fine. Fallen leaves must return to their roots. If you want to go back, then go back!"
In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at his white-haired nephew in front of him, and sighed in his heart. Thousands of words could be said, but in the end they just turned into this short sigh.
Zhou Guangxiang failed to form the elixir, for which he had already been mentally prepared.
After all, this was Zhou Guangxiang's first attempt at forming a pill, and he had been severely injured before, which damaged his vitality.
In front of the level of pill formation, there is no difference between high-grade spiritual roots and mid-grade spiritual roots.
The real difference is the number of times of impacting pill formation. A high-grade spiritual root monk can reach the ninth level of the Purple Mansion faster and has several times of impacting pill formation, while a middle-grade spiritual root monk may not even have one chance in his life.
Although Zhou Guangxiang is a high-grade spiritual root monk, he used to devote too much energy to family affairs and formation research, which resulted in his subsequent cultivation speed being much slower than before. He only reached the peak of cultivation when he was over 380 years old
The ninth floor of the Purple Mansion.
From this aspect, Zhou Guangxiang has made great contributions to the Zhou family, because he helped Zhou Yang share this part of the work, allowing Zhou Yang to travel around in peace and look for opportunities to improve his cultivation.
Zhou Yang should have given him the [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] as a reward to make up for his contribution to the family over the years.
However, out of consideration for his family, Zhou Yang made the opposite decision at the last moment.
From Zhou Yang's point of view, if Zhou Guangxiang had not suffered that serious injury and used the first time to attack the golden elixir to accumulate experience, and then tried to form the elixir for the second time, he would have at least 30 to 40% chance of using the [Yuye Golden elixir].
If you successfully grasp it, you can already give it a try.
However, without the accumulation of experience, even with the help of [Yuye Golden Elixir], in Zhou Yang's opinion, Zhou Guangxiang's success rate would be difficult to reach 30%.
In this case, for the sake of his family, he had to leave the [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] to his apprentice Lu Xuewei.
As a high-grade spiritual root cultivator, Lu Xuewei is now in her early 300s and has already reached the seventh level of the Purple Mansion. She will be able to reach the ninth level of the Purple Mansion in at most 40 to 50 years. In this way, she will have two or three times.
Opportunity to hit the golden elixir stage.
But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Lu Xuewei is an ice-based martial artist. When she forms an elixir, she can also use the drop of [Cold Jade Essence] in the family treasure house as an auxiliary spiritual object to help form an elixir.
With the effect of [Cold Jade Essence] and the assistance of [Jade Liquid Golden Pill], Lu Xuewei only needs to accumulate experience in forming pills once or twice, and the chance of success in forming pills for the third time will definitely exceed 60%!
One side has a success probability of less than 30%, and the other side has a success probability of more than 60%. It is obvious how to choose.
What's more, in terms of credit, Lu Xuewei also made great contributions to the Zhou family.
She was the one who discovered the Zhou family's spiritual stone mine. Most of the millions of spiritual stones Zhou Yang had taken from the Zhou family over the years actually came from the spiritual stone mine she discovered.
Later, she contributed to Zhou Yang the extremely rare and incomparable spiritual attack power of "Sword Killing Sword Technique", which helped Zhou Yang make up for a shortcoming. This contribution is not small.
Therefore, when Zhou Yang saw Zhou Guangxiang's current state, even though he felt uncomfortable for him, he said he regretted it, but he did not regret it.
After all, he is only a golden elixir stage monk, and his abilities are limited. He cannot really help everyone or everything.
He could make his son the head of the Zhou family for Zhou Guangxiang's sake. This kind of thing was completely within his ability. Even if someone complained about his nepotism, it wouldn't hurt him at all.
However, treasures like [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] cannot be bought with spiritual stones. They are priceless things that can only be purchased at certain times.
Even with Zhou Yang's current strength and wealth, it would be very difficult to get it unless he just happened to meet it by chance.
In this case, with only one copy of [Yuye Golden Elixir], among the two people who are very close to him, his apprentice and nephew, all he can do is put aside his emotions and make the most beneficial rational choice.
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Zhou Guangxiang didn't know the complicated thoughts in Zhou Yang's mind. The failure to attack the golden elixir had completely destroyed his energy and spirit, and made him extremely depressed.
He was usually very observant, but when he heard Zhou Yang's sigh, he thought that Uncle Ninth was also completely disappointed in him, and suddenly felt sad in his heart. He cupped his hands at Zhou Yang with some self-deprecation and said: "Go away, nephew."
Okay, Uncle Jiu, please take care of yourself!"
Zhou Yang naturally saw all this in his eyes, but even he couldn't give Zhou Guangxiang any useful comfort at this time. He could only say: "You are not suitable for traveling alone in your current state, so let Tongxuan accompany you."
, it just so happens that Ronghua is about to go back to the family to replace someone, so the three of you will walk together on the road and take care of each other."
"My nephew understands."
Zhou Guangxiang nodded slightly, then the tip of his nose became sore, and finally couldn't help but shed tears. With tears in his eyes, he knelt down to Zhou Yang and cried: "Thank you Uncle Jiu for your care and support these years."
, It’s a pity that my nephew is incompetent and failed to live up to Uncle Jiu’s expectations. Uncle Jiu’s great kindness to his nephew can only be repaid in the next life!”
Seeing this, Zhou Yang quickly stepped forward to help him up and said: "Get up, Uncle Jiu, since I am your elder, I should take care of you. I don't want you to repay anything. Everything you have done for the family these years,
Uncle Jiu, I also see it in my eyes and remember it in my heart. You have not let anyone down and you are worthy of the care and support you have received!"
"My nephew has always remembered Uncle Ninth's kindness and kindness. If it hadn't been for Uncle Ninth, my nephew would have been denounced by his clan for secretly hiding the foundation-building pill to build the foundation for my sister."
"Later, my nephew did not listen to Uncle Jiu's words and recklessly tried to open up the Purple Mansion but failed. It was Uncle Jiu who selflessly gave [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to help my nephew open up the Purple Mansion."
"Later, my nephew did stupid things to pave the way for Tongxuan. It was Uncle Jiu who helped my nephew realize his wish and forcibly supported Tongxuan to ascend to the position of clan leader regardless of the doubts of the clan members."
"Not to mention, after my nephew was killed by a traitor, Uncle Jiu rushed over to rescue his nephew as soon as he received the news. He helped his nephew get revenge regardless of the background of the culprit."
Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with tearful eyes, his voice choked with sobs.
"It's only because of your own efforts that you can reach this day. What Uncle Jiu did was just give you a chance!"
Zhou Yang sighed softly, reached out and patted his nephew on the shoulder without saying anything more.
He had given Zhou Guangxiang a chance before, but this time, he left the opportunity to his apprentice. Although he did not regret it, when he heard Zhou Guangxiang mention these past events, he still felt a little ashamed and regretful.
"When my nephew returns home this time, he may never see Uncle Jiu again. I hope Uncle Jiu will take care of himself. The Zhou family can live without Zhou Guangxiang, but we cannot live without you, Uncle Jiu!"
Zhou Guangxiang held Zhou Yang's hand, looked at him with tears streaming down his face, and murmured in a choked voice: "The only thing my nephew can do to repay Uncle Jiu for the rest of his life is to pray to God for Uncle Jiu every day in the family, and to pray to the ancestors.
Pray, pray that Uncle Jiu will take a further step as soon as possible, form the Yuanying Dao, and attain immortality!"
"Why!"
Zhou Yang sighed again, but didn't say anything more.
Next, Zhou Yang personally sent Zhou Guangxiang to the Zhou family in Daoxuan Kingdom, handed him over to his son Zhou Tongxuan, and asked Zhou Tongxuan and Zhou Ronghua to take good care of him on the way, and then watched the three people leave the Zhou family.
With the departure of Zhou Tongxuan and the others, the family affairs of the Zhou family were temporarily handed over to Zhou Shengyu by Zhou Yang.
At this time, Zhou Shengyu had already reached the seventh level of foundation building, and had become a qualified family leader through decades of experience in family affairs.
Since he arrived in Daoxuan Kingdom, Zhou Yang naturally went to Xuanyang Immortal Sect to visit his son Zhou Guangcheng.
At this time, Zhou Guangcheng was already in his thirties. He had successfully established the foundation five years ago and began to formally practice the "Xuan Yang Baodian", the Xuanyang Immortal Sect's subduing technique.
The father and son, who had not seen each other for eighteen years, were speechless when they saw each other again.
But after all, father and son are connected by blood. After a brief silence, the gap quickly dissipated during the conversation.
During the conversation, Zhou Yang was pleased to find that Zhou Guangcheng's personality had finally changed. He was still quiet, but he was no longer so gentle and introverted, but became much more masculine and cheerful.
Through conversation, he found out that Zhou Guangcheng had been arranged by Master Qingyang to go to some places for training in recent years. He had witnessed the evil deeds of demonic cultivators who tortured mortals and low-level monks to practice, and had seen low-level casual cultivators fighting for a spiritual grass.
As for friends killing each other and brothers turning against each other, they have witnessed many dangers in the world.
After seeing a lot of these things, most people will easily become full of doubts about the world and the people around them, wondering whether these people have ulterior motives in approaching them.
But Master Qingyang naturally has ways to help his disciples correct this abnormal concept.
Therefore, after many experiences, Zhou Guangcheng has now become a "qualified" immortal cultivator. The standard of qualification is naturally the standard in Zhou Yang's eyes.
"The foundation-building cultivation level is still a little bit behind. When your cultivation level reaches the Zifu stage, my father will take you back to the boundless sand sea to cultivate the immortal world to pay homage to your grandparents. You should continue to practice hard. If you really
I want to be my father and your mother, so send the message back. As long as we see you, we will definitely come to visit you!"
When leaving, Zhou Yang raised his hand and patted his son on the shoulder, giving some instructions.
"My child knows."
Zhou Guangcheng opened his mouth, but only responded dryly.
He actually wanted Zhou Yang to take him back to Chongxuan Mountain to practice for a while, but he knew that Zhou Yang would definitely not agree.
"Practice well."
Zhou Yang stared at his son's face for a while, finally repeated his instructions and left.
When he returned to Chongxuan Mountain, Wang Yanzhang, a registered disciple who had gone on a trip, had already broken through to the ninth level of foundation building and returned.
At the beginning, he promised Wang Yanzhang that if he reached the ninth level of foundation building, he would accept him as a formal disciple and give him [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to help him open up the Purple Mansion.
Now that Wang Yanzhang has met his requirements, Zhou Yang will certainly not go back on his words.
Therefore, under the witness of a group of registered disciples on the mountain and Taoist companion Xiao Ying, Zhou Yang held a formal apprenticeship ceremony, accepted Wang Yanzhang as his third apprentice, and gave him a copy of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] on the spot.
】As a gift for accepting a disciple.
After Wang Yanzhang received this gift, he did not rush to open up the Purple Mansion. Instead, he patiently practiced quietly in the mountains, studied the experience of opening up the Purple Mansion given to him by Zhou Yang, and at the same time taught the younger brothers and sisters on behalf of Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang admired this stability very much and lamented that he had not taken on the wrong disciple.
In terms of qualifications, Wang Yanzhang only had a middle-grade spiritual root, and he had the same qualifications as his second disciple, Zhou Guangxiang's Taoist companion Liu Xuanxuan, who passed away early.
This spiritual root qualification made Wang Yanzhang already over 180 years old when his cultivation reached the ninth level of foundation building.
But now he is able to endure temptation and is not eager for success. This state of mind has surpassed many foundation-building monks in the same realm.
Based on this state of mind cultivation, Zhou Yang felt that he was very successful in opening up the Zi Mansion.
And the fact was exactly as he thought. After two years of preparation for self-cultivation and meditation, Wang Yanzhang began to retreat and open the Zifu. In just seven months, he successfully opened the Zifu and became a Zifu monk.
However, when he successfully opened the Zi Mansion, Master Zhou Yang had already been in seclusion for several years and did not have time to congratulate him or give him gifts.
Zhou Yang is in retreat this time, intending to take the fifth-level high-grade elixir [Purple Sun Treasure Pill] that he originally exchanged with 500,000 merit points to attack the late stage of the golden elixir.
His cultivation has been growing step by step over the years, and he has been promoted to a level every few decades.
Calculating the time, it has been more than two hundred years since he formed the elixir. On average, he has been promoted to one level every forty years or so.
This speed is definitely not slow among Golden Core Stage monks, it can even be said to be very fast.
Not to mention those spiritual monks with extremely high qualifications, there are not many golden elixir-level monks with high-grade spiritual root qualifications who can achieve this cultivation effect.
In fact, Zhou Yang also spent a lot of time doing other things during these two hundred years, and did not focus solely on improving his cultivation.
Calculated in this way, his cultivation speed is almost faster than those spiritual monks.
At least according to the records of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, Lu Xuanji, who possessed the [Xuanyang Spirit Body], was already over six hundred and fifty years old when he reached the ninth level of the Golden Core.
But Zhou Yang has just turned five hundred years old.
However, the difficulty of advancing from the middle stage of the Golden Core to the late stage of the Golden Core was much more difficult than Zhou Yang expected. After using [Purple Sun Treasure Pill], he was not promoted to the late stage of the Golden Core as he wished, and was still almost stuck.
At the sixth level of Jindan.
Helpless, he could only come out of seclusion and hope to slowly improve his cultivation through hard work.
This retreat took him seven years, which was not a long time.
After coming out of seclusion, Zhou Yang first met with Wang Yanzhang, the third disciple who had successfully opened the Zi Mansion, and gave him several fourth-level magic weapons that he had personally refined and some magical talisman pills as rewards.
Then he left Chongxuan Mountain with his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, who was also in a bad mood due to the failure of attacking the fifth-level alchemist, and went to Xuanyang Immortal Sect to visit his son Zhou Guangcheng.
After that, according to the plan, Zhou Yang went to the Zhou family in Daoxuan to meet Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan, the monks from the Zhou family's Zifu who came to Liuyunzhou to visit the immortal world.
Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan had just arrived in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent not long ago. Now, the main family affairs of the Zhou family here are still handled by Zhou Shengyu, who was in the foundation-building period.
Zhou Yang's arrival made the two of them very happy, having not seen the family ancestor for a long time, and they seized the opportunity to ask Zhou Yang for advice on cultivation problems.
Zhou Yang thought that he had not preached for the monks of the Zhou family for a long time, so he took advantage of the situation and held a sermon meeting in the Zhou family to explain the way of cultivation and answer the questions encountered in cultivation for the disciples of the Zhou family here.
Confuse.
He originally planned to continue this sermon for three days and three nights in accordance with the rules.
However, it was only at noon the next day after the sermon was given that Zhou Yang, who was answering a question from a junior in the Foundation Establishment stage, suddenly had a sudden impulse. His eyebrows were beating violently, and his heart was beating at a speed several times faster than normal.
"Husband, husband, what's wrong with you?"
Zhou Yang's changes were hidden from the younger generations, but not from Xiao Ying, the Taoist companion who had been with him for hundreds of years. After she discovered Zhou Yang's abnormality, she immediately started to inquire via voice transmission with a worried look on her face.
"The sermon will end here. Patriarch, I have to take a step ahead."
Zhou Yang did not answer the Taoist monk's question, but suppressed his discomfort and announced the end of the sermon. Then he gave the Taoist monk a reassuring look and disappeared directly from the scene, entering a quiet room on the mountain.
In the quiet room, Zhou Yang relaxed his mind and fully felt the cause of this sudden whim.
After an unknown amount of time passed like this, his eyes suddenly changed and he looked towards the east.
"Why the East? What does the East have to do with me?"
He looked deep into the east and murmured to himself.
"Dongfang, Dongfang...could it be that Fengxian is in trouble?"
Zhou Yang's expression suddenly changed, and he suddenly stood up from the ground.
After carefully feeling the warning he had just received on a whim, he vaguely understood that someone very far to the east who was very close to him was in danger.
But when he looked back on his own experiences, he asked himself whether he had any close relationship with anyone in the East.
Generally speaking, those who can give him a whim warning are either his blood descendants or Taoist companions who have practiced spiritual and physical cultivation with him.
And after much thought, he found that the only person who met this condition was his confidante Jiang Fengxian, whom he had not seen for two hundred years.
When he and Jiang Fengxian parted ways in the Kunxu Realm, the other party said that he would first travel to the Immortal Cultivation World of Tiannan Continent, then transfer to the Donghua Continent Cultivation World, and finally return to the Liuyun Continent Cultivation World from the Donghua Continent Cultivation World.
But two hundred years have passed. Under normal circumstances, the other party should have returned from traveling long ago.
But until now, Zhou Yang has not waited for her to come to him.
Now, suddenly, on a whim, he sensed that someone related to him was in danger far away in the east, which had to make him wonder whether something had happened to Jiang Fengxian in the world of immortal cultivation in Donghua Continent.
He suddenly stood up from the ground, waved his hand and took out a soul tablet from the storage ring. When he saw that the soul tablet was intact, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Huh, since there is nothing wrong with the soul card, it means that Fengxian should be safe for the time being!"
He exhaled and carefully put the soul card away again.
Before they parted ways, at his strong request, he and Jiang Fengxian each gave each other a piece of their soul card for emergencies. This is when you can see his foresight at that time.
But he was only temporarily relieved.
In any case, the fact that he could have such a strong sense of whim is enough to show that the situation of Dongfang is definitely not good now. Even if he survives this danger, he doesn't know if he will encounter danger again in the future.
Moreover, this sudden impulse caused a certain longing that had been hidden in his heart to suddenly grow into an uncontrollable madness.
"This can't continue like this. It seems that before I transform my elixir into a baby, I have to go to the world of immortal cultivation in Donghua Continent. If I don't see Fengxian again to make sure she is safe and sound, I will never be able to have a baby with peace of mind, and I won't be able to spend the rest of my life with peace of mind.
[Heart Demon Tribulation]!”
A firm look flashed in Zhou Yang's eyes, and he had already made up his mind.