After more than a hundred years, Zhou Yang once again set foot in this city where he had fought. Zhou Yang's mentality was completely different from when he came here many times before.
He also did not expect that just over a hundred years later, the branch of the Zhou family here had already become half the owner of this place.
Li Hong is a talent, Zhou Yang has known this for a long time, but he found that he still underestimated this guy's tactics.
In just over a hundred years, this guy developed the Zhou family in the far west, which had just barely squeezed into the ranks of big families at that time, into the second largest family in Cangyuan Immortal City, second only to the family of the city lord.
This ability really shocked him.
And when he understood how the other party did this, he was even more amazed.
"The banner of Tiandingmen has advantages and disadvantages. You relied on their support to make the forces in the Yu Kingdom fear you, but it also made the Zhou family a common thorn in their side. In order to drive you out of the Yu Kingdom
, they will definitely spare no effort.”
"They are not taking action now because they are not sure what the Tianding Sect's attitude is. Once they figure it out and know that the Tianding Sect has no intention to intervene and control this place, once the hundred years are over, there will definitely be no more of you in Cangyuan Immortal City.
A place to stay!”
In a private room facing the street in a teahouse, Zhou Yang looked out the window at the figures of low-level monks passing by on the street from time to time. He gently picked up the unique spiritual tea from the Far West Land on the table and took a sip. He spoke in a deep voice about his thoughts about the Far West Land Zhou Yang.
perspective on the situation faced by the family.
It turns out that the Zhou family in the far west has been able to develop so fast, all because Li Hong accidentally saved a person more than sixty years ago.
The foundation-building monk he rescued at that time turned out to be the great-grandson of the Yuan Ying-stage monk from the Tianding Sect of the Dayun Kingdom, and he was also a very favored great-grandson.
The monk sneaked out to travel around the world of immortality, exposed his wealth near Cangyuan Immortal City, and was plotted and killed by a group of casual cultivators. After exhausting all his life-saving items, he was lucky enough to be saved by Li Hong.
After the man was rescued by Li Hong, he was grateful for Li Hong's kindness and said that he would protect the Zhou family's prosperity in Cangyuan Immortal City for a hundred years.
The Zhou family in Cangyuan Immortal City has been able to develop rapidly in these years because that man returned to the Tianding Sect and invited a golden elixir-level monk to come to Cangyuan Immortal City to take charge of the Zhou family for twenty years.
Li Hong was also a man who knew how to cause trouble. With the help of the golden elixir monk, he raised a tiger-skin banner and used it to cut almost three pieces of cake from the cake of Cangyuan Immortal City.
One share goes to the Zhou family.
Today, the Zhou family in Cangyuan Immortal City already has two monks in the Zifu stage, twenty-five monks in the foundation-building stage, and there are also twenty or thirty vassal foundation-building monks under their control.
"The ancestors have sharp eyes and can see the key at a glance. The younger generation has also discovered this. In these years, with the help of that person's relationship, a place has been prepared in Dayun Country. Even if he is kicked out by then,
Cangyuan Immortal City, with the resources and wealth we have accumulated over the years, and the relationship with that person, we can continue to maintain the family inheritance!"
Li Hong looked at Zhou Yang, admiration flashed in his eyes, and then he expressed his plan respectfully.
This is a typical example of him grabbing a handful and running away, which is what casual cultivators often do. It seems that although he has become accustomed to being the leader of a force, some of the habits he developed when he was a casual cultivator have not been discarded.
Zhou Yang was thinking about this and couldn't help but said: "This is just a last resort. The Zhou family is not a small family now. If you rashly move into Dayun Country, you will definitely be squeezed out by the original forces in the local immortal world. Even if
If you have the favor of the Tianding Sect person, this kind of exclusion will not be eliminated, but it may make them more vigilant and united."
"Which of the family forces that can be passed down in the Dayun Kingdom for thousands of years has a deep relationship with the sects in the Dayun Kingdom? Even if the person you rely on is of noble birth, after all, his cultivation level is still low. I'm afraid that if something happens to him, he may not be able to help him.
I can help you again."
When Li Hong heard what he said, his expression suddenly condensed.
Zhou Yang's words hit the point, and this was exactly what he was worried about.
He looked at Zhou Yang with a solemn expression, suddenly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "Please ask the ancestors for advice from the younger generation!"
He was a smart man and knew that since Zhou Yang said that his strategy was a strategy for the bottom, he must have already had a strategy for the top, otherwise he would at most be pointing out the flaws of his strategy.
"It's very simple. Ancestor, I came out in disguise to warn the current city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, so that they can't figure out how many forces are standing behind you. When the time comes, if you spit out something appropriately, you can keep you safe for another hundred years.
Got it!"
Zhou Yang smiled calmly on his face and whispered his strategy.
"But ancestor, you..."
Li Hong looked at him hesitantly, not knowing whether he should express his worries.
"You want to say that my ancestor is still wanted by the [Backlight Alliance], right? Don't worry, since I said this, ancestor, I am naturally sure that people will not recognize my origin."
Zhou Yang glanced at him and reassured him with confidence.
When Li Hong heard this, his face suddenly relaxed, and he responded with a happy face: "My ancestor said this, and this junior will feel relieved."
"But there is no rush to do this. You can wait until my ancestor leaves before doing it. Now let's talk about recognizing our ancestors and returning to our clan."
Zhou Yang nodded slightly, then changed the topic and talked about his main purpose of coming to the far west this time.
After he returned to the Immortal Cultivation World of Boundless Sand Sea from Liuyun Continent, he summoned Zhou Guangxiang and other senior members of the clan to explain his upcoming trip and his arrangements.
But at the meeting, Zhou Guangxiang suggested that he go to the far west again and make some arrangements for the family branches here.
After Zhou Yang thought about it for a while, he accepted Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion, and then he made his trip to the far west.
At this moment, he looked at Li Hong with deep eyes and said in a deep voice: "Ancestor, in addition to providing assistance to your family branches, I am here this time to bring some outstanding clansmen from your side to the boundless sand sea.
The Immortal Cultivation World recognizes their ancestors and returns to their clan, and even takes them to the Liuyun Continent Cultivation World to practice, what do you think about this matter?"
Recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan is just a nice way of saying it. In fact, bringing people back from a family branch in the far west means that the main family draws blood from the branches to strengthen itself, avoiding the situation where the main branch is weak and the branch is strong.
This was also Zhou Yang's intention when he asked the Zhou family to split up and establish various branches.
Separating families can not only reduce the burden of supplying some resources of the main family, but also stimulate the competitive spirit of each branch family and the monks of the main family, and strengthen the hematopoietic function of the family.
As for the hidden dangers caused by the separation of the family, with Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, in charge, they are not worth mentioning compared to the benefits.
Even if Zhou Yang is gone in the future, as long as the main family is strong enough, each branch must maintain its loyalty to the Zhou family even in order to continue to obtain advanced treasures such as Foundation Building Pills and [Purple Heart Chalcedony] from the main family.
Of course, all of the above are just Zhou Yang's own subjective conjectures. What he has to do now is to turn his original ideas into reality.
And Li Hong, will he agree?
Under Zhou Yang's gaze, Li Hong's expression changed slightly, and then he nodded with a smile and said: "Of course I agree with my ancestor's proposal. It is for us monks from branch families to be able to return to our family and recognize our ancestors."
pleasure!"
"You can think so, ancestor, I am very happy, then this matter is settled."
Zhou Yang also had a cheerful smile on his face and decided on the matter on the spot.
Therefore, in the next six months, Zhou Yang cooperated with Li Hong and caused many incidents of attacks and disappearances of monks from the Zhou family.
Because the current situation of the Zhou family is somewhat delicate, the attack and disappearance of the monks of the Zhou family has attracted the attention of many forces in the Yu State, but these forces have a tacit understanding and no one is actively investigating this matter.
Why are they investigating this?
If the disappearance of the Zhou monks was caused by one of them, trying to investigate the truth would only embarrass the other party.
If these missing Zhou family monks were directed and acted by the Zhou family, it means that the Zhou family has already understood and prepared to withdraw from the Yu Kingdom. They only need to wait patiently for the Zhou family to withdraw and take over the territory left by the Zhou family's withdrawal.
But when Zhou Wannian, another Zifu period monk of the Zhou family besides Li Hong, also happened, all the forces in Cangyuan Immortal City immediately realized that they were in big trouble.
Among the news from the Zhou family to the outside world, Zhou Wannian died after going out to investigate the missing monks of the Zhou family. The soul cards he left behind in the family exploded on the spot, including the soul cards of the Zhou family's foundation-building monks that had disappeared before. After Zhou Wannian's soul cards exploded,
They exploded together.
It can be seen from this that this is a conspiracy to deliberately target and weaken the Zhou family.
As the actual person in power of the Zhou family, Li Hong roared at the city lord's palace, asking the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City to find out the origin of the murderer and give an explanation to the Zhou family. At the same time, he released the news that he would hire someone to bring justice to the Zhou family.
Then less than half a month later, before all the forces had recovered from this change, a piece of news shocked them again.
The current city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, Zhao Jingming, a fifth-level golden elixir monk, was in the city lord's mansion when a mysterious golden elixir level monk came to warn him. The meaning revealed in his words was that he came to vent his anger on the Zhou family.
And with Zhao Jingming's cultivation level, he didn't catch the other party, and he couldn't even figure out whether the other party was a boy or a girl.
Thinking of Li Hong's arrogance a few days ago, those forces who wanted to take advantage of the Zhou family couldn't help but fall silent.
They still haven't figured out the depth of the relationship between the Zhou family and the Tianding Sect, and now the Zhou family has invited a Golden Core monk who is proficient in stealth and stealth to come forward.
If they wanted to take action against the Zhou family again, they would really have to consider whether they could resist the assassination attempt by that mysterious Golden Core monk.
Therefore, after various overt and covert confrontations, Li Hong finally reached a reconciliation with those forces on behalf of the Zhou family. The Zhou family gave up part of the territory and interests it had previously occupied, and each family was no longer allowed to exclude the Zhou family openly.
At this time, only Li Hong and a dozen foundation-building monks were left among the top leaders of the Zhou family. Their strength had declined by several percent compared to before. In fact, they no longer had any threat to all forces.
So after learning from Li Hong that the Tianding Sect would not interfere in Yu State's affairs, those forces held their noses and admitted the matter.
At this time, after Zhou Yang left three copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] and fifteen Foundation Establishment Pills to Li Hong, he returned to Wubian with the eight Foundation Establishment monks and one Zifu Stage monk who had been declared "fallen".
Sand Sea Cultivation World.
Returning to the Immortal Cultivation World of the Boundless Sand Sea, Zhou Yang personally presided over the ancestor recognition ceremony for Zhou Wannian and other family branch monks, and then prepared to bring Zhou Wannian, a monk in the Purple Mansion Stage, and Zhou Shimin, a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and Zhou Shijie, three of the Zhou families in the far west
The monks, mixed with several other Zhou family monks from the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation World, headed to the Liuyun Continent Cultivation World together.
"Jin Peng, I will leave the Zhou family to you to take care of. Please remember my instructions and stay away from the Duanyun Mountain Range!"
At the top of Lingxi Peak, Zhou Yang gently stroked the head of his beloved golden-winged thunder eagle and gave his final instructions with a serious face.
The fifth-level low-grade demonic beast, the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle, was the trump card he left to the Zhou family. With this clan-suppressing spiritual bird, no one in the boundless sea of sand and immortal world could shake the Zhou family's status.
"Don't worry, Master. Jin Peng will definitely remember your instructions, take good care of the Zhou family for you, and will never let you down!"
Zhou Jinpeng narrowed his eagle eyes slightly and enjoyed the touch of his master, and responded to his master's instructions with eloquent words.
Being able to speak people's words is the key to Zhou Yang's confidence in letting the golden-winged thunder eagle take over the Zhou family.
The intelligence of the fifth-level monster is no worse than that of humans. Zhou Jinpeng can speak human words and communicate with others, and can easily exchange intelligence information with the people of the Zhou family. Once it encounters any situation, it can order the Zifu period monks of the Zhou family to cooperate.
It fights and provides assistance to it.
What Zhou Yang is most worried about is that the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle will be discovered by the demon kings in the Duanyun Mountain Range, which will definitely bring disaster to the Zhou family.
Therefore, he repeatedly warned Zhou Jinpeng to stay away from the Duanyun Mountain Range.
Fortunately, Zhou Jinpeng was raised by him since he was a child and signed the [Demon Soul Contract] with him. He has no sense of identification with the demon clan in the Duanyun Mountain Range, otherwise he would not dare to leave it alone no matter what.
He is in charge of the Zhou family.
After soothing and instructing his beloved pet, Zhou Yang took Zhou Wannian and other seven younger monks of the Zhou family to the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent.
The journey was uneventful. After returning to the Immortal Realm of Liuyun Continent, Zhou Yang placed the seven descendant monks of the Zhou family he brought back with the Zhou family of Daoxuan Kingdom and asked them to follow the Zhou family monks there to familiarize themselves with the new environment, while he returned
I rushed to Xuanshan Mountain and prepared to retreat to attack the late stage of Jindan again.
Originally, he failed in his attempt to attack the late stage of Golden Core last time, so he wanted to slowly rise up through decades of hard work.
But plans never change as fast as they do. Now he will soon go to Donghua Continent to cultivate immortality. He will definitely encounter a lot of dangerous battles by then. With his current level of cultivation at the sixth level of the Golden Core, he always feels that it is not enough.
Insurance.
If he could break through to the seventh level of the Golden Core and enter the later stage of the Golden Core, at least during the Golden Core stage, he would not have to worry about anyone being able to beat him.
And as long as he enters the late stage of Jindan, he can reluctantly activate the [Suppressing Sky Canglong Cauldron] to assist him in continuing to practice the fourth level of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique", once again greatly improving his actual combat ability.
These benefits are all visible. For these reasons, Zhou Yang will try again.
Fortunately he succeeded.
After taking three elixirs to improve his cultivation at one time, and with the help of the violent medicinal power brought by the elixirs, he finally broke through and entered the late stage of the golden elixir.
However, the sequelae of this forced breakthrough were also very serious. His meridians and Dantian were severely damaged by the violent elixir. Under normal circumstances, he would not be able to recover without thirty to fifty years of recuperation.
But this normal situation lost its effect on Zhou Yang.
After he took a drop of [Rejuvenation Immortal Dew], and then the Taoist monks used the [Wonderful Method Qinghua Creation Xuanguang] that they had successfully cultivated for auxiliary treatment, and he quickly recovered 80% of his injuries, except for the wounds in his Dantian that had not yet fully recovered.
But this injury no longer affects his ability to practice the body-refining magical power of "Canglong Body Refining Technique".
Time did not allow Zhou Yang to delay any further. He quickly used the [Suppressing Sky Canglong Cauldron], poured in the spiritual blood of the sixth-level dragon, and practiced the "Canglong Body Refining Technique" with the help of this sixth-level mid-grade magic weapon.
The fourth floor.
It was more than a hundred years later that he practiced this magical power of body refining again. With the correct method, when he practiced this magical power again, his progress was indeed a thousand miles away, which was far from what he had been before.
However, practicing this way consumes the dragon's spiritual blood very quickly. In less than five years, all the sixth-level dragon's spiritual blood in Zhou Yang's hands was completely consumed.
But he is still a little short of reaching the fourth level of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique".
This cannot but be said to be a pity.
Zhou Yang could only sigh: "Time is also fate!"
If he hadn't forced himself to practice the fourth level of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique" and wasted a lot of dragon spiritual blood before he obtained the correct cultivation method, the amount of sixth-level dragon spiritual blood he had prepared would be enough for him to use this body refining magical power.
I have reached the fourth level of practice.
But the reality is that although his physical strength has been greatly enhanced again, he is still far away from reaching the fourth level of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique".
Without cultivating the fourth level of "Canglong Body Refining Technique", he would not be able to master the fighting magical power of [Canglong Transformation], and his strength would not be qualitatively improved.
"But it doesn't matter. The Donghua Continent Cultivation Realm is adjacent to the East China Sea, and the East China Sea is the headquarters of the dragon clan in this world. When I get there, I can naturally purchase the spiritual blood of the fifth-level dragon at a high price, or even the life essence blood of the fifth-order dragon to help me.
I will practice this magical power to the fourth level!"
Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, and he quickly put away his regrets and walked out of the cave.
At this time, there are still four to five years before the auction of quotas for the cross-immortal teleportation array mentioned by Xu Zhengyang. Zhou Yang does not plan to continue practicing any magical powers in seclusion, but is preparing to do another big thing.
He wanted to go to the boundless snowfield again to find and pick the rare spiritual object [Ice Tears] that the "Bingyi man" told him about.
[Ice Tears] can help immortal cultivators overcome the "inner demon tribulation". This thing is something Zhou Yang must obtain before he transforms his elixir into a baby.
Now that he is already at the seventh level of the Golden Core, he is not that far away from the ninth level of the Golden Core. Therefore, he wants to get this spiritual object before going to the world of immortal cultivation in Donghua Continent.
He had a hunch that his trip to the world of immortality in Donghua Continent would definitely not end so easily. There was no way he could stay there for hundreds or even hundreds of years.
If that were the case, he would definitely look for an opportunity to transform into an elixir and form an infant there directly, instead of having to wait until he returns to the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent to do this.
And according to what the "Broken Yi Man" said at the time, the guardian monster of [Ice Tears] is a fifth-level high-grade monster [Three Ice Vultures]. This monster is only one step away from being promoted to the sixth level. It is very powerful and difficult to deal with.
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Zhou Yang didn't think that the "Bing Yi man" would deliberately exaggerate the strength of [Three Ice Eagles]. On the contrary, he felt that if it were him, under the circumstances, he might deliberately exaggerate.
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Therefore, just in case, he made another trip to Luming Valley before setting off to the boundless snowfield.
Many years ago, he used a loan of five million low-grade spiritual stones in exchange for a favor from Master Bailu, a monk at the Nascent Soul stage in Luming Valley. The other party promised that he would take action for him within his ability.
This time Zhou Yang went to Luming Valley to ask him to secretly escort him to the boundless snowfield, just in case something unexpected happened.
"I didn't expect that little friend would have such an opportunity to find even a spiritual object like [Ice Tears]!"
In Luming Valley, when Master Bailu heard Zhou Yang's intention, he also expressed a look of surprise.
Only Yuanying stage monks like him understand how terrifying the "Heart Demon Tribulation" is. It is definitely a nightmare that every Yuanying stage monk does not want to recall.
Master Bai Lu has no use for [Ice Tears] now. Otherwise, if he learns about this kind of spiritual creature, he is not sure whether he will have the idea of killing Zhou Yang and swallowing [Ice Tears] alone.
At this time, after he marveled, he nodded to Zhou Yang and said: "I can accompany my little friend to the boundless snowfield, but I also have to make an agreement with my little friend in advance. If I encounter a sixth-level snowfield,
If the demon king blocks it, I may not be able to take the little friend away safely, and the little friend must understand this!"
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately responded solemnly: "If we really encounter that kind of situation, it is also the fate of the younger generation. I will never dare to resent the seniors for this!"
After saying this, Zhou Yang immediately headed to the boundless snowfield with Master Bailu.
The escape speed of the Nascent Soul Stage monks is so fast. It took Zhou Yang and Xu Zhengyang several months to fly, but Master Bailu arrived in less than half the time.
However, even Master Bailu, after arriving in the boundless snowfield, did not dare to move forward at full speed like he did in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent. Instead, he carefully restrained his aura and slowed down by most of his speed.
But the Nascent Soul Stage monks are Yuanying Stage monks after all, and the range of their spiritual consciousness alone is completely beyond the reach of the Golden Core Stage monks.
As long as he is responsible for pointing out the direction to Master Bailu on the road to Zhou Yang, the other party can perfectly avoid the fifth-level monsters along the way and easily sneak into the depths of the snowfield. It is many times easier than when he and Xu Zhengyang were cautious and walked on thin ice.
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Of course, this is only limited to the outer areas of the boundless snowfield. There are no sixth-order demon kings in the outer areas, and of course, Nascent Soul stage monks are allowed to come and go.
Deep in the snowfields, once a monk of the Nascent Soul Stage such as Bailu Zhenren steps into the places where the sixth-level demon kings are entrenched, unless he has practiced the hidden aura magical power such as "Hidden Dragon to Avoid Disaster", it will be easy for him to
Sensed by the sixth-level demon kings.
Fortunately, the place where [Ice Tears] grows is just at the junction of the outer area and the central area of the boundless snowfield, otherwise Bailu Zhenren might not really be willing to make this trip with Zhou Yang.