The Zhuque Mountain Range is located in the boundary area between the southwest of the Immortal Cultivation World of Donghua Continent and the Immortal Cultivation World of Tiannan Continent.
The border area between these two realms of cultivation is full of barren mountains and rivers, filled with monsters, poisonous insects, and many evil cultivators. Evil cultivators are hiding in it. Without the cultivation of the Golden Core stage, it is difficult to cross this area alive.
The Vermillion Bird Mountain Range is extremely dangerous in this area, because it is said that there is a sixth-level demon king lurking in the mountain range.
Normally, Zhou Yang would naturally stay away from such a place with a sixth-level demon king hidden cultivator, and would never get involved easily.
But now, in order to find Zhu Zizhen who entered the Zhuque Mountains, he could only go to Tiger Mountain knowing that there were tigers in the mountains.
He started from Donghua Fairy City, took a detour to visit the Goddess Palace, told his daughter his plan, and then headed straight for the Suzaku Mountains.
After two or three months of traveling like this, he finally arrived outside the Suzaku Mountains.
Looking at the Zhuque Mountains from a distance, thick smoke billows among the mountains, and blazing fire can be faintly seen.
In Zhou Yang's eyes, the Zhuque Mountain Range is an extremely active volcano group. There are thousands of active volcanoes scattered among the mountains stretching for tens of thousands of miles, with volcanic eruptions occurring almost every day.
In this world of cultivating immortals, volcanic eruptions will not only spew out magma and ash, but also spew out many spiritual objects bred in the sea of underground magma and fire.
Some immortal cultivators will rush there to look for the spiritual objects spewed out after a volcano erupts, but this requires extreme luck to gain anything.
There are many such cultivators in the Zhuque Mountains all year round waiting outside some active volcanoes, waiting for the volcano to erupt. Some monks with higher cultivation or more courage will also chase the erupting volcanoes, looking for those volcanic spiritual objects everywhere.
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This is very dangerous, because the real masters of the Suzaku Mountains are various monsters. There are many powerful fire monsters living here, and even some special types of monsters use volcanic lava as food and shelter.
Every year, many immortal cultivators are buried in the mouths of animals, without even leaving their bodies.
After Zhou Yang entered the Zhuque Mountains, he saw many monks fighting monsters. He was able to save almost all of them.
For him, saving people is just a good deed that can be done casually, and saving people also allows him to inquire about Zhu Zizhen's news, even if he actually knows that these monks whose highest level of cultivation is only in the foundation building stage are basically impossible to see
Zhu Zi’s true figure.
The only thing he could comfort himself with was that the Vermillion Bird Mountain Range was not that big, compared to his cultivation at the Golden Core stage.
He still had three or four years to search, which was enough time for him to search the entire Suzaku Mountains several times.
Of course, the monsters in the mountains would not easily allow him to do this.
So in the first half year, Zhou Yang often fought with some fifth-level monsters in the mountains.
Out of fear of the legendary sixth-level demon king who lived in seclusion in the Vermillion Bird Mountains, Zhou Yang easily did not kill those fifth-level demonic beasts. At most, he only severely injured them.
And what he did seemed to have some effect. At least he traveled through most of the Suzaku Mountains in half a year without attracting an attack from the legendary sixth-order demon king.
At the same time, in the past six months, many monks who were searching for treasures in the Zhuque Mountains knew that he was looking for someone in the Zhuque Mountains. Many monks who had been rescued by him also spontaneously helped him pay attention to this matter.
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On this day, Zhou Yang was flying in the mountains looking for traces of Zhu Zizhen, when suddenly an earth-shattering roar came from very far away.
He looked up to the sky, and saw that the sky in the distance had indeed turned red, and large gray-black shadows could be vaguely seen.
"Is there another big volcano erupting?"
A strange color flashed in his eyes. After Zhou Yang pondered for a moment, the auspicious clouds moved under his feet and he rushed over there.
The probability of such a large volcano erupting to spew out volcanic spiritual objects is many times that of small volcanoes.
In the past six months, Zhou Yang also found several volcanic spiritual objects in some volcanic eruptions, all of which were good materials for refining weapons.
Half a day later, Zhou Yang arrived outside the volcano eruption in a cloud.
Although half a day had passed at this time, the magma spewing out of the crater still showed no sign of stopping.
The magma spewing down from high places turned the area hundreds of miles around the crater into a large magma lake, and the volcanic ash floating in the sky formed a thick ash cloud that completely blocked the sunlight.
There is also the dark red firelight emitted by the magma on the ground, and this area of thousands of miles may have been plunged into eternal night.
After Zhou Yang watched from a distance, he plunged directly into the area covered with volcanic dust, and used his spiritual consciousness to scan the magma lake on the ground, looking for volcanic spiritual objects that might have fallen into it.
These volcanic spiritual objects are only easy to find when the magma has not cooled down. Once the magma solidifies and turns into volcanic rocks, it really depends on luck and patience to find the volcanic spiritual objects hidden deep in the rocks.
Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness is so powerful that he quickly rummaged through the magma lakes hundreds of miles away, and he did find several volcanic spiritual objects, including a precious fifth-level spiritual object [Thousand Years Old].
Fire Crystal Jade].
Although he knew that if he kept searching, he might gain something, Zhou Yang no longer planned to waste time searching anymore.
He didn't come to the Suzaku Mountains for these spiritual objects that could be bought with spiritual stones. Besides, he had already won the first prize, and the remaining bits of water should be left to the monks who made a living from this.
But just as he was about to leave, a muffled sound suddenly came from the crater of the volcano spewing magma, and the volcano erupted again!
A large amount of high-temperature magma poured out as the volcano erupted. Zhou Yang had no time to escape and could only activate the [Qianyang Sky Fire Shield] magical power to protect himself and resist the flooding of the volcanic magma.
Fortunately, the amount of volcanic magma that erupted this time was not as much as the first time. After Zhou Yang held on for a while, the surging magma calmed down. Although it would still overflow along the crater, it was no longer flying all over the sky like before.
"This is really..."
In the sky, Zhou Yang looked at the magma lake that had expanded a lot on the ground. He wanted to say that this was really bad luck.
But before he could finish his words, he suddenly turned his head to look at the crater in surprise.
There was still a muffled sound coming from the crater, but Zhou Yang felt that the muffled sound sounded like the roar of some kind of beast.
"What's going on? Could it be that the volcanic eruption just now was caused by monsters?"
A look of doubt flashed in his eyes, and Zhou Yang's heart suddenly moved. He couldn't help but hold up his protective shield and flew toward the crater.
Because he suddenly remembered that if the volcanic eruption was really caused by monsters, then the monster that caused all this would definitely not be a fifth-level monster, but probably the legendary sixth-order monster king who lived in seclusion in the Suzaku Mountains.
Naturally, the sixth-level demon king would not explode the volcano for no reason.
When he arrived at the crater, Zhou Yang listened carefully and heard a stronger muffled sound.
"Go down and have a look."
He looked at the surging sea of magma and fire below and pondered for a moment, then he cruelly used the [Flaming Dragon Shield] to activate the [Flaming Dragon Guardian] magical power, and then plunged into the sea of magma and fire under the protection of the flame dragon.
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Golden elixir stage monks have high magical power, so it is not difficult to enter and exit the sea of magma and fire, but it is very difficult to stay in the sea of magma and fire for a long time.
A monk in a sea of magma and fire must maintain defensive powers at all times to withstand the high temperature of the magma, which is equivalent to being attacked by another golden elixir stage monk all the time.
Zhou Yang has deep magical power and is a cultivator of fire-based techniques. The pressure he experiences in the sea of magma and fire is much less than that of cultivators who practice other types of techniques.
He continued to descend toward the bottom of the magma. The further down he went, the higher the temperature of the magma, and his mana consumption also increased.
But as you go deeper, the muffled sound becomes clearer, and even Zhou Yang can clearly feel the strong fluctuations in fighting skills.
This made him not surprised but happy, knowing that his guess might become a reality.
So his speed became faster and faster, and he rushed directly towards the place where the fighting wave came from.
Two quarters of an hour later, Zhou Yang finally felt a familiar aura, belonging to the "Suzaku Demon King" Zhu Zizhen.
In his induction, Zhu Zizhen's aura clearly had the upper hand in the battle, and the muffled roars coming from his opponents from time to time could also prove this.
Only because of the obstruction of the sea of magma and fire, Zhou Yang could not clearly see the appearance of the demon king who was fighting Zhu Zizhen.
But this is not important. Finding Zhu Zizhen is the purpose of his coming here. Now that the purpose has been achieved, he has no idea of risking getting involved in the battle between the two sixth-order demon kings.
So after releasing his own aura and conveying to Zhu Zizhen that he wanted to see the other party, he took the initiative to retreat back to the ground, patiently waiting for the end of the battle in the sea of magma and fire below.
This wait was long enough. Zhou Yang waited for more than half a month before the battle in the sea of magma and fire below truly ended.
As expected, Zhu Zi became the winner.
However, she only defeated the unknown demon king, not killed him. She didn't know whether it was because she didn't have the strength or because she was a demon king and deliberately let him go.
"Young boy from the human race, you don't really think that since I made a deal with you, you are really qualified to make a deal with me, right?"
Outside the crater, Zhu Zizhen, who had returned from victory, looked coldly at Zhou Yang, who had been waiting here for a long time, with a look of impatience on his face.
Zhou Yang appeared in the Zhuque Mountains, obviously looking for her and asking for something from her.
But she didn't think that Zhou Yang, a mere golden elixir stage monk, was qualified to make a deal with her.
Zhou Yang's heart skipped a beat when he heard her unpleasant tone, and he quickly bowed and said: "Senior, please calm down. I really have no choice but to come here to ask for help from my seniors. I don't mean to disturb you."
Good deeds from seniors.”
However, Zhu Zizhen didn't care about his salute at all, and just replied coldly: "What are your reasons, and what does it have to do with me? I didn't kill you before because of the face of the dead Lu Xuanji. You shouldn't
You think he is a dead man, but he still has the dignity to ask me to help you!"
"Senior Lu has been dead for many years. Of course, I don't dare to have such an idea. It's just that Senior Zhu is the only senior I know in the world of immortal cultivation in Donghua Continent. I am now desperate, even if I know that chasing after him rashly will make my senior unhappy.
, I can only boldly come over to see the seniors and ask the seniors to lend a helping hand to help the juniors this time!"
Zhou Yang finished these words with bitterness in his mouth, and before Zhu Zi actually refused, he immediately said: "Senior, please don't be too busy refusing, and listen to what I have to say first. I won't waste much of your time!"
"If you fart quickly, let it go!"
Zhu Zizhen shouted coldly with an impatient face, and reluctantly complied.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang didn't dare to waste any more time, and hurriedly told the other party the reason why he came to Donghua Continent to cultivate immortality this time, as well as the situation of his lover and daughter.
"It's a pity that a spiritual object like [True Phoenix's Blood] was wasted on an ant in the foundation-building stage whose cultivation level is less than the sixth level. What a cruel gift!"
This was the first sentence Zhu Zizhen said after listening to Zhou Yang's words. It was a very hurtful sentence.
But Zhou Yang could only pretend that he had not heard anything and looked at Zhu Zizhen eagerly, his eyes full of prayer and hope.
Seeing this, Zhu Zizhen said indifferently: "Helping you to save your daughter is just a small thing for me. No matter how powerful the Yulong family is, they can't reach out to the Immortal Realm of Liuyun Continent. I am not afraid of their revenge afterwards."
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"But why should I help you?"
Yes, why should Zhu Zi really help him?
Zhou Yang has thought about this question many times.
He and Zhu Zizhen didn't have much friendship, they were just acquaintances at most. It was just a dream to expect Zhu Zizhen to help him because of their friendship.
And he counted all the treasures on his body, and found that there seemed to be nothing on him that could be used as a bargaining chip to impress Zhu Zizhen, so that he would not hesitate to help.
So now that he heard Zhu Zizhen's words, he actually felt very guilty.
But he felt guilty. After listening to Zhu Zizhen's words, he didn't hesitate much and said immediately: "Of course I don't dare to ask my senior to help me in vain. I might as well offer a price. I am a little wealthy, so maybe I can get it."
Senior is satisfied."
"Oh, follow my price? Are you sure?"
Zhu Zizhen's cold eyes finally showed a trace of fluctuation. She looked at Zhou Yang with a slightly surprised expression, as if she didn't expect Zhou Yang to say this.
This is equivalent to giving her complete pricing power.
"Senior, it doesn't matter if you say it!"
Zhou Yang nodded and said with great certainty.
When Zhu Zizhen saw this, he seemed to understand something. He couldn't help but look at him with a half-smile and said, "I want a seventh-level immortal weapon as a reward for my action. Can you give it to me?"
And after hearing what she said like a lion, Zhou Yang actually replied with a serious face: "Although I know that senior is joking, I can still swear to senior that as long as senior helps junior this time, junior will be able to help junior in the future.
If you get this kind of treasure, you will definitely give it to your predecessors to repay today's kindness!"
"Hmph, it seems that I guessed it right. When you came to ask for my help, you didn't prepare anything as a reward. You just wanted to get away with nothing!"
Zhu Zizhen's pretty face turned cold, she snorted coldly, and looked at Zhou Yang with an extremely unkind look.
Zhou Yang gave her the crucial pricing power, which made her very suspicious, and then this test really revealed Zhou Yang's details.
Unexpectedly, after Zhou Yang heard what she said, he shook his head and said: "No, senior is wrong. It's not that I didn't prepare the reward. It's that I was afraid that the reward I prepared would not satisfy the senior, so I asked the senior to do it myself."
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"In fact, this junior definitely came here with great sincerity. If he hadn't known that senior was not interested in spiritual stones, he would have offered all his wealth, a total of more than five million spiritual stones, in exchange for senior's help!"
After he said this, he immediately took off the storage ring in his hand and handed it to Zhu Zizhen.
"This storage ring contains all the most precious treasures of this junior. If you don't believe what I just said, you can take a look."
Zhu Zizhen did not pick up the storage ring, but looked at him coldly and said: "Who do you think I am? A rag collector? Stop talking nonsense and get out of here before I have any murderous intentions."
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Not to mention that Zhou Yang was just a Golden Core Stage cultivator, even if he were an ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivator, with Zhu Zi's true cultivation level, he would not even look down on his little wealth.
And her patience was almost completely exhausted.
"Senior, how about you please listen to what this junior has to say?"
Zhou Yang took a deep breath, silently put the storage ring back on his finger, then looked at Zhu Zizhen and waved his hand, taking out three jade boxes.
He placed three jade boxes in front of him, opened them one by one for Zhu Zizhen to see, and then introduced: "These three jade boxes each contain a [Holy Infant Fruit] obtained from the secret realm of Kunxu Realm [Holy Infant Valley]
, a [Baby Pregnancy Pill], and a rare spiritual object [Ice Tears] that can reduce the power of [Inner Demon Tribulation], with the help of these three things, the younger generation has more than 60% chance of successfully conceiving a baby in the future!"
"As for the junior's strength, the seniors probably know something about it. I am not boasting. Ever since I succeeded in building the foundation and obtained the inheritance of the True Immortal from the Upper Realm, I have always been hard-pressed to meet opponents at the same level. Although I am only at the seventh level of the Golden Core, I
With cultivation level, I am 90% sure that I can kill a ninth-level Golden Core cultivator!"
Having said this, he saw that Zhu Zizhen's expression seemed to have changed, and he felt happy, and hurriedly said: "Yes, this junior has nothing worthy of senior's attention now, but with the junior's strength and growth rate, once the baby is successfully born in the future, thousands of years
There will never be a moment when I can stand shoulder to shoulder with you, my senior!"
"Senior, you are not one of those ordinary demon kings. You must understand the principle of sowing a grain of millet in spring and harvesting ten thousand grains in autumn. You will not pay much to help this junior overcome this difficulty. However, this junior and the monks from my family,
I will always be grateful for your kindness this time, and I will not hesitate to go through fire and water for you in the future!"
"You may not believe in this junior, but senior Lu Xuanji, you should believe it. When this junior was just a young monk in the foundation building period, he was valued and trained by senior Lu's junior brother, senior Qingyang, and he did not hesitate to help this junior many times. In this way,
I have been working without interruption for hundreds of years, just so that I can use this junior for my trip to [Qiongtian Wonderland]!"
"Senior, if you do this favor for me this time, when I am able to do something for you in the future, I will be in a world of swords and fire. As long as you say a word, I will not give up!"
Zhu Zizhen's complexion finally showed some changes.
She looked at Zhou Yang with a gloomy expression, and was silent for a while, with a hint of thinking in her eyes.
Investment is an art, no, investment is a technical activity.
The risk of investing ahead of time is particularly high.
Most people only see the cases of those who succeeded, but fail to see the countless times more losers.
In fact, the vast majority of successful early investors do not rely on extraordinary vision, but on large-scale investments that cast a wide net.
The key point of batch investment is to choose projects with a small investment amount but a large return on investment.
The small amount of investment means that the loss from failure is very small. Even if you fail ninety-nine times and only succeed once, you will be able to reap hundreds of times or hundreds of times of high returns in the end!
Zhou Yang has been invested twice in his life. Cao Wenjin, a golden elixir monk from Huangshamen, invested in him at the beginning and received several times the reward afterwards.
However, the rewards that Master Qingyang and Lu Xuanji received from investing in him are now immeasurable, because as his cultivation level becomes higher and higher, the income from this investment will become greater and greater.
The first two investments were made by others who were optimistic about his potential and took the initiative to invest in him.
But this time, it was him who came to seek investment from others.
As an investor, how to make investors believe in your potential and make them willing to invest in you is also a science.
The best way is to let your grades speak for themselves.
Therefore, Zhou Yang first came up with three kinds of spiritual objects to assist in the formation of babies, so that Zhu Zizhen could really see his investment potential, and believed that this investment would not be wasted easily.
Then he used the successful cases of Qingyang Zhenren and Lu Xuanji to tell the other party that he was a blue-chip stock with a history of successfully returning investors. His character and reputation were trustworthy, and he did not have to worry about defaulting on his debt after investing.
Now, everything he can do has been done, and the final result depends on Zhu Zizhen's own wishes.
If Zhu Zi is really the kind of person who doesn't want to take any risks, the kind of person who doesn't have any investment awareness or ideas, he has no choice but to hurry up and find a new home.
"Boy, you have successfully aroused my interest, but if you want me to help you, you must first promise me something, something that may cost you your life. Do you dare to agree?"
Zhu Zizhen stopped thinking, looked at Zhou Yang playfully, and expressed his thoughts.
"I wonder if senior can tell me what it is?"
Zhou Yang suppressed the joy in his heart and asked seriously.
"It's very simple. Accompany me into the [Suzaku Secret Realm] and help me do some pathfinding."
Zhu Zizhen's lips curled up, and a rare smile appeared on his face.
Zhou Yang's face suddenly froze.
In fact, he had already guessed why Zhu Zizhen appeared in the Zhuque Mountains.
Back in the [Qiongtian Wonderland], Lu Xuanji promised to tell her about the [Suzaku Secret Realm] in order to get Zhu Zizhen to help with all his strength to deal with the [Splitting Heavenly Demon].
Zhou Yang was also present at the time, and of course he heard about it.
This time when he learned that Zhu Zi really appeared in the Suzaku Mountains, he guessed that the so-called [Suzaku Secret Realm] should be here.
Having previously discovered that Zhu Zizhen was fighting with the demon king who was cultivating in the Suzaku Mountains, he deduced that the two sides must be fighting for the ownership of the [Suzaku Secret Realm].
But what he didn't expect was that Zhu Zizhen would actually ask him, a human monk, to follow him into the [Suzaku Secret Realm].
Naturally, he was unwilling to enter such a dangerous secret territory, let alone engage in the cannon fodder job of exploring the path.
But he knew that once he refused, he would not think that Zhu Zi would really help rescue his wife and children.
So after hesitating for a long time with a stiff face, he finally said bravely: "The [Suzaku Secret Realm] should be the secret realm left by your demon ancestors, seniors. Is it really appropriate for me, a human monk, to enter it?"
"If the king says it's appropriate, then it's appropriate. You just need to answer whether you are willing."
Zhu Zizhen looked at him indifferently and spoke directly to break the last trace of luck in his heart.
"Then there will be no problem, junior. I will be happy to serve senior!"
Zhou Yang said with a forced smile on his face, cupped his hands, and reluctantly agreed.