In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang has been in charge of Haoyang Grottoes for three years.
In the past three years, he basically did not leave Haoyang Cave. In addition to daily practice, he was either studying the weapon refining inheritance he received from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, or accompanying his mother Lin Yuting to experience the life of ordinary people in mortal cities.
Lin Yuting was only a few years younger than Zhou Xuanhao. After Zhou Xuanhao established the foundation, it became impossible for the couple to grow old together. Therefore, in the last ten or twenty years of her life, she did not choose to stay with her husband in the Baisha River Oasis.
Instead, he came to Haoyang Cave to accompany Zhou Yang, his only son.
Zhou Yang actually understood the thoughts of his mother Lin Yuting. He knew that his mother Lin Yuting came to accompany him. In addition to wanting to make up for the separation of mother and son in the past twenty or thirty years, she also did not want her middle-aged husband to watch him with his own eyes.
Getting older every day.
It's not like he hasn't fantasized about helping his mother Lin Yuting enter the foundation-building stage, but unfortunately every time he has such fantasies, he is shattered by bloody facts.
Not to mention that Lin Yuting is now nearly a hundred years old and has only reached the eighth level of Qi cultivation, but her own weak will may not be able to pass the "divine consciousness level".
If it were his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu, Zhou Yang would not worry about this at all.
It's not impossible to change a person's will, but Lin Yuting's current situation obviously means that she doesn't have time to do this. What's more, Zhou Yang can't get the second Foundation Establishment Pill at all.
So what he can do is to spend more time with his mother in the next ten or twenty years, accompany her through the last days of her life, and prevent her from leaving any regrets.
On this day, Zhou Yang was accompanying his mother Lin Yuting at the oasis to help his eighth aunt Zhou Xuanyan build an oasis, when he suddenly received a distress call from the Chiyan iron ore vein.
After reading the transmission notes, his face sank at first, and then quickly returned to normal.
There was a slight smile on his face, and he nodded lightly to his mother Lin Yuting and eighth aunt Zhou Xuanyan who were looking at him: "It's nothing serious. It's just that a few blind monsters broke into the mine and hurt people. I'll go
I'll take care of it and come back."
The truth is of course not as simple as he said.
If it was really just an ordinary monster that broke into the mine tunnel and hurt people, it would have been destroyed by Thirteenth Aunt Zhou Xuanying who was in charge there.
You must know that as the Red Flame iron ore vein is put into mining, the net income generated by this vein for the Zhou family has reached 700 spirit stones every year, and this amount is still growing every year, and is expected to stabilize at 1,500 spirit stones in the end.
Annual income is no problem.
It was precisely when he saw that the benefits of this vein were so obvious that Zhou Yang sent his thirteenth aunt Zhou Xuanying, who was at the seventh level of Qi training, to the mine to guard the miners nearby, even though he had the spiritual vein in Haoyang Cave.
Now even Zhou Xuanying, who is on the seventh level of Qi training, needs to send a transmission note to him for help. It can be seen that the strength of the monsters appearing in the mine must be no less than the second-level high-grade monster "Eater" he encountered in the refined iron veins.
Golden Rat".
"It's a second-level high-grade monster [Flame-Eating Spider], and there are at least five of them. When the miners were mining, they accidentally dug above the nests of these beasts. As a result, there were twenty or thirty miners all at once.
They were wrapped in spider silk and dragged away. Now I have temporarily closed the mine, waiting for you, the clan leader, to take care of it."
Seeing Zhou Yang falling on the flying sword, Zhou Xuanying, who sent out a distress signal from the mine, quickly came over to report the situation to him.
When Zhou Yang heard the words "Flame-Eating Spider", he raised his eyebrows and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.
Just like its name, the "Flame-Eating Spider" likes to devour flames and fire-attributed heaven and earth spiritual objects, so it often appears in volcanic and hot places. As a fire-attributed spiritual object, Red Flame Iron is unreasonable for such a monster to appear under its mineral veins.
normal.
Creatures like spiders are the best at hiding themselves. The "Flame-eating Spider" hides under the mineral veins tens of meters deep. Even if a monk in the foundation building stage like Zhou Yang scans the ground below with his spiritual consciousness, it is difficult to find the sleeping one with restrained breath.
they.
He nodded with a clear face and said with a serious face: "I already understand the situation. You did the right thing, Thirteenth Aunt. Now you continue to be responsible for evacuating and comforting the frightened miners. I will go down to see the situation in person and then decide what to do."
How to do it."
After saying that, he released the flying sword to break through the entrance of the mine that was sealed by Zhou Xuanying with the Dragon Breaking Stone. He moved directly into the mine.
Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness is so powerful. The mine at the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein has only been excavated for a few years, and the mine tunnel is still shallow. As soon as he entered the mine, his spiritual consciousness scanned and discovered the "Devouring Flame"
Where spiders hunt miners.
However, his unscrupulous fluctuations in consciousness also alarmed the group of "Flame-Eating Spiders" hiding underground. After these underground killers sensed his powerful fluctuations in consciousness, they immediately erupted with auras all over their bodies to warn him.
There are eight of these "flame-eating spiders" in total. Each one is as big as a calf. Their carapace is bright red. Their eight fist-sized compound eyes are full of ferocity and violence. Even if they sense Zhou Yang
After the breath of the foundation-building monk, they did not show any fear, but instead released a strong hostility to warn him.
"roll!"
Zhou Yang shouted in his mouth, and his spiritual consciousness suddenly suppressed, instantly crushing all the ferocity and violent will emanating from the "Flame-Eating Spiders" into pieces.
Zhizhizhi——
A sharp scream filled with anger sounded from deep in the mine tunnel. The group of "Flame-eating Spiders" had been angered by Zhou Yang's attitude, and actually took the initiative to get out of the nest and appeared in the mine tunnel.
"Hmph, it is said that insect monsters have the lowest intelligence among monsters. It is true when we see it today. A mere second-order high-grade monster dares to attack the foundation-building monks. It is really reckless!"
Zhou Yang snorted coldly, showing disdain for the "Flame-Eating Spiders" group's overestimating behavior.
With a pinch of the sword secret in his hand and the activation of his spiritual consciousness, the third-level low-grade flying sword "Red Mysterious Golden Light Sword" slashed at those "Flame-Eating Spiders" that emerged with a brilliant sword light.
When the sword light struck, the group of "flame-eating spiders" certainly did not wait to be killed. They opened their mouths and spit out spider silk and shot towards the sword light, in an attempt to stop the sword light.
The spider silk of the "Flame-Eating Spider" is red in color, harder than fine iron, and full of toughness. If an ordinary second-level flying sword is entangled in this spider silk, it will soon be wrapped up and lose contact with the monk.
And because the "Flame-eating Spider" likes to eat flames and fire-attributed spiritual objects, its silk is not as afraid of fire as other spider silks and silk, and it can even weaken the power of spells when it resists fire spell attacks.
In the world of cultivating immortals, a robe made of "Flame-eating Spider" spider silk is more expensive than an ordinary second-level mid-grade magic weapon, and it is extremely popular.
However, these "Flame-Eating Spiders" obviously miscalculated today.
Under Zhou Yang's red-gold sword light that was as bright as the golden scorching sun, the spider silk they shot out was like the white snow on the mountain, and was crushed into powder on the spot by the bright sword light.
The sword light passed around several "Flame-Eating Spiders", but it did not kill any of the monsters. It only cut off half of their spider legs, causing them to temporarily lose their ability to move.
When the remaining "Flame-eating Spiders" saw this, they were immediately frightened and angry. The eight fist-sized eyes under their abdomen were full of fear and anger. They looked at Zhou Yang and screamed, and their bodies couldn't help but scream.
He backed up in the direction he came from.
No matter how low their intelligence was, they already knew after seeing this scene that the creature that walked upright on two legs was something they couldn't afford to offend.
The instinct of animals tells them that they can only save their lives by staying away from the upright walking creature.
"You want to run away now? Don't you think it's too late?"
Zhou Yang had a cold smile on his face and was not ready to let go of the remaining "Flame-Eating Spiders".
He activated the sword technique in his hand, and the "Red Mysterious Golden Light Sword" turned into a red-gold sword light again and chased the remaining "Flame-Eating Spiders".
These "flame-eating spiders" move very quickly in the mines. They can move several feet horizontally with one pull of their eight legs, which is simply not something that humans can catch up with.
It's a pity that no matter how fast they run, they can't run faster than Zhou Yang's flying sword.
Zhou Yang wielded the sword with his spiritual consciousness, and when the sword light flashed, all the "flame-eating spiders" who escaped followed in the footsteps of his companions. He cut off half of the spider legs and collapsed in the mine.
"If you dare to eat the people of my Zhou family, you should all be killed. But killing you like this would be too easy for you. Let's spare your lives and let you spin silk for my Zhou family all your life to atone for your sins."
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In the mine, Zhou Yang withdrew his flying sword and looked at the "Flame-Eating Spider" struggling and hissing all over the ground, a cold look flashing in his eyes.
Just like what he said, if he hadn't taken a fancy to the effect of the silk spun by the "Flame-eating Spider", he would never have shown mercy to these beasts for eating people.
These "Flame-Eating Spiders" are adult beasts that can no longer be tamed and kept in captivity. He is leaving these beasts alive now just to squeeze out their residual value. When these beasts can no longer spin silk, that is the day they die.
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It just so happens that there are two spirit beast rooms in his Haoyang Cave that are not yet in use. The eight "Flame-eating Spiders" here can just be divided into two batches and imprisoned inside. There is a third-level low-grade formation "Garrison Earth Golden Ge Formation" there.
"Suppression, even if he leaves Haoyang Cave for something in the future, he is not afraid that these beasts will turn against him.
The vitality of spider monsters is extremely powerful, and almost all of them have the ability to regenerate their broken limbs. Zhou Yang is not worried about a few "flame-eating spiders" dying from the injuries of their broken legs. He also intends to punish these man-eating beasts.
, instead of knocking them out and healing them immediately, they used the "Earth Escape Technique" to bypass these beasts and escape into their lairs.
As expected by Zhou Yang, in addition to the bones of monster beasts that had been eaten by the "Flame-eating Spiders" in the past, there were also the corpses of Zhou family miners that had been swept away by them. Most of the corpses of these miners were wrapped in spider silk and hung.
On the cave wall, there were only four or five corpses that had been eaten until only bones and clothing were left on the ground.
After looking at the hanging corpses in silence for a while, he waved his sleeves, released his flying sword, cut open the silk sac, released all the shriveled corpses inside, and dropped them to the ground. Then he removed all the "Flame-Eating Spider" silk from the nest.
Packed and stored in a storage bag, these are good materials for weapon refining.
Suddenly, Zhou Yang's face lit up, as if he had discovered something good, and he quickly strode to a corner of the lair.
On top of a ball of red spider silk in the corner, there were more than a dozen fist-sized spider silk egg bags piled up, each egg bag containing a white spider egg the size of an egg.