Chapter 665: The Secret of the Guo Family in Tongcheng!
Also as a thunder magic power, there are still many differences between the [Nine Heavens Qian Yang Demon-Destroying Divine Thunder] and the [Qian Yang Divine Thunder] that Zhou Yang once practiced.
[Qianyang Divine Thunder] is a variant of the "Gengjin Divine Thunder" among the Five Elements Divine Thunder. It is a metallic divine thunder.
The [Nine Heavens Qianyang Demon-Destroying Divine Thunder] is a real fire-attributed divine thunder, and to use this kind of divine thunder, you need to use the [Qianyang True Fire] as a guide to succeed.
At the same time, the power of this magical power did not disappoint Zhou Yang, who had always had high expectations for it.
The magical power that has only been initially cultivated is no weaker than some sixth-level low-grade fire attribute spell attacks. If this magical power can be cultivated to the level of Dacheng, this magical power alone will have the power to threaten the late Nascent Soul monks.
However, it is extremely difficult to cultivate a great magical power to the state of great achievement. It is not only possible to study hard and practice hard, but also to understand the laws contained in the magical power.
In other words, if Zhou Yang wants to practice [Nine Heavens Qianyang Demon-Destroying Divine Thunder] to the level of great achievement, he must understand the fire laws related to magical powers, so that he can draw the power of the laws into the magical powers when he uses them. Among them, the magical power is doubled.
It is not easy to comprehend the laws. The cultivation in the Nascent Soul stage only gives you the preliminary qualifications to comprehend the laws.
In fact, among the ten Nascent Soul stage monks, there may not be even one who can truly understand a certain law.
Generally speaking, Yuanying monks will only start to focus on this aspect after their cultivation reaches the late stage of Yuanying. Before that, Yuanying monks' energy is mainly focused on improving their cultivation.
There is another exception, that is, some Nascent Soul stage monks are stuck in front of a certain bottleneck for a long time and cannot break through. In order to break through the bottleneck and enhance their own strength, they are willing to spend a lot of time and energy on it.
Although Zhou Yang has a great advantage over other Nascent Soul monks in understanding the laws of fire with the help of [Qian Yang Orb], he obviously does not intend to invest too much before his cultivation reaches an obvious bottleneck. Focus on this aspect.
This time I have spent more than ten years practicing the great magical power [Nine Heavens Qianyang Demon-Destroying Divine Thunder], completely to make up for my shortcomings in my own offensive magical power.
"Husband, this is the news that Cheng'er asked the family members to send from Xuanyang Immortal Sect. It says that the information you originally ordered the Xuanyang Immortal Sect's intelligence monks to collect has been collected."
In the cave on Huohua Mountain, not two months after Zhou Yang left seclusion, Taoist companion Xiao Ying came in with a jade slip and handed it to him.
Now he lives in a solitary life, and it is difficult for others to see him. If anything happens, Taoist companion Xiao Ying will handle it on his behalf.
As for the affairs of the Zhou family, Li Hong, who has successfully formed the elixir, has now taken over and is in charge. He rarely interferes.
When he heard Xiao Ying's words, his expression changed and he couldn't help but said: "Oh, is that matter finally done?"
After saying that, he took the jade slip from the Taoist monk and carefully inspected the situation inside.
More than ten years ago, the Guo family of Tongcheng offered him a top-quality spiritual stone in order to atone for his sins. At that time, he became suspicious of the origin of this top-quality spiritual stone, and later personally sent a letter to ask the intelligence monks of Xuanyang Immortal Sect to help him Collect information on the Guo family's fortune.
Now, more than ten years have passed, and this information has finally been collected and passed to him.
"It seems that my original guess was not wrong. There is indeed something wrong with the Guo family!"
Zhou Yang put down the jade slip, his eyes shining brightly.
According to the information recorded in the jade slips, the Guo family in Tongcheng was still a Zifu family more than 1,300 years ago.
About thirteen hundred years ago, the then patriarch of the Guo family successfully formed an elixir, and the Guo family was promoted to become the Jindan family.
Since then, the Guo family has grown out of control. In just five hundred years, four golden elixir monks have emerged one after another. Until now, the number of golden elixir monks in the Guo family has never been less than three.
This is definitely not normal!
You must know that the ancestor of the Guo family who successfully formed the elixir at that time was not a talented person. Before his final death, his cultivation level was only at the seventh level of the golden elixir.
Such an ordinary Golden Core monk can be said to be very successful if he can cultivate a new Golden Core monk for his family before he passes away.
But in fact, before this golden elixir monk who was not very talented passed away, the Guo family had already trained as many as five golden elixir monks under his hands!
How could the Guo family, which had just been promoted from the Zifu family to the Jindan family, be able to cultivate so many Jindan monks in just five or six hundred years? Is it just based on the ancient cave relic discovered by the family ancestor Guo Congyun said?
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Among the intelligence information in the jade slips, Zhou Yang did see records that the Guo family had sold ancient cultural relics for thousands of years. However, among the so-called ancient cultural relics, the best one was just one
It's just a fifth-level high-grade magic weapon.
Moreover, seven or eight hundred years have passed since the sale of ancient treasures. Even if the Guo family secretly exchanged some treasures for some rare spiritual objects at that time, they should have been used at that time.
However, in the past few hundred years, the Guo family has not shown any signs of decline. Instead, there have been Jindan monks being promoted, and the number of Jindan monks has always been maintained at between three and five.
This is undoubtedly very abnormal.
Families and sects in the world of cultivating immortals, like the Zhou family, rose to prominence after a certain powerful figure emerged, and have been out of control ever since.
Or, after being strong for a while, it gradually declined due to lack of successors, or even cut off the inheritance.
The Guo family's stable situation is obviously extremely inconsistent with common sense.
"It seems that before going to the wild jungle to see Fengxian, I have to go to the Guo family to see what's going on!"
Zhou Yang made a decision, immediately explained it to his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, and left the cave on Huohua Mountain alone.
He fled all the way and arrived in Tongcheng where the Guo family was located in less than a month.
Guo Congyun of the Guo family has passed away at this time. The person with the highest cultivation level of the Guo family in Tongcheng is a sixth-level golden elixir monk. This person has been in retreat all year round on the most important fifth-level high-grade spiritual mountain of the Guo family.
After Zhou Yang rushed to Tongcheng, he did not go directly to the Guo family's Lingshan to spy on the situation. Instead, he found an intelligence monk stationed here by the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
"This [Kongming Stone] is given to you. No matter what method you use, you must send it to the Guo family's treasure house."
Zhou Yang, who had concealed his identity, met with the intelligence cultivator of Xuanyang Immortal Sect. With a shake of his hand, he threw a fourth-level spiritual object [Kong Ming Stone] to the other party.
This intelligence monk was only at the Foundation Establishment stage. After hearing Zhou Yang's words, he didn't ask why. He just reached out and took the fist-sized [Kong Ming Stone] thrown by Zhou Yang into his arms and bowed respectfully to him.
And left.
A few days later, a foundation-building monk who married into the Guo family presented to the family a rare spiritual object [Kongming Stone] that can be used to refine space rings. As a result, he received a third-level middle-grade magic weapon as a reward from the family, but he was envious of it.
Many relatives and monks also married into the Guo family.
After the [Kong Ming Stone] was authenticated by the Guo family's Zifu monks, it was sent to the Guo family's treasury to be sealed for later use.
The Guo family's treasure house was also built by the formation masters. Only direct descendants within five generations of the Guo family's golden elixir monks can enter it through the [Bloodline Divine Forbidden City]. It contains various rare treasures collected by the Guo family over the past millennium.
things.
On this day, a spirit-sealing jade box containing rare ores in the treasure house suddenly exploded with a "bang", and then a blue-gray orb the size of a pigeon egg flew out of it and hovered over it.
Mid-air.
The orb was hovering in mid-air, and with a flash of inspiration, a man in green with purple hair and purple eyes appeared in the empty treasure house.
This man in green clothes has an ordinary appearance, but his cultivation is as high as the fourth level of the Golden Core. His face is always cold and devoid of any emotion.
After this man appeared in the treasure house, he immediately reached out and made a move, and the blue-gray orb disappeared into his body in a flash.
Then he flicked his sleeves and put all the fragments of the exploded jade box into the storage ring.
After doing all this, the man in green glanced at the dazzling array of treasures in the treasure house and murmured to himself in a low voice: "Is this the Guo family's treasure house? The space is quite large. I don't know if I can be found in it.
The clues you want!”
It turns out that the man in green is the incarnation of Zhou Yang who has been practicing for decades.
He hid his external incarnation in the heavenly magical weapon [Dong Xuan Bead], and then used the secret weapon refining method to refine the [Dong Xuan Bead] into the [Kong Ming Stone], in order to achieve the goal of sending the incarnation into the world.
The purpose of the Guo Family Treasure House.
As for why [Kongming Stone] was chosen as the carrier, it is naturally because this object is a spiritual object with spatial attributes and cannot be stored in storage bags. It can perfectly hide the fact that [Dong Xuan Bead] cannot be stored in storage instruments.
As for a mere piece of [Kongming Stone], it is unlikely that it will alarm the Guo family's Golden Core monks. The most likely scenario is that it will be sent to the treasure house for sealing as it is now.
The monks of the Guo family probably never dreamed that a member of the Jindan family would actually attract a Nascent Soul monk to spy on them, and they would not hesitate to use the Cave Heaven Magical Artifact and the Incarnation, which are very rare treasures even among Yuanying monks.
It was a long night and many dreams. After Zhou Yang's incarnation came out of the [Dongxuan Pearl], he immediately started looking for what he wanted in the Guo family's treasure house.
The space in this treasure house is huge, and it is divided into several large areas, which store various things such as elixirs, magic weapons, talismans, ores, and sundries.
Many of the more precious things are preserved in jade boxes or wooden boxes that also have the function of sealing spiritual energy. Some large spiritual objects are stored in boxes with the same function.
Zhou Yang's target was not those small spiritual objects. Even if the jade box containing the fifth-level spiritual objects was right in front of him, he didn't bother to take a second look.
He walked quickly inside the treasure house, and it didn't take long before he saw what he was looking for in the depths of the treasure house.
They were rows of neatly stacked large boxes. The boxes were all made of a third-level spiritual wood [Obsidian] that can seal spiritual energy. Each box was one foot long, half a foot wide, and three feet high.
There are as many as thirty-nine such boxes in total.
With a wave of his sleeve, Zhou Yang used a huge force to open the first seven or eight boxes, revealing the contents inside.
I saw that the items contained in each box were all cut spiritual stones, and they were all medium-grade spiritual stones!
Based on the volume of these boxes, if this box is full, it can hold at least five to six thousand mid-grade spiritual stones. Ten boxes are equivalent to fifty or sixty thousand mid-grade spiritual stones. Thirty-nine boxes are close to two hundred thousand medium-grade spiritual stones.
Taste the spirit stone!
Two hundred thousand mid-grade spiritual stones are converted into low-grade spiritual stones, which is 20 million low-grade spiritual stones!
Even though Zhou Yang, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, had already exceeded this figure, he still couldn't keep his expression calm when he saw so many spiritual stones placed here.
The Zhou family is considered rich. They own a small world of cultivating immortals and have excavated a large spiritual stone mine. However, the total number of medium-grade spiritual stones and low-grade spiritual stones in the Zhou family's treasury does not exceed tens of millions.
Even if the Guo family was established seven or eight hundred years earlier than the Zhou family, logically speaking, they shouldn't have so many spiritual stone savings.
wrong!
Zhou Yang's incarnation's eyes flashed, and suddenly he seemed to have discovered something. With a flick of his sleeve, he moved the pile of boxes filled with spiritual stones away from the place.
Then he looked at the ground after the boxes had been removed, and with a wave of his sleeve, a green bamboo flying sword with gold in it swiped across the ground, creating a crack that was about ten feet long.
The Green Bamboo Flying Sword is the sixth-level low-grade magic weapon [Golden Bamboo Sword] that Zhou Yang obtained when he killed Shen Luoyan, the Yuanying monk of the Goddess Palace. This sword is made from a very rare spiritual bamboo [Golden Dianthus].
It has both the properties of gold and wood, and is the best material for wood-based martial arts monks to refine flying swords.
Zhou Yang originally prepared this thing for Taoist companion Xiao Ying, but Xiao Ying didn't like fighting, and as an incarnation of him who practiced wood-based skills, he didn't have any suitable magic weapons to use, so Zhou Yang gave this flying sword to
Used by incarnation.
Although his incarnation is only at the Golden Core level, as the incarnation of a Yuanying monk, it is not difficult to use sixth-level magic weapons in advance.
"As expected!"
Zhou Yang transformed into a person and walked to the crack on the ground. He lowered his head and looked down. He saw that there was something else underneath the crack, and surprisingly there was a hidden grid.
Originally, a large amount of [Forbidden God Stone] was incorporated into the stone on the floor of the treasure house. Even if a Golden Core Stage monk was in the treasure house, it would be difficult for his spiritual consciousness to see through the stone slabs on the ground to find the hidden compartments underneath.
But although Zhou Yang's incarnation was only at the Golden Core stage, the quality of his spiritual consciousness was that of a Yuanying stage monk.
Although the hidden compartments in the treasure house were cleverly hidden, under the scanning of his spiritual consciousness, he still found anomalies. This test with the sword really yielded a lot.
The space in the secret compartment is not large, and there are two small boxes stored inside, with special spiritual locks hanging on them.
This kind of spiritual lock is an application of formation prohibition method. Without the relevant unlocking method, the box cannot be opened. If it is forcibly destroyed, it will only be damaged along with the contents of the box.
"This is a bit difficult to handle. With the strength of my incarnation, it is really difficult to open the treasure chest without damaging the treasure inside. It seems that I can only take it away first and leave it to the main body.
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After looking at the two boxes in front of him with a strange look on his face, Zhou Yang waved his hand and put them into the storage ring. Then he used his methods to restore the ground that was damaged by him and move them away.
The box filled with spiritual stones was returned to its original place.
As for the spiritual stones inside, he didn't move a single one.
This is not only because he is afraid that touching these spiritual stones will alert others, but also because he has no shortage of spiritual stones now and there is really no need to do such a shameless thing.
Even if the two boxes he took away didn't contain what he wanted, he would still return them to the Guo family later.
Half a year later, a monk from the Guo family's Zifu entered the treasure house and walked straight to the area where the magic talismans were stored. It seemed that he wanted to select a certain kind of magic talisman to take out of the treasure house.
About a quarter of an hour later, the person selected the talisman he wanted, and then took the jade box containing the talisman directly out of the treasure house.
However, neither the monk who entered the treasure house nor the monk guarding the treasure house who routinely checked the talisman he chose after leaving the treasure house found that there was an extra blue-grey orb on the jade box in the monk's hand.
When the monk who entered the treasure house left the entrance and exit of the treasure house and was about to put the jade box in his hand into the storage bag, he suddenly realized that he had failed to ingest it!
"Hey, what's going on?"
He looked at the jade box in his hand with a surprised expression, and stuffed it into the storage bag again without belief, but this time he successfully put it into the storage bag.
"What a weird thing! Could it be that this storage bag has been used for too long?"
Glancing at the storage bag on his waist with a strange look on his face, the monk didn't think much and left quickly.
Naturally, he didn't notice that the blue-grey orb that was originally located on the jade box had quietly fallen to the ground as he put the jade box into his storage bag.
A few days later, Zhou Yang's body recovered the [Dong Xuan Bead] hidden by the magic power from a Qi-training monk who left Guojialing Mountain.
Because of the refining materials used in his external body, he can learn all kinds of wood-attribute spells and magical powers at once. The previous method of hiding the [Dongxuan Pearl] was to use a wood-attribute illusion magic power.
With this level of cultivation at the golden elixir stage, using illusion magic to cover up, naturally it would be unpleasant for a mere Zifu monk to see any flaws.
"Let me see what's in this treasure chest!"
In a fairy stack courtyard in Tongcheng, after Zhou Yang retrieved the [Dongxuan Pearl], he couldn't wait to take out the two treasure boxes inside, preparing to open the treasure boxes to take a look inside.
The two treasure chests are one big and one small. The big one is half a foot long, three feet wide and two feet high. The small one is also three feet long, two feet wide and one foot high.
The spiritual lock on the treasure chest could stifle Zhou Yang's incarnation, but it could not protect the treasure inside from prying eyes after his own body took action.
Zhou Yang personally took action and quickly used a special method to destroy the spiritual lock on the treasure chest and successfully opened the treasure chest.
The first thing he opened was the big treasure box.
The items contained in this big treasure box are also spiritual stones, but they are high-grade spiritual stones. There are more than a thousand high-grade spiritual stones!
Many years have passed, and the large-scale spiritual stone mine belonging to the Zhou family in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World has almost been completed. However, the total number of high-grade spiritual stones mined in such a large-scale spiritual stone mine is only more than a hundred pieces.
But now the treasure box in front of Zhou Yang contains more than a thousand high-grade spiritual stones!
If the large number of middle-grade spiritual stones in the Guo family's treasury can be explained by the Guo family's savings over hundreds or thousands of years, then the more than a thousand high-grade spiritual stones cannot be explained in any way.
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The circulation rate of high-grade spiritual stones is extremely low. Unlike mid-grade spiritual stones, which can be redeemed with lower-grade spiritual stones. If you want to collect up to thousands of high-grade spiritual stones, you must either kill a large number of Golden Elixir monks and Nascent Soul monks like Zhou Yang did.
Obtain it by plundering or digging the spirit stone mine.
The quantity of high-grade spiritual stones produced by large-scale spiritual stone mines may not be large, but the reserves of high-grade spiritual stones in giant spiritual stone mines are very abundant.
As far as Zhou Yang knew, it was not unusual for a complete giant spiritual stone mine to have reserves of high-grade spiritual stones exceeding 10,000.
The Guo family first took out the top-grade spirit stones, and now Zhou Yang found a large number of medium-grade spirit stones and high-grade spirit stones in their family treasure house. It can be seen that they have most likely secretly found a huge spiritual stone mine that has not been discovered by anyone, and have secretly
It has been mined for thousands of years.
"Now let me see what's in this little treasure box!"
With a flash of light in his eyes, Zhou Yang couldn't wait to open the small treasure box again.
After opening the small treasure box, what caught Zhou Yang's eyes was half a box of white crystals. There were about twenty or thirty crystals, each one the size of an adult's fist.
These white crystal stones contain astonishing spiritual power. The spiritual power contained in each crystal is even much stronger than the top-grade spiritual stones, but it is far inferior to the top-grade spiritual stones.
"Hey, what are these things? Could they be [spiritual marrow stones] that can quickly restore mana!"
Zhou Yang looked at the white crystals with a confused expression, his eyes full of surprise.
The so-called [spiritual marrow stones] can actually be said to be spiritual stones. They are special accompanying spiritual stones that can only appear in giant spiritual stone mines.
The spiritual power contained in this [Spiritual Marrow Stone] is an extremely rare type of non-attributed spiritual power that can be easily absorbed and transformed into one's own magic power by monks who practice any technique.
If it is only used to replenish mana, this [Spiritual Marrow Stone], for a fire-based martial arts cultivator like Zhou Yang, is just a little worse than the top-grade fire-attribute spiritual stones, but far better than the top-grade spiritual stones.
Moreover, with the rich spiritual power contained in the [Spiritual Marrow Stone], a fist-sized [Spiritual Marrow Stone] can replenish almost half of his current mana, and it can be done within half an hour.
As for determining whether these white crystal stones are [spiritual marrow stones], it is also very simple. Zhou Yang directly took out a piece from the treasure box, held it in his hand, and absorbed the spiritual power in it to refine it.
After a while, he stopped refining and couldn't help but look at the box of white crystal stones with bright eyes and shouted: "It is indeed the [Spiritual Marrow Stone]. I didn't expect that the Guo family actually hid a giant stone secretly."
Spirit Stone Mine!”
A giant spiritual stone mine!
This kind of treasure has not been found in Liuyunzhou's immortal world for more than two thousand years. The last time a giant spiritual stone mine was discovered, more than a dozen sects fought over it, and two Nascent Soul stage monks even died.
And now, a monk who is not even a Yuanying monk has occupied the Guo family, but has monopolized a giant spiritual stone mine for thousands of years, and has never been discovered.
If this news is known to those big forces, I am afraid that the Guo family will be wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Not to mention the Guo family, even if Zhou Yang wants to monopolize a giant spiritual stone mine, it is simply impossible, not even the Xuanyang Immortal Sect can do it.
"Guo family, Guo family, now it depends on whether you understand each other. If you understand each other, your Guo family can continue to prosper and pass on. If you don't, don't blame Mr. Zhou for being cruel!"
A cold light flashed in Zhou Yang's eyes, and he couldn't help but look towards the location of Guo Jialing Mountain.
Naturally, he originally didn't want to embarrass the Guo family anymore, but now that he knew that the Guo family actually hid a huge spiritual stone mine, he had to go there personally.