Under Zhou Yang's strong coercion, Guo Xianlong actually had no choice at all.
By cooperating with Zhou Yang, the Guo family can still retain 40% of the giant spirit stone vein, which is a huge amount of spirit stone that even a large sect would go crazy for.
But if Zhou Yang doesn't agree to his request, even if Zhou Yang doesn't kill him, all he needs to do is spread the news about the Guo family's control of the giant spirit stone mine, and the Guo family will be able to keep their share, and the family will not be exterminated.
Therefore, after secretly recalling another Jindan monk from the family to take over the family spiritual mountain in his place, Guo Xianlong and Zhou Yang left the Guo family's spiritual mountain in Tongcheng.
It is worth mentioning that Zhou Yang did not return the two boxes of high-grade spiritual stones and [spiritual marrow stones] to Guo Xianlong, and Guo Xianlong did not dare to ask more about it.
After taking Guo Xianlong away from the Guo family, Zhou Yang did not go directly to the wild jungle with him, but first went to the Zhou family in Daoxuan Kingdom.
Li Hong is now taking care of the Zhou family of Daoxuan Kingdom. More than half of the entire Zhou family's foundation-building monks and Zifu monks have now migrated to the Liuyun Continent to cultivate immortality.
In order to accommodate these Zhou family monks, in addition to Chongxuan Mountain, a fifth-level high-grade spiritual mountain, the Zhou family's fourth-level high-grade spiritual mountain in Daoxuan Kingdom was also upgraded to the fifth level.
With two fifth-level spiritual mountains as its foundation, and relying on Zhou Yang, the ancestor of Yuanying, it would be difficult for the Zhou family not to prosper.
Not to mention that Li Hong himself is also a very capable person. After he took over the management of the Zhou family in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, he carried out drastic reforms.
It was rare that Zhou Yang came out of confinement to visit the Zhou family, so he took the opportunity to explain to Zhou Yang the results of his reforms over the years.
"Ancestor also knows that the various forces in Liuyun Continent's Immortal Cultivation World, especially the [Xuanqing Taoist Alliance], have long been established. Although our Zhou family relies on your relationship with ancestors, we have obtained two five-year-olds in Liuyun Continent's Immortal Cultivation World.
The Tier Ling Mountain is the foundation, but in fact, except for these two Ling Mountains and the surrounding land, our Zhou family does not have any mineral veins or a fourth-order Ling Mountain!"
"Without the income from the mineral veins and the ore elixirs produced by Lingshan, the Zhou family on the Liuyun Continent side of the Immortal World has to rely on transshipment from the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal World to even distribute family offerings. This is fine for a short time, but it can last for a long time.
If you do this, it will never work."
"Given the situation in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, if our Zhou family wants to possess these things, we can only obtain them if the family monks participate in the [Xuanqing Taoist Alliance]'s external expansion war. However, such a war may only happen once in hundreds of years. The Zhou family has
I missed it this time.”
"So after the juniors took over the Zhou family here, they put forward certain requirements for all family monks. First, those family monks who have mastered the various arts of cultivating immortals at level 3 or above must take turns to sit in the shops operated by the family in various fairy cities.
, to earn spiritual stone income for the family, and in order to mobilize their enthusiasm for this matter, the junior also promised them a certain amount of store dividends!"
"Secondly, for those tribesmen with foundation-building cultivation and above who apply for long-term travel, the family will assign a task based on their cultivation strength, either to kill a monster of the same level, or to collect some kind of spiritual material. Only by completing the task
Only the monk who brings back the designated items can receive the full amount of his family's contribution points during his travels!"
"Third, in order to hone the combat effectiveness of the family monks and increase the family's wealth, the family will organize a certain number of foundation-building monks to go to the Duanyun Mountains, boundless snowfields, wild jungles and other areas occupied by monsters to hunt monsters every few years.
And collecting spiritual objects, 30% of the collected spiritual objects will be taken by the family, and the rest will belong to the individual."
"Fourth, use the family as a guarantee to accept some non-combat missions from Xuanyang Immortal Sect and other sects, and then transfer them to the family monks to do it, and collect commissions from the tasks."
"Now, the family has opened stores in more than thirty fairy cities. They not only sell the things we brought from the boundless sand sea to the immortal world, but also undertake various tasks such as weapon refining, alchemy making, talisman making, and array formation.
"
"According to the younger generation's calculations, if everything goes well, in about forty or fifty years, the family income and expenditure in Liuyun Continent's Immortal Cultivation World will be close to balance!"
In the quiet room, Zhou Yang sat upright and listened quietly to Li Hong, who was sitting next to him, talking about the current situation of the Zhou family. There was no change in the expression on his face, making it difficult to know what he was really thinking.
It wasn't until Li Hong finished explaining the situation that he said calmly: "Since Ancestor has entrusted you to manage the Zhou family, he naturally affirms and trusts your ability. What you want to do is your business, Ancestor
I only look at the results."
"But ancestor, I have to remind you that it is not easy for the Zhou family to survive today. If the family suffers heavy losses due to some of your actions, you will not be able to escape punishment even if you are already a Golden Core monk!"
At the end of his words, a majestic and stern gaze swept across Li Hong's body, and the warning in it was unmistakable.
Li Hong suddenly trembled, and quickly lowered his body and responded respectfully: "Yes, this junior will definitely remember the teachings of our ancestors and never let down his trust!"
Zhou Yang glanced at him and continued: "Also, you don't have to worry too much about accumulating wealth for the family. Ancestor, I have other plans in this regard. The most important thing for the Zhou family at the moment is to let
If the family has a few more capable Golden Elixir monks, you should pay more attention in this regard, and you might as well select some monks who are promising for the Golden Elixir and focus on cultivating them as Golden Elixir seeds!"
Hearing his words, Li Hong's eyes flashed strangely, and he was curious about what his so-called plan was.
Just curious in his heart, Li Hong did not dare to ask any more questions. Instead, he said in response to Zhou Yang's words: "This junior has actually already done this. According to my observation, among the ten Zifu monks in the family, the one who really has hope for the Golden Elixir is
There should be only three monks, namely Zhou Shengyu, Zhou Shengfan, and Zhou Rongxiang. Among them, Zhou Shengyu and Zhou Rongxiang, who have high-grade spiritual root qualifications, have the greatest chance!"
Of the three people he mentioned, except for Zhou Rongxiang, who was born in the Far West, Zhou Yang was quite familiar with the other two.
Hearing his words at this time, Zhou Yang pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "These three little guys are indeed pretty good. You can take more care of them as appropriate, but don't make it too obvious, so as not to
Let other family monks feel unjust and prevent them from being arrogant and arrogant!"
After saying that, he waved his hand again without waiting for Li Hong's response: "Forget it, let's not talk about these things, let's talk about business. This time, ancestor, I am here to see you. I have an important thing for you to handle right away.
.”
"I will give you a month to select twenty family foundation-building monks and two Zifu monks that you can trust. Ancestor, I want them to do a big thing. This thing may take decades, so in the end
It’s better to try to choose some tribesmen who are young and have no worries!”
The giant spirit stone mine is of great importance, and even Li Hong, Zhou Yang does not intend to reveal it to him now.
Even those selected people will not know any news before arriving at the giant spiritual stone mine.
Li Hong is also a smart man. Since Zhou Yang didn't explain the reason why he asked someone to do the work, he naturally wouldn't ask more questions and quickly followed the order to do the work.
A month later, Zhou Yang took the selected monks of the Zhou family, together with Guo Xianlong, who had been waiting at the Zhou family, and flew to the wild jungle in the "Piaomiao Cloud Car".
The wild jungle is vast and boundless. The wild jungle area containing huge spiritual stone mines is not near the Southern Barbarian Kingdom that Zhou Yang has visited before, but is in another area hundreds of thousands of miles away.
After arriving at the outskirts of the wild jungle, Zhou Yang released Guo Xianlong from the [Piaomiao Cloud Car] and asked him to guide him in front of the car.
As for the Zhou family monks in the car, they were still completely shielded from the outside world and had no idea where they and others were going.
Guo Xianlong had gone to the giant spiritual stone mine many times to mine, and he was an old horse who knew the way. Under his guidance, Zhou Yang drove the [Piaomiao Cloud Car] all the way deep into the wilderness, and soon penetrated two to three hundred thousand miles into the wild jungle.
deep area.
Thinking back to the beginning, when Zhou Yang was still in the Zifu stage, he went deep into these areas with Jiang Fengxian and others, and it could be said that every step was dangerous and murderous.
But now that he has set foot in such areas with his Nascent Soul cultivation level, when he activates the magical power of [Piaomiao Cloud Car], even the fifth-level monsters and fifth-level savage beasts can hardly detect the cloud car flying in the sky.
.
In this way, under the guidance of Guo Xianlong, the cloud car flew outside a swamp area covered with seven-colored clouds. Guo Xianlong, who was in front of the car, quickly reminded him: "Here we are, the miasma-filled swamp ahead is the giant spiritual stone mine.
location."
When Zhou Yang heard what he said, he immediately stopped the cloud cart, looked at him and asked, "What is the meaning of this swamp?"
"The ancestors of the Guo family called this swamp [the poisonous swamp]. The seven-colored miasma in the swamp is highly poisonous. This poison can not only corrode the physical mana of the monks, but also has a strong hallucinogenic effect. Even the monks in the Zifu period
If you are not careful, you will be caught, and the miasma deep in the swamp can even affect the Golden Core Stage monks."
"Once a monk who enters a swamp is enchanted by the miasma, he will easily get lost in it. Then as he inhales more and more miasma, he will inevitably die from the poison."
"But miasma is just the most inconspicuous killer move in the swamp. The poisonous insects such as [blue-eyed poisonous fly], [purple-skinned toad], [black-blooded poisonous mosquito] and various swamp monsters that live in the swamp are the swamp."
The most unpredictable existence in the world.”
"Even if our Guo family has studied this swamp for thousands of years, we still can't fully respond to all the monsters in it. Every few years, monks from the clan will get trapped in the swamp!"
Since Guo Xianlong has chosen to compromise, he will naturally not hide the situation that the Guo family knows. What's more, he also knows that no matter how dangerous the [Confused Poison Swamp] in front of him is, it cannot be used against a Nascent Soul cultivator with great supernatural powers like Zhou Yang.
pose a threat.
Sure enough, after listening to his words, Zhou Yang didn't show any strange expression on his face. He just nodded lightly and said: "I understand. You can continue to guide me. I will leave the matter of miasma and monsters to me."
Just deal with it.”
After Zhou Yang thought about it, a layer of silver aura emitted from the surface of the silver speed car, protecting the entire speed car, and then plunged into the swamp.
The colorful miasma that Guo Xianlong said so powerfully obviously cannot corrode the shield released by the sixth-level magic weapon [Piao Miao Cloud Car], even if this speeding car is not actually a defensive magic weapon.
However, the silver aura emitted by the speeding car was so dazzling that as soon as it entered the swamp, it attracted many flies to attack.
These alien flies that live in swamps are huge, almost the size of a sparrow, and have a pair of large blue-grey eyes that can spit out a black corrosive venom to attack the enemy.
This is what Guo Xianlong said [blue-eyed poisonous fly].
Such a poisonous fly alone, as long as it is not sprayed by its venom, even ordinary mortals can chop it to death.
But there are more than hundreds of millions of these poisonous flies in the swamp. Once they appear to besiege an enemy, there must be hundreds of thousands or millions of them acting together.
When poisonous flies all over the sky took off together, a blue-gray insect cloud stretching for more than ten acres was formed directly over the swamp filled with colorful mist.
So many poisonous flies gather together to attack, and ordinary monks in the Zifu period have to avoid their sharp edges.
But these flies are unlucky when they encounter Zhou Yang.
As long as they dare to pounce on the silver speed car, they will immediately be shocked to death by the dragon power released from Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang also accidentally discovered that the dragon power produced by refining several copies of [True Dragon Essence and Blood] has a very strong restraint effect on these weak poisonous insects.
Invoking the dragon's power in his body to kill these poisonous insects is much faster than setting fire to them directly.
In addition to [Blue-Eyed Venomous Flies], there is another large group of insects [Black-blooded Venomous Mosquitoes] in the swamp.
The [Black Blood Venomous Mosquito] can grow to be as big as a fist, and the sharp mouthparts in its mouth can even pierce the thick skin of a third-level bull.
The bodies of these poisonous mosquitoes are full of filthy poisonous blood. Under normal circumstances, they can only be burned to ashes using fire spells.
If you dare to use magic weapons such as flying swords to kill them, the poisonous blood flowing out from their bodies will pollute the body of the magic weapon. Even fifth-level magic weapons cannot completely resist the filthy power of the poisonous blood.
According to what Guo Xianlong said, when the Guo family monks encountered swarms of [black-blooded poisonous mosquitoes] in the past, they would light a special incense to drive away the poisonous mosquitoes.
But here in Zhou Yang, as long as a poisonous mosquito dares to come within ten miles of him, it will be immediately killed by the dragon's power.
As for the other monsters in the swamp, they all hid and trembled after sensing the dragon's power. How dare they seek death and attack Zhou Yang.
Only those poisonous insects with no intelligence at all would attack a real Nascent Soul regardless of life or death.
After rushing hundreds of miles deep into the swamp, under the guidance of Guo Xianlong, Zhou Yang drove his speeding car and crashed into an island.
After arriving on this island, which was only a hundred miles long and wide, without Guo Xianlong's guidance, Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness swept through and discovered the formation arranged by the Guo family at the entrance of the giant spiritual stone mine.
And he drove the silver speed car to the sky above the island, and the huge momentum caused also attracted the attention of the Guo family monks in the formation. A peeping gaze was looking at the silver speed car from the formation.
"According to the rules of the Guo family, there must be at least two monks on the mine site. One monk is mining, and the other is guarding and practicing outside. When the junior was outside the swamp, he had already sent a message to the guarding monk inside.
Please ask senior to let junior go out and ask him to come out to greet senior!"
On the speed train, Guo Xianlong was afraid that the prying eyes of the family monks would cause Zhou Yang to misunderstand, so he quickly explained the inside story.
"Go ahead."
Zhou Yang waved his hand and didn't care about it.