Chapter 722: Breakthrough in cultivation, return to the clouds
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
During these ten years, Zhou Yang, apart from occasionally stopping to chat with his Taoist companion Xiao Ying and doing double cultivation, spent the rest of the time in seclusion in the Ji Yang Fire Pond to practice hard.
After ten years of hard training, his cultivation level was successfully promoted to the third level of Nascent Soul.
After he was promoted to the third level of Nascent Soul, less than 30% of the fire-attribute spiritual energy in the Jiyang Fire Pool was consumed, which was very different from what he had expected.
So based on the idea that the opportunity was rare, he continued to practice here for another fifteen years, and did not stop until less than 10% of the fire-attribute spiritual energy in the Jiyang Fire Pool was left.
At this time, after twenty-five years of his absorption and refining, the Polar Yang Fire Pool, which was originally several hundred feet in diameter, had shrunk to less than twenty feet, and was only one step away from completely collapsing.
Zhou Yang stopped at this time because he felt that it was not easy to form the Extreme Yang Fire Pool. It would be a pity if it collapsed and dissipated because of his excessive demands.
And with his current cultivation level, even if he absorbs and refines the last remaining 10% of the fire attribute spiritual energy, it will only add another twenty or thirty years to his cultivation level.
"The most important thing is that more than thirty years have passed, and the [Millennium Dharma Conference] in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent should be held soon. If we can't rush back before the Dharma Conference is held, the things we will lose may not be as much as these two or three.
Ten years of cultivation is not enough!"
Beside the Ji Yang Fire Pond, Zhou Yang stood up after finishing his work, looking deeply at the southern sky, but he was already preparing to return to Liuyun Continent to cultivate immortality.
After absorbing the fire attribute spiritual energy contained in almost an entire Ji Yang Fire Pool, his current cultivation level is not far away from being promoted to the middle stage of Nascent Soul. After returning, he only needs to retreat for another twenty or thirty years to refine some of the accumulated essence in his hands.
It can be said that it is a sure thing to study for elixirs and elixirs, and to advance to the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
But how could he just be satisfied with this!
The [Millennium Dharma Conference] is held only once every thousand years. At that time, dozens or hundreds of Nascent Soul monks will gather together to exchange the things they need, which naturally includes various spiritual objects that can improve their cultivation.
Zhou Yang currently has various sixth-level magic weapons and spiritual objects that he cannot use, but there are quite a few of them. He has long been prepared to exchange these items with others at this [Millennium Dharma Assembly] in exchange for those that can
A spiritual object for diligent cultivation.
"After being away for so many years, it's time to go back!"
This is destined to be a long journey.
From the depths of the extreme northern ice field, which is thousands of miles away from the Immortal Cultivation World of Beiting Continent, it traverses the entire Beiting Continent Cultivation World and the boundless snowfield, and finally reaches the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent.
Such a long journey, even in a straight line, is more than 20 million miles!
And even for a third-level Nascent Soul monk like Zhou Yang, even if he, the demon servant Bi'er, and his external incarnation took turns flying and rushing on the road without sleep, it still took him a full two and a half years!
Naturally, there can be no complete peace on this journey. No matter it is the monsters on the far north ice field and the boundless snowfield, or the "Frozen Yi people" who have a strong sense of territory, they will not be interested in the monsters crossing their territory.
Zhou Yang turned a blind eye.
In the past two and a half years, Zhou Yang was attacked by strong men of the same level more than a dozen times. At the most dangerous time, five "Frozen Yi" sixth-level strong men surrounded and killed him at the same time.
The strength of the leader has even reached the level of a late Nascent Soul monk.
However, those "Frozen Yi people" obviously seriously underestimated his strength, and they had no idea how terrifying the real strength of the early-stage human Nascent Soul monk they were besieging was.
In that last siege, Zhou Yang showed all his cards. Not only did he release his external avatar, the demon servant Bi'er, and the sixth-level puppets to participate in the battle, but he also released those who had been left in the [Dongxuan Pearl] to recover from their injuries.
The witch Phantom Qianqian was also released to join the battle.
In a five-on-five situation, facing Zhou Yang holding the [Suzaku Fan], the "Bing Yi people" who surrounded and killed him soon tasted the bitter pill.
After the final battle, the leader of the "Frozen Yi people" whose cultivation was comparable to that of the late Nascent Soul monks was seriously injured by Zhou Yang with the [Suzaku Fan]. The remaining four "Frozen Yi people" also suffered one death and two injuries.
At the cost, he fled the battlefield in embarrassment.
After that battle, Zhou Yang was never intercepted by beings of the same level on his journey until he successfully arrived at the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent.
"Finally back!"
Above a vibrant mountain peak covered with all kinds of green plants, Zhou Yang, who had returned from a long journey, looked at the green mountain below, and couldn't help but smile on his slightly tired face.
After staying in a place like the Arctic Icefield for a long time, the scenery that can be seen everywhere in the immortal world of Liuyun Continent has become a rare beauty in his eyes.
It’s not like Zhou Yang has never seen desolate places. Many places in the boundless sand sea are also extremely desolate, with only endless yellow sand as far as the eye can see.
But even in the sand sea, you can still see some tenacious desert plants, and there are still animals such as sand scorpions and sand sparrows.
But in the depths of the arctic ice sheet, there is nothing but ice and snow. It is difficult for ordinary plants, even some cold-resistant spiritual trees, to grow in that place, let alone ordinary animals.
"Well, first hide your identity and find a nearby fairy city to contact Senior Qingyang to inquire about the situation, and then decide where to go."
With a flash of light in his eyes, Zhou Yang waved his sleeves and sacrificed a fifth-level magic weapon [Huanhuzhu] that he had not used for a long time. He transformed into a red-haired middle-aged man with a middle-level Golden Core cultivation level and set off for the nearest fairy city.
A few days later, in a fairy city called "Red Jade Fairy City", Zhou Yang found a branch of Xuanyang Fairy Sect's intelligence agency and contacted Master Qingyang through the communication array arranged here.
After communicating with Master Qingyang through the communication circle for half a day, Zhou Yang left the "Red Jade Fairy City" with a gloomy expression.
The situation was indeed not good for him.
Now it is basically certain that Yulong Xingyu has arrived at the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Liuyun Continent and may be waiting for Zhou Yang to appear somewhere.
The reason that led him to make this determination was that in the past few decades, monks of unknown origin pretended to be monks of the Zhou family and disciples of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect and tried to get close to his son Zhou Guangcheng with the intention of kidnapping him and taking him out of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.
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These people's cultivation levels are all as high as the Golden Core stage, and they have never appeared in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent before. They obviously came from other Immortal Cultivation Worlds.
And it’s not just Zhou Guangcheng who has taken action, many monks from the Zhou family have also disappeared and fallen over the years, including even three Zifu period monks such as Zhou Shengyu!
What worried Zhou Yang the most was that there were monks from the Zhou family in the Immortal Realm of the Boundless Sand Sea who disappeared inexplicably and died on their own spiritual mountain, and even their bodies could not be found.
This shows that the Yulong family has completely understood the origin of the Zhou family, and has not only set its sights on the Zhou family in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent.
Although after he formed the Nascent Soul, he was no longer afraid of people knowing the origins of the Zhou family, but now that his enemies were really looking for the home of the Zhou family, Zhou Yang still couldn't help but feel worried.
He knew in his heart that as he did not show up for a long time, Yulong Xingyu's patience would become worse and worse, and eventually he would definitely put down all scruples and attack the entire Zhou family, using the lives of thousands of monks in the Zhou family as a bargaining chip to force him
come out.
If he really gets to that point, even if he can survive this disaster, the Zhou family will definitely be severely damaged, or even...
"It seems that this matter cannot be delayed any longer. Once the [Millennium Dharma Conference] is over, we can start to solve this matter, even if it costs more!"
Zhou Yang pursed his lips, and a cold and cold light flashed in his eyes.
Yulong Xingyu, who is at the ninth level of Nascent Soul, is very strong, but he is not impossible to defeat and kill.
As long as someone can directly block the seventh-level immortal weapon in his hand, and several late-stage Nascent Soul monks with similar strength come to attack him, there is no hope of killing him.
Just to besiege and kill such a ninth-level Nascent Soul "half-step true immortal" who is in charge of a seventh-level immortal weapon, the people participating in the siege will also take a lot of risks. Zhou Yang wants to find such a master who dares to take risks and pays the price
The price was such that even he would suffer from pain for a long time.
But even so, he decided to do this.
He values the lives of his relatives and tribesmen more than those external things. For him, if the treasure is gone, he can find it again, but if the human life is gone, he can't save it even if he wants to.
"To avoid alarming others, the Zhou family did not inform them of my return. Now that the [Millennium Dharma Conference] will be held in more than a year, I'd better find a way to get another identity for myself that can participate in the Dharma Conference.
, wait until the Dharma conference is over before taking action!"
Zhou Yang made up his mind and immediately headed to Liuyun Immortal City to prepare for participating in the upcoming [Millennium Dharma Conference].
Not long after, hiding his identity, he rushed to Liuyun Fairy City, and then secretly contacted Xu Tianlin, a local snake, and informed him of his intention to attend the ceremony while hiding his identity.
The two sides have a friendship of fighting side by side in the Beitingzhou Immortal Realm. Zhou Yang even indirectly saved his life in the Demon Realm. Naturally, Xu Tianlin would not refuse Zhou Yang's small request.
He quickly used the authority of the organizer to re-send an invitation to Zhou Yang. On this invitation, Zhou Yang had become Lu Tianyang, a third-level Nascent Soul monk from the world of immortality in the far west.
Since the communication between the world of cultivators in the far west and the outside world is basically cut off, Zhou Yang does not have to worry about his disguised identity being revealed.
What's more, in order to help him hide his aura and identity at the Dharma Assembly, Xu Tianlin also borrowed a sixth-level medium-grade magical weapon [Miscellaneous Banner] for him.
[Mysterious Banner] is the famous magic weapon of a Yuanying stage monk in [Liuyun Merchant Alliance]. With this magic weapon to help cover up, even a monk at the ninth level of Yuanying "Half-step True Immortal" will not use it.
Even with some special pupil magic powers, it is difficult to see Zhou Yang's true face clearly.
As for the [Millennium Dharma Conference], even a monk at the ninth level of Nascent Soul who is a "half-step true immortal" would not be able to use such magical powers in person to identify the identities of other people one by one.
With Xu Tianlin helping to cover, Zhou Yang temporarily stayed in Liuyun Fairy City.
At this time, because the [Millennium Dharma Conference] was approaching, many Nascent Soul monks from far away had rushed to Liuyun Immortal City to live there. At Xu Tianlin's suggestion, Zhou Yang took the initiative to use the identity of Lu Tianyang to visit some of his peers.
Monk, let people know that someone as important as yourself is participating in this grand event.
One year passed quickly, and the [Millennium Dharma Conference], which was held once in a thousand years, was finally held with great anticipation.
Since it is a Dharma conference, it is natural that it is not just for the Nascent Soul stage monks to communicate behind closed doors, but to be held in public.
In order to prepare for the convening of this dharma conference, Liuyunxian City even released part of the mountainside area of Liuyunxian Mountain, and placed the venue for the dharma conference in an open area on the mountainside.
Even if this open space can accommodate tens of thousands of monks, it will not be too crowded. Looking down from here, you can see many of the magnificent scenery of Liuyun Fairy Mountain and the fairy city below. The scenery is infinitely good.
Obviously, it is not without requirements for the monks who can come here to listen to the monks at the Nascent Soul Stage teaching the Dharma and Taoism.
This requirement is neither difficult nor simple.
There are three ways to enter the venue to listen to the sermon. The first is that those who are in the Golden Elixir stage can enter for free, the second is that the Nascent Soul stage monks attending the ceremony can bring thirty juniors with them, and the third is to purchase admission.
Tickets, each ticket sells for a flat price of 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones and is transferable.
Not to mention the first two methods, I will only talk about the third method, because a total of 3,000 admission tickets were issued, which directly earned more than 30 million low-grade spiritual stones for [Liuyun Merchant Alliance]!
There is no need to worry that no one will buy the admission ticket. Although ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones are a lot, in the huge Liuyun Continent cultivation world, the total number of Zifu monks is not ten thousand, but eight thousand.
For the vast majority of Zifu stage monks, taking out 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones to listen to the sermons of dozens or hundreds of Nascent Soul stage monks is a good thing that is difficult to find even with a lantern.
Even some wealthy foundation-building monks will grit their teeth and take out such a sum of spiritual stones to participate in this thousand-year event. Even if they don't get anything from the ceremony in the end, it will be a huge bragging rights in the future.
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Thanks to the early publicity of the [Liuyun Merchant Alliance], any monks in the Immortal World of Liuyun Continent who are not completely isolated from the outside world know that the [Millennium Dharma Conference] held once in a thousand years is being held in Liuyun Immortal City this time.
Therefore, the supply of 3,000 admission tickets will eventually exceed demand, and there will be no possibility of empty tickets.
"The real King He of Tiannanzhou Immortal Realm has arrived!"
"Master Bai Lan from the overseas cultivating world has arrived!"
"Master Lu Tianyang from the Immortal Cultivation Realm in the Far West has arrived!"
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Amidst the high-spirited singing of the welcoming monks, Zhou Yang, whose pseudonym was Lu Tianyang, came with two Yuanying-stage monks, a man and a woman, and landed on the Dharma platform specially prepared for them, Yuanying-stage monks.
The two people who came with him were all monks he had made friends with during this year. The three of them came from various immortal cultivation circles all over the world. None of them had heard of each other's names before, but they had many friends when they communicated together.
We will become familiar with each other once we go back and forth.
Coming together today was an appointment we had made long ago.
"Hahaha, it's really an honor for our alliance that these three Taoist friends have traveled thousands of miles to participate in this [Millennium Dharma Conference]. Xu Mou, on behalf of our alliance, would like to thank the three of them in advance."
On the stage, Xu Tianlin, who represented the organizer, and the other three people landed, and he took the initiative to bow to the three people with a smile on his face and say hello.
His gaze didn't linger on Zhou Yang for even a moment, and he looked completely businesslike.
"You are so polite, Fellow Daoist Xu. It is our honor and opportunity to be able to participate in this [Millennium Dharma Conference] and exchange ideas with fellow practitioners on Taoist practice. It is time for us to thank your alliance for giving me such an opportunity."
Wang He, the oldest among the three, returned the gift to Xu Tianlin on behalf of the three with a smile on his face, and his words were very beautiful.
After the two sides exchanged a few polite words, Xu Tianlin asked the three of them to sit aside first.
At this time, there were not many Nascent Soul stage monks arriving on the altar, less than thirty, and most of them were local monks from the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent.
However, the number of monks who came to listen to the sermon under the altar was six to seven thousand, including hundreds of golden elixir stage monks!