Chapter 784: The resurgence of the sand sea, the rise of the Zhou family
The fact that Yin Hanguang was about to die soon could not be hidden from the monks of the [Backlight Alliance], so they naturally had channels to know about it.
However, Zhou Yang was really curious as to what price [Backlight Alliance] was willing to offer in order to win over himself and the Zhou family.
But for him to ask this question seems to be a bit sorry for the character he established earlier.
So under his hint, his son Zhou Guangcheng, who was watching him meet an outsider, stood up and said on his behalf: "The hundreds of years of friendship between my father and Palace Master Yin will naturally not be damaged by a few words from two Taoist friends. However,
Zhou is also quite curious as to what price you [Backlight Alliance] are willing to give in order to win over the Zhou family!"
"If the Zhou family is willing to join our [Backlight Alliance], we are willing to give up the position of deputy leader to the Zhou family, and transfer the original Haoyang Sect's mountain gate, Haoyang Mountain, and the surrounding area of 100,000 miles to the Zhou family.
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"At the same time, all kinds of resources in the world of immortality in the far west will flow unimpeded to the world of immortality in the boundless sand sea."
"In addition, as a sign of respect for Master Zhou, this alliance is also willing to offer three top-quality spiritual stones as the franchise fee for Master Zhou!"
The monks surnamed Lin and the monks surnamed Cheng looked at each other, and immediately the monk surnamed Lin, as the representative, said the price of the [Backlight Alliance].
In the eyes of the two of them, this price was undoubtedly extremely generous.
Giving the Zhou family the position of deputy leader of the [Backlight Alliance] is equivalent to letting the Zhou family take the previous position of the Haoyang Sect, and Haoyang Mountain, a sixth-level mid-level spiritual mountain and the surrounding area of 100,000 miles, is even more valuable
huge.
Three top-quality spiritual stones can help the Zhou family build two or three sixth-order spiritual mountains in the boundless sand sea!
In the view of the senior officials of the [Backlight Alliance], a family like the Zhou family that has risen as a "nouveau riche", even if it has a powerful late-stage Nascent Soul monk like Zhou Yang, its family background will definitely not be able to catch up in one leap.
Those sects that have been passed down for thousands of years.
This can be seen from the fact that Lingxi Peak, where the current gate of the Zhou family is located, is still a fifth-level high-grade spiritual vein.
Now they are giving them status, sixth-level spiritual mountains and top-quality spiritual stones. They are all things the Zhou family needs urgently. Their sincerity cannot be said to be lacking.
However, after Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangcheng heard what monk surnamed Lin said, they were speechless and disappointed.
The rich heritage of the Zhou family cannot be known by ordinary people, nor can it be seen so little by outsiders now.
Sixth-level spiritual mountains and top-quality spiritual stones are indeed precious, but it is not difficult at all for the Zhou family to possess them.
The position of deputy leader of the [Backlight Alliance] is even more ridiculous. With Zhou Yang's cultivation strength, if he joins the [Backlight Alliance], it is impossible that he will not be able to sit on the position of deputy leader, even if he is the leader.
The position is well deserved.
"Zhou and the Zhou family are grateful for your [Backlight Alliance]'s kindness. Regarding the Zhou family joining [Backlight Alliance], please do not mention it in front of Zhou again in the future. At the same time, the senior monks of [Backlight Alliance] are also the most important."
It’s best not to set foot in the area east of the [Death Sand Sea] without warning, otherwise you won’t blame Zhou and the Zhou family for being rude!”
Zhou Yang's face darkened, and with a cold tone he directly rejected all conditions of the [Backlight Alliance] and gave him a warning.
His attitude was also beyond what monks surnamed Lin and monks surnamed Cheng had expected. When they heard what he said, they were both stunned, not knowing how to respond.
After being stunned for a while, the monk surnamed Lin said urgently: "Master Zhou, what do you mean by this? If Master Zhou feels that our conditions are not suitable, we can discuss it again. This alliance is really sincere in inviting Master Zhou to join.
Why do real people have to make decisions so quickly!”
The monk surnamed Cheng also hurriedly nodded and responded: "What Fellow Daoist Lin said is absolutely true. Before I came here, the leader of this alliance and several deputy leaders specifically explained that if Master Zhou has any objections to the conditions of this alliance, this alliance will also
It’s not that we can’t make concessions in some aspects. If Fellow Daoist Zhou feels that we are not qualified to negotiate terms with Fellow Daoist, our alliance can also send a deputy leader here to discuss with Fellow Daoist Zhou in detail!”
"This is not...forget it, then you go back first and ask a deputy leader to come over and talk to Zhou!"
Zhou Yang shook his head, knowing that the two people were probably afraid that it would be difficult to communicate with them when they returned with the answers just now, so they still had luck. He didn't say anything more to them, and directly gave them a solution that they could communicate with when they returned.
The reason is to see the guests off.
After driving away these two Nascent Soul cultivators from the [Backlight Alliance], Zhou Yang said to his son Zhou Guangcheng: "You can now return to Yunzhou to cultivate immortality. If Senior Qingyang asks about the reason for your cultivation progress, tell the truth.
That’s it. By the way, I will tell my father that he will not return to Yunzhou to cultivate immortality in a short time. If he needs to contact his father in an emergency, he can use the [Fairy Spirit Jade Book] to contact his father.”
"Then if Master asks about the Zhou family's self-reliance in the boundless sea of sand, how should the child answer?"
"If Senior Qingyang asks about this, just revise what you said to the people in the Great Light Immortal Palace and answer him. After hearing this, he will naturally understand what it means to be a father."
"In this way, the child understands what to do."
In the hundred years since Zhou Guangcheng was born, his cultivation level has risen two levels in a row. This speed is really too fast.
He needs to retreat and digest what he has gained over the past hundred years before he can hit the Nascent Soul stage without leaving any consequences.
When it comes to his son's path, Zhou Yang will certainly not be careless in this regard.
After confirming the whereabouts of his son Zhou Guangcheng, Zhou Yang called the green dragon Qingluo over and asked her to take her token to the Duanyun Mountains to visit the [Tongtian Demon King].
After dealing with these more urgent matters, Zhou Yang had time to meet Zhou Liangyu, the head of the Zhou family, and listen to his report on various intelligence.
"It has been more than eighty years since the sand sea was revived. Now the number of oases found in the sand sea has reached tens of thousands. The area of the original oases has also increased greatly. In some oases, even ordinary mortals can ride camel beasts.
We communicated back and forth.”
"At the same time, we have detected that pan-spiritual phenomena have occurred in many places in the sand sea. Many low-level spiritual veins have emerged, and many low-level spiritual veins have even automatically completed their upgrades!"
"In addition, verified statistics show that the number and water volume of underground rivers under the Sand Sea are increasing year by year. The annual precipitation in various parts of the Sand Sea has at least tripled compared to more than 80 years ago. The number of sandstorms has increased.
It has dropped two to three times.”
"In addition, we have also monitored that the frequency of black sand storms in the [Death Sand Sea] has also been reduced a lot, and the power seems to have weakened. Maybe in a few years, foundation-building monks will be able to take the risk and try to cross the [Death Sand Sea]
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"However, the resurgence of the sand sea has also brought about many new problems. For example, many Lingshan blessed lands on the original oases have been damaged to varying degrees due to changes in the terrain. Some even have their spiritual veins moved elsewhere, resulting in extremely heavy losses.
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"At the same time, due to the influence of the resurgence of vitality in the sand sea, the probability of beasts becoming monsters has greatly increased. Also due to the increase in food, the reproduction speed of monsters and beasts has increased simultaneously, which has brought a lot of trouble to low-level monks and ordinary mortals.
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"There are also areas close to the Duanyun Mountains. Due to the emergence of a large amount of grassland and the collapse of some snow mountains, many low-level monsters and beasts have escaped from the Duanyun Mountains and occupied the area."
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Zhou Liangyu's report was very detailed, and all the big and small matters were reported to Zhou Yang in detail, so that Zhou Yang could make subsequent plans and arrangements based on this reference.
In fact, when Zhou Yang came all the way from the secret space, he also discovered many changes that were difficult for ordinary monks to discover.
After listening to Zhou Liangyu's words at this time, he added: "You have also missed one thing, and that is the change in the spiritual energy concentration and spiritual energy attributes of the sand sea. These subtle changes may not seem important at the moment, but they will be extremely important in the future!
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Why is the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea so poor in resources?
In addition to the desertification of the land and the lack of living plants, it is also related to the fact that the concentration of spiritual energy here is generally lower than other immortal worlds.
Don't talk about anything else, just say that up to now, there is no sixth-level spiritual mountain here, and you can know the difference between this place and other immortal cultivation worlds.
Another thing is that the spiritual energy attributes here are extremely unbalanced. The concentration of the spiritual energy of the three attributes of fire, earth, and metal is much higher than the spiritual energy of the two attributes of wood and water.
This imbalance of spiritual energy attributes will not only affect the growth and production of spiritual resources, but also affect the spiritual root attributes and quality of ordinary mortal descendants, and even affect the life span of ordinary mortals.
Zhou Yang has now visited all the major realms of cultivating immortals in the "Linghuan Realm" and has some understanding of the conditions in each major realm of cultivating immortals.
He also discovered that if man-made factors such as war were excluded, the average level of monks in the four major immortal worlds of Liuyun Continent, Donghua Continent, Tiannan Continent, and Extreme West was higher than that of Beibei.
The world of immortality cultivation in Tingzhou is one of the best in the world of overseas immortality cultivation.
There may be other objective man-made reasons for this situation, but he believes that the biggest reason is that the spiritual energy attributes of the latter two major realms of immortality are relatively extreme.
Of course Zhou Liangyu would not know this, but he knew that Zhou Yang, the ancestor, would not take the wrong aim, so after hearing this, he immediately admitted his mistake and said: "The ancestors taught me that the younger generation was indeed negligent here. The younger generation will definitely send people around when he turns around.
Investigate statistical data."
"Tell me about the price inflation you mentioned last time. Have your methods worked now?"
Zhou Yang waved his hand, but turned the topic elsewhere.
When he heard him mention this matter, Zhou Liangyu immediately replied with a smile on his face: "Thanks to my ancestors, after the news that you led the revival of the sand sea came out, the family's price control methods were implemented smoothly. Now,
Prices have dropped back to the levels of more than two hundred years ago, and the number of low-grade spiritual stones in the family's inventory has also risen to more than 23 million yuan!"
"That's good. Then other plans can be implemented easily."
Zhou Yang nodded slightly, affirming Zhou Liangyu's work results.
Then he pondered for a moment, then looked at Zhou Liangyu and asked: "As the head of the Zhou family, do you know how many monks, how many mortals, how many spiritual mountains and properties there are in the Zhou family? How many vassal monks are there?"
"Old Ancestor Mingjian, the Zhou family now compiles statistics on the number of Zhou family members in various places and the number of various Lingshan industries every five years. The number of mortals is only counted every twenty years."
"According to the latest statistics three years ago, the Zhou family now has a total of 8,756 monks from the clan, and 2,933 monks from other relatives."
"Excluding the monks in the Qi training stage, there are currently 678 foundation-building stage monks in the Zhou family, 45 monks in the Zifu stage, five monks in the golden elixir stage, and 165 foundation-building stage monks from relatives.
There are seven monks from Zifu, my cousin, and one Jindan monk from my cousin!"
"According to the statistics of the number of mortals eight years ago, the Zhou family now has about 34.7 million mortals, including about 25.4 million in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal World."
"As for the current spiritual mountains of the Zhou family, there are a total of more than 4,600 second-level spiritual mountains, 276 third-level spiritual mountains, 48 fourth-level spiritual mountains, and seven fifth-level spiritual mountains."
"There are also more than 840 second-level mineral veins, ninety-three third-level mineral veins, and eleven fourth-level mineral veins."
"In addition, the Zhou family currently tames seventy-three types of second-level monsters and eight types of third-level monsters; it has cultivated more than 350 types of third-level elixirs, and 170 types of fourth-level elixirs.
There are sixty-six kinds of fifth-level elixirs; the rest of the second-level spiritual trees that form the forest area include sixty-nine kinds, and there are five kinds of third-level spiritual trees."
"If we include the various shops and businesses that the Zhou family has opened in various places, and excluding the output of the spiritual stone mines, the Zhou family's annual spiritual stone income has exceeded two million low-grade spiritual stones, with a net income of more than 30
Ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones!”
"Currently, the number of vassal monks who nominally belong to the Zhou family has exceeded 50,000, including more than 550 foundation-building monks, 17 Zifu monks, and two Jindan monks!"
Thanks to Zhou Liangyu, who is a golden elixir-level monk and has a strong photographic memory, he can list the various situations of the Zhou family based on his memory without having to consult the information on the jade slips.
From the data he said, we can know how big and wealthy the Zhou family is now!
Perhaps there is still a big gap between these industrial resources and top sects such as Xuanyang Immortal Sect that have been inherited for tens of thousands of years, but they are much better than sects such as Suyun Sect.
"Sounds good. It seems that even judging from the number of monks at each level and the number of resources and spiritual veins, the Zhou family already has the foundation to separate itself!"
Zhou Yang nodded with a satisfied look on his face. He was quite satisfied with the current number of monks at all levels and the income from the industry in the Zhou family.
Since he formed the elixir, he has actually been freeing up the Zhou family. Except for giving some spiritual objects to the Zhou family from time to time, he has not been involved in the specific development affairs of the Zhou family.
Therefore, the Zhou family can now accumulate such a large family fortune. Although he has made indelible contributions, other Zhou family monks have also contributed a lot.
"Now that the sand sea is revived, it has attracted the attention of many powerful people from outside. Whether we are willing or not, the boundless sand sea cultivation world will be open to the outside world, and many outside monks will come here to travel and adventure."
"Ancestor, I will solve those enemies at the Nascent Soul stage with all my strength, but for conflicts below the Nascent Soul stage, it will be inconvenient for me, Ancestor, to take action."
"Whether the Zhou family can completely realize their ambition of separatism, become one of the top powers in this world, and become the number one cultivating family in this world, actually does not depend on how strong the ancestor is, but on whether you, the younger generation, have the ability to challenge other people.
The power proves that you and the Zhou family are worthy of this title and this status!"
Zhou Yang looked deeply at Zhou Liangyu, the head of the Zhou family, with a tone full of expectations, expectations, doubts and worries.