(Anti-theft chapter, text updated after 6:30 am) The land in the far west, within the boundless sea of sand.
The Boundless Sand Sea is just like its name, with sand as the sea and boundless.
The environment of the sand sea is harsh, and there are very few places suitable for human habitation. There are only a few desert oases that can accommodate human habitation and survival.
Yuquan Lake is one of the few desert oases suitable for human habitation in the boundless sea of sand.
The oasis is more than a hundred miles long from east to west and more than seventy miles wide from north to south. It is higher in the east and lower in the west. There is a mountain called Yuquan Peak in the east, which is hundreds of meters high. There are many trees on it and the clouds are shrouded. At the foot of the mountain is the source of life of the entire oasis -
—Yuquan Lake.
Yuquan Lake covers an area of more than ten square kilometers. The lake water originates from an underground river. The water volume is huge, the water quality is clear and sweet and can be drank directly.
More than 100,000 humans and countless birds and animals on the thousands square kilometers of Yuquan Lake Oasis all rely on the clear water of this lake to support them.
The Yuquan Zhou family is the owner of the Yuquan Lake Oasis.
The first person to discover the Yuquan Lake oasis was Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Yuquan Zhou family. Today, more than 100,000 people living on this oasis are all Zhou Yuquan clan members who are related to the Yuquan Zhou family.
The Yuquan Zhou family is a family of immortal cultivators. Their ancestor, Zhou Yuquan, studied under the "Huangsha Sect" of the sect of cultivating immortals. He resigned from the sect more than two hundred years ago and founded the Yuquan Zhou family in the oasis of Yuquan Lake. It has now gone through seven generations.
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Today, the ancestor of the Zhou family, Zhou Yuquan, has long passed away. However, after more than two hundred years of development, the Yuquan Zhou family has now become a powerful organization with one foundation-building monk, dozens of Qi-training monks, and more than 100,000 vassal mortals.
Cultivation family.
Ordinary Zhou clan people mainly live in the three small towns in the Yuquan Lake Oasis, either farming fields or grazing cattle and sheep, leading a self-sufficient and carefree life.
The immortal cultivators of the Zhou family live together on Yuquan Peak, which is rich in aura.
Yuquan Peak itself is a second-level high-grade natural spiritual vein. After more than two hundred years of cultivation by the Zhou family, it has now been promoted to a third-level mid-grade, which can be used by several foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi-training monks.
Zhou Yang is the sixth generation monk of the Yuquan Zhou family with the name "Yuan".
Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Prosperity, Eternal Green, these sixteen-character names of generations were personally drawn up by Zhou Yuquan, the founder of the Yuquan Zhou family.
Zhou clan members can only be included in the family tree after their spiritual roots have been detected and they have the qualifications to practice. After their death, their spiritual tablets will be entered into the ancestral hall to be offered incense by descendants.
There are fifteen members of the "Yuan" generation of the Yuquan Zhou clan, and Zhou Yang ranks ninth, but in terms of cultivation, he is the first among the fifteen.
At this time, he, a well-known "little genius" in the Zhou family, was sitting cross-legged in a natural cave on the mountainside of Yuquan Peak with his eyes closed.
It is transformed into the milky white earth vein aura steaming in the cave.
Earth vein aura is an essence of energy bred by the combination of spiritual veins and earth veins. It has a miraculous effect on low-level immortal cultivators who can break through obstacles.
However, it is difficult to breed the spiritual energy of the earth veins. It can only be produced in some special places where the earth veins and spiritual veins meet. Only the "Yuyang Cave" where Zhou Yang is located at this time can breed the entire Yuquan Peak.
The amount of earth vein spiritual energy bred in the "Yuyang Cave" can only be produced every ten years for a monk in the Qi training stage to break through, and it is only effective for monks below the seventh level of Qi training.
Therefore, among the dozens of clan members of the Zhou family who are in the Qi training period, only a few particularly outstanding clansmen can use the earth vein spiritual energy to make breakthroughs during the Qi training period.
Zhou Yang's ability to use the "Yuyang Cave" to make breakthroughs is of course related to his status as the first person of the "Yuan" generation. Otherwise, his father is the sixth elder of the Yuquan Zhou family, and the "Yuyang Cave" opened in this decade
"It was never his turn as a seventeen-year-old boy to use it.
You know, among the dozens of people in the Zhou clan who are in the Qi training stage, there are many who have been waiting for this opportunity for ten or twenty years!
At this moment, Zhou Yang was sitting cross-legged with the hand-kneading method, breathing in and out evenly. With each inhalation, the milky-white earth vein aura turned into two mist spiritual snakes and penetrated through his nostrils, and was refined into his own magic power.
In this way, when the amount of milky white earth vein aura in the cave dropped to less than 30%, Zhou Yang's closed eyes suddenly opened, and his shoulder-length hair automatically started to flutter behind him without wind, and his momentum increased by almost 10% compared to before.
Double.
He stood up and murmured to himself with a face full of joy: "I finally broke through to the sixth level of Qi training. The earth vein aura is indeed well-deserved. This has saved me at least three years of time!"
Seventeen years old, sixth level of Qi training. At this age and level of cultivation, only a few elite disciples with high-grade spiritual roots can achieve this level of cultivation in immortal sects like Huang Shamen.
Zhou Yang's spiritual root qualifications are actually only of average quality.
"The patriarch said that I may be carrying some kind of special treasure body, and my cultivation speed can far exceed that of monks with the same qualifications. Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect the treasure body. Only big sects such as Huang Shamen can detect it through secret methods."
"Although I, Zhou, am a vassal of Huangshamen, it is impossible to ask Huangshamen to help detect the treasure body, unless I am willing to join Huangshamen!"
"But once you join the Huangsha Clan, you will be bound by the rules of the Huangsha Clan, and there will suddenly be countless seniors above you who can yell at you. How can I be in the clan now?
Comfortable?"
"Humph, you would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. The Huangshamen family has a great cause, and there is no shortage of geniuses with high-grade spiritual roots in every generation. Even if I have a precious body, I will be nothing more than a phoenix after I go to Huangshamen.
The benefits enjoyed by elite disciples may not be as good as those in the Zhou clan today. At least the elders here are looking forward to my success in building the foundation in the future, and they are all thinking about me wholeheartedly."
"Besides, as long as I successfully build the foundation, the treasure body will naturally awaken and derive the treasure body's magical power. By then, I will naturally know what kind of treasure body I have."
Zhou Yang is not an ordinary person. He is a reborn person whose soul comes from the earth world. He has twenty or thirty years more past life memories than ordinary people.
Although most of the past life memories of the past twenty or thirty years cannot be used in this fairy world due to the vastly different world environment, some of the methods, experiences, and principles of living in the world can be used in all worlds.
thing.
Others only saw that Huang Shamen was majestic and majestic, with the Jindan Patriarch sitting inside, and dozens of desert oases such as Yuquan Lake Oasis outside serving as vassals. There was no shortage of all kinds of skills and treasures, and they wanted to join in with all their heads.
Become one of them.
Little do they know that although the sect's welfare benefits are good, the rules are equally strict. Once you join the sect, you can't help it. Ordinary Qi-training disciples must complete the tasks assigned by the sect every year. Once they fail to complete the task, the benefits will be stopped.
Treatment, at worst, abolition of cultivation and expulsion from the school!
Furthermore, there are serious cliques in the sect. In order to express themselves in front of the higher-ups of the sect or to compete for the right to use certain spiritual lands, low-level disciples work hard to suppress their competitors. The competition is very fierce.
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The ancestor of the Zhou family was a foundation-building monk of Huangshamen. The information about Huangshamen is recorded in the clan's classics. Therefore, all Zhou family members, unless they are not good at spiritual qualifications but want to compete,
people, otherwise no one would be willing to become a disciple of Salmonella Huang.
Zhou Yang was tired of office fights in his previous life. He finally had the opportunity to get rid of that kind of fight in this life, and of course he would not let himself fall into it again.
Therefore, he had already made up his mind that even if there was no hope of success or immortality in this life, he would never want to live a life of intrigues and intrigues all day long.
Innate, Qi training, foundation building, Zifu, golden elixir, Yuanying, transcending tribulations, returning to the void, and combining the Tao. These are the nine realms of practice. If you want to achieve true immortality, you can only become a body that is in harmony with the Tao.
Only the Taoist gods will do.
However, as far as Zhou Yang knows, since there have been immortal cultivators in this world, no one has ever been heard of who is truly immortal. The division of the nine realms of cultivation is only passed down by the legendary immortals from outside the world and has not been verified.
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Therefore, for 99% of the monks, having a golden elixir stage with a thousand-year lifespan is the highest pursuit of their practice.
In this case, it is no wonder that he is unwilling to wrong himself to participate in those intrigues for the sake of that illusory legend of immortality.
Cultivation is also about cultivating the mind. Since the original intention is not to participate in those intrigues, Zhou Yang must of course choose to act according to the original intention.
Having just broken through the realm, he was excited and thought too much. It took a while for Zhou Yang to suppress the messy thoughts in his heart and look at the remaining milky white earth vein aura in the cave.
"Although every time the Yuyang Cave is opened, the earth-line spiritual energy inside can be absorbed as much as possible, but since I have successfully broken through the realm, absorbing these earth-line spiritual energy will only help me stabilize my realm, and it will not have much effect."
"In this case, it is better to retain these earth vein auras and advance the next opening of Yuyang Cave a few years to benefit other tribesmen."
It is not advisable to fish in the dry land, and it is not easy to generate the spiritual energy of the earth veins. It is too wasteful to simply use it to improve the cultivation of mana. Since Zhou Yang has decided to stay in the clan and develop, he will certainly not do such evil things that harm the public and enrich himself.
He made a decision in his heart, immediately opened the door and walked out of the cave, explaining the situation to the family elders who were guarding outside.
"Yuyang Cave" is an important place of the Zhou family, and it is guarded by family elders all year round. The one currently guarding it is Zhou Xuanhe, a monk of the "Xuan" generation and Zhou Yang's uncle from the fourteenth clan.
At this time, when he saw Zhou Yang successfully breaking through and walking out, and hearing what he said about the situation inside, Zhou Xuanhe, who was wearing a cyan bottoming robe with a white crane and auspicious clouds embroidered on it, immediately nodded with relief and said with a smile: "Not bad.
Yes, Yang'er, you are indeed the most promising person of our Zhou Jiayuan generation. You have such a big picture view at a young age. If the old patriarch and eldest brother know about this, they will definitely be very pleased!"
The old patriarch he refers to is Zhou Minghan, the only monk in the foundation-building period of the Zhou family, and the only remaining member of the "Ming" generation. The eldest brother refers to Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao, who is also one of the eight qi practitioners of the Zhou family.
The sixth elder among the nine levels of elders, the boss of the "Xuan" generation.
As long as the Zhou family monks are of the same generation, they will address each other as brothers, while those of different generations will address each other as uncle, nephew.
At this time, facing the praise from Zhou Xuanhe, his fourteenth uncle, Zhou Yang very humbly said that this is what he should do as a member of the Zhou clan, and he was not at all proud of his identity and cultivation.
Seeing this performance in Zhou Xuanhe's eyes, he thought highly of this junior.
It is rare to have the sixth level of Qi training at such an age. What is even rarer is to be able to be neither arrogant nor impatient and take the overall situation into consideration. Perhaps the hope of the next generation of the Zhou family will really fall on this son.
Thinking of this, he remembered something again and said quickly: "Since you have successfully broken through, then go to the top of the cave to meet the old patriarch. His old man had given instructions earlier. If you can successfully break through, you will be able to break through."
Go see him."
"Is this happening? Then my nephew will not disturb Uncle Fourteen. Thank you Uncle Fourteen for protecting my nephew."
Zhou Yang's expression changed, and he immediately thanked Zhou Xuanhe and hurried to the old patriarch's cave at the top of Yuquan Peak.
Yuquan Peak, which is hundreds of meters high, has richer aura as it goes up. Generally, it is enough for the Zhou clan people in the Qi-training period to practice on the mountainside. There are also comfortable palaces and pavilions built there for people to live, and there are also special facilities for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
The secular people take care of you.
Only monks in the foundation-building stage will stay in the monk cave at the top of Yuquan Peak and use the rich spiritual energy there to practice.
The entire Yuquan Peak is covered by a third-level mid-level formation "Ten Thousand Trees Qingtian Formation". Since this formation can absorb the spiritual energy of vegetation inside the formation to increase its power, Yuquan Peak from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, except for those carved out
Outside the spiritual field and spiritual medicine garden, there are all kinds of tall trees, including some that are hundreds or thousands of years old.
The canopies of these towering trees are connected together, blocking the sun, making the temperature in the mountains several degrees lower than outside the mountains. There are also bursts of cool mountain wind passing through the forest. When walking among them, it is indescribable.
cool.
Zhou Yang, who was dressed in fluttering white clothes, used his magic to make his way up the mountainside. He quickly climbed along the stone steps opened in the woods, and soon reached the top of the mountain.
The top of Yuquan Peak has been artificially trimmed and has become very flat. The top of the mountain is only a few dozen acres in size. Because of the rich spiritual energy on it, except for three monk caves built in three places, the rest of the place has been opened up as a field of elixirs.
Various grades of elixirs were planted.
When Zhou Yang came here, a medicinal fragrance mixed with the aroma of various elixirs hit his nostrils. One whiff made people feel refreshed, and the magic power in the whole body speeded up a lot.
It is conceivable that if you can practice here all year round, your practice speed will definitely be much faster than on the mountainside.
But this is simply impossible.
The elixir garden is an important place of the Zhou family. Many of the elixirs in it are rare varieties that the Zhou family has cultivated for a hundred or two hundred years. The loss of any one of them is enough to make the old patriarch Zhou Minghan feel distressed for decades.
Therefore, except for the two second-level spiritual cultivators in the clan, even a beloved genius disciple like Zhou Yang was strictly prohibited from setting foot on the top of the mountain without being summoned by the clan leader.
Moreover, the top of the mountain is not accessible to anyone who wants to set foot there. This is the core area of the "Ten Thousand Woods Qingtian Formation". It is protected by a powerful formation. The guardians inside are not allowed to control the formation to let them go. This is the foundation building period.
When the monks come, they have no choice but to break through the formation and force their way through.
"My younger brother Zhou Yang has been ordered to come and pay homage to the old patriarch, and please let him go."
He stood outside the formation on the top of the mountain, with a respectful look on his face and bowed his hands toward the area in front that was covered by the white mist of the formation.
"It turns out to be Xiaojiu. The clan leader has already told me that you should come in first."
An old voice came out of the white mist, and then the vast white mist surged in front of Zhou Yang, revealing a safe passage for one person to walk.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang quickly raised his hands and thanked him: "My great-nephew thanks Grandpa Seventh."
Then he followed the path all the way deeper and finally came to a white-haired old man sitting cross-legged under a tree dozens of meters tall.
The white-haired old man sitting cross-legged under the tree is named Zhou Yun. He has attained the ninth level of Qi cultivation and is now the fourth elder of the Zhou family. He ranks seventh among the generation with the word "light" and is also the only two members of the Zhou family.
One of the second-level spiritual husbands.
The youngest monks of the "Guang" generation of the Zhou family are over eighty years old, and the fourth elder Zhou Yun is nearly a hundred years old, very close to the lifespan limit of 120 years for monks in the Qi training period.
Although the monks' fighting skills will not decrease much as they age, generally speaking, those elderly Qi-training monks who are close to a hundred years old in the major cultivating families will retire to their family's ancestral land to spend their old age peacefully, either in case of genocide.
No one will disturb them, the heroes who have served the family for most of their lives, when it comes to big things.
In particular, Zhou Yun is also a second-level spiritual planter, so he is allowed to live in seclusion on the top of the mountain to take care of the spiritual medicines in the dozens of acres of medicine gardens.
When he saw Zhou Yang approaching, the old man immediately waved his sleeves, and a tea table, a tea set, and a futon appeared out of thin air in front of him. He pointed at the empty futon without any explanation and said: "The patriarch is finishing his work.
Xiaojiu, please drink a cup of tea with the old man here first and chat."
It is rare for the descendants of an ordinary family to come to the top of the mountain. The patriarch who is senior to him often practices in seclusion. The old man usually stays alone on the mountain with no one to talk to, and he is also bored and panicked.
Now of course I am very happy to see Zhou Yang, the most outstanding member of the younger generation of the family.
Most young people may not understand the psychology of the old people, but Zhou Yang, who has lived in two generations, understands it quite well. He is also willing to chat with these old people more and listen to their stories about various interesting things in the world of immortality without hindering the business.
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"It's not easy to drink a cup of Grandpa Seven's homemade herbal tea on weekdays, but today my grandnephew has to drink it to his full capacity."
He smiled and walked to sit on the futon, took the initiative to pick up the tea set and started making tea.
Of course, the tea made by cultivators is different from that of ordinary people. The flame used to make tea is transformed by magic power. It only takes a moment for the tea to boil without any smell of fireworks.
After a pot of tea was boiled, Zhou Yang poured the tea for the two of them and couldn't wait to pick up his cup of fragrant hot tea and drink it down in one gulp.
When ordinary people drink tea like this, the scalding hot tea may even burn their throats, but for cultivators whose bodies have been tempered by magic power, this temperature is the same as ordinary people drinking warm water, and it is nothing at all.
When the old man saw him wolfing down his tea like this, not only was he not dissatisfied at all, but he looked at him happily and asked with a smile: "How is it? Are you satisfied with this new herbal tea I made?"
After asking, he didn't wait for Zhou Yang to answer. He gently picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Then he closed his eyes with a look of enjoyment and said in a proud tone: "This is what I used to use the second-level elixir [Xianyuncao]."
Leaves, plus 20-year-old [White Jade Ginseng] ginseng whiskers, first-level elixir [Fragrant Leaf Chrysanthemum] and other five elixirs, the new tea only contains three taels in total, and even the tea used to make the tea is
The spiritual dew just collected from the elixirs in the medicine garden this morning."
"It is indeed a good tea. Both the taste and effectiveness of Grandpa Qi's herbal tea are no worse than those spiritual teas that my grandnephew used to drink. If it can be mass-produced, it will provide an additional source of income for my Zhou family."
ah!"
Zhou Yang put down the tea cup, silently feeling the changes in the mana in his body, and then smelled the aroma of the medicine remaining on his lips, his face full of admiration.
When the old man heard his praise, he was happy at first, and then shook his head with depression and helplessness: "I also have this idea, but [Xianyuncao] is used to refine the second-level elixir [Xianyundan]
You can't just waste this elixir like this just to make tea, right? If you only use the naturally withered leaves, the quantity will be enough for me to drink!"
"this……"
Zhou Yang lowered his head in embarrassment and decisively did not answer the old man's words.
There is only one second-level alchemist in the family, and that is his father Zhou Xuanhao. Once the [Xianyuncao] matures, it will be used by him to make alchemy. If he dares to say that the spiritual grass is used to make tea, he will have to slap him in the face.
He cannot die.
"Hehe, you little naughty boy is quite cunning. Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't care about the overall situation. I was just talking casually!"
The old man had a smile on his face, but he didn't know what Zhou Yang was thinking. He first comforted him with a few words, and then told him some interesting things he had experienced when he was young to help him resolve the embarrassment just now.
The two of them were chatting like this. After chatting for about a quarter of an hour, the door of the cave where the old patriarch practiced medicine suddenly opened automatically, and the old patriarch's old and powerful voice came from it: "Is Xiaojiu here? Come in first."
Hearing this voice, the two people who were talking stopped in unison, and then Zhou Yang immediately stood up and cupped his hands towards Zhou Junyi and said: "Grandpa Seventh, my grandnephew has gone to pay homage to the old patriarch first."
"Go, go, don't keep me waiting for long."
After bidding farewell to Zhou Jun, Zhou Yang walked directly through the open door of the cave and soon met Zhou Minghan, the current patriarch of the Zhou family and a monk in the foundation period, in the training room deep in the cave.
Zhou Minghan is over 150 years old this year, but his face looks much younger than Zhou Yun's. His hair is not completely white, and his face is as rosy as a baby's.
This is normal. The lifespan of a monk in the foundation-building stage is more than two hundred years old. If nothing unexpected happens, Zhou Minghan will have at least another forty or fifty years of life. And since he has a high level of cultivation, he naturally looks younger than Zhou Yun.
When Zhou Yang saw Zhou Minghan, the patriarch of the Zhou clan was sitting cross-legged on the cold jade bed, meditating. He didn't dare to look too much. After he came in, he bowed deeply and paid homage: "My grandson pays homage to my great-grandfather."
Zhou Minghan is the only existing monk of the "Ming" generation in the Zhou family, and he is in the foundation-building period, so he naturally becomes the great-grandfather of all the monks of the "Yuan" generation.
"Xuanhe has sent a message to me about your performance in [Yuyang Cave]. Xiaojiu, you have done a good job in this matter. Even when I was your age, I was far behind you in terms of the overall situation."
Far worse!"
Zhou Minghan, who was sitting on the cold jade bed, opened his eyes slightly and looked at Zhou Yang with unabashed admiration. He started to praise him fiercely and his joy was beyond words.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he was lying if he said he was unhappy. He was the first of the "Yuan" generation to be praised by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan. If these words spread, he would be regarded as the most respected among the elders in the Zhou family.
His status will definitely rise to another level.
However, he was very happy, but he did not get carried away because of this. He quickly replied respectfully: "My great-grandfather said something serious. My grandson just did what he should do, but he does not deserve such praise from his great-grandfather."
"It's a good thing to do! If every child of my Zhou family has Xiaojiu, who is as sensible as you, why should the Zhou family be unhappy?"
Zhou Minghan couldn't help but smile happily, obviously he couldn't be more satisfied with Zhou Yang's answer.
He smiled and stretched out his hand, and an invisible force dragged Zhou Yang's bowed body up.
"Come, stand up straighter and let me take a good look at my Zhou family's Qilin'er!"
When the old patriarch was so happy, he even called out the three words "Qilin'er", which showed that he loved Zhou Yang as a junior.
Zhou Minghan has great expectations for Zhou Yang.
The Yuquan Zhou family, starting from the founder of the family, Zhou Yuquan, has always had foundation-building monks in charge, which is why it has been able to develop to its current scale in just over two hundred years.
But now, the Yuquan Zhou family seems to have run out of luck. Since Zhou Minghan, no new monks in the foundation building period have been born in the past hundred years.
This is dangerous.
What a cultivating family fears most is the sudden death of a high-level cultivator.
Once they lose the protection of the foundation-building monks, the Zhou family may not be able to hold on to the ancestral land of Yuquan Lake Oasis and Yuquan Peak, let alone continue to develop and expand the family size.
Therefore, under Zhou Minghan's secret instructions, the development of the Zhou family in recent years has actually been secretly stopped for a long time. The fear is that if it continues to expand, it will attract the attention of others and lead to the annihilation of the Zhou family after his death.
But after all, this is not a permanent solution. The best way is for the Zhou family to give birth to a new foundation-building monk to take charge of the family before his death.
As long as there are foundation-building monks in charge, with the help of the third-level formation [Wanmu Qingtian Formation] on Yuquan Peak and the help of dozens of Qi-training clansmen, even if there are multiple foundation-building monks attacking, they will not be able to hurt the Zhou family.
the foundation of.
Originally, Zhou Minghan had placed his hopes on the juniors of the "Xuan" generation, and had even made up his mind. If no one in the Zhou family had been promoted to the foundation building stage before his death, he would rather put the Yuquan Lake Oasis and the Zhou family's big
Part of the output is dedicated to Huangshamen in exchange for Huangshamen's protection, and the Zhou family cannot be envied and exterminated because they occupy a large amount of interests.
But now, Zhou Minghan realized that maybe he should change his mind.
With the potential shown by Zhou Yang, a junior from the "Yuan" generation, as long as he is given another twenty or thirty years, his hope of building a foundation will probably be much greater than that of those from the "Xuan" generation.
He looked carefully at the young man standing in front of him. The handsome and elegant appearance of the young man was not his focus. What he valued was the neither humble nor arrogant attitude that the young man showed in front of him. He knew that he was looking at him and could still be calm.
A calm attitude in the face.
After reading it, he had only one thought in his mind.
This one can be of great use!
Of course, as an elder, no matter how satisfied or happy he is in his heart, he will not show it too much on his face and cannot encourage the arrogance of young people.
Therefore, although he was extremely happy in his heart, his face returned to a calm look. He looked at Zhou Yang with a calm face and asked: "Do you know the reason why I asked you to come here?"
"My grandson doesn't know." Zhou Yang replied honestly.
"Originally, according to the rules of the clan, after the young monks in the clan reach the age of twenty, they must go down the mountain to experience and serve the family for a period of time before returning to the mountain for meditation."
"But your situation is special. Although you are only seventeen years old, you are already at the sixth level of Qi training. In the past hundred years, no one in the clan has had your level of cultivation when he came down from the mountain at the age of twenty."
"It just so happens that you have just made a breakthrough with the help of the earth's spiritual energy. It will take at least five years to build up your mana. Wouldn't it be a waste of manpower if you were asked to stay on the mountain?"
"So I decided to do something special and let you come down early to serve the family. This is also an experience for you and will be of great benefit to your future practice."
Zhou Minghan looked at Zhou Yang who looked attentive, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and spoke out his arrangement in a deep voice.
As he expected, Zhou Yang's expression changed after hearing what he said. Apparently, he didn't expect that calling him here would be such a thing.
But what made him not sure whether he was happy or depressed was that after Zhou Yang's expression changed slightly, he immediately regained his composure, then bowed respectfully and said, "My grandson understands and is willing to obey the family's arrangements."
Seeing this, he asked in a strange tone: "Don't you want to know where I plan to arrange you?"
"My grandson believes that no matter what his great-grandfather arranges, it will ultimately be for the best of his grandson."
Zhou Yang smiled in his heart and directly said these words that left Zhou Minghan speechless for a while.
After a long while, he laughed angrily and cursed: "He is indeed a little slicker. Xuan Hao and his wife are both upright people, how could they give birth to a little slicker like you!"
After speaking, without waiting for Zhou Yang to complain, he took the initiative to tell Zhou Yang's arrangements.
"Your spiritual root attributes tend to be gold and fire. You also practice the masculine and domineering technique "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique". Apart from some lack of combat experience, your fighting ability is actually not weaker than any monks of the same level.
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"It just so happens that the monk in the family stationed at Qingping Mountain has reached the end of his stay. You can go over and replace him for five years. After five years, I will let someone else go over and replace you."
"In addition, I hope that you can take the time to learn the art of weapon refining among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals during this period. There are currently no good people in the family who can take over my class in the field of weapon refining. If you can make some progress in this aspect,
Making a difference is a great thing for the whole family."
After Zhou Minghan finished explaining his arrangement, he waved his hand and threw a gray storage bag and a small silver shield into Zhou Yang's hands.
"In the storage bag are some low-level weapon refining materials, as well as some of my experience in weapon refining, as well as a set of copies of "The True Solution to Weapon Refining" collected by the family. You must keep these things well, and you must not
Spread the word."
"As for this [Silver Gang Shield] magical weapon, it is the best of the many second-level magical weapons that I have refined. Just think of it as my compensation for your early departure from the mountain."
"Okay, if you have nothing else to do, you can leave. The trip to Qingping Mountain should be completed within one month."
Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhou Minghan's words and operations. In the end, he almost instinctively grabbed the things in his hands and said, "Then, my grandson, please leave first."
It wasn't until he walked out of the cave and heard the sound of the cave door closing that he was shocked and came back to his senses to understand what had happened.
He recalled what Zhou Minghan had just explained in the cave, and murmured to himself with confusion in his eyes: "What happened to me just now? How could I lose my soul and not even react at all? This is not like my character.
ah!"
Before he finished speaking, his heart suddenly jumped, and he couldn't help but make a bold guess.
"Did the old patriarch cast some spell on me?"
The next moment, he immediately stopped himself from this dangerous thought.
Even if the old patriarch cast any spells on him, it was definitely just a joke on him. There was no need to think too much about it. Random thoughts would only harm yourself.
Thinking of this, he looked at the storage bag and magic weapon in his hand, carefully put them away, and then said hello to Zhou Yun, the seventh grandfather who was drinking tea alone under the tree, and asked him to help open the array.
Fa sends himself down the mountain.
Before finally walking out of the formation, Zhou Yang looked back at the top of the mountain and saw his seventh grandfather, Zhou Jun, standing under the tree with a smile as he watched him leave.
"This kid seems to have discovered something. It seems that we can't use such little tricks to tease him in the future, so as not to cause bad misunderstandings."
In the cave on the top of the mountain, Zhou Minghan saw the change in Zhou Yang's expression after he left through his spiritual consciousness. He tugged on his beard in embarrassment, and a look of regret flashed across his face.
It was true that while he was speaking just now, he secretly cast a mind-catching spell that he had acquired in his early years to affect Zhou Yang's mind.
It's not that he did this because he was afraid of Zhou Yang's resistance to his arrangements, it was just that he couldn't see Zhou Yang's young and mature look and wanted to tease him.
It's like those mortal adults who deliberately give a little soju to a child in order to tease him, and then laugh out loud at the child who is pretending to be mature with snot and tears running down his face.
This kind of teasing will certainly make the elders feel proud of their success at the time, but they will regret it when they find that their teasing will make the younger generations feel psychologically disgusted with them.
This is the situation for Zhou Minghan now.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang is really mature psychologically, rather than pretending to be mature. He didn't really complain about this old man who devoted himself to his family because of this little joke.
After he walked down the top of the mountain, he quickly returned to his attic on the mountainside and sorted out today's harvest behind closed doors.
The first is the storage bag that the old patriarch gave him. This kind of storage magic weapon made of the skin of the demonic beast [Lingxu Rat] is almost common among immortal cultivators. Even the poorest casual cultivator can use it.
Try your best to get one for yourself.
Of course, storage bags are also divided into different sizes. Generally, the storage bags used during the Qi training period are only three feet square, which is barely enough to hold a few sets of changes of clothes and a small amount of sundries.
As for the Yuquan Zhou family, each clan member can receive a five-foot-square storage bag from the family for free as long as their cultivation level reaches the Qi training stage. Because Zhou Yang has a good father, he has a daily use bag in his hand.
The storage bag is one foot square.
But now, his storage bag has been upgraded.
The gray-looking storage bag given by the old patriarch turned out to be three feet square. In addition to a tripod for refining weapons and several refining books, it was also filled with items such as black iron, red copper, etc.
Low-level weapon-making materials such as century-old iron wood.
Zhou Yang made a rough calculation and found that if he was only refining magical weapons such as swords that required less materials, these materials would be enough for him to refine the weapons hundreds of times at least.
"General clan members learn the art of weapon refining. Although the family will provide free materials to practice, they will only give them hundreds of opportunities. The old clan leader gave me so many materials. Even the stupidest person can succeed two or three times.
Come on!"
Zhou Yang looked at the storage bag full of materials, and he would be lying if he said he wasn't impressed.
He knew that the old patriarch had always made a distinction between public and private affairs, and even if he was extremely talented, he would not make an exception specifically for him in this regard.
So there is only one reason why he can use so many materials to practice now. The old patriarch used his personal savings to exchange these materials from the family treasury.
"It seems that the old patriarch really wants me to inherit his weapon refining skills. As the only third-level weapon refiner in the family, he must have seen something. Maybe I really have a good talent in weapon refining."
Zhou Yang thought of the "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique" he practiced at home, and suddenly he had some enlightenment, with a knowing smile on his face.
Then he carefully put away the storage bag and looked at another thing given by the old patriarch, the second-level magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield].
The second-level magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield] is made from the fallen tree scales of the second-level spiritual object [Dragon Scale Tree] as the main material, and mixed with the second-level spiritual object [Silver Gang Stone].
There are nine realms of cultivating immortals. The magic weapons, elixirs, formations, and talismans used by cultivators are therefore divided into nine levels from the first to the ninth level. The second-level magic weapons correspond to monks in the Qi training stage.
It is also a second-level magic weapon, which can be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. [Silver Gang Shield] is a second-level magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-level weapon refiner. Its grade is naturally the highest grade.
Before being refined, this magic weapon looks like it is only the size of a palm. In fact, as long as Zhou Yang refines it, once it is released during battle, it can turn into a giant shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body, and it can be adjusted as he wishes.
position.
And because [Silver Gang Stone] was incorporated into it during refining, this magical weapon can not only easily block the attacks of flying swords and flying knives of the same level, but also has miraculous effects on spell attacks from cultivators or monsters.
Greatly offsets the damage caused by spells below level three.
"There is a second-order [Dragon Scale Tree] in my Zhou family. Every ten years, we can harvest a few pieces of mature tree scales. It is considered self-produced. However, [Silver Gang Stone] is not common, even if it is just a fist."
The price of a small, large piece is at least five hundred low-grade spiritual stones, so this gift from the old patriarch is really not light!"
In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the palm-sized silver shield in his hand, and suddenly felt that this magical weapon had become much heavier.
As a cultivating family, as long as each member of the Zhou family reaches the qi training stage, they can regularly receive spiritual stone offerings from the family every year until they are over sixty years old.
According to the current clan rules, members of the Zhou family who are on the first level of Qi training can receive 10 low-grade spiritual stones a year, and those who are on the second level of Qi training can receive 20 low-grade spiritual stones, and so on, until they are on the ninth level of Qi training.
There are changes.
Because if there are no accidents, the ninth level of Qi training is the limit of ordinary Qi training monks. The current family rule of the Zhou family is that as long as the family monks advance to the ninth level of Qi training, they will be promoted to family elders, and each elder can receive a gift every year.
An offering of 150 low-grade spiritual stones. There is no age limit for this offering. As long as the elder does not pass away, he can receive the full amount.
Zhou Yang had stayed at the fifth level of Qi training for two years before, and his offerings were only 50 low-grade spiritual stones per year. Based on this calculation, even if he saved all the spiritual stones and didn't use them, it would take ten years of offerings to exchange for one.
The fist is big [Silver Gang Stone].
In fact, because he only entered the qi training period at the age of seven, after ten years, not counting the treasures his parents rewarded him as gifts, his total net worth is only more than 300 low-grade spiritual stones.
It can be seen from this that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan regarded the [Silver Gang Shield] as a reward for his early descent from the mountain. What a great gift it was!
"The old patriarch values me so much. I must not let him down. Whether it is learning the art of refining weapons or stationing at Qingping Mountain, I must do it beautifully!"
Zhou Yang felt warm in his heart and couldn't help but tighten the magic weapon in his hand, secretly determined to do something good to repay the trust of his elders.
In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed the door tightly and concentrated on refining the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon he had just obtained. After refining the magic tool and getting good luck, he walked out of the room to prepare for the trip down the mountain.
Prepare.
He first went to another Ksitigarbha Cave in the Zhou family, where he learned the "Golden Yang Fierce Fire Technique" six-level Qi training technique, and then selected five techniques that were beneficial to fighting from among the many spells collected in the Ksitigarbha Cave.
The practice of magic.
These five spells are the second-level attack spells "Golden Sword Technique" and "Fire Snake Technique", the second-level defensive spell "Golden Light Body Protection Technique", and the second-level auxiliary spells "Sky Eye Technique" and "Earth Escape Technique".
The Qi-training techniques and spells in the Zhou family's Sutra Cave are not allowed to be read by the clan members, but they are not allowed to be taken out of the Cave, and they are strictly prohibited from being taught to outsiders privately.
Zhou Yang used to follow the teachings of his parents and elders. In addition to learning some simple first-level auxiliary spells, he did not distract himself from learning combat spells that were beneficial to fighting, and focused all his energy on improving his cultivation.
But now, since he has to go down the mountain to garrison one side, there is no guarantee that he will not encounter a battle of spells. If he doesn't know how to fight spells, just relying on a few magic weapons in his hand will be too simple, and it will be easy to be restrained and targeted.
Spells are easy to learn but difficult to master. It doesn't take long to learn how to use them only initially. With Zhou Yang's sixth level of Qi training, it only took about half a month to learn all five spells.
At this time, the one-month deadline given to him by the old patriarch was not far away, so he wrote a letter explaining the situation and asked the elders of the clan to bring it to his parents who were in the city of Xiuzhefang, thousands of miles away.
Then he said goodbye to his familiar elders and fellow monks on the mountain, and went down the mountain alone.
After going down the mountain, Zhou Yang took a camel from the tribesmen at the foot of the mountain, which was necessary for walking in the desert, and plunged directly into the boundless sea of sand.