Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The land of the extreme 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, and only a few desert oases can accommodate human beings.

Yuquan Lake is one of the few inhabitable desert oases in the boundless sand sea.

The oasis is more than 100 miles long from east to west, more than 70 miles wide from north to south, high in the east and low in the west, and there is a mountain named Yuquan Peak in the east. The mountain is hundreds of meters high. — Yuquan Lake.

Yuquan Lake covers an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers. The water of the lake comes from an underground river with a huge amount of water. The water is clear and sweet and can be drunk directly.

Hundreds of thousands of human beings and countless birds and beasts in Yuquan Lake Oasis are supported by the clear water of this lake.

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 Clan. Today, the hundreds of thousands of humans living in this oasis are all Zhou clan members who are related to the Yuquan Zhou Clan.

The Yuquan Zhou family is a family of cultivators. Its patriarch, Zhou Yuquan, learned from the sect of cultivating immortals "Huang Shamen". He resigned from the sect more than two hundred years ago and established the Yuquan Zhou clan in the oasis of Yuquan Lake. Now it has gone through seven generations. .

Today, Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou clan, has long since passed away. However, after more than two hundred years of development, the Yuquan Zhou clan is now a powerful group with one foundation-building monk, dozens of qi-training monks, and more than a hundred thousand vassals. Xiuxian family.

Ordinary people of the Zhou clan mainly live in the three small towns in Yuquan Lake Oasis, either farming fields, or grazing cattle and sheep, living a carefree life of self-sufficiency.

The immortal cultivators of the Zhou family live together on Yuquan Peak, which is rich in aura.

Jade Spring Peak itself is a natural spirit vein of the second-tier top grade. After more than two hundred years of cultivation by the Zhou family, it has now been promoted to the third-tier middle grade, which can be used by several foundation-building monks and hundreds of Qi-training monks to practice.

Zhou Yang is the sixth generation of "Yuan" monks of the Yuquan Zhou family.

Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Rongsheng, and Evergreen, these sixteen-character titles were drawn up by Zhou Yuquan, the founder of the Yuquan Zhou Clan.

Members of the Zhou clan can only be included in the genealogy after they have detected their spiritual roots and have the qualifications for cultivation.

There are fifteen people in the "Yuan" generation of the Yuquan Zhou family, 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, kneading the magic arts with his hands, and going all out to absorb and practice the exercises. It melts the milky white earth vein aura that is transpiring in the cave.

The aura of the earth veins is a kind of essence qi bred by the combination of the spirit veins and the earth veins. It has a miraculous effect on low-level immortal cultivators breaking through barriers.

However, it is difficult to conceive the aura of the earth veins, and it can only be conceived in some special places where the earth veins and spiritual veins meet. The entire Jade Spring Peak can only be conceived in the "Yuyang Cave" where Zhou Yang is at this time.

And the spiritual energy of the earth veins bred in the "Yuyang Cave" can only be produced every ten years for a monk in the Qi training period to break through, and it is only effective for monks below the seventh level of Qi training.

Therefore, among the dozens of members of the Zhou Clan during the Qi training period, only a few exceptionally good ones can use the aura of the earth veins to make a breakthrough during the Qi training period.

Zhou Yang's ability to use the "Yuyang Cave" to make a breakthrough is of course related to his status as the first person in the "Yuan" generation. Otherwise, his father is the sixth elder of the Yuquan Zhou family, and the "Yuyang Cave" opened every ten years. ", how could he, a seventeen-year-old boy, not be able to use it.

You know, among the dozens of members of the Zhou clan who are in the Qi training period, there are quite a few people who have been waiting for this opportunity for ten or twenty years!

At this moment, Zhou Yang was sitting cross-legged with his hands squeezed, breathing in and out evenly, every time he inhaled, the milky white earth vein aura turned into two mist spirit snakes and penetrated through his nostrils, which he refined into his own mana.

In this way, when the amount of milky white earth vein spiritual energy in the cave decreased to less than 30%, Zhou Yang's closed eyes suddenly opened, and his shoulder-length hair fluttered behind him automatically without any wind, and his aura increased almost sharply compared to before. double.

I saw him standing up, muttering to himself with joy on his face: "Finally broke through, the sixth level of Qi training, and the spirit of the earth veins really deserves its reputation. This at least saved me at least three years!"

Seventeen years old, six levels of qi training, at this age and this level of cultivation, only a few elite disciples with top-grade spiritual roots can achieve it even in the sect of cultivating immortals like Huang Shamen.

But Zhou Yang's spiritual root aptitude is actually only of medium quality.

"The patriarch said that I may have some kind of special treasure body, so I can practice far faster than monks with the same qualifications. Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect the treasure body. Only the big sects like Huang Shamen can pass the secret test."

"Although my Zhou family is a vassal of the Huang Shamen, it is impossible to ask the Huang Shamen to help detect the treasure body, unless I am willing to join the Huang Shamen!"

"But once you join the Huangshamen, you will be bound by the rules of the Huangshamen, and there will be countless elders on your head who can yell at you. How can I come here in the clan now?" Comfortable?"

"Huh, there is a saying that it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. The Huangshamen family has a great career, and there is no shortage of geniuses with high-grade spiritual roots in every generation. Elite disciples, the benefits they enjoy 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 a foundation in the future, and they are all thinking of me wholeheartedly."

"Besides, as long as I succeed in building the foundation, the treasure body will naturally awaken and derive the supernatural powers of the treasure body, and then I will naturally know what kind of treasure body I am carrying."

Zhou Yang is not an ordinary person, he is a reborn person whose soul comes from the earth world, and has 20 or 30 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, experience, and principles of life are available to all worlds thing.

Others only see the majesty of Huang Shamen, with Jindan Patriarch sitting in the town, and dozens of desert oases like Yuquan Lake Oasis outside for worship. There is no shortage of various skills and treasures. Be one of them.

But I don't know that although the sect's benefits are good, the rules are also strict. Once you enter the sect, you can't help yourself. Ordinary qi training period disciples have to complete the compulsory tasks assigned by the sect every year. If they can't complete the tasks, the benefits will be stopped Remuneration, serious ones will be abolished and expelled from the sect!

Moreover, there are serious gang formations in the sect. In order to express themselves in front of the sect's high-level disciples, or to compete for the right to use certain spiritual lands, they are all trying their best to suppress their competitors, and the competition is very fierce. .

The ancestor of the Zhou family was a foundation-building monk of the Huang Shamen back then. Information about the Huang Shamen is recorded in the family classics. Therefore, all members of the Zhou clan, unless they have poor spiritual roots and want to fight Otherwise, no one would want to be a disciple of Huang Shamen.

Zhou Yang was very tired of that kind of office fight in his previous life, and he finally had a chance to get rid of that kind of fight in this life, so of course he would not let himself fall into it again.

Therefore, he had made up his mind a long time ago. Even if he had no hope of a great way and no hope of immortality in this life, he would definitely not want to live that kind of life of intrigue all day long.

Innate, qi training, foundation building, Zifu, golden elixir, Yuanying, crossing the catastrophe, returning to the void, and joining the Tao, these are the nine realms of cultivation. Dao Tianxian will do.

However, as far as Zhou Yang knows, since there are immortal cultivators in this world, he has never heard of anyone who is truly immortal. The division of the nine realms of cultivation is just a legend passed down by the immortals outside the sky, and has not been verified. .

Therefore, for ninety-nine percent of the monks, the golden core monks who have a thousand years of longevity are the highest pursuit of their practice.

In this way, it is no wonder that he is unwilling to wrong himself to participate in those intrigues for the illusory legend of longevity.

Cultivation is also mind-cultivation. Since the original mind is unwilling to participate in those intrigues, Zhou Yang must choose to act according to the original mind.

Just after breaking through the realm, Zhou Yang was excited and thought a little too much. It took a while for Zhou Yang to suppress the messy thoughts in his heart, and looked at the remaining milky white ground vein aura in the cave.

"Although every time Yuyang Cave is opened, the spiritual energy of the earth veins inside can be absorbed as much as possible, but since I have successfully broken through the realm, absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth veins will only help me stabilize the realm, and it will not have much effect."

"In this case, it's better to keep these auras of the earth veins, so that the next time Yuyang Cave will be opened a few years earlier, so as to benefit other clansmen."

It is not advisable to fish in a dry lake, and it is not easy to generate the aura of the earth veins. It is too wasteful to simply use it to improve mana and cultivation. Since Zhou Yang has decided to stay in the clan and develop, of course he will not do such evil things that harm the public and private interests.

With a decision in his mind, Dang even opened the cave door and walked out of the cave, explaining the situation to the family elders guarding outside.

"Yuyang Cave" is an important place of the Zhou family, and has been guarded by the elders of the family all year round. Now the one guarding outside is Zhou Xuanhe, a monk of the "Xuan" generation, who is also Zhou Yang's fourteenth clan uncle.

At this time, seeing Zhou Yang successfully broke through the boundary and coming out from the inside, and hearing him tell the situation inside, Zhou Xuanhe, who was wearing a blue-colored basement robe embroidered with white cranes and auspicious clouds, immediately nodded and smiled with satisfaction: "That's right. That's right, Yang'er, you are indeed the most promising person in our Zhou family's generation, and you have such an overall view at such a young age, if the old patriarch and elder brother know about this, they will be very pleased!"

The old patriarch he is talking about is Zhou Minghan, the only foundation-building cultivator of the Zhou family today, and the only surviving member of the "Ming" generation. The elder brother refers to Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao, who is also the eighth member of the Zhou family who practiced Qi. The sixth elder among the nine elders, the eldest of the "Xuan" generation.

Zhou family monks, as long as they are of the same generation, they all call each other brothers, and those of different generations call each other uncle and nephew.

Facing the praise of Zhou Xuanhe, the fourteenth uncle, Zhou Yang very modestly said that this was what he should do as a member of the Zhou clan, and he was not at all proud of his identity and cultivation.

This performance was seen in Zhou Xuanhe's eyes, and he had a high opinion of this junior in his heart.

It is very rare to have the sixth level of Qi training at such an age, and what is even more rare is to be able to keep the overall situation in mind. 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 quickly said: "Since you have successfully broken through, then go to the cave mansion on the top of the mountain to meet the old patriarch. His old man has given instructions earlier, if you can successfully break through, you Go see him."

"There is such a thing? Then my nephew will not bother Uncle Fourteen. Thank you Uncle Fourteen for protecting my nephew."

Zhou Yang's expression changed, he immediately thanked Zhou Xuanhe, and hurried to the old patriarch's cave at the top of Yuquan Peak.