Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Yang started refining from the first-order puppet beast, and chose a kind of iron bull puppet refined with refined iron as the main material. This kind of puppet beast has no other advantages, that is, it is wear-resistant and saves spiritual power. Stones can drive it, and if ordinary first-order monsters fight with it, they will definitely lose.

However, this is of no use.

Even first-order puppet beasts need to be controlled by spiritual consciousness, and spiritual consciousness can only be possessed by monks in the Qi training period.

And with the weak spiritual consciousness of ordinary monks in the early stage of Qi training, they can only command the puppet to fight people if they ride on the back of the iron bull puppet.

So the puppet beast is actually not for the monks in the Qi training period at all. Regardless of their own cultivation base or personal financial resources, the monks in the Qi training period cannot afford such high-end things that cost money.

And even though Zhou Yang didn't lack these spirit stones, he didn't waste much time and materials on the first-order puppet beasts. After spending three months refining a few first-order puppet beasts, he stopped working on the first-order puppet beasts. Puppet beast refining, began to study the refining method of the second-order puppet beast.

The refining cost of a second-level low-grade puppet beast is more than two hundred spirit stones. Zhou Yang's family has a mine, so he is very cautious when refining this kind of magic weapon, and he will not easily refine it casually.

In this way, after more than half a year of research, he successfully refined the first second-level low-grade puppet wolf beast that can breathe wind blade attacks. It just so happened that Zhou Guangxiang also completed the cultivation of the innate realm at this time, and successfully trained mana to break through to At the first level of Qi training period, this puppet wolf was given to him by Zhou Yang as the first magic weapon in his life.

Ever since Zhang Yunpeng's poaching incident happened, Zhou Yang has been concerned about the education of these doll monks in the Zhou family. Toys are given to them to play, and they often go to the school to give ideological education classes to other Zhou family doll monks.

And he also referred to the knowledge materials in this field from his previous life, and took the time to compile a related book and hand it to Zhou Xuantai, the current great elder of the Zhou family, so that he would often give these doll monks extra lessons.

At this time, Zhou Yang can't help but think of those "Guang" old people who have passed away in the Zhou family. Those old people have really experienced the Zhou family from prosperity to decline. Their own experiences are very instructive for the younger monks. meaningfully.

Only after enjoying the convenience and benefits brought by the prosperity of the family, will you cherish the previous life even more after the family has weakened, and want to make the family prosperous again through your own efforts, so that your descendants will not go back to their old ways.

Zhou Yang and his generation of monks have established a sense of belonging and identity to the family through the words and deeds of the elders of these families since childhood.

And not long after Zhou Yang refined the first second-tier low-grade puppet beast, the news that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan successfully broke through to the eighth floor of the foundation was also sent back, but Zhou Minghan received a lot of refining orders after the exchange meeting. For the time being, he still has to stay in the Baisha River Oasis to use the underground fire room there to refine weapons, and he cannot return to the family immediately.

In addition, Zhou Xuanhao had also successfully raised his cultivation level to the second floor of the foundation building in the past six months, and finally he was not too far behind by his son Zhou Yang in terms of cultivation level.

A year later, Zhou Minghan returned to Yuquan Peak after completing the refining order that he had received at the beginning, and also began to delve into the method of refining puppet beasts.

With his attainments in refining weapons, he quickly overtook Zhou Yang in the refining of puppet beasts. He refined the second-order middle-grade puppet beasts before Zhou Yang, and guided Zhou Yang's training on puppet beasts. Refining skills.

Under Zhou Minghan's guidance, Zhou Yang finally refined a second-tier middle-grade puppet beast six months later.

As soon as this second-tier middle-grade puppet was successfully refined, Zhou Yang had a feeling that as long as he could refine a second-tier high-grade puppet, he could try to refine a third-tier magic weapon.

This discovery made him extremely excited, and he immediately dropped everything and devoted all his energy to refining the puppet beast.

Hard work pays off. One and a half years after refining the second-level middle-grade puppet beast, Zhou Yang finally refined the first second-level high-grade puppet in his life after failing many times and consuming materials worth thousands of spirit stones. Puppet beast, a strong and durable "black iron turtle" puppet.

This "black iron turtle" puppet beast has a huge body, and more than a dozen people can stand on the turtle's back without being too crowded. This kind of puppet beast also uses two defensive spells, "earth armor" and "golden light protection".

The most wonderful thing is that this "black iron turtle" puppet beast has a space for a Tibetan person in its abdomen, and a small door can be opened to allow a person to hide in its abdomen to control the puppet beast.

Basically, if a monk in the middle stage of Qi training can hide in the abdomen of this "black iron turtle", it will be difficult for ordinary Qi training ninth-level monks to break through the defense of the puppet beast and attack him.

Of course, this "black iron turtle" is so powerful, and it consumes a lot of materials. The cost price is as high as 800 spirit stones, which is comparable to the price of a high-quality second-order top-grade magic weapon. The income can also refine a big guy like this.

However, for Zhou Yang, all these sacrifices are worthwhile. After refining the "Mysterious Iron Turtle", he has indeed gained a lot in the art of refining. After the "Iron Turtle" was put into the family treasure house at a preferential price of 1,500 family contribution points, the cave was immediately closed and closed.

A month later, Zhou Yang walked out of the retreat room and officially began to refine the third-order magic weapon.

Zhou Yang had already made a decision on which kind of magic weapon he should refine for his first third-order magic weapon, and the materials had already been prepared.

Now he was sitting cross-legged in the refining room, and with a wave of his hand, he took out several materials.

The third-level spirit gold "Fire Crystal Iron", the third-level spirit gold "Red Xuan Jingjin", and the special spirit gold that he extracted from the excrement of the second-level high-grade monster "gold-eating rat".

The magic weapon he is going to refine this time, "fire crystal iron" is the main material, and "red black fine gold" is to increase the hardness and toughness of the magic weapon. It's hard to say before.

The first step in refining a magic weapon is naturally to purify the impurities in the material. With a wave of his sleeve, Zhou Yang released the "Phoenix Pattern Purple Gold Cauldron" from the third-order low-grade refining furnace, and then he waved his hand, and a pale golden The "Qianyang True Fire" fell to the bottom of the vessel and started to burn blazingly.

When the cauldron was heated to a sufficient temperature by the real fire, Zhou Yang used a spell to lift the lid of the cauldron, and threw a piece of fiery red metal the size of an adult's head into the cauldron to be tempered.

"Fire crystal iron" is a third-tier fire-attribute spiritual metal with extremely high heat resistance. If ordinary ground fire or the real fire of a monk in the foundation period is used, it will take ten and a half months to melt.

But under the burning of the "Qianyang True Fire" whose temperature is even higher than that of the Purple Heart Earth Fire, it started to melt within a day.

After Zhou Yang discovered that the material in the tripod began to melt, he began to use the refining method to quench the impurities in the material. As he played one after another method, the hole in the middle of the top of the tripod began to rise slowly. Wisps of black smoke.

These black smoke are produced by the impurities in the material after being refined at high temperature, and have strong metal toxicity. Therefore, as soon as the black smoke comes out, it will be carried by the ventilation circle arranged in the refining room and spilled into the outside air. .

Impurities are not only discharged in the form of black smoke, some impurities that are difficult to refine, or raw materials that are not pure enough, need Zhou Yang to use the refining method to peel them off from the material, and directly use liquid The form extractor tripod was thrown into the quenching pool and turned into waste.

By the time a large group of "Fire Crystal Iron" was tempered, three days had passed.

After tempering, the color of the "Fire Crystal Iron" is brighter and more transparent, and the spiritual energy it exudes is much stronger than before, and its volume has also shrunk by nearly one-third.

Zhou Yang did not continue to refine other materials at this time, but meditated first to restore the consumed mana. Although the efficiency of his "Qianyang True Fire" refining tool was faster than that of ground fire, it also consumed a lot of mana, which was not at all. It may last for ten days and a half months like in the fire room.

A day later, Zhou Yang waited until his mana recovered to 80% before he began to refine the remaining two materials.

By the time he had tempered all three materials, eight days had passed.

After the material has been tempered, the refining has just begun.

Zhou Yang rested for three full days, and finally started the final refining work after his mana and spirit were fully restored.

In order to refine it in one go, he directly used the ability of the "Qianyang Orb" to greatly increase the temperature of the "Qianyang True Fire" during the refining process, and within half a day, all three materials were refined into metals. liquid.

Then, according to the records on the refining map, he evenly blended the three groups of metal liquids in different proportions to form a ring composed of metal liquids, while slowly lowering the temperature of the flame to make the ring gradually solidify, but not Let it completely solidify into a solid, but in a molten state, and maintain this state.

At the same time, he continued to use the Art of Refining Art in his hands, and cooperated with his spiritual sense to make a final correction to the metal ratio in the ring. In the ring, the flame was finally retracted, causing the temperature in the cauldron to drop rapidly.

"It's done!"

In the refining room, Zhou Yang looked tiredly at the cauldron in front of him, with a strong look of joy in his eyes.

At this time, he didn't need to open the lid of the tripod to take out the magic weapon inside, but he could also sense the fluctuations in the spiritual power of the magic weapon hidden in the tripod, which showed that he had succeeded in refining this time, and he was successfully promoted to a third-rank refiner!

However, he didn't immediately take out the magic weapon from the cauldron furnace, but put the magic vessel there, and meditated on his own to recover his mana.

There is a name for this step, which is called "pregnancy device".

After a high-level magic weapon is successfully refined, it usually takes a period of time to be "pregnant". There are quite a few differences.

It is said that some high-level craftsmen also mastered the unique secret method of "pregnant device", which can improve the grade of the magical device that has been successfully refined through a long period of "conceived device".

According to legends in the practice world, there is a certain Nascent Soul Stage who can forge a sixth-order magic weapon, and then put the tripod on the mouth of the ground to "pregnant" for thousands of years. Because the thousand-year-old "pregnancy device" has been upgraded to the sixth-level top-grade!

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't expect to use the "pregnancy device" to upgrade the third-order low-grade magic weapon he successfully refined to the third-level middle-grade magic weapon. He just didn't want the third-level magic weapon he refined for the first time to be flawed.

Moreover, the "pregnancy" time of the third-order magic weapon does not need to be too long, it can be as short as three to five days, and as long as eight or nine days. Zhou Yang opened the lid of the tripod and took out the magic weapon inside on the seventh day.

I saw that he shot a burst of mana onto the tripod and opened the lid, a crimson flame burst out from inside, revealing the image of a fire sparrow.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and the fire sparrow turned into a crimson ring magic weapon with flame patterns and put it on his left wrist.

"Well, as the first third-order magic weapon I refined, of course I have to give you a domineering name. Since your image is a fire bird, I will call you [Suzaku Ring] from now on. !"

With his right hand, he gently stroked the metal ring on his wrist that was still exuding a little warmth, and with a smile on his face, he gave this magic weapon a name that he thought was relatively high-end and elegant.