Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The success of Zhou Xuanhao's foundation building is a great joyous event for the entire Zhou family, so after the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went to the "Haoyang Cave" to confirm the situation, he returned to the family and asked people to spread invitations, inviting Immortal cultivators from all over the world came to watch the ceremony and celebrate.

In the world of cultivating immortals around the Yuquan Lake Oasis, as long as they are cultivating families and casual cultivators who have a good relationship with the Zhou family, almost all have received invitations.

After these people received the invitation, they either sent the elders of the family to watch the ceremony with gifts, or they personally brought the children of the younger generation to increase their knowledge.

The monks who had been stationed outside by the Zhou family also temporarily put down their work and rushed back to the family to participate in this celebration that had not been seen in decades.

A large number of cultivators gathered on Yuquan Peak, which made the originally quite deserted Yuquan Peak suddenly lively.

The Zhou family also took this opportunity to hold a small exchange meeting on Jade Spring Peak, taking out some of the treasures accumulated in the treasury, such as medicine pills, magic tools, and talismans, and selling them to the casual cultivators who came here, and at the same time buying them from the casual cultivators. All kinds of alchemy and refining raw materials.

As for those family monks, since the major cultivating families will basically train their own craftsmen and alchemists, the second-order elixirs and magic weapons produced by the Zhou family are not enough to attract these people to buy them.

On the contrary, it is the occasional unknown spiritual objects that appear in the hands of some casual cultivators, which will arouse the interest of these family monks and buy a few of them.

Then those casual cultivators would take the spirit stones they got, turn around and go to the Zhou family's stall to buy magic tools and elixirs.

It's just that Zhou Yang couldn't see this bustling scene.

After he learned something from the words of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan that day, he revealed his heart to his parents that day, and then followed the old patriarch back to the family.

After returning to the family, Zhou Yang said goodbye to his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu, and then left the Yuquan Lake Oasis alone on a Shatuo beast with the advice of the old patriarch and his adoptive mother.

If the family mission to Qingpingshan Oasis was not counted, this was Zhou Yang's first time traveling alone after 32 years in this mysterious and vast world of cultivating immortals.

His destination was the Baisha River Oasis, a desert oasis more than 6,000 miles away from the Yuquan Lake Oasis. There was Jinshafang City, the largest immortal city in the world of immortality, tens of thousands of miles away.

The ruler of the Baisha River oasis is the Chen family of Baituoling. The Chen family is a family of cultivating immortals that has been passed down for seven or eight hundred years. Yu Lan's cultivation level is higher than that of the ancestor who opened up the Chen family back then.

Today, the entire Baituoling Chen family has one immortal cultivator in the Zifu period, twelve immortal cultivators in the foundation establishment period, thousands of immortal cultivators in the qi training period, and millions of secular clan members. It is the largest immortal cultivator family in the tens of thousands of miles around. .

When the children of the Chen family in Baituoling went out, even if the disciples of the Huang Shamen met, they would sell some of their face, which shows how prominent they are.

The Chen family has a prominent family background, and a small Xiuxian family like Yuquan Zhou's family would not be able to enter the eyes of a big family like the Chen family, and the two sides are not of the same magnitude at all.

However, Zhou Yuquan, the patriarch of the Zhou family who founded the Zhou family at the beginning, once helped Chen Yaohui, the head of the current Chen family, when he was young, because he was born in Huang Shamen.

Therefore, after he opened up the lineage of the Zhou family in Yuquan, the ancestors of the Chen family were grateful for their kindness at the beginning, and not only set aside two shops in the "Jinshafang City" created by the Chen family as gifts to the Zhou family, but also included the Zhou family in In the ranks of the Chen family's alliance family, the Zhou family can share the benefits in this alliance circle.

The "Foundation Establishment Conference" to be held by the Chen family is an event that only the Chen family alliance families are eligible to participate in.

Zhou Yang went to the Baisha River Oasis this time, in addition to looking for an opportunity to break through the bottleneck, he was also entrusted with the family's great trust. The son inherited his father's business and replaced his father Zhou Xuanhao, who had already established a foundation, and took charge of the family's shop in "Jinshafang City" .

The route from Yuquan Lake Oasis to Baisha River Oasis is very mature. Although there is no road in the strict sense in the desert, through the joint efforts of several generations of monks of the Zhou family, it has already been established in the thousands of miles of desert between the two oases. , Dozens of "signal towers" were established to ensure that Zhou family monks traveling between the two places would not get lost halfway.

Of course, the "signal tower" is Zhou Yang's understanding. The actual situation is that the formation masters of the Zhou family have refined dozens of first-level top-grade formations "yuan magnetic traction formations", and then let people arrange these formations in Yuquan Lake From the oasis to the Baishahe oasis in the thousands of miles of desert.

The Zhou family or the monks who are closely related to the Zhou family, as long as they walk on this road with a specially refined first-level magic weapon "Yin Yang Magnetic Needle", they can use the magic weapon to establish contact with any formation within a hundred miles around. , there is no worry of getting lost at all.

However, although there is a "signal tower" to guide him so that he will not get lost, the dangerous and harsh celestial phenomena in the desert still make Zhou Yang suffer a lot when he is traveling far for the first time.

After he set off from the Yuquan Lake Oasis, he encountered three sandstorms in just half a month. Every time the sandstorm came, he could only hide under the belly of the Shatuo beast like an ostrich, and then watched the countless yellow sand Bury yourself alive.

And if the sandstorm is at most just making Zhou Yang feel ashamed and suffering, then the quicksand that never knows where it will appear in the desert is a bit fatal.

Quicksand is not like a sandstorm. Before it appears, there will be obvious signs for people to notice. Only when you step on the quicksand, you will know that you are trapped in the quicksand.

Shatuo beasts are born with special talents, so that they can always detect abnormalities before the arrival of sandstorms and warn their owners in time.

But in the face of quicksand, even a monster like it living in the desert has nothing to do.

Before people and livestock step on quicksand, it is completely the same as normal sandy land, so it is very difficult to find.

Once stepping on the quicksand, an adult man of normal weight will completely disappear on the ground in less than ten seconds.

Together, Zhou Yang and the Shatuo beast under him weighed more than three tons. Once caught in the quicksand, it would sink into the depths of the quicksand in less than three seconds.

The first time a man and a camel beast fell into the quicksand, Zhou Yang sank into the sand with the Shatuo beast before he had time to react.

Fortunately, before he went out, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan repeatedly asked him to put a few "earth escape" magic charms in his sleeves, and then in a panic, he activated the magic charms in time and escaped from the quicksand area with the Shatuo beast.

The experience of being trapped in quicksand this time really frightened Zhou Yang. The terrifying suffocation feeling like falling into the abyss is even more frightening than death.

Since then, every day when he was walking on the back of Shatuo Beast, he would release his consciousness to scan the ground ten meters in front of him, and at the same time, he stuck the "Earth Escape Technique" talisman on his arms and legs.

Although it is extremely exhausting to do so, at least it can make people feel at ease.

Only in this way, Zhou Yang's forward speed has been greatly reduced, and he can only advance less than three hundred miles a day, which is far lower than the normal speed of Shatuo Beast's daily five hundred miles.

On this day, after Zhou Yang had been driving all day, he was exhausted and set up camp at the foot of a leeward sandy slope.

He first pitched up the camping tent, then fed Shatuo Beast a few grains of the first-order elixir "Jingyuan Pill" refined with the essence of the flesh and blood of monsters to replenish its strength, and hung up the camel bell.

After doing all this, he was relieved to leave Shatuo Beast outside to watch the night for himself, and went into the tent to meditate to recover the lost power of consciousness.

The night temperature in the desert is cold, and the lowest can drop below zero. Zhou Yang is better in the airtight camel skin tent, but the Shatuo beast lying outside is curled up, and the breath from the mouth and nose is condensed. white mist.

This domesticated Shatuo beast is not only the best riding mount in the desert, but also an excellent sentinel.

In the silent night in the desert, the Shatuo Beast has excellent perception ability and can clearly sense the sound of mice digging several meters deep underground. With them in charge of vigilance, those desert monsters who want to launch a sneak attack from the ground are basically impossible to sneak attack success.

The night was getting darker and the temperature was getting lower and lower. The Shatuo Beast, who was in charge of guarding outside the tent, had already buried most of its body in the yellow sand, leaving only its head exposed on the ground.

Suddenly, the Shatuo Beast seemed to be asleep, and suddenly opened its eyes, raised its head vigilantly and looked towards the sand slope.

Jingle Bell!

The rapid sound of the camel bell accompanied by the anxious neighing of the Shatuo beast quickly woke up Zhou Yang who was meditating in the tent.

Almost without thinking about it, he threw up his sleeves and sacrificed the silver shield magic weapon that had saved his life many times before rushing out of the tent with the magic weapon on it.

Whoosh!

As soon as he rushed out of the tent, Zhou Yang heard a sharp piercing sound exploding in his ears. He was not unfamiliar with this sound at all.

Sure enough, the next moment he saw a golden light hitting his silver shield magic weapon.

"Second-tier high-grade defensive magic weapon!"

The golden light scattered on the silver shield, revealing a two-foot-long golden cone magic weapon. At the same time, a surprised exclamation sounded from not far away.

Zhou Yang followed the voice and saw two black-robed masked monks in black robes standing on the sandy slope looking towards him.

Seeing him, one of the black-robed monks stretched out his hand and recalled the cone magic weapon that failed the sneak attack back into his hand. He looked at the silver shield magic weapon in front of him with greedy eyes and growled viciously: "Boy! , I will give you a chance to survive, hand over this second-tier high-grade defensive magic weapon, and spare you!"

"Sand bandits?"

Zhou Yang frowned, he didn't care about the clamor of the black-robed monk, he just looked at the two uninvited guests thoughtfully and asked.

Hearing his blunt words, the eyes of the two black-robed monks turned cold, and the black-robed monk who hadn't made a move immediately said coldly: "Knowing that we are bandits, you can still be so calm, it seems that the little brother is not ordinary Family monk, I don’t know which family the little brother is from?”

"What? Could it be that if I tell you, you will give up and retreat?" Zhou Yang looked at the two with a half-smile, his eyes full of sarcasm.

"of course not!"

The black-robed monk who made a sound shook his head, then waved his sleeves, and sacrificed a gleaming red flag, looked at Zhou Yang with a sneer and said, "But if you explain the origin clearly, after we kill you, if the harvest Yes, maybe I will kindly give your corpse to your people!"

"I see!"

Zhou Yang nodded, and suddenly waved his hand, and the four "armor-piercing daggers" stuck in his waist came out of their sheaths in response, and "swish swish swish" turned into four white cold lights and shot at the sandy soil not far behind. under.

ah!

A shrill scream suddenly sounded from the ground behind Zhou Yang.

"Third!"

"Third brother!"

On the sandy slope, the eyes of the two black-robed monks changed, and they couldn't help but exclaim.

It turned out that not two of them came here tonight, but three, and one of them had been hiding underground, waiting for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Unexpectedly, people are considered tigers, and tigers are also considered humans. Zhou Yang has discovered that there are still people hiding underground.

So while delaying the time with the two black-robed monks on the ground, after locking the enemy's position, he suddenly sacrificed the magic weapon to counter the sneak attack.

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