Cultivation Begins From The Desert

"Jinshafang City" is located on Jinxia Mountain in the south of the Baisha River Oasis, less than five hundred miles away from the Chen family's base camp in Baituoling.

At the beginning, there was a natural spirit vein of the lower third rank on Jinxia Mountain. Later, as the scale of "Jinshafang City" became larger and larger, the Chen family spent huge sums of money to raise the rank of its spiritual vein to the upper rank of the third rank.

The aura emanating from the third-order high-grade spiritual veins is enough to satisfy several foundation-building stage monks and hundreds of Qi-training stage monks at the same time. Therefore, up to now, the number of permanent cultivators in "Jinshafang City" has exceeded The number is five hundred, and there are as many as hundreds of various shops in Fangshi.

As the only immortal city within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, immortals come to "Jinshafang City" to buy or sell cultivation resources every day. The "head tax" collected by this city alone amounts to thousands of spirits every year. stone.

Someone once calculated that it does not include the spirit stones earned by the Chen family's self-operated shops every year, but only the annual rent paid by the shops and cultivation caves in "Jinshafang City", as well as the "head tax" paid by monks entering and leaving the city. ", it will be able to provide the Chen family with a net income of 10,000 to 20,000 spirit stones.

Such a large amount of income is of course easy to attract people's envy, so in order to protect this "golden rooster" that lays eggs, the Chen family not only arranged a fourth-rank low-rank formation in the square city, but also had more than three Chen family foundation-building monks stationed in the square all year round. in.

With three foundation building stage monks stationed, plus the law enforcement team formed by the Chen family in Fang City, even if there are purple mansion stage monks or fourth-order monsters attacking, they can use the formation to resist for several hours and persist until Chen Yaohui and Chen Laozu, who was in Baituoling, came to the rescue.

Zhou Yang left the pick-up point of the Chen family, and after riding the Shatuo beast for another day, he came outside this square city that was shrouded in clouds and mists by formations.

There are monks from the Chen family outside Fangshi who are responsible for collecting the "head tax". Every time a monk stays in Fangshi for more than 10 days in the late stage of Qi training, he will have to pay an extra stay fee of one low-grade spirit stone. The fee for Lingshi is charged.

However, as the Zhou family is an allied family of the Chen family, Zhou family monks only need to pay one-third of the "poll tax" when they enter Fangshi.

Zhou Yang was not sure how long he would stay in Fangshi, so he paid the fee for one year first, and then walked slowly into the cloud with his proof of payment, a refined iron token with a special mark The winding city.

Xianjiafang City, of course, is very different from the towns established by secular mortals.

After Zhou Yang entered Fangshi, he found that inside Fangshi, which looked cloud-shrouded from the outside, was actually a spiritual mountain hundreds of meters high. Located on the same mountain, all kinds of dazzling auras are exuding, attracting monks from all directions to enter it.

Whether it is day or night, it makes no difference to this Xianjiafang city.

"My Zhou family's [Yuquan Building] is over there."

After Zhou Yang stood at the foot of the mountain and watched for a long time, he found the "Yuquan Building" run by his family among the many pavilions.

This "Yuquan Building" is located by a water pool on the hillside of Fangshi City. The whole building is seven feet high, and it is all built with century-old iron wood. The building is divided into three floors. , talismans and other things, the upper layer is used to receive distinguished guests.

The two shops that the Chen family gave to the Zhou family back then, one is the "Yuquan Building", and the other is called "Zuixian Building", which is a restaurant, which has been managed and operated by Zhou Yang's mother Lin Yuting before.

Before Zhou Xuanhao established the foundation, he had been in charge of the "Yuquan Tower". After he returned to the family to prepare for the foundation establishment, the Zhou family monk in charge of the "Yuquan Tower" became the new elder Zhou Xuanlin.

Zhou Xuanlin ranks seventh in the generation of "Xuan", and is another second-level refiner of the Zhou family besides the old patriarchs Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang. However, his talent for refining is not very good, even if his cultivation has recently broken through At the ninth level of Qi training, one can only refine second-tier middle-grade artifacts, and the success rate is not very high.

Now "Yuquanlou", in addition to Zhou Xuanlin, the elder of Zhou's family, is in the town, and there are three juniors, Zhou Ping, Zhou Yu, and Zhou Xiong, Zhou Ping, Zhou Yu, and Zhou Xiong, Zhou's relative Qian Hongyu, who are in the "Yuan" generation. Items for sale.

Qian Hongyu is the Taoist couple of Zhou Xuanchen who ranks twelfth in the "Xuan" generation of the Zhou family. Zhou Ping, Zhou Yu, and Zhou Xiong are respectively ranked fourth, fifth, and thirteenth in the "Yuan" generation. Zhou Yang is also familiar with Zhou Xiong, his thirteenth younger brother who is closest in age to him.

It just so happened that because of his young age, Zhou Xiong was specially assigned to solicit business outside the "Yuquan Tower", in the name of exercising his eloquence and eyesight.

Therefore, when Zhou Yang led the Shatuo Beast to the front of the building, Zhou Xiong, a clan brother, immediately recognized this clan brother who had become famous throughout the clan.

"Ah! Brother Ninth, why did you come to Fangshi? I didn't hear Uncle Qi and the others mention this before!"

Zhou Xiong is five years younger than Zhou Yang. He is only twenty-seven years old this year. He is also quite handsome and looks good.

Now when he saw Zhou Yang coming with the Shatuo Beast, he first let out a yell in surprise, and then hurried forward to take the rein from Zhou Yang with a friendly face, and greeted him eagerly. : "Brother Ninth, you must have been lucky to come all the way. I will help you take this camel beast to the backyard to take care of it. Uncle Qi is upstairs today. You can see him when you go up to the third floor."

Now Zhou Yang is a man of the Zhou family, even if the news of Zhou Xuanhao's foundation building has not yet reached the Baisha River Oasis, with his own name as a second-level high-grade craftsman and eighth-level Qi training, It is enough to make Zhou Xiong and his peers look up to them.

Now everyone in the Zhou family knows that if there are no accidents, the next patriarch of the Zhou family will definitely be Zhou Yang.

In this case, if you can establish a good relationship with Zhou Yang in advance, after he takes over the power of the family, are you afraid that you will not benefit yourself?

So not to mention junior monks like Zhou Xiong, but those elders of the "Xuan" generation, except for a few people, most people now dare not use their elder status to suppress Zhou Yang in front of him.

After all, the world of cultivating immortals respects the strong, and their status as elders is not a reason for them to act recklessly. Today, if they dare to suppress Zhou Yang as an elder, they are not afraid of Zhou Yang's revenge after he establishes his foundation and becomes the patriarch?

Even if they themselves are not afraid, can their descendants also not be afraid?

Therefore, even for the sake of the younger generation, after Zhou Yang has confirmed that he can take the "Building Foundation Pill" to attack the foundation, few of the elders of the Zhou family dare to judge their identities in front of him. Not to mention.

As Zhou Yang's two generations, his actual age was much older than his apparent age, but he didn't think it was too inappropriate.

He himself does not rely on his status to oppress others, but he also does not like someone to use his status as an elder to deliberately suppress him. If the elders can put down their status and treat him, he will naturally respect the elders without losing the human relationship.

"Then trouble Thirteenth Brother, I do have something to discuss with Seventh Uncle." He nodded lightly, thanked him, put down the rein and walked into the building.

Hearing the sound of footsteps coming in, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu, who were listless because there were no guests in the building, also cheered up. They thought that there were guests coming, and they quickly cheered up and prepared to welcome them.

"Your Excellency is...you are the ninth brother!"

"Ninth brother, why did you come to Fangshi?"

Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu were taken aback when they saw that the visitor was Zhou Yang, whom they hadn’t seen for many years. Like Zhou Xiong, they had not received any notice in advance, and they were extremely impressed by the sudden visit of Zhou Yang, a genius of the Zhou family. surprise.

"Fourth brother, fifth brother, I haven't seen you for many years, don't come here without any problems." Zhou Yang smiled and greeted the two brothers with a friendly smile.

Seeing his gesture, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu were excited and flattered, and they replied repeatedly: "Ninth brother, you are welcome. We haven't seen him for many years. We also miss him very much."

It is true to say that I miss them. The two of them have been away from home for many years. Over the years, they only return to the family on average every three to five years. Usually, if they want to know the news of the family, they have to rely on the caravan to bring them. The news that came the most was related to the ninth younger brother in front of him.

Every time they hear about this ninth younger brother, they can't help but wonder how that taciturn and somewhat withdrawn boy did what countless elders of the Zhou family could not do in the past two hundred years.

"Hehe, the younger brothers and sisters in our family also miss the two elder brothers very much, especially Xiao Shishi and Xiao Shiwu. Let’s explore the world of cultivating immortals together.”

Zhou Yang chuckled, but he saw the restraint of the two, so he smiled and told some interesting stories about his brothers of the same generation to help them relax.

Sure enough, as soon as they heard him talk about these interesting things that had nothing to do with cultivation, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu relaxed their restrained expressions a little, and hurriedly talked about some interesting things about the three of them when they were young.

After chatting like this for a while, the aura that the brothers hadn't seen for many years quickly disappeared. After getting acquainted with each other, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu also quickly showed the conversational skills they had practiced as buddies for many years, and talked to Zhou vividly. Yang talked about the big scenes he had seen in Fangshi over the years, and their experiences as waiters in the "Yuquan Building".

Of course, during the conversation, the two of them couldn't help but express their envy for Zhou Yang's rapid improvement, and asked Zhou Yang for advice on some problems encountered in practice.

Zhou Yang didn't hide his secrets, he would try his best to answer for the two of them who could answer, and also lent the notes of his practice experience to the two of them to watch.

After the three of them chatted like this for about half an hour, Zhou Yu, who was having a good time talking, suddenly slapped his head and shouted: "Ah, I was only thinking about reminiscing with you, Brother Ninth, but I forgot the business. You must have something to do when you come to Fangshi." Shall I convey important matters? Seventh Uncle is upstairs, so we won't delay Ninth Brother from your business."

Zhou Ping, who was on the side, was startled when he heard this, and then quickly nodded in response: "Fourth Brother is right, Ninth Brother, your business is important, and we are not in a hurry to catch up on the old things. After you finish the business, we will have plenty of time to chat."

Hearing this, Zhou Yang also felt that today's reminiscences are almost done. Through the conversation with the two clan brothers just now, he also had a little understanding of the current situation of "Yuquan Tower", so he nodded with a smile and said: "Since the two brothers are both That being said, the younger brother will go up to see Uncle Qi first, and we will see you later."

Uh, I was too tired last night and went to bed directly, I forgot to update... Continue to ask for recommendation tickets, please add new book investment group