Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The second-order magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield] is made from the scales that have fallen off from the second-order spiritual object [Dragon Scale Tree] as the main material, mixed with the second-order spiritual object [Silver Gang Stone].

There are nine realms in cultivating immortals. The magic tools, pills, formations, and talismans used by immortals are therefore divided into nine levels from the first level to the ninth level. The second level magic tools correspond to monks in the Qi training period.

It is also a second-tier magic weapon, and it can be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. [Silver Gang Shield] is a second-tier magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-tier craftsman, and its grade is naturally the highest.

Before refining this magical weapon, it looked like it was only the size of a palm. In fact, as long as Zhou Yang refined it and released it during the battle, it could turn into a giant shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body, and he could adjust it as he wished. position.

And because [Silver Gang Stone] was incorporated into the refining process, this magical weapon can not only easily block the attacks of flying swords and flying knives of the same level, but also has a miraculous effect on the magical attacks of immortal cultivators or monsters. Greatly offset the damage caused by spells below the third level.

"The second-order [Dragon Scale Tree] has a tree in my Zhou family, and I can harvest a few mature tree scales every ten years, which is self-produced, but [Silver Gang Stone] is not common, even if it is just a fist. The price of a large piece is at least five hundred low-grade spirit stones, the old patriarch's gift is really not light!"

In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the small silver shield the size of a palm in his hand, and suddenly felt that this magic weapon had become much heavier.

As a cultivating family, every member of the Zhou family can receive spirit stone offerings from the family on a regular basis every year as long as their cultivation reaches the Qi training stage, until they are over sixty years old.

According to the current family rules, members of the Zhou family on the first floor of Qi training can receive 10 low-grade spirit stones a year, and 20 low-grade spirit stones on the second floor of Qi training, and so on until the ninth floor of Qi training. Change.

Because if there is no accident, the cultivation base of the ninth level of Qi training is the limit of ordinary monks in the Qi training period. The current family rule of the Zhou family is that as long as the family monks are promoted to the ninth level of Qi training, they will be promoted to family elders. The offering of 150 low-grade spirit stones is not subject to age restrictions, as long as the elders do not die, they can receive the full amount.

Zhou Yang had stayed on the fifth floor of Qi training for two years before, and his offerings were only 50 low-grade spirit stones per year. Based on this calculation, even if all his spirit stones were saved, it would take ten years of offerings to exchange for one piece. 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 that his parents rewarded him as gifts, his total net worth is only more than three hundred low-grade spirit stones.

It can be seen from this that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan regards [Silver Gang Shield] as a reward for him to go down the mountain in advance, what a great gift it is!

"The old patriarch values ​​me so much. I must not let him down. Whether it's learning the art of refining or stationing at Qingping Mountain, I have to do it beautifully!"

Feeling warm in Zhou Yang's heart, he couldn't help but clenched the magic weapon in his hand, and secretly made up his mind to do things well to repay the trust of his elders.

In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed the door tightly and hid in the room with all his heart to sacrifice the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon he just got. Prepare.

He first went to another Ksitigarbha Cave of the Zhou family, from which he learned the six-level qi training method of "Jin Yang Lie Huo Jue", and then selected five methods that are beneficial to fighting from among the many spells stored in the Sutra Cave. practice of magic.

These five spells are the second-tier offensive spells "Golden Sword Technique" and "Fire Snake Technique", the second-tier defensive spell "Golden Light Protection", and the second-tier auxiliary spells "Sky Eye" and "Earth Dungeon".

The qi-training exercises and magic spells in the Zhou family's scripture cave are not allowed to be read by the tribe, but they are not allowed to be taken out of the scripture cave, and it is strictly forbidden to pass them on to outsiders without permission.

Zhou Yang used to follow the teachings of his parents and elders. Apart from learning some simple first-level auxiliary spells, he did not scatter his energy to learn those combat spells that are beneficial to fighting skills, and put all his energy on improving his cultivation.

But now, since he was going down the mountain to garrison one side, it was hard to guarantee that he would not encounter fighting skills. If he didn't know how to fight spells, the means would be too simple and he would be easily restrained and targeted.

Spells are easy to learn but hard to master, but it doesn't take long to learn how to use them at the beginning. With Zhou Yang's Qi training level 6, it took almost half a month to learn all five spells.

At this time, the one-month period given to him by the old patriarch was not far away, so he wrote a letter to explain the situation. Then he bid farewell to his familiar elders and fellow monks on the mountain, and went down the mountain alone.

After descending the mountain, Zhou Yang took a camel necessary for desert walking from the tribe at the foot of the mountain, and plunged directly into the boundless sand sea.

This is the first time he has left the Yuquan Lake Oasis in seventeen years, and it is also the first time he has set foot in the desert in two lifetimes.

The sea of ​​sand is boundless, and it is easy for people to lose their way when walking in it.

Once lost in the sea of ​​sand, even a cultivator who carries a large amount of water and food in a storage bag will eventually die of starvation and thirst if he cannot reach the oasis before the food and water run out.

Immortal cultivators are much stronger than mortals, but they will not be able to completely indica if they do not reach the Golden Core stage. Even cultivators at the Zifu stage need to regularly eat meals made by the Spirit Valley or the spirit meat of monsters to maintain their physical needs.

In fact, even Jindan stage monks who can fasten the grain do not dare to fly around in the boundless sea of ​​sand.

Golden Core stage monks may not be afraid of losing their way, but there is not only the danger of getting lost in the sand sea, but also all kinds of terrifying natural disasters and powerful monsters that even Golden Core stage monks can kill.

For example, in the famous "Black Sand Storm", once a golden core stage monk falls into it, he will be cut off from his consciousness and five senses by the strange power contained in it, and finally will be tortured to death by the endless power of the storm.

Another example is the most famous fifth-order monster [Sandworm] in the boundless sand sea. Its body is thousands of feet long, and it has terrifying sharp teeth in its mouth. If you accidentally fall into the sandworm's mouth, you will lose your life in a daze.

With these risks, unless there is a compelling reason to come, those Golden Core stage monks will never go deep into the sea of ​​sand easily.

Fortunately, no matter whether it is the terrifying "Black Sand Storm" or the fifth-order monster [Sandworm] that only sleeps in some underground spiritual veins deep in the desert, they will not appear near the oasis, otherwise Zhou Yang might not dare Stepping into the desert alone.

Alone and with a camel, he walked in the desert for about five days in strict accordance with the map issued by his family, and arrived at the destination - Qingping Mountain smoothly.

Qingping Mountain is also an oasis, but it is a man-made oasis.

The area of ​​this oasis is very small, only a dozen square kilometers in size. The oasis can be formed because the Zhou family invested tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones here regardless of the cost, and created a second-order low-grade spirit vein.

The reason why the Zhou family built an oasis here at such a great cost is because a member of the Zhou family who lost their way in the desert discovered a medium-sized fine iron ore vein here more than 50 years ago.

Refined iron ore is a kind of spiritual mine that contains a little spiritual energy. After smelting and processing, it can smelt the first-order spiritual object refined iron and the second-order spiritual object black iron. The main materials of important buildings such as the Jingge and the Treasure House are also the main materials for the refining masters to refine most of the first-order and second-order magic weapons, and the market demand is huge.

In order to mine the fine iron ore in the fine iron vein, the Zhou family can only build an oasis here for the miners to live in. At the same time, in order to protect the miners from the low-level monsters in the desert, the Zhou family must send monks to garrison here.

Whether it is to build an oasis or to allow the garrison monks to continue their practice, the Zhou family can only artificially create spiritual veins here.

Of course, all this investment is worthwhile.

Only this medium-sized fine iron ore vein, the refined iron ore mined every year can bring more than 500 low-grade spirit stones to the Zhou family after processing and selling. Earn back several times.

And judging from the reserves of the fine iron ore veins, it can be mined for at least another 50 years.

The Qingpingshan oasis is very small, and most of the area has been turned into the living area of ​​the miners. Only a 100-meter-high hill in the center of the Lingmai has been carved out separately as the residence of the garrison monks and the warehouse of finished materials.

It can be said that the small hill is the real Qingping Mountain.

Because the current great elder of the Zhou family is a Tier 2 formation master, a Tier 2 formation called the "Cloud Sea Separating Light Array" was also arranged on the spiritual veins of Qingping Mountain. covered, making it difficult to see the layout.

Zhou Yang came to the outside of the formation, summoned up his mana and shouted, the clouds in front of him surged, making a way for him to go up the mountain and enter.

He entered inside along the channel of the formation, and soon saw the garrison monk inside, a thin-faced middle-aged scholar, who ranked sixteenth among the "Xuan" monks of the Zhou family, named Zhou Xuanjin.

"Hey, why did you come to replace me, Yang'er? You are not yet twenty years old, are you?"

Zhou Xuanjin, who was dressed as a scholar, saw Zhou Yang coming in, and couldn't help but let out a sigh, and before Zhou Yang saluted and said hello, she put down the book in her hand and asked questions.

"Back to Uncle Sixteen, this is the arrangement of the old patriarch. The old man said that my nephew's cultivation has reached the standard for going down the mountain, so he made an exception and let my nephew go down the mountain to practice earlier." Zhou Yang replied honestly.

Zhou Xuanjin was stunned, and murmured in a puzzled voice, "The cultivation has reached the standard for going down the mountain? When did our Zhou family have this standard?"

After speaking, his heart moved, as if he remembered something, he quickly cast a "celestial eye technique" on himself, and looked at Zhou Yang up and down with golden eyes.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, after looking at it, he couldn't help opening his mouth and exclaimed: "Ah! You have broken through to the sixth level of Qi training!"

"After retreating in [Yuyang Cave] a month ago, I was lucky enough to break through."

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, nodded and admitted without hesitation.

In fact, in the practice world, it is a very taboo thing to directly use the "celestial eye technique" to observe other people's cultivation, and monks often fight over this kind of thing.

But Zhou Xuanjin is her own parent, so Zhou Yang doesn't care about such small things.

"Tsk tsk tsk, amazing, amazing, how old are you!"

"As an uncle, I have worked hard for 40 or 50 years to reach the seventh level of Qi training. You are good. You have already reached the sixth level of Qi training at the age of seventeen. It will take another ten or eight years. The cultivation base will surpass me!"

"Hey, I'm old and old, and I can't compare with young people. They are all aptitudes of middle-grade spiritual roots. Why is there such a big gap!"

Zhou Xuanjin put away his spells and looked at this outstanding junior with complicated eyes. He didn't know whether he should be happy that his family had such a genius, or should he feel ashamed and disappointed that his cultivation base was about to be surpassed by a junior who was dozens of years younger. .

This is not the first time Zhou Yang has encountered this kind of situation. Ever since he broke through the sixth level of Qi training, those peers and elders on Yuquan Peak were more or less amazed and happy by his speed of practice. Like Zhou Xuanjin, they all showed disappointment and dejection.

Regarding this, he could only remain silent, not saying much.

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