Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Yang didn't want too many people to know about the discovery of the Lingshi Mine in a short time.

Although the Zhou family already had the power to fear no one in this boundless sandy sea of ​​cultivating immortals, the interests involved in a medium-sized spirit stone mine were too great, so he couldn't help but act carelessly.

And for now, there are enough spirit stones in the Zhou family's treasury. No matter how many spirit stones are dug out, they can only be piled up in the warehouse, and cannot be turned into various urgently needed treasures.

What's more, all the projects that Zhou's family is currently launching must be manually participated in, and it is difficult to spare too many people to travel thousands of miles to mine the spirit stone mine at once.

You must know that important mineral veins like the Lingshi Mine are no more important than other mineral veins. Once such a valuable mineral vein starts to be mined, not only the mining can only be carried out by immortal cultivators, but also a large number of monks must be invested in the mine area to guard it. Mine, in order to avoid being stolen and looted.

Like those big sects, once they discover the spirit stone mine, they will first send high-level formation masters to deploy a fifth-order magic circle with a huge coverage to cover the spirit stone mine area, and then send people to mine the spirit stone.

The medium-sized Lingshi mine discovered by Zhou Yang has hundreds of miles of veins in length and breadth. Such a large area cannot be covered by ordinary fifth-order formations, and it must be a large forbidden formation.

Of course, the Zhou family can't come up with such a large formation, so they can only use a stupid method to send a large number of family monks to patrol the border of the Lingshi mining area, and send at least one Zifu period monk to sit in it to support at any time.

As he was going to travel to the area of ​​the Great Bright Immortal Palace in the near future, Zhou Yang knew that the Zhou family no longer had such conditions.

So after he returned to Xijiao Island, he first strictly told his apprentice Lu Xuewei not to disclose the matter of the Lingshi Mine, then he just told Zhou Guangxiang about the matter of the Lingshi Mine, and took him to the mine to get acquainted with the way.

In this way, the matter of the Lingshi Mine came to an end for the time being. After Zhou Yang briefly mentioned the matter he had promised Lu Xuewei to Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch, he set off for the underground fire abyss where he discovered the "net extinguishing green lotus fire". Fire gold.

Originally, Zhou Yang thought that after going to the underground fire abyss this time, he could still see the "Fire Lin Beast" that fled back then. He was going to continue to try to see if he could kill this beast.

But what he didn't know was that after he invaded his body with the "Qianyang True Fire", the "Fire Lin Beast" almost died at the bottom of the abyss of fire, so that after recovering, he didn't dare to return to his original habitat Let's take a look, for fear of meeting his nemesis again.

Moreover, the reason why the "Fire Lin Beast" inhabited the underground fire abyss at the beginning was mainly to practice with the help of "purging the Qinglian fire". As far as the beast is concerned, it is no different from other places.

Of course, Zhou Yang felt a little sorry for not being able to see the "Fire Lin Beast", but the large amount of Lihuo fine gold that was mined later quickly dispelled the feeling of depression and regret in his heart.

Last time he used the "thousand-blade plate" to mine the Lihuo fine gold, because he was worried that the magma would damage this magic weapon, so he didn't dare to go deep into the place where the magma was too deep to mine.

This time he came prepared, and directly used the particularly high-temperature-resistant "Da Yan Shen Light Sword" as a mining tool, and the harvest was great.

When he returned to Xijiao Continent, he used the "Lihuo Suzaku Furnace" to extract the Lihuo fine gold from the ore, and he harvested a total of thirty-seven catties and six taels of Lihuo fine gold.

It's a pity that although Lihuo Jingjin has a good harvest, the harvest of "Taiyi Jingjin" and other materials is not ideal.

The boundless sand sea and the world of cultivating immortals are still too barren and backward. Generally, even if someone obtains precious refining materials such as "Taiyi fine gold", they will use them to add to their own flying swords to increase the power of flying swords. Few people collect large pieces of spirit gold and do not use them.

There was news from the Zhou family that they had bought it for him for a few years, but they only got five taels, which was a huge gap from the few catties he wanted.

There is no way, Zhou Yang can only suppress the idea of ​​refining the sword temporarily, and is going to find a way to collect materials to refine the sword after he arrives at the boundary where the Great Bright Immortal Palace is located.

Time passed quickly, and soon more than a year passed.

On this day, Xiao Ying, who had been in retreat for six years, finally succeeded in breaking through and promoted to the fourth floor of the Purple Mansion, and walked out of the retreat room.

"Congratulations, Ying'er, you are finally out!"

Outside Xiao Ying's retreat, Zhou Yang, who sensed the movement in time and came to check the situation, looked at the Taoist couple who hadn't seen him for nearly twenty years, and couldn't help but feel joy in his heart.

"I miss my husband too!"

Xiao Ying put her hands on the back of Zhou Yang's neck, and her beautiful eyes were full of joy as she pressed her head against the man's chest, unwilling to let go for a long time.

After some lingering hugs, the slight strangeness that the couple hadn't seen for twenty years quickly dissipated completely.

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't forget the business when he was in love, and soon told the Taoist companion about the flowering of the "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree.

After Xiao Ying heard about this incident, she also attached great importance to it, and rushed to Chihu Mountain with Zhou Yang the next day to check the situation.

So for the next year, Xiao Ying sat on Chihu Mountain exclusively, refining various third-order elixir collected by the Zhou family over the years into elixir, while preparing various elixir and collecting Yimu Jingqi supplements the vitality of the "Ningyuanguo" tree.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also moved to Chihu Mountain to sit in the township, studying the sword art and accompanying his Taoist companion.

One year has passed, and before Zhou Yang has fully understood the "Eight Desolation and Liuhe Sword Formation", the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Zhou family has already arrived.

In a place like the Boundless Sand Sea and the Immortal Cultivation World, it is rare for a family to be able to pass on for four hundred years and still be at its peak.

Many foundation-building families have only passed on for a hundred or two hundred years, and because of the fall of the family's foundation-building monks, they have been unable to give birth to new foundation-building monks for a long time, and have gradually lost their inheritance.

The original Zhou family almost became like this.

Originally, on the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Zhou family, they should have invited guests and friends to celebrate.

But at that time, the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea was in a period of turmoil, and the Zhou family had just lost the old patriarch of the previous generation, so naturally they didn't have the heart to deal with it.

Now that the Zhou family has been established for 400 years, the family has been promoted to become the Zifu family, and has also become the strongest Zifu family in the boundless sand sea for two thousand years. Naturally, this celebration must be held in a special way.

Since Zhou Yang announced that he would hold this celebration five years ago, the whole Zhou family has been preparing for it.

In the past five years, almost all the foundation-building families in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Realm have received invitations from the Zhou family.

At the same time, there were more monks who came uninvited to participate in this grand ceremony without invitations.

Of course, these people not only came here to eat and drink, but also came for the treasure hunting conference promised by the Zhou family.

Therefore, on the day when the real celebration was held, more than 20,000 monks gathered in the Chihu Mountain Oasis.

For the Zhou family, it was both an honor and a test for so many monks to gather in an oasis.

You must know that immortal cultivators are not kind people. More than 20,000 immortal cultivators gather on an oasis, and it is almost impossible not to have some conflicts of fighting skills every day.

For this reason, the Zhou family had to temporarily expand the security team, and sent most of the family's Qi training monks who were over sixty years old to maintain security to prevent large-scale fighting conflicts.

On the day of the celebration, the only monks who could ascend Chihu Mountain to watch the ceremony were those who had received invitations. They were either Foundation Establishment monks or high-level elders of a certain Foundation Establishment family.

At this time, on the Chihu Mountain, a ritual altar for offering sacrifices to heaven has already been built for the celebration.

This altar for worshiping heaven is circular, nine feet nine feet high, three feet three feet wide, and has nine colors from bottom to top. It is made of hardware and four kinds of spiritual jade.

Since three days ago, after burning incense and bathing, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on this altar, fasting and waiting.

And in front of him is a pyramid-shaped wooden building several feet high, on which are placed sequentially from top to bottom the ancestral tablets invited from the Zhou Family Ancestral Temple.

Among them, the spirit card on the top of the tower only writes the word "heaven and earth", which represents God.

The second layer is the spirit card of Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family, and his wife, and the third layer is the spirit card of Zhou Huajian, Zhou Minghan, and Zhou Xuanhao, the three foundation-building monks of the Zhou family who have passed away, and their Taoist companions.

Further down, there are the spiritual cards of the ninth-level senior monks who have passed away in the Zhou family, as well as the spiritual cards of the monks who were listed in the "Heroes List" of the Zhou family, and finally those ordinary Zhou family senior monks who are not known.

However, these spirit tablets stopped when the "Xuan" generation was reached, because there was still a monk of the "Yuan" generation such as Zhou Yang.

In the ceremony of worshiping the ancestors presided over by him, of course, the spirit cards of the monks of the same generation cannot be put on it.

At this time, with the arrival of the celebration day, Zhou Guangxiang, the current patriarch of the Zhou family, personally sent the three animals sacrificed to the ancestors to the altar.

These three animals are the second-rank top-grade monster "red-haired ox", the second-rank top-grade monster "white-tailed black sheep", and the second-rank top-grade monster "rock soil pig".

Originally, according to Zhou Yang's original intention, he wanted to use third-order monsters as sacrifices, so that he could show the face of the Zhou family's Zifu family.

However, although there are many monsters in the boundless sand sea, there are very few third-level monsters of cattle, sheep and pigs. He can't just catch three third-level monsters to make up for the number, can he?

So in the end, he could only settle for the next best thing, and chose three second-tier high-grade monsters as sacrifices.

These monsters who were sacrificed were fed the "Jingyuan Pill" and some body purification elixir as early as a month ago, and sealed their excrement openings with utensils to ensure that they would be safe in such a solemn and solemn situation. In the crisis of life and death, you will not be scared to shit and piss to desecrate your ancestors.

At this time, with the delivery of the three animals, the auspicious time came. After burning incense and bathing on the altar, Zhou Yang personally slaughtered the three animals used to worship God and ancestors on the spot, took their heads and placed them in front of him on a jade plate. Kneeling down on both knees facing the rows of spiritual tablets in front, bowed down and prayed sincerely.

"The ancestors of the Zhou family are the ancestors of the Zhou family. The descendant Zhou Yuanyang led 976 children of the Zhou family to pay homage to God and the ancestors here. I pray that the spirits of God and the ancestors in heaven will bless my Zhou family and protect us. The Zhou family will last forever, forever and forever!"

At the same time, Zhou Guangxiang and other monks of the Zhou family under the altar also knelt down on the ground at the same time, followed by prostrating loudly and shouting: "My ancestors and ancestors please bless my Zhou family forever, forever and ever!"

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