Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The Zhou family's 400th anniversary celebration, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is important, but there are not many monks who can actually attend the ceremony.

But the "Treasure Hunting Conference" is different.

The Zhou family does not have any cultivation level restrictions on the monks participating in the "Treasure Hunting Conference". Any monk under the age of 60 can sign up to receive a number plate as long as he pays a symbolic low-grade spirit stone, and then according to the number plate drawn by lottery The winners will enter the next round until the top 20 are determined.

By the time Zhou Yang and other important figures came from Chihu Mountain to the martial arts arena specially prepared by the Zhou family at the foot of the mountain, more than 20,000 immortal cultivators had already gathered here.

"This martial arts arena has been reinforced by the formations arranged by Zhou Guangxiang, the fourth-order master of the Zhou family, and protected by special formations. After you monks go to the martial arts arena, you can use your skills to fight with spells and artifacts."

"However, I need to remind fellow Taoists that during the battle of skills, although my Zhou family's foundation-building monks will take care of them, there is no guarantee that they will be able to save you in time, so if you find out If you lose to your opponent, it is best to take the initiative to admit defeat."

"Once one party voluntarily admits defeat, the other party must never do it again, otherwise not only will the results be disqualified immediately, but my Zhou family will also list them as people who are never welcome, and refuse to enter any oasis and square city of my Zhou family! "

"Also, Tier 2 talismans can be used in the martial arts competition, but the use of Tier 3 talismans and puppets that exceed the strength of the Qi training period is strictly prohibited. Violators will be disqualified from the competition!"

"Finally, although we will not conduct a bone age test on the winners now, if the monks who won the top 20 in the end want to receive rewards from my Zhou family, they must pass the bone age test and prove that their ages meet the requirements before they will be awarded. Rewards, and punish those who try to pass the test in vain by abolishing their cultivation base, so if any of you are lucky, it is best to return the number plate in your hand now!"

On the huge square arena covered by a khaki mask, Zhou Tongming, the deputy head of the Zhou Family Battle Hall, was outside the arena announcing the rules of fighting to those who signed up for the "Treasure Hunting Conference".

According to Zhou Yang's request, the two "treasure hunting conferences" will be held first without any status restrictions, and then it will be the turn of Zhou family monks.

This arrangement, of course, is to allow the monks of the Zhou family to increase their experience in fighting skills by watching outsiders' fighting skills, and realize their own shortcomings, so that they can perform more brilliantly in the next fighting skills.

Shortly after Zhou Tongming announced the rules of the fight, due to the arrival of Zhou Yang and others, the "Treasure Hunting Competition" competition officially began.

There were more than 12,000 monks who originally signed up for this "Treasure Hunting Conference", but after Zhou Tongming's last warning, as many as a thousand lucky people were scared to give up Got the number plate in hand.

To verify whether a person is over sixty years old, all that is required is for a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage to cast a special third-level low-grade spell "Bone Touching Art".

Those who gave up originally thought that it was impossible for the Zhou family to conduct the "Bone Touching Technique" test on everyone, so they wanted to gamble with a fluke mentality, and even if they were discovered, they just insisted that they might have misremembered Age is enough, at most it is disqualification.

But they didn't expect that the Zhou family would punish those who tried to pass the test by abolishing their cultivation.

For an immortal cultivator, there is probably no more severe punishment than this, and no one really dares to take this risk to gamble their lives.

At this time, after Zhou Tongming announced the start of the "Treasure Hunting Conference", he immediately read out the name of the first team of monks based on the lottery number plate.

"Group A No. 1312 Zhang Meng, Group B No. 421 Yang Fei!"

Suddenly, a mighty and tall middle-aged man on the seventh floor of Qi training, and a good-looking middle-aged female cultivator on the eighth floor of Qi training walked into the martial arts field through the shield of the formation, and then each reported their names and origins Just released the magic weapon and fought against each other.

Because of the low magic power of the monks in the Qi training period, the fighting time will not be too long, and there are venue restrictions, even if someone wants to delay time by moving, it will not work.

So just within the past thirty breaths, the mighty and tall Zhang Meng was pierced through the protective shield with a golden hairpin by the middle-aged female cultivator Yang Feiyu, and pressed the needle point to his chest.

"Fairy is good at tricks, Zhang admits defeat!"

Glancing at the golden hairpin on his chest with an ugly expression, Zhang Meng, the mighty man, didn't waste much time, and directly admitted defeat, put away his magic weapon and walked off the ring.

Next, the second group of monks whose number plates and names were read out immediately jumped onto the arena to fight again.

Although, in the eyes of Zhou Yang and other Zifu monks, the fighting skills of these low-level monks during the Qi training period are full of mistakes, not worth mentioning, and a bit bland.

But the monks in the Qi training period in the audience watched it with gusto, and cheers came from time to time.

After going on like this for two days, all the monks in the first round finished the competition, and more than 5,000 people qualified.

Then another day passed, and the second round was over, with more than 2,000 people qualifying.

Another day passed, and after the third and fourth rounds, there were only more than 600 people who were still eligible to continue competing.

By the end of the sixth day of the competition, the top 20 players were finally selected.

As expected by Zhou Yang, sixteen of the top twenty monks came from various cultivating families, and there were only four monks who came from casual cultivators.

Naturally, these monks who can enter the top 20 are all qi-level nine-level practitioners.

Because they had been fighting martial arts for five consecutive days, the mental state of these twenty people was somewhat exhausted, so before the final finals, they were given two hours to rest.

But at this time, Zhou Yang, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly looked at Chen Pingan and other monks and said with a smile: "Chen Daoyou, Nie Daoyou and Yan Daoyou, who do you three think will be the first place this time?"

The three people he named were all the patriarchs of the Zifu family, and each family had descendants who made it into the top 20. Among them, the Chen family and the Yan family had two each.

"Although there are suspicions of self-promotion, Yan believes that the person who won the first place in the end must be Yan Shuanghua from my Yan family!"

While Chen Pingan and Nie Qiufeng were still thinking about how to answer Zhou Yang's words, Yan Nantian, the head of the Yan family, stood up to support his own children with full confidence.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yang had dealt with the Yan family in Huohuling before.

When he was still in the foundation building stage, when he was summoned in the sea of ​​sand by Xiao Bufan, a monk of the Yellow Shamen Zifu, who used the "seven-color cloud and smoke" for help, he once joined hands with a monk from the Yan family named Yan Yunfei. After fighting, they were recruited by Xiao Bufan to the Chihu Mountain Oasis to guard it for Huang Shamen.

It's a pity that Yan Yunfei was unlucky. When the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle attacked the Chihu Mountain Oasis, he unfortunately fell here.

The current Yan Nantian, according to his age, should be the son and nephew of Yan Yunfei.

"Yan Dao is friendly and confident, but Mr. Chen is also more optimistic about Chen Yunsheng of my Chen family."

Chen Pingan came back to his senses at this time, and also smiled and supported his younger generation.

"Nie is not as confident as the two fellow daoists. In the previous battles, Nie has already seen that with the strength of my family, Nie Hansha, whether he can enter the top three depends on luck. He is not as good as the two fellow daoists." What a genius!"

Nie Qiufeng shook his head, and whispered these words with a hint of bitterness on the corner of his mouth.

The Zhou family's "Treasure Hunting Conference" this time has attracted the attention of the younger generation of monks in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World. These families also want to take advantage of this opportunity to let their outstanding descendants come out to see the world, by the way See if you can get the Foundation Establishment Pill reward.

It's just that the juniors that the family has placed high hopes on are obviously behind the other two young juniors of the Zifu family in terms of strength, which makes Nie Qiufeng feel better.

Although strength does not mean everything, but in today's "Treasure Hunting Conference", those who are weak will lose a chance to obtain the foundation establishment pill, and lose a chance that may affect a lifetime.

At this time, Zhou Yang, who was asking the question, smiled lightly and said: "Those fellow Taoists might as well make a bet with Zhou. Let's each place a third-tier treasure as a bet on a monk. If whoever wins in the end, the bet How about treating it as a special reward for that monk?"

"Oh, then I wonder who Fellow Daoist Zhou wants to bet on?"

Chen Pingan's eyes flashed, and he looked at Zhou Yang with piercing eyes and asked back.

"Don't say that Zhou doesn't give face to a few friends, Zhou will win the first place against that loose cultivator Li Hong!"

A smile flashed on Zhou Yang's face, and he also said that he was optimistic about the person without hesitation.

"This person is a casual cultivator, but he can be valued so much by Zhou Daoyou. It seems that Chen was wrong before!"

Surprise flashed in Chen Ping's eyes, and he looked at a middle-aged man in a black robe who was closing his eyes and resting his mind at the bottom of the martial arts arena. That man was Li Hong, the casual cultivator Zhou Yang was talking about.

Zhou Yang, however, refused to say anything more, and just asked with a smile: "How is it? Do you want to gamble?"

"It's just a Tier 3 treasure. Since Zhou Daoyou has this elegance, Chen is naturally willing to accompany him."

Chen Ping looked back, nodded slightly, and immediately responded.

Then Yan Nantian also said confidently: "Yan also gambled."

"Although Nie is not optimistic about the younger generation of my family, but I can't help it. The left and right are just a third-order treasure, so Nie will naturally not disappoint." Nie Qiufeng pondered for a while, and then responded with a smile.

"Okay, let's wait and see."

Zhou Yang smiled with satisfaction, and made a decision on the spot.

Then he glanced slightly, and looked at another person not far away who had been silent all the time. That person was Zhang Yunpeng, the current head of Huang Shamen.

There were also monks from Huang Shamen participating in this "Treasure Hunting Conference", but they were just ordinary disciples with little strength. None of the Huang Shamen's really powerful monks in the Qi training period came here.

The reason Zhou Yang also knew was that Zhang Yunpeng didn't want those people to come.

There is no shortage of Foundation Establishment Pills in Huang Shamen now, as long as they are monks with some talent, they can easily obtain Foundation Establishment Pills from within the sect.

According to Zhou Yang's knowledge, in the past 20 years, the number of monks who have successfully established new foundations in Huangshamen has reached 30, which shows how much money Zhang Yunpeng has invested in it.

"Families and sects are different after all. Even if the Huangshamen declines, they can still open their doors to attract talents from the outside world. I'm not afraid that someone will turn against them."

"On the other hand, our families have to be careful even when recruiting a guest monk, for fear of attracting an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf."

"In this Treasure Hunting Conference, many young casual cultivators with good strength have emerged. Our Zhou family can take advantage of this opportunity to investigate and recruit more people to join in, so as to fill up the number of fighters among the bottom monks of the family."

Zhou Yang's heart moved, but another idea popped up, and then Dang Shi sent a voice transmission to the patriarch Zhou Guangxiang, ordering him to gather all the female cultivators in the family who wanted to recruit husbands, and after the "Treasure Hunting Conference" was over, through This is an opportunity to hold another son-in-law conference to see if we can catch some potential rich husbands.