Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Obviously, the worries of Chen Ping'an and Yan Nantian had become a reality.

Although the juniors of the two of them also successfully defeated their opponents and entered the top five, they both suffered some minor injuries while defeating their opponents.

Then when they competed for the first place, whether it was Chen Yunsheng from the Chen family or Yan Shuanghua from the Yan family, they were all defeated by Li Hong one after another.

After the final top three rankings were settled, Li Hong took the first place, Yan Shuanghua was second, and Chen Yunsheng was third.

Since then, the first "Treasure Hunting Conference" held by the Zhou family has officially come to an end.

"First of all, congratulations to fellow daoist Li for winning the first place in this treasure hunting conference. At the same time, there is another piece of good news to tell fellow daoists. Earlier, I, the elder of the Zhou family, Zhou Yang, made a bet with several other fellow daoists in the Zifu period, that fellow daoist Li won the first prize. You won the first place, and now fellow daoist really lived up to the expectations of the elders, after winning the first place, in addition to the reward that fellow daoist should have received, you can also get four more third-order treasures as rewards!"

On the martial arts arena, Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family, was presenting rewards to the top 20 monks in the "Treasure Hunting Conference" on behalf of the Zhou family.

And when he awarded the rewards from the twentieth place to the first prize at the end, he told the first place winner Li Hong about the previous bet with a smile on his face.

Hearing that in addition to the rewards of Foundation Establishment Pill and Tier 3 Magical Artifact that he should have received, Li Hong could also get four Tier 3 treasures. Li Hong, who was able to force himself to suppress the excitement in his heart without showing any signs of excitement, suddenly felt a sudden panic in his eyes. Can't stop revealing the color of astonishment and ecstasy.

He is also a smart person, Dang even turned quickly and bowed in the direction of the stand where Zhou Yang and the others were, and said, "This junior, Li Hong, thank you for your kindness, and thank you for your treasure!"

Seeing this, Zhou Guangxiang nodded in satisfaction, and then secretly said: "The Supreme Elder still has something to tell you, if you are willing to join my Zhou family and swear that you will never betray, it is because you failed to use this Foundation Establishment Pill." , my Zhou Family can also give you another Foundation Establishment Pill to help you establish your foundation!"

What!

Li Hong was shocked, and looked at Zhou Guangxiang in shock, almost suspecting that he heard it wrong.

"You can think about it carefully. This promise will remain valid until you leave the Chihushan Oasis!"

Zhou Guangxiang nodded slightly with a smile in his eyes, and without saying anything more, he directly handed a storage bag to Li Hong.

Next, Zhou Guangxiang didn't look at Li Hong, who walked off the arena with a worried look, and directly announced the start of the second "Treasure Hunting Competition" inside the Zhou family.

There are more than 900 monks in the Zhou family, and there are four to five hundred people who meet the requirements of the "Treasure Hunting Conference". Unfortunately, there are only more than 270 monks in the middle and late stages of Qi training who can really participate in the battle.

Therefore, this second "Treasure Hunting Conference" does not need to go on for as long as the first one, and one day is enough to come to the result.

Of course, fewer people belong to fewer people. In terms of momentum, the battle between Zhou family monks was much more exciting than the first match before.

Thanks to the background of the Zhou family's weapon refining family, as long as the monks of the Zhou family are at the middle stage of Qi training, they can produce more than two second-level high-grade magic weapons in their hands.

Some monks who are willing to invest their capital, even in the past few years, have reluctantly exchanged the family contribution points they have finally accumulated from the family treasury for big killers such as the second-order top-grade puppet beasts, and other second-class monsters. High-grade spirit talisman.

Therefore, after the real fight, the fighting power shown by these monks is much stronger than those of the monks in the last match.

However, in this "Treasure Hunting Conference" within the family, the people who really stood out were those monks from the Zhou family's Battle Hall.

The battle hall of the Zhou family gathered a group of monks who could fight the most in the entire Zhou family. Although the number of them was less than a hundred so far, each of them had the power to easily defeat ordinary monks of the same rank.

Not to mention anything else, two of the top 20 in the previous "Treasure Hunting Conference" were monks from the Zhou family's battle hall, and five of the top 60 were from the Zhou family's battle hall.

This is because the "Treasure Hunting Conference" has restrictions on the age of participants, and most of the monks with foreign relatives in the Zhou family's battle hall are over sixty years old, otherwise there must be more people who can get the ranking.

These battle hall monks usually give priority to the supply of various cultivation resources, and they are dedicated to fighting skills. Everyone is good at spells, and the ability to use magical weapons is not comparable to that of ordinary monks.

Even if they were both Zhou family monks, after they appeared on the stage, their opponents were basically easily defeated without much resistance.

Naturally, the outstanding performance of these monks also aroused the great curiosity and attention of those monks watching the battle.

"I've heard about the name of the Zhou family's battle hall monk for a long time, but seeing it today, it really is a well-deserved reputation!"

On the high platform where a group of monks from the Zifu period were, Chen Pingan looked at the two monks fighting on the stage with piercing eyes. It was an exclamation of surprise.

The Zhou family has developed from a foundation-building family to the number one family in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea in just a hundred years. Of course, other families will inevitably study the reasons for the rapid development of the Zhou family to see if they can find out what is beneficial to their own family and follow suit. .

With regard to the role of the nine halls of the Zhou family, it is natural that they have long been known by the patriarchs of various families, and many families have even followed suit, and have carried out relevant reforms in the same way.

As the main family that the Zhou family once attached to, the Chen family naturally paid more attention to the Zhou family, and was also the first family to imitate the Zhou family.

However, the family situation is different. Chen Pingan did not copy the Zhou family exactly like a cat or a tiger. He just borrowed from the Zhou family's seven deacons and elders' ruling system, subdivided the family's internal power structure, and then increased the number of clan members to learn how to cultivate immortals. The strength of Baiyi's subsidies.

In Chen Pingan's view, there is absolutely no need to spend resources to imitate the establishment of a monk armed force that exists exclusively for war like the Battle Hall.

Large-scale wars between monks rarely occur in the boundless sand sea world of cultivating immortals. Even the Huang Shamen is not willing to spend resources to form a monk army.

Only under the rapid expansion and insecurity of the Zhou family, are they willing to spend huge resources to build such a non-productive monk army.

And limited by his knowledge, even a cultivator in the Zifu period like Chen Pingan didn't think that a group of monks in the Qi training period could defeat the foundation-building cultivator if they united and trained together.

In his mind and most of the patriarchs of the Xiuxian family, instead of spending a lot of resources to cultivate an army of monks, it is better to concentrate resources to train a few more monks who build the foundation.

At least the foundation-building monks are far better than a group of Qi-training monks who are not foundation-building monks in terms of longevity, strength and influence.

However, he thought so and did so, but after seeing the fighting power displayed by the monks of the Zhou family's battle hall in the martial arts competition, Chen Pingan was still envious for a while.

He still didn't think that a group of monks in the Qi training period could fight against the foundation-building monks.

But he had to admit that, without the Foundation Establishment monks and Zifu monks doing anything, the Zhantang monks cultivated by the Zhou family with a lot of resources did have the strength to sweep away most of their Chen family's Qi training period monks.

From this point of view, their Chen family really lagged behind the Zhou family in all aspects, which made him really uncomfortable.

"These battle hall monks are powerful, but it's a pity that they consume too much resources. Only a family like the Zhou family with a big business and a master craftsman like Zhou Daoyou is willing to invest a lot of resources to train a group of people!"

Yan Nantian, the head of the Yan family, also watched the battle with bright eyes, and expressed his opinion with envy.

He wanted to set up a battle hall like the Zhou family, even if the number of people was smaller, only twenty people would do.

But he took a closer look at the equipment on the monks of the Zhou family's battle hall, and had to stop thinking about it.

It is also a second-tier high-grade magic weapon. The golden battle armor worn by the monks of the Zhou family's battle hall are all special products mixed with third-tier materials, and the supernatural powers attached are quite mysterious. It can be seen at a glance that it is from a third-tier or higher refining weapon teacher's hand.

Even if he was willing to put in the same materials for such a battle armor, those refiners of the Yan family would not be able to refine it, let alone Zhou Yang's self-created magic weapon "Yuanyang shield" that is unique to Zhou family battle hall monks.

While Zhou Yang listened to what Chen Pingan and Yan Nantian said, he didn't say anything on the surface, but he was extremely satisfied in his heart.

The battle hall of the Zhou family was established by him with all his strength, and the investment of resources was also specially approved by him.

He has a different idea from Chen Pingan and others. To set up a battle hall, in his opinion, is to raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while.

Right now the Zhou family is not very useful for monks in the battle hall, but who knows if it will be used in the future?

Now set up a battle hall, establish a regular army of monks, and pass it down from generation to generation to form a system inheritance.

In the future, there will be a large-scale monk war. With such an army of monks in hand, whether it is offensive or defensive, it will be many times more useful than those temporary monk teams.

What's more, the real investment in this battle hall is not as big as outsiders imagined. The main reason is that it takes more resources to purchase a full set of magical equipment for the first batch of monks. All will be recycled by the battle hall and distributed to newly joined monks.

However, the Zhou family has its own craftsman and various mineral veins. The spirit stones consumed to purchase a set of magic weapon equipment will not exceed two thousand low-grade spirit stones, which is completely within the acceptable range.

"My Zhou family won't be stuck in this boundless sea of ​​sand all the time, and go out in the future. If they want to grow stronger, they have to compete with other forces for spiritual veins and mineral veins like those family sects in the world of cultivating immortals in Liuyunzhou!"

"At that time, if you don't have an army of monks who can fight, what will you use to compete with those forces that have raised Taoist soldiers?"

A bright light flashed in Zhou Yang's eyes. Thinking of the area where he was about to set off for the Great Bright Immortal Palace, his determination to vigorously promote the establishment of a large-scale monk armed force became stronger in his heart.