Cultivation Begins From The Desert

In less than a day, the Zhou family's internal "Treasure Hunting Conference" was settled.

The three Zhou family monks who won the top three are Zhou Tongyue, Zhou Tongkui, and Zhou Fuxing.

What's interesting is that among the three Zhou family monks, except for Zhou Fuxing who is an alchemist working in Baiyitang, the top two are all Zhou family battle hall monks.

"According to the rules set by the family, the first place rewards the Foundation Establishment Pill and a third-tier top-grade magic weapon, and the second and third place rewards the Foundation Establishment Pill, a third-tier middle-grade magic weapon, and a third-tier low-grade magic weapon respectively. .”

"But the third-order magic weapon is useless for you now, so I will give you the Foundation Establishment Pill first. If you can successfully build the foundation, you can naturally ask me to get the magic weapon. If you fail to build the foundation, you can only get the converted family contribution Get a reward!"

Zhou Guangxiang was still the one who presented the rewards to the top 20 monks of the Zhou family. He first encouraged the 20 juniors before handing out the rewards to these people one by one.

Needless to say, the top three received rewards, and the next seventeen monks also received treasure rewards such as third-order magic talismans or second-order top-grade puppet beasts.

When the "Treasure Hunting Conference" was over, the Foundation Establishment monks and Zifu monks who had been invited by the Zhou family took their leave first and left.

However, those monks in the Qi training period did not leave so quickly. It is not easy for these people to travel thousands of miles to the Chihu Mountain Oasis. As long as they are not urgent and have to return, they don’t mind staying here for another ten and a half months. See if there is any opportunity to harvest.

It was also at this time that the Zhou family released the news of their son-in-law recruitment, and held another "son-in-law conference" by virtue of their popularity.

This "husband-seeking conference" is definitely not attractive to those family monks from the foundation family. Even if they really like a woman from the Zhou family, the family they belong to will not be willing to watch the monks they spend resources to cultivate become other family members. The door-to-door son-in-law.

But for those casual cultivators and some monks from small families who don't even have foundation-building monks, being able to become the son-in-law of the Zhou family and being half a Zhou family monk is quite tempting.

Of course, these trivial matters are not worthy of Zhou Yang's attention.

Even if it was Li Hong, whom he valued before, Zhou Yang would not be willing to devote more energy to pay attention to such a small Qi training monk before he made it clear that he was willing to join the Zhou family.

After the "Treasure Hunting Conference" was over, he returned to Qianyang Cave, where he had a secret meeting with Chen Pingan who came to visit.

"To tell you the truth, Fellow Daoist Zhou, Chen came to see Fellow Daoist this time because he wanted to ask Fellow Daoist Zhou to help refine a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills. Chen is willing to use 50,000 low-grade spirit stones as a fee for Fellow Daoist Xiao!"

In Qianyang Cave, when Chen Pingan saw Zhou Yang, he only said a few polite words, and then explained his intention of coming with a worried expression.

Ever since Chen Yaohui, the patriarch of the Chen family, died, there was only one middle-rank alchemist of the Chen family struggling in alchemy.

Although the third-tier mid-level alchemist can also refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, the success rate is appallingly low. Even if they succeed by luck, the number of pills produced will not exceed three.

Compared with the materials needed to refine a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills, this success rate and the number of Pills produced are of course unsatisfactory.

That's why Chen Pingan thought of coming to the Zhou family for help, asking Xiao Ying, a fourth-rank alchemist, to help refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The Foundation Establishment Pill was only a third-rank low-grade spirit pill, and the 50,000 low-grade spirit stones given by Chen Ping'an could match the cost of refining a batch of fourth-rank spirit pills.

From this aspect, his sincerity is absolutely sufficient.

However, considering the unhappy past of the Zhou family and the Chen family, as well as the special significance of the Jidan, Chen Pingan was not sure that Zhou Yang would agree to his request.

Sure enough, after Zhou Yang heard his request, he didn't respond immediately, but pondered.

After pondering for a while, Zhou Yang suddenly looked at him and said, "It's not that Mr. Zhou underestimated Fellow Daoist Chen. With your cultivation strength, fellow Daoist, even with the assistance of other foundation-builder cultivators, you shouldn't be able to kill a fourth-order monster." Get the Demon Pill? Is the Foundation Establishment Pill refined by this alchemy really only for the use of the Chen family?"

Defeating a Tier 4 monster and killing a Tier 4 monster are two different things. Zhou Yang had seen Chen Pingan make a move back then, and his strength was on the side of the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm. High-level monsters, the chances are really slim.

When Chen Pingan heard his words, he didn't feel any embarrassment, and quickly replied: "The ability to hunt and kill the fourth-order monsters is indeed not due to the power of Chen. However, asking Fellow Daoist Nie to help is Chen's exchange of other treasures, not sharing this furnace of Foundation Establishment Pill with him."

That makes sense.

Zhou Yang nodded thoughtfully, and then smiled lightly: "Since Fellow Daoist Chen is just asking for this, Zhou has no reason to refuse, but there is no need for Lingshi. My Yinger is obsessed with alchemy all her life, and likes to collect all kinds of alchemy the most. Fang studies alchemy, Chen Yaohui's patriarch was a dignified fourth-rank top-rank alchemist, as long as Chen Daoyou is willing to lend his alchemy handbook to my family, Yinger, to read it!"

After discovering a medium-sized spiritual stone mine with a reserve of tens of millions of spiritual stones, only 50,000 low-grade spiritual stones were really ignored by Zhou Yang.

And what the Chen family can catch his eyes now, apart from those third- and fourth-rank alchemy formulas, are only the alchemy handbooks recorded by the ancestor of the Chen family after he became a fourth-rank top-rank alchemist.

The dan formula involves the inheritance of the family, and Zhou Yang estimated that Chen Ping'an might not be willing to use it as a reward.

But in terms of alchemy handwriting, although this thing is important, it does not involve the inheritance after all, so it is still possible for the Chen family to take it out.

Xiao Ying's alchemy has been at the fourth-rank low-rank for many years. If she can get the alchemy handbook of the ancestor of the Chen family, she might be able to be promoted to a fourth-rank middle-rank alchemist by analogy.

It is rare for Chen Pingan to ask for a visit, so Zhou Yang will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Sure enough, after hearing that Zhou Yang asked for the alchemy handbook left by the ancestor of the Chen family to the Chen family as a reward for alchemy, Chen Ping's face suddenly changed.

As the number one alchemist in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, although the alchemy handbook of the ancestor of the Chen family is not a priceless treasure, it is definitely not something that can be bought with only 50,000 low-grade spirit stones.

But he knew even more in his heart that since Zhou Yang had already spoken, if he did not agree, the matter of asking Xiao Ying to help in alchemy would definitely go to waste, and he wanted to ask Zhou Yang to help in refining weapons or Xiao Ying to help in alchemy in the future , is almost impossible.

So after his complexion changed again and again, he finally gritted his teeth and agreed.

His face trembled, and he said in a low voice: "The patriarch's alchemy handbook is in the family, and Chen will go back to the family to fetch it for Fellow Daoist Zhou. I wonder when Fellow Daoist Xiao will be free to help with alchemy?"

Zhou Yang laughed immediately when he heard the words: "It happens that Yinger just left the customs not long ago, and now she is free. When Chen Daoyou goes back to pick up the alchemy handbook, he can bring the alchemy materials along with him."

"Since that's the case, please wait a moment for Fellow Daoist Zhou, Chen will come back as soon as he goes."

After Chen Ping finished speaking, he immediately took his leave and left Qianyang Cave, returning to Chen's house to get the alchemy handbook and alchemy materials.

But after Zhou Yang waited for him to leave, he couldn't help but said to himself with a smile on his face: "Feng Shui turns around, now come to my house, when your Chen family had a very ordinary [Yangyuan Pill] Danfang , in exchange for the [Xianzhi Yulu Pill] pill formula and [Sanyang Breaking Barrier Pill] pill formula that I risked my life to get, now it's time for you to pay off your debts!"

Back then, the ancestor of the Chen family threatened to hand over the property he got from the Wang family to Huang Shamen, so he was forced to exchange two rare third-tier pills for a high-grade pill in the other party's hands.

At that time, the situation was stronger than others. In order to ask the ancestor of the Chen family to speak out to help him keep his spoils, Zhou Yang could only reluctantly make this exchange with him.

Now that the feng shui is turning, and the Chen family has something to ask for him, he will naturally not be polite to Chen Pingan because of this.

Chen Ping's actions were quick, and it took only two days to deliver the alchemy handbook and alchemy materials to Zhou Yang.

After Zhou Yang took the things and handed them over to Xiao Ying, who was taking care of the "Ningyuan Fruit" tree on Chihu Mountain, within five days, he handed the five Foundation Establishment Pills to Chen Ping'an.

Xiao Ying is only a low-rank alchemist of the fourth rank, and she was able to produce five pills at a time, which is really a lot of luck.

When Chen Pingan saw that there were actually five Foundation Establishment Pills, the pain in his heart about handing over the alchemy handbook eased a lot.

The alchemy handbook he gave to Zhou Yang is just a copy, the original is still kept in the Chen family. In the future, the alchemists of the Chen family will still have the chance to challenge the fourth-order alchemist with this alchemy handbook.

In fact, he didn't lose anything.

So after thanking him, he left the Chihu Mountain Oasis with mixed feelings.

Next, Xiao Ying naturally took care of the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree while studying the Alchemy Handbook of the ancestor of the Chen family.

But Zhou Yang made preparations for going to the area of ​​the Great Bright Immortal Palace.

According to his plan, when he went to the area where the Great Bright Immortal Palace was located, he would not go alone, but would bring a group of Zhou family monks with him to teleport there.

You must know that to activate the large teleportation circle once, you need to consume half of the energy of the thirty-six high-grade spirit stones. If you don't take the opportunity to bring some people there, it will be a big loss for Zhou Yang.

However, this group of people cannot be taken indiscriminately, because if there is no accident, more than 90% of the people who were taken by him this time will not be able to return to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea alive. careful.

With the scale of that large long-distance teleportation array, the number of people teleporting at one time can exceed 50 people, so Zhou Yang's plan in his heart is to bring forty-nine Zhou family monks there besides himself.

He hadn't told anyone about this idea before, until now that he was sure that the opposite side of the teleportation formation should be a safer place, he informed Zhou Guangxiang of his decision, and planned and discussed with him about the candidate.

Zhou Guangxiang had also heard Zhou Yang talk about the teleportation array back then, but he didn't expect that Zhou Yang had such a huge plan.

Zhou Guangxiang had never thought about letting the Zhou family walk out of the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea. After all, even he, a cultivator of the Zifu period, had not yet walked out of the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea. How dare he think about it.

But after what Zhou Yang said, he also became excited.

Although he knew very well that it was impossible for Zhou Yang to take him to the area where the Great Bright Immortal Palace was located, as long as he thought of helping the Zhou family get out of the boundless sand sea and open up a family branch in the immortal world when he was the head of the Zhou family, He was so excited that he couldn't contain himself.

This is a great contribution and honor!

In the future family history of the Zhou family, he, the contemporary patriarch, will definitely write a lot about him because of this matter.

...

Three months passed quickly, and the results of the foundation establishment of the monks who received the Foundation Establishment Pill rewards at the "Treasure Hunting Conference" were released one after another.

First of all, the three monks of the Zhou family, except for Zhou Tongkui who failed to build the foundation with low-level spiritual root qualifications, Zhou Tongyue and Zhou Fuxing both successfully established the foundation and became the elders of the Zhou family.

As for that casual cultivator Li Hong, his luck was not very good, even with the help of Foundation Establishment Pill, he still failed in the end.

After the foundation establishment failed, for Li Hong, there were only two ways to go if he wanted to establish the foundation.

The first way is naturally to imitate Zhou Guangxiang, who also failed to build the foundation after taking the foundation building pill, and take the risk of practicing the tenth level of Dzogchen to forcibly attack the foundation building stage.

The second way is to agree to Zhou Guangxiang's original solicitation, and marry Zhou's family to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill to attack the Foundation Establishment Stage again.

Li Hong didn't have to think too much about how to choose between narrow escapes and the worst failure.

In the past few months, it is not that there are no other families who have wooed Li Hong, but the treatment given by those families is not as straightforward as the Zhou family.

What's more, it is also a family of cultivating immortals, and the Zhou family, the number one family in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, must be better than other families.

This can be seen from the great harvest of the Zhou family's "son-law recruiting conference" held after the "treasure hunting conference".

You must know that in that "Sous-in-Law Conference", only thirty-three female cultivators from the Zhou family came out to recruit husbands, but the number of monks who rushed to sign up and want to be married was as many as three or four thousand, which was truly one in a hundred.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a few days, Li Hong quickly came to the door, agreed to the conditions of the Zhou family, and married Zhou Fuxiang, a fourth-level qi training female cultivator of the Zhou family.

After more than a month passed like this, Li Hong, who had obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill and retreated again, was finally promoted to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

So far, the Zhou family's foundation-building stage monks have suddenly become as many as thirteen.

Not long after Li Hong succeeded in establishing the foundation, after discussing with Zhou Guangxiang and some Zhou family monks, Zhou Yang also preliminarily determined who would follow him to the area of ​​the Great Bright Immortal Palace.

The list of candidates is Jindan stage ghost cultivator Xu Song, Zifu stage monk Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying.

There are four monks in the foundation building period, Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Tongyue, Zhou Fuyun, and Li Hong.

As for the monks in the Qi training period, Zhou Yang did not rush to choose immediately.

Zhang Yunpeng of Huang Shamen only lived for more than a dozen years, and Zhou Yang had to survive until he passed away before he could leave in peace.

Moreover, Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong, among the few foundation-building monks he selected this time, have just built their foundations, and they have to be given some years to stabilize their cultivation and improve their strength, so that they can really help when the time passes. busy.

Of course, the most important thing is that the "Condensing Yuan Fruit" tree has just bloomed and needs Xiao Ying's special care. This matter of collecting the essence of Yimu to replenish the vitality of the fruit tree can only be done by her who has practiced wood-type kung fu and reached the purple mansion stage.

After preliminarily drawing up candidates for the Great Bright Immortal Palace area, Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang went to Xijiao Continent together to build the Zhou family's inheritance treasure house on Lingxi Peak.

This inheritance treasure house is built in the belly of Lingxi Peak. The inner layer is made of "Forbidden God Stone" to form a wall, and the outer layer is a special alloy wall made of a variety of second-order spirit gold and third-order spirit gold. The wall is as thick as one foot, and its hardness alone is enough to block the attacks of the middle-stage cultivators of the Zifu.

There is only one door to the treasury, and two magic weapon keys. To open the door of the treasure house, in addition to using the matching magic weapon key, a monk with the main blood of the Zhou family needs to verify the blood.

If there is no key, or if the person who holds the key is not a monk of the main line of the Zhou family, even a monk of the golden core period will not be able to open the door of the treasure house if he comes in person.

And once violent means are used to forcibly break the door, or attack the wall of the treasure house, the treasure house will automatically trigger the fourth-order array arranged in the treasure house after the wall and the door are broken, and detonate the blasting array inside to blow up all the treasures inside.

After the inheritance treasure house was established, Zhou Yang transferred all the important items in the Zhou family's treasure house, such as the fourth-order spiritual objects and the original secret arts, into it, and then he and Zhou Guangxiang divided the two keys equally.

If they want to open this treasure house in the future, they can only open it by themselves or their descendants with the key in hand.

ps: A new map is about to be opened, and I am working on the detailed plot of the new map. The writing is a bit slow, and I will update it today, sorry!