Cultivation Begins From The Desert

"I made a mistake. I didn't expect that the space squeeze produced by this large teleportation circle would be so powerful that even the [Great Teleportation Order] couldn't completely offset it!"

In the dark and damp underground cave, Zhou Yang looked gloomyly at the Zhou family monks lying on the ground and passed out, feeling very uncomfortable.

He originally thought that with the blessing of the "Great Teleportation Order", there shouldn't be any problems.

But in fact, he still underestimated the space squeezing power generated by this long-distance transmission, and overestimated the ability of monks during the Qi training period.

Even if the "Great Teleportation Order" helps to offset more than 90% of the space squeezing power, the remaining less than 10% of the power is enough to kill a monk in the Qi training period.

Now, except for a few of their Zifu monks and Foundation Establishment monks who can still stand awake, all the monks in the Qi training period have been seriously injured and passed out due to the force of the space squeeze. There are seven older and weaker Zhou family practitioners. The cultivator of the Qi period even had his heart shattered and died on the spot.

It's just that the matter has come to this point, it's useless to think too much, Zhou Yang quickly adjusted his mood, and confessed to Xiao Ying, who had already begun to treat the injured people: "Ying'er, I will leave the treatment of these people to you , I’ll go out and see what’s going on outside.”

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhou Guangxiang and the foundation-building monks: "As for Guangxiang, you are all here to help Ying'er Dharma Protector. You must not leave until I come back!"

After arranging things in this way, Zhou Yang nodded to Xu Song, signaling him to go out with him to investigate the situation.

After a while, Zhou Yang and Xu Song left the underground cave and appeared in the lifeless waters at the bottom of the lake.

"What a strong evil spirit, it seems that many people have died here!"

As a ghost cultivator, Xu Song, this kind of place with strong evil spirit is simply a treasure land for him to practice.

While speaking, he had already begun to absorb the evil spirit to restore the mana consumed by using the "Great Teleportation Order" earlier.

"This is really strange. As far as Zhou knows, the Great Bright Immortal Palace hates the demon monks no less than the Xuanyang Immortal Sect. The light magic spells they practice also have a great restraint effect on all kinds of evil monsters. , Why did this area around the teleportation array that originally belonged to the Great Bright Immortal Palace become such a gloomy place?"

A golden-red light flashed in Zhou Yang's eyes, but he had activated the "Lihuo Golden Pupils" magical power to scan the lake.

In the empty place like the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, with his supernatural power activated, the scenery thousands of miles away can be faintly seen.

But now that he was at the bottom of the lake, his eyes couldn't penetrate the lake to see the sky above.

Wisps of gray-black evil spirit densely covered the lake, obstructing his vision.

As for releasing his consciousness to conduct a large-scale scan, without knowing the specific situation here, Zhou Yang certainly would not do such a thing that is easy to scare the snake.

Seeing this, he could only put away his magical powers, looked at Xu Song who was recovering his mana, and said, "It seems that the matter of scouting this place can only be entrusted to you, Senior Xu!"

"This matter is easy, let's see the old man's method!"

Xu Song responded, and immediately took out his pitch-black magic banner and waved it, then released several demon souls from it and swam towards the top of the lake.

As long as these ghosts do not leave Xu Song's range of hundreds of miles, they can pass on what they see to the master Xu Song, which is equivalent to giving him a few more pairs of eyes.

Not long after this passed, Xu Song suddenly let out a muffled groan, then looked at Zhou Yang and said, "Something is wrong, one of the ghosts released by the old man died, it seems that he broke into a certain formation and was killed by the formation." Li Zhen killed it!"

While speaking, he had already waved the magic banner to summon the rest of the demon souls back.

Because Zhou Yang has always disagreed with his use of monk soul cards to refine ghost slaves, these ghost souls in his hands are all refined from beast souls, and the number is extremely limited, so he is reluctant to lose too much at once.

"Senior Xu, you demon souls are no match for the cultivators of the Zifu, but it is not a problem to support them for a period of time under the cultivators of the Zifu. Now that they are killed so quickly, it seems that this place is really not a good place!"

Zhou Yang thought, and his face became serious.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he couldn't help but looked at Xu Song and asked, "By the way, Senior Xu, can you recall the demon soul that was sent over?"

"No, the old man tried it just now. I don't know what kind of opportunity the demon soul got here. The great strength has already worn away more than half of the slavery restrictions imposed by the old man. Now the old man can only rely on the remaining connection to faintly perceive it. Where is it located."

Xu Song shook his head with an ugly expression, and explained the matter again.

It turned out that he controlled these demon souls only by planting slavery restrictions in them through the secret method of ghosts. If the demon souls were always by his side and their strength could not be strengthened, they would naturally be unable to escape his control.

But after the demon soul was teleported, although the slavery restriction in its body was still in effect, Xu Song had lost control of the demon soul because of the distance.

And that demon soul has gained some kind of opportunity in this lake full of sinister aura over the years, its strength has improved greatly, and it has the capital to erase the slavery restriction planted by Xu Song, and has been trying to erase the slavery restriction planted by Xu Song , and has achieved considerable success.

After he finished explaining, there was a glint in the ghost's eyes, and he suddenly said to Zhou Yang in a solemn tone: "If you trust me, Zhou Daoyou, you can go back to the underground cave and wait first, and leave the matter of exploring the way to the old man. As long as this place is not the kind of Jedi that can be suppressed by Nascent Soul cultivators, this old man will definitely be able to help fellow Taoists find a safe way out!"

Zhou Yang was startled when he heard his words, and then looked at him thoughtfully and pondered.

How could Zhou Yang not understand the meaning of Xu Song's words.

The evil spirit in this lake is so strong that some ghouls and other monsters will definitely be born. A demon spirit released by Xu Song more than ten years ago has grown to the strength to resist his enslavement. It can be seen here For ghost monks like Xu Song, it is of great benefit.

Now Xu Song asked him to go back to the underground cave to wait, subconsciously wanting him to sit on the sidelines and not interfere with his raising ghosts and refining corpses here.

And with Xu Song's background as a fifth-level mid-level formation master, if there are a large number of ghost corpses used as pawns and cannon fodder to open the way, it is really not too difficult to find a safe way in this place.

"Senior Xu should know the bottom line of this junior. This junior has only one request, which is never to kill living people to refine ghosts and demon corpses. If senior can stick to this bottom line, this junior is not a person who can't change his mind!"

Zhou Yang thought about it, but he didn't completely reject Xu Song's proposal, but just stated his bottom line.

"No problem, the old man agreed."

Xu Song was straightforward, and agreed to Zhou Yang's condition in one gulp.

Then he nodded slightly to Zhou Yang, and followed the induction directly, rushed to sweep the nearest place with strong evil spirit.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang sighed softly, shook his head and turned back to the underground cave.

Of course, he didn't want Xu Song to wantonly refine ghosts and demon corpses.

At the beginning, he agreed to Xu Song's conditions to accept him as a ghost servant, and what he valued was not his combat ability, but the inheritance of the fifth-order formation mage and weapon refiner he mastered, as well as the profound knowledge and practice insights of the Jindan stage monks. .

According to his thoughts at the time, he only wanted to regard Xu Song as a senior who could ask for advice on the way of practice at any time, a tool man who could help him answer questions, an encyclopedia.

However, as he summoned Xu Song to help him fight again and again, he used Xu Song's help to win the battle again and again, and after obtaining a bumper harvest, he became more and more dependent on Xu Song, the golden core stage ghost cultivator, and it became more and more difficult to abandon him. The combat power brought helped.

Yes, Zhou Yang knew very well that this was not good. If this continued, it would be more and more difficult for him to clear up the suspicion of collusion with the monks of the magic way. It could not even be said to be a suspicion, but a fact.

But when the situation changed, he always had to rely on Xu Song's strength to break the situation.

For example, this time, if he didn't agree to Xu Song's request, if there weren't those ghosts and demon corpses as cannon fodder to test the way out, he could only use the lives of their Zhou family monks to find a way out.

"The only way is to form the alchemy as soon as possible. When I reach the golden core stage, I can get rid of my dependence on Xu Song. I can face all kinds of difficulties freely without the help of his demons and ghosts!"

Zhou Yang thought about this in his heart. After returning to the underground cave, he didn't say much to the others. He just set up a formation that he carried with him to isolate the low-level monks in the cave from being eroded by the evil spirit from the outside world. Patiently meditate in it and wait for the result.

When he came out this time, in addition to bringing these dozens of Zhou family monks, Zhou Yang also took more than half a million low-grade spirit stones, four sets of fourth-order formations, and more than a dozen sets of third-order formations from the Zhou family's treasure house. More than 400 second- and third-tier instruments, more than 3,000 second- and third-tier talismans, and tens of thousands of bigu pills, coagulation pills, and detoxification pills, almost emptied half of the treasures in the Zhou family's treasury.

With these treasures, as long as they can occupy a fourth-order spiritual mountain in this extreme western land this time, they will be able to re-establish a family branch that is not inferior to the ordinary Zifu family in less than a hundred years.

And the monks who followed this time have also received Zhou Yang's promise, as long as they can live until the family branch is officially established, the first offspring of the middle-grade spiritual root monks born by them can all practice until the end of their cultivation. After practicing Qi for the ninth level, he was directly given a Foundation Establishment Pill by the family to help him establish the foundation.

It doesn't matter even if they don't give birth to offspring with middle-grade spiritual root qualifications, the reward can be extended to three generations, and if after three generations, they still don't give birth to middle-grade spiritual root qualifications, the family will directly give a Foundation Establishment Pill to their descendants The most outstanding one among them takes it.

It's a pity that the seven monks who died after being teleported here cannot receive this reward.