Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Yang really didn't have much to say.

The more his cultivation base increased, and the gap between his cultivation base and that of his peers widened, the more he felt the importance of aptitude for low-level practitioners.

Out of 10,000 mortals, only one or two monks with spiritual roots may be born. The chances of a monk's descendants producing spiritual roots are relatively high, but it is only a few tenths of a chance.

Most of these people with spiritual roots have low-level spiritual roots. On average, only one monk with medium-level spiritual roots may have one out of ten people. As for high-level spiritual roots, there are even fewer. It is also difficult to have one person.

There are more than 100,000 members of the Zhou family on the Yuquan Lake oasis, but all the monks in the Qi training period of the Zhou family now add up to less than a hundred people, including seven or eight monks with other surnames who are married to the Zhou family monks.

Among the dozens of existing monks in the Zhou family, there is not a single high-grade spiritual root, and even the old patriarch Zhou Minghan in the late foundation establishment period is only a middle-grade spiritual root.

And how much influence does the quality of spiritual roots have on practitioners?

It is also the first level of cultivation during the Qi training period, practicing the same skills, and meditating in the same place. For a low-level spiritual root practitioner, the effect of meditating for ten days is equivalent to a mid-level spiritual root practitioner who meditates for one day. Effect.

And the effect of a mid-level spiritual root practitioner who meditates for more than ten days may not be as good as that of a high-level spiritual root practitioner who meditates for a day.

High-rank spiritual root practitioners not only practice fast, but also have a much higher probability of breaking through the first hurdle "Building Foundation" than middle and lower-rank spiritual root practitioners, even if they don't take "Building Foundation Pill" The rare panacea that can greatly increase the success rate of foundation building also has a 30% chance of breaking through.

It is said that above the top-grade spiritual roots, there are spiritual monks and Taoist monks.

Any spiritual cultivator, as long as he doesn't die halfway, will definitely become the ancestor of the golden core stage, and there will be no bottleneck in the middle.

As for the Taoist monks, they are even more legendary. Since there are practitioners in this world, there have been less than a handful of Taoist monks, and all of them are superpowers who ruled an era.

In addition to spirit body and Taoism, there is also a special physique called "treasure body" in the practice world.

"Treasure body" is an extremely special physique. Any monk with a spiritual root may have a treasure body. If a monk with a treasure body can practice a skill that fits the treasure body, his practice speed will be faster than that of a spiritual root of the same quality. The cultivators in the world will progress much faster, and as their cultivation base increases in the future, they will also obtain unique treasure body supernatural powers.

For example, Zhou Yang may have a masculine treasure body, so he is obviously a middle-grade spiritual root aptitude. After practicing the masculine and domineering technique of "Golden Yang Lie Huo Jue", his practice speed is comparable to that of a high-grade spiritual root. Root Friar is quite the same.

If there is no accident, Zhou Yang will definitely be able to raise his cultivation level to the ninth level of Qi training before the age of forty.

Ordinary mid-level spiritual root practitioners like Zhou Xuanjin may not be able to reach the ninth level of Qi training until they are in their sixties or seventies.

And for ordinary low-grade spiritual root practitioners, even if they live to the upper limit of the life span of a monk in the Qi training period, they may not be able to practice to the ninth level of Qi training!

And a cruel reality is that the older the monks in the qi training period, the more difficult it is to build the foundation. The probability of successful foundation building for monks who are over 60 years old and 9th floor of qi training is only less than half of that of monks under 60 years old. For monks in the qi training period who are over 80 years old, the chance of building a foundation will be further reduced. For monks in the qi training period who are over 100 years old, anyway, Zhou Yang has never heard of such a strange person appearing.

With Zhou Yang's age and speed of practice, his success rate of foundation establishment is indeed much higher than that of ordinary people, which is why the old patriarch Zhou Minghan especially values ​​him.

It's a pity that the treasure body does not increase the success rate of foundation building for monks, otherwise, Zhou Yang can try to build a foundation after he has reached the ninth level of Qi training.

Both of them understood these situations, so seeing Zhou Yang's silence, Zhou Xuanjin quickly adjusted his mentality and handed over the work to him.

"There are three main responsibilities for guarding Qingping Mountain. One is to go to the mine to help the miners get rid of some first- and second-tier monsters that occasionally intrude after receiving the alarm from the steward sent by the family to the mine; the second is to protect the mine. In the miners' camp outside, the finished materials smelted in the camp will be received in the warehouse on the mountain and stored in time, waiting for the family to send people to collect them; the last thing is to take good care of the ten acres of spiritual fields on the mountain, which is related to whether your own stomach can eat enough."

"In addition, if you encounter powerful monsters and human monks that you can't deal with, don't leave the range of the formation easily. The best way is to stick to the formation, and then use the essence and blood to activate this third-order messenger talisman and wait. Family rescue."

"Finally, this is the control flag and manipulation method of the Qingpingshan formation. I will not leave until you have refined the formation flag and are familiar with the use of the formation."

While talking, Zhou Xuanjin gave Zhou Yang all the things that the garrison monks needed to use, and taught him how to use these things.

Four or five days passed like this, and it wasn't until Zhou Yang had fully mastered the second-order formation of the "cloud sea light splitting formation" that Zhou Xuanjin returned to the family with the output of the Qingpingshan mine for nearly a year.

After Zhou Xuanjin left, Zhou Yang became the highest-ranking Zhou family on Qingping Mountain.

He first summoned a few managers of the Zhou family who were in charge of mining and smelting of the vein, and had a preliminary understanding of the operation process, and gave them a few sound transmission symbols with his own breath, so that they could notify him in time if there was something wrong. .

These people can serve as stewards of the Zhou family, and they are also martial arts practitioners in the Xiantian realm. However, these people do not have spiritual roots and cannot develop mana to become immortals in the Qi training period. They can only stay in the Xiantian realm for the rest of their lives.

Of course, for mortals, the strength possessed by practitioners in the innate realm is enough for them to look up to.

As long as a mortal becomes a practitioner of the innate realm and extracts the innate qi from the body, he can walk like a galloping horse, be able to carry a tripod, easily defeat a hundred with one enemy, and have great resistance to various diseases.

It's a pity that mortals are mortals, without spiritual roots, even if they have cultivated innate qi, they can't cast even the lowest level of first-order spells.

The real immortal cultivators with spiritual roots do not admit that these mortals are also immortal cultivators, nor do they bother to have any communication with them.

Zhou Yang does not discriminate against these mortal cultivators, but these people have been discriminated against by true immortal cultivators for a long time, and the concept of superiority and inferiority has long been deeply rooted in his heart. Even if he took the initiative to ask them to chat, no one dared to treat him as an equal clan member. chat, so he can only let these people leave in the end.

In the following time, Zhou Yang's life will be simple.

Every morning, he would first meditate facing the rising sun for three hours, and then practice the five spells he learned from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for three hours, so that in the evening, he would allocate half an hour to the Lingtian on the mountain. Weeding and pest control for those gratifying spiritual grains.

Qingping Mountain's spiritual veins are only second-level low-grade, and they are man-made spiritual veins. After supplying the daily needs of a monk in the late stage of Qi training, only 20 to 30% of the spiritual energy is left.

Therefore, only about 15 acres of spiritual fields have been opened here, and the spiritual grains planted are exclusively for the garrison monks to eat, and there is no need to turn them over to the clan.

The spiritual grains planted in these spiritual fields are called [Golden Bead Rice]. It looks like the cotton tree in Zhou Yang's previous life. It ripens once a year, and each plant bears dozens of fruits. After the fruit is ripe, peel it off and you can harvest a harvest. The golden golden fruit is named [Golden Pearl Rice] because of its shape like a pearl.

Because this [Golden Bead Rice] grows in spiritual fields, it needs to absorb spiritual energy to survive and mature. Therefore, besides being rich in nutrition and having an excellent taste, the rice grains also contain a small amount of spiritual energy, which is very good for monks to absorb.

During the Qi training period, monks eat [Golden Bead Rice] for a long time. Just a small bowl can satisfy the nutrition needed by the body for two or three days, and it can also improve a little bit of cultivation.

Even for the monks in the Foundation Establishment Period or even the Zifu Period, most of the meals they usually eat are made of this [Golden Pearl Rice].

Zhou Yang started practicing at the age of four, and it took only three years to complete the cultivation of the ninth level of the Xiantian Realm. In addition to his own good aptitude, he and his parents often gave him a small stove to eat this [Golden Bead Rice] every day. It has a great relationship with some low-level monster meat.

Because he is not a husband of Lingzhi, Zhou Yang does not know some spells that husbands of Lingzhi must learn to increase the yield of the Lingtian. Just catch the bugs and make sure they don't die.

As long as he doesn't die from the cultivation, the output of these ten acres of spiritual land is completely enough for his daily food needs, and there may even be a lot of surplus.

Zhou Yang knew that these balances were the garrison benefits distributed by the family to the garrison monks. After all, it was the duty of every adult clan member to go down the mountain to complete the family tasks, but they would not get extra rewards from the family.

After setting aside half an hour every day to take care of the spirit field on the mountain, Zhou Yang spent the next half of the night on learning the technique of refining weapons.

He didn't start refining the weapon right away, but carefully studied the refining classics and the refining notes given by the old patriarch, and at the same time practiced with the ore dug from the refined iron ore, learning the most basic materials for refining.

Such a simple and fulfilling life has passed for three years.

Three years later, after Zhou Yang had fully grasped the knowledge recorded in those refining classics, and had fully mastered the refining techniques of the materials, he took out the materials given to him by the old patriarch and started formally refining the weapons.

In order to save materials, he chose to refine the simplest first-order sword magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword].

The main material of the first-order magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword] is fine iron, and the hilt can be made of century-old iron wood and other spiritual woods. The monks in the innate realm hold the magic weapon and inject innate qi, which can stimulate three inches to three inches according to the injector's cultivation level. The sword light ranging from one foot injures the enemy.

It is also simple to refine this magic weapon. First, the refined iron is tempered with spiritual fire to cast a sword embryo. Then, while maintaining the temperature of the flame to keep the sword embryo in a high-temperature heated state, at the same time, it is guided by the magic power and consciousness of the immortal cultivator. , arranged a [Feng Rui] restriction in the sword embryo.

The moment when the restriction is completed is when the long sword is quenched. If the tempered blade glows with the magic weapon's unique aura, it means that this time the weapon is refined. If not, you will only get sharper ordinary soldiers a handful.

All of this is easy to say, but it is not easy to do. Even though Zhou Yang had already conceived the situation during countless refinements in his mind in advance, and practiced the arrangement process of [Fengrui] prohibition countless times in advance, the real first refining At the time of the weapon, there is no doubt that it ended in failure.

With a "bang" sound from inside the tripod, his first refining was over, and he didn't even reach the level of quenching.

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