Cultivation Begins From The Desert

As the huge welcome ceremony came to an end, the news of Zhou Yuanyang, the elder of the Zhou family, who had formed a golden core, spread to the entire world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea at a speed faster than the wind.

This is a golden core stage monk!

Ever since Cao Wenjin of the Huangsha Gate passed away, there have been no Golden Core stage monks in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea for more than a hundred years.

In such a huge world of cultivating immortals, there is not even a single golden core stage monk, which is heartbreaking to say the least.

Now that Zhou Yang came back as a golden elixir, he finally filled this gap.

This is of course a good thing for the entire world of cultivating immortals.

For the Zhou family, it is a great thing.

The Zhou family has a golden core stage monk sitting in the town, and has the only golden core stage monk in the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea. No way!

And with the support and care of a Jindan Qi ancestor, the monks of the younger generations of the Zhou family will undoubtedly have a much smoother path to practice than monks from other sects.

A monk at the golden elixir stage lives for a thousand years, Zhou Yang is only three hundred years old now, even if he stops at the golden elixir stage in the future, he can still take care of the Zhou family for seven hundred years!

Every monk of the Zhou family understands what this means.

So even though Zhou Yang, the ancestor of Jindan, only showed his face after he came back, and never appeared in front of others, the enthusiasm of the people of the Zhou clan to discuss this ancestor of the family has not diminished at all.

With Zhou Yang's current status, of course he doesn't care what these low-ranking clansmen think of him.

In the first few days after he returned to the family, except Zhou Guangxiang, Lu Xuewei and a few close people who could see him, the rest of the foundation cultivators had no chance to see him even if he hadn't been summoned.

During the past few days, Zhou Yang spent all his time accompanying Taoist Xiao Ying, telling her how he was tricked by Guo Jinhong, detained by Tiansha Corpse King, and how he escaped and entered the Kunxu Realm.

As for what happened between himself and Jiang Fengxian, he didn't hide from Xiao Ying, and told the truth.

This matter cannot be concealed, after all he has lost Yuan Yang, as long as Xiao Ying's cultivation level is promoted to Jindan stage and he is a pair of cultivators, he can easily find out about this matter.

If he explained again at that time, no matter how perfect the explanation was, it would definitely make Xiao Ying sad for a long time, and even leave a knot in her heart for a lifetime.

So he never thought of hiding it from the beginning.

The result was not what he expected, after knowing that the first double cultivation partner of her was not her, Xiao Ying really felt uncomfortable and shed tears.

After all, the two have guarded the bodies of Yuanyang and Yuanyin for so many years because of Zhou Yang's original agreement with her.

Now that Zhou Yang violated the agreement first, even if it was not out of his own heart, it would still be a very traumatic thing for her.

Therefore, it is not surprising that he cried out in a moment of sadness.

But crying is crying, sad is sad, Xiao Ying did not resent Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian because of this.

This is the biggest reason why Zhou Yangken confessed to her as soon as he came back.

The two have been together for more than two hundred years, and they both have a deep understanding of each other's personalities.

Zhou Yang knew that Xiao Ying would definitely not blame herself for the loss of her virginity, and Xiao Ying also knew that Zhou Yang absolutely did not hide anything from her in this regard.

For a pair of cultivators and Taoists who want to live together for hundreds or even thousands of years, trust is more important than anything else.

If even Taoist companions can't believe it, then who else is trustworthy in the world of cultivating immortals?

"Then husband, how do you want to arrange for that sister Fengxian?"

After crying for a while, she didn't forget the "business", Lihua looked at Zhou Yang with rain, and asked about it.

No matter how kind-hearted she is, no matter how kind-hearted she is, it is impossible not to care about this aspect.

Zhou Yang heard her words, but he didn't reply in a hurry, but looked at her softly and asked: "If I take Fengxian to live with us, Yinger, will you object?"

"Won't!"

Xiao Ying shook her head lightly, and answered without any hesitation.

"I knew Ying'er that you would not object!"

Zhou Yang stretched out his hand to help the Taoist couple wipe away the tears on his face, then shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's a pity that Fengxian is aloof and stubborn, she is used to living a free life, and she doesn't want to be bound by my side like you. Good wife and mother!"

After finishing speaking, his face straightened, and he said seriously: "You don't have to worry about this matter, I will not let you down, nor will I let her down, this is my promise to you!"

Zhou Yang is quite powerful enough to be able to say such things to his Taoist companion openly.

Fortunately, this is a polygamous Xianxia world, replaced by the world he lived in in his previous life. If he dared to say such a thing in front of his wife, he might be chopped up by a kitchen knife and rushed into it. sewer!

But now, after listening to his words, Xiao Ying didn't feel strange or blame him at all, instead she nodded obediently and said: "I believe in my husband!"

Then it was never mentioned again.

After appeasing the Taoist couple and stabilizing the backyard, Zhou Yang was able to understand and deal with family affairs.

At this time, Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family who lived in the Chihushan Oasis, was still on his way to the Xijiao Island Oasis. Zhou Yang could only learn about the situation of the Zhou family from his niece Zhou Guangxiang.

Zhou Guangxiang and Xiao Ying came back more than ten years earlier than him, and they are very clear about the current situation of the Zhou family.

"If you don't count the family branches in the extreme west, but only count the main branches of the Zhou family in the boundless sand sea of ​​immortality, our Zhou family now has one golden core stage monk, three purple mansion stage monks, and foundation establishment stage monks. Seventeen monks, one thousand three hundred and forty-nine monks in the Qi training period!"

"At the same time, there are eight foundation-establishing families that are vassals of our Zhou family, and thirty-four small qi-training families. They have ten foundation-establishment monks and more than 870 qi-training monks."

"In terms of finances, the family now has hundreds of spiritual mountains, tens of thousands of acres of spiritual fields, and dozens of mine veins. The income that can be provided to the family every year, except for expenses, the remaining spiritual objects are converted into spiritual stones. More than 70,000 spirit stones."

"At the same time, the total amount of spirit stones that the family has accumulated now amounts to 670,000 low-grade spirit stones! There are also resource accumulations worth more than 400,000 low-grade spirit stones, of which the two resources of spirit valleys and ores are the most!"

Inside the cave mansion, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on the jade bed, listening to Zhou Guangxiang's introduction of the current fundamentals of the Zhou family with a calm expression.

When he took Zhou Guangxiang and others to the world of cultivating immortals in the far west, he determined the future development direction of the Zhou family.

For more than 60 years, the development direction of the Zhou family has generally followed the plan set by him, proceeding in an orderly manner, with only minor adjustments.

So he doesn't need to ask about those processes, he just needs to know the result.

Generally speaking, he is satisfied with the result.

There was a gleam in his eyes, and he glanced down at Zhou Guangxiang and said, "Tell me about the difficulties. What are the difficulties the family is currently facing?"

Difficulties naturally exist.

Although the Zhou family is already the well-deserved overlord in the entire world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, this does not mean that the Zhou family has no difficulties.

"There are two main difficulties. One is the lack of spiritual objects to assist in the opening of the Zifu. The family now has more than a dozen foundation-building monks, but there is no spiritual object that can assist in the opening of the Zifu. Spirit root monks have been trapped on the ninth floor of the foundation building for many years, and have not succeeded in opening up the purple mansion so far!"

"The second is the shortage of Foundation Establishment Pills. When we left the Extreme West, we left most of our Foundation Establishment Pills to Tongyue and others according to your order, in order to fulfill your promise to those who voluntarily went to the Extreme West. The clansman promised during the Qi training period in the land."

"On the contrary, the Foundation Establishment Pill you left behind on the family side, now there are only three pieces left, and it will be exhausted in a short time."

"Although the family's [Ningyuan Fruit] tree has passed the flowering period and produced spiritual fruit, it will take at least fifty or sixty years to mature and drop fruit!"

"So in the past fifty or sixty years, in order not to cause fluctuations within the family and among those vassal families, the family must use other methods to obtain at least ten Foundation Establishment Pills to stabilize people's hearts!"

After Zhou Guangxiang finished speaking, he bowed his hands silently to Zhou Yang, and said no more.

The two difficulties she mentioned are actually not the difficulties of the Zhou family, but the difficulties faced by all forces in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World.

Even the Huang Shamen, which had two Jindan stage monks in charge at the beginning, still had difficulties in this regard, the difference was that it was not as serious as the Zhou family now.

"I don't have any spiritual objects to help open up the Zifu, but I have a lot of fourth-order demon pills needed to refine the foundation building pills. I can let Ying'er open the furnace to make up the foundation building pills for the family later. vacancy."

Zhou Guangxiang's eyes lit up immediately.

She noticed that Zhou Yang used the word "a lot".

Familiar with her ninth uncle's personality, she knew that this ninth uncle never boasted about family affairs.

Since the word "a lot" is used, it means that the number of fourth-order demon pills in his hand is really a lot!

That's the way it is.

In the Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang himself and Jiang Fengxian killed twenty or thirty fourth-order monsters, and found a lot of monster pills in the storage rings of those Jindan monks who were killed by them. Now he There are six fifth-order demon pills in his hand, and as many as thirty-eight fourth-order demon pills!

If there are so many fourth-order demon pills, if all of them are refined into foundation-building pills, with Xiao Ying's current alchemy skills, at least more than two hundred foundation-building pills can be refined!

Of course that is impossible.

Not to mention that the Zhou family didn't need so many Foundation Establishment Pills at all, even if they did, it would be difficult to find the auxiliary alchemy materials for refining so many Foundation Establishment Pills all at once after searching the entire Boundless Sand Sea of ​​Immortal Cultivation World.

Furthermore, the Zhou family now has more than one or two Zifu period monks. While taking care of those low-level monks, they also have to consider these Zifu period monks.

The fourth-order demon pill is the main material for refining many kinds of fourth-order spirit pills. It is necessary for the Zhou family to take out a part of the demon pills to refine the fourth-order spirit pills that can improve the cultivation level, and give these families the Zifu stage monks. Studying for.

"Okay, I will solve these difficulties. Your task is to manage those juniors well, and don't let them ruin the good reputation that our Zhou family has accumulated so hard. Do you understand what I mean?"

With a wave of Zhou Yang's hand, he took care of all the difficult matters by himself. Then he fixed his eyes on Zhou Guangxiang, and made some suggestions to her with deep meaning in his eyes.

"Uncle Jiu, don't worry, my niece understands what to do, and I will definitely manage this matter with my elder brother later, and I will never disappoint Uncle Jiu!"

Zhou Guangxiang's heart trembled, and he quickly responded respectfully.

Of course she understood what Zhou Yang meant.

With the return of Zhou Yang as a golden core, the Zhou family will completely replace Huang Shamen, the original overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Realm, and become the new generation overlord of the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Realm.

At this time, among the more than 1,000 family monks in the Zhou family, it was hard to say that some idiots would not take the opportunity to do things that would tarnish the family's reputation.

In the past, if these guys did such things, it would be enough for the Zhou family to deal with them fairly afterwards.

But now, once such things happen, it will make people feel that the Zhou family has completely expanded, which will bring great harm to the family's reputation.

If the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea is compared to a country, the Zhou family has just ended the troubled times and became the new masters of the country, and those members of the Zhou family are the country's subjects.

At this time, if the courtiers under the new master of the country wantonly corrupt and cause bad influence, the people of the country will definitely miss the master of the previous generation and feel disgusted with the new master of the country.

Although the country will not change owners just because the people hate it, the people's disgust will definitely affect the country's subsequent development.

Therefore, any king who founded the country will seriously rectify all kinds of unhealthy trends after the founding of the country, so as to reassure the people.

What Zhou Yang wants Zhou Guangxiang to do now is also the same.

And after sending Zhou Guangxiang away, he called his most important apprentice, Lu Xuewei, into the cave.

"It's been hard for you these years. Since the teacher is back, you will open up the purple mansion on the teacher. In at least ten years, the teacher will help you open the purple mansion!"

In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at the female apprentice who was still as beautiful as a girl below, and a look of guilt flashed in his eyes.

Lu Xuewei had taken the "Dingyan Pill" refined by Xiao Ying back then, so her appearance has always remained the same as that of a girl in her twenties.

However, in fact, she is already one hundred and fifty-three years old this year!

As early as more than forty years ago, her cultivation had already reached the ninth floor of foundation building, but because she did not have the assistance of "Purple Heart Chalcedony", she failed to open up the Purple Mansion twice.

The failure to open up the Purple Mansion twice in a row obviously dealt a big blow to this talented girl, and made her doubt whether she was suitable for cultivation many times.

At this time, when she heard the matter from her most respected and beloved master, she couldn't help crying "wow" under the agitated mood.

"Don't cry, don't cry, Xuewei doesn't cry, the master decides for you, and everything is left to the master."

Zhou Yang stepped forward to help the apprentice who was sitting on the ground crying bitterly, and comforted him softly with pity on his face.

He has told Lu Xuewei many times that he is very optimistic about his future path, saying that he has the capital of golden core.

These words had a great motivating effect on the young Lu Xuewei at that time, and they were one of the sources of motivation for her hard work.

In fact, Lu Xuewei did not live up to his praise. With the aptitude of ice spirit roots, it only took him a little over a hundred years to practice in a place like the boundless sand sea immortal cultivation world, which is completely unsuitable for ice-type kung fu monks. Base nine.

This speed of practice is not uncomfortably fast.

Because of this, Lu Xuewei has always been regarded as a role model by all the younger monks of the Zhou family, and has enjoyed countless honors and praises.

However, as she failed to open up the Zifu twice in a row, and her cultivation had not improved for more than 40 years, it was inevitable that some gossip would be discussed behind her back.

The rapid improvement in her cultivation gained through her hard work was slandered as being accumulated entirely by pills and spirits.

All her efforts are regarded as the result of relying on the guidance and support of her master Zhou Yang.

But she couldn't refute these slanders!

Could it be that she wants to say that the achievements she has achieved are all due to her own hard work, isn't it because she has a good teacher?

If you really want to say that, not to mention whether she can pass the test of conscience, even Zhou Guangxiang and other senior members of the Zhou family may hate and reject her because of this.

So in these years, she has really endured a lot of pressure.

Zhou Yang heard some news from Xiao Ying when he was communicating with Taoist companion Xiao Ying before, so today's private conversation between master and apprentice came about.

He knew that for Lu Xuewei, all comforts were worse than helping her succeed in opening up the Purple Mansion.

As long as the opening of the Purple Mansion is successful, those criticisms against it will naturally be defeated.

And with the help of many spirits he got from the Kunxu Realm, plus he has decided to use the "Qianyang Immortal Light" to help the family's high-ranking monks practice in the future, the forty years that Lu Xuewei has been delayed can completely pass through the pill in the future. Help make it up with the help of elixir!

He will let everyone know that when he said that Lu Xuewei has the golden core, he definitely did not just say it casually.

Lu Xuewei naturally believed in Zhou Yang as a master. Even though she had suffered a lot of criticism because of Zhou Yang these years, she never had the slightest bit of resentment towards Zhou Yang.

So when she heard Zhou Yang's comfort and promise at this time, she just nodded vigorously, her eyes full of joy.

After reassuring the disciples in this way, Zhou Yang began to meet those Zhou Family Foundation Establishment monks who practiced on Xijiao Island, or those who practiced in the nearby oasis and had already arrived at Lingxi Peak.

Over the past sixty years, the number of Zhou family's Foundation Establishment monks has increased a lot, and there have been many new faces that Zhou Yang has never seen or is not familiar with.

As for those old faces he was familiar with, such as his righteous sister Zhou Yuanyao, who had passed away more than ten years ago due to the exhaustion of her life essence.

The maximum lifespan of a monk in the foundation-building period is two hundred and forty years old. Zhou Guangqing, the only surviving foundation-building monk in the "Guang" generation of the Zhou family, is already two hundred and twenty years old. The middle and low-level monks of the "Guang" generation should all die.

But now the newly born babies with spiritual roots in the Zhou family have already used the "Rong" generation, and in another twenty or thirty years, monks with the "Sheng" generation will appear.

Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Rongsheng, and Evergreen, these sixteen characters have been established since Zhou Yuquan, the first ancestor of the Zhou family, when he founded the Zhou family, and now most of them have been used. In one or two hundred years, the Zhou family will be followed by a new generation.

Probably, the ancestor Yuquan who established the Zhou family never dreamed that the Zhou family would one day become the overlord of the boundless sand sea and immortal world.

Because of the division of Zhou Yang's main vein back then, six of the Zhou family's seventeen foundation-builder monks have established family branches outside, and they rarely return to Lingxi Peak where the main vein is located.

Therefore, there are only five Zhou Family Foundation Establishment monks gathered on Lingxi Peak, and most of them are young juniors.

And among these five people, apart from Lu Xuewei, Zhou Fuji, and Zhou Futong, there are two other Foundation Establishment cultivators, Zhou Zerui and Zhou Zexin.

At this time, apart from Lu Xuewei who was not present, the four Foundation Establishment cultivators saw Zhou Yang sitting on the cold jade bed, and hurriedly knelt down and paid respects: "Grandson Zhou Fuji...greetings to our ancestors."

For these "Fu" and "Ze" generation monks, Zhou Yang of the "Yuan" generation is definitely the real ancestor of the family.

"Get up, let you come here today, just want to get close to you, you don't need to be restrained."

With a wave of Zhou Yang's hand, an invisible force lifted the four of them up, and then comforted the four of them softly with a smile on his face.

He could understand the nervousness of the four of them. He was also nervous when he first met the Golden Core Stage monk.

Sure enough, after hearing his words, the tension in the hearts of the four of them eased a lot.

After all, this is my ancestor, not an outsider. As a junior, as long as I don't make a mistake in etiquette, even if I make a slip of the tongue or a gaffe, nothing bad will happen.

The four people understood this, and they let go a lot in the next conversation with Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang talked with the four of them for about half an hour, and after bestowing some treasures suitable for several people to use, and pointing out some doubts about their practice, the summoning ended.

Given his cultivation and status, it is a great honor for these young juniors to be summoned by him, but there is no need to spend some effort to win over these juniors and teach them lessons as before.

After summoning a few foundation-building monks in this way, Zhou Yang waited for Zhou Guangxiang, the head of the Zhou family, to come over.

During this period, he went into the secret library of the Zhou family on Lingxi Peak, and stored some of the treasures he had obtained from the Kunxu Realm into the secret library to benefit the younger generations of the family.

During the trip to Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang's net worth has been greatly increased. Now, in terms of net worth, there are probably few Jindan stage monks who can compare with him.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about high-grade spirit stones, he has as many as eighty-nine yuan in his hand!

The rest of the treasures such as fifth-order magic tools, magic talismans, and treasures obtained, as well as various monster materials obtained from killing monsters, collected spiritual grasses and spiritual medicines, and spiritual gold and spiritual mines, all of these things are added together. Come to think of it, the total value is at least five million low-grade spirit stones!

If such a large amount of wealth is fully realized, he will basically not have to worry about not having enough spirit stones at the Jindan stage.

It's just that he is more than one person, and there is a family behind him.

Naturally, it is impossible to sell the things that he can't use but the family can use.

What's more, if he is really short of spirit stones, isn't there still a spirit stone mine that has not been mined?

Now that he has returned as a golden elixir, not to mention a medium-sized spirit stone mine, it is a large-scale spirit stone mine. In this boundless sandy sea of ​​immortals, there is no need to worry about anyone daring to snatch and destroy it!

Still 6,000 words per chapter, absolutely no cut corners!