Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Intimidated by Zhou Yang's strong personal strength and prestige, Zhou Guangxiang's development plan for the Zhou family was successfully implemented.

In a short period of time, these plans may not show any results, but as time passes, both Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang believe and affirm that the Zhou family will benefit greatly from this, and the strength and quality of the family monks will reach a new level .

What's more, giving a sweet date with a stick has always been Zhou Yang's usual way of managing his family.

Here he just yelled and shocked all the clansmen, and then he gave Zhou Guangxiang instructions to select those clansmen who made rapid progress in the future assessment and focus on training them.

For those family monks who have reached the middle stage of Qi training and can pass the assessment three times in a row within the specified assessment time, they can even grant Foundation Establishment Pills in the form of loans.

In the past few years, when he was retreating, Xiao Ying was not idle at all.

The spiritual herbs and medicines he brought out from the Kunxu Realm, except for some particularly precious ones, and many fourth-order demon pills were handed over to the Taoist companion Xiao Ying for alchemy.

In just three years, Xiao Ying used the spiritual grass and elixir given by him, together with the spiritual grass and elixir in the Zhou family's inventory, to refine five batches of foundation-building pills and several batches of fourth-order pills.

With a large number of foundation-building pills in hand, and the fact that the Zhou family has now become the overlord of the boundless sand sea and the world of cultivating immortals, they also need to maintain a certain number of foundation-building stage monks to support the scene. Zhou Yang will not be stingy with a few panacea pills.

Zhou Yang was no longer responsible for the specific affairs. After the family meeting, he returned to Lingxi Peak, and retreated with Taoist companion Xiao Ying.

This retreat, Zhou Yang wants to use the power of "Qianyang Xianguang" to help Taoist Xiao Ying advance to the ninth floor of the Purple Mansion. At the same time, he also wants to see if he can seize the time to make a breakthrough in cultivation.

But when Zhou Yang was retreating, Zhou Guangxiang implemented the reform plan boldly.

The first is the production of the family uniform. The Zhou family has domesticated the "Flame-eating Spider" for more than two hundred years, and a large amount of finished spider silk has been accumulated in the family treasure house. The first-level refining master refined it into a robe.

Then there is the expansion of manpower for the newly merged Gripen Hall.

The Griffin Hall was formed by merging the Zhou family's original battle hall and the Zhi'an hall. The total number of monks at the two halls was nearly 200, but this number was far from enough to achieve Zhou Guangxiang's plan.

So in the next few years, the Zhou family either recruited guest ministers to worship, or selected monks from their own family and several vassal families, and gathered nearly a hundred people to join them.

In the Glenion Hall with 300 people, Zhou Guangxiang's eldest son, Zhou Tongxuan, is the head of the hall, and the two deputy head of the hall are also recruited by the Foundation Establishment Loose Cultivator Wang Biao and Zhou Family Foundation Establishment Cultivator Zhou Zerui.

However, these people are not the real strongest of the Gripen Hall. The true background of the Gripen Hall is the fourth-level low-grade monster Gryphon.

The Gryphon has been in the Zhou family for hundreds of years, and has become accustomed to being worshiped by human monks. Now even without Zhou Yang, the animal trainers of the Zhou family can communicate with it and drive it to do things.

Zhou Yang put it in the Gripen Hall as a spirit beast enshrined in the Gripen Hall, just to give it a stage to play, not wanting it to eat and drink for nothing in the family.

You must know that to support a fourth-order monster, a lot of monster meat is consumed every year.

After being promoted to the fourth-level monster, the Gryphon's potential has been exhausted, unlike Zhou Yang's golden-winged thunder eagle, which still has the hope of being promoted to the fifth level.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yang never treated these spirit beasts badly.

If the Gryphon hadn't followed him, there would be no hope of reaching the fourth level.

And the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle followed him, eating and drinking even better. After returning to the family this time, Zhou Yang even fed it two fourth-order middle-grade demon pills in one breath, and now it is sleeping and refining in the spirit beast ring Demon Transformation Pill.

If there is no accident, when it wakes up again, it will be able to be promoted to a fourth-order middle-grade monster.

Under Zhou Guangxiang's arrangement, hundreds of monks from the Gripen Hall, divided into five groups of twenty people, took turns to inspect the traffic roads between the oases of Zhou's family, and specially attacked those sand robbers who robbed the road, or Help some vassal families to eliminate invading monsters.

After the five groups inspected, another hundred people were replaced to inspect, and the three shifts continued to rotate.

On the other hand, as the Zhou family officially became the overlord of the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, there were wave after wave of cultivating families and casual cultivators who took the initiative to seek refuge with them.

The Zhou family never refused these monks who took refuge in them, and they all sent them to the surrounding sand seas to find new oases, or rely on small oases to build medium-sized oases.

Although the sand sea is barren, there are still many unowned oases in the vast sand sea waiting for people to discover and occupy it.

In the past, no one found out about occupying these oases, because if they were far away from the base camp of the cultivators, even if they occupied the oasis, they would not be guaranteed safety, and it would be inconvenient to communicate with the outside world.

Now that the Zhou family provides safe shelter, and an oasis as large as Xijiao Island provides them with a place to communicate and trade, naturally some cultivators are willing to open up wasteland and take risks.

At the same time, Zhou Guangxiang also did a major event, which was to officially excavate the spirit stone mine discovered by Lu Xuewei.

As soon as the news of the Lingshi Mine came out, it caused a sensation in the entire Boundless Sand Sea of ​​Immortal Cultivation. I don’t know how many Xiuxian families secretly envied the good luck of the Zhou family, and they were able to discover such a top vein as the Lingshi Mine.

After hearing the news, many casual cultivators even sharpened their heads and wanted to become a miner in the Lingshi Mine.

In short, for the Zhou family, everything is developing in a positive direction.

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The biggest reason why Zhou Tongxuan was able to take the position of the head of the Gripen Hall with his cultivation base of the third level of foundation building was naturally because his father was the head of the Zhou family.

Zhou Guangxiang and Liu Xuanxuan have a total of five sons and three daughters up to now, but only three sons and two daughters have spiritual roots who can cultivate, and Zhou Tongxuan, the eldest son, has the most outstanding spiritual root aptitude.

His father is the head of the Zhou family, and his mother is the second apprentice of the family ancestor. In terms of background, Zhou Tongxuan can be said to be the top second generation of immortals in the boundless sand sea.

As a second-generation top-notch immortal, he has never worried about cultivation resources since he was a child, so even if he is not a monk with top-grade spiritual root aptitude, he still reached the ninth level of Qi training at the age of 31, and only the lucky ones After taking a foundation building pill, the foundation building is successful.

Compared with him, his younger brother and younger sister, although they had accumulated a lot of resources and reached the ninth level of Qi training before the age of sixty, they could not succeed in building a foundation because of their low-level spiritual root aptitude.

Although Zhou Guangxiang is the head of the Zhou family, a mid-term monk in the Zifu, and has many privileges within the family, it is impossible for him to use the resources of the entire family to feed his children.

Being able to prepare a Foundation Establishment Pill for every daughter is already his utmost care for these children.

While the other children seemed to be struggling to succeed, Zhou Tongxuan, the eldest son, was able to successfully build a foundation in his thirties, so Zhou Guangxiang naturally valued him more.

He hoped that his son Zhou Tongxuan could take over the position of head of the Zhou family from him.

If Zhou Yang left any descendants, he would never have this idea, but since Zhou Yang has no descendants, as the current patriarch of the Zhou family, he certainly hopes that his son can retain this position as the main line.

So after the Zhou family implemented new reforms this time, he took the opportunity to let his son take the position of the head of the Gripen Hall and take charge of the most elite armed force of the Zhou family, allowing him to use the opportunity of the Gripen Hall to inspect all parties. Accumulate fame and make achievements to impress others.

Of course, Zhou Guangxiang had discussed these plans with his son Zhou Tongxuan, so after Zhou Tongxuan took office as the head of the Gripen Hall, he often personally participated in the inspection team, not missing any chance to improve his reputation.

On this day, Zhou Tongxuan, who was returning to rest on Lingxi Peak after a tour, suddenly received a task arranged by the patriarch, asking him to lead a team to the oasis where a vassal family is located, to help the vassal family solve a problem that attacked the oasis. Tier 3 monster.

The Zhou family has only occupied this area of ​​Xijiaozhou Cultivation World for more than a hundred years. Except that the monsters in Xijiaozhou and the surrounding Wanli area have been cleaned up by the monks of the Zhou family, the number of monsters in the sand sea outside is much higher than that of Bai. Shahe Oasis There are many oases in the world of cultivating immortals that have been developed for thousands of years.

Such incidents of monsters attacking the oasis have happened frequently over the years, and the Zhou family's foundation cultivators also often receive this kind of mission to eliminate monsters. Zhou Tongxuan has experienced this kind of experience since his Qi training period.

So after he received the task, he didn't think much about it, he just regarded it as an ordinary task arranged by his father Zhou Guangxiang to help him accumulate fame.

But when he led a team of 20 people to the small oasis where the vassal family was located, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.

According to the information he knew, the Xiuxian family occupying this small oasis was surnamed Yuan. In the family, there were one monk of the ninth level of Qi training, one monk of the seventh level of Qi training, three monks of the middle stage of Qi training, and six monks of the early stage of Qi training.

Before he came, it was said that two monks from the Yuan family on this small oasis had already been killed, and the rest were huddled in panic in the low-rank formation of the third rank arranged by the Zhou family, waiting for the Zhou family to rescue them.

But when he came here, he found that the formation had already been broken, and all the monks of the Yuan family inside had disappeared without a trace, while some spiritual herbs and medicines planted on the Lingshan Mountain were not damaged at all.

The most suspicious thing is that thousands of ordinary people from the Yuan family on the oasis also disappeared without a trace, but Zhou Tongxuan didn't even find a trace of blood.

"It's not right. If it's really a monster attacking the oasis, even if everyone is eaten by it, it should leave some blood on the ground, right?"

"Furthermore, the Yuan family's mountain protection formation was personally arranged by my father. Even if the Tier 3 monsters in the news can break the formation, it is impossible to leave no traces!"

Zhou Tongxuan keenly realized something was wrong, and he couldn't help but recall the news he had received.

If I remember correctly, the news said that a third-tier wolf monster attacked the oasis, because the monks of the Yuan family found wolf paw prints near the scene where the clansmen disappeared.

"Have any of you spotted wolf paw prints?"

He glanced at the twenty Gripen Hall monks he had brought, and asked the question in his heart.

Everyone shook their heads.

This small oasis is not big, and twenty people split up to search the entire oasis easily. If there are monster paw prints left, it is impossible for experienced monks like them not to find it.

On the contrary, an old monk with a rather old face seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "Hall Master, I didn't find any wolf paw prints, but found a large number of human footprints in the west of the oasis, and the footprints lead all the way to the sand sea!"

"Really? Take me there to have a look."

Zhou Tongxuan's expression changed, and he let the old monk lead the way.

Under the leadership of the old monk, a group of people rushed to the west of the oasis and saw the human footprints in his mouth.

On the soft sand to the west of the oasis, countless human footprints, large and small, lead to the sand sea. It seems that a large group of humans once entered the sand sea from here.

"Why did these people enter the sand sea? Could it be that the disappeared mortals of the Yuan family fled into the sand sea from here to avoid being hunted by monsters?"

Looking at the densely packed human footprints on the ground, Zhou Tongxuan couldn't help but flash this guess in his mind.

On the surface, this guess seems reliable. After all, it is normal for a group of mortals to choose to abandon the dangerous oasis and flee into the sand sea in a panic when all the cultivators who protected them were killed by monsters.

wrong!

Since they were in a panic, they should have gone their separate ways and scattered for their lives. How could they gather together for a migratory escape?

Zhou Tongxuan frowned, feeling that things were definitely not as simple as guessing by himself.

After pondering for a while, he said to his subordinates: "Follow this footprint and search in the sea of ​​sand to see if you can find anything."

After he finished speaking, he paused again, and added: "Be careful not to go too deep into the sea of ​​sand, the strength of the enemy is unknown, and the most important thing is to protect yourself."

Then, with a movement of the sword light under his feet, he flew towards the Yuan family's spiritual mountain, and was going to search there again to see if there was anything that had been missed.

What Zhou Tongxuan didn't expect was that his perfectly normal decision directly ruined the entire team!

When he searched the Yuan family's spiritual mountain and found nothing, he realized that none of his subordinates who went to search for clues in the sand sea had returned.

What surprised and frightened him was that after Yu Jianfei searched in the direction where his subordinates left, he couldn't even see any traces of fighting skills, let alone the figures of those subordinates.

This is really not seeing people alive, and not seeing corpses when dead!

"Dangerous! Extremely dangerous! Father and the family must be informed of this news immediately!"

Zhou Tongxuan hurriedly flew towards Yuanjialing Mountain on the oasis. He remembered that the communication circle there had not been destroyed. Through the communication circle, he could directly pass the news to the family, asking the family to send higher-level monks to rescue him .

Long before Zhou Yang went to the Far West, the Zhou family obtained the arrangement method of the communication circle from Huang Shamen, and built a communication circle in each vassal family at any cost to facilitate contact.

The Yuan family was able to report the news of the monster attacking the oasis to the Zhou family in a timely manner, thanks to the help of the communication circle.

Otherwise, if the Zhou family wants to find out that the Yuan family has been exterminated, they don't know how long it will take.

However, the secret enemy seemed to have discovered Zhou Tongxuan's plan, and soon launched an offensive against him.

At that time, Zhou Tongxuan, who was flying in mid-air, suddenly heard a wonderful sound of fairy music in his mind, and then his flying speed with Yujian couldn't help but slow down, and gradually even landed towards the ground.

But just when the sneak attacking enemy was about to kill him after he landed, a piece of jade pendant magic weapon he was wearing next to his body suddenly released a gust of icy air towards his forehead, helping him to recover from that wonderful fairy. Waking up to the music.

"No, it's the phantom sound fascination technique!"

Zhou Tongxuan's complexion changed drastically after waking up, and he immediately understood what kind of supernatural power the fairy music sound he heard just now was.

He didn't even bother to find the enemy, he quickly reached out and patted the storage bag, took out a third-order "Soul Suppressing Talisman" and stuck it on his body, and then he had time to find the enemy.

Soon, he found the enemy who was attacking him with the phantom sound fascination technique.

In the sandy sea below, a wolf-like fox-headed wolf-body strange beast was looking up at him in surprise, and the emerald green eyes were full of human surprise.

"No, it's 【Jade Faced Jackal】!"

Zhou Tongxuan's eyes met those emerald-green fox eyes, then his whole body trembled, and he let out a voice full of horror.

[Jade-faced jackal] is a very rare monster, its rarity is no less than the [Three-tailed fox] that Zhou Yang once killed.

This kind of monster is proficient in the phantom sound enchantment technique by nature, and can control monsters of the same level or immortal cultivators as servants through this phantom sound enchantment technique, and this monster's intelligence is also extremely high, which is not inferior to humans at all. Down.

The [Jade-faced Jackal] in front of Zhou Tongxuan was already a third-rank high-grade monster, which was why he had no strength to resist and was easily confused by its phantom sound enchantment just now.

If it wasn't for the jade pendant he was wearing next to his body, it was a heart-purifying magic weapon specially refined by his mother Liu Xuanxuan for this kind of ecstasy spell, which helped him wake up from the ecstasy state in time. At this moment, he was afraid It has already landed and become the food in the mouth of this [Jade Faced Jackal], just like his subordinates who disappeared.

Thinking of those subordinates, his face changed, and he already guessed where those people went.

Sure enough, within a short while, after the [Jade Faced Jackal] recovered from his astonishment, he saw his missing subordinates again.

I saw that [Jade Faced Jackal] let out a low growl, and the soft sand in front of him swelled up, from which emerged a khaki-colored giant python over ten feet long, his men, and probably the Yuan family Several strange monks of the monks are hanging on the back of the giant python at this moment.

It's just that these people have been controlled by [Jade Faced Jackal]'s phantom sound enchantment technique, and they are no longer under his command at all. They even followed [Jade Faced Jackal's] order to attack him as soon as they appeared.

The monks who can be selected into the Gryphon Hall of the Zhou family are all ruthless characters among the monks in the Qi training period. Although the twenty people are only monks in the Qi training period, they attack together. , may not win.

If that's the case, then that's fine. Although Zhou Tongxuan's cultivation is only at the third level of Foundation Establishment, he has so many treasures that even late-stage Foundation Establishment monks may not be his opponent.

But [Jade Faced Jackal], the third-tier top-grade monster, and the third-tier top-grade monster python controlled by it, will not be just a spectator.

Especially [Jade-faced Jackal]. Although Zhou Tongxuan relied on the heart-purifying magic weapon refined by his mother Liu Xuanxuan and the "soul-suppressing talisman" to help him, he would not be controlled by his phantom sound fascination technique, but he would inevitably be affected by some. interference.

And in battle, a little distraction is enough to be fatal.

This is an extremely tough battle.

Zhou Tongxuan was under great pressure during the battle.

To him, the enemy's strength was second to none, and what made him unbearable the most was killing his own subordinates and cultivators of the same race with his own hands.

He knew in his heart that although those people were controlled by [Jade Faced Jackal], they were actually still alive.

As long as someone can kill [Jade Faced Jackal], these people will be able to release the control and return to normal.

But [Jade Faced Jackal] is so cunning, he never fights him head-on, and always hides behind the giant python and many human monks to attack him.

And as the battle progressed, another third-order rat demon and a third-order wolf were summoned by the [Jade Faced Jackal] to join the battle.

Although the two newly added monsters are only low-level third-level monsters, Zhou Tongxuan can fight well even if he has many magic tools bestowed by his parents and precious third-level puppet beasts under the situation that there are many enemies. Extremely hard and tragic.

After the final battle lasted for more than half an hour, Zhou Tongxuan was forced to use the magical secret technique "Blood Boiling Technique" that Zhou Yang had used when he was facing a desperate situation, and used this secret technique to burn blood essence in exchange for mana , Aroused two fourth-order attack talismans in a row, and with the power of the fourth-order talismans, he finally succeeded in killing the cunning [Jade Faced Jackal].

Although he killed the [Jade-faced Jackal] who made trouble, Zhou Tongxuan was not happy at all.

Because before [Jade Faced Jackal] died, those human monks controlled by him had already died under his kind.

Moreover, he himself was injured in the battle, and after using the "Blood Boil Technique", his whole body was severely injured and lost his ability to move.

But he didn't dare to stay where he was to heal his wounds, because the strong smell of blood on the battlefield could easily attract other monsters, and his current state was afraid that even a second-tier high-grade monster could take him down.

So he could only try his best to release a second-order wolf-shaped puppet, and carried him to Yuanjialing Mountain on the small oasis.

When Zhou Yang on Lingxi Peak received the news and rushed to the small oasis of the Yuan family, Zhou Tongxuan had already passed out due to his serious injuries.

"Phew, it's a good thing that he passed out because of too much consumption of essence and blood. Otherwise, this kid really has some good and bad things. I'm afraid that kid Guangxiang will feel guilty for this matter for the rest of his life!"

Zhou Yang checked the situation of Zhou Tongxuan who had passed out, and couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. Then, thinking of this junior's record this time, he couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

Zhou Guangxiang wanted to support his son to inherit the position of head of the Zhou family, and he had no objection, but only if Zhou Tongxuan had real skills.

From the looks of it now, let's not talk about other abilities, at least this kid's ability in fighting skills is still satisfactory to him.

He has personally used the "Blood Boiling Technique", a magical secret technique, and he has also written his experience of using this secret technique behind the secret technique.

Knowing the sequelae of the "Blood Boiling Technique", Zhou Tongxuan dared to use this desperate secret technique to fight the enemy desperately. Let alone other things, this ruthlessness alone has proved that he is not the kind who only relies on his parents to deceive him. It's the second generation of Yin's playboy.