Cultivation Begins From The Desert

If a Jindan stage monk enters another fairy city, it may make people look at it more and attract the attention of the guardians in the city.

But in places like Liuyun Fairy City, Golden Core Stage cultivators can often be seen. When other cultivators see Golden Core Stage cultivators flying in the clouds, at most they cast envious glances, and they won't pay any more attention.

After Zhou Yang left Taoist couple Xiao Ying's cave, he quickly rushed to the official cave rental agency of Liuyun Xiancheng, and rented a fifth-level cave in Xiancheng at an annual rent of 7,000 low-grade spirit stones. Inhabited in Liuyun Immortal City.

Within a few days of staying in the cave, Lu Xuewei, Zhou Tongxuan and others who received the news rushed over to visit him.

Forty-five years have passed since I haven't seen each other, and the cultivation bases of these juniors have all improved a lot.

Among them, Lu Xuewei benefited from the help of the "ice crystal snow lotus" lotus seeds and other spiritual objects bestowed by Zhou Yang at the beginning, and her cultivation has improved rapidly. She has practiced from the first floor of the Purple Mansion to the fourth floor of the Purple Mansion in only forty-five years, almost catching up with Zhou Yang back then. up.

Zhou Tongxuan and the other three Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators also made great progress in their cultivation.

Among them, Zhou Tongxuan was raised from the original foundation building level 4 to the foundation building level 7, Zhou Zehong was raised from the original foundation building level 1 level to the foundation building level 4, and Zhou Fujin was raised from the original foundation building level 2 level to the foundation building level 5. layer.

With their spiritual root aptitude, they can improve their cultivation level by an average of more than ten years. In addition to their own hard work, another important reason is of course that they are never short of various panacea.

As the juniors of the Zhou family who are valued by Zhou Yang and specially brought out to broaden their horizons, they are entitled to better treatment than other Zhou family monks.

And through these years of experience, these juniors have indeed made great progress.

The most direct point is that when they faced him, the patriarch of the family, although they respected him unabated, they were not as cautious as before, and they were no longer shy.

This made Zhou Yang feel very relieved.

The environment will affect and change a person's character and how he treats people. In a place like Liuyun Xiancheng, where the cultivation of immortals is highly prosperous, a monk in the Qi training period will often see those Zifu monks and even Jindan monks. After a long time, naturally The awe of these high-level monks has been greatly reduced.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing, it depends on how you treat and recognize it.

If Zhou Tongxuan and the others had grown up in a place like Liuyun Immortal City, Zhou Yang would only describe their so-called composure now as "mere appearance".

The flowers grown in such a greenhouse may look good at ordinary times, but if they leave the safe and comfortable greenhouse of Liuyun Immortal City, they will go outside.

Just put the knife on his neck, put a tube of blood on him, no matter what demeanor the custodian taught him, he can no longer maintain his demeanor, and it would be great if he didn't kneel on the ground and beg his grandpa to tell his grandma.

But the three of Zhou Tongxuan are different. They came from the barren and backward small place in the boundless sandy sea of ​​immortality. They have understood the cruelty of the immortal cultivation world outside from the Zhou family school since they were young. They have also left the family to experience life and death. Fighting, he has a deep understanding of the four words "the strong are respected" in the world of cultivating immortals.

Now that they have entered Liuyun Xiancheng to experience life, they have been affected by the environment here, and have broadened their horizons and minds. The self-confidence and calmness they have built from this can really be praised by the four words "consistent with each other".

"Very well, the three of you seem to have gained experience, at least from this point of view, you are much better than before, but the ancestor, I hope that you are not just appearances, but real materials. "

"In the future, the Zhou family will have to rely on you young people to run the house. What the patriarch of my family can do is to help you deter those unruly people, instead of taking care of your children and eating and drinking."

"This point, I hope you must remember, and don't have the kind of comfort that you can enjoy the happiness with the ancestors!"

Zhou Yang looked at the three calm juniors in front of him, his face flashed with satisfaction, and he gave them encouragement and admonition in an earnest tone.

Although he knew that his admonition might not be able to make all the Zhou family members listen to it, but as long as most people could listen to it, as long as the people in power in the Zhou family could listen to it, it would be fine.

The three of Zhou Tongxuan had the experience of cultivating immortals in Liuyunzhou this time. After returning to the Zhou family, they would definitely become powerful figures in the Zhou family.

When Zhou Tongxuan and the others heard his words, their expressions straightened immediately, and they hurriedly bowed and said: "Grandson, etc., you must remember the teachings of your ancestors, or dare not forget them!"

"Okay, you three go back first, and we will stay in Liuyunxian City for a while, and I will notify you, Patriarch, when we return to the family!"

Zhou Yang waved his hand, making the three juniors of the same clan retreat first, and then his eyes fell on his apprentice Lu Xuewei.

"Your teacher's wife said that you seldom practiced in her cave in recent years. You often went out for a few years and often came back with injuries. She asked you what happened and you didn't say anything. Now I ask you as a teacher, and you don't know." Ready to say?"

Zhou Yang looked at this female apprentice with deep eyes. As her cultivation level deepened, due to the influence of her own ice spirit root and the skills she practiced, the icy aura like frost and snow on her body became more and more obvious.

Although immortal cultivators are more or less affected by kung fu, their temperament is biased towards their own kung fu attributes. For example, the temperament of monks with fire kung fu skills will be more domineering and fiery, the temperament of monks with gold kung fu skills will be sharper, and the temperament of monks with wood kung fu skills will be more aggressive. Tranquil and natural.

But if the temperament is too deeply affected by the exercises, it is not a good thing, and it is a big bad thing if it is not handled well.

For example, monks of the fire system, who are too deeply affected by the exercises, will be very irritable and irritable, and often make enemies for themselves because of trivial matters.

If it continues like this, it may even lead to a madness, unable to control the irritable anger in your body, and set yourself on fire.

And ice-type kung fu monks like Lu Xuewei, if they are too deeply affected by the kung fu, their personality will gradually become like a piece of hard ice, with little affection, unable to communicate, and it is also possible that they will go crazy and turn themselves into an eternal ice sculpture .

Of course, with Lu Xuewei's cultivation level, this is not the case, otherwise Zhou Yang would not be as simple as talking to her.

At this time, after listening to Zhou Yang's words, Lu Xuewei suddenly knelt down on the ground, kowtowed deeply to him, and said: "Master, forgive me, this disciple doesn't want to tell his wife. Apart from being afraid that she will be worried, I also know that she Can't help Tuer, so why bother her about Tuer?"

"Now that the master is back, the disciple naturally wants to confess everything to the master, and ask the master to uphold justice for the disciple!"

Zhou Yang's expression changed, but he didn't expect that there was such an inside story.

He looked at Lu Xuewei solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me about the matter, if someone really bullied you, the teacher will naturally seek justice for you!"

With his promise, Lu Xuewei immediately told the whole thing from beginning to end.

It turned out that when she teamed up with three other cultivators of the Purple Mansion to hunt monsters more than ten years ago, she accidentally discovered a rare fifth-level spiritual object in the underwater cave where a fourth-level high-grade monster lived. Water Soul Black Essence Stone".

Originally, before hunting the monster, several people said well that all the treasures obtained from the hunting of the monster will be shared equally.

However, the appearance of a rare fifth-order spiritual object like the "Water Soul Profound Essence Stone" made this agreement invalid.

You must know that "Water Soul Profound Essence Stone" is a very precious refining material. It is one of the best materials that can be found by ordinary monks in the Jindan stage of the water system to refine natal magic weapons. A piece the size of a fist can be sold The sky-high price of 200,000 to 300,000 low-grade spirit stones.

But the piece of "Water Soul Profound Essence Stone" that Lu Xuewei and the others found in the cave of the underwater monsters was as big as a washbasin, worth at least a million low-grade spirit stones!

In front of such a precious treasure, what effect can that kind of verbal agreement have?

Therefore, for the ownership of the large piece of "Water Soul Profound Essence Stone", the four monks who had fought side by side before were divided into two sides, facing each other with swords.

Relying on the various treasures bestowed by Zhou Yang, Lu Xuewei originally won the treasures without difficulty.

But she didn't expect that when she defeated other competitors and was about to win the treasure, the cultivator who had been working with her suddenly betrayed, and the sneak attack severely injured her, so she could only regret missing the treasure and escape with injuries.

By the time she fled back to Liuyun Fairy City, recovered from her wounds, and came to seek revenge from someone, that person had already dedicated the "Water Soul Profound Essence Stone" to the Jindan Patriarch of a Jindan family, and thus clinged to her. That Jindan family has become the son-in-law of his family.

Needless to say what happened next, Lu Xuewei was naturally unwilling to let it go, and quietly lurked up to seek revenge.

But her enemy was much more cunning than her, and he knew that she would not let it go, so he deliberately set up a counter-ambush against her.

If it weren't for the many talismans bestowed by Zhou Yang on Lu Xuewei's body, and the healing elixir prepared by Xiao Ying to save her life, I'm afraid she would have confessed there on the spot.

In the past ten years, Lu Xuewei made several shots, but did not get the slightest benefit. On the contrary, she was wounded many times by her opponent with the help of her family, and all the charms that Zhou Yang gave her at the beginning were exhausted.

"Master, you have always taught us that monks of my generation should be willing to repay kindness and revenge. If you have a favor, you must repay it, and if you have a grudge, you must repay it. This disciple can't breathe, and I really can't calm down to practice!"

Lu Xuewei said these words with a cold face, a hostility was hidden in her heart and there was nowhere to vent it, and her eyes were full of evil spirits.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang frowned, but he didn't expect that his apprentice would still have this kind of character of not taking revenge overnight.

This kind of personality can't be said to be bad, but it's not too late to take revenge on the gentleman he believes in for ten years, which can be described as two extremes.

Lu Xuewei encountered this kind of thing, if it were him, he must first work hard to improve his cultivation, and then use his cultivation to crush him and crush the enemy.

In fact, Lu Xuewei has this capital, she has excellent aptitude, as long as she is willing to practice hard, it is possible to reach the eighth or ninth floor of the Purple Mansion within a hundred years.

At that time, her enemy must have relaxed her vigilance. With her cultivation base at that time, she could easily kill her enemy without any action from the Golden Core stage monks.

"Okay, I've made things clear to you, Master. When I'm ready to leave Liuyun Immortal City, I'll take you to the Guo family and let you settle this grievance with your own hands!"

"But before that, you calm down and practice honestly, don't think about it anymore."

After Zhou Yang frowned and pondered for a while, he suddenly waved his hand and expressed his decision.

He generally doesn't make decisions lightly, but the decisions he makes are always consistent.

As his disciple, Lu Xuewei grew up with him, so she naturally understands this.

So she didn't say anything more, but said in response: "I will obey the master's order."

"Go on, and confess your mistakes to your mistress. She has always been soft-hearted, and she will definitely forgive you."

Zhou Yang waved his hand and sent this apprentice away as well.

After seeing a few juniors, Zhou Yang started busy with his own affairs.

He went straight to the biggest shops on Liuyun Fairy Mountain to buy the spiritual objects he needed.

Zhou Yang plans to buy spiritual objects to refine a new set of flying swords, of course it is the fifth-order flying sword.

And to refine such a set of flying swords, there is not enough material.

He now has some material in his hands, but he lacks others.

These materials may be difficult to find in other places, but here in Liuyun Immortal City, Zhou Yanghua successfully bought the materials he wanted after going out to approach 700,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Fortunately, Xiao Ying has helped Liu's Danfang to make alchemy these years, and has accumulated 200,000 to 300,000 low-grade spirit stones. Otherwise, Zhou Yang spent such a large amount of spirit stones, and the remaining spirit stones on his body may not be enough to buy those auxiliary alchemy spirits. use.

Of course, spending a woman’s money still made Zhou Yang a little embarrassed, so he sold out all the poisonous dragon materials that he had killed with Jiang Fengxian in the Kunxu Realm in cooperation with Jiang Fengxian in a shop, so he returned fifty More than 10,000 low-grade Lingshi funds.

Not long after, he participated in an auction in Liuyun Immortal City, and bought three copies of "Purple Heart Chalcedony" at the price of 200,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Soon, good news came from Xiao Ying's side. After accepting her entrustment, the Liu family behind Liu's Danfang had already found two kinds of spiritual objects to assist in forming alchemy elsewhere, and through the "Liuyun Business Alliance" Channels are moving fast for her.

These two spiritual objects are a drop of "Zhimu Spiritual Liquid" and the "Golden Berry" that Zhou Yang once used.

In this way, including the "Ice and Fire Spiritual Liquid" that Zhou Yang had never used before, even if Xiao Ying didn't use the "Jade Liquid Golden Pill", she still had three auxiliary alchemy spirits.

In order to buy these two spiritual objects, Zhou Yang paid a total of 760,000 low-grade spiritual stones, which almost emptied his and Xiao Ying's family assets.

After getting the items, Xiao Ying moved into Zhou Yang's cave to retreat and prepare to form alchemy, while Zhou Yang continued to practice the magical power of "Sacred Light of Burning Soul" while protecting her.

Five years later, there is no news of Xiao Ying who has closed her mind to form alchemy, but Zhou Yang has successfully introduced the supernatural power of "Silence Burning Soul Divine Light". In the future, as long as he often finds time to practice this supernatural power, he will be able to do it within a hundred years To supernatural powers.

And at this time, Xuanyang Xianzong, which Zhou Yang has been paying close attention to, finally got news.

After several years of negotiations, Xuanyang Xianzong still chose to compromise, and voluntarily gave up the control of more than a dozen rare ore veins, including two large-scale Lingshi mines and a medium-sized "Kongmingshi" mine, and handed them over to those who are dealing with " In the battle of "Cracking the Naive Devil", there were great efforts and various sects that were severely damaged.

At the same time, the Xuanyang Immortal Sect was forced to abandon hundreds of spiritual mountains outside Daoxuan Kingdom, including seven fifth-level spiritual mountains.

But these prices are actually nothing. The biggest price paid by Xuanyang Xianzong to quell this turmoil is that Lu Xuanji, the ninth-level "half-step true immortal" of the Nascent Soul, swears in front of many monks of the same rank that he will live forever for the rest of his life. The "cracking naive demon" who has been used to hunt down and flee, and no longer cares about the affairs of Xuanyang Xianzong is actually tantamount to breaking away from Xuanyang Xianzong.

In addition, Master Yunxiao of Xuanyang Immortal Sect vowed to wipe out all demon cultivators in Liuyunzhou's Immortal Cultivation World, so he can no longer manage the affairs of the sect.

In this way, there are only four Nascent Soul stage monks in Xuanyang Xianzong who can still play a leading role, including Master Qingyang and Master Huayang.

In terms of number, the four Nascent Soul stage monks are enough to maintain the reputation of the top sect of Xuanyang Xianzong, but they are completely incomparable with the illustrious momentum of the previous nine masters.

Moreover, with so many resource points and Lingshan territory given up this time, in terms of training the disciples of Xuanyang Xianzong's descendants in the future, I am afraid that it will not be able to compare with before.

In short, this time, Xuanyang Xianzong was really injured, and it was basically impossible to restore the previous momentum in a short period of time.

When Zhou Yang heard the news, a letter was delivered to him.

The letter was sent to him by Master Qingyang, and the contents of the letter were the detailed schedule of the secret talks he had with Lu Xuan back then.

According to the above description, if he is willing to work for Xuanyang Xianzong secretly, Xuanyang Xianzong will not only give him the status of a guest elder, but also arrange a fifth-order high-grade Lingshan for him through their ally Yuqing Daozong. place.

And if he wants to build power, Xuanyang Xianzong can provide him with three Foundation Establishment Pills at the market price every ten years, and a "Purple Heart Chalcedony" every fifty years, even if he helps Xuanyang If Xianzong solves some major problems, he can also be eligible to purchase the "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir".

These benefits are not unreasonable.

Even those vassal Jindan families under Xuanyang Xianzong received nothing more than this.

At the end of the letter, Master Qingyang also said one more thing, that is, in two years, Lu Xuanji and Yin Hanguang will go to the extreme western land of cultivating immortals to help Yin Hanguang compete for the position of the palace master of the Great Bright Immortal Palace. If interested, Lu Xuanji is willing to give him a ride along the way.

Zhou Yang couldn't help but fell silent after reading the letter.

When he calmed down and thought over the past few years, he also wanted to understand the intention of Lu Xuanji and Master Qingyang to make efforts to win him over.

Apparently, in the trip to the "Field of Wonderland", he exposed the "Qianyang Orb" and "Nirvana" supernatural powers. In the eyes of Lu Xuanji and Qingyang Daoist monks, he has changed from being only able to use A one-time "disposable item" has become an important pawn that can be used for a long time.

In particular, he has now grown up and can be used to do things at any time. The resources invested in him no longer need to wait for a long time to recover the cost as before, but can see the effect immediately.

Even better, he still has great potential, and he has a great chance to reach the Nascent Soul stage in the future.

The Xuanyang Immortal Sect has suffered heavy losses in terms of top monks this time, and urgently needs to fill the gap in this area, but there are not many disciples in their own sect who are expected to be in the Nascent Soul Stage.

Even if they start now and start cultivating talented disciples from the youngest generation of the sect regardless of resource consumption, they will not be able to cultivate a Nascent Soul cultivator without hundreds or thousands of years.

At this time, a talented monk like Zhou Yang who has a close relationship with their Xuanyang Immortal Sect and is trustworthy naturally became another option for them to fill in the gap.

If Zhou Yang could conceive a baby in the future, Xuanyang Xianzong, who had established a relationship with him before he conceived a baby, would naturally be able to easily pull him into the sect and become the elder of the sect.

Even though he has not conceived yet, with his combat prowess far exceeding that of monks of the same rank, the resources invested by Xuanyang Immortal Sect in him can also obtain sufficient returns in other aspects.

Knowing this, Zhou Yang didn't get angry because of being used by others, but felt very at ease.

In the past, he accepted the kindness from Master Qingyang, but he didn't know how to repay the other party. Whenever he thought of this kind of thing, he felt uneasy and extremely uneasy.

What happened later also proved that he was right to worry, because he had been unable to repay the kindness of Daoist Qingyang and Lu Xuanji, so he finally had to follow the other party to the "Sky Wonderland" to kill the demons at the risk of a narrow escape.

But now if he agrees to Master Qingyang's conditions, the two parties will form an essentially mutually beneficial relationship. The Xuanyang Immortal Sect gives him benefits, and he will take advantage of the benefits. There is no need for him to bear any moral pressure.

Therefore, Zhou Yang did not hesitate for long, and returned a letter to Master Qingyang, in which he stated his decision to work for the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, and then passed the letter through the intelligence personnel of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect in Liuyun Immortal City, It was forwarded to Master Qingyang.

Not long after, Master Qingyang sent back a reply, saying that he was ready to take over the fifth-order high-grade spirit mountain at any time.

It's just that Zhou Yang still planned to return to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea after Taoist Xiao Ying retreated this time, so he temporarily suppressed this matter and didn't rush to do it.

A year and a half later, Xiao Ying's alchemy came to fruition. After using three auxiliary spiritual objects, she still failed.

However, with the help of three kinds of spirits, she made it to the second step of "alchemy" the first time she formed the alchemy. If she tries to form the alchemy next time, as long as she can find a better effect than the "golden berry" Strengthening the spirit and soul, and with the assistance of "Jade Liquid Golden Pill", there must be no problem in forming the pill successfully.

"It's okay to fail once. My husband also failed twice before he succeeded!"

"Next, Ying'er, take care of your wounds in Liuyun Fairy City. For your husband, I want to take Tong Xuan and the others back to the family to deal with some matters. After the matter is settled, I will come back to accompany you."

"Also, you can continue to ask the Liu family to help you search for spiritual objects that can strengthen your spirit, no matter how expensive the price is. If your husband returns to the family this time, he will definitely bring back enough spiritual stones."

In the cave mansion, Zhou Yang looked at the daoist couple who had hurt his dantian due to the failure of forming an alchemy, and his face was a little pale. He grabbed her palm in distress to comfort him, and at the same time talked about the fact that he was going to follow Lu Xuanji back to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea. informed her.

Naturally, he didn't hide anything about cooperating with Xuanyang Xianzong to stay in Liuyunzhou to develop in the world of cultivating immortals, and he told all the truth.

His frankness made Xiao Ying feel at ease, and soon after hearing the words, she smiled softly and said: "I understand, husband, your business is important, and I will take good care of my injuries and wait for you to come back."

So, after talking with his Taoist companion for a while, Zhou Yang stopped disturbing Xiao Ying's recovery, and left the cave to summon his apprentice Lu Xuewei.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of leaving Liuyun Immortal City this time, he wanted to help this apprentice avenge that revenge, otherwise the anger in this apprentice's heart would not disappear, which would be very detrimental to his future practice.

Of course, he would not use his current appearance to take revenge, as that would expose his relationship with his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, and bring a lot of trouble to Xiao Ying's life in Liuyun Immortal City.