Cultivation Begins From The Desert

The Scarlet Flame Giant Tiger and the White Feather Monster Bird are both middle-rank fifth-rank monsters. Even when they are in full bloom, it is not difficult for Zhou Yang to deal with them one-on-one.

But now, after a night of fighting, the strength of the two monsters is no longer 70% of what it was at its peak. Even if they join forces to fight against the enemy, the strength they display is equivalent to that of a fifth-rank top-grade monster.

In fact, because they only wanted to devour the [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], the two monsters had no intention of fighting Zhou Yang to the death.

Zhou Yanggang slashed the giant scarlet flame tiger here, while the white-feathered monster bird over there took advantage of this opportunity to shake its wings and pounce towards [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], not intending to rescue the giant red flame tiger at all.

But just as it arrived halfway, Zhou Yang, who was guarding the sky above the blood pool, waved his fists, and instantly shot out two blue-gold dragon shadows and bombarded it, forcefully sending it flying.

After being repulsed and injured by Zhou Yang several times in a row, the two monsters restrained their thoughts of taking advantage of the benefits and escaping. After exchanging a few words with each other, they formally teamed up and launched a fierce attack on Zhou Yang.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang was not afraid at all. Instead, he used the two monsters as sharpening stones to sharpen himself, either to strike with heavy fists, to use magic weapons for imperial envoys, or to display supernatural powers. The two monsters greeted each other.

He fought to the point where he would even compete in physical strength with the giant red flame tiger, hitting the tiger's claws hard with his iron fist, even if he was injured because of it, he didn't care.

And when Zhou Yang was fighting with two fifth-level monsters, the two spiritual birds, the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle and the Colorful Peacock, obeyed his orders and started hunting the fourth-level monsters that hadn't dispersed around the battlefield.

They are all supernaturally gifted beasts, and following their masters, they have obtained many benefits that ordinary wild monsters cannot obtain. Their combat power is stronger than those monsters of the same level.

Back then on the boundless snowfield, the Golden-winged Thunderhawk fought alone against the pack of wolves. Afterwards, not only was it not damaged at all, but it also killed more than a dozen third-tier [Frost Giant Wolves] and a fourth-tier monster wolf.

Its performance today is no worse than that day.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, the first cow demon with the strength of the fourth-level mid-level was killed by it first, and then according to Zhou Yang's instructions, after pecking out the demon pill, it grabbed the cow demon's body and threw it into the pool of blood .

After all this was done, it uttered a provocative howl at the colorful peacock, as if mocking the opponent's lack of strength.

Then before the colorful peacock, whose feathers were bristling with anger, responded, it spread its wings and pounced on another fourth-rank high-grade bear demon again.

Seeing this scene, the colorful peacock could only roar angrily, and poured out all its anger on the fourth-rank top-grade lizard monster he had chosen.

After a quarter of an hour, it finally killed the lizard demon, dug out the demon pill and threw the lizard demon's body into the blood pool.

But at this time, the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle was about to kill the bear demon.

Seeing this situation, the colorful peacock could only angrily kill a fourth-rank middle-grade wolf demon who was about to run away.

Zhou Yang naturally noticed the hunting game between the two spiritual birds.

He is happy to see the success of this, and he can't ask for it.

It just so happens that he hasn't decided who to give [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus] to in the end. If the two spirit birds decide the winner in this hunting game, he will have an excellent reason to give the spirit animal to Victory. was used.

And with the corpses of several fourth-order monsters being thrown in, and nourished by the blood of the two fifth-order monsters wounded by Zhou Yang, the lotus seeds on the blood-colored red lotus also became bigger with the naked eye.

Even when Zhou Yang's nose twitched, he could smell the strange fragrance of lotus seeds.

The fragrance was very unique. After Zhou Yang smelled it, he felt his blood throbbing all over his body, as if a fire was burning.

After smelling this vision, the red flame giant tiger and the white feather monster bird became extremely excited, and their offensive became much more aggressive, as if they had taken some tonic.

While Zhou Yang was secretly startled by this change, it also strengthened his determination to let the lotus seeds mature.

For the lotus seeds to mature, the red flame giant tiger and the white-feathered demon bird, two fifth-level monsters, are undoubtedly the key. Only by killing them and nourishing the [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus] with their flesh and blood essence can the lotus seeds be fully matured.

Zhou Yang was originally struggling with the two monsters, not only because he wanted to use the hands of the two monsters to sharpen his combat ability, but also because the strength of the two monsters still retained more than half, if he showed crushing power, it would be very difficult Maybe scare him away, or blew up the demon pill in despair to fight him desperately.

But now, the strange fragrance of the lotus seeds seems to have confused the minds of the two fifth-order monsters.

Zhou Yang could see clearly that after the appearance of the strange fragrance of lotus seeds, although the two monsters were extremely excited as if they had eaten a great tonic, the wisdom and agility in their eyes disappeared rapidly, and they were gradually overwhelmed by animal instincts. dominated by.

In this way, he doesn't have to worry about the two monsters running away, because it is impossible for a monster dominated by animal instinct to give up such a spiritual thing as [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus].

"It's time to end this game!"

After he muttered to himself, his eyes sharpened, and he brazenly launched his ultimate move.

There was only a thunderous roar, and a blue-gold dragon whizzed out from behind Zhou Yang, and rushed to the white-feathered demon bird in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, white feathers flew all over the sky, pieces of white feathers were flying in all directions along with pieces of bloody flesh. The huge monster body of the white-feathered demon bird was directly torn into several petals by the blue-golden dragon, and crashed to the ground below.

Whoosh!

A platinum-gold demon pill shot out from the fallen corpse of the demon bird, and a blood shadow of the demon bird appeared above it, screaming and trying to escape with the demon pill in its mouth.

But just after it flew not far away, it was taken into the tower by a golden pagoda.

Zhou Yang took away the demon pill of the white-feathered demon bird, and with a wave of his hand, several fifth-order talismans shot out from his hand, turning into various spells and blasting at the giant scarlet flame tiger that was rushing towards him.

He has killed many Jindan stage monks over the years, and he has thirty or forty fifth-order talismans hoarded in his hands. Although more than half of them have been placed in the Zhou family's secret library and bestowed on several disciples, but There are still more than ten sheets left in the hand as spares.

At this time, he shot nearly half of the fifth-order magic talisman in his hand, and instantly blasted the giant red flame tiger into serious injuries.

Then, before the severely injured Scarlet Flame Tiger had a chance to breathe again, a long spear shining with purple flames suddenly fell from the sky, directly piercing through the back of its neck and into its brain.

Aw~ roar!

The red-flame giant tiger glared at the tiny human opposite, let out a roar full of reluctance and reluctance, and the huge tiger body crashed to the ground.

Rumble!

The giant scarlet flame tiger with a body length of several tens of feet fell from the air to the ground, and the ground suddenly felt as if it had been hit by a meteorite, and a huge crater with a width of 100 feet was formed in the huge earthquake.

And until it died, the red flame giant tiger still opened its huge tiger eyes and glared at the sky, and its unwillingness to die and its nostalgia for life could still be seen in the eyes.

Obviously, after the "Scorching Sun Burning Spear" was pierced into the head, under the action of the "Scorching Soul" attached to the magic weapon, the red flame giant tiger's mind, which was confused by the strange fragrance of lotus seeds, returned to normal for a short time.

It's a pity that it has no power to escape or fight Zhou Yang desperately at this time, so it can only use the rest of its body to sing the last swan song of its life.

Looking at this scene in the sky, Zhou Yang was also slightly moved.

This was the first time he felt such a tragic and unyielding meaning on a monster. The final swan song of the Scarlet Flame Giant Tiger made him feel a kind of tragic feeling of a hero ending.

This red-flame giant tiger was once a strong man in this barren mountain range, a king who ruled the monsters.

However, because of the appearance of [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], its king and the group of monsters in his territory were forced to be involved in this bloody battle like a meat grinder.

Many of the various monsters that were slaughtered before came from its territory.

It does not hesitate to slaughter its own men to nourish [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], and wants to devour this spiritual thing to help itself go further.

However, God's will is playing the monster, no matter how hard it tries to fight, the gap in strength will make all its efforts turn into water in the end, and it will cost its own life.

"Sure enough, everything has a spirit. I didn't expect that a mere monster can have such a moving performance!"

Zhou Yang sighed softly, and was indeed a little shocked by the tragic and unyielding meaning of the red flame giant tiger.

But this kind of shock is not enough to make him change his decision.

Therefore, after mourning for a while in silence at the corpse of the giant red flame tiger, he stretched out his hand to recall the "Fire Sun Burning Spear" that had sunk into the giant red flame tiger's head, then took out the demon pill, and put the corpse together with the previous one. The remains of the white-feathered demon bird were thrown into the pool of blood together.

Rumble rumble!

The water in the blood pool surged for a while, and soon engulfed the huge bodies of the two monsters.

Immediately afterwards, under Zhou Yang's expectant eyes, the lotus seeds on the bloody red lotus quickly matured.

It's done!

Zhou Yang looked at the plump and swollen lotus seeds on the lotus pod, and finally a sincere smile appeared on his face.

I saw that there were seventeen lotus seeds in total, each one was as big as an egg, and the color was more purple-red, as attractive as ripe grapes.

It took him a lot of effort to move his eyes away from the seventeen lotus seeds, and then his eyes fell on the two spirit birds that were about to move around him, and he said slowly: "Just now you two hunted and killed the monsters and put them in." The blood pool nourishes this 【Ancient Demon Blood Lotus】, Jinpeng invested a total of three monsters, Caier, you only invested two monsters, now I will distribute this spiritual thing to Jinpeng, Caier, are you convinced?"

Cai'er is Jiang Fengxian's nickname for the colorful peacock, and Zhou Yang also used this nickname to call it.

Hearing his words at this moment, the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle let out a long roar of joy, glanced proudly at the multicolored peacock, and quickly sprang forward to the bloody red lotus, opening its mouth to devour the blooming petals.

Seeing this, the colorful peacock, although its eyes were full of resentment, did not move. It just turned its head away, not to watch this scene, and silently responded to Zhou Yang's words.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yang couldn't help smiling, knowing that this beautiful big bird was still a little unconvinced.

But it doesn't matter, after the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle is promoted to the fifth-level monster, this proud colorful peacock will no longer be able to fight with it, and the two spirit birds will naturally stop fighting.

What Zhou Yang and the Colorful Peacock didn't expect was that the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle suddenly stopped eating after eating about two-thirds of the petals of the [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], and then raised its claws to grab the remaining petals and break them off. , Throwing it to the colorful peacock.

After doing all this, Zhou Yang received the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle's request to sleep in the spirit beast ring through contact with him through the [Demon Soul Contract] signed with him.

After seeing this, he was slightly taken aback, then shook the spirit beast ring in his hand with a smile all over his face, and put the golden-winged Thunder Eagle in it.

Then he looked at the multicolored peacocks who were staring at the petals of the [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus] in a daze, and said with a slight smile, "Look, although Jin Peng has a bit of a naughty temper, his nature is not bad, and he left a copy for you. Don't fight with it in the future, let's get along well!"

When the colorful peacock heard what he said, it opened its mouth and let out a low chirp of unknown meaning. It was unclear whether it agreed with his words or was noncommittal.

But judging from the fact that it pecked off the petals of those [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], it obviously accepted the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle's kindness.

After eating the remaining one-third of the petals, the colorful peacock looked up at the remaining lotus pod, which was the lotus seeds on the lotus pod to be precise.

It looked at the plump purple lotus seeds, and suddenly stretched out its paws to gesture at Zhou Yang, and finally left two paws to hook.

"You want two lotus seeds?"

Zhou Yang frowned indiscernibly, and already understood the meaning through the movements of the colorful peacock.

To be honest, he still doesn't know what those lotus seeds are for, but judging from the consumption of two fifth-level monsters and one fifth-level savage corpse in the process of cultivating lotus seeds, these lotus seeds are obviously more precious than petals. things.

The colorful peacock wanted to take two lotus seeds as soon as it stretched out its paws. Even with Zhou Yang's grandeur, he felt a little bit reluctant at this time.

The point is that he doesn't know what the colorful peacock wants lotus seeds for.

If he just wanted to try something new, wouldn't he be at a loss?

So after hesitating for a while, he looked at the colorful peacock with a serious face and asked, "Can you tell me, what do you want lotus seeds for?"

When the colorful peacock heard his words, it immediately opened its mouth and croaked at the spirit beast ring on his wrist.

Seeing this, his heart moved, and he couldn't help blurting out: "You mean, as long as you devour two more lotus seeds, you can also be promoted to the fifth rank?"

In the spirit beast ring on his wrist, the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle was sleeping and digesting the medicinal power of [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus] to hit the fifth level. The performance of the colorful peacock at this time forced him to make this inference.

And the facts were as he had inferred. After hearing his words, the colorful peacock nodded repeatedly, and looked at him with eyes full of expectation.

"Okay, then I'll give you two lotus seeds."

Zhou Yang nodded slightly, raised his hand, and shot a burst of mana at the lotus pod, then took out two lotus seeds and hit the colorful peacock, which swallowed it in one gulp.

After swallowing the lotus seeds, the colorful peacock first nodded to him with gratitude in its eyes, and then got into another spirit beast ring in his hand and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it will take for the two spirit birds to be promoted to the fifth level. Zhou Yang didn't wait at the same place. There are Lingshan Mountains all over the mountain range.

In order to mature the [Demon Blood Ancient Lotus], most of the monsters and savages in this mountain range have been used as nourishment for them, and the various spirits that these monsters and savages used to guard are now ownerless. Completely let Zhou Yang collect it.

He searched for three days and three nights in the entire mountain range, and harvested seven fifth-tier elixir plants, more than forty fourth-tier elixir plants, thousands of third-tier elixir plants, and also found many monster eggs. , including two eggs of fourth-order demon birds.

In addition, in the lair of the giant red flame tiger, Zhou Yang also found a large piece of [Flame Star Stone], which weighed tens of thousands of catties.

This [Flame Star Stone] is a kind of fire attribute spiritual mine, which can be refined into a fifth-order spiritual gold [Flame Star Iron], and [Flame Star Iron] is one of the best materials for refining fifth-order alchemy furnaces and utensils. one.

Zhou Yang has obtained quite a few fifth-tier magical artifacts over the years, but he has never gotten one of the precious things like the fifth-tier alchemy furnace and the fifth-tier tripod.

The appearance of this [Flame Star Stone] made him see hope.

With the volume of the [Flame Star Stone] in his hand, at least hundreds of catties of [Flame Star Iron] can be obtained after refining, which is completely enough to refine a fifth-grade utensil tripod or pill furnace.

With these bountiful gains, Zhou Yang embarked on the road of return with satisfaction.

Half a year later, he returned to Chongxuan Mountain in a low-key way.

"Husband, you are finally back!"

On Chongxuan Mountain, after seeing Zhou Yang who had returned safely, Xiao Ying welcomed him into the cave with a smile on her face as if seeing the backbone.

"What's the matter? Looking at you, Ying'er, could it be that something happened during the year I left?"

In the cave mansion, Zhou Yang sat down at the table, remembering the frowning look of the Taoist couple before seeing him just now, he couldn't help asking about this matter.

When Xiao Ying heard what he said, her pretty face froze, she looked at him solemnly and nodded slightly: "My husband, you are right, there is indeed a difficult matter that I cannot decide on my own, and I need you to deal with it."

It turned out that half a year after Zhou Yang left, mid-level and low-level monks began to frequently go in and out of the mountains around Chongxuan Mountain to hunt monsters and pick elixir, and some bold guys even entered within a hundred miles of Chongxuan Mountain.

And Xiao Ying asked Wang Yanzhang to go out to investigate and found that most of the monks who entered the territory of Chongxuan Mountain were monks from various vassal cultivating families of the "Six Dao League" in Anguo. casual repair.

This is undoubtedly a dangerous signal.

You must know that since Zhou Yang's pseudonym "Qingyun Sanren" entered Chongxuan Mountain, there have been very few people from the "Six Paths League" within a thousand miles of Chongxuan Mountain.

Now the monks of various vassal cultivating families attached to the "Six Dao League" began to set foot here, openly hunted and killed the monsters living in the territory, and picked the wild elixir in the territory, which was undoubtedly a provocation and temptation.

Faced with such provocations and temptations, Xiao Ying couldn't make up her mind what to do when Zhou Yang was not at home.

It's no wonder that Zhou Yang had a sad face when he came back to see her.

At this moment, after Zhou Yang heard her narration, his complexion changed slightly, and then he pondered for a while, then looked at her and asked, "Did you inform Senior Qingyang Master of this matter?"

Xiao Ying immediately nodded her head when she heard the words and said: "Notice, but senior Qingyang is said to be practicing in seclusion, unless the [Six Dao League] really makes a big attack, the Xuanyang Immortal Sect would not dare to take him easily. The old man woke up from retreat, so the answer he gave us is to decide how to deal with it!"

"Is that so?"

Zhou Yang frowned slightly, and couldn't help lowering his head in thought.

After going like this for a while, he stretched his brows and nodded lightly: "My husband understands how to deal with this matter, Ying'er, you don't care about this matter, the fifth-level [Tree Demon Heart] has already been given to my husband." You have found it, and then you will concentrate on practicing the Artifact Refining Technique to prepare for the refining of the natal magic weapon."

"I understand, Husband, you have to be more careful yourself. It's really not possible. It's not impossible for us to give up this Chongxuan Mountain and return to the boundless sand sea to cultivate immortals."

Xiao Ying nodded lightly, and didn't ask him how to deal with it, but expressed her own opinion with a worried face.

Regarding her statement, Zhou Yang was noncommittal.

Returning to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea is the worst policy of all.

Even if Zhou Yang gave up Chongxuan Mountain, he could still find Xuanyang Immortal Sect to arrange another spiritual mountain for him to practice. How could he be willing to retreat to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea in such a disgraceful manner.

What's more, in his opinion, this matter has not reached that serious level.

Next, Xiao Ying naturally went to the refining room to study hard in the refining room, laying the foundation for refining the natal magic weapon.

But Zhou Yang quickly called all the Foundation Establishment disciples on the mountain together.

Now including Ye Yunshan, who just successfully established the foundation, there are seven foundation-building monks on Chongxuan Mountain, namely Zhou Ronghua, Zhou Rongxiang, Zhou Shengying, Li Qingyun, Ren Fei, Wang Yanzhang, and Ye Yunshan.

Among them, Zhou Ronghua, who has the highest level of cultivation, is already at the third level of foundation building, while Ye Yunshan, who is the lowest level of cultivation, has just succeeded in building the foundation for less than three months, and has not yet completed the conversion of the method.

At this moment, after Zhou Yang called all these people in front of him, he glanced at the faces of the seven people, looked directly at them and asked: "You should have heard about the situation outside the mountain now. Disciples of Xuanshan, let me ask you, do you have the courage to fight those invaders?"

Hearing his words, the complexions of the seven people all changed.

The three foundation-builders of the Zhou family were fine. They knew that Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the Zhou family, would definitely not let their descendants die, so although they were uneasy, they were still calm.

But Li Qingyun and Ren Fei, two registered disciples who were born as casual cultivators, couldn't hide their panic, and their eyes flickered so that they didn't dare to look at Zhou Yang.

But the best performer is still Wang Yanzhang who has been ridiculed by others for "eating soft food".

After listening to Zhou Yang's words, this person quickly bowed his hands and replied: "I am willing to fight to the death for Master!"

A smile of appreciation immediately appeared on Zhou Yang's face.

Zhou Ronghua and the other three Zhou family monks, when they heard Wang Yanzhang's words and saw the smile on Zhou Yang's face, they finally understood belatedly, and quickly followed up: "I am willing to fight to the death for Master!"

When Li Qingyun and Ren Fei saw this, even though they were terrified in their hearts, they could only bite the bullet and say something.

As for Ye Yunshan, she didn't need to say anything more. As Xiao Ying's direct disciple, if Zhou Yang gave her orders, she would definitely join her. Otherwise, how could she be worthy of the words "personal disciple".

"Okay, since you have this heart, as a teacher, I will give you a magic weapon and amulet to help you show off your power."

Zhou Yang nodded, yelled "Okay", then with a wave of his hand, he took out a bunch of third-order magical artifacts and third-order talismans and put them in front of him, and the seven people randomly selected them.

When he left the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, he deliberately selected a batch of high-quality third-order magic weapons and talismans from the Zhou family's treasure house, just to deal with today's situation, and now they finally came in handy.