Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Although Zhou Guangcheng's apprenticeship with Daoist Qingyang had already been decided, because the little guy was just born, Zhou Yang and his wife were worried about letting him stay in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.

Therefore, the two made another sixteen-year agreement with Master Qingyang, agreeing that the two would first raise the little guy for sixteen years to fulfill their parental responsibilities, and then send him to Xuanyang Xianzong to receive the teachings of Master Qingyang.

After everything was settled, Zhou Yang and his wife brought Zhou Guangcheng back to Chongxuan Mountain.

Master and wife were delighted to have a son, and the disciples on Chongxuan Mountain, especially those from the Zhou family, were all overjoyed.

No one in the Zhou family dared to take care of Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, but in private, the discussion of hoping that his ancestor would leave blood descendants in the family has never stopped.

All the monks of the Zhou family knew that only Zhou Yang, an old ancestor who left blood descendants in the family, would not weaken his affection for the Zhou family with the passage of time.

Therefore, even though Zhou Yang himself did not claim anything, the disciples on the mountain still held a big banquet because of this matter, and spontaneously celebrated it for them.

At any rate, it was because of the kindness of the disciples, and because he was in a really good mood now, Zhou Yang did not disappoint, and attended the ceremony with his wife and children with a smile.

And because of the birth of little Zhou Guangcheng, Zhou Yang's continuing practice in the long-term retreat, naturally had to be cancelled.

He didn't want his son to recognize him as his father after he came out of retreat.

For the family, he can also adopt a stocking strategy, but his son can't do that anyway.

At least until his son is an adult and sensible, he will always be by his side.

Therefore, he revised the plan, and changed the original plan of retreating to practice supernatural powers and improving his cultivation base into comprehension and research on weapon refining techniques. The goal is to strive to upgrade the weapon refining technique to the fifth level before his son becomes an adult.

Zhou Yang's crafting master has been at the fourth-level high-grade for many years. Over the years, because of his frequent retreats, he has seldom made crafts, and his craftsmanship can be said to be a little rusty.

However, he still has the basics after all. After refining the weapon a few times, he regained the touch and became proficient.

Under normal circumstances, for a fourth-tier high-grade craftsman to challenge the realm of a fifth-tier craftsman, it is best to use the inspiration of "Heavenly Enlightenment" brought by the self-created magic weapon to improve the level of craftsmanship.

When Zhou Yang first created the second-level high-grade magic weapon [Yuanyang Shield], he also obtained a "Heaven's Epiphany" and gained a lot.

However, creating magic tools by oneself is too time-consuming, and luck also has a lot to do with it. Zhou Yang's attack on the fifth-level craftsman this time does not intend to follow the path that countless monks have walked.

He wants to spend a little extravagantly, directly forcibly attacking the fifth-level craftsman by refining the fifth-level magic weapon.

Ordinary craftsmen don't have such arrogance, but he does.

Over the years, Zhou Yang has accumulated a large amount of fifth-level refining materials through the materials obtained by killing monsters and the trophies obtained from the monks who died under him.

Because he himself is a fourth-rank high-grade craftsman, he collected all these crafting materials and did not sell them off.

Now these materials add up to enough for him to try sixty or seventy times.

Zhou Yang asked himself that he was still talented in weapon refining, and if he failed to succeed after sixty or seventy attempts, there was no need for him to learn weapon refining again.

Of course, it would be better if there was less material wasted.

Therefore, he didn't take advantage of his wealth to give birth to a slack heart. Every time he made a weapon, he would do his best to treat it with all his heart, and he would also sum up his experience and lessons with his heart when he failed.

And every time after the refining failed, teasing little Zhou Guangcheng became the most common thing Zhou Yang did to relieve stress.

Because of his deep foundation, little Zhou Guangcheng developed his body and brain very quickly. He began to practice cultivation under the guidance of Zhou Yang when he was three years old.

"Xuanyang Treasure Canon" top-notch skills, of course, can only be practiced after the foundation has been established, so the skills that Zhou Yang gave little Zhou Guangcheng to practice as a foundation are the "Innate Ziyang Kungfu" given to him by Master Qingyang.

This "Xiantian Ziyang Kungfu" is one of the top ones among the many basic skills collected in Xuanyang Xianzong.

It is most suitable for monks with fire attribute spiritual roots to practice, and it is also very difficult to practice. Only fire attribute monks with top-grade spiritual roots will choose to practice.

And the feature of this exercise is one word, pure.

The monks who practice "Xiantian Ziyang Gong" generally have much purer and deeper mana than monks who practice other exercises.

According to Master Qingyang, if the disciples of Xuanyang Immortal Sect's fire-attributed high-grade spiritual roots practice this technique, they will be able to succeed in building a foundation within fifty years at the latest, and it's still the kind that doesn't need to take the foundation-building pill.

And with little Zhou Guangcheng's talent, he could succeed in building the foundation within thirty years without any problems.

The same is true.

After practicing for less than two years, little Zhou Guangcheng entered the qi training stage at the age of five, and officially became a qi training stage immortal cultivator.

As for the registered disciples on Chongxuan Mountain, most of them have just come into contact with practice at this time, or have not yet contacted practice.

It was this year that Zhou Guangxiang came to Chongxuan Mountain again.

This time, Zhou Tongxuan, the head of the Zhou family, came with her, and at this time, Zhou Tongxuan was already a second-floor monk in the Zifu.

When Zhou Yang left the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, he bestowed three copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to the three foundation-building monks of the Zhou family. Zhou Tongxuan also spent twenty The Wan family's contribution points were exchanged for a [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to use.

Now that decades have passed, two of the four monks who attacked the Purple Mansion were successful, namely Zhou Tongxuan and Zhou Shengfan whose body was tempered by Zhou Yang's "Qianyang Immortal Light".

In addition, during the years of Zhou Yang's retreat, another female cultivator named Zhou Shenghan in the Zhou family also exchanged for a [Purple Heart Chalcedony], and successfully opened up the Purple Mansion.

So up to now, including Zhou Guangxiang's brothers and sisters, the number of Zifu period monks in the Zhou family has reached five.

Also on Chongxuan Mountain, Zhou Ronghua's cultivation has reached the ninth floor of foundation building, Zhou Yang has already given him [Purple Heart Chalcedony], and he will retreat and attack the Purple Mansion soon.

And Zhou Shengyu, a high-grade spiritual root monk, has also cultivated to the fifth floor of the foundation, and it is estimated that he will be able to attack the Purple Mansion in another fifty or sixty years.

As usual, this time when Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan came, they also brought a few younger generations of the Zhou family.

Now that these Zhou family juniors have come here, they no longer need to walk as Zhou Yang's registered disciples.

Zhou Yang has already made a plan. When little Zhou Guangcheng grows up and joins the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, he will move all the mortals and monks of the Zhou family from Chongxuan Mountain to Daoxuan Kingdom. The ancestral land of the mountain gate in the realm of cultivating immortals is placed on top of a fourth-level high-grade spiritual mountain in the territory of Daoxuan Kingdom.

At that time, the Zhou family can still try to let some family members join the Xuanyang Immortal Sect to consolidate and deepen the relationship between the family and the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.

Zhou Yang would never do this kind of initiative to send the family's children into the sect before.

But things are very different now.

In the past, the Zhou family lacked talents and a backbone. Any middle-grade spiritual root monk was a precious wealth of the family. Of course, he didn't want these precious wealth to flow to others.

But it's different now. Now the Zhou family has become a super big family in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea. There can be one or two middle-grade spiritual root monks detected in the family every year.

If all these people stayed in the Zhou family, it would be impossible for the Zhou family to have so many foundation building pills for them to take, so it is better to give them a chance to enter the Xuanyang Immortal Sect and fight in the sect.

If they can succeed in the Xuanyang Xianzong, it will be a great thing for the Zhou family.

Zhou Yang even had an idea, that is, since Zhou Guangcheng will definitely become the high-level ruler of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect in the future, he will definitely need to guide a group of people in the sect to be his confidantes.

In this case, based on the principle of not letting the fat and water flow to outsiders, those Zhou family children who are in the Xuanyang Immortal Sect will definitely become their priority targets and receive special care.

This is something that is allowed in the rules, even if Master Qingyang and others see this, they will not deliberately stop anything.

There are many factions in Xuanyang Xianzong, a top-notch sect. Even if there is an extra Zhou family faction in the future, it will be nothing.

Anyway, the rules of the sect are there, and no faction can do anything that seriously violates the rules of the sect, otherwise it will definitely be boycotted by other factions.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about monks with family background guarding themselves and transferring a large amount of sect resources to families outside their sect.

At this time, Zhou Guangxiang brought Zhou Tongxuan, the patriarch, over here. For Zhou Yang, it was just in time, and he happened to share these thoughts with them.

When Zhou Guangxiang learned that Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying had given birth to a child, she was also sincerely happy for them.

As a junior, she now has a group of children and grandchildren, but Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying, the elders, have never had any offspring. Whenever she thinks about this, she feels weird.

Now that Zhou Yang has finally left offspring, she is naturally happy.

But while she was happy, she was a little embarrassed, that is, in terms of seniority, Zhou Guangcheng, who was only five years old, wanted to call her elder sister.

And she is more than 400 years old this year. Although she has a good face and looks like a young woman in her thirties, the gray hair that has begun to appear makes people know that she is not young at all.

At this age, it's not embarrassing for her to be called sister by a five-year-old child.

It's just that this kind of embarrassment is always unavoidable.

Zhou Yang is her elder, and the elder who has taken care of her since she was a child, and is the elder she respects the most.

Even if she was embarrassed, she would never dare to mess up her seniority and let little Zhou Guangcheng be called another name.

Fortunately, she was not the only one who was embarrassed, Zhou Tongxuan was more embarrassed than her, because in terms of seniority, Zhou Tongxuan still had to call the little uncle Zhou Guangcheng, and had to salute respectfully.

In the end, it was Xiao Ying who took care of the face of the two of them, and took little Zhou Guangcheng away with a smile, leaving them to talk with Zhou Yang alone.

"Uncle Nine is happy to have a son. I wonder if I should bring Brother Cheng back to the family to worship Uncle Xuan Hao and Aunt Yu Ting? If this happy event is passed back to the family, it will definitely make the clan members very happy."

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang, and spoke about it first.

Adding a baby is a big event. When monks of the Zhou family have offspring, they will often go to the family cemetery in time to offer sacrifices to their deceased parents and grandparents.

It can be said that it is reasonable for Zhou Guangxiang to mention this matter at this time.

But Zhou Yang knew that when this niece brought up this matter now, it might not have reminded him of the meaning of asking Zhou Guangcheng to go back to find his roots and recognize his ancestors.

After all, for now, the roots of the Zhou family are still in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of the Boundless Sand Sea. An important member of the Zhou family like Zhou Guangcheng should go there to find their roots and recognize their ancestors, so as to understand their own origins.

Knowing that he knows, he didn't pierce the small thoughts in his niece's heart, but shook his head slightly and said: "Cheng'er will definitely go back to pay homage to his grandparents in the future, but not now, I have already cares about this matter, so don't bother." I'm worried."

Zhou Guangxiang's face changed slightly when he heard this, and then he quickly apologized: "My niece is being reckless. Since Uncle Nine has already made plans, my niece can rest assured."

Zhou Tongxuan saw his aunt was deflated, and at this time, in order to relieve his aunt's embarrassment, he also quickly changed the subject: "Old ancestor, I don't know what kind of qualification Uncle Cheng has? The younger generation sees that he has a level of qi training now. Is it a top-grade spiritual root like the old grandmother?"

In Zhou Tongxuan's mind, top-grade spiritual root qualifications are already very good qualifications.

If he had a high-grade spiritual root aptitude, he might not have used up two copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to successfully open up the Purple Mansion.

As for the spirit body, there hasn't been a spirit body cultivator in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea for two to three thousand years, so he really didn't dare to think about it.

In this way, it is also conceivable how surprised and shocked Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan were when Zhou Yang said that Zhou Guangcheng possessed the aptitude of [Xuanyang Spirit Physique].

And when they learned that Zhou Guangcheng had become a teacher of Master Qingyang and would become a disciple of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect in the future, the aunt and nephew's expressions changed even more.

"Uncle Nine..."

Zhou Guangxiang stared at Zhou Yang with wide eyes, hesitant to speak.

Zhou Yang looked at her with unchanged expression and shook his head slightly: "I know what you want to say, but this matter is a foregone conclusion, you don't need to think too much, just listen to my plan!"

Immediately, Zhou Yang told the two of them about the conditional exchange and agreement between himself and Master Qingyang, and by the way, also told about his future development plan for the Zhou family.

After hearing his words, Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan's aunt and nephew's expressions suddenly changed, and they fell into deep thought.

From the point of view of heart, the two of them, as members of the Zhou family, naturally did not want Zhou Guangcheng to join the sect.

That is a spiritual body monk, the first spiritual body monk since the establishment of the Zhou family, and the first spiritual body monk in the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sand sea for thousands of years!

With such a genius, no cultivating family would want him to leave the family.

Not to mention, Zhou Guangcheng is still Zhou Yang, the guardian of the Zhou family, the first child, and possibly the only child. This identity is even more important to the Zhou family than his status as a spiritual cultivator.

But reality and ideal are often two different things.

From their point of view, considering the interests of the family, of course they very much hope that Zhou Guangcheng will stay in the Zhou family, but from Zhou Yang's point of view, when considering the interests of the Zhou family, they must also consider Zhou Guangcheng's own interests.

And from the perspective of the two nascent stage monks, Master Qingyang and Master Lingxiao, how could they be willing to let a baby with [Xuanyang Spiritual Body] wander outside?

The aunt and nephew are also parents, so they naturally know how strong every parent's psychological desire is to "hope their children will succeed".

Of course, the more important point is that Zhou Guangcheng's apprenticeship with Master Qingyang is already an established fact, no matter how much they object, it will be useless.

The Zhou family has not yet played with the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator, not even Zhou Yang, the patriarch of the family they most admire and admire.

So after being silent for a while with an uncertain expression, Zhou Guangxiang forced a smile and said: "That's fine, brother Cheng can worship Master Qingyang as his teacher, and his journey will be smooth in the future. Baby's words will be a great blessing and a blessing to our Zhou family."

After Zhou Tongxuan heard his aunt's words, he came back to his senses and quickly followed up: "Auntie is right, Uncle Cheng is extremely talented, and he will become a Nascent Soul real person in the future. At that time, my Zhou family will definitely be famous in Liuyun Continent because of it, and become one of them Become a real big family in the world of cultivating immortals in Liuyunzhou!"

"Hehe, as long as you can think about it, do you have any comments to add to my plan?"

Zhou Yang chuckled noncommittally, and changed the subject, but asked the two of them for their opinions.

Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan are the actual power holders of the Zhou family. Their opinions, in a sense, can represent the opinions of the entire Zhou family.

"Ninth Uncle's plan is very good. If we can really have a foothold in Daoxuan Kingdom as the foundation of our family, it will obviously help our family to get out of the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea."

"And if you can become a disciple of the top sect like Xuanyang Xianzong, there must be many people in the family who are very willing. I am afraid that we will have to formulate some strategies to prevent the loss of a large number of family talents!"

As Zhou Guangxiang spoke, his eyes turned to his nephew Zhou Tongxuan.

Zhou Tongxuan was the patriarch of the Zhou family, and this was a good opportunity for him to show himself in front of Zhou Yang, the patriarch of the family. Of course, Zhou Guangxiang would not steal the limelight from this nephew, so he only said a few words and stopped.

When Zhou Tongxuan received the hint from his aunt's eyes, he also calmed down and said quickly: "The younger generation also believes that the plan of the old ancestor is a mature strategy for the country. The number of monks in the family is increasing year by year, and the family resources consumed every year are already huge."

"In view of the limited production of the family's Foundation Establishment Pill, many members of the clan are unable to take the Foundation Establishment Pill to try to establish a foundation. Over the years, almost every one or two years, some family monks have fallen in the Foundation Establishment level, which is really regrettable!"

"If we can give them another way to go, it will not only reduce the burden on the family, but also reduce some tragedies, so that more people of the clan will have further opportunities on the road."

"Very good, since you all think this plan is feasible, then after you go back, you can call the whole family of monks to discuss this matter, and continue to speed up the progress of the family monks immigrating to Liuyunzhou to cultivate the world of immortality."

Zhou Yang nodded in satisfaction, and was also very satisfied with the "understanding of righteousness" of the two juniors.

Then he looked at Zhou Guangxiang and said: "As for your worries, Guangxiang, there is no need for it. The top sects of Xuanyang Xianzong are not so easy to enter. The middle-grade spiritual root is only the minimum entry standard. If you really want to enter , You need to have some extraordinary skills, and they only recruit a group of outer disciples in ten years, if you want to worship their sect, sometimes you need a certain amount of luck."

"Uncle Jiu is right, my niece understands what to do."

Zhou Guangxiang agreed, and the matter was considered settled.

Until then, seeing that Zhou Yang had nothing else to say, she signaled to her nephew Zhou Tongxuan with her eyes, asking him to explain the purpose of her visit this time.

Upon receiving his aunt's hint, Zhou Tongxuan immediately bowed to Zhou Yang and said: "My ancestor Mingjian, this junior came to Liuyunzhou Immortal Cultivation World with my aunt to meet my ancestor this time, and I want to ask my ancestor to decide on a major matter."

"Oh, what's the big deal?"

A curious look flashed on Zhou Yang's face, and he looked at him.

After Zhou Tongxuan felt his gaze, he said respectfully: "It's about arranging the generation of monks born in the family. The sixteen generation names set by the ancestor of Yuquan at the beginning have now been used for the young generation. In a few decades, the generation of newly born monks has not yet been determined, so I would like to ask the ancestors to personally add a new generation to the descendants of the family on the genealogy, so as to determine the seniority!"

Yuhua Mingguang, Xuanyuan Guangtong, Fuze Rongsheng, and Evergreen, these are the sixteen character generations that Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family who established the Zhou family, personally drafted for the family.

Now that the Zhou family has established a family for more than six hundred years, it is indeed time to run out of sixteen names.

And this kind of continuation of the name of a new generation for the family is indeed impossible to avoid Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the Zhou family with the highest seniority and cultivation base.

Needless to say, the role of character generation for a cultivating family bound by blood ties.

Even for Zhou Yang, formulating a new name for the descendants of the family is a matter that needs to be taken seriously.

"This is indeed a big deal, let me think about it carefully."

He nodded slightly, and couldn't help lowering his head in thought.

Although he has never done this kind of thing before, Zhou Yang also knows that when formulating the name of the character generation, the meaning is the first priority, and then he will consider whether it is catchy, easy to be remembered, and easy to form a good name with other words.

And now that he is a continuation of the previous generation, he still needs to consider the issue of coherence with the previous sixteen generations.

Therefore, after thinking carefully for an hour or two, he said: "Since the ancestor of Yuquan had set sixteen character generations at the beginning, in order to maintain respect for his old man, I will also set sixteen character generations for the family. Bar!"

"Loyal and pure, filial piety and righteousness passed on to the family, kindness lasts for more than a year, integrity is the first, what do you think of these sixteen characters?"

He spoke out the sixteen names of his generation in one breath, looked at Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Tongxuan, and asked for their opinions.

These sixteen character generations may not be so coherent with the previous sixteen character generations of the Zhou family, but they all have their own meanings, and they are better matched with other characters to choose names.

"The old ancestor is worthy of being the old ancestor. These sixteen characters all have profound meanings and are catchy. There is no better choice than this!"

Zhou Tongxuan raised his head, looked at him with admiration on his face, and his words were full of praise.

"My niece also thinks that the sixteen character generations chosen by Uncle Jiu are very good." Zhou Guangxiang immediately nodded in agreement.

So, the matter was settled.

I don't know why, but my eyes hurt when I sat in front of the computer today, and it took me a long time to finish writing a chapter!