Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Daoist Qingyang is a Daoist in the Nascent Soul stage, and he needs to hold relevant ceremonies to accept apprentices.

According to the sect rules of Xuanyang Xianzong, the disciples of the Nascent Soul stage monks can directly enjoy the treatment of the core disciples of the sect, and the acceptance ceremony held at the time of entry. Those who cannot leave the cave must be present to witness the ceremony.

Therefore, the acceptance ceremony held that day was extremely grand. Hundreds of Zifu monks, dozens of Jindan stage monks, and several Nascent Soul stage monks who were still in the Xuanyang Xianzong Mountain Gate all attended the ceremony in person, witnessing Zhou Guangcheng's apprenticeship to Master Qingyang this big event.

This will be a very memorable ceremony.

In order to protect Zhou Guangcheng, the matter about his [Xuanyang Spiritual Body] will not be disclosed to anyone other than those currently in the know until he has enough self-protection ability.

So today's monks watching the ceremony, except for the Nascent Soul stage monks above, only know that Zhou Guangcheng is Zhou Yang's son, a fire attribute high-grade spiritual root qualification monk.

Most of them thought that Zhou Guangcheng was able to worship Master Qingyang as his teacher because of Zhou Yang, his father.

Even though they couldn't figure it out, what advantage did Zhou Yang use to impress Master Qingyang, making him willing to accept his son as his apprentice.

After the disciple acceptance ceremony was completed, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying simply bid farewell to their son Zhou Guangcheng, and then left the Xuanyang Immortal Sect together, and went to the Zhou family's mountain gate in the territory of Daoxuan Kingdom to visit and condolence the clansmen there.

After that, the two returned to Chongxuan Mountain, each busy with their own affairs.

Xiao Ying is busy with attacking the fifth-level alchemist, because Zhou Yang often uses "Qianyang Xianguang" to help her temper her body and get rid of erysipelas. Although she has not formed an alchemy for a hundred years, her cultivation has already reached Jindan third. Layer, the progress is not usually fast.

This allowed her to save a lot of practice time to practice supernatural powers and improve alchemy skills.

Zhou Yang is busy with many things. He will continue to refine the fifth-order magic weapon, continue to improve his refining level, and then take advantage of the free time of the "pregnant weapon" to practice supernatural powers and refine his cultivation base.

As a Jindan stage monk, as long as he doesn't want to give himself a vacation, he is always busy with things.

When people are busy, they always have little concept of the passage of time.

When Zhou Guangxiang begged to see Zhou Yang because of the failure of forming alchemy, and asked to return to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea to retire, Zhou Yang was surprised to find that eighteen years had passed!

"Do you want to return to the family? That's fine, fallen leaves should return to their roots. If you want to go back, go back!"

In the cave, Zhou Yang looked at his white-haired nephew in front of him, and sighed in his heart, thousands of words, but finally turned into this short sigh.

Zhou Guangxiang failed to form the alchemy, he was already mentally prepared for this.

After all, this was Zhou Guangxiang's first attempt to form a pill, and he had been severely injured before, which hurt his fundamental vitality.

In front of the level of alchemy, there is no difference between top-grade spiritual roots and middle-grade spiritual roots.

What really makes a difference is the number of alchemy impacts. A monk with a top-rank spiritual root can cultivate to the ninth floor of the Purple Mansion faster and has several times of impact alchemy, while a monk with a middle-rank spiritual root may not even have a chance in his life.

Although Zhou Guangxiang is a top-rank spiritual root cultivator, he used to devote too much energy to family affairs and formation research, which resulted in his later practice speed being much slower than before. The ninth floor of the Purple Mansion.

From this point of view, Zhou Guangxiang has made great contributions to the Zhou family, because he helped Zhou Yang share this part of the work, allowing Zhou Yang to travel abroad to find opportunities to improve his cultivation.

Zhou Yang should have used the [Jade Liquid Golden Pill] in his hand as a reward to make up for what he has done for the family over the years.

But just because of the consideration of the family, Zhou Yang made the opposite decision at the last moment.

From Zhou Yang's point of view, if Zhou Guangxiang didn't have that serious injury, if he used the first time to hit the golden pill to accumulate experience, and then tried to form the pill for the second time, if he used [Yuye Golden Pill], there would be at least 30 to 40% chances. If you succeed in grasping it, you can already give it a try.

However, in the absence of accumulated experience, even with the help of [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir], in Zhou Yang's opinion, it is difficult for Zhou Guangxiang's success rate to reach 30%.

In this case, for the sake of his family, he had to leave the [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] to his apprentice Lu Xuewei.

Also as a high-grade spiritual root monk, Lu Xuewei is now in her early three hundred years old, and she has already cultivated to the seventh floor of the Purple Mansion. At most, she will be able to enter the ninth floor of the Purple Mansion in another forty or fifty years. Opportunity to hit the golden core stage.

But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Lu Xuewei is a monk of the ice system. When she forms alchemy, she can also use the drop of [Cold Jade Essence] in the family treasure house as an auxiliary spirit to help her form alchemy.

With the effect of [Cold Jade Essence] and the assistance of [Jade Liquid Golden Pill], as long as Lu Xuewei accumulates one or two pill formation experience first, the chance of success for the third pill formation will definitely exceed 60%!

One side has a success rate of less than 30%, and the other side has a success rate of more than 60%. It is obvious how to choose.

What's more, when it comes to credit, Lu Xuewei has also contributed a lot to the Zhou family.

The spirit stone mine of the Zhou family was discovered by her at the beginning. In fact, most of the millions of spirit stones that Zhou Yang took away from the Zhou family over the years came from the spirit stone mine she discovered.

Later, she contributed to Zhou Yang the "Sword of Killing God", which is an incomparably rare divine power to attack supernatural powers, and helped Zhou Yang make up for a shortcoming, which is also a great contribution.

Therefore, Zhou Yang saw Zhou Guangxiang's current state, even though he felt uncomfortable for him in his heart, if he said he regretted it, he didn't regret it.

After all, he is only a golden core stage monk, and his ability is also limited. He can't really help everyone, and he can help everything.

For Zhou Guangxiang's sake, he could let his son be the head of the Zhou family. This kind of thing is completely within his ability. Even if someone complains that he is nepotism, it will not hurt him at all.

But treasures like [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir] cannot be bought with spirit stones. They are priceless items that can only be bought at certain times.

Even with Zhou Yang's current strength and net worth, it was not just a coincidence that he met him by chance, it is very difficult to get it in normal times.

In this way, with only one copy of [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir], among the two people who are very close to him, his apprentice and nephew, all he can do is put aside his emotions and make the most favorable rational choice .

Zhou Guangxiang didn't know the complicated thoughts in Zhou Yang's mind, and the failure to attack the golden elixir had completely broken his energy and spirit, and his will was extremely depressed.

He is usually good at observing words and expressions, but when he heard Zhou Yang's sigh at this time, he only thought that Uncle Ninth was completely disappointed in him, and his heart suddenly felt sore, and he cupped his hands at Zhou Yang with some self-deprecation: "Nephew, let's go!" Now, Uncle Jiu, take care!"

Zhou Yang naturally saw all these in his eyes, but even he couldn't give Zhou Guangxiang any useful comfort at this time, he could only say: "You are in this state, it is not suitable to go on the road alone, let Tong Xuan accompany you , it just so happens that Ronghua is going to go back to the family to change people, the three of you will walk together on the road, and you will take care of each other."

"Nephew understands."

Zhou Guangxiang nodded slightly, then the tip of his nose became sore, and finally he couldn't help but shed tears. With tears in his eyes, he fell to his knees facing Zhou Yang, and said in a sobbing voice, "Thank you Uncle Jiu for your care and support all these years. , It's a pity that my nephew is incompetent and has failed Uncle Jiu's expectations, Uncle Jiu's great kindness to my nephew can only be repaid in the next life!"

Seeing this, Zhou Yang hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said, "Get up quickly, since Uncle Jiu is your elder, I should take care of you. I don't want you to repay me. Everything you have done for the family these years, Uncle Jiu, I also see it in my eyes and remember it in my heart, you have not let anyone down, and you are also worthy of the care and support you have received!"

"Ninth Uncle's great kindness, my nephew has always kept it in my heart. If it wasn't for Uncle Jiu, the fact that my nephew secretly hid the Foundation Establishment Pill for my younger sister would have been enough to make my nephew condemned by the tribe."

"Later, my nephew didn't listen to Uncle Jiu's advice, and recklessly tried to open up the Purple Mansion but failed. It was Uncle Jiu who selflessly gave [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to help my nephew open up the Purple Mansion."

"Later, my nephew did stupid things in order to pave the way for Tongxuan. It was Uncle Jiu who helped my nephew realize his wish and forcibly supported Tongxuan to ascend to the position of patriarch despite the doubts of the clan."

"Not to mention, after your nephew was killed by a traitor, Uncle Jiu, you rushed to rescue your nephew as soon as you received the news, and helped your nephew get revenge regardless of the criminal's background."

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang with tears in his eyes, his tone choked up for a while.

"It's because of your own efforts that you can go all the way to this day. What I did, Uncle Ninth, was just to give you a chance!"

Zhou Yang sighed softly, stretched out his hand and patted his nephew's shoulder, and said nothing more.

He had given Zhou Guangxiang a chance before, but this time, he left the opportunity to his apprentice. Although he didn't regret it in his heart, he still felt a little ashamed and regretful when he heard Zhou Guangxiang mention these past events.

"My nephew is going home this time. I'm afraid I won't see Uncle Jiu again. I hope Uncle Jiu will take care of you. The Zhou family can live without Zhou Guangxiang, but they can't live without you, Uncle Jiu!"

Zhou Guangxiang took Zhou Yang's hand, looked at him with tears streaming down his face, and murmured with a choked voice: "The only thing my nephew can do to repay Uncle Jiu for the rest of his life is to pray to God for Uncle Jiu every day in the family, and to pay respects to our ancestors and ancestors." Pray, pray that Uncle Jiu will make further progress as soon as possible, form the Nascent Soul Dao, and attain Taoism and immortality!"

"Why!"

Zhou Yang sighed again, but didn't say anything more.

Next, Zhou Yang personally sent Zhou Guangxiang to the Zhou family in Daoxuan Kingdom, handed him over to his son Zhou Tongxuan, asked Zhou Tongxuan and Zhou Ronghua to take good care of him on the way, and then watched the three of them leave the Zhou family.

With the departure of Zhou Tongxuan and the others, the family affairs of the Zhou family were temporarily handed over to Zhou Shengyu by Zhou Yang.

At this time, Zhou Shengyu already had the cultivation base of the seventh level of foundation building, and through decades of experience in family affairs, he had become a qualified family leader.

Now that he arrived in Daoxuan Kingdom, Zhou Yang naturally went to Xuanyang Xianzong to visit his son Zhou Guangcheng.

At this time Zhou Guangcheng was already in his thirties, he had successfully established his foundation five years ago, and began to formally practice the "Xuanyang Treasure Canon", the Xuanyang Immortal Sect's township technique.

The father and son, who hadn't seen each other for eighteen years, were speechless when they saw each other again.

But after all, they are father and son connected by blood. After a short silence, the gap quickly dissipated during the conversation.

During the conversation, Zhou Yang was pleased to find that Zhou Guangcheng's personality had finally changed. He was still quiet, but he was no longer so gentle and withdrawn, but became much more masculine and cheerful.

Through talking to him, he found out that Zhou Guangcheng had been arranged by Master Qingyang to practice in some places over the years. He had seen the vicious deeds of demon cultivators killing mortals and low-level monks, and had seen low-level casual cultivators for a spiritual herb. And the incidents of friends killing each other and brothers turning against each other have seen a lot of dangers in the world.

With more knowledge of these things, it is easy for ordinary people to be full of doubts about the world and the people around them, doubting whether these people are close to themselves, close to themselves, and whether they have other purposes.

But Master Qingyang naturally has a way to help his disciples correct this abnormal concept.

So Zhou Guangcheng, after many times of experience, has now become a "qualified" immortal cultivator. The standard of qualification is naturally the standard in Zhou Yang's eyes.

"The establishment of the foundation is still a little bit short. After your cultivation reaches the Zifu stage, my father will take you back to the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, and pay homage to your grandparents. You should continue to practice hard. If you really If you want to be your father and your mother, send a message back, as long as we see it, we will definitely come to visit you!"

When parting, Zhou Yang raised his hand and patted his son's shoulder, giving some advice.

"The child knows."

Zhou Guangcheng opened his mouth, but only answered dryly.

He actually wanted Zhou Yang to take him back to Chongxuan Mountain to practice for a period of time, but he knew that Zhou Yang would definitely not agree.

"Cultivate well."

Zhou Yang stared at his son's face for a while, and finally repeated his advice, and left.

When he returned to Chongxuan Mountain, Wang Yanzhang, the registered disciple who went on a tour, had already broken through to the ninth floor of Foundation Establishment and returned.

At the beginning, he promised Wang Yanzhang that if he practiced to the ninth floor of foundation building, he would be accepted as a formal disciple and given [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to help him open up the Purple Mansion.

Now that Wang Yanzhang has met his request, Zhou Yang will certainly not regret it.

Therefore, under the witness of all the registered disciples on the mountain and Xiao Ying, a Taoist couple, Zhou Yang held a formal apprenticeship ceremony, accepted Wang Yanzhang as his third apprentice, and bestowed a [Purple Heart Chalcedony] on the spot. 】As an apprentice gift.

After Wang Yanzhang received this gift, he was not in a hurry to open up the Purple Mansion, but patiently cultivated on the mountain, studying Zhou Yang's experience in opening up the Purple Mansion, and by the way taught the juniors on Zhou Yang's behalf.

This stability made Zhou Yang appreciate it very much, and lamented that he did not accept the wrong apprentice.

In terms of aptitude, Wang Yanzhang is only a middle-grade spiritual root, and he has the same aptitude as his second apprentice, Zhou Guangxiang's Taoist companion Liu Xuanxuan, who passed away early.

With this spiritual root aptitude, Wang Yanzhang was over 180 years old when he reached the ninth level of foundation building.

But now he can endure the temptation and is not in a hurry for success. The cultivation of this state of mind has already surpassed many foundation-building monks of the same realm.

Based on this state of mind, Zhou Yang felt that he had a great chance of success in opening up the Purple Mansion.

And the fact is exactly as he thought, after two years of self-cultivation and meditation preparation, Wang Yanzhang began to retreat and open the Purple Mansion, and then only took seven months to successfully open the Purple Mansion and became a monk of the Purple Mansion.

However, when he succeeded in opening up the Zifu, Zhou Yang, the master, had already been in seclusion for several years, and he had no time to congratulate him and give him gifts in the future.

Zhou Yang's retreat this time, intends to take the fifth-order top-grade elixir [Purple Sun Treasure Pill] that was exchanged for 500,000 merit points, and hit the late stage of the golden elixir.

His cultivation base has been increasing step by step over the years, and he will be promoted to a higher level every few decades.

Calculating the time, it has been more than two hundred years since he formed the alchemy. On average, he is promoted to a higher level about every forty years.

This speed is definitely not slow among Jindan stage monks, it can even be said to be very fast.

Not to mention those spiritual body monks with extremely high aptitudes, few Jindan stage monks with top-grade spiritual root qualifications can achieve this practice effect.

In fact, Zhou Yang spent a lot of time doing other things in the past two hundred years, and he didn't focus on improving his cultivation.

Calculated in this way, his practice speed is almost a bit faster than those spiritual monks.

At least according to the records of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, Lu Xuanji, who possessed the [Xuanyang Spiritual Physique], was over six hundred and fifty years old when he reached the ninth level of the Golden Core.

But Zhou Yang has just turned 500 years old now.

However, the difficulty of advancing from the middle stage of the golden elixir to the late stage of the golden elixir is much more difficult than Zhou Yang expected. After using [Ziyang Baodan], he was not promoted to the late stage of the golden elixir as he wished, and he was still almost stuck. At the sixth floor of Jindan.

Helpless, he can only come out of the retreat, hoping to slowly improve his cultivation base through water grinding.

He spent seven years in retreat this time, which is not long.

After leaving the customs, Zhou Yang met with Wang Yanzhang, the third disciple who had successfully opened up the Purple Mansion, and gave him a few fourth-order magic weapons and some magic talismans that he made himself as rewards.

Then he left Chongxuan Mountain together with his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, who was also upset because of his failure to challenge the fifth-level alchemist, and went to Xuanyang Xianzong to visit his son Zhou Guangcheng.

Afterwards, according to the plan, Zhou Yang went to the Zhou family in Daoxuan to meet Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan, the monks of the Zifu of the Zhou family who came to Liuyunzhou to visit the world of cultivating immortals.

Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan just arrived in Liuyunzhou Immortal Cultivation Realm not long ago, and now the main family affairs of the Zhou family here are still handled by Zhou Shengyu, who was cultivated in the foundation establishment period.

The arrival of Zhou Yang made the two people who hadn't seen the ancestor of the family very happy for a long time, and they also seized the opportunity to ask Zhou Yang about difficult problems in practice.

Zhou Yang thought that he hadn't preached to the Zhou family monks for a long time, so he took advantage of the opportunity to hold a preaching ceremony in the Zhou family, explaining the way of cultivation and answering the problems encountered in the cultivation for the Zhou family disciples here. Confuse.

This sermon, he originally planned to last three days and three nights according to the rules.

However, it was only at noon the next day when Zhou Yang was answering a question from a junior in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Suddenly, he had a whim, his eyebrows throbbed violently, and his heart beat desperately at a speed several times faster than normal.

"Husband, what's wrong with you, husband?"

Zhou Yang's changes could not be hidden from those younger generations, but Xiao Ying, his Taoist companion who had been with him for hundreds of years, found out about Zhou Yang's abnormality, and immediately asked about it through sound transmission with a worried face.

"This is the end of the preaching and Dharma meeting. My ancestor, I have to take a step ahead."

Zhou Yang didn't answer the Taoist couple's question, but endured the discomfort and announced the end of the lecture, then gave the Taoist couple a reassuring look, disappeared directly from the scene, and entered a quiet room on the mountain.

In the quiet room, Zhou Yang emptied his mind and tried his best to feel the reason for this sudden whim.

After an unknown amount of time passed like this, his eyes suddenly changed, and he looked towards the east.

"Why the East? Is there something to do with me in the East?"

He looked at the east with deep eyes, and muttered to himself.

"Dongfang, Dongfang... Could it be that Fengxian is in trouble?"

Zhou Yang's complexion changed suddenly, and he stood up from the ground suddenly.

After carefully feeling the warning just now on a whim, he vaguely knew that someone very close to him in the far east was in danger.

But looking back on his own experience, he wondered if he had any close relationship with someone from the East.

Generally speaking, it is either his blood descendants or Taoist companions who have performed both spiritual and physical cultivation together with him.

And after much deliberation, he found that the only person who met this requirement was Jiang Fengxian, a confidante whom he hadn't seen in two hundred years.

When he and Jiang Fengxian parted ways in the Kunxu Realm, the other party said that they would first travel to the Tiannan Continent to travel to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, then transfer to Donghua Continent to travel to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and finally return from the Donghua Continent Cultivation Realm to Liuyun Continent.

But two hundred years have passed, and under normal circumstances, the other party should have returned from his travels long ago.

But until now, Zhou Yang has not waited for her to come to him.

Now he suddenly had a sudden whim and sensed that someone related to him was in danger in the far east, which made him wonder if something happened to Jiang Fengxian in the immortal cultivation world of Donghuazhou.

He suddenly stood up from the ground, waved his hand and took out a soul card from the storage ring. When he saw that the soul card was intact, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

"Phew, since the soul card is fine, it means that Fengxian should be safe for the time being!"

He exhaled, and carefully put away the soul card again.

Before we parted, at his strong request, he and Jiang Fengxian each gave each other a piece of their own soul card in case of emergency. At this time, we can see his far-sightedness at that time.

But he was only temporarily relieved.

In any case, being able to make him have such a strong whim is enough to show that the situation of that person in the east is definitely not good now. Even if he survives this danger, he does not know whether he will encounter danger again in the future.

And this time, he felt a whim, which also made some kind of yearning that had been hidden in his heart suddenly grow uncontrollably.

"I can't go on like this. It seems that I have to go to the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Donghuazhou before Huadan conceives a baby. If I don't meet Fengxian again, I can make sure that she is safe and sound. It is impossible for me to conceive a baby with peace of mind. 【Heart Demon Tribulation】!"

There was a flash of firmness in Zhou Yang's eyes, and he had already made up his mind.

Regarding Zhou Guangxiang, he finally decided to end it in this way. He was born when the Zhou family was struggling, rose when the Zhou family was prosperous, and ended when the Zhou family was at its peak!

The novel has to cater for the tastes of many people. If the protagonist goes smoothly, everyone will think it is normal, including the heroine. However, if a supporting role is smoother than the protagonist, it will steal the spotlight.

Finally, regarding some readers saying that the protagonist acts as a nanny for the family, my explanation is not that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, but that this is the protagonist I want!

Man is a social animal. If you are awesome and developed, if your relatives and friends can’t follow you to gain some fame, you don’t want to bring them to get rich together and help them get rich together. This is not good.

We are now laughing at the saying that "get rich first and get rich later", isn't it because those guys took advantage of the policy and welfare assistance provided by the state in the early stage, and then turned their faces and refused to recognize people in a blink of an eye?

Then they have to control public opinion, saying that you are poor because you are lazy, and you are not motivated!

Little do they know the current environment, people no longer give you a chance, and they don't want to take you to play at all.

In the future, there will be fewer and fewer ordinary people who can get rich, and there may be new people on the wealth list later, but there must be no mud-legged people on the top!

The protagonist I want, he is a man of love and righteousness, he is willing to give those poor relatives a chance, give them a chance to get rich if he can, and then when it is beyond his ability, such as Zhou Guangxiang forming alchemy, he Faced with a choice, you can only choose to give up one person.

The above is my explanation