Chapter 640

FD) Zhou Minghan has great expectations for Zhou Yang.

Since Zhou Yuquan, the founder of the family, there have always been friars in the foundation period, so that they can develop to this scale in just over 200 years.

But up to now, the Zhou family in Yuquan seems to have run out of luck. Since Zhou Minghan, no new foundation building friars have been born for hundreds of years.

This is dangerous.

A family of nuns is most afraid of the sudden death of high-level monks.

Once they lose the protection of friars during the foundation period, the Zhou family, let alone continue to develop and expand the family scale, may not be able to defend the ancestral land of Yuquan Lake oasis and Yuquan peak.

Therefore, under the secret inspiration of Zhou Minghan, the development of the Zhou family in recent years has actually stopped secretly. The fear is that further expansion will cause others to peep at him, resulting in the disaster of extermination of the Zhou family after his fall.

But after all, this is not the cure. The best way is for the Zhou family to give birth to a new family of friars in the foundation period before he fell.

As long as there are friars in the foundation period, with the help of the third-order array [WanMu Qingtian array] on Yuquan peak and dozens of people in the Qi training period, multiple friars in the foundation period will attack, which will not hurt the foundation of the Zhou family.

Originally, Zhou Minghan put his hope on the younger generation of the "Xuan" generation, and even made up his mind. If no one in the Zhou family had been promoted to the foundation period before his fall, he would rather dedicate most of the output of the Yuquan Lake oasis and the Zhou family to huangshamen in exchange for the protection of Salmonella Huang, rather than let the Zhou family be jealous and exterminated because they occupied a lot of interests.

But now, Zhou Minghan found that maybe he should change his mind.

With the potential of Zhou Yang, the younger generation of the "Yuan" generation, as long as it is given another two or three decades, its hope of building a foundation is probably much greater than those of the "Xuan" generation.

He looked carefully at the young man standing in front of him. The handsome and elegant appearance and temperament of the young man was not the focus of his attention. What he valued was the kind of unassuming attitude that the young man showed in front of him, and the calm state of mind that he knew he was examining him and could still face him calmly.

After reading it, he had only one idea in his mind.

This son can be of great use!

Of course, as an elder, no matter how satisfied and happy he is, he won't show too much on his face and can't encourage the pride of young people.

Therefore, although he was very happy in his heart, his face returned to a cool color. He looked at Zhou Yang calmly and asked, "do you know my intention to let you come here?"

"My grandson doesn't know." Zhou Yang replied honestly.

"According to the rules of the clan, young monks in the clan must go down the mountain to practice and work for the family for a period of time after they are 20 years old before they can return to the mountain for retreat."

"But you are in a special situation. Although you are only 17 years old, you have already practiced the six-layer cultivation of Qi. In the past 100 years, no one in the family has your cultivation when you go down the mountain at the age of 20."

"It happens that you have just broken through with the help of the earth pulse aura, and it will take at least five years to fight the mana in the future. If you stay on the mountain, isn't it a waste of manpower?"

"So I decided to do something special and let you go down the mountain to work for the family in advance, which is also good for your experience and your future practice."

Zhou Minghan looked at Zhou Yang with a face full of ears. The corner of his mouth tilted slightly and said his arrangement in a deep voice.

Sure enough, as he expected, Zhou Yang's face changed after hearing his words. Obviously, he didn't think it would be such a thing to ask him to come here.

However, he didn't know whether he was happy or depressed. After Zhou Yang's face changed slightly, he immediately recovered his calm, and then bowed respectfully and said, "my grandson understands and is willing to obey the arrangement of the family."

Seeing this, he asked strangely, "don't you want to know where I'm going to arrange you?"

"My grandson believes that no matter how my great grandfather arranges, he will ultimately be good for his grandson."

Zhou Yang smiled and directly threw out the words that made Zhou Minghan speechless for a long time.

After a long time, he smiled and scolded angrily: "it's really a little slick. Xuanhao's child and his wife are honest people. How could they give birth to a little slick like you!"

With that, he took the initiative to say his arrangement for Zhou Yang without waiting for Zhou Yang to complain.

"Your spiritual root attribute is biased towards gold and fire. You practice the masculine and domineering skill of Jinyang fire formula. In addition to some lack of combat experience, your fighting ability is not weaker than that of any friar at the same level."

"It's just that the friar of the family stationed in Qingping mountain has reached the garrison deadline. Go and take over his Garrison for five years. I'll let others take over after five years."

"In addition, I hope you can find time to learn the art of refining tools in the hundred skills of cultivating immortals during this period. There are no good seedlings in the family to take over my class. If you can make achievements in this field, it will be a great thing for the whole family."

After finishing his arrangement, Zhou Minghan waved his hand and threw a gray storage bag and a small silver shield into Zhou Yang's hand.

"There are some low-level refining materials in the storage bag. There are also some experience of the old man about refining skills and a set of copies of the true solution of refining tools collected by the family. You should take good care of these things and don't spread them outside."

"As for this [silver Gang shield] magic weapon, it's the best of many second-order magic tools I refined. It should be my compensation for going down the mountain early."

"Well, if you have nothing else to do, you can quit. The trip to Qingping mountain should be completed within one month."

Zhou Yang was stunned by Zhou Minghan's words and operation. In the end, he almost instinctively grasped the things in his hand and said, "the grandson will leave first."

It was not until he walked out of the cave and heard the sound of the door closing that he was shocked and came back to understand what had happened.

He recalled what Zhou Minghan had just told him in the cave. His eyes were full of confusion and muttered, "what happened to me just now? How can you lose your soul without any reaction? It's not like my character! "

Before the voice fell, his heart suddenly jumped and a bold guess came out.

"Is it the old patriarch who did some magic to me?"

The next moment, he immediately stopped his dangerous idea.

Even if the old clan leader cast some magic on him, he must just play a joke with him. There's no need to think too much about it. Wishful thinking will only harm himself.

Thinking about this, he looked at the storage bag and magic tools in his hand and carefully put them away. Then he said hello to Zhou Yun, the seventh grandfather who was tasting tea alone under the tree, and asked him to help open the array and send him down the mountain.

Finally, before walking out of the array, Zhou Yang looked back at the top of the mountain. He saw seven grandpa Zhou Jun standing under the tree, smiling and watching him leave.

"The boy seems to have found something. It seems that he can't play tricks on him in the future, so as not to cause bad misunderstandings."

In the cave on the top of the mountain, Zhou Minghan saw the change of Zhou Yang's expression after he left through his divine consciousness. He pulled his beard awkwardly and flashed a look of regret on his face.

Just now, when he was talking, he quietly performed a soul absorbing spell he had obtained in his early years to affect Zhou Yang's mind.

It's not that he was afraid of Zhou Yang's resistance to his arrangement. It's just that he couldn't see Zhou Yang's youthful appearance and wanted to tease him.

It's like those adults in mortals deliberately give him some Shaojiu in order to make fun of children, and then look at the pretended mature children with spicy snot, tears and laughter.

This kind of teasing, of course, would make the elders proud of their success at that time, but they would regret it when they found that their teasing would make the younger generation mentally disgusted with themselves.

Zhou Minghan is in this situation now.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang was really mature psychologically, not pretending to be mature. He didn't really complain about the old man who was devoted to the family because of this little joke.

After he walked down the top of the mountain, he soon returned to his attic on the hillside and sorted out today's harvest behind closed doors.

The first is the storage bag given to him by the old clan leader. This kind of storage magic tool made of the demon beast [spirit virtual mouse] mouse skin is almost one for each person. Even the poorest casual practitioners will try their best to buy one for themselves.

Of course, it is also a storage bag, which is also divided into different sizes and grades. Generally, the storage bag used for casual repair during the gas practice period has a space of only three feet square, which is barely enough to hold several sets of laundry and a small amount of sundries.

The Zhou family in Yuquan, a family of immortals, can receive a five foot square storage bag from the family for free as long as their cultivation reaches the Qi training period. Zhou Yang has a good father, so the storage bag in his hand is one foot square.

But now his storage bag has been upgraded.

The gray looking storage bag given by the old clan leader has a space of three feet square. In addition to a tripod for refining utensils and several ancient books on refining utensils, it is also filled with low-level refining materials such as black iron, red copper, Centennial iron and wood.

According to Zhou Yang's rough calculation, if he only refined sabres and swords, these materials would be enough for him to refine them hundreds of times.

"Although ordinary people learn the art of refining utensils, the family will also provide materials to practice their skills for free, they will give me hundreds of opportunities at the top of the sky. The old patriarch gave me so many materials. No matter how stupid a person is, he can succeed two or three times!"

Zhou Yang looked at the full material in the storage bag and said that he was not moved. It was a lie.

He knew that the old patriarch always had a clear distinction between public and private. Even if he was gifted, he would not make an exception for him in this regard.

Then there is only one reason why he can practice with so many materials now. The old patriarch used his private savings to exchange these materials from the family warehouse.

"It seems that the old clan leader really wants me to inherit his weapon refining skill. As the only third-order weapon refiner in the family, he must have seen something. Maybe I really have a good talent in weapon refining."

Zhou Yang thought of his own cultivation method "Jinyang fire formula". Suddenly, if he realized something, a clear smile appeared on his face.

Then he carefully put away the storage bag and looked at another thing given by the old patriarch, the second-order magic weapon [silver Gang shield].

The second-order magic weapon [silver Gang shield] is made by mixing the second-order spirit [silver Gang stone] with the tree scales falling off the second-order spirit [dragon scale tree] as the main material.

There are nine realms for cultivating immortals. The magic tools, pills, arrays and talismans used by immortals are therefore divided into nine levels from level 1 to level 9. The second-order magic tools correspond to the friars in the Qi training period.

It is also a second-order magic weapon, which can also be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. [Yingang shield] is a second-order magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-order smelter. Its grade is naturally the highest.

Before the magic weapon was refined, it seemed to be only the size of a palm. In fact, as long as Zhou Yang refined it, it could be turned into a huge shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body and adjust his orientation as he wanted.

Moreover, because [silver Gang stone] was integrated into refining, this magic weapon can not only easily block the attack of flying sword and throwing knife at the same level, but also has a miraculous effect on the magic attack of immortals or monsters, and can greatly offset the damage caused by spells below level 3.

"I have a second-order [dragon scale tree] in the Zhou family. I can harvest several mature tree scales every ten years. It can be regarded as self-produced, but [silver Gang stone] is not common. Even a small piece with a big fist costs at least 500 pieces of spirit stone. The old patriarch's gift is really not light!"

In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the small silver shield the size of a palm on his hand and suddenly felt that the magic weapon had become much heavier.

As a Xiuxian family, as long as the cultivation reaches the Qi training period, the people of the Zhou family can receive the worship of Lingshi from the family regularly every year until they are over 60.

According to the current clan rules, the people of the Zhou family who practice Qi on the first floor can receive 10 inferior spiritual stones a year, and the second floor is 20 inferior spiritual stones. And so on. There will be no change until the ninth floor.

Because if there is no accident, the Ninth level cultivation of Qi is the limit of friars in the ordinary period of Qi cultivation. The current family rule of the Zhou family is that as long as the family friars are promoted to the Ninth level, they will be promoted to family elders. Each elder can receive 150 pieces of inferior spirit stones every year. This offering is not limited by age. As long as the elders do not sit down and fall, they can receive it in full.

Zhou Yang had stayed on the fifth floor of Qi training for two years. He offered only 50 inferior spiritual stones every year. Based on this calculation, even if all his spiritual stones were saved and not used, it would take ten years of dedication to exchange for a fist [silver Gang stone].

In fact, because he entered the Qi training period at the age of seven, after ten years, not counting the treasures his parents rewarded him as gifts, his total wealth is only more than 300 inferior spirit stones.

It can be seen that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan took [Yingang shield] as his reward for going down the mountain in advance. What a heavy gift!

"The old clan leader values me so much that I can't let him down. I have to do well whether it's learning weapon refining or garrisoning Qingping mountain!"

As soon as Zhou Yang's heart was warm, he couldn't help grasping the magic weapon in his hand and secretly determined to do good things to repay the trust of his elders.

In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed his door and concentrated on refining the newly obtained [silver Gang shield] magic weapon in the room. He didn't go out of the door until he had refined the magic weapon to make good luck.

He first went to the Sutra cave, another important place of the Zhou family, where he learned the six-layer Qi practice method of Jinyang fire formula, and then selected five spells conducive to fighting from the many spells collected in the Sutra cave.

These five spells are the second-order attack spell "golden Sabre", "fire snake", the second-order defense spell "golden light protection", and the second-order auxiliary spells "heavenly eye" and "earth escape".

The Qi practice period skills and spells in the Sutra cave of the Zhou family can't help the people to read them, but they can't be taken out of the Sutra cave, and it is strictly forbidden to teach them to outsiders without permission.

Zhou Yang used to follow the instructions of his parents and elders. In addition to learning some simple first-order auxiliary spells, he did not distract his energy from learning those combat spells that were conducive to fighting, and focused all his energy on improving his cultivation.

But now, since he wants to go down the mountain to garrison one side, it is difficult to ensure that he will not encounter fighting magic. If he won't fight magic at that time, the means will be too single only by relying on a few magic tools in his hand, which is easy to be restrained and targeted.

Spells are easy to learn but difficult to master. It won't take long to learn how to use them. It took almost half a month to learn all the five spells with Zhou Yang's cultivation of Qi six layers.

At this time, it was not far from the one month period given to him by the old patriarch. He wrote a letter to explain the situation. He asked the middle-aged elders of the clan to bring it to the parents who were sitting in a xiuxianfang city thousands of miles away. Then he said goodbye to the familiar elders and fellow monks on the mountain and went down the mountain alone.

After going down the mountain, Zhou Yang led a camel necessary for walking in the desert from the people at the foot of the mountain and plunged directly into the boundless sand sea.

This is the first time he left Yuquan Lake oasis in 17 years and set foot in the desert for the first time in his two lives.

The sand sea is boundless, and people can easily lose their way.

Once lost in the sand sea, even the immortal who carries a lot of fresh water and food through the storage bag will eventually starve and die of thirst if he can't reach the oasis before the food and water run out.

Immortal practitioners are much stronger than ordinary people, but they can't completely dig the valley until they reach the golden elixir period. Even the purple house friars need to eat the meals made by Linggu or the spirit meat of monsters and animals regularly to maintain their physical needs.

In fact, even the golden elixir monks who can open up the valley dare not fly around in the boundless sand sea.

Jindan friars are not afraid of losing their way, but there are not only the danger of losing their way in the sand sea, but also all kinds of terrible natural disasters and powerful monsters that even Jindan friars can kill.

For example, the famous "black sand storm", once the golden elixir friars fall into it, they will be isolated from divine consciousness and shield five senses by the strange power contained therein, and finally be consumed by the endless force of the storm.

Another example is the most famous five level monster [sand bug] in the boundless sand sea. It has a body size of thousands of feet and has terrible sharp teeth in its mouth. It can bite the five level defense magic weapon with great strength. If the friar of the golden elixir accidentally falls into the mouth of the sand bug, he will also lose his life.

With these risks, unless there is a reason to come, those golden elixir friars will never easily go deep into the sand sea.

Fortunately, neither the terrible "black sand storm" nor the fifth order monster [sand worm] sleeping only in some underground spiritual veins in the depths of the desert will appear near the oasis. Otherwise, Zhou Yang may not dare to set foot in the desert alone.

He marched in the desert, one camel by one, in strict accordance with the map issued by his family. About five days later, he arrived at his destination - Qingping mountain

Qingping mountain is also an oasis, but it is an artificial oasis.

The oasis area is very small, only more than ten square kilometers. The oasis can be formed by the Zhou family, regardless of cost, investing tens of thousands of inferior spiritual stones here to create a second-order inferior spiritual vein.

The reason why the Zhou family spent so much to build an oasis here is that more than 50 years ago, a member of the Zhou family lost in the desert found a medium-sized refined iron ore vein here.

Refined iron ore is a kind of spiritual ore with a little aura. After smelting and processing, it can smelt the first-order spiritual object refined iron and the second-order spiritual object black iron. These two kinds of spiritual objects are the main materials for the Xiuxian family or sect to build ancestral halls, sutra pavilions, treasure houses and other important buildings. They are also the main materials for the smelter to refine most of the first-order and second-order magic weapons. There is a great demand in the market.

In order to mine the refined iron ore in the refined iron vein, the Zhou family can only build an oasis here for the miners to live. At the same time, in order to protect the miners from the attacks of low-level monsters in the desert, the Zhou family must send monks to garrison here.

Whether it is to build an oasis or let the garrison friars continue to practice, the Zhou family can only artificially create spiritual veins here.

Of course, all this investment is worth it.

Only this medium-sized refined iron vein, after processing and selling the refined iron ore mined every year, can bring the Zhou family a net profit of more than 500 pieces of inferior Lingshi. Over the past 50 years, the original investment has been doubled and earned back.

Moreover, judging from the reserves of refined iron veins, it can be mined for at least another 50 years.

The area of Qingping mountain oasis is very small, and most of the area has become the living area of miners. Only a 100 meter high hill in the center of the spirit vein has been delimited separately as the residence of monks and the warehouse of finished materials.

It can be said that xiaoshantou is the real Qingping mountain.

Because the current elder of the Zhou family is the second-order array mage, a second-order array "cloud sea splitting array" is also arranged on the spirit vein of Qingping mountain. The power of the array makes the small mountain covered by clouds all year round, which makes it difficult for people to see the layout.

Zhou Yang came to the outside of the array and shouted with his mana. The clouds in front of him surged and made a way for him to enter the mountain.

He entered along the array channel and soon saw the garrison friar inside, a thin looking middle-aged scholar, who ranked 16th among the "Xuan" generation friars of the Zhou family. His name was Zhou Xuanjin.

"Eh, how could it be yang'er? You'll take my place? Aren't you twenty? "

When Zhou Xuanjin, dressed up as a scholar, saw Zhou Yang coming in, she couldn't help but say hello. Before Zhou Yang saluted, she put down her book and asked questions.

"If you go back to Uncle 16, this is the arrangement of the old patriarch. He said that my nephew's cultivation has reached the standard of going down the mountain, and made an exception to let my nephew go down the mountain to experience in advance." Zhou Yang answered honestly.

Zhou Xuanjin looked stunned, and whispered in a puzzled voice: "have you reached the standard of going down the mountain? When did our Zhou family have this standard? "

After that, his heart moved as if he remembered something. He quickly applied a "heavenly eye technique" to himself, and looked at Zhou Yang up and down with golden eyes.

It doesn't matter. When he looked at it, he couldn't help opening his mouth and exclaimed, "ah! You have broken through to the sixth floor of Qi training! "