Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Guangxiang's data surprised Zhou Yang.

He didn't expect that just fifty-five years later, so many members of the Zhou family would not meet the assessment conditions.

Although he also knew that this data had recorded the conditions of several generations of clansmen in the past fifty-five years, and even some of them had already exhausted their lifespan.

But even so, the problem is still a bit serious.

It must be known that the number of clan members still alive on the Zhou family's genealogy is only over 1,800!

"With so many people failing to pass the assessment, there must be a lot of grievances within the clan? Haven't you thought about lowering the assessment requirements or extending the assessment period?"

Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Guangxiang and asked, but he couldn't see anything on his face.

"Of course there is resentment, but my nephew thinks it's not at the point where it can't be implemented. Uncle Ninth may not know it. Now, many members of our Zhou family have learned a superficial skill. Even if they fail the test, they won't get it. The welfare and offerings distributed by the family can also be paid by farming the land and taking care of the orchard, medicine garden, and animal garden, and my nephew also instructed the family to give priority to them in this regard.”

"Moreover, the Foundation Building Pills have been spilled over the past few years. Seeing other cultivators who have worked hard to cultivate and pass the examinations and obtained the Foundation Building Pill's success, those juniors who really have potential have corrected their mentality and put most of their minds on it. above the practice."

"As long as these juniors work hard to cultivate, and with the help of the rich resources that the family can provide today, it is not difficult for them to pass the assessment, and what we really need to grow our family, isn't it these people?"

Zhou Guangxiang calmly explained to Zhou Yang, the meaning of the words obviously denied the matter of reducing the difficulty of the assessment and prolonging the assessment time.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, you are the patriarch of the family. Since you think there is no problem, I will have no problem with Ninth Uncle."

Zhou Guangxiang breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly bowed his hands: "Uncle Xie understands."

"Ninth uncle, I don't want to worry about family affairs, but there are some things that I have to let you know about."

Zhou Yang looked at the nephew in front of him, and slowly said that he would open up a cave to practice in the Floating Cloud Continent Cultivation Realm in the future.

He has made a decision on this matter and will not change it.

But on the Zhou family's side, they must be informed, at least Zhou Guangxiang and other high-level officials should know it.

After he finished talking about this important event, he continued: "In addition, in a year or two, Uncle Ninth, I will go to the Xiu Xianjie in the extreme west, and then ask Guangxiang to go with me, she has already I haven't seen my Taoist companion and children who I stayed there for decades!"

"And I bought three copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] for the family this time, how to distribute them, I don't ask Uncle Ninth, you set a standard yourself."

"When I come back from the extreme west, I will officially go to the Floating Cloud Continent to cultivate in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. At that time, you will arrange for a few capable family cultivators to go there with me to serve and call me, and prepare me two million lower-grade spirits. Stone and a batch of excellent third-order magic tools and magic talismans, these things are put together with the [Ningyuan Fruit] that I picked, and I will take them with me when the time comes!"

Zhou Guangxiang finally couldn't keep his composure any longer.

He looked at Zhou Yang in astonishment and confusion, and didn't understand why the ninth uncle just went out for such a trip, why he didn't want this house!

"Nine, ninth uncle, are you going to give up the family?"

He looked at Zhou Yang with trembling lips and asked, his voice choked up a little.

At this moment, he seemed to have become the young man who always wanted to rely on the help of his elders in everything, because when he suddenly heard that his elders were going to abandon him and leave, he felt hesitant in his heart.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Ninth Uncle, I have paid so much for this family, how can I give up the family?"

"You, you, although your brain is flexible and smart, you can see that your awareness is still short after all. Your eyes are only limited to this small boundless sand sea and immortal world, and you can't see the wider world outside!"

"You don't even think about it. If Ninth Uncle, I have always been like you, and I have been in this boundless sand sea cultivating immortal world, how can I have this cultivation level today? If Ninth Uncle, I have been cultivating here, how can I let me The Zhou family walked out of the sand sea and completed the goal that the previous overlords of the boundless sand sea cultivation world could not achieve?"

"Compared to the entire [Spiritual World], this Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World is a small pond, and only small fish and shrimps below the Jindan stage can live here, like Jiu Shu and me who have jumped out of the small pond. Crocodile, only by going to the rivers, lakes and seas outside to fight dragons can you continue to grow, and you will have the opportunity to jump out of the small pond and become big crocodiles!"

"Wait until the day when some of you little fish and shrimps will be turned into big crocodiles and can shelter this small pond. At that time, Uncle Ninth, I will really be able to travel around the world with confidence and enjoy the world!"

Zhou Yang reprimanded this nephew with a look of hating iron but not steel, making Zhou Guangxiang face ashamed and speechless.

He was really panicked just now, only thinking that after Zhou Yang was not in the family, the Zhou family would lose a pillar of optimism.

However, he forgot that Zhou Yang had actually been away from the family for much longer than he had been in the family over the years, and the family had not experienced any problems because of it.

At this time, he was reprimanded and explained by Zhou Yang, and he suddenly understood.

"Ninth Uncle, what you taught is that it was your nephew who was wrong. Your nephew shouldn't doubt you. Your nephew is short-sighted and short-sighted, you should be scolded!"

With a face full of shame, he hurriedly lowered his head to admit his mistake, wishing to slap himself a few times.

Zhou Yang is right, his knowledge is indeed a little short, and he is confined to this small boundless sand sea cultivating immortal world.

Even if Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang used to talk to him about the situation in the outside world after they came back, but listening to people tell stories about them, it is always better to go out and broaden their horizons and see them in person.

This is also why Huangshamen used to send cultivators from the Zifu period to the Floating Cloud Continent to visit the immortal world in turn, in order to prevent those in power in the sect from being restricted by the small pond of the boundless sand sea cultivating world. Confined to this small pond for a lifetime.

Knowing shame and then being brave, after Zhou Guangxiang wanted to understand this, he immediately bowed solemnly to Zhou Yang and said: "Ninth uncle, my nephew has a request, this time you are going to the Xiuxian realm in the extreme west, can you bring your nephew with you? My nephew also wants to meet my brother-in-law, nephews and nieces, so as to broaden my horizons and knowledge, so as not to make such mistakes in the future!"

"Even if you don't mention this, Ninth Uncle, I want to tell you about it. It's rare that you brought it up yourself. It seems that you really realize your own shortcomings. This is very good, very good!"

Zhou Yang nodded slightly, very pleased with Zhou Guangxiang's request.

His requirements have always been very high. If Zhou Guangxiang is unwilling to leave the family for "advanced studies" after experiencing this incident, he will really consider changing the patriarch in advance.

The patriarch of the Zhou family may not be the best in cultivation, but his vision must be superior, beyond the limitations of the boundless sand sea cultivation world.

Only in this way can we give the next generation, the next generation of outstanding clansmen, in the Zhou family a seed that leaps out of the pond from a young age.

Only in this way can he be consistent with the thinking of the ancestor of his family, and carry out corresponding reforms to the family in accordance with his thinking.

In fact, it's not just Zhou Guangxiang, because this trip to the extreme west should not be dangerous, and the time will not be too long. Zhou Yang has decided to take most of the Zhou family's current foundation-building cultivators to broaden their horizons.

This is a good opportunity for further study. Those monks in the foundation-building stage have seen the prosperity of the outside world, and they will have more cultivation motivation when they return to the back of the family. When that time comes, they will cooperate with the news of the three "Purple Heart Chalcedony" he brought back to stimulate them. The effect is definitely doubled.

Even Zhou Yang had already thought about it. For the foundation-building cultivators who went out this time, everyone had to write a travel note and put it in the family's academy, so that the younger generation of the family could read and study from an early age.

There are also language training classes that will be held at the same time, so that Zhou Tongxuan will wait for the monks who have been to the outside world to teach some outstanding disciples of the Zhou family to learn the accent of the outside world, so that they can better hide their true identities after they go out.

Their Zhou family must go out of the boundless sand sea cultivation world in the future, and before that, the children of the Zhou family need to have a clear understanding of the situation in the outer world of immortal cultivation.

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

Education cannot be accomplished overnight, so it must be planned in advance.

The news that Zhou Yang returned to the boundless sand sea cultivation world quickly spread, and it didn't take long for Xu Jinyao, the new head of Huangshamen, who heard the news, to personally arrive at Lingxi Peak to visit him.

Xu Jinyao took over as the head of Huangshamen more than 40 years ago. As for the original head of Huangshamen, Yang Wenxiong, he passed away more than 30 years ago.

Speaking of which, Yang Wenxiong, the head of Huangshamen, was quite qualified. At least during his time in power, Huangshamen did not experience any major turmoil. The vitality of the previous turmoil and losses is also slowly recovering.

By the time Xu Jinyao took over as the head of the sect, although there were still no Jindan cultivators, Huangshamen had recovered to the number of five Zifu cultivators, and there were more than 200 foundation-building cultivators.

In terms of cultivation, Xu Jinyao's cultivation on the fifth floor of the Purple Mansion was not the highest in Huangshamen, but Yang Wenxiong passed on the position of head to him, but it was his mind and youth that he valued.

As a cultivator focused on training during Yang Wenxiong's reign, Xu Jinyao is very young, and is only over 260 years old now. In this way, even if his cultivation base also stops in the Zifu period in the future, he can still lead Huangshamen for more than 200 years. .

For the current Huangshamen, internal stability is more important than everything else, and a head who can reign for a long time is more likely to convince the disciples of the sect.

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On Lingxi Peak, as soon as Xu Jinyao saw Zhou Yang, he took the initiative to pay homage to the younger generation. He was very humble, and he was not proud of his status as the head of Huangshamen.

This alone made Zhou Yang feel very comfortable.

In terms of cultivation, he is a fourth-level cultivator of Jindan, and in terms of age, he is nearly a hundred years older than Xu Jinyao.

In this case, if Xu Jinyao still holds the identity of the head of Huangshamen, if he plays some cards in front of him, he will not be happy.

"Hey! I didn't expect Zhou to travel for decades, and when he came back, he lost a few old friends. The head of Yang's generation is a hero, what a pity!"

Zhou Yang looked at Xu Jinyao who was respectful in front of him, but he did not rush to ask the other party's intentions, but sighed deeply, remembering Yang Wenxiong, the deceased old man.

Not counting the cultivators within the Zhou family, there are only a few cultivators outside the Zhou family who can be called his old friends.

Now, both Yang Wenxiong and Chen Pingan of the Chen family have passed away.

The remaining Nie Qiufeng from the Nie family is also not far from the limit of Shouyuan, and it won't last long.

The rest, although there were still a few Zifu cultivators who had been promoted in the past two hundred years and had some exchanges with him, they were just ordinary interpersonal exchanges.

Xu Jinyao couldn't figure out what Zhou Yang meant, so he could only follow his words: "Master Yang, his old man walked very peacefully, and before he left, he told his junior that there were not many people he admired in his life, but you are senior Zhou. The most powerful one among them, and explained that the younger generation should be like Senior Zhou learning to ask for advice, and you are the example of the senior."

For this kind of remark, Zhou Yang just smiled lightly and didn't take it seriously.

He also didn't want to be condescending with Xu Jinyao in this regard, and said bluntly, "Fellow Daoist Xu, let's talk about your purpose of coming to see Zhou, but is there anything that needs Zhou's help?"

Xu Jinyao was somewhat embarrassed when he heard what he said.

His mouth moved, and after a while, he said, "Don't dare to deceive the seniors, the juniors are here this time, and they really have something to ask for."

What Xu Jinyao asked for was nothing new, but a reminder, or rather, to urge Zhou Yang to complete the agreement he had made with Cao Wenjin, and to find a "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir" for Huangshamen.

At the beginning, Cao Wenjin gave Zhou Yang a copy of "Purple Heart Chalcedony" that he had prepared for his daughter, and made an agreement with him that when Zhou Yang reached the Golden Core Stage, he would find it for Huangshamen at a half price discount. A "Jade Liquid Golden Elixir".

Now more than two hundred years have passed since the agreement that was made at the beginning, and Zhou Yang has formed a golden pill just as Cao Wenjin expected.

Therefore, Xu Jinyao, the new head of Huangshamen, began to worry about this matter.

Because it was something that he had promised at the beginning, it was difficult for Zhou Yang to refuse Xu Jinyao's request.

However, the treasure of "Jade Liquid Gold Pill" is too rare, and he did not dare to guarantee that he would be able to get it within a certain period of time. He could only give Xu Jinyao a vague promise, saying that he would abide by the agreement and handle this matter well. .

Fortunately, Xu Jinyao was also knowledgeable and did not push too hard. He had a good attitude and just asked him to pay more attention, and left him with an advance payment of 600,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Zhou Yang knew that if he didn't accept the advance payment, it would make Xu Jinyao feel that he didn't take the matter to heart, so he readily accepted it on the spot.

Sure enough, seeing his spirit stone like this, Xu Jinyao finally showed a look of reassurance on his face, and then took advantage of the situation to ask him some questions about his cultivation, and then he took the initiative to leave.

"Yang Wenxiong chose a good successor. This Xu Jinyao may not be able to restore their former glory to Huangshamen, but there should be no problem in keeping Huangshamen's foundation."

Inside the cave, Zhou Yang looked at Xu Jinyao's leaving back, silently made a judgment, and then ignored this person.

The height he was in made it difficult for him to put his limited energy on these outsiders who could not pose a threat to him.

Xu Jinyao may be good, but even if he succeeds in forming an elixir, Zhou Yang is 100% sure that he can easily subdue him. How can such a person deserve his attention?

It didn't take long for Zhou Guangxiang to arrange the affairs of the family, and then he rushed to Lingxi Peak to join Zhou Yang with seventeen Zhou family's foundation-building cultivators.

This time to go to the extreme west, the Zhou Guangxiang brothers and sisters will go. Lu Xuewei, who has just returned from the Floating Cloud Continent, will temporarily replace them to guard the family, including Zhou Tongxuan and other three foundation-building cultivators. This time, they will also stay in the family. .

Zhou Yang even put the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle, who had been promoted to the fourth-rank middle-rank monster, on Lingxi Peak, so that Lu Xuewei could ride on the road and defend against possible enemies.

After everything was ready, Zhou Yang rushed to the underground ruins with a group of juniors, put the "profound crystal stone" with a large head on top of the altar teleportation array, and took out thirty-six top-grade spiritual stone plugs. into the spiritual stone groove.

It is also that he is now rich, and the number of high-grade spirit stones he has saved has reached more than one hundred pieces. Otherwise, he would really be reluctant to use this teleportation array.

Because of the previous experience, I didn't bring low-level qi training cultivators when I teleported this time. Naturally, there were no casualties after the teleportation.

And a safe way to leave in the "Valley of Falling Devils" has long been explored, and Zhou Yang quickly walked out of the "Valley of Falling Devils" with a group of juniors.

Then, he summoned the ghost servant Xu Song, who had been smothering in the "Yunshen Card".

"Fellow Daoist Xu, you will practice in this [Devil Falling Valley] in the future, and by the way, help Zhou guard the teleportation formation, um, if the younger generations of the Zhou family in Cangyuan Xiancheng have something to ask you, you can also help as appropriate. They have a hand, but the most important thing is to guard the teleportation formation!"

Outside the "Falling Devil Valley", Zhou Yang looked at the ghost cultivator who had followed him for more than two hundred years in front of him, and after being silent for a while, he revealed his arrangements for him.

With his current cultivation level, Xu Song's strength is no longer helpful to him, and the inheritance of the formation technique and the inheritance of the refining tool that Xu Song has mastered has long been squeezed out by him.

But he is a nostalgic person after all, and he can't do that kind of thing of crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, so before coming to the extreme west this time, he made a decision to give Xu Song a certain degree of "freedom" and let him fall in the "fall". "Magic Valley", a place suitable for the cultivation of ghosts and demons, spent the rest of his life in peace, and by the way, helped him guard the teleportation formation.

Xu Song also did not expect that Zhou Yang, who had not let himself out for a long time, gave himself such a big surprise as soon as he released himself.

"Xu did not see the wrong person, Daoyou Zhou is indeed a kind person!"

"Thanks, Xu will not say more, please rest assured Zhou Daoyou, as long as Xu is alive for a day, no one will let people pass through the teleportation array here, threatening the family of Daoyou in the boundless sand sea and immortal world!"

He looked at Zhou Yang with surprise, and after being silent for a while, he just possessed himself and bowed to Zhou Yang, making a solemn promise.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang nodded with satisfaction and said: "With Daoyou Xu's words, Zhou can be completely at ease, and please rest assured, as long as Zhou really finds a way to the Nether in the future, he will definitely come and let him know. Daoist friend, bring Daoist friend over."

When Xu Song joined him, the only requirement was that if he found a passage leading to the "Netherworld" in the future, he would be released into the Netherworld.

Zhou Yang now mentions this matter again, and also shows that he has always remembered this matter to reassure him.

When Xu Song heard what he said, he nodded and replied, "Xu will always wait for that day to come!"

After Xu Song was arranged, Zhou Yang flew to Cangyuan Xiancheng with a group of Zhou family juniors.

A thousand miles away from the immortal city of Cangyuan, Zhou Yang put down the monks of the Zhou family, and then temporarily lent the mask donated by Lu Xuanji to Zhou Guangxiang to hide his face, and then Zhou Guangxiang took Zhou Guangxiang and the others. Go to Cangyuan Xiancheng.

But he himself quietly went to the Lingshan Mountain of the Zhou family outside the city, and sent a message flying sword to Zhou Tongyue, the patriarch who was in charge of the Zhou family branch, and the elder Li Hong, so that the two would come out to meet him.

Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong were both surprised and delighted when they received Zhou Yang's message from Feijian.

In the past few decades, except that Zhou Yang sent them some treasures when he returned to the boundless sand sea cultivation world through the extreme western land, they have no connection with the Zhou family, so that the two sometimes endure it. He couldn't stop thinking about whether Zhou Yang had given up on them.

And because Zhou Yang was still wanted by the entire "Neiguang League", they didn't even dare to talk to the younger monks of the Zhou family about the existence of this family ancestor, lest they leak the secret and bring disaster to the family.

And in these years ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ because the speed of expansion of the Zhou family in Cangyuan Xiancheng is somewhat unusual, many surrounding forces have begun to investigate their origins, trying to find the reason for their rise.

This kind of investigation has made them nervous for a long time, for fear that the true origin of the Zhou family will be found out.

Fortunately, when those forces started to investigate, all the cultivators of the Zhou family who had come to the extreme west with Zhou Yang during the Qi training period all sat down, and the few cultivators who knew the true origin of the Zhou family followed Li Hong's suggestion to move. After entering Cangyuan Xiancheng to live, it is easy not to go out.

This made it impossible for those investigators to find out more in-depth information even if they found out some problems with the origins fabricated by the Zhou family.

But even so, this matter has always become a big stone in the hearts of Zhou Tongyue and Li Hong, so that they dare not have any negligence and slack, and bear great pressure.

In this case, now I finally received a message from Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the Zhou family, how could they not be surprised.

Immediately, neither of the two dared to divulge any news, and soon they each found an excuse to sneak out of the family's spiritual mountain. to Zhouyang. _