Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Qingyang Zhenren is a Yuanying real person. He accepts apprentices, and of course he needs to hold relevant ceremonies.

According to Xuanyang Xianzong's sect rules, the apprentices of the cultivators in the Yuan Ying period directly enjoy the treatment of the core disciples of the sect, and the acceptance ceremony held at the time of entry, all the cultivators in the Zifu period and above within the sect, as long as there is no particularly important matter Those who cannot leave the cave must be present to witness the ceremony.

Therefore, the ceremony of accepting apprentices held on that day was extremely huge. Hundreds of monks from Zifu and dozens of monks from Jindan period, as well as several monks from Nascent Soul period who were still in Xuanyang Xianzong Mountain Gate, all attended the ceremony in person to witness Zhou Guangcheng’s apprenticeship to Master Qingyang. this big thing.

This will be a very memorable viewing.

In order to protect Zhou Guangcheng, the matter about his possession of the [Xuanyang Spirit Body] will not be disclosed to anyone other than the current insider until he has sufficient self-protection ability.

Therefore, the monks watching the ceremony today, except for the first few Nascent Soul monks, only know that Zhou Guangcheng is Zhou Yang's son, a high-grade fire-type spiritual root cultivator.

Most of them thought that Zhou Guangcheng was able to worship Qingyang Zhenren as his teacher because of Zhou Yang's father's credit.

Although they couldn't understand, what kind of benefits did Zhou Yang use to impress Qingyang Zhenren and make him willing to accept his son as his apprentice.

After the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying simply said goodbye to their son Zhou Guangcheng, then left Xuanyang Xianzong together and went to the Zhoujia Mountain Gate in the Daoxuan Kingdom to visit and console the clansmen there.

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

Xiao Ying's busy thing is to attack the fifth-order alchemist, because Zhou Yang often uses "Ganyang Immortal Light" to help her temper her body and get rid of erysipelas. Although she has formed an elixir for less than a hundred years now, her cultivation has already reached the third golden elixir. Layer, the progress is not generally fast.

This allows her to save a lot of practice time to practice magical powers and improve her alchemy skills.

Zhou Yang has a lot of things to do. He wants to continue refining the fifth-order magic weapon, continue to improve his level of refining, and then take advantage of the free time of the "pregnancy weapon" to practice supernatural powers and improve his cultivation.

A cultivator of Jindan stage, as long as he doesn't want to give himself a vacation, he always has a lot of work to do.

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

When Zhou Guangxiang failed to form an elixir, he was disheartened and asked to see Zhou Yang, and asked to return to the boundless sand sea cultivation world for old age, Zhou Yang was shocked to find that eighteen years had passed!

"Are you going to return to the family? Well, the fallen leaves should always return to their roots. If you want to go back, go back!"

In the cave residence, Zhou Yang looked at his nephew who was already covered with white hair, and sighed in his heart. He said a thousand words, but in the end it just turned into a short sigh.

Zhou Guangxiang failed to form an elixir, he was already mentally prepared for this.

After all, this is Zhou Guangxiang's first attempt to form an elixir, and he has been severely injured before, which has damaged his fundamental vitality.

In front of the level of forming pills, there is no difference between high-grade spiritual roots and middle-grade spiritual roots.

What really makes a difference is the number of times of impacting pill formation. A high-grade spiritual root cultivator can cultivate to the ninth floor of the Purple Mansion faster, and has several times of impacting pill formation, while a middle-grade spiritual root cultivator may not even have a chance in his life.

Although Zhou Guangxiang is a high-ranking spiritual root cultivator, he used to put too much effort into family affairs and formation research, which caused his later practice to be much slower than before. The ninth floor of the Purple Mansion.

From this aspect, Zhou Guangxiang has made great contributions to the Zhou family, because he helped Zhou Yang share this part of the matter, allowing Zhou Yang to travel abroad with peace of mind to find opportunities to improve his cultivation.

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

But because of his family's consideration, Zhou Yang made the opposite decision at the last minute.

In Zhou Yang's opinion, if Zhou Guangxiang hadn't suffered that heavy injury, he would have used the first impact on the golden pill to accumulate experience, and if he tried to form the pill for the second time, using [Jade Liquid Golden Pill], at least 30-40% Grasp it successfully, and it's ready to go.

But in the absence of accumulated experience, even with the help of [Jade Liquid Gold Pill], in Zhou Yang's view, Zhou Guangxiang's success rate is difficult 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 cultivator, Lu Xuewei is now in her early 300s. She has already cultivated the seventh floor of the Purple Mansion. Opportunity to impact Jindan period.

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

With the effect of [Cold Jade Essence] and the help of [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir], Lu Xuewei only needs to accumulate one or two pill formation experience first, and the chance of success in the third pill formation will definitely exceed 60%!

On the one hand, the probability of success is less than 30%, and on the other hand, the probability of success is more than 60%. It is obvious how to choose.

What's more, Lu Xuewei's contribution to the Zhou family is also huge.

The spirit stone mine in the Zhou family was originally discovered by her. Most of the millions of spirit stones that Zhou Yang took from the Zhou family over the years actually came from the spirit stone mine she discovered.

Later, she contributed to Zhou Yang, "The Sword of Execution", a rare and incomparably rare divine ability to attack divine powers, which helped Zhou Yang fill in a shortcoming.

Therefore, when Zhou Yang saw Zhou Guangxiang's current appearance, although he felt uncomfortable for him, if he wanted to say he regretted it, he did not regret it.

After all, he is only a cultivator at the Jindan stage, and his abilities are limited. He can't really help everyone, and he can help with everything.

He can make his son the head of the Zhou family for Zhou Guangxiang. This kind of thing is completely within his ability. Even if someone complains that he is cronyism, it will not hurt him at all.

However, treasures like [Jade Liquid Gold Pill] cannot be bought with spiritual stones, they are valuable and can only be bought at certain times.

Even with Zhou Yang's current strength and wealth, it wasn't just a chance encounter, and it is very difficult to get it at ordinary times.

In this way, when there is only one copy of [Jade Liquid Golden Elixir], among the two people who are very close to him, the 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 heart. The failure to attack the golden core had completely destroyed his spirit and spirit, and his will was extremely depressed.

He was usually observant, but when he heard Zhou Yang's sigh, he thought that this ninth uncle was also completely disappointed in himself, and his heart suddenly felt sour, and he cupped his hands to Zhou Yang in a self-sacrificing manner: "Nephew, let's go. Now, Ninth Uncle, take care of yourself!"

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

"My nephew understands."

Zhou Guangxiang nodded slightly, then the tip of his nose was sour, and finally he couldn't help falling into tears, he knelt on the ground facing Zhou Yang with tears in his eyes, and sobbed: "Thank you for your care and support over the years, Uncle Jiu. It's a pity that my nephew is incompetent and failed to live up to Ninth Uncle's expectations. Ninth Uncle's great kindness to his nephew can only be repaid in the next life!"

Seeing this, Zhou Yang hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said, "Come up, Ninth Uncle, since I'm your elder, I should take care of you, but I don't want you to repay anything. Everything you've done for the family over the years, Ninth uncle, I also see it in my eyes, and keep it in my heart, you have not let down anyone, and you are worthy of the care and support you have received!"

"Ninth uncle's great kindness and great virtue, nephew has always kept it in mind. If it wasn't for ninth uncle and nephew's private storage of the foundation building for his sister, it would be enough for his nephew to be condemned by the clan."

"Later, my nephew didn't listen to Jiu Shu's words, and his reckless attempt to open up the Purple Mansion failed. It's also because Ninth Uncle, you selflessly gave [Purple Heart Chalcedony] to help your nephew open up the Purple Mansion."

"Afterwards, in order to pave the way for Tongxuan, your nephew did something stupid, and it was you, Ninth Uncle, who ignored the doubts of the clan, helped your nephew to fulfill his wish, and forcibly supported Tongxuan to become the patriarch."

"Not to mention, after your nephew was murdered by a traitor, Ninth Uncle, you rushed over to rescue your nephew as soon as you received the news, regardless of the background of the thief, to avenge your nephew."

Zhou Guangxiang looked at Zhou Yang tearfully and lost, his tone choked for a while.

"It's also because of your own self-confidence that you have been able to go all the way to this day. What I did, Ninth Uncle, was just to give you a chance!"

Zhou Yang sighed lightly, reached out and patted his nephew on the shoulder, and said nothing more.

He gave Zhou Guangxiang opportunities before, but this time, he left the opportunity to his apprentice. Although he did not regret it, 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 the ninth uncle again. I hope the ninth uncle will take care of himself. The Zhou family can live without Zhou Guangxiang, but we can't live without you, ninth uncle!"

Zhou Guangxiang took Zhou Yang's hand, looked at him with tears in his eyes, and murmured in a choked voice: "The only thing that my nephew can repay the ninth uncle for the rest of his life is to pray to God for the ninth uncle every day in the family, and to the ancestors. Pray, pray for Ninth Uncle, you will make further progress as soon as possible, form the Dao of Nascent Soul, and ascend to immortality!"

"Hey!"

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

Next, Zhou Yang personally sent Zhou Guangxiang to Zhou's house in the territory of Daoxuan, and handed him over to his son Zhou Tongxuan.

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

At this time, Zhou Shengyu also had the cultivation base of the seventh floor of the foundation, and in the decades of experience in family affairs, he had trained to become a qualified family leader.

Since he arrived in Daoxuan Kingdom, Zhou Yang naturally took him to Xuanyang Xianzong to visit his son Zhou Guangcheng.

At this time, Zhou Guangcheng was already in his thirties, and he had successfully built his foundation five years ago, and began to formally practice the "Xuanyang Baodian", the Xuanyang Xianzongzhengong method.

The father and son, who had not seen each other for 18 years, were speechless when they saw each other.

But after all, they are father and son connected by blood. After a brief silence, the estrangement quickly dissipated in the conversation.

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

Only through the conversation did he know that Zhou Guangcheng had been arranged by Qingyang Zhenren to go to some places for training over the years. And friends cannibalized, brothers against each other's goals, I have seen many evils in the world.

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

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

Therefore, after many experiences, Zhou Guangcheng has now become a "qualified" immortal cultivator. The qualified standard is naturally the standard in Zhou Yang's eyes.

"Building the foundation is still a little short. When you reach the Zifu period, my father will take you back to the boundless sand sea to cultivate the immortal world, and pay tribute to your grandparents. You should continue to practice hard. If it is true If you want to be your father and your mother, send a message back, and as long as we see it, we will definitely come to see you!"

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

"My son 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 while, but he knew that Zhou Yang would definitely not agree.

"Practice well."

Zhou Yang stared at his son's face for a while, and finally repeated his warning before leaving.

When he returned to Chongxuan Mountain, Wang Yanzhang, the named disciple who went out to travel, had already broken through to the ninth floor of the foundation building and returned.

At the beginning, he promised Wang Yanzhang that if he cultivated to the ninth floor of the Foundation Establishment, 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 requirements, Zhou Yang will of course not regret it.

So, in the witness of all the named disciples and Taoist companion Xiao Ying on the mountain, Zhou Yang held a formal apprenticeship ceremony, accepting Wang Yanzhang as his third apprentice, and giving a copy of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] on the spot. ] as a gift for the disciples.

After Wang Yanzhang received this gift, he was not in a hurry to open up the Purple Mansion, but he was patiently cultivating on the mountain, studying the experience of opening the Purple Mansion given to him by Zhou Yang, and by the way, he took the place of Zhou Yang to teach the younger brothers and sisters.

Zhou Yang admired this steadiness 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 who died early, that is, Zhou Guangxiang's Taoist companion Liu Xuanxuan.

This aptitude for spiritual roots made Wang Yanzhang more than 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 to achieve success. This state of mind has already surpassed many foundation-building cultivators of the same realm.

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

And the fact is exactly as he thought. After two years of preparation for self-cultivation and meditation, Wang Yanzhang began to retreat to open up the Purple Mansion, and then it took only seven months to successfully open the Purple Mansion and become a cultivator of the Purple Mansion.

However, when he succeeded in opening up the Purple Mansion, Zhou Yang, the master, had been in seclusion for several years, and he would not be able to congratulate him and give him gifts in the future.

Zhou Yang retreated this time, and planned to take the fifth-order high-grade spiritual pill [Ziyang Baodan], which was exchanged with 500,000 merit points, to attack the later stage of Jindan.

His cultivation has been increasing step by step over the years, and he is promoted to one level every few decades.

Counting the time, it has been more than 200 years since he formed the elixir. On average, he is promoted to one level every forty years.

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

Apart from those spiritual cultivators with extremely high aptitude, there are very few cultivators of the Jindan stage with high-grade spiritual root aptitude who can achieve this cultivation effect.

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

In this way, his cultivation speed is almost a step faster than those of those spiritual cultivators.

At least according to the records of the Xuanyang Xianzong, Lu Xuanji, who was carrying the [Xuanyang Spirit Body], was more than 650 years old when he reached the ninth floor of Jindan.

But Zhou Yang has just turned 500 years old now.

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

Helpless, he could only come out of the retreat, hoping to slowly improve his cultivation base with water mill work.

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

After leaving the customs, Zhou Yang first met Wang Yanzhang, the third disciple who had successfully opened up the Purple Mansion, and gave him several fourth-order instruments and some spiritual talismans as rewards.

Then he took his Taoist companion Xiao Ying, who was also in a bad mood because he failed to attack the fifth-order alchemist, and left Chongxuan Mountain together, 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 again to meet Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan, the monks from the Zhou family's Zifu who had come to the Floating Cloud Continent to visit the immortal world.

Zhou Shengfan and Zhou Shenghan had just arrived in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of Floating Cloud Continent, and now the Zhou family here, the main family affairs are still handled by Zhou Shengyu, who was at the foundation-building stage.

The arrival of Zhou Yang made the two of them, who had not seen the ancestor of the family for a long time, very happy, and seized the opportunity to ask Zhou Yang for advice on cultivation problems.

Zhou Yang thought that he had not preached for 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 practice and answering the problems encountered in the practice for the Zhou family disciples here. Confuse.

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

But Zhou Yang didn't preach until noon the next day, when he was answering a question from a junior in the Foundation Establishment period when he suddenly had a whim, his eyebrows beat violently, and his heart beat desperately several times faster than normal.

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

Zhou Yang's changes were hidden from those younger generations, but Xiao Ying, his Taoist companion who had been with him for hundreds of years, couldn't hide from her. After she discovered Zhou Yang's abnormality, she immediately asked voice transmission with a worried look on her face.

"The preaching ceremony will end here first, Patriarch, I have taken a step ahead."

Zhou Yang did not answer the Dao Companion's question. Instead, he endured the discomfort and announced the end of the preaching ceremony. He then gave the Dao Companion a reassuring look, and disappeared directly from the scene, entering a quiet room on the mountain.

In the quiet room, Zhou Yang was relieved and felt the reason for this sudden whim.

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

"Why the East? Does the East have anything to do with me?"

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 suddenly changed, and he suddenly stood up from the ground.

The warning just now on a whim, after careful feeling, he vaguely learned that someone very close to him in the far east was in danger.

But he looked back on his own experience and asked himself that he didn't have any close relationship with someone in the East.

It can make him have a whim warning. Generally speaking, it is not his blood descendant, or the Taoist companion who has done both spiritual and physical cultivation with him.

And after thinking about it, he found that the only person who met this condition was Jiang Fengxian, his confidante who hadn't seen him in two hundred years.

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

But two hundred years have passed~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Under normal circumstances, the other party should have returned from the trip long ago.

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

Now, on a whim, he sensed that someone related to him was in danger far away in the east, which made him wonder if Jiang Fengxian had an accident in the Donghuazhou Immortal Cultivation World.

I saw him abruptly stand 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 breathe a sigh of relief.

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

He took a breath and carefully put away the soul card again.

Before they parted, at his strong request, he and Jiang Fengxian each gave each other a piece of their own soul card, just in case they needed it. At this time, he could see his foresight at that time.

But he was only temporarily relieved.

In any case, being able to make him feel such a strong whim is enough to explain the situation of that person in the east. It is definitely not good now. Even if this danger is overcome, I don't know if there will be another danger in the future.

And this time, the whim also caused some kind of longing that he had been hiding in his heart to grow into an unstoppable madness.

"It can't go on like this. It seems that before I transform the pill and conjure a baby, I have to go to the Donghuazhou Immortal Cultivation World. If I don't see Fengxian again, make sure she is safe and sound. [Heart Demon Tribulation]!"

A look of firmness flashed in Zhou Yang's eyes, and he had already made up his mind.

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