Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Yellow sand door.

"I hope Master He will forgive me for coming here rashly and disturbing Master Qingxiu."

In front of the gate of a quiet and simple cave, Zhou Yang looked at He Canghai, a third-rank mid-level formation mage who walked out of the cave, and gently cupped his hands to express his apology.

At this time, two months have passed since the Zhou family held a family meeting. After discussing with a group of family elders about resuming the reconstruction work after the war, he hurried to Huang Shamen to ask for healing elixir for his father Zhou Xuanhao. By the way, I would like to invite this "Master He" in front of me to visit Zhou's house and arrange a "seven-star spirit test array" for Zhou's house.

Regarding the matter of obtaining the elixir, Guo Shuyun, the head of the General Affairs Hall of the Huangshamen, has already promised to help. He also paid a deposit of 5,000 spirit stones in advance for the pill purchase. Purchasing transactions, that is not something he can control.

Then he inquired about the location of He Canghai's cave from Ma Jingtao, a monk from Huang Shamen, and rushed to visit here.

"It turned out to be Patriarch Zhou. Why, Patriarch Zhou is here for the arrangement of the formation that I said last time?"

A look of amazement flashed across He Canghai's face, and he didn't intend to ask Zhou Yang to sit down in the cave, he just looked at him and asked why he came.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang was also very surprised.

When he came here, he had heard from Ma Jingtao that He Canghai had been obsessed with the formation method since he was a teenager, so his reaction to the world was very dull and slow, and he could even be said to be unreasonable.

Looking at it now, it really is not wrong at all.

However, he was not dissatisfied with this, and he was actually relieved in his heart.

He would rather deal with this kind of technical nerd than those sophisticated old foxes.

Dang even smiled and replied: "It's hard why the master still remembers this matter, that's right, Zhou came here this time because he wanted to ask the master to help set up a [Seven-Star Spirit Test Array]."

"Then do you have all the spirit stones with you? Let's agree first. If there are 10,000 spirit stones, you must not miss one."

He Canghai said, and gestured to Zhou Yang, as if he was afraid that Zhou Yang might hear him wrong.

"No problem, Zhou has brought the spirit stone, Master He, you can take it now!"

Zhou Yang touched his waist, took out a storage bag full of spirit stones and handed it to He Canghai.

He Canghai also took the storage bag unceremoniously, and on the spot he used his consciousness to penetrate into it and count the quantity.

After a while, he nodded slightly, looked at Zhou Yang with a slightly calm face and said: "Since Fellow Daoist Zhou has even brought the spirit stone, then He will go with Fellow Daoist Zhou, but before that, please ask Fellow Daoist to wait for you." For a few days, He needs to report to Zongmen and prepare some formation materials."

"It's easy to say, Master He, you can prepare as much as you can."

A few days later, He Canghai prepared the materials and went to Yuquan Lake Oasis with Zhou Yang.

On Yuquan Peak, He Canghai traveled all over the Lingshan Mountain, and finally found a suitable place for formation at the foot of the mountain by Yuquan Lake.

Different from the "Small Five Elements Lost Formation" in Zhou Yang's hands and the "Golden Spear Formation" arranged by the Zhou family at the spiritual veins of Haoyang Cave, the "Seven-Star Spirit Test Formation" is a fixed formation. Once deployed, it cannot be retracted and moved.

After He Canghai found the location of the formation, it took a full three months to refine and plant seven formation foundations before the formation was successfully arranged.

It took such a long time to arrange, and the cost of materials was still paid by himself, but He Canghai only charged 10,000 spirit stones for the formation, which can be regarded as a price of conscience.

Although Zhou Yang didn't understand formations, it didn't mean he didn't know the market for hiring people to set up formations. Therefore, after the formations were completed and accepted, he specially gave an extra thousand spirit stones for his hard work.

And although He Canghai was not very understanding of people and the world, he had no reason not to accept the benefits of being delivered to his door, and he accepted the gift with a smile without any politeness.

"Okay, I've finally completed one thing in my mind. With the [Seven-Star Spirit Testing Formation], the family's qi-training monks will no longer be busy trying to test the spiritual roots of mortal children, and complain too much!"

After seeing off He Canghai, Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang looked at the newly built "Seven-Star Spirit Test Array", with gratified smiles on their faces.

The "Seven-Star Spirit Test Formation" itself is of secondary importance, but the meaning it represents is extremely important. A family can afford someone to set up this formation, which shows that the family is now in a thriving and prosperous state.

It wasn't that the Zhou family couldn't afford such a sum of money before, but at that time, the Zhou family had to save every piece of Lingshi for the purchase of the Foundation Establishment Pill, so how could they be willing to spend such a large sum of money to buy such a Non-essential stuff?

That's why Zhou Minghan said that he had completed a matter of his heart, because the plan to build the "Seven-Star Spirit Test Array" had already been decided when he took over the Zhou family.

Of course, he had more than one thing on his mind, so after he smiled, he immediately looked at Zhou Yang and said:

"The next step is to plan for Xiaojiu's foundation-building celebration and promotion to the third-tier refiner celebration. Now that the chaos has subsided and everything is back to normal, our family's celebration at this time will not only boost the confidence and morale of the clansmen, but also boost the confidence and morale of the people." Raise the family's reputation!"

Although the reputation is false, the benefits it brings are real.

The greater the reputation of the Zhou family, the more the Zhou family's monks will be valued by other families and casual cultivators when they go out. Whether it is making friends or seeking help, it will be much more convenient.

Even sand bandits will look at the dishes when they start to loot, and they will not easily choose those members of the famous family to start.

At the same time, the greater the reputation of the Zhou family, the more trustworthy the items sold in the various shops of the Zhou family. Even when casual cultivators want to choose a family to join, they will give priority to these famous families.

Therefore, Zhou Yang did not directly object to Zhou Minghan's proposal to hold a celebration for himself.

He even gave a suggestion: "What the great-grandfather said is reasonable, but the grandson thinks that we should either not do it, or make it bigger and better. Great-grandfather, you can spread invitations and even send people to Fangshi. While promoting, let’s say that five years later, my Zhou family will hold a foundation-building ceremony at Yuquan Peak, and all monks who attend the celebration will have enough spiritual rice, spiritual wine, and spiritual meat!”

"Oh, what you mean by this is..." Zhou Minghan's expression changed, and he looked at Zhou Yang in surprise.

"You guessed it right. Today, our Zhou family no longer needs to hide and worry about being discovered where the family oasis is. We now have three Foundation Establishment monks and two Foundation Establishment Pill reserves. This kind of Strength, can completely deter those young people, so that they don't dare to think about our family Lingshan."

Zhou Yang nodded and expressed his thoughts frankly.

Opening up the oasis of the family to let outsiders know that this is something that a powerful cultivating family must do, and it is also something that is of great benefit to the development of the family.

There were quite a few monks who knew the location of the Yuquan Lake oasis of the Zhou family before, but there were even more people who didn't know. No matter how loudly the name "Yuquan Zhou family" was called, it would give people a sense of emptiness.

As the saying goes: hearing is believing, seeing is believing.

No matter how loudly the name of "Yuquan Zhou Family" is called, for outsiders who don't know the truth, it's not as useful as they come to see it in person.

Those who can see the Zhou family's oasis and Lingshan, who can find the Zhou family, and those monks who are not familiar with the Zhou family, will feel more at ease when doing business with the Zhou family, and will give priority to the Zhou family.

"Okay, since you want to make it bigger, let's make it bigger. The old man will handle this matter personally this time. At that time, the old man will let the wind out and say that after this celebration, a small exchange meeting will be held to thank you Participating Foundation Establishment comrades!"

After Zhou Minghan pondered for a while, he finally nodded in agreement with Zhou Yang's suggestion.

The plan has been decided, Zhou Minghan should go out to leave the oasis in person, and go to the surrounding families to send invitations one by one to invite their family patriarchs to come to watch the ceremony. Some famous casual cultivators in the foundation establishment period are also among his invitations.

Zhou Yang sits in charge of the family and handles some family affairs while practicing.

After about half a year like this, Zhou Yang, who was practicing, suddenly received a letter for help.

"What? A third-tier high-grade monster appeared in Haoyang Grotto!"

In the cave at the top of Yuquan Peak, Zhou Yang looked at the message attached to the Messenger Flying Sword in his hand, his face was full of shock.

The news that Feijian was sent by his father Zhou Xuanzhen, since he was seriously injured by Xue Moluo and returned to the family, Zhou Xuanzhen went to Haoyang Grotto to recuperate and sit in the township.

This is also the reason why Zhou Yang has never returned to the Haoyang Grotto to practice. Yuquanfeng cannot live without foundation-building monks.

But now, Zhou Xuanzhen, who was originally hiding in the Haoyang Grotto to recover from his injuries, sent him a message for help, Feijian, saying that in the underground dark river in the Haoyang Grotto, a third-level high-grade water-type monster suddenly appeared beast!

Immediately, Zhou Yang quickly sent a message to Feijian to his father, asking him to leave the scene temporarily, and then rushed towards Haoyang Grotto at full speed.

After more than an hour, Zhou Yang Yujian rushed to the oasis outside the Lingmai of Haoyang Grotto, and met his father Zhou Xuanzhen, who was watching here, Zhou Xuanyan, the fourth elder of the Zhou family who built the oasis, and his mother Lin Yuting.

"About two hours ago, a black-scaled demon fish exuding the aura of a third-tier high-grade monster broke through the formation in the underground river and appeared in the dark river in the spiritual vein. Activating the [Golden Spear Formation] shocked it back into the dark river."

Zhou Xuanhao explained what happened to Zhou Yang with a pale face, his voice trembling.

This is not because he is timid, but because he forcibly used a lot of mana to control the third-order formation "Shoutu Jin Ge Formation", which affected the wound on his meridians and caused him unbearable pain.

"My son understands. Father, you should go back to Yuquanfeng to recuperate your wounds. Let my son take care of it here."

Zhou Yang supported his father's body with a tense expression, both startled and angry in his heart.

Originally, although Zhou Xuanhao's injury could not be healed, it was temporarily stabilized and did not continue to deteriorate, but now after this episode, I am afraid that some bad changes will occur again.

"Be careful, water-type monsters have home bonuses in the dark river. Don't go down the river to fight with them. If it doesn't work, we can give up Haoyang Cave temporarily!"

Zhou Xuanhao also knew that it was useless for him to stay here, and he didn't object to Zhou Yang's words to let him go back to recuperate. He just reminded him with a worried face, fearing that his impulsiveness would cause a catastrophe.

"Father, don't worry, the child will not be brave."

Zhou Yang nodded, his face full of solemnity.

What Zhou Xuanhao said is correct, water-type monsters have home bonuses in the water, and monks with non-water-type and lightning-type skills enter the water to fight against them, and I am afraid that even 80% of their strength will not be able to display their strength.

A cultivator of the fire element, like Zhou Yang, will be suppressed even more.

Moreover, water-type monsters rarely appear in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Realm, so that most of the water-type monsters that appear do not know their origins.

This meant that Zhou Yang couldn't understand the methods of the water-type monster before the battle like he did with other monsters before, and then prescribe the right medicine.

The challenge failed, there is not a single word in the manuscript, oh my god, the winter in Hunan is too cold, it is so cold that my fingers are so cold!