Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Red Fox Ridge.

When Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang returned here, there were still white curtains hanging in front of the doors of the houses and on the big trees above Lingshan.

The demise of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan was an extremely sad event for all Zhou family members.

For the Zhou family, he is not only a ninth-level foundation-building monk, a third-level high-grade craftsman, but also an elder who everyone admires and respects.

When such an elder passed away, it was not an exaggeration for the entire Zhou family to wear mourning for him.

"Yang'er, this is the suicide note left by the old patriarch. We also found this suicide note together with his storage bag after his death. The old man has long had a death wish in his heart, and he has long since given away a magic weapon. And the savings are hidden in the family spirits brought back!"

On Chihu Ridge, after Zhou Yang put the urn formed by the cremation of the head of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan into the ancestral hall, Zhou Xuanhao, who accompanied him to worship, took out a jade slip with a slap of the storage bag give him.

Zhou Minghan wrote several suicide notes, everyone close to him has a copy, and now only Zhou Yang's and Zhou Xuanyu's have not been opened.

"Is there still no news from the step-mother and step-sister?"

Zhou Yang clenched the jade slip with a heavy heart, and instead of opening it in a hurry to read, he asked about his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu.

Since Zhou Xuanyu took Zhou Yuanyao out to practice seven or eight years ago, there has been no news. If there is no problem with the soul card she left in the family, all the senior members of the Zhou family would doubt whether she died accidentally.

And Zhou Yang knew that although Zhou Minghan never mentioned this matter, the old patriarch must hope that his only granddaughter can accompany him to die when his life is getting closer and closer. .

Now that Zhou Minghan passed away, not to mention the death, Zhou Yang could guess that Zhou Xuanyu would definitely be mentioned in the suicide note given to him by the old patriarch.

"No, the last time Sanmei asked Yao'er to convey the news was five years ago. At that time, she only said in the letter that everything was normal and did not mention other things."

Zhou Xuanhao shook his head, and answered Zhou Yang's question in a low voice.

"The child understands."

Zhou Yang was silent for a while, nodded, and then went straight back to his bedroom in Ziyun Cave, opened Zhou Minghan's suicide note and began to read it.

"Xiao Jiu, when you read this suicide note, the old man must no longer be alive."

"You are the pride of our Zhou family. The old man is very satisfied with everything you have done since you took over as the patriarch, but the only thing that is not satisfied is that you have to be brave in everything, and you only want to have a clear heart in doing things, but you don't think about it. Consequences of failure!"

"You are the patriarch of the Zhou family and the hope of the entire Zhou family. Have you ever thought about what kind of situation the Zhou family will be in if something happens to you?"

"The old man said this, not to accuse you, but just to warn you for the last time, since you have chosen to be the patriarch of the Zhou family, you must change your behavior in the future!"

"The way I don't care about others, I just want to have a clear conscience is only suitable for those lone monks who are alone!"

"As the head of the Zhou family, let's not talk about personal matters. When it comes to the affairs of the whole family, you should learn to focus on the overall situation. Don't involve too much personal emotion in making decisions. You should look at the overall situation and make decisions. Make a decision."

"A gecko can be reborn if its tail is cut off, but a snake without a head is sure to die!"

"The Zhou family is prosperous because of you, Xiaojiu. If something happens to you, Xiaojiu, the Zhou family will definitely die because of you!"

"The old man knows that you are smart and have your own opinions, and you may not listen to others' words, no matter how reasonable, so this time the old man did not argue with you about who will go to the Chen family to help you, but use your own body to help you." This last lesson, I hope that when you experience similar things in the future, you can put more emphasis on the overall situation and stop relying on personal emotions!"

...

After Zhou Yang read Zhou Minghan's suicide note, his eyes were wet with tears.

"I killed my great-grandfather!"

He remembered the conversation between himself and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan that day, and Zhou Minghan's expression of hesitation and hesitation at that time, his face was immediately filled with remorse.

If he hadn't known that Zhou Minghan's life span was only a few years old, and wanted him to stay in the family to take care of his life and wait for the end to come, Zhou Minghan would not have used his life so resolutely to teach him the last lesson of his life !

Thinking about it now, if Zhou Minghan was allowed to go to the White Hump, he would have been protected by a large formation protecting the mountain. With Zhou Minghan's cultivation base, it would not be a problem to survive until Cao Wenjin arrived at the end.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, and he would never have thought in advance that he made a wrong thing out of good intentions!

In a sense, Zhou Minghan's goal has been achieved. The last lesson he taught Zhou Yang with his own life is indeed thought-provoking and Zhou Yang will never forget it in his life.

In this way, Zhou Yang locked himself in the bedroom for seven days before he left the bedroom to deal with family affairs.

The whole family of Zhou family monks migrated to Chihu Ridge, which naturally brought great pressure to the Lingshan here. After all, these are hundreds of monks in the Qi training period and several foundation-building monks.

But now that the situation is unclear, Zhou Yang dare not let people move back to the Yuquan Lake oasis rashly.

Therefore, after some deliberation, he decided to let some low-level monks return to Yuquan Peak and Haoyang Mountain to cultivate the spiritual fields, so as not to let the spiritual fields be abandoned, and at the same time let the ordinary people of the Zhou family know that the Zhou family monks did not really of abandoning them.

The rest of the monks are still concentrating on practicing at Chihuling for the time being.

In order to solve the problem of spiritual energy consumed by these people's practice, Zhou Yang specially took out 30,000 spiritual stones from the family savings, and raised the level of the spiritual veins of Chihuling to the third-level middle-grade.

Then he asked his father Zhou Xuanhao to take over the position of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, and when he was in retreat or not in the family, he acted as the patriarch to handle family affairs.

After dealing with all kinds of things that urgently needed to be handled by himself, Zhou Yang bid farewell to his father and Taoist companions, and sat down directly in Ziyun Cave.

This time, if he does not advance to the ninth floor of Foundation Establishment, he will never leave the retreat!

...

Zhou Yang's retreat did not affect the operation of the Zhou family, nor did it affect the situation in the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea.

After more than half a year of his retreat, Jiang Yuyan officially became the "Golden Elixir of Heretics" and left the retreat.

After she left the customs, Cao Wenjin, who had only a short lifespan left, immediately led dozens of family foundation-builder monks called together with her, and attacked the Lingshan where Guo Shuyun was stationed.

Originally, Guo Shuyun and Luo Yunqing signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement. If one side is attacked, the other side will need support.

Facing Jiang Yuyan, who had cultivated the "Heterogenetic Gold Elixir", and Cao Wenjin, whose real strength was unknown, Luo Yunqing would not have the courage to leave the formation and go out to fight.

So in the end, Guo Shuyun, who was isolated and helpless, had to abandon Lingshan after persisting for several months, and escaped from the siege through the "Blood Escape Technique" alone, and fled to Luofeng Mountain to join Luo Yunqing.

After breaking through the Lingshan Mountain occupied by Guo Shuyun, Jiang Yuyan and Cao Wenjin slaughtered all the monks who followed Guo Shuyun's rebellion on the Lingshan Mountain, and then surrounded Luofeng Mountain with all their troops, completely cutting off Luofeng Mountain from communicating with the outside world. channel.

However, they can only encircle Luofeng Mountain. Facing Luofeng Mountain, which is guarded by Luo Yunqing and Guo Shuyun, two Zifu period monks and dozens of Foundation Establishment monks, unless they can gather hundreds of Foundation Establishment monks and two The monks of the three thousand qi training period stormed for a year and a half, otherwise they would not even think about breaking the mountain protection formation of Luofeng Mountain.

It's not that Huang Shamen can't do this, but to do this, they must first completely suppress the rebellious monk families outside Luofeng Mountain, so that they can devote their entire clan's strength to this matter without any worries.

The Zhou family's monks did not participate in the battle of Luofeng Mountain, but Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Guangxiang, brother and sister, and more than a dozen late-stage Qi training monks were also sent to help Huang Shamen put down various rebellious families.

For these people, this counter-insurgency is not only an opportunity to practice, but also an opportunity to reap benefits.

It's just that this kind of good times didn't last long. Cao Wenjin finally couldn't hold on and sat in the frontline army after besieging Luofeng Mountain for a year.

His sitting down not only made Huang Shamen lose a top-level combat power, but also dealt a major blow to the morale of the army.

Without his help, Jiang Yuyan alone could crush Luo Yunqing and Guo Shuyun in terms of combat power, but it was no longer possible to completely block Luofeng Mountain and prevent any monks from entering or leaving.

Moreover, after the news of Cao Wenjin's resignation spread, some forces and casual cultivators who had been silent before and did not dare to act rashly began to move again.

Those monks from Luo Yunqing's side who were still fighting guerrillas with the monks of Huang Shamen's suppression of the rebellion in the sea of ​​sand returned to the family Lingshan with high morale and set up a counter-flag, preparing to unite to relieve the siege of Luofengshan.

For a while, the world of cultivating immortals in the boundless sand sea, which had just settled down for a while, was once again in chaos.

Zhou Yang, who was sitting in the death pass in Ziyun Cave, was naturally unaware of all these changes.

During his retreat, the wild flowers on Chihu Ridge bloomed and withered, and withered and bloomed again.

After nine times of flowers blooming and withering in a row, the closed door of the closed room was finally opened from the inside.

Nine years!

After nine years of retreat, Zhou Yang finally came out.

There is no doubt that after leaving the customs, he has officially become a foundation-building nine-story monk. From then on, as long as he does not open up the Purple Mansion, his mana will not increase any more.

In nine years, he was promoted from the eighth floor of the foundation building to the ninth floor of the foundation building. This speed is unbelievable for ordinary monks. Even a top-rank spiritual root monk like Xiao Ying can hardly achieve this.

But in the Zhou family, when this kind of thing happened to Zhou Yang, no one had doubts or wondered about it.

The members of the Zhou family are already used to his speed of improvement.

Compared with his previous improvement speed, it took nine years to increase his cultivation level this time. In the eyes of some low-level Qi training monks who don't know the difficulty, it even feels slow.

Zhou Yang himself was a little dissatisfied with this speed.

You must know that during the nine years of his retreat, not only did he use up the "Yuhua Zhuludan" he exchanged from Huang Shamen and the panacea he obtained in Xijiaozhou, but he also used the remaining "Huojiao Pill" left by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan. Dan" was also taken.

"I thought I would be able to enter the ninth floor of foundation building before I was a hundred years old, but I didn't expect to be able to reach this step until I was a hundred and three years old. The road of cultivation, as expected, the further you go, the more difficult it is!"

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