Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Zhou Yang really can't say much.

The more he cultivated, the wider the gap between his cultivation and that of his peers, the more he felt the importance of aptitude for low-level cultivators.

Only one or two spiritual root cultivators can be born out of 10,000 mortals. The chance of a cultivator's descendants producing spiritual roots is relatively high, but it is only a few tenths.

Most of these people with spiritual roots are mainly low-grade spiritual roots. On average, only one middle-grade spiritual root cultivator can be owned by ten people. As for high-grade spiritual roots, there are even fewer. Among a hundred cultivators Hard to have one.

There are more than 100,000 members of the Zhou family on the oasis of Yuquan Lake, but all the cultivators in the Zhou family now have less than 100 people in the Qi training period, including seven or eight foreign cultivators who are married to the Zhou family cultivators.

Among the dozens of cultivators in the Zhou family, only the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is a high-grade spiritual root cultivator, and the rest are middle-grade and low-grade spiritual root.

And how much influence does the quality of spiritual roots have on practitioners?

It is also a first-level cultivation level during the Qi training period, practicing the same exercises, meditating in the same place, a low-grade spiritual root practitioner, the effect of meditating for ten days is equivalent to a middle-grade spiritual root practitioner meditating for one day Effect.

And the effect of a mid-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for more than ten days may not be as effective as a high-grade spiritual root practitioner who meditates for one day.

High-grade spiritual root practitioners not only practice fast, but also have a much greater chance of breaking through when faced with the first level of practice, the "Foundation Foundation" level, even if they do not take "Foundation Pill". The rare elixir that can greatly increase the success rate of foundation building also has a 30% probability of breaking through.

It is said that there are spiritual monks and Taoist monks above the top-grade spiritual roots.

Any spiritual cultivator, as long as he does not die in the middle, will definitely become the ancestor of the Golden Core Stage, and there will not be any bottlenecks in the middle.

As for the Taoist monks, that is even more of a legend. Since there have been practitioners in this world, there have been fewer than one Taoist monks, and all of them are super powers who rule an era.

In addition to the spiritual body and the Taoist body, there is also a special physique called "treasure body" in the world of practice.

"Treasure body" is an extremely special physique. Any spiritual root cultivator may have a treasure body. If a cultivator with a treasure body can practice the exercises that fit the treasure body, the speed of cultivation will be faster than that of the same quality spiritual root. The cultivator is much faster, and as the cultivation level increases in the future, he will also obtain unique treasure body supernatural powers.

For example, Zhou Yang may have some kind of masculine treasure body, so he is obviously a mid-grade spiritual talent. After practicing the masculine and domineering exercises like "Golden Sun Raging Fire Art", the speed of practice is the same as that of high-grade spirits. Root monk is quite.

If there is no accident, Zhou Yang will definitely be able to raise his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi training before the age of forty.

Ordinary middle-grade spiritual root practitioners like Zhou Xuanjin will probably not reach the ninth level of Qi training until they are seventy or eighty years old.

And if it is an ordinary low-grade spiritual root practitioner, even if he lives to the upper limit of the lifespan of a cultivator during the Qi training period, he may not be able to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi training!

And a cruel reality is that the older the monks during the Qi training period, the more difficult it is to build the foundation. The probability of successful foundation building for the monks over the age of sixty who practice Qi at the ninth level is less than half that of the monks under the age of sixty. , For monks over the age of 80 in the Qi training period, the probability of foundation building is still lower. For the Qi training monks over the age of 100, Zhou Yang has never heard of such a strange person appearing.

Given Zhou Yang's age and cultivation speed, his success rate in foundation building is indeed much higher than that of ordinary people, which is why the old patriarch Zhou Minghan valued him so much.

It's a pity that the treasure body has no bonus to the success rate of monks' foundation building. Otherwise, after Zhou Yang has reached the ninth level of Qi training, he can try to build foundations.

Both of them understood these situations, so seeing Zhou Yang being silent, Zhou Xuanjin quickly adjusted his mentality and took over the work with him.

"Staffing Qingping Mountain, there are three main responsibilities. First, after receiving the alarm from the steward sent by the family to the mine, go to the mine to help the miners get rid of some first- and second-order monsters that occasionally break in; the second is to protect In the miner camp outside, the finished materials smelted in the camp will be stored in the warehouse on the mountain in time, and wait for the family to send someone to collect it; the last thing is to take care of the more than ten acres of spiritual fields on the mountain, which is related to your own stomach. Eat enough."

"In addition, if you encounter powerful monsters and human monks that you can't deal with, don't leave the range of the formation easily, the best way is to stick to the formation, and then use the blood to stimulate this third-order letter transmission to wait. Family rescue."

"Finally, this is the control formation flag and control method of the Qingping Mountain formation. I can only leave after you refine the formation flag and become familiar with the formation."

While talking, Zhou Xuanjin handed over everything the cultivator needed to use to Zhou Yang, and taught him how to use them.

Four or five days passed in this way, until Zhou Yang completely mastered the second-order formation of the "Cloud Sea Splitting Array", Zhou Xuanjin returned to the family with the output results of the Qingping Mountain mine for nearly a year.

After Zhou Xuanjin left, Zhou Yang was the Zhou family with the highest status in Qingping Mountain.

He first summoned several managers of the Zhou family who were responsible for the management of the mining and smelting of the ore veins. He had a preliminary understanding of the operation process, and handed them a few syllables with his own breath, so that they could notify him in time after the incident. .

These people can serve as the stewards of the Zhou family, and they are all martial arts practitioners in the Xiantian realm. However, these people have no spiritual roots and cannot develop mana to become immortal cultivators in the Qi-training period. They can only stay in the Xiantian realm for the rest of their lives.

Of course, for mortals, the strength possessed by practitioners in the Innate Realm is enough to make them look up.

As long as mortals become innate practitioners and extract innate qi from their bodies, they can walk like galloping horses, carry a cauldron, easily defeat a hundred with one attack, and have great resistance to various diseases.

It's a pity that mortals are mortals without spiritual roots. Even if they have cultivated innate qi, they cannot cast even the lowest first-order spells.

The real cultivators with spiritual roots do not admit that these mortals are also cultivators, and they don't bother to communicate with them.

Zhou Yang does not discriminate against these mortal practitioners, but these people have been discriminated against by real cultivators for a long time, and the concept of honor and inferiority has already been deeply rooted in his heart. Even if he took the initiative to ask them to chat, no one dared to treat him as an equal clan. Chat, so he can only let these people leave in the end.

In the next time, Zhou Yang's life will be simple.

Every morning, he first meditated in front of the rising sun for three hours, and then practiced the five spells he learned from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for three hours. In this way, in the evening, he allocated half an hour to the spiritual field on the mountain. Those gratifying Linggu weeds and insects.

The spiritual veins of Qingping Mountain are only second-rank low-grade ones, and they are also artificial ones. After the daily spiritual energy is supplied to a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, only 20 to 30% of the spiritual energy remains.

Therefore, only about fifteen acres of spiritual fields have been opened here, and the cultivated spiritual valleys are specially used for the food of the monks stationed there, and there is no need to turn them over to the clan.

The spiritual valleys planted in these spiritual fields are called "Golden Pearl Rice", which looks like the cotton trees in Zhou Yang's previous life. They ripen once a year, and each tree bears dozens of fruits. The golden fruit is named "Golden Pearl Rice" because the fruit is shaped like a pearl.

This kind of [Golden Pearl Rice] grows in spiritual fields and needs to absorb spiritual energy to survive and mature. Therefore, in addition to being rich in nutrients and having excellent taste, rice grains also contain trace amounts of spiritual energy, which is very beneficial for monks to absorb.

During the Qi training period, cultivators eat [Golden Pearl Rice] for a long time, and only a small bowl can satisfy the nutrition required by the body for two or three days, and it can also improve the cultivation level a little.

Even the monks in the Foundation Establishment Period and even in the Purple House Period, most of the meals they usually eat are made of this [Golden Pearl Rice].

Zhou Yang started to practice at the age of four, and it took only three years to complete the cultivation of the ninth floor of the Innate Realm. In addition to his good aptitude, he and his parents often set up a small stove for him and let him eat this [Golden Pearl Rice] every day. It has a great relationship with some low-level monster meat.

Because he is not a Lingzhifu, Zhou Yang does not know some magic that Lingzhifu must learn to increase the production of Lingtian. He can only water, weed and catch the [Jinzhu Rice] planted in Lingtian like ordinary farmers. Catch insects and make sure they won't die.

As long as he doesn't die, the output of these ten acres of spiritual fields is completely enough for his daily food needs, and there is even a lot of surplus.

Zhou Yang knew that these balances were the garrison welfare that the family gave to the cultivators. After all, it was the duty of every adult to go down the mountain to complete the family task, but they would not receive additional rewards from the family.

After spending half an hour each day taking care of the spiritual field on the mountain, Zhou Yang spent the next half of the night studying the art of refining tools.

He didn't start the refining process right away, but while carefully studying the refining books and the refining notes given by the old patriarch, he used the ores dug from the iron ore to practice and learn the most basic materials for refining.

Such a simple and fulfilling life will last for three years.

Three years later, after Zhou Yang had thoroughly grasped the knowledge recorded in those ancient artifact refining books, and had fully mastered the refining skills of the materials, he took out the materials given to him by the old patriarch and began to formally refine the tools.

In order to save materials, he chose to refine the simplest first-order sword-like magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword].

The main material of the first-order magic tool [Qingfeng Sword] is fine iron, and the hilt can be made of spiritual wood such as century-old iron wood. The monks in the innate realm hold the magic tool and inject the innate qi, which can be stimulated according to the infuser's cultivation base. The sword light ranging from one foot injures the enemy.

Refining this magic weapon is quite simple. First, the fine iron is tempered with a spirit fire and cast into a sword embryo. Then, while maintaining the flame temperature so that the sword embryo is in a high temperature heating state, the magic power of the cultivator is used as a guide. , arrange a [Feng Rui] prohibition in the sword embryo.

When the ban is completed, it is the time when the long sword is quenched. If the quenched sword body emits the unique aura of the magic weapon, it means that the refining tool has been completed. If not, only sharper mortal soldiers will be obtained. a handful.

All of this is simple to say, but it is not easy to do. Even if Zhou Yang had already imagined the situation of refining countless times in his mind, he had practiced the layout process of the [Feng Rui] prohibition countless times beforehand, and it was the first time that he had really practiced the refining process. When the device is used, it will undoubtedly end in failure.

With the sound of "bang" coming from inside the vessel, his first vessel refining was over, and he didn't even reach the quenching stage.

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