Immortal cultivation begins in the desert

Chen Ping'an's cave is located near the top of the white hump. Further up, it is the cave of Chen's ancestors.

The cave is divided into two layers. The cave inside the mountain is where Chen Ping'an lives and practices alone. A palace attic covering an area of dozens of Mu built on the outside mountain is where his descendants live and receive guests.

The three of the Zhou family followed Chen Ping'an into his cave on the ground. Suddenly, their eyes coagulated and couldn't help looking at several descendants of Chen Ping'an standing in front of a big hall.

"Seventh sister, why are you here? Since you haven't fallen, why don't you go back to your family? "

Zhou Yang looked at the woman whose head hung low and didn't dare to look at herself. His voice was slightly angry.

It turned out that he knew two of the descendants of Chen Ping'an standing in front of the hall.

One of them is Chen Fangping, the son of Chen Ping'an who used a meal to pit him for hundreds of Lingshi when he first arrived at Baisha River Oasis. The other is Zhou yuanxia, a female monk of the Zhou family, who disappeared when sand bandits attacked Baisha River Oasis.

Now, the two people he knew were standing hand in hand. Zhou yuanxia even held a four or five-year-old boy in her hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yang didn't understand what the relationship between the two people was now.

Feelings Zhou yuanxia is not missing, but climbed up Gaozhi and became Chen Ping'an's daughter-in-law. No wonder she doesn't want to go back to the Zhou family.

At the moment, hearing Zhou Yang's angry question, Zhou yuanxia's delicate body trembled. She didn't have the courage to answer at all, but just grabbed Chen Fangping's palm next to her.

Seeing this, Chen Fangping patted the palm of the Taoist couple to show comfort. Then he stepped forward with a smile and said to Zhou Yang, "master Zhou, calm down and let yuanxia stay in the Chen family. It's all the younger generation's idea. You have to fight and punish. The younger generation will do it."

"What does elder Chen mean?" Instead of paying attention to Chen Fangping, Zhou Yang looked directly at Chen Ping'an, who looked indifferent. He knew that Chen Ping'an had called himself and the other three, and must have made plans.

When Chen Fangping saw that Zhou Yang ignored his words directly, his smile froze on his face, not to mention how uncomfortable it was in his heart.

It's really 30 years east and 30 years West.

Once upon a time, Zhou Yang was still a small family child who didn't dare to turn his face even if he was allowed to tease him.

Now, in just a few years, the young monk who first came out of the house has grown to the point where he can be ignored and has become a foundation building monk like his father.

This taste is not experienced by people like him. I really can't understand it.

"Chen didn't know about Xia'er and the boy before. When Chen knew about it, their children were three years old. Even if Chen could break them up, he couldn't even want his grandson?"

Chen Ping'an glanced at his son calmly. First, he said the whole thing and showed his attitude.

Then he looked at the three members of the Zhou family with a straight face and said, "we are all family friars. Chen won't say those hypocritical nonsense. Just tell the three about Chen's decision."

"Your Zhou family has established a family for a short time, and you haven't been out of the third-order array mage. I'm afraid you haven't been able to arrange the [blood god ban], which is the basis for us to reach a compromise on this matter."

"So now Chen can give you two choices. One is that Chen takes out a third-order Dan square to your Zhou family as an indemnity. The other is that Chen can owe you a favor. In the future, as long as you Zhou family use this favor, you can let Chen do something within his power."

The three members of the Zhou family looked at each other and didn't expect Chen Ping'an to say so.

The faces of the three were not very good-looking.

This is not to say that the conditions offered by Chen Ping'an are not good. On the contrary, whether it is the third-order danfang or the ninth floor friar from a big family like him, it is hard to find anything.

Zhou yuanxia, a five-tier friar with inferior Linggen qualification, can trade for either of these two things, which makes a lot of money for the Zhou family.

But the account can't be calculated like that.

Zhou yuanxia is a friar of the Zhou family no matter how poor her qualification and low her accomplishments are.

She married an outsider and gave birth to children without informing the family, which has formed a de facto betrayal of the family. As the head of the family and the supreme elder, if Zhou Yang and the three of them condone this betrayal, how can they command the family in the future?

And if outsiders knew that the Zhou family married the family nun into the Chen family, what would they think of them?

If you know the inside story, you may understand their difficulties. If you don't know, you think their Zhou family is selling women for glory and wants to cling to the Chen family!

In a word, this matter is really difficult to deal with. As the current patriarch of the Zhou family, Zhou Yang really didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the experienced Zhou Minghan once again helped Zhou Yang solve this problem with his experience.

Zhou Minghan suddenly stared at Zhou yuanxia and asked, "yuanxia, what's your choice? If you are willing to go home with me, you will make friends with brother Chen today, and I will take you home! "

Hearing what Zhou Minghan said, Chen Ping'an narrowed his eyes and didn't speak.

Chen Fangping looked at the three of the Zhou family in amazement. An incredible color flashed in his eyes. He didn't expect that the three of the Zhou family really dared not give his father face.

Zhou yuanxia, the party concerned, looked up at Zhou Minghan with a shocked face, and her eyes were full of panic.

Chen Fangping promised her that as long as Chen Ping'an was here, Zhou Minghan and others would never dare to take her away by force, so she dared to show up.

What she didn't expect was that she and Chen Fangping leaned against Chen Ping'an. At this time, her eyes narrowed. Instead of being unhappy with Zhou Minghan's impolite words, she looked at her kindly and said, "it's all right. Xia'er, you can rest assured to answer brother Minghan. If you really want to go back to Zhou's house, being a father won't stop you."

"I, I don't want to be separated from Xin'er." Zhou yuanxia held her son's little hand tightly and said her choice in a trembling tone.

As soon as her voice fell, Zhou Minghan said angrily, "well, since you say so, don't blame me for being rude."

Then he stared at Zhou Yang and said loudly, "Zhou yuanxia, a friar of the Zhou family, eloped with others and betrayed the family. As the first Supreme elder of the Zhou family, I asked the clan leader to expel him from his family and never recover!"

"Zhou Xuanhao, the second supreme elder in the family next week, seconded." At this time, Zhou Xuanhao returned and echoed Zhou Minghan's proposal.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also took a deep look at the white faced Zhou yuanxia over there, gently nodded and said, "since the two supreme elders have this proposal, after investigation and confirmation, the matter is indeed true, I agree to this proposal as the head of the Zhou family and implement it immediately."

Then he took out the copy of the family tree directly from the storage bag in front of the Chen family, and erased the big words "Zhou yuanxia" on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ping'an could not help nodding gently and saying, "from now on, only Chen Xiaer of the Chen family, and there is no Zhou yuanxia!"

"Brother Chen, farewell!"

"Take your time!"

After leaving the Chen family, Zhou Yang and the three returned to the "Yuquan building" in Ping'an square city for the time being.

"Father, why did you tell me not to choose danfang first? Although Chen Ping'an's human kindness is valuable, the third-order alchemy is about you breaking through the third-order alchemy. It should be more important for our Zhou family now, right? "

In the "Yuquan building", after the three of Zhou Yang settled down, he immediately expressed his doubts and puzzlement to his father Zhou Xuanhao.

The Zhou family's 100 skills of cultivating immortals only have a complete inheritance of more than three levels, and the rest, such as array, symbol making, alchemy, spirit planting, animal training and so on, have only a second level inheritance.

The third-order array "garrison earth and golden dagger array" in "Haoyang cave" is not a complete inheritance, because the old man Zhou Qian, who refined this array, died after refining the array. He didn't have time to leave relevant inheritance, leaving only a broken array map that is difficult for the second-order top-grade array mage to understand.

Therefore, in Zhou Yang's opinion, if his father Zhou Xuanhao can break through the third-order alchemist with the third-order Dan Fang given by Chen Ping'an, it is definitely ten times more important for the Zhou family than his breaking through the third-order alchemist.

"Yang'er, you're still young. It's normal that you don't understand these things. You don't ask about it. Your father also wants to talk to you in detail!"

Zhou Xuanhao sighed gently, then said the reason with a bitter smile on his face.

"Don't you think as the father of an alchemist, he doesn't want a third-order pill? But you don't know at all. The holy herbs that can refine common third-order elixirs near the immortal world of Baisha River are basically monopolized by the Chen family and Huangsha gate. Only those holy herbs that they can't use will flow out and be obtained by others. "

"So the Dan Fang that Chen Ping'an is willing to take out is either a waste Dan Fang that is difficult to find materials and can't be collected at all, or a side Dan Fang that is useless."

"Our Zhou family lacks a third-class alchemist. Yes, but it's not to the extent that we are in a hurry to seek medical treatment. There's no need to be fooled by him!"

Zhou Yang stopped talking.

He is a tool refiner, not an alchemist. He really has no say in alchemy.

Since my father Zhou Xuanhao said so, it's certainly not wrong.

At this time, Zhou Minghan, who had not spoken for a long time, nodded and said, "Xuanhao is right. We can plan for the third-order danfang slowly in the future. On the contrary, it is the favor of Chen Ping'an. Under the current situation of the invasion of evil friars, it is uncertain which day will play a great role."

After that, he smiled and said, "yuanxia seems to be a disgrace to my Zhou family, but in fact it just shows one thing. With Xuanhao and Xiaojiu, your father and son have built a foundation successively, and with the invasion of the devil friars, our Zhou family has changed from the dispensable and unimportant minions in the eyes of the Chen family, It has become an important ally worthy of their attention and solicitation. "

"Otherwise, with the power of the Chen family, they can hide yuanxia from us. Why should they take the initiative to expose it to let us know? Why should they give us benefits on this basis?"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he could not help nodding in agreement: "great grandfather was right. The Chen family is really anxious now. In the first World War of Jinxia mountain, they fell three foundation builders. This time, they fell another foundation builder in the first world war with demon cultivation. Last time they used three foundation building pills, only one foundation builder succeeded, plus Chen Pingzhi who fell earlier, Now it's just friars Zhuji. There are only eight of them in the Chen family. "

"That's right. The Chen family's foundation building friars are understaffed. In the future, they are bound to rely more on our alliance family's foundation building friars. Some third-order treasures that didn't let us go and strictly control the quantity before. This time, I'm afraid we have to let go and take them out to buy people's hearts. This is definitely a great good thing for our Zhou family!"

Zhou Minghan caressed his beard and smiled, his face full of joy.

"It's really a good thing. After all, our Zhou family is too short to establish a family. The family details are not as good as the Zifu family such as the Chen family, that is, compared with the chixiashan Liu family and the jinquangu Yang family, which have inherited for 500 or 600 years."

"Now our Zhou family has three foundation building friars, which is the most prosperous time since the founding of the family. It also coincides with the invasion of demon cultivation and the turmoil in the fairy world. At this time, if we don't seize the opportunity and accumulate more details for the family, when the situation stabilizes, it's not so simple to let the family's details grow by leaps and bounds."

Zhou Yang was also his own family. He knew his own business. Before building the foundation, he felt that the Zhou family lacked everything except the treasure of building the foundation Dan. He had everything he wanted.

However, after he built the foundation, he realized that the self-sufficiency of the Zhou family could only be achieved by low-level friars. For the friars of the Zhou family during the foundation building period, the family basically lacked everything except magic tools.

This is just like those countries in his previous life. Some small countries can feed their nationals behind closed doors, but they are only limited to feeding. If those citizens who have been out of their hunger want to use high-tech products, they can basically only rely on imports.

Take a simple example. After Zhou Yang successfully built the foundation, he didn't take the third-order elixir of increasing cultivation once. From this, we can see how bad the Zhou family is in the family background.

Like the Liu family in chixiashan, even if there is no third-order alchemist in the family, there are many third-order elixirs stored in the family treasure house because there are people building foundations in each generation of the family. The foundation building friars can exchange the elixirs from the treasure house at a preferential price.

The Liu family used the family's public funds to buy high-priced elixirs and put them in the treasure house to let the family foundation building friars exchange them at a fair price, which seemed to make the family's financial deficit, but in fact, it stabilized the people's hearts of the family foundation building friars and improved the family foundation building friars' sense of identity and cohesion to the family.

As long as the family's foundation building friars continue to stay in the family and work for the family, don't those elixirs that have been redeemed at par still stay in the family in another way?

People are realistic. If a family can no longer provide spiritual help to the family's high-level friars, the family's high-level friars will gradually don't care about the family. After all, they can live well without the family. At that time, the family became a burden for them, and if they can choose, no one is willing to carry the burden.

Zhou Yang can guarantee his loyalty to the family and believes in the loyalty of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his father Zhou Xuanhao, but loyalty can't be eaten.

The three of them, who have experienced the family's difficult times and received the kindness of many family predecessors, can "generate electricity with love" to help the family, but can their younger generation, the family younger generation building friars who grew up during the prosperity of the family, still be loyal to the family with "generate electricity with love" like them?

Zhou Yang's experience in his previous life told him that it was impossible!

Therefore, in order to prevent the brain drain of the family in the future, he, the patriarch, must improve the family background before those younger monks grow up.