Cultivation Begins From The Desert

[Golden Rat] I thought that after escaping back to the old lair on the side of the Scarlet Flame Iron Mine, I could rely on the protection of the poisonous fire scorpions outside to recuperate and escape.

Unfortunately, it underestimated the means of human immortal cultivators, and even underestimated Zhou Yang's determination to kill it.

Relying on the precise positioning of the "Blood Spirit Mark", Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan relied on the "Earth Escape Technique" and the help of magic weapons, they just opened a passage and entered the mouse hole 50 to 60 meters deep underground. Jiang generally appeared in front of the [Golden Rat] who was sleeping and recuperating.

Then, before the big rat woke up and fled from the shock, the old man Zhou Quan had already blocked the surrounding soil and rocks with the "pointing to the ground into steel" spell.

The most powerful means of escape was blocked, and in a narrow space like a mouse hole, how could the [Golden Eating Rat], who was seriously injured, still survive?

After some desperate struggles, the big mouse, which was infected with dozens of lives, was finally smashed alive by the gourd hammer of old man Zhou Quan, and he couldn't die any longer.

"Beast, this is your retribution for eating people!"

The old man raised his hand lightly, took back the gourd sledgehammer that had been splattered with blood, and slammed the hammer on the head of [Golden Rat] with a gloomy face, until the head of the rat was smashed into several pieces. Just quit.

It was also at this time that Zhou Yang realized that the old man was not really completely ruthless and did not take the lives of ordinary people seriously.

It's just that the old man has lived for hundreds of years and is used to seeing life and death. He can hide his emotions well, and he won't show it easily.

"It's a bit pretentious just like this. Isn't it because you made paper and want to set up a torii for yourself?"

Zhou Yang thought of the old man's stern words at the beginning, and he couldn't help but criticize the old man's actions.

Of course, as a junior, even if he has any opinions in his heart, he will definitely not and dare not say so.

The elder and the younger are the basis for the existence of family power. Even if the immortal cultivator pursues freedom and immortality, as long as he doesn't really get happiness, and he doesn't reach the realm of immortality, he can't completely ignore these four characters.

What's more, the current Zhou Yang is not as strong as Zhou Quan's.

And just when Zhou Yang was muttering in his heart, the old man Zhou Quan had already withdrawn the magic weapon, and he gave him a pouting voice and said, "Xiao Jiu, you can keep this beast corpse, and you can add more materials later, please. The old patriarch will make some refining, and he will definitely be able to get a few good instruments."

Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the old man to say such a thing, and when he recalled the words that slandered the old man in his heart just now, he was immediately ashamed, his face flushed and he shook his head again and again: "It shouldn't be like this, this is the third grandfather, you. Killed with one hand, how can his grandnephew, He De, dare to accept this thing."

"If you want to hold it, you can take it. The third grandfather is my age. If you give me a third-order magic tool, a fourth-order magic tool, how many years can I use it? Besides, you are about to advance to the late stage of Qi training. In the late stage of Qi training, you have few magical tools in your hand, so how will you win in the future when you fight against others?"

The old man Zhou Quan glared at Zhou Yang with an unpleasant expression, as if Zhou Yang didn't accept this gift and looked down on him.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang felt even more ashamed, and he still declined: "The third grandfather loves it, and the grand-nephew has taken it in his heart, but this thing is really precious, and the grand-nephew is ashamed and ashamed to deserve it!"

He didn't look like a fake, and when Old Man Zhou Quan saw it, he couldn't help but be confused.

What's happening here?

The current junior is really incomprehensible!

The old man stared at Zhou Yang with a puzzled look, and finally couldn't help but ask: "What are you so ashamed of? This beast was discovered and hunted together by you and the old man, those loose cultivators. We form a team to hunt monsters, and it is also a part of seeing, not to mention you and me?"

What he was most puzzled about was here. Although the Zhou family's family education was very good, and the clansmen were very united and friendly, there was no rule that only the elders were allowed to eat meat, and the younger ones were not allowed to drink soup.

The old man has lived for over a hundred years, and he is very knowledgeable and does not know how many immortal cultivators he has dealt with. He can still tell whether a person's face is sincere or false.

He could see that the shame on Zhou Yang's face was definitely from his heart, and he couldn't be fake.

It's just that Zhou Yang certainly wouldn't say what the old man had planned in his mind just now. Facing the old man's questions and stares, he could only lower his head and say nothing, just to let this matter be revealed as soon as possible.

When the old man saw this, it was not good for him to persecute him any more. In the end, he could only say helplessly, "If you really feel bad about it, just treat it as a favor left by the third grandfather for you to take care of your second brother in the future!"

After speaking, the old man was afraid that Zhou Yang would not agree, so he just left the mouse hole with a "earth escape technique". If he was in a hurry, if anyone who didn't know saw it, he might mistakenly think that the old man felt ashamed in his heart. Dare to face Zhou Yang!

This result was completely unexpected to Zhou Yang, so that he was stunned.

After a while, he recovered from his daze, and then he couldn't help but sigh with a wry smile: "That's all, there is a saying: the elders give it, don't dare to say no, just like the third grandfather said, today After receiving this favor from him, I will find a chance to return it to the second brother in the future!"

Putting away the body of [Golden Rat], Zhou Yang rummaged around in the mouse for a while, and found some feces left by [Golden Rat] before.

The feces of [Golden Rat] are also treasures, because they like to devour metals by nature, sometimes the feces of [Golden Rat] contain some special spiritual gold that they cannot absorb and digest by themselves. This special spiritual gold is used in refining some methods. If it is added at the time of the instrument, it can slightly increase the refining power, and it is also an excellent material for repairing damaged instruments.

Previously in the [Golden Rat] lair in the concentrated iron ore vein, Zhou Yang collected a lot of feces pulled out by [Golden Rat] after swallowing the concentrated iron ore, and now he has collected some [Golden Rat] devoured here. The feces pulled by the red flame iron.

When he goes back and uses the refining technique to extract the special spiritual gold in the feces, it will definitely be of great use when refining second- or even third-order magical instruments.

He scoured the mouse hole three feet from the ground, and Zhou Yang quickly used the "earth escape technique" to escape back to the ground, and joined the old man Zhou Quan who was waiting on it.

"Xiao Jiu, you said earlier that you were going to kill the [Golden Eating Rat], but now this evildoer is dead, what are you going to do next?"

When the old man saw Zhou Yang coming up, he glanced at the bulging storage bag around his waist, but he talked about the previous test again.

"What should I do next? Didn't the third grandpa already have a decision in his heart?"

Zhou Yang looked at the surprised old man with a confident smile on his face, and confidently expressed the old man's plan.

"Regardless of whether there are Tier 3 [Poisonous Fire Scorpion Kings] or not, hundreds of Poisonous Fire Scorpions are not something we can deal with, so why should we take the risk to find out if there are any [Poisonous Fire Scorpion Kings]? Of course, it is to return to Qingping Mountain first, and the third grandfather will report this matter to the old patriarch and let the old patriarch decide this matter."

Clap clap clap!

The applause sounded, and the old man Zhou Quan looked at Zhou Yang with a look of relief, applauding while he sincerely praised: "Well said! It is indeed the qilin of the Zhou family that the old patriarch personally asserted, Xiao Jiu, you are a wise old man. I have heard about it for a long time, but I just learned today that you are not only wise, but also strategic, knowing how to advance and retreat, and knowing the importance of the situation. This ability to judge the situation, look at the monks of my Zhou family, Xuanyuan, and you, who can be comparable to you. No more than three people!"

After speaking, the old man's face became straight, and he looked at Zhou Yang with a solemn expression and said: "Yes, this old man really thinks as Xiao Jiu said. Today, the old man will give you a piece of advice. In the future, if you encounter such opportunities and For things with risks, unless there is a reason for having to fight, you must restrain all greed and curiosity, and everything is about saving your own life. You have to remember that only people are alive, and chance is the only thing Chance, otherwise people die, no matter how good the chance is, it has nothing to do with you!"

"The advice of the third grandpa, the grand-nephew will keep it in mind, and the third grandpa Xie will teach you."

Zhou Yang respectfully bowed to the old man and thanked the old man for his advice.

Although he had known this for a long time, the old man's advice was not only the golden words he summed up with his life's experience, but also the love of the elders for the younger generation.

The old man Zhou Quan accepted his salute calmly, and then he didn't know what to think, and sighed with a complicated expression:

"Just remember, our Zhou family will rely on you juniors from now on, we old people are old, and now we can only pass on these insights and experiences that we have summed up with our lives to you, looking forward to your future cultivation path, To be able to take less of the detours we have taken, don't lose your life on these detours like your uncles and uncles who died young!"

When Zhou Yang heard the old man's words, he knew that the old man was moved, and he thought of those clansmen who died violently in the Zhou family over the years.

There are many dangers in the boundless sand sea, not only natural disasters and monsters, but also man-made disasters.

The sand sea is vast, and there are countless oases among them. In addition to the immortal cultivators such as the Zhou family who occupy an oasis for cultivation, there are also many small oases that are not suitable for a large number of people to live in, which are occupied by those who walk alone.

These loose cultivators do not have the systematic inheritance of exercises and alchemy as the family cultivators and sect cultivators do, nor do they have sect benefits and family benefits. If they want to obtain talisman pills and spiritual stone tools, they can only hunt and kill them. Monster beasts or collect elixir and bring them to Xiuxianfang City, and sell them to shops opened by Xiuxian families and sects in exchange for them.

If there is buying and selling, there will naturally be killing.

Hunting monsters and collecting elixir can be exchanged for elixir, and cultivators can also get these.

Therefore, many loose cultivators simply formed a gang to become a sand bandit in the sand sea, doing business without capital, specializing in killing and looting the property of other cultivators to help their own cultivation.

Even some powerful loose cultivators will deliberately leave spiritual objects in the desert to set up traps, and then release news of treasures everywhere, waiting for those cultivators who think they have a chance to come to the door.

And the sea of ​​sand is vast, as long as you keep your hands and feet clean, or find a small oasis that no one knows about after success, no one knows who the murderer is, and if you do, it will be difficult to find.

There are a total of 13 monks in the "guang" generation and 18 in the "xuan" generation on the Zhou family tree, but there are only 18 people who are still alive now!

Of the 13 people who disappeared, except for 3 people who died accidentally in the mouth of monsters, the remaining 10 people lost the news inexplicably when they left the family to perform family tasks or go out on adventures, and they even searched for their bones. not.

Compared with the poor cultivators, the wealthy family monks and sect monks are sometimes more likely to be the targets of those scoundrels.

For this reason, the Zhou family and many immortal cultivators have specially set up family rules. Any family cultivator who does not reach the late stage of Qi training is absolutely not allowed to leave the family alone to travel and explore.

The old man Zhou Quan has lived for hundreds of years, and of course he has encountered many attacks and kills by loose cultivators, and has experienced many traps and temptations. He can live to this day, and his hands have been contaminated with many lives.

Therefore, he said that it is based on the experience and perception summed up in life, and there is absolutely no exaggeration.