Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Chen Ping'an's cave dwelling is located in the area near the top of White Camel Peak, and further up is the cave dwelling of the ancestor of the Chen family.

This cave dwelling is divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers. The cave dwelling inside the mountain is where Chen Pingan lived and practiced alone. A palace attic covering dozens of acres built on the outside of the mountain is where his descendants live and are also used for daily life. Hospitality.

After the three of the Zhou family followed Chen Ping'an into the outer mansion of the cave on the ground, their eyes suddenly narrowed, and they couldn't help but look at a few younger Chen Ping'an standing in front of a hall.

"Seventh sister, why are you here? Since you haven't fallen, why don't you return to the family?"

Zhou Yang looked suspiciously at the woman whose head was lowered and dared not look at the three of her. His voice was slightly annoyed.

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

One of them was Chen Fangping, the son of Chen Ping'an, who had buried him hundreds of spirit stones with a meal when he first arrived at the Baishahe Oasis. The other was the missing Zhou family woman when the sand bandits attacked the Baishahe Oasis. Cultivator Zhou Yuanxia.

And now, these two people he knew and knew were actually standing together hand in hand, Zhou Yuanxia even held a little boy of four or five years old in her hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yang still doesn't understand what the relationship between the two is now.

Emotional Zhou Yuanxia did not disappear and fell, but climbed up Gaozhi and became Chen Pingan's daughter-in-law. No wonder she didn't want to return to Zhou's house.

Hearing Zhou Yang's angry questioning at this moment, Zhou Yuanxia's tender body trembled, and she didn't have the courage to answer at all, she just grabbed the palm of Chen Fangping next to her.

Seeing this, Chen Fangping patted Dao Companion's palm lightly as a sign of comfort, then stepped forward with a smile and cupped his hands to Zhou Yang: "Senior Zhou calm down and let Yuanxia stay at Chen's house. The junior's idea, if you want to beat him, you will be punished, and the junior will follow suit."

"What exactly does Senior Chen mean?" Zhou Yang ignored Chen Fangping, but looked directly at Chen Ping'an, who had a calm face. He knew that Chen Ping'an had called him and the other three, and he must have planned.

When Chen Fangping saw Zhou Yang ignoring his words, the smile on his face froze, not to mention how uncomfortable he felt.

This is really thirty years Hedong, thirty years Hexi.

Once upon a time, in front of him, Zhou Yang was still a little family member who didn't dare to turn his face even if he made fun of him.

It has only been a few short years now, and the little qi-cultivating cultivator who just left home has grown to the point where he can ignore him and become a foundation-building cultivator just like his father, who is backed by his chair.

This kind of taste, not someone who has experienced it personally, really can't understand it.

"Xia'er and this kid were together, and Chen didn't know about it beforehand. By the time Chen knew about it, their children were already three years old. Even if Chen could beat the mandarin ducks and break them up, he couldn't. You don't even want your grandson, do you?"

Chen Ping'an glanced at his son indifferently, and first told the whole story to show his attitude.

Then he looked solemnly at the three of the Zhou family and said, "Everyone is from a family cultivator, so Chen will not talk about those hypocritical nonsense, and tell the three of Chen's decision directly."

"Your Zhou family has a short time to establish a clan, and you haven't produced a third-order array mage. [Bloodline Divine Forbidden] is afraid that you haven't been able to arrange it. This is the basis for us to reach a compromise on this matter."

"So Chen can now give you two choices, one is that Chen takes out a third-order pill recipe for your Zhou family as an apology, and the other is that Chen can owe your Zhou family a favor, and your Zhou family only needs to use this in the future. Human affection can let Chen do what he can do."

The three of the Zhou family looked at each other, not expecting Chen Pingan to say this.

The faces of the three of them are 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 pill recipe, or the friendship of the ninth-level foundation-building cultivator from a big family like him, it is something that is hard to find.

Zhou Yuanxia, ​​a 5th-level qi cultivator with low-grade spiritual root aptitude, can exchange for any of these two things, which is a big profit for the Zhou family.

But the account can't be counted like that.

No matter how poor Zhou Yuanxia's aptitude is and how low her cultivation base is, she is still a cultivator of the Zhou family.

The fact that she married an outsider and had children without notifying the family has already formed a de facto betrayal of the family. As the patriarch and the supreme elder of the family, if Zhou Yang and the others condone this kind of betrayal, how will they lead the family in the future?

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

Those who know the inside story may understand their difficulties, but those who don't, think that their Zhou family is selling their daughters for glory, and they want to cling to the Chen family to do this!

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

Fortunately, at this time, the experienced Zhou Minghan once again used his experience to help Zhou Yang solve this problem.

I saw Zhou Minghan's eyes suddenly widen, and he stared at Zhou Yuanxia and asked, "Yuanxia, ​​what's your choice? If you are willing to go back to the family with this old man, today you will have a bad relationship with Brother Chen, and the old man will also bring you back to the family!"

Hearing Zhou Minghan say this, Chen Ping'an narrowed his eyes and did not speak.

Chen Fangping looked at the three of the Zhou family in astonishment, with unbelievable expressions flashing in his eyes. He never thought that the three of the Zhou family would really dare to deny his father face.

And the party involved, Zhou Yuanxia, ​​also looked up at Zhou Minghan with a shocked expression, her eyes were full of panic.

Chen Fangping swore and 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 made her even more unexpected was that she and Chen Fangping were relying on Chen Ping'an as their backer. At this time, after squinting their eyes, not only did they not feel displeased with Zhou Minghan's rude words, but looked at her with a kind expression and said: " It's okay, Xia'er, you can answer Brother Minghan with confidence, if you really want to go back to Zhou's house, your father will not 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 voice.

And as soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Minghan said angrily, "Okay, since you said that, don't blame the old man for being rude."

After he finished speaking, he stared at Zhou Yang and said loudly, "Zhou Yuanxia, ​​a cultivator of the Zhou family, eloped with someone and betrayed the family. This old man, as the first supreme elder of the Zhou family, asks the patriarch to expel his clan membership and never recover. !"

"Next week, Zhou Xuanhao, the second grand elder of the Zhou family, agrees." Zhou Xuanhao also reminisced at this time, and followed up with Zhou Minghan's proposal.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also took a deep look at Zhou Yuanxia, ​​whose pretty face was pale, and nodded lightly: "Since the two Supreme Elders have made this proposal, after verification and confirmation, this matter is indeed true, I will As the head of the Zhou family, I agree to this proposal and execute it immediately."

After speaking, in front of the Chen family, he directly took out the copy of the family tree from the storage bag, and erased the three characters "Zhou Yuanxia" on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ping'an couldn't help but nodded lightly and said, "From now on, there will be only Chen Xia'er from the Chen family, and there will be no Zhou Yuanxia!"

"Brother Chen, farewell!"

"Several walk slowly!"

After leaving Chen's house, the three of Zhou Yang temporarily returned to the "Yuquan Building" in Ping'anfang City.

"Father, why did you send me a sound transmission earlier to tell me not to choose an alchemy recipe? Chen Ping'an's favor is valuable, but the third-order alchemy recipe is related to your breakthrough as a third-order alchemist, which should be more important to our Zhou family now. right?"

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

Of the Zhou family's hundred arts of cultivating immortals, only the refining tool has a complete inheritance of third-order or higher, and the rest of the skills such as formation, talisman, alchemy, spiritual planting, and animal taming are only second-order inheritance.

The third-order formation "Shutu Jinge Formation" in "Haoyang Cave" is not a complete inheritance, because the old man Zhou Qian who refined this formation passed away after refining the formation, and he didn't have time to stay. Going down the relevant inheritance, only a second-order high-grade array mage is left with a broken array map that is difficult to understand.

Therefore, in Zhou Yang's view, if his father Zhou Xuanhao can break through the third-order alchemy master with the third-order pill formula given by Chen Ping'an, for the Zhou family, it is definitely ten times more important than his breakthrough in the third-order alchemy master. Great thing.

"Yang'er, you are still young, so it is normal that you don't understand this. Even if you don't ask about it, I will tell you more about it as a father!"

Zhou Xuanhao sighed softly, and then revealed the reason with a wry smile on his face.

"Do you think that as an alchemist's father, you don't want third-order pill recipes? But you don't know that the common third-order elixir medicines near Baishahe Xiu Xianjie are basically used by the Chen family. Hehuang Shamen has a monopoly, and only those spirit herbs and medicines that they can't use will flow out and be obtained by others."

"So the pills that Chen Ping'an is willing to take out are either waste pills with hard-to-find materials that can't be assembled at all, or partial pills that have little use."

"It's true that our Zhou family lacks a third-order alchemist, but it's not to the point of being rushed to the doctor, so there's no need to be fooled by him!"

Zhou Yang didn't speak anymore.

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

Since his father Zhou Xuanhao said so, it must not be wrong.

At this time, Zhou Minghan, who had not spoken, also nodded and said: "Xuan Hao is right, we can plan slowly in the future about the third-order pill recipe, but it is Chen Ping's favor that is currently invaded by the magic monks. Under these circumstances, it is not certain that one day it will be able to play a big role.”

After he finished speaking, he smiled again and said, "The matter of Yuanxia, ​​on the surface, seems to be a shame for my Zhou family, but it actually shows one thing. Ji Chenggong, with the invasion of the magic monks, our Zhou family, in the eyes of the Chen family, has changed from a dispensable and unimportant sidekick to an important ally worthy of their attention and win."

"Otherwise, with the power of their Chen family, they can completely hide Yuanxia from us, so why should they take the initiative to expose it to let us know, and why should it be used as a pretext to benefit us?"

Hearing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but nodded in agreement and said: "Great-grandfather is right, the Chen family is really anxious now, in the battle of Jinxia Mountain, they lost three foundation-building cultivators, this time in the battle with Moxiu, they Another foundation-building cultivator fell, and last time they used three foundation-building pills, only one of them succeeded in foundation-building, and Chen Pingzhi, who had fallen earlier, is now only a foundation-building cultivator, and their Chen family can only have eight people. already."

"That's it, the Chen family's foundation-building cultivators are understaffed, and in the future they will inevitably rely more on our allied family's foundation-building cultivators. Some third-order treasures that were not released and strictly controlled by us before, this time I am afraid that they will have to open their mouths to take them. It's definitely a good thing for our Zhou family to come out to buy people's hearts!"

Zhou Minghan stroked 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 background is not to mention the comparison with the Zifu family like the Chen family. It is the Liu family in Chixia Mountain and the Yang family in Jinquan Valley. Compared with the foundation-building family in 2008, they are all inferior."

"Now our Zhou family has three foundation-building cultivators. It is the most prosperous time since the establishment of the clan, and it coincides with the invasion of demon cultivators and the turmoil in the immortal world. When the situation stabilizes, it will not be so simple to let the family heritage grow by leaps and bounds."

Zhou Yang also knew about his own family affairs. Before the foundation was established, he felt that the Zhou family lacked everything except for the lack of such treasures as foundation building pills.

But after he established the foundation, he realized that the self-sufficiency of the Zhou family can only be achieved by low-level monks. Besides, basically everything is missing.

This is like those countries in his previous life. Some small countries can support their own citizens even with their doors closed, but they are only limited to feeding. Those citizens who have lost their hunger to use high-tech products must basically Can only be purchased by import.

To give a simple example, after Zhou Yang successfully established the foundation, he never took a third-order elixir to increase his cultivation. From this, we can see how bad the Zhou family is in the family background~www.readwn. com~ Like the Liu family in Chixia Mountain, even if there is no third-order alchemist in the family, but because each generation of his family has people who build foundations, there have always been a lot of third-order spiritual pills stored in the family treasure house. Using Spirit Stones can be used to exchange Spirit Pills from the treasury at a discounted price.

The Liu family used the family’s public funds to buy high-priced elixir and put it in the treasure house for the family foundation-building cultivators to exchange at a fair price. It seemed that the family’s finances were in deficit. Brother Key's sense of identity and cohesion to the family.

And as long as the family's foundation-building cultivator continues to stay in the family to serve the family, wouldn't those elixir that were redeemed at a fair price still stay in the family in another way?

People are realistic. If a family can no longer provide help to the high-ranking monks in their cultivation, then the high-ranking monks of the family will gradually not care about the family. After all, they can live well without the family. For them, it has become a burden, and if there is a choice, no one is willing to carry the burden forward.

Zhou Yang can guarantee his loyalty to the family, and he also believes in the loyalty of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his father Zhou Xuanhao to the family, but loyalty cannot be taken for granted.

The three of them, who have gone through difficult times for the family and received the kindness of many senior cultivators in the family, can "generate electricity with love" to help the family. Are they as loyal to the family as "generating electricity with love"?

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

Therefore, in order to prevent the family from losing talents in the future, as the patriarch, he must improve the family background before those junior cultivators grow up.