Immortal cultivation begins in the desert

Red fox ridge, Ziyun Cave.

When Zhou Yang broke through the pass and walked out of Ziyun Cave, he was already a serious monk in the later stage of foundation building.

At this time, it has been nine years since he closed the door and 16 years since he was promoted to build the sixth floor of the foundation!

It took him sixteen years to move from the sixth floor to the seventh floor, something he had never thought of in advance.

The main reason is that after his cultivation reached the sixth floor of the foundation, "Yangyuan pill" and "Jinsui pill" are three-level lower level elixirs that have no effect on him.

In addition, he took too many such pills. Although he could use "Qianyang Xianguang" to eliminate the erysipelas, the drug resistance of his body could not be eliminated.

Therefore, during the nine years of isolation, he basically worked hard by himself, gradually raised his mana to the top of the sixth floor of the foundation, and then successfully broke through to the later stage of the foundation with the help of the third-order top-grade Lingdan "Xuanqing pill".

This kind of self-cultivation to increase mana has taken a long time, but the foundation is very solid. It is not completely unacceptable to Zhou Yang, who has only passed one third of his life.

At this time, he walked out of the Ziyun Cave, swept the whole red fox ridge with a strong divine sense, and soon knew the changes that had taken place on the mountain in the past nine years.

I saw that on the Chihu ridge at this time, most of the original wildly growing weeds and miscellaneous trees have been cleared away. From the foot of the mountain to the hillside, pieces of spiritual fields have been opened up neatly, and "golden pearl rice" trees have been planted. At a rough glance, there are at least hundreds of mu.

In a small valley on the hillside, more than a dozen spirit trees were transplanted here by spirit planters, each occupying a region and growing alone without competing with other plants for sunshine, rain and dew.

At the same time, close to the top of the mountain where Ziyun Cave is located, more than a dozen medicinal fields in the East and West have been reclaimed, and seedlings of various miraculous medicines have been planted on them.

Compared with the low-level spiritual plant of "golden pearl rice", many spiritual herbs have almost strict requirements for the growth environment.

For example, the vine mother plant of "ziyunguo" needs to grow in a dark cave with strong aura. Some elixirs like to grow in the shade of backlit trees, while some elixirs can grow normally only under the sun.

Therefore, when planting miraculous medicine, spiritual planters must open up medicine fields in various places, and then plant miraculous medicine that is most suitable for the environment of the medicine field.

Basically, the higher the level of elixir, the higher the requirements for its growth environment.

Therefore, the high-level elixirs in the fairy world are either collected from the wild or flow out of the elixir garden of those big sects.

Only those big sects occupy a large enough territory and have enough blessed land of Lingshan, can they find a place to meet the living environment of high-level elixirs and plant these high-level elixirs.

Some sects with real details, such as xuanyang xianzongna and other big sects, simply spend a lot of energy to arrange arrays to change the four seasons climate, interfere with the power of heaven and earth, and artificially create an environment suitable for the growth of various miraculous drugs.

However, Zhou Yang's divine knowledge swept the whole red fox ridge, but he didn't see the figure of Taoist companion Xiao Ying or the figure of eagle, lion and beast. I think he should go out to do something.

So he took out his flying sword and sent a message to Xiao Ying to explain his exit, and then went to the fire bat cave at the foot of the mountain.

The bat dung in the fire bat cave has long been cleaned up. Now this underground cave has become the residence of flying fire bats domesticated by the Zhou family.

Zhou Yuanliang, the animal trainer of the Zhou family, now lives outside the fire bat cave and is responsible for taking care of those preliminarily trained flying fire bats.

As for Zhou Xuanzhao, another animal trainer of the Zhou family, because he is old, he has now returned to the Yuquan Lake oasis to spend the rest of his life.

"Patriarch, after years of domestication by me and my 17th uncle, four females, one male and five of those juvenile flying fire bats were successfully domesticated. The rest of the flying fire bats either died during domestication or were slaughtered by us after we were sure they couldn't be domesticated."

"In addition, apart from two of the four pregnant female adult flying fire bats that successfully gave birth to five live cubs, the remaining two gave birth to dead cubs. Now the cubs have been domesticated and grown into minors."

"So now there are ten flying fire bats living in the fire bat cave, seven females and three males!"

Outside the fire bat cave, when Zhou Yang, who had been closed for many years, came out of the pass, Zhou Yuanliang congratulated the ninth brother and took the initiative to tell the results of these years.

Hearing that only ten flying fire bats had been successfully domesticated, Zhou Yang also had some regrets, but he also knew that Zhou Yuanliang and others must have tried their best.

So he didn't blame anything for it. Instead, he patted Zhou Yuanliang on the shoulder with approval on his face and said, "it's been hard for you, brother 15. You have successfully domesticated flying fire bats and made great contributions to the family. When I discuss with my great grandfather later, I will record your achievements and reward you!"

After praising Zhou Yuanliang, the younger brother of the clan, Zhou Yang found out from his mouth that Xiao Ying and others had gone to "luminous town". It is said that hundreds of ordinary people there suddenly fell ill. It is suspected that there was an outbreak of plague.

That is, when he talked to Zhou Yuanliang, Xiao Ying, who received the message from his flying sword, also returned the message to him.

After reading the information from Xiao Ying, his face coagulated. Even if he released his flying sword, he flew over to the vein.

"Zhou Lang, you're finally out of the customs!"

In Yeguang Town, when Zhou Yang's sword light fell, Xiao Ying threw herself into his arms with a happy face and hugged him.

They haven't seen each other for nine years. This is the longest time since they met. No wonder she has always been shy. This time, she can't help doing such things in public.

"Ying'er is good. Tell Weifu what happened here? Is there really a plague? "

Zhou Yang hugged the girl's palm and patted the girl on the shoulder, but he asked about business.

Hearing him talk about this, Xiao Ying's excited color on her face converged, then released her hands holding his body, looked at him and whispered, "it's not plague, it's poison. The drinking water of these mortals has been poisoned!"

When Zhou Yang heard the speech, his face suddenly changed. He looked at Xiao Ying unsightly and asked in a deep voice, "are you sure it was poisoning? Did you find out who did it? Is it human or monster? "

"Now the poison in mortals has been dissolved by my body in water with an antidote elixir. As for who poisoned it, my body is still looking for it. At present, the possibility of monsters should be the greatest!"

Xiao Ying said that she used the antidote elixir to help mortals detoxify, and directly answered Zhou Yang's question with facts.

If it were not for poisoning, the antidote elixir could not have an immediate effect.

"I know about it. I'll investigate it."

Zhou Yang nodded solemnly when he decided to investigate the truth of the matter himself.

He also agreed with Xiao Ying's speculation about the poisoning of monsters, but he was more afraid that it was man-made. If it was man-made, the situation would be very complicated. He had to find out the murderer!

In order to find out the murderer, Zhou Yang apparently left yeguang town with Xiao Ying and others. In fact, he secretly returned to the outside of the town and hid it with the breath of "golden cicada hiding breathing technique", and then released his divine consciousness to envelop the whole town and the surrounding wilderness.

Up to now, Zhou Yang's divine sense has covered a distance of ten miles. Generally, the first layer friars of Zifu who have just opened up Zifu successfully have covered a range of twelve or three miles.

A nine story monk like Zhou Minghan, whose divine knowledge covers only four or five miles, is twice as bad as Zhou Yang!

With such a powerful divine sense, Zhou Yang has no doubt about whether he can open up Zifu successfully in the future.

If even he can't open the purple mansion successfully, other monks will be even less likely to succeed.

While monitoring the whole town with his powerful divine sense, he also counted the number of mortals here. It was found that after nine years, the number of mortals settled in the town, including the villages outside the town, has exceeded 20000.

And he remembered very clearly that according to his plan and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the number of mortals who migrated to the new Oasis by the Zhou family was only more than 12000!

"These mortals can really live!"

Zhou Yang took a slight puff from the corner of his eye and felt a headache about it.

Compared with encouraging friars of the Zhou family to have more offspring, he took the opposite attitude towards mortals having offspring.

The land of the oasis is limited. If the number of mortals expands too fast, it will increase the productivity in a short time. In fact, it overdraw the development potential of the oasis in advance.

If this matter is not stopped, the new oasis will become the next Yuquan Lake oasis in less than 30 years!

"This won't work. When you go back, let Ying'er and her father work out a sterilization prescription. Those women who have given birth to three children must be sterilized!"

Zhou Yang secretly clenched his teeth and made a cruel decision.

As for why it is to sterilize women rather than men, of course, it is because the decision to have children is entirely up to women rather than men.

What happens if a family man is sterilized and a woman is pregnant?

In this way, Zhou Yang squatted outside the luminous town for more than ten days.

He was very patient. Even if he didn't find anything for more than ten days, he didn't get discouraged. He just changed his position every day.

After squatting for 24 days, Zhou Yang finally found the murderer who poisoned him.

To his relief, the poisoned murderer was indeed a monster, not the human he was most worried about.

It was a very rare second-order top-grade monster "magic spirit Jade Butterfly". This monster usually inhabited in various spirit jade mines and ate spirit jade. It would only leave its nest on the night of the full moon and come to the ground to absorb the power of the moon to practice.

"Magic spirit Jade Butterfly" itself is not toxic, but when it practices, it will have a kind of butterfly powder falling from its body. This kind of butterfly powder does no harm to immortals, but ordinary people will be poisoned after smelling it.

When Zhou Yang saw the "magic Jade Butterfly", the monster danced in the upper reaches of a stream where mortals took water and drank in luminous town.