Immortal cultivation begins in the desert

The second-order magic weapon [silver Gang shield] is made by mixing the second-order spirit [silver Gang stone] with the tree scales falling off the second-order spirit [dragon scale tree] as the main material.

There are nine realms for cultivating immortals. The magic tools, pills, arrays and talismans used by immortals are therefore divided into nine levels from level 1 to level 9. The second-order magic tools correspond to the friars in the Qi training period.

It is also a second-order magic weapon, which can also be divided into upper, middle and lower grades. [Yingang shield] is a second-order magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-order smelter. Its grade is naturally the highest.

Before the magic weapon was refined, it seemed to be only the size of a palm. In fact, as long as Zhou Yang refined it, it could be turned into a huge shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body and adjust his orientation as he wanted.

Moreover, because [silver Gang stone] was integrated into refining, this magic weapon can not only easily block the attack of flying sword and throwing knife at the same level, but also has a miraculous effect on the magic attack of immortals or monsters, and can greatly offset the damage caused by spells below level 3.

"I have a second-order [dragon scale tree] in the Zhou family. I can harvest several mature tree scales every ten years. It can be regarded as self-produced, but [silver Gang stone] is not common. Even a small piece with a big fist costs at least 500 pieces of spirit stone. The old patriarch's gift is really not light!"

In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the small silver shield the size of a palm on his hand and suddenly felt that the magic weapon had become much heavier.

As a Xiuxian family, as long as the cultivation reaches the Qi training period, the people of the Zhou family can receive the worship of Lingshi from the family regularly every year until they are over 60.

According to the current clan rules, the people of the Zhou family who practice Qi on the first floor can receive 10 inferior spiritual stones a year, and the second floor is 20 inferior spiritual stones. And so on. There will be no change until the ninth floor.

Because if there is no accident, the Ninth level cultivation of Qi is the limit of friars in the ordinary period of Qi cultivation. The current family rule of the Zhou family is that as long as the family friars are promoted to the Ninth level, they will be promoted to family elders. Each elder can receive 150 pieces of inferior spirit stones every year. This offering is not limited by age. As long as the elders do not sit down and fall, they can receive it in full.

Zhou Yang had stayed on the fifth floor of Qi training for two years. He offered only 50 inferior spiritual stones every year. Based on this calculation, even if all his spiritual stones were saved and not used, it would take ten years of dedication to exchange for a fist [silver Gang stone].

In fact, because he entered the Qi training period at the age of seven, after ten years, not counting the treasures his parents rewarded him as gifts, his total wealth is only more than 300 inferior spirit stones.

It can be seen that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan took [Yingang shield] as his reward for going down the mountain in advance. What a heavy gift!

"The old clan leader values me so much that I can't let him down. I have to do well whether it's learning weapon refining or garrisoning Qingping mountain!"

As soon as Zhou Yang's heart was warm, he couldn't help grasping the magic weapon in his hand and secretly determined to do good things to repay the trust of his elders.

In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed his door and concentrated on refining the newly obtained [silver Gang shield] magic weapon in the room. He didn't go out of the door until he had refined the magic weapon to make good luck.

He first went to the Sutra cave, another important place of the Zhou family, where he learned the six-layer Qi practice method of Jinyang fire formula, and then selected five spells conducive to fighting from the many spells collected in the Sutra cave.

These five spells are the second-order attack spell "golden Sabre", "fire snake", the second-order defense spell "golden light protection", and the second-order auxiliary spells "heavenly eye" and "earth escape".

The Qi practice period skills and spells in the Sutra cave of the Zhou family can't help the people to read them, but they can't be taken out of the Sutra cave, and it is strictly forbidden to teach them to outsiders without permission.

Zhou Yang used to follow the instructions of his parents and elders. In addition to learning some simple first-order auxiliary spells, he did not distract his energy from learning those combat spells that were conducive to fighting, and focused all his energy on improving his cultivation.

But now, since he wants to go down the mountain to garrison one side, it is difficult to ensure that he will not encounter fighting magic. If he won't fight magic at that time, the means will be too single only by relying on a few magic tools in his hand, which is easy to be restrained and targeted.

Spells are easy to learn but difficult to master. It won't take long to learn how to use them. It took almost half a month to learn all the five spells with Zhou Yang's cultivation of Qi six layers.

At this time, it was not far from the one month period given to him by the old patriarch. He wrote a letter to explain the situation. He asked the middle-aged elders of the clan to bring it to the parents who were sitting in a xiuxianfang city thousands of miles away. Then he said goodbye to the familiar elders and fellow monks on the mountain and went down the mountain alone.

After going down the mountain, Zhou Yang led a camel necessary for walking in the desert from the people at the foot of the mountain and plunged directly into the boundless sand sea.

This is the first time he left Yuquan Lake oasis in 17 years and set foot in the desert for the first time in his two lives.

The sand sea is boundless, and people can easily lose their way.

Once lost in the sand sea, even the immortal who carries a lot of fresh water and food through the storage bag will eventually starve and die of thirst if he can't reach the oasis before the food and water run out.

Immortal practitioners are much stronger than ordinary people, but they can't completely dig the valley until they reach the golden elixir period. Even the purple house friars need to eat the meals made by Linggu or the spirit meat of monsters and animals regularly to maintain their physical needs.

In fact, even the golden elixir monks who can open up the valley dare not fly around in the boundless sand sea.

Jindan friars are not afraid of losing their way, but there are not only the danger of losing their way in the sand sea, but also all kinds of terrible natural disasters and powerful monsters that even Jindan friars can kill.

For example, the famous "black sand storm", once the golden elixir friars fall into it, they will be isolated from divine consciousness and shield five senses by the strange power contained therein, and finally be consumed by the endless force of the storm.

Another example is the most famous five level monster [sand bug] in the boundless sand sea. It has a body size of thousands of feet and has terrible sharp teeth in its mouth. It can bite the five level defense magic weapon with great strength. If the friar of the golden elixir accidentally falls into the mouth of the sand bug, he will also lose his life.

With these risks, unless there is a reason to come, those golden elixir friars will never easily go deep into the sand sea.

Fortunately, neither the terrible "black sand storm" nor the fifth order monster [sand worm] sleeping only in some underground spiritual veins in the depths of the desert will appear near the oasis. Otherwise, Zhou Yang may not dare to set foot in the desert alone.

He marched in the desert, one camel by one, in strict accordance with the map issued by his family. About five days later, he arrived at his destination - Qingping mountain

Qingping mountain is also an oasis, but it is an artificial oasis.

The oasis area is very small, only more than ten square kilometers. The oasis can be formed by the Zhou family, regardless of cost, investing tens of thousands of inferior spiritual stones here to create a second-order inferior spiritual vein.

The reason why the Zhou family spent so much to build an oasis here is that more than 50 years ago, a member of the Zhou family lost in the desert found a medium-sized refined iron ore vein here.

Refined iron ore is a kind of spiritual ore with a little aura. After smelting and processing, it can smelt the first-order spiritual object refined iron and the second-order spiritual object black iron. These two kinds of spiritual objects are the main materials for the Xiuxian family or sect to build ancestral halls, sutra pavilions, treasure houses and other important buildings. They are also the main materials for the smelter to refine most of the first-order and second-order magic weapons. There is a great demand in the market.

In order to mine the refined iron ore in the refined iron vein, the Zhou family can only build an oasis here for the miners to live. At the same time, in order to protect the miners from the attacks of low-level monsters in the desert, the Zhou family must send monks to garrison here.

Whether it is to build an oasis or let the garrison friars continue to practice, the Zhou family can only artificially create spiritual veins here.

Of course, all this investment is worth it.

Only this medium-sized refined iron vein, after processing and selling the refined iron ore mined every year, can bring the Zhou family a net profit of more than 500 pieces of inferior Lingshi. Over the past 50 years, the original investment has been doubled and earned back.

Moreover, judging from the reserves of refined iron veins, it can be mined for at least another 50 years.

The area of Qingping mountain oasis is very small, and most of the area has become the living area of miners. Only a 100 meter high hill in the center of the spirit vein has been delimited separately as the residence of monks and the warehouse of finished materials.

It can be said that xiaoshantou is the real Qingping mountain.

Because the current elder of the Zhou family is the second-order array mage, a second-order array "cloud sea splitting array" is also arranged on the spirit vein of Qingping mountain. The power of the array makes the small mountain covered by clouds all year round, which makes it difficult for people to see the layout.

Zhou Yang came to the outside of the array and shouted with his mana. The clouds in front of him surged and made a way for him to enter the mountain.

He entered along the array channel and soon saw the garrison friar inside, a thin looking middle-aged scholar, who ranked 16th among the "Xuan" generation friars of the Zhou family. His name was Zhou Xuanjin.

"Eh, how could it be yang'er? You'll take my place? Aren't you twenty? "

When Zhou Xuanjin, dressed up as a scholar, saw Zhou Yang coming in, she couldn't help but say hello. Before Zhou Yang saluted, she put down her book and asked questions.

"If you go back to Uncle 16, this is the arrangement of the old patriarch. He said that my nephew's cultivation has reached the standard of going down the mountain, and made an exception to let my nephew go down the mountain to experience in advance." Zhou Yang answered honestly.

Zhou Xuanjin looked stunned, and whispered in a puzzled voice: "have you reached the standard of going down the mountain? When did our Zhou family have this standard? "

After that, his heart moved as if he remembered something. He quickly applied a "heavenly eye technique" to himself, and looked at Zhou Yang up and down with golden eyes.

It doesn't matter. When he looked at it, he couldn't help opening his mouth and exclaimed, "ah! You have broken through to the sixth floor of Qi training! "

"After the closure of [Yuyang cave] a month ago, I was lucky to break through."

Zhou Yang smiled and nodded without mind.

In fact, in the spiritual world, it is a taboo to directly observe the accomplishments of others with the "heavenly eye technique". Monks often fight for this kind of thing.

However, Zhou Xuanjin is his own elder, and Zhou Yang doesn't care about such small things.

"Tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut! How old are you!"

"My uncle has been practicing hard for 40 or 50 years. Now you have the cultivation of Qi level 7. You are good. You will practice Qi level 6 at the age of 17. I'm afraid you'll surpass me in ten or eight years!"

"Hey, I'm old. I can't compare with young people. They are all the qualifications of Zhongpin Linggen. Why is there such a big gap!"

Zhou Xuanjin put away her spells and looked at the outstanding younger generation with complex eyes. She didn't know whether she should be happy that there were so many talents in the family, or ashamed and lost that her cultivation was about to be surpassed by a younger generation who was several decades younger.

This is not the first time that Zhou Yang has encountered such a situation. Since he broke through the sixth layer of Qi practice, his peers and elders on Yuquan peak have more or less expressed the same lost and gloomy color as Zhou Xuanjin when they were amazed and happy about his cultivation speed.

In this regard, he can only be silent, not much to say.