Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Chen Ping'an's cave is located near the top of the white hump, and further up is the cave of the ancestor of the Chen family.

This cave mansion is divided into inner and outer floors. The cave mansion inside the mountain is the place where Chen Pingan lived alone and practiced. The palace loft built on the mountain outside covers an area of ​​tens of mu. Hospitality.

After the three of Zhou's family followed Chen Pingan into his outer mansion on the ground, they suddenly focused their eyes, and couldn't help but look at several Chen Pingan's juniors standing in front of a large hall.

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

Zhou Yang looked at the woman with her head bowed down in surprise, not daring to look at the three of them, with a slightly annoyed voice.

It turned out that he was familiar with two of Chen Pingan's juniors standing in front of the main hall.

One of them was Chen Fangping, the son of Chen Ping'an who cheated him hundreds of spirit stones with a meal when he first arrived at the Baisha River Oasis. Cultivator Zhou Yuanxia.

But now, these two people he was familiar with were actually standing together hand in hand, and Zhou Yuanxia was even holding a four or five year old boy by the hand.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Yang still doesn't understand the relationship between these two people.

Feelings Zhou Yuanxia did not disappear, but climbed to a high branch and became Chen Pingan's daughter-in-law. No wonder she didn't want to go back to Zhou's house.

Hearing Zhou Yang's questioning with anger at this moment, Zhou Yuanxia's delicate body trembled, she didn't have the courage to answer at all, she just tightly grasped the palm of Chen Fangping next to her.

Seeing this, Chen Fangping couldn't help but patted the Taoist couple's palms to comfort him, then stepped forward with a smile on his face and cupped his hands at Zhou Yang: "Senior Zhou, calm down and let Yuan Xia stay in the Chen family. The junior's idea, you have to fight and punish, and the junior will follow it with all his strength."

"What exactly is Senior Chen's intention?" Zhou Yang ignored Chen Fangping, but directly looked at Chen Pingan, who was calm. He knew that Chen Pingan must have made plans to call him and the other three.

Seeing Zhou Yang directly ignoring his own words, Chen Fangping couldn't help but froze the smile on his face, not to mention the uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

This is really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

Once upon a time, in front of him, Zhou Yang was still a child of a small family who would not dare to turn his face even if he teased him.

Now, just a few short years have passed, and the little Qi training stage monk who just left the house has grown to the point where he can ignore him, and has become a foundation building stage monk just like his father who is his backer.

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

"Chen didn't know about Xia'er and this kid being together beforehand. When Chen found out about it, their children were already three years old. Even if Chen could break them up, he couldn't. You don't even want your grandson?"

Chen Pingan glanced at his son calmly, first told the whole story, and expressed his attitude.

Then he looked solemnly, looked at the three members of the Zhou family with a serious face and said: "Everyone is from the family monks, so Chen will stop talking about those hypocritical nonsense, and just tell the three of them about Chen's decision."

"Your Zhou family has only established a clan for a short time, and you haven't produced a third-order formation master. I'm afraid [Bloodline Divine Forbidden] has not yet been able to arrange it. This is the basis for both of us to reach a compromise on this matter."

"So Mr. Chen can give you two choices now. One is that Mr. Chen will take out a third-level alchemy formula and give it to your Zhou family as an apology. The second is that Mr. Chen can owe your Zhou family a favor. In the future, your Zhou family only needs to use this Favors, you can let Chen do something within his ability."

The three members of the Zhou family looked at each other, but they didn't expect Chen Pingan to say that.

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

This is not to say that the conditions offered by Chen Ping'an are not good, on the contrary, no matter whether it is a third-level alchemy formula, or the favor of a nine-level foundation-building monk from such a big family as him, it is something that is hard to find.

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

But it doesn't work that way.

No matter how poor Zhou Yuanxia's aptitude was, no matter how low her cultivation base was, she was still a monk of the Zhou family.

The fact that she married an outsider and had children without notifying the family has already constituted 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 can they lead the family in the future?

And if outsiders know that their Zhou family married a family nun into the Chen family, what will they think of them?

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

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.

Zhou Minghan stared at Zhou Yuanxia and asked, "Yuanxia, ​​what is your choice? If you are willing to go back to the family with the old man, even if you have a bad relationship with Brother Chen today, the old man will take you back to the family!"

Hearing what Zhou Minghan said, Chen Pingan narrowed his eyes and did not speak.

Chen Fangping looked at the three members of the Zhou family in astonishment, with an inconceivable look in his eyes, he never expected that the three members of the Zhou family would dare not show face to his father.

The person involved, Zhou Yuanxia, ​​also raised her head to look at Zhou Minghan in shock, her eyes were full of panic.

Chen Fangping swore to her that as long as Chen Pingan was here, Zhou Minghan and others would never dare to take her away by force, so she dared to show her face.

What she didn't expect was that she and Chen Pingan, who was relying on Chen Fangping as a backer, squinted their eyes at this time, instead of being displeased with Zhou Minghan's rude words, they looked at her with a kind face and said: " It's okay, Xia'er, you can answer Brother Minghan with confidence, if you really want to go back to the Zhou family, being a 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 tone.

But 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 finishing speaking, he stared at Zhou Yang and said loudly: "Zhou Yuanxia, ​​a monk of the Zhou family, eloped with others and betrayed the family. As the number one elder of the Zhou family, I ask the patriarch to expel his clan membership and never restore it." !"

"Next week, the second elder of the Zhou family, Zhou Xuanhao, seconded the proposal." Zhou Xuanhao also recalled it at this time, and seconded Zhou Minghan's proposal aloud.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also took a deep look at Zhou Yuanxia, ​​who had a pretty pale face over there, and nodded slightly: "Since the two Supreme Elders have made this proposal, and it has been verified and confirmed that this matter is indeed true, I will Agree to this proposal as the head of the Zhou family and implement it immediately."

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

Seeing this scene, Chen Pingan couldn't help but nodded slightly and said, "From now on, there will only be Chen Xia'er from the Chen family, and there will be no such person as Zhou Yuanxia!"

"Brother Chen, farewell!"

"Several walk slowly!"

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

"Father, why did you tell me not to choose the alchemy formula through the voice transmission earlier? Although Chen Pingan's favor is valuable, the third-level alchemy formula is related to your breaking through the third-level alchemist. This 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 puzzles to his father Zhou Xuanhao.

Of the Zhou family's immortal cultivating skills, only crafting has a complete inheritance of level three or higher, while the rest, such as formations, talisman making, alchemy, spiritual planting, and animal taming, have only second level inheritance.

The third-order formation in "Haoyang Grotto" "Shoutu Jin Ge Formation" is not considered a complete inheritance, because the old man Zhou Qian who refined this formation died after refining the formation, and there was no time to keep it. Under the relevant inheritance, there is only a broken formation diagram that is difficult to understand for a second-level top-rank formation mage.

Therefore, in Zhou Yang's view, if his father Zhou Xuanhao can break through to the third-level alchemist with the third-level alchemy given by Chen Pingan, it will definitely be ten times more important to the Zhou family than his breakthrough to the third-level alchemist great thing.

"Yang'er, you are still young, it's normal to not understand these things, if you don't ask about this matter, I will tell you in detail as a father!"

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

"Do you think that father, who is an alchemist, doesn't want third-order alchemy formulas? But you don't know that the common third-order elixirs that can be refined near the Baisha River Immortal Cultivation World are basically all used by the Chen family. He and Huang Shamen are monopolized, and only those spiritual herbs and medicines that they don't need will flow out and be obtained by others."

"So the alchemy recipes that Chen Ping'an is willing to take out are either useless alchemy recipes whose materials are hard to come by and cannot be made together, or off-the-wall alchemy recipes that are of little use."

"It's true that our Zhou family lacks a third-tier alchemist, but it's not to the point of rushing to the doctor. There's no need to be fooled by him!"

Zhou Yang stopped talking now.

He is a craftsman, not an alchemist, and he really has no say in alchemy.

Since his father Zhou Xuanhao said so, he must be right.

At this time, Zhou Minghan, who had been silent all this time, also nodded and said: "Xuan Hao is right, we can slowly plan the matter of the third-order alchemy in the future, but it is Chen Pingan's favor that is currently invading by the monks of the magic way. Under the circumstances, it may be able to play a big role someday.”

After finishing speaking, he smiled slightly and said: "The matter of Yuan Xia, on the surface, seems to be a matter of embarrassment to my Zhou family, but in fact it just shows one thing. With Xuan Hao and Xiao Jiu, your father and son built Ji Chenggong, with the invasion of the monks of the magic way, in the eyes of the Chen family, our Zhou family has changed from a dispensable and unimportant little follower to an important ally worthy of their attention and win over."

"Otherwise, with the power of their Chen family, they can hide Yuanxia from us to find out, so why expose it to us, why use it as an excuse to give us benefits?"

Hearing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but nodded in agreement and said, "Great-grandfather is right. The Chen family is indeed in a hurry now. In the battle of Jinxia Mountain, they lost three foundation-building monks. This time they fought against Moxiu. Another Foundation Establishment cultivator fell, and last time they used three Foundation Establishment Pills, only one person succeeded in Foundation Establishment, plus Chen Pingzhi, who fell before, is now only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and there are only eight of them in the Chen family gone."

"That's it. The Chen family is short of manpower, and it is bound to rely more on the foundation monks of our allied families in the future. Some third-tier treasures that were not allowed to let us go and strictly controlled the number, this time I am afraid that they will have to open their mouths to take them." Come out to buy people's hearts, this is definitely a great thing for our Zhou family!"

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

"It is indeed a good thing. After all, our Zhou family has too short a family history. Let alone comparing it with the Zifu family like the Chen family, it is five or six hundred years old with the Liu family in Chixia Mountain and the Yang family in Jinquangu. Compared with the Foundation Establishment family in the past year, 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. It also coincides with the invasion of demon cultivators and the turmoil in the world of cultivating immortals. If you don't seize the opportunity at this time, you will accumulate some foundation for the family. When the situation stabilizes, it will not be that simple if you want to make the family heritage grow by leaps and bounds."

Zhou Yang was also aware of his own family affairs. Before the Foundation Establishment, he felt that the Zhou Family had everything they wanted, except for the treasures such as the Foundation Establishment Pill.

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 feed their own citizens behind closed doors, but they are limited to supporting them. Can only be purchased through imports.

To give a simple example, after Zhou Yang succeeded in establishing the foundation, he never took a third-level elixir to increase his cultivation. From this, it can be seen how poor the Zhou family is in terms of family heritage.

Like the Liu family in Chixia Mountain, even if there is no third-level alchemist in the family, but because every generation of the family has people who build foundations, there are always many third-level spirit pills stored in the family treasure house. Stones can be exchanged for panacea from the treasure house at a preferential price.

The Liu family used the family's public funds to buy high-priced panacea and put it in the treasury so that the family's foundation-building monks could exchange it at a low price. Basic monks have a sense of identity and cohesion with the family.

And as long as the family's foundation-building monks continue to stay in the family to serve the family, wouldn't those spirit pills that were redeemed at a low price still stay in the family in another way?

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

Zhou Yang can guarantee his loyalty to the family, and also believes in the loyalty of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his father Zhou Xuanhao to the family, but loyalty cannot be eaten as food.

The three of them have gone through the difficult times of the family and have received the kindness of many senior monks of the family. They can "generate electricity with love" to help the family. Are they also loyal to the family by "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 talent in the future, he, the patriarch, must improve the family heritage before those junior monks grow up.

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