Chapter 212 Gold Devouring Beast
After Huang Yi officially joined the Zhou family, even if Zhou Xuanyu, an undisclosed foundation-building monk, was counted, the number of foundation-building monks in the Zhou family reached five.
This means that even in terms of number, the Zhou family has become the largest foundation-building family in the Baisha River Oasis after the Chen family.
Under such circumstances, after receiving the convening order of the "Foundation Establishment Conference" issued by the ancestor of the Chen family, the Zhou family did not send any monks in the Qi training period to participate. Instead, Zhou Yang and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went directly to Bai Sand River Oasis.
"I heard that the son-in-law your Zhou family recruited more than ten years ago also succeeded in building a foundation? What a blessing!"
In the Baisha River Oasis, the ancestor of the Chen family received the two Zhou family members who had been summoned, and sighed as they looked at the two with complicated faces.
The Chen and Zhou families have been friends for more than two hundred years, and the ancestor of the Chen family watched the establishment of the Zhou family with his own eyes, and helped a lot in the development of the Zhou family during this period.
Now seeing the Zhou family with three or two big cats and kittens, it only took more than two hundred years of development to faintly threaten the status of the Chen family. How does he feel in his heart? It is really only himself. knew.
When Zhou Yang and Zhou Minghan heard him say this, they didn't know whether the "good luck" he said referred to the Zhou family or Huang Yi himself.
In the end, Zhou Yang could only reply in a respectful voice: "Returning to the ancestors, there is indeed such a thing. The person who built the foundation was Huang Yi, the husband of the junior twelfth sister."
Hearing what he said, the eyes of the ancestor of the Chen family moved, and he couldn't help looking at him and asked: "The old man heard that your boy went out, so he brought back a Taoist companion who is as beautiful as a fairy, why didn't you bring him here to see you this time?" old man?"
He actually wanted to know what Zhou Yang did in Liuyunzhou, and why Cao Wenjin took Zhou Yang to Liuyunzhou.
However, as a person who was lucky enough to go to Liuyun Island to cultivate immortals with monk Huang Shamen, he also knew that Zhou Yang must have signed a blood contract and was not allowed to disclose this, so he wanted to see if he could find anything from Xiao Ying.
Of course Zhou Yang didn't know this. He heard the old ancestor of the Chen family ask this question, although he was surprised, he had nothing to hide and immediately said: "Don't dare to lie to the old ancestor, Ying'er has something to do in the family and she can't get away. After she finishes her work, the junior will definitely bring her to visit the ancestor."
"Since there is something, let's talk about it later, and now the old man will tell you about the goal of this time."
The ancestor of the Chen family nodded slightly, and then said in a deep voice the target selected for this "Foundation Establishment Conference": "Our target this time is a fourth-rank middle-grade monster [Gold Devourer], this beast His lair is in a vein of [Silver Star Stone]."
"Gold-eating Beast" is a solitary fourth-order monster. This monster is very similar to the "Gold-Eating Rat" that Zhou Yang encountered during the Qi training period. Raw monsters.
The difference is that "Gold Devouring Beast" not only ranks as high as Tier 4, but also has extremely powerful offensive and defensive capabilities, and also masters the "Golden Escape Technique", which is the most difficult to learn and deal with among the Five Elements Escape Techniques.
Zhou Yang didn't know why the ancestor of the Chen family chose this kind of monster as the hunting target. Although he said that if he chose the "gold-eating beast" to hunt, he didn't have to worry about facing the siege of many middle and low-level monsters like hunting other fourth-level monsters. , but if the "gold-eating beast" who has mastered the supernatural power of "golden escape" wants to escape, unless the monks at the golden core stage take action, who can stop it?
"The junior dares to ask the ancestor, you chose the [Gold Devouring Beast] as your target, but have you found a way to restrict its escape?"
The matter is of great importance, Zhou Yang has no other worries at this time, and directly asked the question in his heart.
"My Chen family has a fourth-tier low-grade array called [Five Elements Reversal Array]. Once this array is set up, no five-element escapism can be used in the array. So this time, the task of you monks in the foundation stage is to Stabilize the formation and not break until the old man kills him!"
The ancestor of the Chen family didn't hide anything, and directly revealed his reliance.
Using formations to encircle and kill monsters is a common method used by immortal cultivators. Otherwise, if high-level monsters want to escape, even a powerful Zifu monk like Jia Yunzhen may not be able to kill them.
Therefore, after Zhou Yang listened to the words of the old ancestor of the Chen family, he just exchanged a glance with the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, and replied respectfully: "That's it, the younger generation has no doubts, and everything is according to the old ancestor's orders."
In the next two or three months, the Zhou family and the other eight Foundation Establishment cultivators have been practicing and familiarizing themselves with the method of using the "Five Elements Reversal Formation".
This set of "Five Elements Reversal Formation" needs ten foundation-building monks to control it to exert its due power. Once the enemy is trapped in the formation, not only will they not be able to perform the Five Elements Escape Technique as the ancestor of the Chen family said, but they will also be able to cast other five elements spells. , will also be weakened a lot by the upside-down five elements of the power of the formation.
As for the ten foundation-building monks who participated in the formation practice, besides the two Zhou family members, there were also two from the Chen family. Among the remaining six, two were the foundation-building monks of the Chen family's new vassals who established a family on the Baisha River oasis. Among the loose cultivators, one is a real casual cultivator, and the remaining three are from the three foundation-establishing families including the Yang family of Jinquangu.
Zhou Yang didn't say he was familiar with all of these people, at least he had met them a few times, and they could be called by their names. The ten of them worked together, and there was nothing wrong with them.
After two or three months of practicing the formations like this, and after being fully familiar with the use of the formations, the ten foundation-building monks boarded the airship of the ancestor of the Chen family and flew to the lair of the "gold-eating beast" .
As for Chen Pingan, another cultivator from the Purple Mansion of the Chen family, who had learned the lesson from the "Foundation Establishment Conference" last time, how could the ancestors of the Chen family dare to go all out now.
Under the control of the ancestor of the Chen family, the eighth-floor monk of the Purple Mansion, the empty boat can fly more than 20,000 miles a day, but even so, it took Zhou Yang and the others six or seven days to reach the place that the ancestor of the Chen family said.
"In fact, everyone knows that the boundless sand sea is so big, there must be more than just the oasis in the area near the Huangshamen, but if it is too far away from the Huangshamen, not to mention that relocating mortals is a huge project, in case something happens, Perhaps in the past few decades, no one may have known about it, so sometimes our families would rather spend a lot of spiritual stones, manpower and material resources to build oases and spiritual veins, rather than establish a family branch hundreds of thousands of miles away from the family."
When getting off the boat, Zhou Minghan saw that Zhou Yang was a little confused about this area he had never been to, so he couldn't help but secretly explained it to him.
When Zhou Yang heard the words, he immediately understood what Zhou Minghan meant.
That's right, if a family is established in such a far place, then this family will be completely out of the protection range of Huang Shamen. Once it is attacked by a powerful monster or other immortal cultivators, it will be impossible to ask for help.
So even if there is an oasis here, it can only be occupied by monsters, and then human monks come to harvest it every tens or hundreds of years.
A group of people disembarked from the spaceship, and quickly found a suitable place to set up the "Five Elements Reversal Array", and then the ancestor of the Chen family killed the "gold-eating beast"'s lair alone to "invite monsters".
Zhou Yang and the others restrained their breath and waited in the dark for a while, then saw a golden light chasing the ancestor of the Chen family from far to near.
He fixed his eyes, and in the golden light, there was a ferocious beast six feet long, with a tiger head and a lion body full of fangs.
This strange beast was clean and hairless, and its body seemed to be made of poured metal, emitting a dazzling golden light under the sun.
This is the "gold-eating beast", a ferocious beast that feeds on metal.
While Zhou Yang was sizing up the "Gold Devouring Beast", the ancestor of the Chen family had already led the opponent to the periphery of the "Five Elements Reversal Formation".
But when the ancestor of the Chen family passed through the "Five Elements Reversal Formation", an accident happened.
The "gold-eating beast", which had been chasing after it all the way, seemed to have sensed the danger, and stopped directly outside the formation. With a pair of golden beast eyes, it looked at Zhou Yang and others in the sand sea below with vigilance. hiding place.
Then the monster uttered a warning roar at the ancestor of the Chen family from a distance, turned around and turned into a golden light and returned the same way.
Zhou Yang and the others below were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
"Old Ancestor, what should we do now? [Gold Devouring Beast] sees the power of the formation and refuses to enter the formation, how can we kill it?"
In the sea of sand, Zhou Yang and others walked out of their hiding place and joined the ancestor of the Chen family who had landed. The group discussed the countermeasures for what happened just now.
It is not uncommon for high-level monsters to see the power of the formation and refuse to enter the formation.
After all, although monsters don't understand formations, they are much more sensitive to danger than immortals. As a fourth-level low-level formation, the "Five Elements Reversal Formation" already has the power to threaten fourth-level monsters. "After sensing this threat, naturally, he would not rush into it foolishly and easily.
"Don't worry, the old man is also prepared for this. Since this beast is not willing to join the battle easily, then we will give it a reason to join the battle!"
The ancestor of the Chen family glanced at Zhou Yang and the others, and finally landed on Zhou Minghan and said:
"Minghan, your cultivation level is the highest. This old man has a piece of [Taiyi Fine Gold] that is very helpful for the advancement of [Gold Devouring Beast]. After the beast is attracted, it senses that you have this thing hidden on your body, and it will definitely not be able to resist entering the formation and devouring this thing!"
After finishing speaking, he didn't ask Zhou Minghan whether he agreed or not, and even with a flick of his sleeve, he threw a fist-sized platinum ore at Zhou Minghan.
"Please rest assured, the ancestor, the junior must protect this thing well."
Zhou Minghan tightly held the "Taiyi Fine Gold" thrown to him by the ancestor of the Chen family, and agreed with the matter in a low tone.
Seeing this, the ancestor of the Chen family blinked his eyes slightly, but said in his mouth: "Although this thing is valuable, it is just a dead thing. If the situation is critical, Minghan, it doesn't matter if you throw it to the [Gold Devouring Beast] to devour it." , as long as it can be killed in the end, this thing will not be wasted!"
"Yes, the junior understands."