Chapter 697: Nascent Soul Second Floor! 【Subscribe】

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, why did Zhao Yuanpu seek you alone?"

In the quiet room, Master Qingyang watched Zhou Yang, who went out to meet Zhao Yuanpu, and was a little out of control after he came back. After hesitating for a while, he finally couldn't help asking him about his trip.

After speaking, seeing Zhou Yang staring at him with flickering eyes, he quickly waved his hands and explained: "Fellow Daoist, don't get me wrong, this old man has no intention of prying into the personal privacy of Fellow Daoist, but seeing that this state of Fellow Daoist has been going on for a long time, I can't bear it." If it is inconvenient for fellow Taoists to ask, please don’t answer me.”

"Senior Qingyang is worrying too much. In fact, there is nothing to hide. Fellow Daoist Zhao is looking for this junior, and he wants to invite this junior to explore with him an ancient ruin of the senior. Of course, it is inconvenient for the junior to tell you which ruin it is. .”

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, and explained why Zhao Yuanpu came to him with reservations.

In fact, he himself doesn't know where the cave that Zhao Yuanpu mentioned is now, and he will only know when he actually goes there in the future.

Of course, there is no need to tell outsiders like Master Qingyang, after all, he has promised that Zhao Yuanpu will keep this matter a secret.

"Explore the ancient ruins of the predecessors? Take fellow Daoist Zhao..."

Daoist Qingyang frowned, and reflexively wanted to follow Zhou Yang’s words and ask out his doubts, but at the beginning of his words, he seemed to think of something, suddenly stopped talking, and said with a sly smile: “It’s the old man. You were reckless, and almost embarrassed fellow daoist Zhou, so I hope fellow daoist don’t blame him.”

Zhou Yang smiled and shook his head, indicating that he didn't care.

Master Qingyang saw this, his face softened a little, and he asked instead: "Did you agree to him that week?"

"The junior didn't want to agree to him at first. After all, the junior just humiliated him in public and broke his arm, let alone the trouble with Cheng'er!"

Zhou Yang shook his head slightly, and then couldn't help but smiled wryly: "But the benefits he gave really moved the junior's heart, and the junior couldn't help the temptation in the end, and agreed to this matter!"

Yes, Zhao Yuanpu has benefited a lot!

Not to mention the right to choose the spoils after entering the cave that he had already promised, that is, when Zhou Yang agreed to go and made the oath, he gave Zhou Yang a plant of "Huo Jingzhi" that was more than 5,000 years old. .

When monks have reached the Nascent Soul stage, it is difficult to obtain those pills that can be refined after taking them, so many Nascent Soul stage monks put their minds on some special heaven and earth elixir.

[Huo Jing Zhi] This kind of heaven and earth elixir is very rare, it is bred from extremely rich fire-attribute aura essence, and monks who practice fire-attribute kung fu can completely swallow and refine this elixir to improve their cultivation .

Although the effect of directly swallowing the refining elixir is far inferior to the effect of refining the elixir into a panacea, it is also many times faster than simply absorbing the spiritual energy of the world.

Zhou Yang's own cultivation base has reached the critical point of the second floor of the Nascent Soul, and he is only one step away from entering the second floor of the Nascent Soul.

Under normal circumstances, if he wants to take this step, he will need at least 30 to 50 years of hard work to succeed.

But if he refines a 5,000-year-old 【Huojingzhi】, he can take this step in two or three years, saving himself decades of hard work.

How could he not be moved by this.

Not to mention that he himself is also very interested in the cave that Zhao Yuanpu mentioned. It is a cave that is suspected to be left by a true immortal in the Transcending Tribulation period. He believes that any monk in the Yuanying period will be very interested after hearing about it.

How could Zhou Yang, who had achieved a lot in [Donglai Immortal Island], resist this kind of temptation!

Of course, the most important thing is that he is not worried about Zhao Yuanpu framing him as he holds the complete seventh-order fairy artifact [Suzaku Fan].

In that kind of lava in the center of the earth, the mana he would consume for using this seventh-level fairy weapon would be much smaller, and at the same time, the speed at which this seventh-level fairy weapon could gather fire-attribute aura would be ten times faster than that on the ground. ten times!

If on the ground, even if he uses the [Suzaku Fan], he only has the power to severely injure the late Nascent Soul monks, then in that environment, he really has a chance to kill the late Nascent Soul monks!

It is precisely because of this kind of trump card that he dared to agree to the invitation of the other party to jointly explore the Guxiu Cave Mansion even after he had just fought with Zhao Yuanpu.

Master Qingyang has also seen the power of [Suzaku Fan], and knows that Zhou Yang did not use his full strength in the previous battle with Zhao Yuanpu.

Hearing Zhou Yang's words at this time, after his lips moved, he still didn't say much, but just sighed softly: "No matter what, Fellow Daoist Zhou should be more careful, you must know that even us Nascent Soul stage monks, accidental Fallen things also happen from time to time.”

"Thank you senior for your concern, this junior will take care of himself."

Zhou Yang nodded slightly, expressing his gratitude solemnly.

Afterwards, the two left Hellfire City together and returned to Huohuashan Cave Mansion.

Counting it, from the time the two of them left Huohuashan Cave Mansion to Hellfire City, to the time they returned, it took more than a year.

Most of the time was spent by Zhou Yang healing his wounds in Hellfire City.

In fact, his current injury is barely suppressed, and if he really wants to fully recover, it will be impossible to do it every three to five years.

Fortunately, Zhao Yuanpu also knew this, so the agreed departure date was ten years later.

After returning to the Huohuashan Cave Mansion, Zhou Guangcheng was naturally picked up by Master Qingyang, and he was punished by being banned for a hundred years.

Zhou Yang, on the other hand, still did not disturb Xiao Ying, the Taoist couple who was in retreat, and went into the retreat room alone to meditate and recover from his internal injuries.

After three years passed like this, Zhou Yang recovered all the internal injuries caused by performing [Blue Dragon Splitting the Sky] that day.

It just so happened that at this time, Xiao Ying successfully advanced to the ninth level of Jindan through refining the [Star Moon Osmanthus Branch] he brought back from Xuanyang Immortal Sect.

"Thank goodness, Zhou Lang, you are finally out of the customs. The concubine knows all about the trouble that Guangcheng that dead child caused. This dead child really has not been supervised for three days, so he is going out to cause trouble. This time, I must be careful." Teach him a lesson!"

Because Zhou Yang left the seclusion two months earlier, Xiao Ying already knew from the monks on the mountain about her son Zhou Guangcheng's troubles, and also about Zhou Yang's battle with the late Yuanying monks for his adventure.

At this time, seeing Zhou Yang recovering from his injuries, she threw herself into Zhou Yang's arms with joy and anger, and shouted angrily to teach her son a lesson.

It's just that Zhou Yang didn't know, she was just talking about it, and she really couldn't bear to beat her precious son.

But knowing that Gui knew, Zhou Yang still responded solemnly: "I have to teach him a good lesson. If you don't teach him now, after he succeeds in forming the alchemy, I'm afraid you can't beat him even if you try to teach him a lesson!"

When Xiao Ying heard what he said, she immediately yelled: "He dares! He dares to fight with my mother, I... I will never give him any magic pills again!"

Her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally buried her head in Zhou Yang's arms with embarrassment, a little ashamed to see people.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but smiled wryly and stretched out his hand to pat her on the back and said, "Okay, okay, I know you are not willing to beat your son, but to be honest, you should stop pampering him in the future, and he is more than a hundred years old." At the age of 10, he should have learned to be independent long ago, besides, he still has senior Qingyang to take care of him, you can't really pamper him for the rest of your life!"

Unexpectedly, when Xiao Ying heard what he said, she looked up at him with resentment and said: "I also know that it is not good to spoil him like this, but when your husband is not at home, my heart is empty, I can't bear it." I just want to ask him to come back to stay with me, if I don’t treat him better and pamper him, this kid may not be willing to come here often to listen to my nagging!"

"Ahem, why did it involve Weifu again, Ying'er, you were also taken away by that kid!"

Zhou Yang coughed with embarrassment, and said calmly: "If you are lonely and bored, you can go to the family to teach the younger generations about the way of cultivation and alchemy skills, or go to Chongxuan Mountain to live for a while. Take a break for a while, go to Suyunzong to visit Liu Daoyou, Lin Daoyou and others, or even travel alone!"

"Let's forget it. The younger generations of the family have too many thoughts. If I want to go to the family alone, I don't want to go."

"As for the sisters Xuewei on Chongxuan Mountain, they are ascetics like you, husband. If I go to them, even if I don't say anything, I'm afraid they will blame me for disturbing their cultivation."

"Suyunzong is a good place to go, but it's too far away. If I go out alone, I'm afraid that I will encounter some enemies and cause trouble for you, husband. Besides, they are now focusing on finding the best spiritual stones to improve the spiritual veins of the mountain gate. How much time to spend with my concubine!"

Xiao Ying shook her head, denying Zhou Yang's suggestions one by one.

When Zhou Yang heard her words, not only did he not feel embarrassed and unhappy because of it, but as if he had realized something, a deep guilt suddenly appeared on his face, and he looked at her with guilt and self-blame and said apologetically "Ying'er, I'm sorry, it's my husband who made a mistake. My husband has only cared about his own cultivation these years, but he has completely ignored your feelings. I have suffered you a lot these years!"

It wasn't the things Xiao Ying said just now, he really didn't realize it.

Obviously, not everyone is like him, who is only dedicated to cultivating to become an immortal. As long as the cultivation base can be improved, a few treasures can be obtained, and a few magical powers can be cultivated, they will be able to please themselves and obtain great satisfaction.

At least Xiao Ying was not like this.

But these years, she has never said these things in front of Zhou Yang, and she has always silently endured that feeling of loneliness, unwilling to add a burden to the one she loves.

Even when Zhou Yang went out on an adventure alone, she must still be full of worries and concerns, worrying that one day the one she loves will really leave and never come back!

This kind of loneliness, this kind of worry, this kind of concern, she can't even find anyone to tell and share with her in many cases, so she can only bear it silently by herself.

This kind of silent love is really heartbreaking and distressing!

At this very moment, Zhou Yang felt extremely sad and distressed. He hugged his wife tightly in his arms, not knowing how to repay her for her dedication of love.

In the past, he might have given his wife better instruments, better elixirs and elixir, and rewarded his wife with these things that most monks like.

But now he has understood that what his wife needs is not these, and what he values ​​is not these.

He wanted to assure his wife that he would never ignore her emotional needs like this in the future, and that he would never let her suffer the loneliness and waiting alone again.

But he knew in his heart that it was difficult for him to do this.

Does he love his Taoist partner who has been married for hundreds of years?

There is no doubt about it!

But what he puts first in his heart is definitely not the love for his Taoist companion, but the pursuit of immortality and longevity.

Hundreds of years of practice until now, this pursuit of immortality and longevity has been deeply imprinted in Zhou Yang's flesh and blood, in his bones, in his soul, and it is impossible for anything else to shake him. its status.

The meaning of his practice now may not be pure, it is to pursue the life of immortality, maybe it is more to want to have a glimpse of the scenery at the end of this practice path, or maybe he just wants to become a success on this path By……

Perhaps the above are not the most important, but the most important thing is that he can't let go of his progress, at most he can just stop for a short time and take a rest.

Xiao Ying also seemed to know Zhou Yang's embarrassment. Seeing him, she just hugged her tightly silently, and couldn't help but put her face on his chest and said softly: "Zhou Lang, you don't have to blame yourself, my concubine has already died. I understand the ambition in your heart, maybe the concubine can no longer help you in your practice, but the concubine will never become your burden, I don't want you to delay your own practice because of the concubine!"

As she spoke, tears flowed out unsatisfactorily, and she sobbed softly, "I only hope that when you are tired, tired, or injured, you can temporarily stop and go back to the concubine. Take a rest by your side, share your experiences on the road with me, let me share your joys and sorrows, and I will be satisfied!"

Hearing his wife's humble words, Zhou Yang's heart twitched violently, as if he had been touched to a soft spot, and suddenly couldn't help but shouted: "No, it shouldn't be like this, you shouldn't be like this Embarrass yourself!"

He looked down at his wife's bewildered and bewildered eyes, and said excitedly: "Ying'er, you don't need to be like this. A husband can't just make you a living husband's stone just because of his own selfishness. That's God for you." It's hugely unfair, and it's not the life my husband wants!"

After finishing speaking, before Xiao Ying could understand what he said, he suddenly looked at her solemnly and asked, "Ying'er, are you afraid to die?"

Xiao Ying was slightly taken aback, a clear look flashed in her confused eyes, and then she replied with a smile on her face: "If you can die by your husband's side, Ying'er will not be afraid!"

Zhou Yang didn't seem to be surprised by her answer. After hearing the words, he looked at her lovingly and said softly: "In this case, if I go out on a trip and adventure for my husband in the future, I will take you out together. If there is a Ri Zhou died in a certain place, and you and I are also dead in the same place!"

When Xiao Ying heard this, a look of ecstasy first appeared on her face, as if years of expectation had finally become a reality.

But the next moment, as if she thought of something worrying, she couldn't help saying with a look of hesitation: "But if you do this, won't the concubine become a burden and drag on you, husband? And if the concubine You and your husband are not at home for a long time, what should Guangcheng do? What about the family?"

Seeing that she was worried about these things, Zhou Yang patiently explained to her: "Guangcheng has Senior Qingyang to take care of him, and the entire Xuanyang Immortal Sect as a backing support. Most monks are fine."

"As for the Zhou family, if your husband lives, the Zhou family will never be far behind. If your husband dies, the Zhou family will decline no matter what, so you don't have to worry about it!"

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand, and revealed the "Dongtian magic weapon" [Dong Xuanzhu].

"Look, with this [Dongxuan Orb] in your hand, even if you do meet a strong enemy, as long as your husband takes you into it, you can fight against the strong enemy or run for your life with peace of mind. The drag and burden you worry about, It doesn't actually exist!"

Xiao Ying burst into tears.

There were tears in her eyes, but her expression was extremely joyful, leaving tears of joy.

I saw her weeping with joy and said: "Since my husband is not afraid of being dragged down by my concubine, I will follow him to the death!"

"Then it's settled!"

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, hugged the beauty into his arms again, gently waved his sleeves to wipe away the tears on her face, and then carried her to the bedroom like this.

Next, Zhou Yang seemed to fulfill his promise, as long as he left the cave on Huohua Mountain, he would bring his Taoist companion Xiao Ying with him.

After all, Xiao Ying is now a Jindan ninth-level monk, and she can't make any progress in her cultivation without conceiving a baby, so she has plenty of time.

As for the condensed Nascent Soul, Xiao Ying was not at all eager, and had already agreed with Zhou Yang to wait another hundred or two hundred years before trying again.

This was actually a sign of her lack of confidence, but Zhou Yang didn't force her too much in this regard, because coagulating the Nascent Soul was indeed extremely difficult and dangerous, no matter how many auxiliary infantry spirit objects he prepared for her, it could not guarantee success.

And once the baby fails, the consequence is often the fall.

Xiao Ying is only over 600 years old now, and she is still hundreds of years away from the 1,000-year longevity limit of Jindan stage monks, not to mention that she also took a [jasper flat peach], which added 150 years of life to herself .

With so much remaining lifespan, it's not surprising that she made this conservative choice when she didn't have much pursuit of improving her cultivation.

In this way, Zhou Yang took her to visit Suyunzong, Chongxuan Mountain, Xuanyang Xianzong and other places first, and let her have a good time.

Then I went to Zhoujia Lingshan in Daoxuan Kingdom, and brought the second batch of monks who had been prepared by Li Hong to go to the giant spirit stone mine to mine, and went to the giant spirit stone mine in the wild jungle together, preparing to send the first In exchange for the monks of the Zhou family who have been mining there for more than 50 years.

Over the past 50 years, 20 monks from the Zhou family and several monks from the Guo family have unearthed more than 9 million low-grade spirit stones, more than 80,000 middle-grade spirit stones, and more than 300 high-grade spirit stones.

According to the June 4th share agreement set by Zhou Yang, the Zhou family can share more than 5 million low-grade spirit stones, 50,000 middle-grade spirit stones, and 200 high-grade spirit stones!

With so many spirit stones, Li Hong, who followed him this time, was so happy that his whole body was trembling with excitement.

Only then did he know where Zhou Yang asked him not to worry about earning spirit stones.

yes!

In this world, other than looting, is there any way to earn spirit stones faster than mining spirit stones from the spirit stone mine?

Zhou Yang was also a little excited, because after more than 50 years of excavation, with the efforts of 20 Zhou family monks, he finally unearthed another top-quality spirit stone and more than a dozen [spiritual marrow stones].

According to the agreement, these things belong to him!

"This top-quality spirit stone and these [Soul Essence Stones] belong to my ancestors, and the rest of the spirit stones will be divided with the Guo family according to the agreement. You, Li Hong, will take them and deposit them in the Zhou family's treasure house, and you must remember to dig them out. The clansmen of the top-grade spirit stone reward a piece of [Purple Heart Chalcedony], don't let my ancestors lose their trust in others!"

With a wave of his hand, Zhou Yang put away his things, and gave Li Hong instructions with a happy face.

Now that he is rich and doesn't have much place to use spirit stones, he no longer looks down on those spirit stones.

What's more, for him, it's the same whether the spirit stone is kept in his own hands or stored in the Zhou family's treasure house.

If he needs to use a lot of spirit stones for something, he can use all the spirit stones of the Zhou family at his disposal, or even ask all the monks of the Zhou family to donate spirit stones to him, it is not a problem.

After Li Hong heard his order, he couldn't hide his joy and replied loudly: "Don't worry, ancestor, this junior will definitely follow your order, and take out a [Purple Heart Chalcedony] from the family treasure house after returning home." Give it to Zhou Changhe, a lucky boy!"

The spirit stone I got this time, even if I bought fifty or sixty copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony], it would not be a problem, but taking out a copy of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] as a reward to a family monk is nothing, since it is all meat anyway. Rotten in the pot!

It was still Zhou Yang who brought people out with the [Piaoyun Car], but Zhou Yang only took people out of the wild jungle, and let Li Hong use an air travel boat to bring people back to the family, but he himself He brought his Taoist companion Xiao Ying back to Huohuashan Cave Mansion.

After returning to Huohua Mountain, Zhou Yang talked with Taoist Xiao Ying, and then he retreated and refined the 5,000-year-old [Huo Jingzhi] obtained from Zhao Yuanpu.

This [Huojingzhi] is as big as a millstone and three inches thick. Its whole body is as red as fire, as if carved from a whole piece of fire jade. It contains abundant and pure fire-attribute aura essence.

Zhou Yang cut it into dozens of petals, and every time he took a small petal for refining, it took him half a month to refine a palm-sized petal. two years.

Three and a half years had passed by the time the whole plant of [Huojingzhi] had been refined, and Zhou Yang's cultivation had entered the second layer of Nascent Soul as scheduled, and his strength was further improved.

It is also a happy event, less than half a year after Zhou Yang finished refining [Huojingzhi], the [Water-avoiding Golden-Eyed Beast], which had been sleeping and evolving in the spirit beast room, finally woke up completely.

It's really not easy in the cold weather!