Zhou Yang didn't want too many people to know about the discovery of the spirit stone mine in a short period of time.

Although the Zhou family already had the strength to be fearless of anyone in this boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm, the benefits involved in a medium-sized spirit stone mine were too great, and he couldn't afford not to act cautiously.

And at present, the spirit stones in the Zhou family's treasure house are enough, and no matter how many spirit stones are dug up, they can only be piled up in the warehouse, and they cannot be turned into various urgently needed treasures.

In addition, the various projects that the Zhou family is currently developing have to be participated in by manpower, and it is difficult to spare too many people to mine the spirit stone mine for a while.

You must know that such an important vein as the spirit stone mine is no better than other ore veins, once this kind of valuable vein starts to be mined, not only can the mining only be carried out by immortal cultivators, but also a large number of monks must be invested in the mine area to guard the mine, so as not to be stolen and looted.

Like those major sects, once they discovered the spirit stone mine, they would first send a high-level array mage to set up a fifth-order magic circle with a large coverage area to cover the spirit stone mine area, and then they would send people to mine the spirit stone.

The medium-sized spirit stone mine discovered by Zhou Yang has a vein length of hundreds of miles, and in such a large area, ordinary fifth-order formations can't cover it, so it has to be that kind of forbidden array.

Of course, the Zhou family couldn't take such a big array, so when the time came, they could only use stupid methods to send a large number of family monks to patrol the borders of the Lingshi mining area, and send at least one Purple Mansion period monk to sit in it to support at any time.

In the case that he was going to travel to the Great Bright Immortal Palace area soon, Zhou Yang knew that the Zhou family actually did not have this kind of condition.

So after he returned to Rhino Horn Continent, he first sternly told his apprentice Lu Xuewei not to leak the matter of the spirit stone mine, and then just informed Zhou Guangxiang about the spirit stone mine, and personally took him to the mine to recognize the way.

In this way, the matter of the spirit stone mine came to an end for the time being, and after Zhou Yang mentioned the matter he promised Lu Xuewei to Zhou Guangxiang, the patriarch, a little, he set off to collect the fire essence gold in the underground fire abyss where the "Pure Extinguishing Blue Lotus Fire" was discovered.

Originally, Zhou Yang thought that after going to the underground fire abyss this time, he would still be able to see the "Fire Lin Beast" that had escaped at the beginning, and he was originally going to continue to try it to see if he could kill this beast.

But what he didn't know was that after he invaded his body with the "Qianyang True Fire", the "Fire Lin Beast" almost died at the bottom of the fire abyss, so that after recovering, he didn't dare to go back to the original place to take a look, for fear of meeting him again.

Moreover, the reason why the "Fire Lin Beast" inhabited the underground fire abyss in the first place was mainly to use the "Purifying and Extinguishing the Green Lotus Fire" to practice, and after he took away this kind of heaven and earth spiritual fire, the underground fire abyss was no different from other places for the "Fire Lin Beast".

Of course, Zhou Yang was a little sorry for not being able to see the "Fire Lin Beast", but the large amount of Fire Essence Gold mined later quickly dispelled the depression and pity in his heart.

Last time, he used the "Thousand Blade Disk" to mine the fire essence gold, but he didn't dare to mine deep into the magma because he was worried that the magma would hurt this magic weapon.

This time, he came prepared, and directly used the particularly high-temperature resistant "Dayan Divine Light Sword" as a mining tool, and the harvest was great.

When he returned to Rhino Horn Continent and used the "Lihuo Vermilion Bird Furnace" to refine the Lihuo Essence Gold in those ores, he harvested a total of as many as thirty-seven catties and six taels of Lihuo Essence Gold.

It's a pity that although it is a bumper harvest from the fire essence gold, the harvest on the "Taiyi Essence Gold" and other materials is not ideal.

The Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm is still too barren and backward, and precious refining materials such as "Taiyi Essence Gold" are generally used to add to their own flying swords to increase the power of their flying swords, and few people collect large pieces of spirit gold and do not use them.

The news from the Zhou family helped him buy it for a few years, but it was only five taels, which was a huge gap from the few catties he wanted.

There was no way, Zhou Yang could only temporarily suppress the idea of sword refining, and prepared to wait until he arrived at the boundary where the Great Bright Immortal Palace was located, and then find a way to collect materials to refine the sword.

Time flew by, and soon more than a year passed.

On this day, Xiao Ying, who had been in retreat for six years, finally succeeded in breaking through the realm and being promoted to the fourth floor of the Purple Mansion and walked out of the retreat room.

"Congratulations, Ying'er, you're finally out of the customs!"

Outside the retreat room of Xiao Ying's retreat, Zhou Yang, who sensed the movement in time and came to check on the situation, looked at the Taoist couple who had not seen him for nearly 20 years, and couldn't help but feel joy in his heart, and rushed over to hug the Taoist couple.

"The concubine also misses her husband!"

Xiao Ying put her hands on the back of Zhou Yang's neck, and her beautiful eyes were full of joy and pressed her head against the man's chest, unwilling to let go for a long time.

After a shallow hug, the faint strangeness caused by the couple who had not seen each other for 20 years quickly dissipated completely.

Of course, when the love was lingering, Zhou Yang did not forget the matter, and soon told the Taoist about the flowering of the "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree.

After Xiao Ying heard about this, she also attached great importance to it, and rushed to Chihu Mountain with Zhou Yang the next day to check the situation.

So in the next year, Xiao Ying specially sat on Chihu Mountain, while refining the various third-order elixirs collected by the Zhou family into elixirs for the years of her retreat, while blending various spiritual liquids and collecting Yimu essence qi to replenish the vitality of the "Ning Yuan Fruit" tree.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang also moved to Chihu Mountain with his wife and husband, studying swordsmanship and accompanying Taoist couples.

In the past year, Zhou Yang has not fully understood the "Eight Desolations and Liuhe Sword Formation", and the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Zhou family has arrived.

In a place like the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, it was rare for a family to be able to inherit for four hundred years and still be prosperous.

Many foundation-building families have only been inherited for one or two hundred years, and then because the family foundation-building monks have fallen, they have been unable to give birth to new foundation-building monks for a long time and have gradually broken off their inheritance.

The original Zhou family almost became like this.

Originally, when the Zhou family celebrated the 300th anniversary of the founding of the clan, they should have invited guests and friends to celebrate.

However, at that time, the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm was in a turbulent period, and the Zhou family had just fallen to the old patriarch of the previous generation, so naturally they didn't have the heart to handle this matter.

Now that the Zhou family has been established for four hundred years, and the family has been promoted to the Zifu family, and has also become the strongest Zifu family in the boundless sand sea immortal cultivation realm for two thousand years, this celebration is naturally a big event.

Since Zhou Yang announced that he would hold this celebration five years ago, the Zhou family has been preparing for this matter.

In the past five years, almost all the foundation building families in the entire Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm have received invitations from the Zhou family.

At the same time, many more monks came uninvited to the ceremony without an invitation.

Of course, these people are not only here to eat and drink, but also for the treasure hunting conference promised by the Zhou family.

Therefore, on the day of the real celebration, more than 20,000 monks gathered at the Chihu Mountain Oasis.

The gathering of so many monks in an oasis is both an honor and a test for the Zhou family.

You must know that immortal cultivators are not kind, more than 20,000 immortal cultivators gather in an oasis, and it is almost impossible not to have some fighting conflicts every day.

For this reason, the Zhou family had to temporarily expand the security team, and most of the Qi cultivation monks in the family who were over sixty years old were sent out to maintain law and order, in case of large-scale fighting conflicts.

On the day of the celebration, the only monks who could climb the Red Tiger Mountain to observe the ceremony were those who received the invitation, they were either Zhuji monks or high-level elders of a certain Zhuji family, all of whom were people with status.

At this time, on Chihu Mountain, a heavenly altar specially built for celebrations had already been built.

This altar is round, nine feet high, three feet wide, from the bottom to the top of a total of nine colors, is made of hardware and four kinds of spiritual jade.

Since three days ago, after burning incense and bathing, Zhou Yang has been sitting cross-legged on this altar, fasting and waiting.

In front of him, there is a pyramid-shaped wooden building several feet high, on which are placed from top to bottom the ancestral tablets of the ancestors of the past dynasties.

Among them, the spirit tablet on the top of the tower is only written with the word "heaven and earth", which represents the heavens.

The second layer is the spirit card of Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of Zhou Yuquan and his wife, who established the Zhou family, and the third layer is Zhou Huajian, Zhou Minghan, and Zhou Xuanhao, the three foundation monks of the Zhou family who have passed away.

Further down, it is the spirit cards of the ninth-level ancestors of the Zhou family who have passed away, as well as the monk spirit cards that are on the "martyr list" of the Zhou family, and finally those ordinary ancestral monks of the Zhou family.

However, these spirit cards only stopped when the "Xuan" character generation was reached, because the "Xuan" character generation went down, and there was Zhou Yang, a "Yuan" character monk.

The ceremonies of worshiping the ancestors presided over by him, of course, could not put the spirit tablets of the same generation of monks on them.

At this time, with the arrival of the day of celebration, Zhou Guangxiang, the contemporary patriarch of the Zhou family, personally sent the three animals to the altar to worship the ancestors.

These three animals are the second-order high-grade demon beast "Red Hair Cow", the second-order high-grade demon beast "White-tailed Black Sheep", and the second-order high-grade demon beast "Rock and Soil Pig".

Originally, according to Zhou Yang's original intention, he wanted to use the third-order demon beast as a sacrifice, so that it appeared that the Zhou family's Zifu family was on the cards.

However, although there are many demon beasts in the boundless sand sea, there are very few three demon beasts of the third rank, cattle, sheep and pigs, and he can't just grab three third-order demon beasts to fill the number, right?

So in the end, he had to settle for the next best thing and chose a three-headed second-order high-grade demon beast as a sacrifice.

These demon beasts that were sacrificed had been fed the "Jingyuan Pill" and some body-purifying elixirs as early as a month ago, and sealed their excretion mouths with utensils to ensure that they would not be frightened into and urinating to blaspheme their ancestors in this solemn situation, in the crisis of life and death.

At this time, with the three animals sent, the auspicious time came, Zhou Yang after burning incense and bathing on the altar, personally slaughtered the three animal sacrifices used to sacrifice God and the ancestors on the spot, took their heads and placed them in front of him in a jade plate, and then knelt down on his knees in front of the rows of spiritual cards facing forward, and sincerely bowed and prayed.

"The ancestors of the Zhou clan are on top, and the descendants of Zhou Yuanyang led 976 children of my Zhou clan to pay tribute to Shangcang and the ancestors here, and pray that the spirit of God and the ancestors in the sky will bless my Zhou family, bless my Zhou family for a thousand years, and live forever!"

At the same time, Zhou Guangxiang and other Zhou family monks under the altar also knelt on the ground at the same time, and then bowed loudly and shouted: "Please ancestors and ancestors to bless my Zhou family for thousands of years, forever!"

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