Zhou Xuanhao's success in building the foundation is a great joy for the entire Zhou family that is worth celebrating, so the old patriarch Zhou Minghan personally rushed to the "Haoyang Cave" to confirm the situation, and when he returned to the family, he sent a wide invitation, inviting immortal cultivators from all over the world to come to watch the ceremony and celebrate.

In the immortal cultivation world around the Yuquan Lake Oasis, as long as it was a cultivator family and a loose cultivator who had a good relationship with the Zhou family, almost all of them received invitations.

After receiving the invitation, these people either sent the family elders to come with gifts to congratulate them, or they personally brought their descendants to increase their knowledge.

The monks who were originally stationed outside by the Zhou family also temporarily put aside the things at hand and rushed back to the family to participate in this celebration that had not been seen for decades.

A large number of immortal cultivators gathered on Yuquan Peak, making Yuquan Peak, which was originally quite deserted, lively all of a sudden.

The Zhou family also took this opportunity to hold a small exchange meeting on Yuquan Peak, taking out some accumulated pills, magic weapons, spirit runes and other treasures from the treasure house and selling them to those scattered cultivators who came here, and at the same time purchasing various alchemy and refining raw materials in the hands of casual cultivators.

As for those family cultivators, since the major immortal cultivation families basically cultivated their own refiners and alchemists, the second-order elixirs and magic weapons that the Zhou family took out were not enough to attract these people to buy them.

On the contrary, the occasional appearance of unknown spiritual objects in the hands of some casual cultivators would arouse the interest of these family monks and buy a few pieces.

Then those casual cultivators would take the spirit stones in their hands, turn around and go to the Zhou family's stall to buy magic weapons and pills.

It's just that this lively scene, Zhou Yang can't see it.

After he understood from the words of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan that day, he revealed his heart to his parents on the same day, and then followed the old patriarch back to the family.

After returning to the family, Zhou Yang said goodbye to his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu, and then left the Yuquan Lake Oasis alone on a sand beast with the advice of the old patriarch and his stepmother.

If you don't count the family mission that went to Qingping Mountain Oasis to garrison back then, this is the first time that Zhou Yang has gone out alone after thirty-two years of coming to this mysterious and vast world of cultivating immortals.

His destination was the Baishahe Oasis, a desert oasis more than 6,000 miles away from the Yuquan Lake Oasis, where there was the largest immortal cultivator city in the surrounding immortal cultivation world, Jinshafang City.

The ruler of the Baisha River Oasis is the Chen family of Baihuling, the Chen family is a family of cultivating immortals that has been inherited for seven or eight hundred years, the founder of the family is a master of the Purple Mansion Period, and Chen Yaohui, the head of the contemporary Chen family, is even better than the blue, and the cultivation is higher than the ancestor who opened up the Chen family back then.

Now in the entire White Camel Ridge Chen family, there is one immortal cultivator in the Purple Mansion period, twelve immortal cultivators in the foundation building period, thousands of immortal cultivators in the Qi cultivation period, and millions of secular clansmen, making it the largest immortal cultivator family in the surrounding tens of thousands of miles of immortal cultivation world.

When the children of the Chen family go out, even the disciples of Huangshamen meet them, and they have to sell some of their face, which shows their prominence.

The Chen family has a prominent background, and a small immortal cultivation family like the Yuquan Zhou family could not enter the eyes of a big family like the Chen family at all, and the two sides are not an order of magnitude existence at all.

However, Zhou Yuquan, the ancestor of the Zhou family who founded the Zhou family, was born in Huangshamen, and once helped Chen Yaohui, the patriarch of the contemporary Chen family, when he was young.

Therefore, after opening up the vein of the Zhou family in Yuquan, the ancestor of the Chen family remembered the original kindness, and not only set aside two shops in the "Jinshafang City" created by the Chen family to give to the Zhou family as a gift, but also included the Zhou family in the ranks of the Chen family's alliance family, so that the Zhou family could share the benefits in this alliance circle.

For example, the Chen family's upcoming "Foundation Building Conference" is an activity that only the Chen family's alliance family is qualified to participate in.

Zhou Yang went to Baishahe Oasis this time, in addition to looking for an opportunity to break through the bottleneck, but also to replace his father Zhou Xuanhao, who had already built a foundation, with the family's trust, and his son inherited his father's business, and sat in the shop opened by the family in "Jinshafang City".

Although there is no road in the strict sense of the word in the desert, through the joint efforts of several generations of monks of the Zhou family, dozens of "signal towers" have been established in the thousands of miles of desert between the two oases to ensure that the monks of the Zhou family will not get lost halfway.

Of course, the "signal tower" is Zhou Yang's understanding, but the actual situation is that the formation mage of the Zhou family has refined dozens of first-order high-grade formations "Yuan Magnetic Traction Array", and then asked people to arrange these formations in the thousands of miles of desert from the Yuquan Lake Oasis to the Baisha River Oasis.

The Zhou family, or a monk who had a close relationship with the Zhou family, as long as he walked on this road with a specially refined first-order magic weapon, the "Yin Yang Magnetic Needle", could use the magic weapon to make contact with any formation within a hundred miles of the surrounding area, and there was no worry about getting lost at all.

However, although there is a "signal tower" to guide you so that you will not get lost, the sinister and bad weather phenomena in the desert still make Zhou Yang, who is going out for the first time, suffer enough.

After he set off from the Yuquan Lake Oasis, he encountered three sandstorms in just half a month, and each time the sandstorm came, he could only hide under the belly of the sand beast like an ostrich, and then watched countless yellow sand "bury" him alive.

And if the sandstorm only makes Zhou Yang suffer a little at most, then the quicksand in the desert that never knows where it will appear will be a bit fatal.

Unlike sandstorms, quicksand will show obvious signs before it appears, and quicksand will only know that you are stuck in quicksand when you step on it.

The special talent of the Sand Beasts allows them to always detect anomalies before the sandstorm arrives and warn their owners in time.

But in the face of quicksand, even a demon beast living in the desert like it is helpless.

Quicksand is very difficult to spot until people and livestock step on it, and it is completely different from normal sandy land.

And once stepping on the quicksand, an adult man of normal weight will completely disappear to the ground in less than ten seconds.

Zhou Yang and the Shatuo Beast under him together weighed more than three tons, and once they fell into the quicksand, it would only take less than three seconds to sink into the depths of the quicksand.

The first time he fell into the quicksand with a man and a camel beast, Zhou Yang didn't have time to make any reaction before he sank under the sand with the sand beast.

Fortunately, before he went out, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan repeatedly told him to place a few "Earth Escape Technique" spirit runes in his sleeve, and he was in a panic, so he activated the spirit runes in time and escaped out of the quicksand area with the Shatuo Beast.

The experience of being trapped in quicksand this time really frightened Zhou Yang, and the terrifying suffocation feeling like falling into the abyss was even more terrifying than death.

Since then, every day when he sits on the back of the Shatuo Beast and walks forward, he will release his divine sense to scan the ground ten meters in front of him, and at the same time, he will paste the "Earth Escape Technique" spirit rune on his arms and legs.

It's exhausting, but it's at least reassuring.

It's just that in this way, Zhou Yang's speed of advance has been greatly reduced, and he can only advance less than three hundred miles a day, which is far lower than the normal speed of five hundred miles a day for the Shatuo Beast.

On this day, after Zhou Yang had been on the road for a day, he set up camp under a leeward sandy slope.

He first set up the tent where he camped, and then fed the Shatuo Beast a few first-order elixirs "Jingyuan Dan" refined with the essence of demon beast flesh and blood to replenish his strength, and hung up the camel bell.

After doing all this, he was relieved to stay outside to keep vigil for himself, and to enter the tent to meditate and recover the power of his lost divine consciousness.

The temperature in the desert at night was cold, and the lowest could be below zero, Zhou Yang was better in the closed camel skin tent, but the sand beast lying on his stomach outside was curled up into a ball, and the breath exhaled from his mouth and nose was condensed into a white mist.

This domesticated Sand Beast is not only the best riding mount in the desert, but also an excellent sentinel.

In the silent night of the desert, the excellent perception ability of the Sand Tuo Beast can clearly sense the sound of rats digging several meters underground, and they are responsible for vigilance, and those desert monsters who want to launch a sneak attack from the underground are basically impossible to sneak attack successfully.

As the night deepened and the temperature became colder, the sand beast that was in charge of guarding outside the tent had already buried most of its body in the yellow sand, leaving only its head still exposed on the ground.

Suddenly, the sand beast, which seemed to be asleep, suddenly opened its eyes, and raised its head vigilantly to look at the top of the sandy slope.

Jingle bells!

The rapid sound of camel bells accompanied by the anxious hissing of the Shatuo beast quickly woke up Zhou Yang, who was meditating and resting in the tent.

He almost didn't think about it, and immediately threw out the silver shield magic weapon that had saved his life many times, and then rushed out of the tent with the magic weapon.

Sou!

As soon as he rushed out of the tent, Zhou Yang heard a sharp sound of breaking the air in his ears, this sound was not unfamiliar to him at all, it was the sound of the immortal cultivator's imperial envoy flying sword breaking through the air.

Sure enough, the next moment, he saw a golden light crash into his silver shield magic weapon.

"Second-order high-grade defensive magic weapon!"

The golden light slammed into the silver shield, revealing a golden cone artifact more than two feet long, and at the same time, an exclamation full of surprise sounded from not far away.

Zhou Yang followed the sound and looked over, only to see two black-robed masked monks in black robes standing on the sand slope looking at his side.

Seeing him looking, one of the black-robed monks stretched out his hand and summoned the cone magic weapon that failed in the sneak attack back to his hand, looking at the silver shield magic weapon in front of him with greedy eyes, and roared viciously: "Boy, give you a chance to live, hand over this second-order high-grade defensive magic weapon, spare you from death!"

"Sand bandits?"

Zhou Yang frowned, he didn't care about the black-robed monk's shout, but just looked at the two uninvited guests thoughtfully and asked.

Hearing his straightforward words, the eyes of the two black-robed monks were cold, and the black-robed monk who had never made a move immediately said coldly: "Knowing that we are sand bandits, we can still be so calm, it seems that the little brother is not an ordinary family monk, I don't know which family the little brother is from?"

"What? Did I tell you, you would just stop and retreat?" Zhou Yang looked at the two of them with a smile, his eyes full of mockery.

"Of course not!"

The black-robed monk who spoke out shook his head, then waved his hand, and sacrificed a sparkling red red flag to look at Zhou Yang and sneered: "But if you explain your origin clearly, after we kill you, if the harvest is good, maybe we will kindly give your body to your people!"

"I see!"

Zhou Yang nodded, and suddenly waved his hand, and the four "armor-piercing daggers" inserted in his waist came out of their sheaths, and the "whoosh" turned into four Daosen white cold light and shot under the sand not far behind him.

Yes!

A terrible scream instantly sounded from the ground behind Zhou Yang.

"The third child!"

"Third brother!"

On the sandy slope, the eyes of the two black-robed monks changed, and they couldn't help but exclaim.

It turned out that they had come tonight not two people, but three people, and one of them had been hiding underground, waiting for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

I didn't expect that people are tigers, and tigers are also people, Zhou Yang actually discovered that there were still people hiding underground.

So while delaying the time with the two black-robed monks on the ground, after locking the enemy's position, he suddenly sacrificed a magic weapon to give the other party a counter-sneak attack.