Qingping Mountain Oasis.

Since the old patriarch Zhou Minghan adopted Zhou Yang's strategy and began to implement it, in order to prevent the third-order [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] from counterattacking and retaliating, more than a dozen late-stage Qi cultivation cultivators of the Zhou family retreated to this oasis first.

The spiritual veins on the Qingping Mountain Oasis are only second-order lower grades, and the spiritual energy generated every day can only supply one late-stage Qi cultivation monk and seven or eight early-stage and mid-stage Qi cultivation monks to practice, and now more than a dozen late-stage Qi cultivation monks are gathered here, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins is suddenly insufficient.

There is no doubt about the importance of spiritual veins and spiritual energy for immortal cultivators.

An immortal cultivator, if he wants to improve his cultivation normally, he must cultivate on the spiritual vein corresponding to his own cultivation.

Taking the Qi cultivation period immortal cultivator as an example, if he does not practice on a second-order spiritual vein like Qingping Mountain, only in an oasis or desert wilderness outside, then his cultivation speed will be reduced tenfold, on the contrary, if he cultivates on a third-order middle-grade spiritual vein like Yuquan Peak, his cultivation speed will increase slightly at the normal level.

If it is an immortal cultivator above the foundation building period, in the case of leaving the spiritual vein, with the thin spiritual energy content of heaven and earth in the outside world, it is simply a dream to make further progress in cultivation.

Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, all immortal cultivators who still want to improve their cultivation to the realm will try their best to occupy a spiritual vein to cultivate.

According to the level, there is also a limit to the amount of spiritual energy produced by a spiritual vein every day, once the number of monks on the spiritual vein is too large, and the daily consumption of spiritual energy exceeds this limit, the spiritual vein may fall off the level or even dry up and dissipate.

The spiritual vein of Qingping Mountain is the spiritual vein cultivated by the family at the expense of a huge amount of spiritual stones, and of course the monks of the Zhou family will not do that stupid thing of drinking to quench their thirst.

Therefore, after everyone's discussion, it was unanimously decided to give the spiritual vein to Zhou Yang, the future hope of the Zhou family, to practice, and the rest of the people, including his parents, retreated to the oasis outside the mountain and refined the spiritual energy in the spirit stone by themselves to practice.

The spirit stone is a spiritual object formed after the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is highly condensed and condensed, and the total amount of spiritual energy contained in a low-grade spiritual stone is comparable to the spiritual energy required by a monk in the foundation building period for a day, and it is enough for a seventh-level monk to practice for ten days.

Therefore, many low-level casual cultivators who cannot occupy the spiritual vein cultivation can only absorb the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone every day to practice in order to improve their cultivation.

Doing so naturally consumes a lot of spirit stones, and few casual cultivators have a wealth enough to be able to use this method to improve their cultivation all year round.

The biggest reason why low-level casual cultivators are lower than those of sects and family cultivators of the same age, and they are poor in their pockets, is actually here.

The net worth of the Zhou family's Qi cultivation cultivators in the late stage is not too bad, and the cultivation of refining spirit stones in a short period of time is just a trivial matter for them, but no one will have any opinions on this.

Zhou Yang also knew how heavy the responsibility he was carrying now, and he also silently accepted the kindness of his elders, and did not say anything pretentious.

On the other side, after Zhou Yang and the others left, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan immediately flew to the top of the sandy slope and set a fire.

Killing chickens doesn't need to slaughter cattle knives, just burn some ordinary desert plants, Zhou Minghan doesn't need to waste mana to release the true fire of foundation building, he only needs to release a simple second-order high-grade spell "Fire Sea Technique" plus a small second-order low-grade spell "Gale Technique", and a sky-high fire ignites up and down the sandy slope.

Cracking sound!

The fire spread everywhere, and some desert animals hiding on the sandy slopes were instantly set on fire with their fur on fire, making a popping sound like popping beans and the smell of meat.

For a while, all kinds of beast roars, snake hisses, and birdsong sounded together, and the sound was extremely miserable and full of despair.

Zhou Minghan stood hundreds of meters in the air and looked down, and everywhere he could see the figures of desert animals fleeing frantically with flames, and at this time, the thick fur of these animals used to resist the cold of the desert at night and the high temperature of the day became a talisman for life.

Except for a few animals such as gerbils and sand foxes that dig holes very quickly, they dig holes in time and burrow into the thick yellow sand and rely on the sand to extinguish the flames on their bodies, seventy or eighty percent of the desert animals have turned into charcoal in the raging flames.

Even the poisonous fire scorpions that hid in the sand and soil were burned alive by the skyrocketing fire.

This sudden change on the sandy slope quickly alarmed the third-order demon beast [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] who was cultivating in the cave deep underneath the sandy slope.

After hearing the screams of his fellow clansmen, this third-order demon beast quickly rushed out of the cave where it was hiding, and the raging fire on the sandy slope did not pose any threat to its powerful demon beast body at all.

Sizzle!

As soon as the dark red giant scorpion with a body as big as a calf appeared, it danced a pair of huge scorpion pincers and roared angrily at Zhou Minghan in the sky, and the powerful aura exuded from Zhou Minghan's body made this demon beast with great intelligence feel a great threat.

However, Zhou Minghan didn't bother to pay attention to it, he just released a shining third-order flying sword and harvested those low-level poisonous fire scorpions in front of it.

This provocative behavior greatly angered the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and I saw it slam its pincers on the ground, and the entire sandy slope shook the ground, setting off a huge sandstorm in an instant.

The yellow sand flying in the sky not only obscured Zhou Minghan's vision in the sky, but also quickly extinguished most of the spreading fire.

Just like the difference between heaven and earth between the foundation building period and the qi cultivation period, the difference in strength between the third-order demon beast and the second-order demon beast is also very different.

Every move of a third-order demon beast can collapse mountains and shatter the ground, triggering a small-scale natural disaster, if there is no immortal cultivator of the same level to fight against it, a third-order demon beast can destroy a small oasis like the Qingping Mountain Oasis.

At this time, seeing the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] angry and attacked, although Zhou Minghan was not afraid of the other party, he did not rush to war with him, but quickly withdrew the flying sword and directly withdrew from the battlefield.

Demon beasts are not like immortal cultivators, as long as they reach the foundation building period, they can learn to fly with the sword, except for the bird monsters and a few demon beasts with special magical powers, the vast majority of land monsters and water monsters cannot master the ability to fly before the fourth order.

Therefore, when facing a third-order land demon beast like the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], as long as the foundation building period immortal cultivators are not fighting in the opponent's underground lair, they can easily grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Of course, the reverse is also true, although the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] can't fly, but if it wants to burrow into the ground and leave, it will be difficult for the foundation building stage immortal cultivators to leave it on the ground unless they set up a formation to stop it in advance.

And on the sandy slope, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] found Zhou Minghan leaving, only thinking that the other party was frightened by the strength he had shown, it roared proudly and waved two large scorpion pincers to show off to the younger brothers, and then stretched out its claws to a nearby first-order poisonous fire scorpion that was burned half to death.

The poor poisonous fire scorpion managed to escape from the fire, and before he could rejoice, he was eaten by his own "king" as dinner.

Eating an injured clansman, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] glanced at the other ordinary poisonous fire scorpions trembling with a fierce light in his eyes, hissed and issued a few orders before returning to the underground cave to sleep.

And after the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] left, the entire poisonous fire scorpion group suddenly ushered in a carnival, and those desert animals that were burned to death by Zhou Minghan were the main dishes of this carnival, including even the corpses of the dead poisonous fire scorpions.

All the Poisonous Fire Scorpions, including the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], did not realize how much harm the destruction of the desert vegetation around the sandy slope would bring to their own race.

In the eyes of these demon beasts, today's battle is no different from when the scorpion group encountered powerful demon beast attacks before, although the invaders killed some members of the scorpion group, they were still driven away by their powerful "king", as for those of the same clan who died, as long as the scorpion group is still there, new members will soon be born to join.

It wasn't until half a month later, when the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] woke up from its slumber and found that the number of scorpions had been greatly reduced, and it was killing each other due to lack of food, that it realized the viciousness of that fire.

It's just that at this time, the evil consequences have already appeared, and although the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] is strong, it is impossible to conjure up a large amount of food out of thin air to save the scorpion group.

As a last resort, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] can only take the initiative to clean up the old, weak, sick and weak in the scorpion group and give them to the able-bodied, and then drive all the surviving poisonous fire scorpions out of the underground caves, and let them go to the depths of the desert to forage and hunt by themselves.

However, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] didn't expect that as soon as it drove the scorpion group out of the underground cave, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, who had been monitoring the situation on this side of the sand slope, immediately seized the opportunity to kill dozens of these poisonous fire scorpions that had left the nest, and then before it heard the distress signal and rushed over, the dashing Imperial Sword flew away from the scene.

After this lesson, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] didn't understand that he and the scorpion group were targeted, and it was also a wise demon beast, so he immediately changed the order so that the scorpion group should not move on the ground when it left the nest to hunt, and then he secretly followed behind the scorpion group that left the nest to hunt and waited for the opportunity to sneak attack.

The poisonous fire scorpion was digging a hole under the sand and moving, and it was not easy for Zhou Minghan to find out, and the sneak attack of the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] made him almost overturn.

After trying to attack a few more times, Zhou Minghan, who found that he could no longer take advantage of it, finally turned around and returned to the Qingping Mountain Oasis.