Zhou Yang said hello to his fifth uncle, Zhou Xuanbin, and after explaining the situation, he came to the ground of the "Haoyang Cave".

Eight years have passed, and a large number of desert plants have grown around the sandy slope on the ground, because of the care of the mortals of the Zhou family, these plants have grown more lush than before, not to mention, there are many more types of plants, and even some mortals have raised animals such as sand grouse, sand antelope, and sand rabbit here.

Not far from the bottom of the sand slope, there is the earth city where the Zhou family mortals live, and more than 2,000 meters west of the earth city is the oasis under construction.

The oasis has only been built for a few years, and only a circle of grass tens of meters wide grows around the desert lake formed by the underground dark river.

Zhou Yang stood on the sandy slope and looked from afar, thousands of mortals of the Zhou family were divided into four teams and stood on all sides of the lake to form four long dragons, and then the people at the front filled the lake with wooden barrels, passed them one by one to the people at the back to water the sand.

A bucket of water poured into the sand can only soak through half a meter of sand, and the sand thickness of the oasis is on average more than five meters.

If these thousands of people only used such primitive methods to water the sand, it would be difficult to create an oasis of 100 square meters in a year, and this still did not take into account the factors of desert erosion.

So at this time, it was the turn of the immortal cultivators to perform.

Among the first-order spells commonly used by immortal cultivators, there is a small spell called "Cloud Gathering and Rain Technique", as long as this spell is cast, even in the hottest places of the boundless sand sea, water can be condensed.

And if this first-order spell is used by an immortal cultivator in the foundation building period near the large sea lake with abundant water vapor, then it can really be like the name of the spell, and it will directly rain a heavy rain within a radius of several miles.

The underground dark river water forms a desert lake and the word "big lake" is completely incompatible, and Zhou Xuanyan, a ninth-level Qi cultivation monk, cannot be compared with a foundation building period monk.

However, as a ninth-level Qi cultivator who majored in water-based exercises, with the help of a second-order high-grade magic weapon "Water Cloud Banner" that was specially used to improve the power of water-based spells, he was barely able to make a moderate rain fall on one square kilometer of land.

In order to create an oasis as soon as possible, every morning, noon and evening at three o'clock, Zhou Xuanyan would perform dozens of "Cloud Gathering and Rain Technique" to water the land around the desert lake until his mana was exhausted.

Therefore, the sandy land that Zhou Yang saw now was actually the land that had been watered by Zhou Xuanyan's spell, and these mortals were now watering it, which was just a small supplement, barely wiping out the water vapor evaporated by the desert temperature.

"It's really hard Aunt Xuanyan, originally this kind of trivial matter should be done by those low-level monks in the family, but now let her an elder do this kind of thing, not to mention overkill, it's too much of a loss of identity!"

Zhou Yang couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, in fact, in the final analysis, the Zhou family was too weak.

In the eyes of ordinary casual cultivators, the Zhou family occupies a medium-sized oasis like this, and the immortal cultivation family with the foundation building period monks in charge is an existence that they cannot climb.

However, in the eyes of those high-level monks, the Zhou family, a family of immortal cultivators with only one foundation building period monk in charge, belongs to an existence that anyone can step on.

If it were known that the Zhou family now occupied a third-order spiritual vein in addition to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, in less than a month, there would definitely be other foundation-building period monks coming to the door and forcing the Zhou family to give up the "Haoyang Cave" spiritual vein and the Red Flame Iron Vein.

If you encounter those ruthless people, maybe they will use this as an excuse to take the opportunity to unite with other foundation building monks or families to directly break the Yuquan Peak Mountain Protection Array and divide up the entire Zhou family!

This kind of thing has not happened before.

If you want to avoid this kind of thing, only if there is a new foundation building monk in the Zhou family.

So now, all the high-level officials of the Zhou family who know about the "Haoyang Cave" are secretly looking forward to Zhou Yang, the junior who has placed the hopes of the whole clan, to build a successful foundation and lead the Zhou family to tide over the difficulties.

And seeing that Zhou Yang had never broken through to the ninth layer of Qi cultivation in one breath and left the customs, Zhou Xuanyan and Zhou Xuantai, the two elders of the Zhou family, felt pity in their hearts, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Zhou Yang is no longer in retreat, they don't need to assign one person to protect the Dharma for him every day, and the work of creating an oasis can be shared by one more person, and they will be much easier, not to mention that Zhou Yang will occasionally find time to go over to help.

Building an oasis is not an overnight thing, Zhou Yang and they are only laying the foundation first, and if they really want to create a large oasis in the "Haoyang Cave", it will take at least several generations of people to do it, and it will take dozens or hundreds of years to do it.

Therefore, Zhou Yang's main energy after leaving the customs was actually focused on improving his alchemy technique.

In the past eight years, he has focused on cultivation, rarely refining weapons, and his skills are a little rusty.

However, after all, he still has the foundation, and after refining the weapon a few times to familiarize himself with the feel, he regained his state.

In the battle to exterminate the poisonous fire scorpion group, the Zhou family harvested a large number of second-order demon beast materials, and Zhou Yang, as a second-order mid-grade refiner, also got a lot, and now there is no shortage of refining materials.

However, using the material refining weapon on the demon beast was the first time for him, and it was a big challenge.

The material on the monster beast is not as good as metal ore, it can be melted into a liquid at will for shaping, and the material refining tool on the monster must be determined according to the shape of the material.

For example, the scorpion needle of the poisonous fire scorpion can only refine the flying needle magic weapon.

If the scorpion needle is melted, the fire poison unique to the fire scorpion on the scorpion needle will also dissipate, and this material will be wasted.

Of course, the demon beast material refiner also has an advantage over metal ore, that is, the materials on the demon beast are all washed by the demon beast's own demon power all year round, not only have few impurities, but also make it more convenient for the refiner to arrange the law ban in it, and after some special demon beast materials are refined into magic weapons, they will also be accompanied by some kind of magic power that the demon beast mastered during his lifetime.

Because he had never used demon beast materials to refine weapons, Zhou Yang did not dare to directly use precious second-order materials to refine weapons, but used the materials on the first-order poisonous fire scorpion to practice first, and this first-order material "Haoyang Cave" warehouse was stored in a large number of them, and he didn't feel distressed if he wasted it.

The materials that can be used to refine the first-order poisonous fire scorpion are only two scorpion pincers and scorpion needles, and the scorpion pincers are suitable for refining a Qimen weapon "Iron Arm Divine Hook", and the scorpion needles can be refined into "poisonous fire flying needles".

Compared to the more elaborate "Poisonous Fire Flying Needle", the thick and bulky "Iron Arm Divine Hook" is undoubtedly more suitable for novice refining.

This so-called "Iron Arm Hook" is "exoskeleton armor" in scientific terms, that is, a robotic arm.

Zhou Yang took out the stock of scorpion tongs, first shaved off all the remaining air-dried meat shreds inside the scorpion tongs, put them into the refining furnace, and then poured in a special solution prepared with a variety of acidic ores and plant juices, and then lit the furnace fire to scorch the refining furnace to soften the scorpion tongs inside.

At this time, he put his divine sense into the furnace to observe the softening degree of the scorpion tongs, and when the scorpion tongs began to soften under the action of high temperature and acidic solution, he began to play the shaping related refining methods recorded in the refining classics, and fine-tuned the softened scorpion tongs into the shape of the "Iron Arm Divine Hook".

After the shaping was completed, Zhou Yang maintained the temperature of the flame while playing the refining weapon method, and arranged a "shock" law ban in the "Iron Arm Divine Hook".

After the legal ban was arranged, he used the "Photography Technique" to pick up the "Iron Arm Divine Hook" and throw it into the quenching pool that had been prepared on the side.

The first-order magic weapon does not need to be refined, it can be used by injecting true qi mana, Zhou Yang randomly shot out a mana and fell into the newly practiced magic weapon, and two "iron arm hooks" weighing dozens of catties smashed heavily on the iron man used to test the power of the magic weapon.

After only hearing a loud "boom", dozens of slender cracks with chopsticks of chopsticks suddenly appeared on the iron man cast in fine iron, and then two pale yellow spiritual lights spread out from the "Iron Arm Divine Hook", causing the entire refining room to be shaken, almost knocking over the refining furnace on the ground.

"Hmm, this power is close to a second-order lower-grade magic weapon, it seems that my alchemy technique is already extremely close to the second-order high-grade, very good, keep trying." ”

With a wave of his hand, he played out a mana to straighten the refining Ding Furnace, and Zhou Yang took out a copy of the material again and put it into the Ding Furnace, and continued to refine.

After about half a year like this, after hundreds of refining attempts, Zhou Yang finally managed to break through to the second-order high-grade refiner, becoming the youngest second-order high-grade refiner in the history of the Zhou family.

The alchemy technique broke through to the second-order upper grade, and Zhou Yang immediately sent the good news to the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and his parents, and then not long after, he saw his parents who came from the "Haoyang Cave".

"Dad, have you decided?"

Zhou Yang looked at his parents who came suddenly, and after being slightly stunned, he immediately understood what the two of them were doing here.

"Why, can't a father come to see you because he misses you?"

Zhou Xuanhao smiled slightly, as if he didn't see Zhou Yang's suddenly heavy face at all.

"Okay, don't make you father and son look like enemies as soon as they meet, on this happy day when father and son meet, why are you talking about these unhappy things?" Lin Yuting saw that the atmosphere was wrong, and hurriedly interjected to ease the atmosphere.

After speaking, he grabbed Zhou Yang's hand and said with a smile: "Let's go, Yang'er will take Weiniang to your cave mansion, and my mother has brought you a lot of special delicacies that are only available in the Fang Market this time." ”

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