Chapter 216: The Elder's Death
The turmoil over the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's exchange for Zhuji Dan did not last long before it subsided.
After calmly thinking about it, the vast majority of the Zhou family people figured out the importance of this matter and turned to support this rule.
As for saying that a small number of people don't understand and don't support it, they can only hold it back and can't control the overall situation.
Zhou Yang personally supervised the entire Yuquan Peak for nearly a month, and after arresting several people who secretly chewed the root of the tongue and punished them, no one dared to chew the root of the tongue to slander and attack the foundation building monk of the family.
"Xiao Jiu, thank you, thank you for giving Yao'er this opportunity!"
On Haoyang Mountain, when Zhou Yang came here to visit his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu, Zhou Xuanyu, who had already learned the news, couldn't help but take his hand with gratitude on his face and choked up and thanked him.
And behind Zhou Xuanyu, Zhou Yuanyao also stepped forward excitedly and hugged Zhou Yang from behind and said: "Brother Jiu, you are the best, Yao'er knows that Brother Jiu, you love Yao'er the most!"
"My stepmother is serious, what you should thank is your great-grandfather, his old man made a great sacrifice for this matter!"
Zhou Yang looked at his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu with emotion, but he understood his stepmother's mood at this time.
Although this stepmother succeeded in building the foundation, the meaning of the foundation building Dan to her is still a lifelong regret.
This time, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan exchanged Zhou Yuanyao for Zhuji Dan, which finally helped her make up for this regret and repair the invisible rift in the hearts of the ancestors and grandchildren.
Then he lifted his hands back, dragged Zhou Yuanyao who was hanging on his back down, looked at the girl and said, "And Yao'er, although you are only one step away from the ninth layer of qi cultivation now, don't rush to take the Zhuji Pill to impact the foundation as soon as you reach the ninth layer of qi training." ”
"You must know that there is only one chance, if you are not fully prepared and rashly attack the foundation, once there is an accident, it will not only be your own regret for a lifetime, but also your stepmother and great-grandfather, who will also bear the criticism of other clansmen because of your failure!"
Zhou Yuanyao is a medium-grade spiritual root, even if he takes Zhuji Dan, the success rate of building the foundation is six or seventy percent, although this probability is not low, but there is also a great possibility of failure.
Once she fails, it will be impossible for the Zhou family to provide her with a second Zhuji Dan, even if her mother is a foundation building period monk and her great-grandfather is a foundation building period monk.
Therefore, Zhou Yang had to warn this clan sister who was twice as old as himself, so that she could understand the meaning of this Zhuji Dan.
"Xiao Jiu, don't worry, your stepmother and your great-grandfather will look at Yao'er, we won't give it to her now, only after we are sure that her state has met the requirements of building a foundation, it will be handed over to her!"
Zhou Xuanyu naturally understood what Zhou Yang was worried about, Zhou Yuanyao had lived with the Zhou family's foundation building monks since he was a child, and had a very close relationship with several foundation building monks of the Zhou family, she could be described as the little princess of the Zhou family, and was very favored by the Zhou family's elders and fellow monks.
As a result, although she is almost forty years old, she has never gone out to practice except for the last time she participated in the battle for the expansion of the new oasis, and her heart cannot be completely reassured.
Therefore, Zhou Xuanyu had even decided that after Zhou Yuanyao's cultivation reached the ninth level of Qi cultivation, he would take her to other large oases to experience five or six years, and he must wait for her to mature and stabilize before giving her the Zhuji Dan Zhuji.
And although Zhou Yuanyao was a little squeamish, she had listened to Zhou Yang's words since she was a child, and at this time she also nodded hurriedly and responded: "Yes, Brother Jiu, don't worry, Yao'er will definitely live up to the trust and expectations of her mother, great-grandfather and you, and she will definitely become a foundation building monk!"
"It's good that you understand that. ”
Zhou Yang nodded, and then told her stepmother Zhou Xuanyu about letting her move to the new oasis to live in seclusion.
Zhou Xuanyu had promised this matter more than nine years ago, but he had been in retreat all these years, and he had not passed, and now when he heard that he had brought up the old matter again, of course he agreed to this matter without any opinion.
However, Zhou Yuanyao was asked by Zhou Yang to stay on Haoyang Mountain and continue to follow his father Zhou Xuanhao to learn alchemy.
He did it for a reason, of course.
Since he took Xiao Ying back to Zhou's house, Zhou Yuanyao was very unhappy, thinking that Xiao Ying had snatched her ninth brother, and she had expressed her dissatisfaction openly and secretly.
Zhou Yang understood what Zhou Yuanyao's psychology was, so he deliberately did not let the two women meet over the years, and he tried not to appear in front of Zhou Yuanyao as much as possible, using this way to dilute Zhou Yuanyao's attachment and love for him.
And although Zhou Xuanyu also had the idea of matching her daughter and Zhou Yang before, but since Zhou Yang came back with Xiao Ying, she put out this thought and supported Zhou Yang's decision instead.
Not to mention Zhou Xuanhao, in order to cooperate with Zhou Yang, he specially assigned a lot of alchemy tasks to Zhou Yuanyao, so that he would not have time to think nonsense.
These elders united to oppose this matter, Zhou Yuanyao didn't know that she was out of play, so although she felt wronged in her heart, she could only helplessly suppress the thoughts in her heart and silently choose to accept her fate.
This time was no exception.
After talking about Zhou Xuanyu's seclusion in the new oasis, Zhou Yang went to see the "Diyuan Spirit Milk" under Haoyang Mountain again, and after decades of recuperation, the stalactite pillar already had signs of producing "Diyuan Spirit Milk" again.
Since this thing is one of the necessary auxiliary spiritual objects for refining Zhuji Dan, Zhou Yang still attaches great importance to this thing.
Now that he saw that the "Diyuan Spirit Milk" was showing signs of producing again, he immediately sent a message to Zhou Guangxiang, who was practicing there in the Red Fox Mountains, to come to Haoyang Mountain, and set up a water-sheltering formation in the underground stone chamber to protect the stalactites, so as not to be diluted by the river after the "Diyuan Spirit Milk" overflowed.
Zhou Guangxiang is now a second-order high-grade formation mage, and the formations collected by the Zhou family, except for the third-order formation, he has mastered them all, and it is not too easy to arrange a formation to avoid water.
After dealing with the matter of the "Earth Yuan Spirit Milk", Zhou Yang directly rushed back to Red Fox Ridge with his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu and Zhou Guangxiang.
Back at Chihuling, Zhou Yang asked his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu to wait outside the mountain first, and he went back to the cave first, preparing to give Xiao Ying a preventive shot, so that he could be mentally prepared.
Unexpectedly, when he returned to the Purple Cloud Cave, he saw Xiao Ying lying on the bed in the bedroom sleeping soundly, and on the girl's body, a moon-white butterfly with a wingspan of six or seven feet was pressed against the girl like a quilt on the same bed.
This moon-white butterfly, Zhou Yang is no stranger to it at all, it is the culprit "Phantom Jade Butterfly" that caused the poisoning of hundreds of mortals in Luminous Town.
So when he first saw this scene, he was really scared, and he thought that something was wrong with the girl.
Fortunately, he found that the breath on the girl's body was normal in the next moment, so he didn't immediately swing his sword to slash the demon.
However, his sudden intrusion, as well as the mana fluctuations that he had just been frightening, still disturbed the "Phantom Jade Butterfly" on the bed, and frightened the white light on this demon beast's body, and instantly turned into white light and hid in the warm jade bed under Xiao Ying.
At the same time, Xiao Ying, who was asleep, also woke up with a "bang" and opened her eyes directly.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang's heart was slightly relieved, and then he hurriedly stepped forward to help the girl up and asked, "Ying'er, what happened just now? Why did that [Phantom Jade Butterfly] lie on you?"
"Ah, Zhou Lang, did you say that Fluttershy? I was doing an experiment just now, and I found that Fluttershy's [Dream Illusion] can not only be used to attack enemies, but also help people realize all kinds of good wishes in their dreams, and play a role in tempering their hearts!"
Xiao Ying first exclaimed, and then answered Zhou Yang's question with a smile on her face.
"Fluttershy? Could it be that the Phantom Jade Butterfly was adopted by you as a spirit pet?"
Zhou Yang's face was stunned, but he immediately grasped the point.
"Yes, at that time, the concubine originally wanted to get rid of Fluttershy according to Zhou Lang's instructions, but I didn't expect that Fluttershy was very timid and afraid of death, and was scared silly when she saw the concubine appear, and then used her talent [Dream Illusion] to create a fantasy and beg me for mercy, I saw that it was pitiful, so I agreed to accept it as a spirit pet!"
Xiao Ying nodded slightly, and then told the process of subduing the "Phantom Jade Butterfly".
Zhou Yang listened to her words, but he was frightened.
"It's so reckless! How can you be so reckless? It's a monster, what if it's just using illusions to confuse you? How can you trust it so easily and let it cast spells on you!"
He looked at the girl with an annoyed expression, and he was so angry that the girl was so gullible about believing a demon beast.
The "Phantom Jade Butterfly" is also a second-order high-grade demon beast, if it really takes advantage of Xiao Ying's indulging in the illusion and suddenly kills it, even if Xiao Ying is a foundation building period monk, he may not be able to survive the sneak attack.
The girl didn't mind his annoyance at all, but smiled slightly, "No, Zhou Lang, have you forgotten my [Doom Qinglian] supernatural ability? ”
Hearing her say this, Zhou Yang remembered that the "Qinghua Doom Sutra" practiced by the girl had a characteristic that many exercises did not have with supernatural powers, that is, the automatic protector.
As long as the girl is in danger, this magical power will automatically stimulate the protector, and if the "Phantom Jade Butterfly" dares to hurt the girl's body while the girl is asleep, it will definitely stimulate the magical power.
Thinking of this, his face eased slightly, and he held the girl in his arms a little helplessly, touched the girl's head and said: "Okay, you are justified this time, but don't take such risks in the future, even if you have to do the test, let someone protect you at best!"
The girl enjoyed his action very much, and couldn't help but squint her eyes slightly and nodded slightly: "Well, the concubine remembers Zhou Lang's words." ”
Seeing this, Zhou Yang took the opportunity to tell his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu.
He spoke very skillfully, first using the method of storytelling, to tell Zhou Xuanyu's deeds in detail before he entered the demon, so that Xiao Ying had sympathy and compassion for this stepmother from a preconceived idea, and then explained how Zhou Xuanyu was forced to enter the demon path in desperation, and how he was in the demon path heart in the fairy road.
In the end, he hugged the girl's delicate body and whispered: "Although the stepmother, although she was forced to enter the demon path helplessly, but as a husband, she can swear to you that after she returned to the family, she has never hurt an innocent person, and she has absolutely nothing to do with those vicious demon monks!"
"Zhou Lang doesn't need to say much, the concubine believes you, let's go and see our stepmother!"
The girl got up from the arms of the Taoist, put her jade hand lightly on Zhou Yang's mouth, blocked what he wanted to say more, and looked at him with an affectionate face and said.
A thousand words are better than a sentence of "I believe in you".
When Zhou Yang heard the girl's words, his body shook, and he felt a sense of "if he has a wife like this, what more can he ask for", he spontaneously appeared, and his face was full of emotion and gratitude, and he clenched the girl's jade hand and said: "Ying'er, don't worry, if I Zhou Yang fails you in this life, I will teach me to thunder and thunder in the sky, and I will not die well!"
The two snuggled up to each other and watched affectionately for a long time before they walked out of the cave with a smile on their faces and personally welcomed Zhou Xuanyu to the Purple Cloud Cave as a guest.
Then Zhou Xuanyu, on behalf of the late Zhou's mother Lin Yuting, received tea from Xiao Ying, the daughter-in-law.
However, Zhou Xuanyu did not live in Chihuling next, but went to live in seclusion in a mortal town.
She is a Blood Demon Dao cultivator, and the blessed land of Lingshan has not helped her cultivation in any way, and the reason why she practiced in Haoyang Mountain before was just to sit in Lingshan for her family.
Now that each of the Zhou family's third-order spiritual mountains has foundation-building stage monks in charge, she naturally doesn't have to do this kind of thing anymore.
After experiencing Zhou Xuanyu's incident, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying's relationship has taken another step, and he is deeply aware that he cares too little about Taoist couples on weekdays, and he accompanies him too little.
So for the next half a year, he didn't do anything, and accompanied Xiao Ying to tour the surrounding immortal world, and even went to the Baisha River Oasis.
On this day, Zhou Yang and Xiao Ying had just finished their half-year-long trip and returned to the Red Fox Ridge to practice a few days ago, but the old patriarch Zhou Minghan summoned him to Yuquan Peak with a flying sword.
"Yuan Jing, this kid has just been promoted to become the elder of the family, this time the family sent him to Yuquan Building as a shopkeeper, firstly, to exercise his management skills, and secondly, because Xuan Jin is old, he has applied to the family many times to return to the family and wait for the deadline to come!"
"But now almost half a year has passed, but he has not yet arrived at the Baisha River Oasis to complete the handover with Xuan Jin, judging from the old man's experience, he is eighty percent more than lucky!"
On Yuquan Peak, as soon as Zhou Yang arrived here, he was called to the cave by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to explain the reason for summoning him over.
Zhou Yuanjing is Zhou Yang's starling brother, and it has only been less than three years since he was promoted to the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation and became a family elder, and he was able to be promoted to the ninth layer of Qi Training, which was completely stained with the light of the prosperity of the Zhou family, and he only had this cultivation by taking various pills.
Zhou Yang didn't expect that this starling brother finally became the elder of the family, so he fell outside.
A family elder died for unknown reasons, no wonder Zhou Minghan wanted to recall him, the patriarch, to the family.
After listening to Zhou Minghan's words at this time, his thoughts were spinning in his heart, and he suddenly asked, "How is the magic weapon equipment on his body?"
When Zhou Minghan heard this, he immediately said: "According to the records that the old man found from the family, Yuan Jing should have two second-order high-grade attack magic weapons, one second-order high-grade defensive magic weapon, nine second-order high-grade spirit runes, and a second-order middle-grade puppet beast!"
The Zhou family can now be described as strong and strong, the family has several third-order refiners, third-order alchemists and a third-order talisman master, and there is no shortage of various magic weapons and spirit runes, Zhou Yuanjing, as the elder of the family, is certainly not weak.
"Starling brother, he is also an old man of the family with rich fighting methods, and with this kind of equipment on his body, the general casual cultivation is two or three people who cultivate to be the same as him, and they may not be able to kill him, this matter is strange!"
Zhou Yang slowly said his inference, his eyes and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan glanced at each other, and they both saw a look of worry in the other party's eyes.
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