The second-order magic weapon [Silver Gang Shield] is made of the scales shed by the second-order spiritual object [Dragon Scale Tree] as the main material, mixed with the second-order spiritual object [Silver Gang Stone].

There are nine realms of cultivating immortals, and the magic weapons, pills, formations, and talismans used by immortal cultivators are therefore divided into nine levels from the first order to the ninth order, and the second-order magic weapons correspond to the monks in the Qi cultivation period.

It is also a second-order magic weapon, and there are also upper, middle and lower grades, and the [Silver Gang Shield] is a second-order magic weapon carefully refined by Zhou Minghan, a third-order refiner, and its grade is naturally the highest grade.

Before refining this magic weapon, it looked like it was only the size of a palm, but in fact, as long as Zhou Yang refined it, once it was released during the battle, it could turn into a giant shield the size of a door panel to protect his whole body, and he could also adjust his position as he wished.

And because of the integration of [Silver Gang Stone] when refining, this magic weapon can not only easily block the attacks of flying swords and flying knives of the same level, but also has a miraculous effect on the spell attacks of immortal cultivators or demon beasts, which can greatly offset the damage caused by spells below the third order.

"The second-order [Dragon Scale Tree] has one in my Zhou family, and a few mature scales can be harvested every ten years, which is considered self-produced, but the [Silver Gang Stone] is not a common magic breaking spiritual object, even if it is only a small piece the size of a fist, the price is at least more than five hundred grade spirit stones, this gift from the old patriarch is really not light!"

In the room, Zhou Yang looked at the palm-sized silver shield in his hand, and suddenly felt that this magic weapon had become much heavier.

As an immortal cultivator family, as long as each member of the Zhou family has reached the Qi cultivation period, they can regularly receive the offering of spirit stones from the family every year until they are over sixty years old.

According to the current clan rules, the Zhou family members on the first level of Qi training can receive 10 lower-grade spirit stones a year, and the second layer of Qi training is 20 lower-grade spirit stones, and so on, until the ninth layer of Qi training, there will be no changes.

Because if there is no accident, the cultivation of the ninth layer of qi cultivation is the limit of ordinary qi cultivation period monks, the current family rules of the Zhou family are that as long as the family monk is promoted to the ninth layer of qi training, he will be promoted to the elder of the family, and each elder can receive 150 lower grade spirit stones every year, this offering is not limited by age, as long as the elder does not sit down and fall, he can receive it in full.

Zhou Yang had previously stayed at the fifth layer of Qi cultivation for two years, and his offering was only 50 lower-grade spirit stones per year, so to calculate, even if all his spirit stones were stored and not used, it would take ten years of worship to exchange for a fist-sized [Silver Gang Stone].

And in fact, because he only stepped into the Qi cultivation period at the age of seven, after ten years, not counting the treasures that his parents rewarded him as gifts, his entire net worth only added up to more than 300 spirit stones.

It can be seen from this that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan regarded the [Silver Gang Shield] as a reward for him to go down the mountain in advance, what a heavy gift!

"The old patriarch values me so much, I must not let his old man down, whether it is learning alchemy or guarding Qingping Mountain, I have to do it beautifully!"

Zhou Yang's heart warmed, and he couldn't help but clench the magic weapon in his hand, and secretly decided to do a good job to repay the trust of his elders.

In the next few days, Zhou Yang closed the door tightly, and hid in the room to practice the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon he had just obtained, until he had refined the magic weapon to make good luck, and then he walked out of the door to prepare for the descent of the mountain.

He first went to the Zhou family's other Tibetan scripture cave, from which he learned the exercises of the six layers of Qi cultivation in the "Golden Yang Flame Technique", and then selected five spells that were conducive to fighting from the many spells collected in the Tibetan scripture cave.

These five spells are the second-order attack spells "Golden Knife Technique" and "Fire Snake Technique", the second-order defense spell "Golden Light Talisman Technique", and the second-order auxiliary spells "Heavenly Eye Technique" and "Earth Escape Technique".

The exercises and spells in the Zhou family's Tibetan scripture cave are not forbidden for the clansmen to read, but they cannot be taken out of the scripture cave, and it is strictly forbidden to teach them to outsiders privately.

Zhou Yang used to follow the teachings of his parents and elders, and in addition to learning some simple first-order auxiliary spells, he did not distract his energy from learning those combat spells that were conducive to fighting, and put all his energy on improving his cultivation.

But now, since he has to go down the mountain to garrison one side, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not encounter a fighting spell, and if he doesn't know how to fight spells at that time, just relying on a few magic weapons in his hand, the means are too simple, and it is easy to be restrained and targeted.

Spells are easy to learn and difficult to master, but they are just initially learned to use, but it doesn't take long, with Zhou Yang's cultivation of the sixth layer of Qi training, it only took half a month to learn all the five spells.

At this time, it was not far from the one-month period given to him by the old patriarch, so he wrote a letter to explain the situation, and the elders of the Tuo clan brought it to their parents who were sitting in an immortal cultivator's market thousands of miles away, and then said goodbye to the elders and fellow monks on the mountain, and went down the mountain alone.

After going down the mountain, Zhou Yang took a camel necessary for desert walking from the tribesmen under the mountain, and plunged directly into the boundless sea of sand.

This is the first time in 17 years that he has left the Yuquan Lake Oasis, and it is also the first time in two lifetimes that he has set foot in the desert.

The sea of sand is boundless, and it is easy to get lost when people walk through it.

Once lost in the sea of sand, even immortal cultivators carrying a large amount of water and food through storage bags will eventually starve to death and die of thirst if they fail to reach the oasis before the food and water are exhausted.

Immortal cultivators are much stronger than mortals, but if they don't reach the Jindan stage, they can't completely open the valley, even if they are monks in the Purple Mansion period, they need to regularly eat the food made by the spirit valley or the spirit meat of demon beasts to maintain their physical needs.

In fact, even the Jindan period monks who were able to open the valley did not dare to fly around in the boundless sea of sand.

Jindan monks can not be afraid of losing their way, but there is not only the danger of getting lost in the sand sea, but also all kinds of terrifying natural disasters and powerful demon beasts that even Jindan monks can kill.

For example, the famous "Black Sand Storm", once the Jindan period monk falls into it, he will be isolated from his divine consciousness and shield his five senses by the strange power contained in it, and finally be worn to death by the endless power of the storm that consumes up his mana.

Another example is the most famous fifth-order demon beast [Sandworm] in the boundless sand sea, its body is as long as thousands of feet, and it has terrifying sharp teeth in its mouth, and it can bite and smash fifth-order defensive magic weapons with great strength.

With these risks, unless there is a reason why they have to come, those Jindan stage monks will definitely not easily go deep into the sand sea.

Fortunately, whether it was the terrifying "Black Sand Storm" or the fifth-order demon beast [Sandworm] that only slept in some underground spiritual veins deep in the desert, it would not appear near the oasis, otherwise Zhou Yang might not dare to set foot in the desert alone.

After traveling in the desert for about five days in strict accordance with the map issued by the family, he arrived at his destination, Qingping Mountain, in strict accordance with the map issued by the family

Qingping Mountain is also an oasis, but it is an artificial oasis.

This oasis is very small, only a dozen square kilometers in size, and the oasis can be formed, all thanks to the Zhou family's investment of tens of thousands of lower grade spirit stones here regardless of the cost, and a second-order lower grade spirit vein has been created.

The reason why the Zhou family spent a lot of money to build an oasis here was because more than 50 years ago, a Zhou family member who was lost in the desert discovered a medium-sized iron ore vein here.

Iron ore is a kind of spiritual ore containing a little aura, after smelting and processing, it can smelt the first-order spiritual object refined iron and the second-order spiritual object Xuaniron, these two spiritual objects are the main materials for the cultivation of immortal families or sects to build important buildings such as ancestral halls, scripture pavilions, treasure houses, etc., and are also the main materials for refiners to refine most of the first-order and second-order magic weapons, and the market demand is huge.

In order to mine the refined iron ore in the refined iron veins, the Zhou family could only build an oasis here for the miners to live in, and at the same time, in order to protect the miners from the attacks of those low-level demon beasts in the desert, the Zhou family had to send monks to garrison here.

Whether it was to build an oasis or to allow the stationed monks to continue their cultivation, the Zhou family could only artificially create spiritual veins here.

Of course, it's all worth it.

Only this medium-sized iron ore vein, the refined iron ore mined every year can be processed and sold, which can bring the Zhou family more than 500 pure profits of lower grade spirit stones, and more than 50 years have passed, and the original investment has already been multiplied several times to earn back.

And judging from the reserves of refined iron veins, it can be mined for at least another 50 years.

The oasis of Qingping Mountain is very small, and most of the area has been turned into a residential area for the miners, except for a small 100-meter-high hill in the center of the spiritual vein, which has been carved out separately as a residence for the monks and a warehouse for finished materials.

It can be said that the small hill is the real Qingping Mountain.

Because the current Great Elder of the Zhou family is a second-order array mage, a second-order formation "Cloud Sea Splitting Light Array" has also been arranged on the spiritual vein of Qingping Mountain, and the power of the formation makes this small hill covered by clouds and mist all year round, making it difficult for people to see the layout clearly.

Zhou Yang came to the outside of the formation, and after shouting with mana, the clouds and mist in front of him were surging, making way for him to go up the mountain and enter.

He entered it along the formation passage, and soon saw the monk stationed inside, a middle-aged scholar with a thin face, this person was ranked sixteenth among the monks of the Zhou family's "Xuan" generation, named Zhou Xuanjin.

"Hey, how could it be Yang'er that you came to replace me? You're not even twenty years old, aren't you?"

Zhou Xuanjin, who was dressed as a scholar, couldn't help but sigh softly when he saw Zhou Yang coming in, and before Zhou Yang saluted and said hello, he put down the book in his hand and asked.

"Back to Uncle Sixteen, this is the old patriarch's arrangement, his old man said that the little nephew's cultivation has reached the standard of going down the mountain, and he made an exception to let the little nephew go down the mountain in advance to practice. Zhou Yang replied honestly.

Zhou Xuanjin's face was stunned, and he muttered in a puzzled voice: "Cultivation is to meet the standard of going down the mountain, when did our Zhou family have this standard?"

After speaking, his heart moved, as if he remembered something, and hurriedly applied a "Heavenly Eye Technique" to himself, and looked Zhou Yang up and down with golden light in his eyes.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't look at it, when he looks at it, he suddenly can't help but open his mouth wide and exclaim, "Ahhh

"After retreating in [Yuyang Cave] a month ago, I broke through by luck. ”

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, nodded and admitted without mind.

In fact, in the cultivation world, it is a very taboo thing to directly use the "Heavenly Eye Technique" to observe other people's cultivation, and there are often monks who fight for this kind of thing.

However, Zhou Xuanjin is his own generation, so Zhou Yang doesn't care about such small things.

"Tut-tut, amazing, amazing, how old are you!"

"I'm an uncle, I've worked hard for forty or fifty years to have the cultivation of the seventh layer of qi now, you are good, you have practiced the sixth layer of qi at the age of seventeen, and in another ten or eight years, I am afraid that my cultivation will surpass me!"

"Hey, I'm old, I'm old, I'm not as young as I am, I'm all qualified by a medium-grade spiritual root, why is there such a big gap!"

Zhou Xuanjin put away the spell and looked at this outstanding junior with complicated eyes, and he didn't know whether to be happy that the family had such a genius, or whether he should feel ashamed and disappointed that his cultivation was about to be surpassed by a junior who was dozens of years younger.

It wasn't the first time Zhou Yang had encountered such a situation, since he had broken through the sixth layer of Qi cultivation, those peers and elders on Yuquan Peak, when they were amazed and happy by his cultivation speed, had more or less shown the same look of loss and gloom as Zhou Xuanjin.

In this regard, he can only be silent, and he can't say anything.