After returning to Cangyuan Immortal City, Zhou Yang's life was very simple.

Because his cultivation could no longer be improved, and his alchemy technique had also reached the fourth-order level, he spent most of his time studying the remaining advanced sword formations and cultivating talisman making techniques in the "Great Yan Sword Technique".

Sometimes he would take Daoist Xiao Ying and his concubine Qin Yue'er to leave Cangyuan Immortal City for a trip, or be invited to participate in some high-level monk exchange meetings, or help some high-level monks who came to the door to refine fourth-order magic weapons.

During this period, Zhou Yang also focused on one thing, that is, to test Qin Yue'er.

He didn't believe that Guo Jinhong gave Qin Yue'er to him as a concubine, it was really just to win him over, and there was no other purpose.

Neither of them is a fool, just the fact that Qin Yue'er was controlled by the "Divine Control Technique" doomed Zhou Yang to be impossible to really believe in her and treat her as a real pillow person.

Guo Jinhong, as a Yuan Infant Monk who has lived for more than 2,000 years, how could he not even know this?

Therefore, Zhou Yang always firmly believed that the other party gave Qin Yue'er to him as a concubine, and he must have hidden some sinister intentions that he didn't know.

It's a pity that no matter what means he used to tempt, whether he was overt or secretly observed, he didn't find anything abnormal from Qin Yue'er.

She is like a concubine of a real ordinary family, she is obedient to Zhou Yang's various obviously unreasonable orders, and she does not dare to resist at all, nor does she make any abnormal moves.

All in all, all her actions are no different from a real humble concubine, so that Zhou Yang can't tell at all whether she was really trained by Qin Zhiyun to be a humble maid, or is she pretending to be humiliated.

In fact, when Zhou Yang couldn't find any suspicions in her, he had the ruthlessness to find a monk to double cultivate with her to break her Yuanyin idea, to see if she could continue to show the slightest flaw.

But he never dared to realize this idea.

It's not that he is reluctant to give such a beautiful woman of his own to other men, but his heart does not allow him to use such evil means to achieve his goals.

No matter what Guo Jinhong's intentions are for sending Qin Yue'er to him, Qin Yue'er is an out-and-out poor person.

As a "victim", Zhou Yang can guard against and not sympathize with Qin Yue'er, but when Qin Yue'er did not obviously show malicious intent, if he was allowed to harm such a lovely woman like this, he really couldn't be so ruthless.

Moreover, if he really did this, it was also a question whether Qin Yue'er would be willing to cooperate, and his Taoist companion Xiao Ying would definitely be very disappointed in him after knowing about it.

Therefore, Zhou Yang could only reluctantly let go of his temptation to Qin Yue'er in the end and let him continue to stay by his side.

After another five years of such days, Zhou Yang felt that there was no hidden danger in his body, so he borrowed a fifth-order cave mansion from Cangyuan Sanren and tried to retreat again.

This time, after his mana was purified by the "Three Turns Pure Yuan Dan", when he completed the first step "Ning Dan", it was really much smoother than the first time.

During the two years of retreat, he successfully crossed the "Ning Dan" step and successfully condensed a Shi Dan without using any help to assist in the formation of the pill treasure.

"Ning Dan" was successful, and Zhou Yang of course wanted to make persistent efforts to try to carry out the second step "Hedan".

When he followed the experience of the senior monks in the elixir, and his soul stepped into the lower dantian from the purple mansion and merged with the essence golden pill, his mind sank, as uncomfortable as carrying a mountain.

He knew that this was due to the fact that the divine soul had not yet fused with the golden pill and was affected by the colossal power contained in the golden pill.

The "Hedan" step is that he wants to let the soul and the golden pill merge into one, so that his divine soul will be branded on the golden pill, and the divine soul and the golden pill will never be separated from each other.

Zhou Yang's powerful divine soul was indeed much easier than ordinary cultivators of the same rank in this step.

According to what he knew from the experience of the monks of his predecessors, when many monks experienced this step for the first time, not long after their souls sank into the golden pill, they were overwhelmed and had to take the initiative to break away and return to the Purple Mansion, which in turn led to the failure of the actual golden pill to disperse and form the elbow.

The first time he experienced this step, he was able to settle down to carry out the "Hedan" step.

It's just that despite this, his "Hedan" step was not completed in the end.

Probably after completing forty percent of the entire "Hedan" steps, the pressure on Zhou Yang's soul reached its limit, and it was impossible to support him to continue.

Therefore, he had to take the initiative to withdraw his divine soul and return to the Purple Mansion like those senior monks who had fallen on this step, and then watched as the essence golden pill he had worked so hard to condense cracked and overflowed into countless liquid mana true elements.

Burst!

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Zhou Yang's mouth and fell to the ground, leaving a pool of red blood.

This time he failed to tie the Dan, the impact on his dantian was not comparable to the last time, and now he only felt as if there were countless knives cutting in the dantian, and the pain made him twitch all over, and drops of sweat as big as beans slipped down his cheeks.

There is no way to relieve this pain, and it is only up to one's willpower to survive.

After supporting it like this for three days and nights, Zhou Yang felt a lot better, and only then did he dare to take out some healing elixirs and take them, and forcibly supported his body to meditate and recuperate from his injuries.

After three years of recuperation, Zhou Yang finally controlled the injuries in the dantian and was able to use some mana a little.

can use mana, with the power of self-preservation, Zhou Yang did not continue to rely on this fifth-order cave mansion, but returned to the cave mansion and quietly went to that Chiyuan Beppu to recuperate.

Of course, this news was concealed by him asking Cangyuan Sanren, and even Daoist Xiao Ying didn't know that he had actually been out of the customs.

In Chiyuan Beppu, after Xu Song studied the Spirit Gathering Array for ten years, he already had a lot of eyebrows, and it was not far from officially reversing the layout method.

After Zhou Yang arrived here, he didn't bother him to study the formation, but continued to recuperate here and study swordsmanship by the way.

"Dayan Sword Technique" is broad and profound, and the advanced sword formation recorded in it is more difficult to practice the later it is, and with Zhou Yang's cultivation strength at this time, it is not easy to learn.

However, this also strengthened his will to learn it, if this swordsmanship can be completely understood, even if the corresponding part of the later Jindan period is missing, after he succeeds in marrying the Dan, it can still become a powerful means for him to fight the enemy.

After spending another three years in Chiyuan Beppu, Zhou Yang had not yet learned the last advanced sword formation in the "Great Yan Sword Technique", the "Positive and Negative Nine Palace Sword Formation", but Xu Song had already successfully eaten through the special Spirit Gathering Array and completely reproduced it.

"The grade of this spirit gathering array itself is not high, and the fourth-order high-grade array mage can arrange it, but if you want to achieve the effect of this cave on the third-order spirit vein, it will take more than thirty years for the formation to be achieved, and when the formation is arranged, you have to use five high-grade spirit stones with five elements attributes as the foundation of the formation. ”

"And according to the old man's inference, this Spirit Gathering Array can only push the concentration of spiritual energy in the circle to the level equivalent to the fifth-order high-grade spiritual vein, and it is impossible to reach the level of the sixth-order spiritual vein!"

"Also, once you place this Spirit Gathering Array in the Spirit Vein, don't think about upgrading the grade of this Spirit Vein in the future, because this Spirit Gathering Array will change the foundation of the Spirit Vein and make it lose the possibility of promotion!"

"Finally, this jade slip records the old man's research experience and the method of arranging the magic circle of this spirit gathering array, as long as you find a fourth-order high-grade array mage and let him do it according to the above method, you will definitely be able to arrange this formation. ”

In Chiyuan Beppu, Xu Song found Zhou Yang who was recuperating, threw a jade slip into his hand, and explained his research results to him with a tired face.

Over the years, all his thoughts have been on studying this Spirit Gathering Array, and his mind has been extremely draining, and now this tired appearance is not deliberately pretending to be sympathetic to Bo Zhouyang.

Zhou Yang held the jade slip he threw over, and he was also excited in his heart, and bowed to Xu Song with a straight face: "Senior Xu has worked hard, and the junior has done what he says, so let people send you to [Fallen Demon Valley] to cultivate!"

"That's what you said, the old man is waiting for you to fulfill his promise!"

After Xu Song finished speaking, he took a deep look at him, and went directly back to rest in the "Yunshen Card" hanging on his waist.

And Zhou Yang didn't delay next, he immediately left Chiyuan Beppu, and quietly sent the "Yunshen Card" to Li Hong, and asked him to personally run the "Falling Demon Valley" and send Xu Song into it for cultivation.

After doing all this, Zhou Yang officially returned to the cave mansion in Cangyuan Immortal City and announced the result of his failed retreat.

At this time, thirteen years had passed since he had retreated into the Jiedan, and the monks who knew something about the Jiedan, had already guessed this result, so even if his Taoist companion Xiao Ying heard him talk about it, he didn't have much emotion, just comforted him a few words.

Xiao Ying's cultivation at this time had also reached the seventh layer of the Purple Mansion, and it was not far from the eighth layer of the Purple Mansion, and it was not far from the Jiedan.

At this time, there were only less than two years left before the twenty-year appointment between Han Xiao and Zhou Yang of the Qingyuan Sword Sect, and Zhou Yang counted the time and also had the idea of going to Qingyuan Mountain in Jinyang to receive the "Jade Liquid Golden Pill".

However, just when he had this idea and was about to leave in another year, the "Xuanguang Ring" that he had been wearing on his left index finger suddenly shone brightly with silver light.

When he saw this scene, his face suddenly became gloomy.

"This damn old ghost Guo, it's only been less than twenty years, and you've started to think about me?"

"At this juncture, he suddenly summoned me to meet him, could it have something to do with the [Jade Liquid Golden Pill] that the Qingyuan Sword Sect promised me?"

"Sure enough, the old ghost of the Yuan Infant Stage is treacherous, he summoned me at this juncture, unless I don't want that [Jade Liquid Golden Pill], otherwise I can only obey his call to meet him!"

Zhou Yang secretly scolded in his heart, and he simply scolded Guo Jinhong's ancestors for eighteen generations.

However, scolding and scolding, it was impossible for him to really give up the "Jade Liquid Golden Pill" that he had earned at this juncture, so he could only respond to the call, hurriedly arranged some things, and took Qin Yue'er to Jinyang Country together.

Qin Yue'er had to bring it, firstly, Guo Jinhong had said that he would let him take him back to the Valley of Forgotten Worries every few decades to check the prohibition of the "Divine Control Technique", and secondly, he was not at ease that after he left, he would let him be with Daoist Xiao Ying.

On the contrary, it was Daoist Xiao Ying, this time Zhou Yang let her stay in Cangyuan Immortal City, and handed over the "Great Relocation Order" and thirty-six high-grade spirit stones to her.

If something really happened to him on this trip, or if there was no news from him within ten years, Xiao Ying would take Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Tongyue and the others back to the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm directly, and then cut off the connection with the teleportation array.

ps:Do the math.,There's probably one more than six or seven chapters to get married.,Anyway, I also want the protagonist to succeed once.,But the type of book isn't that fast-paced.,Although many people don't like to see this kind of "struggle" now, but I'm really writing a book "Zhou Yang's Struggle to Cultivate Immortals in a Different World"!