By the time Zhou Yang came out of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's cave mansion, his expression had completely returned to calm.

Cultivating from the seventh layer of Qi cultivation to the ninth layer of Qi cultivation in more than ten years is almost impossible for ordinary mid-grade spiritual root cultivators in the Qi cultivation period.

Cultivation is always more and more difficult to break through the further you go, and after practicing the seventh layer of qi, you can improve your cultivation by one layer every ten years, which is a very good cultivation speed for a middle-grade spiritual root cultivator.

Just like Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao, and his third aunt Zhou Xuanyu, both of them reached the seventh level of Qi cultivation in their thirties, and then Zhou Xuanhao only cultivated to the ninth level of Qi training at the age of sixty-three, and Zhou Xuanyu was slightly faster, but he only reached the ninth level of Qi training at the age of fifty-eight.

Zhou Yang had reached the seventh level of Qi cultivation at the age of twenty-two, and under normal circumstances, he would definitely be able to raise his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi cultivation before the age of fifty, and then there would still be ten years to plan for foundation building.

But since the old patriarch Zhou Minghan has made it clear that he will help him solve the problem of "Zhuji Dan", he must fight, otherwise with the current situation of the Zhou family, he will definitely not be able to buy two spirit stones of "Zhuji Dan" in a short period of time.

Zhou Yang didn't want what happened to his third aunt Zhou Xuanyu to repeat it to himself.

"Originally, I wanted to concentrate on improving the alchemy technique after breaking through to the seventh layer of qi training, but now it seems that in order to be able to reach the ninth layer of qi cultivation as soon as possible, I can only put the alchemy technique aside for the time being. ”

The most fundamental and important thing for an immortal cultivator is to improve the realm of cultivation, and to learn skills such as refining weapons and alchemy, it should also serve this matter.

When there was a conflict between the ascension of cultivation and the ascension of alchemy, Zhou Yang would naturally not hesitate to abandon the ascension of alchemy and concentrate on improving his cultivation.

If you neglect your cultivation in order to improve your alchemy, you will be completely putting the cart before the horse, and it will be too late to regret it later.

He made up his mind and immediately returned to the cave where he had previously retreated to continue his practice.

In order to allow him to improve his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi cultivation within more than ten years, the old patriarch has already made a special arrangement to temporarily allocate this cave mansion to him for use, and in the next ten years, there will be no family tasks assigned to him.

His only task now was to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate again, and make every effort to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi cultivation as soon as possible.

And when Zhou Yang was concentrating on closed-door penance, the late-stage Qi cultivation monks sent by the Zhou family to garrison everywhere also returned to the family one after another in the name of paying tribute to Zhou Qian, the great elder of the family.

Among these returning monks, they naturally also include Zhou Yang's father Zhou Xuanhao and mother Lin Yuting.

"Father, mother, when did you come back? Why didn't you tell the child earlier? Do you know how much the child misses you!"

When Zhou Yang received a transmission notice from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan a few months later, informing him to go down the mountain to the family ancestral hall to discuss matters, when he came to the ancestral hall, he saw his parents standing with a bunch of elders at a glance, and then in an instant, his eyes turned red.

"Mother also misses you!"

Zhou's mother also came out of the crowd with red eyes, and hugged her son who she hadn't seen for seven or eight years.

"Mother's Yang'er has grown taller, when your mother left, you were only to your mother's shoulder height, and now you are a head taller than your mother, and you are more handsome!"

The woman hugged her son's shoulder, and with a pampered face, she stretched out her jade hand and stroked Zhou Sunshine's handsome face, her eyes full of joy.

"Okay, okay, in the ancestral hall, you both pay attention, and when the business is done, let you two talk about it in private. ”

As a man, Zhou's father is more tolerant, at this time, seeing his wife and son reunited after a long absence, hugging each other and crying, he felt warm, and he was afraid of causing gossip from other clansmen, so he couldn't help but whisper a sentence to remind the two to pay attention to the occasion.

didn't think that as soon as his words fell, Zhou Yang and Zhou's mother didn't have time to separate, and Zhou Xuanyu, who was also a little red-eyed watching this scene, said very unceremoniously:

"Sister-in-law and Yang'er haven't seen each other for eight years, what's wrong with meeting and saying something considerate? Brother, it's just a matter of saying this in front of those juniors, which of us people here today is not seventy or eighty? Which one has no wife, son and daughter? How can you not understand the taste?"

"You said that you don't go to the cave on the top of the mountain to see Yang'er, and you are not allowed to go with your sister-in-law, are you such a father?

The older generation of the Zhou family knows that Zhou Xuanhao and Zhou Xuanyu have been a little wrong since they were children.

Both of them are middle-grade Linggen qualifications, one is a few years older in age, always considers himself the boss, and the other is the granddaughter of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, who has been favored by the elders since she was a child, and she is used to it, and she is a head taller, so she doesn't buy the account of this eldest brother at all.

When they were young, the two of them were not at eye to eye, and they kept fighting in the family, that is, when they got older, they were separated for a long time because of the family tasks, and the relationship gradually eased.

But as long as there is an opportunity, Zhou Xuanyu will still seize the opportunity to mock Zhou Xuanhao, the eldest brother, with words.

No way, who told women to hold grudges more than men!

At this moment, hearing Zhou Xuanyu mocking Zhou Xuanhao, the eldest brother, the monks of the "Xuan" generation in the ancestral hall suddenly looked at me with strange faces, and I looked at you, all of them turned their heads to the side, no one dared to help, and no one spoke.

And the "light" monks like Old Man Zhou Quan and Old Man Zhou Yun have long been surprised, not only did no one want to make a sound tube to take care of these two people, but they looked at this scene with a straight smile, squeezing their eyebrows at each other, as if they wished that the two of them would fight.

The elders all know these past events, but Zhou Yang doesn't know anything about them.

When he saw the third aunt come out to help him talk to his mother, he was moved, but he was afraid of causing a misunderstanding.

Because he knew that his father didn't look at him, it was definitely not that he didn't care about himself, on the contrary, it was precisely because his father cared about him too much that he didn't want to disturb his cultivation and delay his path.

So he hurriedly broke free from his mother's embrace, and looked at the third aunt Zhou Xuanyu with an anxious face to explain to his father: "Third aunt, you misunderstood my father, my father and mother didn't go to see me, but they didn't want to disturb my nephew's practice, and my nephew was indeed a little rude just now, and I ask the elders to forgive me." ”

Seeing his anxious appearance, everyone who knew the inside story was holding back a smile, including his mother Lin Yuting.

But Zhou Xuanyu rolled his eyes, and snorted angrily: "Hmph, Xiao Jiu, you are really a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised, as soon as this father and mother come back, they immediately forget that the third aunt is good to you, and it is really not your own, but it is a bad relationship!"

"Poof!"

When Zhou's mother heard this, she finally burst into tears and couldn't help laughing.

Then she looked at her son with a blank face, and poked Zhou Yang's forehead with her jade finger and smiled: "Okay Yang'er, your third aunt is jealous, I see, it happens that the elders in the family are all here today, or you will recognize your third aunt as your stepmother, lest she always knock over the vinegar jar and splash your father with a sour body!"

"The old man thinks this matter is feasible, I don't know what you think, Xiao Jiu?"

Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch who had never spoken out, his eyes were also lit up at this time, and he couldn't help but agree with Zhou's mother Lin Yuting's proposal.

And Zhou Xuanyu, who was originally said by Zhou's mother to be jealous and unhappy, also had a flash of joy in her eyes at this time, and looked at Zhou Yang nervously with unblinking eyes, this expression had completely betrayed the thoughts in her heart.

"If you don't have an opinion Yang'er, your father won't object. ”

Zhou Xuanhao, who had never spoken, also stared at Zhou Yang at this time, watching Zhou Yang say his opinion.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yang immediately walked up to Zhou Xuanyu and knelt down on his knees, kowtowed respectfully three times and said, "Child Zhou Yang, I have seen my stepmother." ”

Originally, at this time, I had to meet Zhou Xuanyu's husband, the third uncle Wu Tao as the "father-in-law".

However, Wu Tao, as the son-in-law of the Zhou family, cannot be compared with the Zhou family at the level of trust, the red flame iron vein is a top secret in the Zhou family, and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan has already ordered that unless Zhou Yang succeeds in building the foundation, he must not disclose this news to the outside world.

Therefore, at this time, several relatives of the Zhou family, such as Wu Tao, are all outside to replace Zhou Xuanhao, who was transferred to the family, and the Zhou family members are in charge of all parties.

"Good boy, good boy, get up, get up!"

The nervousness on Zhou Xuanyu's face disappeared, and he hurriedly reached out to help Zhou Yang with a smile like a flower, and his beautiful eyes were full of joy.

"Congratulations to the third sister (sister) for having a righteous son!"

A group of monks of the Zhou family, who were originally looking at their noses and noses and their hearts, seemed to wake up like a dream at this time, and they all smiled and congratulated.

And those old people of the "light" generation who squeezed their eyebrows and laughed and laughed at this time, they also laughed and sent their blessings: "Hahaha, the third girl has been thinking about a son for so many years, and today is finally her wish, it is indeed worth congratulating, it is worth congratulating!"

Hearing the congratulations of these elders and peers, the smile on Zhou Xuanyuqiao's face suddenly became a little bigger, and she did not shy away from pulling Zhou Yang's arm and pulling him into her arms and hugging him fiercely, laughing with a smile on her face: "Whatever you say, I just like Yang'er, this child, I like this child's calm personality since I was a child, and I like this child's intelligence, this is what a good man in my Zhou family should look like." ”

Zhou Yang was held in Zhou Xuanyu's arms with a confused face, and his eyes widened as he looked at his smiling mother Lin Yuting, feeling as if he had been sold by his mother.

Sure enough, in the next second, he saw his mother's beautiful eyes, looked at the stepmother he had just recognized with a smile and said: "The master accepts apprentices and apprentices are all given by the apprentice, since Sister Yu accepts Yang'er as a righteous son, this gift must be there, right? ”

"Okay, you Lin Yuting, I said, why are you suddenly so kind, willing to share my baby son with me, dare you are worried about the treasures in my hand!" Zhou Xuanyu raised his eyebrows, glared at Zhou's mother with dissatisfaction, and seemed to be a little angry.

But when she turned her head to look at Zhou Yang who looked embarrassed in her arms, she chuckled and said: "Giggles, or Yang'er knows that she feels sorry for her stepmother, unlike your conscienceless mother, for the sake of a few spirit runes, count her good sisters for many years!"

Saying that, she reached out and patted the storage bag without any ambiguity in her hand, took out a pile of sparkling spirit runes and stuffed it into Zhou Yang's hand.

"Good boy, give, these spirit runes are the work of the stepmother over the years, you take it and use it first, if you run out of it when you turn around, then come to the stepmother to ask for it, the stepmother has nothing else, these spirit runes drawn by yourself are still not lacking!"

Practice?

The spirit runes of the practice will be all second-order high-grade?

Zhou Yang looked at the thick pile of spirit talismans in his hand, and his heart was warm and indescribably moved.

He knew that every spirit rune in it was a masterpiece that his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu had put a lot of effort into.

Even if Zhou Xuanyu himself is a second-order high-grade talisman maker, there will definitely not be too many second-order high-grade spirit runes in his hand, but now he has given him a thick pile all of a sudden, which shows his love for himself.