The failure of refining the weapon for the first time did not dampen Zhou Yang's enthusiasm, because he had never imagined that he would succeed in one attempt.

If alchemy was so easy to master, the profession of refiner would not become the most popular profession in the world of immortal cultivation.

It is impossible for any refiner, even the most genius refiner, to succeed in refining the weapon the first time.

Most refiners have a little bit of talent for refining, and then rely on countless materials to accumulate alchemy.

Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, among those scattered cultivators who have no sects, no sects, and no families, there are very few refiners and alchemists, because they simply can't afford the waste of materials and money needed to learn these two skills.

Even for a foundation-building family like the Zhou family, which has a foundation building period cultivator, it is very difficult to cultivate a second-order refiner who can really make money, and it is necessary to select talented children and then invest a lot of money.

Before Zhou Yang, the Zhou family also had many "Xuan" cultivators who studied alchemy, but only his seventh uncle Zhou Xuanlin was reluctantly promoted to a second-order refiner, which was still cultivated by Zhou Minghan, a third-order refiner, and smashed materials worth thousands of spirit stones back and forth.

However, the limit of a Qi cultivation period cultivator is a second-order refiner, and if you want to become a third-order refiner, you must first become a foundation building stage cultivator.

Therefore, Zhou Minghan said that he hoped that Zhou Yang could inherit his alchemy, and the subconscious meaning was actually that he hoped that he would be able to build a successful foundation.

As long as he can build a successful foundation and show a little talent for refining, even if he smashes it with a spirit stone, Zhou Minghan is sure to smash him into a third-order refiner!

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't know about these, he just felt that the refining materials were not easy to come by, and it was a pity to waste them, so he didn't rush to try again immediately after failing, but cleaned up the waste materials in the instrument and carefully summarized the lessons learned.

Wait until he feels some certainty before starting a new attempt.

Fail, summarize, fail, and summarize......

After experiencing seventeen failures, Zhou Yang finally succeeded in refining a finished [Qingfeng Sword] and officially became a first-order refiner.

With the experience of the first success, Zhou Yang's success rate when refining the weapon in the future was much better, basically he could succeed once in ten refining tools.

When he had controlled the success rate to two out of ten after hundreds of refinements, he stopped refining the first-order magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword] and changed to refining another first-order magic weapon, the [Flame Knife].

The first-order magic weapon [Flame Knife], the main material is also fine iron, but at the same time, it must be mixed with two-tenths of the fire attribute spirit gold and red copper, after the magic weapon is practiced, the innate realm monk holds the magic weapon and injects the innate true qi, which can stimulate the flame to attach to the knife and cause burning damage to the enemy, and can also deal with some ghosts that cannot be attacked by simple physical attacks.

The refining process of the [Flame Knife] is roughly the same as that of the [Blue Blade], the difference is that when refining the [Flame Knife], the prohibition placed in the blade is not [Sharp], but the [Flame] prohibition.

Although Zhou Yang had a successful experience in refining the [Qingfeng Sword], he failed to refine the [Flame Knife] magic weapon for the first time.

However, he summed up the experience of failure, and succeeded by luck the second time, and then after dozens of refining, he successfully controlled the refining power of the [Flame Knife] above 20%.

At this time, there were still a lot of basic refining materials left for him by the old patriarch, but he did not continue refining, but handed over the finished magic weapons he had refined, as well as the refining experience he had summarized when he was refining, as well as the letters he wrote to his parents, to Zhou Qi, a monk of the same generation of the family who came to collect the refined iron ore output, and asked him to bring it back to the family and hand it over to the old patriarch and to his parents who were far away.

Zhou Qi ranks third in the Zhou family's "Yuan" generation, his parents are ordinary mortals, and he is thirty-two years old this year, but because the quality of the spiritual root is only inferior, he has only reached the third level of Qi cultivation now when he cultivates to Kankan, and there is no hope of building a foundation in this life.

After he heard that Zhou Yang had become a first-order refiner, he was naturally surprised at first, and then he took the things with a happy face and nodded vigorously: "Ninth brother, don't worry, I will definitely bring the things and letters to the old patriarch and uncles and aunts." ”

After speaking, he paused, and said earnestly again: "But you also have to cultivate hard, don't focus on refining weapons, you are the hope of our entire Zhou family, the elders of the clan and our brothers and sisters, but they are all counting on you to build a foundation and successfully lead our Zhou family to continue!"

"What the third brother said is that I will work hard to cultivate, and I will never let the elders down!" Zhou Yang nodded and responded with a straight face.

"You just have to know it, then I'll go first. ”

Seeing his brother Zhou Qi leave, Zhou Yang manipulated the formation to restore its original state, and closed the door to read the long letter brought to him by his parents and brothers.

Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao, devoted himself to cultivation in his early years, and it was not until he was over sixty years old that he found that he had no hope of building a foundation, so he followed the advice of the family elders to marry a wife and have children.

It happened that at that time, his mother Lin Yuting was chased and killed by the enemy, and fled to the vicinity of the Yuquan Lake Oasis to be rescued by him, so the two became married and became husband and wife, and then gave birth to Zhou Yang within a few years.

Because both of them are immortal cultivators, the first child was lucky enough to detect a medium-quality spiritual root, and since then Zhou Yang has become the heart of the parents.

It is precisely because of the meticulous love of his parents since he was a child that Zhou Yang, a traveler with memories of twenty or thirty years in his previous life, slowly let go of everything in his previous life, accepted and recognized his parents in this life from the bottom of his heart, and recognized the entire Zhou family.

And in order to allow this son to go further than the two of them in cultivation, Zhou Xuanhao and Lin Yuting, the couple, did not have any other children after that, and put all their energy on earning spirit stones and taking care of Zhou Yang.

Later, when they discovered that Zhou Yang had the talent of precocious wisdom and was able to take care of himself, the couple handed him over to the elders of the clan to take care of, and then sat in the shop opened by the family in an immortal cultivator's market all the year round, using the alchemy and wine-making skills they mastered to earn spirit stones for the family and their son.

As a "person who has come over", Zhou Yang understands the thoughts of Zhou Xuanhao and Lin Yuting very well.

Just like his parents in his previous life left his hometown to work in the city at a young age in order to provide for him to study and go to school, everything Zhou Xuanhao and Lin Yuting are doing now is also for him to be able to build a foundation in the future and go further on the road of cultivation.

So he has never been resentful because he can't see his parents all year round, but every year he will write a number of letters to his parents about the elders of the trust family, telling his parents about his usual life experience, he knows that these things that seem ordinary and boring are what his parents want to see the most.

"Yang'er, Qingping Mountain is far away from the family, and everything must think twice before acting, and everything is based on protecting yourself......"

"Son, mom's business in the restaurant here has been getting better and better recently, the hunger marketing method you told my mother last time is really amazing, my son is really a genius, he will definitely become a monk in the foundation building period in the future, no, he will definitely become an ancestor in the Jindan period!"

Zhou Yang looked at the letter written to him by his parents word by word, his face was full of sincere smiles, and the encouragement of his parents with a simple letter was far more useful than a thousand words from others.

After reading the whole letter, he carefully put away the letter and whispered to himself: "There are still two years, when I complete the remaining two years of garrisoning tasks, I will go back to the family to prepare to break through the seventh layer of Qi training, as long as I break through to the seventh layer of Qi training and promote to the late stage of Qi training, I will apply to the old patriarch to go to Fang City to garrison, and then our family can be reunited!"

On the other side, when Zhou Qi returned to the family with the magic weapons and experience refined by Zhou Yang and handed them over to the old patriarch, it immediately attracted Zhou Minghan's great attention.

He personally inspected the magic weapons refined by Zhou Yang one by one, pointed out the deficiencies in them and gave suggestions for improvement, and answered the questions recorded by Zhou Yang on the refining experience one by one, and then asked a family elder of the "light" generation to personally go on a trip and send some higher-level refining materials and refining experience to Zhou Yang.

"Hahaha, Xiao Jiu, you are really competitive, the old man has lived for hundreds of years, and it is the first time to see the old patriarch so happy, and he attaches so much importance to a junior, and now the name of your Qilin'er in this week has spread all over the clan, and even those clansmen in the world are talking about your deeds!"

The old man of the Zhou family, who was responsible for sending things to Zhou Yang, was named Zhou Quan, the third among his peers, and the second elder among the eight elders of the Zhou family.

The old man was already one hundred and twelve years old, very close to the lifespan of a Qi cultivation period cultivator, if it wasn't for Zhou Minghan personally ordering him to run by name this time, no one in the family would dare to alarm this old man who was about to sit down.

"Tired of the third grandfather running this trip, the nephew is really a sin, it's really a sin!"

Zhou Yang looked at the old man who was smiling and his mouth was leaking, and while he was moved in his heart, he also sighed secretly.

He knew that if it weren't for the fact that the late-stage Qi cultivation cultivators in the family all had their own tasks, the old patriarch would definitely not let Zhou Quan, an old man who was about to sit down, come to this trip.

Zhou Quan's arrival not only showed the importance that the old patriarch and the family attached to him, but also exposed the family's shortcomings in the available manpower.

"Hehehe, the old man is old, it doesn't matter if he sits down tomorrow, he can see an outstanding junior like you in the family before he sits, and the old man will be dumbfounded!"

The old man Zhou Quan smiled happily, reached out and gently patted Zhou Yang's shoulder to show his closeness, but he had already looked down on life and death.

But he said so, and after the next second, he couldn't help but sigh with regret: "It's a pity, it's a pity that the old man can't wait for the day when you build the foundation, otherwise the old man will go to Huangquan after he dies, and he will have the face to see the ancestor of Yuquan!"

Zhou Yang was silent, and his mood became heavy.

In the past 100 years, several generations of monks of the Zhou family have been stuck in the foundation building pass, so that old people like Zhou Quan have a deep obsession in their hearts, and the only obsession in their hearts is to hope that they can see another foundation building monk in the Zhou family in their lifetime to replace the old patriarch to protect the family.

His father, Zhou Xuanhao, actually has this obsession, otherwise he would not have made every effort to earn spirit stones outside to prepare for him to build a foundation in the future.

And just when Zhou Yang was thinking about how to break this heavy atmosphere, a firelight suddenly passed through the sea of clouds outside Qingping Mountain and fell in front of him, and from it came the extremely panicked voice of the Zhou family steward of the refined iron mine outside: "Lord Immortal, help, there are powerful demon beasts attacking the mine!"