The sky that had just rained was gloomy, just like Zhou Yang's mood at this time.

Not long ago, he took the "Sanyang Barrier Breaking Pill" and successfully broke through to the fourth layer of the foundation, and now he should be in a happy mood.

But a bad news made his mood extremely bad in an instant.

Just a few days ago, his mother, Lin Yuting, who had just spent his 57th birthday with him, passed away!

Lin Yuting died when her longevity was exhausted.

Although, the age at which she died, she was still two years away from the limit of one hundred and twenty years old for Qi cultivation period cultivators.

But it is true that life is over.

A few days before the end of their lifespan, immortal cultivators will have a spiritual calling, knowing that they are about to end their lives.

Therefore, before Lin Yuting passed away, she basically explained the things she wanted to explain and the people she wanted to see, and she had seen them all, and she ended up with a smile without regrets.

But for Zhou Yang's son, the loss of his loved ones still made him very sad and uncomfortable.

He thought that this day would come, but after this day really came, it was still difficult for him to accept.

So much so that he looked at his mother's body with a peaceful face for a long time before he was woken up by his father Zhou Xuanhao, and then with tears in his eyes, with great grief, he watched his mother's body being cremated by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan himself.

At this time, five days have passed since the death of his mother Lin Yuting, although Zhou Yang is no longer sad and crying, but his mood is still gloomy and sad, and he has not completely come out of this incident.

The Zhou family has not had a monk for more than ten years, and Lin Yuting's sitting not only made Zhou Yang feel sad, but also made him realize that in the near future, those monks of the Zhou family who are of the same generation as their parents will sit down one after another.

At that time, the Zhou family will experience the same sad experience of losing a loved one as him, I'm afraid there will be more!

The more realistic problem is that those who are about to die will basically be the elders of the Zhou family.

Once these people sit down and die, the overall strength of the Zhou family will drop a lot, and the manpower that can be used in the future will be much less.

How to minimize the adverse impact of these people's death on the family is a problem that Zhou Yang, the patriarch, needs to consider.

The only good news that can give him some comfort now is that after seven or eight years of training, the Zhou family's stewardship system has gradually been established, and some "Yuan" monks have been able to take on the position of steward after studying and honing.

With the presence of these stewards and deputy stewards, even if those elders sit and pass away, they will not interfere with the normal operation of the disruptive family.

"Brother Jiu, my great-grandfather asked me to tell you that I just received a summons from the Chen family, saying that after Cao Laozu of Huangshamen left the customs, he personally sent a message for you to visit Huangshamen. ”

The girl's soft voice suddenly sounded from behind her, awakening Zhou Yang's thoughts.

He turned his head to look and saw a Tingting girl in a plain white filial piety dress, who had come behind him at some point, looking at him with a worried face.

The girl is his sister-in-law Zhou Yuanyao.

Zhou Yuanyao is nineteen years old this year, she has lived with Zhou Yang's mother Lin Yuting since she was four or five years old, and after more than ten years of getting along, the two are emotionally no different from their biological mother and daughter.

And Zhou Yang has often found time to accompany his mother Lin Yuting over the years, so that although the two of them are twenty or thirty years apart, the relationship between the two is much better than that between him and Zhou Yuanchun, Zhou Yuanbao and others.

"Yao'er, aren't you really going to see your mother?"

Zhou Yang looked at the soft and weak girl in front of him, and suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with what the girl said.

The mother he said was, of course, not his mother Lin Yuting, but Zhou Yuanyao's biological mother Zhou Xuanyu.

Because of his identity, Zhou Xuanyu rarely comes back to see Zhou Yuanyao's daughter once a year.

Especially as Zhou Yuanyao grew older, after learning about the various evil deeds of demon cultivation from other elders, he gradually began to alienate and deliberately avoid his mother, who practiced demon skills, and felt a little escapist from reality.

After Zhou Xuanyu found out about this kind of thing, of course she felt very uncomfortable, but she also knew that she couldn't blame her daughter for this incident, she could only blame herself, who made her really a demon cultivator!

So even when she secretly came to see Lin Yuting for the last time this time, Zhou Xuanyu didn't meet Zhou Yuanyao, and after witnessing Lin Yuting's death, she quietly left Yuquan Peak with her face covered and cried.

Zhou Yang originally thought that it was also a good thing that Zhou Yuanyao and Zhou Xuanyu did not have much contact, so as not to let people see what happened in the future because of too much frequent contact between the two.

But after tasting the pain of the death of his loved one this time, he looked at Zhou Yuanyao again, and suddenly felt that his previous thoughts were too selfish.

However, after Zhou Yuanyao heard his words, his face changed, and he was silent with his head lowered, obviously not having this idea.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but stand up, stretched out his hand and gently patted the girl's shoulder and sighed: "Hey, if you have time, let's go over there and take a look, my stepmother is living over there, and it's also very miserable!"

"I see. ”

Zhou Yuanyao's head was slightly lower, and her voice was like a mosquito, almost inaudible.

Zhou Yang was familiar with the character of this righteous sister, and when he saw this, he immediately knew that he was afraid that he didn't really take his words seriously.

Therefore, he couldn't help frowning, and suddenly put his hands on the girl's shoulders, raised the girl's head to face him, and said in a serious tone: "Don't take it seriously, the exercises practiced by the stepmother are easier to go crazy than our immortal exercises, if you don't go to see her for a long time, she is depressed, I am afraid that her life will be in danger, you don't want to see her go crazy and kill the family monks and mortals on the side of Haoyang Mountain!"

Sure enough, hearing him say this, the girl's pretty face suddenly changed color.

No matter how she rejects Zhou Xuanyu's biological mother in her heart, she can't change the relationship between the two, if Zhou Xuanyu really goes crazy because of her affairs, then her sin will be great.

So she immediately changed her tone, nodded solemnly with a tense face, and said, "Brother Jiu, I understand, after three months of filial piety for my stepmother, I will go to Haoyang Mountain to stay for a while." ”

"That's good. Zhou Yang stretched out his finger and gently touched the girl's forehead, smiled lightly, and felt a lot better.

It's just that the girl was blushing by his action, shrugged her shoulders a little dissatisfied, broke free of his hands, and muttered: "Brother Jiu, you are so annoying, people are no longer children, why do you still nod people's foreheads like this." ”

"Hahaha, whether you are a child or not is not up to you, it is up to us elders who have watched you grow up. ”

Zhou Yang laughed, ignoring the girl's embarrassed face, reached out and rubbed her head again, kneading her combed hair into a chicken nest, and then laughed and took off to leave.

Zhou Yuanyao was so by him that he almost didn't cry.

Edgeworth flew back to the top of Yuquan Peak, and Zhou Yang immediately went to meet the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and discussed with him about going to Huangshamen to meet him.

Cao Wenjin suddenly wrote to him at this time to go to Huangshamen to meet him, there must be something for him to do, he had to explain the affairs of the clan well, so that he could go to Huangshamen with peace of mind.

Fortunately, the three foundation-building monks of the Zhou family are now practicing in Yuquan Peak, and the affairs of the Zhou family on weekdays are also handled by Zhou Xuanhao and Zhou Minghan to help him deal with them, even if he, the patriarch, is not in the clan, it will not be a big problem for the normal operation of the family.

More than ten years ago, in order to completely exterminate the remnants of the Blood Demon Sect, Cao Wenjin did not hesitate to spend Shouyuan to continuously perform the "Blood Escape Technique", and he hurt his vitality.

Now, after more than ten years of retreat and recuperation, he finally made up for the loss of vitality and re-entered the customs to preside over the affairs of the sect.

Of course, the loss of vitality is made up, but most of the longevity that consumes a lot of essence and blood cannot be made up by normal means.

Therefore, after he left the customs, the first thing he had to do was to prepare to personally lead the team to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm for trade and procurement, and see if he could purchase some life-extending treasures, or treasures that would help the Purple Mansion Period monks to form a pill.

And he called Zhou Yang this time, the reason is very simple, that is, he wants to use the effect of the "Xuanyang Order" on Zhou Yang's body to go to the store of Xuanyang Immortal Sect to collect wool.

You must know that one of the functions of the "Xuanyang Order" is to enjoy a 20% discount in any store directly operated by the Xuanyang Immortal Sect.

However, the "Xuanyang Order" can only be effective if it is used by its real owner, so Cao Wenjin called Zhou Yang over, in fact, he wanted to take him to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm.

"The old man heard that you want to buy healing medicine for your father? Then you don't need to come out of the spirit stone yourself, as long as you follow the old man for a trip, the old man who bought the healing elixir will give it to you, and you can also seize this opportunity to go over there to buy some spiritual things that are useful to you!"

Huangsha Gate, in Cao Wenjin's Cave Mansion, Cao Wenjin, the owner of the Cave Mansion, sat on the thousand-year-old cold jade collapse, looked at Zhou Yang who was standing below with a smile and said.

The conditions he gave were not unfavorable.

Ordinary people want to go to Liuyun Continent to cultivate the immortal realm, but they can't go.

And he not only took Zhou Yang for a free trip, but also helped Zhou Yang reimburse the cost of purchasing the healing elixir, which is a good thing that is rare in a thousand years.

Ren was a big hit before Zhou Yang came, and he didn't expect that when he came to Huangshamen this time, such a good thing would fall on his head.

"The ancestors are very loving, the younger generations and the Zhou family, I am grateful!" he bent down and bowed deeply, and first thanked him.

Then he asked: "It's just that the junior dares to ask the ancestor, how dangerous is the danger on the way to Liuyun Continent to cultivate the immortal realm?

That's a very real problem.

Everyone knows the benefits of going to Liuyun Continent to cultivate the immortal realm, but if you want to go to Liuyun Continent to cultivate the immortal realm, you first need to climb over the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, where monsters and beasts gather, the danger of this, the boundless sand sea to cultivate the immortal realm But anyone who has heard of the Liuyun Continent immortal cultivation realm, who doesn't know?

Although Huangshamen said that it had a relatively safe passage, everyone knew that the word "safety" in the immortal cultivation world has always been linked to cultivation.

It is a safe passage for the monks of the Jindan period and the Purple Mansion period, but it may not be safe for the monks of the foundation building period!