Chapter 56: Suffering is a blessing
"The old man knows, you must be wondering why the old man hinted that you took the initiative to sell a favor to Chen Pingzhi. ”
"But Xiao Jiu, today the old man will tell you a truth, suffering losses are not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes we suffer temporary losses in order to earn greater benefits!"
"Chen Pingzhi is this person, the old man has been strong for decades, and he knows that this person seems to be casual and plain on the outside, but in fact, he is extremely arrogant and greedy in his heart, and today you succeed in building a foundation with the help of his cave mansion, no matter how much the old man has given him before, he will definitely feel that it is not enough. ”
"So if you don't sell his personal favor today, when the Chen family needs to make a decision that is related to the interests of my Zhou family in the future, this person may secretly do evil. ”
"On the other hand, if you sell his favor today, whether he thinks you can make friends, or in order to be able to play the role of this favor in the future, when the Chen family needs to make decisions related to my Zhou family, as long as it does not involve his own interests, he will definitely be willing to help us say a few good words. ”
"In the end, although Chen Pingzhi is not a big deal, but his half-brother Chen Ping'an is worthy of our Zhou family's vigorous friendship. ”
"Chen Ping'an has a great chance of opening up the Purple Mansion, if our Zhou family can get in touch with him before he opens the Purple Mansion, after Chen Yaohui's ancestor sits down and he takes over the Chen family, our Zhou family will not be marginalized and squeezed out of the Chen family's alliance. ”
In the quiet room on Jingming Peak, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang sat facing each other, one talking, the other listening, still talking about what happened on the white hump before.
Hearing my great-grandfather say this, my grandson understood, on the surface, I owe him Chen Pingzhi a favor, but in fact, having this favor means that I have a use value in Chen Pingzhi's eyes and have become a stakeholder with him. ”
"Since it is an interest association, as long as I don't make an enmity with him Chen Pingzhi, with this favor, he has become a reliable ally and eyes and ears of my Chen family, and before the favor is used, he must be the person the Chen family doesn't want me to die!"
Zhou Yang looked at the old patriarch sitting opposite him, his eyes full of admiration.
Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, and compared with the old patriarch, a senior foundation building monk who has been in charge of the family for hundreds of years, he does still have a long way to go.
"Stakeholders? This sentence is quite appropriate! It seems that Xiao Jiu, you really understand. ”
Zhou Minghan's eyes lit up, and he was also quite relieved that Zhou Yang understood his words so quickly, and secretly sighed that he really didn't choose the wrong person.
However, he asked Zhou Yang to come to the ashram, not just for this matter.
I saw a flash in his eyes, and he looked at Zhou Yang with blazing eyes and asked: "There were some questions in the white hump before, and it was inconvenient for the old man to ask, now Xiao Jiu, you can talk about it, after you build the foundation, have you awakened the treasure body supernatural power?"
Zhou Yang had expected that the old patriarch would have such a question, but he didn't answer at the moment, and directly stretched out his hand, and a pale golden real fire appeared on his palm.
"It's ...... Isn't that?"
Zhou Minghan's eyes suddenly froze, and he looked at the pale golden true fire in Zhou Yang's hand with a shocked face.
The pale golden true fire was only the size of a fist, but with his cultivation of the seventh layer of the foundation, after seeing this pale golden true fire released by Zhou Yang, he felt a faint threat.
"Great-grandfather guessed correctly, this is [Qianyang True Fire]!" Zhou Yang nodded slightly, helping Zhou Minghan say what he didn't say.
"No wonder, no wonder, no wonder your refining talent is so good! It turns out that you are actually a [Qianyang Treasure Body] physique!" Zhou Minghan muttered to himself with a lost look on his face, his eyes full of sudden color.
"Qianyang True Fire" is one of the most suitable true fires for refining, and the person with the "Qianyang Treasure Body" will definitely be an excellent refiner, which is the news that everyone in the immortal cultivation world knows something about the treasure body.
It's just that the treasure body is too rare, and the monk with the treasure body is not like the monk with the spirit body, who must be able to build a foundation and form a pill, so most immortal cultivators rarely see a treasure body monk who has mastered the magical power of the treasure body in their lives.
It was also the "Qianyang True Fire" that had made a great name in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, which made the old patriarch Zhou Minghan associate it at first sight, otherwise Zhou Yang didn't say it, he really might not know the true origin of this pale golden flame.
"Okay, good! What a [Qianyang Treasure Body], the Zhou family should be prosperous, my Zhou family should be prosperous!"
Zhou Minghan came back to his senses, and immediately shouted excitedly, his face was full of excitement, even more excited than when Zhou Yang learned that he was carrying the "Qianyang Treasure Body".
"The [Qianyang Treasure Body] and even the body of the Gang Yang are no worse than the [Xuanyang Spirit Body] in the spirit body, and it just so happens that there is a copy of the "Golden Light Burning Sun Gong" in the family's collection of foundation building exercises that can be practiced by you. ”
"Although this exercise is a remnant, it is a high-level exercise that can be practiced to the Jindan period, especially suitable for monks whose spiritual root attributes are biased towards the two attributes of gold and fire. ”
He looked at Zhou Yang excitedly and said, he had already arranged Zhou Yang's future cultivation exercises.
Looking at his excited appearance, if he didn't have the Exercise Jade Slip on his body, it is estimated that he would have taken it out directly and stuffed it into Zhou Yang's hands at this time.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang was also a little helpless, the "Qianyang Immortal Sutra" was very important, even if he was convinced that the old patriarch would not harm himself, it was inconvenient to say this.
At the moment, he could only put away the real fire in his hand, and responded vaguely: "What my great-grandfather said is that my grandson listens to your arrangement." ”
Anyway, what kind of exercises does an immortal cultivator practice, outsiders who are not particularly familiar with this kind of exercise can't see it, so since the "Golden Light Burning Sun Gong" is also a kind of mana of cultivating gold and fire, it can just help him cover up the existence of the "Qianyang Immortal Sutra".
Seeing that he didn't object, Zhou Minghan's face became a little happier, and he couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, the matter of cultivating the exercises has been decided, let's talk about your stepmother." ”
Speaking of Zhou Yang's stepmother Zhou Xuanyu, the smile on Zhou Minghan's face narrowed, and with a heavy face, he took out a two-finger-wide flying sword fragment and threw it to Zhou Yang.
"This fragment was found in a fighting ruin when Xuantai and the others were looking for Yu'er and other missing people, and the breath on it was left by Yu'er. ”
What the!
Zhou Yang's face changed drastically, he took the flying sword fragment and examined it carefully, and then was speechless for a long time.
The old patriarch didn't lie to him, the breath on the flying sword fragment was left by his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu.
Maybe just a fragment of a flying sword with Zhou Xuanyu's breath can't prove anything, but even when the second-order high-grade flying sword is shattered, it can be seen that Zhou Xuanyu's disappearance is mostly due to more than luck.
For this result, Zhou Yang was actually not surprised in his heart, as early as when Jin Xiashan couldn't wait for Zhou Xuanyu to come over for a reunion, he already had this preparation in his heart.
Just because he wasn't surprised doesn't mean he wasn't uncomfortable when he learned the result.
Counting the entire Zhou family, in addition to his parents, his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu is the best and dearest person to him, this stepmother's love for him even exceeds that of his own children, he has been able to defeat the sand bandits several times, thanks to the spirit talismans that his stepmother gave him.
Now that he saw the relics of this stepmother from the hands of the old patriarch, even though he had successfully built the foundation and initially embarked on the otherworldly road, he was also sad and couldn't help shedding tears.
Immortal cultivators are also human beings, and human beings have seven emotions and six desires, and there are very few immortal cultivators in this world who can achieve "too much forgetfulness".
Zhou Yang didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the dignified foundation building monk crying and crying, he cultivated immortals in order to seek immortality, but if immortality is to destroy human nature, immortality is to disrespect humanity, and immortality is to be ruthless, then this immortality, he doesn't ask for it!
"Great-grandfather, if the Chen family finds the nest of those sand bandits in the future, please don't stop your grandson, your stepmother's revenge, your grandson must go to revenge with your own hands!"
He looked at the old patriarch Zhou Minghan with red eyes, and his eyes were full of hatred.
"Okay, the old man promised you, and the old man will accompany you when the time comes, Yu'er is not only your stepmother, she is also the granddaughter of the old man!"
Zhou Minghan nodded heavily with a heavy face, and there was both relief and hatred in his eyes.
Relieved to be pleased with Zhou Yang's gratitude to the endeavour, of course the hatred was for those sand bandits, as Zhou Xuanyu's own grandfather, he wanted to kill all those sand bandits more than anyone else to avenge his granddaughter.
It's a pity that those sand bandits have come and gone without a trace, they want revenge, and they can't find anyone for the time being.
During the month of Zhou Yang's retreat and foundation building, the ancestor of the Chen family had already mobilized all the forces that the Chen family could mobilize to find the traces of those attacking sand bandits, and the entire Baisha River Oasis and the surrounding sand sea were about to be turned over by the Chen family monks.
However, those sand bandits seemed to have evaporated from the world, and no matter how the Chen family monks searched, they could not find any trace of their whereabouts.
Unable to find the whereabouts of the sand bandits, even if the ancestor of the Chen family was furious, he could only temporarily suppress his anger and deal with the aftermath.
In this sand bandit attack, although the Zhou family and other small families suffered a lot of losses, the biggest loss was undoubtedly the Chen family and the Xiuxian family attached to the Chen family on the Baisha River Oasis.
Originally, the four foundation building families and dozens of small Qi cultivation families attached to the Chen family on the Baisha River Oasis, except for the two foundation building monks who led some family elites to abandon the family spirit mountain in time to escape with their lives, the remaining two foundation building families and most of the Qi training families were all wiped out by the sand bandits!
These exterminated families have something to do with the Chen family, and they are all the most reliable allies of the Chen family.
Now that these families have been wiped out, and the Chen family, as their suzerain, has to avenge them and provide resources to rebuild the family.
In addition, the destroyed Jinshafang City must also be rebuilt, otherwise there will be no Fang Market to provide trading opportunities for a long time, and those around who rely on the Fang Market to make a living are afraid that they will also do things.
If it weren't for the fact that he had just earned eighty or ninety thousand spirit stones by selling Zhuji Dan, the ancestor of the Chen family would have to borrow from other families at this time.