With Zhou Yang's assurance, Zhou Xuanjing and Zhou Xuankun returned to the family with the invitation letter of the ancestor of the Chen family with peace of mind.

However, although Zhou Xuanjing and Zhou Xuankun were gone, the other Zhou family monks who went to Huangshamen with him stayed in Fang City to rest, preparing to rest for a month or two before returning to the family.

Among these Zhou family monks, there are Zhou Bao, the second brother Zhou Bao, and the third brother Zhou Qi, who were stationed there when Zhou Yang was stationed in the Qingping Mountain Oasis.

And Zhou Yang, because of Zhou Quan's care and advice, after the eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun left, he went to the backyard to visit the second brother Zhou Bao who was resting.

"Second brother, I heard Uncle Eleventh say that you plan to spread out when you go home this time?"

In the courtyard, Zhou Yang looked at his second brother Zhou Bao, who he hadn't seen for nearly ten years, and after ten years, this second brother looked more and more old, and even white hair appeared on his head.

"Yes, I'm not young now, it's time to spread the branches for the Zhou family, grandpa was right at the beginning, my temperament is not suitable for mixing in the immortal cultivation world at all, or it is more suitable for me to go back to the family to farm. ”

Maybe it's really because of his age, Zhou Bao is now facing Zhou Yang, the most dazzling clan brother in his generation, he is much calmer than he was at the beginning, at least he won't have the courage to look at Zhou Yang like he did at the beginning.

However, Zhou Yang looked at the current Zhou Bao, but he missed the original Mu Na and the introverted second brother a little.

The reason why Zhou Bao now dares to look at him is because he has completely given up the pursuit of cultivation and improvement, and has completely lost his self-motivation.

But since it was Zhou Bao's own choice, he couldn't say anything more, so he could only nod and say: "Since you have already decided, second brother, then apply to the family to go to the [Haoyang Cave], I will explain the situation to the old patriarch and let you be the mortal city lord there, so that you don't have to leave the family to carry out tasks in the future!"

Old man Zhou Quan asked him to take care of this second brother many times, he originally wanted to wait for himself to build a foundation and take power, and then find an opportunity to arrange a more relaxed and safe errand for this second brother, such as being a partner in the "Yuquan Building" for a long time, or being an enlightenment teacher for the next generation of monks.

However, since Zhou Bao has decided to give up cultivation now, he can only let him go to a mortal city to become a city lord.

"Thank you, ninth brother, thank you!"

Zhou Bao also knew that this was already the greatest help that Zhou Yang could give him within his ability, after all, the family was the family of everyone in the Zhou family, not a certain person's family, it was impossible for Zhou Yang to say a word, so that the family could raise him for nothing without him doing anything, so what would other clansmen think?

He just gave up the pursuit of cultivation, but he didn't really want to give up his identity as an immortal cultivator and give up receiving the family offering.

"Hey, then second brother, you have a good rest, and the younger brother won't bother. ”

Zhou Yang let out a long sigh, shook his head, and had nothing more to say, so he got up and left the courtyard directly.

It wasn't until he returned to the third floor of the "Yuquan Building" that he picked up the strange things he had seen half of before, and he was still recalling in his mind what the third grandfather Zhou Quan said to him the day before he died.

At that time, the old man Zhou Quan had already anticipated his limit, and specially called him to his side and advised: "Xiao Jiu, the biggest regret of the third grandfather in this life is that he was not angry when he was young, and he did not muster up the courage to attack the foundation!"

"I can't do it, the Zhou family will only have to rely on you juniors in the future, even if you build a foundation in the future, you must not have any slack in cultivation!"

"The old man said something selfish, why do we immortal cultivators want to establish a sect or a family? It's not to gather the strength of everyone to facilitate our own cultivation! Xiao Jiu, you are extraordinary, as long as you are willing to practice hard, you may not be hopeless to surpass all the predecessors of my Zhou family in the future, you must not be like the third grandfather and me, when you are old, you will regret not doing your best in this life, and leave regrets in vain!"

"I'm leaving, your second brother will ask you to help the third grandfather take care of it, and the third grandfather doesn't ask him to make any achievements in his cultivation, just hope that he can die like the old man in the future!"

Thinking of the majesty of the old man Zhou Quan when he hammered and killed the second-order high-grade demon beast "Gold Eater", and compared with his dying breath before his death, Zhou Yang couldn't help but sigh again.

Ay!

He is now a ninth-level Qi cultivator, and in terms of strength, he is probably even stronger than the original old man Zhou Quan, and if there is no accident, it will not be long before he can swallow the Zhuji Dan and impact the Zhuji.

But what about when the foundation is laid?

Although the lifespan of a monk in the foundation building period is twice as long as that of a monk in the Qi cultivation period, if the Purple Mansion is not opened, the lifespan will stop at more than two hundred years.

Even a monk in the Purple Mansion period like Chen Yaohui, the ancestor of the Chen family, is only doubling the longevity of the Yuan, and it will not become a golden pill, and it will still be a pile of loess after five hundred years.

Even if you are lucky enough to become a golden pill, and borrow another 500 years from the sky to extend your life for a thousand years, what can you do later?

Meta infancy?

In the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm for nearly two thousand years, there has never been a monk in the Yuan Infant Stage!

"If you don't grow up, you will be an ant in the end!"

These eight words suddenly appeared in Zhou Yang's mind, and it was these eight short words that revealed the true meaning of why immortal cultivators want to cultivate immortals.

"Even if you are an ant, you have to be a bigger and stronger ant, you must know that ants can also defy the sky!"

He muttered to himself, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face, revealing an extremely happy smile.

At this moment, Zhou Yang felt that his state of mind had improved a lot.

Mood cultivation is different from mana cultivation, after the Qi cultivation period monk reaches the ninth layer of Qi training, if he does not impact the foundation, his mana will not have any more progress, but the state of mind cultivation is not subject to this restriction.

Mood cultivation is a very vague concept, it refers to the level of comprehension and understanding of the cultivation and the Great Dao by the immortal cultivator, and there is no such hierarchical division as Qi cultivation and foundation building.

However, according to the summary of the previous immortal cultivators, the higher the state of mind cultivation of an immortal cultivator, the lower the probability of going mad when cultivating, and the probability of encountering bottlenecks in cultivation in the future will be less than that of people with low state of mind cultivation.

People with low state of mind cultivation may not be able to build a foundation and form a golden pill.

However, under the same conditions, the success rate of foundation building and knotting pills is definitely higher for people with high state of mind cultivation than those with low state of mind cultivation.

Whether a monk's state of mind cultivation has been improved or not is known only to him, and it is impossible for outsiders to know no matter how high his cultivation is, and to improve his state of mind cultivation, it all depends on the monk's own understanding and chance, and the places that can be affected by external forces are very small.

Therefore, although everyone knows the benefits of state of mind cultivation for improvement, no one will deliberately pursue this, and they can't force it.

After all, no matter how high the state of mind cultivation is, it can't directly increase the success rate of foundation building with the number of monks like the Zhuji Dan, for the Qi cultivation period monks, instead of spending time thinking about how to improve the state of mind cultivation, it is better to spend time earning spirit stones.

Zhou Yang didn't particularly care about the improvement of his state of mind cultivation, so after laughing, he picked up the book and looked at it again.

The pitch-black ore that he got from the burly middle-aged man Zhong Quan that day, Zhou Yang always felt that this thing was not simple, so when he had nothing to do these days, he was looking through various classics and checking information, hoping to find a record of this unknown strange thing.

It's a pity that he has searched through all the classics he can find on the market, and he has not found any recorded information so far.

No matter which world it is, knowledge is the most valuable asset, Zhou Yang knows that he didn't find the information he wanted, it is definitely not that there are really no records of the jet-black ore in the immortal cultivation world, but because the classics that record the origin of the pitch-black ore are more precious, and they are only collected in some big forces with a long heritage, and they will not be widely circulated and collected by others like the "Treasures of Heaven and Earth" in his hands.

Just like the foundation-building period exercises collected by his Zhou family, as well as the fourth-order refiner inheritance obtained by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the Zhou family monks will not be able to access these high-end knowledge at all if they do not practice until the foundation building period.

Maybe it was because of some rumors, in the next few months, the number of immortal cultivators in Jinshafang City began to increase significantly, and even the monks of the foundation building period, which were rarely seen on weekdays, were seen appearing in Fang City.

The increase in the number of these monks is of course a good thing for the shops in the city, and each shop has seized the opportunity to introduce various preferential measures to attract customers.

However, this does not include the "Yuquan Building", thanks to the explosive popularity attracted by Zhou Yang's previous Great Refining, most of the various spiritual objects accumulated in the "Yuquan Building" have been sold, and it is not yet time to replenish them, Zhou Yang has no capital even if he wants to join in the fun.

It was in this stormy situation that Zhou Yang finally waited for the support of the family three or four months after the sixth uncle Zhou Xuanjing and the eleventh uncle Zhou Xuankun left.

The Zhou family had been preparing for this "Foundation Building Conference" for decades, so when Zhou Xuanjing and the others returned to the family with the invitation of the ancestor of the Chen family and the good news that Zhou Yang had broken through to the ninth layer of Qi training, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan immediately gathered people and set off according to the plan.

In order to successfully win the Zhuji Dan in this "Foundation Building Conference", in addition to Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the seventh layer of the foundation building, the Zhou family also sent five ninth-layer elders to participate in the battle, including Zhou Yun, Zhou Qi, Zhou Xuantai, Zhou Xuanjing, and Zhou Xuanbin.

In addition, Zhou Xuanyu, the elder of the Zhou family, also came to the Fang City, and after the "Foundation Building Conference", he took over Zhou Yang to take charge of the two shops of "Yuquan Building" and "Zuixian Building".

The minimum cultivation level of their team was all the ninth level of Qi cultivation, and with the experienced old patriarch Zhou Minghan leading the way, the time it took to come to the Baisha River Oasis was much less than Zhou Yang's original.

After arriving at the Baisha River Oasis, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went directly to the Chen family in Baihuoling, and met with the ancestors of the Chen family to discuss the details of the "Foundation Building Conference", while the rest of the people came to Fang City to wait for news, and at the same time added the spiritual objects brought from the family's treasure house into the "Yuquan Building" container.