Zhou Yang is really not good at saying anything.

The more his cultivation increased, and the gap between his cultivation and that of his peers widened, the more he felt the importance of qualifications for low-level cultivators.

Only one or two spiritual root monks can be born out of 10,000 mortals, and the descendants of the monks have a greater chance of producing spiritual roots, but it is only a 1 in 10 percent.

The vast majority of these people who have spiritual roots are mainly low-grade spiritual roots, and only one medium-grade spiritual root monk can be possessed in ten people on average, and as for high-grade spiritual roots, it is even less, and it is difficult to have one monk out of a hundred.

There are more than 100,000 members of the Zhou family on the Yuquan Lake Oasis, but all the Qi cultivation monks of the Zhou family now add up to less than 100 people, including seven or eight monks with foreign surnames who are married to the monks of the Zhou family.

Among the dozens of existing monks in the Zhou family, only the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is a high-grade spiritual root monk, and the rest are middle-grade and low-grade spiritual roots.

And how much influence does the quality of the spiritual root have on the practitioner?

It is also a first-level cultivation during the Qi cultivation period, practicing the same exercises, meditating in the same place, and the effect of a low-grade spiritual root cultivator meditating for ten days is comparable to the effect of a medium-grade spiritual root practitioner meditating for one day.

And the effect of a medium-grade spiritual root practitioner meditating for more than ten days may not be as good as the effect of a high-grade spiritual root practitioner meditating for one day.

Cultivators of the upper grade spiritual root not only have a fast cultivation speed, but when facing the first level of cultivation, the "foundation building" level, the probability of breaking through is much greater than that of the middle and lower grade spiritual root cultivators, even if they do not take the "foundation building pill", a rare spirit pill that can greatly increase the success rate of foundation building, there is a probability of thirty percent of being able to break through.

It is said that above the high-grade spiritual roots, there are also spiritual monks and Taoist monks.

Any spirit cultivator, as long as he does not die halfway through, will definitely become an ancestor of the Jindan period, and there will be no bottlenecks in the middle.

As for the Dao body monks, it is even more legendary, since there have been cultivators in this world, there are less than a number of Dao body monks in one palm, and all of them are super powerhouses who rule an era.

In addition to the spirit body and the Dao body, there is also a special physique in the cultivation world called the "treasure body".

"Treasure body" is an extremely special physique, any spiritual root monk may have a treasure body, if the monk with a treasure body, if he can practice the exercises that fit the treasure body, the cultivation speed will be much faster than that of a monk with the same quality of spiritual root, and in the future, with the increase of cultivation, will also obtain a unique treasure body supernatural power.

For example, Zhou Yang may have a treasure body with some kind of masculine attribute, so he is obviously a middle-grade spiritual root qualification, and after practicing the masculine and domineering exercises such as "Golden Yang Flame Technique", his cultivation speed is comparable to that of a high-grade spiritual root monk.

If nothing else, Zhou Yang would definitely be able to raise his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi cultivation before he was forty years old.

An ordinary middle-grade spiritual root cultivator like Zhou Xuanjin would probably not be able to reach the ninth level of qi cultivation until he was seventy or eighty years old.

And if it is an ordinary lower-grade spiritual root cultivator, even if he lives to the upper limit of the lifespan of a Qi cultivation period cultivator, he may not be able to cultivate to the ninth level of Qi cultivation!

And a cruel reality is that the older the Qi cultivation period cultivator, the greater the difficulty of building the foundation, the probability of successful foundation building for a ninth-level Qi cultivator over sixty years old is only less than half of that of a monk under sixty years old, and the probability of foundation building for a Qi cultivation period monk over eighty years old will drop again, and a Qi cultivation period monk over one hundred years old, anyway, Zhou Yang has never heard of such a strange person.

With Zhou Yang's age and cultivation speed, his success rate in building a foundation is indeed much higher than that of ordinary people, which is why the old patriarch Zhou Minghan attaches great importance to him.

It's a pity that the treasure body doesn't have a bonus to the success rate of the monk's foundation building, otherwise, after Zhou Yang cultivates to the ninth level of Qi training, he can try to build the foundation.

Both of them understood these situations, so seeing Zhou Yang silent, Zhou Xuanjin quickly adjusted his mentality and handed over the work with him.

"Stationed in Qingping Mountain, the main responsibility is three, one is to receive the alarm from the steward stationed in the mine by the family, go down to the mine to help the miners get rid of some of the occasional intrusion of the first-order and second-order demon beasts; secondly, to guard the miners' camp outside, and timely receive the finished materials smelted in the camp to the mountain warehouse for storage, waiting for the family to send someone to collect them; and finally to take care of the more than ten acres of spiritual fields on the mountain, which is related to whether your own stomach can be full. ”

"In addition, if you encounter a powerful demon beast and human monk that you can't deal with, don't leave the formation range easily, the best way is to stick to the formation, and then use your essence blood to activate this third-order messenger talisman and wait for the family to rescue. ”

"Finally, this is the control of the formation flag and the control method of the Qingping Mountain formation, and I can only leave after you have refined the formation flag and become familiar with the use of the formation. ”

Zhou Xuanjin said as he handed over all the things that the garrison monks needed to use, and taught him how to use these things hand in hand.

Another four or five days passed like this, and it wasn't until Zhou Yang had completely mastered the second-order formation of the "Cloud Sea Splitting Array" that Zhou Xuanjin returned to the family with the output of the Qingping Mountain vein for nearly a year.

After Zhou Xuanjin left, Zhou Yang was the Zhou family with the highest status on this side of Qingping Mountain.

He first summoned several managers of the Zhou family, who were responsible for managing the mining and smelting of the ore vein, to have a preliminary understanding of the operation process, and handed over a few transmission notes with his own breath to them, so that they could inform themselves in time afterwards.

These people can serve as the stewards of the Zhou family, and they are all martial arts cultivators in the innate realm, but these people have no spiritual roots, and they can't practice mana to become immortal cultivators in the Qi cultivation period, and they can only stay in the innate realm for the rest of their lives.

Of course, for mortals, the strength possessed by an Innate Realm cultivator was enough for them to look up to.

As long as a mortal becomes an Innate Realm cultivator and extracts the Innate True Qi from his body, he can do it like a galloping horse, he can carry the tripod with strength, easily achieve one enemy against a hundred, and also have a great ability to resist various diseases.

It's a pity that mortals are mortals, they don't have spiritual roots, and even if they practice innate true qi, they can't cast even the lowest first-order spells.

The true immortal cultivators who possessed the spiritual root did not admit that these mortals were also immortal cultivators at all, and they did not bother to have any communication with them.

Zhou Yang did not discriminate against these mortal cultivators, but these people had been discriminated against by real immortal cultivators for a long time, and the concept of respect and inferiority had long been deeply rooted in his heart, even if he took the initiative to ask them to come over to chat, no one dared to really treat him as a clansman with equal status to chat, so he could only let these people leave in the end.

In the following time, Zhou Yang's life will be simple.

Every morning, he first meditated against the rising sun for three hours, and then practiced the five spells he learned from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for three hours, so that in the evening, he would divide half an hour to weed and eliminate insects in the spiritual valleys that were growing happily in the spiritual fields on the mountain.

The spiritual veins of Qingping Mountain are only second-order lower grades, and they are artificial spiritual veins, and the spiritual energy generated every day is only two or three percent of the spiritual energy remnants after supplying the daily practice needs of a late-stage Qi cultivation monk.

Therefore, only about fifteen acres of spiritual fields have been opened up here, and the spiritual valleys planted are specially for the garrison monks to eat, and there is no need to hand them over to the clan.

The spiritual valley planted in these spiritual fields is called [Jinzhu Rice], its appearance is like the cotton tree of the world in Zhou Yang's previous life, it is ripe once a year, each plant bears dozens of fruits, and the fruit is peeled off after ripening, and you can harvest a golden golden fruit, because its fruit shape resembles a pearl, so it is named "Jinzhu Rice".

Because this kind of [Golden Bead Rice] grows in the spiritual field, it needs to absorb the spiritual energy to survive and mature, so in addition to being nutritious and having an excellent taste, the rice grains also contain a trace amount of spiritual energy, which is very conducive to the absorption of monks.

During the Qi cultivation period, monks who eat [Golden Bead Rice] for a long time can only meet the nutrients required by the body for two or three days with only a small bowl, and can also slightly improve their cultivation.

Even the monks of the foundation building period and even the Zifu period usually ate meals made of this [golden bead rice].

Zhou Yang started cultivating at the age of four, and it only took three years to complete the cultivation of the ninth layer of the Innate Realm, in addition to his own good qualifications, it was also related to the fact that his parents often opened a small stove for him, so that he could eat this [Golden Bead Rice] every day and some low-level demon beast meat.

Because he is not a Lingzhifu, Zhou Yang does not know some of the spells that Lingzhifu must learn to increase the yield of Lingtian, so he can only water, weed, catch and catch insects like ordinary farmers like ordinary farmers, and ensure that they will not be planted to death.

As long as he doesn't die, with the output of these dozen acres of spiritual land, it is completely enough for him to eat daily, and there is even a lot of surplus.

Zhou Yang knew that these balances were the stationing benefits issued by the family to the stationed monks, after all, it was the obligation of every adult clansman to go down the mountain to complete the family task, but he would not receive additional rewards from the family for this.

After taking care of the spiritual field on the mountain for half an hour every day, Zhou Yang arranged for the next half of the night to learn alchemy.

He didn't start refining the weapon right away, but while carefully studying the refining classics and the refining notes given by the old patriarch, he practiced with the ore dug up from the refined iron ore and learned the most basic material refining of the refining weapon.

Such a simple and fulfilling day is three years in a flash.

Three years later, after Zhou Yang had thoroughly understood the knowledge recorded in those refining classics and had completely mastered the refining technique of materials, he took out the materials given to him by the old patriarch and began to officially refine them.

In order to save materials, he chose to refine the simplest first-order sword magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword].

The main material of the first-order magic weapon [Qingfeng Sword] is fine iron, and the hilt of the sword can be made of spiritual wood such as century-old ironwood, and the innate realm monk holds the magic weapon to inject innate true qi, which can stimulate sword light ranging from three inches to one foot to injure the enemy according to the cultivation of the injector.

To refine this magic weapon, it is also simple, first quench the refined iron with spiritual fire and cast it into a sword embryo, and then maintain the flame temperature to keep the sword embryo in a high-temperature heating state, and at the same time, use the mana divine sense of the immortal cultivator as a guide, and arrange a [sharp] prohibition in the sword embryo.

When the ban is completed, it is the time when the long sword is quenched, and if the quenched sword body is filled with the unique aura of the magic weapon, it means that the refining weapon has been completed.

All this is simple to say, but it is not easy to do, even if Zhou Yang has imagined the situation of refining countless times in his heart in advance, and has practiced the arrangement process of the [Sharp] prohibition countless times in advance, when he really refines the weapon for the first time, there is no doubt that it will end in failure.

With a "bang" explosion in the ding, his first refining was over, and he didn't even reach the quenching level.