The night was deep, and on Qingping Mountain, Zhou Yang lit the lamp as usual, reading the refining experience written by the old patriarch when he was in the realm of a second-order refiner, preparing for his future promotion to a second-order refiner.

According to the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's record on the experience of refining weapons, after the success rate of the first-order refiner in refining the first-order high-grade magic weapon reaches more than 30%, he can try to refine the second-order magic weapon.

A refiner, only when the refining level reaches the second order, can he rely on the alchemy technique to earn spirit stones, otherwise, if he keeps refining the first-order magic weapon, even if the success rate reaches ten percent, at most he will not make any money or lose money.

Therefore, except for those who are halfway out of the house and do not know what to do, when normal families and sects cultivate refiners, they all wait until the success rate of refining first-order magic weapons exceeds 30%, and then let them impact second-order refiners.

However, the value of the spiritual object of refining the second-order magic weapon is not low, even if it is a foundation-building family like the Zhou family, when cultivating a second-order refiner, it will only provide him with thirty materials for free, if these thirty materials are used up and cannot be successful, then the refiner will need to pay out of his own pocket to improve the alchemy technique.

Zhou Yang's success rate in refining first-order high-grade magic weapons is now less than two percent, and there is still some time before he can impact the second-order refiner, but when Old Man Zhou Quan sent him materials last time, he had already brought the thirty materials that he had impacted the second-order refiner.

Maybe it was the reason why he had fewer failures when he became a first-order refiner, but the old patriarch Zhou Minghan thought that he had a good talent for refining, so he didn't have any special care for the amount of materials he was given this time, and it was completely in accordance with the family rules.

When he read this candlestick night in the early hours of the morning, Zhou Yang's expression suddenly moved, as if he had heard some kind of Weng Ming.

His heart moved, and he hurriedly walked out of the room to look at the place where the Weng Ming came from, and then his face changed instantly.

I saw that the thing that came out of Weng Ming's sound was the main formation flag of the "Cloud Sea Splitting Light Array" inserted outside the door, and at this time, this array flag seemed to be held and shaken by an invisible big hand, and it was shaking violently.

"This is my Yuquan Zhou's Lingshan, how dare Xiaoxiao trespass!"

He shouted loudly, hurriedly stepped forward to hold the formation flag, input mana, stabilize the formation, and searched for the figure of the person who broke through the formation with the help of the power of the formation.

However, before he could find the figure of the person who broke into the battle, he heard a "whoosh" sound, and a palm was quietly placed on his back.

"Xiao Jiu'er, don't get excited, this is just a small temptation from the old man. ”

Listening to this familiar voice, Zhou Yang's body, which was originally tense to the extreme, relaxed, then turned to look at the visitor, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Great-grandfather, don't you have any opinions about your grandson?

It turned out that the person who suddenly broke into the battle in the middle of the night was none other than Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family who was originally sitting in the Yuquan Lake Oasis.

"Hehehe, Xiao Jiu'er, are you blaming the old man? Do you know how panicked the old man was when he heard Quan'er say that you almost broke into the poisonous fire scorpion's lair?"

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan looked at Zhou Yang with a smile, and the words that came out of his mouth made Zhou Yang's heart tremble.

"Do you know how much the old man expects you? Do you know how much the dozens of monks in the Zhou family expect from you? You carry the expectations of so many of us, and you don't want to practice well in the mountains, and you even hide from the old man and the family to go deep into the sand sea to pursue the demon beasts, do you know how big the blow will be to my Zhou family if something happens to you?"

"What our Zhou family lacks now is a mineral vein, a spiritual mountain?"

"No, what our Zhou family lacks now is a qualified heir, a foundation building monk who can take over the old man and keep the Zhou family's family business after the old man sits down!"

"You say you're cowardly, but from the old man's point of view, not only are you not cowardly, but you still don't know life and death, and you're not afraid of death!"

The powerful words came out of the mouth of Zhou Minghan, a monk in the foundation building period, just like Zhou Yang used the first-order spell "Qingyin Technique" to speak to those mortal miners that day, the words penetrated his heart, and his body was shocked to retreat again and again, and his face was as pale as earth, and he couldn't say a word of justification.

"The old man knows that you have been wise since you were a child, and you have your own ideas about everything, but you must know that the danger and cruelty of the immortal cultivation world is far more simple than what you know from the classics and the mouths of your elders!"

"You want to see the outside world, the old man has no objection, but you ask yourself, are you ready to die at any time?"

"Just like today, if the person who comes is not an old man, but a third-order demon beast, a hostile foundation building period monk, then there is a formation here, do you think you can hold up the family to help?"

The question from the old patriarch Zhou Minghan went straight to the depths of Zhou Yang's heart, he had always been able to speak well in the past, but now he was sweating profusely, and he couldn't answer a word.

"Great-grandfather is angry, grandchildren know that they are wrong, grandchildren know that they are wrong!"

He lowered his head with a pale face, not daring to look at the majestic gaze of the old patriarch, and even begged for mercy.

After all, he is the junior he values the most, so he is not too harsh, and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan saw Zhou Yang like this, and the anger in his heart gradually dissipated.

His face softened, and he said in a flat tone: "Get up, if the old man really wanted to punish you, he would have asked someone to replace you back to the family, this time it is just to teach you a lesson, let you know that as a child of the family, you must not only think about yourself when you act, but also think more about the family, think more about the family, your parents work hard in the fang market every day, who are they for?"

"The grandson knows that the grandson will definitely remember his great-grandfather's teachings in the future, and he will definitely not make the same mistake again!" Zhou Yang raised his head, tears flashed in his eyes, but his face was extremely firm, obviously he really listened to the words of the old patriarch.

Seeing this, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan flashed with relief in his eyes, but he waved his hand without showing a trace on his face and said: "Okay, don't talk about it, the old man can't leave the family for too long, while there is still some time, you can refine the weapon in front of the old man once, let the old man see your skills and skills, if there are any problems in cultivation, you can also talk to the old man together." ”

Great-grandfather still loves himself!

Zhou Yang was overjoyed in his heart, knowing that today's level was passed, so he didn't say anything at the moment, and hurriedly took out the refining furnace and materials to refine the weapon on the spot.

This time he was refining, his spirit was highly concentrated, and he took out the attitude he had towards the leader's inspection in his previous life, completed the entire refining process in one go, and successfully refined a first-order high-grade magic weapon [Xuangang Shield].

"Great-grandfather, please. ”

When the magic weapon was baked, Zhou Yang couldn't wipe the sweat from his forehead, and hurriedly handed it to Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch sitting next to him.

Who knew that after the old patriarch Zhou Minghan took the magic weapon, he didn't even look at it, and directly popped out a sword qi to cut the magic weapon into several pieces, and then moved the fragments of the magic weapon to his eyes, pointing out the omissions and mistakes that occurred when he was refining the weapon one by one.

"Look here, these broken lines here are disorganized, which means that you have not quenched the impurities in the metal, and this little impurity does not seem to affect the use of the magic weapon, but in fact, it reduces the pressure-bearing capacity of the magic weapon, making this a weak point of the magic weapon!"

"And the technique you used when you were refining the weapon just now......"

In the technical work of refining alchemy, there is a master to teach and not to be taught by a master, it is really a world of difference.

Before he got the finger of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, a third-order refiner, Zhou Yang was familiar with a large number of refining classics, and he also turned over and over the refining experience that the old patriarch summarized for him, but when refining the weapon, there were still many mistakes and omissions that he couldn't know.

This situation is that he often fails and does not know where the failure is, and if he wants to find out the failure point by himself, he can only use failure again and again to find it slowly.

But these mistakes and omissions that he didn't know and couldn't find at all were lice on the monk's head in the eyes of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, a third-order refiner, and there was nothing to hide.

As a result, these mistakes and omissions that he could only know with countless failures were easily pointed out by the old patriarch without saying anything, and directly explained to him the solution.

After this face-to-face guidance, Zhou Yang's refining technique changed by leaps and bounds, and he had a feeling that as long as he digested the knowledge taught by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan today, he could launch an attack on the second-order refiner.

After instructing Zhou Yang's alchemy, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan answered some questions he encountered in his cultivation, and then left quietly just like he came quietly.

Although the old patriarch didn't say where he was going, Zhou Yang knew that he must have gone to the red flame iron vein that he and Old Man Zhou Quan had discovered.

Sure enough, the day after the old patriarch left, Zhou Yang received a transmission note from the old patriarch.

In the transmission note, the old patriarch informed him that there was indeed a third-order low-grade spirit vein and a third-order [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] in the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein, and asked him not to go near that area again, but he did not explain how to deal with this matter.

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan didn't say anything, and Zhou Yang didn't ask more about it, after all, the matter involved a third-order demon beast, and it was no longer something that these Qi cultivation period cultivators could handle and call the shots, how to deal with this matter, the old patriarch definitely knew more than him.

He just felt a little sorry for the old man Zhou Quan, after all, the ore vein was not officially mined for a day, and they found that the dividends of the ore vein would not be able to get their hands for a day, and with the old man's age, it was likely that he would not be able to hold the day when the ore vein was officially mined.

Two years later, Zhou Yang's mission to garrison Qingping Mountain came to an end.

He has been stationed in Qingping Mountain for five years, and at this time he misses the Yuquan Lake Oasis very much, misses the various scenery on the Yuquan Peak, misses the sweetness of the Yuquan Lake, and misses his parents who have not been seen for seven or eight years.

Therefore, after the family elder who came to replace him, the seventeenth uncle Zhou Xuanzhao, came over, he didn't want to stay longer for a moment and hurriedly completed the handover, and then in the complaint of the youngest elder, he embarked on the way home.