The land of the far west, Cangyuan Immortal City.

After more than a hundred years, setting foot in this city where he once fought again, Zhou Yang's mentality is completely different from when he came here many times before.

He didn't expect that just more than a hundred years later, the branch of the Zhou family here had already become half the master here.

Li Hong is a talent, Zhou Yang has known this for a long time, but he found that he still underestimated this guy's drilling methods.

In just over a hundred years, this guy has developed the Zhou family in the extreme west, which was barely squeezed into the ranks of the big families at that time, into the second largest family in Cangyuan Immortal City, second only to the family where the city lord belongs.

This ability really shocked him.

And when he learned how the other party did this, he was even more amazed in his heart.

"The banner of Tiandingmen, there are pros and cons, you rely on their support to make those forces in the Yu country jealous of you, but it also makes the Zhou family a thorn in their common side, in order to drive you out of the Yu country, they will definitely spare no effort. ”

"Now they didn't do it, just because they couldn't figure out what kind of attitude Tiandingmen was, once they figured it out and knew that Tiandingmen had no intention of interfering in controlling this place, once the hundred-year period passed, Cangyuan Immortal City would definitely have no place for you!"

In the box facing the street of a teahouse, Zhou Yang looked at the figures of low-level monks who walked by on the street from time to time outside the window, gently picked up the spiritual tea unique to the extreme west on the table, took a sip, and said in a deep voice his views on the situation faced by the Zhou family in the extreme west.

It turned out that the Zhou family in the extreme west was able to develop so fast, all because more than sixty years ago, Li Hong accidentally saved a person.

At that time, a foundation building monk he rescued turned out to be the great-grandson of the infant monk of the Tianding Gate of the Great Cloud Kingdom, and he was also a very favored great-grandson.

That monk sneaked out to travel to the immortal cultivation world at that time, exposed his wealth near Cangyuan Immortal City, was besieged and killed by a group of scattered cultivators, and then after exhausting the life-saving things on his body, he was lucky to be saved by Li Hong.

After the man was rescued by Li Hong, he was grateful to Li Hong for his kindness, and said that he would ensure the wealth of the Zhou family in Cangyuan Immortal City for a hundred years.

In recent years, the Zhou family of Cangyuan Immortal City has been able to develop rapidly, because after that person returned to Tianding Gate, he invited a Jindan monk to come to Cangyuan Immortal City Zhou Family to sit in charge for twenty years.

Li Hong is also a person who can do things, with the help of the deterrence of the Jindan monk, he pulled up the tiger skin and pretended to be a big flag, and under the power of the fox and the tiger, he really cut off almost one-third of the cake in Cangyuan Immortal City and distributed it to the Zhou family.

Today's Cangyuan Immortal City Zhou family already has two monks in the Zifu period, twenty-five monks in the foundation building period, and twenty or thirty vassal foundation building monks under their control.

"The old ancestor is as wise as a torch, and he can see the key at a glance, and the younger generation has also discovered this, and over the years, with the help of that person's relationship, he has prepared a place to stay in the Great Cloud Country, even if he is driven out of Cangyuan Immortal City, with the resources and wealth we have accumulated over the years, as well as the relationship with that person, we can continue to maintain the family inheritance!"

Li Hong looked at Zhou Yang, his eyes flashed with admiration, and then he said his plan respectfully.

It seems that although he has become accustomed to being the leader of a force, some of the habits he developed when he was a casual cultivator still haven't discarded it.

Zhou Yang thought of these in his heart, and couldn't help but say: "You are just a strategy, the Zhou family is not a small family now, and if you move into the Great Cloud Country rashly, you will inevitably be squeezed out by the original forces of the local immortal cultivation world, even if you have the favor of that person from Tiandingmen, this kind of exclusion will not be eliminated, but may make them more vigilant and united." ”

"The family forces that can be inherited for thousands of years in the Great Cloud Country, which of them is not deeply related to those sects in the Great Cloud Country? Even if the person you rely on is of noble birth, after all, the cultivation is still low, I am afraid that if you really encounter something at that time, you may not be able to help you again. ”

When Li Hong heard his words, his face suddenly froze.

Zhou Yang's words are to the point, which is exactly what he is worried about.

He looked at Zhou Yang with a solemn face, and suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please also ask the younger generations of the ancestor religion to come up with a superior strategy!"

He is a smart man, and he knows that since Zhou Yang said that his strategy is a subordinate strategy, he must already have a superior strategy, otherwise at most he will point out the flaws of his strategy.

"It's very simple, Ancestor, I will disguise myself to warn the current city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, so that they can't figure out how many forces are standing behind you, and when the time comes, if you spit out a little more appropriately, you can keep you safe for another hundred years!"

Zhou Yang smiled indifferently and whispered his strategy.

"But you, Ancestor, ......"

Li Hong looked at him with a hesitant expression, not knowing whether to express the worry in his heart.

"You want to say that Ancestor is still wanted by the [Reverse Light Alliance], right? Don't worry, since Ancestor I said this, I am naturally sure that people will not recognize Ancestor's origin. ”

Zhou Yang glanced at him, and gave him a reassuring pill with a confident face.

When Li Hong heard this, his face suddenly relaxed, and he responded with joy: "When the ancestor said this, the younger generation will be relieved." ”

"But this matter is not in a hurry, it is not too late to wait for the ancestor and me to leave, now let's talk about the matter of recognizing the ancestor and returning to the ancestor. ”

Zhou Yang nodded slightly, and then changed his words, but he talked about the main purpose of his visit to the extreme west this time.

After he returned to the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm from the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, he summoned Zhou Guangxiang and other middle and high-level clansmen to explain what he was going to do, and said his own arrangements.

At the meeting, Zhou Guangxiang suggested that he come to the extreme west again and settle the family branch here.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yang accepted Zhou Guangxiang's suggestion, and then he had his trip to the Far West.

At this moment, he looked at Li Hong with deep eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Ancestor, I came here this time, in addition to giving assistance to the family branch on your side, I am also preparing to bring some outstanding clansmen from your side to the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and even take them to Liuyun Continent to cultivate Immortal Realm, what do you think of this matter?"

Recognizing one's ancestors and returning to one's ancestors is just a good saying, in fact, bringing people back from the family branch in the extreme west is that the main family draws blood from the branch to strengthen itself, so as to avoid a situation where the main branch is weak and the branch is strong.

This is also Zhou Yang's intention to let the Zhou family split up and establish various branch families.

The division of the family can not only reduce the burden of the main family's resource supply, but also stimulate the competitive fighting spirit of each branch family and the main family's monks, and strengthen the family's hematopoietic function.

As for the hidden dangers caused by the separation, in the case of Zhou Yang, the ancestor of the family, it is not worth mentioning at all in terms of benefits.

Even if Zhou Yang is not there in the future, as long as the main family is strong enough, each branch will maintain its loyalty to the Zhou family even in order to continue to obtain advanced treasures such as Zhuji Dan and [Purple Heart Chalcedony] from the main family.

Of course, the above is just Zhou Yang's own subjective conjecture, and what he wants to do now is to make the original idea a reality.

And Li Hong, will he agree?

Under Zhou Yang's gaze, after Li Hong's complexion changed slightly, he nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, the junior agrees with the proposal of the old ancestor, and it is an honor for us branch family monks to be able to return to our own family to recognize our ancestors!"

"You can think like this, Ancestor, I am very pleased, then this matter is settled. ”

Zhou Yang also showed a happy smile on his face, and decided on the spot.

So, in the next half a year, Zhou Yang cooperated with Li Hong to create a number of attacks and disappearances of Zhou family monks.

Because the current situation of the Zhou family is a bit delicate, the attack and disappearance of the Zhou family monk has attracted the attention of many forces in the Yu Kingdom, but these forces have a tacit understanding that no one has worked hard to investigate this matter.

What are they looking into this?

If the disappearance of the Zhou family monk was the work of one of them, working hard to investigate the truth would only embarrass the other party.

If these missing Zhou family monks are directed and acted by the Zhou family, it means that the Zhou family has already met and is ready to withdraw from the Yu Kingdom, and they only need to wait patiently for the Zhou family to withdraw and take over the territory left by the Zhou family's withdrawal.

However, when Zhou Wannian, another Purple Mansion monk in addition to Li Hong, also had an accident, all the forces in Cangyuan Immortal City suddenly realized that there was a big trouble.

In the news of the Zhou family, Zhou Wannian went out to investigate the missing monks of the Zhou family and fell, and the soul cards left in the family exploded on the spot, including the soul cards of the Zhou family foundation monks who disappeared before, and they also exploded together after Zhou Wannian's soul cards exploded.

It can be seen that this is a conspiracy to deliberately target the Zhou family and weaken the Zhou family.

As the actual ruler of the Zhou family, Li Hong roared at the city lord's mansion, asking the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City to find out the origin of the murderer and give the Zhou family an explanation, and at the same time released the news that he would invite someone to administer justice to the Zhou family.

Then, within half a month, the various forces had not recovered from this change, and a piece of news shocked them again.

The current city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City, Zhao Jingming, a fifth-layer monk of Jindan, was in the city lord's mansion when he was warned by a mysterious Jindan monk, and the meaning revealed between his words was that he was actually angry for the Zhou family.

And with Zhao Jingming's cultivation, he didn't even catch the other party, and he couldn't even figure out whether the other party was a man or a woman.

Thinking of Li Hong's wild words released a few days ago, those forces who wanted to fight the Zhou family's idea couldn't help but be silent.

They still haven't figured out how deep the relationship between the Zhou family and Tiandingmen is, and now the Zhou family has invited another Jindan monk who is proficient in stealth and stealth to come forward.

If they want to attack the Zhou family again, then they really have to weigh whether they can stop the assassination of the mysterious Jindan period monk.

So, after all kinds of light and dark confrontations, Li Hong finally reached a reconciliation with those forces on behalf of the Zhou family, and the Zhou family ceded part of the territory and interests it had previously occupied, and the Zhou family was no longer allowed to squeeze out the Zhou family in any way.

At this time, the Zhou family, among the high-level only Li Hong and more than a dozen foundation building period monks, the strength has regressed by several percent compared to before, and for the forces of all parties, it no longer has any threat.

So after learning from Li Hong that Tiandingmen would not interfere in the affairs of Yu State, those forces also pinched their noses and admitted this matter.

At this time, after Zhou Yang left Li Hong three copies of [Purple Heart Chalcedony] and fifteen Zhuji Dan, he returned to the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm with the eight Zhuji monks and one Purple Mansion Stage monk who had already announced their "fall".

Returning to the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, Zhou Yang personally presided over the ancestor recognition ceremony of Zhou Wannian and other family branch monks, and then prepared to take Zhou Wannian, a monk in the Purple Mansion Period, and Zhou Shimin, a monk in the foundation building period, and Zhou Shijie, three Zhou family monks in the extreme west, mixed with several other Zhou family monks in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation Immortal Realm, to go to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm together.

"Jin Peng, the Zhou family will be handed over to you to take care of, don't remember my instructions, don't get close to the Broken Cloud Mountain Range!"

At the top of Lingxi Peak, Zhou Yang gently stroked the head of his beloved golden-winged thunder eagle, and made the final advice with a serious face.

The fifth-order low-grade demon beast Golden-winged Thunder Eagle is the hole card he left to the Zhou family, with this Zhen clan spirit bird, no one in the boundless sand sea cultivation immortal realm can shake the status of the Zhou family.

"Master rest assured, Jinpeng will definitely remember your instructions, take care of the Zhou family for you, and never let you down!"

Zhou Jinpeng's eagle eyes narrowed slightly, enjoying the master's touch, and responding to the master's instructions with his mouth.

Being able to speak is the key to Zhou Yang's reassuring letting the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle sit in the Zhou family.

The wisdom of the fifth-order demon beast is no worse than that of a human, Zhou Jinpeng can communicate with people with his mouth, and he can easily exchange intelligence information with the people of the Zhou family, once it encounters any situation, it can instead order the Purple Mansion period monks of the Zhou family to cooperate with it and provide assistance to it.

What Zhou Yang was most worried about was that the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle would be discovered by those demon kings in the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, which would definitely bring disaster to the Zhou family.

Therefore, he had to repeatedly tell Zhou Jinpeng to stay away from the Broken Cloud Mountain Range.

Fortunately, Zhou Jinpeng was raised by him since he was a child, and he signed the [Demon Soul Contract] with him, and he did not have any sense of identity with the demon clan in the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, otherwise he would not dare to leave it alone to sit in the Zhou family no matter what.

After appeasing and instructing his pet in this way, Zhou Yang took Zhou Wannian and other seven junior monks of the Zhou family to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm.

There was nothing to do all the way, and after returning to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, Zhou Yang put the seven junior Zhou family monks he brought back in the Zhou family of Daoxuan Kingdom, so that they could follow the Zhou family monks there to familiarize themselves with the new environment, and he returned to Chongxuan Mountain, preparing to retreat and attack the late stage of Jindan again.

Originally, he failed to attack Jindan last time, and he wanted to rely on decades of water grinding to slowly rise.

But the plan is always not as fast as the change, and now that he is going to go to the Donghua Continent to cultivate the immortal realm soon, he will definitely encounter a lot of dangerous battles at that time, just with his current cultivation at the sixth level of Jindan, he always feels that it is still a little insecure.

If he can break through to the seventh layer of Jindan and enter the late stage of Jindan, at least during the Jindan period, he doesn't have to worry about anyone being able to beat him.

And as long as he stepped into the late stage of Jindan, he could barely urge the [Zhentian Canglong Ding] to assist him in continuing to practice the fourth layer of the "Canglong Refining Body Technique", and once again greatly improved his actual combat ability.

These benefits are all visible, and for the sake of these, Zhou Yang has to try again.

Thankfully, he succeeded.

After taking three elixirs of intensive cultivation at one time, with the help of the violent medicinal power brought by the elixir, he finally forcibly broke through and stepped into the late stage of the golden pill.

However, the sequelae of this forcible breakthrough are also very serious, his meridians and dantian have been severely damaged by the violent elixir power, and under normal circumstances, he cannot recover without thirty or fifty years of recuperation.

But this normal situation has lost its effect on Zhou Yang.

After he took a drop of [Rejuvenation Immortal Dew], and then a Taoist priest used the [Mystic Method Qinghua Creation Xuanguang] auxiliary treatment that had been successfully cultivated, and he quickly recovered eighty percent of the injuries on his body, only the dantian wounds had not fully recovered.

But this injury no longer affected his cultivation of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique", a body refining supernatural power.

Time did not allow Zhou Yang to make any delays, so he quickly sacrificed the [Zhentian Canglong Ding], poured in the sixth-order dragon spiritual blood, and with the help of this sixth-order middle-grade magic weapon, he practiced the fourth layer of the "Canglong Refining Body Technique".

This is after a lapse of more than a hundred years, he once again practiced this body refining supernatural power, with the correct method, when he practiced this supernatural power again, the entry into the realm was indeed a thousand miles a day, far from the original comparison.

However, the speed at which the cultivation consumed the dragon spirit blood in this way was also very fast, but in less than five years, all the sixth-order dragon spirit blood in Zhou Yang's hand was consumed.

But he is still a little bit away from cultivating the fourth layer of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique".

This cannot but be said to be a pity.

Zhou Yang can only sigh at this, "Time is also, life is also!"

If he hadn't forcibly cultivated the fourth layer of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique" and wasted a large amount of Jiaolong spiritual blood before obtaining the correct cultivation method, with so much sixth-order Jiaolong spiritual blood that he had prepared, it would be completely enough for him to cultivate this body refining divine power to the fourth layer.

But the reality is that although his physical strength has been greatly enhanced again, he is still a step away from cultivating the fourth layer of the "Canglong Body Refining Technique".

If he doesn't cultivate to the fourth layer of the "Canglong Refining Technique", he will not be able to master the [Canglong Transformation], which is a fighting supernatural power, and his strength will not be able to improve qualitatively.

"But it doesn't matter, the Donghua Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm is adjacent to the East China Sea, and the East China Sea is the base camp of the Jiaolong clan in this realm, when I get there, I can naturally buy the fifth-order Jiaolong spiritual blood at a high price, or even the fifth-order Jiaolong Natal Essence Blood to help me cultivate this magical power to the fourth layer!"

Zhou Yang's eyes flashed, and he quickly put away his regrets and walked out of the cave.

At this time, there were still four or five years before the auction of the quota for the use of the Trans-Cultivation Immortal Realm Teleportation Array that Xu Zhengyang said, and Zhou Yang did not plan to continue to practice any supernatural powers in retreat, but was ready to do another major event.

He was going to go to the Boundless Snow Field again to find and pick the rare spiritual object [Ice Tears] that the "Bingyi Man" had told him at the beginning.

[Ice Tears] can help immortal cultivators survive the "Heart Demon Tribulation", this thing is something that Zhou Yang Huadan must get before he gets married.

Now that he is already the seventh layer of Jindan, he is not very far from the ninth layer of Jindan, so he wants to get this spiritual object before going to the Donghua Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm.

He had a hunch that his trip to the Donghua Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm would definitely not end so easily, and it was impossible for him to stay there for hundreds or even hundreds of years.

If that was the case, he would definitely go directly over there to find the opportunity to transform the pill and marry a baby, instead of having to wait until he returned to the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm to do this.

And according to what the "Bingyi Man" said at the beginning, the guardian demon beast of [Ice Tears] is a fifth-order high-grade demon beast [Three Ice Vultures], and this demon's strength is only one step away from being promoted to the sixth order, which is very powerful and difficult.

Zhou Yang didn't think that the "Bingyi Man" would deliberately exaggerate the strength of the [Three Ice Vultures], on the contrary, he felt that if it were his own words, in that case at that time, it would be possible to deliberately say it in a small way.

So just in case, he made another trip to Luming Valley before setting off for the Boundless Snow Field.

Many years ago, he borrowed five million lower grade spirit stones in exchange for a favor from Bailu Zhenren, an infant monk of Luming Valley, and the other party promised to make a move for him once if he could.

This time, Zhou Yang went to Luming Valley, just to ask him to secretly escort him to the boundless snow field in case of accidents.

"I didn't expect Xiaoyou to have this opportunity, and even a spiritual thing like [Ice Tears] can be found!"

In Luming Valley, after hearing Zhou Yang's words, Bailu Zhenren was also moved by a burst of amazement.

Only a primordial infant monk like him can understand how terrible the "Heart Demon Tribulation" really is, it is definitely a nightmare that every primordial infant monk does not want to recall.

Bailu Zhenren didn't need [Ice Tears] now, otherwise, if he learned the news of this kind of spiritual creature, he wouldn't dare to guarantee that he would not have the idea of killing Zhou Yang and swallowing [Ice Tears] alone.

At this time, after he was amazed, he nodded at Zhou Yang and said: "The old man can accompany Xiaoyou to the boundless snowfield, but the old man also has to agree with Xiaoyou in advance, if he is blocked by the sixth-order demon king in the snowfield, the old man may not be able to leave safely with Xiaoyou, this Xiaoyou must understand!"

When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately replied solemnly: "If that kind of situation really happens, it is also the fate of the juniors, and I will never dare to resent the seniors for this!"

After saying this, Zhou Yangdang went to the Boundless Snow Field with Bailu Zhenren.

The speed of the Yuan Infant Monk's escape was so fast, Zhou Yang and Xu Zhengyang had taken several months to complete the journey, and Bailu Zhenren only took them less than half the time to arrive.

However, even if it was a Bailu real person, after arriving at the Boundless Snow Field, he no longer dared to go rampant and move at full speed like in the Liuyun Continent Immortal Cultivation Realm, but carefully restrained his breath, and his speed slowed down by most of the time.

But after all, the Yuan Infant Stage Monk was a Yuan Infant Stage Monk, and the scope of divine consciousness perception alone was completely beyond the scope of the Jindan Stage Monk.

As long as Zhou Yang was responsible for pointing out the direction to Bailu Zhenren on the road, it would be easier for him to take him to perfectly avoid the fifth-order demon beasts along the way and easily dive into the depths of the snowfield, which was many times easier than the cautious and thin ice he and Xu Zhengyang were at the beginning.

Of course, this is also limited to the outer area of the Boundless Snow Plain, and there is no sixth-order demon king entrenched in the outer area, of course, the Yuan Infant Stage cultivators are allowed to enter and exit.

In the depths of the snow field, where there are sixth-order demon kings entrenched, once a primordial infant cultivator like Bailu Zhenren steps in, unless he has a hidden aura supernatural power such as "dragon stinging and avoiding robbery", it will be easily sensed by the sixth-order demon kings.

Fortunately, the place where the [Ice Tears] grew happened to be at the junction of the outer area and the central area of the Boundless Snow Field, otherwise Bailu Zhenren might not be willing to go with Zhou Yang on this trip.