There is no time for cultivation, and there is no year for cold and summer.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang retreated for twelve cold and summer months in the cultivation room in the "Jiyang Cave".

During this period, because the rent paid by his cultivation room expired, Xiao Ying, who had been advised by him before his retreat, rushed over to help him renew his fee for five years.

And in this way, after twelve years of retreat, Zhou Yang exhausted all the elixirs that had been used up to improve his cultivation, and used up the two spiritual objects of "Ziyang Zhuguo" and "Cloud Mist Immortal Tea", and finally succeeded in rushing his cultivation to the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion.

At the age of two hundred and fifty-seven, he cultivated to the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, and even if he was placed in a top sect like the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, he could compete with those true disciples.

This means that as long as Zhou Yang does not die halfway, he will have at least four or five chances to hit the Jindan period.

And most of the Purple Mansion cultivators, even if they were able to cultivate to the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, by the time they cultivated to reach the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, they would already be at least four hundred years old, and at that time, there was really only one chance to hit the Golden Pill Stage again.

"This time is really dangerous, I didn't expect that the spirit fruit suspected to be [Ziyang Zhuguo] actually contains the extremely vicious extreme yang fire poison, if it weren't for the fact that I have the Qianyang Treasure Body, and I practice the "Qianyang Immortal Sutra", which is an extreme yang exercise, I am afraid that not only will I not be able to improve my cultivation with the help of medicinal power, but I will also be eroded by the extreme yang fire poison and destroy the foundation of cultivation, or even go directly into the demon and explode the body and die!"

"Eat a trench, grow a wisdom, and if you encounter this kind of spirit fruit and elixir that cannot be determined in the future, you must not take it rashly, otherwise you may not have such good luck this time next time!"

In the cultivation room of the "Extreme Yang Cave", Zhou Yang, who had already stabilized his cultivation, still felt terrified when he recalled the dangers he encountered during his retreat breakthrough.

He was now sure that the purple-red spirit fruit must not be a normal "Purple Yang Zhu Fruit", because although he finally took this spirit fruit, there was also a pure fire spiritual power that burst out from his body, allowing him to directly help himself rush to the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion after refining, and even directly used the majestic and pure spiritual power inside to stabilize his cultivation at the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion.

But there was also an Extreme Yang Fire Poison that had not been detected at all before, and the medicinal power of the spirit fruit eroded all the meridians in his body, almost killing him directly.

At that time, if he had changed to a Purple Mansion monk, he would definitely die.

Even a Jindan stage monk will definitely be injured by that extreme yang fire poison, and then don't say that it is with the help of spiritual fruit medicinal power to improve cultivation, I am afraid that even the body and Jin Dan will be injured by that extreme yang fire poison, and if you don't recuperate for decades, you may not be able to completely eradicate the fire poison.

Zhou Yang didn't know that that the spirit fruit was indeed the "Ziyang Zhuguo".

Outsiders only know that Haoyang Sect has the only "Ziyang Zhuguo" tree in the extreme west, but they don't know that the "Ziyang Zhuguo" tree is rooted in the underground fire veins to absorb the power of the underground fire veins to grow, and in the process of growth, it will also be eroded by the fire poison contained in the power of the underground fire veins.

The method of removing fire poison from fruit trees is to introduce fire poison into one or more of the spirit fruits at each fruit, and then use the opportunity of the immortal cultivator to remove the spirit fruit to expel the fire poison.

The monks of Haoyang Sect didn't know about this situation at first, and there were also many immortal cultivators who fell into the Dao, and even some Jindan monks were directly destroyed by the Dao Foundation, and they never made an inch of progress again.

Later, the Yuan Infant Monk of Haoyang Sect discovered this situation, and every time the fruit of the "Ziyang Zhu Fruit" was ripe, the Yuan Infant Monk would personally pick it and pick out the poisonous fruit inside and dispose of it.

The "Ziyang Vermilion Fruit" that Zhou Yang got at the underground auction was such a poisonous fruit.

It was also his great fortune that he was not injured by this poisonous fruit, but because of the blessing of misfortune, he successfully promoted his cultivation to the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion.

At this time, although he knew that he had fallen into the plot, because he didn't understand the inside story, he could only blame himself for being clumsy, but he didn't say anything about wanting revenge.

After all, the things in the underground auction were originally not in the right way, and the monks who went there to buy things had already been mentally prepared.

What's more, he didn't know who held the auction, and who consigned the "Ziyang Zhuguo", and he couldn't find anyone to find revenge.

The Immortal Cultivation Realm is like this, and if you don't even know it, it will show its cruel scene like you.

All Zhou Yang can do is to make every effort to adapt to this cruel world, and use his powerful strength to smash all conspiracies and plots.

Because the cultivation had reached the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, there was no way to ascend, and after Zhou Yang stabilized the cultivation, he quickly walked out of the cultivation room and returned the rent for the remaining three years.

Then he went to the cave of Taoist Xiao Ying in the "Ten Thousand Wood Spiritual Land" to learn from him what had happened during his years of retreat.

Xiao Ying has already promoted her cultivation to the sixth layer of the Purple Mansion with the help of the "Ten Thousand Wood Spiritual Land" cave mansion and the elixir over the years, if it weren't for the fact that her mind was not completely focused on cultivation, she should have become a monk in the later stage of the Purple Mansion at this time.

However, distraction is not all bad, she has gone through several attempts over the years, and finally succeeded in refining the fourth-order mid-grade elixir and became a fourth-order mid-grade alchemist.

Zhou Yang learned the news after leaving the customs, and he was sincerely happy for him.

It is important to know that the higher the cultivation level of an immortal cultivator, the more difficult it is to raise the cultivation of the immortal cultivation to the corresponding cultivation level.

Those Jindan period monks who had deeply cultivated the Hundred Arts of Cultivating Immortals before the Jindan Period, it was difficult for two or three of the ten people to rush the Hundred Arts of Cultivating Immortals to the fifth order, and every Jindan period monk who had mastered the skills of the Fifth Order was a very popular existence in the circle of high-level monks.

Zhou Yang's ability to raise the alchemy technique to the fourth-order upper grade was also the result of the superposition of various factors.

Among them, Xu Song, the fifth-order refining master, pointed at his fingers, the "Qianyang True Fire", which is the most suitable refining true fire for refining, and the suitable refining materials that have never been lacking, none of these three factors can make him become a fourth-order high-grade refiner so quickly.

Compared with him, Xiao Ying had to help master the "Purifying Blue Lotus Fire", which is a heaven and earth spiritual fire suitable for alchemy, and the other achievements in alchemy were all obtained by his own research.

He could get enough refining materials to refine a random fourth-order demon beast, but alchemy took a lot of time to collect relevant elixirs, which was the biggest difference between an alchemist and a refiner.

Therefore, in the immortal cultivation world, the status of the alchemist of the same level will be much higher than that of the same level refiner and the same level of talisman master, second only to the same level of array mage.

"Husband, during the years of your retreat, Jin Qu came to the concubine several times to inquire about your news, according to the concubine, he is afraid that he will not give up and wants you to go to the battlefield!"

"Now that your cultivation has also reached the ninth layer of the Purple Mansion, and there is a request from Guangxiang, we might as well simply leave Haoyang Immortal City and return to Cangyuan Immortal City, completely breaking his thoughts!"

In Xiao Ying's cave mansion, after explaining to Zhou Yang, who came to the door, what had happened over the years, she actually took the initiative to persuade Zhou Yang to move out of Haoyang Immortal City.

It turned out that as the war between the Great Bright Immortal Palace and the Anti-Light Alliance entered the fifteenth year, the intensity of the war between the two sides was getting higher and higher, and the fall of high-level monks was not uncommon.

In the fifteen years since the start of the war, the number of Purple Mansion Stage monks who have fallen together on both sides has exceeded fifty, and even the Jindan Stage monks have fallen three.

If we compare the situation of the last two wars, it can be as short as three or five years, and as long as ten or eight years, I am afraid that the life-and-death struggle of high-ranking monks will be staged, and the number of high-ranking monks who will die will increase significantly.

Even Xiao Ying had already guessed that Jin Qu was in a hurry to find Zhou Yang to "fight on his behalf" at this time, and he must be counting on Zhou Yang to participate in the life-and-death battle instead of the monks of their Qingyuan Sword Sect, so as to avoid the fall of the late stage monks of the Purple Mansion who were expected to marry their own Purple Mansion on the battlefield.

Worried about something happening to the Taoist couple, of course she wouldn't allow this kind of thing to happen.

And the reason she found was also very good, that is, since Zhou Guangxiang went to Cangyuan Immortal City to practice, because of her identity as a single female cultivator in the Purple Mansion Period, she actually attracted the attention of the city lord Cangyuan Sanren of Cangyuan Immortal City, a descendant of the Purple Mansion Period who had also just opened the Purple Mansion for not many years, and wanted to pursue Zhou Guangxiang to become his Taoist companion.

Zhou Guangxiang herself doesn't necessarily like the descendants of Cangyuan Sanren who pursue her, but she deeply knows how much Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang, the two people closest to her, hope that the Zhou family can get out of the boundless sand sea and cultivate the immortal realm and establish a clan in the extreme west.

It was because she specially asked Li Hong to go to Haoyang Immortal City, informed Xiao Ying of the news, and asked Xiao Ying to tell Zhou Yang to take the idea.

If Zhou Yang thought it was feasible, Zhou Guangxiang decided to accept the pursuit of the descendants of the Cangyuan Sanren and marry him, and then Zhou Yang and his wife would marry her as the woman's parents.

In this way, she can not only take care of the Zhou family openly, but also wait for Cangyuan Sanren to sit and pass away, and Zhou Yang will succeed in marrying Dan, and the Zhou family can completely take advantage of the situation to occupy the magpie's nest and turn Cangyuan Immortal City into the Zhou family's immortal city.

I have to say that Zhou Guangxiang's plan has a lot to offer.

First of all, Cangyuan Sanren himself is already more than 800 years old, and at most he will be more than 100 years old, and if Zhou Yang goes well, he should have already married at that time, so after taking over Cangyuan Immortal City, he is not afraid of not being able to defend this immortal city.

Secondly, although the Cangyuan Sanren also established a family, because he himself was dedicated to pursuing the Great Dao, there were actually not many accomplished monks among the descendants of the family, except for the monk who pursued Zhou Guangxiang, there was only another monk in the late stage of the Purple Mansion who was more than 400 years old.

If everything goes well in this way, when the time comes, when Cangyuan Sanren sits down, there will only be the Purple Mansion monk who married Zhou Guangxiang in his family.

Such a monk in the Purple Mansion Period, I am afraid that he will not even be able to keep the treasures left to the family by the Cangyuan Sanren, and how can he inherit the position of the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City.

As long as Zhou Yang promised to protect him and his family and help him keep the treasures left behind by the Cangyuan Sanren, he would definitely take the initiative to recommend Zhou Yang to take over as the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City.

It's just that there is also a difficulty in this plan, that is, Cangyuan Immortal City not only has Cangyuan Sanren, a Jindan monk, but also a deputy city lord who is also a Jindan monk, and he also has a master-apprentice relationship with Cangyuan Sanren.

From a legal point of view, the other party's succession to the position of the city lord of Cangyuan Immortal City as the deputy city lord and the apprentice of Cangyuan Sanren is more reasonable than that of Cangyuan Sanren, a descendant of the Purple Mansion Period.

Of course, in the world of cultivating immortals, after all, whoever has the biggest fist has the final say, as long as Zhou Yang is recommended by the descendants of the Cangyuan Sanren, and then defeats the deputy city lord apprentice of the Cangyuan Sanren, he will naturally be able to make the other party honestly hand over the position of the city lord.

Zhou Yang heard Xiao Ying's words at this time, but he didn't make a statement about leaving Haoyang Immortal City, but just said with a calm face: "Guangxiang definitely can't think of this kind of plan, most likely it was Li Hong's kid who found out about this situation and made a plan for her!"