Xiao Ying's knot is not something that can be achieved in half a year and a year, and when the Chongxuan Mountain Protection Array is fully opened, there is no need for Zhou Yang to guard outside her retreat cave mansion at all times, so life on the mountain is going on as usual, but all disciples are not allowed to go out and leave the mountain gate from this moment on.

And less than two months later, the assessment that Zhou Yang had said when Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan were registered disciples when they entered was also held as scheduled.

The assessment was personally presided over by Zhou Yang to ensure that no one was favoritic.

"In three years, you have been promoted from the sixth layer of Qi training to the seventh layer of Qi training, although with the help of the power of the elixir, it is considered very good, but you obviously relied on the special recruitment of the Lingzhifu technique, why haven't you put effort into this skill in the past three years?"

On Chongxuan Mountain, Zhou Yangduan, who is alias "Qingyun Sanren", is sitting on a Taishi chair and is commenting on a registered disciple who has stepped forward to be assessed.

The named disciple was overjoyed when he heard his words at first, thinking that there was a play, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he was sweating profusely in an instant, and he couldn't answer.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but shake his head, and waved his hand: "Go down." ”

The faint three words were like a thunderbolt in the ears of the named disciple, shaking his legs, and then retreating with a look of despair on his face.

In fact, this disciple didn't say it, and Zhou Yang also knew the reason.

There are only two dozen people on Chongxuan Mountain, and when he occasionally releases his senses, he can clearly see what everyone is doing.

And most of the registered disciples, in fact, are just like this person, after suddenly coming to this kind of aura rich environment, they are eager to devote every minute of their time to cultivation and use it to improve their cultivation.

If it weren't for taking care of the thousands of acres of spiritual fields, medicine gardens, and orchards on the mountain, it was a task that the named disciples had to do, and they were afraid that they would not want to "waste" a quarter of an hour on it.

Even so, after completing the basic tasks of watering, fertilizing, and killing insects, few of these people were willing to stay and continue to practice the spiritual planting technique by taking advantage of this opportunity, and they all wanted to go back to meditate and practice, or go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion to browse and read the traditions that they had difficulty accessing when they were doing loose cultivation in the outside world.

It can't be said that these people are doing something wrong, after all, for immortal cultivators, meditating and cultivating to improve their cultivation is always the most important thing, and the ultimate purpose of all other things is to serve this matter.

But these people should not forget the reason why Zhou Yang recruited them as registered disciples, and they should not forget how they got started.

For monks like Wang Yanzhang who relied on fighting methods to get started, and they were focused on cultivation, Zhou Yang would not ask them why they didn't care about improving their spiritual cultivation skills, and the standard for assessing them was only cultivation to enter the realm.

But like this registered disciple just now, he was a monk who relied on the spirit planting technique to recruit to get started, and after he got started, he almost gave up the skill that allowed him to get started, and went to fight for the same cultivation speed as others, how could Zhou Yang give Zhuji Dan to someone like him who couldn't even figure out which was more important?

Did he send a few foundational monks?

With his status as a Jindan period monk, if he really wanted to recruit a group of foundation building period monks as registered disciples, as long as he was willing to take out some resources to use as bait, naturally a large number of foundation building monks and small family foundation building monks would come over as his disciples.

Therefore, those who can't even see through this, Zhou Yang will naturally not reuse it.

In this way, one by one, the registered disciples lined up and took turns to come forward to accept his assessment, and then they were either happy or depressed, and they took turns to retreat and wait for the final result.

Wang Yanzhang is also one of those lost souls.

He originally thought that his cultivation of Qi Da Perfection would allow the titular master of "Qingyun Sanren" to take a second look, and he would understand his situation and give him a chance.

But reality gave him a merciless blow.

"Qingyun Sanren" really didn't ask him about his cultivation, but when he asked him about his spiritual cultivation skills, he couldn't say anything at all.

Compared to other disciples who were obsessed with cultivation, he actually had more time to devote to this, and he did work hard to put a lot of effort into it.

But he really didn't have half a talent in this area, and in three years, he barely achieved the primary entry, and just like that, he still killed the results of I don't know how many low-level elixirs.

Fortunately, the aura on Chongxuan Mountain is strong, and those worthless low-level elixirs can survive and mature well as long as they find a place to sow seeds and pay attention to watering and fertilizing, so Zhou Yang can let these registered disciples toss casually.

And what is completely different from Wang Yanzhang is that his sister Ye Yunshan has been highly praised by the master of "Qingyun Sanren", because she has successfully improved the spirit planting technique from the second-order middle grade to the second-order upper grade in three years, and has improved her cultivation from the seventh layer of Qi training to the level close to the eighth level of Qi training, she was actually identified as one of the winners of Zhuji Dan on the spot.

"After the assessment of this seat, the three winners of the Zhuji Dan this time have been determined, they are Ye Yunshan, Li Qingyun, and Ren Fei!"

On Chongxuan Mountain, when all twenty disciples had been assessed, Zhou Yang's eyes swept down the twenty registered disciples with different appearances, and said his decision in a deep voice.

Hearing his words, Ye Yunshan and the other three winners were naturally overjoyed, and knelt down on the spot with excitement on their faces and kowtowed to him to thank him.

However, Wang Yanzhang and the other monks who were unsuccessful were pale in their faces, and their eyes were full of envy when they looked at the three of them.

They knew that after these three people got the Tsukidan, it might not be long before the same disciples and brothers who were originally friends with each other might have to shout "senior" in the future.

At this moment, Zhou Yang spoke again.

"Of course, those of you who are not selected don't have to worry, as long as you perform well in the future, you can enter the Dharma Eye of this seat, and this seat will also give you the spirit pill to help you build the foundation. ”

Suddenly, the faces of those who failed were full of surprise.

Zhou Yang's words undoubtedly gave them another hope.

Some people can't help but think of Zhou Ronghua, Zhou Rongxiang, and Zhou Shengying, the three senior brothers and sisters in the foundation building period who first started with them, and they already know that these named disciples who followed their master "Qingyun Sanren" before them have all been rewarded by Zhuji Dan.

However, only three of these five people succeeded in taking the Zhuji Pill to impact the Zhuji, and the other two senior brothers, Zhou Rongxing and Zhou Shengwei, failed to build the foundation and became the same Qi Cultivation Great Perfection Monk as Wang Yanzhang.

Since those five senior brothers and sisters can let the master "Qingyun Sanren" look at each other and give Zhuji Dan, why can't they?

Thinking of this, these registered disciples who failed in the assessment quickly regained their fighting spirit and confidence, respectfully thanked Zhou Yang and left.

And after Zhou Yang distributed the Tsukidan to the three winners on the spot, he didn't stay long, and soon returned to the mountaintop area.

The mountaintop area was a mysterious place for these registered disciples, not only was there a formation prohibition that prevented them from entering, but it was also shrouded in formation clouds all year round, making them unable to see the situation.

On the entire Chongxuan Mountain, except for Shizun and Shiniang, only Zhou Ronghua and the other five senior brothers and sisters who entered before them could enter.

Whenever someone couldn't help but be curious and asked these people about the situation, several senior brothers and sisters who were originally quite kind to them would immediately scold them with a straight face, and they were not allowed to inquire about this.

After a few people hit the wall, no one dared to inquire about it anymore.

It's just that when they occasionally hear the high eagle cry from the top of the mountain, some people can't help but wonder if there is a high-level eagle demon beast in captivity on the mountain.

In fact, Zhou Yang closed the mountaintop area, mainly because he didn't want those named disciples to see the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" perched on the top of the mountain.

The Imperial Beast Sect's wanted notice for him is clearly written on it, and he has a rare spirit beast mount, the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle".

If those named disciples were allowed to see the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" perched on the mountain and recognize it, there would be a risk that his true identity would be revealed.

That's why he closed the mountaintop area, and only allowed a few descendants of the Zhou family who knew the roots to enter this area, and usually helped him feed this spirit beast when he was in retreat.

The "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" has been following Zhou Yang for more than two hundred years, because he has always been fed all kinds of high-level demon beast meat and demon pill spirit objects by Zhou Yang, and now he has fully entered the maturity stage and has become a powerful fourth-order high-grade demon beast.

It's a pity that although its strength has grown rapidly, it is far inferior to Zhou Yang's master, so that it is obviously a fierce demon bird that has awakened the bloodline of a barbarian bird, but it has always been able to be used as a mount for Zhou Yang, the master, and it is a complete waste of talent.

Zhou Yang was actually aware of this problem, but the enemies he had encountered over the years were either true demons in the Tribulation Period, or real people in the Yuan Infant Stage, and occasionally encountered an enemy in the Jindan Period, and for various reasons, it was not suitable to summon this spirit pet that was only a fourth-order demon beast to fight.

As a result, he could only use a few fourth-order puppet beasts that he had refined to play with this spirit pet, lest he really forget how to fight if he didn't fight for too long.

The occasional sound of the eagle cry heard by those named disciples was made when the "Golden-winged Thunder Eagle" and the puppet ** were fighting, when they were in the middle of the battle.

But now that Xiao Ying is in retreat, everything needs to be quiet, Zhou Yang can no longer play this kind of game with this spirit pet, and even needs to put it into the spirit beast ring to make it sleep, lest it forget its own advice one day, and suddenly make some noise in the mountaintop area, disturbing Xiao Ying in retreat.

Next, while waiting for the results of Xiao Ying's knot pill to come out, Zhou Yang continued to practice the "Dragon Avoiding Robbery Skill" supernatural power obtained from Wu Biao, the "black-faced man slaughter".

This magic power can be said to be the magic skill of killing people and overselling goods, learn this magic power, as long as you don't get caught red-handed, you almost don't have to worry about being found afterwards.

However, according to the general rules of the immortal cultivation world, it is also a powerful supernatural power, and the more difficult it is to cultivate.

The practice of "Avoiding Robbery by the Dragon" requires the use of a spiritual grass called "Cloud Grass" as an auxiliary material to be practiced.

The "Cloud Grass" itself is only a third-order spirit grass, but because this spirit grass is not widely used, there are very few artificial plants, which means that it is difficult to find it in large quantities.

Fortunately, in Wu Biao's storage ring, Zhou Yang found dozens of finished "cloud grass", which should be the inventory left by Wu Biao's usual practice of "dragon avoidance and robbery".

In addition, when he was in Xianyang City, he had already asked Xuanyang Pavilion to help him buy this thing, and after he had accumulated a certain amount, he would summon him to collect it.

Now that more than ten years have passed, although he has not yet received the summons from Xuanyang Pavilion, he thinks that with the power of Xuanyang Immortal Sect, he will not even be able to do this little thing well.

But even with the "Cloud Rest Grass" as an auxiliary material, Zhou Yang's progress in practicing the "Dragon Avoidance Skill" is not fast, according to his own estimates, without more than ten years of practice, I am afraid it will be difficult to use this magic power for actual combat.

Fortunately, Zhou Yang is a monk in the Jindan period, and there are many Shouyuan, compared to the benefits of practicing the magic power of "Dragon Avoiding Robbery", he can still accept this time cost.

Let's talk about Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan, two brothers and sisters.

After the assessment, as Zhou Yang left first, Wang Yanzhang and other unsuccessful registered disciples, except for a few people, most of them congratulated Ye Yunshan and the other three people who won the Zhuji Dan.

These people's ideas are also very simple, these three people have a high chance of succeeding in building a foundation in the future, so get closer to them in advance, and it will be more convenient to ask for something in the future.

Ye Yunshan actually just wanted to pull his eldest brother Wang Yanzhang back to his residence as soon as possible, and then hand over the Zhuji Dan he had just arrived to him to take the impact foundation building period.

But she has grown up in the world of cultivating immortals since she was a child, and she knows very well the truth of having one more friend and multiple paths.

Not to mention that she has not succeeded in building the foundation, even if she succeeds in building the foundation, she can't ignore the enthusiasm of these fellow disciples, otherwise she may pay a painful price one day because of today's arrogance.

has been dealing with these people like this, and after half a day, Ye Yunshan found an excuse, took her eldest brother Wang Yanzhang to leave the table first, and returned to the small courtyard where the two lived.

There are a large number of small courtyards and palaces built by the disciples of the Yuqing Dao Sect on Chongxuan Mountain, even if Ye Yunshan and other registered disciples can achieve a separate courtyard for each person, without having to crowd with people.

But Ye Yunshan had to live in the same courtyard with Wang Yanzhang, and Wang Yanzhang had nothing to do with this sister.

"Sister, why are you so anxious to pull your brother back? Today is your big day, we should celebrate more. ”

In the courtyard, Wang Yanzhang looked at Ye Yunshan with a puzzled expression, and directly asked the question in his heart.

The relationship between the two makes him don't have to bother to guess anything, just ask directly.

"Why? It's not for you, big brother. ”

Ye Yunshan glared at this big brother who was a little rough, rolled her beautiful eyes, and said angrily: "And what are you talking about, what a big day, the day you marry me, is my real big day!"

When Wang Yanzhang heard her words, he retorted sullenly: "How many times have I said that I won't marry you, isn't it good for us to be brothers and sisters? Why do you always want me to marry you!"

"Then why don't you want to marry me?"

Ye Yunshan glared at him with beautiful eyes, her eyes were full of resentment, like a deep resentful woman.

Wang Yanzhang didn't seem to notice these at all, and said helplessly: "Don't you know this? I swore a long time ago that if I don't succeed in building a foundation, I won't break Yuanyang's body one day!"

Ye Yunshan also seemed to know that he would answer like this, and couldn't help but stare at him tightly and ask: "So, it's not that you don't want to marry me, it's just that before you built a foundation, you don't want to lose your Yuanyang body and not be able to build a foundation because of marrying me, right?"

"You can think so!"

Wang Yanzhang didn't realize anything yet, just pouted lightly and replied perfunctorily.

Today's Q&A has actually been conducted many times in the past, and every time it is here, Ye Yunshan will not mention it again with a disappointed face.

He had thought it would be the same this time.

But this time was different.

I saw that after Ye Yunshan listened to his words, he immediately touched his hand to the storage bag, took out the jade bottle containing Tsukidan and threw it at him.

Out of instinctive reaction, Wang Yanzhang immediately reached out to catch the jade bottle to prevent it from falling to the ground.

Then he heard Ye Yunshan's righteous and awe-inspiring words.

"Wang Yanzhang, you listen to me, this Zhuji Dan is my dowry, you take it for me immediately to impact the foundation building period, and after you build the foundation successfully, we will immediately visit the church and get married, and become an official Taoist couple!"

Wang Yanzhang was dumbfounded.

He looked at Ye Yunshan with a shocked expression, the serious look on this sister's face made him realize that he was not joking.

"Girl, you ......"

He stammered and looked at Ye Yunshan, suddenly panicking.

Ye Yunshan has been following him for more than ten years, and it is the first time he has seen her so serious and serious.

No matter how slow he was to react, he knew that Ye Yunshan said such a thing this time, and the meaning was definitely different from the previous words with a half-joking meaning.

So he didn't refuse immediately without hesitation as before.

Because he was also afraid in his heart, he was afraid that if he really refused without hesitation, he would completely break this sister's heart, so that there would be terrible consequences that he absolutely did not want to see.

He must admit that after being together for more than ten years, he has long been accustomed to the days when he has this sister by his side.

At least with this sister by his side, every time he goes out to do a task and comes home, he can eat a medicinal meal full of color and flavor, and then sleep well with peace of mind.

Sometimes when he returns from injury, it is this sister who bandages him and helps him buy healing elixirs.

After having this sister, he really felt the warmth of home.

After he failed to build the foundation, he had already made a plan to become a demon beast hunter, but he was always reluctant to give up this sister and did not finally make up his mind to leave.

At this time, he suddenly encountered Ye Yunshan's forced palace, and he was very flustered in his heart, and he didn't know what to do at all.

Seeing this, Ye Yunshan seemed to be encouraged, and stepped forward a few steps to face him, looking at him with a resolute look on his face and said loudly: "Wang Yanzhang, you saved my life, and you saved me from being insulted by those villains, since the day you saved me, I have already made up my mind not to marry you, so if you don't agree today, then I will return this life to you, and we will never owe each other in the future!"

"Why this, why this!"

Wang Yanzhang couldn't help but take a few steps back, looking at Ye Yunshan's pretty face with a distracted expression, his eyes full of panic.

He didn't expect that Ye Yunshan, who had always been obedient to him, would force him on a day like today, forcing him to make such a decision related to his life.

Wang Yanzhang, if you don't agree to her today, you'd better kill her, otherwise she will hate you out of love and use it against you all her life!"

A deep voice suddenly sounded in Wang Yanzhang's mind when he was full of panic and couldn't make a decision.

When he heard this voice, his heart was shocked, and he instantly recovered from his state of absence.

He recognized the origin of this voice, it was the owner of this Chongxuan Mountain, and the voice of their master "Qingyun Sanren".

Wang Yanzhang never thought that when he encountered his sister Ye Yunshan forcing the palace, he would receive the transmission of the master's "Qingyun Sanren", and the other party's words made him shudder when he heard it.

"No, I will never kill her, even if she really wants to kill me, I will not kill her!"

He shouted in his heart and responded, having forgotten that the other party was his master, a Jindan period monk who could control his own life and death.

Fortunately, "Qingyun Sanren" didn't seem to care about this, but continued to say to him: "Since this is the case, why don't you dare to agree to her? Is it true that in your heart, marrying her is a more terrible and unacceptable thing than death?"

"I ......"

Wang Yanzhang seemed unable to answer this question and was stuck again.

And his frightened and hesitant appearance quickly aroused Ye Yunshan's suspicions, and he stopped persecuting him for a while, and walked forward with a concerned face and grabbed his arm and asked, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?"

When Wang Yanzhang heard her words, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and couldn't help but think of the ruthless words of "Qingyun Sanren" just now.

Then he seemed to have made a decision, took a deep breath and looked at Ye Yunshan and said, "Okay, the eldest brother promised you, after the eldest brother succeeds in building the foundation, he will marry you!"

When Ye Yunshan heard his words, her delicate body was shocked, her pretty face suddenly became bloodshot and red, and she grabbed his arm with excitement and shook it violently and said loudly: "Really, big brother, are you telling the truth? I heard you right, right? Say it again, I want to hear you again!"

Wang Yanzhang hadn't seen her show such excitement and joy for a long time, and the little resistance in his heart had dissipated in an instant at this time, and a smile appeared on his face, and he followed her words and said again: "Sister, you heard it right, I said that I promised to marry you." ”

After speaking, he also said in his heart: "Master is above, the disciple is willing to marry Yun Shan as his wife, if the master wants to punish her or something, punish the disciple, the disciple is willing to accept it on her behalf!"

It's a pity that he didn't receive any response to his words.

This made him a little apprehensive in his heart, and he didn't know if the master had heard his own words.

But he didn't dare to speak out about this matter, let alone tell Ye Yunshan the truth of the matter, so he could only keep it in his heart and bear it alone.

Half a year later, after Wang Yanzhang took the Zhuji Dan given by Ye Yunshan, he was successfully promoted to become a monk in the foundation building period.

The other registered disciples were obviously surprised by Wang Yanzhang's sudden foundation building, and when these people learned that it was Ye Yunshan who gave his Zhuji Dan as a dowry to Wang Yanzhang to take the foundation building, their eyes were even more red with envy.

Using Zhuji Dan as a dowry, not to mention these little cultivators in the Qi cultivation period, even those immortal cultivation families, most of them can't do such extravagant things.

Only the kind of big family with the monks of the Purple Mansion period or even the monks of the Jindan period would do such extravagant things when they recruited a son-in-law for the important daughters of the family, or when the important daughters of the family married important members of the family of the same status.

After the foundation was successfully built, Wang Yanzhang and Ye Yunshan became Taoist couples as promised, and invited all the brothers on Chongxuan Mountain to testify.

In fact, he also invited Zhou Yang, the master, through his senior brother Zhou Ronghua, but what made him nervous and confused was that he obviously wanted to marry Ye Yunshan as his wife, but at this time, he was unwilling to come out to witness this incident.

He was puzzled in his heart, and he didn't dare to talk about it with others, even with his new wife Ye Yunshan, so he could only continue to keep this matter in his heart.

Two years later, after Li Qingyun, a registered disciple who also received a Zhuji Dan, cultivated to reach the ninth level of Qi training, he also took the Zhuji Dan to impact the foundation building period successfully, and was promoted to become the fifth foundation building period monk on Chongxuan Mountain.

In the past year, Ren Fei, the last registered disciple who received the Tsukidan, also successfully built the foundation through the Tsukidan.

Three foundation building pills created three foundation building monks, this situation is also relatively rare, Zhou Yang was also quite happy about this, and even specially gave a few third-order magic weapons for the three new foundation building monks to use in refining and use, and also allowed them to choose a high-level exercise to practice.

Of course, that high-level exercise will only give them a chapter in the foundation period, and in the future, unless they succeed in opening up the Purple Mansion and prove their loyalty with practical actions, they can obtain follow-up exercises.

In this way, time passed slowly, and soon five years passed during Xiao Ying's retreat.

One day five years later, a huge aura vortex suddenly appeared on Chongxuan Mountain, and then the entire Chongxuan Mountain and the surrounding heaven and earth aura of one or two hundred miles all frantically surged towards the aura vortex, and soon a colorful spiritual cloud formed over Chongxuan Mountain.

This kind of movement on Chongxuan Mountain was quickly discovered by some monks who were active nearby, and then the news that someone on Chongxuan Mountain had successfully formed a knot quickly spread in Anguo.