Chapter 65: Captive Spirit Animals
After handling the affairs of Zhou Bao's family, after Zhou Yang returned to Haoyang Cave, he immediately notified the old patriarch Zhou Minghan in the form of a flying sword.
The Flying Sword is a more advanced way of communication than the Transmission Note, which not only flies fast but also flies a long distance, and the chance of being intercepted halfway is much lower than using the Transmission Note.
However, in order to use the flying sword to pass the book, the foundation building period is the minimum threshold, not only the user must have the foundation building cultivation, but also the receiver must also have the foundation building cultivation.
Moreover, every time the Transmission Flying Sword is used, the sword body of the Flying Sword will be consumed, and a refiner who knows how to refine the Transmission Flying Sword needs to be maintained and repaired frequently.
The level of the communication flying sword used by Zhou Yang is as high as the third-order lower grade, and the effective transmission distance is as long as two thousand miles, after he sent the flying sword from Haoyang Cave, he received the flying sword transmission sent back by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan in less than half an hour.
Zhou Minghan's reply was also simple, directly authorizing Zhou Bao's family to move back to Yuquan Peak to live now, and there was no need for Zhou Bao to perform any family tasks in the future.
"As soon as this news spreads, I'm afraid that those in the family who marry wives and concubines will be more active in having children!"
Zhou Yang could almost think of the expressions of those elders and clan brothers after hearing the news.
Since even Zhou Bao's little transparent in the family can give birth to excellent offspring, how can those family monks who think they are better than him be convinced?
They can't compare to Zhou Yang, the recognized genius of the family, in terms of cultivation, so do they have to lose to Zhou Bao, the waste material in cultivation, when they have children?
How can it be!
You can't compare to others in cultivation, and you can comfort yourself with your spiritual root qualifications that are not as good as others, but when it comes to giving birth to children, who is not a man anymore?
Zhou Yang would never have imagined in advance that because of the stimulation of Zhou Bao's birth of a dragon and phoenix fetus, the monks of the Zhou family who had already married wives and concubines greatly expanded the number of concubines, so that in the next ten years, the number of newborns of the monks of the Zhou family directly exceeded the sum of the previous hundred years!
Of course, that's all for later.
Zhou Yang didn't have to worry about the return of Zhou Bao's family to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, naturally there were people arranged by Zhou Minghan to do it, and after he returned to Haoyang Cave, he continued to tidy up the medicine garden with the twelfth uncle Zhou Xuanchen.
After about half a year, an elixir garden built deep underground was finally completed.
This elixir garden is divided into eight places, with a total area of about thirty acres, and there are thirty-seven kinds of elixirs suitable for growing on the spiritual veins of Haoyang Cave, and after each elixir is completely matured, the grade will be above the third order.
In order to let these elixir gardens have enough lighting points, Zhou Yang specially refined several sets of glass lenses used to refract and diffuse sunlight, and used flying swords to hollow out the stones and sand on the medicine garden to cover them, and replaced the "sunstone", a commonly used lighting item for immortal cultivators, with natural light.
After the medicine garden was opened, Zhou Yang handed over the care of the medicine garden to his eleventh brother Zhou Chang.
Since the family successively lost the second-order spirit planter Zhou Yun and the first-order spirit planter Zhou Yuanxia, the family's full-time spirit planter was left with only one twelfth uncle, Zhou Xuanchen, in view of this, Zhou Yang decided to let Zhou Chang, the eleventh brother, specialize in the immortal cultivation skill of the spirit planter in the future.
Every monk can learn and master the skill of Lingzhifu, but it is easier for monks who practice the two exercises of water and wood to achieve achievements in this skill, and every well-known high-level Lingzhifu is basically the attribute of the spiritual root and the exercises practiced are all attributes of water and wood.
Although Zhou Chang is practicing the earth-based exercise "Thick Earth Technique", his spiritual root attribute actually contains three attributes: earth, wood, and metal, but he chose to major in earth-based exercises because he has a higher affinity for earth-based spiritual power.
To be honest, if it was possible, Zhou Yang really wanted every monk in the Zhou family to master an immortal cultivation skill, and a monk with a craft, even if it was only the lowest order, could play a big role.
It's a pity that at present, his idea cannot be realized at all.
Each of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation has certain talent requirements for immortal cultivators, and if you want to get started, you will inevitably need to consume resources to accumulate experience.
Even if it is the simplest looking spirit planter, if you want to get started, it is difficult to really get started without transplanting and killing dozens of first-order spirit grasses and spirit trees.
Therefore, even if it is a Zifu family with a big business like the Chen family, it is unrealistic to want everyone in the family to master a skill.
After completing the development of the medicine garden, Zhou Yang began to work hard to promote the cultivation of spirit beasts, and the spirit beast room in Haoyang Cave had already been opened, and he only had to put spirit beasts into it in captivity.
It just so happens that the first-order middle-grade demon beast "Phoenix Crown Turkey" that the Zhou family has been captive for a long time is a kind of fire demon beast, and the breeding technology has long been mature.
He immediately flew back to the family again, grabbed more than a dozen chicken cubs and a pair of male and female adult chickens from the family's spirit animal garden, and put them into a spirit beast room for trial breeding, preparing to observe for a year and a half before seeing if the situation should be fully introduced.
Demon beast breeding is a simple and difficult job, simple means that the monster beast is easy to feed, as long as it is fed regularly, and it is basically impossible to get sick.
The difficulty is that most of the monsters are aggressive, and if you don't pay attention, you may be killed or injured, or even hurt people, and the monsters eat a lot of food, and most of them eat meat, plus the growth period is long, and the cost of raising is quite large.
There are now nearly 20,000 mortals on the side of Haoyang Cave, and the food source is all transported by camel teams and Zhou family monks from the Yuquan Lake Oasis in storage bags.
If it weren't for the fact that the "Phoenix Crowned Turkey" was a small demon beast in terms of size, and it was an omnivorous demon beast, he would not have considered raising a demon beast in captivity right now.
In addition, he often needed to ask him to use the flying sword to open up the mine in the past, and in a short period of time, Zhou Yang's daily practice almost stopped, let alone distracted from studying alchemy.
However, since he chose to take over the position of patriarch, he has nothing to say, so he can only do his best to take on the responsibility of the leader and contribute to the development of the family.
In this way, he waited until the five ore paths above the Red Flame Iron Vein began to emerge one after another, and then he had time to calm down and think about his own cultivation.
Normally speaking, after an ordinary middle-grade spiritual root cultivator builds a foundation, if he does not use the help of the power of the elixir, it will take about fifteen to twenty years to improve his cultivation to the first level, and the longer it takes to get to the back.
Like Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, his cultivation has stayed on the seventh layer of foundation building for more than twenty years, and there is no sign of any breakthrough at present.
However, Zhou Yang compared his cultivation speed during the Qi cultivation period, and he was practicing the "Qianyang Immortal Sutra" that was most suitable for his physique, he estimated that even if he didn't use the help of the power of the elixir, there should be no problem in upgrading his cultivation to the second layer of foundation building within ten years.
Ten years to improve the cultivation of the first level, although this speed is not as fast as those high-grade spiritual root monks who can improve the cultivation of the first level in seven or eight years, but in terms of the middle-grade spiritual root cultivators, it is already a rare existence, and Zhou Yang does not have any dissatisfaction with this.
He is still young, time is on his side, and in the future, he only needs to practice step by step, and it is only a matter of time before he cultivates and enters the ninth layer of foundation building.