The journey home was smooth and smooth.

A few days after leaving the Qingping Mountain Oasis, Zhou Yang successfully returned to Yuquan Peak after a five-year absence.

When he came down the mountain five years ago, he was just a young man who had just broken through to the sixth layer of qi training, and he was full of spirit.

When he returned five years later, although he was still a sixth-level Qi practitioner, he was a high-spirited young man who was high-spirited at the beginning, but he had grown into a handsome young man who was six feet tall and handsome. (one shaku 33cm)

According to the family rules, the family monks who came back from the outing must first go to the family general elders to report the situation and submit a report on their work.

The general elder of the Zhou family is currently served by the seventh elder Zhou Xuanyu, who is the only female monk among the eight elders of the Zhou family, and is also the highest female monk in the Zhou family.

Zhou Xuanyu ranks third in the "Xuan" generation, is the descendant of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, has the qualification of medium-grade spiritual root, when he first cultivated to reach the ninth layer of Qi training, he was not yet sixty years old, if he took "Zhuji Dan" to build the foundation at that time, the chance of building the foundation is still quite large.

It's a pity that as a woman, she is naturally inferior to a man in terms of family resources, even if she is a descendant of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, in the end, she can't get all the elders of the family to agree to pour the whole clan into buying a "Zhuji Dan" for her to impact the foundation.

The high-grade Linggen monk does not use the "Zhuji Dan" to impact the foundation, and there is a one-third success rate, but if the middle-grade Linggen monk does not take the "Zhuji Dan", the chance of success in the foundation building is less than 10%.

And "building the foundation" as the first major difficulty in cultivation, if there is no "building the foundation pill" this elixir to provide protection for the monks, once the impact fails, ninety percent of the monks will be burst by the mana in the meridians, explode and die, even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will disperse the mana of the whole body and become a waste.

From a high-ranking Qi cultivator to a wasted person, which immortal cultivator can withstand this kind of blow?

Therefore, even if someone can survive from the madness, they will not choose to survive, but will die a martyr.

The danger of "building a foundation" is so great that in today's immortal cultivation world, if it is not a ninth-level Qi cultivation cultivator who is pregnant with a spiritual root and does not have a "foundation building pill" in his hand, it is difficult to find a few people out of a hundred people who dare to risk attacking the foundation building.

Cultivators who can cultivate to the ninth level of Qi cultivation don't know how much suffering they have endured and how tired they have endured in this life, and no one wants their hard-won cultivation to be wiped out in one fell swoop.

Especially for the monks of the foundation-building family like the Zhou family, as long as they cultivate to the ninth level of Qi cultivation, they can become the top of the family and hold great power, and they really can't take this risk.

For these family monks, instead of risking their lives to attack the foundation building, it is better to work hard for the rest of their lives to earn spirit stones and work hard to cultivate their own bloodline descendants, so that the strength of the poor two or three generations of monks may be able to buy the spirit stones of the "Zhuji Dan".

Although he may have died by then, it is possible for future generations to successfully build a foundation by relying on "Zhuji Dan", so it will be worth his death.

Only those ninth-level cultivators who have nothing to worry about and are alone will dare to take a risk and forcibly attack the foundation building because they are alone and envy the long life span and powerful supernatural power of the monks in the foundation building period.

Once successful, the longevity will be doubled to two hundred and forty years, and in the future, whether it is occupying an oasis spiritual vein and opening up an immortal cultivation family, or joining a powerful immortal cultivation family to become a guest elder, it is countless times stronger than being a casual cultivator.

Even if you fail, then it is not in vain to practice yourself, and it can be regarded as a martyrdom.

However, a very real problem is that due to the lack of resources and good exercises, even if there is a spiritual root in the body, there are not many people who can practice to the ninth level of Qi cultivation before the age of sixty, and without the help of the "Zhuji Dan", the probability of success in hitting the foundation building after the age of sixty will drop a lot, and it is almost lifeless.

Therefore, on the whole, although the base of casual cultivation is huge, and the determination to impact the foundation building is much greater than that of the family cultivators, the number of people who can actually build the foundation is far lower than the number of people who rely on the "foundation building pill" of the major immortal cultivation families.

Zhou Xuanyu, as a child of the Zhou family, is also a descendant of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, even if she wants to take the risk of impacting the foundation, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan will stop it, not to mention that she has been pampered since she was a child, and she does not have that determination.

The family didn't prepare "Zhuji Dan" for her, and it was false for her to say in her heart that she was not disappointed, but she didn't resent the family because of this, but quickly recruited a young mid-stage Qi cultivator outside to join the Zhou family, proving her loyalty to the family with practical actions.

Because of this incident, all the family leaders, including the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, felt ashamed of her, so they let her serve as the general elder to make up for it, so that she could sit in the family for a long time and take care of her children's descendants.

Zhou Yang's mother Lin Yuting has a good personal relationship with this eighth aunt, and he has also been deeply favored by this eighth aunt since he was a child, so he is not worried about this so-called debriefing at all.

"Yo, I haven't seen you for a few years, our Xiaojiu is getting more and more handsome, and I don't know which family's daughter is blessed to be able to marry our Zhou family's Qilin'er in the future. ”

In the family affairs hall, as soon as Zhou Yang came in, he saw a middle-aged beautiful woman wearing a white lotus skirt sorting out the file, and when he came in, the middle-aged beauty's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly put down the file in her hand, and looked at him with a smile and joked.

Even if Zhou Yang had already matured his mind, his face was hot in the face of this kind of joke, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly and begged for mercy: "The third aunt is not making fun of her nephew, the nephew is still young, and it is still very early to talk about marriage!"

Unless the immortal cultivators are those monks who have no hope of building a foundation with a low-grade spiritual root, as long as they still have some ideas about building a foundation, they will not lose Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin before building a foundation.

This is because according to the experience summed up by the predecessors, monks who maintain the body of Yuan Yang or Yuan Yin will not only practice faster in ordinary times, but also have a much greater success rate than monks who have lost Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin when building a foundation.

Therefore, even a top-grade spiritual root cultivator with a great success rate in foundation building would not have broken his body early before foundation building.

Although the Zhou family, a family of cultivating immortals, attaches great importance to the inheritance of bloodline, but in this regard, it encourages the children of qualified families to marry and have children later, and it is best to marry and have children after the age of sixty.

Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao, and the third aunt in front of him, Zhou Xuanyu, both got married and gave birth to offspring after they were over sixty years old and had no hope of building a foundation.

Fortunately, immortal cultivators have a strong physique, and they can use healing spells to heal injuries, even if they give birth to a child after the age of sixty, they will not be in danger of their lives like mortal mothers, but once they give birth to offspring, it will more or less damage their own cultivation, causing their cultivation to slow down in the future.

Zhou Yang's mother, Lin Yuting, was a seventh-level cultivator of Qi cultivation when she gave birth to him, but more than 20 years have passed, and she is still this cultivation, which shows how much harm giving birth to a child does to low-level female immortal cultivators.

On the other hand, Zhou Xuanyu is much better, she was already practicing Qi nine-layer cultivation before she got married and had children, unless she built a foundation, she would not be able to cultivate an inch in her life, and having a child would have little impact on her cultivation, but it might slightly damage some longevity.

It's a pity that Zhou Yang's third aunt's luck seems to have been bad, even if the couple are both middle-grade spiritual root qualifications, among the three offspring of the two sons and one daughter who gave birth, only one daughter has a lower-grade spiritual root.

And the continuous birth of offspring, although it did not make Zhou Xuanyu's cultivation regressive, but made her face age a lot faster, although she didn't care much about it, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan was afraid that she would fall early because of the big loss of longevity, regardless of her own opposition and complaints, forcibly used pills to destroy her fertility, and she was not allowed to continue to give birth.

Since Zhou Yang learned about the deeds of this third aunt, he has developed great respect for this third aunt, this is a great woman worthy of the respect of everyone in the family.

"That's right, with your assets, there will be a great opportunity to build a foundation in the future, and the family's current situation is much better than it was back then, plus your parents' own savings, you should be able to prepare a foundation building pill for you, and once you build a foundation successfully, you will naturally have a lot of time to slowly find a suitable Taoist partner!"

Zhou Xuanyu looked at the handsome nephew in front of her, her beautiful eyes lost her mind for a while, as if she saw herself at the same age back then, at that time, she was also bent on following in her grandfather's footsteps and becoming a foundation building monk that everyone envied, and she never thought about getting married.

It's a pity that she was unlucky, when she was Zhou Yang's age, the Zhou family happened to spend a lot of financial resources to buy a "Zhuji Dan" for the current Great Elder Zhou Qian, and the family's savings for many years were almost exhausted, and they did not recover for decades.

However, after the great elder Zhou Qian, who had high hopes at that time, was subdued by the "Zhuji Dan", he did not succeed in building the foundation, but only cultivated to become a tenth-level cultivator of Qi Training, which is commonly known as the Great Perfection of Qi Training.

Although the strength of the Qi Cultivation Great Perfection Cultivator is much stronger than that of the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer Cultivator, it is very different from the Foundation Building Period Cultivator, not to mention that the Qi Cultivation Great Perfection is still in the Qi Cultivation Period, and there will be no growth in Shouyuan.

Zhou Qian wasted a Zhuji Dan because of this, and since then he has been burdened with huge family debts, and he has worked hard for the family all his life to pay off his debts, not to mention that he has not even left his descendants.

And Zhou Xuanyu lost the opportunity to buy "Zhuji Dan" to build a foundation because of the exhaustion of his family's savings, leaving a lifelong regret.

A small "Zhuji Dan" directly changed and affected the fate of the two generations of Zhou family elders before and after!

Zhou Yang has been warned by his parents since he was a child that he can't mention the matter of "Zhuji Dan" in front of his third aunt, so as not to sting this elder.

Now when he heard Zhou Xuanyu take the initiative to mention the matter of "Zhuji Dan", his heart jumped, and the idea of wanting to chat with this third aunt disappeared in an instant, and he hurriedly handed over the debriefing report he had written a long time ago, and then left the palace as if he was fleeing under the pretext of visiting the old patriarch Zhou Minghan.