Zhou Yang didn't know that he had become a psychological shadow of his peers.

Zhou Bao's performance looked at him in his eyes, and he only thought that the other party was introverted, and he didn't care too much.

In the final analysis, he and Zhou Bao don't have much friendship, and taking care of each other in the future is also for the sake of the face of the third grandfather Zhou Quan, and the two are destined to deal with each other too much.

So he just politely said a few polite words, and didn't say anything more.

In fact, among the "Yuan" generation of the entire Zhou family, Zhou Yang is also an outlier.

Because of the memory of his previous life, he has been precocious since he was a child, and he doesn't like to play with those people of the same age, but likes to hide in a secluded place and cultivate quietly, often sitting for a day.

He was able to reach this cultivation at such a young age, in addition to the good spiritual root qualifications, the credit in this area also accounted for a large proportion.

Children are all playful and active, how can they meditate and practice at a young age, not people like Zhou Yang who have memories of their past lives, and only those who are cold by nature and don't know what fun is, can maintain high-intensity cultivation in childhood.

And this kind of maverick behavior naturally made Zhou Yang's relationship with his peers very weak, and he was even collectively excluded and isolated by those of his peers for a time.

By the time the people of the same generation grow up and understand the truth and apologize to him, this sense of alienation has already formed, and even if he doesn't care, those people of the same generation will not want to stay in his presence longer because of the shame in their hearts, and the relationship will not improve much.

This situation will only become more and more serious as his cultivation gets higher and higher, and his fame grows.

So much so that now, his fellow clansmen can only look up at him, a genius clan brother (brother) who has thrown them away from him in cultivation, and has completely lost the courage to talk to him on an equal footing.

In any case, the arrival of Zhou Bao, the clan brother, did help Zhou Yang a little.

Although this clan brother is not very good at cultivation, he is also a fourth-layer immortal cultivator who cultivates qi, with him, Zhou Yang can rest assured that he will hand over more than ten acres of spiritual fields in Qingping Mountain and some miscellaneous matters in the mine to the other party to take care of, and he and the old man Zhou Quan went to the mine to squat and wait for the arrival of the [Gold Eater Rat] demon beast.

At this time, the cruelty of the immortal cultivation world was revealed.

Even if he knew that the re-arrival of the [Gold Eating Rat] would definitely cause the death of the miners mining in the mine, at the insistence of the old man Zhou Quan, Zhou Yang's proposal to let the miners temporarily stop work and withdraw from the mine was directly rejected by the old man ruthlessly.

The old man not only ruthlessly rejected his proposal, but also gave him a stern educational lesson.

"Xiao Jiu, you must remember that my generation of monks is the most jealous and soft-hearted, whether it is these mediocre mortal miners today, or a family monk like the old man, as long as you give up us in exchange for the strength of the family, and let the family continue to pass on, then you should not hesitate to abandon us!"

"Geckos can be reborn with a broken tail, as long as the family can pass it on, our severed tails will grow back in the next generation sooner or later!"

"You are the hope of our Zhou family, if you can build a successful foundation in the future, the position of the patriarch of the Zhou family will be passed to you, and if you are soft-hearted and cause trouble, it will not only be you, but the entire Zhou family!"

The old man, who usually had a kind and kind face, said these words, but his face was indescribably cold, and he completely changed like a person.

Zhou Yang knew that at this moment, the other party was no longer talking to him as a kind elder, but telling himself as a family elder.

As a child of the Xiuxian family, you must put the interests of the family first in everything, and you must not cause huge losses to the family because of your personal kindness.

To be honest, he didn't completely agree with this theory of the supremacy of the family's interests, but he also knew that this was the normal way of survival for all immortal cultivators in this world.

And although the old man Zhou Quan's approach seems cold and impersonal, it is actually the best choice to achieve the goal quickly.

Demon beasts are not beasts, beasts will only act on instinct, and in addition to having demonic power, demon beasts have also opened their spiritual intelligence, and the spiritual intelligence of second-order demon beasts is not low, and they know how to think simply.

If they ordered the miners in the mine to withdraw and seal the mine, the [Gold Eater] demon beast would definitely realize that something was wrong when it came over and found out about this situation, and it would not reappear at all.

Therefore, in order to lure this monster beast out, the miners must be used as human bait, and someone must sacrifice for it!

Therefore, Zhou Yang didn't say anything more in the end, and could only acquiesce to Old Man Zhou Quan's approach.

This kind of thing of using miners as bait must not be known to the miners, so after making a decision, Zhou Yang and the two of them used the breath collection technique to restrain their breath, and quietly hid in an uninhabited branch road in the mine and waited.

Waiting was torturous, because no one knew when the [Gold Eating Rat] would come, and neither Zhou Yang nor Old Man Zhou Quan dared to make any movement, let alone cultivate.

In order to make this squatting go smoothly, the old man Zhou Quan even prepared two bottles of second-order elixir [Bigu Dan] in advance, and the monks during the Qi cultivation period took one pill, which could maintain the body for 7 days and did not need to eat anymore.

This observance is more than ten days.

Fifteen days later, one afternoon, when Zhou Yang was too bored to take out the alchemy book given by the old patriarch and study the alchemy, the terrified exclamations of the miners suddenly sounded in the mine cave where the miners were banging and digging.

"Ahh

"Run, go and ask the Immortal Master to get rid of the demon!"

The miners exclaimed, crying for their fathers and mothers, throwing away the tools such as the mine hoes in their hands, and only hating their fathers and mothers for having two legs and running desperately towards the outside of the mine.

But no one found out that the "Immortal Master" in their mouth had already appeared in the mine.

As soon as Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan heard the exclamations of the miners, they immediately put away their breathing techniques and took action.

They did not squeeze the narrow mine road with the miners, but directly performed the "earth escape technique" to bypass the miners and go straight to the place of the incident.

After a while, the two of them rushed to the scene of the murder of the [Gold Eater Rat] and saw this vicious demon beast again.

"With blood as the guide, the blood spirit is revealed!"

As soon as he saw the figure of the [Gold Eater], the old man Zhou Quan bit the tip of his tongue and opened his mouth to spray, directly spurting out a mouthful of essence blood and casting the "Blood Spirit Mark" spell.

I saw a flash of blood, and before the [Gold Eater Rat] could react, a blood-light mark suddenly appeared on his body.

With the cultivation of the ninth layer of Zhou Quan's Qi cultivation, he cast the "Blood Spirit Mark" spell, this mark can last for at least one day on the [Gold Eating Rat], and as long as the mark exists for a moment, as long as the distance between the two sides is not more than a thousand miles, the old man Zhou Quan can find the location of the [Gold Eating Rat] at any time through the induction in the dark.

And the [Gold Eater] obviously didn't know what this seemingly inconspicuous bloodlight mark represented.

When it was covered in blood, it was indeed startled, thinking that this human who had beaten itself seriously last time had used some kind of magic on itself.

When he found that the bloodlight mark had not hurt himself in the slightest, it was covered with hair, and a touch of humanized sarcasm flashed in its scarlet mouse eyes, and it grinned at Zhou Yang and the others for a while.

Squeak squeak!

It let out a sharp rat cry from its mouth, and its figure instantly burrowed into the earth and disappeared from the sight of Zhou Yang and the others.

"What a cunning brute, you have learned to be smart, but if you want to play in front of the old man, you are still tender!"

Just as Zhou Yang was waiting to sacrifice the [Silver Gang Shield] magic weapon and concentrate on guarding against the [Gold Eating Rat] raid, the old man Zhou Quan seemed to sense something, and revealed the whereabouts of the beast in a low voice.

It turned out that after the [Gold Eater Rat] suffered a loss last time, he had already developed a fear of the old man's "Finger into Steel" spell, and he didn't think about fighting the two of them head-on again, but played the trick of "striking the east and attacking the west".

It seemed to hide its body and prepare to sneak attack the two, but in fact, it quietly escaped to the exit of the mine, chasing and killing the fleeing miners.

"Let's go to the mine exit. The old man let out a low snort, his body moved, and he directly put away his golden gourd sledgehammer and rushed towards the exit of the mine.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang, who realized it later, also hurriedly followed after him.

At the exit of the mine, the miners, who had just escaped from death, had no time to rejoice, when they saw a black rat the size of a wolf dog breaking out of the ground and opening its mouth to bite the nearest people.

"Run!"

The sudden shock frightened many miners, and then I don't know who shouted, and everyone suddenly ran away in all directions like frightened sparrows.

It's just that these two-legged mortals, how can they outrun the four-legged demon beasts.

I saw a huge black shadow on the ground rushing left and right, and the fleeing miners screamed like wheat and fell down in pieces, and in just a dozen breaths, dozens of miners fell nearly half.

If this continues, in less than a minute at most, these dozens of miners will all die under the claws of the [Gold Eater].

Fortunately, this did not happen.

When the [Gold Eater Rat] jumped onto the ground to kill, Zhou Yang and Zhou Quan, who realized that something was wrong, finally arrived on the ground.

Finger into steel!

Finger into steel!

The two looked at the black shadow chasing the miners all over the ground, and coincidentally used the spell of "Pointing to the Earth into Steel" to block the earth.

The difference is that Old Man Zhou Quan is releasing the spell he has learned, while Zhou Yang is using the second-order talisman given to him by Old Man Zhou Quan.

This second-order talisman sealed with the spell of "Pointing to the Earth into Steel" was drawn by the third elder of the Zhou family's "light" generation, and the second-order high-grade talisman maker Zhou Dan was personally painted, and it was specially asked for by the fifth brother after the old man Zhou Quan returned to the family last time.

At this time, the two "Pointing to the Earth into Steel" spells were used together, and in an instant, the soil within hundreds of square meters around the [Gold Eating Rat] was turned into fine steel, making its Escape Technique useless.

Then, before it could react from this shock, the old man Zhou Quan's golden gourd sledgehammer had already broken through the air and smashed into its head.

"Chiyan Sword, go!"

Zhou Yang snorted in his mouth, and didn't look at it dryly, and decisively sacrificed the second-order middle-grade flying sword "Chiyan Sword" that his father gave him on his fifteenth birthday.

Seeing a flash of firelight, the "Red Flame Sword" sacrificed by Zhou Yang slashed at the [Gold Eater Rat] who wanted to escape first.

However, just as the old man Zhou Quan said at the beginning, the [Gold Eating Rat] fur is tough, and it cannot be broken if it is not a second-order high-grade magic weapon.

The second-order mid-grade "Red Flame Sword" slashed at it, only slightly cutting off a wisp of rat hair, leaving a shallow white mark on its body, which could not hurt its true body at all.

However, Zhou Yang was not frustrated by this, because his sword was just thinking about containing the [Gold Eating Rat] and creating an opportunity for Zhou Quan's old man's golden gourd sledgehammer magic weapon.

Sure enough, being stopped by his sword, the [Gold Eater Rat] body inevitably delayed slightly, and it was this blow that made the golden melon sledgehammer that was chasing after it slammed heavily on its back.

Squeak –

With the heavy hammer added, the [Gold Eater Rat] suddenly fell to the ground with a scream, spurting blood wildly out, and there were even some fleshy and fleshy internal organ fragments in it.

The word "regret" in the old man Zhou Quan's "Regret Hammer" magic weapon is not called in vain, once it is hit by this magic weapon, it will stimulate the "Regret Land" magic power in the magic weapon, forming a powerful concussive force to cause secondary damage to the enemy.

[Gold Eating Rat] Because of the growth of devouring metal, the fur and bones are very tough and hard, and it is difficult to hurt it with idle magic weapons.

But no matter how strong its body's defense is, it is impossible for these organs to be as hard as metal, and after the concussive power stimulated by the "regretful" supernatural power falls on it, it instantly causes great damage to its internal organs, forming serious internal injuries.

This is the second time it has fallen under the same trick.

"Amazing, the third grandfather is really old and strong, old and strong, and Jiang is still old and spicy!"

Zhou Yang withdrew the flying sword and praised the old man with admiration on his face.

Of course, he is not a complete sycophant, the strength of the old man is indeed much stronger than him, after all, even if he doesn't care about the difference in magic weapons, the cultivation of the two is also a full three layers apart, one is the sixth layer in the middle stage of Qi training, and the other is the ninth layer in the late stage of Qi training.

And to be so praised by him, the first person of the young generation of the Zhou family, even if he knew that his words were touted and exaggerated, the old man Zhou Quan couldn't help but feel proud, and couldn't help but brush his beard and smiled:

"Hehehe, Xiao Jiu, you have won the award, the old man is just relying on his age to grow you a few years, and in another ten or eight years, Xiao Jiu, your cultivation will be improved, and then you will clean up such evil animals, and you will definitely be able to catch them." ”

"Then borrow the auspicious words of the third grandfather, and the nephew will definitely practice hard with the third grandfather as the goal. ”

Zhou Yang smiled slightly, and unceremoniously accepted the old man's praise.

The two of them were touting each other here, and no one cared about the badly injured [Gold Eater].

It wasn't until the [Gold Eater] vomited blood all the way and dragged his seriously injured body out of the area of influence of the "Finger into Steel" spell, and disappeared into the ground, that the two looked at each other and smiled, like a fox stealing a chicken, and a smile appeared on their faces.