Zhou Yang started refining from a first-order puppet beast, and chose an iron bull puppet made of refined iron as the main material, this kind of puppet beast has no other advantages, that is, it is wear-resistant and saves spiritual power, as long as a low-grade spirit stone can be driven, if an ordinary first-order demon beast fights with it, it is basically bound to lose.

However, this is of no avail.

Even a first-order puppet beast needs to be commanded with divine sense, and divine consciousness can only be possessed by Qi cultivation stage cultivators.

And with the weak divine sense of ordinary Qi cultivation early stage cultivators, they can only command this puppet to fight with people by riding on the back of an iron bull puppet.

Therefore, the puppet beast is actually not for the Qi cultivation period monks to play at all, and the Qi cultivation period monks can't afford to play this kind of money-burning and high-end thing, whether it is their own cultivation or personal financial resources.

And even though Zhou Yang didn't lack this spirit stone, he didn't waste much time and materials on the first-order puppet beasts, after spending three months refining a few first-order puppet beasts, he stopped refining the first-order puppet beasts and began to delve into the refining methods of the second-order puppet beasts with all his might.

The refining cost of a second-order low-grade puppet beast exceeded two hundred spirit stones, and when Zhou Yang had a mine at home, he was very cautious when refining this kind of magic weapon, and he would not refine it casually.

In this way, after more than half a year of study, he successfully refined the first second-order lower-grade puppet wolf beast that could attack with a mouth spray wind blade, and it happened that Zhou Guangxiang also completed the cultivation of the innate realm at this time, and successfully practiced mana to break through to the first level of the qi training period, and this puppet wolf beast was given to him by Zhou Yang as the first magic weapon in his life.

Since the Zhang Yunpeng poaching incident, Zhou Yang has been concerned about the education of these doll monks of the Zhou family, not only often in his free time, the two brothers and sisters Zhou Guangxiang and Zhou Xiang are called to their side to ask for warmth, refining some gadgets and toys for them to play, but also often going to the school to give ideological education lessons to other Zhou family doll monks.

And he also referred to this knowledge in his previous life, and took the time to compile a relevant book and handed it to Zhou Xuantai, the current great elder of the Zhou family, so that he could often make up lessons for these baby monks.

At this time, Zhou Yang couldn't help but think of the old men of the Zhou family who had passed away with the word "light", those old people were the people who had really experienced the Zhou family's prosperity to weakness, and their own experiences were extremely educational for the younger generations of monks.

Only after enjoying the convenience and benefits brought by the prosperity of the family, will the family be more cherished after the family is weakened, and will want to make the family prosperous again through their own efforts, so that their descendants will not follow their old path again.

Zhou Yang's generation of monks, since childhood, has established a sense of belonging and identity to the family in the words and deeds of the elders of these families.

And not long after Zhou Yang refined the first second-order lower-grade puppet beast, the news that the old patriarch Zhou Minghan had successfully broken through to the eighth layer of the foundation also came back, but because Zhou Minghan received a lot of refining orders after the exchange meeting, he still had to stay in the Baisha River Oasis for the time being to refine weapons for others with the help of the earth fire room there, and he couldn't return to the family immediately.

In addition, Zhou Xuanhao also successfully promoted his cultivation to the second floor of foundation building in the past six months, and finally he was not thrown too far by Zhou Yang's son in cultivation.

A year later, Zhou Minghan completed the refining order he had received and returned to Yuquan Peak, and also began to study the puppet beast refining method.

With his attainments in refining weapons, he quickly surpassed Zhou Yang in the refining of puppet beasts, refining second-order middle-grade puppet beasts before Zhou Yang, and instructed Zhou Yang on the refining skills of puppet beasts.

Under Zhou Minghan's guidance, Zhou Yang finally refined a second-order middle-grade puppet beast after another half a year.

As soon as this second-order middle-grade puppet beast was successfully refined, Zhou Yang had a feeling that as long as he could refine a second-order high-grade puppet beast, he could try to refine a third-order magic weapon.

This discovery made him extremely excited, and he immediately put down everything and devoted all his energy to the refining of the puppet beast.

The hard work paid off, and after refining the second-order middle-grade puppet beast for a year and a half, Zhou Yang finally refined the first second-order high-grade puppet beast in his life, a sturdy and beating-resistant "Xuantie Turtle" puppet after failing many times and consuming materials worth thousands of spirit stones.

This kind of "Xuantie Turtle" puppet beast is huge, and it is not too crowded to stand on the back of a dozen people, and its tortoise shell and tortoise shell are all made of second-order spiritual gold Xuaniron, which has extremely strong defense, and this kind of puppet beast will also use two defensive spells: "Earth Armor Technique" and "Golden Light Talisman Technique".

Best of all, this "Black Iron Turtle" puppet beast also has a Tibetan space in its belly, which can open a small door for a person to hide in its belly and manipulate the puppet beast.

Basically, if a mid-Qi cultivation cultivator could hide in the belly of this "Xuan Tie Turtle", it would be difficult for an ordinary Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer cultivator to break through the puppet beast's defenses and attack him.

Of course, this "Xuantie Turtle" is so powerful, and it consumes a lot of materials, and the cost price is as high as 800 spirit stones, which is comparable to the price of a high-quality second-order high-grade magic weapon, and the net income of the refined iron ore in the Qingping Mountain of the Zhou Family can also refine a big guy in a year.

However, for Zhou Yang, these efforts are worth it, after refining the "Xuantie Turtle", he did have a great harvest in the refining tool, in order to digest this harvest, he put the "Xuantie Turtle" into the family treasury at a preferential price of 1,500 family contribution points, and then closed the cave and closed it.

A month later, Zhou Yang walked out of the retreat room and officially began refining the third-order magic weapon.

As for what kind of third-order magic weapon he should refine, Zhou Yang had already made a decision, and the materials had already been prepared.

At this moment, he sat cross-legged in the refining room, and with a wave of his hand, he took out several materials.

The third-order spirit gold "Fire Crystal Iron", the third-order spirit gold "Red Xuan Essence Gold", and the special spirit gold that he had refined from the feces of the second-order high-grade demon beast "Gold Eating Rat".

The magic weapon he wants to refine this time, "Fire Crystal Iron" is the main material, and "Red Xuan Essence Gold" is to increase the hardness and toughness of the magic weapon, as for the special spirit gold, its effect is not easy to say before the magic weapon is refined.

Refining magic weapons, the first step is naturally to purify the impurities in the materials, Zhou Yang waved his sleeves and released the third-order lower grade refining instrument Ding furnace "Phoenix Pattern Purple Gold Ding", and then he shook his hand, and a pale golden "Qianyang True Fire" fell under the instrument Ding and burned.

When the instrument tripod was heated to a sufficient temperature by the real fire, Zhou Yang made a magic decision to lift the lid of the instrument tripod, and threw a piece of fiery red metal the size of an adult's head into the instrument tripod and tempered it.

As a third-order fire attribute spirit gold, "Fire Crystal Iron" has extremely high heat resistance, and if you use ordinary earth fire and the true fire of a monk in the foundation building period, it will take ten days and a half months to melt.

But under the scorching of the "Qianyang True Fire", whose temperature was even higher than that of the Purple Heart Earth, it began to melt in less than a day.

After Zhou Yang found that the materials in the instrument tripod began to melt, he began to play the refining method to quench the impurities in the material, and as he played one by one, wisps of black smoke began to slowly rise from the hole in the middle of the lid above the instrument tripod.

These black smoke are all produced by the impurities in the material after being refined at high temperatures, and they have strong metal toxicity, so as soon as the black smoke comes out, it is carried by the ventilation array arranged in the refining room and dispersed into the outside air.

Impurities are not only discharged in the form of black smoke, some impurities that are difficult to refine, or raw materials that are not pure enough, need Zhou Yang to peel them off from the material with the refining method, and directly extract the device in the form of liquid and throw it into the quenching pool to turn into waste.

By the time a large mass of "fire crystal iron" was quenched, three days had passed.

After refining, the color of the "Fire Crystal Iron" was more bright and transparent, and the spiritual power aura emitted was much stronger than before, and at the same time, the volume was reduced by nearly one-third.

Zhou Yang did not continue to refine other materials at this time, but meditated first to recover the consumed mana, although the efficiency of his refining weapon with the "Qianyang True Fire" was faster than that of using fire, but the consumption of mana was also large, and it was impossible to continue refining the weapon for ten days and a half months like in the earth fire room.

A day later, Zhou Yang waited until his mana had recovered to eighty percent before he began refining the remaining two materials.

By the time he had refined all three materials, eight days had passed.

After the material is refined, the refining really begins.

Zhou Yang rested for three days, and only after his mana and spirit had recovered to a full state did he finally start the final refining work.

In order to succeed in refining in one go, when he was refining the weapon this time, he directly used the ability of the "Qianyang Treasure Bead" to greatly increase the temperature of the "Qianyang True Fire", and it only took less than half a day to refine all the three materials into metal liquid.

Then, according to the records on the refining atlas, he fused the three metal liquids together evenly in different proportions to form a ring composed of metal liquids, and slowly lowered the flame temperature to let the ring gradually solidify, but did not let it completely solidify into a solid, but was in a molten state, and maintained this state all the time.

At the same time, he kept playing the refining magic in his hand, and cooperated with his divine sense to make the final correction of the metal ratio in the ring, and after the correction was completed, he successively arranged the three prohibitions in the ring with a diameter of less than one foot in one breath, and finally collected the flames, causing the temperature in the weapon to drop rapidly.

"It's done!"

In the refining room, Zhou Yang looked at the instrument in front of him with a tired expression, and a thick joy appeared in his eyes.

At this time, he didn't need to open the lid of the tripod to take out the magic weapon inside, he could also sense the fluctuations of the spiritual power of the magic weapon hidden in the ding, which showed that he had succeeded in refining the weapon this time, and he had been successfully promoted to a third-order refiner!

However, he did not immediately take out the magic weapon in the Ding Furnace, but placed the Ding Ding there, meditated on his own and recovered his mana.

This step has a name, called "pregnancy".

After the high-level magic weapon is successfully refined, it is generally taken out after a period of "pregnancy", and there will be many differences in the power of the magic weapon that has passed through the "pregnant device" and the magic weapon that has not gone through the "pregnant device".

It is said that some high-level refiners also have a unique secret method of "pregnancy weapon", and can improve the grade of the magic weapon that has been successfully refined again through a long period of "pregnancy".

In the legend of the cultivation world, there is a certain Yuan infancy power after refining a sixth-order magic weapon, and then placing the instrument on the mouth of the earth fire "pregnant weapon" for a thousand years, and finally it should have been a sixth-order lower grade magic weapon, directly because of this thousand-year-old "pregnant weapon" has been promoted to the sixth-order upper grade!

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't expect to use the "Pregnancy Weapon" to upgrade the third-order lower-grade magic weapon that he had successfully refined to the third-order middle grade, he just didn't want the third-order magic weapon he had refined for the first time to be flawed.

Moreover, the "pregnancy" time of the third-order magic weapon does not need to be too long, as short as three or five days, as long as eight or nine days, Zhou Yang opened the lid on the seventh day and took out the magic weapon inside.

I saw that he shot out a mana and fell on the tripod, and after opening the lid of the tripod, a red flame rushed out inside, revealing the image of a fire sparrow.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and the fire sparrow turned into a crimson ring magic weapon with flame patterns and put it on his left wrist.

"Hmm, as the first third-order magic weapon I refined, of course I have to give you a domineering name, since the image of your furnace is a fire sparrow, then I will call you [Vermilion Bird Ring] in the future!"

With his right hand, he gently stroked the metal ring on his wrist that still exuded a hint of warmth, and with a smile on his face, he gave this magic weapon a name that he thought was relatively high-end and atmospheric.