There is no time for cultivation, and there is no year for cold and summer.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Yang had been stationed in the spiritual veins of the "Haoyang Cave" for eight years.

After eight years of hard cultivation, his cultivation has successfully advanced to another level, reaching the eighth level of qi training, which is only one step away from the ninth level of qi training.

Eight years is not a long time for immortal cultivators in the Qi cultivation period, but it is not short to say that it is short.

For Zhou Yang, eight years only allowed him to improve his cultivation from the seventh layer of Qi cultivation to the eighth layer of Qi training, but for the entire Zhou family, the changes that have taken place in the past eight years are extremely great.

First of all, the old man Zhou Quan and the old man Zhou Dan, who were stationed in the spiritual veins of Haoyang Cave with Zhou Yang, died one after another, these two old men were close to the limit of the monks in the Qi cultivation period, and they were injured in the battle with the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and they sat down one after another soon after the battle.

Because he practiced in the same spiritual place, Zhou Yang witnessed the lives of the two old men slowly coming to an end.

At that time, he watched the two old men's mana dissipate overnight, and his originally ruddy and healthy face was instantly wrinkled, and his white hair and teeth all fell out, and his heart was greatly shaken.

He originally thought that he would be much more open in matters of life and death as human beings in his two lives, but when he saw with his own eyes the two old men with powerful powers, who were talking and laughing with him the day before, and died overnight, he was afraid!

The great power of the immortal cultivator is attributed to himself, and even if the ninth-level cultivator cultivates his hands empty, he can easily slaughter tens of thousands of mortal armies.

But once Shouyuan comes to an end, it is no different from ordinary mortals, and it can't withstand the power called "years" after all.

If you don't build a foundation, the life limit of an immortal cultivator in the Qi cultivation period is one hundred and twenty years, and if you don't grow up, the Jindan Ancestor who has lived for thousands of years also has the day of sitting!

Phoenix!

Phoenix!

Phoenix!

It was after witnessing the death of the two old family members that Zhou Yang's heart had an unprecedented desire for the word "immortality".

He wanted to live forever, and he didn't want to be like the two old men of the family one day, who would be scattered for a hundred years, and die helplessly in endless unwillingness and regret.

He knew what the two old men were regretting in the end.

Old Man Zhou Quan and Old Man Zhou Dan both had the opportunity to attack the foundation building period, but they were both afraid of the extremely high mortality rate of failure, and no one had the courage to take that step, and they cut off the road to immortality.

Maybe before they sat down, the two old men would not feel that their original choice was wrong, after all, compared to the countless monks who died in front of the foundation building level at the age of fifty or sixty, they lived at least nearly twice as long.

But at the moment when they sat down at the end of their lives, the two old men must have regretted it, and their last unwilling and regretful eyes told Zhou Yang that they regretted it!

Zhou Yang doesn't want to regret it!

He didn't want to die one day like the two old men, in endless unwillingness and regret.

Therefore, he made up his mind at that time that as long as he had the opportunity to make further progress in his cultivation in this life, no matter how difficult and dangerous the road ahead was, he would never give up this opportunity.

It was also this indomitable and firm belief that made him smooth on the path of cultivation from the seventh layer of Qi training to the eighth layer of Qi training, and it took less than five years to break through, and then in the past three years, he reached the peak of the eighth layer of Qi training, and he was only one step away from the ninth layer of Qi training.

Of course, Zhou Yang's cultivation was able to improve so quickly, in addition to his own efforts and the spiritual veins of Haoyang Cave that were particularly suitable for him, it was also related to the elixir that his father Zhou Xuanhao gave him before leaving.

At that time, before Zhou Xuanhao left, he specially called Zhou Yang aside and gave him three different second-order high-grade elixirs, the effect of each elixir after taking one was equivalent to the effect of his own meditation and practice for half a year, and he took twelve pills in eight years.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that Zhou Yang has taken pills so frequently to improve his cultivation.

Prior to this, he had been following the instructions of his father and the old patriarch, and until the last moment of breaking through the realm, he would never use the power of the pill to improve his cultivation.

Although the elixir can greatly improve the cultivation of the immortal cultivator's mana, it will also leave "erysipelas" in the body of the immortal cultivator, if this "erysipelas" accumulates too much, it will not only make the immortal cultivator's mana full of impurities, affect the future realm breakthrough, but also damage the immortal cultivator's body and reduce the longevity.

For immortal cultivators in the Qi cultivation period, the harm of "erysipelas" is particularly great, if you take too many elixirs to improve your cultivation before building the foundation, and you can't get rid of the "erysipelas" in time, even if you take the "Zhuji Dan" to build the foundation in the future, the success rate will be reduced a lot.

Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, those who have a heritage of cultivating immortals or the predecessors of the immortal cultivation family will explain clearly to the younger generations the dangers of "erysipelas" since they were young, and strictly control the distribution of pills, so as not to let some people not be able to resist the temptation of rapid improvement in cultivation and take risks.

Only those casual cultivators who have not been reminded by their teachers and have made a fortune will happily buy a large number of elixirs to improve their cultivation without knowing the dangers of "erysipelas", thinking that in this way they can catch up with those immortal cultivation geniuses with better qualifications than themselves in cultivation.

But they didn't know that when they took this step, they had completely lost hope of catching up with others.

Zhou Yang had taken very little elixir before, and the little bit of "erysipelas" in his body had long been refined in years of penance, so Zhou Xuanhao dared to give him the elixir with confidence.

It's a pity that even so, he has accumulated a lot of "erysipelas" because he has taken pills many times in the past eight years, resulting in the emergence of a cultivation barrier, and he will not be able to break through to the ninth layer of qi cultivation in a short period of time.

However, according to Zhou Yang's own estimates, this bit of "erysipelas" will not affect his future path, as long as he no longer takes this kind of elixir to improve his cultivation in the next ten or eight years, these residual erysipelas in his body will naturally be washed away by the aura of heaven and earth after he builds the foundation.

"Eight years have passed, and this [Earth Yuan Spirit Milk] is about to be condensed, I don't know what kind of thinking about my father!"

In the "Haoyang Cave", Zhou Yang looked at the milky yellow stalactite pillar in the stone room with complicated eyes, and his mood was very complicated.

The milky yellow stalactite pillar is like a fine jade, warm as jade, exuding a faint brilliance, Zhou Yang, who stays here day and night, can clearly perceive that there is a familiar energy in the stone pillar that is converging and strengthening, that kind of energy is not unfamiliar to him, it is the leyline aura that he once absorbed.

According to the records about the [Earth Yuan Spiritual Milk] that he had seen in the "Treasures of Heaven and Earth" given by his father Zhou Xuanhao over the years, once the earth vein aura in the stalactite pillar converged and strengthened to a point, there would be [Earth Yuan Spirit Milk] overflowing from the surface of the stalactite pillar.

In addition to the effects that the old patriarch said, this [Earth Yuan Spirit Milk] is also a rare spiritual object for demon beasts to improve their cultivation, and the reason why that [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] was able to become a third-order demon beast was most likely the result of devouring a large amount of [Earth Yuan Spirit Milk].

Zhou Yang didn't know whether to persuade his father Zhou Xuanhao to take the [Earth Yuan Spirit Milk] to impact the foundation, but now that he has witnessed the two old men of the Zhou family, he hopes that his father can take a risk.

Of course, born as a son of man, even if he has this idea in his heart, he will definitely not say it, and can only secretly hope that his father can figure it out.

"I don't know how the second uncle and their construction of the oasis are doing, anyway, I can't break through my cultivation now, so let's help them build the oasis together while practicing alchemy!"

Letting go of his concern about his father Zhou Xuanhao's foundation building, Zhou Yang's heart moved, but he was a little quiet.

In the past few years, although the Zhou family has successively had Zhou Qian, Zhou Quan, and Zhou Dan, three elders of the "light" generation, passed away.

However, there are also four "Xuan" character cultivators, Zhou Xuantai, Zhou Xuanbin, Zhou Xuanlin, and Zhou Xuanyan, who have broken through to the ninth level of qi training, and replaced the three "light" character monk elders who have passed away, and the number of elders of the Zhou family has risen instead of falling, reaching nine.

And during the time of Zhou Yang's retreat, the elders of the Zhou family also discovered the reserves of the Red Flame Iron Vein near the spiritual vein of the "Haoyang Cave", and this vein turned out to be a relatively rare large vein!

If it weren't for the lack of foundation-building monks who could sit in the spiritual veins of the "Haoyang Cave", I am afraid that the old patriarch would immediately organize a large number of people to come over to develop the ore veins.

Even so, after the deliberation of the elders of the Zhou family, the family also migrated thousands of mortals from the Yuquan Lake Oasis to the spiritual vein of the "Haoyang Cave", and built a huge earthen city on the ground for these mortals to live in.

Of course, the external statement is that these people have moved to the Qingping Mountain Oasis, and the Zhou family wants to increase the mining of refined iron ore.

With the arrival of these thousands of mortals, the spiritual vein of the "Haoyang Cave" finally gained some popularity, and then with the help of Zhou Xuantai and Zhou Xuanyan, the two new elders, the mortals and monks of the Zhou family worked together to divert the water of the underground dark river to a low-lying place in the desert, artificially creating a desert lake with an area of hundreds of square meters.

After having the lake, Zhou Xuantai and others began to organize the mortals of the Zhou family to carry water and water to water the sandy land and plant drought-tolerant plants by carrying water on their shoulders and hands, and then cast a birth spell to promote the growth of these ordinary plants.

It is worth mentioning that the ordinary plants spawned by the immortal cultivators with spells cannot survive for a long time, and the fruits and grains produced by the spell-spawned plants cannot be eaten by mortals.

But when these plants dry up and die, they can be used to fertilize the land.

After years of experimentation and summary, the immortal cultivators of the boundless sand sea have long developed a complete set of oasis construction plans, as long as the geographical environment is suitable, as long as they are willing to invest manpower and material resources, it is not a utopian dream to turn a desert into an oasis.

Zhou Yang was very quiet at this moment, and when he left the stone room of retreat, he walked outside the stone room, only to see that in the empty underground grotto, only Zhou Xuanbin, the fifth uncle who was protecting the Dharma for him, was there to close his eyes and meditate.

Of the four Zhou family cultivators here in the "Haoyang Cave", except for Zhou Yang, the other three were already cultivating Qi at the ninth level, and their mana could not be increased by another point.

Therefore, in order not to disturb Zhou Yang's cultivation on weekdays, they all practice in the caves outside, and every day they will take turns to assign one person here to be Zhou Yang's Dharma protector for retreat.

This kind of treatment is no one in the entire Zhou family except Zhou Yang.

Zhou Yang also felt the heavy pressure because of this, and he knew that only by succeeding in building the foundation could he be worthy of the efforts of these family elders.