Red Fox Ridge, Ziyun Cave.

When Zhou Yang broke through and walked out of Ziyun Cave, he was already a serious foundation-building cultivator.

At this time, it has been nine years since he retreated and practiced, and it has been sixteen years since he was promoted to the sixth floor of the foundation building last time!

It took him sixteen years to advance from the sixth floor of the foundation building to the seventh floor of the foundation building, which was something he had not thought of in advance.

Mainly, after his cultivation reached the sixth floor of the Foundation Establishment, the third-order low-grade elixir such as "Yuanyuan Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill" no longer had any effect on him.

In addition, he took too many of these kinds of medicinal herbs. Although he could use "Dianyang Xianguang" to get rid of erysipelas, his body's resistance could not be eliminated.

Therefore, during the nine years of seclusion, he basically relied on his own self-cultivation, raising his mana little by little to the top of the sixth floor of the foundation, and then successfully broke through with the help of the third-order high-grade spiritual pill "Xuanqing Pill". Break through to the late stage of foundation building.

This kind of self-cultivation to increase mana, although it takes a lot of time, but the foundation is very solid, and it is not completely unacceptable for Zhou Yang, who has only passed one-third of his life.

At this time, he walked out of Ziyun Cave, and his powerful consciousness swept across the entire Red Fox Ridge, and he quickly knew the changes that had taken place on the mountain in the past nine years.

I saw that on the Red Fox Ridge at this time, most of the weeds and trees that had grown wildly had been cleaned up. From the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, pieces of spiritual fields had been opened up neatly, and plants were planted. The "Golden Pearl Rice" tree, at a rough glance, has at least hundreds of acres.

In a small valley on the mountainside, more than a dozen spirit trees were transplanted here by spirit planters, each occupying an area and growing alone, without competing with other plants and trees for sunshine and rain.

At the same time, near the top of the mountain where Ziyun Cave is located, a dozen or so medicinal fields in the east and west have been sparsely cultivated, and seedlings of various elixir have been planted on them.

Compared with the low-level spiritual plants such as "Golden Pearl Rice", many spiritual medicines have almost harsh requirements on the growth environment.

For example, the vine mother plant of "Purple Cloud Fruit" needs to grow in a dark cave with rich spiritual energy. Some elixir like to grow in the shade of a backlit tree, while some elixir can only grow normally under sunlight.

Therefore, when the spiritual planters are planting elixir, they must open up medicinal fields in various places, and then plant the elixir that is most suitable for the environment of the medicinal field.

Basically, the higher-level elixir, the higher the requirements for its growth environment.

Therefore, those high-level elixir in the Xiu Xian world are either collected from the wild, or flowed from the elixir gardens of those sects.

Only those sects occupied a large enough territory and possessed enough spiritual mountains and blessed land, can they find a place that meets the living environment of high-level elixir to grow these high-level elixir.

Some sects with real heritage, such as Xuanyang Xianzong and other sects, will simply spend a lot of effort to lay out formations to change the climate of the four seasons, interfere with the power of heaven and earth with manpower, and artificially create a variety of elixir growth. environment.

However, Zhou Yang's consciousness swept through the entire Chihu Ridge, but he didn't see the figure of the Taoist companion Xiao Ying, nor the figure of the griffin, thinking that he was going out to do something.

So he immediately took out the communication flying sword to Xiao Ying and explained his exit, and then went to the fire bat cave at the foot of the mountain.

The bat dung in the fire bat cave has been cleaned up a long time ago, and now this cave has become the residence of the flying fire bats domesticated by the Zhou family.

Zhou Yuanliang, the animal trainer of the Zhou family, now lives outside the fire bat cave and is responsible for taking care of the flying fire bats that have been initially trained.

As for the other Zhou family animal trainer, Zhou Xuanzhao, because of his advanced age, he has now returned to the Yuquan Lake oasis to take care of his life.

"Patriarch, after years of domestication by me and Uncle Seventeen, four of those underage flying fire bats were successfully domesticated, one male and five females. The rest of the flying fire bats either died during the domestication process, or they were slaughtered by us after they were determined to be unable to be domesticated. already."

"In addition, of the four pregnant female adult flying fire bats, except for two that successfully gave birth to five live cubs, the remaining two gave birth to dead cubs. Now the cubs have been domesticated and grown into juveniles. ."

"So now there are ten flying fire bats living in this fire bat cave, seven females and three males!"

Outside the Firebat Cave, when Zhou Yang, who had been in seclusion for many years, came out, Zhou Yuanliang congratulated the ninth brother, and at the same time, he also took the initiative to share the achievements of these years.

Hearing that only ten flying fire bats were successfully domesticated, Zhou Yang felt a little regretful, but he also knew that Zhou Yuanliang and others must have done their best.

So he didn't blame him for it, instead he reached out and patted Zhou Yuanliang's shoulder with a face of approval and said, "It's hard work, fifteenth brother, you have successfully domesticated the flying fire bats and made great contributions to the family. When I discuss it with my great-grandfather, I will definitely You will be rewarded for your merits!"

He praised Zhou Yuanliang, the clan brother, and Zhou Yang inquired from him that Xiao Ying and others had gone to the "Yeguang Town". break out.

And it was the time when he talked to Zhou Yuanliang. Xiao Ying, who received the message from his flying sword, also sent him a message.

After reading the information from Xiao Ying, his expression condensed, and he immediately released his flying sword and flew towards the mine.

"Zhou Lang, you are finally out!"

In Yeguang Town, when Zhou Yang dropped the sword light, Xiao Ying jumped into his arms with a look of joy and hugged him.

The two hadn't seen each other for nine years. This was the longest separation since the two met. No wonder she, who was always shy, couldn't help but do such a thing in public this time.

"Ying'er, please tell your husband, what happened here? Is there really a plague?"

Zhou Yang hugged the girl's hand and patted the girl's shoulder lightly, but he was asking about business.

Hearing him talking about this, the excitement on Xiao Ying's face faded, and then she released her hands that hugged his body and looked at him and said in a low voice, "It's not a plague, it's a poison, the drinking water of these mortals has been poisoned! "

Zhou Yang's expression suddenly changed when he heard this. He looked at Xiao Ying with an ugly face and asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure it was poisoned? Did you find out who did it? Was it artificial or a monster?"

"Now the poison in the mortals has been solved by the concubine's solution to the detoxification elixir. As for who did the poison, the concubine is still looking for it. For now, the possibility of monsters should be the greatest!"

Xiao Ying talked about her use of detoxification elixir to help mortals detoxify, and answered Zhou Yang's question directly with facts.

If it wasn't for poisoning, the detoxification elixir could not have an immediate effect.

"I know about this, and I will investigate it clearly."

Zhou Yang nodded solemnly, and even decided to investigate the truth of the matter himself.

He also agrees with Xiao Ying's speculation about the poisoning of the monster, but he is more afraid that it is man-made. If it is man-made, the situation will be very complicated. He must find out the murderer of the poison!

In order to find out the murderer, Zhou Yangming left Yeguang Town with Xiao Ying and others on the surface, but in fact he went back to the town secretly and hid his breath with the "Golden Chan Breathing Technique", and then released his consciousness to The entire town and surrounding wilderness were shrouded in it.

To this day, Zhou Yang's spiritual awareness has reached a distance of ten miles, and generally the first-floor cultivator of the Zifu who has just opened up the Zifu successfully has only 12 to 13 miles of spiritual awareness.

For a ninth-floor cultivator like Zhou Minghan, the coverage of divine consciousness is only four or five miles away, which is twice as bad as Zhou Yang!

With such a powerful consciousness, Zhou Yang no longer has any doubts about whether he can successfully open up the Purple Mansion in the future.

If even he can't open up the Purple Mansion successfully, then it's even more impossible for other cultivators to succeed.

And when he was monitoring the entire town with his powerful spiritual sense, he also counted the number of mortals here, and found that after nine years had passed, the number of mortals settled in the town, including the villages outside the town, had exceeded 20,000 people.

And he remembered very clearly that according to his and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's plan, the number of mortals who migrated to the new oasis from the Zhou family was only over 12,000!

"These mortals can really give birth!"

The corners of Zhou Yang's eyes twitched slightly, feeling quite a headache about this matter.

Compared to encouraging the Zhou family cultivator to have more offspring, he took the opposite attitude towards mortals having offspring.

The land of the oasis is limited. If the number of mortals expands too fast, it will increase the productivity in a short time, but in fact, it will overdraw the development potential of the oasis in advance.

If this matter is not stopped, within thirty years, the new oasis will become the next Yuquan Lake oasis!

"You can't go on like this. When you go back, let Ying'er and her father develop a sterilization prescription~lightnovelpub.net~ Those women who have already given birth to three children must be sterilized!"

Zhou Yang gritted his teeth secretly, his heart became ruthless, and he directly made a decision that could be said to be cruel and ruthless.

As for why women are sterilized instead of men, of course, it is because the matter of having offspring is entirely determined by women, not men.

What would happen if a family man was sterilized and the woman became pregnant?

If he squatted outside Yeguang Town like this, Zhou Yang would have been squatting for more than ten days.

He was very patient. Even if he didn't find anything for more than ten days, he didn't get discouraged. He just changed positions every day to squat.

After 24 days of squatting and guarding like this, Zhou Yang finally found the poisoned murderer.

To his relief, the poisoned murderer was indeed a monster, not the human being he was most worried about.

It is an extremely rare second-order high-grade monster "Illusory Jade Butterfly". This monster usually inhabits various spiritual jade mines, feeds on spiritual jade, and only leaves its lair on the night of the full moon. Go to the ground to absorb the power of moonlight to practice.

"Illusory Jade Butterfly" itself is not poisonous, but when it is cultivating, there will be a kind of butterfly powder on its body. fall.

When Zhou Yang saw the "Illusory Jade Butterfly", this monster was dancing on the upper reaches of a small stream where mortals fetch water for drinking in Yeguang Town.

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