Absolute desert.

After stepping into the Jueling Desert again with the Golden Core level of cultivation, Zhou Chun's discomfort became even more intense.

The spiritual energy here is too thin, and the higher the level of monks, the more uncomfortable they will feel here.

Because the higher the cultivation level of the immortal, the greater the dependence on the aura environment.

This is why it is difficult to raise dragons in shallow water.

Fortunately, Zhou Chun doesn't need to stay here permanently.

After identifying the direction, he flew straight towards the abyss canyon containing the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore.

With his current level of cultivation, he had reached the outside of the abyss canyon in less than half a day.

"Stone, it's up to you. Work hard and find all the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ores underground here. When the [Guchen Pill] is refined, I will be the first to let you try it.

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Above the canyon, after Zhou Chun released the golden-armored mountain turtle stone, he immediately encouraged and promised him to work hard in mining.

Although these spiritual pets obey his orders 100%, sometimes giving them appropriate rewards and promises can also increase their enthusiasm for work.

A typical example is Mu Mei.

Now the wooden charm is hiding in the purple mulberry tree in Zhouchun Cave, sleeping and evolving. When it wakes up, it will definitely be a third-level high-grade monster.

And when it followed Zhou Chun, it was only a second-level high-grade monster.

In this short period of a hundred years, its cultivation level has been upgraded to three levels in a row. At this time, its loyalty to Zhou Chun is no worse than that of a spiritual pet like the Golden-winged Tiger that it has raised since childhood.

Now even if Zhou Chun lets it go freely, I'm afraid it may not be willing!

Sure enough, after getting the stone promised by Zhou Chun, he was instantly full of energy.

It had been promoted to a third-level mid-level monster at this time, and its strength had improved compared to before. It immediately escaped underground to search for the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore.

After half a day passed like this, Shitou found more than a dozen pieces of [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore for Zhou Chun.

After bringing up all the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ores that he could bring out within his own strength, Shitou used the earth escape technique to take Zhou Chun to those gold-hidden places that were inaccessible by his own strength.

Compared with Zhou Chun's current cultivation strength in the Golden Core stage, the strength of his third-level mid-level monster is indeed much lower.

In those dangerous places that it could not break into, Zhou Chun easily entered them and brought out the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore after using the [Moon Toad Orb] to display the "Taiyin Protective Immortal Clothes".

In addition to the [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore, Zhou Chun also discovered some extremely high-quality fine gold ore, which he also dug out and took away.

You must know that the magic weapon and spiritual material Jinjing is made from fine gold.

If Zhou Chun's natal magic weapon [Ten Thousand Transformations Golden Cauldron] is successfully refined, a large amount of gold essence can be refined into it in the future to enhance its power.

Therefore, he would never have too much of a magical material like Jin Jing.

To be realistic, Lin Hongyu definitely has no hope of conceiving a baby in the future, but she is also a cultivator of fire attribute skills. The condensed elixir fire is most suitable for refining magical materials such as gold essence and iron essence.

As long as Zhou Chun collects enough fine gold ore, he can ask her to use some of her spare time to help him refine gold essence in the future.

Even if Zhou Mingde successfully forms the elixir in the future, he can do this kind of thing!

After staying in the Jueling Desert for almost seven days, Zhou Chun finally collected all the [Earth Mother Black Gold] and high-quality fine gold ore that could be found on the Golden Armored Mountain Turtle Stone, and then returned to Tuyun with satisfaction.

ridge.

The amount of [Earth Mother Black Gold] ore collected this time is extremely large. The amount of [Earth Mother Black Gold] obtained after smelting is completely enough for Zhou Chun to refine the natal magic weapon [Ten Thousand Transformations Golden Cauldron], and there will even be a lot more.

remain.

When the time comes, he can completely use this item to replace [Geng Gold], [Tianyi Xuan Gold] and other top-level spiritual gold to enhance the power of his natal magic weapon.

It's just that smelting [Earth Mother Black Gold] can only be done if you have a golden elixir level cultivation level, and this matter involves some weapon refining.

Therefore, Zhou Chun began to take some time to practice the art of refining weapons.

When he refines his natal magic weapon later, he also needs to improve his weapon refining skills to at least the level where he can refine second-level magic weapons. At this time, it can be regarded as a dual-use thing.

However, with the cultivation of the Golden Core Stage to practice the art of refining weapons, and the fact that materials can be used freely, Zhou Chun's progress is naturally very rapid.

In just two years, he was able to refine a second-level mid-grade magical weapon.

At this point, it was not difficult for him to smelt [Earth Mother Black Gold], and he immediately began to smelt this top-level spiritual gold.

At the same time, after more than two years of seclusion, Zhou Xinlan also successfully opened up the Purple Mansion and broke through to the Purple Mansion stage.

The father and son's twin purple mansions are a good story in both the Zhou family and Jingguo, and have attracted the envy of many clan members.

Zhou Chun was naturally not stingy with this relatively close junior. After Zhou Xinlan came out of seclusion, he summoned him and gave him the third-level high-grade defensive magic weapon [Xuan Gang Pearl] that he used.

After Zhou Xinlan's cultivation broke through to the Zifu stage, her alchemy skills also improved due to her breakthrough in cultivation, reaching the level of Zhou Mingshan, the former eldest elder of the Zhou family.

This can be regarded as making up for the losses caused by Zhou Zhengyuan's failure to open up the Zifu.

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Yunzhou, Qiansheling.

Qiansheling is located on the border of Yunzhou. It used to be the dividing line between the wilderness and Jingguo.

After the victory of the Dragon Sect in the southern conquest of Jingguo, the area expanded thousands of miles, and this place was considered to be included in Jingguo.

However, because the Thousand Snake Ridge is densely populated with venomous snakes and there are snake caves everywhere under the mountain, few families and forces dare to come here to establish a branch base.

Therefore, this place has become an adventure place for some casual cultivators.

After all, the snake demon is full of treasures, whether it is snake scales, snake eyes, snake gallbladder, snake blood and other body materials, as well as snake eggs and other items, they are all very easy to sell.

And in such places where monsters and beasts gather, the presence of Zhou family monks is naturally inevitable.

On this day, Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Xinchen, two monks in the foundation-building period of the Zhou family, personally led a team of twenty or thirty people into Thousand Snake Ridge.

This time they came for a snake nest. Someone found two second-order fire-scaled pythons and a large area of ​​fire snake grass in the snake nest.

Zhou Xinyan contracted two monsters, one was the mid-level monster Blue Feathered Fire Kite that was rewarded to him by his family, and the other was the Red Flame Dragon Python.

Among them, the Blue Feather Fire Kite was hatched from his Qi Refining Stage, and its foundation was good enough, so it has now been cultivated by him into a second-level mid-level monster.

However, the Red Flame Dragon Python is a spiritual pet that was hatched after he successfully established the foundation. It is also of the bloodline of a low-level monster, and it is still stuck in the first-order high-grade monster realm.

With Zhou Xinyan's potential and cultivation, he certainly cannot tolerate his Red Flame Dragon Python staying at the first level. Over the years, he has been planning to help him break through and advance.

The two second-order fire-scale pythons discovered this time were what he believed to be opportunities for spiritual pets to break through.

When the fire scale python reaches the second level, a trace of fire dragon bloodline will awaken in the body. If the snake gall can be mixed with a 300-year-old dragon transforming grass and swallowed by the red flame dragon python, there is a 60-70% chance that the red flame can be transformed into a python.

Dragon python's evolution breaks through to the second level.

It's just that the two second-level fire scale pythons are extraordinary in strength, and they are also the king of the fire scale python tribe. Although Zhou Xinyan's cultivation is only one step away from the late stage of foundation building, he is not sure that he can take them down alone.

So after thinking about it for a while, he reported his needs to his family and asked for help.

So after Zhou Xinyi consulted Zhou Chun, she arranged the Thousand Snake Ridge training operation and asked Zhou Xinchen to lead a group of young monks from the Zhou family to assist Zhou Xinyan in completing the task of exterminating the snake cave.

"Most of the demonic snakes of Thousand Snakes are highly venomous. Although we are fully prepared this time and have niece Xiaolian who can help detoxify them, you must not be careless or fall prey to them easily!"

"You must know that you will go out to practice alone in the future, but no one will help you detoxify at any time!"

After entering Thousand Snakes, Zhou Xinyan gave instructions to his entourage with a solemn expression.

This operation is mainly to help him, so he must not let anything happen to anyone.

Otherwise, let alone his conscience, he would have to pay for the pension and compensation out of his own pocket.

Although he has a high-grade spiritual root qualification and receives a lot of preferential treatment in his family, in fact, because he does not have the support of blood relatives and elders like Zhou Zhengyong and others, after he successfully builds the foundation, he has to work hard on his own.

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At least in terms of assisting in the development of spiritual objects in the Purple Mansion, the family can no longer give him free use of the Foundation Establishment Pill, and he must use his own good deeds to redeem it.

Fortunately, these Zhou family monks have been educated in the school since childhood, and they are all very obedient. Zhou Xinyan's cultivation status can also intimidate them. At this time, they are all very obedient, and no one dares to act recklessly.

In this way, on the way to the fire scale python nest, Zhou Xinyan and Zhou Xinyi will specifically look for some first-order demon snakes to train these juniors, first to let them adapt to the life-and-death struggle with demon snakes.

But after some observation, Zhou Xinyan frowned and couldn't help but said to Zhou Xinchen: "Although our family is famous for its beast control skills, these juniors purely use contracted monsters to fight these monster snakes. How can they fight against these monster snakes?"

Can it sharpen their will to fight? Shouldn't they be allowed to face the monsters head-on?"

He personally participated in the previous war against the invasion of demonic cultivators, and personally killed many demonic cultivators on the battlefield, including three foundation-building demonic cultivators, so he was considered a man with rich combat experience.

So when I saw that the younger generations of the Zhou family only dared to hide behind the contracted monsters and fight the monster snakes, I was just trying to fool myself, and I couldn't stand it.

As soon as he mentioned it, Zhou Xinchen also realized the problem in this regard. After thinking about it, he nodded gently and said: "Well, what you said makes sense, brother Yan. With the two of us taking care of it, there won't be any problems."

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After the two reached an agreement, they followed Zhou Xinyan's instructions and asked the younger generations to keep the contracted monsters with them and fight the monster snakes themselves.

As a result, these juniors who were able to crush demon snakes of the same level in the past were suddenly beaten into chaos by the demon snakes, and most of them had to rely on their two foundation-building monks to rescue them.

Several people even accidentally got poisoned by snake venom and had to take detoxifying pills to remove the poison, which caused them a lot of suffering.

But there are also people who perform well.

That person is poison cultivator Zhou Yuanlian!

I have to say that the "Ten Thousand Poisons Manual" technique is very powerful.
To be continued...