In the remote areas of the west, in this cold, dry and rainy winter, tonight, there was a strange flash of lightning, accompanied by deafening thunder, and heavy rain.
On such a torrential rainy night, the small Zhou tribe, which is dependent on the Gaofeng tribe, is filled with bright lights and shadowy figures.
"What took so long!"
Zhou Boyu, who is now forty-eight years old, is anxiously walking back and forth in the hall, his anxious eyes following the maids and maids who are constantly coming in and out, never leaving the closed inner room.
"Okay Yu'er, you keep swinging around like this, it makes me dizzy!"
Although he was talking about his eldest son, Zhou Zhan, as the clan leader, couldn't help but get up, with worry in his eyes: "It's been several hours!"
Seeing his father stand up, Zhou Kuohai, the second son, stopped sitting. On the other hand, Zhou Kuohai's son Zhou Tian also stood up slowly, but there was an unnoticeable hint of impatience in his eyes.
As a small tribe that relies on others to survive, the Zhou tribe always attaches great importance to the fertility of each tribe member. After all, this is the hope for the development of the tribe. What's more, Zhou Boyu is the eldest son of the tribe leader, and he is also the eldest son of the tribe leader. How could it not be possible to become a father at such a young age without touching everyone's heart!
Another half an hour passed, and while Zhou Boyu was looking forward to it and waiting anxiously, a loud cry finally came from the inner room.
"It's born, it's born, it's a boy! Hahaha"
Hearing the sound, Zhou Boyu relaxed his mind and couldn't help crying with joy.
Even Zhou Zhan, the most stable person, kept smiling happily at this time: "It's good to be born, it's good to be born"
After the midwife took the baby out, Zhou Boyu was afraid that others would snatch it away from him, so he couldn't wait but carefully picked it up.
Looking at his son who was looking at him curiously with his small black eyes wide open in his arms, Zhou Boyu's face was filled with a loving and cheerful smile.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Tian on the side frowned slightly, but then he raised his eyebrows. At the same time, he took a step forward and said with a hopeful face: "Grandpa, first help the uncle to check the qualifications of my cousin. He is a trustworthy person." It holds all the hopes of us all!¡±
"Well, that's right!"
Zhou Zhan also walked towards his eldest son with a smile, and stretched out his hand to bring up a soft spiritual power, which slowly poured into the baby's body.
After a while, under the eager gaze of everyone, Zhou Zhan let out a deep sigh, shook his head slightly and retracted his hand.
"Alas, my qualifications are inferior to those of Tian'er!" Zhou Zhan sighed a little disappointedly, but then he looked up at his eldest son Zhou Boyu with a look of relief on his face: "But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that Yu'er will finally have something in the future. Having Er Chenghuan on your knees can be regarded as a great joy in life. Yu'er, I hope you don't mind it too much!"
In fact, Zhou Zhan didn¡¯t tell the truth. Based on the inspection he just made, the baby¡¯s qualifications can be said to be extremely different! And the reason why he said that was to comfort his eldest son.
At this time, Zhou Tian took a step forward with a look of joy on his face, and said in a sincere tone to his uncle Zhou Boyu: "Yes, uncle has been waiting for decades, and now he finally got what he wanted. This is the whole time." The tribe¡¯s great event should be celebrated lively!¡±
¡°Celebrating, that¡¯s a must!¡±
Looking up, Zhou Boyu's face showed no disappointment at all as everyone imagined. He had gained something, but only a thick and kind smile: "I, Zhou Boyu, have been waiting for twenty-five years, and now I have got what I wanted. How can I?" He would care about such a trivial matter! But no matter what, he is my son, Zhou Boyu. No matter what his qualifications are, I hope that he will live an upright life, so I named him Zhou Zheng!"
"Yu'er, you have been decisive in killing all your life. Now that you can think so, I am very happy as a father. Zhou Zheng! Okay! Okay!"
In the hall, everyone¡¯s faces were all smiling happily.
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Time flies, in the blink of an eye, eight years have passed!
In the early morning, the cold wind blew slowly.
In the yard of his home, eight-year-old Zhou Zheng ignored the cold wind and sat cross-legged on the ground, practicing Qi with his eyes closed.
The black hair is hanging down, and through the hair, it can be seen that his young face reveals a persistence that is completely inconsistent with his age. Long eyelashes, slightly raised corners of the mouth.
Since he was sensible, he has always seen his tribe, often struggling in danger in order to survive and to be protected by the powerful peak tribe. Therefore, in his young heart, he deeply felt that his tribe was weak, and secretly made up his mind.
Over the past few years,Knowing that his qualifications were not as good as others, he worked countless times harder than ordinary people, and without relying on any resources from the tribe, he just cultivated his own cultivation to the late stage of the first level of Qi training. Of course, it's not that he doesn't want resource assistance, but that the tribe simply doesn't have any extra resources. Even if there is any leftover, it will be used on Zhou Tian, ??the most promising member of the tribe.
But Zhou Zheng¡¯s hard work and dedication are seen by Zhou Boyu and his wife Zhou Ruorong. While the couple was happy, they doted on their only child more and more.
Time flies, and another ten years have passed.
Since he broke through to the third level of Qi training when he was ten years old, he began to frequently participate in hunting monsters and contribute his strength to the tribe.
Although he did not have as much time to practice as before, after eight years of practice, without occupying any resources of the tribe, his progress in cultivation shocked the entire tribe. At the beginning of the fifth level of the Qi training period, he was already approaching his cousin Zhou Tian. If given enough time, he might be able to surpass his grandfather's tenth level of Qi training.
His cousin Zhou Tian is now forty years old, and his cultivation level is only at the late stage of the sixth level of Qi training. What¡¯s more, Zhou Tian still uses most of the tribe¡¯s resources.
"The ordinary cultivation qualifications back then have now exploded into increasingly unbelievable talents. How can it not be shocking?"
Looking at the two direct grandsons in front of him, especially Zhou Zheng and Zhou Zhan who were at the top of the tribal hall, he couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, okay! Our Zhou tribe finally has someone to follow! Okay, okay!"
Seeing his grandfather¡¯s cheerful smile, Zhou Zheng also had a satisfied and happy smile on his face.
Today, Zhou Zheng's slightly dark face has long lost its tenderness, and coupled with his straight spine, he has a sense of confidence that shines through.
Although he looks like a satisfied and happy child at this time, when he is hunting monsters, he has completely inherited the character of his father Zhou Boyu, who is decisive and ruthless in killing!
However, compared to Zhou Zheng's expression at this time, Zhou Tian on the side, after hearing his grandfather Zhou Zhantian's generous words, a sharp light suddenly flashed in his lowered eyes.
After laughing heartily, looking at Zhou Zheng and Zhou Tian, ??the smile in Zhou Zhan's eyes never faded.
"This time we are going to investigate the sage relics, you, Zhou Tian, ??will lead the team, and Zhou Zheng will be your deputy. Although this relic is not dangerous because of its age, there is no guarantee that there will not be any monsters dominating it, so Tian Son, please remember not to be careless."
This relic of the sages was accidentally entered by Zhou Zheng when he and his tribe were chasing monsters.
For the sake of safety, Zhou Zheng resolutely gave up chasing the monsters and immediately returned to the tribe with his tribe, and reported the matter to his grandfather as soon as possible.
"It's grandpa, please keep this in mind, grandson!"
Zhou Tian bowed his body and responded respectfully, but a deep smile flashed in his eyes.
The manpower has already been selected.
After coming out of the main hall, Zhou Zheng followed Zhou Tian and went straight to the ruins of the sages.
Under Zhou Zheng¡¯s guidance, everyone quickly arrived at the ruins of the sages.
The ruins are a cave.
Outside the cave, there are overgrown weeds and thorns. If Zhou Zheng hadn't entered by mistake, it would have been unimaginable that there was a sage cave of unknown age behind this dense thorns.
After cleaning up the weeds and thorns outside the cave, Zhou Tian took the lead and walked into the cave after observing carefully.
The cave is very deep and humid, and dried animal feces and monster footprints of different sizes can be seen everywhere.
Zhou Zheng had already inspected the passage leading to the real cave inside, and there was nothing noteworthy about it, so everyone headed straight into the depths without stopping.
When we reached the deepest part, what we saw was a huge, dilapidated cave.
¡°Everyone spread out and investigate carefully, don¡¯t miss any corner!¡±
After looking around, seeing that there was no danger here, Zhou Tian waved his hand to start the search.
After receiving the order, Zhou Zheng and his clan members each found a place and began to search carefully. As for Zhou Tian, ??after taking a deep look at Zhou Zheng's back, he started to take a closer look at the cave.
The ruined walls are covered with cobwebs. But through the dilapidated appearance, whether it is the stone pillars that have fallen to the ground, the collapsed stone chamber walls, or the stone walls of the stone furnace, etc., you can see ancient strange beasts carved on them!
From this point alone, it can be seen how old this cave is.
Look carefullyObserving, Zhou Tian's feet were approaching Zhou Zheng seemingly unintentionally, and in his hand, he secretly held a thin needle glowing with black light.
Fifteen steps, ten steps, eight steps
Zhou Tian's eyes flashed with ferocious light. However, just when he was about to shoot the poisonous needle in his hand, a cry of surprise came from his ears, and immediately after that, the entire cave suddenly shook violently, and rocks were smashed one after another. fall.
"No, I triggered the formation here. Now the cave is about to collapse. Everyone, leave quickly!"
At the reminder of the tribesman, everyone rushed out as fast as possible.
Zhou Zheng also reacted immediately.
"Everyone, leave quickly, I'll stop you!"
With a loud shout, Zhou Zheng used the spiritual power in his body frantically to clean up the huge rocks that fell on his head for the tribesmen.
But at this time, Zhou Zheng discovered that there was a tribesman who might not be able to escape in time because he was far away from the passage and lacked strength.
"Everyone, be careful of the boulders above your head!"
With a loud reminder, Zhou Zheng jumped towards the tribesman without hesitation.
Arriving next to the tribesman, Zhou Zheng stretched out his hand to take him with him, then unleashed all his spiritual power, dodging the stones that kept falling, and quickly moved towards the entrance of the passage.
However, when Zhou Zheng and his clan members approached the entrance of the passage, they were attacked by a fierce spiritual power.
Unprepared, Zhou Zheng was seriously injured by this spiritual power.
Raising his head and spitting out a mouthful of blood, Zhou Zheng, together with the tribesman he was carrying, fell towards the cave behind him. And because he was seriously injured, the tribesman in his hand had already escaped from Zhou Zheng's hand midway.
"ah!"
A shrill scream sounded, and Zhou Zheng watched helplessly as the tribesman was smashed into a pulp by the boulder.
"No!"
With a scream, Zhou Zheng's long hair fell down, and his bloodshot eyes fiercely glanced at the entrance of the passage, only to see Zhou Tianzheng looking at him with a ferocious expression.