Chapter 154 Nine Palaces
“There is only one Foundation Establishment Pill left, so don’t make any decisions. Zhixuan has promised to leave this Foundation Establishment Pill to the descendants of the Wang family. Our Zhang family has been established in Taicheng County for more than 400 years, and we have always kept our promises. , If you promise something, you will definitely do it. A few days ago, I personally went to Qingyangfang City and purchased a Jiugong box. Today, these three keys are kept in my, Zhixuan, and Wang Daoyou respectively. In hand. When it comes time to take this Foundation Establishment Pill, the three of us will open it separately.
If I am no longer here, this key will be handed over to Qingchan. Everyone present today, you will all bear witness. “
The Jiugong Box is a special treasure. Although this kind of magic weapon is only the second-level top grade, it is very difficult to refine. Those who are not a third-level weapon refiner have no confidence in refining this kind of magic weapon.
The Jiugong Box, a magical artifact, is generally used to store precious treasures. The space inside it is very small and can hold several books tightly.
There is a fire talisman placed in this magical weapon. As long as the key to the magical weapon is unlocked, the fire talisman inside will be activated and the spiritual objects stored inside will be completely destroyed.
A Nine Palace Box comes with three keys. As long as one key is missing, it is impossible to open the box and take out the Foundation Establishment Pill inside.
The reason why Zhang Leqian did this was to dispel the doubts of the Wang family. After all, the Wang family is small. As long as the Zhang family and Zhang Zhixuan cooperate with each other tacitly, the Wang family can slowly become extinct. In this way, as long as Zhang Zhixuan is kept secret, he can bypass the restrictions of the blood oath.
When no one from the Wang family died, the Foundation Establishment Pill fell into the hands of the Zhang family.
However, Zhang Leqian and Zhang Zhixuan were not willing to kill the goose to lay eggs. They hoped to follow Wang Luyuan’s example and integrate some desperate cultivators and small families into the Zhang family bloodline.
The Zhang family now has two third-level spiritual veins at Tiantai Peak and Lingjing Mountain, but the family only has more than 110 monks, which is far from saturation.
The spiritual energy provided by these two third-level spiritual veins can enable at least two hundred monks to practice. Moreover, the family also has shops in Heishan, Xihefang and other places, and can also mine Qingang Stone on Black Python Mountain. Such a large stall Down the line, more monks will be needed to earn resources.
Since Zhang Zhixuan was unable to make ends meet when he first started building the foundation, almost twenty years have passed and the Zhang family’s income and expenses have already been balanced, with some spiritual stones remaining every year.
Spiritual stones placed at home cannot be used as food. Only by cultivating more and more monks can the family prosper, and Zhang Zhixuan and other foundation-building monks can be more comfortable.
After giving the key to the Nine Palace Box to Wang Luyuan, Zhang Leqian carefully placed the Nine Palace Box in the family scripture collection pavilion.
There is a third-level formation outside the family’s Sutra Collection Hall, and it is guarded by a third-level Qingguang Bamboo Sea Formation. This is the safest place on Tiantai Peak. Under the thirteen green jade bamboos outside the Sutra Collection Hall, there are thirteen monks in the middle and late stages of Qi training who retreat all year round.
Having these thirteen people guarding it is equivalent to having a foundation-building monk guarding the Sutra Collection Hall all year round.
Zhang Leqian arranged Wang Luyuan and others to live in Lushan Mountain, while their mortal relatives settled in Lushan County. Wang Luyuan and others are also treated the same as the monks of the family, and can use the family’s good deeds to exchange for various resources controlled by the Zhang family.
The Zhang family is no different now than in the past. There are five types of spiritual rice grown in the spiritual field. There are not only low-grade chalcedony rice, but also high-grade pearl rice. These spiritual rice can be exchanged for the family’s good deeds.
Moreover, after more than 20 years of wine-making experience, the Zhang family now has seven spiritual wine recipes. Except for five from the casual cultivator Yang Wentian, the remaining two are the latest recipes invented by Zhang Zhixuan based on many years of experience.
These more and more types of spiritual wine are gradually being accepted and liked by more monks, and now there are signs of spreading out of Taicheng County.
In the past few years, whenever it was time to go to Montenegro for trading, the Zhang family would bring a few along the way, preparing to slowly open up the market in Montenegro.
Now that the Zhang family has a Baibao Pavilion in Heishan, except for the bulk materials such as spiritual rice, other bits and pieces no longer need to be sold to Taixu Pavilion for peeling off a layer of skin, but can be processed slowly in Baibao Pavilion.
Without this layer of skin in the middle of Taixu Pavilion, these materials can earn dozens of more spiritual stones every year. Dozens of spirit stones may seem like a small amount, but accumulated over the years, they are still a lot of money.
Zhang Leqian’s big call today was like a basin of cold water dousing the flames in everyone’s hearts.
They already knew from Zhang Leqian that although the family had two Foundation Establishment Pills in their hands, none of them was reserved for them.
Seeing the tribesmen with different expressions leaving the back mountain, Zhang Zhixuan sighed in his heart.
“As the saying goes, we share hardships and wealth. In order to continue the family, the ninth uncle and the fourth uncle never considered themselves and almost dedicated their lives to the family.
Less than thirty years have passed, and the family’s situation has just begun to improve. Everyone has to think about themselves. One foundation-building pill can turn the clan against each other. This is really an unpredictable thing! “
These days, in order to compete for the Foundation Establishment Pill, the monks from the family came to Zhang Zhixuan to intercede, snitch, and complain in all kinds of ways, which made Zhang Zhixuan feel extremely annoyed.
Taking advantage of the trend of Zhang Zhixuan bringing back the Foundation-Building Pill, a large number of family monks exchanged their good deeds for the spiritual pill to break through the realm.
Most of these people failed, which was a waste of their good work, but two monks still succeeded in breaking through the ninth level of Qi training.
They are both under sixty years old. According to the rules of the family, these two people were appointed as family elders by the patriarch.
Counting the two of them, the number of elders in the family has finally reached six. Although the quality is not as good as when Zhang Zhixuan just came down from the mountain, it at least avoids as many embarrassments as the family’s foundation-building monks and the ninth-level Qi-training monks.
These two people are both monks of the same generation. One is Zhang Zhixuan’s second brother Zhang Zhihe. He is fifty-eight years old and a monk with four spiritual roots. As long as it is slower and reaches the ninth level of Qi training after the age of sixty, he will no longer be able to become a family elder.
The second brother Zhang Zhihe was also one of the few people who survived the battle of Xihefang. He had already practiced Qi at the fourth level twenty-eight years ago.
Over the past thirty years, the family’s situation has gradually improved, and they, the lower-level monks, have also benefited from it and have more resources for cultivation.
After nearly thirty years of practice, his cultivation has finally reached the ninth level of Qi training, making him the second generation monk besides Zhang Zhixuan who can support his family.
Zhang Zhihe was an alchemy apprentice in Xihefang. Now, although he has no talent in alchemy, after years of practice, his alchemy has been improved to the second-level mid-level realm.
Zhang Zhixuan has basically handed over to Zhang Zhihe to refine some low-level elixirs that are not very important.
The other person is Zhang Zhixuan’s fourth brother Zhang Zhian. Zhang Zhian is not young anymore. He is fifty-six years old and has better spiritual roots than Zhang Zhihe. He is a monk with three spiritual roots.
Originally, according to his spiritual roots, he could break through the ninth level of Qi training before he was fifty, but the fourth brother didn’t like to practice when he was young, and he became more stable after he was thirty.
Because he did not practice hard in Taoism in his early years and did not have the skills to cultivate immortality, the family could only arrange for him to take care of the Cloud-Stepping Beast.
Unexpectedly, he liked being with the spirit beasts very much and devoted himself to this work with great enthusiasm. During the thirty years he took care of the spirit beasts, the number of cloud-walking beasts in his family had increased by four, including the one brought back by Zhang Zhixuan. Fire dragon colt, the number of the family’s spiritual beast horses has reached fifteen.
Once the scale is established, it is very easy to handle. Every year when they go to Nanhuang to trade, the five immortal cultivating families in Taicheng County will rent the Zhang family’s cloud-walking beasts, and they can earn thirty spiritual stones every year. Only through many and comprehensive changes have the Zhang family’s income and expenses been able to balance, and the family’s income channels have gradually expanded.
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