Chapter 161 Cleaning up poison
Without waiting for Chen Hongyuan, Zhang Zhixuan left the materials on the poisonous dragon to Zhang Sidao, and then returned to Lushan with the Qingni bottle.
As soon as he came back, he immediately went to the Ten Thousand Snake Cave. At this time, the Ten Thousand Snake Cave had already changed drastically after more than a year of transformation by Zhang family monks.
The cave of this cave has already been widened by the Zhang family monks.
Deep in the cave, six people can pass side by side at the same time. Every few dozen feet, a torch was lit, illuminating the cave as if it were daytime.
The gravel and remains of snakes and insects in the cave have been cleared away, and even the walls have been cleaned spotlessly.
Zhang Zhixuan came to the underground river and found the patriarch meditating on the edge of the underground river.
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan had come back, Zhang Leqian said with a smile: “Zhixuan is back. Did it go smoothly for you to go to Qingxuan Sect this time?”
“Thanks to the great blessing of the patriarch, I have lived up to everyone’s expectations and got back the Qingni bottle from Aunt Hanyan.”
“That’s good. I’ve been frowning for the past few days since you’ve been away. If the poisonous pool under the waterfall is not dealt with, it will not only be a hidden danger, but we will not be able to use the spiritual veins under the poisonous pool. . Now that you have the Qingni bottle in your hand, we can suck the venom from the poison pool into the Qingni bottle, and then use the alchemy furnace to make poison pills. Although this poison pool is not small, there are only three of us. By taking turns casting spells, one day we will be able to drain all the poisonous water from the poisonous pond.”
The Qing Ni Bottle is a magic weapon that can absorb water-based venom.
This magical artifact is already a third-level mid-grade. It is mixed with some Kongming stones and possesses the laws of space. Although it is only the size of a palm on the outside, there is a space of three feet in diameter inside.
Although compared to the amount of venom in the poison pool, three feet of space is insignificant. But as long as the monks keep sucking away the poison, it won’t take more than a year to completely drain the poisonous pool.
Zhang Zhixuan and the three of them took turns using the Qingni bottle. Every time they used the Qingni bottle, they would inhale the venom in a three-foot radius.
In order to consume the venom, the Zhang family refined a huge bronze cauldron, poured the venom in the Qingni bottle into the cauldron, and used Xuanyang wood to refine it into poison pills.
This bronze tripod is made of hundreds of refined copper, and its grade is only first-class mid-grade. The Zhang family cannot produce Xuanyang wood. This cost alone cost more than 300 spirit stones. .
Zhang Zhixuan and the three of them combined used Qingni bottles to absorb venom thirty times every day. It took four months to completely drain the venom from the poison pool.
In the past four months, the Zhang family’s monks went to Liucheng four times, purchased a large amount of Xuanyang wood from the Zhu family, and used cloud-walking beasts to transport it. It took countless manpower to refine the venom into a black poison ointment. .
The monks in the Qi refining stage put on special protective gloves, held the best detoxifying pills in their mouths, and squeezed pieces of poisonous ointment into poison pills.
These poison pills are mixed with the venom of tens of thousands of extremely venomous snakes, which cannot be resolved without the use of precious antidote elixirs.
In addition to keeping some of this poisonous pill in the family, Zhang Zhixuan plans to sell it on a large scale in Xihefang and Heishan. At the very least, he must earn back the price of the bronze tripod and Xuanyang wood.
After draining the venom from the poison tank, the remaining poisonous snakes will be easier to deal with.
Although the Poison Pond was densely populated with a large number of poisonous snakes, it was a pity that the monks from the Zhang family threw huge amounts of wood into them and burned them all into coke.
When the fire was extinguished, the family’s Qi Refining Stage monks and the mortals carried all the ashes and remains out of the cave.
Even the mud under the Poison Pond, which was mixed with a large amount of poison, was cleaned up, completely eliminating any hidden dangers.
In order to dig out these highly toxic sludge, the family also lost dozens of mortal soldiers, and even the innate monks in Lushan County lost two people.
After finishing all the debris, Zhang Zhi arranged a second-level spirit gathering array at the bottom of the Poison Pond and began to prepare to gather the spiritual energy in the underground river to facilitate the cultivation of the family monks.
This spiritual vein, in the dark environment where one cannot see even one’s fingers, is somewhat similar to the Hanjiao Pond where the green dragon hid in the past. It is very suitable for large-scale planting of Xuanyou grass.
Now planting Xuanyou grass has become a very important source of income for the Zhang family. Not only the pond where the patriarch is recovering from his injuries, but also the well in Lingjing Mountain has been planted.
More than twenty years have passed. The three Xuanyou grasses that Zhang Zhixuan brought back from Montenegro have been harvested three times, and now they have expanded to more than twenty plants.
Unfortunately, the environmental requirements for planting spiritual grass are very high. There is not much space left in the two water pools suitable for planting mysterious grass. This time I discovered the Ten Thousand Snake Cave Pool. According to the area and space of the aura strength here, about seventy or eighty Xuanyou grass can be planted in each crop.
If these 70 or 80 Xuanyou grasses were all refined into Youhuan Dan, based on Zhang Zhixuan’s current success rate in elixir refining, he would be able to refine approximately 500 Youhuan Dan.
Even if the quantity of Youhuan Dan increases on a large scale, the price has already dropped to the level of Black Mountain.
The price of fifty bottles of Youhuan Dan is also around six thousand spirit stones. According to the average growth cycle of Xuanyou grass of twelve years, it can earn about 500 spirit stones every year evenly divided.
In another twelve years, the Xuanyou grass planted in the water pool under Ten Thousand Snake Cave will probably become a very important source of wealth for the family.
And in the past year and a half, the clan leader has discovered a fish spirit beast in this underground river.
This is a red, yellow and white carp fish spirit beast called the three-color spirit fish. This kind of monster occasionally appears in the underground river, and in the past almost all of them became the food of poisonous dragons.
Although its taste is far less delicious than the Wu family’s white-tailed reed fish, as long as you catch some and raise them, and open a shop in Xihefangzhong every year to sell them, you can earn dozens of spirit stones.
After bringing in the living water from the underground river, Zhang Zhixuan sent people to transplant a few Xuanyou grass plants under the pool. Then he and the clan leader tried to catch some three-color spirit fish and kept them in the middle of the pool.
In order to prevent the three-color spirit fish from swimming along the underground river, Zhang Zhixuan and others also weaved a magical fishing net at the mouth of the underground river.
It took almost a year and a half for the whole family to mobilize all the matters regarding Ten Thousand Snake Cave.
At this time, a small town has been built outside the Ten Thousand Snake Cave, near the river. Thousands of mortals have moved into the town, and a large amount of farmland has been cultivated in the nearby valleys and plains.
The Ten Thousand Snake Cave is only seven or eight hundred miles away from Tiantai Peak, and a little further away from Lingjing Mountain, no more than a thousand miles away.
These three spiritual veins are like a triangle, enclosing all the nearby land.
The area within this triangle is the area of control of the Zhang family in Taicheng County. Within this range, the monks of the Zhang family can protect the safety of the mortals in the family.
There are no third-level spiritual veins here in Ten Thousand Snake Cave, so there is no need for foundation-building monks to guard it for the time being. Zhang Zhixuan asked his eleventh uncle Zhang Menghong and a few young people to take charge of Ten Thousand Snake Cave.
After everything was settled, Zhang Zhixuan was ready to send the Qingni bottle back to Qingxuan Sect and give it to Han Yan.
He flew all the way for more than ten days before arriving at the gate of Qingxuanzong. It had been half a year since he last visited Qingxuanzong.
Zhang Zhixuan first delivered the Qingni bottle to Han Yan, and then hurried back to Qingyangfang City to find Chen Hongyuan.
(End of chapter)