Chapter 211 Going to the dark side again
Chapter 210 Go to Montenegro again
Since the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain was wiped out by the Hongshan Sect monks, only four major families were left in Taicheng County, and the Zhu family in Liucheng only had Zhu Hun, a foundation-building monk. They also needed to stay at Chaoyin Mountain to guard the Lingshi Mine. There is no energy or time to go to Montenegro for trade.
Therefore, the quota for trading in Montenegro has now been rotated every three years.
This year, it was the Zhang family’s turn to escort Taicheng County’s caravan into the Black Mountain trade.
The clan leader is guarding Chaoyin Mountain, and Qingchan is a girl with a relatively cold personality and doesn’t like to deal with outsiders, so this time it is Zhang Zhixuan’s turn to escort the caravan.
Patriarch Liang is now running out of life, and his disciples have been unable to open the Zifu. The monks on the Black Mountain are also very anxious now. Although Patriarch Liang killed the fourth-level Dongji Locust this time, the losses on Black Mountain were still immeasurable.
In particular, the elixir garden that had been cultivated for hundreds of years was destroyed. All the elixirs in the garden were eaten by the East Pole locusts, and many years of hard work were ruined. This blow was also huge to Patriarch Liang. After hearing this bad news, Patriarch Liang seemed to be getting older, and he could no longer hold on any longer.
Not only that, all the spiritual rice on the Black Mountain was eaten by the East Pole Locust. More than 200 monks in the Qi-training stage were killed and injured. Almost half of the mortal relatives on the mountain were killed and injured. Even three monks in the Foundation-building stage were killed.
Although the locust plague was repelled, the Black Mountain monks were also hurt this time.
Especially some monks in the Qi training period, because their parents, wives and children died in Black Mountain, they are already a little disheartened. In addition, the monster beast chaos that happens every hundred years is about to come, and a war will definitely break out in Black Mountain. Many casual cultivators in Montenegro are already preparing to leave Montenegro and return to their hometown to spend their remaining years.
The spiritual field on Black Mountain could have provided half of the demand, but now it has been completely lost. This gap needs to be filled by Taicheng County monks.
Fortunately, the three families of Zhang, Wu and Liu kept the Dongji locust out of Taicheng County and saved the spiritual fields of Shanmen. This year’s spiritual rice production has not been reduced.
Among the three families, the Liu family has the most spiritual land and the most food stored in the family. Although there are two less families, the Zhang family has opened up an additional 30 acres of spiritual land in the past forty years, plus two more acres of spiritual land in Jiuhua Mountain. Ten acres of spiritual land, the three families spent a few days raising enough supplies for this time.
Zhang Zhixuan brought the Cloud-Stepping Beast Horse Team to Yanlai Peak, joined the hands of the three families, and began to slowly enter the Southern Wilderness.
In the past thirty years, since Zhang Zhixuan established the foundation, the family’s population of cloud-walking beasts has also expanded. Especially after Zhang Zhixuan brought back two fire dragon colts from the Southern Wilderness, the source of this monster beast has been improved.
The Zhang family’s horse team now has sixteen cloud-walking beasts, two fire dragon colts, and three hybrid horses between cloud-walking beasts and fire dragon colts.
This hybrid horse-like monster has been tamed by monks from the beginning. It has a very gentle temperament and is far less violent and rough than the fire dragon colt. And its strength is infinite, far beyond that of the Cloud-Stepping Beast. If you use it as a beast of burden to transport goods, it is better than a cloud-walking beast or a fire dragon pony.
Although the grade of this kind of horse is not as high as that of the Fire Dragon Colt, it has reached the second-grade lower grade. Because of its red eyes, it was named the Red Eyed Beast by the fourth brother Zhang Zhian.
This pack of twenty-one monster beasts almost undertakes the transportation tasks to the Southern Wilderness every year, and can earn hundreds of spirit stones each time.
The elder who followed Zhang Zhixuan to Montenegro this time was the fourth brother Zhang Zhian. Since he was responsible for managing the pack team, he has made a trip to Montenegro almost every year.
He is now over sixty years old and has no hope of building a foundation. His only wish is to save a fortune for future generations.
And in terms of personality, he liked raising horses since he was a child, and he was responsible for feeding the family’s cloud-walking beast when he was young. Now he can hardly stay away from the horses for a day, and he also likes spending time with the horses every day.
And I go to the Southern Wilderness once a year, because the journey is long and difficult, and the rewards from the family are quite generous. As the elder of the ninth level of Qi training, the fourth brother can get thirty good deeds as a reward for just one trip to the Southern Wilderness. Counting his annual salary of sixty spirit stones, his income has exceeded that of most of the Qingxuan Sect’s ninth level of Qi training. Monks, let alone Black Mountain casual cultivators who live a miserable life.
Since the family’s finances improved, life for the family elders has become much better, and they are no longer as embarrassed as they were back then.
The elders of their generation did not contribute as much to the family as the fourth uncle, ninth uncle, and nineteenth uncle, but the rewards they received from the family far exceeded those of the fourth uncle and the others.
The Fourth Uncle and the Ninth Uncle, the previous generation of monks, have been elders for more than twenty years and have never received a salary. They even use their alchemy and weapon refining skills to raise resources for the family and support the next generation of monks.
Whenever he thinks of this, Zhang Zhixuan feels a little sad.
Uncle Fifteen died in Nanhuang. Although he had some children, none of his descendants had spiritual roots. Zhang Zhixuan could only secretly take care of them so that his descendants would be small officials in Lushan County and not be despised or bullied.
The eighteenth aunt never married in her life, and died in Lushan in order to achieve the foundation-building realm. Even if Zhang Zhixuan wanted to take care of her descendants, he had no way of doing it.
Although Jiu Bo’s grandson Zhang Siheng has spiritual roots as he wished, he is a monk with five spiritual roots and has no future. Zhang Zhixuan could only arrange for him to serve as a county captain in Lushan County and entrust him to the care of his sixteenth uncle Zhang Menggong.
Uncle Eleven is over 100 years old. He resigned as an elder just last year and is already retiring at Tiantai Peak. He has enough prestige in the family to take care of his wife, children, and children without Zhang Zhixuan having to worry about him.
Uncle Nineteen gave birth to several children, but his good luck almost all ran out. Although he was a monk with two spiritual roots, the children he gave birth to were all mortals. By now, he has put all his efforts into his great-nephew Zhang Sihong.
Regarding this junior, Zhang Zhixuan is slightly more biased in his heart.
Zhang Sihong is a monk with two spiritual roots. Due to the serious conflict between the water and fire spiritual roots, he suffered from fire poison when he was young and could not practice. Thanks to Zhang Zhixuan, he often looked after him and helped suppress the fire poison.
After he turned twelve, Zhang Zhixuan went to Qingxuan Sect to find Chen Hongyuan and specially refined the Xuanyin Talisman for him to suppress the fire poison in his body.
It has been more than ten years since he obtained the Xuanyin Talisman. This child who has gone through hardships since childhood has practiced hard and has made rapid progress in cultivation in the past ten years. At the age of only twenty-two, his cultivation has already reached the sixth level of Qi training. It seems that in Before the age of forty, one can break through to the ninth level of Qi training.
Among the young descendants of the family, this person is probably the leader among the monks of the Si Zi generation.
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