Chapter 11 Lushan
The yellow bud grass can only be kept for three days. Zhang Mengquan and the others can only race against time to refine the elixir. The family only has one qualified alchemist. The other two alchemy apprentices are still low in cultivation and are not qualified to refine the golden bud elixir alone. It was a big help to him.
There are more than a hundred yellow bud grasses, each of which can refine a pot of elixir, and hundreds of pots of elixir have been refined continuously. Even if Zhang Mengquan is an iron man, he may not be able to support it.
Moreover, Zhang Mengquan is already an old monk over sixty years old, and his physical energy is not as good as before.
After refining the elixir non-stop for three consecutive days, Zhang Mengquan was somewhat depleted of energy before finally completing the task and successfully refining more than 500 Golden Bud Pills.
The price of one pill like Golden Bud Pill is often more than three or four low-grade spiritual stones.
In the shops in Fangshi, the price of a bottle of Golden Bud Pill is thirty-six low-grade spiritual stones, and the price of five hundred Golden Bud Pills has exceeded one thousand six hundred spiritual stones.
According to the family’s welfare, the family only provides one Golden Bud Pill every year for monks in the middle stage of Qi training. If they can advance to the late stage of Qi training, the number will be tripled immediately. This kind of benefit does not depend on the quality of the spiritual root, but only depends on the quality of the spiritual root. The level of cultivation.
If you want more Golden Bud Pills, you can only exchange them for family contributions.
Zhang Zhixuan has been in the middle stage of Qi training for five years and has taken five Golden Bud Pills.
In the middle stage of Qi training, every time you take one golden bud pill, the refined spiritual energy is equivalent to three spiritual root monks meditating for two months.
Taking spiritual pills to practice Qi is so fast and convenient, far more efficient than the hard work of meditating to practice Qi. This makes countless monks flock to it, doing everything possible to collect spiritual objects and refine them into different spiritual pills with various effects.
Unfortunately, although the elixir is good, it contains erysipelas. If the elixir is taken without restraint for a long time, the erysipelas will accumulate in the body and hide. When the monk advances, it will suddenly attack and can usually kill people.
According to the family’s experience of taking Golden Bud Pill for many years, taking one Golden Bud Pill every three months has the best effect. Three months can be enough to completely remove erysipelas from the body without any hidden dangers.
During the few days that Zhang Mengquan was recuperating, the family had sent escort monks from the mountain to take Zhang Mengquan, Zhang Mengyuan and others back to the mountain gate.
With hundreds of Golden Bud Pills, even though Zhang Mengquan is already a ninth-level Qi-training monk, the family is not at ease.
For this reason, the three ninth-level qi-training monks, Zhang Menngling, the general affairs elder, Zhang Menglong, the martial arts elder, and Zhang Mengchong, the law enforcement elder, went down the mountain together to greet the alchemy elder Zhang Mengquan to prevent attacks from hostile monks and avoid accidents.
Decades ago, many unfamiliar casual cultivators came to the three southeastern counties, including many casual cultivators in the foundation building period.
These monks are all poor and naked casual cultivators. They have no spiritual veins, no spiritual fields, and not even a few spiritual stones.
In order to maintain their cultivation and continue their cultivation, they would do almost anything bad. They often just thought of doing something and then leaving. They often killed and looted near the gates of various monks.
Thirty years ago, the clan leader was injured because he was besieged by these casual cultivators. For this reason, he had to use the family’s fourth-level spiritual talisman and even lost the family’s other third-level spiritual vein, Jiuhuashan.
Perhaps it was because of the large number of Zhang family monks. Zhang Mengyuan and Zhang Mengquan were already in the late stage of Qi training. In addition, Zhang Mengling, Zhang Menglong and Zhang Mengchong who came to greet them were even more difficult to mess with.
If the monks in this lineup hold the formation flag, even the monks in the early stages of foundation building can fight.
Moreover, there is still a clan leader training in the mountain gate. If he ventures out of seclusion and brings the fourth-level spiritual talisman, even a monk in the middle stage of foundation building may suffer from hatred on the spot.
So it was calm along the way, and Zhang Mengquan and the others went up the mountain safely.
When Zhang Mengquan and the others left, only Zhang Zhixuan was left in the spiritual field.
Because he had just learned the Art of Gathering Spirits and Transforming Rain, releasing the spells cost too much, and the spiritual energy in the spiritual field was far inferior to that of the mountain gate. Every time he released a spell, it would take three or four days to replenish his mana.
With this level of wear and tear, he barely had any time to practice.
Only after he becomes proficient in the spell will the consumption be reduced and he will have more free time.
He practices the Qi Accumulating Technique every morning, then tries to figure out the Spirit Gathering and Rain Technique, and spends the rest of the time meditating to recover his magic power.
If he still has time, he will take time to visit Lushan County.
After hundreds of years of development, Lushan County’s population now exceeds 40,000. Counting the population of 17 nearby townships, the population under the command of the Zhang family monks has exceeded 100,000.
Among the hundreds of thousands of people, Zhang’s clan has the largest number, with a total of more than 40,000. The rest of the population are dependent on other surnames and rely on the protection of Zhang family monks to survive in this world.
The world here is far wider than the earth, and the population density is far sparse than the earth.
Mortal survival is also more difficult.
There are not only normal natural and man-made disasters, but also attacks by monsters and disturbances by ghosts.
Even fights between monks can be a disaster for mortals.
There are also some demonic monks who will use the souls and flesh of mortals to refine evil magic weapons. If there are no monks in the town to protect them, there will be no peace at all.
Therefore, in this world, mortal towns are not too far away from the spiritual veins of monks. Only under the protection and care of monks can mortals continue to reproduce.
The Zhang family is a vassal of Qingxuanzong, and Qingxuanzong is the protector of the three southeastern counties of Yu State. The ancestor of Qingxuan Sect’s Golden Pill has no descendants.
The Wu family of Zhennanhou in the three counties southeast of Shizhen are the descendants of a monk from the Zifu period of Qingxuan Sect, and have been passed down for more than three hundred years.
After Zhang Tairen, the ancestor of the Zhang family, settled in Lushan, he recruited wives and concubines to expand the family. Soon, within a hundred years, the Zhang family had more than a few thousand mortals.
These mortals built towns and opened up farmland at the foot of Lushan Mountain, and gradually established Lushan County, which has lasted for more than 300 years today.
This county town is the tentacles of the Zhang family monks in the mortal world. Everything in the city is controlled by the Zhang family monks, and the Zhennan Hou Mansion never interferes.
Officials ranging from county magistrates to county captains, arresters, city patrols, etc. are all held by low-level monks who are attached to the Zhang family.
Once faced with danger, these low-level monks will sound the alarm and wait for the mountain gate monks to come to rescue.
To the east of Lushan is the vast sea of the Land of Absolute Spirits, and there are no monsters in the sea.
Many years ago, the mountain was just a barren mountain with insufficient spiritual energy and not many monsters.
Moreover, there is a large Qingxuan Sect guarding the Southern Wilderness, and few high-level monsters can break through the Qingxuan Sect’s defense line.
There are only some naturally formed first-order monsters that often come down from the mountains. These ungraceful first-order monsters are the greatest threat to mortals in Lushan County.
The first-level monster has instinctively awakened a spell, and has a rough and thick fleshy body to rely on, and its fur is as hard as gold and iron.
The innate-stage monks in the city have low cultivation levels, have not yet refined their spiritual power, and do not know any spells. They have no way to deal with monsters, so they often turn to the Qi-training monks who plant spiritual fields.
Over time, the monks in the city gradually came under the control of the monks who guarded the spiritual fields.
I caught a cold just after I opened the new book, so I had to slow down the update. I feel a little better today and resumed two updates. From now on, it will be the second update if there is no accident. It’s not that I don’t want to update more, but I am really handicapped and unable to write words!
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