Chapter 17 Gathering Spirits
“Uncle Nineteen has always been cautious, so he made this arrangement carefully.
These several thousand kilograms of chalcedony rice are also a considerable source of wealth. Once targeted by the enemy, they may also cause trouble.
With the Cloud-Stepping Beast going down the mountain, even if you can’t defeat the enemy, you can still return to the mountain safely. “Zhang Zhixuan thought for a while, and then opened the protective formation.
He first exchanged greetings with the two elders Zhang Mengyuan for a moment, and then took them directly to the White Jade Beehive.
The two of them carefully observed the hive. Zhang Mengyuan’s face gradually became serious, and he said cautiously: “If I’m not mistaken, those dozen white bees should be white jade bees. They seem to have evolved from wild bees sensing aura. It is estimated that an ordinary bee can evolve into such a rare spiritual insect only once in a hundred years.
These rare spiritual insects usually evolve after chasing spiritual flowers and herbs.
Among the dozens of pearl spiritual herbs grown in our medicine garden, the best one is already at the fourth level, and the rest are all precious third-level elixirs.
Even if the family has been in trouble for the past hundred years, we have not consumed these spiritual herbs. I just hope that they will have a higher value and can be exchanged for some elixirs for refining Foundation Establishment Pills to refine a furnace of Foundation Establishment Pills for the family.
Although these spiritual herbs were not exchanged for resources, they promoted the evolution of the White Jade Bee, which was considered a good thing.
This kind of spiritual insect is of high value and is as important to the family as this spiritual well.
This place is becoming more and more important to the family, but it’s a pity that there is no spiritual vein!
Without spiritual veins, it would be impossible to send too many monks to guard it.
The juniors behind can no longer come in casually here. They are not tight-lipped and don’t have much knowledge. If the secret is leaked, Lingtian will be in danger.
There are still very few monks who come here often. After I go back, I will tell my 19th brother not to send irrelevant people here to cause trouble. “
Zhang Mengyuan is an old man and has seen the fights between immortal cultivators many times. He clearly knows that the struggle between immortal cultivators is far more cruel than the mortal world.
In order to compete for the limited resources for cultivating immortals, generations of immortal cultivators have been living in cruel struggles.
Just like raising gu, only the most qualified, wise, capable, and lucky cultivators can stand out and climb to the top of the world of cultivating immortals.
Even though the family underwent a major change thirty years ago, the most fundamental reason was that the family’s power had gradually declined over the past hundred years, and it could no longer maintain the third-level spiritual vein of Jiuhua Mountain.
Zhang Mengyuan had already witnessed that battle. Almost all of the thirty monks stationed in Jiuhua Mountain by his family were lost outside, except for the seven or eight people brought back by the clan leader.
After this battle, the backbone of the family, the monks of the Lezi generation, were almost completely lost.
Another thirty years passed, when the monks of Meng’s generation grew up and regained a little strength.
The evolving White Jade Bee was discovered in the family’s spiritual field. Zhang Mengyuan and the two had no time to exchange greetings. They hurriedly packed up the spiritual rice and returned to Lushan that night.
A few days later, the fourth uncle of the Law Enforcement Elder Zhang Menglong, the fifteenth uncle of the Chuan Gong Elder Zhang Mengchong, the ninth uncle of the Dan Pavilion Elder Zhang Mengquan, and the seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan went down the mountain together and hurried to the spiritual field.
Although the fourth uncle, Zhang Menglong, is over eighty years old, he is the best formation master in the family. The family’s mountain-protecting formation, the Qingguang Bamboo Sea Formation, is his years of hard work.
His formation cultivation level has exceeded the third level. If he had joined Qingxuan Mountain when he was young and relied on his good formation talent, he would definitely have received the Foundation Establishment Pill given by Qingxuan Sect.
Unfortunately, in the past hundred years, the Zhang family’s power has weakened and they are unable to provide foundation-building pills to the family’s monks.
Therefore, monks with good talents such as Zhang Menglong and Zhang Mengquan can only miss good opportunities to build foundations in succession, and eventually reach the realm of Qi training.
It is more difficult for an array master to upgrade than an alchemist or a weapon refiner. His family has been rooted in Lushan for four hundred years, and Zhang Menglong is the only third-level array master in hundreds of years.
According to his ability, if he had presided over the formation at Jiuhua Mountain, the enemy might not be able to easily break the formation and break through the mountain gate.
The four of them observed the white jade beehive in detail for an afternoon. Zhang Menglong finally painfully took out thirty middle-grade spirit stones, and arranged a second-order high-grade spirit gathering formation beside the spiritual well. Then he took out a second-order high-grade spirit stone. The green gourd magic weapon was used as a formation eye with a few spiritual arts.
He glanced at Zhang Zhixuan and said: “It seems that my nephew has a good chance, and he has gained something as soon as he stepped out of the mountain gate.
As long as this nest of white jade bees can produce a queen bee, even if the rank is still low, once royal jelly is produced, it will be of great benefit to the clan leader’s injury.
Once Sanbo’s injury improves, our difficulties will be slightly better.
Over the years, the family has almost completely shrunk. Except for this spiritual field and a few shops in the market, almost all outside businesses have been abandoned.
Every year, the income and expenditure are beyond the income, and they all rely on the capital accumulated in the past.
This time he took out three thousand low-grade spiritual stones and refined a second-order spirit gathering formation. It only took half a year to cultivate a second-order low-grade spiritual vein.
Starting from today, on the first day of every month, you will water the jasper gourd with the spiritual water from the well.
As long as it lasts for ten years, after all thirty middle-grade spirit stones have been refined by the spirit gathering formation, this spiritual vein will grow to the second-order middle grade, enough for three sixth-level Qi-training monks to practice at the same time.
If I can cultivate the second-level high-grade spiritual veins at once, I will come down here to retire. “
The second-level mid-grade spiritual veins are enough for three sixth-level Qi-training monks to exhale spiritual energy together. If the training time is divided, it can also allow at least six mid-level Qi-training monks to practice.
Even the newly cultivated second-level low-grade spiritual veins can provide spiritual energy for three third-level Qi-training monks, barely enough for Zhang Zhixuan to meditate and practice alone.
“Zhixuan!
Starting from today, your tasks will be heavier.
Not only do you need to cultivate your spiritual veins, but you also need to pay attention to the hive at all times. If there is any abnormality, you must quickly go up the mountain and notify your family.
It is not allowed to use the communication talisman in the future to avoid being intercepted by outsiders and discovering the abnormality here. “
Zhang Zhixuan nodded and said: “Don’t worry, Fourth Uncle, I will always pay attention.
In fact, it was not me who discovered the opportunity for White Jade Bee, but the little girl behind me.
Her father was a city patrol officer in Lushan County. He died at the hands of a cat demon to save me. She looked pitiful because she was helpless, so I adopted her here.
Although the little girl cannot speak, she is very smart. Recently, I have been preparing to teach her how to practice. Judging from her progress, her spiritual roots should be good. She is estimated to be at least a third-level spiritual root monk, or even a second-level spiritual root monk. “
The Zhang family has lost Jiuhua Mountain and the Spirit Detection Platform. It cannot detect the spiritual roots of the monks, and it cannot provide suitable exercises for the monks.
Therefore, in the past thirty years, the cultivation speed of the monks of the family Zhi generation has been slower than that of the Meng generation.
There is no spirit testing platform, so monks choose exercises and test spiritual roots almost entirely relying on the experience of senior monks.
According to Zhang Zhixuan’s estimation, Qingchan’s spiritual root is Tianlinggen. Unfortunately, the Zhang family has been in decline for many years and cannot protect a Tianlinggen monk.
So Zhang Zhixuan lied to protect Qing Chan.
Tianlinggen monks have extraordinary qualifications and can advance to the Purple Mansion stage by consuming very few resources.
Zifuqi is already considered a high-level monk among immortal cultivators. If there is one more Zifuqi monk in the family, the situation will immediately change dramatically.
The reason why Zhang Zhixuan did not send Qing Chan to Qingxuan Sect, which had a more promising future, was because he was afraid of the invisible risks within the sect.
Because the souls of immortal cultivators above the Golden Core stage have been completely condensed, they have a chance to be reborn and reincarnate.
After reincarnation, most golden elixir monks cannot survive the mystery in the womb.
On the contrary, it is relatively easier to seize the bodies of low-level monks.
Although body-stealing monks sound like they have a bad reputation, and some Yuanshen monks hate body-stealing people very much, they will often deal with them severely once a monk is discovered to have taken a body.
However, in order to survive, high-level monks above the Golden Core dare to do almost anything.
Golden elixir monks are very discerning. Unless they have no choice, the monks they seize are often very good spiritual roots, either alien spiritual roots or heavenly spiritual roots.
Therefore, some casual cultivators with excellent spiritual roots sometimes do not easily join the sect.
And some cultivating families are even better at figuring out the longevity of each sect’s golden elixir ancestors.
Only by seizing the opportunity will the talented monks from the family be sent into the sect, so as to prevent the family from being snatched away and losing their lives.
Once Qingchan’s Tianling Root is discovered by others, if the Zhang family doesn’t pay attention, there will be a hidden danger of the family being destroyed.
Moreover, Qingchan’s fate will also be full of twists and turns, and it’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad.
Any cultivating family that has some means, once they find out about the Tianlinggen cultivator, they will hide it tightly unless they have no other choice.
As long as monks with this kind of spiritual roots continue to practice normally and provide relatively few resources, most of them can cultivate to the middle and third levels such as the Zifu stage, the Jindan stage, and the Nascent Soul stage, and become the backers of a sect and family.
Even if a hegemon like Qingxuan Sect has existed for hundreds or thousands of years, it would be difficult for him to receive a Tianlinggen disciple to enter the sect.
The fact that Qing Chan was discovered by Zhang Zhixuan was also a blessing accumulated by the Zhang family for many years.
(End of chapter)