Chapter 196 Five Years
After the Hu family moved away, the Zhang family took back Jiuhua Mountain, but there were still too few monks in the Zhang family, and there was no manpower available to guard the mountain gate for the time being.
Even if the Zhang family does not need this third-level spiritual vein for the time being, Zhang Zhixuan cannot leave it empty, lest the Qingxuan Sect makes excuses to take it back and give it to other foundation-building casual cultivators.
For this reason, Zhang Zhixuan could only mobilize as many people as possible.
First, he mobilized the family’s vassals. Most of these small vassal families had many people but few spiritual veins. Recruiting them was a double-edged sword. It not only gave them a place to practice, but also captured the spiritual veins first. .
Secondly, they increased their efforts to recruit new members, recruiting casual cultivators from Taicheng County to marry into the Zhang family, and marry into the Zhang family on a large scale.
Almost all the capable and ambitious casual cultivators in Taicheng County went to Black Mountain, and those who stayed were almost all at the bottom. The better ones, those who have a hundred arts of cultivating immortals, can barely support themselves and practice by relying on Xihefang.
Those who have no skills and dare not go to the Southern Wilderness will not be able to earn a single spiritual stone in a year. Without a steady stream of spiritual energy to nourish the body, they can only continue to consume the vitality in the body. After three to five years, their cultivation will slow down. Slowly regressing, it will disappear from everyone in a few decades.
Even the most incompetent casual cultivators are the targets of Zhang Zhixuan’s recruitment this time. These people who have regressed in cultivation can easily recover as long as they are given an environment with sufficient spiritual energy.
As long as they join the Zhang family and have three to five years to cultivate, these people can return to their original state of cultivation. Even if most of their cultivation levels are very low, it can alleviate some of the Zhang family’s extreme shortage of people.
Even monks in the innate stage can cultivate spiritual fields and work in the market.
After Zhang Zhixuan worked on both sides, he finally got more than thirty monks to go to Jiuhua Mountain.
In order to manage these monks, Zhang Zhixuan also sent a new elder to Jiuhua Mountain to manage these messy manpower.
In the past ten years, the monks of the Zhizi generation have finally begun to grow up. This new elder, younger than Zhang Zhixuan, is Zhang Zhixing, the sixteenth-ranked monk in the Zhizi generation.
He is also a Three Spirit Root cultivator, six years younger than Zhang Zhixuan. He has broken through to the ninth level of Qi training at the age of forty-four. At his age, he is still more than ten years away from the optimal age of sixty for foundation building. If you take a foundation-building pill before the age of sixty, you can still be somewhat sure that the foundation-building will be successful.
Among the eight ninth-level qi-training monks in his family, he is the only one who still has a chance to build a foundation. The remaining elders have either missed the best age, or their cultivation speed is too slow, and their foundation is weak. Even if they are given foundation-building pills, they will not be able to successfully build the foundation at all.
The Hu family left Jiuhua Mountain and almost everything they could take away. Apart from the empty houses, nothing was left in the huge Jiuhua Mountain.
In order to guard this spiritual vein, Zhang Zhixuan not only had to set up a protective formation on the mountain, but also provided a batch of spiritual rice to the monks who stayed in Jiuhua Mountain, and provided spiritual rice seeds to convert the twenty acres of spiritual energy in Jiuhua Mountain. Tian started his business again.
When Jiuhua Mountain was in the hands of the Zhang family, there was no spiritual field on the mountain. When it fell into the hands of the Hu family, they had no shortage of spiritual stones, so they gradually opened up some spiritual fields, which now cover twenty acres.
Twenty acres of spiritual land is already a large amount of property. The cost of opening twenty acres of spiritual land alone exceeds two thousand spiritual stones.
Even if the quality of the spiritual fields on Jiuhua Mountain is not high, only the first-level low-grade ones, if these twenty acres of spiritual fields are properly utilized, more than two thousand kilograms of spiritual rice can be harvested every year, and at least more than one hundred spiritual stones can be exchanged.
This amount of spiritual stone is enough for the monks stationed on Jiuhua Mountain to be self-sufficient without placing any additional burden on the family.
When Jiuhua Mountain settled down, Zhang Zhixuan had some free time.
In this way, spring passes and autumn comes, flowers bloom and fall, time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon fly by.
Five years passed like this while the Zhang family was busy.
In the past five years, good news about the Zhang family has come one after another.
Zhang Zhixuan’s cultivation has improved again and he has become a monk at the sixth level of foundation building. Even his purple energy divine light spell has achieved some success after thirty years of hard training.
After thirty years of hard training and trembling at every step, Zhang Zhixuan finally opened up most of the acupoints. Although he still cannot emit divine light to hurt the enemy, he has developed a pair of divine eyes.
After thirty years of hard training in the Purple Qi Divine Light, Zhang Zhixuan’s eyes already have a hint of magic. The monk’s eyesight is far beyond ordinary, and he can already see through many psychedelic spells.
She has been building the foundation for eleven years, and she has been cultivating at the speed of breaking through to the first level in almost five years. This progress is not as good as that of the Second Spiritual Root cultivator, and it has not aroused the suspicion of others.
Qingchan is almost fifty years old this year. It is not that shocking that she has reached the third level of foundation building at this age.
If there is no shortage of foundation-building pills and sufficient resources to start practicing, monks with two spiritual roots can often reach the middle stage of foundation-building before the age of fifty.
Even more good news comes from the clan leader. He has been practicing in Chaoyin Mountain in recent years. He also broke through the first level three years ago and became a seventh-level foundation-building monk.
When your cultivation reaches the later stage of foundation building, your mana will begin to increase greatly again, and even the sequelae caused by old injuries can be repaired to some extent.
The clan leader broke through to the sixth level of foundation building before the crusade against Shuangjiao Mountain, so it had been seventeen years.
It took seventeen years to break through the first level. As the leader of the second spiritual root monk, it was actually very slow. If it were not for the influence of old injuries, he should have been able to choose to break through eight years ago.
The monks in the family’s foundation-building period have all made progress. Even the ninth-level monks in the qi-training period have added three people to the family. They are Zhang Zhixuan’s thirteenth brother Zhang Zhiren, and his nephews Zhang Siyang and Zhang Sipeng.
These three people were all the same age as Zhang Zhixuan. The thirteenth brother Zhang Zhiren was two years older than Zhang Zhixuan. He soon reached the point where both energy and blood were exhausted, and he was no longer sure about building the foundation.
But he is the family’s formation master. Although his talent is far inferior to that of his fourth uncle, and he is only a second-level high-grade formation master, the family’s inheritance will not be cut off if they have an formation master.
Zhang Siyang ranks sixth among the monks of the Si generation, but is three years older than Zhang Zhixuan. Like Zhang Zhiren, there is almost no possibility of building a foundation. As a monk of the Jiji family, he has also learned a hundred arts of cultivating immortals. His talisman-making skills are already good, and he can make second-level high-quality talismans.
Because of Patriarch Chuyun, the Zhang family’s talisman-making skills have been passed down very well.
In addition, the clan leader and Qing Chan are both third-level talisman makers. Every year, they can take out a few third-level talismans and sell them in Black Mountain Baibao Pavilion in exchange for a sum of spiritual stones.
With this example, most of the monks in the family chose the talisman-making technique, which consumes less resources, when choosing to practice the various arts. Even so, there are still very few monks who have truly mastered this craft and are able to draw second-level high-grade spiritual talismans. Among the family Qi-training monks, there are only three or five.
Zhang Sipeng ranks eleventh in the family and is only forty-two years old. He is also a Three Spiritual Root cultivator. His family’s situation has started to improve since he was born. Zhang Zhixuan successfully built the foundation when he was young. He basically has no shortage of cultivation resources and broke through the ninth level of Qi training at the age of forty-two.
To break through the ninth level of Qi training at this age, as long as you have a foundation-building pill, you will be somewhat sure of establishing the foundation.
It is a pity that the family only has one Foundation Building Pill. In order to maintain the fairness of the family, if they do not have enough good deeds, neither Zhang Sipeng nor Zhang Zhixing or Zhang Zhixuan can give them the Foundation Building Pill.
As a superior, the most taboo is unfair rewards and punishments.
If a family does not have a fair promotion system, it will soon fall into various internal conflicts, and it will gradually decline and die.
Now the Foundation Establishment Pill is the most valuable property of the family. Whether it is given to anyone or not will affect the monk’s path and even the rise and fall of the family.
Without a clear system, Qi Refining monks can only fall into fierce competition and even serious internal strife.
If you want to compete for the Foundation Establishment Pill, you must at least contribute to the family. Whoever has more good deeds will be helpful to the family.
Zhang Sipeng and Zhang Zhixing only had one or two hundred good deeds in their hands. It was impossible for Zhang Zhixuan to take a high look at such a small amount of merit and leave the Foundation Establishment Pill to them.
Now is not a time of life and death, there is an urgent need to support a foundation-building monk.
There are still Zhang Zhixuan and Qing Chan in the family to support the situation, and the patriarch’s lifespan is still decades long. Compared with the monks in the Qi training period, their lifespan is still very long. They have enough time and patience to wait until a suitable monk is available. Exchange of Foundation Establishment Pills would not violate the family system unless absolutely necessary.
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