Chapter 216 Su
In the past two years, a major event happened. The mountain gate of Ma’s family in Jiufeng Mountain was occupied by a casual cultivator in the foundation building stage. This casual cultivator has reached the seventh level of cultivation, is only one hundred and twenty years old, and still has a chance to open up the Purple Mansion.
This person’s name is Su Heng. Although he only built the seventh floor, he is very famous in Black Mountain, no less famous than Zhang Tairen, the founder of the Zhang family.
The Zhang family advocated Tairen, who was the first casual cultivator in Montenegro and was also the two most famous alchemist in Montenegro. Except for Liang Patriarch, who is a fourth-level mid-level monk, his alchemy skills are the best among the Black Mountain monks.
Because he could not compete with Liang Taixu in alchemy in Heishan, Zhang Tairen returned to his hometown of Taicheng County to start a family after having no hope of opening the Zifu.
After settling in Lushan, his alchemy skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he became a fourth-level low-level alchemist before the age of 200. The elixir he refined back then almost dominated the cities in the three southeastern counties. Even the elixir of Qingxuan Sect could not compete with him.
The reason why Su Heng is so famous is that, like Zhang Zhixuan, he is a monk who has not taken the foundation-building pill to build the foundation. Generally speaking, this kind of monk is not easy to mess with. Not only does he have powerful magic power and amazing perseverance, but he also has a slightly greater chance of opening up the Purple Mansion.
Su Heng has been living in Montenegro for sixty or seventy years. After the East Pole Locust Rebellion, all the elixirs he planted in the mountain gate were eaten by the East Pole Locusts, and even his ordinary wives and daughters were killed.
Such a blow made him a little disheartened, so he returned to his hometown after the war and prepared to settle in Jiufeng Mountain.
The head of the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain has died, and the monks in the Qi training period have also gone to Qingxuan Sect. This spiritual mountain has become empty. In recent years, it has made Black Mountain’s casual cultivators jealous.
After all, compared to Heishan, Taicheng County is not only safer close to the hinterland, but the Ma family monks have been operating Jiufeng Mountain for hundreds of years and have opened up a large number of spiritual fields. The conditions are far better than the spiritual veins of Heishan.
The reason why they did not take action was because they were concerned about the influence of Qingxuan Sect.
They did not dare to act rashly until Qingxuanzong made his attitude clear.
After all, compared to many years ago, the discovery of the spirit stone mine in Taicheng County immediately increased its importance to Qingxuan Sect by several levels.
Qingxuanzong has two Zifu period monks stationed in Chaoyin Mountain. Without Qingxuanzong’s acquiescence, no one dares to occupy this spiritual mountain.
Su Heng was not very courageous. He went directly to Chaoyin Mountain to find Zifu monk Sun Changgeng and made it clear that he wanted to occupy Jiufeng Mountain.
Sun Changgeng was also happy to see Su Heng’s request come true. After all, Su Heng was not an ordinary monk. Like Kang Duhe who settled in Jiangkou County, he had the possibility of opening up the Zifu.
Every such monk who settles within the control of Qingxuan Sect and becomes a vassal of Qingxuan Sect is beneficial to Qingxuan Sect.
If they hadn’t opened up the Zifu yet, they wouldn’t be competing for interests with Qingxuan Sect, they would just be helpers.
Even if these people open up the Zi Mansion, as long as they don’t have the ability of Patriarch Liang, they will still have to look at Qingxuanzong’s face in the three southeastern counties, unless they can leave here and go to another place to open up Lingshan.
Moreover, there is a system within Qingxuan Sect that can attract these vassal Zifu casual cultivators to join the sect, become the elders of the sect, and bring them into Qingxuan Sect’s chariot to fight together.
Lu Hongniang, the most powerful Zifu cultivator in Qingxuan Sect, was originally a casual cultivator, and her master was also a casual cultivator in Black Mountain. Because she did not have the conditions in her early years, like Zhang Zhixuan, she did not wait for the Foundation Establishment Pill. She took the risk and became a Foundation Establishment monk at the age of thirty-six.
The two masters and apprentices supported each other for decades in Montenegro. Lu Hongniang became a monk of the Zifu at the age of ninety-three. She not only opened up the Zifu, but also helped her two junior brothers build the foundation successfully.
After that, Taoist Jin Lan personally came forward and invited her to serve as an elder in Qingxuan Sect. It has been two hundred years since then.
Even Wu Siheng of the Wu family was a monk of the Zifu who was supported by her personally.
Wu Siheng’s master was Lu Hongniang’s younger brother. Wu Siheng’s backer in the Qingxuan Sect at that time was his immediate elder Lu Hongniang, and secondly his fellow monk Zhang Chuyun. It was precisely because of these two Zifu monks that Wu Siheng had a smooth journey in Qingxuan Sect and successfully broke through the Zifu realm.
Because of this factor, Wu Sixeng lost his temper when the Zhang family’s Jiuhua Mountain was taken away. He spoke up for the Zhang family and directly targeted Patriarch Jin, mocking him for being seduced by women and sitting back and watching his disciples’ families being driven out and exterminated.
Such words also put a lot of pressure on Patriarch Jin, and also made him feel a little dissatisfied with the Zhang family. After that, Xihefang was captured, and because Wu Sixeng got angry, Hu Peiyu personally took action, killing Wei Mazi and others, cutting off the Hu family’s minions and helpers, awakening Hu Boyu, and letting them live in peace for decades.
Su Heng personally went to Chaoyin Mountain and had a long talk with Sun Changgeng. Finally, he obtained Sun Changgeng’s permission to occupy the spiritual vein of Jiufeng Mountain and prepare to settle in Taicheng County.
After he settled in Jiufeng Mountain, he married a dozen low-level female cultivators and concubines, preparing to settle down in Taicheng County and establish a new cultivating family like Zhang Tairen.
After he stabilized in Jiufeng Mountain, he immediately went to Yanlaifeng and found Wu Xiangjie of the Wu family, hoping to join the family alliance in Taicheng County.
For such a master with a high level of cultivation, Wu Xiangjie certainly would not push him outside. Soon Wu Xiangjie asked Zhang Zhixuan and Liu Zixuan for their opinions and agreed to Su Heng joining the alliance.
Moreover, Wu Xiangjie also gave up his family’s quota to go to the Southern Wilderness, allowing Su Heng to lead a team to trade in Black Mountain this year to earn resources for this new family.
Two years have passed since I got the Xuanyin Fruit. Counting the few months the Xuanyin Fruit was stored in Taixu Pavilion, if it is not used, the Xuanyin Fruit will turn into pure spiritual energy and dissipate.
You know, the shelf life of this spirit fruit is only three years.
It took Zhang family monks two years of collecting and traveling almost half of the Yu Kingdom to collect all the materials for refining this third-level elixir.
From this we can see how difficult it is for a small family to refine third-level elixirs.
Now the Zhang family has the inheritance of five third-level alchemy recipes, which is already very extraordinary. You must know that Zhang Tairen became a fourth-level alchemy master, and he only has seven third-level alchemy recipes and one fourth-level alchemy recipe.
Unfortunately, in order to raise resources for his son to open up the Zi Mansion, he could only swear an oath to leave his alchemy inheritance entirely to Qingxuan Sect.
If the legacy of Patriarch Tairen could be passed down, Zhang Zhixuan’s alchemy skills would have advanced ten years earlier.
The family’s five elixir recipes require a total of six main medicines. In addition to the compound eyes of the third-level East Pole Locust, Zhang Zhixuan has arranged for people to collect these elixir seeds in the past few years and cultivated an acre of second-level high-grade spiritual fields in Lingjing Mountain. , a relatively small elixir garden was reopened.
It’s a pity that most of the main ingredients of the third-level elixir need hundreds of years. Water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the near. If you want to rely on these seeds to make an elixir, you may have to wait two to three hundred years.
Two or three hundred years later, Zhang Zhixuan will either succeed in opening the Purple Mansion without needing these third-level elixirs, or else he will turn into a handful of loess.
This kind of arrangement is based on long-term considerations and plans for the future monks of the family.
(End of chapter)