"Jinshafang City" is located on Jinxia Mountain south of Baishahe Oasis, less than 500 miles away from the base camp of the Chen family in Baituoling.
There was originally a third-level low-grade natural spiritual vein on Jinxia Mountain. Later, as the scale of "Jinshafang City" became larger and larger, the Chen family spent huge sums of money to upgrade the grade of its spiritual vein to the third-order high-grade.
The spiritual energy emitted by the third-level high-grade spiritual veins is enough to satisfy several foundation-building stage monks and hundreds of Qi-training stage monks at the same time. Therefore, as of now, the number of permanent immortal cultivators in "Jinshafang City" has exceeded
There are five hundred, and there are hundreds of various shops in the city.
As the only immortal cultivator market within tens of thousands of miles, every day, immortal cultivators come to "Jinshafang Market" to buy or sell cultivation resources. The "head tax" collected by this market alone amounts to thousands of souls every year.
stone.
Someone once calculated that, not counting the spiritual stones earned by the Chen family's self-operated stores every year, it is only the annual rent paid by various shops and cultivation caves in "Jinshafang City", as well as the "head tax" paid by monks entering and leaving the city.
”, it can provide the Chen family with a net income of ten to twenty thousand spiritual stones.
Of course, with such a large amount of income, it is easy to attract jealousy. Therefore, in order to protect this "golden chicken" that lays eggs, the Chen family not only set up a fourth-level low-level formation in the city, but also had more than three Chen family foundation-building monks stationed there all year round.
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With three foundation-building monks stationed on the ground, plus the law enforcement team established by the Chen family in Fang City, even if there are purple-fu phase monks or fourth-level monsters attacking, they can still resist for several hours with the help of formations and persist until they are in the city.
Chen Yaohui and Chen Laozu, who was in charge of Baituoling, came to the rescue.
Zhou Yang left the Chen family's pick-up point and rode a Shatuo beast for another day before arriving outside the city shrouded in formation clouds.
There are Chen family monks outside Fang City who are responsible for collecting the "head tax". Every time the monks stay in Fang City for more than 10 days in the later stage of Qi training, they will have to pay an additional detention fee of one low-grade spiritual stone. If they stay for less than 10 days, they will pay the same as one low-grade spiritual stone.
Fees for spiritual stones are collected.
However, as the Zhou family is an ally of the Chen family, monks from the Zhou family only need to pay one-third of the "head tax" when entering the city.
Zhou Yang was not sure how long he would stay in Fang City, so he first paid the fee for a year, and then slowly walked into the clouds with his proof of payment and a fine iron token with a special mark.
The surrounding city.
Xianjiafang City is, of course, very different from the towns built by mortals.
After Zhou Yang entered Fangshi, he discovered that what looked like a mist-shrouded Fangshi from the outside was actually a spiritual mountain hundreds of meters high. There were many pavilions on the mountain, with precious lights reaching into the sky, and various magnificent palaces, attics, and pagodas.
Located on the same mountain, it exudes dazzling auras of all colors, attracting monks from all directions to go there.
Day or night, it makes no difference to this Xianjiafang City.
"My Zhou family's [Yuquan Tower] is over there."
After Zhou Yang stood at the foot of the mountain and watched for a long time, he discovered the "Yuquan Tower" run by his family among the many pavilions.
This "Yuquan Building" is located by a pool on the mountainside of Fang City. The entire building is seven feet high and is made entirely of century-old iron wood. The building is divided into three floors. The lower two floors sell magical artifacts and elixirs refined by Zhou family monks.
, talismans and other objects, the upper floor is used to receive distinguished guests.
The two shops originally donated by the Chen family to the Zhou family were one called "Yuquan Building" and the other called "Zuixian Building", which was a restaurant that had been managed and managed by Zhou Yang's mother, Lin Yuting.
Before Zhou Xuanhao built the foundation, he had been in charge of the "Yuquan Tower". After he returned to the family to prepare for the foundation construction, the monk of the Zhou family who was in charge of the "Yuquan Tower" became the new elder Zhou Xuanlin.
Zhou Xuanlin ranks seventh among the "Xuan" generation. He is also the other second-level weapon refiner in the Zhou family besides the old patriarchs Zhou Minghan and Zhou Yang. However, his talent in weapon refinement is not very good. Even though his cultivation level has recently broken through to
Even at the ninth level of Qi training, one can only refine second-level mid-grade magic weapons, and the success rate is not very high.
Nowadays, in addition to Zhou Xuanlin, the elder of the Zhou family, who is in charge of "Yuquan Building", there are also three juniors, Zhou Ping, Zhou Yu and Zhou Xiong, who are from the Zhou family's cousin Qian Hongyu and the "Yuan" generation, who are here to serve as sales associates and are responsible for the store's sales.
Item sales.
Qian Hongyu is the Taoist monk Zhou Xuanchen who ranks twelfth in the Zhou family's "Xuan" generation. Zhou Ping, Zhou Yu, and Zhou Xiong rank fourth, fifth, and thirteenth respectively in the "Yuan" generation. Among these people,
, Zhou Yang is also familiar with Zhou Xiong, his thirteenth brother who is closest in age to him.
It happened that because Zhou Xiong was young, he was specially assigned to solicit business outside the "Yuquan Building", which was called to train his eloquence and eyesight.
Therefore, when Zhou Yang led Shatuo Beast to the front of the building, Zhou Xiong, a clan brother, immediately recognized this clan brother who had become famous throughout the clan.
"Ah! Brother Ninth, why did you come to Fangshi too? I never heard Uncle Qi and the others mention this beforehand!"
Zhou Xiong is five years younger than Zhou Yang. He is only twenty-seven years old this year. He is also quite handsome and has a good appearance.
When he saw Zhou Yang approaching with the Shatuo Beast, he first shouted in surprise, then ran forward with a diligent look on his face, took the reins from Zhou Yang's hand, and greeted him with an eager tone.
: "Brother Ninth, you must be lucky to have come all the way. Let me help you take this camel beast to the backyard and take care of it. Uncle Qi is just upstairs today. You can see him on the third floor."
Zhou Yang is now a prominent figure in the Zhou family. Even if the news of Zhou Xuanhao's foundation building has not yet reached the Baisha River Oasis, just relying on his reputation as a second-level top-level weapon refiner and his eighth-level Qi training,
It's enough to make Zhou Xiong and his peers look up to him.
Now everyone in the Zhou family knows that if nothing unexpected happens, Zhou Yang will definitely be the next patriarch of the Zhou family in the future.
In this case, if you can establish a good relationship with Zhou Yang in advance, will you be afraid that it will not benefit you when he takes over the power of the family?
Therefore, not to mention junior monks like Zhou Xiong, but also the elders of the "Xuan" generation, except for a few people, most people now dare not use their elders' identities in front of Zhou Yang to suppress him.
After all, in the world of immortal cultivation, the strong are respected, and their status as elders is not a reason for them to act arbitrarily. If they dare to suppress Zhou Yang as elders today, are they not afraid that Zhou Yang will come back with severe revenge after he establishes his foundation and becomes the clan leader?
Even if they themselves are not afraid, how can their descendants not be afraid as well?
Therefore, even for the sake of future generations, after Zhou Yang has determined that he can take the "Foundation Building Pill" to attack the foundation, few of the elders of the Zhou family dare to show their identity in front of him anymore. Fellow monks like Zhou Xiong
Not to mention.
Zhou Yang was a man of two generations, and his actual age was much older than his apparent age, so he didn't think it was inappropriate.
He himself will not rely on his status to suppress others, but he also doesn't like someone using his status as an elder to deliberately suppress him. If the elders can put aside their status and treat him, he will naturally respect their elders without losing human ethics.
"Then I'll trouble Thirteenth Brother. I really have something to discuss with Uncle Seventh." He nodded lightly, thanked him, put down the reins and walked into the building.
When they heard the footsteps coming in, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu, who were a little listless in the building because there were no guests, also cheered up. They thought a guest was coming, so they quickly cheered up and prepared to welcome the guests.
"Your Excellency... you are the ninth brother!"
"Ninth brother, why are you here in Fangshi?"
Zhou Yang, Zhou Ping, and Zhou Yu were also stunned when they saw that the visitor turned out to be Zhou Yang, Zhou Ping, and Zhou Yu, whom they had not seen for many years. Like Zhou Xiong, they had not received any prior notice. They were all extremely surprised by the sudden visit of Zhou Yang, the genius of the Zhou family.
surprise.
"Fourth brother, fifth brother, we haven't seen each other for many years. How are you?" Zhou Yang smiled slightly and greeted the two brothers with a friendly smile.
Seeing his gesture, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu were all excited, and they responded with flattered expressions: "Ninth brother, you're so polite. We haven't seen you for many years. We also miss our ninth brother."
It is true to say that they miss each other. The two of them have been away from home for many years. Over the years, they can only return to the family once every three to five years on average. If they want to know the news about the family, they have to rely on caravans to bring them. In recent years, caravans have brought them
The news that comes the most is related to the Ninth Brother in front of me.
Every time they heard news about this ninth brother, they couldn't help but wonder how that taciturn and somewhat withdrawn young man could do things that countless elders of the Zhou family could not do in the past two hundred years.
"Haha, the younger brothers and sisters in our family also miss our two brothers very much, especially the two of them, Xiao Fourteen and Xiao Fifteen. They often clamor to come down the mountain as adults as soon as possible and come to Fangshi to be with them.
Let’s explore the world of immortality together with my brothers.”
Zhou Yang chuckled, but he saw the restraint of the two of them, so he smiled and told some interesting stories about his brothers of the same generation to help them relax.
Sure enough, as soon as they heard him talk about these interesting things that had nothing to do with practice, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu relaxed a little from their restrained expressions, and they also started talking about some interesting things about the three of them when they were young.
After chatting like this for a while, the little difference between the brothers who had not seen each other for many years quickly disappeared. After becoming familiar with each other, Zhou Ping and Zhou Yu quickly used the conversational skills they had practiced as waiters for many years, and chatted with Zhou vividly.
Yang talked about the big scenes he had witnessed in Fangshi over the years, as well as their experience as waiters in "Yuquan Tower".
Of course, during the conversation, the two of them could not help but express their envy at Zhou Yang's rapid improvement in cultivation, and asked Zhou Yang for advice on some problems they encountered in cultivation.
Zhou Yang did not hide his secrets, and would try his best to answer the questions for the two of them if he could. He also lent the two of them the notes he had recorded on his practice experience.
After the three of them talked like this for about half an hour, Zhou Yu, who was chatting happily, suddenly slapped his head and shouted: "Ah, I was just catching up with you, my ninth brother, and I forgot about the real thing. You must have something to do when you come to Fangshi."
Are you conveying something important? Uncle Qi is upstairs, so we won’t delay Brother Ninth while you do your business."
Zhou Ping, who was on the side, was startled when he heard this, and then nodded quickly and responded: "Fourth brother is right, ninth brother, you have more business to do. Let's not rush to catch up on old things. After you finish the business, we will have plenty of time to chat."
After Zhou Yang heard this, he felt that today's reminiscing was almost done. Through the conversation with the two clan brothers just now, he had a little understanding of the current situation of "Yuquan Tower", so he smiled and nodded and said: "Since both brothers have
With that said, I will go up to see Uncle Qi first, and we will see you later."