Lushan Mountain is high in the mountains, densely forested, shrouded in clouds and mist, and full of flying birds. It is one of the most famous holy places for immortals in Taicheng County of the Yu State.
This mountain range stretches for more than 3,000 miles and is the largest spiritual mountain in the three southeastern counties of Yu State.
The mountains are rich in aura and are filled with all kinds of rare and hard-to-find fairy elixirs.
Even the immortal birds and beasts that are rarely seen in the mortal world have multiplied in this fairy mountain, adding a bit of fireworks to this desolate and remote fairy mountain.
Above Lushan, the peak with the most spiritual energy is Tiantai Peak.
This peak is more than 3,000 feet high. There is a large spiritual formation on the mountain to lock the spiritual energy. It has cultivated third-level spiritual veins, and the spiritual energy is far more abundant than outside the mountain.
There lived a family of monks on Tiantai Peak, the family of the overlords near Lushan.
Zhang Zhixuan was sitting under the Moon-Wang Pavilion, and streams of white spiritual energy continued to emerge from a spiritual spring. The green light collected the spiritual energy and gathered it on the stone platform three feet above the spiritual spring.
There is an old futon placed on the stone platform. The futon exudes a cool air, which makes people feel a sense of purity and asceticism.
Zhang Zhixuan was sitting on the futon, calmly practicing the spirit arts, his chest was rising and falling, and three feet of ice air was constantly spraying out from his mouth.
His face turned green and white, and the green and white Qi kept changing, gradually converging on the three large acupoints of the Divine Courtyard, Eyebrow Chong, and Chengguang above his head, turning into purple and green cloud Qi, floating into the sea of clouds.
Zhang Zhixuan smiled in his heart. Today he was practicing beside the spiritual spring. With his heart throbbing, he couldn't help but use the abundant spiritual energy in the spiritual spring to break through the entrance.
His practice went smoothly this time. Although it took a lot of effort, he still broke through the entrance safely.
Although Zhang Zhixuan has now opened the entrance, he still needs true energy to slowly warm up.
If you are not careful, all your previous efforts may be wasted, your cultivation may be greatly damaged, and even your meridians may be damaged.
If the acupoint is blocked again, it will be more difficult to open it the next time.
"Purple Qi rushing into the acupoint must be a person with a deep foundation. If Xuan'er has this vision, he will definitely be able to successfully build the foundation. In another ten years, the family will probably have another foundation-building elder."
The speaker was a middle-aged Taoist. He was wearing a blue Taoist robe and looked a bit like an immortal. He was walking towards the Moon-Wang Pavilion step by step.
Zhang Zhixuan's eyes were closed tightly. Just by hearing the voice, he knew it was his seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengqian.
It has been more than four hundred years since the Zhang family moved to Lushan. After three generations of monks' management, a third-level low-grade spiritual vein has been cultivated on Tiantai Peak, which is enough for three foundation-building monks to practice.
The cultivation of monks is divided into nine realms: Xiantian, Qi training, foundation building, Zifu, Jindan, Yuanying, Yuanshen, returning to the void, and Hedao, also known as the ninth level of seeking the Tao.
In this world of cultivating immortals, those who cultivate the soul can ascend to the upper world and become an enviable immortal.
If a monk wants to practice, it is best to practice in the spiritual veins, otherwise he will not be able to absorb enough spiritual energy, his magic power will gradually decrease, his body will slowly decay, and he will eventually transform into a mortal.
For example, foundation-building monks must practice in spiritual veins of level three or above in order to increase their mana and increase their cultivation. If they practice in low-level spiritual veins, the supply of spiritual energy will be insufficient, and they can only refine spiritual stones every day, which consumes a lot of resources for cultivating immortals.
A third-level low-grade spiritual vein is generally enough for three early-stage foundation-building monks to practice.
The same is true for golden elixirs and Yuanying stage monks. Yuanshen stage monks must enter the Cave Heaven Paradise to practice.
There is no paradise in the lower realm, so Yuanshen monks cannot stay in the lower realm for a long time and must find a way to ascend as soon as possible.
The Zhang family currently only has one monk in the foundation-building stage, the patriarch Zhang Leqian.
Zhang Leqian had already built the foundation a century ago. Unfortunately, he had a fight with others thirty years ago and injured his foundation. Not only did his cultivation level decline greatly, but his Dantian was also somewhat damaged. He could no longer attack others easily and could only sit in silence every day. By the spring, I linger and regain my strength.
Because the patriarch was seriously injured, the Zhang family's prestige has been greatly reduced in the past thirty years, and their sphere of influence has also been severely reduced.
Their number of stores in Fangshi has been reduced from twenty-four to eight.
Even the second third-order spiritual vein Jiuhua Mountain that was occupied two hundred years ago has already been handed over to others.
Most of the clan members retreated to their ancestral homeland, Lushan, to stay warm with the seriously injured clan leader, barely maintaining the dignity of a foundation-building family.
If no one in the family builds a foundation in the next sixty years, once the patriarch dies, they may not even be able to preserve their ancestral spiritual veins.
The family will also be on the verge of a catastrophe. Even if someone can barely survive, he or she will become the most helpless cultivator in the world of immortality.
On Tiantai Peak, a third-grade lower-grade spiritual vein, there are three spiritual springs that can be used for cultivation, and there happens to be a spring under Wangyue Pavilion.
Although the spiritual spring continuously gushes spiritual energy, any one spiritual spring cannot be used for a long time.
If the spiritual spring is overused and damaged, it will cause the spiritual spring to dry up. Restoring it will require a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is obvious that the gain outweighs the loss.
In addition to the spiritual spring occupied by the patriarch Zhang Leqian, the remaining two spiritual springs are used to support the cultivation of more than a hundred monks in the family.
Therefore, each spiritual spring must be given a rest period. When the spiritual spring is resting, the monks will use formations to collect the spiritual machines and use them to cultivate the warm and nourishing spiritual veins.
The spiritual spring under Wangyue Pavilion is quite sufficient, but it can only be used for six hours a day. If you use it for six consecutive days, you will have to take four days off.
The Zhang family currently has thirty-seven middle- and late-stage Qi-training monks. In addition to five people over eighty years old, there are as many as thirty-two Qi-training-stage monks who are qualified to use the spiritual spring for cultivation.
Therefore, within one month, a minor Qi-training monk like Zhang Zhixuan, even if the family rules give him preferential treatment, he can only practice with the spiritual spring three times, which adds up to less than three days.
Seeing Zhang Zhixuan's breakthrough, the middle-aged Taoist priest Zhang Mengqian had a bit of relief on his face, feeling that the family had a successor and gradually returned to its former prosperity.
Zhang Zhixuan gradually faded away the purple and green energy on his face, and while slowly withdrawing his power, he said: "Uncle Seventeen has been too praised. With the current situation of the family, it is extremely difficult to save himself. It is impossible to provide support for the monks in the clan. Kidan.
Even if my nephew can reach the ninth level of Qi training, without the foundation-building pill, the probability of foundation-building is only one in ten thousand."
After hearing what Zhang Zhixuan said, the middle-aged Taoist priest sighed and said with a bitter smile: "The matter has come to this, what can be done!
If you want to achieve success on your path, I’m afraid you have to rely more on yourselves.”
Zhang Zhixuan said with self-mockery on his face: "Uncle Seventeenth, why are you here?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest said with an unchanging expression: "According to your age, you can still practice at home for two years until you reach the age of eighteen and contribute to the family.
But now that the clan is short of manpower, I, on the orders of my nineteenth brother, will discuss with you to see if you can come down from the mountain in advance and contribute to the clan."
According to the family's rules, monks do not have to do any chores until they reach adulthood at the age of 18 and can continue to practice in the mountains.
It is not until he reaches adulthood at the age of eighteen that he will come down from the mountain to contribute to the family after he has achieved academic success.
The reason for this regulation is that before the monks reach the age of eighteen, not only are their cultivation bases weak, but their knowledge, character, and experience are often insufficient. Even if they are forced to leave the mountain, they will not be of much use and they can easily become the prey of hostile monks.
Nor is he capable of facing various threats in the world of immortality.
The monks of the Zhang family have always had strict family rules.
Zhang Zhixuan is just sixteen this year and has not yet reached adulthood, so Zhang Mengqian's tone is very gentle and he does not force him to walk out of the mountain gate.