Since setting up the third-level spirit gathering formation and starting to refine high-grade spiritual stones, the spiritual energy in Lingtian has become stronger day by day, and the family has also begun to move some monks over and open caves on the hills near Lingtian.
This deserted hill was also given a name, Lingjing Mountain.
When the spiritual veins are fully upgraded to the third level, the family will also move a few and a half monks here, along with the monks' relatives who live at the foot of Lushan Mountain.
In order to make it easier for the monk's relatives to live, the family even mobilized mortals from Lushan County to build a huge manor ten miles near Lingjing Mountain.
At that time, this manor will be inhabited by the monk's mortal relatives.
It is very close to Lingjing Mountain where the monks are stationed, which not only ensures safety, but is also closer to the lively Lushan County.
Although it is safe to live in Lushan, it is still a bit desolate after all, far away from the towns where humans settle.
For ordinary mortals, they also prefer to live near Lushan County.
One day, while Zhang Zhixuan was refining his magic power, a messenger talisman flew into the cave. Zhang Zhixuan opened it and found that it was the clan leader summoning him again.
During the more than 100 years that the patriarch has been running the family, the family has always been relatively harmonious. Although major issues have always been decided by the patriarch, most of them are discussed with everyone.
After Zhang Zhixuan established the foundation, the clan leader no longer made decisions alone, and asked Zhang Zhixuan for his opinion on all major issues in the family.
Seeing that the clan leader had something important to do, he asked him to take Qing Chan with him. Zhang Zhixuan no longer delayed and immediately took Qing Chan with him and returned to Lushan together.
Lingjing Mountain is not far from Tiantai Peak, only more than 600 miles away. Before dark, Zhang Zhixuan and his wife finally returned to the mountain gate.
The two of them wasted no time and headed straight to the cold pool in the back mountain.
When they arrived at the clan leader's cave, they found that except for the seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan, all the elders of the family had arrived.
Zhang Leqian saw Zhang Zhixuan and his two men arriving, so he said, "Now that Zhixuan is here, Meng Ling, please tell me what happened."
"One day ago, the Zhou family from Hongliu Mountain came to ask for help, saying that there were traces of a snake demon in the Black Python Mountain not far from them. In just seven or eight days, it had eaten more than 30 people. The Zhou family sent three
The monks in the Qi training period dealt with it, as well as the patriarch Zhou Wenjian, who had a high level of cultivation. As a result, the three of them left and never came back. It was probably an accident. The Zhou family had no choice but to ask us for help." Zhang Mengling took a sip of tea and said,
He said quickly.
Zhang Zhixuan asked: "How is Zhou Wen's sword cultivation? What are his methods? Is he comparable to several elders in the family?"
"Zhou Wenjian has been cultivating to the ninth level of Qi training for almost twenty years. He is less than seventy this year. A monk from a small family like him can't compare with us in terms of skills, magic talismans, magic weapons and elixirs. He is probably older than us.
The weak seventh brother is stronger." The eleventh uncle Zhang Menghong is in charge of the family's law enforcement. He had a good relationship with Zhou Wenjian when he was young and knew him better, so he answered.
"Will a third-level monster appear?" Zhang Zhixuan asked.
"It's unlikely. Demonic beasts like to devour monks. If a third-level demonic beast comes, it is estimated that the Zhou family will be completely wiped out within a day, and there will be no way to spread the news.
Moreover, our Taicheng County has been gradually occupied by human monks since two thousand years ago. After two thousand years, although it is still a bit desolate, it is impossible for there to be any monsters.
Even if there are level three monsters, they came from the Duanyun Mountains of Hongshan Sect in the north of Lushan, so the possibility is not very high." Zhang Mengling shook his head and said.
After listening to Uncle Nineteen’s analysis, and based on Zhang Zhixuan’s experience, he was probably close to the same, so he said: “No matter what, the Zhou family in Hongliu Mountain is our vassal family, and if we have the ability, we must take care of it.
Tomorrow morning, Aunt Mengqin, Aunt Mengqin, and Qingchan will go down the mountain together to deal with the monsters near Hongliu Mountain."
Although Qing Chan has been practicing to the ninth level of Qi training for many years, due to his Qi storage skills, he only looks like a fifth-level Qi training monk.
Except for the patriarch Zhang Leqian, the rest of the family didn't know Qingchan's situation at all. Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan wanted to take the little girl with him, Zhang Mengqin said strangely: "Qingchan is still young. It may be dangerous to go to Hongliu Mountain this time. It's better to find someone else to go with him." Shall we go together?"
Zhang Zhixuan smiled easily and said: "Don't worry, Eighteenth Aunt, Qingchan can take care of himself. As a monk practicing Taoism, you will face danger at any time. If you don't go through experience, the embroidered pillow will be useless.
No matter today or in the future, she will always encounter danger. This time, treat it as a training for her.
Besides, I am also by her side, and if I encounter danger, I will not stand idle."
Now that he had made a decision, Zhang Zhixuan did not waste time and made some preparations. Early the next morning, he took Zhang Mengqin and Qingchan down the mountain.
Hongliu Mountain is also a branch of Lushan Mountain. It is not very far from Tiantai Peak. Going northwest from Tiantai Peak, about a thousand miles away, you will find Hongliu Mountain.
The Zhou family in Hongliu Mountain has a much longer history than the Zhang family in Lushan. This family has produced high-level monks before, but unfortunately it declined in the end.
More than two hundred years ago, when the Zhang family was at its peak, the Zhou family came to seek refuge and settled in Hongliu Mountain.
After hundreds of years of cultivation, there are already two second-level high-grade spiritual veins on Hongliu Mountain. If one more can be cultivated, it can be synthesized into a third-order spiritual vein.
However, the Zhou family in Hongliu Mountain does not have Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, so they probably do not dare to cultivate third-level spiritual veins, lest they be targeted by Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, leaving the hidden danger of annihilation.
After more than two hundred years of rooting and development, the Zhou family in Hongliu Mountain now has more than thirty monks, and the scale is quite large. Once someone builds the foundation, it will be considered a complete foundation-building family.
Near Hongliu Mountain, the mortals of the Zhou family also established a town.
Zhang Zhixuan glanced at the size of the city and found that the Zhou family had a population of tens of thousands.
Zhang Zhixuan glanced at Zhang Mengqin and said, "This family has more monks than ours."
The Zhang family also has a population of more than 40,000. They also control more than a dozen towns near Lushan County. The population under their control has exceeded 100,000.
With such a large population, only a few monks can be selected. The Zhou family, with a population of only ten or twenty thousand, can raise more than thirty monks. The number of people with spiritual roots in their clan almost exceeds that of the Zhang family. Double.
"It seems that the Zhou family is not simple either. Their ancestors must have had high-level monks."
The higher the monks' cultivation level and the better their spiritual roots, the better their offspring will be and the greater the probability of possessing spiritual roots.
It is for this reason that the family will do its best to encourage the monks in the family to marry, take concubines, and have children.
After all, if a descendant of a monk has more than a dozen children, one or two will always have spiritual roots.
The founder of the Zhang family, Zhang Tairen, raised more than a dozen children, more than half of whom had spiritual roots. In addition, his son Zhang Chuyun opened the Zi Mansion, and the Zhang family developed into a family of immortal cultivators.
Ordinary foundation-building monks would not have such good luck and be able to raise many children with spiritual roots. They would not have sons who could open up the Zi Mansion, so the family they passed down would soon decline.
Only a cultivating family with a good foundation and a large population can continuously cultivate foundation-building cultivators from generation to generation and maintain the long-term prosperity of the family.
The five major families in Taicheng County are such immortal cultivating families. Except for the Zhang family, the other four major families have been passed down for at least five generations, for more than 600 years.
The Liu family, which has the longest inheritance, has been here for more than 2,000 years. It has been established here almost since the barbaric era when Taicheng County was established.
Their family has now developed more than 300 acres of spiritual fields, which is almost ten times that of the Zhang family. You must know that their family has not discovered spiritual wells, let alone spiritual water to irrigate the spiritual fields. Every acre of spiritual fields opened will cost one acre.
There are more than a hundred spirit stones, so we can know the background of these old families.