Zhang Zhixuan received the letter from the clan leader and immediately rushed back to Lushan. He went straight to Wangyue Pavilion at Tiantai Peak to look for Zhou Wennian, the head of the Zhou family.
A spiritual acupoint in Wangyue Pavilion has been given to the Zhou family for ten years. Now, more than ten small courtyards have been built around Wangyue Pavilion, and monks from the Zhou family live in the courtyards.
The young people who practiced in Wangyue Pavilion had already moved to Lingjing Mountain where there was more spiritual energy.
Zhang Zhixuan found Zhou Wennian and asked directly without courtesy: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, I heard that you are planning to go back to Hongliu Mountain. Are you not living well in Tiantai Peak? There are still people who are looking down on you. Tell me, I will go to him to trouble you."
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"Senior Zhang joked. We have lived very well in Lushan in the past ten years. The main reason why we want to go back is because the Qingjiao issue has been resolved. The desolation of Hongliu Mountain is also a legacy left by our ancestors. We can never give up.
.And the second uncle's last wish was to go back. He died in Tiantai Peak. His last wish was just to be buried with his clan members, not to be buried alone in Lushan.
The elders in the family all want to return to their hometown. Although Lushan is good, it is the spiritual mountain of the Zhang family. We, the Zhou family, are outsiders after all. If we live here for a long time, we will inevitably have conflicts in the future. It is better to return to our own spiritual lineage as soon as possible.
Slow development." Although Zhou Wennian said it tactfully, his attitude was very firm.
"Fellow Daoist Zhou, please stop making decisions now and think about it!"
"Senior Zhang, we have been thinking about it for a long time. If we don't leave now, no one will want to leave after they have adapted to the environment of Lushan in a few decades. By then, there will be no Zhou family, only the Zhang family.
.After all, we are the descendants of our ancestors, and we cannot let our ancestors’ surnames be lost.
You want to integrate us into the Zhang family, which is a good idea, and we are grateful for your care, but in the end we still can't pass this hurdle in our hearts."
Seeing that Zhou Wenian had made his words very clear, Zhang Zhixuan also put forward his own conditions.
"Since Fellow Daoist Zhou wants to leave, we won't stop him. However, I have a few conditions here, and I ask Fellow Daoist Zhou to agree. First of all, you can't stop any monks or mortals who are married to you and me and are willing to stay."
"Senior Zhang, don't worry, as long as someone is willing to stay, we will not force them to stay."
"Okay, that's good. The second request is that because the monks who stayed behind have practiced your family's earth-shaking secrets, you must burn this secret and keep it in our Zhang family. After all, these people have stayed, and their
I can’t ignore the road.”
After hearing Zhang Zhixuan's second request, Zhou Wenian suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
The ancestors of the Zhou family had monks in the Golden Core stage. Although their family has declined greatly now, most of the family's cultivation techniques have been lost. Even the techniques of the Foundation Establishment stage are somewhat incomplete.
However, the Zhou family's Earth-shaking Technique is a cultivation technique based on earth spirit roots, which is exactly the kind of cultivation technique that the Zhang family lacks. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Zhang Zhixuan must get it.
Seeing that Zhou Wenian was silent, Zhang Zhixuan continued to persuade: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, your family's skills have been lost a lot. Looking at your current situation, if you cannot cultivate a monk with supernatural spiritual roots, it will be difficult to reverse the situation.
It is better to leave a copy of the skills in the Zhang family in exchange for our protection. We can marry each other for generations, so that the relationship between the two families can be closer.
Fellow Daoist Zhou, think about it carefully, where can you go without the protection of the Zhang family?
You also know the cruelty of the world of immortality. Even our Zhang family helped you in Hongliu Mountain during the years when we were at our weakest. A family like ours that keeps its word is rare in Taicheng County. If you agree to my offer
If you ask, I will give you a fixed source of wealth."
"I wonder what kind of source of wealth it is?" The Zhou family has been relying on the support of the Zhang family for years. The family's wealth is almost exhausted. When he heard that there was a way to get rich, Zhou Wenian lost his composure and asked.
"Do you still remember the Snake Demon Cave in Black Python Mountain? Although the dragon blood stones were taken away by Ancestor Liang to refine the dragon boat, deep inside the cave, there is a vein of bluestone.
As long as you agree to my conditions, our two families will jointly mine this vein. Your family will provide manpower, and our family will provide protection and carry the team. We will go to Xihefang every year to sell. This is a steady source of wealth. As long as Black Python Mountain
Without hollowing out, we can use the green granite to exchange for more than a hundred spiritual stones every year."
The bait released by Zhang Zhixuan was quite good, and Zhou Wennian immediately began to hesitate. Even if they returned to Hongliu Mountain, it would be difficult to survive if they offended the Zhang family.
Their only support is that the Zhang family has been in Lushan for many years and has always been very shameless. It is a family that keeps its word.
If the Zhou family is severely dealt with this time and its reputation is ruined, once word spreads, the Zhang family will be ostracized and isolated by the local monks in Taicheng County. Even if they get benefits, there will be endless troubles.
Because of this premise, he dared to reject Zhang Zhixuan.
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan proposed good conditions, Zhou Wenjian did not refuse and agreed after thinking for a moment.
In this way, the two decided on the overall situation. In the end, three of the Zhou family monks who were married to the Zhang family agreed to stay, plus the five Zhou family female monks who joined the Zhang family.
After living in Tiantai Peak for ten years, the Zhou family has actually lost a few monks, especially the number of monks in their prime, which has been reduced by almost half.
Even among the mortals living near Lushan County, there are more than 5,000 people who have adapted to the life in Lushan County and are unwilling to move again.
Fortunately, in the past ten years, due to the protection of the Zhang family, the population of the Zhou family has increased by almost 3,000, and the number of monks with spiritual roots has also increased by four, thus replenishing half of their family's blood loss.
It's no wonder that Zhou Wennian wants to leave. Also on Tiantai Peak, the welfare benefits of the Zhang family and the Zhou family are almost completely different.
If they live in Lushan for another thirty years, when their generation grows old, the Zhou family will be completely merged into the Zhang family.
These are the Zhou family members who are equivalent to marrying into the Zhang family. Zhang Zhixuan did not let them change their gender, and even generously allowed their descendants to have the surname Zhou.
Their treatment and benefits are almost the same as those of the direct monks of the Zhang family.
Zhang Zhixuan has prepared to be more open in the management of the family and accommodate new blood from outsiders.
Soon, with the help of the Zhang family, Zhou Wennian took the Zhou family and migrated for more than ten days to Hongliu Mountain.
Although they left for ten years, most of their houses in Hongliu Town did not collapse. After a period of repairs, they settled down again.
Zhang Zhixuan also sent his seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengjian with several Zhang family monks to prepare to stay in Black Python Mountain.
Without the blood dragon stone, there is nothing to attract monsters on the Black Python Mountain, so there will be no more danger.
Despite this, because there are green granite veins on the mountain, Zhang Mengqian and others also arranged a second-grade high-grade thick soil formation after arriving at Black Python Mountain, and began to set foot on Black Python Mountain, preparing to mine this vein as soon as possible.
Soon, the Zhou family sent a large number of mortals into the Black Python Mountain. With the help of the monks, they began to mine veins and mined a large amount of green granite.
The Zhang family also used the cloud-walking beast team to continuously deliver these ores to the shops in Xihefang City, and exchanged them for various cultivation resources.
In order to avoid suspicion from the Zhou family, every time he went to Fangshi, Zhang Zhixuan stipulated that the two monks should act together to prevent anyone from causing trouble and affecting the relationship between the two monks.
In this way, the green granite from Black Python Mountain has become a specialty of the Zhang family. This inconspicuous stone can sell more than a hundred spiritual stones every year. The monks of the Zhang family not only invest a little transportation capacity, but also provide several protections.
The monks almost just sit on the ground and collect money.