Li Zigong's decision can be regarded as taking care of the immortal cultivating family in Taicheng County, and Zhang Zhixuan and others also agree with this decision.
After the discussion was finalized, Li Zigong and other monks from the Qingxuan Sect stayed here temporarily to guard the Lingshi Mine in Chaoyin Mountain and kill the idle monks who strayed in to prevent any news about the Lingshi Mine from being leaked.
The five major families in Taicheng County returned to raise resources and mobilize manpower.
The Zhang family's share of the Lingshi mine is only 3%. Although the shares are small, the resources invested are also relatively small.
Since Zhang Zhixuan established the foundation, the family's finances have gradually improved, especially after he became a third-level alchemist, and his success rate in refining the Golden Bud Pill and the Youhuan Pill has greatly increased, and he can earn a large amount of income every year when amortized.
The sale of spiritual wine opened up the market, and the White Jade Queen Bee successfully advanced, resumed the business of transporting spiritual rice to the Southern Wilderness, gained control of the Baibao Pavilion on the Black Mountain, excavated green hills on the Black Python Mountain, and expanded the spiritual field in the Lingjing Mountain.
With the development speed, Ten Thousand Snake Cave was successfully developed.
All these things have increased the family's wealth bit by bit. Now, the family can save an income of more than a thousand spiritual stones every year for necessary expenses.
Since three years ago, the family's foundation-building monks have begun to receive fixed offerings, and can receive three hundred spirit stones every year.
Since the family has been declining year by year and Jiuhua Mountain has been lost, this is the first time that monks in the foundation period have received family offerings. Before this, both the patriarch and Zhang Zhixuan had to use alchemy and talisman making to subsidize the family finances.
Now that the family's income has improved, even if the three foundation-building monks receive nine hundred spiritual stones as offerings each year, they can still have a balance of two to three hundred spiritual stones each year.
If the income reaches a major level in any year, the family can save one or two thousand spirit stones that year. In the past few years, the family's spirit stones in the public accounts have exceeded three thousand.
After the loss of Jiuhua Mountain, this was the best time for the family's finances after the fourth uncle cultivated the spiritual veins of Lingjing Mountain. Compared to the past, although the Zhang family had saved some wealth, it basically did not have much income. Fundamentally, it was still
We cannot make ends meet. Every year we delay, the burden on our family becomes more serious.
Thirty years have passed, and now the family's annual income exceeds three thousand spirit stones, which has almost doubled. There are also more than thirty monks in the family. The family also has two foundation-building pills.
If two more people succeed in building the foundation, the family's strength will become stronger.
Returning to Tiantai Peak from Chaoyin Mountain, Zhang Zhixuan told the clan leader what Li Zigong meant. Although the family had a solid foundation, it could not produce six thousand spiritual stones at the moment.
However, such a good opportunity to invest in the Lingshi mine does not come at any time. Even if it is to sell iron, 6,000 Lingshi will have to be allocated to invest.
For this reason, the patriarch Zhang Leqian could only summon the backbone of the family who were in the advanced stage of Qi training and above, hoping that each of them could come up with some spiritual stones to fill the gap.
Soon, following the notification from the clan leader, the monks who were in the late stage of Qi training and above came to the mountain behind Tiantai Peak one after another.
Even the key monks and clan leaders of Lingjing Mountain and Ten Thousand Snake Cave, which were not too far away, were not left out and notified them one after another.
Zhang Zhixuan saw the family monks gathered together in the cave. Compared with thirty years ago, there were eighty-nine more monks in the late stage of Qi training in the family.
Most of these monks are already Zhi generation monks, while the previous generation of Meng generation monks only have about ten people, only about one third of them.
Even the family elders at the ninth level of Qi training already have three monks of the same generation, and the monks of the previous generation are beginning to age, and some are already senile.
Seeing that everyone had come, Zhang Leqian coughed and suppressed the noisy voices of the crowd and said: "I asked you to come today because of a big event. A spiritual stone vein has been discovered to the north of Ma's house on Jiufeng Mountain. Now this The general direction of the ore vein has been clearly explored.
Elder Li Zigong of Qingxuan Sect has decided to bring together five of our local families to develop this spirit stone mine. In order to develop the spirit stone mine, the initial investment is very large. Just cultivating a fourth-level spirit vein requires one hundred thousand spirits. stone.
As for us monks in Taicheng County, we need to come up with half of it. Our family's share is relatively small, only 3%. We need to come up with 6,000 spiritual stones to keep our shares.
There are only 3,000 spirit stones in the family's public accounts. Even if we take out all of them, it won't be enough. The gap of the remaining 3,000 spirit stones can only be shared among everyone.
As a monk in the foundation building stage, I will first take out five hundred spirit stones. You elders at the ninth level of Qi training must each take out one hundred spirit stones to fill the gap. For the remaining monks, there is no mandatory number, and you are not rich either. , let’s count as much as we can!”
The patriarch took the lead and took out five hundred spirit stones. Zhang Zhixuan, as the foundation-building monk in the family, was of course not to be outdone. Like the patriarch, he and Qing Chan also took out five hundred spirit stones.
The three foundation-building monks took out half of the gap, and the remaining ninth-level qi-training elders would not hurt their bones even if they each took out a hundred spirit stones.
The foundation-building monks and the elders of the ninth level of Qi training have collected a total of 2,200 spirit stones. The remaining twenty-odd late-stage Qi training monks have learned more or less a hundred arts of cultivating immortals and can make a living in the world of cultivating immortals. I, you, thirty, and he, twenty, together collected more than four hundred spiritual stones.
For the shortfall, the clan leader directly transferred some working capital from the shops in Xihefang and gave it to Zhang Zhixuan to take to Chaoyin Mountain.
Zhang Zhixuan left first with the spiritual stones, and the clan leader began to mobilize people to prepare spiritual rice, grain, clothing, animals and other messy things, and then slowly rushed to Chaoyin Mountain.
Mining the Lingshi Mine mainly relies on a large number of mortals, and migrating a large number of mortals to Chaoyin Mountain consumes a huge amount of materials.
Zhang Zhixuan brought the spirit stones to Chaoyin Mountain, handed the Zhang family's share of the spirit stones to Li Zigong, and then followed Li Zigong's instructions and cooperated with the monks of the Qingxuan Sect to guard the spirit stone mine.
Before even one day had passed, the monks from the Wu family in Yanlai Peak arrived earlier than the monks from the Liu family in Taibai Mountain, although they were further away.
"The Wu family is really strong. Their family is farther away than mine. I didn't expect that they would come here on the same day as mine. I didn't expect that their family could easily come up with such a large amount of twenty thousand spirit stones. Even Patriarch Chu Yun While alive, the Zhang family would not have had this ability without seeking help from the ancestors."
Seeing Wu Xiang frame domineeringly taking out 200 pieces of middle-grade spiritual stones, Zhang Zhixuan's eyes were also a little jealous.
There are three foundation-building monks from the Liu family in Taibai Mountain. Their family has the longest history and the deepest foundation in Taicheng County. His family's shares are the same as those of the Zhang family, and they can easily produce six thousand spirit stones.
The most uncomfortable ones are the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain and the Zhu family in Liucheng. Their output is less. Although the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain has mined thousands of spiritual stones, they have also invested more resources. According to their family's share, they need to get Twelve thousand spiritual stones were produced.
Of course, the Ma family does not have 12,000 spirit stones. The number of spirit stones their family can produce is only 8,000.
Apart from Xuanyang wood, the Zhu family in Liucheng has no other special output. In recent years, their resources have been very tight. With the efforts of the whole family, they can barely collect four thousand spiritual stones.