Almost a year had passed since Zhang Zhixuan and Qing Chan returned to Chaoyin Mountain from Jiangkou County. Within this year, the clan leader had led everyone to move the mortals of the Ma family to more than a dozen towns in Lushan County.
In order to prevent these monks from the descendants of mortals from clumping together and affecting the stability of the family monks, the monks of the Zhang family broke up all the Ma family members and divided them into different villages.
These mortals surnamed Ma, without the protection of the monks, have now become homeless dogs and do not dare to violate the decision of the Zhang family monks.
After they arrived near Lushan, they began to intermarry with the Zhang clan on a large scale, and quite a few of them changed their surname to Zhang on the spot.
In the more than thirty years since Zhang Zhixuan came down from the mountain, although the family suffered more than 20 casualties in two wars, the number of monks has not increased much, but the number of mortals has increased dramatically.
The number of mortals of the Zhang family in Lushan County, plus the Zhou family who have integrated over the years, has exceeded 70,000. Although the population of the dozen or so towns near Lushan County has not increased as fast as the Zhang family, it still exceeds 60,000.
Moreover, the Zhang family established a county town in Wansheku. Although it only took a short time to develop, the population of the city exceeded 10,000.
A town was also built here in Chaoyin Mountain, and many tribesmen migrated. In addition to the 20,000 Ma family members who moved here this time, the population controlled by the Zhang family in Lushan has exceeded 160,000.
This population base has almost caught up with the Wu family in Yanlaifeng, but there is still a long way to go before the Liu family, which has the longest roots in Taicheng County.
Their family has the largest mortal base and has now built four large cities in Taibai Mountain. The Liu family has a population of more than 300,000. Together with the vassal population living in Taibai Mountain, the Liu family controls a population of more than 500,000.
Because of their huge population base, their family is the largest, has the most monks, and has opened up hundreds of acres of spiritual fields. The annual income from the spiritual fields alone is a huge amount.
This family is actually the most stable. Just relying on the spiritual field on the mountain, every sixty years, their family can earn more than 10,000 spiritual stones in profit, which can be exchanged for a foundation-building pill from Qingxuan Sect.
So over the years, although other families have had their ups and downs, every generation of the Liu family has had monks successfully build the foundation, and their inheritance has been for a long time. Although it is not as good as the Zhang and Wu families who have produced monks from the Zifu, it is far more prosperous than the Zhang and Wu families.
Zhang Wu and other families are stable.
After the clan leader moved the mortals of the Ma family to Lushan, he immediately came to Chaoyin Mountain without rest, replacing Qing Chan and Zhang Zhixuan and returning to the mountain gate.
Here in Chaoyin Mountain, since the family has a share, it must send people to guard the spirit stone veins. The three foundation-building monks of the Zhang family must send one to stay in Chaoyin Mountain, and even the monks in the Qi training period must send 30 people.
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Chaoyin Mountain has a fourth-level spiritual vein, and the spiritual energy on the mountain is stronger than the family's best spiritual vein, Lingjing Mountain. It can arrange for some monks to come to Chaoyin Mountain to practice, which actually reduces the burden on the family's spiritual veins and allows the Zhang family to cultivate more
Many people practice.
During the last battle at Chaoyin Mountain, no news came back from Zhang Zhixuan, which made the clan leader worried all the time. Therefore, he repeatedly asked to replace Zhang Zhixuan and come to Chaoyin Mountain to guard it, so that Zhang Zhixuan could return to the safer Tiantai Peak.
After defeating the Hongshan Sect, it is impossible for a war to break out here in Chaoyin Mountain for the time being, unless the Hongshan Sect wants to start a war again.
However, the combat power of the high-level monks of the sect was not as good as others, and the fourth-level formation-breaking beads were all used up. It would be difficult to attack Yuntai Mountain where the three Zifus were stationed, even if Patriarch Yang of the Hongshan Sect was dispatched.
Furthermore, the Hongshan Sect is not sure whether Taoist Jin Lan is hiding in Yuntai Mountain. Once the Qingxuan Sect mobilizes more manpower and two or three more of the Zifu monks of the Hongshan Sect die, then the sect is really not far away from being destroyed.
Unless the monsters of the Southern Wilderness invade and the Qingxuan Sect is unable to mobilize any manpower, the monks of the Hongshan Sect may launch a massive attack and seize the opportunity to recapture Yuntai Mountain and Jiangkou County.
It is expected that Chaoyin Mountain will be safe for at least a few decades. Zhang Zhixuan also agreed to the clan leader's request and asked him to come to Chaoyin Mountain to replace him.
When the clan leader arrived, Zhang Zhixuan took the clan leader to find the Zifu monk Sun Changgeng in Chaoyin Mountain. After completing the handover, he and Qing Chan returned to the family mountain gate.
The family's two third-level spiritual vessels must not be left without someone to guard them, otherwise bold cultivators will come to rob them, which could easily cause serious losses.
Zhang Zhixuan asked Qing Chan to stay in Lingjing Mountain where he had lived for many years, and returned to Tiantai Peak. After he came to Tiantai Peak, he did not occupy the clan leader's cave, but lived in Wangyue Pavilion.
Zhang Zhixuan practiced at Wangyue Pavilion when he was young, and his cave on Tiantai Peak is near Wangyue Pavilion.
But back then, more than twenty of them shared the spiritual acupoint of Wangyue Pavilion, but now this spiritual acupoint belongs to him alone.
Even though Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation has reached the fifth level, the spiritual energy produced by the spiritual acupoint of Wangyue Pavilion is barely enough for him to use. Zhang Zhixuan can also use spiritual stones to replenish the shortfall.
As the family monks dispersed to Lingjing Mountain, Wanshe Cave, and part of Chaoyin Mountain, there were not many people in the ancestral land of Tiantai Peak. Except for a dozen elderly monks stationed in the Sutra Pavilion, the mountain had become deserted.
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Now the place where the most monks in the family are located is Lingjing Mountain. Here, high-grade spiritual stones are used to cultivate spiritual veins, and there are also spirit-gathering trees to gather spiritual energy. The spiritual energy on the mountain is more abundant than on Tiantai Peak.
Not only do there live about thirty underage monks on Lingjing Mountain, but there are also more than a dozen people living in the spiritual field at the foot of the mountain. Counting Qingchan who opened the cave in Lingjing Mountain, there are already forty-seven monks here.
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Since the 19th uncle Zhang Mengling went to Montenegro to take charge of the Baibao Pavilion, the person in charge of the family's general affairs on Tiantai Peak has become the 11th uncle Zhang Menghong.
One day, Zhang Zhixuan was meditating. He saw the eleventh uncle coming to Wangyue Pavilion with a solemn expression. When Zhang Zhixuan slowly finished his work, the eleventh uncle said: "Zhixuan, a letter has just been sent from Xihefang, saying that Hu Boyu from the Hu family
I want to see you."
Zhang Zhixuan had seen Hu Peiyu's magical power with his own eyes in Chaoyin Mountain. She almost effortlessly defeated Dong Hongyu, whose cultivation was higher than hers, and it took less time than Lu Hongniang.
Zhang Zhixuan was already very jealous of the Hu family in Jiuhua Mountain. Even if he and Qing Chan successfully opened up the Zi Mansion in the future, he would not easily provoke them.
There is a blood feud between the Zhang and Hu families. Hu Boyu has reached the ninth level of cultivation. He is also the father of Hu Peiyu. Who knows if he has any powerful trump card.
Once Hu Boyu had ill intentions towards him, just like Zhang Legan used a Tiangang Divine Thunder Talisman to defeat Lu Yian, Zhang Zhixuan did not have the ability to survive.
Zhang Zhixuan's own family knew about his family affairs, but he personally killed Hu Boren, the foundation-building monk of the Hu family.
The most direct hatred between the Zhang and Hu monks was that Hu Boren killed the ninth uncle Zhang Mengquan. Zhang Zhixuan and the clan leader in turn killed Hu Boren in the southern wilderness.
As for the lost manpower in Jiuhua Mountain and Xihefang, the Hu family did not come forward personally, they were all hiding in secret. The ones who did it were Wei Mazi and other casual cultivators who fled from Wu State, and all of these people died at the hands of Hu Peiyu.
"Did the letter say where to meet?" Zhang Zhixuan took the letter and asked before he could read it.