Since the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain was wiped out by the monks of the Hongshan Sect, only four major families were left in Taicheng County, and the Zhu family in Liucheng only had Zhu Hun, a foundation-building monk. They also needed to stay at Chaoyin Mountain to guard the Lingshi Mine.
I don’t have the energy or time to trade in Montenegro.
Therefore, the quota for trading in Montenegro has now been rotated every three years.
This year, it was the Zhang family's turn to escort Taicheng County's caravan into Montenegro for trade.
The clan leader is guarding Chaoyin Mountain, and Qingchan is a girl with a relatively cold personality and doesn't like to deal with outsiders, so this time it is Zhang Zhixuan's turn to escort the caravan.
Patriarch Liang is now running out of life, and his disciples have been unable to open up the Purple Mansion. The monks on the Black Mountain are also very anxious now. Although Patriarch Liang relied on him to kill the fourth-level Dongji Locust this time, the monks on the Black Mountain
The losses are still immeasurable.
In particular, the elixir garden that had been cultivated for hundreds of years was destroyed. All the elixirs in the garden were eaten by the East Pole locusts, and many years of hard work were ruined. This blow was also a huge blow to Patriarch Liang. After hearing the bad news, Elder Liang
Zuya seemed to be getting older and could no longer hold on any longer.
Not only that, all the spiritual rice on the Black Mountain was eaten by the East Pole Locust. More than 200 monks in the Qi-training stage were killed and injured, and almost half of the mortal relatives on the mountain were killed and injured. Even three monks in the Foundation-building stage were killed.
Although the locust plague was repelled, the Black Mountain monks were also hurt this time.
Especially some monks in the Qi training period, because their parents, wives and children died in Black Mountain, they are already a little disheartened. In addition, the monster beast chaos that happens every hundred years is about to come, and a war will definitely break out in Black Mountain.
Many casual practitioners in Montenegro are already preparing to leave Montenegro and return to their hometown to spend their remaining years.
The spiritual field on Black Mountain could have provided half of the demand, but now it has been completely lost. This gap needs to be filled by monks from Taicheng County.
Fortunately, the three families of Zhang, Wu and Liu kept the Dongji locust out of Taicheng County and saved the spiritual fields in Shanmen. This year's spiritual rice production has not been reduced.
Among the three families, the Liu family has the most spiritual land and the most food stored in the family. Although there are two less families, the Zhang family has opened up an additional 30 acres of spiritual land in the past forty years, plus two more acres of spiritual land in Jiuhua Mountain.
With ten acres of spiritual land, the three families spent a few days raising enough supplies for this time.
Zhang Zhixuan led the Cloud-Stepping Beast and Horse Team to Yanlai Peak, joined forces from the three families, and began to slowly enter the Southern Wilderness.
In the past thirty years, since Zhang Zhixuan established the foundation, the family's population of cloud-walking beasts has also expanded. Especially after Zhang Zhixuan brought back two fire dragon colts from the Southern Wilderness, the source of this monster beast has been improved.
The Zhang family's horse team now has sixteen cloud-walking beasts, two fire dragon colts, and three hybrid horses between cloud-walking beasts and fire dragon colts.
This hybrid horse-like monster has been tamed by monks from the beginning. It has a very gentle temperament, far less violent and rough than the fire dragon colt. It is also infinitely powerful, far superior to the Cloud-Stepping Beast. If it is used as a pack animal to transport goods, it is more powerful than the Cloud-Stepping Beast.
It's better than the Fire Dragon Colt.
Although the grade of this kind of horse is not as high as that of the Fire Dragon Colt, it still reaches the second-grade lower grade. Because of its red eyes, it was named the Red-Eyed Beast by the fourth brother Zhang Zhian.
This pack of twenty-one monster beasts almost undertakes the transportation tasks to the Southern Wilderness every year, earning hundreds of spirit stones each time.
The elder who followed Zhang Zhixuan to Montenegro this time was the fourth brother Zhang Zhian. Since he took charge of the pack team, he has made a trip to Montenegro almost every year.
In the past ten years, he has spent most of his time on the road, with only two months of free time every year.
He is now over sixty years old and has no hope of building a foundation. His only wish is to save a fortune for future generations.
And in terms of personality, he liked raising horses since he was a child. When he was young, he was responsible for feeding the family's cloud-walking beasts. Now he can hardly live without the horses for almost a day, and he also likes this kind of life with the horses every day.
And I go to the Southern Wilderness once a year, because the journey is long and difficult, and the rewards from the family are quite generous. As the elder of the ninth level of Qi training, the fourth brother can get thirty good deeds as a reward by going to the Southern Wilderness once, and counting him
With a salary of sixty spiritual stones per year, his income has exceeded that of most Qingxuan Sect ninth-level qi-training monks, let alone the Black Mountain casual cultivators who live a miserable life.
Since the family's finances improved, the life of the family elders has become much better, and they are no longer as embarrassed as they were back then.
The elders of their generation have far less contribution to the family than the fourth uncle, ninth uncle, and nineteenth uncle, but the rewards they receive from the family are far greater than those of the fourth uncle and others.
Fourth Uncle and Ninth Uncle, the previous generation of monks, have been elders for more than twenty years and have never received a salary. They even use their alchemy and weapon refining skills to raise resources for the family and support the next generation of monks.
Whenever he thinks of this, Zhang Zhixuan feels a little sad.
Uncle Fifteen died in the Southern Wilderness. Although he had some children, none of his descendants had spiritual roots. Zhang Zhixuan could only secretly take care of it so that his descendants would be small officials in Lushan County and not be despised or bullied.
The Eighteenth Aunt never got married and died in Lushan trying to reach the realm of foundation building. Even if Zhang Zhixuan wanted to take care of her descendants, he had no way of doing it.
Although Jiubo's grandson Zhang Siheng had spiritual roots as he wished, he was a monk with five spiritual roots and had no future. Zhang Zhixuan could only arrange for him to serve as a county captain in Lushan County and entrust him to the care of his sixteenth uncle Zhang Mengong.
Uncle Eleven is over 100 years old. He resigned as an elder just last year and is already retiring in Tiantai Peak. He has enough prestige in the family to take care of his wife and children, so Zhang Zhixuan does not need to worry about him.
Uncle Nineteen gave birth to several children, but his good luck was almost all used up. Although he was a monk with two spiritual roots, the children he gave birth to were all mortals. Until now, he has put all his efforts into
My grandnephew Zhang Sihong is pregnant.
Regarding this junior, Zhang Zhixuan is slightly more biased in his heart.
Zhang Sihong is a monk with two spiritual roots. Due to the serious conflict between the water and fire spiritual roots, he suffered from fire poison when he was young and could not practice. Thanks to Zhang Zhixuan, he often looked after him and helped suppress the fire poison.
After he turned twelve, Zhang Zhixuan went to Qingxuan Sect to find Chen Hongyuan and specially refined the Xuanyin Talisman for him to suppress the fire poison in his body.
It has been more than ten years since he obtained the Xuanyin Talisman. This child who has gone through many hardships since childhood has practiced hard and has made rapid progress in cultivation in the past ten years. At only twenty-two years old, he has already reached the sixth level of Qi training. It seems that
Before the age of forty, one can break through to the ninth level of Qi training.
Among the younger members of the family, the monks of the Si generation are probably headed by this person.