In the next period of time, Zhang Zhixuan taught Qingchan the tricks of fighting while receiving the family mission reward from Zhang Mengling.
Guarding the spiritual field rewards twenty spiritual stones for one year, while refining the Golden Bud Pill is more generous. One hundred and twenty spiritual stones are awarded at one time. Counting the family benefits that Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan receive every year, the two of them have a small treasury.
There are already three hundred spirit stones.
For a monk in the Qi training stage, three hundred spirit stones is already a lot of money.
An ordinary second-level high-grade magic weapon only costs about 150 or 60 spirit stones.
This amount of spiritual stones is enough for Zhang Zhixuan and his two brothers to settle down in Nanhuang and practice for a period of time.
After receiving the spirit stone and waiting for a nice sunny day, Zhang Zhixuan took Qing Chan directly down the mountain.
They left Lushan and walked southward along Lushan County for tens of thousands of miles. They spent three months sleeping in the wind and the open before they got out of the three southeastern counties and entered the wild and dangerous Shiwan Mountains.
The climate in the Southern Wilderness Mountains is humid and hot, which is very unsuitable for ordinary people to live. Therefore, it is almost uninhabited, and except for a few monks, there is no one at all.
Entering the Southern Wilderness, the spiritual energy was far more abundant than that of the Yu Kingdom. Even on the edge of the Southern Wilderness Mountains, Zhang Zhixuan could find some spiritual veins that were no less than those in Lushan.
It's a pity that these spiritual veins are owned by owners, either occupied by monsters or some powerful monks.
Zhang Zhixuan always traveled as far as possible for these spiritual mountain peaks. He and Qing Chan carefully avoided the spiritual veins of these spiritual mountains, and mostly went to the barren mountains and ridges with thin spiritual energy.
Because of the map left by the clan leader, Zhang Zhixuan avoided some dangerous places in advance and walked like this for more than a hundred days before finally arriving at the first monk town marked on the map.
In the mountains of the Southern Wilderness, due to the harsh climate, there is almost no room for mortals to survive. On the edge of the entire Southern Wilderness, there are seven towns where monks gather.
Every monk town is a huge market with abundant spiritual energy, and all kinds of rare immortal cultivation resources are traded everywhere.
Sometimes, some foundation-building pills are even traded in these markets.
Of these seven towns, four are under the control of the Qingxuan Sect, and one is under the joint control of more than a dozen foundation-building families from the three southeastern counties.
When the Zhang family was prosperous, they had a lot of say in Nanhuangfang City. Unfortunately, it has completely declined now. The family's shop has long been overwhelmed by crowds, and its influence has gradually declined.
Of the remaining two towns, one is under the control of Xuan Su Zong of Wu State.
Xuan Su Zong is the largest sect in the Wu Kingdom, and almost all of the four major sects in the Yu Kingdom are their vassals. The unique resources for cultivating immortals in the Southern Wilderness make Xuan Su Zong quite coveted.
So they took action personally and occupied a market to trade the unique cultivation resources of the Southern Wilderness.
The management of the last town is the most chaotic. It is a city founded by a loose cultivator from the Zifu period. This casual cultivator has few relatives and few apprentices. He lacks the confidants to manage the town, so the management of the town is handed over to the cultivator.
Among successful casual cultivators, because the sources of managers are mixed and the good and bad are mixed, murders and treasure grabbing often occur.
In the end, the ancestor surnamed Liang issued a strict order to strictly prohibit fighting within thirty miles near Heishan, and the situation was slightly better.
The most good things flow out of this market. Because there are no sects and family monks to exploit, the circulation of precious immortal resources is more common here.
If you really want to obtain some precious resources, you will have greater control here.
This city is Heishan City.
This is the holy land for casual cultivators in the Yu Kingdom, and it is also the source of trouble in the world of Yu Kingdom’s immortal cultivators.
In this place, there are countless invisible magic weapons, elixirs, exercises, talismans and other resources for cultivating immortals.
When you come to this place, once you leave the protection of Fangshi, it will be difficult for the monks in the Qi training period to protect their own safety.
Even so, casual cultivators with no way to seek enlightenment and no resources still flocked in to maintain the bloody and prosperous situation in Heishanfang City.
Zhang Zhixuan and his two men's goal this time is Heishanfang City.
Because the information here is the most well-informed and the most confusing, starting from here, you can probably find out the news about the Wu brothers.
And it's not too far from Jiaohefang, which is run by many families.
Monks like the Wu brothers who had to leave their family would definitely have close contacts with the family members in Jiaohefang.
As long as Zhang Zhixuan observes carefully, there will always be some clues revealed.
The closer they got to Heishanfang, the more malicious monks there were around, and Zhang Zhixuan and the two became more cautious.
Because they had detailed maps and jade slips, the two of them did not take any detours and went straight to Heishanfang in a careful and concealed way.
After the two of them paid a spirit stone each, Zhang Zhixuan and the other two received an iron plate and entered Heishanfang freely.
Heishanfang is located at the foot of Heishan Mountain. There is a fourth-level middle-grade spiritual vein on Heishan Mountain, and its branch extends inside Heishanfang.
Hundreds of years ago, demonic beasts were entrenched in the Black Mountains. They would even cross the Qingxuan Sect's defense line and penetrate into the three southeastern counties to cause trouble.
At that time, Liang Taixu, a casual cultivator who had just opened the Zifu, stepped forward and led some casual cultivator friends to conquer Heishan and quell the evil threat.
From then on, Liang Taixu occupied this spiritual vein, opened up Heihefang, and planted his roots in the Southern Wilderness Mountains.
After hundreds of years, although Liang Taixu has not formed a golden elixir, his cultivation has reached the peak of the Zifu stage. With the defensive formation on the Black Mountain, even if the golden elixir monks attack, he can deal with them.
The entire Heishanfang is not a big place, with only a hundred or so shops in total, and only one street that is neither long nor short.
The streets were deserted and there were not many monks stopping there.
Zhang Zhixuan and the two walked around the street, casually inquired about the news, and then walked directly to a shop at the end of the street.
The shop was deserted, except for a middle-aged monk who was reading an old book.
Zhang Zhixuan took a general look and found that the middle-aged monk's cultivation level was very low, only the third level of Qi training, which was far inferior to Qing Chan.
Zhang Zhixuan walked into the door and immediately said: "Fellow Taoist, are there any free caves on the mountain for rent?"
When the middle-aged monk saw someone coming in, he immediately put down the book in his hand and said enthusiastically: "There is enough spiritual energy in the Black Mountain. Countless caves have been opened over hundreds of years. There are countless caves of various levels. How can it be possible that they are all full.
I don’t know what kind of cave a Taoist friend needs?
Although the fellow Taoist looks young, his cultivation has probably reached the late stage of Qi training.
If you want to live more comfortably, I recommend Taoist friends to choose the third-level C cave.
This type of cave has a large area, with a total of more than a dozen houses, and it also comes with a two-acre second-level medium-grade spiritual field. It not only has an alchemy room, a weapon refining room, a talisman making room, but also a practice room for monks to test spells.
However, renting this kind of cave is naturally more expensive and requires one hundred low-grade spiritual stones every year."
Zhang Zhixuan smiled and said: "My fellow Taoist cultivation is not high, but his eyesight is quite extraordinary, and he can actually see clearly my cultivation.
Unfortunately, I am short of money and cannot afford to rent such an expensive cave. Do you have any recommendations for a more affordable cave?"