Although Tiantai Peak has an average level of spiritual veins, its terrain is extremely majestic and it is also a rare high mountain in the Southern Wilderness.
Since Zhang Tairen, the first generation ancestor of the Zhang family, occupied this place, it has been in business for four hundred years.
However, compared to more than a hundred years ago, the changes here are not very big. Although the Zhang family monks have tripled, most of their strength has been moved to Heishan and Lingjing Mountain. The family treasury, the Sutra Pavilion and other important places
The place has been moved out, and now the most important place here is the family cemetery. There are not many monks on the mountain, only about forty, half of whom are old and dying.
However, below Tiantai Peak, the crowds are slightly denser.
In recent years, the Zhang family has worked hard to manage the triangular area of Lingjing Mountain, Wanshe Cave, and Tiantai Peak, opening up a large number of strongholds and also reclaiming a large amount of farmland. The triangular area formed by these three spiritual veins has become very densely populated.
, just in this small area, it feels like coming to Qi State.
Today, the population of the Zhang family has exceeded 300,000. Adding in the population of other surnames within the territory, the population controlled by the Zhang family has exceeded 500,000. This scale has exceeded the Liu family's Taibai Mountain.
At the top of Tiantai Peak, two monks have been waiting for a long time. One of them looks very old and does not have much time left, while the other is in his prime.
The old monk's name is Zhang Yuanzheng. He has been practicing to the ninth level of Qi training for many years. Because his ancestors have not accumulated enough knowledge and he does not have enough opportunities, he does not dare to take risks and pass the level. He can only slowly waste the years and stop practicing Qi.
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The middle-aged monk's name is Zhang Guangliang, Zhang Yuanzheng's direct nephew. Although he has given birth to many children, unfortunately none of them have spiritual roots. Fortunately, this nephew inherits the mantle, and the relationship between them is like that of a biological father and son.
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"Third uncle, it stands to reason that the beast ship will arrive this morning. Why is it still not here in the afternoon? Do you want to inform the elders on the mountain to avoid any accidents?"
Zhang Yuanzheng shook his head and said: "Don't worry, it's normal for the beast ship to be late. Elder Sijin is in retreat. Try not to disturb her if you can. If the beast ship doesn't come tonight, we will go to Lingjing Mountain to find Zerui.
Elder, ask him to communicate with Chaoyin Mountain, and then mobilize manpower to look for it."
Zhang Yuanzheng and Zhang Guangliang's uncle and nephew are preparing to take the beast ship to Montenegro. Zhang Guangliang is fifty-two years old. He is a monk with three spiritual roots. He has been cultivating to the ninth level of Qi training for nine years. The uncle and nephew finally gathered three thousand good works.
, preparing to go to Montenegro to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills.
Time passed quickly, and the two waited all night but saw no trace of the beast ship. Just when they were about to go to Lingjing Mountain to report the news, a black shadow appeared in the distance in the horizon.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the huge beast ship slowly docked on a flat rock on the top of the mountain.
Soon a monk rushed over and poured the good spiritual rice that had already been prepared into a special food box along with a few spiritual herbs that the whale beast liked to eat, so that the big guy could replenish its strength and rest for a while.
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The beast ship docked, and three monks immediately jumped out. These three were not members of the Zhang family, but loose cultivators nearby. The three of them bowed their hands to Zhang Yuanzheng's uncle and nephew, and hurriedly left Tiantai Peak.
The whale beast is huge. Once its wings are spread out, it is thirty feet long. As long as the whale beast flaps its wings, it can fly dozens of feet away.
Although the short-distance burst of the whale beast is not as good as the flight escape of the monks in the foundation-building stage, when it comes to long-term travel and limited mana, the endurance of the whale beast is far less durable than that of the abundant whale beast.
In recent years, relying on the three whale beasts, the Taicheng County monks have become very frequent in communicating with the outside world, especially the communication with Jiangkou County and Heishan, which has become very common.
A monk with a low level of cultivation can also take a whale beast ship to travel to places that he never dared to imagine before.
With frequent exchanges, the immortal cultivating community in Taicheng County has also developed rapidly. In the past hundred years or so, the population of each family has increased. Even the monks in the foundation-building stage have been more than a hundred years ago.
Zhang Yuanzheng's uncle and nephew boarded the beast ship and found a large amount of cargo piled in the cabin. According to their estimation, the weight was at least several thousand kilograms. If you want to carry these cargoes in a third-level storage bag, you must prepare at least five pieces of cargo.
More than one.
In addition, there are more than thirty low-level monks crowded in the cabin. Except for the monk who controls the beast ship, whose cultivation level has reached the foundation-building stage, the rest of the monks are not very high. Nine-level Qi-training monks like Zhang Yuanzheng's uncle and nephew
It's like a rare bird.
The beast ship flew thousands of feet high in the sky, and strong winds hit everyone's faces, as if they had been slashed by a knife.
In order to carry more cargo and save costs, the beast ship did not have any restrictions to protect against strong winds. Ordinary mortals sitting on the beast ship would not survive a day at all.
Fortunately, those who rode the beast ship were all physically powerful monks who were able to persevere in this environment. However, compared to Zhang Zhixuan's generation who ventured deep into the Southern Wilderness, it was easier to take a ship.
After more than twenty days of arduous journey, Zhang Yuanzheng's uncle and nephew finally arrived at Montenegro. Montenegro was also the terminal station of this beast ship, and most of the goods on the beast ship were shipped to Montenegro.
A few people had just gotten off the boat, and saw several monks who had gotten off the boat from Wuying Mountain, all wearing white mourning clothes, and walking to the top of Black Mountain with expressionless faces.
Zhang Yuanzheng saw several people walking towards the ancestor's cave. He thought of something in an instant, and his expression suddenly changed: "It seems that the ancestor Su of the Su family has left. I don't know what happened to the Wuying Mountain and Jiufeng Mountain after the ancestor Su left."
Will it not lead to division?"
In the decades since Su Heng occupied Wuying Mountain, he has developed this spiritual vein well. There are more than three thousand mortals on the mountain, and there are more than a dozen monks, including his sixth-level disciple Su Ziyuan.
However, Wuying Mountain is located in the southern wilderness after all, and the climate conditions are relatively harsh, far inferior to the other Spirit Vein Nine Peaks Mountain occupied by Su Heng.
Su Heng's cultivation level is very high. He has cultivated to the ninth level of foundation building many years ago. After he failed to open up the Zi Mansion, he devoted himself to cultivating disciples. In the last few decades, he supported two monks in the foundation building stage, including
One is his disciple Su Ziyuan, and the other is his blood relative, his grandson Su Lianghan.
However, Jiufeng Mountain and Wuying Mountain are tens of thousands of miles apart. Without Su Heng, the ancestor, to suppress them, the relationship between the two families would be difficult to manage.
After the monks reporting the funeral of the Su family came to Black Mountain, Qingchan immediately quietly escaped from the mountain and passed the news to Zhang Zhixuan, who was in retreat at Lingjing Mountain.
Upon receiving this news, Zhang Zhixuan suddenly felt a little sad.
At that time, several patriarchs of the families in Taicheng County had passed away, and even Su Heng, who joined later, also welcomed this day.
Of the earliest five major families in Taicheng County, only the Zhang, Wu, and Liu families can be inherited today. The Ma family was wiped out in the Battle of Chaoyin Mountain, and the Zhu family in Liucheng was unable to defend Lingshan after Zhu Qing was established, and was reduced to
For the lowest level family in the Qi training period.
Even the Hu family and the Su family, who entered Taicheng County halfway, were ups and downs, drifting with the tide.
The Hu family was exterminated by the Hongshan Sect, and only a few monks escaped. The Su family will probably split after Su Heng is enthroned. If one party is not handled well, they may even get into conflict with each other, triggering a civil war.