Because five years of practicing in a place without spiritual veins slowed down the two of them to some extent.
In the past five years, their cultivation has not improved further.
However, in the past five years in Huoshan, Zhang Zhixuan has spent more time on creating exercises, and the exercises in the middle stage of Jindan have been considered mature.
In terms of deriving techniques, his talent far exceeds that of his peers. Even if Qingchan has memories of past lives, he is far inferior to him in this regard.
Now Zhang Zhixuan has deduced the Chunyang Baodian's exercises to the fifth level of the golden elixir, and practiced his own exercises, so that his cultivation speed can catch up with Qing Chan's footsteps.
After returning to the sect, he immediately burned a copy of the diary jade slip he got from Taoist Hong and gave it to Patriarch Jin. This kind of diary written by Jindan monks for hundreds of years also has a great influence on Patriarch Jin's practice.
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In addition, he exchanged the refining methods of the three puppets extracted from the jade slips to the sect's Sutra Collection Pavilion in exchange for good deeds worth 60,000 spirit stones.
After handling these chores, Zhang Zhixuan was about to return to Lingjing Mountain Cave Mansion, but was stopped by Zhang Yunlan who hurried over.
"Fourteenth uncle, I'm afraid my father is dying. You should go and have a look quickly to see if we can delay it for a while."
Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan were about to leave, but they saw Zhang Yunlan's eyes full of tears and her handsome little face full of sadness.
Although Zhang Yunlan has a high level of cultivation and is over a hundred years old, she also has a clear understanding of the ways of the world.
Her cultivation has far surpassed that of her father, Zhang Sidao, and she has reached a level that Zhang Sidao can't reach. However, her dependence on her father is still hidden in her heart.
She lost her mother when she was young, and it was her father, Zhang Sidao, who raised her up with hands and feet, taught her Taoism, and led her on the path of becoming an immortal.
Because of the protection of the three elders Zhang Zhixuan, the monks of their generation have a relatively smooth path. As long as they have good spiritual roots and sufficient qualifications, they can basically make further progress.
Although Lan Niang's magical powers are not young anymore and she is over a hundred years old, when it comes to being ruthless and decisive, her generation lacks training and is far inferior to their parents, let alone the Zhang family's Sanzi Mansion.
In the past hundred years or so, some of Zhang Yunlan's brothers and nephews have passed away. It is not that she has not experienced the pain of losing relatives.
But it wasn't until Zhang Sidao died that Zhang Yunlan felt that the sky was about to fall. She was unwilling to accept this situation.
Zhang Zhixuan calculated Si Dao's age, and his face suddenly darkened. He looked at each other and Qing Chan and said, "Si Dao's time has come, please inform your family."
Si Dao is about twelve years younger than Zhang Zhixuan, and is now exactly one hundred and ninety years old. According to the lifespan of a monk in the foundation-building period, a monk who is good at maintaining health can last for about four decades.
It's a pity that Si Dao practiced hard in his early years and behaved recklessly. He mistakenly took a panacea that failed to be developed, which seriously damaged his foundation. Even if the conditions of the Zhang family gradually improved later, he only regained ten years of life, and his life span was still the same.
It takes about fifty years less than a normal foundation-building monk.
Although Sidao is a generation younger than Zhang Zhixuan, he is the same generation in age. Among the foundation-building monks in the family, only he, Sihong, and Tonghuai can barely be considered Zhang Zhixuan's assistants in managing the family in the early years.
When they were practicing cultivation, although their family conditions improved, they still had to face many difficulties and endure a lot of hardships.
The old patriarch also took great care of them back then.
These three oldest foundation-building monks also have a closer relationship with the three ancestors.
Si Dao and Si Hong are both family monks who can talk to the three ancestors. They are ordinary family foundation builders and there are no important matters. They dare not disturb his golden elixir stage ancestor Qing Xiu casually.
Zhang Zhixuan and his wife immediately changed their pace and hurried to the cave where Sidao lived.
Sidao's cave is a third-level high-grade spiritual vein, which he inherited from his master Chen Hongyuan.
Since Lan Niang opened the Zi Mansion, the Chen family has also followed her to benefit from it.
Some relatives with relatively distant bloodlines also shamelessly joined in and relied on Lan Niang's influence in the sect to place people on some fat jobs.
After Zhang Zhixuan and the others entered the cave, they found that Si Dao's complexion was very bad, and it looked like he had run out of gas.
His skin looked like dry tree bark, and his breathing was very rapid.
The person who took care of him was one of Sidao's grandsons. None of his sons had spiritual roots. They died of illness several decades ago. Even his grandsons and great-grandsons, only a few are still alive today.
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Sidao's grandson is named Zhang Yuanyou. This person's spiritual roots are also quite good. He is a monk with three spiritual roots. He is now about seventy years old.
However, in order to cultivate Lan Niang with better spiritual roots to open up the Zifu, Si Dao could only sacrifice Yuanyou's interests and did not help him at the most critical moment of building the foundation, causing him to miss the opportunity to build the foundation.
Because of this incident, this grandson has had some problems with him in recent years, and their relationship has been relatively distant, not close.
Seeing that I could no longer think anymore, I hurried to my grandfather's cave.
None of his descendants know anything about Sidao's early years, including Lan Niang.
In the early years when she was young, Si Dao did not tell her about this. In recent decades, in order to avoid Lan Niang's worries, Si Dao would not tell her that he did not have enough longevity.
Even the younger generations of his family don't know the exact age of Si Dao. After all, they live far away from the family in Qingyang Mountain, and it is impossible to go to the Tiantai Peak Family Ancestral Hall to read the genealogy.
Meeting the two Jindan ancestors in the family, Zhang Yuanyou was about to wake up his grandfather, but found that Zhang Zhixuan shook his head slightly.
"It seems that there is no time to wait for Han Yan. What are you going to do about Si Dao's funeral? Will he be buried in the sect cemetery or buried in the family?"
"Everything is up to my uncle." Si Dao was dying, and Lin Niang was already a little helpless, so she could only leave the funeral arrangements to Zhang Zhixuan.
"It's better to send him back to the family cemetery. Si Dao's parents are both mortals. Apart from your aunt and nephew, his closest monk is his seventeenth uncle. Let him be buried next to his grandfather! He will also be taken care of on the road to Huangquan."
After Zhang Zhixuan arrived, Si Dao fell into a drowsy sleep and never woke up. In the evening, he left quietly. He made very little noise. Except for Zhang Zhixuan and his wife who were present, even Lan Niang was not aware of it.
He left so suddenly that he didn't even have time to leave a last word.
Zhang Zhixuan knew in his heart that Si Dao had many things to say to everyone, to himself, to Han Yan, to Lan Niang, and to Yuan You.
It's a pity that things in the world are unpredictable and things don't go as planned.
After all, he left quietly without saying anything.
With a heavy heart, Zhang Zhixuan arranged for Si Dao's funeral, refining his bones and burying them together with his wife Chen Weilan's ashes, preparing to move them to the family cemetery and bury him under his seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengqian.
Chen Weilan did not succeed in building the foundation. She was about ninety years old when she gave birth to Lan Niang. She passed away when she was very young. In order to commemorate his wife, Si Dao did not name Lan Niang according to the family tree, but used the homophone of his wife.
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Most monks take wives and concubines for the purpose of reproducing the population, or to vent their lust. There is no deep affection between husband and wife. Including Zhang Zhixuan and Han Yan's father, they all had countless wives and concubines when they were alive.
The relationship between Sidao and Chen Weilan was extremely deep. They had seven or eight children together. After Chen Weilan passed away, Sidao did not marry anyone else for ninety years and spared no effort to help his wife and family. He did not let her go just because he was gone.
He ignored Chen Weilan and his entire family.
Now these two couples who loved each other were finally buried together. Perhaps in Si Dao's heart, he was not afraid of taking the road to hell.