Zhang Zhixuan came to Xihefang, replaced his seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengqian, and began to manage the family's four shops.
Apart from him, there are seven other monks in the market. Except for one elder who is in the late stage of Qi training, the remaining six have relatively low cultivation levels, only around the third or fourth level of Qi training.
These monks are all older than Zhang Zhixuan, and most of them are brothers of the same generation.
Although they are senior, Zhang Zhixuan is the elder of the family, and these people dare not not listen to his words.
Zhang Zhixuan's main task every day in Fangshi is to go around Fangshi to see if he can collect one or two spiritual herbs from casual cultivators and to see if he can assemble a furnace of spiritual elixirs.
In addition to the first-level elixirs that cannot be sold for a price, including the Youhuan Dan, the Zhang family has mastered six second-level elixirs.
In the family's alchemy inheritance, the most important thing is not the Youhuan Dan that Zhang Zhixuan brought back from the Southern Wilderness, nor the Golden Bud Pill that can harvest a large number of spiritual stones every five years, but the Moon-Wang Dan, a third-level low-grade spiritual pill.
Moon Watching Pill is a unique elixir invented by the Fire Dragon Sect monks. It is a third-grade elixir and is quite difficult to refine.
To refine the Moon Watching Pill, you also need to use special alchemy techniques. Without a unique magic formula, you will not be able to successfully refine the pill even if you have the recipe.
This method is passed down orally by the monks in the family.
Fortunately, Uncle Jiu was worried because there was no successor, so he wrote down the alchemy tips in his book of alchemy experience. On the eve of the great changes in Xihefang, he also handed over his alchemy notes to Zhang Zhixuan.
Otherwise, even if the family has the elixir recipe, it will no longer be able to refine the elixir.
The Moon-Watching Pill requires more than three hundred years of Moon-Watching Grass Spirit Fruit as the main medicine and eighteen kinds of auxiliary medicines to be refined.
This elixir can neutralize the power of the Foundation Establishment Pill, better coordinate with the refining power of the Foundation Establishment Pill, and increase the monk's chance of building a Foundation.
If a monk below the ninth level of Qi refining takes it, he can add a level of mana out of thin air and break through a level.
But few monks take this precious elixir like this.
Because a monk can only take one Moon Watching Pill in his life, no one will waste this opportunity easily.
As soon as every monk starts practicing, the first thing he learns is to plan carefully and use various cultivation resources rationally.
This kind of elixir of level 3 or above will be used in the most critical times.
When is the most important time, it is naturally the time of foundation building.
Since the family obtained this elixir, they only successfully refined a furnace of Moon-Watching elixir two hundred years ago when the family was at its peak.
By now, the saved elixir has long been exhausted.
In the family's medicine garden, there is also a three-hundred-year-old forget-the-moon grass planted. Once the forget-the-moon grass blooms and bears fruit, the family will prepare other auxiliary medicines and prepare to ask a third-level alchemist to start an elixir.
With Zhang Zhixuan as a second-grade alchemist, Baicao Xuan's business immediately improved slightly. Although the yellow bud grass is not yet mature, Baicao Xuan cannot provide a large amount of golden bud pills.
However, Zhang Zhixuan, a second-level high-grade alchemist, has no airs about it. Not only does the price of purchasing spiritual herbs be relatively high, but as long as casual cultivators provide them with pill recipes, he will also refine spiritual pills for them for free.
Although the person in charge of Xihefang City has changed, the foundation-building monk guarding the city has also been replaced by a white-haired old man from the Hu family from Wu Xiangyuan.
However, business in Fangshi must continue.
Although the Hu family and the Wu family already had a deep hatred, there was no direct conflict between the two families in the city.
In this way, Zhang Zhixuan spent half a year in the city.
There are third-level spiritual veins in Fangshi, and the spiritual energy is relatively sufficient.
Every ten days, the spiritual acupoints in the Zhang family's shop can be cultivated for three days.
Zhang Zhixuan has reached the ninth level of Qi training. At this stage, even if he meditates and practices Qi every day, his magic power will not increase much.
During the past six months, when he had nothing to do, he would find some miscellaneous books to read to pass the long hours.
In his spare time, Qingchan would occasionally come to Fangshi to visit Zhang Zhixuan.
Since the great changes in Xihefang City, the three southeastern counties have been stable for a long time.
The main reason why there was some chaos in the three southeastern counties at that time was due to the rogue cultivators who had fled from the Kingdom of Wu.
This group of people entered the three southeastern counties, but did not have the courage to go deep into the Southern Wilderness to open up the situation, so they could only seize resources from the major families.
Resources are limited. In order to compete for various resources such as spiritual stones, elixirs, and spiritual veins, rounds of bloody conflicts can only break out.
Because of the internal support of the Hu family, and because they were concerned about Hu Peiyu of the Hu family, the five major families nearby were tolerant, allowing this group of loose cultivators to succeed repeatedly in the three southeastern counties, taking advantage of them and stealing the limelight.
It is a pity that Patriarch Hu's scheme against Xihefang triggered a fierce backlash from the five major families, who also had a certain influence in Qingxuan Sect.
In particular, Wu Siheng of the Wu family has successfully opened up the Zifu.
The fall of Xihefang aroused serious dissatisfaction among the Wu family and Wu Sixeng, and even made some harsh words.
In order to reduce the criticism, Patriarch Jin of the Qingxuan Sect also asked his Taoist companions to come forward and kill Wei Mazi and the other three with his own hands.
After losing the leading foundation-building monks, the remaining casual cultivators were not enough to cause trouble. The Hu family also lost this secret minions and no longer had the strength to do evil.
As a result, Taicheng County has become much more stable in recent years.
Because the place is stable, the city is a little more prosperous.
According to Zhang Zhixuan's secret observation, in recent times, the transaction volume in the market has increased compared with many years ago.
The sun was gradually setting in the west. Zhang Zhixuan looked at the deserted shop and was about to close the shop when he saw a monk in his forties entering the shop.
This man has a dignified appearance, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his clothes are relatively simple. The only special thing is that there are a few wine gourds hanging around his waist.
Zhang Zhixuan is an alchemist, often deals with spiritual herbs, and has a good nose.
Although the smell of this person's wine gourd was relatively weak, Zhang Zhixuan still smelled a faint smell of elixir.
The middle-aged monk's cultivation level is not high. Although he is not young anymore, his cultivation level is only at the fourth level of Qi training. It seems that he has either missed the best age for cultivation, or his spiritual roots are poor and he does not have much opportunity.
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The middle-aged monk asked: "Store manager, I heard from fellow Taoist Yun Huisong that your Golden Bud Pill is very good. I wonder if it is in stock now?"
Yun Huisong is a casual cultivator nearby and an old client of the Zhang family. His cultivation has reached the eighth level of Qi training.
Every time he went to the Zhang family to refine the Golden Bud Pill, Yun Huisong would buy a bottle.
“It turned out to be a new Taoist friend introduced by an old customer.
I'm really sorry. All the casual cultivators nearby know that it takes five years for our yellow bud grass to mature. It will take another two and a half years for the yellow bud grass to mature, and then we will have the golden bud pill."
"There is no Golden Bud Pill. Do you have any spiritual pills to increase your cultivation?"
Zhang Zhixuan said helplessly: "There are some, but they are all second-level low-grade elixirs, such as Lianqi Powder and Guiyuan Pill.
If you have an elixir recipe that I don’t have at home, we can also provide spiritual herbs here and make a furnace of elixir for you for free.”
"I have taken a lot of Lianqi Powder and low-level elixirs such as Guiyuan Dan. I am afraid that I have accumulated a lot of erysipelas. I am afraid that I will no longer be able to take this kind of elixir.
I don’t have any recipe here, but I do have some recipes for spiritual wine.
If your family wants to see it, you have to spend a sum of spiritual stones to buy the formula."