After more than three hundred years of development, Lushan County, which is very close to Lingjing Mountain, has changed dramatically.
After more than three hundred years of operation, the city's size has expanded more than twenty times, and the city's population has exceeded 1.6 million, which is about thirty times more than when Zhang Zhixuan was guarding the cemetery.
Among the mortals in the city, the Zhang family is still the largest household, and the Zhang family has more than 600,000 blood members. The local officials in Lushan County are also mainly low-level monks surnamed Zhang.
It has been almost a hundred years since they have been integrated into the sect, and the cohesion of the Zhang family has gradually weakened, and they have dispersed into small families.
Near Lushan County, Sheku County, Huangyan County, Chaoyin County, Xihe County, Yanlai County, Taibai County, Liucheng County and other places also have a large population.
The two counties of Lushan and Taicheng have become places with a large population of sects, gradually surpassing the old fifth-level spiritual veins such as Qingxuan and Yushan. It may only be around the Goddess Peak that the level of development is higher than that of the Lingjing Mountain area.
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After more than a hundred years of development, the Ziyang Sect's strength has far surpassed that of the Poison Dragon Pond Monster. In recent decades, the sect has increased its investment in the development of the deep South Wilderness.
A large amount of buffer land north of the Black Mountain Spiritual Vein has been developed, and hundreds of thousands of households have immigrated to more than a dozen low-level spiritual veins.
More than a dozen new towns were established, and Lin Ruohua, the Protectorate, also sent dozens of low-level monks to guard the spiritual veins and provide shelter to immigrants from the Southern Wilderness.
After this round of development, the northern part of Montenegro was considered to be under the control of Ziyang Sect.
With the proliferation of human beings, monks have become more active. In this vast land, Ziyang Sect has discovered two small mineral veins, which can increase their income by more than 20,000 yuan every year.
The more Lingtian mineral veins there are, the more monks the sect can support. Without a stable income, even the remaining Taoists can't stand it.
It's time to go to the market on the sixth day of each month. Lushan County is crowded with people coming and going, and from time to time there are some policemen in turbans to maintain order.
They looked powerful, pushing hard to push away the crowded crowd, shouting loudly to maintain order to prevent crowds from stampeding and causing riots.
A few years ago, a serious stampede broke out because of a big fair, and more than 700 people were killed and injured at one time.
This incident even alarmed the chief, making him furious. He directly dismissed Wen Ziqing, the governor of Lushan County, from his post and sent him to the Netherworld Cave, where he served for thirty years.
Wen Ziqing is a monk in the Zifu, and a delay of thirty years may affect his path.
He is a disciple of Zhang Zhixuan. When faced with this master who only respects the rules of the sect, he can only admit that he is unlucky and has committed a malfeasance in his duties.
After this incident, the monks of the sect no longer dared not to take the lives of mortals seriously.
To some extent, they will worry about the following things. The monks of Zifu will not only do hard work for a day.
Managing mortals does not require the Zi Mansion to be personally involved, and even the foundation-building monks do not need to come forward. There are a large number of waste materials with five spiritual roots under the Ziyang Sect. These people can serve as the foundation of the sect and sink to the mortal world to provide protection for the mortals.
Moreover, people without spiritual roots can still practice martial arts to break through their innate abilities and be able to deal with some newly awakened monsters.
The ferocious beasts that are common in the Southern Wilderness are no match for innate warriors.
In the huge Lushan County, there are many monks stationed nearby. The headquarters of the Taoist Temple is in Lingjing Mountain, and the Lushan County Magistrate also practices hard work in Lingjing Mountain. The Lushan County Magistrate works in the county during the day, and returns to Lingjing Mountain at night to practice hard.
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In addition to these two monks who have regular contact with mortals, there are still forty or fifty people who are in constant contact with the city, such as chief officials, officials, county captains, and arresters. These people have lower cultivation levels, and the sect will
Giving them a spiritual stone subsidy can maintain their cultivation and prevent them from declining in cultivation.
There are two types of low-level monks who are mixed among mortals. One type is the monks of the Guardian Academy. Not long after they break through the Qi training period, the sect will arrange tasks for them to garrison in the mortal world. The period of time is not too long, that is
About three years will not delay their journey.
The remaining group are basically elderly monks over sixty years old. These people have given up on their path and simply return to the mortal world to retire, serve as local officials, and become big figures in the secular world.
Their most important task, apart from maintaining order in the mortal world, is to impart some experience to the newbies who have just come down from the mountain and lead these newcomers on the road to immortality. In addition, they are to marry wives and concubines, and take ten or eight beautiful girls.
The wives and concubines worked hard to have children in the next few decades and gave birth to a seedling with good spiritual roots for the sect.
The low-level monks who came down the mountain were very satisfied with this stable and comfortable life.
In the past seventy or eighty years, approximately 10,000 elderly Qi-training monks from the sect have come down from the mountain and taken root deep in the grassroots.
These old qi-training monks all have secular official positions, and the sect also pays them annual salary. A dozen spiritual stones a year are enough to maintain their cultivation and prevent them from degenerating to the innate stage.
After the three sects of Ziyang Sect merged into one, the people of Yu State finally caught up with the good times.
In this world of cultivating immortals, the lives of the people are really difficult.
Even a monk family, protected by kin monks, is actually living a precarious life. Back then, the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain had their mother-in-law killed and the clan scattered, which was equivalent to genocide just because of the discovery of the spirit stone mine.
Over the years, due to the invasion of demonic beasts, countries such as the Lun Kingdom have lost most of their territory, and mortals have lost about half.
The war between the Qingxuan Sect and the Huanshui Sect lasted for more than eighty years, resulting in numerous casualties in Taicheng, Jiangkou, Hongshan, Luyang, Jiangnan and other counties.
Even if the righteous sects such as Qingxuan and Hongshan were intimidated by Yu Taoists, they did not dare to massacre mortals. However, the population migrated back and forth frequently, and many mortals died of famine.
Due to bad luck, he encountered such daring demon cultivators as Daoist Wen disciple Liu Yi'an, and ten of the mortals in Luyang County were killed or injured.
This kind of tragic situation has become a thing of the past after the establishment of Ziyang Sect.
There has been no war in the territory controlled by the sect for many years, and ordinary demon cultivators would not dare to provoke the behemoth of the Ziyang Sect.
A century ago, during the battle in Moyun Cave, Ziyang Sect Yuanying had already made a big name among the demon cultivators. This kind of sect was very difficult to mess with at first glance, and ordinary demon cultivators would not dare to cause trouble.
. Within the scope of Ziyang Sect, although I cannot say that there are absolutely no demon cultivators, they are only in a very small number.
Another reason why demon cultivation cannot come is that the monks of the Ziyang Sect have already established their roots in the ordinary world.
There are a large number of experienced monks in the mortal world. If there are any clues, they can report it to the sect guardian academy. Once the situation is serious, Lin Ruohua will personally come forward. She can't solve the problem. There are still Yuanyings like the leader and Qingchan.
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Looking at the lively crowd, Zhang Zhixuan took Qing Chan's little hand and wore ordinary mortal clothes. They did not use magic power or cultivate very strong physical strength. They worked hard to control themselves, just like a young mortal couple.