Zhang Hanyan came in advance, and while sharing family happiness with relatives she hadn't seen for many years, she also helped Zhang Zhixuan organize the celebration banquet.
The patriarch has not been out of the mountain for forty years and has become a little lazy. Zhang Zhixuan, on the other hand, is devoted to hard work and is also a little impatient with this kind of thing.
When Zhang Hanyan came back, she almost took charge of all family matters. She took Zhang Mengling, Zhang Mengqin and others to send invitations to various major families.
She even went to the Wu family's fishing ground eight thousand miles away and purchased dozens of white-tailed reed carp.
The white-tailed reed fish is a first-level low-grade monster. Apart from the delicious meat, it has almost no other characteristics.
The greatest value of this kind of monster is the fish meat on its body. Its taste is far more mellow and attractive than ordinary monsters, so it is liked by greedy monks.
Wu Siheng, the Zifu monk of the Wu family, was a gluttonous monk. In order to catch the white-tailed reed fish, he actually spent three years searching deep into the southern wilderness.
Hard work paid off. After Wu Siheng caught the white-tailed reed fish, he did not eat them all in one go. Instead, he found a place with sufficient spiritual energy, dug a fish pond and raised these monster beasts.
After more than a hundred years of development, the white-tailed reed here has become a very important industry for the Wu family.
The white-tailed reed fish sold here every year is exported to Heishanfang, Qingyangfang, and Zhongxuanfang. The sales volume is hundreds, and the value exceeds a thousand spiritual stones.
An adult white-tailed reed fish needs seven or eight years to grow and weighs only five or six kilograms, but its price can be sold for three spiritual stones, which is equivalent to thirty-six kilograms of high-quality spiritual rice.
It is quite cost-effective to raise this kind of fry.
Therefore, the Wu family will strictly control the outflow of fish fry. Their family has monks from the Zifu as their backers, and other families would not dare to provoke them.
Therefore, although the white-tailed reed carp has been raised for more than a hundred years, the fry have never escaped, and until now, only the Wu family has a monopoly.
Perhaps it will take until Wu Siheng passes away before other families can take advantage of it. By then, the number of white-tailed reed carp will increase year by year, and the price may become cheaper.
A special waterwheel is required to transport the whitetail reed, and a special elixir is fed every three to five days. This elixir was developed by the Wu family.
If the elixir is not put in for a long time, the white-tailed reed will die soon. Once the reed dies, the taste will be greatly reduced if left for a day or two.
Because it was far away from Tiantai Peak, Zhang Hanyan spent a dozen spiritual stones to buy two bottles of elixir and traveled for more than twenty days before sending this batch of reed fish back to Lushan.
At this time, the spirit rice has just matured, and it is almost time to celebrate the banquet.
At this time, on the Tiantai Peak, the Zhang family had put up lanterns and colorful decorations, and they were full of joy. Everyone's face was filled with smiles.
Over the years, the family's situation has gone from bad to worse, and every monk in the family knows it clearly.
They all know that once the clan leader is gone, it will be impossible for the Zhang family to keep Lushan's spiritual lineage.
At that time, the monks of the Zhang family can only slowly disperse, and it is impossible to live the stable life they have now.
As the clan leader gets older, Zhang Menglong, Zhang Mengquan and other veteran ninth-level qi-training monks have missed the age of foundation building, and their worries have become more and more serious.
Unexpectedly, only a few years later, Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Zhixuan established foundations one after another. Not only did the family have closer support in Qingxuan Sect, but the patriarch also had a successor.
The red sun in the early morning had already jumped out of the horizon. Zhang Zhixuan was sitting cross-legged in front of the cave door, refining the purple energy of the day.
Today is a celebration day to celebrate his foundation building. Even on such a day, he will not delay his daily practice.
Zhang Zhixuan was a precocious teenager and had no good friends among his peers.
At the age of sixteen, he left the mountain to help his family, and his cultivation was extraordinary when he was young. However, at this age, most of the monks of his generation were still in the innate stage.
He and the monks of his generation are basically monks from two worlds.
When he was young, he despised his friends for their naive thinking and devoted himself to practicing every day.
When he got older, because his cultivation far exceeded that of Tongji, he dealt with seniors like the Seventh Uncle, Ninth Uncle, Fourth Uncle, and Nineteenth Uncle every day, and rarely came into contact with people of similar age.
The brothers of the same generation also knew that Zhang Zhixuan was difficult to get along with since they were young. When they grew up, they already felt the pressure of the family and did not dare to disturb him easily, lest it affect his cultivation.
Therefore, although he has been here for almost thirty years, Zhang Zhixuan does not have a close friend, and few people come to visit his cave.
After Zhang Zhixuan established his foundation, the clan leader also issued a ban, prohibiting the family monks from talking about Zhang Zhixuan's situation.
To avoid leaking your own information and being targeted by other secret enemies.
Qing Chan has been following Zhang Zhixuan for more than ten years, and more than half of the monks in the family still don't know this person at all.
Among the guests here today are several Foundation Establishment monks. In order to prevent these Foundation Establishment monks from noticing Ni Duan, Qingchan will not show up today.
In the eyes of the family monks, Zhang Zhixuan is undoubtedly a mysterious person who has been extraordinary since he was a child.
Now this mysterious young man has become the family's pillar and the family's protective umbrella.
Every monk in the family feels proud.
Early in the morning, the four immortal cultivation families affiliated with the Zhang family were the first to arrive. They were all small families in the Qi training period.
There are very few monks in the family. The largest family has only about thirty monks, and the smallest family has only four monks.
These small families have a second-level spiritual lineage in the family, and there are not many mortals in the family, often only tens of thousands of people.
In the heyday of the Zhang family, there were more than a dozen vassal small families. At that time, the Zhang family was also the leader of the five major families in Taicheng County, and its status was the same as that of the Wu family today.
Unfortunately, after the decline of the Zhang family, it is no longer possible to protect these small families, except for the four closest families that the family monks can support.
Other small families have either left the protection of the Zhang family or have declined.
Not long after, famous casual cultivators from Taicheng County and other immortal cultivators from several nearby families came to Tiantai Mountain one after another, led by the foundation-building monks from their respective families.
Just before the banquet was held, the Wu family, the leader of the monks in Taicheng County, also arrived belatedly.
There are five monks in the Wu family who are in the foundation-building stage. After Wu Xiangyuan died in Xihefang City, in order to prevent his family from becoming too ugly, Patriarch Jin personally came forward and gave him a foundation-building pill.
And relying on this foundation-building pill, another monk from the Wu family successfully built the foundation. Their family's strength has not been compromised at all.
The monks of the Wu family are not only powerful in numbers, but also have the support of Elder Wu Sixeng of the Qingxuan Sect. Basically, the monks in Taicheng County follow the Wu family's lead in major matters.
Zhang Zhixuan built the foundation and the Zhang family held a celebration, but Wu Xiangjie, the patriarch of the Wu family, did not appear.
The person coming from the Wu family is Wu Xiangheng, who has recently established the foundation. This person established the foundation eight or nine years earlier than Zhang Zhixuan. Now he has broken through the first level of the foundation building realm and is a monk on the second level of the foundation building.