Every year, Taicheng County transports about 30,000 kilograms of spiritual rice to Heishan. This amount is almost equivalent to half of Taicheng County's spiritual rice production.
The Zhang family has a spiritual well near Lushan County. Because it can continuously pump out water with sufficient spiritual energy, the family has been opening up spiritual fields over the years.
Especially since Zhang Zhixuan went down the mountain to the spiritual field and discovered the White Jade Bee, the family has paid more attention to it. The fourth uncle had set up the spirit gathering array many years ago and spent thirty middle-grade spiritual stones to cultivate a second-order high-grade spiritual vein.
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With the continuous supply of spiritual energy from the spiritual veins and the continuous irrigation with well water with sufficient spiritual energy, in the past ten years, compared to when Zhang Zhixuan first came down from the mountain, the monks of the Zhang family have opened up an additional three acres of spiritual fields.
Without these external forces, it would cost about a hundred low-grade spiritual stones to open an acre of low-grade spiritual fields.
In the first-level low-grade spiritual fields, the yield of spiritual rice grown is low, with the yield per acre being only eighty kilograms. It takes about twenty years of hard work to recoup the investment in spiritual stones.
After many years of management, the Zhang family's thirty acres of spiritual land has become quite good. Except for the most important five acres of second-level spiritual land and above, most of the remaining twenty-some acres of spiritual land have been upgraded to first-level.
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Only the newly opened seven or eight acres of new fields have not improved in quality and their yields are relatively low.
The Zhang family alone cannot provide such a large amount of spiritual rice.
Even the Wu family and the Liu family, which have the most spiritual fields, cannot produce so much spiritual rice.
Therefore, when going to the Southern Wilderness, the five major families can only raise enough resources by working together.
In order to prepare for this transaction to the Southern Wilderness, the Zhang family has been preparing for almost a year. Because the five major families' own spiritual rice production is insufficient, the family also pooled together a sum of spiritual stones to purchase some from dozens of small families.
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The monks from the other four families in Taicheng County each also took out some rare resources and asked the Qi-training period members in the family to bring them with them to the Southern Wilderness for exchange.
For this annual transaction, the Zhang family paid off its old capital. Not only did they spend all their money, they also brought nine cloud-walking beasts with them.
The Zhang family originally only had seven cloud-walking beasts, but they have been lucky in recent years and have given birth to two more cloud-walking beasts, which has slightly expanded the population.
Each cloud-walking beast is mounted on a specially made sealed carriage and can carry five to six thousand kilograms of supplies. The nine cloud-walking beasts can already carry all the bulk supplies.
Some special resources, such as the Wu family's white-tailed reed fish, will also be loaded on special water carts and pulled behind the cloud-walking beast.
The journey from Lushan to Heishanfang City is about hundreds of thousands of miles. Without going too far, it would take about five months according to the journey of a monk in the late stage of Qi training.
This time when he went to the Southern Wilderness, Zhang Leqian also planned to hide inside secretly. As for the task of guarding the family mountain gate, he first handed it over to Zhang Hanyan.
This time Zhang Hanyan went home and had taken a five-year vacation from Qingxuanzong.
Five years later, she had to leave the family and go to Qingxuan Sect to perform sect duties.
As a monk of the sect, you use the sect's foundation-building pill to build the foundation. After building the foundation, you will not be free.
Even monks in the foundation building stage still need to spend half of their time completing sect tasks. Even the elders in the Zifu stage also need to contribute to the sect. Although they no longer need to perform sect tasks, they still need to protect the sect rules of Qingxuan Sect.
and safety.
This time the five major families went to the Southern Wilderness to transport supplies, and a total of more than 20 monks came with them. Among them, the Zhang family had the largest number of people, accounting for more than half.
Even the elders of the family sent two people, namely the eleventh uncle Zhang Menghong and the eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin.
Among the family elders, Zhang Zhixuan and Zhang Menghong had the least contact.
As the elder responsible for enforcing family rules, Zhang Menghong has always been taciturn and looks cold-faced.
Originally, as the elder responsible for law enforcement, there was no need for him to intervene in such back and forth matters.
But now the family lacks backbones. Apart from Qingchan, there are only three elders. The manpower is even more stretched than it was more than ten years ago.
In the past ten years, the age at which family monks can leave the mountain has also advanced by two years. More and more young monks like Zhang Zhixuan are leaving the mountain at the age of sixteen.
When these young monks came down from the mountain, their cultivation level was only at the seventh or eighth level of the innate stage. Their cultivation level was completely different from that of Zhang Zhixuan back then.
However, due to continuous blood loss over the years, the number of family monks has been reduced. In order to replenish manpower, they can only be sent down the mountain in advance.
However, for their safety, the family tried its best to place them in safe places such as Lushan County and Lingtian to prevent them from being in danger.
This time I went to Southern Wilderness and selected the backbone of the family. The minimum cultivation level of each monk was the fifth or sixth level of Qi training.
Most of the monks are the backbone of the Meng generation who are over fifty or sixty years old. Their cultivation is in the late stages of Qi training and they have relatively rich experience.
The same is true for the monks from other families. Those who are dispatched are all experienced old people.
Such experienced veterans are never easy to provoke. Even monks in the foundation-building stage generally do not dare to provoke such groups of late-stage Qi-training monks.
Such groups of monks who escort goods often have formations to rely on. Once trapped by their formations, even foundation-building monks will have a hard time getting out.
If you are not careful, you may be trapped alive in the formation.
This time I went to Southern Wilderness, and because of the large number of people, I avoided a lot of detours.
Along the way, no matter whether it was the third-level monsters or the casual cultivators in the foundation-building stage, they encountered this kind of team that was not easy to provoke at first glance, and they did not dare to cause trouble.
Along the way, Zhang Zhixuan did not take any action at all and came to the vicinity of Black Mountain leisurely.
Just when everyone thought everything was fine, Zhang Leqian had the highest consciousness and suddenly noticed something unusual. He leaned out of the carriage, patted Zhang Zhixuan's shoulder gently, and pointed in front of him.
Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual consciousness is also relatively strong.
He was originally reincarnated, and his spiritual soul strength as a child was equivalent to that of ordinary people. He started practicing when he was a teenager, and he refined his spiritual consciousness earlier than ordinary monks.
In addition, breathing in the purple energy of the morning sun for many years has also helped my spiritual consciousness.
After foundation building, according to Zhang Leqian's experience, Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual consciousness is no less than that of a monk on the third level of foundation building.
The monks on the third level of foundation building can already project their spiritual consciousness thirty feet away.
Zhang Leqian has been a monk at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment for many years. His consciousness has never been damaged and he can already release his consciousness fifty or sixty feet away.
As soon as Zhang Leqian reminded him, Zhang Zhixuan immediately nodded. His body lightened up, and his physical body had risen from the ground and was floating in the air.
Zhang Zhixuan took a closer look and found that there were several monks fighting in front of him.
The cultivation level of these monks is not high. Although they are all monks in the late stage of Qi training, they are still far away from foundation building.
One of them was an acquaintance of Zhang Zhixuan's in Montenegro, and it was Wang Zixuan, the young master of Baibao Pavilion.