Over the years, Zhang Zhixuan has been traveling around a lot and has collected all the maps near Qingxuanzong. With the help of the map, even though it was his first time to visit Fangshi in Longjiang County, it didn’t take him much time to follow the map and find the eight major cities in Longjiang County.
A market run by a family.
This square city is located next to Maple Leaf Mountain, and the local monks named it Maple Leaf Square.
Because there are more monks in Longjiang County, the scale of this city is larger than that of Xihefang.
A few years ago, the Wu family lost Xihefang, and this news has spread throughout the three southeastern counties. Although the Hu family has Hu Peiyu, a big backer in Qingxuanzong, which is the main factor, but without Wei Mazi and three people, the Hu family could not defeat Xihefang.
There is no excuse to seize control of Xihefang.
In order to avoid such accidents, the guards of Maple Leaf Square have become tighter in recent years. Once a strange foundation-building monk appears, the guarding monks in the city will be extra vigilant, and sometimes even drive them away in advance.
Zhang Zhixuan brought Qingchan to Maple Leaf Square. Since it was his first time here, in order to avoid others' suspicion, he first sent a communication talisman to convey his meaning inside.
In less than a moment, streams of white mist emerged from the city, and soon the entire city was shrouded in it.
The monks of Maple Leaf Square received the communication talisman and actually activated the defensive formation, leaving no room for others to take advantage of it.
After the formation was activated to protect Fangshi, a middle-aged Taoist walked out with a few monks after a while.
The middle-aged monk has already reached the third level of foundation building. The several Qi-training monks behind him are already quite extraordinary, and they are all ninth-level Qi-training monks.
The middle-aged Taoist priest's consciousness lightly swept over Zhang Zhixuan, and his expression suddenly changed.
He has been building the foundation for more than 20 years, and he is only on the third level of the foundation building now. Zhang Zhixuan looks like he is only in his twenties, but the spiritual energy in his body is restrained. It is obvious that he has been building the foundation for a long time and can skillfully control the expression of the magic power in his body.
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan was young and his cultivation level was no less than his own, the middle-aged monk also had some kindness on his face and said: "Fellow Taoist looks very unfamiliar. He should not be a monk from Longjiang. I don't know why he came to Maple Leaf Square.
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Fellow Taoist monks have been building foundations for many years, so they should know that our Maple Leaf Square does not do the business of monks in the foundation building period. If fellow Taoists want to buy something, they should go to the nearest Qingyangfang City to have a look."
Because there are fewer monks in the foundation-building stage, it is often difficult for some small markets to sell spiritual objects of level three or above. Therefore, these small markets will no longer do business with monks in the foundation-building stage for the sake of safety.
This is the case with Xihefang in Taicheng County, and the same is true with Maple Leaf Fang in Longjiang County.
In the entire Qingxuan Sect, the foundation-building monks can only go to the seven monk towns on the edge of the Southern Wilderness to purchase the resources they need. Casual cultivators like to go to Black Mountain, and the monks of the foundation-building family often go to Jiaohe, the lair they control.
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Like Heishanfang, Jiaohefang was established in a shorter period of time. Both of these cities are located on the edge of Qingxuanzong and have the support of Qingxuanzong behind them.
The reason why Qingxuanzong supports the two cities to grab a certain amount of business is mainly to establish a buffer zone with the monsters, attract the power of family monks and casual cultivators, and help them share some of the pressure of the monsters in the Southern Wilderness.
The ancestor of the Zhang family, Zhang Chuyun, was the first monk to build Jiaohefang. Under the assignment of Qingxuanzong, he managed Jiaohefang for more than a hundred years.
After his death, the control of the city was transferred from the Zhang family to the Wu family. Wu Sixeng of the Wu family, most of the time, took the place of Qingxuanzong in charge of Jiaohefang. Two family monks in a row were in charge of Jiaohefang. , this place has also become the headquarters of the family monks.
Compared with Ancestor Liang on Black Mountain, the monks in the Jiaohe family do not have that much autonomy. More than half of Jiaohefang’s income must be handed over to the Qingxuan Sect. With such a heavy burden, the dozen or so families below also complained. .
Since Zhang Zhixuan started practicing, he has visited Heishan twice, where there are many casual cultivators. However, he has not been to Jiaohefang, where cultivating families gather.
Even the patriarch Zhang Leqian rarely goes to Jiaohefang.
When he was a boy, Patriarch Chuyun had just passed away, and there were still three foundation-building monks in the family, which were considered the last remaining glory of the family.
Unfortunately, after leaving Patriarch Chu Yun, there is no stable foundation-building pill in the family, and most of the several foundation-building monks are people of the same generation as Patriarch Chu Yun, and they do not have much longevity.
In just over a hundred years, the family was left with only Zhang Leqian as its foundation, and it completely declined.
In Jiaohefang, the city built by Patriarch Chuyun, Zhang Leqian felt a little uncomfortable every time he went here, always feeling that the family would decline in his hands.
Because of this knot in his mind, even if he traveled a long distance, he would still go to Black Mountain where there were many pilgrims.
Zhang Zhixuan cupped his hands and replied: "My dear, Zhang Zhixuan, comes from the Zhang family in Lushan, Taicheng County. I came to your place this time just to buy some spiritual rice."
The middle-aged monk heard Zhang Zhixuan's origins and laughed and said: "It turns out that he is a descendant of Patriarch Chu Yun. Speaking of which, we are not outsiders. My uncle, Li Jinnian, was a disciple of Patriarch Chu Yun.
More than a hundred years ago, the relationship between our two families was still very close. Later, Patriarch Chuyun passed away and my great-uncle also passed away, so the relationship between the two families became more distant.
Fellow Taoist is from Taicheng County and has a spiritual field at home. Is there still a shortage of spiritual rice?
I saw that there were only two fellow Taoists, and there were no carriages or horses. I just bought some spiritual rice, how can I transport it back?"
Zhang Zhixuan said helplessly: "Fellow Taoist has misunderstood. I am not buying spiritual rice for my family. My roommate and I are going to Qingxuan Sect. There is no spiritual rice to eat on the way. In order to avoid starvation, I have to come to fellow Taoist to replenish some."
The middle-aged monk Li Jinnian laughed when he heard this and said: "Fellow Taoist is too careless. How can anyone travel far away without taking Bigu Pill with him?
Now we are going to Qingxuan Sect. It will take at least two months for fellow Taoist to take my sister with us. The two of you have to carry at least two hundred kilograms of spiritual rice. It is better to buy a bottle of Bigu Pill in the market, which is more convenient on the way."
Zhang Zhixuan was about to agree, but Qingchan shook his head reluctantly, saying he was unwilling to take the Bigu Pill anyway.
The little girl was easy to talk to when she was young, and it was not so troublesome when we went to Montenegro together. This time we went to Qingxuanzong, she was a little reluctant in her heart, and there were more trivial things along the way.
Seeing Qingchan's expression of reluctance, Zhang Zhixuan could only say helplessly: "We brothers and sisters still like Lingmi and don't like Foundation Establishment Pill very much."
Li Jinnian glanced at Qingchan and said jokingly: "Fellow Taoist loves my sister too much.
However, due to the rules here, Taoists are not allowed to enter the city. To express our apology as monks from Longjiang County, we also gave two hundred kilograms of spiritual rice to Taoists for free, just as a friend."
Two hundred kilograms of spiritual rice is only twelve spiritual stones, so Zhang Zhixuan is naturally unwilling to take advantage of such a small advantage.
He carried the spiritual rice on his shoulders, then dropped twelve spiritual stones to Li Jinnian, then said hello, and the two left Maple Leaf Square.
After walking for more than twenty days, the two of them were about to leave Longjiang County.
One evening, just as the two were preparing to take a rest, a thunder suddenly sounded in their ears.