Chapter 164 Inn

In recent years, there have been cultivators who have broken through the realm. After Zhang Zhifan became a ninth-level Qi training cultivator, the number of ninth-level Qi training elders in the family has exceeded seven, which has exceeded the number when Zhang Zhixuan just came down the mountain.

This shows that after about thirty years of development, the Zhang family has basically stopped bleeding, and the cultivators of the Zhi generation have grown up and become the backbone of the family.

In the more than thirty years since Zhang Zhixuan came down the mountain, the family's population has also increased by 20,000. Among the 20,000 population growth, except for the thousands of Zhou family members who have been integrated, the rest of the population has grown naturally.

The relationship between mortals and cultivators is interdependent and closely related. When the power of cultivators is strong, they can protect more mortals to cultivate farmland and occupy territory.

In the three southeastern counties close to the southern wilderness, there are uninhabited wilderness everywhere. As long as there are cultivators to protect, the population can at least increase by dozens of times.

With a sufficient population base, enough children with spiritual roots can be born. When these children grow up, they can in turn open up living space for humans.

In the past thirty years, although the development of the Zhang family has had twists and turns, it has always been growing rapidly.

The clan leader recovered from his injuries and his cultivation level was raised to the sixth level of foundation building.

Han Yan also built his foundation in Qingxuan Sect and became a fifth-level cultivator.

Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan built their foundation without using foundation building pills, saving a huge amount of resources for the family.

Although several ninth-level elders of Qi training have passed away one after another, the foundation building cultivators are the family's reliance. Their magic power is stronger and their lifespan is longer. With the support of foundation building cultivators, a family can survive and develop.

The three-color spirit fish raised in the deepest pool of Wanshe Cave has matured. This kind of fish monster has a relatively short maturity period and can grow up to maturity in just two or three years.

In order to sell these three-color spirit fish at a good price, the family opened a new inn in Xihefang.

Since the battle of Xihefang more than 30 years ago, the control of this market has fallen into the hands of the Hu family of Jiuhua Mountain. In order to control this market, their family must send foundation building cultivators to sit in the market.

Ten years ago, after Zhang Zhixuan and the clan leader killed Hu Boren outside Jiaohefang, the Hu family only had one foundation-building cultivator, Hu Boyu.

After that, Hu Boyu went to Qingxuan Sect to ask Hu Peiyu to make a decision for him. Although he did not achieve his goal, Hu Peiyu still found a way to ask for a foundation-building pill for Hu Boyu.

Relying on this foundation-building pill, the Hu family cultivated another foundation-building cultivator.

This person is called Hu Tonghai, who is three generations younger than Hu Boyu, has been building his foundation for less than five years, and is less than sixty years old, almost the same age as Zhang Zhixuan.

Now, Hu Tonghai, who has just built his foundation, is in charge of Xihefang, protecting the largest source of income for the Hu family.

Xihefang City is the only market for cultivators in Taicheng County. It has thousands of cultivators in Taicheng County as customers and can earn a large amount of spirit stones every year. Although half of the income must be divided among the five major families in Taicheng County, the annual income is also about one thousand spirit stones.

The Hu family accounts for half of the 48 shops in Xihefang. Even if you do nothing, you can still get 500 spirit stones in rent every year by renting out all the 24 shops.

Xihefang, a market town, has been established for a long time, and its history is much longer than that of the big markets such as Heishan and Jiaohe. When Chuyun Zushi was still there, the Zhang family also controlled the ownership of Xihefang.

After Chuyun Zushi passed away and Wu Siheng opened up the Purple Mansion, the Zhang family gave the control of the market town to the more powerful Wu family.

When the market town war 30 years ago, the Hu family relied on the support of Hu Peiyu to take control of Xihefang.

In this market town, the Hu family owns 24 shops, and the Wu family's share is only half of the Hu family. It still controls 12 shops. The third is the Zhang family. Relying on the old foundation, they still have four shops. The remaining eight shops belong to the other three major families.

In order to promote the inn in the market, the three foundation-building cultivators of the Zhang family all came to Xihe Market, and more than 20 Qi training cultivators of the family also came to help with the opening.

The fact that so many people from the Zhang family came made Hu Tonghai feel uneasy.

Although the Hu family had no evidence of Hu Boren's incident, they suspected the Zhang and Wu families. Today, the Zhang family came to the market in large numbers, which made Hu Tonghai worried.

He was very afraid that the Zhang family would be infatuated and attack the market.

Once the three foundation-building cultivators of the Zhang family decided to turn against each other, it would be difficult for the guarding cultivators of their Hu family to escape.

Even if Hu Peiyu of Qingxuan Sect would make decisions for them in the future, what would be the use of him if he died today?

Fortunately, Zhang Zhixuan and others were still rational. The control of Xihefang fell into the hands of the Hu family, which was endorsed by Qingxuan Sect. If they dared to turn against each other today, they would be prepared to flee with their families.

The Zhang family has been rooted in Taicheng County for hundreds of years, and they would never do such a stupid thing unless they were helpless.

Zhang's Inn is the first inn in the entire Xihefang Market.

There are reasons why the cultivators in the past did not open inns in the market.

First, Xihefang serves independent cultivators and cultivators from small families. These cultivators are very weak and do not have extra spirit stones. After they come to Xihefang to exchange things, they are reluctant to spend spirit stones on food and accommodation. They usually leave the market immediately and return to their cave residence.

Secondly, some wealthy casual cultivators, although they don’t care about one or two spiritual stones, other than the white-tailed reed fish of the Wu family, the other major families don’t have any special delicacies.

People come to the market to eat, they can’t just eat spiritual rice, right? Instead of eating spiritual rice, people can eat anywhere, why spend more money?

The white-tailed reed fish of the Wu family can be sold far and wide to Qingxuan Sect and Heishan, especially the Jiaohefang controlled by Wu Siheng, which consumes a large amount of white-tailed reed fish every year. This delicious monster has become the feature of Jiaohefang. Any cultivator who comes to Jiaohefang for the first time will always try it and take a look.

The white-tailed reed fish is almost in short supply. Although their family has the ability to open an inn, they don’t care about the little money that Xihefang can earn.

Although the three-color spiritual fish raised by the Zhang family is far less delicious than the white-tailed reed fish, it is also a delicious delicacy.

Even without adding any seasoning, this kind of fish is still delicious, and the Zhang family can now produce eight kinds of spiritual wine and five kinds of spiritual rice, and they have enough resources to support this inn.

The shop is their own, so they don't have to pay rent, and spiritual wine, three-color spiritual fish, spiritual rice and other things are all produced by the family. At the suggestion of the seventeenth uncle Zhang Mengjian, Zhang Zhixuan and the clan leader agreed to open an inn in Xihefang for a try.

Anyway, the seventeenth uncle is in charge of the affairs of Xihefang. If it fails, it won't lose too much. Even if the three-color spiritual fish can't be sold, it can be distributed to the family monks as welfare.

The inn was ready to open in a few days. In order to make a name for itself, the Zhang family took out more than 100 spiritual stones to promote it vigorously. Every day, the first three guests can get a three-jin three-color spiritual fish, a pot of eight taels of spiritual wine, and half a jin of rice made of spiritual rice for free.

This discount will even last for a month. Relying on this method, Zhang's inn quickly became famous and had some regular customers. It can earn more than a dozen spiritual stones every month. By this calculation, this inn alone can bring in an income of 200 spirit stones a year. Of course, the Zhang family still has to invest a lot of resources.