Chapter 196 Five Years Later

After the Hu family moved away, the Zhang family took back Jiuhua Mountain, but there were still too few cultivators in the Zhang family, and they could not spare any manpower to guard the mountain gate for the time being.

The Zhang family could not use this third-level spiritual vein for the time being, and Zhang Zhixuan could not leave it empty, lest the Qingxuan Sect find an excuse to take it back and arrange it for other foundation-building casual cultivators.

For this reason, Zhang Zhixuan could only try to mobilize as many people as possible.

First, he mobilized the vassal of the family. Most of these vassal small families had many people and few spiritual veins. Recruiting them was a two-pronged approach. Not only could they give them a place to practice, but they could also occupy the spiritual veins first. .

Second, he increased the efforts to recruit sons-in-law, recruiting casual cultivators from Taicheng County to marry into the Zhang family, and marrying with Zhang family cultivators on a large scale to integrate into the family.

Almost all the capable and ambitious casual cultivators in Taicheng County went to Heishan, and those who stayed were almost all at the bottom. The better ones, who had a hundred arts of cultivating immortals, could barely support themselves by relying on Xihefang for cultivation.

Those who have no skills and dare not go to the Southern Wilderness can't earn a single spiritual stone in a year. Without a constant supply of spiritual energy to nourish their bodies, they can only consume their vitality. After three to five years, their cultivation will slowly decline, and after a few decades, they will be like everyone else.

Even these most incompetent casual cultivators are also the targets of Zhang Zhixuan's recruitment this time. These people with declining cultivation can easily recover their cultivation as long as they are given an environment with sufficient spiritual energy.

As long as they join the Zhang family and have three to five years to cultivate, these people can restore their original cultivation realm. Even if most of their cultivation is very low, it can also alleviate the situation of the Zhang family's extreme shortage of people.

Even cultivators in the innate stage can cultivate spiritual fields and help in the market.

After Zhang Zhixuan took action on both sides, he finally got more than 30 cultivators to Jiuhua Mountain.

In order to manage these cultivators, Zhang Zhixuan also sent a new elder to Jiuhua Mountain to manage these messy manpower.

In the past ten years, the Zhi generation monks have finally started to grow up. This new elder is younger than Zhang Zhixuan. He is Zhang Zhixing, the sixteenth monk of the Zhi generation.

He is also a three-spiritual root monk, six years younger than Zhang Zhixuan. At the age of forty-four, he broke through to the ninth level of Qi training. At his age, he is still more than ten years away from the best age of sixty to build a foundation. If he takes a foundation-building pill before the age of sixty, he still has some chance to build a foundation.

Among the eight ninth-level Qi training monks in the family, he is the only one who still has the opportunity to build a foundation. The remaining elders either missed the best age, or practiced too slowly, and their foundations were weak. Even if they were given foundation-building pills, they could not build a foundation successfully.

The Hu family left Jiuhua Mountain and almost swept away everything they could take away. The huge Jiuhua Mountain, except for the empty houses, did not leave anything at all.

In order to protect this spiritual vein, Zhang Zhixuan not only had to set up a mountain protection formation on the mountain, but also had to take out a batch of spiritual rice to supply the monks who stayed in Jiuhua Mountain, and provide spiritual rice seeds to re-operate the 20 acres of spiritual fields in Jiuhua Mountain.

When Jiuhua Mountain was in the hands of the Zhang family before, there was no spiritual field on the mountain. When it fell into the hands of the Hu family, their family had no shortage of spiritual stones, so they gradually opened up some spiritual fields, and now there are 20 acres.

20 acres of spiritual fields are already a large fortune. The cost of opening up 20 acres of spiritual fields alone is more than 2,000 spiritual stones.

Even if the quality of the spiritual fields on Jiuhua Mountain is not high, only the first-grade lower grade, these 20 acres of spiritual fields can be used well, and more than 2,000 kilograms of spiritual rice can be harvested every year, which can be exchanged for at least more than 100 spiritual stones.

This amount of spiritual stones is enough for the monks stationed on Jiuhua Mountain to be self-sufficient without adding extra burden to the family.

When Jiuhua Mountain settled down, Zhang Zhixuan had a little free time.

In this way, spring goes and autumn comes, flowers bloom and fall, time flies, and days and months pass by.

Five years passed in the busy life of the Zhang family.

During these five years, good news came one after another from the Zhang family.

Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation level has improved again, becoming a cultivator of the sixth level of foundation building. Even his purple qi divine light spell has made some progress after thirty years of hard practice.

After thirty years of hard practice, every step was trembling, and Zhang Zhixuan finally opened up most of the acupoints. Although he could not release the divine light to hurt the enemy, he had already trained a pair of divine eyes.

After thirty years of hard practice of purple qi divine light, Zhang Zhixuan's eyes have a hint of magic, and his eyesight is far superior to that of ordinary cultivators. He can see through many psychedelic spells.

Qingchan also broke through a realm last year and entered the third level of foundation building.

She has been building the foundation for eleven years, and she has been practicing at a speed of breaking through a realm every five years. This progress is not as good as that of a cultivator with two spiritual roots, and it has not aroused suspicion from others.

Qingchan is almost fifty years old this year. It is not so shocking for her to practice to the third level of foundation building at this age.

If there is no shortage of foundation-building pills and sufficient resources to start practicing, a cultivator with two spiritual roots can often practice to the middle stage of foundation-building before the age of fifty.

The better news comes from the clan leader, who has been practicing in Chaoyin Mountain in recent years and broke through a realm three years ago, becoming a cultivator of the seventh level of foundation-building.

When the cultivation reaches the late stage of foundation-building, the mana will begin to increase greatly, and even the sequelae caused by the old injuries can be repaired a little.

The clan leader broke through to the sixth level of foundation-building before the expedition against Shuangjiao Mountain that year, which means it has been seventeen years.

It takes seventeen years to break through a barrier. As a second-level spiritual root cultivator, it is actually very slow. If it were not for the influence of the old injury, he should have chosen to break through eight years ago.

The family's foundation-building cultivators have made progress on the path, and even the ninth-level Qi training cultivators have been added to the family. They are Zhang Zhixuan's thirteenth brother Zhang Zhiren, nephews Zhang Siyang and Zhang Sipeng.

These three are Zhang Zhixuan's peers. The thirteenth brother Zhang Zhiren is two years older than Zhang Zhixuan. He soon reached the point where his qi and blood were depleted, and he was no longer sure of building a foundation.

However, he is the family's formation master. Although his talent is far inferior to that of the fourth uncle, and he is only a second-level upper-grade formation master, the family will not be cut off if there is a formation master.

Zhang Siyang ranks sixth among the Si-generation cultivators, but he is three years older than Zhang Zhixuan. Like Zhang Zhiren, he has almost no chance of building a foundation. As a cultivator of the foundation-building family, he also learned a hundred arts of cultivating immortals. His talisman-making skills are already good, and he can make second-level top-grade talismans.

Because of the ancestors of Chuyun, the Zhang family has a good inheritance of talisman-making skills.

In addition, the clan leader and Qingchan are both third-level talisman-makers. Every year, they can take out a few third-level spiritual talismans to sell in the Black Mountain Treasure Pavilion in exchange for spiritual stones.

With this example, most of the cultivators in the family chose the talisman-making skills that consume less resources when choosing the hundred arts of cultivating immortals. Even so, there are still very few cultivators who can truly integrate this craft and draw second-level top-grade spiritual talismans. Among the Qi-training cultivators in the family, there are only three or five people.

Zhang Sipeng ranks eleventh in the Si generation of the family and is only forty-two years old. He is also a cultivator with three spiritual roots. The situation of the family has begun to improve since he was born. Zhang Zhixuan successfully built his foundation when he was a teenager. Basically, he had no lack of cultivation resources. He broke through the ninth level of Qi training at the age of forty-two.

At this age, if you break through the ninth level of Qi training, you will have a chance to build your foundation with just one foundation-building pill.

Unfortunately, there is only one foundation-building pill in the family. In order to maintain the fairness of the family, if they do not have enough good deeds, Zhang Zhixuan will not give the foundation-building pill to Zhang Sipeng or Zhang Zhixing.

As a superior, the most taboo is unfair rewards and punishments.

If a family does not have a fair promotion system, it will soon fall into various internal conflicts and gradually decline and die.

Now the foundation-building pill is the most precious property of the family. Giving it to someone or not will affect the path of the cultivator and even the rise and fall of the family.

If there is no clear system, the Qi-refining cultivators will only fall into fierce competition or even serious internal strife.

And if you want to compete for the foundation-building pill, you must at least contribute to the family. Whoever has more good deeds will help the family.

Zhang Sipeng and Zhang Zhixing only have one or two hundred good deeds in their hands. With such a small amount of merit, it is impossible for Zhang Zhixuan to look at them and leave the foundation-building pill to them.

Now is not a matter of life and death, and we urgently need to support a foundation-building cultivator.

Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan are still supporting the family, and the clan leader still has a few decades to live. Compared with the cultivators in the Qi training stage, their lifespan is still long. They have enough time and patience to wait until there is a suitable cultivator to exchange for the foundation-building pill. Zhang Zhixuan will not violate the family system unless it is absolutely necessary.