Chapter 215 Two years later

After coming out of Taixu Pavilion, Zhang Zhixuan asked the monks below to rest in Black Mountain for three days, and then returned to Lushan with great harvest and satisfaction.

It was desolate when we came here, but it was flat along the locust road. It took one and a half months less than usual to reach Black Mountain.

When we went back, the further north we went, the more green there was along the road. Halfway through, the road ahead was lush and green.

Although there were no tall trees blocking the locust road because of the short time since the locust plague, the weed seeds had already taken root and sprouted with the strong wind, and some had grown several feet high.

Fortunately, those who went to Black Mountain for trade were all successful monks. If they were ordinary mortals, they would not be able to walk 100,000 miles in such an environment with poisonous insects everywhere and miasma everywhere along the road.

The vitality of nature is so tenacious. It is like a strong mother. Even if it is hit hard a thousand times, it will slowly get up and raise all living things.

In those days, the cultivators of the upper realm fought in the vast sea, breaking up the spiritual veins of tens of millions of miles in radius, and the continents close to the vast sea for hundreds of thousands of miles became a place of no spirit.

Now tens of thousands of years have passed, haven't countries like Yu and Wu slowly begun to recover?

Perhaps in tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years, the vast sea, a place of no spirit, will also become a paradise, which can accommodate the cultivation of Yuanshen period cultivators. Compared with the mighty power of nature, even Yuanshen cultivators are as humble as ants. Only those who have achieved the Tao and become immortals can be free and unrestrained.

The road was easy to walk on when I came here, and it took me three and a half months to walk. When I went back, the road was a little more difficult, and I walked for more than ten days. This time, because the East Pole Locust opened up the road to the South Wilderness, it only took seven and a half months to return safely, which saved a lot of time every year.

From the next hundred years, thanks to the blessing of the East Pole Locust, because there are no towering trees blocking the road, although the road to the Black Mountain is full of thorns, it can save two months every year compared to the past.

After Zhang Zhixuan led the team back to Lushan, he immediately exchanged the Xuanyin Gourd for Qingchan with 2,000 merits, and then spent another 1,500 merits to exchange for the Locust Demon Flying Knife.

Although this flying knife was Liang Hanyang's apology, if there was no family support, although Zhang Zhixuan had a high level of cultivation and great magical powers, Liang Hanyang might not cut the grass and send people to eliminate him as a hidden danger.

Because Han Yan's status in Qingxuan Sect has been greatly improved, the probability of opening up the Purple Mansion is very high, so he is wary of the Zhang family.

After all, the cultivation of the Liang Patriarch is high, and it is already the sunset of the west mountain, and it is impossible for him to reach out to the Qingxuan Sect and affect Han Yan, the rising sun.

Han Yan is in the Qingxuan Sect, Wu Siheng takes care of her, and behind Wu Siheng is Lu Hongniang, who can form a pill at any time. And as her status rises, she has been able to access the network of the former Chuyun Patriarch, and she can even speak in front of the Jin Patriarch.

Ancestor Chuyun was a direct disciple of Taoist Jinlan. He was seriously injured and died at the mountain gate because he fought against a fifth-level monster to defend Jiaohe Square for the sect.

He was only over 240 years old when he died. For a purple mansion cultivator, his life span is just over half.

A descendant of a cultivator who has made great contributions to the sect, such as Hanyan, will have great priority in the sect when he reaches a critical juncture in cultivation. When it comes to selecting spiritual objects to assist in opening up the purple mansion, as long as she has good merits, she can be selected first.

The same is true when exchanging for foundation-building pills. Hanyan's group of cultivators only has six foundation-building pills, while there are as many as sixteen Qi-cultivating cultivators with ten thousand good merits.

Among these sixteen people, Hanyan was the first to confirm the quota and exchange the foundation-building pill first.

This is not only because she has a good spiritual root, but also because she has a close blood relationship with Ancestor Chuyun. If she didn't have this relationship, she would definitely have to wait in line slowly.

After all, she was only thirty-two years old at the time, and she still had time to wait for many years.

Qingxuan Sect has more than a dozen Purple Mansion Seed cultivators. Han Yan's relationship with the upper echelons of the sect is already one step ahead. Even though her master, Grandma Yunzhi, has passed away for many years and can no longer speak for her, she has actually replaced Grandma Yunzhi and obtained the precious legacy left by Zhang Chuyun.

One of the reasons why the Zhang family was so difficult back then was that Grandma Yunzhi was still alive. When she was alive, Qingxuan Sect's care for Zhang Chuyun was left to his widow. As for the cultivators of the family, the relationship was a little behind.

After all, when the ancestor Chuyun passed away, his father and siblings had passed away for many years. The closest blood relationship to him was only a few nephews who rarely met, and their face in Qingxuan Sect was far less than that of Grandma Yunzhi.

As for the Zhang family's family affairs, Grandma Yunzhi didn't want to interfere at all.

After that, Han Yan built a foundation, and soon after Grandma Yunzhi passed away, the Zhang family's network of relationships in Qingxuan Sect began to slowly connect.

In addition, Chen Hongyuan, who Zhang Zhixuan has made friends with, and He Menglan, who Han Yan has made friends with, are friends. Even if the Liu family of Taibai Mountain has two foundation-building cultivators in Qingxuan Sect, they are far inferior to the Zhang family in terms of high-level relationships.

Without the big tree of the Zhang family, now that the Liang ancestor is still alive, Zhang Zhixuan can only be regarded as a small role in Taixu Pavilion. Liang Hanyang simply disdains to apologize to him, and even takes out a precious third-level top-grade magic weapon to eliminate hidden dangers.

Therefore, this magic weapon cannot be regarded as Zhang Zhixuan’s personal property, but should be regarded as a family magic weapon.

Zhang Zhixuan wants this magic weapon, of course, he has to exchange it with the family’s good deeds.

Zhang Zhixuan has been building his foundation for thirty years, and Qingchan has been building his foundation for more than ten years. The two of them rarely use the family’s good deeds, and have accumulated 4,600 good deeds so far.

After exchanging two top-grade magic weapons, there are still more than a thousand left.

After storing this batch of third-level spiritual objects in the family treasury, and exchanging them for talisman pens and instruments for Qingchan, Zhang Zhixuan used up all the good deeds he had saved this time.

This year, he can refine the Golden Bud Pill, and next year, he can refine the Ghost Return Pill.

Zhang Zhixuan can obtain 500 family good deeds by refining the Golden Bud Pill once, and he can also earn 400 by refining the Ghost Return Pill once, plus Qingchan can also draw spiritual talismans to earn good deeds.

After next year, the good deeds of the two people will add up to more than 1,000.

In this way, after the turmoil of the Eastern Locusts passed, it was calm for another two years.

Two years later, Zhang Zhixuan was 58 years old, exactly 30 years after the foundation building.

In the past few months, Qingchan successfully broke through another realm and became a cultivator in the middle stage of the foundation building.

According to this accuracy, Qingchan will catch up after Zhang Zhixuan enters the eighth level of the foundation building. It is estimated that she will reach the ninth level of the foundation building a few years earlier than Zhang Zhixuan, and may even be earlier than Hanyan who is at the seventh level of the foundation building.

After two years of preparation, especially after Zhang Zhixuan received a large amount of good deeds last year, he immediately arranged for family cultivators to run errands, and went to places such as Xihefang, Heishan, Jiaohefang, and Qingyangfang, and even crossed the Duanyun Mountains to Jiangkou County, and finally found most of the auxiliary spiritual medicines for Miaozhen Pills.

For the remaining shortage, Zhang Zhixuan entrusted Han Yan to exchange spiritual medicines with her sect's good deeds, and then asked someone to bring them back.

Now Zhang Zhixuan has gathered all the spiritual medicines and is ready to refine Miaozhen Pills and break through to the third-level middle-grade alchemist.

He has been waiting for this day for nearly twenty years. Compared with the alchemists of Qingxuan Sect, Zhang Zhixuan's progress has been five to ten years slower.