Chapter 216 Su Heng

In the past two years, another major event happened. The gate of the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain was occupied by a casual cultivator in the foundation-building period. This casual cultivator has already reached the seventh level of foundation-building. He is only 120 years old and still has a chance to open up the purple mansion.

This person is called Su Heng. Although he is only at the seventh level of foundation-building, he is very famous in Heishan, no less than Zhang Tairen, the founder of the Zhang family.

Zhang Tairen, the head of the Zhang family, was the earliest casual cultivator in Heishan and one of the two most famous alchemists in Heishan. Except for the fourth-level middle-grade ancestor Liang, his alchemy skills are the best among the cultivators in Heishan.

Because he could not compete with Liang Taixu in alchemy in Heishan, Zhang Tairen returned to his hometown Taicheng County to open up the family after he had no hope of opening up the purple mansion.

After settling in Lushan, his alchemy skills made rapid progress and he became a fourth-level lower-grade alchemist before the age of 200. The elixirs he refined almost dominated the market in the three southeastern counties. Even the elixirs of Qingxuan Sect could not compete with him.

Su Heng is so famous because he, like Zhang Zhixuan, is a cultivator who did not take the foundation-building pill to build his foundation. Generally, such cultivators are not easy to mess with. Not only do they have strong magic power and amazing perseverance, but they also have a slightly greater chance of opening up the purple mansion.

Su Heng has been in Heishan for sixty or seventy years. After the Dongji locust rebellion, all the spiritual medicines he planted in the mountain gate were eaten by the Dongji locusts, and even his wife and daughter, who were ordinary people, were all killed.

This blow made him a little discouraged, so he returned to his hometown after the war and prepared to settle in Jiufeng Mountain.

The head of the Ma family in Jiufeng Mountain has died, and the cultivators in the Qi training period have also gone to Qingxuan Sect. This spiritual mountain has been empty. In recent years, it has made Heishan’s casual cultivators jealous.

After all, compared with Heishan, Taicheng County is not only safer because it is close to the hinterland, but also the Ma family cultivators have been operating Jiufeng Mountain for hundreds of years and have opened up a large number of spiritual fields, and the conditions are far better than the Heishan spiritual veins.

The reason why they did not take action is just to worry about the influence of Qingxuan Sect.

Before the Qingxuan Sect made its position clear, they dared not act rashly.

After all, compared to many years ago, the discovery of the spiritual stone mine in Taicheng County immediately increased the importance of the Qingxuan Sect by several levels.

There were two purple mansion cultivators stationed in Chaoyin Mountain by the Qingxuan Sect. Without the tacit consent of the Qingxuan Sect, no one dared to occupy this sacred mountain.

Su Heng was very courageous. He went directly to Chaoyin Mountain to find the purple mansion cultivator Sun Changgeng and made it clear that he wanted to occupy Jiufeng Mountain.

Sun Changgeng was also happy to see Su Heng's request. After all, Su Heng was not an ordinary cultivator. Like Kang Duhe who settled in Jiangkou County, he had the possibility of opening up a purple mansion.

It would be good for Qingxuan Sect if each of these cultivators settled in the control area of ​​Qingxuan Sect and became a vassal of Qingxuan Sect.

If they had not yet opened up a purple mansion, they would not compete with Qingxuan Sect for interests, but would only help and assist.

Even if these people open up the Purple Mansion, as long as they don't have the ability of Liang Laozu, they have to look at the face of Qingxuan Sect in the three southeastern counties, unless they can leave here and go to another place to open up the sacred mountain.

Moreover, there is a system within Qingxuan Sect that can attract these vassal Purple Mansion casual cultivators to join the sect, become the elders of the sect, and bring them to the chariot of Qingxuan Sect to fight together.

Lu Hongniang, the most powerful Purple Mansion cultivator in Qingxuan Sect, was originally a casual cultivator, and her master was also a casual cultivator in Heishan. Because she didn't have the conditions in her early years, like Zhang Zhixuan, she didn't wait for the foundation-building pill, and took the risk to break through the barrier at the age of thirty-six and became a foundation-building cultivator.

The master and apprentice supported each other in Heishan for decades. Lu Hongniang became a Purple Mansion cultivator at the age of ninety-three. She not only opened up the Purple Mansion, but also helped her two junior brothers to successfully build the foundation.

After that, Taoist Jinlan personally came forward and invited her to Qingxuan Sect to serve as an elder. It has been two hundred years now.

Lu Hongniang brought her junior brothers and sisters, disciples and disciples to join Qingxuan Sect. After accumulating merit for two hundred years, she became the most important Purple Mansion elder of Qingxuan Sect. Now, even Jinlan Taoist of Qingxuan Sect cannot look at her face.

Even Wu Siheng of the Wu family is a Purple Mansion cultivator supported by her.

Wu Siheng's master is Lu Hongniang's junior brother. Wu Siheng's supporters in Qingxuan Sect at that time were first his direct elder Lu Hongniang and second his fellow cultivator Zhang Chuyun. It was precisely because of these two Purple Mansion cultivators that Wu Siheng was able to have a smooth journey in Qingxuan Sect and successfully break through the Purple Mansion realm.

Because of this factor, when the Zhang family's Jiuhua Mountain was seized, Wu Siheng lost his temper and spoke for the Zhang family. He directly pointed the spearhead at Jin Laozu, satirizing him for being confused by women and watching the family of his direct disciple being killed.

Such words also put a lot of pressure on Jin Laozu and made him feel a little knotty about the Zhang family. After that, Xihefang was seized because Wu Siheng got angry, so Hu Peiyu took action personally, beheaded Wei Mazi and others, cut off the minions and helpers of the Hu family, awakened Hu Boyu, and made them live in peace for decades.

Su Heng went to Chaoyin Mountain in person, had a long talk with Sun Changgeng, and finally obtained Sun Changgeng's permission to occupy the Jiufeng Mountain spiritual vein and prepare to settle in Taicheng County.

After he settled in Jiufeng Mountain, he married more than a dozen low-level female cultivators and concubines, preparing to settle in Taicheng County like Zhang Tairen and establish a new immortal cultivation family.

When he settled down in Jiufeng Mountain, he immediately went to Yanlai Peak and found Wu Xiangzhen of the Wu family, hoping to join the family alliance of Taicheng County.

For such a high-level master, Wu Xiangzhen certainly would not push him out. Soon Wu Xiangzhen asked Zhang Zhixuan and Liu Zixuan for their opinions and agreed to let Su Heng join the covenant.

In addition, Wu Xiangzhen gave up his family's quota to go to the Southern Wilds, allowing Su Heng to lead the team to trade in Black Mountain this year to earn resources for this new family.

Two years have passed since the Xuanyin Fruit was obtained. Counting the months that the Xuanyin Fruit was stored in the Taixu Pavilion, if it is not used, the Xuanyin Fruit will turn into pure spiritual energy and dissipate.

You know, the shelf life of this spiritual fruit is only three years.

After two years of collection by the Zhang family cultivators, almost running across half of the Yu Kingdom, they finally collected all the materials for refining this third-level spiritual pill.

From this, we can see how difficult it is for a small family to refine a third-level spiritual pill.

Now the Zhang family has five third-level pill recipes, which is already very extraordinary. You know, Zhang Tairen became a fourth-level alchemist, and he only had seven third-level pill recipes and one fourth-level pill recipe.

Unfortunately, in order to raise resources for his son to open up the Purple Mansion, he could only swear to leave his alchemy inheritance completely to the Qingxuan Sect.

If the mantle of Tairen Patriarch could be passed down, Zhang Zhixuan's alchemy skills would be advanced ten years earlier.

The family's five kinds of elixir recipes require a total of six main medicines. In addition to the compound eyes of the third-level Dongji locust, Zhang Zhixuan has arranged people to collect these spiritual medicine seeds in recent years, cultivate an acre of second-level high-quality spiritual fields in Lingjing Mountain, and re-open a relatively small spiritual medicine garden.

Unfortunately, most of the main medicines for the third-level elixir require hundreds of years, and distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. If you want to rely on these seeds to make elixirs, you may have to wait two or three hundred years.

After two or three hundred years, Zhang Zhixuan will either succeed in opening up the Purple Mansion and no longer need these third-level elixirs, or he will turn into a pile of yellow soil.

This arrangement is all for long-term considerations, for the future cultivators of the family.