Chapter 224: Seventh Level of Foundation Building

Although he repaired the magic weapon and refined the purple divine light during this trip to Qingxuan Sect, which was a great harvest, Zhang Zhixuan still felt worried when he returned. After all, Han Yan killed someone because of him, and this matter was a hidden danger.

Qingxuan Sect did not have a fourth-level questioning talisman. If Han Yan could advance to the Purple Mansion, he could firmly deny it and resolve the sequelae of this matter. If he was suspected during the foundation-building period, he might fail and be severely punished by the sect.

After Zhang Zhixuan returned to Tiantai Peak, he immediately chose to retreat, began to consolidate his cultivation, and prepared to break through the seventh level of foundation-building.

Some time ago in Qingxuan Sect, Zhang Zhixuan entered into enlightenment by chance, and he could have broken through the realm. But in order to avoid Han Yan's worry, he chose to come out of retreat early, wasting this rare opportunity.

This time when he came back, Zhang Zhixuan handed over the family affairs to Uncle Nineteen and Qingchan, and then entered the closed-door retreat. The trip to Qingxuan Sect made him secretly worried, and he felt that his cultivation was low and weak, which caused Han Yan to kill for him.

This time, Zhang Zhixuan would never come out of retreat unless he broke through the seventh level of foundation building.

The sun rises and sets, spring goes and autumn comes. Time flows like water, and six years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Since Zhang Zhixuan retreated, Taicheng County has been stable.

With the development of the Chaoyin Mountain Spirit Stone Mine, the income of the immortal cultivation families in Taicheng County began to increase greatly. As the income of the major families increased, they increased their efforts to cultivate the next generation of cultivators. In six years, eleven young men in the Zhang family grew up, like a stream of fresh blood added to the family bloodline.

Because Zhang Zhixuan blocked Li Zhang for Gu Chengxun, this matter was like buying a horse bone with a thousand gold coins, which greatly increased the reputation of the Zhang family among the local casual cultivators.

In just six years, seventeen casual cultivators joined the Zhang family.

Among them, nine people married into the Zhang family and became members of the Zhang family completely. The remaining eight people were all treated as guest officials by Zhang Zhixuan.

Since Gu Chengxun presented the Gu family's elixir recipe on Tiantai Peak, Zhang Zhixuan immediately decided to continue to relax a little and integrate more independent cultivators into the family.

He personally wrote a letter to communicate with the clan leader, learned from the Longjiang County Chen family to establish a retainer system, and began to increase the number of guest positions in the family, attracting independent cultivators who knew the roots and background to join.

Family guests do not need to change their surnames, are not forced to marry into the Zhang family, and are very free to come and go. As long as you tell Uncle Nineteen, you can leave the mountain gate at will. For independent cultivators, there are almost no extra restrictions except for requiring a clean family.

However, these retainers cannot use the family's good deeds system, cannot exchange the Zhang family's cultivation resources, and cannot read the family's cultivation methods. Their relationship with the Zhang family can only be regarded as a simple employment relationship. The Zhang family took out a sum of spirit stones and hired them to complete some tasks.

In recent years, because the family has expanded too fast, the family's cultivators are simply not enough. After Zhang Zhixuan, the cultivators in the family had to go down the mountain to perform tasks at the age of sixteen. This practice was actually like drinking poison to quench thirst, which was very detrimental to the development of the next generation.

Because of this practice, the cultivators of the Zhi generation practiced slower than the previous generations. Except for Zhang Zhixuan, basically no one could build a foundation.

During the six years of Zhang Zhixuan's retreat, Qingchan's cultivation level improved again, and now he has built a fifth level of foundation. The Baiyu Peak nest under Lingjing Mountain has also improved slightly, and the queen bee has also advanced to the second-level middle grade.

However, this queen bee has exhausted its potential. In another ten years, this queen bee will die. If the queen bee dies and cannot evolve into a new queen bee, this nest of Baiyu Peak will slowly wither.

It has been almost fifty years since Zhang Zhixuan went down the mountain and discovered the Baiyu Peak nest. In the past fifty years, the ordinary Baiyu Peak has been updated three times. This small beehive has brought the family more than seven thousand spirit stones in profit, and the biggest price paid by the family was almost borne by Han Yan alone.

After six years of closed-door cultivation, Zhang Zhixuan finally broke through to the seventh level of foundation building half a year ago. He started to learn cultivation from childhood, and after sixty years of hard practice, Zhang Zhixuan finally entered the late stage of foundation building.

At this time, the benefits brought by his childhood wisdom were also consumed.

Zhang Zhixuan had wisdom since he was a child. He started to practice at the age of six, which was at least five or six years ahead of ordinary cultivators. Moreover, the younger you practice, the greater the benefits on the path.

His progress in cultivation when he was a teenager was almost not much slower than that of a cultivator with a heavenly spiritual root.

Even a cultivator with a heavenly spiritual root, if he practiced Taoism at a slightly older age, could not practice to the sixth level of Qi training at the age of sixteen.

After that, Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation became smoother and smoother, and his progress was faster than Han Yan.

He was not caught up by Han Yan until he reached the sixth level of foundation building.

Unfortunately, his spiritual roots were not as good as those of Han Yan and Qing Chan, who were the pride of heaven. Han Yan broke through the seventh level of foundation building at the age of sixty-one, while Zhang Zhixuan spent four more years to break through the seventh level of foundation building at the age of sixty-five.

Last year, Han Yan wrote to me, saying that she had broken through the eighth level of foundation building. She is only 72 years old now, and she has more than 30% chance of opening up the purple palace within 100 years.

Although Qing Chan's foundation building was eight years slower than Zhang Zhixuan's, and she succeeded at the age of 36, and her soul was damaged, so her cultivation speed was not fast at the beginning, but she broke through a level almost every five years, and broke through the fifth level of foundation building two years ago.

I am afraid that in another ten years, Qing Chan's cultivation will catch up with Zhang Zhixuan, and it is possible that she will enter the peak of the foundation building period and open up the purple palace first.

After breaking through to the seventh level of foundation building, Zhang Zhixuan's mana began to increase again. Because he did not take the foundation building pill, Zhang Zhixuan's mana was no less than that of a cultivator at the ninth level of foundation building.

He has mastered the Purple Qi Divine Light magical power, successfully opened up the upper Dantian, and his spiritual awareness has increased dramatically. Although he is not as good as a Purple Mansion cultivator, he is better than a ninth-level foundation-building master.

In addition, Zhang Zhixuan has two third-level high-quality magic weapons in his hands. Among the foundation-building cultivators in Yu State, he is probably the best.

After Zhang Zhixuan broke through the realm, he was practicing in seclusion. Suddenly, his uncle Nineteen came to the door of the cave with a letter.

Zhang Zhixuan opened the cave and saw his uncle Nineteen happily saying: "Zhixuan, Sidao asked someone to send a letter to exchange for the foundation-building pill. He is still short of some good deeds. I hope his family can help."

Zhang Zhixuan opened the letter and found that Zhang Sidao only had three thousand good deeds in his hand. His master Chen Hongyuan promised to give him one thousand good deeds. If he wanted to exchange for a foundation-building pill, the gap was still large, so he had no choice but to write a letter and ask Zhang Zhixuan for help.

"Uncle Seventeen died in Chaoyin Mountain, and he shed his last drop of blood for the family. Sidao is his favorite grandson, so we have to help him. The family doesn't have to take anything from the treasury. I think Hanyan's good deeds should be enough. I will go to Qingxuan Sect right away. If there is still a gap in good deeds, let me temporarily pay for it."