Chapter 230 The War is Coming

"Before leaving, Master left me some treasures, including three fifth-level formation-breaking beads, but we can only use one to attack the gate of Hongshan Sect this time. This kind of thing is very rare and it is almost impossible to find it outside. If we use multiple formation-breaking beads to break through the formation of Hongshan Sect, it will reveal a flaw and arouse suspicion from other sects.

Because according to the foundation of Qingxuan Sect, it is impossible to have too many such treasures."

You Nianwei took out a fifth-level formation-breaking bead from the storage bag and handed it to Taoist Jin Lan, with a trace of caution in his eyes.

Although Patriarch Jin has been practicing Taoism for 600 years and can be said to be knowledgeable, this is the first time he has seen such a precious treasure. He carefully put this fifth-level formation-breaking bead into the storage bag and immediately took You Nianwei to join Qingxuan Sect.

With the example of Lu Hongniang, the Purple Mansion cultivators of Qingxuan Sect did not object to Patriarch Jin's pulling people into the sect, and You Nianwei also officially joined Qingxuan Sect and became the thirteenth Purple Mansion elder. The Purple Mansion cultivator of Qingxuan Sect, Lu Hongniang, successfully advanced, and You Nianwei was admitted to the sect, so there were still thirteen people.

You Nianwei would not show up in this attack on Hongshan Sect. Her mission was to cooperate with Hu Peiyu, Luo Ziyan and others to stabilize the front line of the Southern Wilderness and resist the invasion of monsters.

Since You Nianwei joined, Patriarch Jin seemed to be more confident. Under his command, the war machine of Qingxuan Sect was quickly launched and began to hoard various resources, ready to start a war at any time.

The action of Qingxuan Sect to hoard resources also affected the three counties in the southeast, and the prices of many spiritual medicines and spiritual talismans began to rise. Zhang Zhixuan, who had just brought Zhang Sidao and his wife home, immediately noticed something wrong and became worried in an instant.

Some well-informed people also felt that the storm was coming, and Qingxuan Sect seemed to be ready to start a war at any time.

After Zhang Sidao came back, he first paid homage to his grandfather, and then temporarily settled in Tiantai Peak, preparing to compile a book of weapon refining for the family within the next five years, and by the way, improve his weapon refining skills to the third-level lower grade.

With Zhang Sidao in Tiantai Peak, Zhang Zhixuan moved to Jiuhua Mountain.

On Jiuhua Mountain, there are fewer cultivators of the Zhang family, and most of them are foreign guests who have not joined for a long time.

These foreigners have joined the Zhang family for a short time and do not have much sense of identity with the Zhang family. Now they can only strengthen their momentum and facilitate the family to drive some people.

In order to completely integrate these people into the family, they need to understand and influence each other, which often takes a long time.

In recent years, the clan leader has been practicing in Chaoyin Mountain, Qingchan has almost settled in Lingjing Mountain, and Zhang Zhixuan is in charge of Tiantai Peak. Jiuhua Mountain is a little out of his control, and he can only rely on the newly joined guests to occupy this mountain gate first.

Compared with Tiantai Peak and Lingjing Mountain, which have been operated for many years, Jiuhua Mountain belonged to the Zhang family a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, after Zhang Zhixuan took back this spiritual mountain, he did not invest too many resources. In addition to the third-level spiritual veins, the most valuable thing on Jiuhua Mountain is the twenty acres of spiritual fields.

After Zhang Zhixuan came to Jiuhua Mountain, he opened a cave in the back mountain, almost occupying the entire back mountain.

He always likes quietness and does not like others to disturb his practice.

Zhang Zhixuan was meditating and practicing, when suddenly Uncle Nineteen personally delivered a letter.

Uncle Nineteen is already over ninety years old. Although he is still relatively strong, he has rarely left the gate of Tiantai Peak in recent years.

In the past ten years, although he has given birth to several children, unfortunately, these children have no spiritual roots. He is a cultivator with two spiritual roots. Although his wife's cultivation is not high, she also has spiritual roots. Unfortunately, their children are all ordinary mortals.

Giving birth to seven or eight children without spiritual roots is a big blow to Uncle Nineteen. In the past one or two years, he has given up the effort to give birth to a successor and placed his efforts on his nephew Zhang Sihong.

Arriving at Zhang Zhixuan's cave, Uncle Nineteen said happily: "Some time ago, a cultivator from the Qingxuan Sect came to Xihefang and brought a large number of seeds of green silvergrass, hoping that our families could cultivate them in the spiritual fields at the mountain gate. This time I came here to plant these seeds in the spiritual fields at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain."

Green silvergrass is a second-level medium-grade spiritual grass that can make second-level talisman paper. It is a very useful spiritual grass. In the southeast of Yu State, the seeds of this spiritual grass were almost monopolized by the Qingxuan Sect in the past, and it was difficult for outsiders to intervene.

The Zhang family's talisman making technique has been passed down in an orderly manner. After being revised by Zhang Chuyun, it can be cultivated to the fourth level. In the entire Zhang family, more than 30 cultivators have learned the talisman making technique, including two third-level talisman makers, seven second-level upper-grade talisman makers, and 23 cultivators who can successfully draw second-level spiritual talismans.

Because of the good inheritance, the most abundant resource for the entire family's cultivation is various spiritual talismans. In Xihefang City, in addition to spiritual wine and spiritual pills, the most famous thing in the Zhang family's shop is various spiritual talismans.

Every year, the Zhang family draws four to five hundred spiritual objects. Counting the waste of talisman paper, cinnabar, spiritual ink and other materials when making talismans, it is a huge expense every year.

The Zhang family can only obtain talisman paper from the Qingxuan Sect’s market, in addition to hunting monsters and using their fur. The annual expenditure is more than 300 spiritual stones.

300 spiritual stones may not seem like much, but it is an astronomical figure when accumulated over time.

If the Qingmang grass can be successfully planted, the family can save this expense and invest it in more important places.

"It seems that the Qingxuan Sect is preparing for a big war. If it is not for the lack of a large amount of talisman paper, the General Affairs Hall will definitely not give up the monopoly of this source of income." Seeing the seeds of the Qingmang grass, Zhang Zhixuan's face changed and he said to himself.

Uncle Nineteen nodded and said: "Who says it's not the case? Recently, Qingxuan Sect has begun to tighten its grip. Various elixirs, talismans, and anything that can break the formation through fighting skills are now almost difficult to find on the market." The price of a Ganlin Pill has almost skyrocketed by 20 to 30%. I heard that Patriarch Lu of the Qingxuan Sect has formed a golden elixir. Could it be that the Qingxuan Sect is going to attack the Hongshan Sect?"

"Where did you hear this kind of news?" Zhang Zhixuan asked.

Those who saw the vision of forming pills in Qingxuanzong all swore a poisonous oath, and it was impossible to spread the news. Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the news leaked everywhere, and even reached Uncle Nineteen who was at home every day. middle.

Zhang Menngling smiled and said: "There has been a lot of rumors in Xihefang for a long time. That day, Patriarch Lu showed a strange phenomenon while forming elixirs in Qingxuanzong. Many monks in Longjiang County saw it. Qingxuanzong could not kill them all. The news was very It soon spread to the three southeastern counties.”

"It seems that the monks of the Hongshan Sect have been prepared for this battle. I don't know how many people will be recruited for this battle. Our family probably won't be able to escape, and people may die. Uncle Nineteen, we need to make plans in advance."