Chapter 317 Ten Years Later

The Qingxuan Sect of Yu State had Liu Guyan to help kill the Sky-Swallowing Toad, and they survived this monster chaos relatively smoothly, but the cultivators of Baihong Mountain in the neighboring Yu State did not have such good luck.

This time, two fifth-level monsters came within the sphere of influence of Baihong Mountain. The sudden increase in power caught Baihong Mountain off guard. In just one year, although the monsters were repelled, the sect also lost three Purple Mansion cultivators. Compared with the Qingxuan Sect, it can be said that it was injured.

Liu Guyan killed the Sky-Swallowing Toad and seized the fifth-level spiritual vein Tianchan Cave. This matter was quite secretive. Even the cultivators of the Qingxuan Sect near the Southern Wilderness did not know the details at all.

Tianchan Cave is located in the depths of the Southern Wilderness. This place is uninhabited. There are no cultivators or human beings in the tens of thousands of miles nearby. The cultivators of the Qingxuan Sect did not dare to go deep into the vicinity to collect spiritual objects and inquire about the details of Tianchan Cave.

When Liu Guyan came to the Southern Wilderness, he was very secretive and did not alarm the cultivators of the Xuansu Sect, and naturally did not alarm Yang Xuanzhen. Moreover, even if she got the news about Liu Guyan, Yang Xuanzhen would not act rashly without full confidence.

She was defeated in Longjiang County many years ago and almost died at the hands of Liu Lingjun. After this incident, Yang Xuanzhen was very cautious and dared not leave the mountain gate easily.

It was because she received intelligence and found out the whereabouts of Liu Guyan and Sun Qingcheng, two golden elixirs, that she rashly went to Longjiang County and met Liu Lingjun who had been waiting for a long time.

If she had not seen the opportunity quickly and fled quickly after finding that she was defeated, once Liu Lingjun had ruthlessly sacrificed the Purple Sun Sky Fire Talisman, Yang Xuanzhen thought that she might not be able to save her life.

The news about Liu Guyan was not leaked, so naturally no one would suspect the Zhang family.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye since the monster rebellion.

In these ten years, the monks of Qingxuan Sect, Hongshan Sect, and Nanlu Pavilion were licking their wounds, and did not go to the trouble of starting a war again. The Yu Kingdom finally ushered in a period of peace.

Although the Southern Wilderness monster retreated, the Iron-backed Ape still lingered near Guiyuan Mountain, trying to take back its spiritual veins at any time.

Because it had suffered several losses in a row, this fifth-level monster had become quite shrewd and would only attack opponents with lower cultivation than it.

With this monster restraining it, the connection between Guiyuan Mountain and Qingxuan Sect was almost cut off. Even the masters of the Purple Mansion period did not dare to easily leave the range of the Guiyuan Mountain Protection Formation, lest they be attacked by the Iron-backed Ape.

If this monster was not eliminated, Lu Hongniang would not dare to leave Guiyuan Mountain for too long.

During the monster rebellion ten years ago, the Qingxuan Sect had abandoned several fourth-level spiritual veins, which were gradually recovered by the sect as the fifth-level monsters retreated in recent years.

However, the buildings on the spiritual mountain had long been destroyed by the monsters, and the defensive formations arranged also needed to be repaired. These were all major projects, and even the Qingxuan Sect, a large sect with a strong financial foundation, spent seven or eight years on it.

Since the Qing Jiao escaped, the Black Mountain Spiritual Vein has been relatively stable, repelling the invasion of monsters. The Zhang family has also successfully established a foothold in Black Mountain. After the war, Zhang Leqian, Su Heng and other three county family cultivators left Black Mountain and returned to the southeast three counties to practice.

Zhang Zhixuan, Qingchan and Hanyan built caves in Black Mountain, preparing to stay in this spiritual vein for a long time.

Black Mountain is a fourth-level medium-grade spiritual vein. The spiritual energy on the mountain is very sufficient. Zhang Zhixuan's three purple palaces are not high yet, so there is no need to find another spiritual mountain to open a cave for the time being.

Within ten years, Qingchan's cultivation broke through two levels in a row, and he has been practicing to the fourth level of purple palace for three years.

Since entering the purple palace realm, Qingchan's cultivation speed has made great progress. Even though Hanyan and Zhang Zhixuan are considered to have good roots, their progress in cultivation has been left behind by her and far behind.

She opened up the Purple Palace at the age of 72, cultivated to the second level of the Purple Palace at the age of 79, cultivated to the third level of the Purple Palace at the age of 85, and cultivated to the fourth level of the Purple Palace at the age of 93. It seems that she will be able to catch up with the veteran Qingxuan Sect cultivators in another three to five years.

For ordinary Purple Palace cultivators, it takes more than ten or twenty years to improve their cultivation level. If they are injured during this period, they may have to delay their cultivation even more.

For example, Wei Bohan cultivated to the Purple Palace ten years earlier than Qingchan, but because of the serious injury ten years ago, his cultivation level is still at the second level of the Purple Palace, and he has been left far behind by Qingchan.

Another example is Zhao Xinlian, who was severely injured by the Green Dragon and delayed her path by monitoring Hu Boyu. Although sixty years have passed, her cultivation level has only improved by one level. Now she is only at the sixth level of the Purple Palace. I am afraid that in another ten years, she will be caught up by Qingchan.

Even Wu Siheng, who opened up the Purple Palace for 130 years, has only cultivated to the fifth level of the Purple Palace. In terms of magical powers, he may not be Qingchan's opponent now.

In the past ten years, Han Yan's cultivation has also improved rapidly. She broke through to the third level of the Purple Mansion some time ago, and was not far behind Qing Chan.

She is a cultivator with different spiritual roots. The cultivation speed of cultivators with this kind of spiritual roots is also very fast. Basically, they can improve one level in ten years in the Purple Mansion period.

Han Yan has been developing the Purple Mansion for exactly twenty years. She has not learned any of the Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation, and has focused on the Tao. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of spiritual root qualifications, they can no longer keep up with Qing Chan at this stage of the Purple Mansion period.

Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual roots are worse. Although his comprehension is very good because of the practice of the Purple Qi Gongfa, he rarely encounters bottlenecks. However, he has been in the Purple Mansion for fourteen years, and only broke through a level some time ago and cultivated to the second level of the Purple Mansion.

In the past ten years, the three Purple Mansion cultivators of the Zhang family have made progress in the Tao, which has rapidly boosted the prestige of the Zhang family and has left the Wu family far behind.

Because Zhang Zhixuan and his three friends killed two fourth-level monsters in the Southern Wilderness War, Qingxuan Sect rewarded Zhang Zhixuan with two more foundation-building pills after refining them. These two foundation-building pills were also placed in Zhang Zhixuan's family.

Since the three Zhang family members opened up the Purple Mansion, they caught up with the two wars of seizing Guiyuan Mountain and the Southern Wilderness Monster Rebellion. In order to commend the merits of Zhang Zhixuan and his three friends, Qingxuan Sect has successively granted five foundation-building pills.

Behind each foundation-building pill, there is a fourth-level monster hunted by the three purple mansions of the Zhang family. Unfortunately, this kind of explosive income will no longer exist with the end of the Southern Wilderness Monster Rebellion.

Because the war ended, some Black Mountain cultivators returned, and many casual cultivators without spiritual veins returned to Black Mountain, ready to establish a foothold here. As the number of people increased, the spiritual rice on Black Mountain began to be insufficient again.

However, because the gap is not large, Zhang Zhixuan is no longer planning to continue transporting spiritual rice from Taicheng County. Instead, he is preparing to open up spiritual fields while hunting low-level monsters near Black Mountain to make up for the lack of resources.

Black Mountain is very far away from Taicheng County. The straight-line distance is tens of thousands of miles. If you take some detours, the distance will exceed 100,000 miles. Even for a cultivator in the Qi training period, it will take five or six months to walk.

This large piece of territory is actually more suitable for human settlement, but there are countless low-level monsters in this 100,000-mile radius. Even if there are cultivators in charge, the population cannot develop without killing and eliminating these low-level monsters.

After the war, Zhang Zhixuan already had a plan in his mind to gradually develop this place within a hundred years and kill monsters to open up a piece of pure land for the family.