Chapter 373 Flying Beast

After Zhang Zhixuan returned to Black Mountain from Qingxuan Sect, Han Yan also came out of her retreat. After using the Ice Marrow Spirit Flower, she broke through to the fourth level of Purple Mansion in the same year as Zhang Zhixuan.

Up to now, the three Purple Mansion cultivators of the Zhang family have all crossed the early stage of Purple Mansion and caught up with some old Purple Mansion cultivators of Qingxuan Sect. Their influence in the sect is increasing day by day, and they are second only to the two Jindan ancestors.

Just as the Black Mountain cultivators were celebrating their ancestors' breakthrough, good news came from Qingxuan Sect.

Kang Duhe finally lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully opened up the Purple Mansion with the power of Xuanying Jade Marrow.

It had been more than sixty years since he last attacked the Purple Mansion stage. After sixty years of hard work, he finally seized this opportunity and advanced to the Purple Mansion stage after Zhang Zhixuan, becoming the seventeenth Purple Mansion cultivator of Qingxuan Sect.

Secondly, Hu Peiyu also came out of retreat and became the second Purple Mansion ninth-level cultivator in the sect.

With continuous breakthroughs, Qingxuan Sect finally opened up the gap with Hongshan Sect and Nanlu Pavilion Alliance.

With the cooperation of Hu Peiyu and Zhu Wuya, two purple mansion ninth-level cultivators, even if Lu Hongniang was pinned down in Guiyuan Mountain, it was enough to form a certain deterrent to Shen Chenzhou and steadily cooperate with Jin Laozu to guard Jiangkou County.

In the past three years, Zhang Yuantai successfully built his foundation after taking two foundation-building pills in a row, becoming the sixth foundation-building cultivator of the Zhang family.

The casual cultivator Lu Yingling, who broke through in seclusion together, also succeeded in building his foundation with the power of the foundation-building pill.

Lu Yingling's family was occupied by monsters and turned into a wilderness, and he had become a casual cultivator. After building his foundation in Heishan, he simply settled here. He occupied a third-level spiritual vein not far from Heishan, married two female cultivators in the Qi training stage from Heishan, and accepted several young casual cultivator disciples, becoming a vassal force attached to the Zhang family.

More than a decade ago, Zhang Zhixuan increased his investment in the Black Mountain Spiritual Medicine Garden. He specially opened a spiritual medicine garden near the spirit vein of Hanjiaotan and planted a large number of spiritual medicines.

More than a decade later, some first- and second-level spiritual medicines have matured, and the spiritual medicine garden has also produced output. Since Zhang Zhixuan came back from Song State last time, he brought a large number of spiritual medicine seeds. Except for some spiritual medicines that require special growth environments, these seeds are sown in the spiritual medicine garden.

Over the past ten years, hundreds of acres of spiritual fields have been reclaimed in this spiritual medicine garden, and the investment of spiritual stones has exceeded 20,000.

These spiritual fields are scattered around Hanjiaotan in an orderly manner, and they also need special monks to take care of them.

Hanjiaotan is the best spiritual vein near Black Mountain, and it is also close to Black Mountain. It is the foundation of Zhang Zhixuan's operation of Black Mountain. In order to be able to operate for a long time, the Zhang family has prepared to build a town near Hanjiaotan and relocate mortals to reclaim land.

After thirty years of development, despite the chaos of monsters, the number of mortals on Black Mountain has doubled, and there are already 40,000 people.

These mortals have adapted to the living environment of the Southern Wilderness. As long as they are protected by the monks, they can reproduce near Black Mountain.

Zhang Zhixuan has decided to migrate 10,000 people to Hanjiaotan after the new city is built.

As long as there is a sufficient population base, even if there is a temporary failure in the future, generations of monks can be continuously cultivated, and the spiritual mountain and spiritual veins can be firmly guarded by a large number of low-level monks.

The mortals on Black Mountain are all descendants of monks, and their blood is very good.

Black Mountain County has a population of only 40,000. At every spiritual testing meeting held every five years, several children with spiritual roots can be detected. The number of monks provided is almost the same as that of Lushan County with a population of 200,000, and far exceeds that of Huashan County with a population of 60,000.

In the past thirty years, the Zhang clan has also migrated some handsome men and beautiful women to Black Mountain with the help of whale-carrying beast ships, and intermarried with the mortals of Black Mountain on a large scale. Although many people died because they could not adapt to the hot environment of Heishan, they also successfully spread the family bloodline to Heishan County.

The cultivators who had no hope of becoming a Taoist monk and whose spiritual roots were not good also married wives and concubines on a large scale in Heishan County and intermarried with the independent cultivators of Heishan.

Now, among the 40,000 people in Heishan, 10,000 have the blood of the Zhang family. As long as the Zhang family persists in this strategy, in another 100 or 200 years, the entire Heishan spiritual vein will naturally be integrated into the Zhang family.

Zhang Zhixuan finished his meditation and was chatting with Qingchan on the top of the mountain. A hurried footsteps came from a distance. Zhang Zhixuan looked up and found that the person coming was Zhang Yuantai who had just established his foundation.

After establishing his foundation, Zhang Yuantai also stayed in Heishan to help Zhang Guangyang manage the Heishan foundation and manage the Hanjiaotan spiritual medicine garden.

His spiritual roots were not very good, and his ambitions were small. He was satisfied with reaching the foundation-building stage. Since then, he has only devoted a small part of his energy to cultivation. Most of his time was spent either managing family affairs or continuing to study spiritual wine.

Seeing that Zhang Yuantai couldn't hide his joy, Zhang Zhixuan asked directly: "Yuantai came back today, what's the matter?"

Zhang Yuantai said excitedly: "Granduncle, I found a flying beast in the medicinal field near Hanjiaotan today."

After hearing this news, even Zhang Zhixuan and the other two couldn't sit still. Han Yan stood up and asked: "Did you see it carefully? Are you sure it's a flying beast?"

Zhang Yuantai said: "Reporting to the ancestor, it is indeed a flying beast. Recently, the blood coagulation fruit planted in the spiritual medicine garden has been lost for no reason. I thought it was stolen by the Qi training cultivator who was guarding the spiritual medicine, so I used the invisibility talisman to hide in the spiritual medicine garden and accidentally saw the flying beast."

Although the flying beast is only a third-level upper-grade monster, it is very precious to cultivators because it is a monster that can be tamed by human cultivators.

This monster belongs to the Pegasus type, which can fly on the clouds at a height of several hundred feet, and its speed far exceeds the escape technique of the foundation-building cultivator.

In the vast Southern Wilds, monsters that can be tamed by human monks have always been very rare. Qingxuan Sect has only captured a few flying beasts in the past thousands of years. Unfortunately, these flying beasts are rare. Although the sect has gone through untold hardships, it has only bred three flying beasts so far.

These three flying beasts are all female beasts. One of them is over 600 years old and will enter the decline period in a few years. If it cannot mate and give birth in the near future, the Qingxuan Sect’s hundreds of years of hard work will be useless.

In the past few hundred years, the sect’s General Affairs Hall has been issuing tasks to find and capture flying beasts. As long as a male beast is captured, the General Affairs Hall will reward you generously, with 30,000 merits. Even if a female beast is captured, there will be a reward of 10,000 merits.

Such a generous reward would tempt even the Purple Mansion cultivators.

Zhao Xinlian, Sun Changgeng, and Shen Conglong, the three Purple Mansions, once joined forces to go deep into the Southern Wilds to capture flying beasts. Unfortunately, the three of them were busy for three or four years and did not succeed in catching a male beast, only a female beast.

After thinking about it, the three of them felt that it was not worthwhile, so they did not continue to waste time to capture it. Without the Purple Mansion cultivators taking action, the Foundation Establishment cultivators simply could not catch up with the flying beast. Even if some Qingxuan Sect cultivators occasionally discovered the flying beast, they basically could not catch it.