Chapter 462: Forbidden Divine Veil
The Huangyan Mountain Mine has a large output, with an annual income of two to three thousand. For Taicheng County, it is already the third largest industry after Chaoyin Mountain and Xihefang.
Today, the Zhang family's strength is unique in Taicheng County. They have not changed the previous interest structure. They only have a small share of the pie. The income in Xihefang and Chaoyin Mountain is far less than that of the Wu family, and they have not even fallen out with the Zhu, Liu, Su and other families.
Even the shares of the Lingshi Mine left by the Zhu family were not tempted by the Zhang family, but were given to the Qingxuan Sect as agreed.
Now that a mineral vein has been discovered with great difficulty, the pie has been expanded, and Zhang Zhixuan is ready to monopolize this mine. The Zhang family now has enough power to occupy this profit, and other nearby families dare not complain.
Although Huangyan Mountain is a barren mountain, it is very close to Zhang's Jiuhua Mountain. Although there is a small Qi training period family nearby, they dare not compete with the Zhang family for the ownership of Huangyan Mountain.
According to the tacit understanding of the Taicheng County family, this area was originally the sphere of influence of the Zhang family. Even if others were jealous, there was no excuse to intervene.
In order to take care of the situation in Huangyan Mountain, Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan temporarily returned to Lingjing Cave Mansion, while Hanyan stayed in Heishan for retreat.
Nowadays, Yu State is relatively peaceful. There has been no war for more than ten years. Because it is located in a remote area, there are relatively few foreign cultivators, and the general environment is also very safe.
Moreover, the defense of Huangyan Mountain is very strict, and there are also fourth-level puppet beasts guarding it. Ordinary casual cultivators dare not come to cause trouble.
With a safe environment outside, Huangyan Mountain quickly got on the right track, and a large number of forbidden gods stones were mined. In order to use these forbidden gods stones, Zhang Zhixuan wrote a letter to transfer Zhang Sidao to study with Zhang Shenglian, preparing to use the family's specialty to refine the forbidden gods stones into magic tools and then sell them at a good price.
Zhang Shenglian is over 40 years old. Her ancestors have no support, but she has good spiritual roots and is very talented in refining instruments, especially good at refining instruments such as robes and brocade banners. Even though her cultivation is only at the ninth level of Qi training, her refining skills have reached the third level.
She was originally ready to exchange for the foundation-building pill, but unfortunately her character was not as smart as Zhang Zeqian, and he exchanged for the foundation-building pill first.
Soon after, the family changed the rules for exchanging the foundation-building pill. Although Zhang Shenglian had a small savings, it was still far from 6,000 good deeds. Even if her refining skills were good, she still needed more than ten years to accumulate.
Sidao has been a third-level refiner for eighty years. After he lost the opportunity to go further on the road, he focused on improving his refining skills. A few years ago, he improved his refining skills to the third-level upper grade, which has caught up with his master Chen Hongyuan. Even within the Qingxuan Sect, he is a well-known refiner.
The two used the Fire Eye in Jiuhua Mountain to develop many refining plans and experimentally refined seven or eight magic tools, but unfortunately they were still not satisfactory.
These magic tools were somewhat inadequate in design, and there were many shortcomings after they were refined, and they could not compete with similar products at all.
Even if they were barely refined, it would be difficult to open up sales, unless Zhang Zhixuan engaged in trade protection in Heishan and forced promotion to have a chance to occupy a part of the market.
Just when the two were in trouble, Tong Huai from Spider Mountain helped them solve the big problem.
It has been almost a year since the successful capture of the human-faced spider. The domestication of the two human-faced spiders has been on track and they have begun to spit out spider silk regularly.
However, this kind of monster has a ferocious personality. Even if there is a beast-binding order to control it, it dare not be handed over to the cultivators of the Qi training period. Whether it is feeding or collecting spider silk, Tong Huai has to do it himself.
In order not to delay their practice, and the output of Huangyan Mountain is already considerable, Zhang Zhixuan made up his mind and invested another 10,000 spirit stones to cultivate a third-level inferior spirit vein in Spider Mountain for them to practice.
Now in Taicheng County, the Zhang family has developed five third-level spiritual veins, the underground river from the Ten Thousand Snake Cave to Lingjing Mountain, and several spiritual veins that have not been developed. One of them has reached the third level of spiritual energy. If all these spiritual veins are developed, the number of cultivators that the Zhang family can support will double.
This area is not very far away. Even the more remote Jiuhua Mountain is less than two thousand miles away from Lushan.
Although this distance is already very far for mortals, it takes less than a day for a foundation-building cultivator. Even for a slower Qi training cultivator, the journey does not exceed three days. If you ride the family's cloud-stepping beast, the time can be shortened by half.
The spider silk of the human-faced spider is very tough. The spiritual gauze woven with this spider silk can block the slashing of low-level flying swords. Although it is not soft enough because of too many burrs, it is not convenient to wear the robes, but it can perfectly melt the forbidden god stone on the spiritual gauze, blocking and isolating the spiritual consciousness of the cultivators.
After it was refined into the forbidden god yarn, the family immediately made it into a screen, painted it with exquisite patterns, and placed it in the family's major stores for promotion.
This kind of magic weapon can weaken the spiritual consciousness of the cultivators, especially the spiritual consciousness of the foundation-building cultivators, which is almost restricted by half.
For the cultivators who opened shops in the market, there are always some secrets that they don't want others to know, and buying a screen like this is already a necessary investment.
In addition to the forbidden god stone mine in the Huanshui Sect, there is no other resource production in the Yu Kingdom.
The Huanshui Sect used the forbidden god stone to smelt other materials to make a kind of exquisite ceramic tile. The price of this ceramic tile is very expensive, and the shipment volume is relatively small. The main use is to build the cave residence of high-level cultivators.
In the past, Qingxuan Sect had to import the same type of magic tools from Song State, and what was taken out was precious spiritual stones. Now that the Zhang family has the same type of magic tools, if Qingxuan Sect wants to use them, they can exchange them with the good deeds of the sect.
Although the good deeds of the sect are as precious as spiritual stones, they can be borrowed and circulated between each other, and Qingxuan Sect can also save working capital and invest spiritual stones in more needed places.
With the support of Qingxuan Sect, the forbidden god yarn refined by the Zhang family can be regarded as filling this gap, and soon monopolized the source of income in this area.
Although the output of forbidden god yarn is not very large due to the production of human-faced spider silk, it brings profits to the Zhang family of 3,000 in a year.
In addition to the remaining part of the ore in Huangyan Mountain, although Huangyan Mountain and Spider Mountain have not opened up an acre of spiritual fields, the annual income that can be brought to the Zhang family has exceeded 4,000, which is equivalent to the second Lingjing Mountain.
Sidao and Shenglian, two refiners, have made contributions to the invention of forbidden god yarn, and Zhang Zhixuan rewarded them with 3,000 good deeds each. The idea of refining the forbidden divine yarn is relatively simple, and the time consumption is relatively short. The main credit should be placed on the materials.
Zhang Shenglian had these three thousand merits and immediately went to Black Mountain to exchange for the foundation-building pill. She was a cultivator with three spiritual roots and had practiced to the ninth level of Qi training for ten years. The process of retreat was relatively smooth and she successfully broke through to the foundation-building realm.
