Chapter 5 Going Down the Mountain

"In addition to being able to irrigate spiritual trees, the Soul-Gathering Rain Art has almost no attack power.

If you learn the Soul-Gathering Rain Art, you will learn one less attack spell during the entire Qi training period compared to ordinary cultivators, and you will have less room for choice during the battle."

Zhang Zhixuan thought about it and asked, "Uncle Nineteen, besides guarding the spiritual field, are there any other tasks suitable for my nephew?"

Zhang Mengling waved his hand and said, "Although you are mature and have good cultivation, compared to the experienced casual cultivators down the mountain, dangerous tasks are not suitable for a promising cultivator like you.

Whether it is hunting monsters in the mountains or searching for spiritual medicines, you are not needed for the time being.

If you are asked to go to the market to look after the store, it would be a waste of your talent.

Of course, you can also learn some skills in alchemy and refining from the uncles in the market.

But you are still young now, so you should not focus on cultivating the hundred arts of immortality. You should cultivate to the ninth level of Qi training as soon as possible, and then find a way to build a foundation, so that you can change the situation of the family as soon as possible.

You should not think too much, and go down the mountain to guard the spiritual field as soon as possible!

The task of guarding the spiritual field is not only relatively leisurely, but also can use the spiritual energy in the spiritual field to practice.

Although it is not as abundant as the spiritual energy in the mountains or in the shops in the market, it is freer all year round and has more time for practice.

You should also have a long-term vision. After going down the mountain, don't be competitive and fight with others. Try to go to the market as little as possible, where there are all kinds of people and sometimes it is not very safe.

Although guarding the spiritual field may make you feel that you have learned one less spell, it can allow you to spend ten years safely. "

The rules of the Zhang family take into account fairness and justice, and also take into account the innate roots of the cultivators.

The cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots do not need to go down the mountain to deal with family tasks at all. They only need to practice with one heart, which is the greatest help to the family.

And the cultivators with two spiritual roots can get the same practice time every time they complete a task.

A cultivator with three spiritual roots can get nine months of free practice time after one year of going down the mountain. A cultivator with four spiritual roots can only get half a year.

And a cultivator with five spiritual roots can only get three months of free time after one year of going down the mountain.

From this rule, although the family's rules take care of the interests of the pseudo-spiritual root cultivators to a certain extent, it is a pity that they are still exploiting their value fundamentally to better support the cultivation of the true spiritual root cultivators.

The Zhang family has been in Lushan for four hundred years, but there has not been a single spiritual root cultivator in these four hundred years, and even a cultivator with two spiritual roots is rarely seen for decades.

Most cultivators are cultivators with four or five spiritual roots. When they are in their seventies or eighties, they are still struggling at the sixth or seventh level of Qi training.

Of course, there are also pseudo-spiritual root cultivators who can build a foundation and form a pill.

For example, Zhang Tairen, the first ancestor of the Zhang family, is a cultivator with four spiritual roots, but he has an extraordinary opportunity. When he was a teenager, he discovered the cave of a casual cultivator in the late stage of foundation building.

Relying on the resources in the cave, he cultivated to the ninth level of Qi training at the age of forty.

Then he sold the fourth-level spiritual weapon of his predecessor and bought two foundation-building pills from the Qingxuan Mountain Market. Relying on good luck, he soon succeeded in building a foundation and then created the situation of the Zhang family in Lushan.

After Zhang Tairen settled down in Lushan, he began to take in wives and concubines. In just a few hundred years, he gave birth to more than 30 children. Although only half of these children had spiritual roots, under Zhang Tairen's care, there was almost no loss. In just a few decades, he opened up the situation near Lushan.

In particular, his eleventh son Zhang Chuyun was even more talented. He was a rare thunder spiritual root cultivator and joined the Qingxuan Sect when he was a teenager.

In just over a hundred years, he even broke through the two levels of foundation building and purple mansion and became a high-level boss in the Qingxuan Sect.

Under his care, the power of the Zhang family became increasingly stronger. Not only did they open up the second third-level spiritual vein Jiuhua Mountain, they also occupied more than half of the shops in Xihefang, and even trained four or five foundation-building cultivators.

At that time, the Zhang family could provide a foundation-building pill for the clan members every twenty years, and could provide foundation-building pills for the family cultivators with better spiritual roots.

Unfortunately, more than 150 years ago, Zhang Chuyun went out to fight and was injured, and sat in the gate of Qingxuan Mountain.

Without Zhang Chuyun, the big backer, the Zhang family began to decline gradually.

After just over a hundred years, the family's foundation-building cultivators slowly sat in the gate, and the foundation-building pills that could be obtained became less and less.

Until 30 years ago, when the clan leader Zhang Leqian was injured in a fight, it was almost to the point of being in danger of death.

Without the protection of the foundation-building cultivators, the Zhang family could not have kept the third-level spiritual veins of the mountain gate, and ultimately could not have defended the mountain gate.

They could only rely on a little relationship in the past to go to Qingxuan Mountain.

At that time, not only would the mortal relatives under the mountain be abandoned, but even the few shops in the market would be taken away by the immortal cultivation families in Taicheng County.

Although cultivators with better spiritual roots can become outer disciples of Qingxuan Mountain, their situation is probably only slightly better than that of independent cultivators. A lot of time will be spent on sect tasks, and there is not much free time at all.

Zhang Zhixuan copied the subsequent Qi training period exercises, and then chose five spells: the Soul Gathering Rain Technique, the Green Vine Entanglement Technique, the Object Control Technique, the Spirit Eyes Seeing Qi Technique, and the Flame Shield Technique, and left Lushan at noon that day.

Although he has been in this world for more than ten years, Zhang Zhixuan has never been far away.

His father is a cultivator, and he has lived in the mountains since he was a child.

When his father was away, his uncles and aunts in the mountains also took care of him. After he was six years old, he awakened his wisdom and began to practice freely.

Although he had lived two lives and lived for more than 40 years, he was still eager to try and left Lushan with excitement.

A few hundred years ago, Lushan was only a barren mountain. After four hundred years of hard work by generations of Zhang family cultivators, Lushan Mountain has long been full of spiritual energy, and giant trees as high as ten or twenty feet can be seen everywhere.

After Zhang Zhixuan went down the mountain, he ran south for more than 300 miles and soon walked out of Lushan.

He looked out and found an alluvial plain with a radius of more than 500 miles under the mountain. Beyond this plain is a vast sea with no people and no spiritual energy.

This sea is a legacy of the ancient cultivators' battles. It has already damaged the spiritual veins of heaven and earth and cannot breed a trace of spiritual energy.

There was once a Jindan-stage cultivator who wanted to cross the vast sea. He flew in this sea for four and a half years before crossing this sea and entering the Qingli Sea where cultivators gathered.

During these four and a half years, this Jindan cultivator was flying and traveling every day, and there was almost no day free.

Not only did he use up all the elixirs that replenished his mana, but he also used up all the spiritual stones and spiritual water.

If he could not replenish his spiritual energy and could not find a way out, he would probably regress in his cultivation and completely perish on the endless sea of ​​death.

Even for a fifth-level Jindan cultivator, it was so dangerous to go out to sea, not to mention other low-level cultivators.

Therefore, in such a place without spiritual energy, low-level cultivators would naturally be very cautious and would not easily set foot there.