Chapter 497: Eighth Floor of Purple Mansion

The reason why this treasure ship was unwilling to surrender even at the last moment was actually for their relatives and families.

This is different from Li Yulin and others. Li Yulin and others have lost their foothold. There are not only cultivators on the treasure ship, but also a large number of mortals. In order to find a way out for their families, they surrendered the treasure ship without much hesitation and joined Zhang Zhixuan and others.

However, Yang Juncheng's fleet did not carry mortals on the treasure ship. The families of the cultivators on the ship were all on the island controlled by the Yanxia League. For the sake of their family members, the cultivators on the ship did not dare to surrender lightly, so as not to implicate their families.

Moreover, Yang Lu's two purple palaces had already escaped, and the news would definitely reach the Yanxia League. If they died in battle, their families would still get some benefits. If they became traitors, I am afraid that their families would also be severely punished.

There were four foundation-building cultivators on this third-level medium-quality treasure ship, three of whom died in battle, and only one was captured by Hanyan.

After repelling Yang Juncheng, Han Yan accelerated the cleaning of the battlefield. The sunken third-level medium-quality treasure ship was not salvaged in time and soon returned to Dafang Island.

The skin of the cloud whale beast was given to Han Yan to refine the talisman. Because Zhang Zhixuan was not there, hundreds of thousands of pounds of monster meat could not be extracted to refine the essence of the elixir, and this kind of thing could not be preserved for too long, so Han Yan gave it to the subordinates as a reward for good deeds.

Li Yulin and others took away the spiritual bones of the cloud whale beast and began to repair the last treasure ship. In order to steal the master's skills, Han Yan also sent the weapon refiner of Dafang Island to help him.

In this busy time, five years passed in the blink of an eye.

In these five years, the development of Dafang Island has been very stable. Although the population has not increased much, there are more than 30 more monks.

Counting the group of captives captured by Han Yan five years ago, the monks on the two islands of Dafang and Yueya have added more than 500. Even the foundation-building monks, plus the surrendered captives, have 16 people, which has exceeded the Zhang family, which has developed for a hundred years.

During these five years, Zhang Zhixuan's retreat was relatively smooth. After his careful deduction, he finally created the Pure Yang Treasure Purple Mansion Stage's skills.

At this time, he had been preparing to create the skills for about sixty years.

After a sixty years of continuous study and research, and with Zhang Zhixuan's extraordinary understanding, he was lucky enough to create this skill to this point.

However, the next skills involve golden elixir, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to comprehend, and I don't know how many years of effort it will take.

Zhang Zhixuan sat cross-legged, and the door of the retreat room was covered with dust. Zhang Zhixuan formed a strange seal with his hands, and purple air kept gushing out of his mouth. The whole body emitted a spiritual light, and it was obvious that he had practiced to the last moment.

The door of the retreat room has been closed for five years. During these five years, Zhang Zhixuan practiced hard and had no idea about the situation outside.

Zhang Zhixuan's face was pale, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat. Now he has reached the most important time in his retreat. As long as he breaks through the bottleneck, he can cultivate to the eighth level of the Purple Mansion.

As long as he can successfully break through this time, he will be able to form a golden elixir in thirty years, so that he will not be left too far behind by Qing Chan.

Zhang Zhixuan made up his mind this time that he would never step out of the cave unless he broke through the eighth level of the Purple Mansion.

Hard work pays off, and Zhang Zhixuan's hard work finally paid off.

Because he realized the skills of the Purple Mansion period and found the way forward initially, Zhang Zhixuan entered enlightenment again.

This is the third time he has had enlightenment since he opened up the Purple Mansion. Every enlightenment is because he created the skills and found the way forward.

In the state of enlightenment, Zhang Zhixuan cultivated very quickly. When he came out of retreat five years later, his cultivation had actually advanced one step further and reached the eighth level of the Purple Mansion.

At this time, it was less than 70 years since he opened up the Purple Mansion. In terms of the speed of cultivation in the Purple Mansion stage, Zhang Zhixuan was second only to Qingchan in the Qingxuan Sect, and had surpassed the sect's Jin, Lu, Hu and other Jindan ancestors.

After successfully breaking through the realm, Zhang Zhixuan finally pushed open the door of the retreat room. He swept his consciousness and found that Qingchan and Hanyan were not on the island.

From the letter raft left by the two, Zhang Zhixuan knew that some time ago, Qingchan went to Xuanyang Island to buy spiritual objects, and Hanyan went to Crescent Island. There was only Zhang Zhixuan, a master on Dafang Island.

After five years of development, some ninth-level Qi training cultivators were cultivated on the island, but there was no foundation-building pill left on the island.

So Qingchan could only go to Xuanyang Island once, buy some auxiliary spiritual objects for refining foundation-building pills, and prepare to refine another furnace of foundation-building pills after Zhang Zhixuan came out of retreat, so as to cultivate a few more foundation-building cultivators on the island.

Besides, Li Yulin has also cultivated to the peak of the foundation-building period, and Qingchan also needs to prepare spiritual objects for the younger generation of cultivators on the island to open up the purple palace, so as not to delay their path.

The Qi training and foundation-building cultivators on the island are already self-sufficient, although they cannot create too many resources for them. However, as long as they can grow up and occupy Dafang Island, they can bring great benefits to Zhang Zhixuan and the other two.

Only by establishing a foundation here can the benefits of the intercontinental teleportation array in the future be guaranteed.

Qingchan is a Jindan-stage cultivator. Ordinary treasure ships dare not attack Jindan cultivators at all. Moreover, Qingchan has the purple sun sky fire to protect him, so there will be basically no omissions in safety. So this time Qingchan took the initiative to go to Xuanyang Island, while Hanyan went to Crescent Island, because the maintenance of the last treasure ship has also reached the last step.

After five years of seclusion without asking about external affairs, when Zhang Zhixuan came out of seclusion, he found that the island had changed greatly, and Dafang Island had actually built a large-scale port.

There is also a mortal town near the port, and there are several Qi training monks stationed in the town. Zhang Zhixuan swept his spiritual sense and found that these Qi training monks had high cultivation levels. They were all cultivators of the eighth and ninth levels of Qi training. However, they were older in recent years and seemed to be over 60 years old. It was impossible for them to make further progress.

The spiritual veins in the underground caves on the island were of high grade, but outsiders were not allowed to enter. Even the disciples of the three did not dare to enter easily without being summoned.

With the increase in the number of monks, the spiritual energy supplied by the spiritual veins on the island was already somewhat insufficient. In order to cultivate the next generation of monks, these hopeless elderly monks could only be sacrificed and sent to the mortal world to guard.

In order to keep their cultivation from regressing, the island also formulated a strict rotation system, allowing them to go down the mountain to guard for a year and then go up the mountain to recuperate for a quarter.

Looking at the endless blue sea, Zhang Zhixuan thought to himself, "I have been in Qingli Sea for ten years. This time I came out for travel. Unfortunately, in order to guard the entrance to the teleportation array, we have to stay on Dafang Island for a long time. The purpose of the travel was not achieved, but a small force was supported. I wonder when we can gain a permanent foothold here?"