Chapter 566 Three Years Later

Hearing Zhang Zhixuan mention Tianchan Cave, Patriarch Jin was invigorated and said, "I will go to Tianchan Cave in person to meet fellow Daoist Liu Guyan and see if he has prepared any spiritual objects for his disciples to form a pill?

You Nianwei's life span is one 60 years younger than Luo Ziyan, and there is still time to wait for several decades. If fellow Daoist You still cannot collect spiritual objects for forming a pill after 60 years, I will personally participate in the human-demon war in Qingli Sea and kill a fifth-level monster on the battlefield to get a demon pill for her. I will never delay her for too long."

Seeing that Patriarch Jin was willing to personally persuade Tianchan Cave, Zhang Zhixuan did not continue to speak up for Han Yan to avoid falling out with Patriarch Jin.

He nodded happily and said, "If the Tianchan Cave has no objection, this demon pill can be given to fellow Daoist Luo. However, Han Yan will not be able to get the pill spirit object. The sect will give our Zhang family some subsidies for the spirit objects used to open up the Purple Mansion."

Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan had been persuaded, Patriarch Jin smiled and said, "A few years ago, the sect found a Xuanying Jade Marrow from the mine, which can be given to Junior Brother Zhang's family."

The Xuanying Jade Marrow is expensive, and ordinary ninth-level foundation-building cultivators simply do not have the merits to exchange for such treasures.

The cultivators who can exchange such things for their disciples are at least masters of the Purple Mansion stage.

Even Kang Duhe, a disciple of Patriarch Liang, sold the fourth-level top-grade magic weapon passed down by his master to collect enough spirit stones to exchange for the Xuanying Jade Marrow.

Generally, cultivators in the early stage of the Purple Mansion cannot accumulate 100,000 spirit stones to exchange such treasures for their disciples and relatives.

In addition to the five Jindan Patriarchs, the only ones with such financial resources are Luo Ziyan, Zhu Wuya, Han Yan, and Zhou Zijian, the four richest Purple Mansions in the sect.

Even Wu Siheng, who was at the seventh level of the Purple Mansion, actually did not have enough financial resources to take this treasure.

Zhu Wuya and Zhou Zijian, who were able to exchange for the Xuanying Jade Marrow, had no family behind them.

Although they accepted many disciples and helped them more or less, they were reluctant to exchange 100,000 good deeds for this treasure. After all, they still had to practice and would consume a lot of money.

Only the direct descendants of the Jindan period ancestors had the financial resources to use this spiritual object to open up the Purple Mansion.

This Xuanying Jade Marrow was originally intended to be left to a younger generation of the family, but Zhang Zhixuan spoke up, and Jin Laozu immediately decided to give up this spiritual object.

After persuading Zhang Zhixuan and his wife, Jin Laozu left Lingjing Mountain and went directly to Tianchan Cave.

It happened that Liu Lingjun came back and brought back a five-element spiritual fruit, which solved his problem.

However, in order to thank Tianchan Cave for its help, Jin Laozu still took out 300,000 spiritual stones from the sect treasury and handed them to Liu Guyan in person.

Although Liu Lingjun is a Yuanying-stage master, he is also living off his family after leaving the Shenshui Palace. Although the number of cultivators in Tianchan Cave is small, there are still two or three hundred people. The annual cultivation expenditure of these people is also a large amount.

Since coming to the Southern Wilderness, Liu Guyan and his companions have basically not had much income. The spiritual rice they eat still comes from Shuangjiao Mountain controlled by You Nianwei. Now that Shuangjiao Mountain has been lost, even the spiritual rice for meals will need to be supplied by Black Mountain in the future.

This amount of spiritual stones came just in time, just relieving the urgent need of Tianchan Cave.

If it had been a while longer, Liu Guyan would have asked Zhang Zhixuan for help.

After getting the fifth-level demon pill, Luo Ziyan immediately chose to retreat. Almost at the same time, You Nianwei also took the Five Elements Fruit.

Their lifespans are all over three hundred years old, and they have cultivated to the ninth level of the Purple Mansion for at least forty years. They have accumulated enough.

At the same time, Zhang Yunlan, with the help of Zhang Zhixuan, also exchanged for Xuanying Jade Marrow and prepared to break through the Purple Mansion.

The Zhang family now has three cultivators at the ninth level of foundation building. Among them, Zhang Sijin is just the right age, over 150 years old, and has more accumulation. Unfortunately, she did not choose to join the sect, but stayed in the family.

According to the rules of Qingxuan Sect, treasures such as Xuanying Jade Marrow naturally cannot be left outside the sect, so only Zhang Guangyang and Zhang Yunlan can refine Xuanying Jade Marrow.

Zhang Guangyang is almost three sixty years old, and he has cultivated to the ninth level of foundation building for twenty years. The reason why he is willing to join the sect is to make it easier to exchange for spiritual objects to open up the purple mansion.

Unfortunately, he is too old, and his spiritual roots are not very good. He has not yet refined the Heaven Eye Treasure Light Technique.

According to Zhang Zhixuan's estimation, even with Xuanying Jade Marrow, he is only less than half sure to open up the purple mansion.

Zhang Yunlan is the daughter of Zhang Sidao. She is less than a hundred years old, but has been building the foundation for more than a sixty years, and has cultivated to the ninth level of foundation building for six years.

Although she did not refine the Heaven Eye Treasure Light Technique, she has a good spiritual root and her father's full support.

Sidao already has Chen Hongyuan's inheritance, and he is also a third-level upper-grade weapon refiner. He also has the family's good deeds subsidy. He has been building his foundation for more than two decades, and he is already the richest foundation cultivator in the sect.

Zhang Yunlan has also been building his foundation for a long time. The good deeds of the father and daughter combined have exceeded 50,000. Even if the opening of the Purple Mansion fails this time, there is a chance to repay most of the debt.

So with the support of Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan, Zhang Yunlan borrowed 50,000 good deeds from them and finally exchanged for this spiritual object.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

During these three years, Qingxuan Sect has received bad news one after another. Luo Ziyan's breakthrough to the Golden Core was not smooth. Not only did she not form a golden core, but she also hurt her foundation. She needs at least decades of cultivation. Even if she recovers in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult to have the opportunity to gather enough treasures to assist in forming a golden core.

Although You Nianwei's situation is better, she has not been able to form a golden core, but she has a good master.

Under Liu Guyan's care, You Nianwei's injury was not serious. She only needed three to five years of recuperation to break through the bottleneck of the Golden Core again. However, even though she was the granddaughter of a Yuanying cultivator, it would still take some effort to gather enough spiritual objects for the Golden Core.

On the contrary, Zhang Yunlan, a junior, actually relied on the help of Xuanying Jade Marrow to open up the Purple Mansion safely.

In addition to Zhang Yunlan, a few years after the war, Zhang Zhixuan's third disciple Wen Ziqing, with the support of Zhang Zhixuan, also exchanged for an Earth Spirit Orb and successfully broke through the Purple Mansion with the help of the Earth Spirit Orb.

Wen Ziqing's life span has exceeded two Jiazi, and Zhang Yunlan's life span is also around a hundred years old. They are both second-level spiritual root cultivators. Although their progress in cultivation is more than ten years slower than Han Yan, they can also be called young heroes with smooth paths. Even the core disciples of the Yuanying Sect can only cultivate at this speed.

Unfortunately, Zhang Zhixuan's eldest disciple Feng Jizong, who had been practicing to the ninth level of foundation building for nearly twenty years, was preparing to open up the purple mansion, but he did not expect to catch up with the invasion of monsters and eventually died at the hands of monsters in Guiyuan Mountain.

Feng Jizong's father Feng Xiucheng was also an old friend of Zhang Zhixuan. They worked together in the Chaoyin Mountain War and killed many Hongshan Sect cultivators. Unfortunately, he was unlucky and did not survive the Chaoyin Mountain War and died at the hands of Hongshan Sect's purple mansion cultivators.

Both father and son generations had bad luck and only stopped at the foundation building realm, which made Zhang Zhixuan often sigh and lament that fate was unpredictable and full of variables.

However, Zhang Zhixuan's youngest disciple Tang Yisheng broke through the fifth level of foundation building last month. He was only 48 years old and had caught up with his master in terms of practice progress.

Tang Yisheng was the son born by Tang Shaoyang in the Luyang County epidemic. Zhang Zhixuan was able to refine the Ziyang Treasure Pill because of this child.

After Tang Yisheng was born, Zhang Zhixuan promised Tang Shaoyang that he would accept the child as his disciple.

Tang Yisheng was a cultivator with thunder spirit roots. When Zhang Zhixuan came back from Qingli Sea, the child was not far from building his foundation.

After becoming his disciple, he took the foundation-building pill under the guidance of Zhang Zhixuan and successfully built his foundation. At this stage of the foundation-building period, his little disciple's cultivation speed even exceeded that of his master.

Over the years, Zhang Zhixuan has successively accepted eight disciples. Lu Haoling died in Huangsha Island, Feng Jizong also died in Guiyuan Mountain, and the oldest Jia Mengzhen also passed away in Dafang Island. Now only five people are left.

Of the remaining five disciples, Wu Xianlong and He Zhongxing have average spirit roots and only have one chance to open up the purple mansion. If they fail to seize the opportunity, their path will stop at the foundation-building stage.

The three who can truly become the successors of the mantle are Tang Yisheng, Wen Ziqing and Yu Wancheng.

With Zhang Zhixuan's support, it is estimated that these three people can open up the Purple Palace, but Zhang Zhixuan cannot see who can go further.

Whether a cultivator can go far on the path of cultivation, in addition to innate spiritual roots, understanding, and perseverance, opportunity and luck may be more important factors.