Chapter 799: Entrustment from an Old Friend

Zhang Zhixuan had just returned from Tianyuan Island when someone sent a sound transmission talisman to his cave.

Zhang Zhixuan's face suddenly darkened when he received the letter.

"What happened?" Qingchan asked with concern when he saw that he looked unhappy.

Zhang Zhixuan sighed and said, "Daoyou Wei passed away yesterday."

"Wei Bohan's life span is already more than 460 years old, which is considered longevity among the Purple Mansion cultivators. He was able to survive the brutal battle in Lingjing Mountain and die of old age on the sickbed, which is a blessing from heaven.

Birth, aging, illness and death are common to all people, so don't feel too bad."

In the past 400 years, Zhang Zhixuan has sent away countless relatives and friends. When the fourth uncle, the ninth uncle and others left, he would also be sad and cry. He has seen this kind of thing many times, and he will naturally become numb gradually.

However, he actually feels bad when every friend leaves.

"I'm going to Black Mountain to see you off, fellow Daoist Wei."

Qing Chan nodded and said, "That's good. Wei Bohan is also an old friend of ours. When we were in Qingxuan Sect, he took good care of us. Ten years ago, Kang Duhe died in battle. Now that Wei Bohan has left, we should also take care of the cultivators of Black Mountain."

With mixed feelings, the two came to Black Mountain's homeland again.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the Black Mountain spiritual vein is still the same as before. The mountains and rivers have not changed much, and there are straight and majestic towering trees everywhere.

However, compared with four hundred years, the population near Black Mountain is about dozens of times denser.

In the depths of Black Mountain, you can always see a lot of curling smoke. It is no longer as desolate as it was hundreds of years ago.

In the past few hundred years, the area near Black Mountain has been in intermittent development. Black Mountain County has successively established six county towns. Compared with the core county of Lushan County, it is naturally far inferior, but the total population of Black Mountain is about one million.

Black Mountain is a fourth-level spiritual vein. Except for the officials in the county, there are no independent cultivators on the mountain.

Although the population is dozens of times denser than four hundred years ago, the number of cultivators on the mountain has decreased a lot, with only about a hundred local officials.

After the battle of Lingjing Mountain, Wei Bohan felt that time was running out, so he stayed in Black Mountain for the last ten years.

He was from Longjiang County, and his father was also an independent cultivator. By chance, he met the Black Mountain Patriarch Liang, and with the support of Liang Patriarch, he embarked on the road of cultivation.

In his later years, he took the initiative to serve as the governor of Black Mountain.

Wei Bohan served as the head of the General Affairs Hall in Qingxuan Sect for more than a hundred years, and he also liked to make friends.

When he passed away, there were about a few hundred cultivators who came to see him off.

However, most of these people were people who had received his guidance and grace, and their cultivation was all in the foundation-building and qi-training stage. The only few high-level cultivators had already paid tribute.

Most of those who are still staying in Black Mountain are descendants of the lineage of Liang Patriarch.

Seeing Zhang Zhixuan and his wife coming to pay their respects, a whisper suddenly came from Black Mountain.

"Senior Wei actually has such a big face that he can even alarm two Yuanying Patriarchs?"

A foundation-building cultivator with white hair and beard, who looked very old, said: "You are surprised. Before the establishment of the sect, the headmaster and Senior Wei were both from Qingxuan Sect. They had a very close relationship back then."

"Master Kang died in battle, and Senior Wei is now sitting in meditation. I don't know if Wei Dingcheng can still open up the Purple Mansion? As the saying goes, people leave and tea gets cold. No one talks about it. I don't know if he can keep the quota for exchanging Ziyang Warm Jade."

"It depends on whether his own conditions are sufficient? The headmaster has a stern and strict personality. He doesn't tolerate any sand in his eyes. If unfair rewards and punishments cause trouble, it is very likely that someone will lose his head."

As soon as Zhang Zhixuan and his wife arrived at Black Mountain, Liang Yuxian and Zhang Yunlan, two Purple Mansions, hurried down the mountain to greet them.

Zhang Yunlan's cultivation level has reached the level of a fake pill, far surpassing her master.

Liang Yuxian's opening of the Purple Mansion was not smooth. She wasted opportunities three times and barely opened the Purple Mansion before the age of 180.

Compared with ordinary cultivators, Liang Yuxian has an extremely strong background.

Among the descendants of Liang Taixu, only she looks the most promising.

Therefore, Wei Bohan and Kang Duhe spared no effort to help her.

Not only did she have the support of the two elders Wei Bohan and Kang Duhe, but her master Luo Ziyan and disciple Zhang Yunlan could also provide her with help.

For ordinary ninth-level foundation-building cultivators, the master will only provide help when opening the Purple Mansion for the first time, and the rest of the way will depend on themselves.

But Liang Yuxian is different. She still received full help from Kang Duhe and Wei Bohan when she opened the Purple Mansion for the second time. Even if she failed twice, there was still a third chance to use auxiliary spiritual objects.

After opening the Purple Mansion, Liang Yuxian's path was relatively smooth. Even in the battle of Lingjing Mountain ten years ago, she survived the war without any damage.

Now her cultivation level has reached the seventh level of the Purple Mansion. However, she has lived for more than 330 years, and she doesn't have enough time to refine the golden elixir. Unless she can get lucky and refine the spiritual objects that assist in forming the elixir twice within 30 years.

Zhang Zhixuan and his wife came to the mourning hall to pay tribute to this old friend.

After practicing Taoism for 400 years, there are only a few of their old friends left.

"Ancestor, this is the suicide note left by Uncle Wei for you."

Liang Yuxian stepped forward respectfully and handed over a letter. Zhang Zhixuan opened it and found that Wei Bohan had already written a will.

Wei Bohan wrote this will on the day Kang Duhe died in battle.

In this letter, Wei Bohan begged hard to leave Kang Duhe's pension to Liang Yuxian so that she could refine the spiritual objects for forming the elixir.

Kang Duhe was not fond of women. Although he had been practicing alchemy for many years, he had no direct descendants left. Apart from two concubines, he did not even have a Taoist companion.

If he dies fighting for the sect, the pension left behind will be very generous.

Not only concubines and disciples can get a good deed. His designated heir can get a Five Elements Spirit Fruit that assists in forming pills.

Unfortunately, the war came very suddenly, and Kang Duhe didn't even leave a will.

Without a will, as the person closest to Kang Duhe, Wei Boxan would automatically inherit Kang Duhe's belongings.

Wei Bohan was worried that after his death, no one from the upper echelon of the sect would speak up for him, the matter would go unsolved, and Liang Yuxian would also miss this elixir-forming spiritual object.

The reason why Wei Boxian was so worried was because Liang Yuxian's own conditions were not sufficient.

Liang Yuxian is currently on the seventh floor of the Purple Mansion, and it will take about thirty or forty years to break through the golden elixir.

At that time, there happened to be a Five Elements Spirit Fruit that was ripe. And she is already about three hundred and seventy years old.

The competition for the spiritual objects that assist in forming pills is very fierce. To be able to cultivate to the ninth level of the Purple Mansion, there must be teachers and friends within the sect.

At this age, it is difficult for a ninth-level cultivator from the Purple Mansion to take the lead in the fierce competition.

According to Liang Yuxian's age, she would only have a small chance to refine the golden elixir. Once no one speaks for her, she may never have the chance to refine the elixir.

"Fellow Daoist Wei, please rest assured that the sect will not let juniors like Yuxian and Dingcheng be bullied."

Zhang Zhixuan looked at his friend lying in the coffin. Wei Bohan's appearance had long been old and withered, and there was still a trace of his original appearance.

Although they are in the same sect, it has been twenty years since the two last met.

As a Yuanying monk, Zhang Zhixuan spends more than ten or twenty years in retreat at a time. Once his cultivation reaches this point, his interactions with lower-level monks will become less and less. Even good friends can become strangers.