Chapter 83 Banquet

Zhang Hanyan arrived early, sharing the joy of family life with relatives she had not seen for many years, and helping Zhang Zhixuan organize a celebration banquet.

The clan leader had not left the mountain gate for forty years and had become a little lazy. And Zhang Zhixuan was devoted to hard cultivation and was a little impatient with such things.

Seeing Zhang Hanyan coming back, almost all the family affairs were decided by her. She took Zhang Mengling, Zhang Mengqin and others to send invitations to major families.

She even went to the Wu family's fishing ground eight thousand miles away and bought dozens of white-tailed reed fish.

The white-tailed reed fish is a first-level inferior monster beast. In addition to its delicious meat, it has almost no other characteristics.

The greatest value of this kind of monster beast is the fish meat on its body. Its taste is far more mellow and tempting than that of ordinary monster beasts, and it is very popular with greedy monks.

Wu Siheng, a purple mansion monk of the Wu family, is a greedy monk. In order to catch the white-tailed reed fish, he actually spent three years searching deep in the southern wilderness.

Hard work pays off. After Wu Siheng caught the white-tailed reed fish, he did not eat them all in one breath. Instead, he found a place with sufficient spiritual energy and dug a fish pond to raise these monsters.

After more than a hundred years of development, the white-tailed reed fish here has become a very important industry of the Wu family.

Every year, the white-tailed reed fish sold here are exported to Heishanfang, Qingyangfang, and Zhongxuanfang. The sales volume is as high as hundreds of them, and the value is more than one thousand spiritual stones.

An adult white-tailed reed fish needs seven or eight years to grow, and its weight is only five or six catties, but its price can be sold for three spiritual stones, which is equivalent to thirty-six catties of high-quality spiritual rice.

Raising this kind of fish fry is quite cost-effective.

Therefore, the Wu family will strictly control the outflow of fish fry. Their family has a purple mansion cultivator as a backer, and ordinary families dare not provoke them.

Therefore, although the white-tailed reed fish has been raised for more than a hundred years, the fish fry has never flowed out, and only the Wu family has a monopoly until now.

Maybe it will take Wu Siheng's death before other families can make plans for it. By that time, the number of white-tailed reed fish will increase year by year, and the price may be cheaper.

Special waterwheels are needed to transport white-tailed reed fish, and special elixirs are needed every three to five days. This elixir was developed by the Wu family.

If the elixir is not fed for a long time, the white-tailed reed fish will die soon. Once the reed fish dies, the taste will be greatly reduced after one or two days.

Because it is far from Tiantai Peak, Zhang Hanyan spent more than ten spiritual stones to buy two bottles of elixir, and walked for more than 20 days to send this batch of reed fish back to Lushan.

At this time, the spiritual rice has just matured, and it is almost time for the celebration banquet.

At this time, on Tiantai Peak, the Zhang family has decorated the house with lights and colors, and everyone's face is full of smiles.

Over the years, the family's situation has been getting worse and worse, and every cultivator in the family knows it clearly.

They all know that once the patriarch is gone, the Zhang family will not be able to keep the spiritual veins of Lushan.

At that time, the cultivators of the Zhang family could only slowly disperse, and it was impossible for them to live the stable life they have now.

As the clan leader got older, Zhang Menglong, Zhang Mengquan and other veteran ninth-level Qi training cultivators missed the age of foundation building, and their worries became more and more serious.

Unexpectedly, after only a few years, Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Zhixuan successively built their foundations. Not only did the family have a closer support in Qingxuan Sect, but the clan leader also had a successor.

The red sun in the early morning had jumped out of the horizon. Zhang Zhixuan sat cross-legged in front of the cave, refining the purple air for a day.

Today is the day to celebrate his foundation building. Even on such a day, he would not delay his daily practice.

Zhang Zhixuan was precocious and had no good companions among his peers.

He walked out of the mountain gate at the age of sixteen to help the family. When he was a teenager, he had extraordinary cultivation, while most of the cultivators of the same generation were still in the innate stage at this age.

He and the cultivators of the same generation are basically cultivators from two different worlds.

When he was a teenager, he disliked the childish thinking of his friends and practiced every day with all his heart.

When he got older, because his cultivation level was far higher than his peers, he only dealt with older seniors like Uncle Seven, Uncle Nine, Uncle Four, and Uncle Nineteen every day, and rarely came into contact with clan members of the same age.

And the brothers of the same generation knew that Zhang Zhixuan was not easy to get along with since they were young. When they grew up, they had already felt the pressure of the family and did not dare to disturb him easily, so as not to affect his cultivation.

Therefore, although he had been here for nearly 30 years, Zhang Zhixuan did not have a good friend, and few people came to his cave.

After Zhang Zhixuan established his foundation, the clan leader also issued a ban, prohibiting the family cultivators from talking about Zhang Zhixuan's situation.

In order to avoid leaking their own information and being targeted by other secret enemies.

Qingchan has been following Zhang Zhixuan for more than ten years, and more than half of the family cultivators don't know this person at all.

There are several foundation-building cultivators among the guests who came today. In order to prevent these foundation-building cultivators from noticing the clues, Qingchan will not show up today.

In the eyes of the family cultivators, Zhang Zhixuan is undoubtedly a mysterious person, who has been extraordinary since childhood.

Now this mysterious young man has become the pillar of the family and the umbrella of protection for the family.

Every cultivator in the family feels proud of it.

Early in the morning, the four immortal cultivation families affiliated with the Zhang family arrived first. They were all small families in the Qi training period.

There were very few cultivators in the family. The largest family had only about 30 cultivators, and the smallest family had only four cultivators.

These small families had a second-level spiritual vein in the family, and there were not many mortals in the family, often only a few thousand or tens of thousands.

In the heyday of the Zhang family, there were more than a dozen vassal families. At that time, the Zhang family was also the leader of the five major families in Taicheng County, and its status was similar to that of the Wu family today.

Unfortunately, after the decline of the Zhang family, it was no longer possible to protect these small families, except for the four families that were closest and could be supported by the family cultivators.

Other small families either left the protection of the Zhang family or had already declined.

Not long after, the famous independent cultivators in Taicheng County and the immortal cultivators from several other nearby families also came to Tiantai Mountain under the leadership of the foundation-building cultivators of their respective families.

Just before the banquet was held, the Wu family, the leader of the Taicheng County cultivators, also arrived late.

There were five foundation-building cultivators in the Wu family. After Wu Xiangyuan died in Xihefang City, in order to avoid his family from making a big fuss, the Jin Patriarch personally came forward and gave him a foundation-building pill.

And relying on this foundation-building pill, another cultivator of the Wu family successfully built a foundation, and the strength of their family was not reduced at all.

The Wu family cultivators not only have a large number of people, but also have the support of Elder Wu Siheng of Qingxuan Sect. Basically, in major events, the cultivators of Taicheng County follow the lead of the Wu family.

Zhang Zhixuan established his foundation, and the Zhang family held a celebration. The patriarch of the Wu family, Wu Xiangzhen, did not show up.

The person from the Wu family was Wu Xiangheng, who had established his foundation recently. He established his foundation eight or nine years earlier than Zhang Zhixuan, and has now broken through the first level of the foundation realm and is a cultivator of the second level of the foundation realm.