Chapter 86 Escort

Every year, Taicheng County transports about 30,000 jin of spiritual rice to Heishan, which is almost equivalent to half of the spiritual rice production in Taicheng County.

The Zhang family has a spiritual well near Lushan County, which can continuously produce well water with abundant spiritual energy, so the family has been continuously developing spiritual fields over the years.

Especially since Zhang Zhixuan went down the mountain to the spiritual field and discovered the white jade bee, the family has paid more attention to it. Many years ago, the fourth uncle laid a spirit gathering array and spent thirty medium-grade spiritual stones to cultivate a second-level upper-grade spiritual vein.

With the spiritual vein continuously providing spiritual energy, coupled with the continuous irrigation of well water with abundant spiritual energy, in the past ten years, compared with when Zhang Zhixuan just went down the mountain, the cultivators of the Zhang family have opened up three more acres of spiritual fields.

Without these external forces, it would cost about a hundred lower-grade spiritual stones to open up one acre of first-level lower-grade spiritual fields.

The yield of spiritual rice planted in the first-level lower-grade spiritual fields is low, with an output of only 80 jin per acre, and it takes about 20 years of hard work to recover the investment of spiritual stones.

After years of operation, the Zhang family's thirty acres of spiritual fields have become quite good in quality. In addition to the most important five acres of second-level spiritual fields, most of the remaining twenty acres of spiritual fields have been upgraded to the first-level upper quality.

Only the seven or eight acres of new fields that have been opened up recently have not been upgraded in quality, and the yield is relatively low.

Relying on the strength of the Zhang family alone, it is impossible to provide such a large amount of spiritual rice.

Even the Wu family and the Liu family, who have the most spiritual fields, cannot produce such a large amount of spiritual rice.

Therefore, to go to the Southern Wilderness, the five major families can only work together to raise enough resources.

In order to prepare for this transaction in the Southern Wilderness, the Zhang family has been preparing for almost a year. Because the spiritual rice production of the five major families is insufficient, the family also pooled a sum of spiritual stones to buy some from dozens of small families.

The cultivators of the other four families in Taicheng County also took out some rare resources and asked the Qi training period in the family to take them to the Southern Wilderness to exchange together.

For this annual transaction, the Zhang family has spent all their capital, not only taking out all the family's foundation, but also bringing nine cloud-stepping beasts.

The Zhang family originally had only seven cloud-stepping beasts, but they were lucky in recent years and gave birth to two more cloud-stepping beasts, which slightly expanded the population.

Each cloud-stepping beast can carry five or six thousand kilograms of supplies on a special sealed carriage. Nine cloud-stepping beasts can already carry all the bulk supplies.

Some special resources, such as the white-tailed reed fish of the Wu family, will also be loaded on a special waterwheel and pulled behind the cloud-stepping beasts.

From Lushan to Heishanfang Market, there are about 100,000 miles along the way. If the journey is not too far, it will take about five months according to the pace of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.

This time when going to the Southern Wilderness, Zhang Leqian also planned to hide in it secretly. As for the task of guarding the family mountain gate, it was first handed over to Zhang Hanyan.

This time Zhang Hanyan went home and had already asked for a five-year vacation in Qingxuan Sect.

After five years, she had to leave the family and go to Qingxuan Sect to perform the sect mission.

As a sect cultivator, she used the sect's foundation-building pills to build the foundation, and she was not free after the foundation was built.

Even the foundation-building cultivators need to spend half of their time to complete the sect's mission. Even the elders in the Purple Mansion period need to contribute to the sect. Although they no longer need to perform the sect's mission, they need to protect the sect's rules and safety.

This time, the five major families went to the Southern Wilderness to transport supplies. A total of more than 20 cultivators went, among which the Zhang family had the most people, accounting for more than half.

Even the elders of the family sent two people, namely the eleventh uncle Zhang Menghong and the eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin.

Among the elders of the family, Zhang Zhixuan had the least contact with Zhang Menghong.

As the elder responsible for the enforcement of the family's rules, Zhang Menghong has always been taciturn and looks very cold.

Originally, as an elder responsible for law enforcement, he didn't need to show up for such back-and-forth running around.

But now the family lacks backbones. In addition to Qingchan, there are only three elders, and the manpower is even more stretched than more than a decade ago.

In the past ten years, the age of the family's cultivators going down the mountain has also been advanced by two years, and more and more young cultivators like Zhang Zhixuan go down the mountain at the age of sixteen.

When these young monks came down the mountain, their cultivation was only at the seventh or eighth level of the Xiantian period, which was a huge difference from Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation back then.

However, due to the continuous blood loss in recent years, the number of monks in the family has decreased. In order to replenish manpower, they can only let them go down the mountain in advance.

However, for their safety, the family tried to arrange them in safe places such as Lushan County and Lingtian to prevent them from getting into danger.

This time, the backbone of the family was selected to go to the Southern Wilderness, and the cultivation level of each monk was at least the fifth or sixth level of Qi training.

Most of the monks were the backbone of the Meng generation who were over fifty or sixty years old. Their cultivation level had reached the late stage of Qi training and they had relatively rich experience.

The same was true for the monks of other families. Those who went out were all experienced old men.

Such experienced old birds have always been difficult to provoke. Even monks in the foundation-building period generally dare not provoke such groups of late-stage Qi training monks.

Such monks who escorted goods in groups often rely on formations. Once trapped by their formations, even foundation-building monks would find it difficult to escape.

If you are not careful, you may be trapped to death in the formation.

This time when we went to the Southern Wilderness, we took fewer detours because we were outnumbered.

Along the way, whether it was a third-level monster or a casual cultivator in the foundation-building stage, when they encountered this team that was not easy to provoke at first glance, they did not dare to cause trouble.

Along the way, Zhang Zhixuan did not make any move at all, and came to the Black Mountain leisurely.

Just when everyone thought everything was fine, Zhang Leqian, who had the highest spiritual awareness, suddenly discovered something unusual. He leaned out of the carriage, gently patted Zhang Zhixuan on the shoulder, and pointed to the front.

Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual awareness was also relatively strong.

He was originally a reincarnation, and the strength of his soul when he was a child was equivalent to that of an ordinary person. He began to practice when he was a teenager, and he tempered his spiritual awareness earlier than ordinary cultivators.

In addition, breathing in the morning sun purple air for many years also helped his spiritual awareness.

After building the foundation, according to Zhang Leqian's experience, Zhang Zhixuan's spiritual awareness was no less than that of a cultivator at the third level of the foundation.

The spiritual awareness of a cultivator at the third level of the foundation can already be released thirty feet away.

And Zhang Leqian has been a cultivator at the fifth level of the foundation for many years. His spiritual awareness has not been damaged, and he can already release his spiritual awareness fifty or sixty feet away.

Zhang Zhixuan nodded immediately after Zhang Leqian reminded him. His body lightened up and floated in the air.

Zhang Zhixuan looked carefully and found that there were several cultivators fighting in front of him.

These cultivators were not very skilled. Although they were all in the late stage of Qi training, they were still far from building a foundation.

One of them was an acquaintance Zhang Zhixuan had met in Black Mountain. It was Wang Zixuan, the young master of Baibao Pavilion.