Chapter 94: The Spirit Gathering Tree

Zhang Zhixuan killed the monks on the mountain, then carefully flew around Honglu Mountain, and finally found what he wanted.

A three-foot-tall emerald green tree grew on the back mountain. Although the tree was not tall, it looked quite magical at first glance. It could actually gather spiritual energy. The spiritual energy in the three-foot radius around the tree was obviously stronger.

There was even a second-grade upper-grade alarm formation near the tree.

Just by seeing this, Zhang Zhixuan knew that this was the most important spiritual object on Honglu Mountain.

Zhang Zhixuan searched in his mind and finally found the record of this spiritual object.

This object is called the Spirit Gathering Tree, which can purify the spiritual energy gathered nearby. As long as the sapling has just grown, the grade is a third-grade lower-grade spiritual object.

Now the sapling of the sapling is three feet tall, and its grade has been improved a little.

This kind of sapling grows very slowly. Normally, it takes three hundred years to grow one foot taller.

This sapling may have grown for thousands of years.

This kind of tree that can gather spiritual energy is a natural spirit gathering formation.

In the entire southeastern three counties, only the mountain gate of Qingxuan Sect has collected more than a dozen spirit-gathering trees of different ages. The best one has grown for tens of thousands of years and has reached the fourth grade.

Each spirit-gathering tree has a different species.

The spirit-gathering tree on Honglu Mountain is of Qingyang wood.

Ordinary Qingyang wood can only be regarded as a first-grade spiritual object and has no effect of gathering spiritual energy. The texture of Qingyang wood is hard and not easy to damage. There is also a trace of Xuanyang energy in the tree. The surface of the tree is very dry and has a warm feeling.

This kind of tree is usually used by cultivators as a bookshelf for placing books.

From large sects like Qingxuan Sect to small casual cultivators, this material is used to build bookshelves for collecting classics.

And the wealthy and powerful sects will even use this spiritual object to build huge buildings such as the Sutra Library. Although ordinary Qingyang wood is not valuable, it still costs a lot when the consumables are huge.

Qingyang wood, a spiritual wood, has both wood and fire properties, while this tree of gathering spirits can only gather the spiritual energy of wood and fire, and is still not as compatible as the gathering spirit array.

Zhang Zhixuan carefully dug out this tree of gathering spirits, and then used a magic talisman to seal it to prevent its spirituality from being revealed. Then he emptied a second-grade upper-grade storage bag, put this spiritual object in it, and hurriedly left Honglu Mountain.

He was dusty all the way, and it took him three days to catch up with Zhang Leqian and his group.

Lu Yian died in a desolate canyon, and the news did not reach Black Mountain until more than ten days later.

The main reason for the slow transmission of the news was that Chen Zhongping, who knew the news, did not dare to leak the news, so as not to be punished by Liang Laozu.

After all, the cultivators on Black Mountain still need the family of Taicheng County as a backing to provide the urgently needed spiritual rice.

Without enough spiritual rice, the number of cultivators on Black Mountain will be reduced by half.

Although the magic power of the cultivators in the Qi training period is not high, when the number reaches a certain level, they can bite the elephant to death.

Without half of the Qi training cultivators, the power on Black Mountain will be reduced by two or three levels.

This situation is definitely not what Liang Laozu wants to see.

And the act of attacking Taicheng County to transport spiritual rice is also a taboo for Liang Laozu.

Chen Zhongping is not a fool. At that time, all the cultivators who attacked except him were killed, so he tightly shut his mouth and never told anyone about this matter.

Another insider, Lu Zichen, did not know the details, so he could only secretly look for Chen Zhongping. In view of their previous friendship, Chen Zhongping finally told him the place where Lu Yian died.

Lu Zichen suppressed his fear and grief, and quietly went to that canyon to collect the remains for his father.

Unfortunately, Lu Yian had been beaten to ashes by thunder, and Lu Zichen could only take some ashes and fled back to Black Mountain in disgrace.

He returned to Black Mountain. Although he did not hold a big funeral for his father, the news still spread.

Having offended the foundation-building family in Taicheng County, Lu Zichen did not dare to stay on Black Mountain any longer.

Lu Yian simply gave him all his resources. Lu Yian had been building his foundation for a hundred years and had accumulated more than 7,000 low-grade spirit stones. With this amount of resources, they would be able to practice after escaping.

After Lu Zichen left Black Mountain, he never appeared again. Perhaps he successfully left Yu State, but it was more likely that he was killed and robbed by the foundation-building cultivators on Black Mountain and disappeared completely in the Southern Wilderness.

Even Chen Zhongping, who was at the third level of foundation-building, was hunted down and beheaded by Wei Bohan, the eldest disciple sent by Liang Patriarch, because the news was leaked.

In the end, Honglu Mountain was also occupied by a Black Mountain casual cultivator who had just built his foundation.

Although Lu Yian's disappearance caused a lot of discussion in Black Mountain, it soon calmed down. As a casual cultivator, although he had a few good friends, no one would pursue such things for him.

After all, this is Black Mountain, and people die every day near Black Mountain.

When someone dies, the friendship fades away. No one is willing to offend the powerful Zhang family for a dead person.

Moreover, Lu Yian violated the ban of Liang Laozu and robbed the monks who transported spiritual rice to Heishan. He deserved to die, and he could not blame others.

Zhang Zhixuan caught up with the group. Nothing happened along the way. After several months of travel, the transport caravan finally left the Southern Wilderness and entered Taicheng County.

After ten months of hard work, Zhang Zhixuan and others finally returned to Tiantai Peak in Lushan.

This time when they went to the Southern Wilderness, they only earned less than 500 spiritual stones from normal trade.

Unfortunately, this operation consumed the Tiangang Divine Thunder Talisman, and lost the family's greatest foundation. From then on, the family's development completely depended on Zhang Zhixuan and others.

The legacy left by the predecessors will always be used up one day. If a family wants to prosper for a long time, it needs generations of cultivators to work hard.

If the descendants do not work hard, even the family passed down by the Nascent Soul cultivators will die one day.

After killing more than a dozen people including Lu Yian, more than 500 scattered spirit stones were harvested. Zhang Zhixuan and Zhang Leqian collected more than 100 spirit stones to repay the spirit stones that the family borrowed from the vassal small family.

At this time, although the Zhang family harvested a lot of magic tools and elixirs, there was no spirit stone used for turnover in the public account.

It is very uncomfortable for a family to have no spirit stone for turnover.

Even the welfare of the family cultivators cannot be distributed. If the welfare is not distributed for a long time, the cohesion of the family will be reduced and will eventually dissipate.

Therefore, getting a sum of spiritual stones as soon as possible is the most important thing for the Zhang family now.

After Zhang Zhixuan returned to Lushan, he first met with Qingchan and reported that he was safe so that she would not worry secretly.

Then he took the spirit gathering tree and went directly to the vicinity of Lingtian in Lushan County.

Lingtian has now become the second most important place for the family, and the family has attached more and more importance to it. In Lingtian, the family has stationed more than ten cultivators, including an elder of the ninth level of Qi training.

When Zhang Zhixuan arrived here, he planted this spirit gathering tree near the spiritual well, and then poured it with well water with abundant spiritual energy.

Zhang Zhixuan stayed in the spiritual field for more than ten days. After the spirit gathering tree was successfully transplanted, Zhang Zhixuan put down his worries and happily returned to the mountain gate.