Chapter 17: Gathering Spirits

"Uncle Nineteen has always been cautious, so he made this arrangement carefully. These several thousand kilograms of chalcedony rice are also a considerable source of income. Once targeted by the enemy, it may cause trouble. With the Cloud-Stepping Beast going down the mountain, even if we can't defeat the enemy, we can return to the mountain safely." Zhang Zhixuan thought about it, and then opened the protective formation.

He first exchanged greetings with the two elders Zhang Mengyuan for a while, and then took them directly to the white jade beehive.

The two carefully observed the beehive. Zhang Mengyuan's face gradually became solemn, and he said carefully: "If I am not mistaken, the dozen white bees should be white jade bees. They seem to have evolved from wild bees sensing spiritual energy. It is estimated that ordinary bees can evolve into such rare spiritual insects once in a hundred years.

These rare spiritual insects usually evolve by chasing spiritual flowers and herbs.

The dozens of pearl spiritual herbs planted in our medicine garden, the best one is already fourth-level, and the rest are precious third-level spiritual medicines.

Even if the family has been in trouble for the past hundred years, we have not consumed these spiritual herbs. We just hope that they will have a higher value and can be exchanged for some spiritual herbs for refining foundation-building pills to refine a furnace of foundation-building pills for the family.

Although these spiritual herbs Although it did not exchange for resources, it promoted the evolution of the white jade bee, which is also a good thing.

This kind of spiritual insect is very valuable, and its importance to the family is no less than this spiritual well.

This place is becoming more and more important to the family, but unfortunately there is no spiritual vein!

Without a spiritual vein, it is impossible to send too many cultivators to guard it.

This place can no longer be casually entered by the younger generation. They are not tight-lipped and have little knowledge. If the secret is leaked, the spiritual field will be very dangerous.

There are still few cultivators who come here frequently. After I go back, I will tell my nineteenth brother not to send irrelevant people to disturb here. "

Zhang Mengyuan is old and experienced. He has seen the struggles of immortal cultivators many times. He clearly knows that the struggles between immortal cultivators are far more cruel than those in the mortal world.

In order to compete for limited immortal cultivation resources, generations of immortal cultivators almost live in cruel struggles.

Just like raising Gu, only the most qualified, wise, capable, and lucky immortal cultivators can stand out and climb to the top of the immortal cultivation world.

Even the major changes in the family thirty years ago were caused by the gradual decline of the family's power over the past hundred years, and they could no longer protect the third-level spiritual vein of Jiuhua Mountain.

Zhang Mengyuan had witnessed the battle. The thirty cultivators stationed in Jiuhua Mountain, except for the seven or eight brought back by the clan leader, were almost all killed outside.

After the battle, the backbone of the family, the Le generation cultivators, were almost completely lost.

After another thirty years, when the Meng generation cultivators grew up, they recovered a little.

The evolving white jade bee was found in the family's spiritual field. Zhang Mengyuan and his acquaintance had no time to greet each other. They hurriedly packed up the spiritual rice and returned to Lushan that night.

A few days later, the law enforcement elder, the fourth uncle Zhang Menglong, the transmission elder, the fifteenth uncle Zhang Mengchong, the Dan Pavilion elder, the ninth uncle Zhang Mengquan, and the seventh uncle Zhang Mengyuan went down the mountain together and hurried to the spiritual field.

Although the fourth uncle Zhang Menglong is over eighty years old, he is the best formation master in the family. The family's mountain protection formation, the Qingguang Bamboo Sea Formation, is the result of his years of hard work.

His formation cultivation has exceeded the third level. If he had joined Qingxuan Mountain when he was young, he would have received the foundation-building pills from Qingxuan Sect with his good formation talent.

Unfortunately, the power of the Zhang family has weakened in the past hundred years and cannot provide foundation-building pills for the family's cultivators.

Therefore, cultivators with good talents such as Zhang Menglong and Zhang Mengquan can only miss the good opportunities to build foundations and eventually die in the Qi training stage.

It is more difficult for formation masters to upgrade their levels than alchemists and weapon refiners. The family has been rooted in Lushan for four hundred years, and Zhang Menglong is the only third-level formation master in hundreds of years.

According to his ability, if he presided over the formation in Jiuhua Mountain back then, the enemy might not be able to easily break the formation and break through the mountain gate.

The four of them observed the white jade beehive in detail for an afternoon. Zhang Menglong finally took out thirty medium-grade spirit stones and set up a second-grade upper-grade spirit gathering formation next to the spirit well. Then he took out a second-grade upper-grade green gourd magic weapon and cast a few spirit spells as the center of the formation. He glanced at Zhang Zhixuan and said, "It seems that my nephew has a good opportunity. He has gained something just after leaving the mountain gate. As long as this nest of white jade bees can produce a queen bee, even if the grade is still low, once royal jelly is produced, it will be of great benefit to the injury of the patriarch. Once the third uncle's injury improves, our difficulties will be slightly better. In recent years, the family has almost shrunk. Except for this piece of spiritual field and a few shops in the market, almost all the industries outside have been abandoned. The annual income and expenditure are not enough to make ends meet, relying entirely on the old capital accumulated in the past. This time, he took out three thousand low-grade spirit stones and refined a second-grade spirit gathering formation. It only takes half a year to cultivate a queen bee. A second-grade lower-grade spiritual vein came out.

Starting today, on the first day of every month, you must use the spiritual water in the well to irrigate the jade gourd.

As long as it lasts for ten years, after the gathering spirit formation has refined all thirty middle-grade spiritual stones, this spiritual vein will grow to a second-grade middle-grade, enough for three Qi training level six cultivators to practice at the same time.

It's a pity that the family inventory is empty, and there are not many resources to cultivate spiritual veins.

If I can cultivate a second-grade upper-grade spiritual vein at one time, I will come here to retire. "

The second-grade middle-grade spiritual vein is enough for three Qi training level six cultivators to breathe in and out spiritual energy together. If the practice time is divided, at least six Qi training level middle-grade cultivators can practice.

Even the second-grade lower-grade spiritual vein that has just been cultivated can provide spiritual energy for three Qi training level three cultivators, barely enough for Zhang Zhixuan to meditate and practice alone.

"Zhixuan! From today on, your task will be heavier. Not only do you have to cultivate the spirit veins, but you also have to keep an eye on the beehive at all times. Once there is any abnormality, you must quickly go up the mountain to inform your family. You are not allowed to use the communication talisman in the future, so as not to be intercepted by outsiders and find out the abnormality here."

Zhang Zhixuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, Fourth Uncle, I will always pay attention. In fact, the opportunity of the white jade bee was not discovered by me, but by the little girl behind me. Her father was the patrol officer of Lushan County. He died in the hands of the cat demon to save me. Because she was alone and pitiful, I adopted her here. Although the little girl can't speak, she is very smart. Recently, I have been preparing to teach her to practice. Judging from her progress, her spiritual roots should be good. It is estimated that she is at least a cultivator with three spiritual roots, or even two spiritual roots."

The Zhang family lost Jiuhua Mountain and the spirit measuring platform. They cannot detect the spiritual roots of the cultivators, so they cannot provide suitable exercises for the cultivators.

So in the past thirty years, the cultivation speed of the Zhi generation cultivators in the family has been slower than that of the Meng generation.

Without a spiritual testing platform, cultivators' choice of cultivation methods and testing of spiritual roots almost completely depend on the experience of senior cultivators.

According to Zhang Zhixuan's estimation, Qingchan's spiritual roots are heavenly spiritual roots, but unfortunately the Zhang family has been declining for many years and cannot protect a cultivator with heavenly spiritual roots.

So Zhang Zhixuan lied to protect Qingchan.

Cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots have extraordinary aptitude and can advance to the Purple Mansion Stage with very few resources.

The Purple Mansion Stage is already considered a high-level cultivator among immortal cultivators. If there is one more Purple Mansion Stage cultivator in the family, the situation will immediately change dramatically.

The reason why Zhang Zhixuan did not send Qingchan to the Qingxuan Sect, which has a more promising future, is that he is afraid of the invisible risks within the sect.

Because the immortal cultivators above the Jindan Stage have completely condensed their souls, they have a chance to be reborn and reincarnate.

Most of the Jindan cultivators cannot overcome the mystery of the womb after reincarnation.

On the contrary, it is relatively easier to take over the body of a low-level cultivator.

Although it sounds like a bad reputation for monks to take over other people's bodies, and some Yuanshen monks hate people who take over other people's bodies very much, once they find out that a monk has taken over other people's bodies, they will often punish them severely.

However, high-level monks above the Jindan level dare to do almost anything to survive.

The Jindan monks have high standards. Unless they have no choice, the monks they take over often have excellent spiritual roots, either special spiritual roots or natural spiritual roots.

So some independent cultivators with excellent spiritual roots sometimes do not easily join the sect.

And some immortal cultivation families will find out the life span of the Jindan ancestors of each sect.

Only when they seize the opportunity will they send the family's talented monks into the sect, so as to avoid the family's hope being taken over by others and losing their lives.

Once Qingchan's natural spiritual roots are discovered by others, if the Zhang family is not careful, there will be a hidden danger of the family's destruction.

And Qingchan's fate will also be full of twists and turns, and it is hard to say whether it is good or bad.

Any immortal cultivation family that has some means, once they find a cultivator with a natural spiritual root, will hide him tightly unless they have no other choice.

As long as the cultivators with this kind of spiritual root continue to cultivate normally and provide relatively few resources, most of them can cultivate to the middle three-grade realms such as the Purple Mansion Stage, the Golden Core Stage, and the Nascent Soul Stage, and become the support of a sect or family.

Even if it is a local overlord like the Qingxuan Sect, it is difficult to accept a disciple with a natural spiritual root to enter the sect for hundreds or thousands of years.

The fact that Qingchan was discovered by Zhang Zhixuan is also the blessing accumulated by the Zhang family for many years.