Chapter 40: The Great Mountains of Southern Wilderness

For a period of time, Zhang Zhixuan taught Qingchan the tricks of fighting while receiving the rewards for the family mission from Zhang Mengling.

Twenty spirit stones were awarded for guarding the spiritual field for a year, and one hundred and twenty spirit stones were awarded for refining the Golden Bud Pill. Counting the family benefits that Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan received every year, the two of them already had three hundred spirit stones in their small treasury.

For a cultivator in the Qi training stage, three hundred spirit stones were already a lot of money.

An ordinary second-level upper-grade magic weapon would cost about one hundred and fifty or sixty spirit stones.

This amount of spirit stones was enough for Zhang Zhixuan and his partner to settle down in the Southern Wilderness and practice for a while.

After receiving the spirit stones and waiting for a clear and sunny day, Zhang Zhixuan took Qingchan down the mountain directly.

They left Lushan and walked tens of thousands of miles south along Lushan County. They slept in the open air for three months before they walked out of the scope of the three southeastern counties and entered the wild and dangerous Shiwan Mountains.

The climate in the mountains of the Southern Wilderness is humid and hot, which is not suitable for ordinary people to live. Therefore, there is almost no one living here for thousands of miles. Except for a few cultivators, no one can be seen.

Entering the Southern Wilderness, the spiritual energy is far more abundant than that of Yu State. Even at the edge of the Southern Wilderness Mountains, Zhang Zhixuan can find some spiritual veins that are no less than Lushan.

Unfortunately, these spiritual veins are owned by owners, either occupied by monsters or some powerful cultivators.

For these spiritual peaks, Zhang Zhixuan has always run as far as he can. He and Qingchan carefully avoided these spiritual mountains and spiritual veins, and most of them took the wild mountains and ridges with thin spiritual energy.

Because of the map left by the clan leader, Zhang Zhixuan avoided some dangerous places in advance. After walking for more than a hundred days, he finally came to the first cultivator town marked on the map.

In the mountains of the Southern Wilderness, because of the harsh climate, there is almost no space for mortals to survive. On the edge of the entire Southern Wilderness, there are a total of seven towns where cultivators gather.

Every cultivator town is a huge market town with abundant spiritual veins and various rare immortal cultivation resources traded everywhere.

Sometimes, even some foundation-building pills are traded in these markets.

Of these seven towns, four are controlled by Qingxuan Sect, and one is jointly managed by more than a dozen foundation-building families in the three southeastern counties.

When the Zhang family was prosperous, they also had a lot of say in the Nanhuang market town. Unfortunately, it has completely declined now. The family's store has long been squeezed out and its influence has gradually weakened.

Of the remaining two towns, one is under the control of Wu Guo Xuansu Sect.

Xuansu Sect is the main sect of Wu, and the four major sects of Yu are almost all their vassals. The unique immortal cultivation resources of Nanhuang make Xuansu Sect quite envious.

So they personally took action and occupied a market town to trade the unique cultivation resources of Nanhuang.

The last town has the most chaotic management. It is a market town established by a purple mansion period casual cultivator. This casual cultivator had few relatives and few disciples, and lacked confidants to manage the town, so the management of the town was handed over to casual cultivators with successful cultivation. Because the managers came from mixed sources and were of varying quality, killing and robbing treasures often occurred.

Finally, the ancestor surnamed Liang issued a strict order, strictly prohibiting fighting within 30 miles of Black Mountain, and the situation was slightly better.

This market has the most good things flowing out, because there is no sect or family cultivator to squeeze, and the circulation of precious immortal cultivation resources here is more common.

If you really want to obtain some precious resources, you will have a better grasp here.

This market is the Black Mountain Market.

This is the holy land of casual cultivators in Yu State, and it is also the source of chaos in the immortal cultivation world of Yu State.

In this place, countless immortal cultivation resources such as magic tools, elixirs, exercises, talismans, etc. that cannot be seen in the light are circulated.

Once you come to this place and leave the protection of the market, it is difficult for cultivators in the Qi training period to protect their own safety.

Even so, the wandering cultivators who had no way to seek the truth and no resources still flocked here, maintaining the bloody prosperity of the Black Mountain Market.

The purpose of Zhang Zhixuan and his companions this time was the Black Mountain Market.

Because the news here is the most informed and the most chaotic, starting from here, it is very likely that they can find out the news of the Wu brothers.

And this place is not too far from Jiaohefang, which is managed by many families.

The cultivators like the Wu brothers who had to leave their families must have close contacts with their family members in Jiaohefang.

As long as Zhang Zhixuan observes carefully, there will always be some clues.

The closer they got to Black Mountain Market, the more cultivators with bad intentions there were around, and Zhang Zhixuan and his companions became more careful.

Because they had a detailed map jade slip, the two did not take any detours and went straight to Black Mountain Market carefully and secretly along the way.

After each of them paid a spirit stone, Zhang Zhixuan and his companions received an iron plate and entered Black Mountain Market freely.

Black Mountain Square is located at the foot of Black Mountain. There is a fourth-level middle-grade spiritual vein on Black Mountain, and its branch extends into Black Mountain Square.

Hundreds of years ago, monsters lingered on Black Mountain, and even crossed the defense line of Qingxuan Sect and went deep into the three southeastern counties to cause trouble.

At that time, Liang Taixu, a casual cultivator who had just opened up the Purple Mansion, stepped forward and took some casual cultivator friends to conquer Black Mountain and quell the monster disaster.

From then on, Liang Taixu occupied this spiritual vein, opened up Black River Square, and planted his roots in the Nanhuang Mountains.

Over the past few hundred years, although Liang Taixu has not formed a golden elixir, his cultivation has reached the peak of the Purple Mansion period. With the defense formation on Black Mountain, he can deal with it even if a golden elixir cultivator attacks.

The entire Black Mountain Square is not large, with a total of more than a hundred shops and only a street that is neither long nor short.

The street is deserted, and there are not many cultivators staying there.

Zhang Zhixuan and his companion walked around the street, asked for some information, and then walked directly to a shop at the end of the street.

The shop was deserted, with only a middle-aged cultivator flipping through an old book.

Zhang Zhixuan took a rough look and found that the middle-aged cultivator had a very low level of cultivation, only the third level of Qi training, far inferior to Qingchan.

Zhang Zhixuan walked into the gate and immediately said, "Fellow Daoist, are there any empty caves for rent on the mountain?"

The middle-aged cultivator put down the book in his hand immediately when he saw someone coming in, and said enthusiastically, "There is plenty of spiritual energy on the Black Mountain. Countless caves have been opened up over the past few hundred years. There are countless caves of various levels. How can they all be occupied?

I wonder what kind of cave you need?

Although you look young, your cultivation is probably in the late stage of Qi training.

If you want to live more comfortably, I recommend you choose the third level. C-grade cave.

This type of cave is relatively large, with more than a dozen houses and two acres of second-grade medium-grade spiritual fields. It not only has alchemy rooms, equipment refining rooms, and talisman making rooms, but also a practice room for cultivators to test spells.

However, the price of renting this kind of cave is naturally more expensive, requiring one hundred low-grade spiritual stones per year. "

Zhang Zhixuan smiled and said, "Daoyou's cultivation is not high, but his eyesight is quite extraordinary. He can actually see my cultivation clearly. Unfortunately, I am short of money and can't afford to rent such an expensive cave. Does Daoyou have any caves that are slightly more affordable to recommend?"