Chronicles of Ascension: The Path to Immortality

The elders saw the snow-white second-level monster falling.

Zhang Xuan and his men got off the blood-sucking bats.

"Ten elders...how many people were there when you set out?" Zhang Xingshan asked as he looked at the crowds of people coming down.

"A total of 42 people." Zhang Xuan said.

"Then you came back this time..."

"Also 42 people."

Zhang Yujue, the elder of the three clans, said angrily: "You didn't even enter the Ancestral Witch Ruins and came back. Now there is only one month left before the upper sect arrives at the Fairy Cat Valley. Do you know that you have wasted our Zhang clan's precious time?"

"Who said we didn't enter the Ancestral Witch Ruins?"

"You came back in a complete group, and you still said you went in?"

"Can't you come back in a complete group if you have been in?"

"Who doesn't know that once you enter the Ancestral Witch Ruins, you will die? You have returned safely even after the initial stage of Qi Refining, and you don't even have a scar on your body. You still say you have been in? Who can prove that you have been in? If you just strolled around the Black Domain Forest and came back, who can prove it?"

Faced with Zhang Yujue's doubts, the members of the dung picking team gnashed their teeth in anger.

Everyone broke into the Ancestral Witch Secret Realm with a narrow escape, but the other party actually questioned it, and the reason for the doubt was that there were no casualties on this trip.

"If we can prove that we have entered this trip, what will the three clan elders say?" The old oily head asked back.

Zhang Yujue sneered and said, "If you can prove that you have entered, the Jiuding Lake, the spiritual medicine field, and the shop of the ten elders will not have to hand over a single spiritual stone to the ancestral treasury within three years, and all the tributes will be borne by me."

"Okay," Zhang Xuan clapped his hands, "Clan leader, can the words of the three elders count?"

"That was your private bet, but I can be a witness." Zhang Yuhuai said.

"If the ten elders can't produce evidence, what do you want to lose to me?" Zhang Yujue asked.

"If I can't produce it, the Jiuding Lake, the spiritual medicine field, and the shop will all belong to the three elders. Are you satisfied?"

"Okay."

The reason why Zhang Yujue wanted to bet with Zhang Xuan was not only because it was impossible for all the members to leave safely, but also because even if the other party produced some evidence such as stone tablets and witch patterns, he could directly deny it.

Anyway, except for the old oily head, no one has entered here.

Evidence is shit.

In the end, it will be nothing at most, and the bet will not count.

"Ten elders, show us your evidence."

"This is my evidence." Zhang Xuan took out a jade box.

"Oh?" Zhang Yujue reached out to take it.

Zhang Xuan instead handed the jade box to the clan leader.

Zhang Yuhuai took the jade box in his hand.

He was indeed very suspicious of the fact that the ten elders and their group returned in such a short time, and no one was injured.

He was now very curious about what evidence the ten elders would produce.

He opened the jade box.

A vitality emanated from the jade box.

"Is... a third-level spiritual object?!"

At this time, even Zhang Yuhuai, who was old and smart, could not hide his excitement.

The ten elders actually brought a third-level spiritual object back to the family.

That was a third-level spiritual object that even the Jindan Shangren were jealous of!

The faces of the elders were also full of joy.

"Now that we have the third-level spiritual object, we can report to the upper clan."

"I didn't expect that the tenth elder would bring the third-level spiritual object back to the family."

"This third-level spiritual object is priceless. Even if you take out millions of spiritual stones, you may not be able to buy it."

"What are you talking about? Can a third-level spiritual object be bought with spiritual stones?"

The elders of the clans were talking about it.

The old oily head walked in front of Zhang Yujue, drank a sip of Lao San Shao and said: "Third elder, you should accept the loss, hehe..."

Zhang Yujue narrowed his eyes and said: "Even if the tenth elder can take out the third-level spiritual object, it can't prove that he has entered the ancient witch ruins."

When the members of the dung picking team heard what the third elder said, they all showed angry expressions.

This is obviously cheating, but everyone has no way to deal with it.

Zhang Yuhuai put away the third-level spiritual object and said in a deep voice: "The ten elders brought everyone back from the ancient witch ruins and brought back the third-level spiritual object. They are great contributors to our Zhang clan."

"Patriarch, this third-level spiritual object cannot prove..."

Before the third elder finished speaking, Zhang Yuhuai shouted coldly: "Shut up!"

The third elder glanced at Zhang Xuan and said: "I admit defeat."

At this time, Zhang Yuhuai's expression eased and said: "The ten elders and their group have made great contributions to our clan. As a reward, the clan property under the names of the ten elders will not be handed over to the clan treasury as tribute in the next two years. In addition, the ten elders and Zhang Jianqiu will each be rewarded with 100,000 spiritual stones, and the dung picking team will each be rewarded with 5,000 spiritual stones."

After hearing the reward from the patriarch, everyone cheered: "Thank you, patriarch!"

Zhang Xuan also heard the patriarch's hidden meaning.

Exempting him from paying tribute for the next two years means that the three elders only need to help him pay tribute for one year.

"The old guy is good at balancing!" The old oily man said lightly after taking a sip of wine.

Back to Jiuding Lake.

What Zhang Xuan has to do now is to quickly refine the holy water in the treasure map of the soldier tree into a spiritual weapon.

He found that the holy water under the treasure tree was slowly disappearing.

Even if the spiritual materials are temporarily stored under the treasure tree, there is a time limit.

It takes 500,000 spiritual stones for the treasure tree to produce a spiritual weapon.

He now only has 100,000 spiritual stones rewarded by the clan leader, which is not enough.

He found Zhang Sanqian.

"Uncle Sanqian, how many spiritual stones are there in Jiuding Lake now?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"There are still 30,000 spiritual stones now."

"Have all the shops around Jiuding Lake been rented out?"

Zhang Sanqian shook his head and said, "No."

"Isn't the beast tide over now? Everything is in ruins, and shops should be in great demand."

"Alas..."

Next, Zhang Sanqian sighed and told the whole story like pouring out bitter water.

It turned out that during the beast tide, each strong branch basically acquired all the shops around the lake.

In addition, the Nine Great Lakes were originally in the hands of each strong branch.

At the suggestion of the strong branch, the original Jiuhufang and Neihufang were directly removed, and the Nine Great Lakes were re-centered, breaking through the barriers between the inner and outer rings, and establishing nine market towns.

The strong branch was responsible for operating the big lakes and the market towns around the big lakes.

This immediately mobilized the enthusiasm of each strong branch.

Each strong branch directly took out the spiritual materials, spiritual talismans, spiritual medicines and other good things they had saved, and placed them in the shops to attract customers and increase the popularity of the market towns.

But the Jiuding Lake Market is not as well-rooted as other strong branches.

The clan spiritual medicine and Nine-Child Spirit Lotus under Zhang Xuan's name have not yet matured, and the number of stepping beads is also limited.

No cultivators come here to purchase, and no one comes to rent a shop in Jiuding Lake.

Jiuding Lake Market is at the bottom of the nine major markets.

"Who said we don't have good things to sell?"

Zhang Xuan said, taking out three storage bags.

They are all first-level spiritual materials he got from the ancient witch ruins.

There are spiritual woods for building houses, spiritual minerals for laying on the ground, etc.

Zhang Sanqian's consciousness immersed in the storage bag, and he was shocked: "This... This spiritual material is too much, right? There are tens of thousands of pieces."