Journey To Longevity

"It's such a good thing that outsiders can't ask for it, so you despise it?" Zhang Shiping said with a joke.

This guarding of Binhai City is a lucrative position, and it is not the new Yuanying monks of the Xuanyuan Sect and the Bixiao Palace, but it is not yet their turn.

"Then I'll help you stay in town for another hundred years?" Tianfeng asked back.

Binhai City stretches for thousands of miles along the coast from southwest to northeast, and the city is about three to four hundred miles wide.

Every hundred miles or so, there is a large square market, nine in total, plus one hundred and four small and medium-sized square markets scattered here and there. There are as many as thirteen places.

There are tens of thousands of shops of all kinds in these squares and cities, and the taxes extracted from them every year can be described as massive.

And there are newly-promoted infant-forming monks in Xuanyuanzong and Bixiao Palace. During the one hundred and eighty years of guarding Binhai City, they will get part of the taxes as offerings.

These tax items can be exchanged for high-grade spirit stones, or some more precious spirit objects, which are enough to meet the various cultivation needs of Nascent Soul monks.

However, compared with Zhang Shiping, the Nascent Soul cultivator, the Zhang family has some shortcomings.

Now there are only more than 3,000 monks in the Zhang family. Even if you count the Su family, the Chen family and other small families that rely on them, the total number of monks is only in the early 4,000s.

Among the Zhang family, apart from Zhang Shiping, the Yuanying Patriarch, and Zheng Hengyun and Zhang Tianwu, two Golden Core monks, there are only thirty-four Foundation Establishment monks left.

These foundation-building monks belong to the four-character generation of 'Tian, ​​Zhi, Wen, and Bi'.

However, only Zhang Tianya and Zhang Tianwen are left to establish the foundation of the 'Tian' generation. These two people are now over two hundred years old, and there is no possibility of forming a pill. After they died, only Zhang Tianwu was left in the Tian family of the Zhang family.

As for the next generation of "Zhi" characters, there will be a lot more people from the Zhuji tribe, and there are now seven.

There were originally nine people, but among them Zhang Zhiyu died at the hands of Misty Valley Yi Xuedan, and the other Zhang Zhiyi was killed by those foundation-building thieves who fled to the South China Sea not long ago when he was escorting a merchant ship.

At present, none of the nine Zhizi generations of Foundation Establishment has practiced to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and the youngest of them is over one hundred and twenty years old. No one in this generation can become a Golden Core cultivator.

Under the towering tree of the Zhang family, their cultivation conditions are much better than those of the foundation-building monks of other Jindan families, but they are limited by their own aptitude, character, and chance, and they are unable to go any further.

Zhang Shiping felt neither sad nor happy about this, he was already used to this kind of parting of life and death.

In addition, there are thirteen Foundation Establishment monks of the 'Wen' generation.

This generation has more foundation builders than the "Tian" generation, and it is even younger. One of them, Zhang Zhizheng, has the highest cultivation level among this group of people. At the age of one hundred and thirteen, he has finally reached a higher level in the past few years, and has been promoted from the middle stage of foundation establishment to the late stage.

Although this person can't compare to those Tianjiao who formed alchemy before the age of a hundred, if he can practice persistently, then in another seven or eighty years, he may be able to practice until the foundation is completed, and then he will fight hard to see if he can Form a pill.

There are twelve members of the Zhang family in the 'bi' generation, including Zhang Bixing, a foundation-builder cultivator carefully cultivated by Zhang Shiping. However, there are still many members of the Zhang family who are not yet sixty years old, and there should be more foundation builders in the future.

However, even though there are as many as thirty-four people in the Zhang Family Establishing Foundation, it is still not enough.

After all, whether it is the nine large square cities in Binhai City, the more than ten caravan routes in the South China Sea, and the thirty or forty heavy islands where the goods must pass through, if you want to open a store in these places, then There must be at least one foundation cultivator sitting in the shop.

Moreover, because the foundation-building monks sent by the Zhang family are all old and hopeless to form alchemy, and one or two of them need to establish the foundation to go to the secular Zhang country to sit in the town, so the available manpower is even more stretched up.

In this situation, even Zhang Shiping can't do anything, he can't find enough foundation building pills for every clansman in the late stage of Qi refining.

Besides, if this is done, it would be putting the cart before the horse.

I am afraid that no family in the small world would do this, using the precious practice time of the Nascent Soul and Jindan monks in the clan to drag those low-level clansmen in the qi training period like soy sauce bottles.

The human heart is inherently an insatiable thing. If the Zhang family did this, then the only fate would be that the low-level monks in the clan no longer had the will to make progress, and only knew how to ask, and only knew how to ask for help. Then once the Nascent Soul and Jindan high-level monks fall, the family's destruction will be imminent.

Hearing what Tianfeng said, Zhang Shiping smiled and said:

"Understood, you should go and help Uncle Guang and Zhong Li go to Baimang Mountain to get one or two good places, but you should not pay attention to Zhengyang Peak. Just now, Changshen, Yuye and I The two agreed. In the future, I will help take care of Zhengyangzong for a period of time, which can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the past. After all, when I was in Zhengyangzong, that Uncle Xu and a few others took good care of me. As for Wan Jianmen also agreed that Zhengyang Sect and it will not offend each other."

Then he stretched out his hand and lightly plucked the seven strings one by one, and then lightly twisted the piano a few times.

"You are nostalgic, but this is also good. People who nostalgia are better than those who are heartless and ungrateful. When you formed an alchemy, the master saw you clearly, and once said that you are a good person. Although he is not a good person, he is not too bad, just a little pedantic, otherwise Du Yu and I would not have secretly sent people to bring the Zhang family to Binhai City. If your father hadn't come forward to lobby, you might have I still can't make up my mind." Tianfeng said.

The master he was talking about was naturally Venerable Qinghe.

"I really have to thank you two for this matter, otherwise the Jiang family might be the end of my Zhang family." Zhang Shiping thanked.

"Since you have said so, then I will remember this favor, don't forget it." Tianfeng laughed loudly.

He plucked the strings again, but when he heard the sound of the qin was already on point, he looked at Zhang Shiping and said, "You bastard, you still say you can't tune the qin?"

"It's because you have never touched the piano before. At best, I am better than you. I can only be regarded as a violin maker, not a luthier." Zhang Shiping said indifferently.

"Let's go, I don't want to see you again today. After a few days, I'll take care of the rest of the chores, and I'll go to Qinghuo Valley to find you. But now in Binhai City's fourth-tier blessed land, only Du Yu's Liang Gufeng and mine It’s just Tianfeng Mountain. Don’t worry, Duan Yu will move to my master’s water mansion in a few days, so you can practice in Lianggu Peak when the time comes. The Qinghuo Valley will be the cave for Hengyun’s practice. He is a Yan Linggen It is not appropriate for Jin Dan to practice in the Green Bamboo Valley. As for the Green Bamboo Valley, it is more suitable for Tianwu." Tianfeng said.

"Thank you very much." Zhang Shiping said.

The two Nascent Soul cultivators of Xuanyuanzong divided up these two third-tier practice blessings in Binhai City in a few words, and outsiders couldn't get in their hands at all.

If Zhang Shiping, the ancestor of the Yuanying family, was not there, then with the qualifications of Zheng Hengyun and Zhang Tianwu, the Green Fire Valley and the Green Bamboo Valley Forest would not be able to turn to them.

The two chatted for a few more words, Zhang Shiping got up to say goodbye, and left Tianfeng Mountain.

Tianfeng was the only one left among the bamboo scorpions, unconvinced, unscrewed the Qin Zhen, and re-tuned the piano by himself.

However, after several hours, he finally took out a volume of Qin Sutra, flipped through it page by page, and learned from the beginning.

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ps: Today is Valentine's Day......