Strange mountains and rivers

Chen Huaisheng also knew that the threat of the alien cultivators was still far away for him personally, but the impact on the entire Zhao clan family would be huge and far-reaching, and would sooner or later affect himself.

It's just that he doesn't have the ability to intervene or change anything now. What he can do is to improve his spiritual realm strength as soon as possible within his ability.

At this time, he wanted to return to Hebei as soon as possible, and return to the cave in Yunzhong Mountain to practice peacefully and steadily.

Once you step into the foundation building, it seems to be brilliant, but only when you are in it, the higher you stand and the wider the level of contact, you will find your insignificance.

Just like the confrontation between the bear spirit alien cultivator and Bao Guowei just now, it is not something that ordinary foundation building can intervene in.

Once the two of them start a duel, the surrounding Qi Refining or Foundation Building will only suffer from the disaster, and if things go wrong, they will not even have a chance to escape.

Chen Huaisheng also knew that from the perspective of Shang Jiuling, Zhu Fengbi, Ding Zongshou and Linghu Zui, the problem is considered differently.

No matter what conflicts they may have in the future, the newly integrated Chonghua Sect, which has just stood in the Great Zhao cultivation world, still wants to show everyone a new and powerful appearance.

Especially Shang Zhu and Qi Hongkui are still looking forward to returning to Yi County one day, driving away the Zijin Sect and Baishimen, and regaining the two prefectures of Yiyang and Langling.

This is the long-cherished wish of all the old Chonghua and Lingyun disciples, and it is also the motivation to inspire their efforts.

To achieve this step, they will face two powerful enemies, Baishimen and Zijin Sect. At least now, neither of them can be matched by Chonghua Sect.

Shang Jiuling is very clear about the hidden dangers of incorporating disciples from Yuhan Sect and even Yuanhe Sect.

Unlike Lingyun Sect and Ding Family, the disciples of Jiulian Sect will greatly impact the inherent structure of the entire Chonghua Sect, and the Chonghua Sect will be in a state of chaos for quite a long time.

He is not even sure whether he and Zhu Fengbi can control this situation.

Accepting Ding Xizhen as a disciple is actually a disguised alliance to prepare for a rainy day.

He needs Ding Zongshou's support to balance and suppress the internal situation, at least before Li Yu enters the Purple Mansion.

Fortunately, Qi Hongkui's spiritual realm has fallen after suffering a heavy blow, otherwise this unbalanced situation would be even more dangerous.

Now Linghu Zui has joined with about a hundred disciples, as well as dozens of disciples from Yuanhe Sect and the huge Chongyang Mountain, which has further impacted this situation.

He also knows that the Chonghua Sect, which has just absorbed the Ding family and annexed the Lingyun Sect, is not suitable to annex the Yuhan Sect. The risk is too great and there are too many troubles, but he has no choice.

Because losing such an opportunity means not only losing a Purple Mansion, but also several geniuses who may enter the Purple Mansion in the next ten or twenty years, and a bridgehead for re-entering Dazhao - Chongyang Mountain.

The fate of a sect of cultivation is the same as that of a cultivator's practice. If you don't advance, you will retreat. The fate of the Jiulian Sect is a typical example.

As a super sect, it only took 10 or 20 years of decline and deterioration to give the surrounding tigers and wolves an opportunity to find the right time to strike a fatal blow, and even without giving you a chance to turn around, you were eaten up. What a tragic ending.

Isn't it the same for the Chonghua Sect?

It was just a little conservative, that is, 10 or 20 years, but it was bullied by the Baishi Sect, and it lost its territory and Lingshan treasures that it had operated for hundreds of years, and was driven to the wilderness of Hebei to survive miserably.

Fortunately, the Great Zhao and the Beirong people happened to sign such a "trusteeship" agreement, otherwise there would be no place to stay.

Now there is such an opportunity to shorten the time for the Chonghua Sect to rise and grow, even if there are many risks, he is willing to take it.

As long as Li Yu can enter the Purple Mansion, everything will not be a problem. The three Purple Mansions of the old Chonghua, plus Ding Zongshou who is inclined to his own family, are enough to suppress Qi Hongkui and Linghu Zui.

At least in the next three to five years, Shang Jiuling is sure that Qi Hongkui and Linghu Zui will not be so unwise as to have other ideas. In three to five years, Shang Jiuling believes that Li Yu has an 80% chance of entering the Purple Mansion.

The only thing that worries Shang Jiuling is that so many disciples have joined in, which has caused the entire Chonghua Sect to expand to nearly 600 disciples at once, which is a huge pressure for the entire sect.

The most urgent and difficult thing is how to maintain the survival of the disciples of the entire sect.

Ordinary spiritual food and spiritual materials are not so difficult. There are quite a lot of spiritual fields around Wolong Ridge, Baita Pu, and Chongyang Mountain. The jade wheat and spiritual millet grown are basically enough for the disciples to eat. At most, they can buy some Jiahe to improve it, because Jiahe cannot be grown in Hebei and Weijun.

But disciples can't just rely on eating jade wheat and spiritual millet to practice.

If the disciples at the low stage of Qi Refining want to improve as soon as possible, they have to eat some spiritual plants and monster meat to replenish their spiritual energy and strengthen their Taoist bones, otherwise forced practice will cause damage to their muscles and bones.

Entering the middle stage of Qi Refining, spiritual plants and animal meat are needed for three meals a day.

If you occasionally miss one or two meals, or go without food for one or two days, it is not a big deal, but if you often miss meals, your practice will definitely be affected.

Some disciples with good talents and fast progress in practice have greater needs, especially some disciples with special talents who need to supplement special spiritual materials and spiritual food in a targeted manner during the critical stage of practice or special exercises. This is what the sect must guarantee.

Once you enter a higher stage, the cost will be even greater. Take Chen Huaisheng as an example. When he enters the foundation-building stage, he needs to eat spiritual plants and beast meat every day. On the contrary, he eats less spiritual millet and jade wheat. In terms of expenses, he is not much inferior to the Winged Fire Snake.

At this point, it is difficult to rely solely on the subsidies of the sect. You must have other channels of your own. This is why you basically have your own caves and mountains when you reach the foundation-building stage. The main purpose is to allow the cultivators to open up their own sources of spiritual plants and monsters, so that they can afford it.

This is also why the sects and families need spiritual mountains and blessed lands as their mountain gates, because the demand for spiritual plants and beast meat will always run through the cultivators. They can be traded in the city, but they cannot be produced. Whether you grow and domesticate them yourself, or hunt or even plunder, you always have to have a stable source channel to guarantee your needs.

It can be said that those so-called geniuses, in addition to the basic element of their own excellent roots, are basically built up with spiritual materials and spiritual food.

From the initial stage of Qi Refining to the foundation building, which one of these expenses is not an investment of tens of millions of spirit stones?

This is not to mention the special sutras and magic tools that were specially found for them.

In contrast, Chen Huaisheng basically relied on self-reliance, which is also a major reason why several big men in the sect are so fond of Chen Huaisheng. It is really reassuring.

"So far, no one has challenged us, but it is not clear,..." Shang Jiuling glanced at Linghu Zui who lowered his eyelids, "Brother Linghu, you are sitting on the Diaoyutai, not worried at all."

"Brother Shang, you are the head of the sect, and you should worry about these things. And Brother Ding, in such a chaotic situation, anything can happen, but I don’t think it will be targeted at us. The emergence of the law of alien cultivation has given countless people the opportunity to appear on the stage? But it also disrupted the plans of many people." Linghu Zui opened his half-closed eyes slightly: "Shouldn’t the chaotic battle on the top of Fengle Tower be a beginning?"

Shang Jiuling raised his eyebrows, "Brother Linghu means that all the alien cultivators will come on stage and challenge the Dao Fengyun Ranking?"

"Hehe, for the alien cultivators, bathing in the incense and vows of the palaces, temples, I'm afraid they are much stronger than us human cultivators, right?" Linghu Zui sneered, "I don't know what the Dao Palace, um, those people in the front are thinking. If this rule is really fulfilled, the alien cultivators will definitely become a huge disaster! These people simply ignore the overall situation of the world for their own selfish interests."

Alien cultivators are strong in feeling and weak in understanding, but if they are influenced by the incense and vows, their understanding will be opened again, and their strength will increase dramatically. It's no wonder that these alien cultivators swarmed out when they heard that the Dao Palace lifted the ban.

"Or maybe it's a delaying tactic of the Dao Palace, using the power of the strange cultivators..." Shang Jiuling pondered and said, "The pressure from the Western Tang Dynasty on the Great Zhao in the west is too great, and coupled with the restlessness of the Southern Chu, the monster tide in the forbidden land seems to have subsided in the past few years, but it is said that there are strange signs again this year. I'm afraid..."

Every time a monster tide appears, there will be some strange signs in the first year, but generally speaking, there will be many years apart, but the monster tide is coming more and more frequently. This time it's five years apart. The last round of monster tide is more like a rehearsal, and its scale is far less than the round fifty or sixty years ago, but this year's signs of strange signs are also more fierce. It was reported to the government and the Dao Palace, which also caused many people to worry.

The monster tide is a bad memory for everyone, but it seems that no one can escape the cycle of sixty years.

Each monster tide lasts for a short period of one or two years, three to five years or even ten years in Changze, and there are even ups and downs in between.

When the scale is weak, it seems that more monsters run out of the forbidden land, and the level is higher. When it is strong, it is rampant or even a disaster, and the damage to the world is ten or dozens of times higher than when it is weak.

People like Shang Jiuling, Ding Zongshou and Linghu Zui have experienced one or even two rounds of beast tides, but they don’t have a deep impression of that round when they were young, after all, they were too young, but they are impressed by that round when they are middle-aged.

However, according to the elders, the round sixty years ago was a smaller beast tide in the past two or three hundred years. At that time, they were only in the initial stage of foundation building or even the stage of Qi refining, but even so, the huge damage and impact it brought were still impressive, but this round is about to happen to them.