The Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain held a Danyuan Dharma Assembly quickly spread with the intentional publicity of the family forces.

The immortal cultivation families with certain strength in the three southeastern counties basically received invitation letters. At the same time, Zhang Tianzhi also proposed to borrow spiritual plants from several closer families in the name of the family, and purchased spiritual plants materials from these families at a price slightly higher than the market price.

For casual cultivators, such a public Danyuan Dharma Assembly is rare in a century, and of course it is a sensational sensation. Especially after hearing that there will be a second-level alchemist who will refine the alchemy on the spot, even if he does not expect to learn it, he will want to increase his knowledge.

There are many arts in the Immortal Sect, and the alchemy is the best, but in fact, there are very few monks who can truly master this art.

The Wang family is the oldest immortal cultivation family in the three southeastern counties. Their family history can be traced back more than two thousand years ago.

On this day, Wang Lianzai, the head of the Wang family, also received a letter from Zhang family's advocate of Zhang Tianzhi. The content mentioned in the letter was to invite the Wang family to attend the Zhang family's Danyuan Dharma Assembly, and hope to temporarily borrow a batch of spiritual rice as a resource for the operation of the Danyuan Dharma Assembly.

This is not surprising, and others will not despise the Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain because in this era, even the cultivation of monks will return to heaven and earth as they weaken themselves, not to mention those low-level spiritual plants. Many spiritual plants will take three to five years to grow and irrigate their spiritual energy to achieve success. After picking, they must be stored as containers, otherwise they will soon return to heaven and earth, and the three to five years of hard work of the spiritual planter will be wiped out.

Although various methods can be used to significantly extend the storage time, those methods cost more than the other. Therefore, in addition to large sects, small and medium-sized forces like the Cultivation Family must seek funding from other families to hold a elixir Dharma Assembly. There are also medicinal materials that can be stored for a long time, but based on those alone, several elixirs cannot be refined.

Wang's mansion, Wang Lianzai in his personal study.

"The gambling nature of Zhang Tianzhi emerged again. He opened the price so high that as long as the alchemy boy's elixir rate was slightly lower, he would lose. Of course, even if he lost money and gained reputation, the deal was indeed done."

In the study, in addition to Wang Lianzai, there is also his younger brother Wang Lianfeng. These two brothers are both foundation-building cultivators and the mainstay of the Wang family. However, compared with Wang Lianzai, Wang Lianfeng has some recklessness and impulsivity, and is more of a senior thug in the family.

"Brother, the Zhang family has become increasingly weak in the past two years. They want to take advantage of this Danyuan Dharma Assembly to stand up again. Do we really want to lend them all the spiritual plants harvested this year? If I want to see, I might as well ignore it. We have no reason to help them like this."

The Han family among the eight immortal cultivation families in the southeastern counties was destroyed. In addition to the weak Zhang family, the other six immortal cultivation families quickly embezzled the Han family's power while the rabbit died and the fox was sad. Wang Lianfeng was once in charge of this matter and tasted some sweetness. He wished that the Zhang family would destroy the family quickly so that the Wang family could get a share of the pie again.

"Borrow, why not? As long as you lend it out, you will earn a lot. Our family alchemists can cultivate their vitality and take on some external affairs. It would be fine if the Zhang family's Danyuan Dharma Assembly was completed. If it cannot be done, just this gamble will make the Zhang family go bankrupt directly and will not be angry for twenty years... There will be no loss for us at all, but there may be great benefits. Why not do this deal?"

Wang Lianzai walked around the study, and his thoughts of gains and losses were changing a lot, and finally said this.

"But, brother, what if the Zhang family's Danyuan Dharma Assembly was completed?"

"That is, the Zhang family should flourish again. Our Wang family can only make friends and not make enemies!"

Wang Lianfeng disagreed with the fact that his elder brother attacked and retreated like this, and he was a safe way to play.

"Brother, otherwise I would have let me pretend to be a casual cultivator and sneak attack on the Danyuan Dharma Assembly hosted by the Zhang family. Even if I don't kill anyone, those spiritual plants and spiritual valleys will be a huge loss. The Zhang family will inevitably be defeated, and we can eat all their industries like we would against the Han family!" Wang Lianfeng became more excited as he spoke. He felt that his idea was much more wonderful than his elder brother's passive response.

However, just after he came back from his excitement, Wang Lianfeng discovered that his elder brother, Wang Lianzai, the contemporary head of the Wang family, was staring at him with a very cold look.

"Uh...Brother, did I say something wrong?" Wang Lianfeng was a little afraid of his elder brother since childhood, especially when his father passed away, he once swore that he would obey his elder brother for the rest of his life. Over the years, Wang Lianzai has been half the elder brother and half the father.

When Wang Lianzai and Wang Lianfeng died, the situation in the Wang family was not very good. However, over the past century, Wang Lianzai has worked hard to build a foundation and successfully restored the power of the Wang family, because it was not just Wang Lianfeng, but there were almost no ones who were not afraid of this contemporary head of the family.

"There is no airtight wall in the world, and there is never a secret in the world that will never be exposed. Destroying the Danyuan Dharma Assembly is making enemies to death. If you want to do it, you will kill all the Zhang family members without leaving any one. If you don't have such determination, you dare to offend others to death? If you have such determination, then I ask you, will that Zhang Lie be killed by you or by me? After killing a true disciple of the Qianzhushan Sect, will you go to the end of the world or will I go?"

"This...this..." Wang Lianfeng didn't think so much at all. At this moment, he was pressed by his elder brother Wang Lianzai step by step, and he was completely confused. Fortunately, after all, he was the younger brother who had been taking care of him for so many years. Wang Lianzai looked at Wang Lianfeng with a confused look on his face. He didn't say anything for a long time, and he sighed softly:

"Forget it, forgot. Go and arrange the borrowing of spiritual plants. Lend all the spiritual plants produced by the family this year to the Zhang family. This favor must not only be sold, but also be sold beautifully, which makes people feel grateful. But I warn you, if you dare to do small moves on your back, I will personally cut off your head with a flying sword to use it to seriously clan rules!"

"I know, I know, you know, I won't go against your will. What do you say so scary?" Wang Lianfeng turned his head and cursed silently and walked away to deal with the matters arranged by his elder brother. Sometimes he felt that he was a foundation-building cultivator, who was in charge of his father when he was there, and now he was in charge of his elder brother. He would never be the time to be the master of his own family.

Seeing that his stupid brother left, Wang Lianzai sighed softly, then returned to his desk and sat down, and began to think about the current situation of the three southeastern counties. This is a small place in the world of immortal cultivation, but as long as one step is wrong, hundreds of people from the Wang family will still end up being broken.

If so, he also hopes that Lian Feng can take the lead and let himself take a breath.

A scene similar to this is similar to a story, and it is also staged among other families, but some choose to agree, while others choose to refuse, all of which are considered from the perspective of their own interests.

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On the other hand, in the Qinglushan Medicine Ice Storage Room, Zhang Lie was looking for the medicinal materials he needed from the family's medicinal materials reserves.

The Wood Spirit Symbiosis·Cang Qingtian Spiritual Technique almost made Zhang Lie a real wood-type spiritual root cultivator, so his affinity and perception of medicinal materials was so high that others felt outrageous. Moreover, with the practice of the Qingling Method, Zhang Lie's eyesight also increased, which allowed him to select all the most active, relatively best, and most in line with his wishes among medicinal materials.

Behind Zhang Lie, a girl who looked a little delicate and beautiful, held her jade plate in her hand and stood beside him and started.

These medicinal materials taken from the ice chamber must be packaged immediately to make the spiritual energy overflow and lose their medicinal properties.

While working, the female cultivator secretly looked at the side face of the monk in front of her from time to time. She felt that the other party was very focused, and she felt a hint of sweetness and joy in her heart. Sometimes she tried to find a topic even if she had nothing to say:

"Brother Yuan Lie, the head of the family, don't know what they think. They actually asked you to hold a Danyuan Dharma Assembly during this period. Didn't the Han family just be destroyed some time ago? Isn't this so arrogant time causing disasters and trouble for the family?"

Zhang Lie sensed and grasped the other party's vision and intentions. However, before he built the foundation, he did not consider the issue of the Taoist partner at all, not to mention that even after building the foundation, the girl in front of him was not a suitable Taoist partner.

Although six years later, Zhang Lie still recognized the other party. Zhang Tong, the female cultivator of the family who was almost blackmailed by someone to seize Yuanyin at the Immortal Ascension Party.

"The eight major families, including the Zhang family, have been ruled by the three southeastern counties for hundreds of years. Although they have had conflicts and dirty things, they are still in groups to keep warm and advance and retreat together. Now that the Han family has been destroyed, this really touches the bottom line. This time the family holds the Danyuan Dharma Assembly, the main method is part, and reaching a consensus to jointly deal with those casual cultivators is a more important part. If our Zhang family gains an important position in it, it will be very beneficial to enhancing the family's influence."

When the existing seven major families join forces, those casual cultivators are far from being opponents. Originally, the power of the Han family is the lowest among these families, not to mention that they have been plotted without intention and have been successfully plotted. If they are head-on, the Han family will never be defeated so quickly or miserably.

After selecting the elixir and sealing it, Zhang Lie took Zhang Tong behind him to leave the family's extremely small but expensive medicine storage ice room. If the ancestor of the Zhang family was not good at refining alchemy, a medicine storage ice room of this scale would not have been established.

"Okay, Xiaotong, thank you for your hard work in the past two days. It's too late today. Let's go to rest early." As the storage Qiankun bag sprayed white glow from the pocket, covering all the jade boxes on the ground. The things immediately shrank rapidly in the white light. After shrinking to a certain level, they were sucked into the bag.

After completing all this, Zhang Lie said to Zhang Tong. However, just as Zhang Lie turned around and left with the medicine bag, someone came from behind, and Zhang Tonghan begged with sadness: "Brother Yuan Lie, please help me, besides you, I really can't find anyone who is willing to help me."

Zhang Lie turned around and saw Zhang Tong kneeling on the stone floor and begging in tears. Seeing this, he frowned slightly.

"You get up first. Although I may not be able to help, I can always listen to what you are asking for."

Cultivators do not have as many rituals and laws as they are in the secular world, because there are too many methods to detect whether a monk Yuanyin and Yuanyang are still there, so although it is night, there are no inconveniences for Zhang Tong to enter Zhang Lie's room. It is better than kneeling outside and crying, which makes the impact even worse.

"Let me tell me quickly, what's going on? Xiaotong, you know that I'm preparing for the Danyuan Dharma Assembly during this period. Time is very tight and I don't have much energy to spare."

"For me, it's a matter of life and death, but for Brother Yuanlie, it's just a matter of one sentence!"

"Tell me something."

"Oh..." Seeing that Zhang Lie had already shown obvious impatience, Zhang Tong did not dare to continue to delay and told his own affairs.

It turned out that since the assessment of the Ascension Primary School failed, Zhang Tong practiced hard, hoping to become a cultivator who was focused on training in the family. However, some time ago, the head of the family suddenly pointed out that Zhang Tong and married a small family with a vassal in the Zhang family, the Zhou family...

"The eldest son of the Zhou family, Zhou Binghong, is a famous wanderer and even a bad gambling man. If I marry him, not only will I have hopeless paths in this life, but my life as a woman will be ruined. Please ask Brother Yuan Lie to save me!" As Yan said, Zhang Tong knelt down again and kept crying.

However, she had not received any response from the person in front of her for a long time.

Somewhat confused, Zhang Tong raised her head, but saw Zhang Lie sitting there, talking to a messaging talisman, saying something. Seeing this scene, Zhang Tong's face changed.

"Xiaotong, you and me have some destiny after all, so since you knelt down and begged me, I asked you carefully about this matter. You did not lie to me. Zhou Binghong is indeed not a good thing, but it is precisely because of this that the family asked you to marry him."

"The Zhou family was originally a family of immortal cultivation that had once produced a Jindan-level cultivator. However, it has suffered disasters over the years. In this generation, only Zhou Binghong has the talent for cultivation. The next generation of Zhou family head is bound to him. However, this person's nature and ability are not good. Xiaotong, you marry him. As long as you have the style of a big wife and have some means, plus the support of the family, you can take charge of the entire Zhou family in less than twenty years. With your talent and current cultivation, you will polish your mind and mind for twenty years. Before the age of sixty, you still have a great opportunity to practice until the late stage of Qi refining. At that time, the Zhou family has the resources in hand and the family has helped you. Isn't it that you have obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill? The family made such a decision for your path!"

Looking at the girl in front of her, Zhang Lie didn't understand what she was thinking. Marrying a marriage with the Zhou family was the best arrangement for her, not to mention that she was protected and trained by the family for many years, and she did not do other things well. Isn't it good to have such a way out?

"But Brother Yuan Lie, after marrying Zhou Binghong, have I ruined my life?"

"The problem is who you don't marry. You have been ruined by yourself in the first half of your life. If your family protects you for many years, you will have to recover some costs, right?"

Zhang Tong and Zhang Lie participated in the Immortal Ascension Dharma Assembly in the same year. She is a cultivator of two spirit roots. Six years ago, she was a fourth level of Qi refining, and now she is a sixth level of Qi refining. For a cultivator with qualifications, the family's cultivation resources are not low. As a result, this kind of cultivation progress is either because of insufficient understanding and low level of understanding of martial arts, or because they are not diligent enough to work hard enough, and unable to persist in completing the six hours of cultivation every day. Zhang Tong was not distracted by any of the arts of cultivating immortals. She is the purest cultivator, but this cultivation achievement made the family really unable to agree with it.

"Brother Yuanlie..."

"Don't, I remember that you are actually two years older than me. Xiaotong, you are indeed too lacking in training. You are very talented and smart. But with your current state, I can only conclude that you have not completed the six-hour Taoist practice every day. Xiaotong, good cultivation talent is your advantage, but you have not really grasped this advantage."

The practice of Taoism and Dharma is six hours a day. Even those who are cultivating the Qi Refining Realm have magical power to nourish their bodies. Three hours of sleep is enough. Therefore, there are still three hours of food every day and spare time (two days of rest in the month). After being promoted to the foundation-building realm, time is even more abundant, because the spirit is full and not thinking about sleeping, just practicing meditation can completely replace sleep. Cultivators at foundation-building and above are not willing to abandon this preference, otherwise they will not be able to sleep.

Of course, the higher the level of monk, the more fields you need to explore. At that time, you have to readjust your cultivation habits and choose the most suitable work and life model.

Zhang Tong's request was not satisfied, so she left cryingly. Zhang Lie sent her away, shook her head after returning to the room, not knowing how to evaluate this matter.

Unlike the earth world on its own, in this world of immortal cultivation, the concept of love is very weak. Although immortal cultivators also have Taoist couples and husband-wife relationships, it refers to the support of both parties in the process of chasing the great way, rather than unilaterally seeking each other in either direction. From this perspective, the Zhou Binghong of the Zhou family is in line with the definition of Taoist couple for Zhang Tong, because she can obtain the cultivation resources she wants from the Zhou family through Zhou Binghong, and Zhang Tong is in line with the definition of Taoist couple for Zhou Binghong, because Zhang Tong is the Zhang family sent over to annex a chess piece from the increasingly weak Zhou family.

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As time passed, the Danyuan Dharma Assembly hosted by the Zhang family finally kicked off. In the mountains and forests, beside the streams, there was a place where spiritual energy gathered.

On the platform, Zhang Lie, wearing a Taoist robe, ignored the bustle around him. This level of interference was not enough to shake his mind.

As the auspicious time came, Zhang Lie opened his eyes and inspired him to a silver elixir furnace that was more than one foot high and was engraved in front of everyone.

"It's beginning, it's beginning, my god, this is the spiritual tripod passed down from generation to generation by the Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain, the Pure Yuan Silver Tripod? It's really noble!"

"Yes, yes, even if we wait for the casual cultivator to work hard for a lifetime, we may not be able to afford such a spiritual cauldron."

"It's normal that you can't afford it. The second-level alchemy furnace and the magic weapon of Jindan Zhenren are at the same price. How many Jindan Zhenren in our Mingzhou are there in total?"

“点火了,点火了,都闭嘴!”

Zhang Lie just opened the fire source stone to the smallest, and two young monks of the Zhang family, Zhang Yuanhong and Zhang Yuanjie, added spiritual charcoal to the Pure Yuan Silver Cauldron.

The boy of water and fire is a hard work. It shouldn't have been done by Zhang Yuanhong and Zhang Yuanjie. However, this time they volunteered to apply. After obtaining Zhang Lie's consent, the family advocate Zhang Tianzhi nodded and agreed.

(The first furnace, start with the Chunlu Pill, then Jingyuan Pill, Jindao Pill, Qingling San...) Finally, all the spiritual materials were checked. The order of alchemy was flowing through Zhang Lie's heart, and it was complicated but not messy. This time, the Danyuan Dharma Assembly devoted all the efforts of the Zhang family in Qinglu Mountain. As long as there was no major accident, at least more than a hundred alchemy furnaces were needed. For most alchemy masters, this was a hard work. One qi of alchemy was used to squirt blood from the wounds.

However, after swallowing and acquiring three kinds of five elements, Zhang Lie's current magic power is more than three times that of cultivators of the same realm. Adding to physical cultivation, this hard work is a matter of purifying and improving one's own cultivation in Zhang Lie's opinion.

“开炉,放五株迎春米进去.”

After the spiritual fire was strong and the spiritual water in the alchemy furnace was boiling, Zhang Lie ordered this order, but it made Zhang Yuanhong and Zhang Yuanjie stunned, and even the cultivators around him were in an uproar. Even the monks of various major families on the alchemy platform were looking at each other.

“一炉五株,没问题吧?”

"Do you usually practice one by one, one by one, ten pieces of a furnace? You can start with five, which is a burning money?"

Chunlu Pill is a first-level elixir red, suitable for cultivators in the early to mid-stage stages of Qi refining. Since Yingchun Rice, the main material of Chunlu Pill, is one of the large-scale plantings of major families in Mingzhou, even monks who do not know how to refine elixirs are at least familiar with this elixir.

Zhang Yuanhong and Zhang Yuanjie subconsciously looked up, looked at the high platform beside him, and looked at the family leader Zhang Tianzhi who was talking and laughing with other monks in the family.

“放五株迎春米进去,快!”

Seeing this, Zhang Lie frowned slightly, and had already made up his mind that when he refining high-level spiritual pills, he could no longer let these two guys act as water and fire boys to fight. It would be easy to refine this low-level pill, but the heat could be adjusted. When refining high-level pills, it would be a slight difference. At that time, as it is now, even if he wants to remedy it, there would be no way to remedy it.

Zhang Yuanhong and Zhang Yuanjie finally quickly put five spring rice into it. The next moment, Zhang Lie in the spirit gathering array on the magic platform had already drawn the magic trick.

Because of the fire of life, the medicinal essence in the waste pill can be extracted again. Therefore, Zhang Lie has more than several times the experience of others in the alchemy for the same amount of alchemy resources until the alchemy is successful or the medicinal essence is unremarkable.
To be continued...