Taihao Gold Medal

Chapter 328 Natural selection, survival of the fittest;

After the spirit ship arrived at Wuling Mountain, Master Xiao Shan got off the spirit ship, intending to hand it over to Zhang Lie and send him back to Huanglong County.

How could Zhang Lie treat his teacher's magic weapon as his own?

Immediately declined politely, and then returned to Huanglong County by Yu Jianfei.

Before obtaining the rare sandalwood flower and preparing the baby spirit, it was Xiaoshan, whose lifespan was exhausted and could not drag on any longer, who wanted Zhang Lie.

After obtaining the rare sandalwood flower and preparing the infant spiritual objects, once the real person Xiaoshan succeeds in congealing the infant, the power structure of the Southern Wilderness Hundred Sects will undergo a huge change. At that time, the Zhang family in Chiyang Valley will take shelter from others It's down.

How can I waste my kindness for my own convenience?
You come and go, the more you use and the more kindness, it is only applicable when the two powers are equal, otherwise, if one party blindly contributes while the other blindly consumes, it is a great kindness that will be exhausted.

Over the years, as Zhang Yuanlie and patriarch Zhang Xiangshen have successively been promoted to the realm of the Zifu, the sphere of influence of the Zhang family in Chiyang Valley of Huangshan Mountain is also constantly expanding.

In response to the expansion of the Zhang family, the Wei family gave up half of their inherent interests in Huanglong County in order to avoid cruel family competition. The county and the Wei family continued to compete, and even tried to avoid the development direction of the Wei family in other counties, and explored other aspects of income.

One person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, not to mention that the Zhang family has produced two heroes, Zhang Xiangshen and Zhang Yuanlie, who have won great benefits for the family outside.

In the past, the income of the Zhang family's Lingshi was calculated by hundreds or thousands of yuan, but now it has become tens of thousands of yuan, 10 yuan.

The impact is that many family monks who were unable to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills can now obtain Foundation Establishment Pills, and even if they fail once, they will have a second chance.

This led to a large increase in the number of foundation-building monks in the Zhang family, which was already well-established, but correspondingly, the overall quality of the foundation-building monks began to decline.

But in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. These foundation-building monks can be dispersed to take charge of the ruling party, open up financial resources, and further promote the family to enter a positive cycle.

Wealth in this world is unlimited, and talents are always limited. If the situation is reversed, it means that the sphere of influence is restricted.

The Zhang family became more and more prosperous, and the number of foundation-building monks in the family increased. It is impossible for everyone to stay at home and eat the mountains. In Huanglong County, they can no longer compete with the Wei family, so they have to send them out to open up sources of income. There is an oven mountain near Huanglong County. It is more than six thousand miles away from Huanglong County, which is considered a frontier stronghold.

Zhang Xiangshen arranged for Zhang Chuanshu to be stationed here, and jointly opened a square market with several local casual cultivator families.

These family developments, Zhang Lie also has some understanding of the jade slips brought by the brothers of the Wei family. It was dark today, and he drove the flying sword to the vicinity of the oven mountain. After thinking about it, he hadn't seen Zhang Chuanshu for many years. Then, he pressed down the flying sword, approached Fangshi, which was built near the oven mountain, and punched a spell into it.

Not long after, the whole city was lit up.

Zhang Chuanshu flew out wearing a Taoist robe and stepping on his sword. The moment he saw Zhang Lie, he looked excited and said, "Yuan Lie, it's been a long time. Your sect mission has been delayed for a long time."

In terms of seniority, Zhang Chuanshu belongs to Uncle Zhang Lie's generation, but there is a rule in Tongxuan Realm that those who are masters come first, so Zhang Lie, Zhang Chuanshu, and Zhang Chuanhong have always been friends of the same generation, and no one can rely on themselves That elder status.

"Didn't I tell you, it's fine to come out by yourself. You have alarmed the whole city. What are you doing? I just dropped by and came to see you."

"How can I do that? You and I haven't seen each other for so many years. You must stay a few more days and tell me what you have seen and experienced in these years."

Back then, Zhang Chuanshu almost risked his life in order to save the life of the patriarch Zhang Xiangshen.Therefore, he has a lot of face in Zhang Lie's place. At this moment, he is warmly entertaining. Zhang Lie is also in a state of nothing to do. It doesn't matter if he takes a few days off, so he will temporarily live in this square market run by Zhang Chuanshu. Next, by the way, I will pass the book, pick up the spoils, and leave a few high-level magic weapons for him to store.

"Yuan Lie, you don't know. When I first came, this poor place was really poor. For a bottle of Yiqi Pill and a second-order magic weapon, two local families could fight for more than ten years and die a few times." Ten human lives, on the contrary, I don’t know how to cherish the elixir of the third and fourth ranks, and feed it to spirit beasts. The problem is that if it is a good breed of spirit beast, I will recognize it and feed it to Jianjia dolphin. I know these things When I was angry, my head was buzzing."

"No way? It's not very far from Huanglong County. Why are the local cultivators here?"

"I don't know, or it's really that the lower the realm, the more confined to the area I'm familiar with, and I don't want to leave easily. The cost of trial and error is too high."

After not seeing each other for many years, Zhang Chuanshu obviously accumulated a lot of stories.

Looking at Zhang Chuanshu's swollen cheeks, Zhang Lie could tell that Zhang Chuanshu liked the feeling of being in charge, holding power and changing a region.

Over half of the night, Zhang Chuanshu was talking and Zhang Lie was listening. He occasionally interrupted a few words, just to let Zhang Chuanshu speak more happily.

After a little hesitation, Zhang Lie finally asked:
"Chuan Shu, your mana improvement speed has been a bit slow these years."

"...Yuan Lie, it's not like you don't know that my meridians were damaged back then, and my Daoist practice will be affected in this life. Instead of spending most of my life on a fruitless matter, I might as well do something else .”

"That's fine, as long as you're really happy."

Regarding Zhang Chuanshu's thoughts, Zhang Lie didn't know what to say for a while.

Cultivating the Tao with all his strength, scrambling for resources everywhere, may die in a certain battle of martial arts, but with Zhang Chuanshu's current state, he can run the market here with peace of mind, at least there are still hundreds of years of good life to live, and it is indeed difficult. trade-offs.

The next day, Zhang Lie meditated and adjusted his breath in Zhang Chuanshu's Fangshi shop, warming up his spiritual powers, and at the same time deduced the magic of heaven and earth in his heart.

Its natal magic weapon Taiyin White Bone Banner, the extraterritorial demon that it refines is "Juxu Luue", and its natal supernatural powers are Jinyang Xuanguang Shenlei and Tribulation Dharma Eye.

For the next ten years, Zhang Lie intends to devote himself to studying and practicing Jie Mie Dharma, not only to study Taiyin Jade Book Dao Dharma and Purple Heart Dharma to confirm each other, yin and yang simultaneously.

It is also for the future practice of Haotian Dharma, to accumulate previous experience, and to avoid going in the wrong direction of practice, which will eventually lead to accumulation.

After completely refining the extraterrestrial demons with the pure yin mana of the Taiyin Jade Book, they can derive their natal supernatural powers to practice.

With the operation of the exercises, although Zhang Lieren is still in the shop in Fangshi, his mind has already entered a space full of golden light words, on which there is:

"View, Illusion, Break, Extreme, Different" five big characters outside the territory.

These five characters respectively represent the five cultivation directions for the purpose of Jie Mie Dharma.

Observation, not only represents the ability to watch, break illusions, farsighted, magnify, and even watch the flow of heaven and earth energy, it is also the most basic ability of pupil art.

Illusion represents the power of hallucinations. When the Jie Mie Dharma Eye is cultivated to a high level, it can eventually achieve omnipotence, turning illusion into reality, turning emptiness into reality, and even the ability of "one thought, one world" by extraterrestrial demons.

Breaking refers to the control of the robbery fire. If you focus on this cultivation direction, the robbery eye can cultivate the robbery magic fire, and the fire will burn everything, and everything will burn. If you practice to the extreme state, you can even reach The terrifying lethality of "hit is sure to die".

Extreme refers to the absolute control of one's own inner self. Those who cultivate in this direction often have extremely powerful demon bodies, which are difficult to destroy and infinitely recoverable.

Different, refers to the cultivation of Jie Mi Dharma Eye, which can generate all kinds of strange and strange abilities. The future of this practice direction is relatively unknown, because choosing this practice direction may become very strong, or it may become abnormally weak , It is even possible that the ability that was activated at the beginning was very weak, but after cultivating to a certain level, it was discovered that this ability was beyond common sense.

"In the Taihao Gold Medal's insight, there are actually some references to these cultivation directions, but the Taihao Gold Medal only talks about the general outline of Taoism, and many details are done at once. Cultivation method, you can understand a thing or two about Haotian Dharma."

At this time, in Zhang Lie's sense of consciousness, a group of abnormally lively vitality appeared in the chaotic vitality outside, and according to the direction of his intentions, Zhang Lie predicted that the other party's goal was exactly his own. shop.

Zhang Lie opened his eyes at the right time, and happened to see an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl standing at the door of the open shop, wearing a red riding suit and holding a riding whip, her whole body was as bright and moving as a ball of fire.

When Zhang Lie saw the other party, the Ruhuo girl also saw Zhang Lie. Suddenly, her face flushed, and she felt that the man in Taoist robes in front of her was like a god, handsome and at the same time possessing extraordinary majesty.

"Little girl, who are you looking for?"

Back then, Zhang Lie was a man with a lot of concubines, who had seen the most beautiful people in the world. Although he didn't take the initiative at that time, he had experienced it after all. After years of cultivation, his heart became stronger and stronger. Of course, he would not be fascinated by a young girl's natural charm.

"Oh, I'm looking for your shopkeeper. You, are you the shopkeeper's newly hired guy?" Looking at Zhang Lie's face, the little girl blushed again after a while, and she also realized that she asked herself halfway through her words. said something stupid.Such a person, how can he be a guy who runs errands in a shop.

"He's coming out soon."

Geyuandong saw that cultivating the upper dantian has the effect of strengthening the spiritual consciousness. With Zhang Lie's current spiritual consciousness, most of the oven mountain is within the range of his spiritual consciousness.

Sure enough, not a moment later, Zhang Chuanshu came out, holding a brocade box in his hand, presumably to fetch treasures for Zhang Lie to taste.

When he came out and saw the fiery little girl, Zhang Chuanshu's eyes lit up obviously.

"Xiao Xiao, why did you come here... Uh! I forgot."

When he said this, Zhang Chuanshu rubbed his forehead with his hands in great annoyance.

Then he said to Zhang Lie: "Yuan Lie, I promised to go hunting in the mountains with Xiao Xiao and Uncle Wu a few days ago. I entertained you and talked with you last night, but I was so happy that I forgot about it."

"Then you and Miss Xiaoxiao, fellow Daoist Wu, hurry up, I'll look after the shop for you." Zhang Lie was thinking about the method of cultivation for the purpose of robbing and destroying the law, and when he was enjoying it, he wished Zhang Chuanshu and the others to leave as soon as possible.

What's more, Zhang Chuanshu obviously has some admiration for this Wu Xiao. Although Chuanshu has two concubines but no regular wife, if he marries with a local rich family, it would be a correct choice.

"How can I do that, Yuan Lie, it's rare for you to come here once." Just when Zhang Chuanshu was in a dilemma, the girl in the red hunting suit suddenly said:

"Let this fellow Daoist Yuan Lie go with us and ride a wildebeest to hunt in the oven mountain. It's very interesting."

"Yes, Yuan Lie, you can come too."

Although Zhang Lie wanted to refuse, but Zhang Chuanshu's kindness was hard to give up. What's more, he sensed an extremely gloomy atmosphere at the door of the shop at the moment, and he was slightly curious, and finally walked out together.

Outside the shop door, there was already an old man in strong clothes waiting on a horse holding a longbow, surrounded by servants in good clothes.

When he saw his daughter, Zhang Chuanshu, and a young man in Taoist attire that he had never seen before coming out, the old man in strong attire was slightly taken aback. Startled.

Seeing that Zhang Lie ignored him, he calmed down after a while, and passed the letter to Zhang with a smile, and Zhang Yuanlie saluted.

At this time, Zhang Lie had already turned on a wildebeest.

This kind of horse, which is a mixture of fine horses and monsters, has thick scales on its body and sharp horns on its forehead. It is extremely strong, and even its teeth are sharp.

As soon as Zhang Lielue investigated, he gradually understood why the patriarch sent Zhang Chuanshu here to develop business. It is difficult for monks in the frontier to cultivate, but it does not mean that there is nothing good in the hands of these monk families. Channels and productivity, exchange with these frontier monks, there is a huge profit, and it is a long-term profit-a real businessman will always only make a limited profit, because predatory profits cannot last long.

Riding a wildebeest and holding a heavy bow to hunt in the mountains and forests is indeed ineffective compared to flying with a sword, but it can cultivate its coordination and bloodthirsty when the monk is young. It is the game of the hour and the way of survival in the future.

Although Zhang Lie just let go of his body and mind to play, his basic quality is much higher than that of other people present. He can hit every target with a few arrows, and sometimes even shoot two prey with one arrow at the same time.

This made the little girl Wu Xiao dumbfounded, but Zhang Chuanshu just smiled: The reaction speed of the Zifu monks exceeds that of the foundation building and Qi training monks. No one could shoot an arrow at all, because before they found the prey, the prey must have been shot by Yuan Lie.

"Brother of your clan, is this really your first time hunting?" the little girl Wu Xiao leaned close to Zhang Chuanshu and asked softly.

"It's definitely the first time, but don't compare yourself with him. Xiao Xiao, you are already very powerful and talented, but if you compare yourself with him..." Just what, Zhang Chuanshu didn't say it after all. In front of those who love you, you don't want others to surpass you too much.

Speaking of which, Zhang Chuanshu is more than 100 years older than Wu Xiao, just because both of them are immortal cultivators, so it looks like an elegant middle-aged man taking care of a teenage girl.

When it was almost evening, everyone rode their horses and came to the edge of the waterfall at the foot of the mountain. While being chased by the servants around, they found two prey by the waterfall.

It was a male and a female two dolphins, drinking water leisurely, and the stag with horns was watching all around vigilantly, but in its cognition, humans who were so far away could not harm them.On the other hand, the belly of the female deer with a high bulge seems to be about to give birth.

Seeing that Zhang Lie didn't intend to open the bow, Wu Yun, the old man in strong clothes, looked excited, and raised the strong bow in his hand to aim without hesitation. Wu Xiao first instinctively raised the bow, but looked at the pregnant mother. Deer, after a little hesitation, finally put down the small bow in his hand.

Zhang Lie noticed that Zhang Chuanshu's face was also a bit tangled. He raised the bow and took a false aim for a while, then he simply put down the bow as well.

But at the next moment, he suddenly drew his bow and shot out an arrow. The powerful arrow flew out with a whizzing sound, and hit the feet of the drinking doe. The two wild deer turned their heads and rushed into the forest to escape.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhang Chuanshu's originally tangled face also calmed down: "The distance is too far, the shot missed."

Wu Yun looked at Zhang Chuanshu with a strange expression, then at Zhang Lie, then turned and left without saying anything.

Wu Xiao stepped forward to kiss Zhang Chuanshu's cheek with some joy, and then rode away with her father.

That night, Zhang Lie and Zhang Chuanshu drove the flying sword back to the family square.

Zhang Lie lowered his head and stared at the increasingly prosperous market under his feet. He knew that Zhang Chuanshu's countless efforts had been poured into it, but he also remembered the scene during the day.

After all, I couldn't help but sighed and said: "Chuan Shu, you are the person who is sent by the family to rule here. Natural selection, survival of the fittest; competition with the sky, striving to protect the species, this is the Northern Territory and the The fate of these continental monks in the southern wilderness, you don’t even have the heart to shoot a pregnant deer today, what do these frontier residents think of you, who have carved out a living space in the white mountains and black waters?”

"Those of us who are protected by our families and sects have ten times and hundreds of times more resources than them. When these border people first saw us, they only showed envy, but do you know what they think?"

"When they showed their jealousy and hatred, I worried that I would never see you again."

"We know how to make limited profits, but these people don't necessarily understand."

In the family, the actual status of the two parties is very different after all. On weekdays, when Zhang Lie is willing, the two parties can certainly discuss friendship as equals, but when Zhang Lie wants to teach others, Zhang Chuanshu can only listen.

"Yuan Lie, with family protection and sect protection, you are thinking too seriously."

"There is only one life! Family cultivators are less brave than casual cultivators, and you are especially serious about this."

Seeing that Zhang Chuanshu refused to listen to the persuasion, Zhang Lie flicked his sleeves, and the next moment his whole body turned into a rainbow of light, and he left instantly.

In Zhang Lie's mind, he originally thought that after returning to the family this time, he would transfer Zhang Chuanshu back from Yanlu Mountain, but when he thought about Zhang Chuanshu's feelings and ties to this place, he couldn't bear it for a while.It is safest to confine the monks in the family, but the monks cultivated in this way will never become talents.

"The so-called cultivating the Tao is the path of the Taoist. If you don't build the road yourself and walk, what is the Tao?"

"Forget it, forget it. After returning to the family, transfer a few elites from the family. They are just some border residents. They can't handle it with the ability to pass on books."

With such thoughts in mind, Zhang Lie quickly returned to the Chiyang Valley family. He first went to the mountain city and learned that the patriarch Zhang Xiangshen had something to do and hadn't returned for several years.

Zhang Lie, acting as the patriarch temporarily, first sent some clever and tyrannical monks to the oven mountain, and then dealt with some urgent matters before returning to the small barren mountain to meet his concubine Qin Suxin.

If it is a couple in the mortal world, if they have been separated for ten years, they don't know what will happen during that time, but immortals are different, there are no Jiazi in the mountains, let alone ten years of retreat, even a Jiazi may disappear.

What's more, Qin Suxin has a maid assigned by the family to serve her personally. As the concubine of the family elder Zhang Yuanlie, Qin Suxin has to record where she goes every day, especially when she talks to any men. After choosing to accept the husband's support, you must accept it. If you choose to end this relationship, you are allowed to reconcile and leave.

As long as the man is good at talking, this kind of thing is not uncommon.But after regaining her freedom, she also lost her husband's support.

When Zhang Lie saw Qin Suxin again, he found that Qin Suxin had advanced to the seventh level of foundation building and entered the late stage of foundation building. Qin Suxin was only 82 years old this year. For a monk in the foundation building stage, his lifespan had just passed one-third. If she continues to practice at this level, even if she doesn't have any spiritual objects to assist in opening up the Purple Mansion, she still has a high chance of successfully opening up the Purple Mansion.

"Husband." I haven't seen you for ten years, but Qin Suxin didn't show any abnormality, as if for her, Zhang Lie left not ten years, but ten days, or even ten minutes. This is also the concubine training she experienced since she was a child qualities brought.

"Husband, there are two things that Su Xin wants to tell you." There was a pause here, and then Qin Su Xin continued without waiting for Zhang Lie's answer:

"A few years ago, you asked me to send someone to look for the two little girls, Huan'er and Xin'er. Now I have contacted them, but one of these two girls is married, and the other has found a new owner. I will follow your instructions. , and gave them another sum of spirit stones, which is worthy of our master and servant. Also, you promised before that as long as the younger sister of the Bai family is willing to practice Su Nv Xuanyuan Gong, she can become your concubine. Now She has been enshrined in your genealogy in the Zhang family for ten years."

(End of this chapter)