"Sir, you are back." A woman in plain clothes walked out after hearing the sound.
"Forget it, let's not go in. After I leave tomorrow, you can move in by yourself!" Seeing the woman approaching, Shen Yuan hurriedly turned around and left, as if he didn't want to see this person.
Liu Yu followed helplessly. He was a little tired after traveling for several days to get to Tianping County. But Senior Brother Shen was eager to get away, busy explaining things, dragging himself around without even taking a moment to rest.
"The old woman just now is the servant who takes care of the food. She is quite honest. If you want to eat something, you can give her some silver and let her go get it." Shen Yuan, who was walking in front, suddenly said.
"Oh! Senior brother, where are we going now?" Liu Yu responded, feeling a little dissatisfied with Senior Brother Shen.
"Yannancheng has jurisdiction over nine counties. Do you know why only Tianping County is garrisoned by sect disciples? The other eight counties' Celestial Masters are all useless casual cultivators." Shen Yuan slowed down and asked.
"Brother, why is this?" Liu Yu asked without really thinking about this question, secretly wondering if there was something hidden.
"The place we are going to now is the Zhang family, the richest family in Tianping County." Shen Yuan said mysteriously. Then he slowly explained the reason.
It turns out that the Zhang family in Tianping County is a family that cultivates immortals. It used to be a big family and had produced several immortal cultivators in the foundation-building period. It was an old family for more than 2,000 years, but now it has failed.
Three hundred years ago, the Zhang family was getting weaker and weaker. There were fewer and fewer immortal cultivators in the family, and their cultivation levels were not high. In the past, the magical weapons and skills left by our ancestors inevitably aroused the covetousness of some desperate murderers, and the family did not have the strength to protect them. As several immortal cultivators in the family were killed inexplicably, the head of the Zhang family of that generation dedicated a large number of magical weapons, exercises, and elixirs to Huang Shengzong in exchange for Huang Shengzong's protection and commitment.
At that time, Huang Shengzong issued a decree in the world of immortality: The Zhang family in Tianping County was protected by Huang Shengzong. Anyone who harmed anyone in the Zhang family for no reason would be regarded as an enemy of Huang Shengzong, and Huang Shengzong would definitely come forward to pursue them until death. As long as Huang Shengzong exists for one day, this order will be effective for one day.
Huang Shengzong's private promise to the Zhang family was that if the Zhang family's descendants meet Huang Shengzong's standards for accepting disciples, Huang Shengzong would give priority to the disciples and teach them carefully. And every one hundred years, a descendant of the Zhang family can be sent to Huangsheng Mountain to practice cultivation. There is no limit on the qualifications for cultivating immortals. This is an exception for accepting disciples.
Nowadays, the Zhang family is getting worse from generation to generation, and the family power is getting smaller and smaller. The person with the highest cultivation level among the Zhang family is named Zhang Zhenguang. He has mixed spiritual roots of fire, earth, and metal, and has very ordinary qualifications. He was accepted as a disciple by Huang Shengzong as an exception. Now he has reached the eighth level of Qi training and is practicing in Huangsheng Mountain.
In addition, there are six immortal cultivators in the Zhang family. Their qualifications are too poor. They have either five-line miscellaneous spiritual roots or four-line miscellaneous spiritual roots. Each one has a low level of cultivation, and the highest one is the family patriarch, who only has the fifth level of Qi cultivation. Shen Yuan told Liu Yu that part of the reason why the sect sent disciples to station here was to better protect the Zhang family.
Another part of the reason was to monitor the Zhang family. It turned out that the Zhang family was in decline, but they still had a piece of spiritual land in hand. This spiritual field is of excellent quality. After 1,200 years of careful management, it has become a qualified second-grade medium spiritual field, which can grow many rare elixirs.
The Zhang family planted the second-grade high-grade elixir "Yin Ling Flower" on this spiritual field. The "Yin Ling Flower" has special growth conditions. It can only grow in a place where Yin Qi and the five elements' spiritual Qi coexist. It blooms once every twenty years. The flowers are composed of six petals, each petal has a different color, including red, gold, white, green, yellow and black, which is very charming.
The mature Yinling Flower is the main ingredient in refining the third-grade inferior elixir "Jade Spirit Pill" and is priceless. "Jade Spirit Pill" is an elixir used by those who are in the foundation stage to cultivate. A small bottle of "Jade Spirit Pill" costs at least 1,200 low-level spiritual stones in the drugstore. This shows how valuable the "Yin Spirit Flower" is.
This second-grade spiritual field was originally owned by the Zhang family and had nothing to do with Huang Shengzong. However, because the Zhang family is too weak, when the Yin Ling Flower matures, cultivators with advanced cultivation levels will come to snatch it. These people were concerned about Huang Shengzong's promise and did not hurt anyone after they arrived. They snatched the mature Yin Ling Flower and ran away. The Zhang family cannot keep the fruits of their labor.
They can only reach an agreement with Huang Shengzong. 50% of the Yin Ling Flowers produced in the spiritual field will be dedicated to Huang Shengzong in exchange for Huang Shengzong sending monks with high magic power to guard the spiritual field every time the Yin Ling Flower matures until the Zhang family has the ability. Until you protect yourself.
Every twenty years when the Yin Ling Flower matures, the Huang Sheng Sect will send several foundation-building immortal cultivators to guard this second-grade spiritual field and collect 50% of the mature Yin Ling Flower.
In a few years, the Yinling flowers in Zhangjia Lingtian will mature again. Liu Yu's mission is to monitor the Zhang family, not to make any small moves, and to keep an eye on this second-grade spiritual field to prevent any trouble.
"Junior brother, if you find any changes in the Zhang family, just send someone to send a message to Yannan City, and the sect will take care of it." Shen Yuan said softly.
From the perspective of Huang Shengzong's senior officials, the Zhang family is under the jurisdiction of Huang Shengzong. Unless the Zhang family really has the ability to protect this spiritual field, Huang Shengzong will have to decide on the 50% of the Yin Spirit Flower and cannot tolerate anything else. The forces are involved.
"Brother, I got it." Liu Yu didn't expect such a hidden secret. It seems that in Tianping County, he really can't be careless when he holds the position of Heavenly Master.
The two arrived at the Zhang family soon. The Zhang family courtyard was very grand, with several courtyards connected together, tall buildings and pavilions, and magnificent. In the Zhang family, I only saw a middle-aged manager named Zhang Zhenqi, a cultivator at the third level of Qi training. I heard from him that the head of the Zhang family was not in the mansion and had gone to Lingwu Villa.
Shen Yuan took Liu Yu and stood up to say goodbye. Zhang Zhenqi tried his best to persuade them to stay at Zhang's house for a few days. He immediately sent someone to ask the clan leader to come back, but Shen Yuan took Liu Yu out of the Zhang family compound on the grounds that he had something important to do.
"Junior Brother Liu, this Lingwu Villa is on Lingwu Mountain outside the city. The scenery is really good, but it's just too remote. The spiritual field is in the villa. Now that you have contacted the Zhang family, go and see for yourself. Look." Shen Yuan said with a sigh of relief, having explained the most important things clearly, he can go back to Yannan City tomorrow.
"Lingwu Villa?" Liu Yu said to himself, thinking that he must pay a visit when he has time.
Next, the two of them visited several medical clinics on the street, and then returned to the county government office. Liu Yu rested in the side room arranged by Magistrate Lin. Shen Yuan chatted with Magistrate Lin for a while and then hurried out, as if there was something important.
Lin Zihe's family of three were sitting in Lin Hongyu's boudoir. Lin Zihe was leaning on the wooden chair, his eyes wandering around not knowing what he was thinking. Mother and daughter were sitting on the edge of the bed, talking.
"Dad, Mr. Liu really just came to take office? He didn't mention anything else." Lin Hongyu asked unwillingly.
