Yunmengze's Zhang family has many properties, but they can be counted on both hands that are worthy of being guarded by the foundation-building monks.
Xuanyan Mine is such an important place, and the Xuanyan Mine metal produced there can be used in almost every place.
For example, the formations in the Zhang family's Chihu Lake, the family's distinctively colored magic weapons, and the scaled horse carriage that Zhang Qing was riding in at this time.
It can be said that most of the Zhang family's magical weapons and formations rely on the production of Xuanyan Mine.
Therefore, there are more than five foundation-building monks here all year round, as well as no less than fifty late-stage Qi practitioners.
Zhang Qing feels that coming here is just a matter of mixed qualifications, and it is not wrong in a strict sense.
"Everything in Xuanyan Mine is arranged in an orderly manner. We people only need to check the surroundings every day and there is nothing else to do, especially members of the Zhang family like you and me."
In the vast mine, a young man in red clothes was taking Zhang Qing to familiarize himself with the surroundings, which places were dangerous and which places were casual. At the same time, he was telling everyone around him that another junior from the Zhang family who was in the late stage of Qi training had arrived.
"My family, Brother Tang Clan, do you mean there are many monks with foreign surnames here?" Zhang Qing asked, while Zhang Tang nodded.
"Our Chihu Zhang family is actually not an absolute cultivating family. Every few years, the family will openly recruit some casual cultivators, and the elders of the family may bring back some talented children from the mortal world."
"For a long time, there are not many people attached to our Zhang family. It's just that you used to be on the island in the middle of the lake, so you may not see many."
"They won't practice and study in the ancestral building, especially those casual practitioners who lead arts, but I'm afraid you won't see them in this Xuanyan Mine."
"Why is this?" Zhang Qing asked cooperatively.
Zhang Tang smiled and said: "Because Xuanyan Mine is so important, every monk here must be a true member of our Zhang family in order to be trusted. Therefore, among the monks here, except for our own family members, they are the relatives of the Zhang family." .”
"For more than a hundred years, our Zhang family has flourished. Some people marry, and some marry outside. Many Zhang family girls who have no spiritual roots will be arranged to marry into a good family, and their descendants are also qualified to come to our Zhang family. For those who practice at home, if those women’s husbands’ families were not so powerful, they would even change the child’s surname back to Zhang to please us.”
"Therefore, our Zhang family doesn't look big. In fact, we have already laid a big net in Yunmengze."
"The Zhang family in Chihu is not just the Zhang family in Chihu."
Zhang Qing realized the significance of this arrangement almost immediately, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to those ancestors, "Ancestors are good at their tricks."
"That's not the case, but having said that, the most important thing is our own cultivation strength. Only if we ourselves are always strong can this network be regarded as Zhang."
"Okay, we're here." Zhang Tang stopped, and Zhang Qing realized that what he saw in front of him was not a smooth mountain wall with a height of 100 meters, but a seven-story tall building built on the mountain wall.
"As far as I know, there are five foundation builders in Xuanyan Mine, and the leader is Uncle Yunting who is here. Based on your seniority, you should call me Uncle Ninth."
After that, the family tokens around their waists flashed, and they entered the interior of the seventh-story stone building. When they entered the seventh floor, they saw a middle-aged man with white eyebrows sitting cross-legged, but the other person was not practicing. , but reading a book.
This is also the reason why Zhang Tang was able to bring Zhang Qing up unimpeded.
"Uncle."
"Uncle Ninth."
Hearing the names of the two people, Zhang Yunting put down the book in his hand and looked Zhang Qing up and down, "Zhang Qing? Although I have been guarding here for ten years, I have still heard your name."
Zhang Qing's face was calm, but Zhang Tang on the side was surprised and couldn't help but look over curiously.
"You took a spiritual stone mine for the family, but I think that spiritual stone mine should not be taken. Do you know why?"
Zhang Qing raised his head and said, "I don't understand what Uncle Nine means."
"The spirit stone mine to the east has not stabilized until now. Over the years, disputes have always existed there, and the amount of spirit stones that can be given to the family every year is not satisfactory."
"According to my original intention, leaving it to the Zhao family was the best choice. We are a bit far away and it is not convenient to guard the spirit stone mine."
"Has uncle Jiu changed his mind now?" Zhang Qing nodded, indicating that he agreed with the other party's statement, but in the end he still asked a question.
Zhang Yunting's answer was indeed what he expected, which made Zhang Tang on the side even more curious.
"That's right, I have changed my mind. The things that the head of the family thinks about are always further away than mine. Yunmengze is neither big nor small, but the Zhang family should take a look further. That spiritual tower The location of the stone mine can be an opportunity for the Zhang family to break out of this corner of Yunmengze."
Zhang Yunting nodded, then glanced at Zhang Qing with satisfaction, "How do you think the Zhang family and the Jinlan Sect should get along?"
In fact, this is not the first time Zhang Qing has heard this question, and it is not the first time for Zhang Tang on the side.
In the clan building on the island in the center of Chihu Lake, they would openly ask such questions when they were young. Zhang Qing was only ten years old at that time.
Regarding this question, almost all the children of the Zhang family at that age responded with confrontation, and he was no exception.
Mainly because at that time, if any of the Zhang family children did not answer in this way, they would probably be isolated by other children and might be beaten. However, the elders of the family did not actually care about their opinions and just asked such a casual question.
Of course, it was only later that Zhang Qing found out that the family had only casually asked the children, but at that time he had answered seriously and was even praised by the clan elders.
The reason is that the writing is beautiful.
That was seven years ago, and now when faced with such a problem again, Zhang Qing was silent for a moment and only said eight words.
“If you want to take something, you must first give it.”
Seven years ago he probably wrote several thousand words, but seven years later he only had these eight words to answer.
Obviously, this answer did not satisfy Zhang Yunting. The other party just nodded and waved the two of them away.
"There is still an opening on the Xuanfengyuan side. You can go there."
"Uncle." Zhang Tang called, with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.
"It was the first time he left the family. What he lacked was not cultivation, but experience in fighting." Faced with Zhang Tang's request, Zhang Yunting did not change his mind.
Helpless, Zhang Tang could only take Zhang Qing away, not caring about Zhang Qing's curiosity along the way.
"Xuan Fengyuan, is there any difference there?" Finally, Zhang Qing asked.
