A few days later, a luxurious carriage drove away from the island in the middle of the lake.
"I finally came out, but I couldn't hold it in for five years. You know, five years."
In the carriage, Zhang Yunyuan looked particularly excited, looking around without blinking.
"Brother, has it been that you haven't left Chihu for so long?" Zhang Qing was a little surprised.
There were ten people in the carriage. They were the team he had summoned to go to the official residence this time to show that the Zhang family attached great importance to this matter.
To be honest, Zhang Qing actually lacked confidence. The head of the family gave him this task, but did not let a foundation builder follow him, so he could only pull nine qi exercises to make up the number.
"Of course the clan will not let him come out. Brother Qing clan, do you know how valuable a qi-training monk who can refine a first-level peak magic weapon with a success rate of 90% is?"
Hearing this, Zhang Qing looked at Zhang Yunyuan in surprise, not expecting that this clan brother had such ability.
Zhang Yunyuan's face also collapsed, "The clan elders only allow me to freely enter and leave Chihu after I successfully build the foundation. But building the foundation is not that easy."
"Foundation building? Isn't this an opportunity?"
In the corner, Zhang Baiyu, who was lying on the deerskin carpet without any temperament, spoke out. He didn't know if he had just woken up or something.
"I hope everything goes well." A woman said, her name is Zhang Mudan, and she is relatively close to Zhang Qing among the five houses in Chihu.
Next, no one made a sound. Except for Zhang Baiyu, they all sat down cross-legged to adjust their breath and mana.
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Yangshui Lake.
This is a huge lake, ten times larger than Chihu Lake. There are few islands in it, but almost all of them surround the two large islands in the center.
This is the clan land of the official family, where tens of thousands of people of the official family live.
Yes, unlike the Zhang family, the cultivators of the official family lived together with the ordinary people who had no spiritual roots.
So when Zhang Qing's carriage arrived, he saw hundreds of people wearing coarse linen mourning clothes waiting to be greeted by the Yangshui Lake, with sad smiles on their faces.
"A golden lotus farmer suddenly appeared in the clan, and then died suddenly. They began to grieve before they could rejoice. It's a pity that they could have become a wealthy Yunmengze clan."
Zhang Qing smiled, then cleared up his expression and walked out of the carriage, "One wrong step, one wrong step after another, and they have to swallow the bitter fruit themselves."
After saying that, the carriage door curtain was lifted, the golden sunlight shone down, and hundreds of officials and family members greeted him.
"I, Guan Danqing, am the head of the Guan family. Envoys, please follow me."
"Senior, you're welcome."
Zhang Qing naturally had to be more polite to a foundation-building family leader and several foundation-building teams behind him.
But to be polite, he still walked alongside them at the front on behalf of the Zhang family.
"I heard that the head of the Guan family entered the late stage of foundation building five years ago?" Zhang Qing was still curious. Has Guan Danqing really not made any progress in the past five years?
"Yes, I was lucky enough to enter the late stage five years ago, but unfortunately, my cultivation has not improved in the past five years."
Hearing this, Zhang Qing nodded and said nothing.
Soon, everyone arrived at the island in the middle of the lake, and naturally they were treated to a very high standard.
"Master of the Guan family, I believe you should know why I am coming to Yangshui Lake this time, right?" Without any hesitation, Zhang Qing went straight to the point and said this, which also attracted the angry looks of many officials from the Guan family.
"The ancestor is dead, what else do you want?"
"Is Chihu really so domineering in his work?"
"Domineering?" Zhang Qing looked at the old official who spoke, "Senior, what you said is a misunderstanding. What does our Zhang family do that is not reasonable?"
Then he looked around at everyone present, "If I remember correctly, what the government relies on are actually the tributaries of the water system, mainly Yangshui Lake, and the tens of thousands of acres of spiritual fields covered by these tributaries, right?"
Yangshui Lake is similar to Chihu, but there are no peaks around it, but endless plains. Secondly, Yangshui Lake is a rare spiritual land. Because of the active water flow, the surrounding plains are also nourished by spiritual energy, giving birth to pieces of Spirit field.
"These spiritual fields, because of the Yangshui Lake, are much better than other places, even compared to the four clans of the same clan, so the spiritual rice of your official family is one of the best in the entire Yunmengze."
"I don't need to ask how many spiritual stones the official family has received from selling such high-quality spiritual rice over the years. I know it is a terrifying number."
"With such a huge profit, do the officials really think that no one is coveting it?"
"All these greedy eyes were blocked by the Zhang family. Everyone here is quite young, so you shouldn't be unclear about this, right?"
"But we deliver 30% of the spiritual rice to Chihu every year, and there has never been a shortage of rice every year. Isn't this enough?"
Zhang Qing looked over expressionlessly, "Senior, do you think that if the Zhang family doesn't help you, you don't have to pay these 30%?"
Everyone fell silent. Yangshui Lake was not very far from Chihu. Because of this distance, even if the Zhang family did nothing, the officials would have to take out their spiritual stones bit by bit.
"In addition..." Zhang Qing looked at the first official family elder to speak.
"What the senior said before was also wrong. If your official member is still alive, then the Zhang family will not ask for anything, and even the 30% spiritual rice in the future may become 20%."
"He's dead, that's why we're here."
His eyes gradually fell on the head of the official family, "You have underestimated the capacity of the Zhang family. It is not that an ordinary Golden Lotus cannot appear in the eyes of the Zhang family. This is your miscalculation. Therefore, all consequences will be yours." take responsibility."
"I don't know when that senior made a breakthrough, but it's a pity that your official family didn't expand its strength within this period of time. Otherwise, Yun Mengze might not have many families that can compare with yours."
Hearing this, the officials and family members present were shocked and fell into deep regret.
Only they themselves know how much effort and price the family has paid to let their ancestor break through Zhongjinlian. However, as a result, the existence of Zhongjinlian has not helped the family at all, but also attracted the hostility of the Zhang family.
Zhang Qing was right, the consequences of all this would be for them to break their teeth and swallow it.
"Hey..." Guan Danqing sighed and stood up, "I know what you want, come with me."
The other officials and family members all looked ugly, but they did not follow Guan Danqing to get up.
Following the head of the official family, the group came to another large island in Yangshui Lake, and then followed a secret passage all the way down.
"This should be at the bottom of Yangshui Lake, right? What's below?" Zhang Baiyu asked curiously beside Zhang Qing.
