The Qiaoshou Sect and the Golden Knife Sect have been in alliance for many years and have always had a close relationship.
The two families cooperated tacitly and took advantage of the window period after the demise of Shuangfenggu to harvest the most plump fruits. Even the Taiyi Sect under the leadership of Meng Zhang had to stay away from the two sects after joining forces.
But any alliance relationship must be based on relative equality between both parties.
If you want to have equal status in the world of cultivation, then there shouldn't be too much difference in strength.
Aunt Jin from the Qiaoshou Sect was in the middle stage of foundation building, and was already above Ruan Dadao. It's just that because the disciples of the Golden Knife Sect are brave and brave in fighting, while the female monks of the Qiaoshou Sect are mostly good at production, their combat effectiveness is slightly weaker. Only two sects can maintain equal status.
Now that the Qiaoshou Sect has an additional foundation-building monk, the strength of the two sects has greatly increased.
Will the alliance between the two sects still be so strong in the future?
Meng Zhang began to wonder if there was any opportunity to break up the alliance between the two families.
Although facing strong pressure from the outside world, the four sects are still united and can maintain a good cooperative relationship. But in Meng Zhang's heart, he has always been deeply wary of the alliance between the Qiaoshou Sect and the Golden Knife Sect.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be rushed, and you need to look for opportunities slowly.
Guests from all walks of life arrived one after another.
In fact, there are only three sects in the surrounding area and four in Mingshafang City as guests. Compared with the grand occasion of the Linshan Sect Lin Shenpo's Foundation Building Ceremony, it was far behind.
Even the young Meng Zhang felt a sense of right and wrong in his heart. In just a few years, the surrounding situation has changed dramatically. Many familiar faces have disappeared.
At this time, Aunt Jin and Aunt Jin Qi, two skilled craftsmen who built the foundation, also came out to receive visitors from all walks of life.
When facing Jin Qigu, Ruan Dadao's face was obviously a little unnatural.
A junior whom he had known for many years suddenly had almost the same status as himself, but the disciple whom he had given high hopes for had failed to build his foundation.
Even though Jin Qigu's attitude was still respectful, Ruan Dadao was still very uncomfortable.
Lin Shenpo from Linshan Sect, Gu Tanghai from Mingshafang City, and Meng Zhang from Taiyi Sect sincerely congratulated Jin Qigu for establishing the foundation. In any case, it is always a good thing for their small group to become stronger.
In addition to the interactions between several foundation-building monks, younger generation disciples from various sects also appeared one after another.
As the landlord, the Qiaoshou sect has the largest number of disciples. The other sects can follow the elders in the foundation building stage to participate in the Dharma assembly, and they are also the next generation of elites who are highly valued within the sect.
Meng Zhang secretly used his Dharma Eyes to Detect Illusions and carefully observed the younger disciples of each sect.
The young disciples of the Linshan Sect are quite decent, neither good nor bad, but they are worthy of a foundation-building sect like the Linshan Sect.
There were only two members of the Shi family brought by Gu Tanghai, with average qualifications.
The Golden Sword Sect has the most disciples, and their cultivation is also very strong. There are many people who are at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
However, after Meng Zhang's observation, he found that these people had mediocre qualifications and only relied on long-term accumulation to slowly improve their cultivation. This type of people will have limited future prospects and will find it difficult to build a foundation.
On the contrary, there are several good disciples among the Qiaoshou Sect. In particular, a female disciple named Jin Qiao'er was extremely intelligent and restrained, making her very extraordinary.
Meng Zhang judged that this woman had at least a middle-grade spiritual root or above, and she should have some special talent.
Jin Qiaoer is about fourteen or fifteen years old, lively, innocent, cheerful and outgoing. Not only Aunt Jin and Aunt Jin Qi loved him very much, but other disciples in the sect also doted on her.
The disciples from various families who came to visit were also very willing to get close to Jin Qiaoer. On the other hand, Yang Xueyi from Taiyi Sect was a little respectful of her.
The disciples knew each other and communicated with each other. Several foundation-building monks gathered together to discuss business matters.
Several forces started planning a few years ago to open up trade routes and open up routes to the Jiuqu League. Now, everyone is almost ready.
After some discussion, a few people decided on a departure date.
Two months later, everyone formed a caravan and hit the road together.
After the business talk is over, the next step is the communication between the various sects.
The next day, Jin Qigu opened a forum to give a lecture and publicly preached some ways of spiritual practice.
Meng Zhang listened for a while and found it boring.
First of all, he has now established a foundation and has a deeper understanding of the principles taught by Jin Qigu.
Secondly, Jin Qigu is a rather stingy woman. What she talks about does not contain much practical content and is mostly empty talk.
The group of Qi Refining Stage disciples sitting below, after listening to a lot of mysterious and boring principles, felt a little confused. Even the most enlightened people have gained very little.
After Jin Qigu opened the forum to teach the Dharma, several guests did not stay too long and went home. The long journey is about to begin, and there are a lot of things to arrange in each department.
As the day of departure approached, Meng Zhang made some arrangements for the affairs of the family.
When he is not at the door, as usual, the general secretary Chang Tianzhen handles daily affairs, and the Houtu God will be responsible for emergencies.
The disciples in the sect basically all have their own duties, so there is no need for Meng Zhang to worry.
Li Xuan, the foreign affairs elder, and Yang Xueyi, the master of Futang Hall, accompanied Meng Zhang on the road. Wen Qiansuan, who had just broken through the seventh level of Qi refining not long ago, also wanted to go out for a walk, so Meng Zhang also took him with him. There are also more than ten disciples who are responsible for various chores on the road.
Storage bags one after another were sent into the cabin of the second-order spaceship.
These storage bags are filled with various materials for sale by Taiyi Sect, mainly various minerals.
Since he decided to go to Jiuqu League to trade, in the past two years, Meng Zhang has ordered all the mines he owns to be mined.
In addition to all the Baizang soil mines supplying Linquanguan, a lot of various minerals such as red copper ore, black iron ore, and Qianchen sand have been accumulated.
The most precious among them is the Xunfeng stone produced in Mingsha Mountain.
Gu Tanghai was very capable and resumed production in the Mingsha Mountain Mine within a short period of time. I don’t know where he found so many monks to work hard to mine Xunfeng Stone from the mines.
According to the original agreement, Taiyi Sect can also get a large part of it.
After several years of accumulation, the quantity is also very considerable.
Another precious spiritual material is a large amount of warm jade.
When Meng Zhang stayed in Zaoxiang Oasis, he went out many times to sweep away scattered cultivators.
Not far from Zaoxiang Oasis, a warm jade mine originally belonging to Shuangfeng Valley was discovered.
The warm jade produced by this warm jade mine is of high quality, and it was an important source of wealth for the original Shuangfeng Valley.
After discovering this place, Meng Zhang occupied it without hesitation. Regardless of the manpower shortage in the sect, he mobilized a large number of disciples in the sect and organized large-scale mining.
After the mined warm jade is transported to Zaoxiang Oasis, it is regularly sent back to Taiyi Gate via flying boat.
Shi Weida looked hot, but first he didn't dare to compete with Meng Zhang for food, and secondly he couldn't even take care of Zaoxiang Oasis, so he couldn't think of anything else.
