The ancient city is surrounded by mountains, with lush forests and blooming flowers.
In the clear sky, pedestrians are like weaving, flying swords, paper cranes, birds and beasts are walking around, adding a bit of fairy spirit.
Chen Yanzhi sat in the teahouse hall, listening to the monks' conversations of varying degrees and getting some news from them.
She has been in Qingxuan City for three days and is currently staying in an inn opened by Wanxuan Sect. The service is average but the security is high.
I also roughly understood some specific situations.
This city is a vast basin, surrounded by mountains and rivers, warm and pleasant. The surrounding mountains reach into the sky. It has changeable geographical and climatic conditions, which is very suitable for cultivating a variety of spiritual plants.
Because it is the closest to Wanxuan Sect and is also the most lively and prosperous city under its jurisdiction, the sect's power extends everywhere.
The living environment is relatively simple. As long as you act according to the sect's rules and don't easily provoke its disciples, casual cultivators can live a comfortable life.
Not to mention, Wanxuan Sect also strongly encourages and welcomes casual cultivators to come here, so that they can sell their rich spiritual plant products.
All situations satisfied her.
After clearing the tea and snacks on the table, she got up and left, wandering around the city.
Wanxuan Sect will recruit casual disciples every five years, but they need to pass the Immortal Ascension Conference and pass many tests.
Often only a few dozen people are recruited out of tens of thousands of people, and the competition is extremely fierce, and the standard is combat effectiveness, not talent in spiritual cultivation.
It had only been a year since the last immortal meeting, which made Chen Yanzhi's desire to join the sect weaker and weaker.
The main reason is that the Immortal Society seems to be quite dangerous. One is to climb the ladder, the second is to compete on stage, and the third is to enter the secret trial realm to break through.
Every level is full of dangers. After all, when monks fight, they can't hold back. Beating them to death and maiming is common. After the battle is over, there will be many mortal enemies among the fighting monks. It's scary to think about it.
Wanxuan Sect began its sect transformation decades ago. Nowadays, it attaches great importance to cultivating the combat effectiveness of its disciples. Every disciple is forced to complete sect tasks every year. Not to mention that it is extremely dangerous for all of them, but it is certainly not easy either. .
It has grown stronger over the years, obviously not because the backstage is tough, but because its own fists have become tougher.
But these are inconsistent with Chen Yanzhi's consistent purpose.
For the sake of opportunity, she is sometimes willing to take risks, but such frequent struggles are really not in line with her character.
At present, the living conditions of the casual cultivators here are not bad. She plans to wait and see, not to mention that Wanxuan Sect is not recruiting disciples now.
Come to Tianjuzhu located in the center of the city, which is an organization of Wanxuan Sect that specializes in managing Lingtian house rentals.
The house is tall and spacious, with a large map in front of you, almost covering the entire front wall.
In the middle is a Qingling stone model of the entire Qingxuan City and its subordinate villages. There are a total of six towns and seventy-two villages under its jurisdiction.
As soon as she entered, the disciple in charge of Wanxuan Sect came up to inquire. His attitude was indeed very kind, and he did not have the arrogance of looking down on casual cultivators.
"Fellow Taoist, do you want to rent a house?"
Chen Yanzhi nodded, "I want to rent a spiritual field."
The disciple in charge suddenly became more enthusiastic, "Fellow Taoist is Ling Zhifu?"
"right."
"That's just right. Our sect provides a lot of support to Ling Zhifu. In the first ten years, we only need to pay 30% of the rent, and then it will return to 40% of the rent. If you need to purchase spiritual seeds, we will also provide discounts."
The Jianglu Basin where Wanxuan Sect is located has a large plain, and is crisscrossed by small and medium-sized spiritual veins, which can open up a large number of spiritual fields.
Originally, the sect focused all its energy on farming and could barely use it all.
But now that the sect's development strategy has changed, from seeking wealth to seeking strength, the spiritual field has become somewhat neglected, so we have to open up and give more opportunities to casual cultivators and families.
Chen Yanzhi was a little surprised. Generally, the land rent is more relaxed at 50%, and the rent is more severe at 60% to 70%.
This was also the reason why she was shocked and dissatisfied when the Jun family suddenly wanted to increase the rent, but she was not particularly angry because it was just an unspoken rule in the world of immortality.
After receiving Chen Yanzhi's affirmative reply, the disciple in charge took her to the map to introduce the details of each place.
"This is Qingsong Town. There are fifty acres of first-class spiritual fields under it, and ten acres in the middle. Forty-eight acres of it are rented by our sect's outer sect Qi training disciples and their families and two casual cultivators. The remaining two acres are somewhat fragmented. , distributed in three places.”
She was very dissatisfied with the personnel structure. They were all disciples of the sect. She, an outsider, would inevitably suffer a loss.
Seeing that the disciple in charge was about to continue talking, she took out five spiritual stones and stuffed them into his arms without leaving any trace, and made eye contact with him.
"Fellow Taoist, please recommend a good place. When my little sister settles down, I will thank you deeply in the future." The hint was obvious.
The disciple in charge raised his eyebrows, and the man stood up and said, "Then I will express my humble opinion. The first place is Yangliu Village under Qingmu Town."
"Although there are only five acres of spiritual land, there are also only four families of monks. The one with the highest cultivation level is at the fifth level of Qi training. It is not difficult to gain a foothold with the cultivation level of fellow Taoists."
"Even though this place is located on the edge of the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy is relatively thin, and the vacant spiritual field is only half an acre. But if we can get all five acres, it will be a good land."
Chen Yanzhi understood the implication of this person's words. Not only did she want her to use coercion and inducement, but even with her seventh level of Qi training, with just a slight hint, these people might be able to take the initiative to offer the spiritual field.
However, let’s not talk about whether she can do such a forced thing.
Just saying that this place has not been integrated by anyone else, it can be seen that these families have some tricks. She has to compete with them, but this is not her intention.
Seeing that Chen Yanzhi's expression remained unchanged, the disciple in charge knew that she was not satisfied, but the good news was yet to come.
"Of course, the one I recommend the most is Suihan Town. The Spiritual Field has just been opened. Although it lacks spiritual energy and needs a long time to cultivate, there is a lot of free space and there are no local forces, so it is easier to integrate into it. .”
"The mayor is a foundation-building master uncle in the sect. She is quite fair. She is addicted to refining weapons every day. She doesn't like to make random decisions in town affairs, and her management is relatively loose."
Chen Yanzhi's eyes lit up when she heard this. This place was fine. What she was most worried about was being ostracized and squeezed by the original monks who united together. This was the most troublesome, but now it relieved her worries.
"Thank you, fellow Taoist. I am very satisfied with Suihan Town. I will rent three acres first."
The main reason is that the spiritual stones in hand are almost spent, and there are only more than 500 of them at present, and Wanxuan Sect does not allow renting too many.
The rent for one acre of spiritual land is one hundred and fifty spiritual stones, and three acres of land costs four hundred and fifty spiritual stones. This must be paid in full first.
On the map, I selected a relatively remote Lingtian with a Lingxi River flowing through it, backed by barren mountains, and less populated.
Nowadays, Chen Yanzhi's cultivation has improved and he has many trump cards. He is no longer as cautious about safety issues as before.
To protect her privacy, she didn't really like to be in places with too many monks.
