Zhang Hanyan is seven or eight years older than Zhang Zhixuan, already over thirty, but her appearance looks only sixteen or seventeen years old, like a girl.
She is tall and has a smooth complexion, like a beauty walking out of a painting.
Her memory is very good, and she can easily recognize relatives she has not seen for more than ten years. When she met Zhang Zhixuan and the four of them, she said cheerfully and generously: "I will come as soon as I receive your letter, but
The Qingxuan Sect is a vast place, and I really feel sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long."
"We haven't seen each other for more than ten years. My little sister has not changed much, but my sister and I are different. I have become an old woman now." The eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin is a woman. She was close to Zhang Hanyan when we were at Shanmen, so
Be the first to speak.
Zhang Hanyan's exercises during his enlightenment were taught by Zhang Mengqin, and the relationship between the two became closer.
"Sister is too modest. Now is the time when my sister is in her prime. How can she grow old?"
"Don't lie, little sister. I'm nearly fifty now. Although a Qi-training monk has a lifespan of 120 years, half of my body is already buried in the loess. In more than ten years, my appearance will be different.
I can’t even watch it anymore.”
It seems that both mortal women and female cultivators with magical powers undoubtedly attach great importance to their appearance.
Even the Nascent Soul stage old monsters who are powerful and capable of overturning rivers and seas still value their appearance, and female cultivators who do not value their appearance are even rarer.
With constant conversation, the relationship between these two people finally became no longer strangers and became much closer.
Zhang Hanyan glanced at Zhang Zhixuan unexpectedly, turned to Zhang Menglong and asked: "Fourth brother, whose child is this young man?
He looks young, but his cultivation level is comparable to ours?
When I left the family, this young man probably had not yet entered Taoism, otherwise he would always have an impression."
Zhang Menglong smiled proudly and said: "This is the child of your twelfth brother Meng Zhen. He has good Zhixuan spiritual roots and is also a precocious child.
He practices very diligently and has great opportunities, so although he is young, his cultivation has already caught up with ours.
A year ago, Third Uncle handed the elder token into his hands."
"When I left, I heard that Brother Twelve had an accident outside Xihefang City. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, his children had grown up and began to contribute to the family.
Are your relatives at home okay, and have you been safe these past few years?"
Facing Zhang Hanyan's greetings, the four of them immediately thought about the family's hardships over the years. What made matters worse was the incident in Xihefang. The family, which had finally regained some strength, had lost blood again.
There were more than a hundred monks in the family, and nine of them were lost at one time. Zhang Mengquan, who was at the ninth level of Qi training, was also damaged. It was a serious injury.
The four of them were silent for a while, and the fourth uncle, an old man, immediately said: "Everything is fine, don't worry about your family, just concentrate on your cultivation in Qingxuan Sect.
Even if you want to help, it would be better to wait until the foundation is established."
Zhang Hanyan was smart and smart. Although everyone changed the topic, she could guess the family's recent difficulties, so she said with emotion: "Who can relax on the road to greatness?
It's difficult for everyone. We are descendants of the same bloodline, so we can only try to unite and support each other to overcome difficulties."
After Zhang Hanyan's narration, everyone also learned about her situation in Qingxuan Sect.
After she joined the Qingxuan Sect, she took shelter under Taoist Yunzhi, and everything went smoothly at first.
Taoist Yunzhi is the Taoist companion of Patriarch Zhang Chuyun. With his support, he succeeded in building the foundation. Although he has now reached the ninth level of foundation building, he is still over 200 years old and there is basically no possibility of further progress.
As her disciple, Zhang Hanyan was very comfortable in Qingxuan Sect earlier, and basically had no worries about various resources for cultivating immortals.
According to the rules of Qingxuan Sect, disciples are divided into servant disciples, outer disciples, inner disciples and true disciples.
Any monk who joins the Qingxuan Sect halfway can only be a handyman disciple. After entering the ninth level of Qi training, he can become an outer disciple. After successful foundation building, he will become a deacon elder. If he succeeds in opening the Zi Mansion, he will also become a Qingxuan disciple.
The sect elder of Xuanzong.
Young monks like Zhang Hanyan who join the Qingxuan Sect will be trained as direct descendants and receive slightly better treatment.
She had just joined Qingxuan Sect as an outer disciple. After becoming a disciple of Taoist Yunzhi, she became an inner disciple.
There are thousands of Qi-training monks in Qingxuan Sect, and there are more than a few hundred Qi-training monks at the ninth level. Qingxuan Sect can only refine one or two furnaces of Foundation-Building Pills every ten years. On a good day, the pills can be made into twelve or three pills.
, when things are bad, you can only make seven or eight elixirs.
And the high-level monks of the sect would sometimes reach out for Foundation-Building Pills, and the number of Foundation-Building Pills that could be allocated every ten years became even rarer.
In this situation where there are too many monks and too few people, whenever the time comes to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, the competition becomes extremely fierce.
As the saying goes, there is no circle without rules. According to the rules of Qingxuan Sect, the competition between monks at the ninth level of Qi training for the foundation-building pill must be divided into three aspects.
The first is that in terms of age, monks over sixty years old have insufficient Qi and blood, and the probability of foundation building is very low, so they cannot compete for foundation building pills.
The second is Lun's merit. After joining the Qingxuan Sect, there will be a sect token, which records the monk's contribution to the sect in detail. The monks who have done many good deeds in the sect will be given priority in selecting foundation-building pills.
This kind of rule is very suitable for the development of monks in the family, because they will have the help of the family to earn good deeds, and because of external help, the good deeds in their hands will tend to be more.
The third thing is about spiritual roots. If there are monks with the same good deeds, those with good spiritual roots can be selected first.
Because of the lack of Foundation Establishment Pills, some outer disciples who are around sixty years old, if they have great determination and perseverance, will risk building a Foundation without using Foundation Establishment Pills at this age.
Once this kind of monk succeeds, it is often more difficult to deal with. Every ten or eight years, Qingxuan Sect will have such a monk successfully build the foundation, or become an outer sect elder, or become a true disciple.
It's a pity that Taoist Yunzhi's life is short, and his reputation in the sect is getting worse every year.
A few years ago, she exchanged her sect's good deeds for a foundation-building pill and gave it to her family, the Lu family. This practice replaced an outer disciple, which aroused the anger of the elders of Qingxuan Sect, and her situation also changed.
A little worse.
In recent years, Taoist Yunzhi has rarely shown up. In order to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill, she not only exhausted her good deeds, but also consumed the favors left by Patriarch Zhang Chuyun. Now there are not many favors left by the senior leaders of Qingxuan Sect.
Already.
Unfortunately, the Foundation Establishment Pill she exchanged was not given to Zhang Hanyan, but to her natal family, a distant nephew with good qualifications.
Therefore, even though Zhang Hanyan has a very good spiritual root, he cannot borrow her power in order to build his foundation, so he can only rely on his family's help.