Everlasting

In order to set up the grand formation, Chen Nianzhi and the old patriarch spent two months working together to refine seven sets of second-level formation flags.

The total number of these seven sets of formation flags is 7,749, and the cost of these formation flags alone is as high as 50,000 spirit stones.

After the two made it, they arranged the seven sets of formation flags in the seven spiritual veins and connected them together with the power of the formation disks, forming a defensive formation that stretched eight hundred miles across.

Seen from the sky, the Seven-Star Demon Refining Formation is like a transparent light curtain lying upside down on the earth, covering the entire plain within eight hundred miles around Pingyang City.

Looking at the transparent light curtain covering the eight hundred miles of wilderness, the old patriarch smiled and said: "With the protection of this formation, I, Pingyang City, will have no worries in the future."

"yes."

Chen Nianzhi also nodded. The Seven-Star Demon Refining Array was already extremely powerful. With the addition of six second-order high-grade spiritual veins and one third-order low-grade spiritual vein, the power it could exert was astonishing.

The spiritual energy that these spiritual veins can provide is almost equal to the combination of six early Zifu and one Zifu Dzogchen. Moreover, the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins will be continuously restored, allowing the formation to continuously exert its power.

In this case, as long as there is a Zifu to activate the formation, even the fake alchemy monks who come here may not be able to get any benefits.

And when the spiritual pulse level of Pingyang City reaches the third level, it will be difficult for even the early Golden Core monks to break through it in a short time.

Thinking of this, Chen Nianzhi and the old patriarch both breathed a sigh of relief.

Pingyang City is the lifeblood of the family. As long as it is safe enough, the family can breed more mortals.

The probability of spiritual roots appearing among mortals in this world is about one in a thousand. The more mortals there are, the more monks there will be.

Low-level monks are too important. Chen Nianzhi and the old patriarch need more and more Five Elements Essence. Almost all the Five Elements Essence produced by the family monks every year is supplied to them.

This is not enough. Every year, the family spends tens of thousands of spiritual stones to purchase the Five Elements Essence.

In addition, the family needs a large number of manpower to guard the spiritual veins, run the industry, refine elixirs and weapons, resist monsters, etc.

Chen Nianzhi needs hundreds of auxiliary ingredients to refine a batch of third-level elixirs. If he were a casual cultivator, he would have to collect them all by himself and there would be no need to practice at all.

And he is a family monk. There are two thousand low-level monks and spiritual fields in the family. If you need any elixir, someone will naturally come up with it.

"If there are tens of millions of mortals, then there are tens of thousands of monks in the family."

"By then, the Five Elements Essence will be almost self-sufficient. Linglong and we have been purchasing the Five Elements Essence from everywhere over the years. The price of the Five Elements Essence in Qing, Yang, Bian, and Sanzhou has increased by more than 40%. It is really a bit uncomfortable. A good deal.”

Chen Nianzhi thought so in his heart, but he could only let the family increase the acquisition of Five Elements Essence.

In order to refine the natal magic weapon Taibai Star Pearl for the old patriarch, most of the five elements energy accumulated by the family over the years was suddenly consumed.

When he breaks through to the middle stage of Zifu, there are still four natal magic weapons that need to be promoted. If the natal magic weapons want to be promoted to the third level of high-grade, each of them consumes five elements of essence worth about 50,000 spirit stones.

Such a high cost, plus a 40% premium would cost an additional 20,000 spiritual stones, and the four pieces would cost an additional 80,000 spiritual stones. Even with his wealth, it would be painful for him.

Speaking of spirit stones, we have to talk about the spirit geese raised by Chen Nianzhi. Today, the number of spirit geese in Lingzhou Lake has reached one thousand.

Chen Nianzhi referred to the roast duck method in his previous life and ordered the family monks to develop a secret formula that would not only make Lingyan delicious, but also increase his cultivation level.

Now the Chen family's roasted goose shop has gradually opened in major cities in the three states, becoming a famous delicacy in Chu State. Many monks can't help but come to have a taste. It is said that in recent years, it can bring a lot of delicious food. Annual income.

"..."

But he said that after setting up the formation, he returned to Lingzhou Lake.

The following days are as usual. In addition to the uninterrupted practice exercises, every day is to warm up the magic weapon, polish the magic power and improve the cultivation level.

Five years later, Chen Qinghao asked him to get the Gengjin Crystal, and made his first attack on the Purple Mansion.

Chen Qinghao had taken Xuanyu Pill and other treasures, and his foundation accumulation was much deeper than the ordinary foundation-building Dzogchen, so he penetrated 50% of the tendons in one fell swoop.

With the Third Elder's current rich heritage, if he gets another Five Elements Crystal next time, the success rate of attacking the Zi Mansion is estimated to be 60%.

Three more years later, Chen Nianzhi finally reached perfection in his magic power and touched the bottleneck in the middle stage of Zifu.

Seeing that he was about to break through the middle stage of Zifu, he took the Cloud Pattern Fortune Pill without much delay.

Using several of his natal magic weapons to hone his magic power, even without the help of the Cloud Pattern Creation Pill, it would only take twenty years to break through to the middle stage of the Purple Mansion.

Now with the help of the Cloud Pattern Creation Pill, it is naturally easy to break through the middle stage of Zifu.

After the breakthrough, it was time to polish his magic power and upgrade his natal magic weapons. When all four of his natal magic weapons were promoted to the third-level high-grade, a year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Chen Nianzhi completed the promotion of the last natal magic weapon and walked out of the retreat. He found that Chen Changxuan had been waiting in front of the retreat room for many days.

As soon as he saw him, the old patriarch said: "The Tianxu Mountain Alliance is about to begin. If you don't come out of seclusion, I will be ready to go."

Chen Nianzhi counted the time with his fingers and found that in the blink of an eye, there was only one year left before Jiang Linglong agreed to attack the Qingyang Sect.

Before the war started, Tianxu Mountain summoned all the major immortal clans in the three states to attack the Qingyang Sect together. Naturally, the Chen family also wanted to send the Zifu there.

The Tianxu Mountain Alliance is very important this time, and the old patriarch is planning to go with Chen Nianzhi.

Fortunately, Chen Qinghao's mana has greatly increased now, and he can barely replace the old patriarch to guard Pingyang City temporarily.

"..."

The two of them took the purple blood boat and flew to Tianxu Mountain in just over a day. They were the last two people to arrive at the Zi Mansion.

After they arrived, they found that there were seventeen or eighteen Zifu monks gathered on Tianxu Mountain at this moment, and more than two hundred Foundation-building monks.

As soon as he landed on Tianxu Mountain, Chen Nianzhi also saw several Meng family monks, led by the female monk Meng Xingwan.

I remember that not long after Chen Nianzhi established the foundation, Meng Xinghe proposed marriage to the two. In the blink of an eye, more than seventy years later, Chen Nianzhi was already an ancestor in the middle stage of the Zifu, and Meng Xingwan had only established the seventh level of foundation.

Meng Xingwan glanced at Chen Nianzhi and the old patriarch, and quickly lowered her eyebrows and said cautiously: "I have met these two ancestors."

"It's Xingwan."

The old patriarch smiled warmly. His mother was a female nun of the Meng family, and she was close to several members of the Meng family.

The two families have had many in-laws over the years. Chen Nianzhen of the Chen family and several other foundation-building monks became Taoist companions with the monks of the Meng family.