Chapter 118: Silver Delivery

One week after Zhou Zilong was born.

The spiritual realms of Shengfengling and Xigu Township expanded again and finally merged.

After several months of winter, the guards and farmers finally cut down all the nearby trees and opened up an undulating road in the middle. The fruit trees were left behind, and the mountains were reclaimed to create fields for growing sweet potatoes.

The yard in Xiugu Township is only more than 20 miles away from the Zhou family yard.

With a mount, the round trip would take less than a quarter of an hour.

With the Chocobos and Warhorses purchased earlier, plus the Thunder Knights, forty knights were stationed half on each side of the two spiritual realm checkpoints.

Zhou Qingshan watched over his wife Mo Yanqiu until she recovered, and then led the Thunder Knights to Xigu Township.

A month ago, the spiritual realm checkpoint in Xigu Township was often attacked by strange beasts from the wilderness.

Zhou Hu, Zhou Shiqi and Gao Feixue took turns to be stationed in Xigu Township.

The fog, coupled with the strange magic of the unknown wild beasts, caused Zhou Hu to suffer a small loss in the fog. If it weren't for the support of the blood coagulation guards and the armor, he might have been seriously injured.

From then on, only the first-level monsters that reached the spiritual realm were killed.

As the spiritual realm expands, the opening at the spiritual realm gate becomes larger.

Before the city wall was completed.

The beast sneaked in from the cracks and corners several times and attacked farmers at night. When Zhou Hu and his guards came to clear them out, they fled back into the fog. The fog at night gave less visibility and was more dangerous than during the day. Zhou Hu was afraid of hurting his guards and didn't want to pursue them any further.

This makes the strange beasts at night fearless and more rampant, and the guard team needs a warrior to keep watch every time the entry.

This has also caused farmers in Xigu Township to be in a state of panic for nearly a month.

"Two Tigers."

Zhou Qingshan rode his black dragon horse to the checkpoint of Xigu Township and shouted when he saw Zhou Hu and his guards practicing martial arts.

"Master," Zhou Hu and the Blood Coagulation Guard stopped and bowed.

"Third son, Da Meng, how is your martial arts progress?" Zhou Qingshan asked the guards.

In the past year, no new warriors have entered the Zhou family. Including him, the head of the family, there are still only five warriors entering the family.

After six months of continuous spiritual seed nourishment, the source blood of Xie Mengsanzi and others in the Blood Coagulation Guard had reached the limit of entering the martial arts realm, but their potential had yet to be activated.

"Master, we are ashamed." The blood coagulation guards looked at each other and lowered their heads.

As the oldest guards following the Zhou family, they do not eat separately from the head of the family like other newly recruited guards.

They would occasionally dine with Zhou Qingshan at Zhou's house.

You can eat spirit fish occasionally a few times a month, and the head of the family will give you spirit seeds. The blood-replenishing medicine you eat is also of the best quality, but it is really too difficult to pass the entrance exam to become a warrior.

They made no progress in the past three months, but every time they returned home, the spiritual fish and spiritual seeds in the house were always there.

Are non-entry warriors entitled to eat spirit seeds and spirit fish? I have never heard of such treatment.

"Okay, that's not what we're here to talk about today."

Zhou Qingshan waved his hand. He was just asking casually. The process of entering the martial arts world was indeed a threshold for ordinary people.

However, he believed that the guards would definitely be able to break through and enter the country as warriors.

Not because of anything else, but because of resources and youth.

His father, Uncle Zhao, and his generation had good willpower and talent, but they were unable to break through and become martial artists because they all started practicing martial arts in their twenties and missed the best time for training.

In martial arts practice, resources come first, willpower comes second, and physical fitness comes third.

Although the members of the escort team have inferior roots, they have the best spiritual seed resources to support them. The oldest one, Xie Meng, is only 24 years old this year, and it is still a long way from the age of 30 when his energy and blood will decline.

At this time, Zhou Qingshan was thinking whether he should give a few more "Red Jade Fruits" to the few people. It took them a month to consume just one of these top-grade spiritual seeds.

The output of jasper spirit seeds can be wasted at will, but red jade fruit and black jade spirit seeds are scarce. After consumption, there are only one hundred of them in total now.

"Follow me into the mist. I will kill them today so that they dare not attack me."

Zhou Qingshan didn't think any more about it. He still had important things to do. He had to speed up the process of dealing with the strange beast and return to see Mo Yanqiu and Zhou Zilong before noon.

As soon as the words fell, the dragon scale armor on his body was possessed.

Zhou Qingshan attached great importance to Xigu Township, especially the first batch of sixteen jade spirit seeds that grew alive in the spirit field in the backyard. Three thousand spirit seeds were exchanged for more than one hundred taels of silver from the nobles of the nearby city and the lords of the spirit realm.

The spiritual seeds ripen twice a year, which is worth more than two hundred taels of silver. If the spiritual fish is added, it will cost one thousand six hundred taels of silver to forge a low-grade spiritual weapon.

It only takes five or six years to save up that much money.

Zhou Hu and his men were all wearing armor. They picked up their weapons and followed Zhou Qingshan into the fog.

Just when Zhou Qingshan was a hundred steps into the fog, he took the initiative to open his eyes' 'X-ray' ability, glanced around, and was startled.

Good guy.

The number of first-level exotic beasts nearby is several times more than that in Xipanling.

This is because a large number of wild beasts evolved into alien beasts, but their strength was relatively weak. The first-level and second-level alien beasts in the wilderness benefited more in the thirteenth month, occupying most of the habitats. These newly born weak first-level alien beasts could only survive near the human spiritual realm.

In addition, the spiritual realm of the Valley Township only covers half of the lake. With such a large water source outside, many ferocious first-level beasts gather here, making the small area of ​​more than ten miles extremely crowded.

Zhou Qingshan took a look.

After a year of fighting each other, the surviving beasts are all ferocious and have unique skills, and none of them look easy to bully.

No wonder the valley village is often invaded by strange beasts.

Zhou Qingshan was not polite either. He left the guard team and began to shoot and kill the first-level alien beasts closest to the spiritual realm one by one.

boom!
The power of this ordinary fine iron arrow was comparable to that of a cannonball. The strange beast did not make any sound, and its head exploded like a watermelon.

When Zhou Qingshan's magical power awakened, his strength was already greater than that of two Zhou Shiqi. Now, after a year of training, he has surpassed them and reached the warrior limit. His strength has doubled, which he estimates is about 50,000 kilograms.

Zhou Qingshan frowned as he watched this scene from a distance. From then on, as long as he didn't encounter those scaly beasts that looked like they had extraordinary defenses, the strength he exerted on his arrows was reduced by half.

Zhou Hu and his companions only heard occasional howling and wailing coming from afar in the mist of the woods.

After a while, Zhou Qingshan would return with the corpses of strange beasts, most of which were the size of lions and tigers. He would instruct a few people to take them back to the spiritual realm and make them into dried meat and elixir food for storage.

Zhou Qingshan would store those strange beasts that were obviously inedible in the Cloud Top chessboard world, preparing to process the materials before offering them as sacrifices.

There were so many strange beasts that it was impossible to kill them all in a whole morning.

Later on, the Yunding chessboard world could no longer accommodate the corpses of the alien beasts, and could only sacrifice the weak alien beasts directly.

This caused Zhou Qingshan's essence reserves to surge, breaking through the one thousand essence mark again.

Zhou Qingshan advanced ten miles outward, continuously using his eye powers and high-intensity archery. His face looked slightly tired, and he no longer used Liuwa's magical power to restrain his breath.

The murderous aura that instantly slaughtered hundreds of strange beasts rose into the sky, and seemed to condense into a shadow covering the sky above the mountains and forests.

The strange beasts within a ten-mile radius seemed to sense the breath of death, and they panicked and fled in all directions.

Zhou Qingshan returned to the guard team near the spiritual realm, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.

"Master, you have worked hard." Zhou Hu came forward, his eyes full of admiration.

In the spiritual realm, as a warrior, he could easily fight three first-level monsters with armor on. But in the fog, it was not easy for a first-level monster to hide, so he could do nothing.

Zhou Qingshan waved his hand, indicating that there was no need for courtesy: "Although we have made some gains today, the real threat has not been eradicated. I am worried that there will be second-level monsters in the wilderness that will try to cross Jiayu Pass."

"Patrols around the Spirit Realm must not be relaxed in the slightest to prevent any unexpected events."

"Yes, Master!" the guards responded in unison.

Zhou Qingshan nodded slightly and added: "I will return regularly to clean up those hidden beasts."

The reason why he didn't dare to use the 'essence' for fishing before was because the essence resource was precious and could not be easily consumed. But now, with the increase of essence reserves, he has more confidence in hunting wild beasts.

If you fish with essence as bait now, there is a high probability that silver, precious pills, or even mysterious pills will appear, depending on your luck on that day.

The rest is black iron and other strange things.

He only used essence once a day for fishing this year, and it also consumed 300 essences in exchange for a large amount of resources.

Afterwards, Zhou Qingshan led everyone back to the spiritual realm, riding on the black dragon horse, with a smile on his face:
"When the baby is one month old, our family will hold a grand celebration and we will have a good gathering then."

After saying this, without waiting for anyone to reply, he could not wait to ride home.

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The main house in the inner courtyard.

In the warm sunshine, a lively little baby is crawling happily on the ground, followed by two women looking after him.

It was Mo Yanqiu, Xiaoxiao, and Zhou Zilong.

The main house has been carefully renovated and expanded, with the area of ​​the back courtyard increased. The ground is covered with a layer of soft animal skin, and all sharp objects have been cleaned and polished smooth to ensure the safety of the baby when crawling.

Little Long is the son of a warrior, full of energy, and was able to crawl in a week. Although he is not very proficient in crawling, every successful move makes him giggle with excitement.

After giving birth to Zhou Zilong, Mo Yanqiu recovered very quickly and her vitality increased greatly. On the third day after giving birth, she felt that her body was fine. In addition to her daily martial arts practice, she also learned how to take care of her children from the experienced women in her family.

Zhou Qingshan first carefully washed the dust off his body, suppressed the evil spirit in his body, changed into clean clothes, and then stepped into the main house.

As soon as he entered the door, he picked up Xiao Zilong lovingly, rubbed his tender little face with his cheek, kissed his little face, and asked gently:
"Little guy, have you missed your father after not seeing him for so long?"

Xiao Xiao, who was standing next to him, couldn't help laughing when she heard these words, and said softly, "Young Master, you've only been out for a few hours."

Zhou Qingshan looked up and responded, "But to me, it seems like several years have passed. Isn't it, little dragon?"

As he said this, he opened his mouth and wanted to kiss his son's little face again, but this time Zhou Zilong stretched out his little hand and blocked his father's face.

The little guy's eyes were full of disgust, and his little mouth was pouted, as if he was silently protesting his father's "attack". If he could speak, he would definitely complain in a baby voice, "Your saliva stinks."

Seeing his son's reaction, Zhou Qingshan not only did not give up, but became even more interested. He deliberately tried to kiss Zhou Zilong again and again, and every time Zhou Zilong would stretch out his little hand in time, accurately blocking his father's big mouth and resolutely refusing the kiss.

Mo Yanqiu stood aside, watching the little game between the father and son with a smile.

I played with Xiao Zilong until the old lady outside the yard called people to eat.

Zhou Qingshan went fishing today. As he had earned a large sum of essence and was wealthy, he used the essence as bait for the ten times of fishing.

He paid silver twice in succession, totaling thirty taels.

The last time, I caught a bottle of elixir by fishing. There were seven white pills in it, and the grade was unknown. There was a line of small seal characters on the jade bottle, which read "Xuanling Baixidan".

Zhou Qingshan handed it to Xiaoxiao.

"The Xuanling White Rhino Pill is a low-grade Xuandan. Its main material is taken from the innate organs of the second-level exotic beast Xuanling White Rhino, supplemented with a variety of first-level spiritual medicines. It has the effect of dispelling external evil and removing all poisons." Xiaoxiao explained.

Although Xiaoxiao had only studied medicine for about a year, she was already familiar with the books on herbs and elixirs, and had read them almost to death. Although she might not be able to identify all the elixirs, she still knew something about the mysterious elixir.

"Can it cure all poisons? How?" Zhou Qingshan raised his eyebrows slightly.

He did not allow Zhou Hu, Gao Feixue and Zhou Shiqi to enter the fog to hunt the first-level exotic beasts because they had encountered the "horned snake" before. The poison was extremely rare, so he made ten poison arrows and used one for testing.

Just a scratch on the skin is enough to be fatal, and even monsters of the same level cannot withstand it.

He asked the people from the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce if there was any elixir that could cure all kinds of poisons. The guards of the Chamber of Commerce told him that the poisons of first-level exotic beasts were mostly uncurable, so he could see how dangerous it was.

This is also the greatest danger of fighting a first-level monster. Sometimes a minor injury means death.

An experienced warrior.

Either confirm the species of the exotic beast in advance, or wear full body armor. However, most warriors cannot afford to buy armor, so they just tuck their heads into their belts.

This requires warriors who hunt strange beasts in the fog to confirm the species of the beast in advance, otherwise they will not fight with it at will.

However, the organs of exotic beasts of this level are the main materials for refining precious pills and mysterious pills. Previously, the exotic beasts had to be hunted in the wilderness far away from the spiritual realm, and they were quite scarce.

Since there are so many kinds of exotic animals and the toxins they carry are also different, there is almost no medicine that can remove all toxins.

If this Xuanling White Rhinoceros Pill can really remove all toxins, it sounds incredible...

Xiaoxiao nodded and explained, "The Xuanling White Rhino is a second-level exotic beast. It feeds on poisonous creatures and has the innate ability to be immune to poisons. To be precise, the Xuanling White Rhino Pill does not directly detoxify, but can suppress and expel the toxins in the body."

After Xiaoxiao's explanation, Zhou Qingshan suddenly understood.

Zhou Qingshan thought about it, took out three pills from a bottle of Xuanling Baixidan, packed them up, and asked Xiaoxiao to keep them in the main house.

Xiaoxiao naturally knew why this happened without being reminded, and she would use it in an emergency.

Afterwards, Zhou Qingshan and Mo Yanqiu began to practice martial arts, while Xiao Xiao and Xiao Zilong watched on and enjoyed the good time.

As time passed, Zhou Qingshan was sweating profusely. After a short rest, he was about to start the second round of martial arts training.

"My lord, the envoys from the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce, the lords and the noble families have arrived and are waiting in the lobby of the outer courtyard. They are here to discuss the purchase of spirit seeds and spirit fish." Thunder Knight Li announced loudly in the yard.

"Ali, wait a moment." Zhou Qingshan's voice came from inside the house.

After hearing the announcement, Xiaoxiao carried Xiao Zilong and placed him in the crib.

Then he quickly took out a piece of silk cloth, stepped forward and carefully wiped the sweat off Zhou Qingshan's forehead.

Then, she took out Zhou Qingshan's patriarch's black robe, a solemn and elegant attire, helped him change his clothes, and carefully put a ceremonial crown on him, meticulously arranging each piece of clothing.

With Xiao Xiao's skillful hands, Zhou Qingshan looked brand new, neatly dressed and dignified. He then walked out of the main house calmly, ready to welcome the visiting guests.

The lobby of the outer courtyard was already filled with representatives from all parties, including the manager of the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce, local lords who came in person, and representatives from various major families.

Each VIP was accompanied by two guards, making the lobby seem a bit crowded, but they did not show any dissatisfaction with the slightly small space.

They all came for the same thing - spiritual seeds and spiritual fish.

These resources are extremely valuable to any force and can greatly help improve the strength of their warriors.

Countryside lords need to consider the next generation of their families, but the spiritual weapon families have so many descendants and warriors that the spiritual seeds produced by their own families are often unable to meet the demand.

Therefore, if they encounter an opportunity where a lord is willing to sell martial arts resources, they naturally do not want to miss it.

The value of spirit seeds can sometimes even be compared to precious elixirs and mysterious elixirs. For them, there is never too much of this kind of resource.

Last year, the spiritual seeds in Zhou Qingshan's backyard spiritual field matured. In addition, he had accumulated a large number of spiritual fish from fishing, so he gave priority to selling a portion of them to the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce, asking them to help promote them among the lords.

In the early spring of this year, the second batch of spiritual seeds in Shengfengling matured and will be sold.

Of course, it does not support the exchange of spiritual weapon resources, and only supports transactions with "one hundred treasure yuan", that is, silver as currency.

Zhou Qingshan stepped into the lobby and his eyes swept over everyone present.

His arrival immediately quieted down the originally noisy lobby.

All the major lords and envoys stood up and bowed.

"Lord Zhou, Dazeyi, Spiritual Weapon Family, Yu Wentao."

"Lord Zhou, Dazeyi, a family of spiritual soldiers, Ding Qiangao."

"Lord Zhou, Xinyi County, Spiritual Weapon Family, Huang Maohui."

"Mr. Zhou, Juyan Territory, Shi Family."

……

Afterwards, everyone began to introduce themselves. Only three people came from the Lingbing Family, and the rest were all lords who came from afar, a total of eight.

Zhou Qingshan responded to everyone with a polite nod.

"Everyone, welcome to the Zhou family in Shengfeng County." Zhou Qingshan's voice echoed in the lobby, "Let me get straight to the point. Five thousand jade spirit seeds and one hundred first-level spirit fish."

"Five thousand jade spirit seeds? So many?!" Everyone present was shocked.

The spiritual veins in Shengfengling and Xigu Township cannot be second-level spiritual veins. Last time, it was amazing that Shengfengling could produce three thousand of them.

However, everyone had a second thought.

As Lord Zhou was a great sage of Black Cloud City, it was natural that he offered the sweet potatoes with a yield of 5,000 kilograms per acre and had some secret techniques for cultivating spiritual fields, which made sense.

Of course not that many. These are the jade spirit seeds that were left over after the sky changed on the Yunding chessboard.

There are only a few warriors who have entered the country in the family. Moreover, after entering the country, they only eat jade spirit seeds ten days a month, plus two red jade fruits or spirit fish. Mo Yanqiu and Zhou Qingshan will occasionally eat the second-level spirit seeds, black jade spirit seeds, one of which can last for a month's practice.

This made it impossible to finish eating the jade spirit seeds.

With such a large quantity, no force present can swallow it all, and there is no need to fight for it.

"I want five hundred Jade Spirit Seeds."

"I want eight hundred Jade Spirit Seeds."

"I want a thousand Jade Spirit Seeds."

The eight lords of the rural spirit realm and the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce each took out the "one hundred treasure coins" treasured in their homes and swept away the five thousand jade spirit seeds.

Among them, the Yunhe Chamber of Commerce took over most of them, but his family alone had no territory and no place to practice martial arts in the martial arts hall.

Yu Wentao, Huang Maohui and Ding Qiangao from the Yi city remained unmoved and waited quietly for the lords to divide up the jade spirit seeds.

They didn't care about the inferior grade jade spirit seed. This spirit seed was a treasure for strong men or those below the level of blood coagulation, but its effectiveness for warriors and warriors was much worse.

Those one hundred spirit fish are their rare treasures.

Zhou Qingshan asked Xiaoxiao to bring people out the jade spirit seeds, and completed the transaction with several people, gaining 167 taels of silver treasure yuan.

After Zhou Qingshan entertained the lord, he asked the Thunder Knight to lead everyone to a house not far away to rest.

He led the three people to the side room to score the one hundred spirit fish, among which were small green spirit fish and blue brocade spirit fish.

The three of them are all direct descendants of the family. They are either the second or third-in-command, and their strength is at the level of warriors.

Among them, Yu Wentao and Ding Qiangao are both from spiritual weapon families in Daze County.

The reason they came to buy was that their family was not the lord of Daze City, and they did not have a second-level spiritual vein, and naturally did not have a second-level spiritual seed.

They are the spiritual realm that expands outward from Daze City.

Daze Town is shrouded in two first-class spiritual veins, just like the fusion of the spiritual realms of Shengfeng Territory and Xigu Township.

The Thirty-Seventh Street in the outer city of Black Cloud City is the origin of other spiritual realms.

The city lord will only reward the spiritual realm with the second-grade superior spiritual vein to the general who has made great contributions.

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Jiayuguan.

In the fog, two ghostly figures quietly came to the pass 500 miles away and looked at the city wall not far away.

"Ghost Master, this is our fifth time here. Is it necessary for a country lord to take such a risk?" one of them asked in a low voice.

"The leader has ordered that we must not let go of any spiritual realm that is suspected to be a different person with a destiny." There was a hint of desire in the old man's eyes.

He is so persistent.

Of course, as long as the news of a suspected extraordinary person is confirmed, it will bring huge benefits.

You won't have to worry about your physical body collapsing for at least a hundred years.

His special ability had clearly confirmed that there was only one old soldier with a broken arm in Shengfeng Territory.

The Che family’s information was correct. These three masters who entered the country came from nowhere, and they were geniuses who could challenge opponents of higher levels.

He had to go and take a look, he had a feeling this was his big opportunity.

hum.

The ghost master closed his eyes, and faint ripples spread out, gradually covering Jiayuguan.

The man behind him silently spread his flesh wings, obviously ready to escape.

(End of this chapter)