Chapter 298: The Mortal Bazaar

After more than 300 years of development, Lushan County, which is very close to Lingjing Mountain, has changed greatly.

After more than 300 years of operation, the scale of the city has expanded by more than 20 times, and the population of the city has exceeded 1.6 million, which is about 30 times more than when Zhang Zhixuan guarded the spiritual field.

The mortals in the city still take the surname Zhang as the largest family, and the Zhang family has more than 600,000 bloodlines. The local officials in Lushan County are also mainly low-level monks surnamed Zhang.

It has been almost a hundred years since it was integrated into the sect, and the cohesion of the Zhang family has gradually weakened, and it has become a small family.

In the vicinity of Lushan County, Snake Cave County, Huangyan County, Chaoyin County, Xihe County, Yanlai County, Taibai County, Liucheng County and other places also have a large number of populations.

The two counties of Lushan and Taicheng have become a place with a large population in the sect, gradually surpassing the old fifth-order spiritual veins such as Qingxuan and Yushan, and it may be only near the Goddess Peak, and the level of development is only a step beyond the area of Lingjing Mountain.

After more than 100 years of development, the strength of the Ziyang Sect has far surpassed that of the Poisonous Dragon Pond Demon Beast, and in recent decades, the sect has strengthened its investment in the development of the depths of the Southern Wilderness.

A large amount of buffer land north of the Black Mountain Spirit Vein has been developed, and more than a dozen low-level Spirit Veins have immigrated more than 100,000 households.

More than a dozen new towns were established, and Lin Ruohua, the guardian of the Daoist Academy, also sent dozens of low-level monks to guard the spiritual veins to provide shelter for the migrants from the Southern Wilderness.

After this round of development, the northern part of Montenegro was considered to be under the control of the Ziyang Sect.

With the reproduction of human beings and the frequent activities of monks, in this vast land, the Ziyang Sect discovered two small mineral veins, which can increase the income by more than 20,000 per year.

The more veins there are in Lingtian, the sect will be able to support more and more monks, and without a stable income, even the rest of the Daoists will not be able to withstand it.

It's time to catch the market on the sixth day of the first month of each month, and the people in Lushan County come and go, and there are some people wearing clothes to maintain order from time to time.

They looked forceful, pushing away the crowd and shouting loudly to maintain order to prevent a riot from a stampede.

A few years ago, a serious stampede broke out because of the big gathering, and more than 700 people were killed and injured at one time.

This incident even alarmed the head of the family, provoked him to be furious, and directly removed Lushan County Shouwen Ziqing from his post and sent him to the Netherworld Cave to serve for thirty years.

Wen Ziqing is a monk of the Purple Mansion, and a delay of thirty years may affect the path.

He is a disciple of Zhang Zhixuan, and he can only admit that he is unlucky, and he admits that he has committed a mistake of dereliction of duty.

After this incident, the sect monks no longer dared not to take the lives of mortals under their rule seriously.

I will worry about some of the following things to some extent, and the Purple Mansion Monk will not only know penance for a day.

Managing mortals does not need to be done by the Purple Mansion in person, and even the monks in the foundation building period do not need to come forward, there are a large number of five spirit root waste materials under the Ziyang Sect, these people can serve as the foundation of the sect, and sink to the mortal world to provide protection for mortals. Moreover, without a spiritual root, he can also practice martial arts to break through the innate and deal with some demon beasts that have just awakened.

The fierce beasts that are common in the Southern Wilderness are not the opponents of innate martial artists.

In the huge Lushan County, there are already a lot of monks stationed nearby, the headquarters of the Guardian Institute is in Lingjing Mountain, and the Lushan County Guard is also practicing penance in Lingjing Mountain. Lushan County ordered to work in the county seat during the day, and at night would return to Lingjing Mountain to do penance.

In addition to these two monks, who were in regular contact with mortals, there were still forty or fifty people in the city, including the rest of the lords, wardens, county lieutenants, and headhunters. These people's cultivation is low, and the sect will give them a spiritual stone subsidy, which can maintain their cultivation and prevent them from falling to the point of regression in cultivation.

There are two types of low-level monks among these mortals, one is the monk of the Guardian Academy, who has broken through the Qi cultivation period not long ago, and at this time the sect will arrange tasks for them to be stationed in the mortal world. The years are not too long, only about three years, which will not delay their path.

The rest of the group are basically elderly monks over sixty years old, who have lost their way and simply returned to the mortal world to retire, become local officials, and become big names in the world.

Their most important task, in addition to maintaining order in the mortal world, is to teach a little experience to the rookies who have just come down the mountain, and bring these new tenders on the path of cultivating immortals. In addition, it is to take wives and concubines, and take ten or eight beautiful wives and concubines. In the next few decades, he worked hard to have children, and raised a seedling with a good spiritual root for the sect.

For this stable and comfortable life, the low-ranking monks who came down the mountain were very satisfied.

In the past seventy or eighty years, about 10,000 elderly Qi cultivators in the sect have descended the mountain and taken root in the depths of the grassroots level.

These elderly Qi cultivators all have ordinary official positions, and the sect will also issue them an annual salary every year, and a dozen spirit stones a year are enough to maintain their cultivation and prevent them from degrading to the level of the innate stage.

After the three sects of the Ziyang Sect were united, the people of Yu finally caught up with the good times.

In this world of cultivating immortals, the lives of the common people are really hard.

Even if it is a monk family, with the protection of relatives and monks, in fact, it is also precarious, when the Jiufeng Mountain Ma family just because of the discovery of the spirit stone mine, the mother-in-law died, the clan scattered, which is equivalent to the extinction of the clan.

Over the years, demon beasts have invaded, and countries such as the Kingdom of Xuan have lost most of their territory, and mortals have lost about half.

Qingxuanzong and Huanshuizong fought for more than 80 years, and Taicheng, Jiangkou, Hongshan, Luyang, Jiangnan and other counties suffered countless casualties.

Even if Qingxuan and Hongshan were intimidated by the Yu Dao people, they did not dare to slaughter mortals. However, there are frequent migrations of people, and there are not a few mortals who die of famine.

Bad luck, I met the bold demon cultivators of Liu Yi'an, a disciple of the plague people, and the mortals of the entire Luyang County were killed and injured by ten **.

This kind of tragic situation has been reduced to a thing of the past after the establishment of the Ziyang Sect.

The territory controlled by the sect had not been in war for many years, and ordinary demon cultivators did not dare to provoke the behemoth of the Ziyang Sect at all.

In the battle of the Demon Cloud Cave before Yijiazi, the Yuanying of the Ziyang Sect had already made a great name among the demon cultivators, and this kind of sect that was very difficult to mess with at first glance, ordinary demon cultivators did not dare to make trouble at all. Within the scope of the Purple Yang Sect, although I dare not say that there is absolutely no demon cultivation, there are not many and there are very few in number.

Another reason why the demon cultivator didn't come was that the monks of the Ziyang Sect had already rooted their roots in the mundane.

There are a large number of experienced monks in the world, and as soon as there is a clue, they can report it to the sect protection institute, and once the situation is serious, Lin Ruohua will also come forward in person. She can't solve the problem, and there are masters like the head and Qing Chan.

Looking at the lively crowd, Zhang Zhixuan took Qing Chan's little hand, wearing ordinary mortal clothes, they didn't use mana, and they didn't need to cultivate to a very strong physical strength, trying to control themselves, as if a young mortal couple, drifting with the crowd.