Chapter 309: The Zhang Family's Troubles

With Lin Dong, an "insider" who was extremely familiar with the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, to lead the way, it didn't take long for the two of them to come to the teleportation array.

In He Zhi's mind, since the relationship between two spirit stones is required to use a teleportation array, the number of people using the teleportation array should not be large.

Of course, within the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, there will always be some wealthy people, or people who don't care about spirit stones at all. In particular, Lihuo Island is one of the core territories of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and there are several major cultivator families entrenched on the island. Therefore, this teleportation array should not be unattended. However, there are probably two or three kittens who will only use it.

However, when the two dared to go to the teleportation array, He Zhi realized that he seemed to be thinking wrong.

Outside the teleportation array, there were almost forty or fifty people standing! This number was greatly unexpected by He Zhi.

Especially when He Zhi had just realized what a huge fortune two spirit stones were. Suddenly, seeing that there were so many people in front of him who didn't care about the consumption of the two spirit stones, and directly ran to use the teleportation array, He Zhi really felt a little incredible.

However, after He Zhi saw these people in front of him clearly, he felt that everything seemed to be logical.

Because He Zhi soon discovered that not many of the people standing outside the teleportation array, waiting to use the teleportation array, were ordinary people. At this time, the people who were waiting to use the teleportation array were probably mainly monks. This is especially true for young monks.

These monks are obviously from the Xiuzhen family on the island.

The accumulation of wealth by these cultivators is really not something that ordinary people can imagine. Any wealthy businessman may not be able to compare his wealth with that of a true cultivator.

Let's take the Zhang family, for example. Don't look at the Zhang family, there is only the last dying Jindan ancestor left, and it seems that it has declined to an extent beyond measure. However, in terms of wealth, the accumulation of the Zhang family is not at all less than that of any other family.

After all, the Zhang family once had that status in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and had such a reputation. And in this world where the age of immortals is often measured in tens of thousands of years, He Zhi has found a very obvious difference from the earth, that is, things here change much slower than on the earth.

To use the simplest analogy, there used to be a saying on the earth that "there is no empire for a thousand years". This means that in the history of the earth, the lifespan of most feudal kingdoms is almost impossible to reach more than a thousand years. For example, the Zhou, Han, and Tang dynasties in China, or the Roman Empire in Europe, etc., only lasted a few hundred years before being replaced. Even, in China and Europe, there were countries like the Qin Empire and the Alexander Empire, which were extremely powerful for a while, but they were like a flash in the pan.

However, in this Qiankun realm, this is not the case! Just like the Great Zhou where He Zhi is located, it has lasted for almost two or three years! The Great Zhou State is still the Great Zhou Kingdom, and there is not even the slightest sign of changing the dynasty.

Of course, some people may say that it is because there are immortals on the Great Zhou Kingdom! The founding emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom is an antenna disciple of the Eight Classics, and he is also a cultivator of the human immortal realm. Although he returned to the cultivation world less than a hundred years after the founding of the country, and his whereabouts are unknown, with such a living immortal emperor here, it is naturally impossible for anyone to succeed in rebellion.

But this is not the case. The Great Zhou Kingdom has been able to last until now, and it has almost nothing to do with the immortals behind it. The real role played by the immortal behind the Great Zhou Kingdom to the Great Zhou Kingdom was actually in the cultivation world, not the mortal world.

If the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom really did not govern the country well, and the people were miserable, and someone in the mortal world rose up to overthrow the Great Zhou, then the immortal old emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom would never help.

In other words, the situation faced by this Great Zhou Dynasty in the Qiankun Realm was actually similar to that of the huge majority of dynasties on Earth. But this dynasty has been around for tens of thousands of years, and it looks like it's going to stay so.

Moreover, for this matter, the people in the Qiankun world will not find it strange at all. They will take this for granted! An empire of this size, which does not exist for tens of thousands of years, is abnormal!

What? You say that a super-empire with a population of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, has only existed for a few hundred years and then is over? How is this possible? Hahaha!

If He Zhi told the people of the Qiankun Realm about these common knowledge on the earth, most likely it would make the other party think that he was just joking.

And the situation of the Zhang family is completely in accordance with the rhythm of the Qiankun world. Although the Zhang family is constantly declining, and there are fewer and fewer strong people who can exist as pillars above the Jindan realm in the family, the status of the Zhang family on Lihuo Island has not changed. Most of their usual business and friendships have not been affected by the decline of the Zhang family, and they are still how they should be.

Of course, in some projects that may be extremely profitable and have huge benefits, the Zhang family has made certain concessions and divided their share of profits a lot. But that's about it.

Those families and wealthy businessmen who cooperated with the Zhang family to do business did not even take advantage of this opportunity to annex the Zhang family. It is possible that as long as the Jindan ancestor of the Zhang family does not die, the Zhang family will be able to survive like this.

Such a situation is simply incredible for He Zhi, who was used to seeing too much deception and fighting for life and death in his previous life!

And the Zhang family's own interests have not been damaged too much, so the wealth of the Zhang family is still there.

At the same time, the Zhang family is obviously aware of the existence of its own crisis, so it is absolutely not sparing in cultivating the children of the family. As long as they are children of the Zhang family with a little qualification, they can get the key training of the Zhang family. If you are a descendant of the Zhang family, then the resources you enjoy will be even richer.

Just like a spirit stone, which is priceless in the eyes of ordinary people, many juniors of the Zhang family can receive several pieces from the family almost every month!

A Zhang family that is close to decline is like this, so you can imagine what kind of style those large-scale cultivators who are more well-established and still at their peak on the island of Lihuo.

Looking at the crowd around the teleportation array, He Zhi couldn't help but silently guess in his mind which of them were the children of the Zhang family. In other words, did the Zhang family realize that he, He Zhi, had already entered the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and was rushing towards their Zhang family.

Regarding He Zhi's appearance, the Zhang family was obviously by no means unexpected. Since they were able to arrange means to prevent He Zhi from entering the Ten Thousand Swords Sect when He Zhi had just entered the Immortal Seeking Path, He Zhi believed that they would definitely not be unprepared when they were here in the teleportation array.

After all, if He Zhi entered the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, then going from the teleportation array to Lihuo Island was almost the only choice he could make.

When He Zhi was still observing left and right, Lin Dong had already run to the side and found a place to sit down in a small pavilion.

"Hey, senior brother, what are you looking around, why don't you hurry up?" After sitting down, Lin Dong greeted He Zhi loudly.

"It's coming. He Zhi agreed, and followed into the pavilion where Lin Dong was.

Around the teleportation array, He Zhi saw that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect seemed to have built a lot of buildings similar to this kind of small pavilion, which were specially used for people to rest here.

After He Zhi entered the pavilion, Lin Dong pinched his hand and set off a gust of wind out of thin air to blow the stools in the pavilion.

The two sat down on the stool, and Lin Dong said again, "Senior brother, you sit down first." We'll have to wait a while. Looking at this number of people, I'm afraid it won't be our turn for half an hour. โ€

"Hmm. He Zhi nodded, and couldn't help but smile and ask Lin Dong, "Is there always so many people in this teleportation array?"

"Pretty much. After all, it's a teleportation array to leave the Fire Island. Lin Dong nodded, sneered and said, "This person is actually quite good." Senior brother, you probably haven't seen the seven days when you can collect the essence of fire on the fire island every year, it is crowded here, and if you want to leave the fire island, you have to queue for at least seven or eight hours. โ€

"Oh, so many people?"

"Yes, this Fire Separation Essence is a specialty of Fire Island, and our Ten Thousand Swords Sect is the heaviest flying sword. And the essence of fire is one of the most critical materials for smelting flying swords. So......" Lin Dong said here, shrugging his shoulders, "Moreover, this guy who runs the teleporter is also shrewd. Usually, when you use the teleportation array, you are charged according to the number of times. Two spirit stones open a formation, and a maximum of eight people can be opened at one time. If it weren't for the rush you over, most people would have been here for a few hours, discussed with others, and everyone would share the cost before setting off. But in the month before the Fire Spirit was about to erupt, it became a capitation fee. Two spirit stones for one person, no one can run. So, it's okay now! If I really come across the time when the Spirit of Separation from Fire was born, I wouldn't dare to follow you, Senior Brother, to join in the fun. โ€

Lin Dong said, stretched lazily, and fell asleep on a pillar on the bench in the pavilion.

He Zhi smiled and didn't bother with Lin Dong. Instead, he sat in the gazebo and continued to wait for the crowd to move forward.

As Lin Dong expected, He Zhi waited in the pavilion for almost an hourโ€”that is, half an hour after Lin Dong's mouth, and the people who were originally lining up in front of He Zhi had already walked almost away.

He Zhi hurriedly walked out of the pavilion with Lin Dong at this time and came to the entrance of the teleportation array.

"Hey, don't rush in, who are you, where are you going?" At the entrance of the teleportation array, two people with swords hanging and looking like monks stopped He Zhi and Lin Dong.

"Hmm, two big brothers, what are you doing here? It's still far from the birth of the Fire Spirit. Do you need to check it?" Lin Dong couldn't help but complain loudly, took out his bronze sword logo, and shook it in front of the two of them - when he left the casino before, Lin Dong put away his bronze sword logo in order to avoid trouble.

"Oh, it turned out to be the bronze sword junior brother of the outer gate. Hehe. Seeing Lin Dong's bronze sword logo, the two of them obviously relaxed, and they both smiled and said to Lin Dong: "We are just a little thing." Brother, don't worry too much. Speaking of which, the two of us have also been in the outer gate, and have also won a few golden swords and participated in the inner gate selection. It's a pity that I was one step short in the end and couldn't enter the inner door. โ€

"Oh! It turned out to be two senior brothers. Lin Dong clasped his fists and saluted the two, "Then can we go over?"

"Well, yes, of course. The two of them were naturally very relieved when they saw Lin Dong's bronze sword logo.

In the bronze sword logo of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, there are also some spell marks. If the logo falls into the hands of outsiders, some of these mechanisms will not be triggered at all. So as soon as Lin Dong took it out, the two of them knew that Lin Dong was definitely a disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

Soon, the two of them smiled and said to get out of the way, letting Lin Dong and He Zhi walk over.

However, when the two of them were halfway through, the two of them suddenly remembered something and shouted, "Hey, wait! You are a bronze sword disciple of this sect, we know." What about him?" said one of them, reaching out to He Zhi.

"Two senior brothers, don't you point fingers, do you know that you will cause trouble?" Seeing that the two monks were very rude, Lin Dong's face immediately turned up.

"Trouble, what trouble?" the two looked at Lin Dong suspiciously.

"Hey, I don't think you two know, right? This is not something you can point finger at casually! He's the elder brother of the inner gate. This time I went to Lihuo Island, and I had to discuss it with the Zhang family. Lin Dong mysteriously lowered his voice and said to the two.

"Ahh......h The two of them looked at each other, and they both showed a little horror.

To put it bluntly, these two monks had only been in the outer gate of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect for a few years, and in the end they failed to achieve anything, so they had to run to this teleportation array to see the little people. A true disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, that is definitely not something they can afford to provoke.

"Huh...... We don't have to offend, we don't have to offend. The two hurriedly waved their hands one after another.

"Hmm. I think this senior brother himself seems to be a good talker, but he won't bother with you. However, he is in a hurry, if you grind and chirp and delay the senior brother's major affairs, it is impossible to say whether he will be angry. Lin Dong continued to intimidate the two.

"Oh, yes, yes! We're confused. Hey, this Zhang family has been doing so much lately? First of all, they greeted us, saying that they asked us to carefully examine the strangers in the past, and if any strangers passed by, we would report to them. Now there are inner disciples going to Zhang's house...... I said, has this Zhang family been in trouble lately?" the two monks complained a few words, and then asked Lin Dong tentatively.