The Rise of the Shen Family

Shen Ruiling picked a wing in the east and said to the two of them:

"Ninth Uncle, Fellow Daoist Zhou, I'll go first."

"Well, let's take a rest, we've been on our way for a day." After speaking, Shen Huanming also picked a room and went in. Zhou Qiao bowed to the two and chose a room next to Shen Huanming.

Shen Ruiling walked into the room, the room was divided into two areas, one was for guests, with a table and a few chairs. The inside is a place to practice and meditate, and a bed is covered with a pouf. There is also an incense burner next to it, and there are bursts of calming fragrance inside.

Sitting cross-legged on the mat, Shen Ruiling ran "Qing Yun Jue" and began to practice, but the spiritual veins here were only a second-rank middle-grade, which could not meet Shen Ruiling's cultivation needs. He took out two more spiritual stones from the storage jade box. , hold a piece in one hand, and run the exercise to absorb the spiritual power in the spiritual stone.

As Shen Ruiling spit out a mouthful of turbid air, the two spirit stones in his hand also turned into dust and scattered. After about an hour of meditation and rest, the consumption along the way has recovered.

A respectful voice came from the door,

"Senior, my master has set up a banquet in the lobby for the senior to catch the wind and dust."

"Okay now, I'll come right away." Shen Ruiling replied, standing up at the same time.

Shen Ruiling opened the door and saw that Zhou Qiao had just come out, Zhou Qiao said with a smile:

"Shen Xiaoyou together."

"Where's my ninth uncle?" Shen Ruiling wondered why Shen Huanming didn't come out.

"Fellow Daoist Shen has been invited by the guards, let's go too." After speaking, he walked towards the lobby.

The corridor twists and turns, passing through beautiful and gorgeous buildings, and along the way, there are many family servants who greet each other. These mortals have been here for a long time, and they are not so curious about the immortals.

Shen Ruiling ignored them and walked proudly towards the lobby with Zhou Qiao. It took about half a column of incense to walk to a building.

Shen Ruiling couldn't help muttering in his heart:

"This mansion is really big, but it looks like a rich family."

In front of the building, stood a middle-aged man, who was in the early stage of Qi training, dressed as a literati, with a kind expression on his face.

Seeing the two of Shen Ruiling, they immediately greeted them with smiles on their faces, cupping their hands and saying:

"The two seniors, please, my father is waiting for the two inside." The other party was not only enthusiastic, but also kept his attitude very low.

Shen Ruiling and the two followed the middle-aged man into the lobby. What they saw was a hall with carved beams and painted buildings. There was also a picture of a lake on the wall. The sunrise was in the east, which was quite poetic. In the hall, several wooden tables have been placed, and they are all carved from sandalwood. And Shen Huanming and Shen Huantong were already sitting on the main table.

Seeing the arrival of Shen Ruiling and the two, Shen Huantong stood up to welcome:

"Two fellow Daoists, please take a seat."

Shen Ruiling took a look, the three of them plus Shen Huantong were on the table. The three of them were all cultivators in the late stage of Qi training, and they were still from Yun Bifeng. The one who could sit with them was Shen Huantong with the title of guard.

Shen Huantong raised his glass to the three of Shen Ruiling and said:

"There are three fellow Daoists here."

"Although you and I are not familiar with each other, we are also the same generation of the family. You are one of the guards, so don't be polite." Shen Huantong said.

After chatting for a while,

Shen Huantong pointed at Shen Ruiling and said:

"I've been away from the mountain for many years. I don't know who this little friend is. It's really a blessing for me to have such a cultivation at such a young age."

"He is the grandson of the second brother's family."

"Sure enough, it is a dragon and a phoenix among people."

"You're welcome." Shen Ruiling modestly shied away.

...

As the dishes were served, Shen Ruiling found that most of them were lake fresh, and the products in the water accounted for the majority, and they looked like they were drinking from water.

Shen Huantong pointed to a few dishes and said:

"These are the three unique dishes of our Binhu Town,

Zhenze Three Treasures. "

"Zhenze Three Treasures?" First, he was stunned, and then he thought of what he saw in the family's Sutra Collection Pavilion.

The famous food produced in Zhenze Lake in Linhai County is named after the shape of ice fish, crystal shrimp, and mussels. Therefore, it is called: Zhenze Three Treasures.

One treasure is an ice fish, more than two inches long, slightly round in length, shaped like a hosta, seemingly boneless and gutless, delicate and transparent, and its color is like silver. It is named for its transparent, crystal white body.

The flesh of the fish is tender and rich in spiritual energy. An ice fish is comparable to refining a spiritual stone when eaten. It is even more excellent for practitioners of the water attribute. Because the water spiritual power contained in it is very pure, it is deeply loved by water cultivators.

The second treasure is a crystal shrimp with whiskers on the head, claws on the chest, protruding eyes and a fan-shaped tail. Most of them grow in open shoals with lush water plants and calm waves. The shell of the crystal shrimp is thin, and the whole body is transparent and crystal clear like jade when it is born, with slightly brown markings. The sweetness of eating has an unexpected effect on the body refining cultivator.

The three treasures are mussels, which are large mussels living in Zhenze Lake. After years of precipitation, mussel beads will be produced in the body. Although this clam meat also has the effect of nourishing spiritual power for monks. However, the mussel beads bred by this mussel are the real treasures.

Ordinary cultivators can't tell his age just from his face. Qi cultivators can look twenty years younger than their actual age before the age of sixty.

And once a monk builds a foundation, his lifespan will double. During the Qi training period, he may be an old monk, and he will only be middle-aged in the lifespan of the foundation-building period, and his appearance will also become middle-aged.

Take Shen Huanchi as an example. He has been practicing Taoism for about a hundred years, and his life span is only halfway through, so he looks like a middle-aged man. However, some 80-90-year-old qi-training elders have already looked old.

The biggest effect of mussel beads is that it can be used by monks to delay aging. Although the lifespan will not increase, it can make people look much younger, and it already has a little effect of maintaining Yandan.

Therefore, this kind of mussel bead is very popular among female cultivators in the Qi training period, and even some female cultivators in the foundation-building period are not exempt. I am afraid that only Jindan cultivators will turn a blind eye to this pair of skins when they reach a certain level.

The income brought by the three treasures of Zhenze is very large, so the majority of the income of these things is occupied by Qingyunmen. They have a special fishing ground on the Nanhu side to raise these aquatic products and bring wealth to the sect. .

The Shen family could only drink a soup with a single sip of soup because of a geographical advantage, but they can also earn thousands of spirit stones every year.

...

"Come on, this ice fish is fresh, I sent someone to catch it just now. You know that this fish will die within an hour of leaving the water, and the effect will be much worse." Shen Huantong introduced with pride.

"I'm still going down to the lake at this time, fellow Daoist has a heart." Zhou Qiao said with a smile, and at the same time took a piece into his bowl.

Shen Ruiling grabbed a piece of fish meat, and suddenly it turned into a strand of spiritual power and penetrated into the abdomen. After running the exercise to refine it, Shen Ruiling felt that his spiritual power had actually increased a little, and couldn't help but be amazed.

"It's worthy of being called a treasure of Zhenze." Shen Ruiling didn't feel anything when he heard the book before, but now he really feels its benefits after tasting it.

You must know that although the Shen family can catch some ice fish by relying on Zhenze Lake, but without Foundation Establishment monks or Tier 3 flying monsters to transport them, these fish often die halfway.

Therefore, the family usually salvaged them and sold them to the Qingyunmen monks in Nanhu in exchange for spirit stones, and there was no food to enjoy on Yunbi Peak.

"This mussel was sent by the Lu family in Yangshan. Although there are no mussel beads, the meat is also a good spiritual food." Shen Huantong introduced again.

"Yangshan Lu family?" Shen Ruiling looked puzzled.

"A family affiliated with Qi training is also close to Zhenze Lake, about five hundred miles away from here. You don't know if you don't manage family affairs." Shen Huanming explained after seeing it.

Although Shen Ruiling likes to read some books in the Sutra Collection Pavilion, in terms of the family, it is really not as good as some elders in charge.

"Speaking of which, they should also be affected by the flood this time, but their mountain gate is there, and there are two people in the clan who have practiced the Great Perfection of Qi, much better than us." Shen Huanming said after thinking for a while.

...

Then a few people at the table began to discuss the deployment of Binhu Town.

"I have ordered people to block the river, and ballistas have been installed on the city walls. It's just that these mortal weapons are only useful for some first-order monsters, and above second-order monsters are useless." Shen Huantong said.

"It would be great if mortals could help us deal with some of the first-order monsters. We cultivators would deal with the second-order monsters. This time, we also brought four cloud-piercing crossbows from Yunbi Peak, together with the magic circle here. As long as there is no We will be able to hold the third-order monsters." Shen Huanming also expressed his opinion.

"Tier-3 monsters are impossible. I have been guarding here for 20 years. Every year there are floods, and I have never seen a Tier-3 monster." Shen Huantong said with a smile.

...

"Everyone, go back and have a good rest, keep your spiritual power full, and at the same time let the mortals strengthen the fortifications and be ready to fight back at any time." Shen Huanming ordered.

Not only did Shen Huanming have the ninth level of Qi training, but he was also the elder of the family's Huanzi generation, the clansmen brought down from Yunbifeng, and the original clansmen in Binhu Town.

After the party, they all returned to their residences and got ready.