Cultivation begins with the Shen family

Chapter 62
"Although the strength of Xuanling Sect in Shayu County has been greatly damaged this time, there are still several foundation-building monks in its sect, and its overall strength is still the strongest among the three foundation-building forces."

In the silent meeting hall, Shen Xiangchi's deep voice lingered in the ears of Shen Zhirui and the others.

"If we choose to take the opportunity to stand on our own at this time, we must bear the anger from Xuanlingmen, and it is still unknown whether the Liu family and the Kuangsha faction will stand up to support us at that time."

"In addition, there are still a large number of sandworms raging in Shayu County. The strength of our local families alone cannot solve this disaster in a short time. We must rely on the power of Xuanlingmen to solve this disaster."

Shen Xiangchi looked around the crowd with his deep gaze, his expression was extremely serious.

What he said was not only an analysis of the current situation, but also to sound the alarm in the hearts of the people.

Even though he succeeded in building the foundation at this time, in these four counties, the strength of his Shen family is still not as good as that of the old foundation building forces such as Xuanlingmen, so he should not act too ostentatiously, and need to be cautious.

On the other side, Shen Zhirui and the other four were sitting upright, the previous words of the patriarch echoing in their minds.

Among them, the second elder, Shen Xianghuan, and the third elder, Shen Xiangchu, nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with the patriarch's actions.

As the only few elders of Xiangzi generation in the current family, they will naturally not get carried away because the patriarch established the foundation.

Even they were deeply worried about the arrogant behavior shown by some young people.

"Okay, this matter is decided in this way, do you have any other circumstances in hand?"

As soon as the words fell, Shen Xianghuan immediately stood up and said:

"Patriarch, just got the news that the Liu family has sent a large number of monks into Shayu County to wantonly plunder the population and resources."

"In addition, the Song family, the Yang family and other three families have joined the Liu family and become the Liu family's bridgehead in Shayu County."

After hearing this, Shen Xiangchi's eyes darkened instantly, and Shen Zhirui and other people present also showed strange expressions.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Liu family was still discussing an alliance with them just now, but they had already secretly sent the cultivators to plunder Shayu County's resources, without any sincerity in forming an alliance.

And at this time they finally knew why the second elder was so excited when he heard the news that the Liu family wanted to form an alliance with them, obviously because he was afraid that the patriarch would agree to the other party.

"Let's wait and see what happens in this matter, and see the reaction of the Xuanling Sect. At the same time, we will secretly send monks out to gather those homeless monks."

After thinking for a moment, Shen Xiangchi pondered.

Hearing this, Third Elder Shen Xiangchu hastily said again:

"Patriarch, there are now more than 200 monks gathered at the foot of the mountain, and there are tens of thousands of secular mortals who have migrated."

"At present, most of the spiritual grains and 【Bigu Pills】 that most monks carried with them when they fled have been exhausted, so we all hope that we can take out some spiritual grains to help them."

As soon as these words came out, Shen Zhirui and others present couldn't help but frowned, and then sighed heavily.

As we all know, monks in the qi training period cannot do fasting. They must eat spiritual grains or [Bigu Dan] regularly to survive, so spiritual grains have become the most important resource for the qi training family.

However, after last year's exploitation by the Xuanling Sect, there was not much spiritual grain left in the stocks of the various families in Shayu County, and most of the families could not even maintain their livelihoods for the next year.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and who would have thought that this year would encounter an unprecedented sandworm riot. The raging sandworms destroyed the spiritual mountains and spiritual fields that various families depended on for survival.

Now the entire Shayu County is in a crisis of food shortage, and judging from the current situation, the food shortage crisis may not last for a short time.

All of a sudden, everyone turned their attention to the patriarch, waiting for his answer.

"Allocate five hundred catties of spiritual grain from the family treasury to distribute to the monks at the bottom of the mountain, and I plan to recruit a group of family guests from it."

I saw that Shen Xiangchi cast his eyes on the crowd and spoke slowly.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Shen Daoquan hurriedly said anxiously:

"Patriarch, is five hundred catties of spiritual grain too much?"

On the other side, Shen Xianghuan and Shen Zhirui couldn't help but glance at each other, as if they both thought of the same thing.

Judging from the family's harvest in the past, it was too much to give five hundred catties of spiritual grain to these fugitive monks.

But with the appearance of two unexpected windfalls, the current reserves of the Shen Family Spirit Valley are far from sufficient.

The storage bag that Shen Zhirui got from that Liu family monk back then was filled with the taxes collected by Shayu County, among which the number of spiritual valleys accounted for more than [-]%.

Secondly, under the planning of the second elder Shen Xianghuan, Shen Xiangchi successfully intercepted and killed the black market forces who were about to flee, and the spoils also included a large number of spiritual grains.

So judging from the current situation, the Shen family's spirit valley reserves are completely sufficient to support the needs of every clan member.

"Third Uncle, the family's current food reserves are sufficient, don't worry!"

Shen Zhirui said somewhat mysteriously.

"Besides, using these five hundred catties of spiritual grains to gain the family's prestige and support in Shayu County is definitely not a loss."

After hearing this, Shen Daoquan was still a little dazed, but the patriarch, Shen Xianghuan and the other three couldn't help but smile at each other.

But at this moment, a clansman hurried in and said out of breath:
"Patriarch, two Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Xuanling Sect have come down from the mountain!"

Shen Zhirui and the others immediately stood up when they heard this, and all turned their attention to the patriarch Shen Xiangchi.

"Go to yourselves first!"

After Shen Xiangchi threw down a sentence, he jumped out and headed down the mountain.

When he came to the open space in front of the mountain gate, he saw two Foundation Establishment monks, one old and one young, waiting there.

"Sinking Xiangchi, I met two fellow Taoists of the Xuanling Sect!"

Looking at Shen Xiangchi standing in front of them, the two Xuanlingmen Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

"This old man, Su Xingshi from Xuanling Sect, has met Fellow Daoist Shen. This is this old man's nephew Zhai Yangyu."

I saw that the old man in a gray robe was the first to bow his hands in return, and at the same time introduced the young man beside him.

"I have seen two fellow Daoists!"

After all, Shen Xiangchi's divine sense had already swept over the two of them inadvertently, and he didn't feel any sense of oppression from them, so he had a rough guess about their cultivation base in his heart.

"Fellow Daoist Shen was able to successfully advance to the Foundation Establishment Realm at this time of crisis. Congratulations!"

On this side, Su Xingshi said with a smile on his face again.

"Fellow Daoist Su, you are being polite, Shen is just a fluke"

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