Please show your spirit to our ancestors

Chapter 237: Taixuan Heroes Gathering

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"In addition, I heard from the sect that the once-a-century [Tai Xuan Heroes Conference] will also be held in the coming years." Chen Jingyun continued, "During this period, Tai Xuan Sect will be open to the public. Our young people can take this opportunity to go to Tai Xuan Sect to broaden their horizons."

【Tai Xuan Heroes Gathering】Ah~

This is a once-in-a-century event, hosted by Taixuan Sect, the Huashen Sect of Tianyuan Continent. Young talents from all continents will gather together. If you can perform well at the Heroes Conference, you will become famous among the younger generation.

Chen Xuanmo was a little dazed.

The first time he heard about the Taixuan Heroes' Gathering was two hundred years ago. At that time, he was struggling desperately to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage!
However, even if he had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage at that time, the Taixuan Heroes Association would have nothing to do with him.

When he attended the next Taixuan Heroes Gathering, he was already over 160 years old. At that time, he had just reached the late stage of foundation building. It was the time when he was most ambitious in this small place. He defeated the Bai family and snatched a lot of territory from them.

However, the Taixuan Heroes Association still had nothing to do with him, nor with his two sons with four spiritual roots. He only heard from other channels that Zhongli Ye went to the Taixuan Heroes Association, but his performance was mediocre and it seemed that he had suffered a lot of setbacks.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the once-in-a-century Taixuan Heroes Gathering has begun.

Of course I have to go and join in the fun.

The Chen family is different now. While doing business in Tianyuan Continent, he can also go to Taixuan Heroes Association to broaden his horizons and fulfill the dream that he never had when he was young.

With Chen Xuanmo's agreement, the next topic naturally revolved around how to participate in the Heroes' Meeting, who would go and who would stay to guard the house, etc.

after the meeting.

Chen Xuanmo was not in a hurry to stroll around, but stayed alone in the Moxiang Pavilion in the state of a heroic spirit, silently making one jade token after another.

In order to save purple energy in the past few years, he made very few jade tokens. In addition, the trip to Tianyuan Continent was far away and there were many things to do, so it was probably impossible for him to come back in a year or two.

Therefore, we have to keep some trump cards for the family.

The first is the purple jade token.

Although family members tend to use the gold seal jade pendant to have children, the purple jade pendant is still the most widely used and popular jade pendant.

The reason is very simple. There are the largest number of people in the Qi Refining stage in the family. And for the young people to comprehend the artistic conception, break through the bottleneck, practice all arts, and travel, the Purple Qi Jade Plate is indispensable. You can't just use the Gold Seal Jade Plate all the time, right?

Therefore, Chen Xuanmo made a thousand purple jade tablets in one go, consuming 11000 strands of purple energy, enough for the family to use for the next five years.

Then came the gold-seal jade token, which was the Chen family's jade token that consumed the most purple energy. Chen Xuanmo made 16500 of them in one go, consuming strands of purple energy. He believed that if used sparingly, it would be enough to cover the family's expenses for five years.

Afterwards, Chen Xuanmo thought about it again and made five orange seals to guard the house, which consumed 5500 strands of purple energy.

Finally, he hardened his heart and made another red seal to serve as a guarantee for the family's safety, which cost 11000 strands of purple energy.

Therefore, just to make the four jade plates, 44000 strands of purple energy were consumed. The purple energy that was originally bulging in his hands was instantly consumed by more than half!

Such staggering expenditure left Chen Xuanmo speechless.

He originally thought that he was now a rich man with purple energy, but he never imagined that this purple energy was not easy to spend. He was very stingy in making a batch of jade plaques, which made him feel painful. If he were allowed to make them freely, he was afraid that the more than 80,000 strands of purple energy would be squandered.

Throttling is a bit difficult.

We still have to find a way to open source~

Now that old ghost Ziyin has been serving as a worshiper in the Chen family for so long, he has gained many benefits. He can use this as an example to lobby Zhenren Hongfu. As long as she brings a few subordinates to serve as worshipers every five years, how much more purple energy can she get?
Of course, if Zhenren Hong Fu and others really join the offering system, Chen's pressure will suddenly increase dramatically. After all, although the purple energy will increase, the expenditure of spirit stones will also increase dramatically.

The main reason why the Chen family can hold on today is because the profits from the "Jade Slave Industry" are sufficiently lucrative.

However, with the increasing saturation rate of the Great Wu Kingdom and its neighboring countries, the profits of the jade slave business have been declining every year in recent years. According to this trend, Chen's income will sooner or later be unable to cover the expenses.

But the good thing is that the market for Chen's [White Jade No. 7] spirit seeds is constantly expanding. It now covers the entire Hedong County, half of Hebei County, most of Donghai County, etc., and the annual net profit has reached nearly 30,000 spirit stones!
This number is certainly not high. It is not even a fraction of the sales volume at the peak of Yunu.

But the spirit seed market has its own unique advantage, that is, the market is stable. The longer it lasts, the more stable it is, and the larger the scale, the more stable it is.

As Chen's spirit seed market continues to expand, an update and iteration of high-yield spirit seeds will allow Chen to earn more spirit stones, and those families will also generate more income from growing high-yield spirit seeds.

In this way, it would be a win-win situation, and even a win-win situation for the sect and the local dominant family. After all, there is too much spiritual rice, and it can be exported. There are many countries overseas that still have a great demand for spiritual rice.

Therefore, the Chen family's short-term interests depend on Yu Nu, and their long-term interests depend on the iteration and promotion of spirit seeds.

At the same time, on this basis, the Chen family will gradually expand its voice in industries such as spiritual medicine cultivation, elixir refining, and equipment refining, and accumulate technology to gradually increase the Chen family's profound foundation.

These were all common topics discussed at family meetings. Although Chen Xuanmo didn't like to hear them, he unconsciously memorized the data as he listened.

It is precisely because of similar reasons that the family has never taken the initiative to contact Master Hong Fu.

Instead, he must wait until Yu Nu opens up the Tianyuan Continent market before he is qualified to support more offerings and adopt the strategic idea of ​​exchanging spirit stones for purple energy. Otherwise, more offerings will only bring a heavy burden.

After all, not every purple energy of the Chen family can make money. Most of the purple energy is used to enhance the Chen family's foundation, and those things will most likely not produce results in one or two years, or even in ten or eight years.

After Chen Xuanmo finished making a large number of jade tablets with tears in his eyes, he began to think about the second family branch base spirit seed he had obtained five years ago. His previous plan was to use that branch base spirit seed in Tianyuan Imperial City.

In this way, the two sides can achieve instant communication and timely sharing of various information, and it can also enable clansmen who are far away in the Tianyuan Continent to participate in sacrifices in time to avoid wasting purple energy.

Now Chen Jingpeng, several clansmen in the Qi Refining stage, and Master Changsheng who went to Tianyuan Continent are unable to provide purple qi, resulting in a lot of waste!
It's time to choose a treasure and make it into a talisman and medium for the family's second branch base.

However, the previous Xuanmo Sword and Chixia Sword were both sword-type treasures that protected the clan. Could it be that the third treasure would also be a sword?
Chen Xuanmo had never tried to see if he could succeed using other treasures instead of the sword, but there would be no harm in giving it a try.

He strolled to the family treasury and began to pick out some rare and attractive treasures.

After choosing and selecting, the only two items that caught my eye were the Cangqing Treasure Shield and the Canglong Treasure Halberd. They were both mid-grade magic weapons. One was a shield defense magic weapon, but the other was more suitable for water battles.

I have to admit that these two magic weapons have their own merits.

The attack power of Xuanmo's sword is already very strong. It would be more cost-effective if there was a defensive magic weapon. However, Chen Xuanmo was also envious of the powerful water combat ability of the Canglong Biji.

He wanted both, but in the end he could only have one.

After weighing the pros and cons for a moment, Chen Xuanmo decided to give the Cangqing Treasure Shield a try.

After all, Tianyuan Imperial City is not near the sea, so there is relatively little room for water warfare attributes to be used, and there are no practical defensive magic weapons.

It’s not that Chen Xuanmo doesn’t want to use top-grade magic weapons to refine clan treasures, but top-grade magic weapons are too rare. Even if they can be bought, the prices are often outrageous and the cost-effectiveness is not high.

Anyway, the clan's artifacts are washed by the purple air, and it is only a matter of time before they are promoted to a higher level.

Of course, Chen Xuanmo also considered the "brick", but that thing already has a spirit. If it is refined into a clan-protecting artifact, it would probably directly wipe out its spirituality. Such a waste of resources would be a bad thing.

What's more, the bricks were Xiuyang's private property, and his ancestor would never do anything to steal a child's things.

Subsequently.

Chen Xuanmo began to try to integrate the branch base spirit seeds into the Cangqing Treasure Shield.

Compared to the smooth integration of the Scarlet Cloud Sword, this integration process was obviously slower and more laborious. It took him a long time to successfully refine the Blue Treasure Shield into a clan-protecting artifact and summon the clan members to complete the activation ceremony. After finishing, he breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.

Fortunately, he did not blindly look for a high-grade magic weapon, otherwise it would be a waste of resources to get it back with great difficulty. Even this Cangqing treasure shield was a bit over-grade, and Chen Xuanmo was not as handy in controlling it as he was with the Chixia Sword.

At this point, Chen Xuanmo was basically done with his work. The rest were things for his clansmen to worry about, so he simply went back into the lucky bead and fell asleep.

Nowadays, staying for one day will consume thirty strands of purple energy, so it is better to save as much as possible.

in this way.

Time flies.

Three months later.

When Chen Xuanmo was awakened again, the family had already made all preparations. The Xuanmo sword was left in the family to guard it, while Chen Xuanmo was temporarily attached to the Cangqing shield and went out with the family.

In this way, when he needs to sleep, he can directly teleport his heroic spirit back to the lucky bead of the Xuanmo Sword through the Cangqing Treasure Shield to sleep. When he needs to watch the excitement, he can also teleport to the Cangqing Treasure Shield at any time.

This is the benefit of refining clan-guarding artifacts for branch bases. It can provide Chen Xuanmo with an anchor point at any time, allowing the heroic spirit to switch back and forth.

Under the envious gazes of all the family members, the Xuanmo Treasure Boat slowly rose into the air, then accelerated, turning into a stunning rainbow and flying away into the distant sky.

The target this time is [Anping Port] in Donghai County.

It is the home of the Donghai Tantai family and also the gathering point for the fleet on this trip to Tianyuan.

That's right, the fleet.

The Chen family is not the only one going to Tianyuan Continent this time.

In fact, anyone with a talented person of the right age in their family would not miss such a once-in-a-century event like the Taixuan Heroes Gathering. Naturally, the three major sects would also send people to participate. At that time, there would be not only outstanding young people below the Jindan stage in the sect, but also young talents from the families under their rule.

Of course, the starting requirement for participating in this event is to have four spiritual roots or special spiritual roots.

Therefore, even if the three spiritual roots inheritance seeds of the Jindan families wanted to go to Taixuan Sect to see it, most of them would travel on the treasure boats belonging to their respective sects.

However, since there were so many people in the Chen family's group, they didn't want to occupy the space in the sect's treasure boat. Instead, they simply drove a medium-sized treasure boat on their own. This way, they could all be more comfortable after the long journey.

After all, although the medium-sized treasure ship cannot only seat a few people like the small treasure ship, it is of that size and there will not be too many empty rooms. Moreover, it has to load as much special products of the Great Wu Kingdom as possible and transport them to the Tianyuan Continent to sell. The profit difference can cover a lot of the cost of the treasure ship's long-distance voyage.

Chen's was only about 3,000 miles away from Anping Harbor. The medium-sized treasure boat was operating in the most energy-saving cruising mode, and in just over an hour it had arrived at the assembly point on a deserted island more than a hundred miles outside Anping Harbor.

At this time, the Yunyang Sect's medium-sized treasure boat had arrived first and was hovering nearby.

On the deck of the treasure boat, Chen Shiyan, dressed in a red suit, had been waiting there for a long time, leaning on the railing and looking towards the sea.

Many years have passed, and now Chen Shiyun is sixty years old, but she still looks like the girl she was back then. Her slender waist is tightened with a leather belt, making her figure look exquisite. Golden tassels hang from her belt, swaying slightly in the wind, making her look a bit quirky.

Seeing the iconic black shape of her own treasure ship from afar, she excitedly turned into a beam of fire and flew up, "whoosh" across the sky and landed on the deck of the Xuanmo treasure ship.

After landing, she took a few steps forward, hugged Chen Jingyun's arm and started to act coquettishly: "Daddy, you are finally here, I missed you so much."

She looks like a good daughter.

Chen Jingyun pushed her away with a hint of disdain: "We haven't seen each other for just a few months, there's no need to be so mushy, tell me what you want to say."

Others may not know what kind of person his daughter is, but Chen Jingyun knows very well. As soon as he saw her look, he knew that she must have something to ask for.

She is already in her sixties, but she still pretends to be a pure little sister all day long.

"Daddy, I won't agree with you saying that~" Chen Shiyun looked innocent and aggrieved, and pouted, "I just said that there are too many goods and too many people on the sect's treasure boat, so I want to get two separate rooms on our treasure boat."

As he was speaking, Master Xuan Yang also noticed the movement here, and he turned into a beam of fire and landed on the Xuan Mo Treasure Boat, his face slightly embarrassed: "My dear disciple, didn't Master tell you that Master's room is for you to live in? You can live in the same room with Ke Ming, and Lei Wuji and I will squeeze in."

Ke Ming?

Chen Jingyun immediately understood.

Ke Ming's full name is "Gongsun Ke Ming". She is a well-behaved and clever girl. She was accepted as a disciple by the Fairy of Flowers thirty years ago. She seems to be only thirty-nine years old now.

However, Chen Jingyun was also slightly surprised and asked: "Senior Xuanyang, is the space on the sect's treasure ship so tight? In recent years, our sect has had a good income, right?"

The Chen family has paid all the tribute to the sect, and many of the sect's Jindan cultivators serve as priests for the Chen family. Spirit stones are flowing into the sect in large numbers. Life should have been much better than before, right?

Master Xuanyang's face slightly turned red, a little embarrassed: "Isn't it because Sect Master Ziyin is used to a hard life, so he filled the cabin with goods before leaving~ In his words, young people below the Jindan stage are in need of tempering, and four people living in one room is more than enough."

Chen Jingyun was silent.

He originally thought that the goods on his treasure boat were enough, but he never expected that the sect could even surpass them. In contrast, it seemed that the Chen family did not know how to live.

After understanding the whole cause and effect, Chen Jingyun was speechless and was about to agree.

suddenly.

In the sky, another treasure ship broke through the clouds and flew down towards the assembly point.

The treasure ship was different from the Yunyang Sect in style. The paint on the surface of the ship was very colorful, and there were many vines coiled around the side of the ship, with clusters of flowers blooming on the vines.

From a distance, it looks like the garden was moved onto the boat, it is ingenious and magnificent.

Such a unique style of treasure ship is naturally the famous Wanhua Treasure Ship of Wanhua Palace.

Don't underestimate those entwined vines, they are not just for decoration, but are special spiritual plants specially cultivated by Wanhua Palace. They are capable of both offense and defense and are extremely powerful.

On the Wanhua Treasure Boat, even though Master Hong Fu had not yet arrived, her dissatisfied voice could be heard from afar: "These kids from Wuhen Mountain really don't take me seriously. They are the closest to the assembly point, but they arrived the last."

"Humph!"

The Taixuan Heroes' Gathering is held once every century. If all three immortals go, the cost will be too high and the national security of the Great Wu will be weakened. But if none of them go, the journey will be unsafe.

Therefore, the three major sects agreed to take turns sending a Yuanying Zhenren to lead the team to Taixuan Sect to participate in the event.

This time, it was the turn of True Person Hong Fu from Wanhua Palace.

Chen Jingyun felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, but at the same time he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This time, the task given to him by his great grandfather was to conquer True Person Hong Fu. He wanted to see True Person Hong Fu present during the next family sacrifice in five years.

This is a really difficult task. I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Chen Jingyun was in tears.

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(End of this chapter)