Chronicles of Ascension: The Path to Immortality

Henry Zhang watched the bouncing Zhang Miaoke go away.

"Why did the Eight Clansmen send such a girl over to discuss business? You should ask me to lower the price. Give her 250 acres of spiritual land. Maybe I will agree." Henry Zhang muttered.

Henry Zhang walked out of the door and saw Zhang Sanqian standing aside.

"Uncle Sanqian, did you hear what the old people from the eight tribes just said?"

Zhang Sanqian smiled slightly and said, "I heard it even outside the door."

"What do you mean?"

"No change." Zhang Sanqian said directly.

"Oh? Isn't Uncle Sanqian the best at doing business? Why not do such a cost-effective business?"

"If the temple owner only wants to be a rich man, he can guard the 200 acres of spiritual land, but if he wants to develop into a powerful force comparable to the elders of the nine major clans in the future, Jiuding Lake must be captured."

"Hahaha... the one who knows me is Uncle Sanqian."

"I have learned a lot about Jiuda Lake in the early stage. This is some information about Jiuding Lake. Please take a look at the temple owner." Zhang Sanqian handed over a jade slip.

"Uncle Sanqian really does have a beautiful heart, he even thought of this."

"After all, if we want to live in Jiuhufang for a long time, we must do some understanding." Zhang Sanqian said modestly.

Henry Zhang took the jade slip, his consciousness was immersed, and all the information about Jiuding Lake appeared in his mind.

He slowly digested the information.

This lake is called Jiuding Lake because it is shaped like a nine-legged tripod.

The nine feet are the nine springs of Jiuding Lake.

Every noon, spiritual energy spurts out from the nine springs and overflows to the entire lake.

Jiuding Lake is rich in spiritual energy and contains many aquatic spiritual beasts.

The most precious thing is the clam.

Most of the spiritual pearls bred by spiritual clams are water-attributed spiritual objects, which are extremely rare spiritual materials for people with water-attributed spiritual roots.

These spiritual beads are famous far and wide, and even the Shangzong's purchasing caravan will specify the purchase of spiritual beads.

With the accumulation of experience in raising spiritual clams in Zhangjiaji, everyone discovered that spiritual clams can not only cultivate water-attribute spiritual beads, but also spiritual beads with other attributes can be cultivated through artificial intervention.

This kind of spirit bead is called a strange spirit bead, and its value is dozens or even hundreds of times that of ordinary spirit beads.

The origins of the strange spirit beads are different, and their spirituality is also completely different. Many types of strange spirit beads have their own unique names.

For example, some are called tiger tooth beads, some are called ice beads, some are called water silk beads, some are called red lip beads, etc.

When the clam swallows a red-spotted tiger tooth, over time, there is a one percent chance of condensing a tiger tooth bead, which has the effect of condensing blood energy.

The Water Silk Bead is produced by a spiritual clam swallowing a first-order Water Silk Spirit Grass, but the chance is less than one in a thousand.

Water silk beads have the effect of bringing the dead back to life, and they are valuable but not marketable.

As for the red lip beads, they are produced by the spirit clam swallowing the lotus seeds of the nine-child spirit lotus. It is a fire-attribute spiritual object. It contains two pieces of true fire of the spirit lotus and looks like lips, so it is so named.

When Henry Zhang saw this, he sighed and said: "I was almost deceived by that girl's movie just now. She didn't even mention the matter of the strange spirit bead."

What he didn't know was that the reason why Zhang Miaoke didn't mention the strange spirit bead was because the investment in conceiving the strange spirit bead was too great, and the gain outweighed the loss. Except for a few wealthy clan elders, basically no one in Qiangzhi would put their thoughts on it. Conceive the strange spirit bead.

Henry Zhang continued to read about Jiuding Lake.

Others are the same as Zhang Miaoke's introduction. Planting the Nine-Son Spirit Lotus, Spirit Fish and Spirit Shrimp also account for a large part of the income.

"Uncle Sanqian, let's go see our own Jiuding Lake first." Henry Zhang said.

"good."

The two of them took the two-winged flying leopard and arrived at Jiuding Lake in a short while.

Jiuding Lake has a radius of dozens of miles, a vast water area, and the lake is bottomless.

"Lord of the Lake, come here!" Henry Zhang shouted.

A short, fat man with a mustache trotted over.

"Zhang Dajiang pays homage to the elders of the Ten Clans." The short, fat man said respectfully.

"Jiuding Lake belongs to me now, do you know?"

"I know, I know..." Zhang Dajiang said while rubbing his hands.

"Now bring over Jiuding Lake's account book."

"yes."

After a while, Zhang Dajiang came over holding a thick account book.

Henry Zhang began to read page by page.

The entire Jiuding Lake has a radius of 53 miles and is located between Sanbao Lake and Qinglian Lake. There are 183 shops around it.

Seeing this, Henry Zhang nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad..."

But as he flipped through the account books, Henry Zhang's face became more and more ugly.

After flipping through the account books, Henry Zhang slapped the table and said angrily: "Zhang Dajiang, you are so bold, are you deducting my Linghu income without permission?"

Zhang Dajiang said hurriedly: "Elder of the clan, you are wronged, you are wronged!"

"Unjustly? For such a big Jiuding Lake, instead of generating any revenue for decades, it actually loses 10,000 spiritual stones every year. You still say you are unjustly accused!"

"The elders of the clan don't know. One-third of the water area of ​​Jiuding Lake is planted with Nine-Son Spirit Lotus. This was also the order given by the clan leader at that time. These Nine-Son Spirit Lotus are not mature yet and must be fertilized every year. They occupy a large area. Partially shortchanged.”

"How long have you been planting the Nine-Son Spirit Lotus?"

"It's been thirty years."

The Nine-Son Linglian takes ninety years to mature. When Henry heard that it had been planted for thirty years, his face looked better.

"I know everything. After the handover, you can go back to the inner assembly." Henry Zhang said.

Zhang Dajiang stood there motionless, as if he had an unspeakable expression.

"What are you still doing here?" Henry Zhang asked.

Zhang Dajiang said cautiously: "Tenth elder, it's like this. There is no problem handing over Jiuding Lake to you, but the investment of the clan to cultivate the Nine-son Spirit Lotus for thirty years requires, requires..."

"What does it require?" Zhang Xuan frowned and asked.

"You need to pay for it, Tenth elder."

"Not only is there no entry now, but I also have to pay for the initial investment of these Nine-son Spirit Lotus?"

"Tenth elder, calm down. It's okay not to pay, but these Nine-son Spirit Lotus that have grown for thirty years must be pulled out and put into the clan treasury."

Zhang Xuan's heart "clicked" when he heard it.

These Nine-son Spirit Lotus were indeed cultivated by the clan, and they have been losing money for years because of it. It's understandable to take them away.

But he really couldn't bear to part with them.

"If these Nine-son Spirit Lotus are left, how many spirit stones do I need to pay to the clan?"

"The annual investment is clearly recorded in the account book, and the total investment for thirty years is 1.5 million spirit stones."

"1.5 million spirit stones?" Zhang Xuan was shocked.

"Yes, the annual investment in cultivating the Nine-Child Spiritual Lotus is around 50,000 spiritual stones. There is nothing we can do about it."

"I don't have so many spiritual stones. Can I owe them first and return them to the clan when I have more money?" Zhang Xuan said rather embarrassedly.

"Yes, but you have to pay it back in installments with interest."

"What is installment repayment?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"1% interest per month, pay it back in 10 years, 21,521 spiritual stones per month."

"So much?"

"Elder, 1% interest is already the lowest interest rate for the family's spiritual stones to be lent out. Ordinary people have to pay 5% interest to borrow spiritual stones from the clan."

"Okay, okay, let's calculate it at 1% interest."

"This is a document. Please sign and seal it, elder." Zhang Dajin handed over a spiritual stone loan contract.