Longevity Family: Let Her Live At The Beginning, Let Her Live

After Zhang Yin left,

Zhang Ran gathered all the female cultivators, including Yang Huanyu. Although she had no cultivation, she had taken four longevity pills, so her lifespan was over four hundred years. She still looked like she was eighteen.

However, the longevity pills could not be taken indefinitely. After taking the fourth pill, they had no effect.

Zhang Ran looked at the group of beautiful women and said seriously,

"Nowadays, the Zhang family has more and more descendants. So, I plan to make preparations in advance and establish a school for the Zhang family to engage in effective and systematic learning. This way, some of the family's children can still learn the path of cultivation even if they don't join a sect."

Upon hearing this, the women thought Zhang Ran's idea was good because in the family now, some children had better foundations due to their mothers' high cultivation. Although there were some juniors from the Evergreen Sect guiding the mortal-born children, it was not very formal.

If they could establish a systematic academy, that would be great.

"Husband, if this method can develop smoothly, it will greatly help the family's development."

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "Ladies, during your free time, take turns to teach. Currently, there are only three Foundation Building cultivators among the juniors. It seems unlikely that the others will achieve Foundation Building. I will trouble you all to start."

After discussing among themselves, they decided that there were eleven female cultivators at the Foundation Building stage and only three at the Core Formation stage.

For the introductory stage of cultivation, they could have the Qi Refining cultivators teach, and there were many Qi Refining female cultivators, totaling over a hundred. Rotating teaching would not delay their own cultivation.

When the students reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, they could enter the classroom of the Foundation Building teachers.

Of course, this was a future plan. For now, they could start with this. After all, most of the Zhang family's descendants were still in the Evergreen Sect. The academy could only grow when the Zhang family no longer needed to rely on the Evergreen Sect.

"Husband, besides the income from the spiritual mines in the Evergreen Sect, there are also many tasks. We can incorporate that as well."

Zhang Ran agreed, thinking it was feasible. For example, alchemy and refining tools required many materials, and there were often incidents of demons and monsters near the family or the country. It would be good to receive some rewards for completing tasks. They could slowly start doing this.

"Husband, have you thought of a name for the academy?"

After pondering for a while, Zhang Ran said, "Let's call it Changsheng Academy."

After the discussion, they immediately began to implement the plan.

The academy was not built in Zhang Ran's mansion but outside. They cleared a piece of land and set up branches for alchemy, refining tools, talisman making, formations, and puppets.

These branches were not officially operational yet. They would only be opened when future generations of the family fully mastered one of them.

The construction of the entire academy was also very fast. It covered an area of a thousand acres and was completed in half a year.

Unfortunately,

After the academy was completed, there were not many students. Zhang Ran had anticipated this. The age of those going to the Evergreen Sect was around ten, so Zhang Ran set the enrollment age at seven.

This way, they could lay a solid foundation and make the quiet academy lively.

Half a year passed quickly.

Zhang Ran went to the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain again. The formations he had set up last time had been damaged, so this time he only needed to repair them. It only took half a month.

During this period, Yu Yan accompanied him.

Naturally, Zhang Ran taught Yu Yan everything he could. They hadn't seen each other for a long time, and at the beginning, they were a bit restrained. But as they entered the formations together and Zhang Ran patiently explained, they became more relaxed.

"Yu Yan, I feel like you're about to break through."

"Yes. I'm about to reach the ninth level of Core Formation." Yu Yan had been stuck at the eighth level of Core Formation for a hundred years, so she was finally happy to break through.

"Congratulations. After the ninth level, you'll be one step closer to Nascent Soul cultivation." Zhang Ran sincerely congratulated her.

"Compared to you, I'm far behind." Yu Yan couldn't understand how Zhang Ran cultivated every day.

This time,

Yu Yan and Zhang Ran bid farewell in the sky above the Zhang family.

The commotion at the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain had been ongoing.

The activity of the underground demons seemed to have slowed down, and the riots of demons and monsters on the surface remained within a certain limit. Occasionally, one or two Core Formation cultivators would appear.

Fortunately, there were no Nascent Soul-level ones.

Zhang Ran had also been sent out to kill demons. He went to the nearby Qi country and killed a Core Formation stage demon.

It was a mid-stage Core Formation demon. Zhang Ran now had two great treasures, the Primordial Origin Bowl and the golden brick. He used the Primordial Origin Bowl to cover it and killed it with a single strike.

The simple and quick battle fully revealed the true strength of Elder Zhang.

The people on the ground gradually adapted to the existence of demons. These things could never be completely eradicated. The six sects also did not make any other moves.

However, the number of cultivation families in the land of the six sects was decreasing. Some families formed by Qi Refining cultivators were almost gone, either destroyed by passing demons or joining nearby forces.

Including Zhang Ran, there are Qi Refining cultivators who come to visit every year. At first, Zhang Ran was worried about the trouble, but then Yang Huanyu suggested only accepting cultivators and not ordinary people. Zhang Ran thought it was feasible, so he accepted many Independent Cultivators who were seeking refuge into the Zhang family. However, they were arranged in a separate area, and in order to obtain more resources from the Zhang family, these cultivators could only marry the ordinary children of the Zhang family.

Five years passed, and the population of the Zhang family reached over 80,000. During this time, several Qi Refining female cultivators were brought back from the Evergreen Sect.

Huang Yiyi, the eighth senior sister of Little Rain Peak, was very interested in Zhang Ran's puppet technique after seeing his puppet. "Junior Brother Zhang, this puppet technique is only found in the southern region. I didn't expect you to know it too. It seems that you have quite a bit of luck."

"Sister, are you interested in the puppet technique?"

"These little things are indeed quite fun."

"Sister, my family has even more puppets, and some can even do handstands. Do you want to come and take a look?" Zhang Ran said naturally, as if he really wanted to invite her to see the puppets.

Huang Yiyi chuckled lightly. "Sure, let's go take a look tomorrow."

And so, this eighth senior sister followed Zhang Ran back to the Zhang family.

During these five years, more than ten children with spiritual roots were born in the Zhang family. Perhaps due to bad luck, there weren't many, and among the ordinary people, there was only one pseudo-spiritual root child born after such a long time.

Actually, this was normal. Just think about the population of Qi Country, which had a billion people. Over 20 million people were born every year, but there were only about 20 or 30 people who had the potential to cultivate.

It can be imagined how small the chances were, with only one in a million people.

Meanwhile, Zhang Ran took the time to arrange the Seven Star Scarlet Slaughter Formation and replenish the family's array. The Seven Star Scarlet Slaughter Formation didn't require fourth-order demonic beast pills, but it required a huge amount of spiritual stones.

Each activation required at least a hundred top-grade spiritual stones, but this didn't pose a problem for the versatile Zhang Ran.

Ten more years passed, and Zhang Ran finally reached the ninth level of Core Formation.

Wang Ling also reached Core Formation, and the characteristics brought by her Extreme Yin physique made her invincible among cultivators of the same level. Even the third senior sister couldn't match her in a fight.

Zhang Ran's puppet technique also reached the fourth level, but he didn't receive a reward for a fourth-level puppet. Through his unremitting search in the Six Sects' territory, it took him a whole year to collect the materials needed to refine a fourth-level puppet.

This already made Zhang Ran very happy. When he tested the puppet, it was equivalent to the early stage of Nascent Soul. It was already quite terrifying. It cost Zhang Ran over 500 top-grade spiritual stones to purchase the materials for refining, and each activation required ten top-grade spiritual stones.

This puppet was humanoid and moved just like a real person, except for the slightly stiff facial expression that revealed it was a puppet.

On this day, it was time for Zhang Ran to go to Ten Thousand Beast Mountain again. He had been back and forth more than ten times.

Now, there was a huge gap in the middle and upper part of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, and Zhang Ran estimated that it would be completely blasted open in ten years.

"I must speed up the progress of the Seven Star Scarlet Slaughter Formation," he felt that when this mountain opened, it would be the beginning of chaos.

Five years later, Zhang Ran was 140 years old. The population of the Zhang family finally exceeded 100,000, and Zhang Ran smoothly reached the tenth level of Core Formation.

With the birth of the descendants, the system also ushered in a wave of rewards. Now, some yellow-grade martial arts, first and second-grade Dao techniques, Law Weapons, and so on were all given to Zhang Ran. He put them all in the Zhang family's martial arts pavilion and the Divine Weapon Pavilion. He didn't need these things at all.

"Congratulations, Host. The descendants have exceeded 100,000. You are rewarded with a mortal-grade spiritual vein."

Spiritual vein? Zhang Ran was overjoyed. He had been longing for it every day, and now he finally had a spiritual vein. With it, the entire area of the Zhang family would have much denser spiritual energy.

Moreover, this was a spiritual vein rewarded by the system, and he could reclaim it soon. In the future, if he had to move, he could take the spiritual vein with him.

Spiritual veins were divided into mortal-grade, human-grade, profound-grade, earth-grade, and Heavenly Rank, with various qualities.

Zhang Ran was already satisfied with a mortal-grade spiritual vein. The Evergreen Sect only had two human-grade spiritual veins.

Zhang Ran secretly went to the underground of the Zhang family and chose a location on the edge of the large array to place the spiritual vein.

Suddenly, the spiritual energy of the entire Zhang family began to become dense. The most obvious feeling for ordinary people was that their breath became sweet, and cultivators could clearly feel that the spiritual energy they gained from cultivation was much greater than before.

"I feel much lighter."

"Why has the spiritual energy in the family become so dense?"

On the land above the spiritual vein, spiritual herbs could also be planted, but they had to wait for the spiritual vein to turn the land into spiritual fields before they could be planted.

It would take about a year.

"In the future, we can cultivate immortal herbs such as Lingxian Grass, Purple Ganoderma, and Green Heart Grass here. A mortal-grade spiritual vein can cultivate five spiritual fields, and these herbs can at least supply the materials for first and second-grade pills. When the next reward is a human-grade spiritual vein, we can cultivate herbs for refining third and fourth-grade pills."

Half a year passed, and Zhang Ran arrived at the place where he set up the formation in Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.