owlsbooks Chapter 43 Jin Su County
Chapter 43 Jin Su County
After learning that Su Qingyan was a cultivator, the village chief Zhou Yuanfang took the journey to Jin Su County very seriously and added several more carriages.
They even provided Su Qingyan with a luxurious private carriage pulled by fine horses.
The seats inside were made of top-quality genuine leather, and the carvings on the windows showed that a lot of thought had been put into them. Even before setting off, Su Qingyan was in a great mood.
He looked into the crowd but didn't see the village chief, Zhou Yuanfang. The person in charge of the entire convoy was a middle-aged man who looked seven or eight parts like Zhou Yuanfang. He was the one who led Su Qingyan when they first arrived, and Su Qingyan knew that he was Zhou Yuanfang's son.
Soon, all the eligible children who were going to Jin Su County to test their spiritual root aptitude had boarded the bus.
Under the direction of Zhou Yuanfang's son, the convoy set off.
Su Qingyan and Su Yuanxian sat in the lead car, while Little Grey scouted the way high in the sky. In the second car behind them sat Zhou Yuanfang's son and his two grandsons.
Zhang Hui stayed behind to look after the house.
With no one to look after their second daughter and all the family's businesses, Su Qingyan and his wife were worried about both of them.
The carriage wasn't going very fast, but the soft animal hides underneath made it much more comfortable than Su Qingyan riding a packhorse.
The swaying motion made Su Qingyan want to take a nap.
Unfortunately, the bandits on the road didn't give him that chance. Every seven or eight miles, he would run into some fools. These people were very arrogant when they first appeared, but they were very pathetic when they were shot through the throat by wooden arrows and their blood was splattered all over the ground.
Nothing happened along the way.
The caravan passed through the dense Black Wind Forest, and the official road gradually transformed from a bumpy dirt road into a solid bluestone road. As the terrain lowered, the air became more humid, and scattered teahouses and shops began to appear along the roadside. Occasionally, cultivators dressed in magic robes and riding simple flying artifacts could be seen soaring across the sky among the pedestrians.
As evening fell, the convoy finally arrived in Jinsu County.
"The concentration of spiritual energy here... although it's much lower than in my cultivation room, it's still comparable to the concentration of spiritual energy around my house."
"The Qinggang Stone cultivation room cannot completely isolate the spiritual energy of the spiritual spring from dissipating. Over time, the concentration of spiritual energy around my house is much higher than that of ordinary areas. I didn't expect the concentration of spiritual energy in Jin Su County to be so high."
"Could it be that there is also a sacred spring within Jin Su County?"
"It's truly astonishing." As soon as he stepped off the carriage, Su Qingyan's anticipation for Jin Su County increased due to the rich spiritual energy around him.
Before coming here, Su Qingyan had talked to his wife about Jin Su Mountain and Jin Su County.
The Zhou family chose to settle in Jin Su Mountain because there is a first-grade high-quality spiritual vein in Jin Su Mountain. Furthermore, there are no less than ten spiritual springs that have been opened up by this first-grade high-quality spiritual vein, which can easily support twenty or thirty late-stage Qi Refining cultivators for their daily cultivation.
With such a foundation, the cultivators of the Zhou family can easily obtain a flood of cultivation resources with just a little effort.
Su Qingyan had considered that Jin Su Mountain, which possessed a first-grade superior spiritual vein, would have a relatively high concentration of spiritual energy. However, he did not expect that the concentration of spiritual energy in Jin Su County at the foot of the mountain would be so high.
The spiritual energy concentration in the more peripheral Jin Su Shan market town is quite ordinary, giving it a feeling of being neglected compared to Jin Su Shan county town.
With Su Qingyan and Xiao Huihui escorting them, their convoy from Yaxi Village traveled very smoothly and arrived in Jinsu County relatively early.
With a long time to go before the Moon Shadow Sect's disciple recruitment ceremony, Su Qingyan naturally wouldn't just wait idly. After seeing that Zhou Yuanfang's son had settled the school-age children and their parents in the village, he didn't pay much attention to them and took his eldest son, Su Yuanxian, out for a stroll.
The Zhou family of Jin Su Mountain has a history of over a thousand years and is one of the largest cultivation families in the area governed by the Moon Shadow Sect. There are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the family, as well as several hundred family cultivators with low cultivation levels.
If Jin Su Mountain Market was established by the Zhou family for trading with the outside world, then Jin Su County was the Zhou family's backyard for those low-level cultivators in the family who had little future in cultivation.
These people are destined not to go very far on the path to immortality. Further arduous cultivation is meaningless. They might as well give up on the path to immortality and enjoy life to the fullest.
At the same time, they can also contribute more to the family in their own way—by having children.
Actively nurture the next generation.
With the encouragement and support of their families, these low-level cultivators with little future all married at least a dozen wives and had children incessantly.
The Zhou family couldn't possibly arrange for all of these low-level cultivators with little future and their families to live on Mount Jin Su.
It wouldn't be proper for a place of quiet cultivation to have so many mortals, so the Jin Su County was established.
If it weren't for the fact that the birth rate of cultivators, both men and women, is very low, the entire Jin Su County would probably be too small to accommodate all the low-level cultivators and their families.
Although most of the people active in Jin Su County are cultivators, mortals, and their families from the Zhou family, this does not hinder the prosperity of Jin Su County. It has everything that other counties should have.
With the Moon Shadow Sect's disciple recruitment conference, a large influx of new people entered Jin Su County, creating a lively atmosphere.
Jin Su County is not usually open to anyone other than the Zhou family and their relatives. Many independent cultivators seized this rare opportunity and set up stalls on both sides of the road in the county early on.
This influx of people... is a great opportunity to accumulate spirit stones.
You can find all sorts of things on the street.
Since her birth, Su Yuanxian has spent most of her time in the new house with Granny Zhang and Mei Zhiyu, and at most she goes to the village to play house with other children.
This trip to Jinshu County was his first time traveling "far away" in his life.
Most of the goods around him were new and unfamiliar to him.
Every few steps, she would stop and look around for a long time, and every now and then she would pester Su Qingyan to buy her some food and small toys.
Having finally managed to get out of town, Su Qingyan naturally wouldn't treat his eldest son badly, buying him everything he could.
Soon, Su Yuanxian had a large bag of miscellaneous items in her hands.
Of course, Su Qingyan wasn't just taking the child shopping; his eyes were also constantly scanning the stalls for things he could use.
Just after buying a string of candied hawthorns for his son, he saw something he urgently needed at an ordinary stall.
Qi-inducing pill.
This thing is of no use to Su Qingyan, but Su Yuanxian desperately needs it.
It can greatly increase the speed at which spiritual energy enters the body, helping mortals quickly break through to the first level of Qi Refining.
Mortals have a very poor ability to perceive spiritual energy. When cultivating, it takes a lot of time to sense and absorb spiritual energy, and it is even more difficult for those with poor spiritual roots to cultivate in this regard.
If it weren't for the flesh and blood of the Mud Armored Wild Boar King helping them accelerate the process, it would probably have taken them several more years to break through normally.
The effects of the Qi-Inducing Pill are far superior to those of the Mud-Armored Wild Boar King's flesh and blood.
However, this thing only works on mortals.
Once you break through to the first level of Qi Refining, taking Qi-Inducing Pills will no longer be effective.
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