Chapter 93: Triple Spring and Autumn (Seeking Collection and Support)

  Several disciples saw Xiao Ziyang from afar on the mountain road. Er Zhuo's light skill had already reached three points of fire, and he was flying across the snowy ground, leaving several people far behind him. He made a beautiful flip and landed in front of Xiao Ziyang's horse, snatching the reins from Xiao Ziyang's hand and leading the horse towards the camp.

  Shan Zi and several others arrived one after another, surrounding Xiao Ziyang on horseback and asking him questions nonstop. Xiao Ziyang looked at his disciples' admiring expressions, and the depressed mood he had been in for over a month due to not having a spiritual root seemed to lift.

  When several people walked to a place not far from the mountain stronghold, Da Huai also ran towards this side in the snow that was half a foot thick, stumbling and staggering. Xiao Ziyang burst out laughing, pressed down on the horse's back, flew forward, and picked him up with one hand.

  Hearing the noise of the children, An Jia sisters who were practicing sword in the martial arts arena also came out of the village gate.

  Arriving at the gathering hall, An Yurong clung to Xiao Ziyang and asked if he had brought gifts for her sisters. This made him break out in a cold sweat. On this trip, he had encountered one danger after another and had long since forgotten about it.

  Fortunately, Xiao Ziyang had taken a liking to several pieces of jade in the Wen family's treasure trove and had secretly tucked them into his bosom. He hastily pulled out these items for the three people to choose from.

  The quality of the jewelry and jade in Wen's treasure house is more than one grade higher than what the Chen brothers collected. These few things made An's sisters' eyes shine with wonder.

  Watching the three sisters chattering and selecting jewelry, Xiao Ziyang couldn't help but think of Wen Yuan, wondering what expression he would have if he found out that she had visited his family's treasure trove; her heart couldn't help but feel a thrill of excitement.

  Taking advantage of the three sisters' inattention, Xiao Ziyang took out the Inherited Treasure Mirror and shone it on the three of them. This glance shocked Xiao Ziyang - the An family's three sisters were all third-grade Wind Spirit Roots!

  Among ordinary people, only one in ten thousand has a spiritual root. Among those with spiritual roots, only one in ten thousand has a heavenly spiritual root. And among the heavenly spiritual roots, only one percent are heterodox spiritual roots. The probability of three sisters having wind spiritual roots at the same time is simply one in a trillion! Moreover, they are all third-grade wind spiritual roots!

  The territory of Xiliang is vast, with a population of nearly one billion. It's indeed a miracle that has been hard to come by for thousands of years. Suddenly, Xiao Ziyang's confidence in having the Chaotic Spirit Root grew inexplicably stronger.

  Xiao Ziyang quietly put away the inherited treasure mirror. He secretly made up his mind to complete the ninth layer of the "Zi Yu Sheng Yan" as soon as possible.

  What Xiao Ziyang didn't know was that the reason why Magu Pavilion accepted An Jia sisters back then was because these three people possessed the Wind Spirit Root.

  Maogu Temple is also a medium-sized immortal sect, with an agent stationed in the mortal world. Fenglinggen cultivators are extremely difficult to cultivate, and even if they achieve something, they are not suitable for major use, so Fenglinggen is the same as ordinary miscellaneous spiritual roots, except for low-level loose cultivators who can't find disciples, no one will collect and cultivate them.

  The reason why the Ma Guan collected three people is that those with spiritual roots will make rapid progress in their martial arts training. This was also the reason why An Yuxuan had second-rate skills at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

  At night, Xiao Ziyang used the inherited treasure mirror to test several children. Originally, he didn't hold any hope and was just trying it out, but unexpectedly discovered that Er Zhu had an 8th-grade wood spiritual root, which, although only a human spiritual root, still made Xiao Ziyang extremely delighted.

  After resting for a few days, Xiao Ziyang moved back to the wooden house on the mountain peak and announced that he would be in seclusion.

  Time flies like an arrow, three years have passed, and Xiao Ziyang finally completed the ninth chapter of "Zi Yu Sheng Yan". From yesterday on, he felt his dantian swelling like a stone, his internal energy had reached the state of overflowing his dantian.

  In these three years, Xiao Ziyang had gone out of the mountain twice to purchase medicinal materials.

  The medicinal materials required for the cultivation of "Zi Yu Sheng Yan" are more and more precious, one layer after another. When cultivating the seventh layer, the cost of purchasing medicinal materials was 100,000 taels, and when cultivating the eighth layer, the cost of purchasing medicinal materials was nearly 300,000 taels.

  When cultivating the ninth layer, the required medicinal materials, in addition to a few main medicines that require a hundred years of fire trials, also need more than ten auxiliary medicines with over fifty years of age.

  The medicinal materials of the hundred-year-old fire, can't be bought in Shangyuan City at all. Xiao Ziyang had to spend time going to Xiang'an City. In the Revival Building of Xiang'an, Xiao Ziyang spent a huge amount of money several times and bought most of the required main medicines. However, there is a kind of Fengtou Shouwu, which doesn't even have a hundred-year-old fire in the Revival Building.

  In fact, even if Huisheng Building existed, Xiao Ziyang couldn't afford it anyway.

  According to the records of "Wu Xing Dao Shu Chu Jie", once a medicinal material has reached the age of 100 years, it is called a spiritual medicine and can be used to refine the elixir that assists cultivators in their cultivation, so ordinary pharmacies do not sell them.

  In Hui Sheng Building, although there are hundred-year-old spiritual medicines for sale, the price is simply outrageous.

  To acquire these few spiritual medicines, Xiao Ziyang can be said to have spent all his family's wealth. In the past, Xiao Ziyang obtained purple gold ingots worth nearly 400,000 taels of silver from Taifu Mountain and Hong Xun. The purple gold ingots and silver bills he received from the Wen family were worth about 600,000 taels of silver, and those he got from Cangshan Stronghold were worth nearly 2 million taels, as well as some jade and precious stones, all of which he spent like flowing water.

  When purchasing the medicinal materials needed for the first eight chapters of "Zi Yu Sheng Yan", only about 400,000 taels of silver were spent, and the remaining 2.4 million taels of silver were used up this time without a word, and there was still a shortage of over 1 million taels of silver.

  Fortunately, Xiao Ziyang had already inquired about the market price of the hundred-year-old spirit medicine when purchasing the materials needed for Chapter 8, and knew that the silver he had on hand was not enough. So Xiao Ziyang sold more than a hundred war horses and a dozen or so black bowl horses that he had captured at Cangshan Stronghold that year, earning over a million taels of silver. He also sold the xuan tie yu tong (mysterious iron copper) that he had discovered in the treasure trove of Cangshan Stronghold that year, earning another one hundred million taels of silver.

  Xiao Ziyang inquired at the Shangyuan Huisheng Hall and heard that Xiang'an City's Huisheng Building had over a dozen kinds of hundred-year-old spiritual medicine for sale, each plant priced at over 300,000 taels of silver. Who would have thought that when he arrived in Xiang'an, he found out that the cheapest kind of hundred-year-old spiritual medicine, Hundred-Year-Old Huang Jing, cost nearly 400,000 taels of silver, and the other kinds were even more expensive.

  Xiao Ziyang needed at least two of each type of spiritual medicine, and after selling enough to fill the Revival Tower with the existing hundred-year-old spiritual medicines, he only had a few tens of thousands of silver taels left in his hands.

  The most expensive hundred-year-old Ginseng doesn't exist at all in Huishou Building.

  The genuine He Shou Wu is extremely rare and precious; those that have been processed with hundred-year-old fire are priceless.

  Xiao Ziyang inquired from all sides and learned that the Nan Gong family, a powerful martial arts clan in Xiang An City, had two hundred-year-old Fengtou Shouwu plants.

  The Nangong family is one of the four major families in the Western Liang martial arts world, with a hundred years of heritage and strong strength, not inferior to the likes of the Hanmo Fortress.

  The Nangong family's ancestral swordsmanship is exquisite and unparalleled, and even the master of Xijian Palace, one of the six major thousand-year-old sects famous for its swordsmanship, can't help but praise the Nangong family's ancestral swordsmanship.

  The current head of the Nangong family, Nangong Zhiyuan, is an extremely skilled and renowned master.

  Xiao Ziyang, who had been determined to get the hundred-year-old Fengtou Shouwu, had no choice but to come up with a plan to steal the spiritual medicine hidden by the Nangong family.

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