Chapter 8 Salt Lake

Many tasks in the spiritual field, such as turning the soil, sowing, watering, and harvesting, can be completed by mortals.

The only tasks that must be completed by cultivators are to maintain the soil of the spiritual field, treat spiritual plant diseases, and kill pests of the grade.

As long as the family is not ruined, the eldest brother will be transferred to the ancestral land. His safety is guaranteed.

Moreover, when the eldest brother is transferred to the ancestral land, his mother and sister-in-law can also follow him.

My father was injured before because he wanted to save my eldest brother.

Without the ties of family, with my father's strength, it is not a problem to protect himself when facing the red sand wolf.

Although the goal was not fully achieved, it is acceptable.

Liu Yuanchen bowed and said, "Thank you, elder."

Seeing that he agreed, Liu Qingming nodded slightly: "You have made great efforts this time, and I have not been able to fully meet your requirements.

How about this, I will reward you with another 20 spiritual stones. Go to the Finance Hall to receive the reward."

After receiving the reward, Liu Yuanchen left Dongyang Peak directly.

This time he did not dare to take the family's ride again, lest he be tricked again.

Dongyang Lake is not the end of Qingshui River. On the east bank of Dongyang Lake, there is a waterway about ten feet wide, also called Qingshui River.

The lake water poured down from the waterway, flowed eastward for hundreds of miles, and finally flowed into Yanze.

Liu Yuanchen went down the river bank, and the two sides of the river were still lush and green.

When he passed through, he would also scare the flying birds and hares in the bushes.

Because of the injury in his abdomen, he did not dare to move forward at full speed.

Half a day later, a small lake with a diameter of less than ten miles appeared in front of him. This was Yanze.

After all the consumption, the Qingshui River, which had very little water, merged from the west bank of Yanze.

Near the river mouth, there were rows of neat houses, which were the residences of the clan members.

There was fresh water in that area, which was convenient for drinking water and could also open up some farmland.

From a distance, there were white squares on the north and south banks of Yanze.

These blocks are salt ponds for drying salt, and young men are busy in the salt ponds.

The salt in the salt ponds is dazzlingly white, with almost no impurities.

It's not that the Liu family's salt-making technology is so advanced, but that there is really no mud and sand in this broken place, Yanze.

There are deserts all around, and even sand is hard to find.

The only river that flows into Yanze is also called Qingshui River, which originally has little mud and sand.

In addition, the Liu family deliberately intercepted mud and sand upstream, so the mud and sand that flowed into Yanze is even less.

The process of drying salt for the Liu family is also very simple. A large pit with a flat bottom is dug out on the rocky ground near the lakeshore.

Then a canal is dug to draw lake water, and when the pit is filled with water, the canal is blocked.

After a few days of exposure to the sun, the water in the pit will be dried up, and a layer of white salt will be left. The salt can be shoveled off and directly shipped away.

Monks who cannot completely fast still need to eat salt.

The mortals under the command of various forces are even more inseparable from salt.

There are many places producing salt in the Red Wasteland, but most of them produce coarse salt with a lot of mud and sand, which is far less attractive than the snow salt produced in Yanze.

Every year, Yanze can bring the Liu family nearly three or four hundred spiritual stones of pure profit.

Although it doesn't seem much, it is already the second largest industry of the Liu family, second only to the spiritual plant industry.

From birth to the age of ten, Liu Yuanchen has lived by the Yanze. When he revisited the old place, he felt particularly cordial.

After watching the scenery for a while, he walked towards the mouth of Qingshui River.

Soon, he came to a small courtyard.

Pushing open the door, the small courtyard is a quadrangle layout, with a main house and east and west wing rooms, and a fire room in the southeast corner.

At this time, a tall middle-aged man was practicing swordsmanship in the yard. It was Liu Yuanchen's father Liu Qingyun.

Liu Yuanchen walked into the yard: "Father, how is your injury?

I heard from Uncle Six that you were injured, so I rushed back to see you."

Liu Qingyun put away the long sword in his hand: "Qingfeng is really a fool, he still told you such a small matter and asked you to run hundreds of miles.

I was just scratched by a red sand wolf. You know, red sand wolves have thick skin and can endure hunger, but their claws are not sharp.

The red sand wolf that hurt me was not a wolf king, and its cultivation was the same as mine.

After being injured, I took two healing pills and rested for several days. I am fine now."

He looked at Liu Yuanchen carefully: "Last year when your eldest brother got married, your height was only at the tip of my nose, but now you have caught up with me.

Your cultivation has also broken through the fifth level of nourishing qi. It seems that it will not take a few years to surpass me."

Liu Qingyun's talent is not good either. He is only a lower-grade immortal seed of the third grade.

Since he became an adult, he has been guarding the salt lake where spiritual energy is scarce.

After years of hard practice, he has only cultivated the sixth level of nourishing qi.

Liu Yuanchen looked at his father's complexion. His face was ruddy and his breath was strong. He did not look injured.

"Is Yuanchen back?"

A woman wearing an apron and holding a feather duster came out of the main house.

Liu Yuanchen greeted her: "Mom, I'm back."

This person was Zhang Ling, Liu Yuanchen's mother. She was an ordinary member of the Zhang family, a cultivation family.

In terms of seniority, Liu Yuanchen and Zhang Jingcheng, who were both in the Qingdan Sect, were cousins, but their blood relationship was relatively distant.

Many of the children of the Liu and Zhang families intermarried, and both had a feud with the Chen family, so the relationship was quite good.

More than two hundred years ago, the Chen family and the Liu family competed for Yanze. The reason why the Liu family won was that the Zhang family also contributed.

When the Chen family suppressed the Zhang family, the Liu family would also help.

The two families joined hands to deal with the Chen family together, which meant that they were interdependent.

The Chen family is the strongest family in this area, and this advantage has existed since the establishment of the family.

The ancestor of the Chen family was originally a Qi Hai Realm disciple of the Qingdan Sect. When he felt hopeless about his path, he left the sect and founded the family.

Relying on the connections in the Qingdan Sect, the children of the Chen family have a higher status in the Qingdan Sect, and they always have people in the middle level.

Although the Liu family and the Zhang family also have children who worship in the Qingdan Sect, they are still not as good as the Chen family.

Zhang Ling saw the tear and blood on Liu Yuanchen's robe at a glance: "Yuanchen, are you injured?"

Liu Yuanchen smiled and said: "It's okay, when I came back, I took the family's cargo ship.

Chen Changming of the Chen family recruited scattered cultivators to rob the ship, and my second uncle and I had a fight with them.

I broke one of Chen Changming's back molars and he also cut a small cut.

Use the hemostatic powder, and now it's fine."

Zhang Ling was still worried. Liu Yuanchen lifted his robe and saw that the wound had almost healed, so she was relieved.

Even so, she kept telling Liu Yuanchen to run away if he encountered danger.

In the evening, the eldest brother Liu Yuanfu came back from the salt field, and the four of them had dinner together.

As for the eldest sister-in-law, she went back to her parents' home.

The eldest sister-in-law was also an ordinary member of the Liu family, but she was not from the same branch as Liu Yuanchen's family.

Among ordinary members of the family, it was common for different distant branches to intermarry.

After all, it was difficult for them to come into contact with ordinary people of other surnames.

At the dinner table, Liu Yuanchen said, "Father, I helped the family keep the goods this time. I applied to the elder elder to transfer you and my elder brother to a safe place."

"The elder elder only agreed to transfer my elder brother back to the ancestral land to open up wasteland and farm. You still have to stay here."

Liu Qingyun's eyes lit up: "There are often monsters lurking in Yanze, and now it is targeted by the red sand wolf.

Yuanfu can't practice, it's really dangerous to stay here.

It's much safer to be transferred to the ancestral land.

Your sister-in-law is pregnant, and it's not a big deal to worry here.

You all live in the ancestral land, and I stay here.

Even if the red sand wolf comes again, I am sure I can protect myself."

Liu Yuanfu chewed on the steamed bun and said vaguely: "I grew up in Yanze since I was a child. I only know how to dry and harvest salt.

Let me go to Dongyang Lake to farm. I don't know anything. Isn't it a delay for the family's business?"

Liu Yuanchen knew his brother well. He was honest since he was a child. Even though he was tall, he never bullied the weak.

He is also very caring towards his only brother, but he is a bit stubborn.

Liu Qingyun looked like he was disappointed with his brother: "Can't you learn if you can't farm?

This is an opportunity that Yuanchen has made contributions and asked for from the elder."

"The area around Yanze is extremely dangerous. Since you can remember, it has been attacked by monsters more than ten times.

Every time there is an attack, at least 10 to 20 people in the tribe will die in the mouth of monsters.

If I hadn't saved you this time, you would have been swallowed by the red sand wolf."

"I am still alive and can take care of you.

What if I die? What about you and your children and grandchildren?

Even if Yuanchen breaks through the Qihai realm in the future and can live for more than 200 years, he is in Qingdan Sect and is several kilometers away from Yanze. Baili, something happened here, and he can't come to rescue in time. "

"Also, Dongyang Lake has abundant spiritual energy. If you live there, your descendants will have a greater chance of having immortal seeds in the future.

If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children.

He is taller than me, but he is not smart. "

When he heard that it was about his descendants, Liu Yuanfu no longer refused: "Okay, I will learn to farm."

Zhang Ling tried to smooth things over: "Before I got married, I also worked in the spiritual fields.

When I get to Dongyang Lake, I can also help.

I will teach Yuanfu what he doesn't understand. "

After dinner, Liu Qingyun left home.

Even in normal times, the monks stationed in Yanze need to patrol at night.

What's more, now there are red sand wolves staring at Yanze, and patrolling is even more careless.

Liu Yuanchen is not a guarding monk, and his injuries have not healed yet, so he stayed at home.

After dark, Liu Yuanchen moved to the east wing where he had lived since childhood.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, practicing the Divine Tree Heaven-climbing Technique.

The spiritual energy here is really thin. Compared with it, Yujin Mountain is considered to have abundant spiritual energy.

Especially this place is too far away from the Qingshi Mountain Blessed Land, and the mana fed back is only one thousandth of a low-grade spiritual stone.

He feeds back mana once every hundred breaths, and the mana fed back in a day is not as good as a low-grade spiritual stone.

Moreover, he has to consume mana to maintain the rattan armor on his body.

Among the rattan armor, only the earliest few vines are carefully cultivated and can survive normally when planted in the spiritual field.

The other vines are all born with mana. Once there is no mana to maintain them, they will wither in a very short time.

Under the threat of the red sand wolf, he did not dare to give up the rattan armor. After all, this thing is comparable to a first-level medium-grade defensive magic weapon.

Now there is no battle, he just needs to keep the vine alive, and the mana consumption is not much.

The little mana fed back by the blessed land is barely enough for the rattan armor to consume.

After recovering the mana he had consumed during the day, he did not practice anymore, but recalled the scene when Zhenyuan Daxian was preaching.

After all, the power of the Shenmu Cantian Gong is related to the charm of the Shenmu, and it would always be beneficial to comprehend the charm of the ginseng fruit tree more.

It was late at night, and he was completely in a trance.

Suddenly, a shrill wolf howl was heard.

Liu Yuanchen was awakened immediately. The wolf howling was not far away. It should be the group of red sand wolves coming to cause trouble again.

He quickly got up and went to the yard to carefully identify the direction of the wolf howling.

Zhang Ling also walked to the yard: "Yuanchen, is the red sand wolf coming again?"

Liu Yuanchen nodded slightly: "It should be. Mother, you stay in the house. I will guard the yard. Nothing will happen."

Zhang Ling knew that she could not help, so she returned to the main house.

Liu Yuanfu, who was tired all day, was not awakened. In the east wing, there was a slight snoring sound.

Liu Yuanchen released his spiritual sense to observe the surrounding scene.

The small courtyard is not far from the Qingshui River, and there are more or less plants around it.

With the ability to sense the vitality of plants and trees, it can monitor the situation within a radius of thirty feet.

This method consumes very little spiritual sense, only about one percent of the general spiritual sense exploration.

Not long after, noisy shouts came from the north, mixed with the screams of wolves.

Liu Yuanchen was not worried about the battle situation.

Before, there were only three cultivators in the tribe, and they were able to repel the wolves.

A few days ago, two late-stage and two middle-stage cultivators were transferred from the ancestral land, and dealing with the wolves was no problem.

After half a cup of tea, the fighting became quieter and quieter, and the screams of the wolves became more and more.

Liu Yuanchen heard the wolf's screams getting closer and closer to his yard, and he was alert and ready to fight at any time.

Not long after, a wolf broke into his sensing range.

It ran forward in a panic, not caring about the danger at all.

Soon, it came to the vicinity of the yard.

Liu Yuanchen performed the Wood Shadow Escape, jumped over the wall, and several vines flew out of his sleeves and entangled the wolf.

The wolf was more than ten feet long, nearly five feet tall at the shoulder, and had a strong aura, not inferior to Chen Changming who had met before.

The general red sand wolf was only seven or eight feet long, and this wolf should be the wolf king.

The incident happened suddenly, and the wolf king was entangled by the vines before he could react.

It struggled violently, trying to break free.

Liu Yuanchen used the Qingmang technique on the vines, and the smooth vines suddenly grew spikes as thick as hair.

The spikes pierced into the wolf's skin, and the wolf king let out a shrill roar.

Liu Qingyun's voice came from a distance: "Yuanchen, be careful, that's the wolf king, don't fight hard."

The wolf king was in pain and became ferocious.

A strong momentum burst out, and several vines were instantly shattered.

Liu Yuanchen knew that he was no match for him, so he was quick-witted and injected a little magic power into one of the broken vines.

A bud grew on the vine, and the bud broke away from the vine and grew roots, tightly entangled in a tuft of long hair on the wolf's tail.

The wolf king broke free from the vines and did not dare to entangle with Liu Yuanchen again, running southwest.

Three figures ran towards the north, and the one running in front was Liu Qingyun.

"Yuanchen, are you not injured?"

Liu Yuanchen shook his head: "I'm fine, the wolf king didn't dare to tangle with me, and after breaking free from my vines, he ran to the southwest.

I left a mark on him, so I can sense his position."

An old man with white beard and white hair had a bright look in his eyes: "The wolf king's leg was injured by me, and he will definitely flee back to the wolf den to heal his wounds.

As long as we can find the wolf den, we can wipe out this pack of wolves."