In the twinkling of an eye, more than a year passed in a hurry.


    In this more than a year, a small number of families in Linhai county have gradually recovered some vitality from the plague and evil rebellion and the border war six months ago.


    Because of the continuous mining of the large mixed spiritual material mine in the north, the whole Linhai county presents a thriving scene.


    Although only the three Zhuji families are qualified to mine ore in the mine, the other Qi training families can also catch some oil and water behind the three families.


    After everything in the mine was on track, Qingyun gate began to hire a large number of people to mine.


    So some small family friars and scattered monks in Linhai County flocked to the large mine, making the mine lively.


    Of course, as long as there are a large number of people, there will be all kinds of people, including some sneaky and slippery people.


    However, when friar Zhuji of Qingyun gate killed several people who stole minerals by means of thunder, no one dared to move his mind and only dared to work honestly.


    As more and more monks rushed to the mine from other places, they all needed to pass through Linhai County, which immediately made the desolate northern border lively.


    Therefore, under the leadership of the Shen family, together with the Li family, the Du family and other Qi practicing families, a small square city was built in the north of Linhai County near the mine.


    The scale of this square city is not large, only one third of the size of linhaifang City, and the construction is relatively simple. It can only be regarded as a trading place.


    Its service targets are those friars in the mine and passing friars from south to north.


    However, although this square city is relatively simple, it has attracted many low-level friars by the large mine nearby, so the business is OK.


    Because the Shen family took the lead in provoking this, the Shen family is also a famous family in Linhai County, and the post of sheriff is held by the head of the Shen family, the Shen family directly accounts for 35% of the income of this square city.


    The Li family and the Du family, as the Zhuji family, occupy 20% respectively, and the remaining 25% is divided by the other small families.


    This frontier square city is the first project jointly built by the Shen family and other families in Linhai County after the Shen family became the Wangzu of Linhai county. It can bring nearly 2000 pieces of spiritual stones to the Shen family every year.


    As for the branch vein of the purple grain sand vein in Shenjia mine, nearly 20 kilograms of third-order purple grain sand can be mined every year, which is equivalent to the income of 10000 Lingshi every year.


    Therefore, when these two incomes are added together, the Shen family can now get an additional income of about 12000 Lingshi every year, which can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need.


    Although the family industry has been expanding in recent years, the annual income of the family has also increased significantly.


    However, with more and more people, the family industry has expanded more and more widely, and all kinds of expenses have become larger and larger. They can''t make ends meet.


    Moreover, in the past 20 years, Shen Ruiling has been supporting the patriarch Shen huanchi to take the last step, exchanging many resources in the family for the spiritual elixirs and objects needed by the patriarch''s cultivation.


    Therefore, although the Shen family seems to have unlimited scenery at this time, the cultivation resources in the family library are not as rich as expected.


    This is because the Shen family got the resources in the secret storehouse left by the Zhou family and obtained a large number of spirit stones in a short time by selling fire elixirs in the chaos of plague and evil.


    Of course, although the wealth of the Shen family is not as much as expected, the monthly salary of the Shen family is much more than it was at the beginning.


    It is precisely with more salaries and sufficient cultivation resources that the cultivation of the Shen family can be promoted so quickly.


    The overall strength of the family has been greatly improved in the short 20 or 30 years after the implementation of the new deal.


    Today, the Shen family has five base building friars, 28 Qi practicing jiuceng people, 46 late Qi practicing people other than jiuceng people, 63 middle Qi practicing friars, and 78 early Qi practicing people.


    ……


    In the cave of Houshan, Shen Ruiling looked at the family''s income and expenditure and the cultivation of the people in recent years.


    When he saw the data, he was relieved.


    Today''s family is much stronger than before, and it is a little more confident in the face of the upcoming turmoil in Lingnan.


    Now the most important thing is to look at the patriarch!


    Suddenly, Shen Ruiling, who was meditating, felt the traction of a burst of spiritual power, and the spiritual power on Yunbi peak seemed to converge somewhere.


    "Could it be!"


    Surprised and delighted, he immediately got up and plundered outside the cave.


    However, when he came to the back of the cave, he found that the Lingli on Yunbi peak was not gathering in the cave where the patriarch closed, but was constantly gathering towards the Dan Pavilion on the Yuxiu platform.


    "Fourth brother?"


    Shen Ruiling couldn''t help whispering, and a happy look appeared on her face.


    This vision of spiritual power gathering can only appear when the foundation building friar breaks through the bottleneck, so Shen Ruiling guesses that it is the fourth brother Shen Ruizhi who breaks through the bottleneck in the middle of foundation building.


    Shen Ruizhi has built the foundation for 20 years. Now he can find a breakthrough opportunity. Shen Ruiling is naturally happy for him.


    After a short period of joy, Shen Ruiling flew directly towards the Dan Pavilion.


    At this time, many clansmen were already standing on the open space in front of the Dan Pavilion.


    Most of them were alchemists and alchemy apprentices in the Dan Pavilion. Because of this sudden change, they had to wait outside.


    Shen Ruiling looked at the top of the Dan Pavilion, and the surrounding spiritual forces were gathering there.


    I saw that he wielded a spiritual power to control the guardian array and deliberately gathered the spiritual power on Yunbi peak to the top of Nadan Pavilion.


    ……


    At the same time, in a room on the top floor of Nadan Pavilion, Shen Ruizhi was sitting calmly on the Pu mat for meditation.


    His whole body was shrouded in blue light, and lines appeared on his body, like the bark of an ancient tree.


    His physical injuries have recovered, and his physical body seems to be stronger than it was.


    His body was shining with bursts of green light, which constantly devoured the spiritual power flowing into his body from all directions.


    With the influx of spiritual power, the spiritual liquid accumulated at the bottom of the Dantian also rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.


    Before long, the holy liquid in Shen Ruizhi''s Dantian reached a limit saturation state, as if an invisible barrier blocked the rising holy liquid, making it difficult for them to grow continuously.


    Shen Ruizhi knows that this is the bottleneck between the early and middle stages of foundation construction.


    However, at this time, the bottleneck that should have been very strong has already had loose traces and cracked countless cracks.


    The flood of spiritual fluid in his elixir field constantly impacted on the bottleneck, expanding those gaps.


    "Boom ~"


    At the next moment, the turbulent spiritual flood broke through the barrier in an instant like a flood destroying the levee.


    The spiritual flood of breaking the barrier was like a runaway wild horse, which quickly rushed to the upper part of the Dantian.


    For a moment, the magnificent spiritual power in the room began to be pulled up and rushed towards Shen Ruizhi''s body.


    A huge psychic whirlpool has been formed in the room, while Shen Ruizhi sits in the center of the whirlpool and allows the endless magnificent psychic power to flow into his body.


    I don''t know how long it took before the psychic vortex in the room gradually dispersed.


    Shen Ruizhi still sat on the mat with his eyes closed, and seriously felt the changes brought to himself by the middle period of foundation construction.


    Seriously speaking, Shen Ruizhi is a blessing in disguise this time.


    When he fought with the middle-term monk of Wuji sect, he forcibly used the taboo secret of burning flesh and blood to gain strength.


    This secret skill makes his body, which is already seriously injured, become more and more injured.


    However, it was his overloaded use of taboo secrets that unexpectedly broke the bottleneck in the middle of foundation construction that had plagued him for many years.


    ……