Immortal Clan: I have a Tree of Creation

The Zhou family has changed a lot in five years.

The gate and courtyard were not renovated again.

However, the family's wealth has increased several times over.

Once the family had accumulated more than five hundred taels of silver, daily necessities such as food, clothing, and other necessities were no longer a problem.

Zhou Chengnan was not a person who indulged in extravagance, but he still hired three servants.

There was a cook, a concubine, and a farmhand who only came to help during the busy farming season.

The Zhou family now has Zhou Chengnan as its head, who goes into the mountains to hunt wild beasts and is the absolute pillar of the family.

The children below are all very successful.

The eldest son, Zhou Yuanshan, has entered the fourth level of martial arts, the Bone Refining Realm. He not only manages the family's thirty acres of land in an orderly manner, but he has also learned most of his father's fish-raising skills.

The Zhou family's fishpond has become very well-maintained after several improvements.

It can produce a stable output every year, at least fifty or sixty taels of silver, and sometimes close to one hundred taels.

If it weren't for his father stopping him and making his eldest son, Zhou Yuanshan, focus on martial arts training.

Otherwise, given Zhou Yuanshan's drive, he would have already expanded his family's farmland and fishponds.

The second daughter, Zhou Yuanyu, got her wish and became a needleworker in the workshop.

The daughter is the most considerate. In the first year that Yu'er earned income from needlework, she began to share the burden of the family.

Zhou Chengnan and his wife naturally did not want their daughter's money.

Yu'er has been stubborn since she was a child; once she's made up her mind, nothing can change it.

The couple only needed to accept the money first, and then give it to Yu'er as part of her dowry when she got married.

The third son, Zhou Yuanqing, was younger and had not yet started making a living.

Zhou Yuanqing was willing to do any hard work and often helped his older brother, always working diligently without a single complaint, no matter how tired he was. As for the fourth brother, Zhou Yuanyi... let's not even mention him!

Yi'er was pampered from a young age, loved by her parents and cared for by her older brothers and sisters.

He's a kingpin wherever he goes, and he's caused quite a bit of trouble over the years.

Perhaps we really need to send him out to gain some experience in the future to temper his mischievous nature.

With three well-behaved children at home, how could life not be good?

Zhou Chengnan saw everything.

He knew that Zhou Yuanqing had been holding back his anger.

Qing'er possesses a wood spirit root and has been the pride and hope of the Zhou family since childhood.

But Heaven is blind; in this world, it is incredibly difficult for children from poor families to seek enlightenment.

The notice in the county town had long since disappeared in the wind and sun.

When will the esteemed master of the Immortal Sect descend upon Anshan County? Nobody knows.

Perhaps... it will never come again.

The bitterness in Zhou Yuanqing's heart could be glimpsed from the well-worn old book, "The Record of Cultivating Immortals in Liang Kingdom".

Several years later, my father finally mentioned that he needed to go to the county town to run some errands.

The intelligent Zhou Yuanqing immediately understood the deeper meaning in his father's words.

He had never been so excited and rushed to the school immediately.

I waited at the door until the teacher finished his lesson, then quickly went up to ask for leave.

"Sir, my father wishes to take his students into the city on important business and requests a few days' leave. I hope you will grant his request."

Mr. Jiang from the school was also seeing Zhou Yuanqing so excited for the first time.

"Granted."

Purchasing cultivation techniques is not something shameful.

In the county town, there were many wealthy merchants who were willing to spend a thousand taels of silver to buy an "opportunity".

However, almost none of them were able to succeed in cultivating their skills and becoming members of a cultivation family.

After all, cultivating immortality is only the first hurdle.

Without cultivation resources or a renowned master, how can one become a powerful cultivator simply by burying oneself in hard work? It's as difficult as ascending to heaven!

For this reason, the major cultivation families in the city did not restrict the outflow of their own cultivation techniques and spells.

On the contrary, they deliberately spread the knowledge, and every time they sold a copy of the technique, they were increasing their own resources.

Zhou Chengnan was acquainted with Pan Congjin, a member of the Pan family.

A martial arts technique that costs a thousand taels of silver in the market can be bought for only six hundred taels of silver from Pan Congjin.

Actually, the money to buy the cultivation technique had been raised a year ago.

But Zhou Chengnan patiently waited another year.

Even basic cultivation techniques are divided into different levels.

The cultivation technique costing six hundred taels of silver is too poor and does not match Qing'er's spiritual root.

Qing'er may well have her own destiny in the future, and the choice of her first cultivation method is crucial.

Zhou Chengnan went to the city ahead of time.

Pan Congjin is the second manager of Panyue Restaurant. He is in charge of the kitchen every day and is very busy.

However, he was quite patient with Zhou Yuanqing, whom he had taken in as an apprentice by chance.

Zhou Yuanqing is both sensible and endearing, which unexpectedly makes Pan Congjin, who is nearly forty and still childless, feel a certain fondness for her.

Selling martial arts techniques is no small matter, especially if the price is lower than that of the Pan family's shop; one must apply to the family head for permission.

Zhou Chengnan received definite news that he could come to the Pan family to choose a cultivation method at the beginning of next month.

"One thousand one hundred taels should be enough."

The Zhou family's entire fortune now amounts to about 1,200 taels of silver, which is close to 1,300 taels at most.

Even if you leave behind a hundred or two taels of silver for household expenses, you can still take out a thousand one hundred taels to buy cultivation techniques.

Such a large sum of money should be enough to buy a suitable cultivation technique from the Pan family.

......

My father said we could only see 'Master Pan' at the beginning of next month.

Zhou Yuanqing could only suppress his excitement and stay at home to continue reading.

Pan Congjin was, after all, just a branch of the Pan family. He gained the family's favor by relying on his skills in the martial arts world, but he was not a cultivator himself.

The course ended three years ago.

Master Pan was quite fond of Xiao Qing'er and imparted all his rudimentary knowledge of the cultivation world to Zhou Yuanqing.

Besides some common knowledge about the cultivation world, they also gave me a few old books.

For example, "The Record of Cultivating Immortality in Liang Kingdom", as well as "The Great Collection of Cultivation in Pingjiang" and "The Record of First-Rank Spiritual Herbs".

These books instilled in Zhou Yuanqing an immense longing for the world of cultivators.

"I'm back!" A carefree laugh came from outside the door.

It was Zhou Yuanyi, the "little devil" of the Zhou family, who came home from school.

In order to help his youngest son to behave better, Zhou Chengnan specially found a new tutor for Zhou Yuanyi.

Mr. Liu's private school was in a neighboring village. His academic talent might not be comparable to that of Mr. Jiang, but he was good at strict discipline. The young teacher could manage the naughty children.

"I'm hungry, Mom, I want to eat!"

Five-year-old Zhou Yuanyi didn't know what modesty meant.

Zhou Yuanqing pulled Xiao Yi'er aside: "Mother went to deliver something to Second Sister. We can eat when Mother comes back."

Seeing Zhou Yuanyi pouting, he felt rather helpless.

He rubbed his forehead and pulled a small orange from the table behind him: "Here, have this to tide you over."

"Thank you, Third Brother! You're the best!" Zhou Yuanyi jumped up with joy.

His parents forbade him from eating sweets, and he couldn't even eat too many tangerines.

He has four siblings, and his older brothers and sisters treat him well.

But my eldest brother and second sister are both very strict, and they would scold me along with my parents every time I made a mistake.

Only the third brother, Zhou Yuanqing, quietly comforted his younger brother and would give him oranges to eat.

At this moment, in Zhou Yuanyi's heart, his third brother is the best!

"Eat up," Zhou Yuanqing said with a smile.

"After you finish eating, recite the Thousand Character Classic to your third brother."