Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 581: Chapter 498 Star Origin Fruit Tree_2

Therefore, the Yang family could only differentiate in their treatment.

After inviting Prince An and Prince Dai into the mansion, Yang Zhenshan looked up and saw a familiar face that pleasantly surprised him.

”Hahaha, Mr. Liu, how did you come?”

Yang Zhenshan quickly approached, asking with both surprise and joy.

The visitor was Liu Zhe, whom he truly hadn’t expected to come.

Ever since Liu Yuanfu retired from his official position, Liu Zhe followed him back to his hometown in Anzhou, and it had been four or five years since Yang Zhenshan last saw Liu Zhe.

Liu Zhe smiled and said, ”I just happened to be in the Capital City, and when I heard there was a wedding banquet here, I shamelessly came over to ask for a drink!”

”Haha!!” Yang Zhenshan put his arm around his shoulder, laughing joyfully, ”Since you’re here, stay for a few more days. When we have some free time, let’s drink a few more!”

”Don’t be stingy then!”

”Why would I? When have I ever been stingy!”

Liu Zhe laughed heartily, ”Alright, you go ahead and be busy, we’ll chat after you’re done!”

Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly and instructed Ding Qiu, ”Lead Mr. Liu over to Lin Zhan.”

After welcoming Liu Zhe into the mansion, Yang Zhenshan continued to receive guests. Once finished, he went to the banquet hall to accompany the toasts.

This day ended in a bustling manner, leaving Yang Zhenshan quite exhausted.

Not just Yang Zhenshan, everyone in the Yang family felt as if they had gone through a great battle, each of them extremely tired.

Luckily, they had smoothly welcomed the bride into the family, settling a concern in their hearts.

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On the tenth day of the seventh month.

The Martial Arts Pavilion began to recruit disciples.

The Martial Arts Pavilion had high standards for its disciples, but the world has never lacked geniuses.

In just three days, the Martial Arts Pavilion recruited over three hundred qualified disciples.

Most of these disciples came from the families of officials and nobles in the Capital City, while a small portion came from worldly society and the common folk.

The reason for this was, firstly, the Martial Arts Pavilion’s reputation was not yet widespread. Aside from Shuntian Prefecture, many Martial Arts Families and Jianghu forces in Da Rong might not even be aware of the Martial Arts Pavilion’s existence.

Secondly, the families of officials and nobles controlled a vast amount of wealth and cultivation resources. A genius might not be a true genius but could also be a mediocrity propped up by resources.

But regardless of whether they were geniuses or mediocrities, as long as they met the conditions, the Martial Arts Pavilion would not turn them away.

Either way, the Martial Arts Pavilion was now established, and its first batch of disciples officially joined.

Now with disciples, the Martial Arts Pavilion could operate normally.

Yang Zhenshan’s instruction to the disciples of the Martial Arts Pavilion was, in fact, not much different from his previous military training.

Most of the time, it was the instructors of the Martial Arts Pavilion who would teach these disciples, and he would only take out two hours each day to guide them in the Martial Arts Pavilion.

Of course, his main task was actually to provide Spiritual Spring Water.

A large amount of Spiritual Spring Water was poured by him into the dozen or so wells of the Martial Arts Pavilion. Given the current supply of Spiritual Spring Water he possessed, there was no need to worry about wasting it.

To put it this way, he could now use the Spiritual Spring Water to change the water quality of an entire area, turning a barren land into a fertile one.

He had done this before; the Tenglong Guard and Chongshan Pass were examples right before his eyes.

Even though Yang Zhenshan had left these two places, the groundwater in them still contained the effects of the Spiritual Spring Water, albeit in small amounts.

However, the effect in the Tenglong Guard’s water was becoming increasingly weak, almost to the point where it could be ignored.

While Chongshan Pass should still be able to maintain for another two to three years.

Without Yang Zhenshan continuously providing Spiritual Spring Water, the water containing it would eventually run out.

Now, with Yang Zhenshan present at the Martial Arts Pavilion, it was a blessed land.

As long as one lived and trained at the Martial Arts Pavilion, their cultivation would improve twice as fast with half the effort.

Therefore, Yang Zhenshan was not at all worried about the cultivation of these three hundred disciples.

The recruitment of disciples by Martial Arts Pavilion in the Capital City did attract some attention, but the attention quickly faded.

Compared to the Martial Arts Temple, Martial Arts Pavilion didn’t have too much worth noting.

While Martial Arts Pavilion was recruiting disciples, the personnel related to Martial Arts Temple had also been largely appointed, and the Martial Arts Departments outside the capital across thirteen provinces had also been established.

However, the current Martial Arts Temple was still just an empty shell. Apart from having a name and some manpower, Martial Arts Temple had not yet received recognition from the worldly society forces.

For Martial Arts Temple to take control of the entire worldly society, it will not only take a lot of time and effort but will also cause a lot of turmoil.

In fact, Martial Arts Temple has already begun to stir up trouble in the worldly society.

The first thing done by Martial Arts Temple after its establishment was to rank the Sects, bestow Sect Master orders, and grant official statuses.

To rate the many worldly society forces, one can imagine how much strife this would cause.

On the fifteenth of July,

Martial Arts Temple released a message: within Da Rong, there are eight first-rate Sects.

Tiger Sect of Shunnan Prefecture, Hengdao Sect of Jizhou, West Building Sword Sect of Xiangyuan Prefecture, Lingxiao Hall of Suzhou Town, Yunzhou Yangtian Sect, Da Zhao Temple of Tibet, Wuzhen Taoist Palace of Suzhou Prefecture, and Lingxiu Villa of Jiujiang Prefecture.

Once this message was released, it was like a huge stone smashing into a lake already churning with undercurrents, instantly stirring up a thousand waves in the worldly society of Da Rong.

Eight worldly society sects, although all were renowned forces, still attracted numerous questions from many people.

Tiger Sect and West Building Sword Sect had shallow foundations; Lingxiao Hall and Da Zhao Temple were situated at the remote borders of Da Rong; Wuzhen Taoist Palace and Lingxiu Villa were hidden in the mountains; Yangtian Sect and Hengdao Sect only dominated in one area.

Each of these Eight Great Sects had flaws, and if one were to nitpick, a multitude of issues could be raised.

Take Hengdao Sect, for example. Ji Zhen was regarded as the premier expert in Liaodong in his earlier years, and Hengdao Sect dominated in Jizhou, but Liaodong was a weak region in Martial Arts to begin with, harboring almost insular worldly society forces within Da Rong’s larger martial arena.

And if one were to place the Hengdao Sect of the past in the entire worldly society of Da Rong, it could only be counted as a second-tier force.

Of course, there were reasons for Zhang Luan to include Hengdao Sect among the Eight Great Sects: Firstly, Hengdao Sect had Ji Zhen, an Innate master; secondly, Hengdao Sect held very high prestige in Liaodong. Martial Arts Temple could completely leverage the prestige of Hengdao Sect to deter the worldly society forces of Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Chongshan Pass.

In fact, worldly society forces in Liaodong did not have many objections to Hengdao Sect becoming a first-rate force; objections came from worldly society forces in other regions.

In the study of Marquis Mansion, Yang Zhenshan looked at the newly released notice from Martial Arts Temple and shook his head slightly.

”This somewhat seems like putting Hengdao Sect on the hot seat!”

Among the Eight Great Sects, Hengdao Sect was the weakest.

Ji Zhen was an Innate high master, but the other seven Sects also had Innate Martial Artists. Without an Innate high master, how could they be listed among the first-rate Sects.

It was just that the former Hengdao Sect was somewhat weaker, which made many worldly society forces not recognize its authority.

However, this issue is not a big problem for Hengdao Sect, as long as Ji Zhen demonstrated his Innate prowess, it would be enough to silence those worldly society forces.

The worldly society forces were unconvinced simply because they didn’t know that those Eight Sects all had Innate Martial Artists.

Actually, this could be blamed on those Innate Martial Artists who went into seclusion, each of them not showing themselves for decades, which led many in the worldly society to have forgotten their existence.

Now by doing this, Martial Arts Temple had effectively brought the Innate Martial Artists in the worldly society into the limelight.

Of course, these were not all the Innate Martial Artists, just a portion of them.

Yang Zhenshan set aside the notice in his hand, not taking this matter to heart.

Wu Zheng, standing before him, hesitated for a moment before speaking, ”Marquis, there is a rumor in the worldly society that I’m not sure is true or false!”

”What rumor?” Yang Zhenshan asked.

Wu Zheng specialized in gathering information. He used to only help Yang Zhenshan listen for news from the court, but recently he had also started to inquire about news from the worldly society.

”It is said that around Cui Xia Valley in Wanshan Ridge, there is a Star Origin Fruit Tree!” Wu Zheng said.

”Star Origin Fruit Tree!”

Yang Zhenshan was slightly stunned, then quickly reacted, ”Spirit Fruit!”

He immediately got up and walked to a bookshelf to fetch a book.

Strange Fruit and Treasure Record, this was a book that recorded Treasure Medicines and Spirit Fruits, detailing descriptions of more than eight hundred kinds of Treasure Medicines and over a hundred kinds of Spirit Fruits, not only describing their appearances, growing conditions, and medicinal properties but also detailing the processes of preparation and uses of these Treasure Medicines and Spirit Fruits.