Chapter 1158

Following Zhang Liao's exclamation, some of the high-level members of the Zhang family also poured into this side. However, these high-level members were mostly elderly and would not be as reckless as Zhang Liao. Looking at the changes in the clan leader Zhang Hu at this moment, they were all full of questions.

However, with the change in Zhang Hu's aura, faces were filled with joy. No matter what, they could feel that the clan leader's body was changing and developing in a good direction.

Zhang Hu's aura became more and more stable, and the injuries in his body were recovering rapidly.

This kind of means was beyond the imagination of the Zhang family.

When Zhang Hu was injured, it wasn't that they hadn't looked for people, and even some noble clans in Bingzhou had helped.

After all, Zhang Hu's existence was a stabilizing force in Bingzhou. There was indeed a lot of competition between noble clans and powerful families.

Even quite a few had conflicts with the Zhang family.

However, everyone knew that Zhang Hu's existence was what made Bingzhou peaceful.

Many noble clans and powerful families knew what the commanderies near the Great Wall in Bingzhou were like before Zhang Hu rose.

Grassland tribes often invaded the border. Indeed, the border army was elite, but the 100,000-strong elite border army could not guard this border very well.

That was unrealistic. The 100,000-strong border army was divided into more than ten large armies, guarding more than ten states and commanderies around.

This was already very strenuous.

Of course, the border pass was naturally not just 100,000, but there were only so many elites, and the rest were local troops of the states and commanderies, which were strong and weak.

Strong ones like Yanmen Commandery were nothing like the commandery troops on the Central Plains side.

The reason why the commandery troops in Yanmen Commandery were powerful was that the Zhang family had united with many landlords and powerful families around to build them up.

And in reality, it had only been nearly a hundred years.

In the past, they were at most passively defending. Once the number of troops on the grasslands was large, they could still break through Yanmen Commandery and then plunder Bingzhou unscrupulously.

At this time, they could only rely on Bingzhou's own strength.

As for other commanderies, even if the neighboring commanderies had strength, they would at most support a little bit, and most of it still relied on Bingzhou itself.

In those years, these noble clans and powerful families in Bingzhou suffered a lot. Those grassland aliens, once they entered Bingzhou, plundered unscrupulously, and even noble clans dared to plunder.

Of course, most of the unlucky ones were the common people, and noble clans were still few.

However, this did not mean that the noble clans had no losses. For the noble clans and powerful families, the loss of local common people was a blow.

After all, these bottom-level common people mostly relied on noble clans and powerful families. If these noble clans and powerful families could not protect these bottom-level common people, the blow to morale would be quite significant.

It's ridiculous to say that the government that should protect the common people was the imperial court, but in the north, the imperial court government did nothing.

There was no strength, and it relied entirely on the local noble clans and powerful families.

However, such a ridiculous thing really happened. In the north, the bottom-level common people believed more in those noble clans and powerful families.

Instead, the local noble clans and powerful families also had to protect the bottom-level common people.

Smart people naturally knew the importance of bottom-level common people. Other things aside, for local farming, those noble clan disciples could not go down to the fields themselves and could only rely on the tenant farmers among the bottom-level common people.

A third-rate noble clan often owned hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and the tenant farmers needed were thousands or even tens of thousands.

Which of those big noble clans was not a super landlord influencing tens of thousands or even 100,000 households?

Grassland tribes entered Bingzhou to burn, kill, and plunder. Even if the noble clans had guards to block them, the bottom-level common people were plundered one by one, and in the end, the losses were still these noble clans and powerful families.

After all, they used to "plunder" the common people. Of course, theirs was a small, long-term plunder, while the grasslands were short-term.

Of course, some grassland aliens would also plunder Han people and bring them back to the grasslands as slaves. All of this was competing for benefits with the noble clans and powerful families.

These noble clans and powerful families were naturally unwilling.

Before Zhang Hu rose, they had to spend more strength to repel, or block.

Later, after Zhang Hu rose, he organized the elite army of Yanmen, which could block the grassland aliens outside Yanmen Commandery, and sometimes even go to plunder the grasslands.

The rise of the Yanmen Zhang clan would also affect the interests of some noble clans and powerful families, but with the Yanmen Zhang clan, they could block the grassland aliens outside. Even if they only paid a little resources, this price was still very cost-effective.

And the Zhang clan led the army to the grasslands. Every time they plundered back, those cattle, sheep, and warhorses, they could also get a share.

Therefore, most of them had no conflict of interest with the Zhang clan, and naturally did not want the Zhang clan to fall.

After all, with the Zhang clan there, Bingzhou was very peaceful, and they could live more safely behind the scenes. Wouldn't that be better?

So knowing that Zhang Hu was injured, some noble clans also contacted physicians, and even joined forces to invite a Daoist soul-refining expert to treat Zhang Hu.

Unfortunately, without exception, they were all helpless.

Originally, the Zhang family was also desperate. After all, that peak soul-refining Daoist expert also said that unless it was a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

As for what a Great Luo Golden Immortal was, the Zhang family didn't know much, but they knew that among immortals, they were extremely rare.

Immortals in the Liu Han Dynasty were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, and even the Liu Han imperial family might not be able to invite them, let alone their Zhang family.

So they could only sit and wait for their family head, Zhang Hu, to die slowly.

However, now, there was an unexpected joy. A mysterious person suddenly came and saved their family head at once.

Although it was unclear what this mysterious person had in mind for their Zhang family, it was an indisputable fact that their clan leader was going to recover.

As for intentions, they didn't think the Zhang family had anything worth the other party's intentions.

At this time, some high-level members of the Zhang family also fully knew that this mysterious person was very likely an immortal.

Their Zhang family didn't have anything worth an immortal's intentions.

But no matter what, the high-level members of the Zhang family understood that they must repay the kindness of saving their lives.

One by one, they stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Su Fan.

And Su Fan did not dodge and fully accepted the great gift from everyone. Saving Zhang Hu was just a casual act.

Zhang Hu's injury, in the eyes of outsiders, was something even a Great Luo Golden Immortal couldn't save, but in reality, a true Great Luo Golden Immortal would save him very easily.

And Su Fan's green wood power constantly repaired the vitality on Zhang Hu's body and even made the other party go a step further. The physical body transformed and had reached the level of an immortal body.

It can be said that Zhang Hu's current physical strength is comparable to the Earth Immortal realm.

This is the true great kindness to the Zhang family.

There are probably not many Earth Immortal realm experts in the entire Nine Provinces.

One can imagine what it means for the Zhang family to be able to produce one.