Chapter 5 Mujiao Town
There is a small town at the foot of Funiu Mountain called Mujiao Town, where nearly ten thousand people of the Song family live. Because there are monks from the Song family stationed in the town all year round, it has been peaceful and peaceful for a hundred years, and it has also attracted many mortals with other surnames nearby to come and settle. There is a wide street in the center of the town, with an endless stream of people coming and going. Both sides of the street are full of people. All kinds of shops, all kinds of shouts and shouts can be heard endlessly, and they are full of bustling and peaceful images.
In the world of immortality, whether it is a high-ranking sect or a dominant family force, a huge number of mortals are their foundation, and they have been continuously injecting new blood and wisdom into the major forces in the world of immortality.
There will be two or three monks born with spiritual roots among about 10,000 mortals who can cultivate. If they are descendants of monks, the probability of developing spiritual roots is higher than that of the descendants of ordinary mortals.
Ordinary mortals are too weak. In this world of immortality where monsters are rampant, it is difficult to survive and reproduce without the protection of monks. It is also because of this that the world of immortality pays more and more attention to mortals. Places where a large number of mortals normally live will have monks to protect them more or less.
In order to strengthen themselves, major sects in the world of cultivating immortals will choose to send their disciples who are not highly talented to manage mortals in various places under their jurisdiction, so as to breed more disciples with spiritual talents for the sect. Over time, major cultivating families will be born.
There are dozens of immortal cultivating families like the Song family in Qinghe County. They are all attached to the Xiaoyao sect, the overlord of the Wei Kingdom. Each family has a large number of mortals. The mortals within the Song family's sphere of influence include Mujiao Town and Including a dozen nearby villages, there are a total of more than 20,000 mortals, most of whom live in Mujiao Town.
The Song family has a relatively small number of mortals among the major qi-refining families in Qinghe County. Several qi-refining families with a relatively large number of mortals all have more than 100,000 mortals. As for the overlord of Qinghe County, the Huang family, the foundation-building family, The number of mortals directly controlled is nearly half a million.
These mortals who are born with spiritual roots will continuously enrich the major cultivating families. Those with outstanding spiritual roots will be absorbed by Xiaoyao Sect.
Most of the mortals in Mujiao Town are of the blood of the Song family, and some of them escaped from other places. They have gradually integrated into the Song family through marriage with local mortals of the Song family.
The family generally does not care about the surnames of mortals, but as long as a person with spiritual roots is found, he will be taken to Funiu Mountain to practice and renamed according to the seniority of monks in the Song family.
Song Qingming was also found to have spiritual roots when his family was testing mortals when he was ten years old. He was then taken to Funiu Mountain by the monks in his family to study and practice until now. Although the place of cultivation is not far from home, Song Qingming rarely goes home to visit relatives.
This time he received a garrison mission from his family, and he didn't know when he would have the chance to come back. He went down the mountain early today just to have time to return to his home.
Among the mortal residences to the west of Mujiao Town, there is an ordinary house. Compared with the surrounding houses, it looks slightly newer. The house is surrounded by an earth wall, forming a simple small courtyard. The wall opens in the middle. There is a small door.
Song Qingming stood in front of the half-open wooden door and looked at the familiar courtyard in front of him. On a huge stone platform in the courtyard, a woman in simple clothes was sitting on it with a green bamboo basket. The woman put the bamboo basket in The golden bamboo shoots were separated slowly and orderly and dried on the stone platform.
As if she heard the sound at the door, the woman paused and turned to look at the door.
"I haven't been back for so long. What are you doing standing at the door? Could it be that you have become a fool by cultivating immortality?"
Song Qingming was stunned after hearing this, then giggled a few times and walked into the courtyard.
"Mom, my family is all well these days."
"We built a new house at home, and your brother and father have moved to the new house behind. I still can't bear to part with this old stone platform. I dug some new bamboo shoots in the mountains a few days ago and brought them here to bask in the sun. I'll wait for you next time You can also take some to the mountains to try when you come back. You all loved this when you were young."
Song's mother arranged the bamboo shoots and came to Song Qingming's side and said: "San'er, if you have time, come home and have a look. Although immortals do not eat ordinary things, aren't the immortals on the mountain all born of mortals at the bottom of the mountain? How can there be such a big difference?”
Song Qingming's real name was Song San when he was a child. It was changed to Song Qingming after he was taken to Funiu Mountain to practice. But now, except for his mother, no one calls him by this name.
The family has a rule that all monks are not allowed to go home at will until they are twenty years old, except for the specified few days of visiting relatives every year. Let these young people who have just climbed up the mountain slowly isolate themselves from the mortals at the bottom of the mountain, get used to the boring practice on the mountain as soon as possible, and not neglect their cultivation because they are greedy for the warmth of family in the secular world.
After Song Qingming entered the path of cultivating immortals, he rarely returned home. Nowadays, most of his childhood playmates no longer recognize him, and even the attitude of his family towards him has changed greatly.
Every time he returns home, even if he eats at the same table, Song Qingming can feel that his father, sister and brother always maintain a slight distance between them and him.
His father would no longer yell at him for sleeping in, and his second sister, who had a bad temper, would no longer dare to call him a "brat". Even his younger brother, who always played behind him when he was a child, now treats him There is also more respect.
Song's father was originally an ordinary household in Mujiao Town. There was no one with spiritual roots in the family for the past three generations. After living in the town for so many years, except for the eldest sister who died young, the family has always been ordinary.
Later, Song Qingming's spiritual roots were detected, and his family gave him a sum of gold and silver. His family's life gradually improved, and he is now considered a wealthy household in Mujiao Town.
After the two chatted for a while, they returned to the newly built mansion. After the family of five had lunch together, under the eyes of his mother's reluctance, Song Qingming left some silver coins at home, and then left quietly. here.
Now that Song Qingming has left home, he is no longer as nostalgic as before. Only his mother is left in the family and she still regards him as her own child, not an immortal.
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Fifty miles east of Mujiao Town, there is a hundred-foot high mountain. It was originally an unknown place. A hundred years ago, the Song family cultivated a small spiritual vein here and renamed it Lingyuan Mountain.
Lingyuan Mountain is not too far from Funiu Mountain, and it is also the second spiritual vein occupied by the Song family besides the high-grade spiritual vein of Funiu Mountain.
About a hundred years ago, when the senior monks of the Song family were hunting monsters here, they accidentally discovered a black iron vein here. After the second-generation clan leader knew about this, he led the monks in the clan to kill and entrench them on the mountain. Several mid-level monsters later occupied the mountain, and moved some of the family mortals to mine the black iron veins.
Black iron ore is also a common low-level ore in the world of immortality. It can be used to make some low-level magic weapons. The dark iron sword that Song Qingming has used for nearly ten years is made of this kind of ore.
After nearly a hundred years of management by the family, hundreds of mortals now live in Lingyuan Mountain. Black iron ore worth almost 80 spirit stones can be mined for the family every year. This is also one of the important incomes of the family. Therefore, the family attaches great importance to this place. Not only have two formations been arranged to protect it, but two monks from the family are stationed here all year round.
Go to Lingyuan Mountain and station for three years. This is the family mission that Song Qingming received in the Cangjin Pavilion yesterday.
According to Song family rules, family monks who have reached the middle stage of Qi refining must complete some family tasks on time. Of course, these tasks also have corresponding rewards.
After being stationed in Lingyuan Mountain for one year, the family will issue an additional ten points of merit. Although Lingyuan Mountain’s spiritual vein is inferior, it is only a middle-grade spiritual vein, but it is still enough to support two Qi-refining period monks. For the current middle-stage Qi-refining period, Song Qingming's cultivation will not have much impact.
It does not affect his cultivation, and he can also earn some spirit stones. This task is also the most suitable family task for him at present. After taking this task, plus his daily drawing of formations and diagrams, he will be able to do it in a year. In exchange for a medium-grade magic weapon.
In the past, Song Qingming also went to Lingyuan Mountain to help transport black iron ore. When most of the monks in the clan had just broken through the middle stage of Qi refining, they would be sent to guard here for a few years. It could be regarded as taking care of these monks who had just broken through the middle stage of Qi refining. It is safer and does not delay the speed of cultivation too much.
This task is mainly to care for and supervise the mining of ore by the mortals of the family here. As long as enough black iron ore can be handed over to the family on time every year.