Chapter 16 Family Recruitment
Spring passed and autumn came, and it had been two years since Song Qingming came to Lingyuan Mountain.
Relying on the special function of the residual map, Song Qingming's ability to make talismans has rapidly improved. Now the success rate of making talismans has reached 50% to 60%. By selling spiritual talismans, he has saved hundreds of spiritual stones, and has already made Uncle Thirteen and the others. The spiritual stones borrowed by several people were returned.
With the spirit stone in hand, Song Qingming naturally started to trade his guns for cannons and armed himself. Not only did he exchange for some middle-grade talismans in the family's Golden Pavilion, but he also bought a medium-grade defensive magic weapon in Caolu Mountain. Now he has already He is no longer the poor, embarrassed boy he was two years ago.
Gao Yuyao did not go to Caolu Mountain often. Sometimes he would come only once every few months. Fortunately, the several elixir transactions between them went very smoothly.
Relying on the pills exchanged from Gao Yuyao, Song Qingming's cultivation has now reached the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining, and it won't be long before he is sure to break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.
In the past two years, a major event has happened in Qinghe County. The head of the Qian family, Qian Guangyao, successfully built the foundation half a year ago and became the sixth foundation-building monk in Qinghe County. As a result, the Qian family rose to prominence overnight and was promoted to the foundation-building family. .
After the monks build the foundation, their longevity will be greatly improved. After Qian Guangyao builds the foundation, the Qian family will have at least two hundred years of prosperity.
There were originally only three foundation-building families in Qinghe County. Now that Qian Guangyao has successfully built the foundation, the Qian family has successfully grown into the fourth foundation-building family in Qinghe County and has the opportunity to directly submit to the Xiaoyao Sect.
Dozens of other Qi-refining families, large and small, like the Song family, are apparently vassal families of these four foundation-building families. They also need to hand over a large amount of spiritual rice every year in exchange for the protection of these foundation-building families. Song Qingming is where The Song family is a vassal Qi refining family under the Huang family of the Ji-building family.
Today, among the four major foundation-building families, the Huang family is the strongest. There are three foundation-building monks. The patriarch, Huang Shengxin, has a seventh-level foundation-building cultivation level. He is the only late-stage foundation-building monk in Qinghe County. The Huang family is also in Qinghe County. An old foundation-building family, the family has had no foundation-building monks for nearly a thousand years, and it can be regarded as the unparalleled overlord of Qinghe County.
The Gao family was originally about the same strength as the Huang family, but more than 20 years ago, the Gao family's predecessor, the patriarch, who was in the late stage of foundation building, was invited to go out to visit the ancient cave and died unexpectedly. As a result, the Gao family's strength was greatly damaged. Now, within the clan, There was only one monk left in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
The situation of the Lu family and the Qian family that just established their foundation are similar. They are both foundation-building families that were promoted in recent decades. In terms of family background, they are quite different from the Huang and Gao families.
There are six foundation-building monks from the four major foundation-building families, plus a foundation-building monk appointed by the Xiaoyao Sect to guard and manage Qinghefang. There are seven permanent foundation-building monks in Qinghe County.
Song Qingming heard about Qian Guangyao's success in foundation building, and his heart was throbbing. Becoming a foundation building monk not only has the ability to fly to the sky and escape from the earth, but also enjoys twice the lifespan. This is what many monks dream of, including the current ones. he.
The Song family has also added a monk in the past two years. Ranked 11th in the Qing generation, Song Qingwen, with Five Spiritual Root qualifications, comes from a small village under Mujiao Town.
With the addition of two monks in two years, the Song family has had a lot of happy events. The fourth elder who manages the family's general affairs also specially distributed some supplies, allowing the two villages to celebrate.
For this reason, the Lingyuan Mountain mine was also suspended for two days. Hundreds of absentee villagers living here took turns celebrating Xiaoyu's parents.
Today, Song Qingyu's family is just like Song Qingming's family in the past. One person has achieved enlightenment, and Xiaoyu's father has become a labor leader in the mine last year. He is responsible for managing dozens of miners. He no longer has to work in the mine himself. The family has already Lived in a large house given by the clan.
One morning, Song Qingming, who was practicing in seclusion, suddenly received a message from the second elder of his clan, asking him to return to Funiu Mountain today.
Song Qingming did not dare to neglect, and after saying hello to his ninth uncle Song Changxin, he returned to Funiu Mountain alone.
Not long after going up the mountain, I happened to meet my thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong who was also going to the family meeting hall.
"Qingming, why are you back and you want to go to the meeting hall?" Seeing Song Qingming, Song Changxiong asked in surprise.
"It was the second elder who summoned me back to the mountain. I don't know why," Song Qingming answered truthfully.
"Sixth brother recruited you, is it possible that this mission is also for some reason?" Song Changxiong had a strange look on his face.
"Mission? My nephew doesn't know. The second elder didn't mention it in the letter. Does the thirteenth uncle know what the mission is?"
"Oh, the patriarch accepted an employment task from the Liu family yesterday. Maybe you will also participate. Brother Six may also have other arrangements with you. You will find out when we get to the meeting hall."
Seeing Song Qingming's confused face, Song Changxiong did not say anything further, but just urged him to go to the meeting hall together.
On the top of Funiu Mountain, in the Song family meeting hall, more than a dozen Song family monks, including Song Qingming, were discussing the employment mission from the Liu family. In addition to Song Qingming, there was another person from the Qing generation who was among them. , the third brother Song Qingze.
When he came to Funiu Mountain half a year ago, the third brother was only at the fifth level of Qi refining. Unexpectedly, half a year later, he had already broken through to the sixth level of Qi refining. He was truly the most talented person in the next generation of the Song family.
Song Qingze, like the clan leader, has practiced the family's only foundation-building technique "Red Flame Jue". The foundation-building technique is much more powerful than the shabby qi-alchemy techniques they practice. Today, Song Qingze's magic skills are no less powerful than those present here. As an elder of these generations, his appearance here was not unexpected by Song Qingming.
But Song Qingze was a little surprised when he saw Song Qingming coming here, and he greeted Song Qingming with some confusion.
The patriarch Song Gushan, who was standing in front of everyone, saw that everyone had arrived. He waved his hand to calm down the discussion, looked at the people in the hall, and loudly stated the purpose of convening everyone this time.
It turned out that another Qi-refining family in Qinghe County, the Jingyuanshan Liu Family, issued a hiring mission in Qinghefang a few days ago, secretly inviting several nearby Qi-refining families to go to the Fuyun Mountains to hunt down a second-level low-grade monster.
The Liu family, like the Song family, is a vassal family under the foundation-building Huang family. It can be regarded as a relatively old immortal cultivating family in Qinghe County. It has been inherited for nearly four hundred years. There are more than 40 monks in the family, and their strength is much stronger than that of the Song family. However, the two-hundred-year-old Immortal Cultivation Family has a much stronger foundation, which is why they have the confidence to attack the second-level monsters.
The level division of monsters is the same as that of human monks. The second-level low-grade monsters are already equivalent to the early-stage foundation-building monks among humans. However, monsters are obviously slower to develop their intelligence than humans.
First-level monsters basically rely on their own nature to fight. Second-level monsters are equivalent to the intelligence of a ten-year-old human child. When fighting against human monks, they are often easily suppressed by various techniques, traps, and formations. The monks in the Qi stage can also defeat the second-level monsters in the foundation-building stage by relying on the number of people to activate the second-level formation.
On the other hand, the third-level monsters that have reached the elixir-forming stage have wide-open spiritual intelligence and can speak human words. Their spiritual intelligence is basically the same as that of ordinary people. They will no longer be easily besieged by low-level human monks using formations. With the help of monsters, The beast's own powerful body has an advantage against human monks of the same level.
Hire other nearby Qi Refining family monks to hunt monsters together. Although this kind of employment task is relatively rare, it is not a strange thing. For employers, compared to the wandering casual cultivators, family monks with a family and a career Definitely more trustworthy.
Many Qi Refining families and forces in Qinghe County have issued such tasks. Just because the Liu family paid a high price for this task, the clan leader and several elders discussed it and decided to accept this employment task.
Originally, such a difficult task was also very risky. Song Qingming's cultivation level was not high, so the family should not let him participate. This is because the Liu family required that the family participating in this task must send at least three formation mages. There were only a few formation masters in the Song family, so they summoned Song Qingming, who was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, to gather together.
In the meeting hall, after everyone discussed, the final candidate for the mission was quickly decided. The clan leader stayed at Funiu Mountain, and the first elder and the second elder led the team to participate in the mission.
In addition to the first elder Song Gubai and the second elder Song Changfeng, there are also four elder monks including the thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong, as well as the younger generation Song Qingze and Song Qingming. Half of the elite members of the Song family are dispatched for this mission. The biggest action of the family.
Half a day later, a group of eight people from the Song family, led by the eldest elder Song Gushan, quietly left Funiu Mountain and headed to Qinghefang in the west.