Chapter 452 Chengnan Jiang Family
Inside the courtyard, close to the mountain wall, is a simple stone gate, about ten feet high.
The stone door also shone with a rich golden-red aura.
Xiao Lin came to the stone gate, and then the black token in his hand floated in the air, and a faint golden light shot out from it and shot into the stone gate.
Then the pitch-black token fell into Xiao Lin's hands again, and the stone gate moved to both sides with a burst of "zapping" sounds, revealing the pitch-black corridor inside.
Xiao Lin walked towards the inside, and the golden-red spiritual light separated automatically. The corridor behind the stone door was very spacious and clean. When Xiao Lin stepped into it, a strong spiritual energy hit his face, making Xiao Lin feel refreshed. I couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The aura here is several times richer than the aura in the cave he rented in Black Rock City. It's no wonder that the cave here requires 800 low-grade spiritual stones for a year. You really get what you pay for.
Xiao Lin entered the corridor, and the stone door behind it was closed again. After going more than ten feet deep, Xiao Lin came to the belly of a mountain. The ground in the belly of the mountain was artificially opened up into a small spiritual field, but there was no planting in the spiritual field at this moment. Any spiritual herbs had obviously been harvested and taken away by the previous owner.
And around the belly of the mountain, there are four stone gates. On the stone gates are the [rest room], [training room], [spiritual beast room], and [alchemy room]. Seeing this, Xiao Lin smiled slightly. The cave mansion built by the Water Control Palace, It’s really thoughtful, and it even has a [Spiritual Beast Room] and [Alchemy Room].
As for the spiritual field in the heart of the mountain, Xiao Lin naturally didn't care. He would not transplant spiritual grass into this spiritual field even if he had the spiritual tree space.
As usual, Xiao Lin first explored the inside and outside of the cave. Not only did he pass the spiritual inspection, he also released the soul-eating fire Gu to search every corner carefully.
After confirming that there was no problem, Xiao Lin opened the door of the training room, walked in, sat cross-legged on the futon in the center, took out a crimson jade pill, drank it, and then began to practice [The Life and Death of Qingluan] Jade Cold Jue].
As the magic formula was running, a faint white mist began to appear around Xiao Lin, and at the same time, a faint dark green aura began to emit from his body.
Xiao Lin has also entered a meditative state and knows nothing about the outside world.
Early the next morning, Xiao Lin woke up from his trance and felt the majestic magic power in the sea of qi. He couldn't help but show a happy expression on his face.
He got up and left the cave where he was practicing, and entered the Jinxia Fairy City. As usual, he wandered around the streets and alleys, counting the time, and found that the time Jiang Yingxue had agreed with him was not far away.
But it's not easy to find someone in this crowded Jinxia Fairy City, and Xiao Lin doesn't want to make his search known to everyone, so he can only be patient and search slowly.
What Xiao Lin was most worried about was that if Jiang Yingxue was not in Jinxia Fairy City, he would have to find out where he went, but no matter what, he had to search first.
Soon, more than half a month passed. In addition to four hours of homework every day, Xiao Lin spent most of the rest of his time searching for traces of Jiang Yingxue in the fairy city.
He first searched for it from the area where immortal cultivators live in the west of the city. He walked through almost every alley. With his powerful spiritual mind, he scanned it slightly and everything within a thousand feet radius was displayed in his mind.
Unfortunately, every time he walked through an alley, he shook his head slightly, and then walked into the next alley.
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To the south of the city is a large area of private houses inhabited by mortals, covering a radius of forty or fifty miles. Most of these houses are made of wood, short and dilapidated, and the streets and alleys are much narrower than the residences of immortal cultivators.
This place where mortals live is also divided into three, six or nine levels. Some businessmen among them are either doing errands for some business houses to earn spiritual stones that are considered expensive by mortals, or they are dragging some people on their own. Form a small fleet to travel to the surrounding fairy cities to earn freight for transporting goods.
These people basically have some properties in the south of the city, and they have become big households among mortals.
The Jiang family is one of the large households, and among these large households, it is enough to rank among the top three.
The ancestor of the Jiang family was originally an immortal cultivator. He once reached the middle stage of foundation building. However, after entering the middle stage of foundation building, he could no longer improve and his realm stagnated.
Later, after he was more than a hundred years old, he became disillusioned with the path of spiritual practice, and started to start a business out of desperation. He also married several wives. For a mortal, being able to marry a cultivator would mean that But the absolute pheasant turning into a phoenix is something that can only be wished for.
Unexpectedly, this person has no talent in cultivation, but he is quite lucky in business. Not only did he get involved with several large commercial houses, he attracted shipping business, but he also sold various monster materials. He is also quite talented in this area and has prospered.
After nearly a hundred years of development, he used the accumulated spiritual stones to not only purchase a large area of land in the south of Jinxia Fairy City, but also to build a fleet of hundreds of ships.
As for the heir, he is also quite lucky. As a foundation-building monk, the possibility of giving birth to the next generation is extremely small, but he happened to encounter such a small probability event. Not only did he give birth to a son, but he also became a couple. twin.
Although the twins have no spiritual roots, they are plump and healthy. Anyway, this person is no longer obsessed with the path of spiritual practice, and he is not entangled in the fact that his children have no spiritual roots.
He also began to focus on raising two sons so that they could inherit the family business in the future.
These two sons did not disappoint him. When they grew up, they not only took care of the family business they left behind in an orderly manner, but also filled the Jiang family with descendants in passing on the family line. Later, after that man passed away, the Jiang family was completely It took root in the south of the city.
In the following hundreds of years, several family members with spiritual roots appeared, and two of them even joined the Water Control Palace and became its outer disciples.
This also completely stabilized the Jiang family's position in the large area south of Jinxia Fairy City.
The spiritual stones earned by the family through business will also be given priority to the children of the family with spiritual roots for cultivation. In turn, the children of the Jiang family who worship in Yushui Palace can also protect the Jiang family, at least let the Jiang family do what they want. When doing business, I feel a little more confident.
After hundreds of years of development, the entire Jiang family has hundreds of direct descendants. As for the collateral descendants, illegitimate descendants and those who changed their surname to Jiang midway, there are at least more than a thousand people, occupying a large area of residences in the south of the city.
In the Jiang family's residence, dozens of teenagers, ranging from seven to eight to twenty years old, are practicing physical training. Mortals cannot practice immortal magic because they have no spiritual roots, so wealthy families who have the conditions will choose young people in the family. In the prime of life, come and practice physical training.
After all, during the transportation process of the fleet, they will occasionally encounter attacks from monsters, and the cost of hiring immortal cultivators to escort them is too high, so most of them use body refiners trained by their families to protect the safety of the goods.
In a corner of the house, there was a small pond, and several women were washing clothes. While they were washing clothes, they occasionally peeked at the family members who were practicing physical training, with a look of obsession on their faces.
Although the body refining technique is not only practiced by men, in some large families, only the strong men in the family are selected for training. After all, men are better than ordinary men in terms of physical fitness and talent in the body refining technique. woman.
What's more, the cost of training a junior body refiner is not small.
Except for a petite woman who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, she kept her head down and washed her clothes. The other women would take a peek from time to time and saw Jiang who was exercising with his bare upper body showing off his strong muscles. The younger generation showed shy expressions from time to time.
"Xiaolu, I heard that the second young master has formally proposed to the master that he wants to take you as my concubine. In this way, you will soon no longer have to do these menial jobs like us. Don't forget us when you get rich. ”
"Xueying, don't worry, we are good sisters. When I marry the second young master, I will definitely introduce you to other Jiang family children. At least I can keep you a side wife."
"Sister Xiaolu is quite interesting. I heard that the fourth young master's body refining skills are about to advance. Once the advancement is successful, he will become a real body refining practitioner. Then he will be eligible to get married and have children, and he will be able to The young master’s strong physique means he must have three wives and four concubines.”
"Yes, we, the laundry girls who have been selected by the Jiang family since childhood, all have hope."
"That is true, but what about her?" The beautiful woman named Xueying glanced at the petite woman who was calmly lowering her head to wash clothes, and said with a cold snort.
"This is a young lady from the Jiang family. Although she is just an illegitimate child, she still has the blood of the Jiang family flowing through her body. It's a pity that she is a loser from birth."
"You." When the petite woman heard this, she couldn't help but raise her head, revealing an ugly face. Her face shape was perfect, and her facial features were extremely coordinated. The only flaw was that there was a patch of blood between her eyebrows. The mark extends from the center of the eyebrow upward to the forehead, and downward to the right cheek.
At first glance, it looked as if someone had cut her face with a knife, destroying every bit of her supposedly delicate appearance.
When the petite woman heard the Xueying woman say that she was a loser, she couldn't help but show a mixture of sadness and anger on her face. Her big eyes were full of mist, as if she wanted to refute, but in the end she swallowed all the refutations that came to her mouth. Go down, lower your head again and start washing clothes.
"I'm not wrong. I heard that when she was born, a white light flashed. When the midwife saw her, she actually grinned at the midwife, which scared the midwife half to death. The birthmark on her face also became more and more serious. The older I get, if I keep growing like this, my face will be covered with birthmarks in a few years, haha.”
"Giggle, yes, and she was also a master of her parents. Her mother died in childbirth when she was born. Her father was also killed by a monster on the sea on the day she was born. I heard that he was killed in front of many people. Eaten alive."
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