The Rise of the Cultivation Family

Chapter 17 The Ascension Conference
Two years later, the Qingshan Sect’s 20th annual Immortality Conference was held as scheduled.

The Qingshan Sect's Immortal Ascension Conference was held in various states and territories at the same time. It was actually a large-scale spiritual root testing conference. There was no fighting, but the people who tested the spiritual roots were required to be between six and 12 years old.

The reason for this requirement is mainly to cultivate their loyalty to the sect.

And the sooner you enter the sect, the sooner you can practice. This conference was originally held for the sect to absorb fresh blood.

It is said that there is no hope of building a foundation with the four or five spiritual roots, just because there are not enough resources. In large sects, there are many people who use mixed spiritual roots to build a foundation.

The sect will also use other methods to collect casual cultivators who have become monks halfway and bring their own cultivation. However, even if these people have good qualifications, it is difficult for them to become inner disciples and be the focus of training for the sect.

Uncle Zeng personally sent him to this Qingshan Sect Immortality Conference. After all, it was a major event in Yunwu Mountain, and Yun Daichen also sent Yun Yongzhu to him.

There are only a few people left in the ancestral generation. Except for the ninth great-uncle Yun Zuxian and the 25th great-uncle Yun Zuxuan, whose life span has increased due to the successful foundation building, the remaining few people are already living and dying.

When Yun Yongzhu saw Yun Zuxuan, he was surprised to find that he looked younger than his father.

Yun Zuxuan greatly praised Yun Yongzhu's idea of ​​entering the Qingshan Sect, and prepared a bottle of middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill for him to encourage him to practice hard.

You can take one pill of this mid-grade Qi Gathering Pill every two months, and its efficacy is slightly stronger than that of the lower grade Qi Gathering Pill. One bottle costs twenty or thirty spiritual stones.

Therefore, the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill is relatively precious and is of great benefit to cultivation. Yun Yongzhu quickly and carefully put it away.

More than a year ago, the clan also gave him two high-quality magical weapons, a defensive magical weapon, the Golden Turtle Shield, and an offensive magical weapon, the Fire Snake Sword, which he had already successfully refined.

As for the "Object Control Technique" or "Object Control Technique", which is a must-have spell for manipulating magic weapons, he started practicing "Object Control Technique" when he was six years old, and he did not reach perfection until he was nine years old.

Under the guidance of Yun's father and the elders in the school, Yun Yongzhu has been able to control the Golden Turtle Shield and the Fire Snake Sword like an arm, with extraordinary flexibility.

Before leaving, the clan also gave him twenty first-grade high-grade attack talismans, ten each of sharp gold talismans and fireball talismans, one second-order low-grade golden sword talisman, and a total of [-] spiritual stones!
This golden sword talisman was specially purchased by the family from the Huang family for his self-defense, and it was worth 160 spiritual stones!
160 spirit stones can buy two first-level high-grade magic weapons. Add some spirit stones and think about low-grade spiritual weapons. You can imagine how precious this golden sword talisman is!

Although Yunwu Mountain also has the inheritance of talisman seals, it is only the first-level talisman seal inheritance, and the highest level can only draw the first-level high-grade talisman seal scripts.

Just two magic weapons and 21 talismans are worth almost 450 spirit stones, not to mention the huge cash of [-] spirit stones.

Yun Yongzhu was so happy when he received the spirit stones. It was the first time he had so many spirit stones and he felt like he was suddenly rich.

The three of them took Yun Zuxuan's flying spiritual weapon awning boat to Yunzhou City, the main city of Yunzhou. After two hours of traveling, Yunzhou City was finally in sight.

Looking down at Yunzhou City at this time, it was full of traffic and very lively.

The Qingshan Sect's Immortal Ascension Conference held every 20 years is a God-given opportunity for many mortals to leap over the dragon's gate. If an immortal is born in the family, they will reach heaven in an instant.

In addition to the Qingshan Sect, the Qingshan Sect's subordinate factions such as the Blue Blood Sword Sect, Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, and the Spiritual Beast Sect will also come to Yunzhou and other places to recruit disciples every few years, but they will deliberately stay away from the Qingshan Sect.

Whenever the Immortal Ascension Conference is held, there are huge crowds of people inside and outside Yunzhou City.

The queue of people outside the city is like a long queue, only growing but not decreasing.

Yunzhou City is a city for cultivating immortals. At this time, there was also a flash of spiritual light in the sky. Most of them were casual cultivators, either alone or with one or several children to participate in this sect grand gathering.

Yun Zuxuan led the two of them to the door of a shop. The three words "Yunxiao Pavilion" were written on the plaque, and two auspicious clouds were engraved on the lower right corner of the sign.

The names and signboards of Yunwushan's shops in every Xiuxianfang City are exactly the same, which facilitates communication and is very easy to identify.

There was an old man standing at the door of the shop. When he saw a few people landing at the door of his shop, he took a closer look and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"Uncle 25, you are finally here!"

Here Yun Daichen also greeted the old man.

"Uncle Twelve, long time no see! Zhu'er, come and say hello to your Twelfth Uncle."

Yun Yongzhu quickly saluted: "I have met my twelfth uncle!"

The twelfth uncle, Yun Shilin, specializes in taking care of the shops in the main city.

Yun Yongzhu knew that there was such an elder, he was the father of his fourteenth uncle, but this was the first time he had seen this uncle.

The group of people entered the shop, walked through the lobby, and came to the spacious backyard, and then sat down on the stone benches one after another. The servant carefully served tea and left, and then Yun Shilin began to speak.

"Uncle 25, the Qingshan Sect's Immortal Ascension Conference has already started for one day and is expected to last for another five or six days.

This time, six foundation-building masters from the Qingshan Sect came to recruit new members. I have found out that the leader is indeed a member of the Nangong family, named Nangong Li. "

"Also, due to the Immortal Ascension Conference, the flow of people in Yunzhou City has increased dramatically recently. The other four major families have sent letters one after another, saying that the trade fair will be held as scheduled after the Immortal Ascension Conference as previously agreed."

"Yes, I understand. I have brought all the items for this trade fair. I will return to Yunwu Mountain after attending the trade fair. You first arrange two rooms for Xiao Wu and his son."

After talking to Yun Shilin, he turned to Yun Daichen and said: "I will visit Nangong Li later to confirm Xiao Jiu's status as an inner disciple of Qingshan Sect. On the last day of the Immortal Ascension Conference, I will send Xiao Jiu Take him there, and you can spend more time with him these days and stroll around Yunzhou City."

"Yes! Thank you uncle 25!"

Yun Daichen thanked his clan uncle.

"Thank you 25 great uncle!"

Yun Yongzhu also thanked the elders.

Then the father and son followed the store clerk to the guest room arranged by Yun Shilin.

The family's manpower is limited, and each store usually only has three or five clan members to manage it, and the assistants are hired locally.

Most of these hired helpers are casual cultivators, as well as children of small families, and they have all signed spiritual contracts.

Therefore, the family can arrange everything with peace of mind, without having to worry about them secretly paying for spiritual stones, or purchasing some low-value items at unreasonable prices, etc.

Many casual practitioners are only in the early stage of Qi training, and those in the middle and late stages of Qi training are relatively rare, and they are all older.

The guy who led them looked as old as Yun Daichen, but he was only at the third level of Qi training, which was a big level behind him.

This is mainly because they have no spiritual veins to cultivate, no spiritual land and spiritual fields, and no skills in cultivating immortals. They can only earn spiritual stones by doing some simple things.

For example, working as a handyman, working as a coolie, working as a long-term worker, working as a part-time worker, working as a guide, etc., you can earn meager spiritual stones for cultivation.

The spiritual stones they earned in this way were simply not enough to sustain their daily cultivation needs, and most of their cultivation levels came from a little bit of hard work.

Most monks hunt monsters and collect spiritual medicines to maintain their cultivation. There are also some monks who take risks and make a living by looting. Although this is more dangerous, they also gain more spiritual stone resources.

Although neither father nor son used up their spiritual energy, they were a little tired after sitting on the spirit boat for two hours, so they rested in the room for half an hour.

After resting, Yun Yongzhu couldn't sit still. This was the first time he was so far away from Yunwu Mountain and came to the prosperous main city of Yunzhou.

You know, there are a lot of monks in Yunzhou City. The more monks mean that the city is bigger, and the city has more and richer spiritual resources.

Yun Daichen had not been to Yunzhoufang City for many years, so he took his son out for a stroll.

After passing through the luxuriously decorated shops, the two came to a blue brick square, which is the Free Market.

At this time, the square was crowded with people, all the stalls were neatly arranged, and there was no empty stall.

This scene of people coming and going looks like a market in the secular world.

This stall is very simple, just a simple square stone platform. Each stone platform is engraved with a first-level low-grade protective array. It only takes one spirit stone to open it for a whole day. The stall fee is three to five spirit stones per month.

This means that in Yunzhou City, other cities and Xiaofang City do not have legal formations or charge stall fees. Just spread a piece of cloth on the open space beside the street, put things on it, and the business can be opened.Yun Yongzhu followed his father as he walked around slowly. The stalls had a variety of products, including blank talisman papers, various talisman seals, weapon refining materials, elixirs and plants, magic weapon fragments, spiritual insects and beasts, and so on.

There are many unrecognizable and unknown items inside, all kinds of strange things, which will test everyone's eyesight and chance.

Most of the people setting up stalls in this green brick square are casual cultivators, so it is also called the casual cultivator square.

The knowledge of casual cultivators is shallow. Sometimes they get treasures, but they are not discerning enough to recognize them. They often sell them at a "high price" without knowing that they have lost a big thing because of a small thing.

Because such things often come out, monks come to the Sanxiu Square every day to search for treasures.

The two of them walked outside a crowded stall. Yun Yongzhu squeezed in and saw that it was a stall selling spirit beast eggs.

I saw five spirit beast eggs of different sizes and colors placed on the stone platform. The stall owner was a talkative man. At this time, he was talking about how he went through all kinds of difficulties and dangers from the dangerous land of the Southern Wilderness. He brought out these spirit beast eggs.

Yun Yongzhu listened to his boastful talk and thought to himself that this man should not be a celestial being, but should be a storyteller in the mortal world.

Yun Yongzhu was not interested in hearing the stall owner's exaggeration. He looked at the five spirit beast eggs on the stall and carefully identified them.

Yun Yongzhu was only slightly taller than the stone platform. The smallest of the five spirit beast eggs was only as big as an adult's fist, and the largest was as big as an adult's head. He could see the whole thing clearly with his feet on it.

Yun Yongzhu carefully observed the five spirit beast eggs and could only identify four based on their size and texture.

They are Iron Feathered Bird, Gale Bird, Fire Crow, and Black Black Snake, but the smallest egg cannot be identified.

Not to mention the unrecognizable spirit beast eggs, if the other four are hatched and naturally cultivated for several years, they should be able to slowly grow to the first level.

If you want them to rise to the second or third level, you have to feed them a lot of monster meat or spiritual pills.

Although the monks watching were excited, they were short of money.

It’s not that everyone can’t afford it, but that most people can’t afford it.

Yun Yongzhu knows something about this. Take Lingyun Chicken as an example. This is a first-order low-grade spiritual beast. It needs to be fed about twenty kilograms of rice or grass every month, but it must be ensured that there are two kilograms of spiritual rice or spiritual grass in it. .

Two kilograms of first-level low-grade spiritual rice or spiritual grass is not much, but over a long period of time, it is a large expenditure.

This is just a first-level low-grade Lingyun chicken. It has no other functions and can only produce eggs and meat. It is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford to raise other spirit beasts.

The key is that except for the Black Black Snake, which has stronger attack power after being cultivated, the hatching of the other four spirit beast eggs will not have much effect.

So no matter how talkative the stall owner was, no one took action, and there were quite a lot of people watching the excitement.

Yun Yongzhu really wants to buy a spirit beast, but what he wants is a spirit beast with a sensitive sense of smell, or a spirit beast with a high growth potential. Only these spirit beasts can help him in the future.

By this time, the crowd had dispersed a little. Yun Daichen walked up to his son and asked, "Zhu'er, what's the matter? Do you want to raise a spiritual pet?"

"Yeah, but there's nothing I want here. By the way, dad, what kind of spirit beast egg is this?"

Yun Yongzhu asked, pointing to the smallest spirit beast egg.

"This one……"

Yun Daichen looked at it carefully and said, "It should be the Fire Skylark, but this spirit beast egg looks dim, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to hatch."

"Oh, let's go and take a look around."

After saying that, the two of them were leaving.

"Two fellow Taoists, wait! Wait!"

The stall owner stopped the two of them.

The father and son waited for him to speak in confusion.

"Two fellow Taoists, I'm selling you this spirit beast egg cheaply. It only costs five spirit stones! What do you think?"

"Five spirit stones?!"

Yun Yongzhu said in surprise.

He had seen the Fire Skylark in his family's classics. It was a first-class spiritual bird. This kind of spiritual bird was petite, but its flight speed was very fast, its beak was also very sharp, and its attack power was not low.

Even if he didn't understand the market, he knew that Fire Skylark's eggs couldn't be sold for only five spirit stones.

Although I don’t know where he got it from, he would be a bastard if he didn’t take advantage of it!
Yun Yongzhu pulled his father over and quietly asked using the "Sound Transmission Technique": "Dad, are you sure that is the Fire Skylark spirit beast egg?"

"This... let me take a closer look... it's the Fire Skylark!"

After hearing this, Yun Yongzhu had an idea in his mind.

"Boss, this isn't the egg of Lingyun Chicken, is it? Look at this egg, it's almost lifeless and probably won't hatch. You're asking for five spirit stones, why don't you go and grab it?"

"Little friend, don't talk nonsense. How can this be the egg of Lingyun Chicken? The egg of Lingyun Chicken is larger than this, and you can see that the lines on the egg are different."

"Fellow Taoist, what kind of egg is this? My father and I couldn't identify it after looking at it for a long time."

"This is...this is...this is a cloud-winged bird!"

The stall owner hesitated and said a name. Although Yun Yongzhu didn't know what the eggs laid by the cloud-winged bird looked like, he didn't need to think about it to guess that he was talking nonsense.

It seems that this person really can't recognize that this is the Fire Skylark spirit beast egg, which is really strange.

"Would you sell a spiritual stone? I'm just curious. Others won't spend a spiritual stone to satisfy their curiosity."

One spirit stone can buy five kilograms of first-grade low-grade spirit rice or five Lingyun chicken eggs.

The stall owner said with an ugly face: "Fellow Taoist, one spiritual stone is too little. I brought this back from the Southern Wilderness..."

Yun Yongzhu waved his hand: "Fellow Taoist, please don't frame me because of my young age. Southern Wilderness is hundreds of thousands of miles away from Yunzhou, and there are many monsters there. Even Foundation Establishment Masters have to be careful to survive. If fellow Taoists really had such great powers, they wouldn’t set up a street stall here.”

The stall owner smiled.

"Fellow Taoist, if you want to sell it, hurry up. If not, we will leave."

Yun Yongzhu pulled his father to leave.

The stall owner quickly stopped him.

"Sell! Sell!"

So Yun Yongzhu spent one spirit stone to buy the spirit beast egg.

After walking far away, Yun Yongzhu said to his father: "Dad, let's go to Wanbao Pavilion tomorrow to sell it."

"Don't you cultivate it yourself?"

"This spirit beast egg is so weak, I'm afraid it won't be easy to raise. It may cost a lot of spirit stones and time, and the Fire Skylark won't be of much use once it's raised. It's better to sell it and earn some spirit stones."

"That's good too."

The day passed like that.

(End of this chapter)