The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 318 Family Changes (Please subscribe!)
  Xu Zhiyu stretched out hard as he walked out of the room. Maybe it was because he hadn't been out of the house for a long time. The sunlight outside was particularly dazzling at this time.

‘Bah! ', a clear chirping sound sounded, and he looked towards the source of the sound, and found two spiritual birds standing on a horizontal branch of the giant pine in front of the yard.

Looking from the bottom up, we can see that the feet are green, the feathers on the trunk are white, and the feathers on the wings and tail are black, the neck is slender, the eyes and the cheeks on the head are red, and the beak is two feet long, about two feet long. About two feet high, they are a pair of red-crowned immortal cranes.

"Haha, interesting, really interesting, my place is getting more and more lively!"

He laughed and said, and this laughter also startled the crane that was rubbing its ears and temples on the giant pine. The obviously male crane glared at him, then whispered a few words in the female crane's ear, and then they both flew away. Only his beautiful and unrestrained figure was left, and gradually even the figure disappeared.

After laughing, he thought deeply:

"This red-crowned fairy crane usually lives in swamps and lakes, inhabiting tidal flats and reeds. It's noon now, and it should be the time to look for food. Why is it resting on a tree? It's really strange!"

Maybe his laughter was a bit exaggerated just now, which attracted the two spiritual beasts that had been living in the bamboo forest behind the house, and they suddenly appeared in front of him.

After not seeing each other for many days, Xiaojin and Huahua's appearance has not changed much, except that their figures have become more majestic, especially Huahua's belly, which is more rounded. If their limbs were not relatively slender, they might really have to mop the floor when they run.

"Master, you are out of seclusion! Congratulations, master, for making a further step in your cultivation!"

The smart Xiaojin said auspicious words, which made people feel comfortable, while Huahua kept grinning with a big mouth. She smiled and took out something from the storage bag Xu Zhiyu gave him and held it out to him as if to please. Got him.

He subconsciously took it, took a look at it, and immediately became furious. The reason was simply that it was an egg laid by a red-crowned fairy crane. It was one foot long and half a foot in circumference. It was gray in color and had densely covered eggshells. Irregular brown spots, the closer to the tip, the lighter the color and the spots become rarer.

Only then did he realize why the red-crowned fairy crane, which should live in lakes and swamps, fell on the tree. It must have been disturbed by these two bastards and was unable to live by the lake. Not only that, they must have He stole the eggs while the male and female red-crowned fairy cranes were not at home, but based on his understanding of the virtues of his two spiritual beasts, it was not impossible to rob them.

Sure enough, Xiao Jin's next words confirmed his guess, and he only heard it say triumphantly:

"Master, you don't know that these two flat-haired birds were sent here by the clan leader last year. Since they arrived, they have howled every day before dawn, and sometimes they rob us of spiritual fish and shrimps. We couldn't get angry, so we took advantage of the male crane's absence and quietly went to the door, hoping to steal their eggs secretly.

Unexpectedly, when I just succeeded, I was discovered by the female crane. Her loud cry soon attracted the male crane. We fought together. Although they can fly, we have reached the second level of cultivation after all. It's not something that two first-level, high-quality miscellaneous feathered birds can handle, but we succeeded in the end.

By the way, Master, Huahua also said to me, these bird eggs are more delicious when roasted. I think they are good when cooked. Now that Master is here, let’s come up with an idea, how can we eat this egg better? "

Hearing this, Xu Zhiyu could no longer suppress his anger. He took out the long whip weapon, swung it in his hand and shouted at the same time:

"You two bastards, I want to roast and cook you two. If you have the ability to go to the Hengduan Mountains to find those monsters and fry them, I will also praise you for your ability. ability."

"But the egg you stole now was laid by the family spirit beast. How can you have the nerve to do something about it? I will give you a quarter of an hour to send this egg back immediately. If there is any After half a moment of delay, I will let you feel the power of this magic weapon whip, go quickly!"

"Bah, bang, bang!" He swung the long whip in his hand repeatedly and exploded beside the two spirit beasts, scaring them so much that they turned around and ran out of the yard, straight to the red-crested fairy crane's nest by the lake.

Worried that the two spirit beasts would abandon the eggs casually, he flew into the air with his sword. He was relieved when he saw that they had indeed carried the eggs into the reeds by the lake. At this time, they were flying higher than him. The two red-crowned fairy cranes also discovered the anomaly in their nest and kept hovering, refusing to leave. After the two hateful 'invaders' left, the male crane slowly flew down to check the situation. When the crane eggs were found After being found, it chirped happily and called its mates to come and see it.

After scolding the two spirit beasts, he returned to the room to tidy up, put them both in the storage ring, and left the island with the flying sword.

Originally, he planned to activate the formation and leave directly, but when he came to the edge of the Spiritual Lake, which was the exit of the formation, he found that many tribesmen had come to the lake and were busy there. He knew the leader. This made him interested and he pressed the flying sword.

As soon as he got close, some tribesmen discovered him. They were basically members of the Zhi generation who were younger than him, and some members of the 'Successor' generation.

"Hello, Brother Nineteen!"

"Hello Uncle Nineteen!"

There were some who knew him and some who didn't, and those who didn't knew him would greet him in the same way under the guidance of those who knew him.

He smiled and nodded at the clan members one by one. After passing through the crowd, he came to the only foundation-building monk here.

"Congratulations to Brother Nineteen for your great improvement in cultivation!"

"Zhikai, you're not bad. We haven't seen each other for a few years, and you've reached the fourth level of foundation building. It seems that you've been practicing very diligently over the years, and you haven't wasted any time!"

The two complimented each other, and then Xu Zhiyu asked him why he led his tribe here. The two chatted while walking along the lake.

"Brother Nineteen, it's like this. In fact, I just came out of seclusion not long ago. When I went to the meeting hall to find the clan leader, I was temporarily assigned to lead these young clansmen to salvage aquatic products in this spiritual lake."

Hearing this, Xu Zhiyu interrupted him and asked:
  "Zhikai, do you know when these aquatic products were farmed here? You didn't go to explore Guxiudongfu last time, so you don't know. The spirit fish, shrimps and crabs in this Linghu Lake are exactly the same as those in the Guxiudongfu River. , I don’t know when it was transferred here.”

Xu Zhikai smiled awkwardly when he heard this, scratched his head and said:

"Brother Nineteen, I don't know this either. I was in a hurry when I took the mission. I didn't have time to ask about this, so I just led the clan here!"

"That's right! That's all right, I won't disturb you anymore. I'll take my leave now!"

Just when he was about to say goodbye and leave, a tribesman of the same generation came over and reported that the aquatic products had been salvaged. He invited two brothers to come over and take a look. He couldn't refuse, so he immediately followed him, mainly because he also wanted to take a look. Look, how many spiritual fish, shrimps and crabs can a Spirit Lake with such a large area and such a high level produce?

There are more than a dozen large circular bathtub-like magical objects on the shore, about two feet high, with various aquatic products jumping lively inside.

After they stood still, a clan member of the Zhizi generation who was in the late stage of Qi training first stood in front of them and saluted, then took out a book and read aloud.

"A total of two thousand catties of Lingjiang crucian carp were salvaged this time, with a market price of 100 spiritual stones per catty and a value of 200,000 low-grade spiritual stones." "A total of three thousand catties of sapphire prawns were salvaged this time, with a market price of 15 spiritual stones per catty and a value of low-grade spiritual stones." Forty-five thousand stones.”

"A total of two thousand catties of six-clawed hermit crabs were salvaged. The market price is ten spiritual stones per catty, and the value of low-grade spiritual stones is twenty thousand spiritual stones. Three thousand catties of red mitten crabs were salvaged, and the market price is twelve spiritual stones per catty, and the value of low-grade spiritual stones is thirty-six thousand. Thousand dollars.”

"This is the fishing account of Linghu Lake. Please check it with Brother Thirty-Six."

Xu Zhiyu now remembered who this clan member was. His family ranked seventy-two, and his name seemed to be Xu Zhiqing. After he finished speaking, he handed the account book to Xu Zhikai and asked him to check it.

Xu Zhikai was serious about his work, so he took the account book and began to check the quantity of aquatic products in the vat one by one. He called Xu Zhiqing to come closer and asked questions.

"Zhiqing, let me ask you, when were the spiritual fish in this lake put in? And how often is the fishing time? Is it fished every year?"

When Xu Zhiqing faced him, he seemed rather reserved. Firstly, the two of them were not familiar with each other, and secondly, there was a huge gap in cultivation between the two. Although he did not deliberately release the pressure of the late foundation building stage, when facing him, Xu Zhiqing obviously did not It's easy to be with Xu Zhikai.

"Brother Nineteen, the spiritual fish in the lake are caught once every three years. As for when the spiritual fish in the lake were put in, I really don't know."

He nodded, indicating that he understood, and at the same time thought in his mind:

"According to the Zhiqing report, the total value of the aquatic products caught this time is 31,000 spirit stones. If we catch it once every three years, the average annual value is about 100,000 spirit stones."

"Compared to Linghu, which is built on the third-level high-grade spiritual energy node, the annual output value of 100,000 spiritual stones is a bit small, but fortunately, this is a long-term family industry, and the long-term profits are pretty good. "

Xu Zhikai, who had returned from checking the accounts, interrupted his thoughts and reminded him that it was time to leave, so he and his clan members walked out of the Spirit Lake protective formation.

"Zhikai, where are you going to send this captured aquatic product?" He asked when he came to the front mountain.

"Brother Nineteen, we have to send it to the Contribution Hall. After settling the contribution points, we have to personally deliver these aquatic products to Fangshi and hand them over to the tribesmen there for special sale."

"Okay, I have to go to the meeting hall, let's say goodbye!"

"Brother Nineteen, walk slowly!"

Walking into the Family Affairs Hall, I found it empty. He wanted to wait first, but a jade slip placed on his grandfather's desk caught his eye. He knew that it was a jade slip that recorded family events. He happened to be interested in the changes in the family over the years. In addition, There was nothing to do at this moment, so he picked up the jade slip and looked into it with his spiritual consciousness.

In fact, this is Xu Zhiyu. If anyone else comes, he will never be able to check the contents of the jade slip, because this jade slip is specially made. Only the ancestor Xu Deming and the patriarch Xu Shengsheng of the Xu family can check it at will. Others cannot. It's possible. If you forcefully use your spiritual consciousness to penetrate, the sea of ​​consciousness will be damaged at the least, and the jade slip will be destroyed at the worst. No information will be leaked out.

From the jade slips, he learned that during his first year of seclusion, family monks Xu Zhizhi and Xu Zhisheng succeeded in breaking through and building foundations in seclusion. Interestingly, they had a perfect understanding and came out of seclusion on the same day.

Then at the end of the year, the family raised silkworms to worship Sun Qijin, who also succeeded in establishing the foundation. This became the only foundation-building monk in the history of the Xu family who did not marry into a family with a foreign surname.

In his third year of seclusion, two more families came to retreat to break through the foundation building. One succeeded, and the other failed. The failed one may have been unwilling to do so, and without the assistance of the foundation building pill, he forced a breakthrough again, and finally When the body dies, the Tao disappears.

In the fourth year of his seclusion, the family held another spiritual testing conference. This time the results were even more gratifying. There were a total of seventy-three clan members who were found to have spiritual roots. Among them, the most qualified one was a man with both water and soil spiritual roots. tribesmen.

The reason why so many tribesmen with spiritual roots can be measured has a lot to do with the family moving mortals to live in Clan Mountain. The living conditions here are better, and there are family monks to help spread clouds and rain. The weather is good every year. This resulted in a huge increase in the family's mortal population, which more than doubled in more than twenty years. Now the number of mortals in the Xu family has reached three million.

As more children are born, the number of children whose spiritual roots are tested also increases accordingly. In addition to the increase in the number of clansmen born from mortals, there are also many clansmen descended from monks. This is all related to the fact that the family has greatly increased the family salary.

Also in this year, the family salary was increased, as follows:

In the early stage of Qi training, a monk's monthly salary is ten spiritual stones, which is one hundred and twenty spiritual stones a year; in the middle stage of Qi training, the monthly salary is thirty spiritual stones, and in the latter stage, the monthly salary is 360 spiritual stones; One hundred spiritual stones per month, 1,200 spiritual stones per year; Qi-perfecting monks receive 200 spiritual stones per month, 2,400 spiritual stones per year. "

"In the early stage of the foundation building period, there are five hundred spiritual stones per month and six thousand spiritual stones per year; in the middle stage of the foundation building period, there are one thousand spiritual stones per month and twelve thousand spiritual stones per year; in the later stage of the foundation building period, there are two thousand spiritual stones per month. Twenty-four thousand spiritual stones per year.”

"Zifu period's cultivation salary is calculated directly on an annual basis, and is distributed with medium-grade spiritual stones. The early-stage monks in the Zifu receive 800 mid-grade spiritual stones per year, the middle-term monks in the Zifu receive 1,600 yuan per year, and the later-stage monks receive 3,200 yuan per year. piece."

This salary was ten times more than when he first traveled across time. Those clansmen who had poor spiritual roots and had no hope of building a foundation placed their hopes on the next generation, so they worked hard to have children.

In the sixth year after his retreat, the total number of monks in the family exceeded 500. The ancestor took the clan leader and all the clan members to the family ancestral hall to worship the ancestors.

In the same year, Xu Zhichang, Xu Zhisheng, and Xu Zhizhi, who were stationed at Guxiu Cave Mansion, jointly submitted a memorial, believing that the small river in Guxiu Cave Mansion flowed too fast, which resulted in weak aura content in the river water, and the spirit fish raised were frightening to crabs. The growth rate is too slow, so it is recommended to catch part of Lingjiang crucian carp and other aquatic products and bring them back to the family for cultivation.

After discussing with the clan leader and others, the ancestor did not agree rashly, but conducted many experiments in the spirit lake and found that these spirit fish, shrimps and crabs did not conflict with the third-level high-grade spirit fish and shrimps that originally lived in the spirit lake. Only then did he agree to their request and bring the Lingjiang crucian carp and other aquatic products back to the family spirit lake for breeding.

This also explains why Huahua and Xiaojin were able to eat so many spiritual fish and shrimps. This year is his ninth year of seclusion, three years since he released the fish fry and others into the Spirit Lake. This also explains why he met Xu Zhikai leading his tribe to catch spirit fish today.

In the seventh year of his retreat, two meteors suddenly collided in the sky, causing a big explosion. Now, you can still see the meteor shower in your hometown every three days, which is very clear. Originally, he thought that this incident was nothing worth recording, but after thinking about it, a brilliant idea suddenly came to his mind, but this is a story for later, so let’s not mention it for now.

After that, there were no major events worth recording in the family, but this year, two events were recorded, which did not happen in the Xu family but were closely related to the Xu family.

The first is that Shopkeeper Xi of Taiyang Tower successfully broke through to the Golden Elixir stage and became the revered Jindan Master. The second is that there was also a monk from Baiyi Sect who had been trapped in the Purple Mansion for many years and also broke through before the end of his life. At the Golden Core stage, the Baiyi Sect's strength has recovered, and I don't know if it is good or bad for the Xu family!

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