Please show your spirit to our ancestors

Chapter 155: Transformation! Chen is different now
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Although Chen Jingsi had never seen this colorful treasure with his own eyes, he had heard of this famous treasure.

According to legend, the mature [Seven-Colored Treasure Zhi] reaches the seventh grade!
It can be used as the main ingredient in refining the seventh-grade precious elixir. It is not only extremely rare, but also extremely valuable.

The seventh-grade precious elixir is, under normal circumstances, an elixir that can only be used in the Nascent Soul stage, and each one is priced sky-high.

But there are a few exceptions.

For example, there is a pill that can assist a cultivator at the peak of the foundation-building stage to reach the golden elixir stage. It is called the [Transcendent Pill], and it is also a seventh-grade pill.

When the sect's golden elixir seed is about to reach the golden elixir stage, it will receive support from the sect's resources, one of which is a [Transcendent Pill].

Of course, these supports are not completely free. They must be exchanged with sect merits and contribution points. If they are not enough, you have to owe them and then slowly pay them back after successfully reaching the Golden Core stage.

Chen Jingsi didn't know how to make elixirs, and he didn't know whether this colorful treasure ganoderma could be used as the main ingredient for the Transcendent Pill, but he knew that this thing was extremely valuable.

A huge joy filled his chest, and Chen Jingsi's eyes turned red with excitement.

If he could collect this thing, he wouldn't have to worry about contributing to the family for the rest of his life!
The only pity is that the colorful Baozhi is not yet mature and has not completed the qualitative transformation. If it is picked in a hurry, its value will inevitably be greatly reduced.

But there is an old saying that goes, a bird in the hand is worth a thousand in the bush. He decided to take advantage of the absence of the sea dragon, drain the pond and catch all the fish, picked the unripe seven-colored treasure ganoderma and ran away.

He flashed his body, used the water escape technique and swam forward along the trench.

Unexpectedly.

Chen Jingsi had just swum a short distance.

Suddenly, there was a dull roar overhead, as if something heavy had rushed into the sea.

He subconsciously looked up and saw a huge black shadow vaguely diving rapidly on the sea.

not good!

The sea dragon is back!

Chen Jingsi's heart skipped a beat and he no longer cared about the colorful treasure mushroom. He twisted his body and ran away with skillful water escape technique.

In the blink of an eye, he had slipped into the crevice between the rocks and was quickly running back along the crevice.

At the same time he was running away, the huge black shadow above his head was also diving rapidly, and soon dived back into the reefs and settled next to the colorful treasure grass at the edge of the trench.

Seeing this, Chen Jingsi's heart was pounding with nervousness. He quickly tried to control his breath as much as possible, slowed down his pace, and carefully climbed out along the bottom of the reefs.

At this moment, his mind was blank, but his body seemed to instinctively use all the hiding methods he had learned before, disguising himself as the coral fish and coral shrimp that can be found everywhere in the reefs.

It was unknown how long it took, but he finally climbed out of the reefs little by little and came to the gravel seabed.

He saw a giant clam shell about the size of a tabletop stuck in the gravel.

Carefully prying open a little gap in the giant clam shell, I found that most of it was sand and gravel. It was obvious that this giant clam had been dead for many years.

He continued to hold his breath, squeezed into the giant clam little by little, disguised himself as a giant clam, and continued to move slowly forward along the gravel seabed.

Every time he moved forward a little, he would stop to observe the situation and make sure that the sea dragon had not noticed him before continuing forward.

After moving a long distance, he began to speed up gradually.

After being ten miles away from the reef, he became more and more flexible and started to run frantically against the giant clam. From a distance, it looked like a mutant giant clam running along the seabed.

at this time.

On the sea, on the rocky island.

After some emergency repairs, Wuyun-1 has regained its ability to sail.

Chen Daoling commanded his tribesmen to start up Wuyun No. 1 and keep it in a state ready to take off at any time, and then turned his attention back to the sea.

He frowned slightly, his eyes full of worry.

Before, he saw that the sea dragon was seriously injured. It flew over their heads and finally crashed into the sea where it had originally ambushed the spirit boat.

Fortunately, during this process, Hai Jiao didn't know whether his mind was not on the forced landing of Wuyun No. 1, or he was too seriously injured and was busy going back to recuperate, so he didn't even glance at them.

But unfortunately.

His nephew Chen Jingsi is still exploring the seabed and his current situation is unclear.

I just hope he doesn't get hit by a sea dragon.

Just when Chen Daoling was worried.

Suddenly.

With a "splash", a giant clam jumped out of the water. It had two legs underneath and it nimbly ran along the rocks, heading straight towards the spirit boat.

Chen Daoling’s eyes widened.

Everyone on the spirit boat who was waiting anxiously was also stunned.

After living on the sea for a long time, you will inevitably hear all kinds of magical legends related to the sea.

The "Legend of the Clam Girl" is undoubtedly one of the most talked-about stories. The crew heard that the clam girl was juicy and would lure young and strong sailors into the sea to do unspeakable things.

But afterwards, few sailors could come back alive, because the clam women would use the clam shells to seal the men inside at the last moment and devour them bit by bit.

Those sailors eventually became food for the clam girls.

Such an exciting and dangerous story naturally made many sailors both excited and afraid.

But most people have only heard of clam girls, but have never heard of "giant clam girls" in the world!
Moreover, this giant clam woman even ran out of the sea, running barefoot with her two thick and strong thighs. She did not have any of the temptation that the legendary clam woman should have.

The crew of Wuyun-1 was scared.

Two of the crossbows had changed direction and were aiming at the strange giant clam woman.

"Don't fire, it's me, Chen Jingsi!"

Chen Jingsi's muffled cries were heard from inside the giant clam.

Afterwards, the giant clam jumped onto the spirit boat in full view of everyone, rolled on the deck, and its shell opened to both sides, revealing Chen Jingsi, who was wet and looked extremely embarrassed.

"Jingsi, are you okay?"

Chen Daoling was also stunned by this scene.

"Uncle, I'm fine. Run first." Chen Jingsi got up without even catching his breath, and urged, "Leave this dangerous place first."

Chen Daoling also reacted and hurriedly commanded Wuyun-1 to take off.

With the hull shaking slightly, Wuyun No. 1 rushed into the sky and flew straight away into the distance.

During this process, Chen Jingsi lay on the side of the boat and stared at the sea nervously.

Seeing that the sea was still calm and the sea dragon did not rush out to chase anyone, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Deputy Captain, are you okay?" Some crew members gathered around curiously.

A crew member curiously turned over the giant clam shell and frowned and asked, "Where is the giant clam girl? Why can't we see her? Could she have been killed by the deputy captain?"

They obviously suspected that the deputy captain Chen Jingsi was seduced by the giant clam girl and something unspeakable happened, but the deputy captain was very cunning. After having the pleasure, he killed the giant clam girl first, and then rushed back to Wuyun No. 1 with the giant clam girl's belongings.

Tsk tsk, the first officer is so mean.

Even Chen Jingsi's son Chen Xinhong looked at his father with suspicion.

"Get out of here! What kind of nonsense are you thinking about all day? Go away! Go and do your own thing. Don't stand here and get in the way."

Chen Jingsi glared at everyone and kicked away his son, who had a weird look in his eyes. He then went straight into the cockpit, picked up a pot of water and gulped it down.

After drinking the tea, his nervous and anxious mood calmed down a little.

He looked around and first drove out the crew who were temporarily driving the Wuyun No. 1. Then he closed the door and began to communicate with Chen Daoling, telling him everything he had just experienced.

The more Chen Daoling listened, the more interesting his expression became, and in the end he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

The seven-colored treasure ganoderma! The sea dragon was guarding the seven-colored treasure ganoderma. No wonder it caused a desperate fight between the sea dragon and the green-feathered demon roc.

His knowledge was much better than Chen Jingsi's. He knew that the seven-colored treasure ganoderma could be used to refine the seventh-grade treasure pill - [Transcendent Pill]. His father Chen Ningtai was also about to reach the late stage of foundation building. In the future, he would definitely need the help of Transcendent Pill to make his way to the golden elixir.

The value of this thing is immeasurable, even Nascent Soul cultivators would attach great importance to it if they knew about it.

However, after the excitement, Chen Daoling quickly calmed down and forcibly suppressed the greed and impulse in his heart.

With their current strength, they could not snatch the seven-colored treasure, even though the sea dragon was seriously injured.

What's more, even if it was snatched away, it would be an immature seven-colored treasure ganoderma, which would be a waste of resources.

"Let's mark this sea area on the nautical chart first." Chen Daoling made a decision, "Let's go back to the main house and report this to father, and let him make the decision."

Through the porthole, Chen Daoling stared at the sea from afar. His eyes seemed to penetrate the water and see the glittering rare treasure on the seabed.

I will definitely come back, Qicai Baozhi, please wait for me.

As his thoughts raced, Wuyun No. 1 sped along tremblingly.

Although the core of its driving array has been repaired, the hull was damaged in many places during the previous fight with the sea dragon, and many systems have problems. It is not something that can be fixed in a short time, so it needs to be overhauled after returning. ＊＊＊＊
After some time.

The main residence of the Chen family is Qingyu Cliff.

Moxiang Pavilion.

Since his father was not around, the study naturally belonged to Chen Ningtai. After all, this Moxiang Pavilion had been decorated in many ways to conceal the atmosphere and isolate it from prying eyes, and it would be a waste to leave it unused all the time.

Although his father repeatedly claimed that this was his study, Chen Ningtai still used it calmly.

Aren’t dad’s things his, Chen Ningtai’s? Why should he divide them so clearly?

at this time.

Chen Ningtai was preparing the year-end report, and Chen Jingyun was assisting him, responsible for recording and summarizing.

Outside the Moxiang Pavilion, the heads of many of the family's businesses were drinking tea and chatting in low voices, waiting to go in one by one to report on their annual work.

Chen Ningtai does this work every year, and it is always completed before the family sacrifice.

Although his old father repeatedly expressed that he did not like to hear these data, Chen Ningtai had no choice but to summarize them.

On the one hand, he had to be aware of this himself, and on the other hand, he also had to take the opportunity to instill some concepts into his old father, lest his old father suddenly come back and ask about the situation at home and blame him for not telling him in advance.

It's not like similar things haven't happened before.

His father lived a leisurely life. A year would pass easily when he closed his eyes and opened them again. Unless something was particularly serious, he would never be blamed. But Chen Ningtai had to live his life one day at a time and had to take care of all the big and small matters at home.

at this time.

A tribesman had just finished his report, and Chen Jingyun also recorded and organized all the data truthfully.

The tribe member breathed a sigh of relief and left quickly with the information.

Then, a young man with a handsome appearance, gentle temperament, and dressed like Chen Jingyun knocked on the door and entered.

"Xinsong~" Chen Jingyun smiled at him, "Come and sit down and talk."

At this time, Chen Xinsong was actually 35 years old, and his cultivation had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining Stage.

The years have not left too many traces on him, but have added a bit of maturity, stability and calmness to his temperament.

Chen Xinsong smiled and bowed to Chen Ningtai and Chen Jingyun, his attitude familiar and respectful: "Xinsong greets great grandfather and fifth uncle."

After completing the ceremony, he placed a stack of information that had been prepared long ago on the desk. He then sat down with an upright posture and began to report on the situation of the family's spiritual fields in various places.

Because the Chen family has a lot of assets, in addition to Dingfeng Farm, which has the largest number of spiritual fields, and the Chen family's main residence, there are also many other farms of all sizes that own spiritual fields. These are currently under the unified jurisdiction of Chen Xinsong.

After a brief report, he concluded: "In short, the spiritual fields of the family farms are growing well this year, and the output is expected to exceed last year by about 10%."

Chen Ningtai nodded in satisfaction, "Well done. However, these spiritual grains are about to enter the grain filling period, you can't let your guard down, you have to send more people to look after the spiritual fields to prevent locusts, spiritual rats, and various insect pests from harming the spiritual fields. This is related to the foundation of the family, so you can't be careless."

"Yes, great grandfather." Chen Xinsong accepted the order.

After a slight hesitation, he continued, "Grandfather, since we abandoned the Cui's grain and adopted the ordinary white jade spiritual grain, although the output has increased a little every year, it is still much worse than the output and efficiency of using Cui's grain directly, not to mention the Yuwen No. 9 that has recently flowed into our Hedong County and competed with Cui's grain."

During the heyday of the Cui family, almost half of the immortal cultivation families in Hedong County purchased high-quality [Cui family grain seeds] directly from the Cui family for planting.

Firstly, Cui's Linggu grain varieties do have advantages in terms of yield, disease resistance, and lodging resistance, and can greatly increase per-acre yield.

Secondly, the Cui family was the overlord of Hedong, and using their grain was more or less like paying protection fees.

As the Cui family fell and their prestige declined, many families began to gradually abandon the Cui family's grain seeds and began to try to grow [universal grain seeds]. The advantage is that they no longer have to spend extra money to buy grain seeds. The disadvantage is that universal grain seeds are far less useful than Cui family's grain seeds, and the annual output is greatly reduced.

Taking this overall calculation into account, most families actually earned much less.

At this time, the grain variety [Yuwen No. 9] of the Yuwen family in Hebei took advantage of the opportunity to enter the immortal cultivation world of Hedong County, and quickly seized the market with lower prices and better quality.

Many small families with average strength began to plant [Yuwen No. 9], while [Cui's Grain Seeds] was defeated and had lost 70% of its position.

However, the Chen family of Cangyi still insisted on planting common grain varieties. On the one hand, the Chen family had a strong enough foundation and could easily withstand a reduction in production. On the other hand, the Chen family was always on the road to rise, so how could they be constrained by some Jindan families in terms of grain varieties?

"Xin Song, this is the future strategic direction of the family." Chen Ningtai's expression became slightly serious. "You know, sooner or later our family will have to compete with those Jindan families. Once our grain is controlled by others, how can we have the confidence to speak?"

"Besides, our Chen family's influence in Hedong County and Donghai County is gradually increasing. In the future, we will also need a high-quality variety of our own to promote. In fact, this is also a form of indirect taxation!"

It is an unspoken rule that the upper-level families use grain seeds to gain profits within their sphere of influence and collect taxes indirectly. After all, in a sense, local overlords also bear the responsibility of protecting the local area.

If you just want to eat this piece of meat, you can't eat it in a too ugly way. You have to have some superior grain to make it justifiable.

Now this piece of meat has been lost by Cui.

Naturally, Chen did not want to be eaten by Yuwen family of Hebei County.

Chen Xinsong's expression also became serious when he heard this, and he nodded immediately and said, "Don't worry, great grandfather, these children understand."

But then he smiled bitterly again: "It's just that over the years, I have thought of many methods, but breeding has not been very effective, especially the hybridization technology that you, great grandfather, taught me. I am even more confused."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Chen Ningtai was not frustrated. Instead, he comforted him, "It is not something that can be cultivated overnight to cultivate an excellent grain variety with excellent performance in all aspects. Didn't those Jindan families rely on hundreds of years of accumulation to figure out their own breeding methods?"

Hearing this, Chen Jingyun on the side seemed to be thinking: "I have talked about breeding with Xinsong before. If you want to cultivate truly high-quality grain varieties, you must first screen a large number of plants. However, the time from the end of Linggu filling to the harvest is too short. The window period for picking out high-quality plants is too short. It's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Yes, I selected some good plants through my own observations, but after culturing and accelerating the growth, I found that they were just average and could only slightly increase the overall yield."

Chen Xinsong said helplessly.

"I have also consulted Senior Brother Zhiqiang, and he also said that truly excellent grain varieties are often discovered by chance, with a probability of only 1 in 10 million, or even 1 in 100 million! Only by persistently selecting and trying year after year can we find grain varieties that have mutated in a favorable direction. Many times, this is purely a matter of luck!"

"Since we are just trying our luck, why not try the effect of the Purple Jade Plate? Perhaps, we will have a different experience." Chen Jingyun suggested.

Chen Ningtai nodded slightly. "Xinsong has been involved in many ways of planting over the years, and has accumulated a lot of knowledge. It shouldn't be a waste to use the purple jade token. How about this, this year, when the grain filling period has just begun, I will give you three purple jade tokens and one gold seal jade token to cultivate grain seeds."

"Is this... really possible?" Chen Xinsong looked doubtful.

He had also heard of family legends, which said that these purple jade tablets and gold-seal jade tablets were all jade tablets blessed by the family's ancestors. Once crushed, they would be protected by the ancestors' spirits in heaven, and good fortune would come to pass, and their wishes would be fulfilled.

There are even many young couples in the family who work hard to accumulate merits and contributions in order to exchange them for jade tokens to have children.

It's no wonder that this jade pendant is so accurate in predicting the birth of a child. The probability of the child having the five spiritual roots is greatly increased.

You know, in the past, when a couple with five spiritual roots in a family gave birth to children, the probability of their children not having spiritual root qualifications was very high. They often had to give birth to several children before one or two had the qualifications to cultivate immortality.

This also leads to the fact that cultivators often have many children, so as to ensure that there are a large number of cultivators among their children.

But the appearance of the Purple Jade Plate changed the situation.

For this reason, the tribesmen gradually began to get used to eugenics. They either didn't have children at all, or if they did, they would try to use the purple jade token.

But the outside world said that this was all the Cangyi Chen family's trickery and deliberate concealment.

The reason why the Chen family had a good chance of having children with spiritual roots was purely because the founder, Chen Xuanmo, was a descendant of a top overseas family. The reason why they were so-so in the beginning was mainly because the Chen family had not yet established a firm foothold and could only marry some cultivators selected from mortals, or daughters from declining small families.

After taking root here for two or three generations, the Chen family began to intermarry with local high-quality families, and even with the Jindan family. The high-quality blood hidden in the body of the founding ancestor Chen Xuanmo was revealed, and the children born to his descendants were very likely to have spiritual roots.

Everyone also speculated which overseas country Chen Xuanmo was from.

Some people say that Chen Xuanmo’s bloodline comes from the Yuanying family, while others swear that Chen’s bloodline comes from a more powerful imperial family in the Tianyuan Continent, and is the legendary bloodline of the Heavenly Family!
As for where the rumor came from, some people said that it was spread from Wanhua Palace, and that it was personally identified by the Palace Master of Wanhua Palace, Hong Fu Zhenren.

Others say that this statement originated from the Yunyang Sect. At the beginning, Master Ziyin personally brought back the young prince Chen Xuanmo of the royal family, and let him change his name and become a disciple of Master Chiyang, thus avoiding the struggle for imperial power!
In short, there are all kinds of rumors.

These after-dinner topics not only made people talk about them with great relish, but also made the Chen family members suddenly very popular in the marriage market.

Young women are proud to marry into the Chen family. After all, who doesn't want their children to have five spiritual roots, or even four spiritual roots?

Some families in the surrounding Hedong County and Donghai County were also proud to marry women from the Chen family.

In order to marry the daughter of the Chen family, they really put a lot of thought into it, including luxurious betrothal gifts, using their own abilities to seduce girls, and so on. They used all kinds of means.

However, as a result, the Chen family became more cautious in selecting in-laws and family allies.

Chen would never marry off her daughter just for luxurious betrothal gifts or property as gifts, but she would definitely strictly examine the families of prospective in-laws. Any family with a bad record or a bad reputation would be excluded, and she would also be very strict in evaluating future sons-in-law.

That is why any family that can marry a girl from the Chen clan would feel that it is a great honor.

Oddly enough, after marrying into their husband's family, the girls of the Chen clan often had good fertility performance, which further confirmed the rumor about the Chen clan's superior bloodline, and the status of the girls of the Chen clan in their husband's family became more and more honorable.

There are even a few newly married Chen clan girls who insist on returning to their parents' home to worship their ancestors during ancestral worship.

There are also some girls from the Chen clan who said that they were blessed by their ancestors, but once they got married they forgot about their ancestors. Isn’t that ungrateful and disrespectful to their ancestors?

Such behavior will naturally cause some complaints from the husband's family, who will secretly say things like a married daughter is like water spilled, and since she's married into our family, she should worship our ancestors, so how can she go back to worship them?

The Chen clan girl heard the gossip behind her back, and in anger she even brought her children to worship the Chen clan's ancestors, and then she stayed there and refused to go back. Anyway, her parents' family would not mind them eating and drinking at home.

It didn't take long for the family to actively admit their mistake, and the husband personally went to their house and begged them many times before he took the mother and daughter back home.

These ones.

These are all rumors related to the Chen family in recent years. They are confusing and have different explanations. They have also become anecdotes that many monks enjoy talking about after dinner.

Rumors are of course true and false and cannot be fully believed, but it can be seen from them that after so many years, the Chen family has finally become strong and its voice has become completely different.

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(End of this chapter)