Chapter 4: Nine Peaks Mountain Lin Family

This is a mountain peak with beautiful scenery and picturesque views, surrounded by layers of thick clouds and mist.

This mountain peak is managed in an orderly manner from the foot to the top. Spirit fields of various sizes are opened up.

Among them, most grow various kinds of First-Grade spirit rice and spirit paddy full of vitality, and a small part are planted with spirit fruit trees.

Every spirit plant is trying hard to stretch out one tender bud after another, enjoying the sunlight that fills the world to the fullest.

In every piece of spirit field, there must be one or several people busy, but their farming methods are somewhat different.

Someone is pulling a huge wild ox to plow the land.

Someone has metal sharp needles of different colors on their fingertips to kill pests.

Someone is changing various complex hand seals in their hands, summoning bursts of spirit rain to irrigate the spirit fields.

This is the base camp of the Lin family, the main peak of Nine Peaks Mountain, a Third-Grade Lower-Quality spirit vein.

The nine mountain peaks are arranged with the Third-Grade Lower-Quality Nine-Curved Cloud River Great Formation, which was laid out by the Lin family's Purple Mansion stage ancestor Lin Guangcheng, who invited his good friend from the inner sect of the Qingyun Sect, the Third-Grade Array Master Chen Yunxia, to spend a huge sum of money.

It is said that the two were childhood sweethearts, growing up together in the same village.

Later, the two had the good fortune to enter the Qingyun Sect together and were close friends for more than two hundred years. Chen Yunxia had been in love with Lin Guangcheng since she was a child.

Helplessly, Lin Guangcheng was single-mindedly seeking the Dao, and in the end, the two did not end up together.

Later, Lin Guangcheng was seriously injured in a mission, and his path to the Dao was severed.

Only then did he apply to leave the Qingyun Sect, spent most of his family fortune, and consumed most of the connections of the Qingyun Sect to purchase this Nine Peaks Mountain.

Here, he founded the Lin family cultivation family, married and had children, multiplied and thrived, and bestowed cultivation method inheritance and generation order.

Guang, De, Zeng, Yi, Qing, Fan, Mao, Chang, Rong, Sheng.

Everyone works together, and the fire will be passed on forever.

A total of 20 generation orders, each sixty-year cycle counts as one generation order.

Unfortunately, good times didn't last long. The Lin family ancestor Lin Guangcheng's old injuries recurred thirty years later. Knowing that there was no hope of survival this time, he sat facing the direction of the Qingyun Sect and passed away at the peak of Nine Peaks Mountain.

Before he died, he left a letter and the heaven-earth rare treasure Three-Life Stone to Chen Yunxia.

He informed her that he knew his spirit root and cultivation base in this life could not compare to hers, so he felt he was not worthy of her, but he had been working hard to catch up with her footsteps, but in the end, it was heaven's will.

There is no fate in this life, leaving behind the Three-Life Stone, if Chen Yunxia is willing, she can sign a contract, set this three-life unbreakable promise, to continue to the next life.

After Chen Yunxia received the letter in the Qingyun Sect, she cried loudly and was extremely sad, her hair turning white overnight.

Subsequently, she personally visited Nine Peaks Mountain and saw Lin Guangcheng off in white clothes. She also let the Lin family descendants call her grandmother and could visit her at the Qingyun Sect regularly.

Speaking of this heaven-earth rare treasure Three-Life Stone, for heartless people, it is worthless.

For lovers in the world, it is a priceless treasure.

Legend has it that two people who love each other each imprint a trace of soul mark into the Three-Life Stone, at the cost of sacrificing the Three-Life Stone to return to heaven and earth.

Then no matter how many times of reincarnation they go through, fate will always guide the two to meet again.

No matter how far the distance, fate will always guide the two to meet again. And they will be attracted to each other, lingering endlessly, needing to experience three lives and three generations of grinding to untie this obsession.

Therefore, this is the most important backing and reliance of the Lin family in the Qingyun Sect. It is also one of the reasons why the Lin family has survived several crises of extermination.

Every few years, core members of the Lin family visit this grandmother who is not a great-grandmother at the Qingyun Sect. She is now at the mid-stage of the Golden Core.

However, recently there have been several times that they haven't seen this grandmother. She has been in closed-door cultivation and hasn't come out, and they have all been received by her disciples.

The Lin family is now one of the thirteen Foundation Establishment families in Pingyang Prefecture. Since the ancestor of the Lin family passed away, although the Lin family has not had a Purple Mansion cultivator sitting in town for more than three hundred years, there have been Foundation Establishment cultivators generation after generation.

At most, there were five or six Foundation Establishment cultivators, and at the most dangerous time, there was one Foundation Establishment cultivator sitting in the family. Although it is no longer as majestic as when the ancestor was alive, it has finally been passed down, and it has been passed down for eight generations so far.

Now the Lin family has three Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, more than two hundred Qi Refining stage cultivators, and nearly a million mortal clansmen.

However, only clansmen possessing spirit roots can enter the genealogy, and mortal clansmen are not included. The mountain-protecting grand array has been continuously managed and perfected by several generations of the Lin family for nearly three hundred years. The array within the array now possesses the functions of illusion array, entrapment array, killing array, and spirit gathering.

If the grand array is presided over by a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, it can completely resist the attacks of Purple Mansion cultivators. It is the most important mountain-protecting grand array of the Lin family and has protected the Lin family through crises of extermination many times.

In order to ensure that his family could be passed down smoothly, the family ancestor Lin Guangcheng drew on many systems of the Qingyun Sect and other large families and formulated the Lin Clan Rules.

Because Nine Peaks Mountain is located on the edge of the Qingyun Mountain Range, it often faces the threat of demonic beasts in the depths of the mountains.

Under such circumstances, the family organizes all family cultivators over 18 years old into the family demon hunting team, rotating in batches to hunt demonic beasts in the family territory and surrounding areas.

Doing this is to avoid demonic beasts multiplying here and threatening the safety of the family's mortals and cultivators. At the same time, it can also harvest spirit medicines, spirit materials, and other cultivation spirit objects.

Family descendants participating in demon hunting activities, although there is a certain danger, can also be tempered in the battle with demonic beasts, which is especially beneficial to their own cultivation.

The demonic beast materials and various spirit objects harvested during the demon hunting process can also satisfy a part of their own cultivation needs.

The demonic beast materials and spirit objects such as spirit medicines harvested during the mountain hunting can be chosen to be handed over to the clan treasury, or they can be chosen to be kept for their own use.

For every demonic beast killed, the family will give a certain amount of contribution points according to the grade and danger level of the demonic beast.

For the demonic beast materials and various spirit objects handed over to the clan treasury, the family will also give corresponding family contribution points according to the value.

Each family contribution point is approximately equivalent to one lower-grade spirit stone, and clansmen can also use contribution points to exchange for various cultivation resources they need from the clan treasury.

Some particularly precious spirit objects, such as Foundation Establishment Pills and other breakthrough pills, all require family contribution points to be exchanged.

This family contribution point system has mobilized the enthusiasm of every family member to obtain cultivation resources.

Family contribution points are mainly obtained by completing family tasks. The family's tasks are diverse, such as guarding spirit mountains for the family, farming, alchemy, artifact refining, talisman making, fighting, demon hunting, etc., all can obtain contribution points.

In short, more work, more gain; no work, no gain.

The next day, when Lin Changqing arrived at the secret base, there were already five little friends inside.

Seeing everyone comforting little fatty Lin Bo. Lin Bo was in low spirits, his eyes red and swollen, obviously having cried a lot in the past two days.

Lin Qing didn't know what to say, so he could only promise to visit him when he had time in the future.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, little fatty would be sent to a small town where the Lin family's mortal clansmen gathered.

His parents had already arranged it, and he would be guaranteed a life without worry about food and clothing.

Lin Qing shared the spirit peaches he had taken from his grandfather's place yesterday with everyone, seeing that everyone's mood was not very high.

Usually, having spirit peaches to eat, they would be high-spirited and wolf them down, wishing they could have another one after eating.

He sighed and asked: "What spirit roots do you all have?"

Lin Jie said first: "I have a four-attribute spirit root, Fire spirit root is best at 37 points, I should practice Fire attribute cultivation method in the future."

Lin Hao continued: "I have a five-attribute spirit root, but Metal spirit root has 45 points, I should practice Metal attribute cultivation method in the future."

Lin Yuan said: "I also have a five-attribute spirit root, Wood spirit root has 32 points, I should practice Wood attribute cultivation method in the future."

Lin Lian spoke last, and was also the only girl among the crowd. "I have a three-attribute spirit root, Water spirit root has 56 points, I should mainly practice Water attribute cultivation method in the future."

Lin Qing also said his spirit root situation and mentioned going to the academy.

Lin Jie said that after going to the academy, the clan would grant generation characters and arrange generation orders, and everyone finally had some interest.

They started looking forward to school, cultivation, and the matter of generation orders. They expressed their opinions and various news they had heard in a jumble.

Under the drive of everyone, Lin Bo's mood was a little better, and he expressed that he must take more wives in the future and have more children with spirit roots.

Let everyone take care of each other after they achieve success in cultivation in the future. Everyone laughed out loud after hearing this and promised one after another.

After agreeing on the time to go to the academy together, everyone sent Lin Bo home together, and Lin Qing and his little friends went home separately.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 5 =====