[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-qinghe-song-clan":3,"chapter-the-qinghe-song-clan-the-qinghe-song-clan-chapter-5":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Qinghe Song Clan",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1926904,2615,"Chapter 5","the-qinghe-song-clan-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>At the foot of Mount Funiu, there is a small town called Mujiao Town, which is the place where nearly ten thousand mortals of the Song family live. Because Song family cultivators are stationed in the town all year round, it has been peaceful for a hundred years, and it has also attracted many mortals with other surnames from nearby to settle down. In the center of the town, there is a wide street, with an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going. Both sides of the street are full of various shops, and various shouts are endless, full of a prosperous and peaceful scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the world of immortal cultivation, whether it is a high-ranking sect or a family force that dominates one side, the huge number of mortals is their foundation, and it is also the source of new blood and wisdom that they continuously inject into the major forces of the immortal cultivation world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among ordinary mortals, two or three out of ten thousand will be born with spiritual roots and can become cultivators. If they are descendants of cultivators, the probability of having spiritual roots is higher than that of descendants of ordinary mortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary mortals are too weak. In this world of immortal cultivation where demon beasts are rampant, it is difficult to survive and multiply without the protection of cultivators. It is also because of this that the importance of mortals in the world of immortal cultivation is getting higher and higher. Normally, places where large-scale mortals live will more or less have cultivators to protect them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to strengthen themselves, the major sects in the world of immortal cultivation will choose to send their disciples with low talent to manage mortals in various places under their rule, so as to multiply more disciples with spiritual root talent for the sect. Over time, the birth of major immortal cultivation families has come about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Qinghe County, there are dozens of immortal cultivation families like the Song family. They all depend on the hegemon of the Wei Kingdom, the Xiaoyao Sect. Each family has a large number of mortals. The mortals within the Song family's sphere of influence, including Mujiao Town and more than a dozen nearby villages, total more than 20,000 mortals, most of whom live in Mujiao Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the Qi-Refining families in Qinghe County, the Song family has relatively few mortals. Several Qi-Refining families with a relatively large number of mortals have more than 100,000 mortals. As for the hegemon of Qinghe County, the Foundation Establishment family, the Huang family, directly controls nearly 500,000 mortals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those mortals who are born with spiritual roots continuously enrich the major immortal cultivation families, and those with outstanding spiritual root talent will be absorbed by the Xiaoyao Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the mortals in Mujiao Town are of the Song family bloodline, and some have fled from other places. Through intermarriage with local Song family mortals, they have also slowly integrated into the Song family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family generally does not care about the surnames of mortals, but as long as someone with spiritual roots is discovered, they will be taken to Mount Funiu for cultivation and renamed according to the seniority of the Song family cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming was also discovered to have spiritual roots when the family tested mortals at the age of ten, and was subsequently taken to Mount Funiu by cultivators in the family to learn cultivation, until now. Although the place of cultivation is not far from home, Song Qingming rarely goes home to visit relatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he received the family's garrison mission, and he doesn't know when he will have the opportunity to come back. He went down the mountain early today, also to have time to return home to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a residential area for mortals on the west side of Mujiao Town, there is an ordinary civilian house. Compared with the surrounding houses, it looks slightly newer. Around the house is an earthen wall, forming a simple small courtyard, and a small door head is opened in the middle of the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming stood in front of the half-open wooden door, looking at the familiar courtyard in front of him. On a huge stone platform in the courtyard, a woman in somewhat plain clothes was sitting on it with a green bamboo basket. The woman slowly and orderly separated the golden bamboo shoots in the bamboo basket and dried them on the stone platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeming to hear the sound at the door, the woman paused and turned to look at the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's been so long since you came back, why are you standing at the door? Have you become stupid from cultivating immortality?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing this, Song Qingming was stunned, laughed foolishly a few times, and walked into the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mother, have the family been well recently?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The family built a new house, and your younger brother and father have moved to the new house in the back. I still can't bear to part with this old stone platform. A few days ago, I dug some new bamboo shoots in the mountains and brought them here to dry. When you come back next time, you can take some to the mountain to taste. When you were young, you all loved to eat this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mother Song tidied up the bamboo shoots and came to Song Qingming's side and said again: \"Third son, when you have time, come home and see. Although immortals don't eat mortal food, aren't the immortals on the mountain all born from mortals under the mountain? How can there be such a big difference?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming's original name when he was young was Song San. After being taken to Mount Funiu for cultivation, it was changed to Song Qingming. However, now except for his mother, no one calls him by this name anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family has a regulation that all cultivators under the age of twenty, except for the few days of visiting relatives stipulated every year, are not allowed to return home at will. This is to let these young people who have just gone up the mountain slowly isolate themselves from the mortals under the mountain, get used to the boredom of cultivation on the mountain as soon as possible, and not neglect their cultivation because of their attachment to the warmth of their families in the secular world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Song Qingming embarked on the path of immortal cultivation, he rarely returned home. Now most of his childhood playmates no longer recognize him, and even the attitude of his own family members toward him has changed greatly. Every time he returns home, even if he is eating at the same table, he can feel that his father, sister, and younger brother always maintain a distance between mortal and immortal from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His father will no longer yell at him for sleeping in, his hot-tempered second sister no longer dares to call him \"stinky brat,\" and even his younger brother, who always followed him to play when he was young, now has an extra layer of respect for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father Song was originally an ordinary civilian in Mujiao Town. There had been no one with spiritual roots in his family for three generations. After living in the town for so many years, except for the early death of his eldest sister, the family had always been plain and simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, Song Qingming was detected to have spiritual roots, and the clan bestowed a sum of gold and silver, and his family's life slowly improved. Now they can be considered wealthy in Mujiao Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two chatted for a while, they returned to the newly built large house. After the family of five had lunch together, in his mother's reluctant gaze, Song Qingming left some silver for the family and then quietly left here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Qingming is now leaving home, and he is not as attached as before. Among the family, only his mother still treats him as her child, not an immortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty miles east of Mujiao Town, there is a mountain a hundred feet high. It was originally a nameless place. A hundred years ago, the Song family cultivated a small spiritual vein here and renamed it Lingsource Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lingsource Mountain is not too far from Mount Funiu, and it is also the second spiritual vein occupied by the Song family besides the high-grade spiritual vein of Mount Funiu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About a hundred years ago, when the Song family's senior cultivators were hunting demon beasts here, they inadvertently discovered a mysterious iron ore vein here. After the second-generation clan leader learned of this, he led the cultivators in the clan to kill the few mid-level demon beasts occupying the mountain and occupied the mountain, and relocated some family mortals here to mine the mysterious iron ore vein.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mysterious iron ore is also a common low-level mineral in the world of immortal cultivation, which can be used to make some low-level magic tools. The mysterious iron sword that Song Qingming has used for nearly ten years is made of this kind of ore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After nearly a hundred years of operation by the family, Lingsource Mountain now has hundreds of mortals living here, and every year it can mine mysterious iron ore worth about eighty spirit stones for the family, which is also one of the important incomes of the family at present. Therefore, the family also attaches great importance to this place, not only setting up two arrays here to protect it, but also having two cultivators from the clan stationed here all year round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going to Lingsource Mountain to be stationed for three years, this is the family mission Song Qingming received in the Treasure Pavilion yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Song family rules, family cultivators whose cultivation base has reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining all need to complete some family missions on time. Of course, these missions also have corresponding rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stationed at Lingsource Mountain for one year, the family will issue an additional ten points of merit. Although the spiritual vein of Lingsource Mountain is worse, it is only a mid-grade spiritual vein, but it is enough to support the cultivation of two Qi-Refining cultivators. For Song Qingming, who is now in the mid-stage of Qi Refining, it will not have much impact on his cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not affecting cultivation, and being able to earn some spirit stones, this mission can be considered the most suitable family mission for him at present. After taking on this mission, plus he draws some arrays and array diagrams on weekdays, he will be able to exchange for a mid-grade magic tool in a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, Song Qingming had also been to Lingsource Mountain to help transport mysterious iron ore. Most cultivators in the clan, when they just broke through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, would be arranged to go here to guard for a few years, which can be considered taking care of these cultivators who have just broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining. It is relatively safe and will not delay their cultivation speed too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mission is mainly to look after and supervise the family mortals here to mine ore, and as long as they can hand over enough mysterious iron ore to the family on time every year, it will be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1901,"2026-06-14T02:09:02.992Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","222774a8da08c4619e972e1e3ec2a09b2eabdc3ff91d21a823ffb9f331f65782","the-qinghe-song-clan-chapter-6","the-qinghe-song-clan-chapter-4",846,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-qinghe-song-clan-cover.jpg"]