Chapter 795: Future Development, Inheritance Generation (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Ever since the Song family established itself on "Funiu Mountain," every spring, the family would summon elders from outside to return to the family for council, where everyone would sit together to summarize the family's changes over the past year and then discuss and look forward to the family's future development.

When Song Qingming first participated in the family council, the Song family was just a small Qi Refining family, and the entire family's cultivators added up to only twenty or thirty people.

At that time, Song Qingming's cultivation had only just broken through to the late Qi Refining stage, and he had just begun to show some talent in front of his clansmen. Nearly two hundred years had passed since then.

Two hundred years of time had passed like an arrow, and the Song family had also leaped from an inconspicuous small Qi Refining family in "Qinghe County" to a Jin Dan immortal clan that dominated the entire northeast of Wei State.

Seeing the family "Council Hall" now filled with many family juniors, with the lowest cultivation at the Foundation Establishment stage, compared to when he and his Sixth Uncle and the others were Qi Refining cultivators discussing the family's future here, Song Qingming felt a thousand emotions in his heart at this moment.

"The family can have today's prosperity, both because of the ancestors' protection and everyone's credit. No need for formalities!"

After sitting in the head position with Huang Siyuan, Song Qingming hurriedly waved his hand to the crowd below, signaling everyone to sit down first.

After receiving Song Qingming's nod, Great Elder Song Yuanfang, who had managed the family for many years, stood up first and spoke:

"Today's family council, according to past rules, we must first count the family's expenditures and annual income from last year. I have already organized and counted these account books, so next I will report the income and expenditure situation of last year to everyone.

The family's income from the Yinfeng Ridge mineral vein last year was a total of 1,730 spirit stones. After deducting the consumption of hiring cultivators and maintaining the formation, there was a balance of 1,300 spirit stones.

Chiyan Market had an income of 1,580 spirit stones last year, but Chiyan Market spent quite a few spirit stones hiring cultivators to expand to Mount Yunwu a few months ago.

Therefore, the balance of Chiyan Market last year was slightly lower than in previous years, and only 870 spirit stones were handed over to the Treasury Pavilion.

Since the establishment of the Bai Lin Guard, the number of cultivators coming and going to the market last year increased compared to previous years, and the market's income also doubled compared to previous years.

After deducting the share with the sect, our Song family received a total of 4,650 spirit stones, and the Treasury Pavilion received 3,100 spirit stones.

And there is Tuoyun Mountain..."

Song Yuanfang loudly stated the income of spirit stones from various places in the family last year. The many Song family elders present were not only focused, but their expressions were also constantly changing.

When hearing about the family industries they managed, some had calm expressions, while those who performed particularly well had smiles on their faces, generously enjoying the envious gazes cast by those around them.

Especially Song Changze and Liu Yuxin, the couple in charge of "Bai Shiling," saw the several family Old Ancestors at the head nodding in affirmation of their achievements for the family, and they were also very happy about it.

"Finally, the largest item of family income, the spiritual items collected from subordinate families last year, after being converted into spirit stones, totaled 5,300 spirit stones.

I have basically repeated all the main income and expenditure of the family last year just now, and there are still some trivial ones that I won't introduce one by one here.

If you feel there are any problems, you can say them out in time, and you can also go to the Treasury Pavilion to check them at any time in the future.

I will count here, the total income of the family last year was 17,640 spirit stones, and the expenditure on the account was 10,400.

These were all counted by me and Yuanqian. Please have a look, several Old Ancestors."

After speaking eloquently for a full half-stick of incense, Song Yuanfang finally repeated the income and expenditure of the entire Song family last year.

Then he carefully handed the already prepared accounts to the three people, Song Qingming, at the head.

Ever since the Song family conquered "Bai Shiling" in the northern expedition, the Song family had expanded its territory by thousands of miles to the north, and the family industries were much more than before.

Added to the fact that the family territory had been peaceful all these years, it had also attracted many foreign cultivators to come and attach themselves, and the income of the entire family in all aspects had nearly doubled compared to before the monster turmoil.

While income increased, the Song family's expenditure also rose with the development of the family.

Now the entire Song family, excluding Song Yuanli who remained in the "Tianhai Cultivation World," had three Jin Dan Old Ancestors, nineteen Foundation Establishment elders, and two guest elders, Xu Qingyin and Li Xiuning, totaling twenty-one Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Below them were 660 clansmen and family guests with varying cultivation levels, totaling nearly 700 cultivators.

The salary spirit stones, spiritual rice, and cultivation elixirs that so many cultivators needed to receive every year were also a huge expenditure.

However, fortunately, the Song family was now thriving, and while various incomes smoothed out expenditures, thousands of spirit stones could still be saved every year and deposited into the family's Treasury Pavilion.

And there was the spirit stone mineral vein located at "Shuangfeng Mountain." Under Song Qingming's arrangement, the family had always operated this item secretly and did not put it on the table.

Therefore, this income would not be included in the family council every year, and it could provide an extra 2,000-plus spirit stones.

After the monster turmoil, the family had accumulated quite a few spirit stones through these years of accumulation.

Most of these spirit stones were used for purchasing elixirs abroad and exchanged for various high-tier spiritual items to supply family cultivators for cultivation, improving the strength of the entire family.

Because of the relationship of Huang Siyuan, an outer sect elder of the "Tian Dan Alliance," the Song family now almost every few years would have high-tier elixirs like Foundation Establishment Pills appear in the family's Treasury Pavilion.

With the stable supply of "Foundation Establishment Pills," the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the family was also increasing steadily. Now the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators had exceeded that of the Ma family back then, becoming a veritable large-scale cultivation family.

The Song family, which was only a small Qi Refining clan back then, could have today's glory, besides the Patriarch Song Qingming sitting at the head, of course, it was also inseparable from the efforts and struggles of generations of family cultivators.

"We few have been concentrating on cultivation these years, and family affairs have been left to you to manage. It has been hard on you!"

After scanning the accounts handed over by Song Yuanfang, Song Qingming nodded with satisfaction and praised Song Yuanfang and the many family elders present.

"Without the Patriarch and several Old Ancestors sitting in town, how could we have the Song family today? These are all things we should do, really dare not say the word hard."

Getting the affirmation of the Patriarch Song Qingming, Song Yuanfang and the others present also showed a few joys and hurriedly stood up to thank him.

After praising everyone, Song Qingming continued: "Now that the family's development in all places is going smoothly, there are a few major events that you should start preparing for.

The first thing is to upgrade the family spiritual vein.

Now that there are more and more family cultivators, Funiu Mountain's spiritual energy will sooner or later be insufficient. Although upgrading the spiritual vein is not imminent, you all should start preparing for this matter.

After a while, I will try to refine a third-tier top-quality Spirit Gathering Formation. After the spirit stones are collected, we can start upgrading the family spiritual vein.

In the future, clansmen outside can rotate back to Funiu Mountain to cultivate, which can also improve everyone's cultivation speed."

Since the monster turmoil, the Song family's "Funiu Mountain" spiritual vein had been upgraded to third-tier mid-quality, and it had only been thirty-plus years since then.

Added to the fact that there were two third-tier low-quality spiritual veins in the north, "Bai Shiling" and "Cangyuan Mountain," the spiritual energy supply was completely sufficient for the number of Song family cultivators at present.

But now that the family was developing so fast, the number of cultivators would also grow rapidly. Among the many Foundation Establishment elders present, there would definitely be people who would break through their cultivation and step into the Jin Dan realm in the future.

In the case where the family had the ability, upgrading the spiritual vein in advance was something the Song family would sooner or later have to do, which was why Song Qingming had moved this matter up the schedule.

And now that the income from family industries was relatively stable, it was much richer than in the past, and quite a few spirit stones had been accumulated in the treasury.

Upgrading the "Funiu Mountain" spiritual vein to third-tier top-quality was no longer like in the past, where it needed to rely on all clansmen to save on food and clothing to barely manage it.

Upgrading the family spiritual vein was something beneficial to all cultivators in the entire family. Naturally, none of the many Foundation Establishment elders present would oppose it. Just after Song Qingming finished speaking, a burst of agreement sounded at the scene.

"Patriarch, rest assured. Upgrading Funiu Mountain's spiritual vein is the foundation of the family's establishment. We will naturally do our best!"

"Not bad! Upgrading the family spiritual vein is not only something we can benefit from, but also a major event for the benefit of future generations. Now that the family has this ability, this matter is naturally the earlier the better."

"I also agree with this matter...!"

Seeing that everyone at the scene agreed, Song Qingming waved his hand with a smile and continued: "The second thing is about Cangyuan Mountain.

Now that Bai Shiling has gradually stabilized, the family's development focus can also be considered to be shifted to other places.

Cangyuan Mountain's market is basically built now, so we can consider moving some cultivators and mortals there to take root and develop slowly.

Also, Xuande can take people to walk around Cangyuan Mountain next to see if any useful mineral veins can be found, mark them down first, and develop them slowly when the family has enough manpower in the future."

Since the "Xiaoyao Sect" won a great victory in the northern expedition against the monster race and the Song family took "Cangyuan Mountain," it had been a few years.

However, because the family had placed most of its energy on "Bai Shiling" all these years, the management of "Cangyuan Mountain" had always been relatively slow. Over the years, they had barely managed to hold the spiritual mountain and build the market.

Now that the teleportation array connecting "Bai Shiling" and "Chiyan Market" had been built, it had gradually stabilized. The family didn't need to arrange too much manpower here and could extract some cultivators to manage other industries.

The reason for choosing to manage the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein, besides the fact that this spiritual vein was of higher grade, the main reason was naturally the "Tandi Cave Dwelling" that Song Qingming used for forming his core back then.

Now, several Foundation Establishment cultivators in the family had already reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and the one with the highest cultivation, Song Changze, could impact the Jin Dan realm at any time. At that time, this "Tandi Cave Dwelling" would inevitably be used. At this time, the family should also increase manpower to strengthen control over the vicinity of "Cangyuan Mountain" to prevent other cultivators or monsters from approaching and bringing unnecessary trouble to the Song family.

"Patriarch, there are still quite a few monsters around Cangyuan Mountain now. Our family's manpower is still somewhat insufficient. Do you think we should let other families below participate so that it can develop faster?"

Just after Song Qingming finished speaking, Song Xuanting, standing at the lower head, stood out and put forward his suggestions and thoughts.

Song Xuanting had been stationed at "Cangyuan Mountain" for the past few years. When he and Song Yuanhao and others were building the market, they were often harassed by monsters, so he was naturally very clear about the situation around "Cangyuan Mountain."

Seeing Song Qingming propose that the family should vigorously manage the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein next, he hurriedly said his inner thoughts, wanting all subordinate cultivation families of the Song family to join in, which could speed up the construction and management of the "Cangyuan Mountain" market and surrounding spiritual veins.

However, facing his proposal, Song Qingming shook his head directly: "The surroundings of this Cangyuan Mountain spiritual vein have not been developed yet, so don't let the cultivation families below participate too much for the time being.

I intend to manage this spiritual vein well, and it is best not to let others intervene. Now the family is not short of this time, even if Cangyuan Mountain develops slowly, it doesn't matter much."

"Seventh Brother's words are good. Now that Bai Shiling has stabilized, we don't need to involve others in our own territory.

As long as we spend more time, we have enough ability to manage Cangyuan Mountain well ourselves. Everyone doesn't need to be too anxious about this matter."

After taking "Cangyuan Mountain," Song Qingming had already informed Song Qingyu and the others about the "Tandi Cave Dwelling."

Hearing that Song Qingming wanted to vigorously manage the "Cangyuan Mountain" spiritual vein, Song Qingyu naturally understood his thoughts very quickly and immediately echoed her opinion.

Seeing that the two family Old Ancestors, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu, insisted on not letting other subordinate families intervene in this matter, the many Foundation Establishment elders present also saw the thoughts of the several Old Ancestors on this matter and did not raise any objections.

After arranging the two things he had thought of, Song Qingming handed the right to speak back to Song Yuanfang and began to discuss other family affairs.

As time passed, this family meeting slowly came to an end. Until the very end, Song Yuanfang bowed and asked Song Qingming: "Patriarch! This year, there are just two children who have ascended to immortality who haven't been named. On the family genealogy, the 'Lin' generation cultivators have been used for fifty years, so it's time to set a new generation.

This matter is also a major event related to the family's future development. Please, Patriarch, continue the generation for the family and continue the inheritance!"

"Wan, Gu, Chang, Qing, Xin, Yuan, Chang, Xuan! Lin,..."

Ever since the Song family migrated and settled at "Funiu Mountain" in Qinghe County, the family cultivators would continue the generation every few decades. Now, after several generations of inheritance, it had reached the "Lin" generation.

The nine generations of the Song family, among which the first eight characters "Wan Gu Chang Qing, Xin Yuan Chang Xuan" were decided when the ancestors first migrated to "Qinghe County."

Now, the cultivators of the first three generations of the family had long since passed away. The "Qing" generation only had Song Qingming and Song Qingyu left, and the rest were cultivators from the "Yuan" generation onwards.

The "Lin" generation cultivators were temporarily decided by Song Qingyu, who took over the family when Song Qingming traveled to the "Donghuang Country" cultivation world.

Because this kind of thing as continuing the generation is generally decided by the Patriarch in major cultivation families.

At that time, the family cultivators had reached the point where they needed to continue the generation, and the Patriarch Song Qingming didn't know when he would return, so Song Qingyu decided on the "Lin" generation for him.

It also implied that she didn't want to overstep her authority and was just a helpless move of temporary intention.

Now the "Lin" generation cultivators were already nearly fifty years apart, and it was time to continue the family generation.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity of the family council, Song Yuanfang directly brought this matter up, hoping that Song Qingming could continue the family "generation" on the genealogy.

Over the years, Song Qingming had spent most of his time and energy on his own cultivation and had not managed much of the family's trivial matters, so he hadn't noticed this matter.

Hearing Song Yuanfang mention this, Song Qingming suddenly remembered and hurriedly nodded.

Song Qingming liked reading when he was young, and his literary literacy could be considered okay. Continuing a genealogy generation was not a difficult thing for him.

However, facing the most important generation inheritance in a cultivation family, Song Qingming still appeared relatively cautious.

After thinking for a moment, Song Qingming decided to set a "Si" character first, took out paper and pen, and wrote down the "character" he wanted.

Song Qingming wanted to ponder the later generations again. After he decided, he would inform Song Yuanfang to record it in the genealogy.

(PS: Regarding the issue of continuing the generation next, Xiaomeng thought for a long time but still didn't dare to write it down rashly. I want to hear the opinions of book friends first. If you have any good ideas, please comment and let me know.) "Wan Gu Chang Qing, Xin Yuan Chang Xuan, Lin Si..."

The Song ancestors migrated to "Funiu Mountain" in Qinghe County, and after four hundred years of vicissitudes, it had finally reached the tenth generation of cultivators.

Seeing Song Yuanfang carefully take the "Si" character he had just written from Song Qingming's hand, the Song family members present also felt a burst of excitement.

In the cultivation world, family cultivators value blood inheritance the most. Compared to loose cultivators and those from sects, they would also have more cohesion.

The Song family has developed to this day, and being able to have the glorious era now is also accumulated slowly by generations of senior cultivators through hard work.

Now seeing that the family descendants can continue to be extended, everyone's heart is naturally incomparably excited and thrilled.

"In the past, when I stepped onto the path of immortality, Third Great-Uncle often taught me that no matter when or where, if you receive a drop of kindness, you should always think of repaying it.

Now that the family can have this prosperity, these are also exchanged by my many Song ancestors with blood and hard work.

I take the 'Si' character to continue the genealogy today, also hoping that you and the future cultivators can not forget the merits of these family ancestors on the genealogy and always think of repaying kindness."

"The Patriarch's teachings are remembered, we will definitely not forget the ancestors' kindness!"

Hearing Song Qingming's explanation, the Song clansmen present also understood his intention and stood up one after another to respond. The sound echoed in the family council hall for a long time.

After setting the generation, this annual family meeting ended quickly. After everyone retreated, Song Qingming kept Song Changze alone.

After carefully observing Song Changze's cultivation, Song Qingming slowly asked him: "Changze, how is your cultivation of the Hidden Yuan Technique now?"

Hearing Song Qingming ask about the technique he was cultivating, Song Changze also understood that the family Chen Chen Laozu kept him alone to care about his next core formation.

Seeing this, Song Changze hurriedly replied: "Changze is ashamed, the technique has not yet been completed, it is estimated that it will take two years to cultivate to perfection. I have troubled you, Seventh Great-Uncle."

"You have only been cultivating the Hidden Yuan Technique for six or seven years, and being able to reach this realm is not slow. It's not worse than us back then, so you don't need to be too humble."

Hearing Song Changze's answer, Song Qingyu, sitting to the side, comforted him repeatedly.

Over the years when Song Qingming was away, Song Qingyu also often gave pointers to the cultivation of several juniors in the family, and she had always been quite approving of Song Changze's cultivation talent.

Hearing what Song Qingyu said, Song Qingming also echoed: "Qingyu is right. Among these juniors, although you are not the most talented, you are the most diligent in cultivation.

Among the thousands of cultivators in the cultivation world, there are also many who can make up for their lack of talent with diligence. If I only looked at spiritual root talent, I wouldn't have reached today.

As long as we can settle down and find our own opportunities, there will always be a chance to catch up with those so-called geniuses."

"Thank you, Seventh Great-Uncle, for your teachings, Changze understands!"

Song Qingming nodded slightly and continued: "You are now about to reach the core formation pass, so don't worry about the affairs of Bai Shi Market.

I have already agreed with Yuanfang to let Xuanqing go over to take over from you. After you go back, prepare to hand over the things in your hands with him. Stay on the mountain to cultivate with peace of mind for these two years. If there is anything you don't understand, you can also ask us.

Rest assured, I have already arranged the spiritual items for core formation for you."

"This... Changze thanks the Patriarch for his support!"

Although he had heard that the family had already prepared core formation spiritual items for him, hearing Song Qingming say it personally at this moment, Song Changze was still moved to tears and hurriedly knelt to kowtow to thank his elder for his great support.

Seeing this, Song Qingyu hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.

"Alright, we are all family, why be like this? After you go back, remember to explain it to Yuxin properly. That girl has a quick temper, don't cause any misunderstandings again!"

Seeing Song Changze walk out of the family "Council Hall" full of emotion, Song Qingming and the others also showed relieved smiles and walked out in big strides.

Just after they left the "Council Hall" and were preparing to return to the mountain peak, they suddenly saw Song Yuanhao walking back with Li Xiuning and Xu Qingyin not far away.

"Yuanhao, is there anything else?"

Seeing Song Yuanhao and the three return, Song Qingming hurriedly asked a question. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 796 =====