Chapter 40: Yuehu Village

Song Qingming returned to Lingyuan Mountain with a restless heart. Seeing him looking worried, Song Changxin thought he had encountered something on the way back and asked with concern.

Song Qingming then realized that he was indeed too worried. Even if the Liu family suspected him, he could just return the things to them. Now he also had a stable source of spirit stones. As long as he was willing to spend time making talismans, he would definitely not be short of cultivation resources in the future.

Thinking of this, Song Qingming calmed down and chatted with Song Changxin. Since he had an accident two years ago, Ninth Uncle's concern for him had increased a lot. Every time he wanted to go on a long journey, Song Changxin would exhort him, which made Song Qingming very moved.

Next, in order to adjust himself, Song Qingming started making talismans day and night. Busy, he finally stopped thinking about the Liu family.

What he didn't expect was that a few days after returning to Lingyuan Mountain, Thirteenth Uncle Song Changxiong, who came to Lingyuan Mountain to transport materials as usual, brought a shocking piece of news.

Two days ago, for some unknown reason, the Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain was actually removed from the Carefree Sect overnight. Except for a few Liu family cultivators who were outside, all thirty-odd Liu family cultivators were sent to the mine by the Carefree Sect to serve, and the family leader Liu Tianlong committed suicide on the spot. Since then, there was no longer a Liu family of Jingyuan Mountain in Qinghe County.

Hearing the news that Liu Tianlong had passed away, Song Qingming didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He really didn't expect that he had just put this matter down, but he didn't expect that the Liu family, which made him worry about it a few days ago, had disappeared overnight.

Hearing this news, Song Qingming, who should have been very happy, had no smile on his face, but a heavy face. The sect was high above, and it was not easy for small families like the Song family to survive. A moment of carelessness could be the end of the Liu family overnight.

Song Qingming thought that the Liu family being wiped out by the Carefree Sect was likely related to the Water Spirit Fruit in Liu Tianlong's storage bag. Now that this Water Spirit Fruit had reached him, it might also bring such a devastating disaster to the Song family.

After obtaining Liu Tianlong's storage bag, he had thought about this problem more than once. That Water Spirit Fruit looked like a spiritual item that had just been picked not long ago. Could the trip to the Fuyun Mountain Range organized by the Liu family really be aimed at that Water Spirit Fruit? Now the sudden destruction of the Liu family was likely related to this item.

The fifty thousand mortals under the jurisdiction of Jingyuan Mountain, except for a small part who had to migrate to Qinghe Market, were all divided up by nearby families, most of which were accepted by the Huang family. Even the Song family shared more than two thousand people. Fourth Elder, who managed the family's general affairs, racked his brains to arrange these two thousand people and had to send two hundred of them to Lingyuan Mountain for settlement.

Song Changxiong came here this time and also notified Song Changxin and Song Qingming in advance that they should arrange for people to build new mortal residences in these few days, ready to receive these two hundred Liu family mortals at any time.

Song Changxin seemed to be used to the ups and downs of families in the cultivation world. After hearing this news, he just nodded and had a headache about how to arrange these mortals.

Lingyuan Mountain was located in a remote area, and there were not many fields to cultivate. The original food supply had to be supplemented by Mount Funiu every year. Now that there were two hundred more people, the existing food was definitely not enough.

After discussing with Song Qingming, Song Changxin planned to cultivate some new fields on Lingyuan Mountain. Otherwise, relying on Mount Funiu to supply food every year would definitely not be a long-term solution. Now that Mujiao Town also had two thousand more people, Mount Funiu must also be very tight.

If they could solve this problem by themselves on Lingyuan Mountain, it would be easy in the future, and they wouldn't have to look forward to food sent from Mount Funiu every time.

After a few days of investigation, the two planned to arrange the new mortal residential area on the west side of Crescent Lake. This was where Song Qingming lived, and there were four or five small buildings next to it, which had been unoccupied.

Song Qingming arranged for the mortals in the mine to build a small house on the west side of the Xuantie mine and live directly by the mine, which was also convenient for him to patrol the mine in the future.

Under the leadership of more than a dozen martial arts masters, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain began to cut down trees on the mountain and build new houses. Song Changxin also specifically arranged for the miners in the mine to stop work for a few days and help build houses together.

Soon, under the leadership of Song Qingming, the villagers of Lingyuan Mountain spent half a month finally building more than twenty new houses. Plus the original vacant rooms, they could barely accommodate two hundred people.

After building the new houses, in order to facilitate management, Song Changxin divided a part of the original mortal miners of Lingyuan Mountain and moved them to the new houses built on the west side of Crescent Lake. After the Liu family's mortals arrived, they would be dispersed and arranged to mix with the original residents of Lingyuan Mountain.

This was also a common way for major cultivation families to receive mortals from other families. First, it could let them integrate into the new environment faster, and second, it was also to prevent them from gathering together and causing trouble.

A few days after Song Qingming and the others built the houses, Song Changxiong and Fourth Brother Song Qingrui escorted these two hundred mortals to Lingyuan Mountain. Under the arrangement of the original village head of Lingyuan Mountain, these mortals soon divided their houses. After a count, there were now more than five hundred mortals on the side of Lingyuan Mountain.

Now that there was no shortage of miners in the Xuantie mine, Song Qingming thought about it and decided to divide these five hundred mortals into two parts for the time being. The mortals living on the east side of Crescent Lake continued to go to the mine to dig ore, and the mortals living on the west side were first arranged to cultivate some fields next to the village.

Because Lingyuan Mountain was located deep in the mountains, there were not many places where fertile fields could be cultivated. Song Qingming could only lead these people to use magic tools to chisel mountains and open stones, divert water and build canals, and cultivate dozens of acres of new fields to grow food.

He also specifically made a trip to Mujiao Town, got a batch of fish fry and put them into Crescent Lake, and arranged for a few families to specifically look after and breed them. It took nearly two months to initially solve this thorny food problem.

Fortunately, he had a remnant map to quickly restore his spiritual power. During this period of time, except for making talismans, he did not delay his cultivation. It's just that Ninth Uncle Song Changxin didn't know this and was afraid that he would be too hard during this period and delay his cultivation, so he specifically sent him some spiritual rice so that he could supplement some cultivation progress.

For this, Song Qingming couldn't refuse, so as not to let Song Changxin keep worrying about himself.

Busy, another three months passed. These Liu family mortals finally settled down. Fortunately, these people were relatively easy to manage. Because the main family had an accident, compared to those who had to migrate to Qinghe Market hundreds of miles away, they could be considered very lucky to come to the Song family.

Mortals are not immune to all diseases like cultivators. A large number of mortals migrating long distances, some people with slightly weaker constitutions will easily fall on the road. Moreover, those high-and-mighty Carefree Sect cultivators will not care too much about the life and death of these mortals. As long as there are no large-scale deaths, they will not take action to treat them at all.

For the sake of taking care of them, the Liu family mortals who were assigned to Lingyuan Mountain this time also had many who were not surnamed Liu. After dispersing them, they soon integrated into the Song family's mortals.

In order to facilitate management, the original village of Lingyuan Mountain was also divided into two by Song Qingming. The east side of Crescent Lake was still called Lingyuan Village, and the west side took a new name, called "Yuehu Village." Song Qingyu's father was arranged to be the village head of Yuehu Village.

After the establishment of Yuehu Village, Song Qingming also selected some talented mortals from the newly arrived Liu family mortals to enrich the protective formation martial arts masters and mine guards of Lingyuan Mountain.

Song Qingming asked these people to increase the intensity of training every day, planning to take them to the mountains to hunt some wild beasts after a period of time, which could also help supplement the food in the mountains.

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