Chapter 188 Discussing candidates for the expedition (4000 words, please subscribe)
End of December.
On this day, a copper bell sounded from the top of Lingxiao Mountain.
Ling Pengyun, who was practicing hard in a quiet room in a courtyard halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, heard this sound and immediately opened his eyes.
“Now is the end of the year, and the bronze bell symbolizing discussion on the top of the mountain is ringing. It should be a call for the senior leaders of the clan to participate in the year-end summary meeting.”
Because Ling Pengyun went to the General Affairs Hall to purchase the Spirit Gathering Pill half a year ago, Ling Jinxian, the steward of the General Affairs Hall and the eldest elder of the Ling family, told Ling Pengyun, the new member of the family, that he must go to the conference hall to attend the year-end summary meeting at the end of the year.
In addition, Ling Pengyun also agreed to the matter, so he did not delay too much. He immediately stood up and walked out of the quiet room, walking along a cobblestone path to the top of the mountain.
Before reaching the top of the mountain, Ling Pengyun saw from a distance that the great elder of the Ling family, Ling Jinxian, was standing outside the light curtain protecting the top of the mountain.
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun had some guesses in his mind and quickened his pace.
After a while, he walked up to Ling Ruxian.
"The eleventh great-grandfather." Ling Pengyun said hello first and then asked.
"What are you?"
"I'm waiting for you here. You have just joined Foundation Establishment, and you are in seclusion most of the time. The family has not had time to call on the rest of the family. The elder appointed you a position, and you don't have an elder's token. In order to prevent you from having difficulty entering the top of the mountain, I will wait here for you to enter together when the conference bell rings." Ling Jin smiled and explained.
After saying this, Ling Jinxian relied on the elder's token hanging on his waist to form a secret method, and opened a small opening on the huge light curtain that protected the top of the mountain. .
Ling Pengyun and Ling Ruxian also followed this small opening, followed the elder's token to open a trail on the top of the mountain filled with clouds and mist, and entered the meeting hall.
As soon as the two people entered the conference hall, Ling Yunhong, who had been waiting in the conference hall and was sitting at the head of the long table of the conference hall, pointed to the seat on his left and said hello.
"Peng Yun, you sit on the chief position on the left, and the chief position on the right belongs to Peng Xing."
Ling Pengyun heard this and looked along where Ling Yunhong pointed. Go, his expression moved slightly.
The position of this chairperson's table is very particular.
The higher the position, the higher the status.
"Third Grandfather." Ling Pengyun has already entered the foundation building, but he has not decided yet. What is wrong with him taking that position? He first cupped his hands to Ling Yunhong, who was sitting at the head of the speaker's table, and then called out. Go to the chief position on the left pointed by Ling Yunhong.
After sitting in this position, I waited for a while.
Ling Pengxing, who is also a new foundation builder in the mountain, and the fifth elder Ling Yunxi, recently went to various major markets and markets to deliver spiritual objects to the shops where the family started. They just returned to the clan mountain. Sixth Elder Ling Yunqian arrived, and Ling Yunhong, who was sitting in the main seat of the meeting hall, also spoke.
“Now that everyone is here, the year-end meeting will officially begin.”
The Ling family originally had six elders, and the other three elders have their own affairs and are not in the clan all year round. .
"At this year-end meeting, the first priority is to appoint Peng Yun, who has just joined the foundation establishment, as the second supreme elder in the family."
"This position does not usually involve in the management of family affairs, but it does Like me and Pengxing, we all have the right to be the leader of the clan. The three of us are equal and there is no need to distinguish between superior and inferior. "
"As for Peng Yun's sacrifice, it is the same as Peng Xing's, six second-level low-grade spirit-gathering pills every year."
"I don't know, can you agree to this?"
As a foundation-building monk, Ling Pengyun is fully qualified to serve as the family's supreme elder.
Not to mention the annual offering of six Spirit-Gathering Pills. Although six Spirit-Gathering Pills are worth 1,200 spirit stones in the outside world, with Ling Yunhong, a second-level alchemist here, all he needs to spend to refine them is The spiritual stone of elixir material can be used.
As soon as Ling Yunhong asked this question, the supreme elder Ling Pengxing, the great elder Ling Ruxian, the fifth elder Ling Yunxi, and the sixth elder Ling Yunqian in the conference hall all expressed their agreement.
Ling Pengxing was appointed as the supreme elder of the family as early as a year ago, at the end of the year he entered the Foundation Establishment.
As for Ling Yunqian, who had just returned to the clan, because he was the sixth elder of the family, Ling Jinxian informed Ling Pengyun about the successful foundation building not long after returning to the clan.
Therefore, at this time, he was not surprised.
Ling Yunhong, who was in the main seat, saw that everyone agreed and felt quite satisfied.
He also took out a token from the storage bag with the word "Tai Shang" engraved on the front and the word "Ling" engraved on the back, as well as a token full of small characters, and handed it to the seat. Ling Pengyun, who was on his left, opened his mouth to introduce.
"Peng Yun, this Supreme Elder Token is your identity symbol. What is written on that piece of white paper inspires the Supreme Elder Token to open the protective formation light curtain. With these two things, you can enter and exit the mountain top at will. "
"And you can also rely on the Supreme Elder Token to order the family monks when necessary."
Ling Pengyun stretched out his hand to take the Supreme Elder Token and looked at it. A bit of joy flashed through my mind, and I thought to myself.
"I don't know how happy my parents and my fifteenth great-grandfather will be when they know that I have broken through to foundation building and become a supreme elder."
After he broke through to foundation building, he fell into seclusion. During this time, Deji did not tell the good news to his parents and Ling Rushui, who was the fifteenth in his generation and was close to Ling Pengyun.
When she thought of Ling entering the water, Ling Pengyun was so happy that she became a little depressed.
“Calculating the age of the fifteenth great-grandfather, he should be about one hundred and ten years old. And eight years ago, when I was stationed at Qingshi Mountain, the cultivation of the fifteenth great-grandfather had already begun. Passing by.”
“His life span is probably numbered.”
"After this meeting, we have to go find the eleventh great-grandfather to see if the clan can recruit another clan member to take over the fifteenth-great-grandfather's place and take over the store opened by the family in Yunwu Market, so that the fifteenth-great-grandfather can escape. Return to the clan.”
Just as Ling Pengyun was distracted, Ling Yunhong, the leader of the clan, spoke again at this time.
“Now that the first thing is over, it’s time to talk about the second thing.”
“More than two months ago, Yang Changxing, the supreme elder of the Yang family in Pingyun Mountain, once said He came to look for me." "His main purpose this time was to get me and the other side of the family to build the foundation. A total of three Foundation Builders, including the Fairy Crane King of the early period and a new Foundation Builder in the clan, entered the realm of Jiao Python Lake to hunt the monster beasts that had completed the Foundation Establishment stage, in order to obtain the contents of the monster beasts that had completed the Foundation Establishment stage. Dan, refining Bailingmen’s unique Xiaobailing water”
"After the completion of the matter, in addition to giving me, Ling, a free portion of Xiao Bai Ling Shui, Yang will also sell three pills that also have the effect of assisting in foundation building at the low price of three thousand spirit stones for one pulse protection pill. The Pulse Protecting Pill is sold to our Ling family.”
“ As for hunting down the foundation-building perfection monster, Yang Changxing is also somewhat confident. He has understood the art of returning to the ruins with flames recorded in the Yang family's art of returning to ruins with flames to the state of perfection. When the enemy has an opportunity, the three foundation builders from my Ling family will assist you. That’s all.”
“But this matter is too big, and it doesn’t involve me alone. It’s extremely dangerous, so I didn’t agree immediately. This time I wanted to tell you how you felt about it. What do you think?”
“After all , that Little Bailing Water and the Pulse Protecting Pill are both rare treasures for me, the Ling family.”
On the market, the value of a second-grade high-grade Pulse Protecting Pill is about four thousand. It will fluctuate up and down to about 5,000 spiritual stones.
The Great Elder Ling Jinxian frowned, thought about it carefully, and then said.
"The Yang family's Flame Return to Ruins technique is no weaker than the Blue Sea Heavenly Sword recorded in our Ling family's Blue Sea Manual. It is indeed possible that it can kill enemies across levels."
“There are only three foundation builders that I, the Ling clan, need to contribute to this time. Except that you have reached the middle stage of foundation establishment and have some ability to protect yourself from the monsters who have completed the foundation establishment, the other two are not strong enough. Strong."
"Although the Fairy Crane King has been in the foundation building for a while, he can only fight one or two monsters in the middle stage of the foundation building."
"Peng Yun, who still needs to participate in the battle. Both Pengxing and Pengxing have just joined the Foundation Establishment, and are not very strong. No matter who of them participates in the battle to kill the Foundation Establishment Perfect Monster, it will definitely be in great danger."
Hearing this, Ling Yunhong said helplessly.
“Of course I know the dangers involved, but the reward offered by the Yang family is not low. The small white spirit water and the three pulse protection pills sold to us at a low price can only strengthen half of the monks. The probability of breaking through the foundation building, but for me, the Ling family, It can be regarded as a good foundation-building spiritual object.”
“In addition, many talents have emerged from Pengzi’s generation, such as Pengcheng, who is ranked ninth in Pengzi’s generation, and Peng Lin, who is ranked tenth. Pengliang on the 16th, Pengshan on the 23rd, Pengshan on the 20th The five Pengqiu of Qi all have good talents, and they all have at least three spiritual roots."
"The family is now popular in alchemy, and the family has sufficient elixir resources, and they have this batch of elixirs supported by the family elixir. Medicine helps, these five are qualified The cultivation level of the Pengzi generation will definitely improve by leaps and bounds.”
“If nothing unexpected happens, these five people will be able to improve their cultivation level before the age of sixty, which is the best time to build a foundation. Elevate to the perfection of Qi training.”
"These five children are about the same age. When the time comes, with the financial resources of the clan, it may be difficult to provide foundation-building spiritual objects for these five children at the same time."
"Don't you want to see these five children, Uncle Eleven?" This child, like you and your eighteenth younger brother, obviously reached the perfection level of Qi training before the age of sixty. , but due to the lack of foundation-building spiritual creatures, he did not dare to build the foundation, and ended up regretting it for the rest of his life?"
Ling Yunhong killed dozens of foundation-building monsters, so naturally he understood how to kill the foundation-building perfect monster? difficulties, but the family's predicament in the next ten years or decades has become extremely clear. As the patriarch, he must stand up.
If not, the family will be like the small Qi-training family, burying their talents.
As soon as Ling Yunhong's words came out, a look of regret suddenly appeared on the faces of the elder Ling Ruxian, who was ranked eleventh in his generation, and Ling Yunqian, who was ranked eighteenth in his generation.
The two of them were originally the most qualified among their peers in the family. They had already improved their cultivation to the level of perfect Qi training early on. However, due to the fact that their family was still a small Qi training family decades ago, even if they had enough spiritual skills, Stone, but still dare not buy the foundation-building spiritual objects. Without the help of the foundation-building spiritual objects, breaking through the foundation-building alone will lead to death.
The reason why you dare not buy a foundation-building spiritual object is very simple. Even the cheapest second-level foundation-building spiritual object Pulse Protection Pill is worth at least four or five thousand spiritual stones, and a second-level The market price of low-grade magic weapons is around 1,500 to 2,000 spiritual stones.
With such temptation, in the era when demon cultivators were rampant, when the Ling family was still a small qi-training family, how could they dare to reveal their wealth.
Ling Ruxian and Ling Yunqian could only watch as they grew older and older. To this day, even if there are foundation-building spiritual objects, it is no longer possible to build a foundation.
Not a day went by that the two of them did not regret that they were not as decisive as Ling Yunhong when they were young, and directly tried to break through the foundation alone.
If you succeed, you will build a foundation; if you fail, you will die.
As for the fifth elder Ling Yunxi who is also here, she is different from Ling Ruxian and Ling Yunqian. She relied on the formation to reach the first-level mid-level. She plays a decisive role in the family and was appointed as an elder. Her cultivation qualifications He is not strong, and he only reached perfection in Qi training a few years ago.
At that time, she was already over 60 years old, even over 70 years old, so she didn’t have that big regret about foundation building.
Ling Yunhong saw that the three elders Ling Ruxian, Ling Yunqian, and Ling Yunxi were not trying to dissuade him, so he looked at Ling Pengyun and asked.
"Peng Yun, can you refine the mixed rock shield I gave you at the beginning of the year?"
"It has been sacrificed." Ling Pengyun nodded lightly.
"That's it. This time, I will follow Yang Changxing of the Yang family into the realm of Jiao Python Lake to hunt the foundation-building perfect monster. In addition to me and the Fairy Crane King who must participate, there is also a group of people who need to be dispatched. "Foundation-building monk, I plan to ask you to go with me, are you willing?" Ling Yunhong asked.
Not waiting for Ling Pengyun to respond, Ling Pengxing on the side looked sad and spoke.
"Third uncle, the eighth brother has only been in the foundation building for a year and has not much strength. Not only have I entered the foundation building for a year before the eighth brother, but I have also sacrificed what the third ancestor you gave me a year ago. That metallic second-order low-grade flying sword is very powerful. "With the help of my martial arts, the combat power is enough to defeat ordinary monks on the third level of foundation building. Let me go. Letting the eighth brother go will only increase his danger."
The head of the meeting hall is sitting. Ling Yunhong, who was the head of the table, felt relieved when he saw this.
When faced with danger, it is a good thing that Ling Pengxing can stand up and have the idea of replacing Ling Pengyun.
Ling Yunhong explained. "Peng Xing, Peng Yun is different from you. The second-level low-grade mixed rock shield he masters is a defensive magic weapon, and the skills that Peng Yun has practiced last a long time. Although he has not been in the Foundation Establishment for a short time, his Dantian spiritual power is probably It’s comparable to the strength of second- and third-level foundation-building monks.”
“There are such strong ones. The spiritual power supports Pengyun during the battle, and he can hold up the mixed rock shield and transform into a light screen to help me resist the attack."
"I can also escape without defense and attack with all my strength."
"As for you, Pengxing, you are in charge of the clan."
"The family seems to be safe, but the world of immortal cultivation has never been peaceful. If Pengyun, who has not mastered the second-level attack magic weapon, is allowed to take charge of the family, we and I, who are hundreds of thousands of miles away, will not be able to protect the boundary of Jiao Python Lake and let the evil people know about it. , the family will encounter a catastrophe, it is better for you to stay in charge of the family."
Ling Pengxing didn't say anything after hearing this.
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