Chapter 554 The number of Ling monks is growing rapidly (2200 words, please subscribe)
Two and a half years later.
This winter, the snow was heavier than usual.
Countless snowflakes as big as half a fist fell from the sky, and a biting cold wind blew across the earth.
The white snow falling on the ground in the sky is at least half a leg high. Countless white snow falling on the lake in Lingxiao Qianxing Lake is condensed into a thick layer of ice by the icy white snow.
But even in such weather, there were countless monks of different ages wearing Ling's robes, not afraid of the cold, braving the biting cold wind, running across the ice towards Lingxiao Qianxing Lake from various places.
A few days later, these monks finally arrived outside the ancestral temple on Lingyun Island of the Ling clan in the early morning of the Spring Festival.
At this time, there were as many as five hundred monks gathered here wearing Ling's robes.
The five hundred monks were arranged in an orderly manner. The ten people at the front of the crowd were none other than the "Five Tigers" of the Ling family and the "Five Sons" of the Ling family.
"Uncle Pengqiu, Aunt Penglin, why did the family celebrate the Spring Festival together and not return to the family this time? Do you know where Aunt Penglin went?"
Ling Chengping, who was clever and eccentric and had been brought up by Ling Pengyun since she was a child, glanced around and saw that the surrounding tribesmen were celebrating the Spring Festival together as they were five years ago, and they also did not see Ling Penglin, who had a good relationship with them. She frowned suddenly.
Under doubt, she looked at Ling Pengqiu, the leader of the Five Tigers of the Ling Family, and asked him.
“I don’t know. In recent years, I have been having trouble contacting Sister Penglin using the messenger. However, I have been to the ancestral temple and looked at Sister Penglin’s life cards. Still intact.”
"I guess...Sister Penglin was arranged by Brother Pengyun or Grandpa Yunhong to be stationed in a key place. It is inconvenient to disclose it to the public!"
With her white hair and face, Ling Pengqiu, whose face was full of wrinkles, said carefully.
Since the construction of Lingxiao Qianxing Lake, the Ling family has held a collective Spring Festival every five years to call on many tribesmen outside to return home and reunite to strengthen cohesion.
As for not holding it every year, it’s just because the clan members who are away are in various places, and returning to the clan every year is too time-consuming.
"Garrison in an important place? What kind of important place can allow Aunt Penglin, a veteran second-level array mage, to take charge?"
After hearing this, Ling Chengping lowered his head and started thinking curiously. .
At the same time, an inconspicuous young monk among the five hundred monks also heard what Ling Pengqiu said just now, and his eyes suddenly flashed with a strange light.
After a while, when the blazing sun in the sky slowly rose, a ray of sunlight fell on the earth, and a ray of light flew rapidly from the distant sky at this moment.
When the five hundred monks outside the ancestral temple saw this scene, they all raised their heads and watched, with a look of pride on their faces.
After a while, the escaping light also stopped above the Ling Family Ancestral Temple.
Three figures jumped to the top of the crowd.
These three people are Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Yunhong.
At this moment, the more than 500 monks bowed in unison to Ling Pengyun, Ling Yunhong, and Yan Siyi, who were standing at the top, with expressions of respect on their faces.
“Welcome to the Patriarch, the Supreme Elder, and the Second Elder!”
A few years ago, Yan Siyi cooked with the help of the flesh and blood of several golden elixir monsters that Ling Pengyun killed in his early years. With the help of spiritual food, I have entered a state of perfect foundation building.
She is also the one with the highest cultivation level in the entire Ling family, except Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong.
In addition, his spiritual chef has already been promoted to the second-level high-grade realm, and he is a veteran second-level high-grade spiritual chef.
Ling Pengyun, the wife of Jin Dan Zhenren, has an extraordinary status and special status. She married into the Ling clan and has been regarded as a relative of the Ling clan for a long time. In the eyes of the Ling clan, she has long been one of their own.
For this reason, she was entrusted with an important task by the family and nominated as the second elder, specializing in teaching the clan members who have the talent of spiritual cooking.
Furthermore, in the hearts of young and old of the Ling clan, it is very clear that Yan Siyi, the third strongest person of the Ling clan, will have the opportunity to break through the golden elixir in the future. Everyone in the Ling clan also regards Yan Siyi as a In the future, there will be another Supreme Elder of the Ling clan, who can be said to be respected by everyone in the Ling clan.
Ling Pengyun, his wife, and the clan leader Ling Yunhong looked at the more than 500 clan members who greeted them in unison, with a hint of joy on their faces.
Clan leader Ling Yunhong smiled and waved his hand to signal everyone to stop, then he smiled kindly.
"There are many new young faces among the clansmen who are here during the Spring Festival this year, which is a good thing!"
After saying this, he looked at the five hundred monks at the front. A middle-aged man with a steady face and a loyal appearance greeted him.
"Cheng Yuan, as usual, recount what has happened in the clan in the past five years."
This loyal middle-aged man was selected into the Five Tigers of the Ling clan precisely because of his good Lingzhi talent. One of them is Ling Chengyuan.
Since he joined the Foundation Establishment, he has also been valued by the family because he is relatively stable and has a good overall view. Through the family members who are good at deploying various spiritual objects in the family, handling various chores, etc The interference system has been trained for a long time.
Five years ago, when Ling Chengyuan achieved success in his studies, he was tested by the family's senior officials. He was unanimously elected by the family's senior officials as the family elder, in charge of all family affairs.
In the fifteen years since the Ling family transformed this land into Qianxing Lake, the development of the Ling family has changed every year. Ling's foundation-building monks are popping up like bamboo shoots.
Under such circumstances, more than ten years ago, Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun had discussed that only those with foundation-building cultivation could serve as family elders.
Currently, there are eleven Foundation Establishment Realm elders in the Ling clan, including the Great Elder Ling Chengyuan, the Second Elder Yan Siyi, the Third Elder Array Master Ling Pengli, the Fourth Elder the Second-Level Spirit Planter Ling Pengliang, Ling Pengqiu, the “Food Master” of Lingxiaofang City, the fifth elder, Ling Chengping, the sixth elder and second-level silkworm breeder, and Ling Chenggang, the second-level weapon refiner and seventh elder...
Ling Penglin is actually the same age as Ling Pengqiu. She should have been selected as one of the "Five Tigers" of the middle-aged generation in the family. However, considering that she only has ten or twenty years left in her life, she is already old. body, thus rejecting the family's intention to include her in the Five Tigers.
Although Ling Pengqiu does not have much longevity, due to the high quality of the life-enhancing substances he takes, he still has about forty years of life left, which can barely be considered a middle-aged man.
Ling Pengliang, the fourth elder, is currently managing some idle plants and taking care of the spiritual plants on the spiritual plant island that his family has developed in Lingxiao Qianxing Lake.
Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong originally intended to place him in an important position to manage some family affairs.
However, in the early years, Ling Pengliang managed all kinds of spiritual creature mobilization and chores in Huaishui County by himself, which made him mentally and physically exhausted. He was not interested in this matter and just wanted to be a leisurely farmer.
Ling Pengqiu and Ling Chengping won't say much.
Ling Chenggang entered the realm of foundation building when he was sixty-eight years old, and he was relatively lucky. Originally, he had been stationed in the Huangyan steel vein discovered by his family at the boundary of Lingxiao Qianxing Lake. The magic weapon is specially made from Huangyan steel mined there.
Through that opportunity, he also upgraded his weapon refining to the second level when he was in the Qi training realm. He can be regarded as a talented weapon refiner.
In addition, he is also a first-level high-grade puppet master who is good at refining puppets in the form of wooden puppets and iron puppets.
Today, more than 70% of the puppets produced by the family are basically made by him.
The remaining four elders were all created by the Ling clan through the accumulation of a large number of foundation-building spiritual objects. They were quite decent and guarded various places for the Ling clan.
After returning to his thoughts, the honest-looking Ling Chengyuan heard the order and immediately walked to the side of Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong who were in the first place. Facing the five hundred Ling clan members present, he stood up from his arms. He took out a book, opened a page, and murmured carefully.
“It has been another five years of peace and joy. Although the family has not changed much in these five years, it is good to be free from disasters.”
“And what is worth mentioning is that with the The number of monks and mortals in the family increases. Every year, the number of family members increases. Originally, there could be more than 30 to 40 people with spiritual roots."
"Today, the number of monks in the clan has reached 858, which is more than five years ago. At that time, there were more than 190 people. ”
"Currently, there are six generations in the clan, and the six generations are named Yun, Xiao, Peng, Cheng, Wan, and Li."
"There is only one clan member named Yun, and one clan member named Xiao. Two, thirty-six members of the Peng generation. There are fifty-eight members of the Cheng Zi generation, 231 people of the Wan Zi generation, and 530 members of the Li generation. "
"This time there are a total of 530 people from the collective Spring Festival. Eight tribesmen arrived, and Three hundred and twenty clan members are in important positions, either managing the shop or stationed somewhere, and are unable to return."
"The number of mortals under the family has been investigated and counted by the family monks. There are a total of 1,056,896 people."
"Because many of the ordinary people in Lingxiao Qianxing Lake have been sent back to Huaishui County, there are only more than 100,000 ordinary people. Tribe.”
"The remaining more than ninety ordinary people are all in Huaishui County, Yan Kingdom."
"..."
"I have finished talking about the small changes in the family in the past five years. "
After speaking for a short while, Ling Chengxia closed the yellow leather book in his hand, said something to everyone present, and then returned to the large group.
“It is a good thing that our tribe is more prosperous.”
"This Spring Festival, all members of the clan will distribute five additional spiritual fruits of the same level as their cultivation level to have fun together."
Ling Yunhong, the clan leader, said with a smile.
When the more than five hundred Ling clan members present heard this, they all looked overjoyed and praised the clan leader Ling Yunhong for his wise move.
The patriarch Ling Yunhong waved his hand and called everyone into the spacious ancestral temple.
Everyone stood in the hall of the ancestral temple, and they all spoke to the hundreds of spiritual tablets of the ancestors of the Ling family placed deep in the ancestral temple.
"Junior, Ling Pengyun, the eighth eldest son of the Peng generation, is here to pay homage to our ancestors. I hope our ancestors will bless our clan's prosperity!"
"Junior, Ling Pengyun's wife Yan Siyi is here..."
"..."
After finishing the tedious memorial work, everyone gathered in a square with hundreds of large round tables, eating and chatting together, and enjoying the joy of family reunion during the Spring Festival.
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(End of this chapter)