Qingling Mountain, Xinghai County

Qingling Mountain is a branch of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range. The mountains are shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, making it impossible for mortals to see the entire mountain from the outside.

This mountain range is full of spiritual power and is one of the few rare holy places for cultivation in Xinghai County.

Qingling Mountain stretches for more than thousands of miles, and there are many rare and rare animals on it, as well as elixirs that are of great benefit to monks in their cultivation.

Among them, the place with the strongest aura in Qingling Mountain is Yunling Peak.

There is a family of monks living in Yunling Peak, it is the Ye family of Qingling Mountain.

Ye Tongxuan was sitting in a cave on the mountainside of Yunling Peak, meditating and practicing. The cave was surrounded by white spiritual energy, and Ye Tongxuan absorbed all the spiritual energy while breathing in and out.

The furnishings of the cave are simple, with only one futon. The futon is not made of ordinary things and can purify the air in the mansion, allowing the monks to concentrate more during their cultivation.

Ye Tongxuan formed a seal with his hands, his chest rose and fell with his breathing, and purple spiritual energy that was one foot long spurted out from his mouth.

His eyes were closed tightly, his expression was slightly painful, and the white and purple spiritual energy interacted with each other. The two kept switching and gradually condensed towards the Dantian.

This was the critical moment. There were faint beads of sweat on Ye Tongxuan's forehead, his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and he was enduring a lot of pain.

The purple and white Qi gradually solidified into the size of an egg, slowly solidified, and was absorbed by the Dantian.

The next moment, a ray of spiritual energy burst out from his body, like a sharp sword, hitting the wall. Fortunately, the cave was blessed by a spiritual formation and did not cause too much damage. However, the futon under him was not so lucky.

, was torn in half by the tyrannical spiritual energy.

Ye Tongxuan opened his eyes, with uncontrollable joy in his eyes, and a smile on his lips. He had finally reached the seventh level of Qi refining and entered the later stages of Qi refining.

The Ye family has been rooted in Yunling Peak for more than two hundred years. After three generations of hard work by monks, Yunling Peak was finally cultivated into a third-level mid-grade spiritual vein, which can be used by five foundation-building monks at the same time.

The cultivation of monks is divided into nine realms: Qi refining, foundation building, purple palace, golden elixir, Yuanying, transformation into gods, integration, transcending tribulations, and Mahayana.

After refining the Nascent Soul, the monks can escape from this mortal world, ascend in the daytime, and become gods respected by all.

The cultivation of monks cannot be separated from the assistance of external objects. In addition to the spiritual energy that exists in the world, there is also the assistance of external objects such as spiritual pills, spiritual stones, spiritual objects, and spiritual veins.

If the spiritual energy absorbed by a monk cannot offset the consumption of his own spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy in his Dantian is exhausted, there is a risk of his cultivation regressing.

Therefore, the struggle over spiritual objects and land is the core of the monks' struggle.

Yunling Peak is more than a thousand feet high, and there is a spiritual gathering array set up by the founder of the Ye family on it, which tightly gathers the spiritual energy in the mountain around Yunling Peak, making the spiritual energy of Yunling Peak even more intense.

In addition, Yunling Peak itself contains a third-level spiritual vein. With the blessing of the two, the spiritual energy here is naturally many times higher than the outside world.

The higher you go up Yunling Peak, the denser the spiritual energy on it becomes. However, the top of Yunling Peak is now the place of cultivation for Ye Yongzhang, the head of the Ye family.

Thirty years ago, Ye Yongzhang reached the foundation-building perfection and was only one step away from the Zi Mansion. He never expected to be attacked during an outing. Although he was lucky enough to survive by relying on the fourth-level spiritual talisman left in the family, from then on

His foundation is greatly damaged, and his hope of promotion to the Zifu is very slim.

After this incident, the prestige of the Ye family was greatly damaged. The scope of mortal influence under their control continued to shrink, and the number of businesses under their control also continued to decrease.

Ten years ago, the Shen family, also a Ji-building family, launched an attack on Nanshanfang City, the largest city under the Ye family. The Ye family suffered heavy losses and Nanshanfang City fell.

Without this largest market, the Ye family's income dropped sharply. The Ye family, which was already in decline, became even worse after this battle.

As the family declined, most of the clan members returned to Yunling Peak to huddle together for warmth, in order to maintain the final dignity of a foundation-building family.

The foundation of the clan leader Ye Yongzhang was damaged, and his lifespan was also greatly affected. If no one breaks through to the late foundation-building level in the next thirty years, Yunling Peak may also change hands.

After the nest is overturned, how can the eggs be intact? The family is ruined, and the clan members can only become the lowest status in the world of immortal cultivation.

Under the pressure of genocide, the Ye family members held together as much as possible. Even if there were conflicts within the family before, at a critical moment of life and death, they are now united and united to the outside world.

There are currently three Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Ye family, and only the clan leader has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment. There are more than 200 clan members who are able to practice, and only fifteen of them have reached the late stage of Qi Refining.

Among the younger generation in the family, Ye Tongxuan's cultivation level far exceeds that of his peers. While his peers are still struggling to figure out how to break through to the middle stage of Qi refining, he is already far ahead.

Ye Tongxuan stood up and walked out of the cave. The sudden bright light made him squint his eyes. It took him a while to get used to the sunlight.

"Okay, okay, Tongxuan is in the late stage of Qi refining at a young age, so he will definitely be able to build foundations in the future."

The speaker was a thin old man with white hair and beard. The folds on his face were squeezed together with joy. He was looking at Ye Tongxuan with a loving expression.

Although his eyes were blinded by the sunlight, Ye Tongxuan could tell by his voice that the speaker was Ye Yongkang, who was the same generation as the head of the Ye family.

Ye Yongkang is now more than 130 years old and is in the early stages of building his foundation. Because of his age, he has no hope of further progress on the path in this life.

Originally, with his talent, he had the opportunity to take a further step in his cultivation. But at that time, the family was burdened with trivial matters and did not have enough time to practice. Furthermore, at that time, the family was in trouble both internally and externally, and lacked resources. Therefore, a great opportunity was wasted and hope was lost.

Therefore, he concentrates on family affairs, discovers potential younger generations in the family, and helps the family develop. Ye Tongxuan was able to come to this mountainside to practice, largely because of his gift.

"Seventh Grandpa is overly praised. Tongxuan's achievements today are inseparable from Seventh Grandpa's care."

After hearing these words, Ye Yongkang smiled even more happily. Although Ye Tongxuan is young, he has always been modest and cautious and will not get carried away. This is why Ye Yongkang is optimistic about him.

In monks' cultivation, in addition to their own talents, their character is also an important factor that restricts whether they can progress further.

Ye Tongxuan put away his smile and said: "Even though I am now in the late stage of Qi refining and have a chance of building a foundation, without the help of the foundation building pill, the probability of building a foundation in the future is probably only one in ten thousand."

Ye Yongkang sighed and said: "Now the family is in a difficult situation, and it is extremely difficult to maintain daily expenses. Exchanging the Foundation Establishment Pill requires a lot of resources, and the family may not be able to come up with it for a while."

The family is declining day by day. Even though there are younger members with good abilities, the family is unable to devote the corresponding resources to train them, thus wasting the great training opportunities and ultimately leaving everyone behind.

The younger generation is unable to get ahead, resulting in the family's strength not being able to rise, the family's strength not being able to improve, and being unable to obtain more resources. This is a vicious cycle. The strength within the family will only get worse and worse.

Even if he could take out the Foundation Building Pill, there are still many monks in the family who are stuck in the late stage of Qi refining. In terms of seniority, Ye Tongxuan would have to wait for several years.

Ye Tongxuan knew that this problem would not be solved in a short while, so he quickly changed the subject, "Why is Grandpa Seven waiting for me outside the cave?"

"I felt a wave of spiritual energy coming from me, so I followed the traces and came here. I originally thought it was some clan member from the word-keeping generation who made a breakthrough here, but I didn't expect it was you. I'm really happy and congratulated."

The Shouzi generation of the Ye family is the previous generation of the Tongzi generation, that is, the generation of Ye Tongxuan's uncles. The monks of the Shouzi generation are relatively older, and some of them have indeed been stuck in the middle stage of Qi refining for several years.

Ye Yongkang continued: "Originally, according to family regulations, adult clan members need to accept family tasks and contribute to the family. However, I have discussed it with the clan leader and others.

Your situation is quite special, so it’s better to concentrate on your cultivation for now, and you don’t have to worry about family matters.”

Ye Tongxuan looked happy and quickly thanked: "Thank you, Grandpa Qi."

According to the rules of the Ye family, the family will arrange certain tasks for all monks who reach the age of eighteen.

These tasks include killing monsters, stationing on one side, or working with the monks in the family to eliminate dissidents.

There are not enough manpower in the family, so they can only recruit members of the clan who have just grown up to complete the task.

It’s not like the Ye family didn’t know that this was a way to quench their thirst by drinking poison, but now the Ye family was desperate and could only think about it for now.

These assigned tasks take up a lot of time, and the time for cultivation is bound to be reduced a lot. Now that Ye Tongxuan does not have to accept tasks from the family for the time being, he has enough time to concentrate on cultivation.
Chapter completed!