Chapter 2 The Cultivation of Immortals has many twists and turns
As Lu Ping's retreat, his cave is located in Qingshan Zonghou Mountain, which is isolated from the world and relatively quiet.
Not only that, in order not to be disturbed during the retreat, Lu Ping set up a set of restrictions outside the cave, which could resist the attack of a Jindan ancestor and block him out.
Naturally, only Lu Ping can control this set of restrictions.
Now, although Lu Ping has become a consciousness and cannot exert his strength, logically speaking, he cannot open the cave's restrictions.
But as a conscious body, Lu Ping's situation is somewhat special.
The ban does not impose any restrictions on Lu Ping.
With just one attempt, he successfully passed through the restriction and arrived outside the cave.
This quickly gave him some ideas.
"Being able to pass through restrictions at will, the state of consciousness is truly wonderful."
"Some restricted secret places, restricted areas, etc. in the world of immortality must not be able to hinder my steps. I can enter and exit at will."
"Based on this assumption, wouldn't there be no place in this world that can lock me? No restrictions can stop me. Am I equivalent to a scout who can go up to the world and travel through water at will?"
"In general, becoming a conscious body is not a bad thing. As long as it is used properly, it can produce some unexpected effects."
"I can still keep wandering."
This is a bit interesting. While thinking secretly, Lu Ping drifted out of the forbidden area.
After a while, I met two young monks who were walking together.
The two have ordinary looks, they are in their early thirties, and they are wearing green flowing shirts. Judging from their clothing, they are disciples of the Qingshan Sect.
The dress code of the disciples of the Qingshan Sect was set by Lu Ping back then, so you will definitely recognize it.
While Lu Ping was looking around, the two of them were not aware of Lu Ping's presence at all, and were still talking to themselves, as if they were chatting in daily life.
"Senior Brother Zhao, you have been practicing in various places in the Chu Kingdom in the past few months. Have you gained anything?"
"reward?"
Zhao Ziliang, who was called Senior Brother Zhao, shook his head, "There is no harvest. On the contrary, it is hard to explain, and I almost fell into the hands of a few casual cultivators."
"No way, it's so dangerous."
The disciple who spoke looked full of longing: "I have been a member of the sect for six years, but I have never gone down the mountain to practice, and I don't know what it is like to go out to practice."
"Senior Brother Zhao, can you tell me the details?"
Hearing this, Zhao Ziliang smiled and said, "I'll tell you the story of my experience in detail when I have time in the future."
After saying this, he looked towards the direction of the sect's main hall.
"The leader has called us together this time, perhaps to discuss some important matter. Let's go as soon as possible, so as not to lose time."
"Um."
The two of them quickened their pace and did not dare to slack off.
Hearing the conversation, Lu Ping, who was eavesdropping on the side, had a thought.
What does the head of Qingshan Sect call his disciples for?
It's better to come by chance than to come well.
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Ping followed the two of them and drifted towards the sect's main hall.
As the founder of the Qingshan Sect, he would naturally go to see such important events as the sect meeting.
It just so happens that I haven't seen my children for a long time, so I have to take a look at the situation of the disciples in the sect.
Because he was moving too slowly, Lu Ping was still quite far away from the sect's main hall. Along the way, he had the opportunity to pay attention to the scenery along the way.
As the seat of the Qingshan Sect, Qinglian Mountain occupies a vast area and is truly green water and green mountains.
In the entire Qinglian Mountain, the spiritual energy is relatively thin at the foot of the mountain. As you go up the Qinglian Mountain, the spiritual energy gradually becomes purer and richer.
Most of the disciples of the sect live on the mountainside. Upward are the sect's medicine garden and spiritual field area. Further up are the weapon refining rooms, alchemy rooms and other places. The sect's main hall is also there.
The area on the top of the mountain is where the head sect and the middle and higher-ups of the sect live.
The back mountain area where Lu Ping retreats is actually a small hill behind the top of the mountain, where the spiritual energy is the strongest, commonly known as the back mountain.
Observing along the way, Qinglian Mountain has changed little compared to what I remembered.
The areas passed through were limited, and Lu Ping could not see any changes for the time being.
After arriving at the sect's main hall, Lu Ping floated directly into the hall and found that more than twenty disciples had gathered in the hall, and the atmosphere was solemn.
Three figures were sitting in high positions, looking very quiet, waiting for the remaining disciples to arrive.
Lu Ping glanced at the situation in the palace, and his eyes fell on the three figures.
"Far mountains, Changfeng, Zhiwei..."
After thirty years of seclusion, when he saw his children again, Lu Ping couldn't help but drift forward and leaned closer to where his children were.
These three people are Lu Ping's eldest son Lu Yuanshan, second son Lu Changfeng, and third daughter Lu Zhiwei.
Among them, Lu Yuanshan is the leader.
Lu Changfeng and Lu Zhiwei are the elders of the sect.
Currently, there are only three elders left in Qingshan Sect, all of whom are monks in the late stages of Qi training.
The only person who was not present was Xu Mengyuan, the third elder, who needed to be in Guangde County at all times.
Guangde County is the closest town to the Qingshan Sect and the only town where the Qingshan Sect still shelters. It has a population of tens of thousands and is famous for its textile industry.
Since the people in this town are occasionally attacked by monsters or demonic cultivators, in order to protect them, the Qingshan Sect has arranged for a cultivator to be in charge and will never leave unless there is something important.
Considering the safety of Guangde County, Xu Mengyuan still stayed in Guangde County during this conference and could not get away.
The others who couldn't be present were the two disciples from the sect's shop. They were assigned to Qinghefang City and were responsible for taking care of the sect's shops, and they couldn't get away.
In addition, all the disciples who could be summoned were summoned, which shows that this meeting is of great significance.
While Lu Ping was sizing up the people present, disciples entered the hall one after another.
After feeling the solemn atmosphere, everyone remained silent, lowered their heads, and waited for the conference to begin.
After everyone arrived, Lu Yuanshan finally spoke.
"Now that everyone is here, let me get straight to the point."
His gaze swept over everyone.
"We are summoned this time to discuss a major decision for the sect. All of you present today will participate in it, and it is related to the future survival of the sect, so this meeting is held."
As soon as these words came out, the disciples all showed serious expressions, thinking that this meeting was indeed not simple.
So everyone listened quietly.
"Everyone knows that the Qingshan Sect has been inherited for ninety years."
"Since our ancestor went into seclusion, in the next thirty years, the sect has been in turmoil and has experienced many hardships. As a result, the sect has been unable to recover and has continued to decline."
"Although our sect holds the founding order, according to the patriarchal system, the Qingshan Sect still has a ten-year protection period and will not be attacked or annexed by other sects. However, you all know the current predicament of the Qingshan Sect. It has been worse than a year ago.
One year, if we don’t make changes as soon as possible, I may not be able to survive even three years.”
"Maybe you think I'm being alarmist, why don't you let me calculate the current income status of the sect."
Lu Yuanshan took out a booklet. This is the sect's account book. It records the sect's income status. It is very detailed and true.
"Before the ancestor went into seclusion, the sect had a lot of profits, including the sect's charity hall, the annual gifts provided by several vassal families, the high production capacity of the spiritual fields and medicinal fields, plus a few small shops and other scattered things.
scattered income.”
"With these, we can bring a lot of income every year, which is enough to support the operation of a Jindan Sect and still have a surplus."
"But the good times did not last long. As the sect's power declined, its prestige was greatly reduced. Up to now, the sect's main income has almost been cut off. It can barely survive by relying on shops, medicine gardens and spiritual fields. It can bring some income, but
It’s still not enough to keep the sect running.”
Many disciples present could roughly guess the income status of the sect. There are only a few people in the sect, and the manpower and capabilities are limited, so it cannot support multiple industries.
The Qingshan Sect currently has no monks at the foundation level or above. As early as thirteen years ago, during the Lushan County Demonic Rebellion, the monks at this level were almost exhausted.
It is worth mentioning that the last female cultivator in the crystallization stage of the sect also had an unexpected incident a few years ago and disappeared.
Because the sect does not have foundation-building monks, the sect's sphere of influence has been shrinking for more than ten years, its prestige has plummeted, most of its industrial interests have been lost, and it has no longer even the ability to train foundation-building monks.
The disciples all knew how difficult it was for the sect, but the words coming from Lu Yuanshan's mouth instantly made the disciples feel their throats go dry, they sensed something was wrong, and they felt a little panicked.
The sect may really be on the verge of survival and needs to make major decisions to reverse the status quo. Otherwise, Lu Yuanshan would not announce the sect's accounting status, which is very unusual.
Scanning everyone's expressions, Lu Yuanshan compared the account books and began to repeat them one by one.
"Let's talk about the medicine garden first. Since the medicine field only has three acres, it only grows some first-level elixirs. The annual income brought to the sect by selling these elixirs is about one hundred and fifty spirit stones."
"Then there is the spiritual field, ten acres of spiritual field. Putting aside the spiritual rice consumption within the sect, the annual profit is about 530 spiritual stones."
"These two benefits can be said to be negligible to the sect."
"As for the sect shops in Qinghefang City..."
Speaking of this, a hint of helplessness appeared on Lu Yuanshan's face. This chapter has been completed!