The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Just as Xu Chengsheng and his crew's boat was gradually approaching Half Moon Island.

On an island three hundred miles south of Half Moon Island, two monks stood on a high observation tower, observing the movements on the sea with their backs turned while chatting casually.

"Brother Jiyuan, didn't the main clan send the old clan leader and the eleventh uncle to bring the clan members to support us? They arrived at Maple Leaf Market half a month ago, didn't they?
Why haven't they arrived yet? Do you think they might have gone around from somewhere else?"

The person asking the questions was a very young female cultivator. She was Xu Jicai, the 184th in the Xu family's Ji generation.

"No, if you want to go to Half Moon Island, you must pass through here. The old patriarch and his men will not take a detour, and there is no need to take a detour. Be patient and wait for two more days. Maybe we will get there one day."

Xu Jiyuan answered his cousin's questions seriously, but at the same time he did not dare to let his guard down at all.

"Time flies. When I came to Half Moon Island with Uncle Zhifeng, I was only sixteen years old and only at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and my cultivation has broken through to the second level of foundation building. If I have the chance, I really want to go back to the clan mountain to take a look. I don't know what the family is like now.

My parents had told me before about my uncle’s Golden Elixir Ceremony a few years ago. I was so excited about it and only regretted that I couldn’t attend it in person.

Brother Jiyuan, how are you? Do you miss Nanfeng Mountain? Do you want to go back and take a look?"

Hearing this question from his cousin, Xu Jiyuan almost shed tears.

You know, Xu Jicai has only been here for more than ten years, but he was one of the first people to come to Half Moon Island with Xu Zhengji. Calculating the time, it has been twenty years since then.

Although he was born in the mortal world, his parents were not monks and had passed away long ago.

But he was a family man. When he left his family, he had just been married for five years and his partner was pregnant.

If he had taken the initiative to talk to the family about this matter at that time, he would most likely not have been sent out. However, as a member of the family, he decided to obey the arrangement and resolutely followed his twenty-ninth uncle to a place tens of millions of miles away to help the family develop this place.

Although he had never complained about this over the years, he still couldn't help missing his fellow Taoist son who was far away.

A few years later, his Taoist partner sent him a message saying that their son's spiritual roots had been detected, and that he had two spiritual roots with excellent talent. This really made him happy for many days, but at the same time, his longing for his relatives increased.

Originally, he was going to ask his twenty-ninth great uncle to go back to the family to take a look, but when he saw that the family members had no free time at all and that there was a severe shortage of manpower, he could only suppress this idea deep in his heart.

Just like this, another seven or eight years passed, until some time ago, when the clan members accidentally struck upon a mineral vein while digging at Linghu Lake, and his twenty-ninth uncle and his eleventh uncle decided to ask the main clan for help, he finally had hope of reuniting with his wife and children.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when his twenty-ninth uncle was sending a message to the family, he also passed a message back to his fellow Taoist.

He asked her to sign up for this operation with her son. He no longer wanted to endure the pain of being separated from her.

He also had a big gift ready for his wife, which was the foundation-building talisman.

Although the Xu family is not short of foundation-building talismans now, this does not mean that every cultivator in the Xu family has the opportunity to obtain it and gain the opportunity to build the foundation.

If you think about it a little, you will know that it is impossible. Those who can obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill and the Foundation Establishment Talisman are still a minority among the tribesmen.

Unfortunately, neither he nor his partner are among the minority.

As he was born in the mortal world, he had no one to rely on or elders to help him, so he did not have any innate advantages.

After breaking through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, he first chose the weapon refining technique, thinking that he could become a weapon refiner in the future and accumulate more contribution points in exchange for foundation-building spiritual objects.

Unfortunately, his talent for refining magic weapons was very poor. After three years in the business, he had never produced a finished magic weapon.

This also made him realize that the path of refining weapons was not feasible. He tried to change his career and learned how to make talismans, but still achieved nothing. Not only did he lose a lot of salary, but he also lost a lot of time for cultivation.

Originally thinking that this was how my life would be, I married a fellow Taoist who was a casual cultivator, arranged by my family. After that, I was sent to Half Moon Island.

He has the four spiritual roots of gold, wood, water and fire. Among them, the water spiritual root is the longest. His cultivation speed was extremely slow before.

But since coming here, his luck seemed to have changed. Not only did his cultivation speed increase greatly, but after accidentally coming into contact with spiritual plants, he actually showed an extraordinary talent.

In addition, the family has always implemented a double salary policy for the clan members sent here.

Therefore, six years ago, he finally used the family contribution points he obtained from cultivating spiritual medicines and managing spiritual fields, plus his salary over the years, to exchange for a foundation-building talisman.

After obtaining the foundation-building talisman, he did not rush for success, but calmed down and polished his spiritual power for a period of time. He also took the initiative to find his uncle Zhifeng and applied to come to this island with water spiritual veins for a breakthrough.

Finally his request was approved. Xu Zhifeng took the opportunity of patrolling the nearby waters to personally send him to the island, and also instructed the two Foundation Establishment brothers who were on guard on the island to take good care of him.

In this way, with the blessing of the water spirit vein and the foundation-building talisman, he successfully broke through in one fell swoop and joined the ranks of the Xu family's foundation-building cultivators.

From then on, both his status and income have increased significantly. In addition to exchanging his annual salary for cultivation resources, there is still a lot of surplus.

He did not waste any of these, but accumulated them all together, preparing to exchange them for a Foundation Establishment Pill for his Taoist partner who also had the four spiritual roots.

This wish was finally realized three months ago. No, it was not fully realized yet, because although his family contribution points had been deducted, he had not yet obtained the foundation-building spiritual object.

Xu Zhifeng told him that all the spiritual objects for foundation building that he brought with him when he left home had been used up.

However, he was also warned not to worry too much, as the old patriarch and other tribesmen would bring another batch over this time.

So he was looking forward to it very much. In addition to looking forward to his relatives, he was also looking forward to the arrival of the foundation-building spiritual object.

As for why he only considered his fellow Taoist priest’s foundation building and why he did not consider his son.

This is because the Xu family has a rule that for those with earth spiritual roots or above, the spiritual objects for building the foundation will be provided by the family, so the family members and the individual do not need to worry about it and can just focus on cultivation.

To be honest, his son made him proud. He started practicing at the age of five. When he was eighteen, he had broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining and was about to build the foundation.

His son's application to come to Half Moon Island went through quite a lot of twists and turns before it was barely approved by the family's top management.

Originally, the family had very strict protection measures for geniuses with two spiritual roots, and generally did not allow them to leave the family before building a foundation.

In the end, it was his Taoist partner and son who went to the family meeting hall together, met with the current patriarch of the family, Xu Zhikai, and explained the situation, and only then did they receive special mercy.

Thinking of this, Xu Jiyuan turned his thoughts back and said to his sister with his back turned:

"Yes, of course I do. I often dream of myself practicing magic, drinking and chatting with my tribesmen on the mountain." "Then brother, can we return to our clan after the reinforcements arrive?"

Xu Jicai continued to ask, her experience was different from that of her cousin.

She herself has very good aptitude, with the three spiritual roots of water, earth and wood. She also has an extraordinary talent in making talismans.

Although he has not yet broken through to become a second-level low-grade talisman maker because the time he has spent on breaking through the foundation-building process is too short, it is only a matter of time.

With the help of the art of talisman making, she accumulated contribution points very quickly, and she had already collected most of them before leaving the family.

After arriving at Half Moon Island, it only took him one year to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

After taking it, there were no accidents and she successfully broke through the foundation building stage. In terms of time, she was ahead of her cousin Xu Jiyuan.

Unfortunately, although her parents are also cultivators, they have the worst five spiritual roots and will never have the chance to build a foundation in this lifetime.

In addition, her parents were both over 70 years old when they gave birth to her. If you calculate their age now, they are already over 100 years old, and are not far from the life expectancy of 200 years.

Therefore, she was particularly eager to go back to visit her family. When she learned that many tribesmen were coming this time, this was the first thing she thought of.

However, she asked Uncle Eleven several times, but the latter kept avoiding the question and never gave her a definite answer.

After thinking about it at this moment, he began to ask his cousin about this question again.

After hearing Xu Jicai's question, Xu Jiyuan pondered for a long time and didn't know how to answer. If he told the truth, the answer might not be what his cousin wanted to hear.

The reason is very simple. The reason why the family sent so many people to support this time is to mine the newly discovered mineral veins on the island and clean up the waters around Half Moon Island.

Both of these tasks require a large number of manpower. Just think about it, at this critical juncture, there are already insufficient manpower, so how could we allow a foundation-building cultivator like Xu Jicai to return to the tribe?

But that certainly can't be said. Besides, as far as he knows, there is a solution to this problem.

"Don't worry, sister. There is a high possibility that you can return to the family."

"Really? Brother, you are not trying to comfort me, right?"

Xu Jicai actually knew in her heart that now was the time to hire people, so she thought her cousin was just trying to comfort her and didn't take it seriously.

"Of course it's true. Why would I lie to you? Do you remember that a member of the tribe once proposed to Uncle Twenty-Ninth that he wanted to recruit some priests to join us and help us clean up the surrounding sea areas?"

"Of course I know this. I know the tribesman who proposed this. He is my cousin. But wasn't this proposal rejected by my twenty-ninth uncle on the grounds of safety?"

“It was rejected at that time, but some time ago, before I was sent to this island, another member of the tribe brought up this matter.

The twenty-ninth uncle and the Zhifeng uncle did not reject it outright, but replied that they would discuss this issue carefully after the old clan leader and his people came. I think there is a great hope that this proposal will be passed. "

Xu Jiyuan analyzed the situation for Xu Jicai based on the information he had.

"That's unlikely, right? If recruiting priests was a hopeless prospect before, then since the mineral veins were discovered on the island, this avenue has been completely cut off, right?
Just think about it, how many cultivators would be covetous of a mineral vein worth hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit stones?
Our own family members are afraid that someone will accidentally leak it out and cause disaster, so how can we allow outsiders to get involved and know this news? "

After hearing Xu Jicai's clear and logical analysis, Xu Jiyuan was very pleased. He thought it was very good that his cousin did not lose her judgment just because she wanted to go home to see her parents.

“Sister, you misunderstood. We are not recruiting guest officials to help with mining, but to help clear the monsters in the sea area around Half Moon Island. We will not allow them to set foot on the main island.

Think about it, if they can't get to the island, how can they possibly discover the secrets of the mineral veins on the island?"

"Then the recruited worshippers must have a place to stay. We can't let them stay in the cabin of the sea boat all the time, right?"

Xu Jicai continued to ask, she was quite in favor of recruiting priests to hunt sea beasts.

In this way, as long as some tribesmen are sent to supervise these people and let them work, the manpower pressure will be greatly reduced, and then there will be great hope for her to return home.

However, she also keenly discovered a problem and raised it to her cousin.

“It’s normal that you don’t know this because you were sent here a year ago.

About nine months ago, when Uncle Zhifeng led the tribe out to hunt sea beasts, they stopped on a deserted island for a rest.

One of the tribesmen was bored, so he started wandering around the island. Finally, he accidentally felt a trace of spiritual energy in a cave dug by a turtle.

After checking it out, Uncle Zhifeng discovered a first-grade inferior spiritual vein underground. After returning to the island, he reported the matter to his twenty-ninth great uncle, and the two discussed it.

Finally, they decided to invest some spirit stones to upgrade the first-grade inferior spirit vein on the deserted island to the second-grade inferior spirit vein, and specially arrange for tribesmen to garrison there.

If the resolution to recruit priests is passed, we can just place all the priests we recruit on the deserted island."

"How far is that deserted island from the family?"

When Xu Jicai heard this, he thought this was a good place to go, and then asked.

"It's only about two hundred miles away, which is closer than we are to Half Moon Island. It's very convenient."

"Brother, so the possibility of my returning home is still very high?"

"Of course, there is great hope."

As soon as Xu Jiyuan finished speaking, a sea boat suddenly appeared in his sight and became bigger and bigger.

"Look, sister, is the ship that is speeding towards us our family's sea boat?"

"Where is it? Let me see."

Xu Jicai quickly turned around and looked in the other direction.

When they saw the shape of the boat and the big "Xu" character floating on the mast, they immediately cheered. (End of this chapter)