Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 608: Holy Lotus of Dao, Temple of Martial God
At night, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi lived in the Lingquan space.

The weather in the Lingquan space is the same as that outside. Yang Zhengshan is not very clear about how it changes specifically, but if it rains outside, it will also rain in the space. If the outside world is clear, it will also be sunny in the space.

At the same time, the temperature in the Lingquan space also fluctuated, but the temperature fluctuations were not obvious and were not connected with the outside world.

This creates a difference between the inside of the Lingquan space and the outside world.

When in the snowy land, the outside world is frozen for thousands of miles, but the space is warm as spring. The outside world is covered with heavy snow, but the space is drizzling.

The weather in the Lingquan space is very strange. Although it changes with the outside world, it is also different.

It was as if there was a weather regulator in the space, which always maintained a state of good weather and favorable weather.

In the small courtyard inside the space, Yang Zhengshan took out a lotus seed and handed it to Yu Qingyi.

"Practice!"

These lotus seeds are grown from those unknown lotus flowers.

The petals of the lotus have the effect of enhancing one’s understanding of Taoism. The lotus seeds also have this effect, and it is even more powerful than the petals.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan named it the Holy Lotus of Taoism.

Well, it’s a very tacky name, but that’s how Yang Zhengshan got it.

Each of the twelve holy lotuses of Taoism only opened one lotus flower and produced one lotus pod. The effect of the petals was relatively weak, but the effect of the lotus seeds was very strong and could make people enter a state similar to enlightenment.

However, Yang Zhengshan discovered that the effect of taking lotus seeds continuously in a short period of time would weaken. After testing, he found that taking one lotus seed every three months was most appropriate.

There are twenty-four lotus seeds in a lotus pod, and twelve lotus pods have two hundred and eighty-eight lotus seeds. These lotus seeds are enough for Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi to consume for a long time.

The two took the lotus seeds and closed their eyes to practice in the yard. However, after only practicing for quarter of an hour, they woke up.

The state of enlightenment brought by the lotus seeds only lasted for this long, but the insights they gained in these short two quarters of an hour were comparable to those gained from several years of hard work.

Yang Zhengshan's mastery of the Thunder Dao advanced by leaps and bounds, all because of this lotus seed.

After the training was over, Yu Qingyi waved his hand, and a flash of emerald green light flew out of his hand and landed on the ground beside him.

"Look at my true energy, it seems to have some changes!" Yu Qingyi said.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the aura in her hand and asked, "Any changes?"

Although both of them practiced Yi Mu Chang Chun Gong, it was obvious that the mysteries they perceived were different.

Yu Qingyi's eyes flashed, and the true energy in his palm began to change. A green vine grew rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a grape vine and even climbed onto the roof.

Yang Zhengshan was stunned when he saw this scene.

He reached out and touched the grapevines. "It looks just like the real thing?"

"It's different!" said Yu Qingyi.

She hesitated for a moment, retracted her true energy, and the vines actually began to shrink, as if they were growing in reverse.

Yang Zhengshan stared blankly. This strange ability was really beyond his expectations.

However, the abilities that Yu Qingyi displayed next surprised him even more.

Yu Qingyi was seen reaching out and grabbing the cloudberry next to her. The cloudberry was actually growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But after just a moment, Yu Qingyi gave up, "No, it consumes too much energy!"

Yang Zhengshan looked at the cloudberry tree.

Cloudberry fruit is one of the four spiritual fruits he asked for from the Snow Spirit Palace. This spiritual fruit does not grow on trees, but is a kind of herbaceous spiritual plant. It grows for three years and only bears fruit once.

This kind of spiritual plant should be able to be planted, but it should have very high requirements for the planting environment. This is probably why Grandma Xue was so generous to give Yang Zhengshan hundreds of cloud berries.

At this moment, the cloudberry that Yu Qingyi had just held was obviously much taller than the other cloudberries around it.

Stimulate plant growth?

Yang Zhengshan felt that this ability was somewhat unbelievable, but when he thought about the fact that he could control thunder, this ability did not seem so magical.

"You should have realized the meaning of the Tao!"

"Really! But why didn't I discover the meaning of Tao?" Yu Qingyi was a little doubtful.

Yang Zhengshan laughed and said, "The Dao is something extremely mysterious. Sometimes it's hard for even you to detect it."

"When I first comprehended the Dao, I was also confused. It took me two or three years to be sure that I could control the Dao!"

"Your Dao intention should be related to plants, evolving plants, promoting plant growth, and perhaps other abilities. You need to study this yourself in the future!"

Yu Qingyi thought about it and grabbed another weed.

Weeds were much easier. She just moved her mind slightly and the weed began to grow rapidly, then bloom and bear fruit, and finally wither.

"This ability is interesting, but it seems to be useless!"

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly, "It is still very useful to promote the growth of plants. We can get more precious medicines and spiritual fruits in the future!"

"And for combat, you can evolve vines to trap your enemies!"

Yu Qingyi heard this and nodded happily, "You are right!"

Then she began to test her abilities. Many plants in the space suffered from her poisonous hands. No, it was not poisonous hands, it was a caress of love that could make the plants grow faster.

After experiments, she found that her ability had a miraculous effect on ordinary plants. She could grow ordinary plants without consuming too much true energy. She even grew a phoenix tree from ten feet high to three feet high in just a quarter of an hour.

However, if she uses this ability on precious medicines and spiritual plants, the effect will be much weaker.

"No, this won't induce labor at all!" Yu Qingyi said faintly as she stood next to a three-yellow plum tree.

She had used too much force just now and had used up all the internal energy.

Yang Zhengshan helped her up and at the same time observed the three yellow plums in front of him.

"It's not that I can't make the spirit plant grow quickly, but you are too weak to make it grow quickly!"

"Look, this leaf is a circle bigger than before, which means your ability is useful, but the effect is not that obvious!"

“Perhaps in the future when your cultivation is deep enough, you will be able to give birth to spiritual plants!”

Yu Qingyi leaned against Yang Zhengshan and looked at the leaves of the three yellow plum trees. "Maybe, but I can feel that the gap is very large. It feels like I am pushing a mountain!"

"Haha, don't be anxious, take your time. At least you have already realized the meaning of Tao!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

"Hmm!" Yu Qingyi also became happy. She herself didn't expect that she could comprehend the meaning of Tao so quickly.

However, her ability to comprehend the Tao does not mean that her strength has reached the peak of the innate realm. In fact, she is still far away from the peak of the innate realm.

Not to mention her, even Yang Zhengshan is still a long way from reaching the peak of the innate realm.

There is no order of priority among the three realms: mystery, subtlety and entering the Tao. There is only a difference in the difficulty of comprehension. Generally speaking, entering the subtlety is the easiest to comprehend, followed by mystery, and entering the Tao is the most difficult.

Therefore, most innate warriors can only comprehend the subtle and the mysterious, and it is difficult to reach the Dao. And the three realms also have different effects on the improvement of strength. There is no doubt that the Dao has the greatest improvement in strength, followed by the mysterious, and then the subtle.

Yu Qingyi comprehended the Dao in just two years with the help of the petals and seeds of the Dao Holy Lotus, but her cultivation in the mysteries and subtleties was still very weak.

Her situation is very similar to Xue Qiaoer's. Xue Qiaoer can control ice and snow, but her real cultivation level is only half a step to the innate level.

Of course, her cultivation is far stronger than Xue Qiaoer's.

The two studied it all night and set out for the Temple of Martial God early the next morning.

The Temple of the God of War is located on the east bank of the Cangyuan River. Although it is called a palace, the Temple of the God of War actually owns a huge city, and it is an extremely prosperous city.

The source of the Cangyuan River is in the Dayong Zangyuan area. It flows through Yunling Town, the Toungoo Dynasty, the Canghe Dynasty, the Daluan Dynasty, and finally flows into the Galo Sea in the Maurya Dynasty.

The Temple of the Gods of War had four subordinate dynasties, the Great Luan Dynasty, the Maurya Dynasty, the Garo Dynasty and the Eelam Dynasty.

The Daluo Dynasty was in the north of the Temple of the God of War, the Maurya Dynasty was in the west, the Yilan Dynasty was in the east, and the Garo Dynasty was in the south. The latter three dynasties all had seaside locations.

Dayong’s maritime merchants can usually reach as far as the Garo Dynasty, and it would be difficult to go further.

Because there is a peninsula to the south of the Garo Dynasty, and there is a dynasty on the peninsula called the Nanga Dynasty. If the Dayong merchants want to bypass the Nanga Peninsula, they need to travel more than 2,000 miles. The key is that the Nanga Dynasty is extremely unfriendly to maritime merchants and often attacks merchant ships in nearby waters.

Therefore, the maritime merchants of Dayong would transport the goods to the Garo Dynasty, and then the merchants of the Garo Dynasty would transfer them by land to the western ports, and then transport them to other countries for sale.

At this time, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi were standing at the foot of Wushen City, looking at the majestic and tall city walls, both feeling a little shocked.

"It's probably about ten feet high!" Yu Qingyi said.

"Yeah!" Yang Zhengshan nodded.

"Look at Wushen City, and then look at our Xingyue Island, it feels like ours is the countryside!" said Yu Qingyi.

The corner of Yang Zhengshan's mouth twitched slightly, "How can you be like this? You actually despise your own family!"

"Just tell me if I'm right. Hey, why do you insist on going to that small island? Can't we build a bigger island?" Yu Qingyi was a little disgusted with Xingyue Island.

At first she thought Xingyue Island was great, a peaceful island, a home of her own, with beautiful scenery. But after living there for more than ten years, she felt that Xingyue Island was a bit boring and too comfortable.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a moment and said, "Then let's occupy a bigger island later?"

He was thinking about which islands around Xingyue Island were suitable for occupation.

He definitely can't go to the south, because that's the Zhu family's territory on Dihuo Island, and he definitely can't seize the Zhu family's territory.

There are several large islands in the west, which are only about four or five hundred miles away from Xingyue Island. You can go back and forth in one day by boat, but that place is not an unowned land.

If you want to occupy the island in the east, you will inevitably have to fight a big war.

Further east is the territory of Shenmu Island. Shenmu Island is rather annoying and has been at odds with the Yang family for years.

"Let's talk about it later. Let's go into the city first and take a look!" Yu Qingyi walked towards the city with great interest.

Wushen City is really big. Not only are the walls high and the moats deep, but there are also a large number of residents outside the city.

Moreover, Wushen City is very prosperous, even more prosperous than Dayong Kyoto.

There are a large number of ships docked on both sides of the Cangyuan River, and there are countless coolies responsible for carrying goods at the docks. Walking along the street towards the city, there are bustling shops along the street.

Yang Zhengshan observed carefully and found that the streets here were very clean and the pedestrians on the streets were all very strong. Although there were some low-income people, it could be seen that their lives were still very good.

This shows that the Martial God Temple has a good management here, and the living conditions of the people around here are not bad either.

However, when they arrived at the city gate, they encountered trouble because Wushen City did not allow outsiders to enter.

Only disciples of the Temple of Martial God are allowed to enter the city!

"No wonder there are so many people living outside the city!" Yang Zhengshan was speechless.

"What should we do? Should we break in?" Yu Qingyi was eager to try.

Yang Zhengshan felt that his wife had been a little too lively recently. "If we force our way in, we might really get besieged!"

"Then!" Yu Qingyi smiled gently, "I have a way!"

"What method?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Yu Qingyi did not answer, but stepped forward and said to the guard at the gate: "We are friends of Chai Wujie, and we have come here to visit Mr. Chai!"

The soldier was stunned at first, then looked Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi up and down, "Friends of Elder Chai! May I ask your names?"

"Yang Zhengshan, the Marquis of Dayong Jing'an!" Yu Qingyi pointed at Yang Zhengshan.

"Please wait a moment, I will pass the message right away!"

Yu Qingyi blinked at Yang Zhengshan, who was speechless.

We are clearly Chai Wujie's enemies, so how did we become Chai Wujie's friends?

Yang Zhengshan felt that once Chai Wujie came out, a big battle would be inevitable.

The two were invited by the gatekeepers to a nearby courtyard, which was probably specially prepared for entertaining guests.

The hospitality of the Temple of the God of War is quite good. Although you cannot enter the city, the courtyard outside the city gate has everything you need.

The two were waiting in a reception room, and the maid prepared tea, snacks and fruits.

"This place is not bad. Isn't it said that the Temple of the God of War is at war with the Imperial City of Dayue? It looks like there is no intention of a big war here!" Yu Qingyi said.

Yang Zhengshan casually ate a piece of dessert and said, "Not necessarily. When the Martial God Palace went to war with the Great Yue Dynasty, it was also the lower dynasties that sent troops. As long as it is not a fight to the death, the Martial God Palace should not personally intervene!"

"Well, it seems that the war between the Temple of the God of War and the Great Viet Dynasty is still within the controllable range!" Yu Qingyi said.

The two were chatting, and about a quarter of an hour later, a not very familiar figure came into the reception room.

He has a hooked nose and a sinister look, giving people the impression that he is difficult to get along with.

The person who came was Chai Wujie.

Chai Wujie looked at Yang Zhengshan, then at Yu Qingyi, and his expression became even uglier.

"It's really you!"

He naturally did not forget Yang Zhengshan. After all, he was almost stabbed to death by Yang Zhengshan that year.

Moreover, Yu Qingyi killed several of his men at that time.

"Brother Chai, long time no see!" Yang Zhengshan laughed and walked forward to say politely.

"I guess we can't be considered friends!" Chai Wujie's face was very sour.

"Hey, it's better to resolve a feud than to create one. We can say that we became friends after fighting!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile without feeling embarrassed at all.

(End of this chapter)