Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 709: Spiritual Source Land
Ji Feiyu and Yan Huichun wanted to take the opportunity to kill Yang Chengye, but before they could rush to Yang Chengye, they found that twenty imposing martial artists suddenly appeared behind Yang Chengye and surrounded them.

With twenty innate martial artists in front of them, Ji Feiyu and Yan Huichun's expressions changed drastically.

They knew the Yang family was very powerful, and they expected that Yang Chengye would have innate martial artists protecting him, but they never expected that Yang Chengye would actually have twenty innate martial artists by his side.

Even if these twenty innate martial artists have only been in the innate realm for a few years, they are still true innate martial artists.

Moreover, judging from their positioning, this is clearly a combined attack tactic used in the military.

The idea of ​​forming a combined attack technique within an army using innate martial artists was truly beyond the comprehension of Ji Feiyu and Yan Huichun.

When did there become so many innate martial artists that they could be used as ordinary soldiers?
This would be impossible for other forces.

However, this would work in the Yang family, because these guards were originally soldiers who were skilled in combined attack techniques in the military. Although they have now become innate martial artists, they still retain their old habits and are good at coordinated combat.

Without any unnecessary words, Ji Feiyu and Yan Huichun were surrounded in the blink of an eye.

The two tried to dodge and weave, attempting to escape the guards' encirclement. However, the twenty guards, divided into teams of four, coordinated perfectly, combining offense and defense, keeping them firmly pinned down. No matter how they tried to break through, they were ultimately suppressed within the encirclement.

Yang Chengye ignored Fei Yu and Yan Huichun, and rushed straight at Chen Hengchang.

Chen Hengchang's cultivation level was not low, reaching the eighth level of the Acquired Realm, but this level of cultivation was simply not enough in front of Yang Chengye.

Even with numerous elite guards surrounding Chen Hengchang, they still couldn't stop Yang Chengye's charge.

In the blink of an eye, Yang Chengye had already rushed to Chen Hengchang's side.

Chen Hengchang wanted to compete with Yang Chengye, but he clearly underestimated Yang Chengye's strength.

With a thrust of his spear, Yang Chengye unleashed his full power, piercing Chen Hengchang's chest in a single charge.

Seeing the look of terror on Chen Hengchang's face, Yang Chengye sneered.

Yang Chengye didn't have much of an impression of Chen Hengchang, and he didn't like Chen Hengchang either. In comparison, he admired the King of Liang more.

The King of Liang was a true hero. Although he ultimately failed, it is undeniable that he possessed many admirable qualities and character traits.

Chen Hengchang is far inferior to the King of Liang.

Yang Chengye swung his spear, sending Chen Hengchang flying. Then he charged forward again, the spearhead piercing Chen Hengchang's throat and breaking his neck.

Chen Hengchang's head was hanging on the tip of a gun, and Yang Chengye, covered in blood, held Chen Hengchang's head up like that.

"The enemy chief is dead! Kill them!"

Upon seeing this, the soldiers who were engaged in fierce fighting were greatly encouraged.

Meanwhile, the Shenyang cultists remained immersed in the madness of slaughter. They had no morale whatsoever and were nothing more than a group of mindless killing puppets.

However, not all of Chen Hengchang's troops were Shenyang Cultists. He also had tens of thousands of his own regular troops. Those people did not cultivate the Spirit Continuation and Blood Refining Technique. Although they were also bloodthirsty on the battlefield, they still retained their rationality.

When they saw Chen Hengchang's head, they instantly lost the courage to fight to the death and began to collapse one by one.

Chen Hengchang is dead, what's the point of them fighting?

However, this time there was no complete rout, because the Shenyang Cult members did not collapse. Even though their allies had already fled the battlefield in disarray, they continued to charge and fight frantically.

But their madness was futile; the scales of victory had already begun to tip.

As the battle continued, Ji Feiyu and Yan Huichun died one after another, and An Yuxing and Lin Fu'an also determined their victor.

An Yuxing smashed a hammer into Lin Fu'an's head, causing Lin Fu'an's brains to splatter, resulting in a gruesome death for Lin Fu'an.

As the last rays of the setting sun completely disappeared behind the western celestial pole, this fierce battle finally came to an end.

Corpses piled up on the ground, and dark red blood flowed and seeped into the ground.

One by one, the soldiers of Da'an helped each other climb out of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood and left the battlefield.

Then thousands of laborers, trembling and unsteady, entered the battlefield and began to clean it up.

Yang Chengye removed his sticky, blood-stained armor and stood on the hillside behind him, looking down at the gray battlefield with a rather complicated expression.

"This chaotic era is finally over!"

An Yu walked over and said softly.

Behind him were Taoist Xuanzhen, Zhou Tianci, Liang Shengze, and others.

The struggles of a chaotic era are cruel and brutal.

Whether they were poor people or powerful families, everyone suffered greatly from it.

How long did this chaotic period last?

It seems to have started when Emperor Yanping was still in power, but the real outbreak period should be the three-year drought in the three provinces of Gansu.

The three provinces of Gansu and Yuan suffered a severe drought for three years, leaving the land barren and the fields littered with corpses of the starving. Furthermore, due to the rise of bandits, countless people died or were injured.

Then came the rebellion of the Bashu rebels. Although the disasters brought by the Bashu rebels were far less severe than the drought and the bandits, they still made life in Bashu even more difficult.

Then Chen Hengchang raised an army and massacred people in Jiangnan.

Among these were the southwestern border towns that held their own armies, and the Yue Dynasty and the Uriyang Kingdom that invaded the border.

In ten years, the once prosperous Great Rong Dynasty was shattered, the people suffered, and tens of millions died.

If the Yang family had not raised an army, this chaotic period might have lasted for more than a decade.

Whether it was the King of Liang or Chen Hengchang, both sides had to engage in more than a decade of warfare to completely eliminate the other.

The destruction of Da Rong was inevitable, but the existence of the Yang family was a blessing for all people.

At the very least, the Yang family ended this chaotic era ahead of schedule, sparing the people of the world ten years of war.

Now, Chen Hengchang has been completely destroyed, and the new Da'an dynasty has firmly established itself in power.

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Shenmu Island.

Yang Zhengshan received news of Chen Hengchang's demise twenty days later. He merely glanced at the battle report and then paid it no further attention.

It was expected that the new Da'an dynasty would secure its rule over the country, and Chen Hengchang's downfall was only a matter of time.

Although the Da'an soldiers suffered heavy casualties in the final battle, the new dynasty had unified the country, and the world was at peace, with no further disturbances expected.

Compared to the new Da'an dynasty, Yang Zhengshan was more focused on the construction within the Lingquan space at this time.

With thousands of people moving into the Lingquan Space, the amount of various supplies needed is considerable, and Yang Zhengshan must ensure the supply of resources within the space.

Yang Zhengshan was the only person who could send supplies from the outside world into the space, so he had been busy sending various supplies into the space all this time.

Besides transporting supplies, Yang Zhengshan was still selecting people to send into the space. The construction of the spiritual spring space was a huge project. Even if it was just a makeshift clan hall, it was still a considerable undertaking.

Moreover, Yang Zhengshan also wanted to build a magnificent clan hall and many other buildings under the Lingquan Waterfall. Even if there were tens of thousands of people, let alone a thousand, it would probably take more than ten years to complete.

The construction of the Spirit Spring Space could not be completed in a day. Yang Zhengshan patiently carried out the construction slowly, while also calming down and cultivating diligently.

Time passed day by day, spring came and autumn went, and the longevity village within the Spirit Spring Space expanded into a town.

Spring of the twenty-second year of Shenmu.

Yang Zhengshan officially renamed Changshou Village to Changshou City, making it the first city within the Lingquan Space.

At the same time, Yang Zhengshan changed the Lingquan Space to Lingyuan Land. From then on, the Yang family was also called Lingyuan Yang Clan, and Yang Zhengshan himself called himself the head of the Yang Clan. All clansmen in Lingyuan Land called him the head of the family.

In the past, people had many different titles for Yang Zhengshan, such as "Sir," "Old Marquis," "Old Master," "Lord," "Island Lord," and so on. These titles were not wrong, but there were some objections.

For example, since Yang Chengye became emperor, the title of Marquis of Jing'an naturally disappeared, so it would be very inappropriate for Yang Zhengshan to still be called the old Marquis.

For example, the title "Island Lord" is used on Star Moon Island and Divine Tree Island, and it would be inappropriate in the Land of Spiritual Origin.

In order to standardize the way people address each other and to confirm the status of the head of the family, Yang Zhengshan changed how everyone addressed him.

The Lingyuan Yang Clan does not refer only to the Yang family. Anyone living in the Lingyuan Land can call themselves a member of the Lingyuan Yang Clan, whether they are affiliated families or ordinary people. Once they leave the Lingyuan Land, which is the Lingquan Space, they all have only one identity: a member of the Lingyuan Yang Clan.

As for the reign title, Yang Zhengshan made another change, changing Shenmu to Lingyuan, and this year is the twenty-second year of Lingyuan.

The change of the reign title represents a shift in the Yang family's focus. The change from Xingyue to Shenmu means that the Yang family's focus shifted from Xingyue Island to Shenmu Island. The change from Shenmu to Lingyuan also means that the Yang family's focus shifted from Shenmu Island to the land of Lingyuan.

The unification of names, the change of era names, and the establishment of management institutions all signify that the Land of Spiritual Origin has formed a complete management system and institutions.

In April of the twenty-fifth year of Lingyuan, Ding Qiu and Yu Tonghai returned from the new dynasty of Da'an and entered the land of Lingyuan.

From then on, the Lingyuan Yang Clan and the Da'an Dynasty were completely subordinate to each other.

The Da'an Dynasty, Shenmu Island, and Dajing Dynasty were all subordinate forces of the Lingyuan Yang Clan.

In August of the same year, Song Dashan led the Song family to Shenmu Island and entered the land of spiritual energy. The Song family was listed as the twenty-seventh family in the clan council.

The Yang family has four branches, which together form four households; the Yang family has six branches, which together form six households; and the affiliated families number sixteen households.

The Song family was the seventeenth affiliated family, which was also the twenty-seventh family in the clan council.

The arrival of the Song family was just the beginning.

The following year, Zhou Lan led more than a dozen members of her Zhou family to join the Spirit Source Land. Qu Changkong directly gave up his title in Da'an and moved the entire Qu family into the Spirit Source Land. Then came An Yuxing's family, Liang Shengze's family, and so on.

It is unclear when exactly, but a wave of relocation to Shenmu Island has begun in the Da'an Dynasty.

Many powerful and wealthy families have considered relocating their clans to Shenmu Island.

Of course, most of the powerful and wealthy were unaware of the inside story of the Spirit Source Land; they simply assumed it was a relocation to Shenmu Island.

In response, Yang Zhengshan had no choice but to order Shenmu Island to prohibit outsiders from settling down.

There's no way around it; if this continues, Shenmu Island will likely be overcrowded within a few years.

Yang Zhengshan could allow Zhou Lan, Qu Changkong, An Yuxing, Liang Shengze, and a few others to bring their families into the Spirit Source Land, but he would not allow the powerful and influential people of Da'an to enter the Spirit Source Land.

The Land of Spiritual Origin needs a large population, but it cannot accept just anyone.

Those who can enter the Spirit Source Land either have a close relationship with the Yang family or are extremely loyal to the Yang family.

It would be better to let the common people of Shenmu Island enter the Spirit Source Land than to let those powerful and wealthy people enter it.

The people on Shenmu Island were all relocated from Xingyue Island, and they have a strong sense of belonging and obedience to the Yang family.

With the addition of the Zhou, Qu, An, and Liang families, the clan council of Lingyuan Land has expanded to thirty-one families.

Originally, Yang Zhengshan did not want to expand the number of families in the clan council, but these families came to him and he really couldn't refuse them, so he had no choice but to accept them. However, from now on, he will completely tighten the door to joining the clan council, and it will never be so easy to join the clan council in the future.

The addition of Zhou Tianci and An Yuxing also increased the number of elders in the Elder Council.

To date, there are five martial artists at the Dao Entry level in the Spirit Source Land.

They are Yang Zhengshan, Yu Qingyi, Ding Qiu, Zhou Tianci, and An Yuxing.

Entering the Dao is no easy task. In seven or eight years, not a single one of the many innate martial artists in the Yang family has entered the Dao.

People like Yang Mingcheng, Yang Mingzhi, Yang Minghao, Wu Zhan, and Wu Zheng, even though they consumed many Spirit-Attaching Pills, still had not reached the level of entering the Dao.

Yang Zhengshan was also quite helpless about this.

Entering the Tao is more difficult than imagined; it cannot be achieved by simply piling on resources, but also by relying on one's own enlightenment.

For example, Ding Qiu had only been in the Innate Realm for a little over ten years before he stepped into the threshold of the Dao.

Yang Mingcheng has been a Xiantian martial artist for nearly twenty years, but he still cannot enter the Dao.

Of course, this doesn't mean that resources are useless; it just means that the resources the Yang family currently possesses are not yet able to play a decisive role in entering the Dao.

No, that's not right either. Yang Zhengshan also has the lotus seeds of the Dao Intent Sacred Lotus. This thing can bring people to the threshold of entering the Dao, but Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi both need the lotus seeds of the Dao Intent Sacred Lotus, so they cannot be given to others to use right now.

Besides, Yang Mingcheng and the others are still young, so there's no need to rush into the Dao. If they haven't entered the Dao after another twenty or thirty years of cultivation, it won't be too late to give them the Dao Intent Lotus Seeds then.

As for others, I can only apologize. It is estimated that Yang Zhengshan will not give the Dao Yi Sacred Lotus to outsiders for a long time to come.

(End of this chapter)