Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 738 The Secret Pavilion

"I see! It seems I can try to break through too!" Yu Qingyi said thoughtfully, looking at the withered vines.

In fact, her cultivation was no slower than Yang Zhengshan's, and she even surpassed Yang Zhengshan in terms of wood-attribute Dao intent, since she had been cultivating wood-attribute Dao intent from the very beginning.

The main difference between her and Yang Zhengshan was in theory. Yang Zhengshan understood some things much more thoroughly than she did, so in cultivation, Yang Zhengshan was always ahead of her.

"Wait a little longer, I'll get you an Evergreen Nourishing Pill. This pill is very helpful for breakthroughs. With it, you'll be more secure when you break through!" Yang Zhengshan said with concern, holding her hand.

There is no danger in breaking through from the Qi Sea stage to the Earthly Fiend stage. The essence is simply to change the attribute of true qi and condense true essence. As long as the accumulation of true qi is strong enough, the breakthrough can be achieved naturally.

However, there are some risks in breaking through from the Earthly Fiend stage to the Gang Qi stage. The dantian is divided into Yin and Yang, and if you are not careful, you will damage the dantian and meridians. Although it is not fatal, it will leave hidden injuries and slow down the cultivation progress.

Therefore, if Yu Qingyi wants to break through, an Evergreen Nourishing Pill is indispensable.

"Mm!" Yu Qingyi nodded in response.

As Yang Zhengshan led her along the lakeside, he said, "The Evergreen Qi Cultivation Pill is easy to obtain, but the Golden Body Technique still needs careful planning!"

"There are three channels to obtain the Wood Attribute Golden Body Technique in the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty: the first is the Sun family, the second is the Farmer family, and the third is the three major sects!"

"Forget about the three major sects; they have sect formations that we simply can't get in."

"And the Sun family and the peasant family are not easy to deal with either..."

Speaking of the Golden Body Technique, Yang Zhengshan felt extremely troubled.

During these five years, Lü Hua and his team have been busy and have thoroughly investigated the situation of the twelve Lingxiu families. Although they were unable to uncover some secret information, nothing that was on the surface could escape Lü Hua's notice.

The Golden Body Technique is not a Qi-inducing technique. In the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty, as long as you have enough spirit stones, you can buy Qi-inducing techniques of various attributes, but there is nowhere to buy the Golden Body Technique.

Let alone buying it, even finding out about the Golden Body Method is extremely difficult.

Yang Zhengshan still doesn't understand the specific principles behind breaking through to the Martial God Realm.

All Yang Zhengshan knew was that the Martial God Realm was also known as the Golden Body Realm, and that after breaking through it, the body would not decay or rot, and true essence would be inexhaustible. However, he had no idea how to condense the Golden Body.

"Don't worry, there's always a way!" Yu Qingyi comforted her.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly, "I guess Zhou Tianci won't be able to wait, but An Yuxing and Liang Shengze might still have a chance!"

The couple still had plenty of time to acquire the Golden Body Technique, but Zhou Tianci didn't have much time left. Even if his cultivation reached the Heavenly Gang stage, he would probably only have less than twenty years left to live.

Twenty years sounds like a long time.

The problem is that it took Yang Zhengshan five years to break through from the Earthly Fiend stage to the Heavenly Gang stage. How many years would it take to reach the point where the Heavenly Gang stage is capable of breaking through?

Moreover, since Zhou Tianci cultivates the metal-attribute Qi-guiding technique, Yang Zhengshan naturally intends to first acquire the wood-attribute metal body technique, and then plan for other attribute metal body techniques after breaking through.

This will definitely not be something that can be accomplished in ten or eight years.

"There's nothing we can do about it!" Yu Qingyi said, shaking her head gently.

The two walked on the lake. They could not see the spiritual spring in the lake, but there were countless lotus flowers of all sizes on the surface. The one in the middle of the lake was naturally the Dao Intent Sacred Lotus, while the other side was a cluster of various lotus flowers.

There are fiery red lotuses, golden lotuses in full bloom, and blue lotuses with thousands of petals. Each lotus is like a carefully crafted work of art, exuding a unique charm.

These lotus flowers are all spiritual objects, including the Flaming Red Lotus, and can all be used as medicine, with effects no less than those of spiritual fruits.

The Flaming Red Lotus was once just a precious medicine, barely considered a spiritual medicine in the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty. But now, after decades of nourishment from the spiritual spring water, the Flaming Red Lotus has undergone a complete transformation.

The edges of the petals resembled burning flames, leaping with intense heat. Upon closer inspection, one could feel the sweltering heat emanating from them, as if it could ignite the surrounding air.

Its stamens are golden yellow, appearing even more mysterious against the backdrop of the flames. Every now and then, a few sparks drift out from the stamens and fall into the lake, splashing up warm ripples.

In this lake, the Flaming Red Lotus is the most domineering presence besides the Dao Intent Sacred Lotus. It dominates an entire section of the lake, clearly distinguishing itself from the other lotuses.

If Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi hadn't been taking care of these lotus flowers regularly, the Flaming Red Lotus would probably have burned the other lotus flowers to death.

Over the years, Yang Zhengshan has been very cautious. Apart from occasionally having Zhou Tianci and the others sell some spiritual fruits, he has almost never sold the products of other spiritual source lands.

Because many plants in the Spirit Source Land have undergone transformation, seemingly changing from their original precious herbs into higher-grade spiritual herbs.

This change is undoubtedly a good thing, but it is not suitable to sell these things outside at the moment.

After chatting with Yu Qingyi for a while, Yang Zhengshan arrived at the clan hall at the foot of the mountain.

The clan hall is also where the clan council works. Currently, there aren't many tedious official duties in the Spirit Origin Land.

Although the population of Lingyuan Land is growing very rapidly, it still only has a population of over 60,000.

With just over 60,000 people, there's not much need for management. Everyone just needs to perform their duties and follow the rules.

Upon arriving at the ancestral hall, Yang Zhengshan found Yang Chengmao.

Currently, Yang Chengmao is a director of the clan hall, roughly equivalent to Yang Zhengshan's assistant. In fact, Yang Chengmao handles most of the affairs himself.

As for the Council of Elders and the Clan Council, Yang Zhengshan has already closed the Council of Elders because the requirement he set for becoming an elder was to comprehend the Dao.

However, they misunderstood the Dao at that time. In addition, now that they have come to the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty and obtained the Qi Induction Method, everyone is gradually practicing the Qi Induction Method and their cultivation levels are entering the Earthly Fiend stage. Therefore, the system of the Elder Council established by Yang Zhengshan is no longer suitable.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan simply closed the Elders' Council. After all, the Elders' Council had no functions, so closing it wouldn't have any impact.

The clan council still has some functions. It holds several meetings every year to formulate development plans for the Spirit Source Land and to establish or amend laws, etc.

"grandfather!"

Upon seeing Yang Zhengshan arrive, Yang Chengmao stood up, both surprised and delighted.

Yang Zhengshan smiled and nodded, "I've come to see how the rune research is going?"

Yang Chengmao quickly led Yang Zhengshan toward the Secret Method Pavilion on the west side of the clan hall.

The Mystic Arts Pavilion was an institution established by Yang Zhengshan specifically for researching rune techniques. "Currently, we have compiled 382 runes, of which 320 have had their meanings and functions clarified. We have also identified 1,832 second-tier rune combinations, 467 third-tier combinations, 71 fourth-tier combinations, and 3 fifth-tier combinations!"

The art of runes is incredibly profound and complex. There are hundreds of basic runes, and different combinations of runes can produce different effects.

The so-called second-tier and third-tier actually refer to the effects of combining two or three different runes.

After five years of research, although the Spirit Source Land still cannot use the rune technique for alchemy and weapon crafting, it has gained some in-depth understanding of runes.

According to Yang Zhengshan's understanding, these so-called runes are a kind of script that has been given special functions. By analyzing the functions of these scripts and then conducting continuous research and experiments, various combinations of runes can be derived.

The essence of crafting and alchemy is to inscribe various runes onto elixirs and artifacts, thereby enhancing their original efficacy and giving them additional functions.

This research method seems useless, even a waste of time, but Yang Zhengshan always felt that this was the correct way to study runes.

In his view, most alchemists and weapon refiners in the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty only know how to do things but not why they do them. They only know how to use some rune combinations according to their own traditions, but they do not know the true meaning of each rune and rune combination.

However, the research on runes in the Spirit Origin Land is still only on paper. To truly utilize these runes, a genuine rune inheritance is still needed as a basis.

Now that Yang Zhengshan has broken through to the Heavenly Gang stage, he will soon take action to obtain the Golden Body Technique. He was thinking about whether he could also get a genuine talisman inheritance, so he came here specifically to see the research on talismans in the clan hall.

The Secret Arts Pavilion has one Pavilion Master, Yang Chengze, and three Deputy Pavilion Masters: Wang Mingzhe, Liang Jinyan, and Qu Shaogong.

Although Yang Chengze was a military general, he was also quite accomplished in Confucianism. He was a direct descendant of the Yang family. At that time, most people in Yangjia Village were illiterate, such as Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengxu, and Yang Chengche. They only began to learn to read and write after joining the army with Yang Zhengshan.

But Yang Chengze was different. From a young age, Yang Zhengxiang was grooming him to become the clan leader, so he naturally had to be proficient in both literature and martial arts. Although his level in both was low at that time, he did a lot of self-study after joining the army with Yang Zhengshan.

While he might not be considered a great Confucian scholar, Yang Chengze was among the most accomplished in the entire Yang clan, including the Yang family, when it came to his research on various unorthodox and unorthodox methods.

Similarly, Liang Jinyan and Qu Shaogong both come from noble families and received a good education from a young age, so they are naturally not bad.

Wang Mingzhe himself was a doctor and alchemist. He was most interested in runes and was the person who most wanted to use runes to refine elixirs.

Yang Chengze and Wang Mingzhe were both present today, and when they saw Yang Zhengshan arrive, they both came to greet him.

"How's your research going?" Yang Zhengshan asked the two of them.

Yang Chengze shook his head somewhat dejectedly, "The progress is not very large. According to our previous guess, the runes should be engraved on the object using one's own true energy. We have tried many methods, but the results are not satisfactory."

"Some of them do have some effect, but the inscribed runes will disappear after a short time."

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly. They still didn't even know how to apply runes to objects.

Over the past few years, Yang Zhengshan had considered asking someone about it. He even went to Lingyan Foundry to try and get close to Qiu Jin, but Qiu Jin was very tight-lipped and refused to reveal anything.

This is actually normal. It's someone's livelihood, passed down through generations. How could they easily reveal it to others?

As for other places, that's even more impossible.

Whether it's alchemy or weapon crafting, the skills are mostly passed down within families, with very little mentorship between masters and apprentices.

It's possible that the three major sects have a master-disciple system for teaching, but Yang Zhengshan can't even enter one of them.

So this matter has been delayed again and again, until now.

"I can try imprinting runes on other things, but how do I imprint them on elixirs?"

"I tried to use my inner energy to inscribe runes on the pills, but I accidentally damaged them."

“I think our idea might be wrong. The runes might not be inscribed with true qi, but with something else.”

Wang Mingzhe said.

Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then encouraged him, "When studying runes, we must be bold in our conjectures and careful in our verification. We are still in the most basic stage, and there is no danger. So be bold! If true qi doesn't work, then try something else!"

He had no solution to this problem. Although he had frequently examined the runes over the past two years and tried to use them to refine elixirs, all his attempts had unfortunately failed.

After chatting with Yang Chengze and Wang Mingzhe for a while, Yang Zhengshan left Lingyuan and returned to Lingxi Mountain.

Lingxi Mountain remained unchanged. The Yang family members lived off the less than seven acres of low-grade spiritual fields and the terraced fields on the hillside. Yang Zhengshan would occasionally supplement their supplies with some spirit stones, but he did not provide them with many other resources.

However, the cultivation levels of the Yang family members have improved considerably. Yang Xiangheng has broken through to the Innate Realm, while Yang Xiangdong, Yang Xiangxi, Yang Xiangwu, and Yang Xiangyang have all reached the Half-Step Innate Realm.

Although their strength is still negligible, at least there's some hope for the future.

Yang Zhengshan and the others have fully integrated into the Lingxi Yang family, gained their approval, and regarded Lingxi Mountain as their home.

Overall, Yang Zhengshan still likes the Yang family of Lingxi very much and regards Yang Xiangheng and others as his own nephews and nieces.

Two years ago, Yang Zhenghe passed away. The old man ultimately did not live past 100 years old, nor did he break through to the Innate Realm.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan used spiritual spring water and spiritual fruit on him, but unfortunately he was too old, and the spiritual spring water and spiritual fruit were powerless to save him.

After Yang Zhenghe's death, Yang Zhengshan's status as his great-uncle was finally confirmed.

Because he is Yang Zhenghe's acknowledged elder brother, even if Yang Xiangheng says he is not his great-uncle, others will not believe him; instead, they will think that Yang Xiangheng is being unfilial.

After returning to Lingxi Mountain from the land of spiritual origin, Yang Zhengshan called Li Chang and went to Nanqing Mountain.

On Nanqing Mountain, the ancestral home of the Xiang family has now been transformed into General Lan Peng's mansion.

Led by his soldiers, Yang Zhengshan arrived at the front yard, where Lan Peng greeted him, "Hahaha, Brother Yang, congratulations, congratulations, hahaha~~"

"I must thank Brother Lan for the elixir!" Yang Zhengshan said, bowing with his hands clasped in thanks.

He had told Lan Peng before he went into seclusion to break through, that his aura was still somewhat unstable after his breakthrough, so Lan Peng could tell at a glance.

"It's just a pill, nothing to mention," Lan Peng said generously.

(End of this chapter)