Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 145 Import of additional children
On the seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and twenty-fourth year of the Qianfeng reign of the Immortal David, the emperor is celebrating his 1000th birthday. The sky is peaceful and the earth is level, and everything is going well.

Unlike many families who were in mourning, Emperor Chongming welcomed two happy events.

One was that Pei Yi was engaged. This favorite student of Uncle Li only went to Tanggu County to pay his respects to Kuai Wu. Seeing the little sister of the Kuai family crying bitterly, he had no choice but to give in.

It's not that Pei Yi was attracted by her beauty, but there are only three cultivators left in the Kuai family, and only one of them is in the middle stage of Qi training. This kind of cultivation family is so weak that it can hardly be considered a family.

Pei Yi was worried that if he did not accept the marriage proposal, the Kuai family would not be able to keep the sacred place of Dantong Cliff.

You should know that this was once the location of the bandit nest of Huodao Village. During the heyday of this bandit group, there were nearly 30 monks. Although Dantong Cliff could not actually accommodate so many monks, the Kuai family was able to take care of this sacred place by the Chongming Sect. It was coveted by many people before. Now that Kuai Wu is dead, it is even more exciting.

After all, they were his master's maternal clan, Pei Yi couldn't bear to refuse again. After reporting to Kang Dabao, the latter could not persuade him any more and agreed to the marriage. However, the head of the Kuai family had just passed away, so it was difficult to handle the matter. Dantong Cliff couldn't be without a cultivator for the time being, so the little sister of the Kuai family had to stay for a few more days.

Although the title of Chongmingzong is far from being a tiger skin for a small clan like the Kuai family, the reputation of "the wife's family of the junior brother of the Fei family's legitimate son-in-law" is enough for the Kuai family to scare off some villains.

As a result, Pei Yi gave up the marriage with the He family and chose to marry the younger sister of the Kuai family, which had a great impact on his own path. The husband and wife were of the same blood and were a whole that rose and fell together.

The current head of the He family, He Dezong, has the hope of building a foundation. If he does, and Pei Yi succeeds in his marriage proposal, he will have a wife from a family that has built a foundation.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for both the individual and the sect, but what about the little sister of the Kuai family?

But we cannot just consider the pros and cons when doing things. Since Pei Yi has made up his mind, it is not easy for the head of Kangda to refuse.

After all, this is the path chosen by the former himself, and Kang Dabao can only give some advice.

The second is that today is the Wanshou Festival, which coincides with the ancestor worship ceremony. Chongming Sect also chose this day to officially include Ye Zhengwen, Wei Gu, Mo Ku, Ye Yaoling and Ye Pingshui into the Chongming sect.

Wei Gu and Mo Ku have been in Chongming Sect for quite some time, the former refining formations and the latter managing spiritual fields. They are not very capable, especially the latter, who is nearly forty years old. Not only is his cultivation level only at the second level of Qi training, but his attainments as a master of farming are not as good as those of the nine-year-old Kang Rongquan. He has not yet entered the rank and can only do some rough work.

But the advantage is that they are all honest monks. Master Kang would not ask them to go into battle unless it was a matter of life and death. At this time when they are needed, they are willing to work hard and he can use them with confidence, which is enough.

Ye Yaoling and Ye Pingshui are the only remaining immortal seedlings of the Ye family. They are not very old, a little younger than Duan Anle, only twelve or thirteen years old, and their cultivation is only at the first or second level of Qi training.

If they were thrown directly into Hengshan with their cultivation level, not to mention asking them to protect the mortal races, it would be a question of how long they could survive.

Zhou Xinran chatted with them for a while, and they all figured it out. Instead of the two of them guarding the clan land in fear every day, fearing that some evil cultivator passing by would take their heads off, it would be better for them to first join the Chongming Sect and practice.

When they have achieved success in their cultivation in the future, whether they ask the head of the clan to return to the clan to rebuild the family, or pick out one or two capable descendants of the Ye family to leave the clan and return home, it will be much more reliable than the two of them taking charge of the family now.

The affiliation of the Ye siblings was thus decided, and Ye Pingshui became Yuan Jin's disciple. Now he was no longer a disciple who was taught martial arts, but a disciple who followed the father's legacy like a son.

As for Ye Yaoling, since Jiang Qing is still unwilling to take a disciple, then let her become Pei Yi's disciple and become Kang Rongquan's junior sister.

In the mind of Master Kang, although the admission of these four disciples was a big deal, it was still not as important as Ye Zhengwen's admission into the sect.

This guy is a genuine eighth-level Qi training cultivator, a first-level spirit appraiser, and can get some important information from many places. If he can really join the Chongming Sect, he can really make up for some of the sect's current shortcomings.

Although Ye Zhengwen looks fierce, he has a good character. Kang Dabao had thought about bringing him into the sect earlier, but he still had some reservations because of some things in the past.

But after listening to Jin Shilun's description of Ye Zhengwen's performance in the market, he let down his guard and took Ye Zhengwen into the Chongming Sect in a very tough manner.

Therefore, Kang Dabao originally intended to bring Ye Zhengwen under his master's tutelage, just like Zhou Yixiu, and teach him martial arts on his behalf, and accept him as the fifth disciple of the headmaster. Unexpectedly, the latter blushed when he heard this plan, and even shouted that he would rather die than obey.

Out of desperation, Kang Dabao had no choice but to introduce Ye Zhengwen to his uncle named Lian, the one who taught Pei Yi how to make pills.

This uncle had good qualifications, but he left the sect in his early years because he could not stand the open and secret struggles between the old master and Uncle Li, so he did not leave any disciples in Chongming Sect. So roughly speaking, there has been no news for nearly 267 years. For a Qigong cultivator, this is a very long time.

Master Kang guessed that Uncle Lian must have died outside, otherwise when the master passed away and the uncles were clamoring to split up the family, he should have come back to take a look.

From then on, Ye Zhengwen was officially appointed as the foreign affairs elder by Kang Dabao. Jin Shilun was just a kid at the first level of Qi training, but he didn't expect that the position of elder he conferred on Ye Zhengwen would actually come true.

As soon as Ye Zhengwen became the elder of external affairs, Kang Dabao asked him to take charge of Ji Wuwu, Du Qing, Wei Gu and Mo Ku, four external affairs disciples who had no master in the sect.

Except for Mo Ku, who was nominally under the management of Ye Zhengwen but actually had to help Zhou Yixiu farm, Ji Wuwu was transferred to Chongming City as a priest to protect the mortals near the city from being harassed by evil cultivators and monsters. Chongming City was not too far from the mortal city of the Ye family, and Ji Wuwu could barely take care of both places if he used his flying sword to travel. As for whether to include the mortals of the Ye family in the management of the Chongming City Lord's Mansion, Kang Dabao did not care about these trivial matters and left it to Ji Wuwu to think about.

Du Qing has learned quite well in the caravan and is considered an important deputy to Lu Xun. Kang Dabao had given him some sweet words when they met last time, and his new wife in Chongming City finally gave birth to a son for him. Now he is working very hard.

Wei Gu was also a person who did not need anyone to worry about him. He usually did some maintenance work on the formations in the sect. He was already over 40 years old, and his cultivation level was only at the fourth level of Qi training. Objectively speaking, he had no great opportunities, and it was hopeless for him to build a foundation.

Therefore, even when he did not need to repair the formation, he still preferred to stay with his mortal wives rather than practice meditation in loneliness and hardship, so that he could give birth to a descendant with spiritual roots as soon as possible.

In addition, it was not true that Wei Gu had any special talent in the art of formation. It took him decades of hard work to finally grope his way through the threshold to the next level of formation. As a result, he had lost all motivation to make progress.

After he entered the sect, the head of the Kang sect still wanted to encourage him to work harder, so he asked Pei Yi to find out the essence of the formations of several senior uncles for Wei Gu to study. However, these seniors were only first-class formation masters of the middle and lower grades during their lifetime, and their attainments were not much higher than Wei Gu. It was unknown whether the comments and explanations they left behind could inspire Wei Gu.

After sorting out these matters, Master Kang couldn't help but feel a little worried. Now that he had lost the source of income from Chongming Market, not only had the income of Chongming Sect been cut in half, but he also had five more disciples to pay annual salaries to.

It has to be said that the Chongming Sect is now much more lively than when Master Kang first took over the position of the leader and there were only three big and small cats.

There are currently three late-stage cultivators: Ye Zhengwen, Pei Yi, and Jiang Qing.

Four middle-stage monks: Kang Dabao, Yuan Jin, Zhou Yixiu, and Wei Gu.

There are eleven monks in the initial stage: Zhou Xinran, Han Yundao, Duan Anle, Jin Shilun, Kang Rongquan, Zhang Le, Mo Ku, Ye Yaoling, Ye Pingshui, Ji Wuwu, and Du Qing.

There are four immortals who have not yet entered the Tao: Mo'er, Yuan Changsheng, Song Hui, and Dong Liu'er.

If you don’t count, you wouldn’t know that, including the external affairs disciples, Chongming Sect actually has more than twenty disciples.

In terms of the number of people, they are not much worse than the second-rate forces in Pingrong County such as the Luo family of Heilinbao, Tiejianmen, Qingzhu Gang, etc. which had some reputation in the past.

However, not to mention that these forces have all fallen into decline in the past few years due to various reasons, and cannot be compared with the Chongming Sect today. Even in its heyday, the number of disciples may be slightly more than that of the Chongming Sect, but in terms of quality, it cannot be compared with the Chongming Sect at all.

Among the three late-stage cultivators, Pei Yi is the weakest in fighting, but he should still be able to defeat two or three casual cultivators of the same level by himself. Not to mention that he is an alchemist, and his life is precious, so he will not be involved in the battle much later.

Ye Zhengwen is not much stronger than Pei Yi. As for Jiang Qing, there is no need to say too much. His reputation has long been spread by gossipers, and he is recognized as a person with promising potential in building a foundation in several nearby counties.

If Jiang Qing's name is not on the boring rankings such as Pingrong Fengchu and Tianjiaobang made by idle people nowadays, it will definitely be questioned.

Regardless of whether the others have outstanding combat capabilities, at least they already have the abilities of weapon masters, farming masters, and formation masters. Duan Anle and Jin Shilun are also very talented beast masters and cooks, and I think they will achieve some results in the near future.

Compared with ordinary small families, Kang Dabao's Chongming Sect is full of talented people. As long as Jiang Qing can build a foundation as soon as possible, the head of Kang Da will be able to sit on the position of the ancestor of the revival.

It's just that currently Sect Leader Kang is still worried about his annual salary. He is considering whether to go to Baisha County first to get the reward for the heads and exchange it for spirit stones, or to stay in the sect first and spend a year or so to break through the seventh level of Qi training before going.

But at this moment, another letter came from the Pingrong County Court, and Kang Dabao had no intention of paying attention to it.

Luo Heng, who is still sitting in the position of county magistrate, is just a decoration in Pingrong County, and the head of Kangda is too lazy to even look at him. Chongming Market has just been destroyed, and he wants to put aside many things on this side and decides to concentrate on practicing for a while, not to mention the unimportant official business of Pingrong County.

The current situation is unstable, and seems to be even more turbulent than when Kuang Liuting first came to Yunjiaozhou.
Therefore, Kang Dabao had already made up his mind that unless it was necessary, he would go to Pingrong County only when the taxes were levied every year and when he could get a share of the spirit stones. The rest of the time, he should stay in his own sect.

The letter brought by Ke Xinfu was signed by Huo Bing, the governor of Yunjiao Prefecture, so he had no choice but to read it.

Although he knew that in the eyes of many Foundation Establishment cultivators, Huo Bing was just an old ghost waiting to die, but even so, it was not the turn of Kang Dabao, a small Qi Cultivation cultivator, to neglect him in the slightest.

Thinking of this, Kang Dabao took the letter and opened it, then took out the official document sent by the Governor's Mansion and read it roughly. A bitter look immediately appeared on his face.

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