Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 200 Celebration
Shenmu Lin.

Ever since the rules of ancestor worship in clan rituals were established.

Every year, the Yi family holds a grand ceremony to worship their ancestors when the New Year arrives.

In the past, the Yi family's ancestor worship ceremony was already very grand. In recent years, the family has taken out even more spirit stones to buy all kinds of spirit fruits, spirit wines, and various spirit beast sacrifices, turning the already grand ceremony into a festival for the whole family to rejoice.

After the ancestor worship, no matter whether they are cultivators or mortals, as long as they are members of the Yi family, they can receive New Year gifts from the family, or more precisely, from the Yi Dong family.

There are celebrations in the fairyland. For example, the change of the fairy emperor is a celebration of the fairyland. However, those celebrations in the fairyland are generally held mainly for the immortal cultivators, and are usually held once every few dozen or hundreds of years.

The Yi family's ancestor worship is more like a ceremony held mainly for mortals. After all, once a year is too frequent for immortal cultivators.

Decades later, the New Year ancestor worship celebration has become a tradition of the Yi family.

At this moment, Shenmu Forest was filled with laughter and joy.

The Yi family was under great pressure from Yi Dong's family. After Yi Dong returned to the surface, the fighting within the family was not intense.

The family is governed by clan laws and regulations, and many members of the clan can maintain superficial harmony. On days of celebration, some members can even put aside their grudges and laugh it off.

It can be said that the annual ancestor worship ceremony is a part of strengthening the cohesion of the Yi family.

The Yi family has exceeded five million members.

This is because many families have been unwilling to have more children in recent decades.

Because the Yi family wanted an heir with spiritual roots, even mortal families could get the Bu Tian Dan at a very cheap price.

Now, within the Yi family, most families look down on ordinary Bu Tian Dan, and they generally buy the Purple Light Eye version of Bu Tian Dan.

Even if the Purple Light Eye version of the Bu Tian Dan is sold at a low level within the family, many families cannot afford to buy a few pills.

The millions of Yi family members, except for those in the underground world, are mostly concentrated in the Shenmu Forest.

During the fifteen-day celebration, there is no limit on spiritual fruits and spiritual wine, and all kinds of food are available for free. It can be said that the daily expenditure is in the millions of spiritual stones.

Many people who have worked hard for a year can release the depression accumulated during this fifteenth day.

This year's ancestor worship ceremony has ended. The 72-year-old head of the family, Yi Shouxian, is in high spirits. He nodded to each of the clan members who greeted him, and finally sat down at a table filled with mortals.

Yi Mo's three mortal children are also at this table.

Yi Shouxian had no opinion on Yi Mo's three children.

They are all poor people who share the same suffering.

Among the Yi family, where almost all members are cultivators, they are of noble status, but they just don't have spiritual roots.

They also knew that there were some magical medicines in the fairyland that could produce spiritual roots after birth.

But if they wanted to buy that kind of banned drug, apart from Yi Dong and Dong Fang Hong, only their father had the means.

But for so many years, no one has paid any attention to them. It is impossible to say that Yi Shouxian and others have no resentment towards the Yi family.

At this moment, Yi Shouxian is also a grandfather. Among his children and grandchildren, except for some illegitimate children in Jinshan City, many are heirs with spiritual roots.

Originally, his status was still very high, but after the incident in Zijin Mountain, his status plummeted.

In Shenmulin, Dongfanghong is in charge, and his say as the head of the family is almost zero.

Now, he can only show up in some formal occasions.

This year is the 72nd year of Kanshui, and there are already immortal cultivators in the family who are in seclusion and advancing to the Nascent Soul stage.

Yi Shouxian, the mortal head of the family, is even less taken seriously by the immortal cultivators in the family.

When Yi Shouxian drank the precious spiritual wine, he only felt bitterness.

Sitting on the high platform, Dongfanghong, surrounded by many senior members of the Yi family, looked around and saw several grandchildren drinking in the corner. He wanted to call them over.

However, thinking about the fact that Yi Shouxian and others became more mentally fragile as they got older, he remained silent.

Dongfanghong is not Yi Dong, she is not as ruthless as Yi Dong.

Dongfanghong once asked Yidong whether he should buy some spiritual objects with acquired spiritual roots for his grandchildren to use.

Yi Dong simply said, "This is not a precedent!"

Dongfanghong also knew what Yidong was worried about.

Now, there are not many mortals among Yidong’s grandchildren, but what about in a few hundred or a thousand years?
By then, there will be countless mortals in the family who are related to Yi Dong. Will he buy spiritual objects that can produce spiritual roots for them all?
This is obviously unrealistic. In the fairyland, spiritual creatures with acquired spiritual roots are extremely rare. On the one hand, there is not much demand for it. The more critical thing is that such spiritual creatures, which are of little use to high-level cultivators, take hundreds of years to grow, and their prices are equivalent to those of fourth-level or even fifth-level spiritual creatures.

The spiritual roots produced by this kind of rubbish spiritual creatures usually only have four or five spiritual roots.

Even ancient noble families would not use such expensive spiritual objects to grow spiritual roots for their mortal offspring.

Dongfang Hong originally wanted to help Yi Shouxian and Yi Mo and other children get a spiritual root treasure. After all, no matter what spiritual root it was, it would not be difficult for Dongfang Hong to provide them with something to help them become Jindan immortal cultivators.

Unfortunately, Dongfanghong herself does not have many spirit stones, and she relies solely on the spiritual land of the Shenmu Forest.

Unlike Yi Dong, who either trades with the demons or burns, kills, and loots everywhere, he has so many spirit stones that he can't use them all up.

Dongfanghong, who didn't have many spirit stones, had to pay a high price to buy spiritual roots and spiritual objects that were not available on the market. As a result, he naturally never got the relevant treasures.

At this time, Dongfang Wen came up to Dongfang Hong and said to her:
“Why did Grandpa expand the scale of ancestor worship every year?

Grandpa always has a purpose for what he does. Do you know why, mother?

Dongfanghong withdrew her attention from Yi Shouxian and looked at Dongfang Wen.

"I noticed that you and Mu Mu have been very close recently. Why are you asking me instead of her?"

Dongfang Wen knew that Dongfang Hong was joking, but she still held Dongfang Hong's hand and said with a smile: "Mom, I did this for..."

Suddenly, Dongfang Wen stopped talking because she noticed that Dongfang Hong was looking in one direction with a serious look.

Soon, Dongfanghong's expression relaxed.

Dongfang Wen knew that it was Number One, who had been hiding in Shenmulin, who had sent a message to Dongfanghong.

"what happened?"

"You'll know right away."

Before Dongfanghong could say anything, a huge blood-red, bat-like monster fell from the sky.

For a moment, many children in the Shenmu Forest were so frightened that they stood there in a daze, and even some low-level cultivators looked out of control.

"Hahaha!"

As the monster disappeared, a figure fell from the air in front of Dongfanghong.

Some members of the Yi family who were feeling as if they were facing a great enemy felt relieved after seeing that figure.

Of course, many members of the Yi family are still very nervous.

"How old are you? You still like to play pranks."

"I haven't seen my mother for a long time. I came here as soon as I came back."

The person falling from the sky was Yi Qing.

At this moment, Yi Qing had a smile on his face.

However, many members of the Yi family couldn't help but look away when they saw Yi Qing's eyes.

Yi Qing's eyes carried a hint of intimidation that made people submit.

Yi Qing glanced at Dongfanghong, then glanced at the tallest woman not far away, and then signaled to Dongfanghong with his eyes.

When Yi Qing came to Qingzhou, she heard rumors about the Yi family. At that moment, she thought that Zijin Mountain had been lost and Yi Dong was still missing, so she came to Shenmulin as soon as possible.

Dongfanghong saw Yi Qing observing Mu Mu, and was not surprised that Yi Qing was able to discover Mu Mu.

The only modern cultivators around were Dongfanghong and Mumu. Especially Mumu, who was already a Qi Refining King at the ninth level, and stood out among the ancient cultivators.

Dongfanghong explained to Yiqing through voice transmission, and then asked:
"Go to Purple Mountain. Your father is there."

"No hurry. I haven't experienced the New Year ancestor worship scene for many years. Now is a good time to have some fun together."

After night falls.

Dongfanghong and Yiqing were walking in the yard.

"It seems that because you, mother, are unwilling to give birth to a child for father, father is looking for another woman."

"If you say that again, I'll turn against you."

"Okay, no more talking."

"Tell me, what's the matter with you coming to see me?"

"Oh, I want my mother to help gather some tribesmen to go outside the boundary with me."

"No, you ignored all those clansmen who followed you before. Now they may have become independent cultivators. No one in the Yi family wants to leave with you."

Dongfanghong refused outright.
"Don't ask your father. He won't force his people to follow you."

"Don't worry, I won't force them. After all, I asked them to help me do things, not to cause trouble for me."

"Give up. Right now, most of the tribesmen can see the hope of forming a baby in Xia County. How could they possibly go to fight for you in the outer realms?"

Yi Qing smiled slightly.
“Of course, there aren’t many people willing to follow me in the Divine Forest, but our Yi family has many unofficial clansmen in Jinshan City, right?

I want you to gather these people together."

"What do you want with these mortals?"

Dongfanghong naturally knew who Yi Qing was talking about.

There are many illegitimate children in Jinshan City.

There are restrictions on Taoist partners in the fairyland. Many people born in the fairyland are not registered as members of the Yi family. Even if they have Yi family blood, the Yi family will not accept them into the spiritual land.

Yi Qing looked at Dongfanghong's wary eyes and was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
“Mother, if I wanted to do anything to those mortals, I could find countless mortals in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Let me tell you this, I have a way to let those mortals practice."

Dongfanghong was not a fool. He knew immediately that Yiqing's method was definitely not a formal one.

"Those bugs of yours?"

“Yes, I have done a lot of experiments on insect people, and now I can safely transform mortals into insect people.

The insect people help me raise insects, and my own spiritual insects help them cultivate instead of my spiritual roots, so I can kill two birds with one stone."

In fact, the insect man created by Yi Qing was modified from a human-raised insect.

Using the human body as a container, powerful insect kings are refined.

As these insect kings and humans grow, they will inevitably develop higher intelligence than ordinary insect kings.

(End of this chapter)