The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 2 Family
  Five years have passed in a flash!

Xu Yu, who was born that year, is also five years old. In another year, the Xu family will hold a spirit testing conference. This is a very important day in the life of everyone who is born in a family that cultivates immortals. Spirit testing means spiritual root testing.

Spiritual roots, only those few who have the luck of heaven and earth and the good fortune of the immortal family are qualified to cultivate immortality. This qualification is called spiritual roots.

There is not one mortal among ten thousand, only the descendants of immortal cultivators have a less than 10% chance of having spiritual roots. However, the way of heaven is easy to reincarnate, and it is extremely difficult for immortal cultivators to produce offspring. The higher the cultivation level, the smaller the chance. This is also the reason why the Xu family in Nanfeng Mountain has hundreds of thousands of mortals and only a few hundred cultivators.

Spiritual roots are divided into metal, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, wind, thunder, etc., which are common. I heard that there are also light, dark, yin, yang, etc., but these are just legends. Nuo Da Yongzhou also has I have never heard of anyone possessing these rare spiritual roots.

Maybe there are some in those big sects, but these monks are the treasures of the sect, and generally they won't let others know easily. What if the hostile forces find out about it and send someone to assassinate him?
  Spiritual roots are also divided into levels. The spiritual roots with five attributes are complex but not sufficient. The spiritual roots of each attribute are incomplete and the cultivation speed is very slow. This kind of pseudo-spiritual root basically cannot break through the middle stage of Qi training and will stay in the early stage of Qi training for the rest of its life.

Those with four attributes of spiritual roots are called miscellaneous spiritual roots. They are a little better than the five spiritual roots, but they basically stop at the middle stage of Qi training. It is rare to break through to the late stage of Qi training unless there are sufficient training resources or there are Strange encounters may be able to accumulate until Qi training is complete, but it is basically impossible to build a foundation.

Those with spiritual roots of three attributes are called true spiritual roots. Each attribute of spiritual roots is abundant and the cultivation speed is faster. You can practice Qi training to perfection before the age of sixty, supplemented by the Foundation Building Pill, and there is a 20% chance of building the Foundation.

Those with two attribute spiritual roots are called earth spiritual roots. They practice very quickly and have a 20% chance of building a foundation by themselves. With the help of a foundation building pill, the chance is as high as 60%.

There is also a type of spiritual root that has two or three types of five elements mixed together, mutated and sublimated, with attributes such as thunder, ice, darkness, wind, etc. The cultivation speed is no less than that of the heavenly spiritual root, which is called a mutated spiritual root. But this is only the cultivation speed that is comparable to Tianlinggen. The gap in other aspects is still quite large.

A single spiritual root with only one attribute is called the heavenly spiritual root, and the spiritual root is abundant. The cultivation speed is several times faster than ordinary spiritual roots, and there are no bottlenecks in building foundations and purple mansions. Can be called the proud son of heaven. But for hundreds of years in the Qin State, they had not heard that the cultivator had this kind of spiritual root. It might exist, but their family was too small to have access to this kind of information.

When it comes to measuring spiritual roots, we have to introduce Xu Yu's family - the Xu family of Nanfeng Mountain.

It has been almost a thousand years since the Xu family was founded. Its founder is Xu Feng, the ancestor of the Xu family. He was a loose cultivator in the late Zifu period during his lifetime. When he was two hundred years old, he came to Nanfeng Mountain while chasing a third-level high-grade monster. Although he fought hard to kill the monster in the end, he himself was also seriously injured. , there is no hope of breaking through the golden elixir in cultivation.

However, when he was temporarily opening a cave here to heal his wounds, he accidentally discovered a second-order low-grade spiritual vein on the mountain. This gave him a sense of comfort and gave him the idea of ​​​​spreading his branches, so he spent most of his wealth to buy Lingfeng. Land, where the Xu family of cultivating immortals was founded.

Since the ancestor of the Xu family passed away, although the Xu family has no Zifu monks in the past thousand years, there are still foundation-building monks from generation to generation. Although they do not have the prestige when the ancestor was alive, they have finally been passed down. It has been passed down for more than ten generations. The family rule is that one generation is every sixty years. Only those with spiritual roots can enter the family tree, and mortals are not included in this list.

At that time, our ancestors established the following principles: "Guang, Zhao, Xian, Qing, Mu, Wei, Chui, You, Kai, Guo, Yun, Ke, De, Sheng, Zheng, Zhi, Sui, Wei, Family, Sheng." , has been passed down to the sixteenth generation. If Xu Yu detects the spiritual root, he will be the generation with the character "Zhi".

After nearly a thousand years of reproduction, the Xu family has become well-known in Taoshui County. There are currently three foundation-building monks and more than 190 Qi-refining monks, including dozens of casual cultivators who have joined the Xu family. They are all Taoist companions married by Qi Refining monks of the Xu family.

It has eight mortal towns under its jurisdiction, with a total population of around 1.5 million mortals. Taoshui County is affiliated to Jincheng Prefecture and is named after the Taoshui River passes through it. There are four foundation-building families, namely the Xu, Li, Bai and Wei families. Among them, the Xu family has the longest standing, the Wei family has the most foundations, and the Li family has the most foundations. There are many marriage alliances, and the Bai family has the largest background.

The four families have coexisted in Taoshui County for hundreds of years. During this period, they have had the idea of ​​annexing other families to strengthen themselves. In the past, there were also genocidal wars launched by one family against another family, but they all failed in the end.

Because at the last moment, there are always two other families joining the party that is about to be exterminated to fight against the other family. Therefore, although the four families are always fighting back and forth, they have never been able to completely destroy each other, and they have been in a stalemate.

But among them, the Xu family and the Wei family have the worst relationship, and the two families fight the most fiercely. In the hundreds of years of struggle, a blood feud has been forged. It seems that only one family falls, and this hundreds of years of fighting can end.

However, this is not the case in Taoshui County alone. If you look closely, you will find that the entire world of cultivating immortals is actually like this, where the weak eat the strong!

Looking up at Nanfeng Mountain, you can see the green mountains, the mountains full of shady trees, the vast blue sky, and a few misty clouds, which just constitute an elegant and interesting light-ink landscape painting.

Thousands of feet above the ground, there are strange rocks and jagged rocks. One huge cliff stands upright, and the other cuts across it and plunges straight into the mountainside. It looks like a blue dragon with its head raised and its momentum is extraordinary. Looking down below, you can see the white clouds. Looking around the peaks, you can see the clouds and mist. The tops of the mountains peek out from the clouds and mists, like hibiscus emerging from the water. The mountain is surrounded by water, with solitary peaks standing tall, lush trees, green bamboos, and steep mountain walls with surging streams.

The patriarch, Xu Shengzhao, stood in front of a cave on the top of the mountain, but he had no intention of looking at this rare and beautiful scenery of the Immortal Family for mortals. First, because he has seen it too many times. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, he will get tired of it if he sees it too much. Second, of course, it is because he has something important to report to his ancestor who is in retreat today.

There are three people in the Xu family who are building foundations. One person is in the late stage of building foundations and is of the De generation, and the other two are in the early stages of building the foundations and are of the Wei generation. Today he came to meet Xu Deming, the most senior ancestor of the Xu family.

After a long time, the cave door slowly opened, and a voice came from inside,

"Is this Sheng Zhao? Come in."

"Yes, Ancestor, my nephew has something important to report and has disturbed Ancestor's Qingxiu!"

The head of the Xu family walked into the cave respectfully, and then the door of the cave slowly closed.

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