Everlasting

The Great Elder was used to seeing this scene, and said calmly: "6673 people, this year's number is more than in previous years."

"But it's good to have more people, and the probability of detecting spiritual roots will be higher. It's only for two days, so we have to work harder."

Testing children's spiritual roots is a cumbersome matter. In previous years, four or five ninth-level Qi-training monks would test it together, and it only took about one day to complete.

However, because several old uncles died in the war, this year's spirit detection conference relied entirely on Chen Nianzhi and the elder, and the job seemed tiring.

At first, Chen Nianzhi was still very excited, hoping to find one or two immortal seeds for his family, but as time passed, he gradually became numb.

After testing more than a thousand people in succession, he found out that they were all mortals without spiritual roots, which made him feel a little depressed.

Until dusk, Chen Nianzhi touched the arm of a young child and penetrated his spiritual power into his body, but suddenly he felt something touched.

"Huh--"

Chen Nianzhi's eyes lit up with a look of surprise, and he probed the spiritual power into it again, and sure enough, he vaguely felt a weak spiritual power.

Seeing Chen Nianzhi's expression, the elder quickly came over, held the child's hand, and penetrated the spiritual power into his veins. After a while, he said.

"It's a pity, it's the four spiritual roots."

Upon hearing this, Chen Nianzhi once again probed the child's meridians with spiritual power, and this time he sensed four vague spiritualities.

Among the monks’ spiritual roots, the Four Spiritual Roots are already in the middle and lower levels. This type of spiritual root basically has no potential for cultivation, because the monks with the Four Spiritual Roots practice slowly, and most of them may not be able to break through to the late stage of Qi training in their lifetime. .

Although the spiritual roots are relatively poor, no matter what, a young child with spiritual roots was finally detected, which was a good start.

The great elder kindly asked the child to be taken aside, and then continued to test.

Perhaps Chen Nianzhi made a good start, but then the two of them detected two young children with spiritual roots again.

It is precisely because of this that the great elder was smiling until the end, and was obviously in a good mood.

This test of spiritual roots lasted for two days, and a total of three children with spiritual roots appeared. In addition to the four spiritual roots at the beginning, one of the other two had five spiritual roots. Needless to say, the most important thing is There is one person with three spiritual roots.

This is already a pretty good qualification. There will only be one in the Chen family with three spiritual roots every few years. Such monks often have a modest future.

As long as you practice well, even if you cannot break through the ninth level of Qi training and become a family elder before the age of sixty, you can probably break through the ninth level of Qi training around the age of seventy, become the elder of the family, and contribute to the family.

"It's a pity that there is no second spiritual root."

After the test, Chen Nianzhi breathed a sigh of relief and said with some regret.

"You kid."

The great elder was a bit dumbfounded. It was quite good to have three spiritual roots at one time. In previous years, most of them could only produce one or two.

As for the second spirit root, it takes about twenty years for the Chen family to produce one on average. The most recent second spirit root was Chen Qingyuan, who joined the Qingyang Sect.

Chen Qingxu shook his head, glanced at Chen Nianzhi, and said with a smile.

"The testing here is complete."

"But there are still six towns that need people to test. I can't get away from Pingyang City, so you have to handle this matter."

Chen Nianzhi nodded: "Well, I'll leave later."

After hundreds of years of development, the population of Pingyang City had gradually reached saturation more than a hundred years ago.

Because of the limitations of Pingyang City, at the peak of the Chen family eighty years ago, six first-level spiritual veins were cultivated within hundreds of miles around Pingyang County at a huge cost.

Relying on six first-level small spiritual veins, the Chen family established six small towns, which are now the six towns of Pingyang.

The six small towns all have first-level high-grade formations, and there are monks from the Chen family who are in the middle stage of Qi training. They are enough to guard against demons below the foundation level. It can also be regarded as a safety barrier established by the Chen family for Pingyang City.

With these six small towns taking root on the periphery and blocking sporadic monsters, the vast plains within hundreds of miles in the hinterland of Pingyang County have become granaries and fertile soil for the descendants of the Chen family in Pingyang County to cultivate with peace of mind for many years.

"For these hundreds of miles of fertile soil, our ancestors eighty years ago were really foresighted."

"pity……"

Chen Nianzhi couldn't help but sigh as he walked across the plain.

If it hadn't been for the demon beast chaos sixty years ago that severely damaged the Chen family's energy and strength by 70% to 80%, then they wouldn't be so aggrieved now.

In the vast wilderness of the Eastern Region where monsters are rampant and the environment is harsh, this kind of relatively safe fertile soil is extremely rare.

If these hundreds of miles of fertile land can be developed, it will definitely be able to support the reproduction and survival of millions of mortals, and the number of monks added by the Chen family every year will increase more than ten times.

It's a pity that the Chen family is not strong enough. Once they really reproduce millions of mortals, they may face annihilation.

The flesh and blood souls of millions of mortals are treasures that even the great demons in the Purple Mansion realm covet. Once the blood sacrifice is enough, a third-level demon treasure in the Purple Mansion realm can be refined.

This temptation is enough to make the devil take risks and do the outrageous things that day.

Therefore, the Chen Clan has been controlling the slow growth of the population to avoid attracting the attention of the big demon.

Chen Nianzhi's footsteps were extremely fast, and he arrived at the first small town in just over an hour.

This town is the closest to Pingyang County. It is the most developed and the best among the six towns. It has a population of more than 15,000 people and more than 700 children of school age.

Chen Nianzhi spent several hours testing more than 700 people. Unfortunately, no spiritual roots were detected.

Without wasting any more time, he went to several other towns one after another. It only took him two days to test the five towns, but he didn't even encounter a single spiritual root.

"The last town is ahead."

Chen Nianzhi looked at the map with some frustration, not having much hope for the last town.

Pingyuan Town is the farthest one from Pingyang City because it is the first barrier to Pingyang Town and has the harshest environment. It is often attacked by monsters and poisonous insects, so it has the smallest population among the six towns.

The entire town only has a population of 3,000 people. After excluding the 800 black-armored knights who defended against low-level monsters, the town only has a population of just over 2,000 people. Among them, there are probably no more than 200 children of appropriate age.

"wrong."

Still more than ten miles away from Pingyuan Town, Chen Nianzhi felt something was wrong.

In order to guard against attacks by low-level monsters, according to Chen's rules, there should be black-armored cavalry patrolling within ten miles of Pingyuan Town, but today he could not see a single black-armored cavalry.

What made him feel even more uneasy was that he could smell the smell of blood from a long distance away.

"Not good!"