I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 116: Returning to Qingmu Village Again

After giving Lin Xuwen a glance, Lin Qing was about to leave. This time, he didn't go outside the town but directly released his flying boat in the courtyard. He then boarded the boat and ascended into the sky.

Below, not only Lin Xuwen's family, but the entire Sanshan Town witnessed this scene.

On the flying boat, Lin Qing headed straight towards the Chiyang Immortal City. As for the descendants of the Lin family, he had already checked them when he arrived. Among them, there were no descendants with spiritual roots. If there were, he would have definitely taken them along for cultivation.

As the flying boat flew, Lin Qing thought about what Lin Xuwen had said to him earlier. With a sudden realization, he immediately changed the direction of the flying boat and headed towards Qingmu Village.

Lin Qing decided to go and take a look at Qingmu Village.

Firstly, it was not far from here, and secondly, he was curious about where the gold came from.

Half an hour later, Lin Qing arrived at Qingmu Village. Looking around, the once bustling village had turned into a wasteland. The grass grew taller than humans, and not only the cultivators but also the ordinary people who used to gather here had all left. Most of the houses had collapsed. If it weren't for the fact that a cultivator who was unaware of the situation passed by, they would never have noticed that there used to be a cultivation market here.

Lin Qing landed and followed his memories, first finding the traces of the expanded stone walls, and then slowly walking until he found his own shop from back then.

Although it was called a shop, there was no trace of it left now. Clearing away the weeds, only the remnants of the paved floor tiles remained.

Thinking of the once prosperous Qingmu Village, Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh.

Afterward, he released his divine sense and investigated. To his surprise, he actually found traces of gold.

He pried open several floor tiles in a row and dug out more than twenty taels of gold. It seemed that Lin Xuen's brothers had only discovered a part of it. However, this was not the point. The point was, who had buried this gold here?

When he left Qingmu Village, he took everything with him.

Turning his head to look at the spot next to him, it was still covered in weeds. However, back then, it was the shop of Li Fellow Daoist, who specialized in purchasing materials.

"Could it be buried by Li Fellow Daoist?"

Lin Qing thought to himself and used his divine sense to investigate. There was nothing beneath the floor tiles of Li Fellow Daoist's shop.

For a moment, Lin Qing was puzzled. Who could have buried this gold? It wasn't him. Could it be Chao Yun, who was in Qingmu Village back then? Or was it Li Qingyu? Standing in place, thinking and thinking, Lin Qing couldn't come up with an answer. Looking at the overgrown Qingmu Village, he buried the gold back. Regardless of who buried it, it was of no help to him now. It was better to leave it be.

Afterwards, he controlled the flying boat again. Lin Qing stood in the air and took one last look at Qingmu Village before leaving directly.

In the air, Lin Qing went over Lin Xuwen's words again, but there were no clues. Lin Qing thought to himself that this mystery might be difficult to solve.

Thinking about Lin Xuen and Lin Xuwen's experiences over the years, Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh deeply.

For ordinary people, it was extremely difficult to survive on their own. Without any opportunities, it would be hard to make a breakthrough in life. It was only after Lin Xuen's brothers discovered this gold that they were able to change their fate. Otherwise, they would probably still be farming for a living.

And this principle applies in the world of cultivation as well. Even low-level immortals face difficulties and struggle throughout their lives without opportunities. It is said that there is a difference between immortals and mortals, but in Lin Qing's opinion, there are similarities in this aspect. Whether mortal or immortal, the path to progress is filled with challenges and is extremely difficult.

As the flying boat soared over mountains and ridges, Lin Qing's thoughts were in turmoil. However, after calming down, he felt like he had forgotten something.

It was an indescribable feeling, as if something was amiss.

Stopping the flying boat, Lin Qing went through everything that happened from the moment he left Chiyang Immortal City with Lin Xuen, until he arrived at Qingmu Village.

Something seemed off from the moment Lin Xuen left. It instantly made him realize that Lin Xuen's journey over the years was not as smooth as he had imagined, stirring his emotions. And then Lin Xuen's words revealed even more about the situation.

Yes, it was about the situation.

At this moment, Lin Qing thought that he seemed to have missed something in Lin Xuen's words. Lin Xuen mentioned that they had found gold in Qingmu Village, got lost in the mountains, and then found two households. They got married and started farming, with the harvest being four to five times better than outside.

Yes, that's what's amiss. Lin Qing thought of the key point.

Lin Xuen casually mentioned it, but why would the land in the mountains yield a harvest four to five times better than outside? According to reason, the land in the mountains should not be as fertile and would lack water on normal days, resulting in poor harvests. He had seen the farmland around Sanshan Town, which had water channels running through them. How could there be such conditions in the mountains? As for whether Lin Xuen was mistaken, considering that Lin Xuen and Lin Xuen had been farming for so many years, they should not be wrong about this. Lin Qing did not doubt this.

"Hiss."

Lin Qing took a deep breath, and for a moment, something seemed to click in his mind.

Looking back towards Qingmu Village, distant memories floated in Lin Qing's mind. He remembered that Qingmu Village was destroyed because of expansion. And the reason for the expansion was the increasing number of monsters in the nearby Yandang Mountains. It could be said that the root cause was the increase in monsters. But even after so many years, no one knew why the number of monsters increased.

When he left Qingmu Village, it was later destroyed by the Blood Sea Old Demon. All his attention was drawn to the Blood Sea Old Demon, but now he realized that the increase in monsters was actually more suspicious.

Although nearly seventy years had passed, Lin Qing's thoughts became clearer and clearer. Scenes from the past flashed through his mind.

Fellow Daoist Li mentioned the increase in materials purchased by shops, the large number of cultivators gathered in Qingmu Village, the wild boar spirit that caused trouble during the expansion, and the harvest from farming mentioned by Xuen. For a moment, many things connected in Lin Qing's mind.

Lin Qing couldn't help but turn the flying boat around and head towards Sanshan Town.

Returning to Sanshan Town and finding Lin Xuen, Lin Xuen was somewhat surprised and didn't understand why Lin Qing had returned. But Lin Qing didn't say much and directly asked him where they had farmed back then.

Based on his memory, Lin Xuen drew a location, which was about twenty miles away from Qingmu Village, not too far.

Then Lin Qing flew towards this location. Since he hunted the Fiery Wolf back then, he had never entered the Yandang Mountains again. After all, he could live well by relying on his Goldfinger to earn spirit stones through array formations, and there were many dangers in the mountains due to the large number of monsters. But with Lin Qing's current strength, he didn't need to worry too much about the danger from monsters. Or rather, it was the other monsters that should be worried about him and the Purple Gold Toad.

After arriving at the approximate location given by Lin Xuen, Lin Qing searched and indeed found traces of two houses. According to Lin Xuen, the owners of these two houses, who were also their parents-in-law, were mortals. After Qingmu Village was destroyed, the mortals who had lived around Qingmu Village scattered, and they had no choice but to move here.

Looking at the surroundings, Lin Qing thought they were quite daring.

(End of this chapter)