I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 78: Spiritual Veins and Breaking the Formation

However, Lin Qing knew that his son not only had a high cultivation level, but his alchemy skills had also reached the middle grade of the first rank. The most crucial thing was that when he was refining pills, he was not as gentle as he appeared on the surface. According to Che Yun, sometimes Lin Xuzheng would not eat or sleep while refining pills. He had a particularly exploratory spirit and would even research pill formulas on his own. Not only did he like to use living creatures in his alchemy, but he also often used his own blood for refinement.

As for whether this was good or bad, Lin Qing couldn't say for sure.

He didn't understand the path of alchemy, but he approved of having an exploratory spirit.

Flying was not allowed within Chiyang City. After leaving Chiyang City, Lin Qing piloted the flying boat and took Lin Xuzhe and the other two in the opposite direction. This trip was to explore a possible treasure location, so they naturally had to be cautious.

Within half a day, Lin Qing changed directions multiple times before flying towards the location marked on the map.

Because they had previously been to the Zhao family, Lin Qing didn't feel much standing on the flying boat. However, it was different for Lin Xuzhe and the others. This was their first time standing on a flying boat and looking down at the world below. Their eyes revealed different emotions.

After they had been looking for a while, Lin Qing explained in detail what had happened when they went to the Zhao family, especially regarding the spiritual veins.

Lin Xuzhe and the others nodded frequently as they looked at the countless mountains passing by below. They naturally understood what Lin Qing meant. Their family had already grown to a considerable size, and for future development, they should have their own foundation.

"Dad, Xuyuan and I have been to many places. Some of the spiritual veins in those places are occupied by small clans. We can directly occupy them," Lin Xuzhe said.

Lin Qing shook his head. "Those small spiritual veins are only of the lower middle grade of the first rank. They won't be of much help to our family's current cultivation level. It's better to stay in Chiyang Immortal City."

"That's true," Lin Xuzhe nodded. With their family's lowest cultivation level now reaching the sixth layer of Qi Refining, what use would those lower middle grade spiritual veins of the first rank be?

"Dad, you said the upper middle grade spiritual vein of the Bilin River is divided among three families?" Lin Xuyuan asked.

"That's right."

"That's really popular," Lin Xuyuan nodded thoughtfully.

"Dad, it's not easy to find new spiritual veins. If our family wants to occupy one, it won't be easy," Lin Xuyuan said after a while.

Lin Qing nodded and sighed lightly.

During the discussion, Lin Xuzheng had been silent the whole time. Lin Qing thought he lacked experience and couldn't contribute to the conversation, but little did he know that Lin Xuzheng was constantly calculating in his mind.

"A year ago, I accidentally made a kind of poisonous pill that can poison a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator to death with a single touch. If it enters the water, the potency will weaken, so it probably won't be very effective. If we follow Dad's plan, there are probably dozens of cultivators occupying a single upper middle grade spiritual vein. If I want to poison them, I'll have to put in some effort. Perhaps I can start with ordinary people."

The flying boat continued to fly, and Lin Qing and his three sons chatted from time to time, displaying an intimate father-son relationship.

After flying for two consecutive days, they finally arrived near the location marked on the map. Lin Qing put away the flying boat early, as it was too conspicuous. They would have to continue on foot.

Lin Xuzhe and Lin Xuyuan had been here before, so they guided Lin Qing to the cemetery they had mentioned before in just half a day.

When Lin Qing arrived and took a look, he was shocked. In this desolate mountainous area, there were about two hundred graves in this cemetery, which was not small in scale. How could an ordinary family survive here? This was probably a place where a cultivation family had once stayed.

As Lin Xuzhe had said, this cemetery was enveloped by a formation. Lin Qing tried it out, but his initial stage of Foundation Building cultivation was not enough to break it.

However, he did not come at this time to break this formation, but to decipher it.

Lin Xueze and his two companions set up camp on one side, while Lin Qing began to decipher the formation. Deciphering a formation usually takes a lot of time, as one needs to find the flaws in the formation, and sometimes it can take as long as ten days or even half a month to decipher it.

However, Lin Qing had a deep understanding of this aspect after obtaining the deciphering notes left by the Zhao family ancestors. After spending half a day reading them, he discovered the secrets of this formation. It was a defensive formation equivalent to a second-grade middle-tier, but it also incorporated a trapping formation on top of the defensive formation, making it difficult for wild beasts to break through.

In Lin Qing's opinion, the time it took to set up this formation was not long, at most a hundred years. However, even a hundred years would require a considerable amount of spiritual stones to sustain this formation. Lin Qing thought of something at this moment.

Next, Lin Qing asked Lin Xueze and the others to search the surrounding area. One day later, Lin Xueqing discovered something unusual.

"Dad, there's something strange about the spiritual energy over there." Lin Xueqing pointed to a mountain hollow five miles away.

Lin Qing took his three sons and went there to explore. They discovered a first-grade middle-tier spiritual vein in this place.

Lin Qing nodded, this was it.

To sustain this formation, they wouldn't use spiritual stones in general, but rather spiritual veins. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to maintain itself for such a long time.

"Dad, we've found a spiritual vein!" Lin Xuyuan said excitedly.

However, Lin Qing wasn't as happy as him. This spiritual vein was connected to the cemetery formation. If they wanted to break the cemetery formation, they had to destroy this spiritual vein. If they didn't destroy it, it would be fine, but they came here for the cemetery, not for this first-grade middle-tier spiritual vein.

Although this spiritual vein was not small, it was still far from what Lin Qing had in mind for Law Manifestation. Moreover, it was so remote that developing this spiritual vein would not be cost-effective.

Besides, as long as the cemetery existed, Lin Qing would not let the family come here.

"Destroy this spiritual vein," Lin Qing said.

After the excitement, Lin Xueze and the others also realized that this spiritual vein was not suitable. So they started to dig out the spiritual stones. The simplest way to destroy the spiritual vein was to dig out all the spiritual stones. Without the spiritual stones, the spiritual vein would naturally become useless.

Of course, if many years passed, perhaps the destroyed spiritual vein could regenerate, but that was something no one knew. It might take tens of thousands of years or it might never regenerate. The rules of spiritual veins were one of the great mysteries in the cultivation world. No one dared to claim that they fully understood the rules of spiritual veins. There must be spiritual stones in the spiritual vein, but piling up spiritual stones would not form a spiritual vein.

This first-grade middle-tier spiritual vein had been previously excavated, so there weren't many spiritual stones left, just enough to sustain the scale of the cemetery formation.

At this time, the spiritual vein acted like an amplifier. With the help of the spiritual vein, one spiritual stone could be used as ten. This was another advantage of the spiritual vein. With the help of the spiritual vein, supporting the formation became easy.

On this trip, Lin Xueze also brought the puppet from the ninth level of Qi Refining in his storage bag, which made the process of digging out the spiritual stones very fast. In less than ten days, all the spiritual stones in this spiritual vein were dug out, totaling about seven to eight thousand.

Lin Qing thought to himself that just these spiritual stones alone had already yielded a rich harvest in this location.

The dug-out spiritual stones were collected by Lin Qing. With Lin Qing around, Lin Xueze and the others didn't lack spiritual stones at all. These spiritual stones would be used for the family in the future. Moreover, at this moment, the cemetery was more important than these spiritual stones.

After all the spiritual stones were dug out, the spiritual energy of the spiritual vein decreased sharply. Lin Qing waited for a few more days, and the formation in the cemetery had dropped to the level of a second-grade lower-tier.

However, although the spiritual vein was disabled, it would still take at least half a year for the formation to completely fail. Lin Qing naturally didn't want to wait any longer, so he found the weak point of the formation and directly destroyed it.

(End of this chapter)