Journey To Longevity

Qingyuancheng is the county town of Gyeongju. It can only rank second in terms of area in Gyeongju, but it is located in the middle of Gyeongju, connected to all directions, and has a prosperous economy. The name of Qingyuan City is not only in the mere state of Gyeongju.

Yu State and even several nearby countries know this city, that's because there is a family here - the Li family of Qingyuan.

However, the luck of the Li family is not as good as that of the Zhang family of Baiyuan Mountain. Zhang Shilong, the ancestor of the Zhang family, established the Zhang family in the world of cultivating immortals in Baimang Mountain with his own strength.

The development of the Li family in Qingyuan is different from that of the Zhang family. In addition to the main line of Qingyuan City, the Li family also has 14 larger branches in various parts of Yu State.

The family has been passed down for so long, and some people in the main line of the Li family also know that there is a group of people in this world who have powers that ordinary people can't imagine, and can live forever.

The patriarchs and elders of the Li family dreamed of turning their own family into the high-ranking Cultivation Clan, just like the few notorious families in Yu Kingdom. There were rumors that they were the secular branches of the Cultivation Clan. Not to fight or to grab, but once their families speak out on a certain matter, His Majesty the Emperor of Yu Kingdom must carefully consider their suggestions. If the matter does not affect too much, then most of them will agree.

In such a comparison, the Li family of Qingyuan in the country of Yu is too ridiculous.

But if you want to practice, the first step is to have spiritual roots. This is also the most important step. Every few years, the Li family will invite monks from the Zhengyang Sect's hall in the city to help test the spiritual roots of the children in the family. , and in recent years, the Li family invited immortals from the concept of longevity.

Due to the high cost of asking immortal cultivators to help, the Li family in Qingyuan City had to pay a large amount of money every time, and such a big family couldn't help feeling heartbroken.

But why the Li family has spent more than 400 years and is still only a secular family, there is a big reason why the secular family's family management philosophy is strong and weak.

When monks from the Zhengyang School or the Temple of Longevity came to test their spiritual roots, what they tested were all direct descendants of the main line of the Li family, not a single branch.

If there are immortal cultivators in the branches, who will be the main one in the future?

In the final analysis, it is because of the different positions that one stands, and the attitude towards things will be obviously biased.

But there are only so many people in those direct descendants, and it is not so easy to have children with spiritual roots. However, after hundreds of years, a few disciples of the main line of the Li family who have spiritual roots have been tested.

The spiritual roots of these disciples are all middle-lower spiritual roots with three spiritual roots or even five spiritual roots. There is not even a single spiritual root. The monks stationed at the hall of Zhengyangzong in Qingyuan City are naturally not interested in recruiting.

For these children with poor spiritual root aptitude, for Zhengyang Sect or other sects, there is not much more and one less. Instead of spending a lot of effort to find qualified children in the secular world, it is better to recruit them directly in the world of cultivating immortals.

However, in order to prevent the sect from being full of family disciples or casual cultivators, the sect must absorb fresh blood from the secular world, so the high-level monks of the sect are more happy with children with upper-level aptitude in the secular world.

The Li family has a lot of power in the secular world, but in the world of cultivating immortals, they are blind. These Li family disciples can only make their way on their own. But these people were really unlucky, and they had a big fall in the cultivation of immortals, and they didn't even establish a Qi training family. Zhang Shiping didn't know about these things, and he didn't inquire about them. After he entered the city, there was a lot of traffic on the street, one store after another, Zhang Shiping closed his eyes, feeling the aura of the car and horse in front of him.

With a smile on the corner of Zhang Shiping's mouth, he looked to the east of the city, and he found that the cloud of spiritual energy was just to the east.

On Lianfang Street in the east of Qingyuan City, Zhang Shiping had just walked down the Lianfangfang gate of the Li family. It was written on it that the Li family had been an official for more than 200 years since it was established in the State of Yu. .

Old Shangshu Li begged for bones a few years ago and wanted to go home for the elderly. His Majesty the 23-year-old emperor of Yu State returned the old Shangshu's papers three times in a row. It was not until the fourth time that the young Emperor Yu was reluctant to part. The old Shangshu's request was approved.

Now that the Li family is in the imperial court of Yu State, there are quite a few disciples of that old Shangshu. And Lao Shangshu's eldest son is already a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, and his third son is the governor of Yongen County, which can be said to be endless.

Zhang Shiping didn't go in directly from Lianfang Street. For such a high-profile family, even officials who pass by the archway have to get off the bridge to show respect. In front of Li's house, after all, the two big lions at the door are very fierce.

Li's mansion is very big, Zhang Shiping turned his head and circled around half a circle, seeing that there was no one around, he performed the invisibility and feathering techniques, and then he jumped into the mansion.

Zhang Shiping looked left and right, there was a rockery in front of where he was, and there was a pool with a water viewing pavilion in the middle of the pool.

There was a little girl in blue clothes in the pavilion, lying on the railing, throwing fish food into the water with her hands, laughing and laughing, and the maidservants next to her watched her third lady very carefully.

In the corridor, a maid came over with a plate, on which was a black medicinal soup in a blue and white emerald jade bowl, "Miss San, it's time to take your medicine."

"Xiao Lian, can you stop drinking?" The third lady frowned, pinched her nose, and took the medicine bowl. She seemed to have taken it many times, drank the medicine soup in one gulp, and then retched a few times .

Another maidservant immediately brought a bowl of warm water for the young lady to rinse her mouth.

Xiao Lian, the maidservant in Dai Qing who was carrying the medicinal soup, took a few steps back, took away the wooden tray, and walked towards the kitchen. Zhang Shiping saw it, and followed him up. The Li Mansion covers an area not smaller than the Temple of Longevity, and there are many various courtyards inside. People who don't know the layout will never know the way when they first come in.

After that Xiaolian put down the wooden medicine bowl in the kitchen and went out, Zhang Shiping let go of his consciousness, and when there was no one around, he flashed away, and the little Lian fell into a coma. Zhang Shiping picked a room without It was only after entering the room of a human being that the ten-year-old maid was awakened.

This Xiao Lian opened her eyes in a daze, and what she saw was a strange face. She just wanted to call someone, when she met Zhang Shiping's eyes. Lian was stunned, as if pulling her soul in, she gradually became dull.

The hands that were originally stretched out to push Zhang Shiping away, also weakened weakly at this time, the eyes of the whole person were closed, and the breathing became very gentle.

Zhang Shiping was chanting the formula, the five fingers of his right hand gathered the spirit energy, and circulated the mana in the dantian. He pressed his palm on the maidservant's head, which looked similar to the soul search technique.

This is an extremely gentle hypnotism. For mortals, Zhang Shiping has no hobby of taking people's lives for no reason.

When the Zhang family taught them, the biggest difference between cultivators and mortals is that cultivators possess great power. The first thing a monk needs to do is to be able to control himself, control his own strength, and not lose himself.

But half a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Shiping wiped the sweat from his forehead, and left with a bad complexion. Before leaving, he tapped the maidservant's brow lightly, inputting a bit of mana.

After half a cup of tea, the maid slowly woke up, touched her sore neck, her eyes showed some doubts, she couldn't remember anything about why she fell asleep in this room, but her expression With a sudden change, thinking about what else he hadn't done, he hurriedly opened the door and left.