Chapter 188 Discussing candidates for the expedition (4000 words, please subscribe)

At the end of December.

On this day, a bronze bell sounded at the top of Lingxiao Mountain.

Ling Pengyun, who was originally practicing in a quiet room in a courtyard halfway up Lingxiao Mountain, opened his eyes immediately when he heard the sound.

"Now it is the end of the year, and the bronze bell on the top of the mountain, which symbolizes the discussion, is ringing. It should be a call for the senior members of the clan to attend the year-end summary meeting."

Because half a year ago, when Ling Pengyun went to the General Affairs Hall to buy the Gathering Spirit Pill, Ling Ruxian, the manager of the General Affairs Hall and the great elder of the Ling family, had told Ling Pengyun, the new foundation-building member of the family, that he must go to the meeting hall at the end of the year to attend the year-end summary meeting.

In addition, Ling Pengyun also agreed to this matter, so he did not delay too much. He immediately stood up and walked out of the quiet room, and walked towards the top of the mountain along a path paved with pebbles.

Before reaching the top of the mountain, Ling Pengyun saw from a distance that Ling Ruxian, the great elder of the Ling family, was standing outside the light curtain protecting the top of the mountain.

Seeing this, Ling Pengyun had some guesses in his mind and quickened his pace.

After a while, he walked in front of Ling Ruxian.

"Eleventh great-grandfather." Ling Pengyun greeted first, then asked.

"What are you doing?"

"I am waiting for you here. You have just entered the foundation building period and are in seclusion most of the time. The family has not yet called on the other elders in the clan to appoint you to a position, and there is no elder token. In order to avoid you from having difficulty entering the top of the mountain, I will wait for you here as soon as the meeting bell on the top of the mountain rings." Ling Ruxian smiled and explained.

After saying this, Ling Ruxian relied on the elder token hanging on his waist, formed a secret method, and opened a small hole on the huge light curtain protecting the top of the mountain that was just big enough for people to pass through.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Ruxian also followed this small hole and opened a small path on the top of the mountain filled with clouds and mist along the elder token, and entered the meeting room.

As soon as the two entered the meeting room, Ling Yunhong, who had been waiting in the meeting room and sitting at the main seat of the long table in the meeting room, pointed to the position on his left and called out.

"Pengyun, you sit in the chief seat on the left, and the chief seat on the right belongs to Pengxing."

Ling Pengyun heard this and looked in the direction Ling Yunhong pointed, his expression slightly changed.

The position of this long table is very particular.

The closer the position is, the higher the status is.

"Third Ancestor." Ling Pengyun has entered the foundation building stage, but he has not decided what is wrong with him sitting in that position. He first bowed to Ling Yunhong, who was sitting at the main seat of the long table, and called out, and then walked to the chief seat on the left pointed by Ling Yunhong.

After sitting in this position, he waited for a while.

After Ling Pengxing, who was also a newly promoted foundation-building cultivator in the mountains, the fifth elder Ling Yunxi, and the sixth elder Ling Yunqian, who had just returned to the mountain after delivering spiritual objects to the family's shops in various markets and bazaars, arrived, Ling Yunhong, who was sitting at the main seat in the meeting hall, also spoke.

"Since everyone is here, the year-end meeting will officially begin."

The Ling family originally had six elders, and the other three elders had their own affairs and were not in the family all year round.

"At this year-end meeting, the first thing to do is to appoint Pengyun, who had just entered the foundation-building stage, as the second supreme elder in the family."

"This position does not involve the management of family affairs on weekdays, but it has the power of the clan leader like me and Pengxing. The three of us are equal and there is no need to distinguish between the high and the low."

"As for Pengyun's offering, it is the same as Pengxing, six second-level low-grade spirit-gathering pills every year."

"I don't know, do you agree with this?"

As a foundation-building cultivator, Ling Pengyun is fully qualified to serve as the supreme elder of the family.

As for the annual offering of six Gathering Spirit Pills, it goes without saying that although six Gathering Spirit Pills are worth 1,200 spirit stones in the outside world, with Ling Yunhong, a second-level alchemist, it only takes the spirit stones needed to refine the spirit materials of this pill.

As soon as Ling Yunhong asked this question, the Supreme Elder Ling Pengxing, the Great Elder Ling Ruxian, the Fifth Elder Ling Yunxi, and the Sixth Elder Ling Yunqian in the meeting hall all spoke up to express their agreement.

Ling Pengxing was appointed as the family's Supreme Elder at the end of the year when he entered the foundation-building stage a year ago.

As for Ling Yunqian, who had just returned to the clan, as the sixth elder of the family, Ling Ruxian told him about Ling Pengyun's successful foundation-building not long after he returned to the clan.

Therefore, at this time, he was not surprised.

Ling Yunhong, who was sitting in the main seat, saw that everyone agreed and was quite satisfied.

He then took out a token with the word "Taishang" engraved on the front and "Ling" engraved on the back, as well as a token full of small characters, from his storage bag, and handed them to Ling Pengyun, who was sitting on his left hand side, and introduced them.

"Pengyun, this token of the Supreme Elder is a symbol of your identity, and the content written on the white paper is the method to activate the token of the Supreme Elder to open the light curtain protecting the formation. With these two items, you can enter and exit the mountaintop at will."

"And you can also rely on the token of the Supreme Elder to command the family monks when necessary."

Ling Pengyun stretched out his hand to take the token of the Supreme Elder, and a bit of joy flashed in his eyes, and he said in his heart.

"I wonder how happy my parents and my fifteenth great-grandfather would be if they knew that I had broken through to the foundation building stage and became the Grand Elder."

After he broke through the foundation building stage, he fell into seclusion, and did not have the time to tell his parents and Ling Rushui, who was the fifteenth in the generation of the same generation as Ling Pengyun.

When Ling Pengyun thought of Ling Rushui, his joy was subdued.

"According to the age of the fifteenth great-grandfather, he should be about 110 years old. And eight years ago, when I was stationed at Qingshi Mountain, the cultivation of the fifteenth great-grandfather had already begun to fade away."

"His life span should not be much longer."

"After this meeting, we have to look for the eleventh great-grandfather and see if the clan can select another member to replace the fifteenth great-grandfather and take charge of the shop opened by the family in Yunwu Market, so that the fifteenth great-grandfather can escape and return to the clan."

Just when Ling Pengyun was distracted, the clan leader Ling Yunhong, who was sitting in the main seat, spoke again at this time.

"The first thing is done, it's time to talk about the second thing."

"More than two months ago, Yang Changxing, the supreme elder of the Pingyun Mountain Yang family, came to find me."

"His main purpose this time was to bring me, the fairy crane king in the early stage of foundation building, and a new foundation building in the family, a total of three foundation building, to the Jiaomang Lake to hunt down the monster beasts in the perfect foundation building realm, so as to obtain the inner pills of the perfect foundation building monster beasts and refine the Bailingmen's unique Xiaobailing Water."

"After the matter is accomplished, the Yang family will not only give my Ling family a portion of Xiaobailing Water for free, but also sell three pulse protection pills that also have the effect of assisting foundation building at the low price of 3,000 spirit stones per pulse protection pill, and sell them to our Ling family."

"As for hunting down the perfect foundation-building monster, Yang Changxing is also somewhat confident. He has comprehended the art of Yanhuo Guixu recorded in the Yang family's Yanhuo Guixu Jue to perfection. There is a chance to cross the level and kill the enemy. The three foundation-building people from my Ling family can assist on the side."

"But this matter is too big, and it does not involve me alone. It is extremely dangerous. I did not agree immediately at that time. This time I told you what you think about it?"

"After all, the Xiaobai Lingshui and the pulse-protecting pill are rare treasures for my Ling family."

On the market, the value of a second-level top-grade pulse-protecting pill is about 4,000 to 5,000 spirit stones, which will fluctuate up and down.

The great elder Ling Ruxian frowned, thought about it carefully, and spoke.

"Yang's Flame Return to the Abyss technique is not weaker than the Jade Sea Sword recorded in our Ling's Jade Sea Scripture. It is possible that it can kill enemies above their level."

"But the three foundation builders that my Ling's family needs to help this time, except for you who have reached the middle stage of foundation building and have some self-protection power in the hands of the perfect foundation building monster, the other two are not strong."

"Although the Immortal Crane King has been in the foundation building for a while, he can only fight one or two monsters in the middle stage of foundation building at most."

"Peng Yun and Peng Xing, who still need to participate in the battle, have just entered the foundation building not long ago and are not strong. No matter which of them participates in the battle to kill the perfect foundation building monster, it is bound to be extremely dangerous."

Ling Yunhong heard this and said helplessly.

"Of course I know the dangers, but the reward offered by the Yang family is not low. Although the Little White Spirit Water and the three Pulse Protection Pills sold to us at a low price can only increase the probability of a half-cultivator breaking through the foundation building, they are also good foundation building spiritual objects for my Ling family."

"In addition, there are many talents in the Peng generation, such as Peng Cheng, the ninth in the Peng generation, Peng Lin, the tenth, Peng Liang, the sixteenth, Peng Shan, the twenty-third, and Peng Qiu, the twenty-seventh. These five people have good talents and at least have three spiritual roots."

"The family is now popular with alchemy. The family has sufficient elixir resources. With the help of this batch of elixir supported by the family elixir, the cultivation of these five qualified Peng generation members will surely advance by leaps and bounds."

"If nothing unexpected happens, these five people can improve their cultivation to Qi Perfection before they are sixty years old, which is the best time for foundation building."

"These five children are not much different in age. At that time, with the financial resources of the clan, it may be difficult to provide these five children with foundation building spiritual objects at the same time."

"Don't you want to see these five children, like you and the eighteenth brother, who have reached Qi Perfection before the age of sixty, but dare not build a foundation because they have no foundation building spiritual objects to assist them, and finally regret it for the rest of their lives?"

Ling Yunhong killed dozens of foundation building monsters, so he naturally understood the difficulty of killing foundation building monsters, but the family's predicament in the next ten or even dozens of years is very clear. As the clan leader, he must stand up.

Otherwise, the family will bury talents like a small Qi training family.

As soon as Ling Yunhong said this, the faces of the eleventh elder Ling Ruxian and the eighteenth elder Ling Yunqian showed regret.

They were both the best among their peers in the family, and they had raised their cultivation to the perfection of Qi training early on. However, because the family was still a small Qi training family decades ago, even if they had enough spirit stones, they still did not dare to buy foundation-building spirit objects. Without the help of foundation-building spirit objects, breaking through the foundation alone would be a sure death.

Why they did not dare to buy foundation-building spirit objects was also very simple. Even the cheapest second-class foundation-building spirit object, the pulse-protecting pill, was worth at least four or five thousand spirit stones, while the market price of a second-level inferior magic weapon was about one thousand five hundred to two thousand spirit stones.

With such temptation, how could the Ling family dare to show off their wealth when the demon cultivators were rampant and the Ling family was still a small Qi training family?

Ling Ruxian and Ling Yunqian could only watch themselves getting older and older. Until today, even if they had spiritual objects for foundation building, they would not be able to build a foundation.

There was not a day that they did not regret that they were not as decisive as Ling Yunhong when they were young and tried to break through the foundation building alone.

If they succeeded, they would build a foundation, and if they failed, they would die.

As for the fifth elder Ling Yunxi who was also here, she was different from Ling Ruxian and Ling Yunqian. She relied on the formation to reach the first-level middle grade. She was very important in the family and was appointed as an elder. Her cultivation aptitude was not strong. She only broke through to the perfection of Qi training a few years ago.

At that time, she was already over 60 years old, even over 70 years old, so she didn't have that big regret about foundation building.

Seeing that none of the three elders, Ling Ruxian, Ling Yunqian, and Ling Yunxi, were trying to dissuade Ling Yunhong, Ling Yunhong looked at Ling Pengyun and asked.

"Peng Yun, have you finished refining the mixed rock shield I gave you at the beginning of the year?"

"It has been sacrificed." Ling Pengyun nodded lightly.

"That's good. This time, I will follow Yang Changxing of the Yang family into the realm of Jiao Python Lake to hunt down the foundation-building perfect monster. In addition to me and the Fairy Crane King who must be involved, there is also a foundation-building monk who needs to be dispatched. I I plan to ask you to go with me, would you like that?" Ling Yunhong asked.

Before Ling Pengyun could respond, Ling Pengxing on the side spoke with a sad look on his face.

"Third uncle, the eighth brother has only been in the foundation building for a year and has not much strength. Not only have I been in the foundation building for a year before the eighth brother, but I have also refined the metal two-pointer that you gave me a year ago. The strength of the lower-grade flying sword has greatly increased. When combined with my skills, its combat power is enough to defeat the ordinary third-level monks. Let me go. Letting the eighth brother go will only increase his danger."

Ling Yunhong, who was sitting at the head of the long table in the meeting hall, was relieved when he saw this.

When faced with danger, it is a good thing that Ling Pengxing can stand up and have the idea of ​​​​replacing Ling Pengyun.

Ling Yunhong explained. "Peng Xing, Peng Yun is different from you. The second-level low-grade mixed rock shield he masters is a defensive magic weapon, and the skills that Peng Yun has practiced last a long time. Although he has not been in the Foundation Establishment for a short time, his Dantian spiritual power is probably It’s comparable to the strength of second- and third-level foundation-building monks.”

"With such strong spiritual power, all you need to support Pengyun is to hold up the mixed rock shield and transform into a light curtain during the battle to help me resist the attack."

"I can also escape from this without having to defend myself and attack with all my strength."

"As for you, Peng Xing, you will be in charge of the clan."

"The family seems to be safe, but the world of immortal cultivation has never been peaceful. If Pengyun, who has not mastered the second-level attack magic weapon, is allowed to take charge of the family, we and the Jiao Python Lake realm, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away, cannot be protected and let the evil people know. , the family will encounter a catastrophe, it is better for you to be in charge of the family. "

Ling Pengxing didn't say anything more after hearing this.

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