Tianyuan Realm, Beihai, Liuyun Islands in the northeast.

The Liuyun Islands are composed of more than 300 large and small islands and many "islands".

The largest island among them is only 130 miles long and 110 miles wide, while the smallest island is only one mile long and wide, and the length and width of the "island" are even less than one mile.

There are many first-order monsters living in the inland sea of ​​the archipelago, and sometimes second-order monsters appear. There are also powerful third-order monsters in the outer sea.

There is an island in the east of Liuyun Islands that is 130 miles long from east to west, 110 miles wide from north to south, and no more than 300 feet high. It is high in the middle and low on all sides. It can barely be regarded as a medium-sized island.

The name is: Cangli.

The island is shrouded in clouds and mist, full of spiritual energy, with countless lakes and pools, and magical and exotic animals everywhere, just like a fairyland on earth.

There is a family of cultivators on the island, named: Ling family.

The Cangli Ling Family was built more than five hundred years ago by Ling Taiyi, a master of Jindan, and has been passed down for several generations.

After more than five hundred years of development, the Decangli Ling clan now has more than 800,000 ordinary people, including a Jindan master, 12 foundation-building monks, and more than 800 Qi-training disciples.

It is precisely because of such strong strength that the Ling family in Cangli can hold on to its huge foundation, compete with the Qian family on Fufeng Island to the west, and become one of the two hegemons of the Liuyun Islands.

The monks of the Cangli Ling clan all live on Qingcang Mountain in the middle of the island. As for the ordinary people, 30% live in the plains around Cangli Island, and the other 70% live on some nearby islands with thin spiritual energy.

Qingcang Mountain occupies half of the area of ​​Cangli Island. There are ten small spiritual veins on it. The higher you go, the richer the spiritual energy. From top to bottom, the top is where Ling Chuyun, the only golden elixir master of the Ling family in Cangli, lives.

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Further down, at the top of the mountain, are the Ling family's foundation-building elders and their direct relatives.

Of course, the foundation-building elders have the power to let any Ling family's descendants live on the top of Qingcang Mountain, but under normal circumstances, they will not do this.

The middle part of Qingcang Mountain is a circle of buildings, with attics and palaces scattered among them. Some special places are even guarded by foundation-building elders, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter.

The vast area from the middle down to the foot of the mountain is where more than 800 Qi-training disciples of the Ling family live.

Of course, the law of the jungle also exists within the Cangli Ling clan. The higher the cultivation level and the stronger the relationship between the Qi training period disciples, the closer they live to the middle.

And those disciples in the Qi training period who have low strength and no deep connections can only live at the foot of the mountain.

In the early days of the relationship, people must have benevolence, virtue and filial piety, always be willing to speak well, and have no fear of ascending to the sky. This is the twenty-generation character line drawn up by Ling Taiyi, the founder of the Cangli Ling family, for future generations.

The word "generation" is an honor among the Cangli Ling family. Not every Ling family member can add the "character" corresponding to his or her seniority in the name.

According to the clan rules of the Cangli Ling clan, only those who have reached the foundation-building stage are allowed to add the "zi" of their generation in their names, and then the foundation-building monks of the same generation will be sorted according to their age.

In addition to the foundation-building elders who can add the "zi" corresponding to their generation in their names, the direct relatives and third-generation collateral relatives of these foundation-building elders can also enjoy this honor.

If the foundation-building elder unfortunately dies, then the collateral descendants and direct descendants five generations later will no longer enjoy this privilege.

Of course, in order to commend some foundation-building elders who have made contributions to the family, the Cangli Ling family often allows this privilege to be passed down for several generations.

If new foundation-building monks appear among the descendants of the fallen foundation-building elders, then there will be a new round of continuation of honors.

As for those disciples in the Qi training period who live below the middle part of Qingcang Mountain, they do not enjoy this honor.

In other words, they are divided into seniorities, but they cannot add the "character" corresponding to the seniority in their names unless they are promoted to the foundation building stage.

It can be considered that this is the difference between direct line and collateral line. The only difference is that direct line can degenerate into collateral line, and collateral line can also be promoted to direct line.

Therefore, just based on the names of Cangli Ling's children, we can roughly judge whether he has a strong backing in the Ling family or not.

The Cangli Ling clan was forced to do this because there were so many people in the Ling clan that there were simply not enough characters for the Xiuxian world, so they could only use this method to avoid too many duplicate names.

On the top of Qingcang Mountain, beside the jade pool, a man wearing white clothes and with black hair tied together and hanging on his back was sitting cross-legged on a large blue stone in meditation.

In the world of immortality, children before the age of twelve are considered to be the chief children, and after the age of twelve they begin to grow their hair.

When a man reaches adulthood at the age of twenty, he needs to be crowned by his elders. Relatives and friends will come to watch, which is also called the crowning ceremony. When a woman reaches adulthood at the age of twenty, she needs to perform a hairpin ceremony.

Ordinary people also have such etiquette, but there is a slight difference in age.

The spiritual energy near the Jade Pool was drawn and lingered around the man's body, forming a hazy spiritual mist visible to the naked eye.

He frowned and a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, looking very anxious.

The breeze blowing from a distance hit the leaves, and the leaves swayed, making a "rustling" sound, and fell on the emerald green pool. The water surface immediately showed ripples, and the shadows of big trees, grass, stones, and people were swaying in it.

, like a broken mirror.

After a while, a long sigh sounded.

"Hey, it failed again."

Then they saw that this boy was about five and a half feet tall, with a face like a crown of jade, eyes like bright stars, and slender fingers. Coupled with his white clothes and his earthly demeanor, he was really a rare young man in the world.

The young man's name is Ling Youdao. He is a descendant of the "You" generation of Ling's family in Cangli. He has just turned eighteen this year and is crowned as a minor.

Ling Youdao is not an ordinary person, but a reborn person whose soul comes from the earth. Compared with other teenagers of the same age, he has more than thirty years of memory.

Although the memory of past lives is not useful in this world of immortality, the methods, experiences, and principles of dealing with people are things that can be used in any world.

There is no law in this world, but a place where strength is respected. The strong is the right, and the weak can only appoint.

He has the three spiritual roots of water, wood, and fire, among which the fire spiritual root is the best, and his qualifications can only be regarded as average.

Even in a small family like the Cangli Ling family, there are many children with stronger qualifications than him.

One step behind, every step behind!

It is precisely because of this sense of urgency that he did not dare to waste every minute and every second in the past eight years. He spent all his free time on cultivation, and barely reached the sixth level of Qi training at the age of eighteen.

His cultivation speed is much faster than other three spiritual root monks.

He has worked so hard, but compared with those "geniuses" with dual spiritual roots in the Ling family, there is still a certain gap.

For example, the dual spiritual root monk could easily overcome the bottleneck in the later stage of Qi training, but he still couldn't break through it after three attempts.

This is not because he does not work hard enough, but for the same training time, the cultivation effect of a monk with two spiritual roots is twice that of a monk with three spiritual roots, and the monks with double spiritual roots rarely have bottlenecks during the Qi training period.

By the same token, within the same cultivation time, the cultivation effect of a four-spiritual-root monk is twice that of a five-spiritual-root monk. From this point forward, each time one spiritual root is lost, the cultivation effect is doubled.

Calculated in this way, the cultivation effect of a monk with a single spiritual root is sixteen times that of a monk with a five-spiritual root.

Of course, the effect of cultivation is not only affected by the spiritual roots of the monks, but also by external factors such as the concentration of spiritual energy in the cultivation environment, whether you take pills to assist cultivation, spiritual objects, etc.
Chapter completed!