These mortal children of the Li family, when they are young, they burn fires or do some other minor affairs, and when they are older, they have to do some relatively heavy things, and when their bodies grow up, they will be specifically assigned to do some long-term affairs, and what kind of things to do in the middle has some connection with the distribution later.

There are thousands of mortals in the Li clan's land, basically completely self-sufficient, all mortals have a clear division of labor, and they seem to be scattered under the seven peaks, but in fact, it is similar to a mortal town, with children's school teaching, blacksmiths, pharmacists, tailors, farmers, miners, etc., and there are all kinds of stewards and chief stewards.

The basic learning is followed by school selection, which is related to the previous emphasis on the learning of mortal children, that is, to see what the children are good at, and at the same time, to do some specific things, so that these children begin to learn to obey.

After Li Qiao became a fire boy for a year, he was arranged by the family's mortal steward to go to other surrounding mountains to collect medicine.

Normally, if you go up to the mountain to collect medicine or something, there are immortal cultivators in the family, who can fly with a sword and have divine sense, and it is very easy to empty the herbs on the mountains near the nearby clan land, but these herbs are not any elixir, and immortal cultivators can't use them, but they are just medicines used by ordinary pharmacists when mortals are sick.

Let these herb-collecting children be familiar with medicinal herbs, the second is also to exercise their physical strength, the largest number of mortal groups in the Li clan are farmers and miners, assuming that there are a total of thirty children collecting herbs, there is no possibility of becoming a pharmacist in the end, the pharmacist is enough, as long as there is enough preparation when the feeling is missing.

They are all people of the same race, and it is not easy to choose who is a farmer or a miner directly, so there is a process of depending on the level of effort of each person, but the vast majority of them will become farmers and miners, and if they are lucky, they may become a small steward or something.

Most of the mortals in the clan land are quite good for the ordinary mortals in the entire world of cultivating immortals, but they are the most bitter group of people in the Li clan, and the clansmen who generally know something about it are reluctant to come, Li Qiao's father, Li Jixiu, will send Li Qiao here because he doesn't know the specific situation of the clan land at all.

The reason why this collateral system has set up a clan land here is because rare ore veins have been discovered, which can be used for their own use or exchanged after mining, which is enough for the sustainable development of a collateral lineage.

But when he first established himself here, in order to prevent disputes, he did not mine, but precipitated for hundreds of years, and finally branched out, set up a formation, and mined only after he had sufficient mining and protection capabilities, and the monk who was several generations above Li Jixiu was not the core of the family and did not know about this situation.

The mining of ore veins requires a large number of ordinary young people to assist, and a large number of ordinary young people need a large amount of food to support, as for letting the family monks go out to get food and arrest people? It's both cumbersome and inefficient, not to mention, let the monks keep running around for mortals? What do you think!

The Li clan is scattered all over the place, and selects people from several of them every year, and it can only be the turn of Wangxian Town once in several years, and occasionally there are people who return from the clan land, and they generally don't say how bad they are, and Li Jixiu got the wrong information by mistake.

After three years of basic study and a year after burning the fire boy, Li Qiao began to collect medicine in the nearby mountains at the age of twelve, and his residence was moved from the small courtyard at the beginning to the relatively marginal location of the clan land.

Li Qiao is a little transparent, walking near the clan land every day, although there is no specific standard for the amount of medicine collected, you can be lazy at will, but in the end, the total number of medicines collected is the standard for the advantages and disadvantages of these children who collect medicine.

At night, the rain was vigorous, and in the midst of the thunder, Li Qiao seemed to hear a sound echoing in the sky, occasionally word by word, but it was incoherent, and it was very weak, and there were only two or three words before and after, as if it was an illusion.

It should be an illusion! Li Qiao thought so in his heart, now that he lived alone in a hut, occasionally between sleeping and not sleeping, he could feel some special tiny existence around him, he guessed that this should be aura, but he didn't dare and wouldn't cultivate indiscriminately. He thought that maybe he was thinking too much about it, so he had this hallucination.

Early the next morning.

"Oops......" The road was slippery in the wet weather, Li Qiao fell heavily without paying attention, as a medicine picking boy, although the road surface was slippery after the rain, he still chose to continue to go out to collect medicine, even if he was smart, he had some reserved herbs, and he could not go out today, but he wanted an excellent evaluation.

The fall hurt a lot, but he didn't cry, but he suddenly felt a little homesick, and at the same time remembered what A-Niang said to him when he was a child: "The boy can't cry easily, unless someone still pinches you when he holds you, and he can't run, then he should cry." ”

Li Qiao now thinks that someone will have nothing to pinch the child, just let himself be well-behaved, and he really always remembers this sentence, and basically hasn't cried much.

Because of the fall, he rested in place for a while, and in the process, Li Qiao looked back at the peaks of the Li clan's land, I don't know if it was an illusion, he felt that the clan land seemed to be much quieter than usual this morning.

Then there was the normal search and collection of medicines, but in the process there was a small accident, and a small patch of crystal white appeared in a lush foliage.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Qiao looked through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and then chose to leave.

It was an abandoned corpse, with many signs of corrosion on its surface, in addition to large patches of shiny and snow-white skin.

I don't know how long it's been, is it rotten? Not a single piece of clothing? Did some family monk do it?

Because he had talked a lot with the other children in the clan at night, it was normal for him to have some terrible monks.

But the footsteps of leaving did not go far, Li Qiao returned again, knowing that this kind of thing should not be involved, but he often collected medicine, and suddenly thought that there was a cave nearby, and it was better to bury it there than to expose the corpse in the wilderness.

The world of cultivating immortals is full of deceit, full of all kinds of calculations, and the monks cultivated by the Xiuxian family since childhood have experienced all kinds of admonitions and have a variety of ways to deal with them, but under normal circumstances, the mortal people of the Xiuxian family are much simpler.

When I walked in, I found that the body was a woman, but there were too many corroded places on her body, and it looked extremely ugly.

Li Qiao didn't know if he could hold the other party, but when he wrapped the corpse in his coat and picked it up, he was shocked.

The other party seemed to be as light as nothing, and hugged him effortlessly.

This is an immortal cultivator? This thought appeared in Li Qiao's mind for the first time, and he instantly doubted whether the other party was dead, this kind of physical surface situation, mortals must not live, but if it is a monk, it is not necessarily.

I sensed it carefully, but I didn't feel my breath or heartbeat.

In an instant, Li Qiao thought of two options, one was to immediately put the other party in place and quickly run back to the clan to report. The second is to continue to carry each other into the hole and check the specific situation.

Then he chose the latter without hesitation and went back to the clan to report? No matter what the outcome is, the relationship with him will not be too big, and I don't know how long it will take to come back and forth, and the situation will change again.

Will choose to carry into the cave, there is no idea of looting, the other party is clear at a glance, and Li Qiao thought that the other party could appear here, it was likely to be his own family monk, whether he died or not, it was better than just remaining alone, if he didn't die, maybe he could get a blessing in disguise or something.

"I don't know if you're injured or what's wrong, I don't have any malice, I'll just help you change places first..."

The other party was indeed not dead, when Li Qiao carried the other party into the cave, a white and rotten arm silently locked his throat, and it became tighter and tighter.

For the first time, Li Qiao felt that death was so close to him.

At this moment, his life is hanging by a thread, and he is powerless to struggle!