Chapter 6: The Loss of a Son
"My mother passed away in the fifth year after your retreat because she reached the longevity limit......
"The Battle of Pingyao and the Battle of Yuyan Mountain, the family suffered heavy losses, and the Xia Dynasty and Chaozhao were all killed in that battle......"
Speaking of these, Lu Chaoxi's tone was filled with sadness.
The death of his wife made Lu Qing very heartbroken. His wife, Ye Xincheng, is also a casual cultivator, thirty years younger than him. The two met in Weimo, Lu Qing was not very strong at that time, and they supported each other along the way.
It's just that Ye Xincheng is not a monk with good talent, and her cultivation stopped at the ninth layer of the foundation building, and Lu Qing found many treasures for her to assist in breaking through, but she never broke through to the enlightenment period.
The longevity limit of the foundation building period is about three jiazi, which is one hundred and eighty years old. Lu Qing couldn't bear to die too early for his wife, so he found a lot of longevity-prolonging medicines, but he didn't eat them himself, and gave them to Ye Xincheng, which also made Ye Xincheng live a hundred years longer than ordinary foundation building monks.
The path of cultivating immortals, if you can't go further, time will be more ruthless than anything else.
In this regard, Lu Qing can be regarded as mentally prepared. No matter what, Ye Xincheng is dead.
But Chaoxia and Chaozhao were different, they died at the hands of the Zhao monks.
After Lu Qing gave birth to his eldest son and named him 'Chaoxi', he set the genealogical rules of the family. The descendants of the Lu clan in Pingyao will be sorted by the ten characters of 'Ming Wenqi of the Imperial Court, Sishu Yuhou Guang' as the character generation.
As the originator of the mountain, he himself is not counted, and his nine children, regardless of men and women, will all be generations.
He is a traverser from the earth, and this immortal realm is respected by strength, and there is no patriarchal tradition, and the powerful female monk is also an important member of the family.
Under his rules, the female members of the family will also be sorted by generation. It's just that in order to distinguish between men and women, sons always put the word 'chao' in the middle, and daughters put the word 'chao' in the third character.
The 'Xia Dynasty' just mentioned is Lu Qing's third child and his first daughter, and 'Chaozhao' is his eighth son.
Lu Qing remembered that the two of them, before they closed their lives, were already monks in the foundation building period.
This is the real pain of losing a child.
Three hundred years old, and suddenly heard that the third daughter and the eighth son had already gone one step ahead of him, Lu Qing still had a hard time holding back the emotions in his heart.
Thinking of the family's situation in the past fifty years, most of this pain has been transformed into hatred for the Zhao family.
Zhao Zidan...... I should have slaughtered you first!" he thought hatefully in his heart.
After saying these things, Lu Chaoxi paused, and didn't hear any response from his father, so he continued to narrate: "Later, another incident happened. ”
"Fifteen years ago, there was an evil demon in Syracuse County next door, and a demon cultivator tore open the space and summoned the evil demons of the outer realm. The sect summoned all the vassal families, gathered the power of the whole county, and fought a big battle with those demon cultivators and foreign demons, and successfully exterminated and suppressed the demonic rebellion, but it was ......"
Speaking of this, Lu Chaoxi's sobbing voice was difficult to hide: "However, our Lu family died two foundation building monks, and Ting Fang and Ting Ying both died in that battle......
Lu Qing also remembers these two names.
Lu Tingfang is the second son of Lu Chaoxi, and Lu Tingying is the eldest son of Lu Chaoling. And Lu Chaoling is Lu Qing's fourth son.
These are all his grandchildren, before he died, Ting Fang was eight years old, and Ting Ying was only four years old.
In the fifty years since his retreat, the family has deteriorated. In this way, the two of them can still break through the Qi refining period and enter the foundation building period, which shows that their talent and diligence are very good.
The two of them should be the pillars of the next generation of the family, and if they have abundant resources, it is not impossible to break through the enlightenment period from the foundation building period.
However, the two juniors died on the battlefield of the demon chaos.
After two catastrophes, the death of five foundation building monks in succession, including Ye Xincheng, was a very major blow to a new family.
The backbone of the Lu family was almost broken.
Especially the deaths of Lu Tingfang and Lu Tingying, which made the younger generation cut off.
Today, there are only three monks in the Lu family who are still alive, and they are all from the dynasty. Among them, Lu Chaoxi, who is the strongest, is still 'stubbornly ill, and his longevity has been greatly reduced', he can't do anything with others, and his future for further progress is almost cut off. One hundred and nine years old should be the prime of the foundation building monk, but Lu Chaoxi is already dying, and he will definitely not live to be one hundred and eighty years old for the foundation building monk.
Telling the bitter history of the family over the past 50 years, Lu Chaoxi couldn't bear his emotions and wept endlessly.
In the family, he is the head of the family, so he naturally has to be majestic.
But in front of his father, the hard work of supporting the family in the past 50 years, the fear of countless dangers, and the self-blame for getting worse and worse all came to his heart, making it difficult for him to help himself.
He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the closed door: "Chaoxi is ashamed, not only did he not lead the family to prosper, but he fell into this situation, Chaoxi is ashamed!"
Quietly listening to the eldest son crying, after he finished crying, Lu Qing let out a long sigh:
"Chaoxi, you've worked hard for this. ”
Lu Chaoxi regained control of his emotions, and then said: "Since my father can communicate with me, it should be that his injuries have improved, and the family will also be bitter." I wonder how long you have to retreat, father, before you can go out of the mountain?"
Hearing this question, Lu Qing felt a little sad.
He is now dead himself, but his consciousness has not entered reincarnation and is born on the basis of the system.
But I can't say anything about it.
"My injuries are not getting better, and there is still no way to get out...... However, with so many things happening in my family over the years, I won't ignore them anymore. I can't get out, but I have some instructions for you. ”
"Father, please speak. ”
"Today, can someone from the sect come to the family to select disciples?"
"Yes. Lu Chaoxi had doubts in his heart, he didn't tell Lu Qing about this matter just now.
Lu Qing himself was born in a loose cultivator, not a Qingfeng Sect monk, and he had the strength of the Jindan period, so the Lu family has always been unique in the entire Feiyun Prefecture.
The Pingyao Lu clan, although it is a vassal of the Qingfeng Gate, is actually not close to the sect, just because in the acre of three points of land in Feiyun Prefecture, he must express his attitude to such a behemoth as the Qingfeng Gate.
But in fact, the relationship between the two sides is more like a collaborator.
None of Lu Qing's children entered the Qingfeng Gate. There is also no court character generation below the dynasty character generation. All the monks are cultivated by the family itself and serve the family.
This is unique among the many families in Feiyun Prefecture.
Almost all families uphold the dual-track system of sending talents to Qingfengmen, plus their own training.
The monks cultivated by the family themselves belong to the family completely, and of course they can serve the family even more. The clansmen who are sent to the sect will become sect monks, and they will be stationed in the sect all year round to perform the tasks of the sect and serve the sect.
The difference between the two is huge.
But for ordinary families, there is no way to send talents into the sect. The family resources are limited, and the monks who can be cultivated are also limited, and some people with good talents will be buried in the family if they are not sent to the sect, and they will not be able to cultivate them.
When these people are sent to the sect, they have the opportunity to be better cultivated. Moreover, with the family outside, these children of the family who enter the sect will of course get more help.
The clansmen who enter the sect still have the same blood after all, and they are helped by the family in the process of growing up, and when they are successful in cultivation, they will naturally feed back to the family.
For example, Zhao Zidan is in the Zhao family, this is the case.
But the Lu clan never did this, and all the monks cultivated themselves.
But in the past fifty years, Lu Qing is gone, the biggest backer is gone, and the Lu family still maintains this attitude, which is very inappropriate.
Lu Chaoxi is not unaware of this, and he has not tried to send some good seedlings into the sect, but he always can't send them.
He knew that it was the Zhao family who was playing ghosts, and they had a lot of power in the sect.
This time, Lu Chaoxi took a lot of effort and spent a lot of spirit stones to get through the relationship within the sect and get this opportunity.
I didn't expect to get a message from my father today.
Lu Qing has always been very disgusted with sending his own family members into the sect, but now Lu Chaoxi is a little uncertain, worried that his father will strongly refuse this matter.